My First Altered Key Swap

These are my keys that I altered for my swap partner. This is the first time I played with these keys and altered them.  I think the keys turned out pretty nice for my first time. 
What do you think? Tfl...

 Please leave a comment. Thanks. Hugs!

 

Merry Merry Mail

 

Love this, my First new Calendar for the new year 2014.

 

Happy Merry Merry Mail!!!

I have been getting Merry Merry Mail in the ole' Mail Box from Friends.

 

Karen's Beautiful card...

I just love the die Karen used...and she also embossed with an embossing folder ...Love this embossing folder, and the cute bow just is a cute touch.  Lovely card Karen.  Thanks.

 

This is the third tag Front and Back....

So Pretty.

 

Second set of tags for our swap by Karen:

Love them...

Love the colors. And the flowers and the bling and the lace.  So pretty.

 

Tag Swap "2014 January" My Partner's Tags...

My partner was Karen S. and we are to make 2014 January Tags.  She did a beautiful job on them.  I love them, I love all the laces and bling she used on the tags. The Penguin is so cute, she used her Copic markers, what a nice job she did with them.  That's one thing I wish I knew how to use.  Karen did amazing on her tags.  Take a look at these tags...Thanks Karen and thanks for the goodies you included in the box.

Karen did both sides of all the Tags.

 

These are my Arty Slides:

I made these for a swap on IUOMA group for my Christmas Theme Arty Slides:

Thanks for stopping by. 

Arty Slides "Christmas Theme"...

I'm in this swap called "Arty Slides" on IUOMA group.  I love creating with these tiny works of art.  Here go two sets of two that I have rec'd so far....

 
These are from Judy...I love the painted 3d wood tree and the tiny wood stars.  These are so festive.

 These were made by Claudia (from Argentina) Her first one is an origami Star Tree, if you unfold the center pieces, you will see a star unfold, The tree stands up right as well like a pop up.  The other slide she has a Santa Wish list which unfolds and Wishes are wrote on each little section of the letter.  I love this and how different.  Thank you both. 

Merry Merry!

Merry Merry!! One of my first Holiday Cards!

The red cs is from Paper Cuts, it's red and sparkly. The stamps are from Great Impressions  http://www.greatimpressionsstamps.com   Poinsettia is a Recollections 3D sticker,the ribbon  is from a Ribbon club I was in many moons ago and the plaid strip of deckle cut edge (Paper Edgers Deckle- Friskars) is Graphic 45 paper.  I used my H2o's to paint the stamped images.  I also highlighted parts of the Poinsettia with Stickles (Diamond).  
I'm working on some other cards that I will post later on.
Tfl...Hugs!  Leave me a comment if you like, would love to hear some feed back.  Thanks again.

 

My Domino Swap Partner sent me :

 Domino Christmas Ornaments for the tree.  I love these.  She did a wonderful job being her first time in altering Dominos.  I hope she continues altering the dominos, she does good work.  Thanks Jill.

Two Pretty Cards rec'd.  Love them both.

Amy has altered her buttons with some bling (Nail art).  Very pretty.  Love this idea, will have to give it a try.  Thanks Amy.

My mucker sister Lynn made this for me.  I love the little girl and the saying.  Thanks Mucker.

 

Altered Christmas Ticket Tags....

Altered Christmas Ticket Tags for Swap:

I've been working on these for a few days now.  We were to put "To/From" on the back of the tickets.... Damn, I just made these for a swap over on SCS for last month's swap, instead of tickets, we made Atc's instead with To/From on them....lol um... Oh well,Here go my five tickets for the three envies I put them in, I made my envies out of my love of Vellum that I've been hording for a while..lol  Snowflake background... Now if I can just break free and use my Tea Cup and Spoons Vellum and my leaf vellum and my... well you get the picture...lol  Any who... here goes my tickets...

Click on the picture above ...Will be able to read the description of the tags!!

And those are my Vellum Snowflake envies that I packaged my Christmas Tickets in. I added a cute little bell on the back of the vellum tag...ggg
Thanks for looking.

Christmas Art I Makes Charm Swap

Christmas Art I Makes Charm Swap:

I'm in a charm swap, the theme is Christmas with a bell somewhere on the charm.  Here are my charms.  I made the boxes which the charms are enclosed in along with some brown crinkled raffia to keep the charms safe.  A nice little gift package for the charms and to keep them nice and safe till they get to the swappers. 
Let me know what you think, please leave a comment if you like.
TFL...

I made the boxes with my Sizzix Eclips.  Love that machine.
 

Great Weekend...Stamping Store trip...Finally!! lol...

Hubby and I had a great weekend, well at least I thought it was great cause I finally made it up to my LSS (Local Stamp Store) the store is called Stamp Fanci...  website is 
http://www.StampFanci.com     I bought a ton of stuff.  Hubby bought me the new Sizzix Flip-its frames.  You know the set that has nine dies in the set.  Here is my first card that I made with it:
 The card is closed, but will have a picture with it standing opened here shortly, but for now, this is the front of it scanned.  Let me know what you think?  Hugs!  TFL!

Domino Tips & How To's & Clipboard Use for Embossing...

Thanks for watching.  Leave a comment if you like. 
Tfl...hugs Robin

"Altered Domino for my Swap Partner"

Here goes a pic of my "Altered Dominos" for my swap partner over on A Lil' Scrap of Heaven.  We are to make two or three... I may do another one for her.  I have been having so much fun making them today.  It's been years and years since I've played and made any.  I also have a video coming on my Dominos, some tips and other fun things on how to make and what to use if you don't have some of the fancy other things in your crafter's toolbox..  Just waiting for the video to upload, probably another 10 minutes.  Anywho, here goes the picture...(video to follow)

 

My second set of Mail Art Envies for the swap:

The front of the envy I used the Polished Stone Technique...I used my Studio 2 Ink It (Alcohol Inks)...Colors are: Light Chartreuse,Ruby,Cadmium Orange and then used Pearl Mixtive by Ranger.   
The back of the card I used Pinata -Jacquard (Alcohol Ink) The colors were Calabaza Orange and Sunbright Yellow.  And used Copper Mixtive by Ranger.  The front stamps are from Tim Holtz collection and the back are stamps that are unmounted and have had for years. Hope you like them.  TFL..

