I Got Caught By Surprise!

As you know, we had a Bingo winner yesterday. Congratulations to Wanda for getting the X-shape bingo. I'll be sending your prize out today. Because I was caught by surprise, I'm not ready for the next round. I know it's the H-shape, but I haven't picked the prize yet. So, I'm going to be starting Round 4 on Tuesday, because Monday is Labour Day, therefore a long weekend. We've already got nine numbers to start with (which will be extremely helpful as I think this one is going to take a while). Any further cards which are submitted will be added to that and we could have a huge kick-off on Tuesday. However, if you all have plans for weekend fun, at least we'll have nine to start. Here is what the H-shape should look like.



As you can see, the H-shape can be either top, bottom and middle lines, OR left, right and middle lines. Two ways to win. I hope everyone is okay with this and, as soon as I decide on a prize, I'll post a picture of it.
Have a great weekend everyone!

Look at these gorgeous babies!

We only have two numbers today, so I thought I'd spruce up this post with pictures of my grandsons. The first pic is Owen, he's 14 months and playing peek-a-boo with his Mommy and the second picture is of Jackson, 13 months, wearing his 'do-rag'. At least, that's what my son said this head gear is called. My son loves motorcycles, but gave it up when they were expecting the baby. Smart move, I'd say!

So, on with the numbers for today. It's such a busy time of year right now with Mom's getting their children ready to return to school that there is precious little time available for crafting. I guess that's why there aren't many cards being submitted. But, Elizebeth has saved the day and provided an extra number for us. Thanks, Elizebeth, and a cute card it is, too!

I25 Today's number
B6 Courtesy of Elizebeth

Good Luck to all!

Good Morning, Barb's Bingo Buddies!

I love alliteration, don't you? I have today's numbers for you, do you want them now? Maybe in a couple of hours as I like to keep the suspense up. No, you say, you want them now, right now! Okay, okay keep you knickers on! I won't make you wait any longer.

Oh, did I tell you that I love to craft early in the morning. Well, DH is back to work now. He teaches avionics in an Aircraft Maintenance program at the local college and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, he has to leave the house by 7:30 a.m. Do you know what this means? I'll be in my craft room about 7:31 a.m. I work best early in the day and maybe I'll have some cards to post later. I'm currently working on some Merrybella Christmas cards. What's your next project going to be. I also have a swap to finish up before too long, so that will keep me busy, too!

What? Oh yeah, I guess you want to play Bingo. Okay, here we go. I've toyed with you long enough. Funny, those expressions: toyed with you, kept you hanging on, I guess I shouldn't hem and haw any longer, and so, with baited breath.....you know mints can help with that. Sorry, I digress:

B10 Today's number
I29 Courtesy of Denise
O65 Courtesy of Kathy
I28 Courtesy of Elizebeth

Well, there you go. Hope someone is getting close. Next game, I may call four numbers at a time, plus any extras for cards made. I like things to move swiftly, don't you?

I was really worried last night!

I check my e-mail about 10 pm, EST of course, and there weren't any card links for today's Bingo and I thought, oh no, I can't just give one number tomorrow. So, I dashed into my craft room (and if you could see me dash, you'd be ROTFLYourAO) to make a couple of cards. In doing so, I came up with something else to add into the mix of sketches and colour challenges. Now, any and all cards created using PUNCHES as a focal point are eligible for an extra bingo number. Here are the two cards I made last night, just so I could give out extra numbers today.



A very big thank you to Norma from Dittydots. I received several stamped images, some patterned paper, some scalloped squares and ribbon from her inside a lovely birthday card. So, thank you, Norma.

However, this morning when I checked my e-mail there were two more submissions for extra numbers. I knew you gals wouldn't let me down. So, today we will have five numbers for your Bingo pleasure. Here we go:

I26 Today's number
N33 My Hedgehog card
G60 My Thank you card
B12 Courtesy of Allison
I24 Courtesy of Christine

Alright, now you can make cards using your punches that have been purchased because you needed them. I will make that a true statement!

Good Monday Morning!

It's been a fairly busy weekend just past and not a lot of card creating for me. However, that does not apply to all these great Bingo players. Today we will have a total of eight numbers to get the week started. So, without further adieu, let's play Bingo!

B1 Today's Number
O62 Courtesy of Shannon
I23 Courtesy of Shannon I put this card in because of 2 reasons: I miscounted the quantity of numbers for today and promised 8, so I'll deliver 8; and, this card qualifies because it used In-colours! See, when I goof up, I admit it and you all win an extra number. Besides, I think all help will be greatfully excepted, right?)
B4 Courtesy of Christine
G48 Courtesy of Christine
G56 Courtesy of Elizebeth
O68 Courtesy of Elizebeth
N37 Courtesy of Christine

Good Luck to all.

