C-mas cards for GI's 2010

I have a sample of the 53 cards I made to go to Kuwait up on FlickR,Paper Crafter Planet & Facebook for people to look @ I did collage this year. Thanks to those who share their free digi's ,b/grounds & font's. They helped make my cards up this year. I lost time w/ the Vertigo & my heart slowing down.
I used up patterned paper,ribbon,3-D embellishments in my stash. I colored the fonts that Jan made file for me. She helped find fonts in trains,bells, holly & script wording to put on the front of my cards. I colored them w/ my Glaze & a green free Jellyroll pen.
I luv coloring w/ my color pencil collection. I have them by my recliner. I color when watching TV w/ Allen @ nite.
Now to get energy to put my families together
Had a real bad windstorm come thru Sun. Blew a lot of dust around. We're short 2 in. of rain,so very dry here.
Go to heart dr. to get results of holster results. have to rest a couple of days from storm etc.

Frog cards up

Go to to see my new frog cards I made. grandmabear is my name there.Look @ the top right area & click on photo's to bring them up. It's too hard to load them on multiple sites& time consuming. I so proud of them .I used alcohol inks for my b/grounds for these. These will be going out in 3 s/ments of cards to 3 GI groups, I in Kuwait,2 in Afghan. soon in the mail
I couldn't had done this w/o help of my fellow stampers & c/makers. Frog images are hard to find. Several people sent me frog stamps & frog paper.
This project has been in the works for over a year. I colored a lot of the images in the heat this summer.

I won !st place!!

I'm doing card challenges on Paper Planet in the group,Anything but Cute. Sentiments were this week topic.
I choice to do a patriotic theme for my GI stash. It's the embossed gold star one on the flickR slide show.It has a vellum saying over the Eagle & Statue of Liberty on the left side.
I was really surprised i won. Last week I was really disappointed I didn't win w/ either Allen's train b-day card or 1 of the set of the steam engines I did. Ijust decided to do some for my GI's & just post them.

Cardslide show @ bottom of screen

Updated my s/bars @ 2new badges. plus photo's of my kid's C-mas presents.
Visit the Planetcraft card slideshow.

Endoscope,Monday

Lost another 10 lbs w/o reason. @2nd time,1st 10 lbs in Oct. Cervix ultraaound@Pap okay. Trying to keep busy so I don't think what they may find. Pancreas checked okay,colon okay(what a nightmare) I've a feeling another storm is brewing. My clothes are falling off. I weighed 180 lbs came to El Paso ,retaining water. No longer on diuetric, 160 lbs this summer. I should lost weight then,It was too hot to eat,meat made me sick. Pancreatic enzymes helped my digestion,rid of the horrible gas.
Finally got out the winter quilt. Stripped the bed. Did 3 loads,Allen @ work. Too much for him to do on Sat. Clean bed come home Monday.
I think my e-friends save my sanity. I don't have any women to talk to around me. Allen was impatient w/ me this a/noon. He forgot to fill up my portable O-2 tank and had to come home after a Dr's appt.. I needed his help to tuck in the covers and lift up the mattress. while he was here since he comes home late @times. I repeated myself,he gets really ticked off when I do this. Then I said "why do you think I get on the web, to be able to talk to s/one"
I really miss going to Church. It's been 6 yrs. I miss the discussions in S.S& R. S(our women's group) I found Modern Molly Mormon blog. It's nice to read some of the d/cussions and post comments. It makes my day when s/one replies to them. I also joined the Paper Crafters They have a good site for people who love papercrafts. I can post ?'s @ get an answer. I have found some new friends on these sites.
I got Katya's cigar box covered w/ 3 of pink,purple h/made paper. It got plenty of Modge Podge .It has Hello Kitty stickers,cut out little b/flies M.P. also I need help to get the box down off the shelf to get the rocks on it. I saved the negative piece of the c/board letters,needed it to spell rocks w the O @K negative shape on top of the lid.
I got Swat's Oriental card made. I used my stamped images I did the other night. I used the new card and envelope maker template and the bone tool to make her card. Lght grey cardstock w/pink sq,textured paper.