Busy, busy!

Well, I am so busy, that crafting isnt lookin' good for today...or for awhile, either. I am finishing up laundry and have to deliver Avon, and get an SU Club order finished. I am leaving town again until mid-week of next week! ACK~
So, I'm showing you a photo of a card my monthly card group made a bit ago, with one of the Summer Mini stamps, the Motorcylce stamp...love this! This card is pretty self-explanatory, but, if you have questions, leave me a comment. I did start with an 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card piece and just scored and folded it at 2 1/8". I beleive this is called a gate fold card. When you are attaching your image piece, just make sure and only adhere to one side.

STAMPIN' SUPPLIES *all STAMPIN UP!*

Stamps: #117657 Motorcycle Stamp; Teeny Tiny Wishes {I ♥}
Ink: Night of Navy
Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Night of Navy,
Accessories & Tools: Soft Suede Dotted Ribbon-RETIRED, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Big Shot {i ♥my BS}, Square Latice Embossing Folder,Snail {I♥}, Distressing Tool, Dimensonals

TIP of the DAY---Don't throw away those bits of ribbon! See how I used some leftover snips?

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ
...count your blessings

Home...

Ahhh, Home again, home again....cool air! I love the drive home this time of year. Bee-utiful! It only took me 3 hours and 20 minutes, and that was with 2 pit stops *yes, I do pee along the side of the road----where else ya gonna go?*, and multiple stops for picture taking.
This first picture is coming up the mountain....the desert is sure nice and green this year! My trip starts at about 2900'..... windy mountain roads! Today I saw a TINY little fawn and her mama...I saw it last trip also...in the same spot! The little guy was only about 18 inches tall! I don't know what type they are-I've never seen such small ones, but, they were too fast for me to get my camera. Maybe next time...

Below is around Alpine, AZ--8500+ foot elevation.

Below is coming down Picnic Hill into town...Love the green!

Coming into 'round town' or what we call Round Valley...awesome clouds! 7100 foot elevation.

Finally, HOME! I was sure glad to see it!

I need to take the red, white and blue off the fence already! LOL

I got home at 1:30, unloaded, did 7 of the 9 loads of laundry, which I hung out on the line to dry---brought the trailer rugs, bedding and hubby's work clothes---, mowed the front and back yards.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll have some time to do some CRAFTING!!! After I get my AVON order delivered.

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ
count your blessings...

...I wanna go home...

I left the mountain Friday morning, to go to my moms in Willcox. Hubby got transferred from his job 6 hours away to another town, only 3 hours and 15 minutes away...AND, it's on the way to my moms. He had a L.O.N.G week staying in a motel room. He didn't want to move the trailer until his welding tests all passed, etc. I picked him up after he got off work and we found a trailer space. H.O.T---I do NOT know how my hubby works *WELDS* in the heat! Poor guy! Then, after we got that all done, we went to my moms 45 minutes away.
Saturday, we went to pick up the trailer 2 hours from moms...H.O.T. 110 degrees HOT! It did start to cool down when we pulled out with the trailer. The trailer park we left ended up getting TWO inches of rain in an hour!! That's whatcha call a cloudburst!
Here, you can see the storm moving in...

I had hubby stop so I could get a few of these fruit from a prickley pear cactus. Mom and I are planning on making some PP jelly next weekend. Hope they will be ripe by then.

Hubby and #1 son used to eat here occassionally....hubbys idea for the picture! *rolling eyeballs*

We parked the truck and trailer in front of moms Saturday night. She had BBQ hamburgers ready for us and I did up some of hubby's laundry.

Sunday, we pulled the trailer over to the trailer space we had found and got it all set up.

Parking that 32 foot trailer is like cutting your bangs! First you gotta straighten one side, then, you gotta straighten the other side! It drives me crazy! But, hubby likes it STRAIGHT! hehehe

Today, I went and did some shopping, and checked the scrapbook store in town. Gotta get that important stuff done, ya know! LOL It was 107 degrees at 11:30 am....and just think....today, the high at home was 79 degrees!

Tomorrow, I'm going H.O.M.E!

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

It is FINISHED!

Since I also LOVE to crochet, you'll see me bragging on myself and showing my thread and yarn projects. I fall asleep if I try to watch TV at night, so, I keep my hands busy and I usually can stay awake....usually, but, not always! I tease hubby and tell him that he should be glad I crochet...it keeps me off the streets while he is gone! HA!
I finally finished this flag afghan and mailed it to a sweet online friend in North Carolina.
Funny how you can develop such deep friendships through the wonderful world of the web!
I met Lynne, in a friendship group about 4(?) years ago. We just kind of hit it off and we developed a great friendship with many L.O.N.G phone calls, emails and cards/letters. I got a late night phone call last April 25th from Lynne. Her 26 year old son was killed in a vehicle accident while he was on duty as a Sherriff's Deputy. He was also recently out of the military. Just a great person and citizen.....
She asked me last summer if I would make her a flag afghan for the back of her couch. The afghan itself was no problem, but, I dreaded doing the stars and put it up 'for awhile'. Finally, night after night, I got the stars done. I just put it in the mail on the 18th of August. It truly was a 'labor of love'.
If you are a prayer warrior, please say a prayer for Lynne....she is still having a rough time dealing with her sons death, as any mother would.