If you check out Elizebeth's blog, you will see some great pictures of a very neatly organized craft space. I feel inspired to clean my room now, although it will never look as good as Elizebeth's. Right now, I'm crowded into a corner of the guest bedroom. DH and I think I should move out to the dining room because we don't have meals there very often. We usually eat in the area off the kitchen, or in front of the TV. With no children about, we can do this, eat in front of the TV! So, I may decide to move it all into the dining room. I'm still thinking about it because thinking does not necessarily translate into the hard work of moving.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

These are all the beautiful cards I've received so far. Most of them have come from my friends at The Stamp Shack. Some have included little extras as well, inside the card, like stamped images or the Studio G Clear Stamps. Great little surprises. It's been a wonderful month, literally, as the cards started arriving about the 10th of August. Since then, every day has been a terrific mail day with cards from around the world. Thank you so much for thinking of me and taking the time to make and send the lovely cards. It makes such a huge difference, particularly as we have no family close by with whom to celebrate this occasion. You have made it special for me!

Today I am going to Caryl Baker Visage, at our local shopping mall, for a FREE facial. It seems, that as a member of their club, you are given a free facial during your birthday month. I figured, why not actually on my birthday, so, in a couple of hours I will be heading out for some pampering. Perhaps dinner later with my wonderful DH, John. He always makes my birthday special!

I hope you all have a great day and, before I go out, I think I may have time to make a couple of cards. I've got some challenges to complete. See you later.

Today's Bingo Numbers

Good Morning, ladies. Did everyone see the post below with the bear in my yard? I've heard about bears in the area, but this is the first one that I've seen so 'up close and personal' like. There's nothing to be done 'cause this is pretty much their natural habitat with all the forest areas around. Northern Ontario has a huge bear population, but the government (not sure if Federal or Provincial) does not allow bear hunting, therefore the population continues to grow, their food sources then have to stretch to feed a growing population and that brings the bears closer to residential areas looking for food. It is a problem, but I don't know the answer. Anyway, on to more fun things, like Bingo!

O71 Today's number
B8 Courtesy of Alex
O73 Courtesy of Christine
G54 Courtesy of Christine
O67 Courtest of Christine
O72 Courtesy of Shannon

Okay, that's todays numbers. Anybody getting close? I think I'll do some crafting to take my mind off the bears. See you tomorrow, or maybe later today with a card post.

Bear in my yard!

I just had to share these photos. This bear is standing under the sign which is our house number! I've lived in Thunder Bay for two years and this is the first time (and hopefully last time) that I've come this close to a bear.

Yup, just 50 feet from our front door! That is way to close for comfort. Anyway, have a nice evening. I'm closing all the doors and windows now and locking up for the night. I hope they don't have a key!

Good Morning, Bingo Players

We have six extra numbers today. Some of you are realizing that it's just too darn easy to make more than one card at a time and that really adds to those extra numbers. In fact, I received a couple of emails this morning that are so new, I haven't even had a chance to leave a comment yet, but I will. Okay, here we go.

B5 Today's number
G55 Courtesy of Donna
N43 Courtesy of Shannon
I21 Courtesy of Shannon
N40 Courtesy of Rhiannon
G51 Courtesy of Elizebeth
O74 Courtesy of Elizebeth

Terrific cards, ladies, I love them all. Such great ideas for me for future cards. I need to sponge more on patterned paper, it gives it a really cool look, I think.

If you didn't see the post below yet, of the laughing baby, please scroll down and take a look. It's a fabulous way to start your day. I play it over and over again and imagine it's one of my grandbabies laughing. It's not, but I pretend.

I just had to share this!

This laughing baby is so cute! Who couldn't use a lift?

Round 3, Day 2

You ladies are good about sending in your cards for extra numbers. Some are more prolific than others, some didn't know they actually made a card using certain colours, and some are just determined to win. However it is that they are submitted doesn't matter, as long as you get them in. I love seeing all the cards so thank you so much for making this Bingo fun for me, too! Are you ready to mark your cards. Okay, here we go:

N35 Regular number
B15 Courtesy of Alex
N34 Courtest of Nancy
O64 Courtesy of Donna
I30 Courtesy of Alex

I made a couple of cards last night that I will post later today because I haven't photographed them yet. And I'm posting them because these Bingo posts are boring without pictures! LOL! I have to pretty up my blog.

Round 3, Day 1

Welcome to Round 3. We start the day with eight numbers because we have already had some submissions. You ladies are eager to get more numbers and that's great. In fact, Tami made three cards with a food/drink theme and Katie made two.

