So, they came, and I got out the acrylic paints, some stamps, and some ink.  I painted mine so they are double sided...gives you two surfaces you can interchange. 





I painted the images with acrylic paint and then stamped again when it was dry. I put glitter on the dragonfly for some sparkle.

I'm not a great artist, but I am happy with the way they turned out.  I have a couple more to make and will share them at a later date.

Hope you are staying cool.  It's still hot as blazes here.  I am waiting for late October for some relief from the heat.

Happy stamping...

It's been awhile.  I've had computer problems (I smoked a brand new computer that wasn't even a week old), both here and at work.  Add to that that I am learning a new graphics program, and it's easy to see why I haven't been involved with the blog.  However, that is neither here nor there.

I do want to share some Halloween cards with you.  Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Maybe it's because I can dress up and be anybody I want to be.  I do love to dress up for Halloween, as does my hubby, and we've become quite good at it.  We've been doctor and nurse, queen and court jester,  the American Gothic couple.  You get the idea.

I cased the card idea from Michelle Zindorf, but I changed up the stamps.  I made some with pumpkins and some with cats.  I'll show you both cards.

Boy, am I confused. I don't know what day I thought yesterday was, but this morning I thought it was Tuesday, and this afternoon I thought it was Thursday. I even did my Thursday Discussion of the Day for my Inky Stampin' Friends today. Then I had to go back and check to make sure I did my Commercials for the groups I'm in today. I will probably think tomorrow is Friday.

Made some logos for a church that I manage their website. I have 7 websites I take care of now. It's not a difficult job, just time consuming at times. I enjoy doing it though, so it's okay.

My catboys are driving me crazy. Let me tell you the story of their cat door. They used to have a cat door that came in our kitchen window. It was open all the time as it was under our screened porch, although it had an actual door that we could close and latch if we needed to. Hubby made them an entrance into the porch, then they would come up a ramp, into the kitchen, and then onto the floor.

Well, one night I was sitting at the kitchen table stamping (it was quite late - I couldn't sleep), and I hear a noise behind me. Thinking it's a cat, I take my time turning around, and lo and behold, there is an opossum in my kitchen sink, drinking water from a cup.

Scott was in bed, so I went yelling into the bedroom for him to get up and get the opossum out of the kitchen. They can be quite mean, you know, if you corner them, and they have sharp little teeth. I could just see myself getting rabies from an oppossum. NOT! Anyway, I couldn't get him to wake up, so back to the kitchen I went.

I started shooing the blasted thing out of the kitchen. It went straight to the cat door, opened it up and went down the ramp, leading me to believe it had been in my kitchen before. Needless to say, I closed and latched the door so it couldn't get back in. It tried, though.

So, we no longer have a cat door. And cats, being nocturnal, want to come in and out all night. So they sit under the bedroom window and meow until someone gets up and lets them in. And who do you think that is? Hmmmm???? Yes, it's me! Or mostly me. Occasionally Scott will hear them and let them in, but usually I am the door-person.

Well, it's Monday, and back to work time. After 4 days off, it's hard to get back in the grind. I think Rachel was almost late for school, but she was getting out of the truck as the bell rang, so maybe she made it.

Yesterday was such a weird day. Scott was going fishing early, and I had all these plans of stuff I wanted to do while he was gone. I remember getting up and letting Shadow, my cat, in at 8:30, then I went back to bed and didn't get up until 12:30 p.m.! So much for getting everything done that I wanted to do. Of course, then I couldn't go back to sleep last night. And this morning I didn't want to get up.

I'll have to find pictures of Boots and Shadow, our two cat-boys, so I can post them here. Sometimes I want to kill them (when they want to run in and out all night), but they are our 2 babies. They used to have a cat-door until I found an oppossum in my kitchen. That's a whole other story.

Need to go figure out what I'm putting on special this week. Gotta make some money.