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

Patriotic Card Idea..

This was a card we did at the May Card Class. This is a basic Red, White & Blue card. There is plenty of room for 'tweaking' it for more embellishments. On darker cardstock cards, I always have something white on the inside to write on...usually, it's a top note {I♥}.

STAMPIN' SUPPLIES *all STAMPIN UP!*

Stamps: #115992 Service & Sacrifice
Ink: Night of Navy
Cardstock: Night of Navy, Real Red, Whisper White, Brushed Silver
Accessories & Tools: Real Red Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon-RETIRED, Wide Oval Punch, XL Star Punch, Big Shot {i ♥my BS}, Square Lattice Embossing Folder,Snail {I♥}
Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

Another Card Class card...

Isn't this a cute watermelon card?

I case'd this card from someone online--if you know who did it or if it's yours, please let me know, so, I can give you credit for this idea.

This was a bit of a detailed card, but, the ladies enjoyed it.

If you are a visual person, most of the card is self-explainatory.

The black seeds on the front of the card were made with the word window punch, and trimmed at an angle to get two seeds from one punch. Make sense?

On the small inside watermelons, I trimmed a red 1" circle down a tad to layer onto the white.

STAMPIN' SUPPLIES *all STAMPIN UP!*

Stamps: #113204 Cheep Talk (Giggle is from a retired set)
Ink: Basic Black, Real Red, Old Olive,
Cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive, Real Red, Basic Black
Accessories & Tools: XL Two-Step Bird Punch, Word Window Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Paper Snips, White Gel Pen, Basic Black Marker, Stamping Sponges, Glue Dots, 2-way Glue Pen, Snail

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

Another Class card...

I LOVE this card!

I found the pattern online a couple years ago and finally got around to making one! The girls loved it! Some put the bikini bottom on the very back of the card.

You can get the bikini template :HERE: 

If you make one or some of these, I'd love to see what you come up with!

STAMPIN' SUPPLIES *all STAMPIN UP!*

Stamps: #113204 Cheep Talk
Ink: Basic Black, Pretty in Pink
Cardstock: Blushing Bride Textured, Whisper White, Petals & Paisleys DSP *SU Clearance Rack*
Accessories & Tools: Paper Snips, Stamping Sponges, BoHo Blossoms Punch, Rhinestones, Glue Dots

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

Class Project

Here is one of the cards we made Saturday, the 14th, at the 'little house'.

When I was cutting out the crumb cake top note piece for another project I'll show you soon,

I had ALL these leftovers.

Then, the light bulb came on, and inspiration struck!

hehehe That doesn't happen too often, since I mostly CASE.

I wanted to show my ladies how to make the clouds. They LOVED it!

This set JUST BELIEVE is my favorite set from the new IBC.

To make the clouds you just punch out a scallop circle piece, use a cloud color on a sponge piece and dab the color on top of the edge of the circle, move the circle over and dab some more until you are happy with the results.

My pink butterfly 'flew' way up there!

Actually, she is covering a boo-boo!

Oops! There are no boo-boos, right!?!

The oval sentiment looked better on TWO night of navy punches, versus one cut in half, with the white sentiment piece centered on top. The little rhinestone just seemed to finish the whole card off a bit.

LOVE those rhinestones that are new in the IBC, also the pearls!!

STAMPIN' SUPPLIES *all STAMPIN UP!*

Stamps: Just Believe

Ink: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Daffodil Delight

Accessories & Tools: Big Shot, Top Note die, Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Scallop Circle Punch, Buttlerfly Embosslit, Wide Oval Punch, Rhinestone, Sponges, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ

Round Valley Animal Rescue

July 20th, a few of my card group ladies got together and created some cards to 'gift' the newly-formed Round Valley Animal Rescue.

We created about 10 cards each and one of our ladies, Becky, who is a member of RVAR, presented the foundation with our newly created cards. We all had a great time together, at the 'little' house, doing a civic-minded activity.

Here are a few pictures for you.

June, Becky, Pat, and Rita

Various cards I made for samples.

Stampin' Supplies (all Stampin' Up!)

Stamps: D is for Dog
Ink: Soft Suede
Cardstock: Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango
Accessories & tools: paper cutter, sponges, scallop trim punch, modern label punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, dimensionals, snail adhesive.

Thanks for your visit! SherryBee in AZ