I20 Regular number
B3 Courtesy of Elizebeth
N41 Courtesy of Tami
G46 Courtesy of Tami
O70 courtesy of Tami
B2 courtesy of Katie
G49 courtesy of Katie
O75 courtest of Alex

I must say, this is going to be fun making cards with food/drink theme! Thanks to all for the extra numbers. Good Luck!

YAY! WE HAVE A WINNER

Congratulations to Shannon, the winner of Round 2 in Bingo. I'll be mailing your prize tomorrow afternoon.

This means that Round 3 will begin tomorrow morning. When we lived in PEI, I was a consultant for Creative Memories. I still have tons of stock left, you know, things I thought people would like to buy. Well, they do like to buy them IF they know you've got them, but I'm no salesperson. I'd rather give it away and to that end, the prize for Round 3 is all CM products. Here's a picture. There's a corner rounder, a Metallic pen and a package of 36 photo mounts that are 4" x 6". I find they work equally well as patterned paper for card fronts, too. So, if you're not a scrapbooker, only a cardmaker, they will still be useful.


In order to win this delightful prize, you must get an X on your Bingo card. I thought perhaps a picture may be useful. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one way to get an X, but, if I'm wrong, please let me know.

I'm going to add another challenge to the mix. So, in addition to Sketches 1, 2 & 3, colours of brown, pink and green and any of the 2007 In-Colours by SU, let's add food. Here's a card I made today with a cupcake. YUMMY! Pull out your rubber stamps that have a food theme; vegetables, cakes, soups, coffee, nuts anything we can eat and make a card. I used my cupcake stamp from Inkspirations, a new rubber stamp online Canadian store. Go check it out, if you haven't already. I coloured the icing with Prismacolor Marker in Walnut and added a few Copper Stickles and some Perfect Pearls in pink for the little dotty things. The paper is by Karen Foster and the ribbon is from the ribbon tutorial by Rhi. I love it.

Leave a link to your card and get an extra number. That's all there is to it! So, see you tomorrow morning for the beginning of Round 3.

Lotsa Numbers Today!

It's been a craftin', busy weekend for me. I entered five challenges, so that means five extra numbers from me, alone. And, there were several entries from our players, too. Get your markers out, here we go:

O71 Regular number
O75 my challenge for Stampingranny
B2 my challenge for Beate's Weekend Sketch 15
O63 my challenge for IC89
N45 my challenge for FS28
B12 my challenge for Tracy's Happy Place

All of mine were highlighted in the original posts where they appeared. Now, on to the cards submitted by players:

I30 courtesy of Wanda
I22 courtesy of Heather
B6 courtesy of Elizebeth
I24 courtesy of Shannon
I20 courtesy of Elizebeth
B7 courtesy of Elizebeth

Okay, that's it for today. Thanks to all the ladies who submitted cards. Good Luck to you all!

It's a jungle out there!

I love the simplicity of this card. It's just so delicate looking, to me anyway and clean. The title of this post is exactly what the sentiment says, if you can't see it.


This card was made for the Featured Stamper challenge that occurs every Sunday at SCS hosted by Beth. She does a wonderful job of choosing special stampers, in spite of the fact that she's just given birth a few weeks ago. (See, nothing, absolutely nothing, stops us stampers!) You can see the rules here. This week's FS is Melissa. You can see the card I modelled mine upon here and her blog {here}. Melissa has some lovely cards in her gallery and I'll be checking out her blog much more frequently now.

I don't feel like I'm finished playing just yet, so there may be another post later today. Stay tuned!

I did say I wasn't finished playing yet. It's now about two hours later and I just finished this card for Tracy's Happy Place. She wanted to see Christmas cards and I just recently received my TAC Snowy Swirls. I am in love with this set. It just makes me happy.



Okay, I'm finished now and it's back to Bingo tomorrow with lots of numbers coming up.

Two More Challenges ...Two More Numbers!

Okay, I'm on a roll. This afternoon I made this card which complies with two challenges. IC89 on SCS and Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge 15. This is worth two extra numbers to be called on Monday.







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I also was nominated for the Nice Award by my good friend from The Stamp Shack, Sherri, a.k.a. iloveflipflops. She's a real sweetie and I'm going to be her roommate when we Shackies gather together for Scrapfest at Mall of America in Minneapolis Sep 6 - 9. Now it's my turn to nominate five people and here they are:

Alex because I just love reading her blog and her love for family shines through.

Jami because she is just a sweetheart and passed tons of information to me for my upcoming knee surgery.


Jan because she does just the nicest things for people. I'm always reading about her kindnesses to others over at The Shack.

Beth because I love looking at the pictures of her family. To me, she and her husband epitomize what family life should be like. And she just had the cutest baby and that's high praise coming from me 'cause I think my two grandsons are just beautiful.

