Making car decals

 I would like to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a short {very short} tutorial.

 I had a slight dilemma while trying to video yesterday.  A few minutes into taping my low battery symbol starting flashing like the bat signal when someone is in distress .....so I jumped into the nearest phone booth {actually I went upstairs} to get my charger.  I plugged it into the wall and then reached for the end to plug into the camera when...{zzooonnnks}...there was nothing there but raw wire exposed.......arggghhhhh!!!!!  I freaked out a little and then I started looking at the only possible culprits.......{the barking duo},Booboo and Looloo.  Now Booboo had an alibi, he has been on good behavior for 14 yrs and has not so much as even attempted to gnaw on anything.....well except a milk bone or two.  So, I turned to Looloo and she's a newbie and doesn't quite know the ropes yet.  I matched up the teeth marks and sure enough, I had found the criminal. I was afraid she swallowed it.....{I've seen her eat, I don't think she even tastes her food except whats on her lips afterwards}.  Cape flying; I was heading back down to the studio when something was shining on the rug in the hubs office.....yep there it was,the missing piece.  I was elated. First...she hadn't swallowed it. Second, the wire left on the plug was just long enough to splice to the other piece.  Yippeee!!!! I began to unleash my special powers and magically re-connect the wires. I then plugged in my camera and charged it up and finished the video. Whewwww......Catastrophe overted!!!

 

Soon I will try to do another video of the decals.  This time more indepth and more clear.  I want to put a girl cricut on my car as well.

No need for popcorn, the video will be over before you can get it in and out of the microwave.....

ENJOY!!!

Wanted to share some of my inspiration for the car decals.

(Booboo on the blanket and Looloo being Jeff's lap warmer)

That's a 100 lbs. of lap love.  (Looloo loves her daddy)

(Harlee and her daddy.....you couldn't slip a piece of paper between those two.....bwahahahahahaha)

Until later, car-nivorous crafters.....Gotta split......TFL!!!

Welcome to the Smudgy Saloon......

I think someone needs to get the heck out of Dodge.....!!!!

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Smudgy Sam has caught himself a varmint tryin' to mark the playin' cards!!!!!

Next time the varmint would do a might near better at cheatin' iffn he washed his hands a bit more.  His finger smudge is way too obvious. 

There are no 'varmints' at Haunted Design House....nothing but bunch of talented folks with a pert near grand sense of humor. 

 Smudgy Sam says come on over and grab ya a stool and sit down and enjoy the scenery.

Don't go wipin' off the screen, its smudgetastic this week.....bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Let me tell you a bit about Smudgy Sam ....

I started with Kraft cardstock and stamped the cards with black staz-on.  You're right, partner....that be my finger smudge on that ace.  The red DSP was ran over thru the texture boutique with the wood folder.  Smudgy got smudgy with color pencils and a stump, this image of him was found while lurking online behind the barkeep.  The sentiment was created with this new fandangled machine called a computer.....then added some twill ribbon and dad burnit I think we'z done.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

                                       Until later, Wranglers........Gotta ride split.........TFL!!!!!!

Teenage dream.....

My daughter is such a rocker that a cutesy valentine would never work for her.  Though, she has a few fleeting moments of frilly-ness.  Cricut Cardz Challenge today is to make a Valentine card for a child.  So thats how this card came to being.  The heart is from Rock Princess and the wings are from Picturesque.  The Pink and blue polka dotted ribbon is some from my stash.  Loving the pearls and I used a black sharpie to doodle around the edge.  I think this one is still cute, but with an edge......!!!!

Fly on over to the challenge to see what everyone else on the DT has dreamed up.  But don't fly away too quickly.....give it a go and see what will fly into your head.

Until later, Angels.........Gotta fly split..........TFL!!!!

MIA......but was on a mission!!!

Check out the pics below.....most of the ladies in my family are now into the extreme couponing.... I have always used coupons, but they have converted me as well. Its like a game now.  We are emailing each other sales, deals, etc......

The pic below was a shopping excursion I went on Sunday to buy.....

I spent $218.51

minus coupons, store promos, clearances........

I was out of pocket $108.27

You do the math....  I was tickled!!! 

Fave buy was the M&M's .....they were in the christmas clearance for 70% off ....which made them 1.20

after my coupon for 1.50 off two bags that made them 25 cents a bag.

Another great deal was the Hunts tomatoes ....on sale for .49 at Kroger

used coupon and ended up paying .19 cents a can.

 This shopping trip was yesterday...... I spent 124.48 after coupons, sales, etc......

I paid out of pocket 56.58

Fave buy here were the light bulbs which were FREE. One bottle of Eucerin was free also. Scott tissue was 3.77 after coupons...and the cereal I ended up paying approx. .50 cents per box.

Its really worth scanning the papers, the sales papers, internet, anywhere you can find deals.  

