Just Julie

Under the Stars

About  two months ago I saw a card made with Under the Stars rubber stamp set  and I decided to make one to add to my greeting card box.   I need to get busy and make some holiday cards and have them ready.  I must be too busy painting and constantly moving things.... I think our house is on a permanent roll with remodeling......arghh!!!

Frankie revisited

I'm not sure what I did to that last post but maybe this photo will be a bit better.

Upright Z fold card

Hey to all of my friends in blogland!  I was playing last week with Halloween stamps and while I had been looking around on Split Coast I found the instructions to make this upright z fold card.  It turned out pretty cute.  I made another one with drac on it.  I'll post that one at a later date, I haven't seen him in the daylight to take his photo yet!!! LOL

Henry James, aka Wee, Mr. Pugalicious

This is my dd's puppy.  He's such a cutie!  Talk about full of energy, I wish I could siphon off some of his for me.....He still has that wonderful puppy breath too....muah! Wee!

Vinyl Boo Banner

Yesterday was spent making a very fun banner for Halloween.  My friend Holly was here and she created one too.  In fact, we had lots of fun sharing paper and embellishments to make our banners and in general it was a great day!  The letters cut out of vinyl are from Cricut Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, the papers are from various companies as are the embellishments.  Nancy, I wish you could have been here to make yours with us!!!  Don't forget to click on the image to enlarge it for a better view.

Me & Bev

This is me and Beverly having a brunch date while I was in Washington to see my cousin and cruise Alaska with my dh.  We didn't have nearly enough time together but what we did have was a fun visit.  We had just gotten our Stampin' Up! catalogs and were oohing and ahhing over all the new goodies in it!  I actually took a fairly decent photo without my oxygen on.....gotta love a decent picture, they're few and far in between these days.... Love to you Bev!

A Hawk eating lunch in Lamoille Canyon

My friend Nancy was here visiting me for a week so I took her up to Lamoille Canyon and at the top we saw a hawk making a kill, he was on the ground hopping around with a snake in his talons and then he flew up into this dead tree and proceeded to eat the snake, it was awesome watching this bird, he was truly a nice looking hawk.  Just goes to show how strong they are as well.  He had no problems pulling that snake apart and eating it.  Poor snake, what a way to go!  If you click on the photo and bring up the larger version you would see the snake better and for those of you that don't want to see it better, it is the loop in the middle bottom of the photo, he was being held in the talons of the bird in between bites.

Me and Hubby at Mendenhall Glacier

We took an excursion to Mendenhall Glacier on our cruise.  Really beautiful country.  It's amazing how fast that glacier is disappearing.....loved our trip

The Troll

My cousin took us to see the Troll underneath the overpass in Seattle.  How cool is this guy?  Made out of concrete (at least that's what it looked like to me) with a silver hubcap for an eye.  LOL

Peace within

I am slowly getting some of my "card mojo" back.  The other day I ducked into the craft room and made a card.  I took some of the new In-Color cardstock from Stampin' Up!, soft suede and matching polka dot grosgrain ribbon, mixed it up with ruby red which was run through the big shot with the swiss dots embossing folder from Cuttle Bug and then I found some corrugated kraft stock and added a panel of that too.  Turned out kind of cute.  Hope you like it!