CWUI.....A cautionary tale......

Well gentle readers, you may be wondering what CWUI means...it stands for "crafting under the influence." I have mentioned previously that I have a wonderful (sarcasm of course) back injury, with 2 bulging discs and 2 annular tears in 1 of the discs. I guess according to some Ortho genius up in NC at Duke, the fluid that leaks from your discs can cause pain due to the "bathing" of the nerves & tissues from the disc fluid. I am giving you a back story, as many of you already know from my previous posts that I take a good amount of medication.

So, I am enjoying my blogs one morning and come across this post . I also have to mention if I haven't already, that Diane of capadiadesigns.blogspot.com has the BEST tutorials for cricut design studio. This gal knows her stuff!!! And she has a very easy list on her side bar for her designs. Well anyways, I decide, as I need a birthday card for my son Ian, that I want to make a similar card, but using a different punch, and trying out a different technique which I had done before (watercoloring), but never on watercolor paper. I was a bit disappointed as I really didn't get the shading right, but figured, hey it's cute. I also decided that instead of the card being vertical, I would make it horizontal. I felt at the time my design would fit better this way.

So now for my cautionary tale, DO NOT make cards while under the influence of heavy narcotics..I mean what was I thinking???? Here is a card that flops because the front of it is cut down, so it looks a bit wonky. Oh well, I did tie a piece of ribbon around the top so that he could hang it on the wall if he wished. So, not sure where the photos will turn up on this post (How do I get them to be underneath the post. Yes, as I ramble, still under the influence of my duragesic patch, so I guess I have no choice but to craft & post under the influence!! At the very least it can add 5-10 to my crafting time, which is nice..as long as I can figure out the orientation of a card!!!!!

Oh JOY Saturday!!!! well maybe....

Saturdays are usually my favorite time on the weekends, house is quiet, no lunches to prepare, and no trying to wake up 17 y/o teen girl. (she's not too bad, just about 2 wake up calls :) ). She sleeps in, Hubby sleeps in...quiet, yummy coffee, etc...

Today was a bit of a bust, tired all day, and achy, so I read, and rested, my legs propped on pillows, and a few times watched a few videos. (Spanky kept me company :). Which reminds me, this blog is an absolute must for all cardmakers!!!

http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/

Mary is the sweetest Gal, her videos are fun and informative, besides being so incredibly creative!!! I hope you enjoy her videos as much as I have. She has also been branching out into the wonderful world of mini albums...gotta love mini albums, I still enjoy scrapbooking, but I have to say, 3d stuff and mini albums..they are so much fun, even if that red tape stuff tends to sticks to everything you own (I have found that tape liner in my bathroom! I need scor-tape LOL).

Stampin with Roxy has PDFs available on her blog (I believe Tuesday they will be available), which is a gorgeous book with a waterfall scrapbook inside. You can see the sample on You tube, it's incredible!!! Don't forget to leave your comments on Holidays with the Cricut as you can win some awesome prizes, I make it a daily visit, because even if I don't have the cart they are using..well the ideas can be used in any type of card. Don't forget to check out the individual blogs of Melanie, Tammy, and Joy, as they have wonderful projects as well. I know I have many other great sites to list, but it's late, and I'm on my way back to You tube to watch a few more videos before bedtime!!!!

Have a great night!!!

Late post!!!

In my wanderings amongst all my favorite subscriptions at You Tube, I happened upon an adorable card from this Stampin' Up demonstrator.

http://stampwithtami.com/blog/

It is the cutest card using the heart shaped sweet treat cups. "Punchy, the M&M Lion."
As Tami would say "How stinkin' cute is this?" If you are looking for a demonstrator, she has some great deals on her web site, and her other tutorials are so awesome!!!!

I was thinking if you didn't have the treat cups, you could possibly use some acetate for the tummy, maybe with some brown & orange glitter?? Anyways, be sure and check out this great site!!!!

Well I got my 50mcg patch on today, I felt pressure but no pain for about 3 hours, it was wonderful!!! Now, not so good...I'm hoping it will help enough that I can cut down on the Lortabs, and valium, *sigh* No more dinner with a Lortab chaser!! I also hope it will help enough so that I can get out a bit more, and maybe craft longer than 15-20 minutes :)!!! Of course I am totally a bit out of it at times..feeling a bit gorky, but I guess until I get used to it, that is to be expected. Ok enough feeling sorry bout my self...LOL.

Nite all!!!

Lisa

Pretties!!!!!!!!