And, last, but definitely not least, Charmaine because she was the first person from whom I copied a card. It was a tri-fold card and she left me the nicest compliment ever.

I could go on and on, but I'd best leave some bloggers so that others can make nominations of their own. Thank you to all the great women named here that I so admire.

Weekend Challenges

With no Bingo numbers to call today or tomorrow, I will be entering some challenges. As you may know from a previous post, my DS Andrew recently became engaged to a lovely young woman, Sheena. This is the card I made for them and it will be my entry for the challenge over at Stampingranny's.

The challenge is to make a gate fold card, which I love BTW, and the engagement was a perfect opportunity to really 'gussy' it up! I used the tutorial by Beate Johns and a couple of little details (read hearts on the front) that I saw at Oodabug Alley. Thanks, Charmaine I did tell you I loved it, but couldn't quite bring myself to copy it exactly, although I did think about it. The tool that is most useful for the gate fold card is my Scor-Pal. I use this little baby EVERY TIME I made a card. I will never hand-fold again. Thanks so much to Diana Crick for creating this terrific, can't-live-without-tool.
I followed Beate's tutorial closely using the same colours of Blue Bayou and Soft Sky. I was even going to use the same scrolly, swirly stamp set, but used my Gel-A-Tins set called Flourishes. It was a gift from my DD Tiffany on her trip to San Francisco. I stamped the flourshes in Soft Sky and Blue Bayou. The hearts are from the SU set, Simply Said and were stamped using my Thing-A-Majig to line it up accurately. Then came the Slit Punch by SU and some lacy, pearly ribbon I got at that marvelous $$ store.
The quote on the inside of the card I found on page 104 of the current SU Fall and Winter Catalogue. Who knew it would be such a great resource for quotes! So, that's it for the moment. I've decided that for every challenge I enter this weekend, I'm going to add an extra Bingo number on Monday. We really need someone to win so we can move on to the next Round! Have a wonderful day, I'm going back to my craft room to do a card for Beate's weekend sketch challenge # 15. You can get the details here.

Freakin' Free Friday!

I don't know about you, ladies, but I fear this game for the T-shape Bingo will never end! In order to help it along a little, I'm calling two free numbers today, along with the regular number and the extras for the cards submitted. I promise, the next Round will have more than one way to win! If smoking was allowed in this Bingo hall, the air would be positively gray, it's taking so long. Okay, onwards and upwards towards somebody winning this game.

N35 - Regular number
G57 - courtesy of Kathy
G54 - courtesy of Wanda
O70 - courtesy of Rhi
I29- Freakin' Free number
N42 - Freakin' Free number

Alright, that's Bingo for this week. I hope we have a winner, if not, we'll play this game again on Monday morning. You may still send in any submissions for cards over the weekend, too.

Good Luck!

There's lots of numbers today, ladies!

This is good! If you made multiple cards, then the same number of cards you made will equal the numbers called. The names of multiple card makers will only be highlighted once however as going to their blog you will see all cards. Okay, good luck and here we go:

Under the:

B13 - Regular number
B5 - courtesy of Angie, who's bf's birthday was August 5th
I23 - courtesy of Tami
G50 - courtesy of Tami
O61 - courtesy of Wanda
O73 - courtesy of Wanda
B10 - courtesy of Wanda
O65 - courtesy of Wanda
N38 - courtesy of Rhi
G47 - courtesy of Elizebeth

That's a total of 10, count 'em, 10 numbers for today. Surely to goodness this will help a lot of players!

I'm going to add another colour challenge and it will be to make a card using any of the new SU In-colours: Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, River Rock or Blue Bayou. (Okay, I have way to much SU stuff ~ I knew these colours from memory.) Remember, you can use any of the sketches and now either of the two colour challenges. Ladies, go forth and create! and have FUN!

Here's to a better day!

I'm a dork. There is no N25 -- it should read I25. Thanks to Alex for pointing this out to me. You see, this is why I DON'T PLAY Bingo!

I read the comments yesterday and am sensing a little frustration! I can certainly understand that when there are 74 numbers on a card and not one is called that works for YOU! I thought of an idea that may help a little bit. Here it is: any Bingo participants that have birthdays in August, post a comment saying which day, ie. my birthday is Aug 25. If the date of your birthday has not been called, then I will add it to the numbers tomorrow. Today, there will be a regular number called, an extra number for a card that was submitted and my birthday number. Okay, lets give it a whirl, shall we.

I28 - Regular number
N44 - courtesy of Elizebeth
I25 - my birthday

Okay, let's hear from all the Bingo-playing, August babies out there so we can get more numbers!