coolest tool EVER - well at least for today

No card to share today - I did make one and photograph but did not have a chance to upload the photo. But I came across the coolest thing EVER via lifehacker.

The article on lifehacker can be found here.....

http://lifehacker.com/5153828/create-a-color-palette-from-a-single-image

It's a colour palette generator. It's online, nothing to download. You just upload a photo (or link to a url) and bang!......A colour palette is generated from the colours in the image. How COOL! is that! You can find it at this address http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/

I can see endless possibilities for this -- decorating, card-making, scrapbooking.

the image must be less than 1mb. I tried it out with this photo some of last years lilies




And was most impressed by what I saw appear on my screen. I wish I could figure out how to post it here...but it gives me the option of saving the palette as a .css or .aco file which I have no idea how to imbed here so that you could actually see the colour palette. Anyways, very cool, check it out.

My Dearly Beloved's Valentine

So this is the card I made for my dearly beloved. I CASEd this card http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1234227 on SplitcoastStampers.

I omitted the bow underneath the panel. I did have one on there but took it off as it just made the card too busy for me. The hearts are each stamped twice and layered with pop-dots. Tulip on blush and cocoa on chocolate. I think it works well. The paper is all CTMH, as are the stamps and ink.

Another cupcake birthday

I love my cupcake stamps. They are perfect for birthdays. For this one I used CPS102 from http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/. I changed it just a little by using two cupcakes on the left instead of just one .....one just didn't seem to be enough.



I puffed up the frosting (liquid applique) and then used my candy cane stickles to decorate. Packet tried to sabotage the frosting while it was drying.....he was scolded. The large pink panel is from a fiskars texture plate run through the cuttlebug. The sentiment panel was scalloped using a corner rounder.

This card is headed to my brother's spouse who celebrates her birthday on February 16th.

Valentine Cards for my nieces and nephew.

And these cards are for my nieces and nephew.

Lily the fairy for my youngest niece.


This cute lion for my nephew.

Alice Anya for my middle niece.

And this one for my eldest niece. Since she is a teenager now, we can't have it too cutesy!


Again, fun with the new CTMH papers!

Family Valentine Cards

So, after getting through the hurdle of making the Henry card, I spent Sunday making Valentine's Day cards for my family.

The first is for my parents.

This one is for my sister.

And this one is for my brother and his spouse.


I think they came out fairly well. I used my new CTMH papers!!! YAY!

In memory of Henry the cat

This is the card I finally steeled myself to make, in memory of little Henry the cat. Some more tears were shed but I had to put into words our sympathies.

A really dry spell for card-making

So, I thought wintereenmas would see me hunkered down in the craft room churning out cards galore. Well, I lost my mojo it seems.

First of all, the very first card I have to make is a very sad card. I have attempted a few times to settle in to make it but can't seem to without welling up with tears. A beloved furry extended family member passed away a couple of weeks ago, due to a very unfortunate accident and it breaks my heart every time I think about it. But, I do wish to pass along our sincere sympathies so, it must be done. I probably should make a few more sympathy cards as the grandma of a friend of ours just passed and the father of another friend is rather ill as well. So, even though it is a less than pleasant task, I should probably get around to making those.

And secondly, wintereenmas week unfortunately corresponded with my dearly beloved attending a course for work. Due to the $%@#%@ transit strike, he continued to go to work at our usual time but wasn't getting home until after 6:00pm. So, by the time we settled up after dinner, I wasn't in a crafting mood. Now, given that I took most of the week off, one would think that my days would be spent crafting. Well, they were, just not paper-crafting.

The third culprit was "quiltzilla". The quilt I started in August of 2007....that's not a typo....2007 for my brother and his girlfriend is finally approaching completion. The quilting mojo was in full force....leaving no room for paper-crafting mojo. hmmm....I'm betting that's what happened to my scrabble mojo as well (I've been sucking at scrabble on facebook my last couple of games). Not like me at all. I usually kick some mean bum!

But,quiltzilla is nearly complete....the outer border has 6 out of 32 quilting lines left to be sewn. Then the binding. If I am a diligent little quilter then I could finish it this coming weekend. But in all likelihood it will take me another weekend on top of that to finish it.

So....my big plans to do all sorts of cute valentine cards and treat holders may not come to fruition.

Good news is that I got goodies today from one of my favourite online stores http://www.paperworksco.com/ If you have never been you should totally check it out. This site was Peggy's term project! Awesome!!!!!! New nesties for me....yay!

And my February CTMH order was just placed as well (I'm planning to do a 40th anniversary scrapbook for my folks so I'm starting to stock up on my supplies now!) at my SIL Jenn's site http://jennmcmillan.myctmh.com/ She is such a talented "artiste". Check out her blog at http://jennmcmillan.blogspot.com/ She also has a link to her shophandmade.com store. Cards, Jewelry....cool stuff!

Ah well, time to go.....cute kitties are calling. Big Poo (aka Packet) is sleeping on the back of the couch, little New (Newton) is curled up like the little prince he is on a pillow next to me on the couch. His little (well big) white belly is just screaming "scratch me"! I swear he is smiling at me in his sleep.

hopefully I will be back soon with something creative, maybe using the new valentine digi-stamp from TheGreetingFarm.com and my pretty papers from my January CTMH order.

.s.