STOP what you are doing!!!! Head over to this blog

http://www.stampingwithroxy.typepad.com/ and check out this gorgeous tutorial on how to make vintage heat tool flowers. You can watch this tutorial on her blog or on You tube. I can't wait to try this. It seems I have been obsessed with flowers lately, and was thinking I really want to try this...hmmmm..did we toss the left over material from a sheer cami that we used for my daughter's Halloween flapper dress??? I wonder if she has any other sheer material that she may not want..or do I?? I'm terrible I know..plundering through my daughter's closet..tsk tsk. I wish I would have known about this tutorial when we made the flapper dress (the main part was pieced together from a gold lame type trench coat I had purchased for an Army Christmas ball, and only wore once). Here is a photo of the dress, you can see top part, not much of the bottom I'm afraid, but where we were short on fabric for the lower ruffle of the dress we added the panels made from the grey cami.

Hoping to post some projects soon, waiting on the card to get there first just in case my son finds this blog and sees his card!!

Cheers all, have a great day, oh and wish me luck, I am upping my dosage of my fentanyl duragesic patch to 50mcg every 3 days. I hope this allows me to quit taking so much of the Lortab (hydrocodone). Still won't be able to drive, but if it helps with the pain and I get a good nights sleep, I will be very happy. For some reason being up at 3am every morning (although that affords me the opportunity to get Murray's lunch ready, and breakfast, make coffee. Yeah, then I'm in pain with spasms...all from making a PB&J. Actually if you think about it..it's kind of funny. : )

Oh, if anyone wishes to tell me how to get the photos under my post..it would be greatly appreciated. (insert rolling eyes emoticon here, I'm hopeless!!).

Lisa :)

I also wanted to add, I will ask permission of the person who created the original project prior to recreating, now this is all a maybe as my craft time is limited due to my back, but thanks to Tammy from Holidays with the Cricut, I managed to make a great load of cards for Christmas. And of course the biggest shout out is to my Daughter who helped tremendously!! I hope to get some crafting done today, and work on some paper flowers..I am loving this technique. Oh yes, another technique some of you may be interested in is this link:

http://lordhavemercy-mercykerin.blogspot.com/2010/01/paper-flower-tutorial.html

this technique produces very beautiful flowers, be sure to leave a comment if you like and follow her blog, I just started to, and her blog looks like she has some fantastic ideas!!!!

OK..no more for today...LOL

Trying something a bit different....

So, I think my blogger is a Debbie Downer blog, so I'm hoping to add to it that may be more fun for me & whoever happens to find their way here to my little piece of me. I have a list that I posted of my fav blogs, and I do mean my fav, I have many more, but I figured start out small, don't get frustrated :) . I also hope to add my comments and possibly projects that I have created after watching many of my fav bloggers and their youtube videos, not to steal their projects, but if I can do them...anyone can, I promise you that. As you can see (hopefully if I did it right) there is already a blog for card of the week by the Barefoot stamper, so no need for another, but I would really like to showcase what I feel are the best videos out there, so if some of you are looking for inspiration and/or new to crafting, it may help, if not..oh well, I can also ramble on about other things as well.

*Note: best rambling is when I am PUI (posting under the influence), which means I'm pretty medicated up. Hopefully someday soon, there will be no need for these crappy meds and you can get to know the real me, but then again, someone in my high school annual wrote, "I liked you better when you were punk (and also taking speed)" prior to me becoming a Christian. So we shall see. ; )

God bless all, and have a great day!! A special shout out for those that are covered with snow right now..stay warm, and drink your hot cocoa!!!!

Well, tomorrow my Airman Ian turns 20, hard to believe. He is going to come visit in April, and I look forward to it more than anything!!!

Everything else, still the same, still waiting for decisions from the Department of Labor, still in pain, upping my duragesic patch to 50mcg. Oh and I was fired for not coming to work, they call it abandonment, I call it crap. Can't drive to work, and when I'm at work, a bit out of it to be doing much, but they wanted me to be Charge Nurse, my PA at my Pain management office thought that was the PERFECT job for me, I looked at her like she was crazy..In charge of the entire floor and ultimately responsible for the care of our wounded soldiers, veterans, & their Dependants. As a Nurse, I can't do that while medicated 24/7. I guess it shows how much my hospital cares. Sad.

On a brighter note, I have found a great project for Murray & I to do for her friends valentines goodies. Murray is a Senior, so of course, cute cards wouldn't cut it. If you get a chance, check out YouTube for mADDmartha, she has a tutorial on using conversation heart boxes and making them into ipods. Really cute idea. I try to do some crafting, but of course, it's a bit at a time, even behind on my son's birthday card, because I decided I wanted to try some watercoloring on watercolor paper. Capadia designs had a really nice card on her blog, which had rounded corner, and MS paisley punches. I used the card design, but the EK success punch that looks like swiss cheese, and the Hero arts clear stamps cupcake set. Hopefully some day I will figure out how to post photos on this thing, and maybe make a "real" blog!!!! LOL

God bless all and take care