The trick is wait for the items to go on sale then use a coupon.  Most people don't know that you can use a store coupon out of their sales paper and a mfg coupon together. But you can with most stores.  Most Publix stores will take Target coupons. So many ways to beat the system so to speak.......Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Check on the internet, look up coupon sites and they can give you the low down on how to do it.

And it is so FUN watching that total go down.....

Until later, Bargain Bettys........Gotta split.......TFL!!!!!!

Here he comes to save the day......

today, tomorrow and the next day too!!!!!

I guess even super hero(s) have to keep a calendar, right???

Its a an old CD case that I re-purposed for the challenge at Dude Time Doodles Challenge 

Put on your best cape and fly over there and slide into super hero mode and enter too!!!!

Check out the calendar pages...those were a freebie at Lettering Delights...

Not all super hero(s) can be perfect ya know. Mine is a little squishy around the middle now and he sports an inverted mohawk...but he's still wonderful to me. This particular super hero got a little glitter on his teeth.  Now, we all know when we wear glitter anything it ends up in places we prefer not to mention...he is no different....bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I used crystal effects and the glitter from his cape and decided to go check in and not leave.

What super hero doesn't sport an awesome belt buckle containing all his gadgets.  When he cuts this baby loose I don't want to see what flies out......bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Around our house when a birthday is mentioned my hubs jokingly always asks "Is it red on the calendar?"  "I only celebrate the red ones."  Bwahahahahahahaha,  now you see why we get along so well.  Well this year mine IS red on this calendar.  I'm going to be sure to set it on his desk so he won't forget this year.  Last year he forgot.  Yeah, it wasn't pleasant around here that day.  But he made up for it.  My b'day is March 10th and our daughter's (Harlee) is May 10th.  Now how can anyone forget that, the only two months that start with "M's" and they're both are on the 10th....... aarrggg, MEN ....uhhh I mean Super Heroes.

Until later, fellow cape wearers.......Gotta split.....TFL!!!!!!!

Hell hath no fury.........

I'll let you complete that sentence....bwahahahahahaha!!!

Around here,  my hubs has a saying..... "Happy wife, happy life !!!"

No truer statement could be said.

Don't you love the look on her face.....yep, that would totally be me. I found this image online and altered it a bit.  She was actually holding a badge...but I covered it with a pair of panties. No, not real panties silly.  I drew them on top of the badge and then colored with my col,or pencils and covered them with glitter.  I have an ex that thought he could get away with this himself.  He found out differently, bwahahahahahaha!!!  And I can't imagine what glittered panties would feel like in real life......ouchie.

 Those panties are definitely for starin' not for wearin'

The sentiment pretty much sums it up!!!!!!!!!

I made this one for Haunted Design House....one of my fave blogs to visit.  I try to participate each week, its sooooo  much fun. 

There's a new challenge starting each monday with a cool theme...this week is, of course, Hell hath no fury...

Scurry on over and give it a go, you won't regret it......unlike the fellow this gun is pointing at....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Until later, gun-totin' mamas.......Gotta split......TFL!!!!!!!

I {heart} Giraffes!!!

Giraffes are my fave animal evah!!!!! Not sure what it is, but I love to watch them. Anytime we go to a zoo I have to find them first. This past summer we went to the San Francisco zoo.  It was fab-u-lous!!!!  We went thru the gate and what was the first animal we saw.....yep you guessed it.  G-I-R-A-F-F-E-S....  I think the whole zoo staff heard me squeal with delight.  We got there as they were just opening and they were starting to feed the animals... the San Fran zoo have these observation decks on some of the exhibits.  We were just leaving the deck and I saw a zoo caretaker with a lot of branches heading our way.   Yep, she was going to feed the giraffes a treat right off the deck.   OMG...they came right up and took the treats.....  I was giddy with excitement. 

Ok, enough about my silliness....... Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Today's challenge is bitter sweet....  Glitterbabe is going to cancel the challenge blog. I think she'll be having one more and then its Adios amigo!!! It's getting to be too much work and she's not able to have any fun herself.  But she's not going anywhere...she will still be blogging and having way for fun to boot.

The challenge is pretty simple. It was to use a Pink Gem image and of course some ~*~bling~*~....

I used bic markers to color the g-raff (a little secret ~ I had to use my markers, as I accidently left slick photo paper in my printer and color pencils wouldn't work to color the image...shhhhhh) and added some glitter to the heart spots. The heart bling is actually from the Glitterbabe herself....sweet, huh????

When I saw this giraffe I knew immediately it was for me.  Around our house we call them G-raffs, {emphasis on the G} not sure why I started calling them that, but now everyone does.....bwahahahahahaha.

So, get on over there and bling it up before its too late!!!!

Until later, G-raffians........Gotta split.......TFL!!!!!