 

Fun Mail Arrived today in the Mail!!

I rec'd two fun cards in the mail today.  They are from my RST friends (private club) the first one is from Debbie L... Love this Debbie so cute, and thanks.  The second one is to remain anonymous cause she write and critiques for all the crafty magazines out there and goes to the Cha shows and works for various companies there too, she makes cards and items for magazines to photograph, this is why her cards that are sent to her -rst- friends can't publish them.  But I have posted a "Mail Art" envy that she is so good at...   Thanks for looking.  Leave a comment if you feel like it.  

 

Working on my Mail Art Swap:Fall Theme.  This is what I created for my first set of envies:

And this is what I'll be sending them in:

I used my metallic rub-on the envy and also used my embossing folder to get the fall leaves pattern. The postage stamp is made out of a napkin and stamped canceled marks.  I used my Eclips machine to cut out the leaves.  Yes, the Eclips has a place for cartridges, but also you can "Print To Cut" and also use SVG files.  Love this machine and the intricate cuts it creates each and every first time.  I have the best of both worlds Print 2 Cut/Cartridges and Cuts SVG files.  Love It!

I place the envy inside a brayed glassine (sp?) bag that I also ran through the embossing folder on my Vagabon machine.  Love that machine as well. 
Thanks for stopping by.  Leave a comment if you like.  I'm working on my second set of envies tomorrow, but first have to clean house...lol  ugh.

 

2002 Domino Swap...Yes, Altering dominos have been a while for a long long time...lol:

These are just some of my dominos that I got back from a swap.  I have a bunch of dominos from the past.  lol  They are so much fun to make.  TFL..

Robin L Moore Altered Tickets

 "Altered Tickets I made.. "Fall or Thanks" theme for a swap. Hope you enjoy.  TFW!!

Atc's "Wedding Halloween" Swap...

Over on Svg Cuts community we are having a swap... theme is Halloween with a Twist...A Wedding ...
Here goes Atc's that I've gotten so far... Not sure why a fox atc was sent, nothing to do with a wedding...lol  
Enjoy...

 

Altered Tickets/Mini Book

"Spooktacular Tickets/Mini Book I made" Check it out...Leave me a comment if you don't mind. Thanks for watching!

Swap: ATC To/From Christmas 

I'm in a swap over at SCS. We are to make 10 for 9 (one for the hostess) an Atc with the words To/From somewhere on the Atc.  You can use these on your Christmas packages and etc....
These are mine, I used DCWV,and K&Company embellishments along with K&Company Chipboard Tags.  Brads are from MM.
Let me know what you think.  Thanks for looking.

 

Beautiful Embroidered Card from a friend over on RST... 

I love her cards she sends and creates.  Thanks SallyAnn.  I will be posting more of my fellow RST'ers here on my blog.  Thanks Margaret and Debbie for getting this all taken care of. 

Here goes all the "Spooktacular Tickets" I made for the swap:

These are all the ones that I included in my Spooktacular ticket swap. 

More Pics... 

 

 

Pictures of the newest addition to the Moore Family...Welcome Cortney...

 

Before the Bride & Groom Come..

At the Reception Lodge...

Thanks for looking.  Ü

 

My "Arty Slides"   "Sliding into Sept"...

Hi Everyone,
Here goes my Arty Slides I made for the swap... "Sliding Into Sept"  What it means to me...  

The first one, I used my Color wash paints from Creative Mode (stamping vendor no longer) I used the copper and then used the Color wash metallic (white) on top.  Stamped leave images all around the front of the slide.   Sept. means to me... leaves changing and the colors and all that beauty.  The second slide is Halloween Theme (another thought of Autumn)  I used my Sizzix Eclips machine, and made the Trick or Treat in a size 1 inch to fit inside the slide window.  I love the little candy corn and also the spider that is hanging from the "K"... lol   

The back of the slides... The first one is the dusk sun and the leaves on the trees.  And the then the second one the spider on the back.  I love this time of year and enjoy the colors and beauty of it all.
Thanks for looking and you each will receive them soon.
 
 
 

The Weight Loss... Yippie Skippie

Everyone was asking me about my weight loss.  I had my Gastric Bypass done in January 10,2013 and had my before picture taken at the doctor's office....

My weight here is 261 lbs.  

Now here is a picture of me now..8 months after...

I now weight is 152 lbs.  The jeans I have on are a size 16 and I can pull them down without unbuttoning the button and not even pull down the zipper.  I know TMI...lol  I can even get into a smaller size jean.  My shirt is a large, I was never able to get into that size 8 months ago, let alone even look at a small shirt...lol 

I feel so good and have so mucccccccccccchhhhhhhhh  Energy. It was so much fun to go do a little shopping, I needed some new clothes, my fat clothes were just hanging on me and looked terrible.  When I was trying on clothes, it was funny... I headed for the big girl fat clothes and not even thinking to head over to the skinny smaller size clothes...lol  hubby laughed his ass off. 

This week, I'm going to go and shop for a dress, hubby's nephew is getting married... It's been about as long as I've been married (30 yrs) since I've bought a new dress or even tried on one... this will be a fun experience.  Hubby's nephew fiancee said to me "That's what makes shopping fun, when your skinny, to be able to try on so many fun clothes and feel good about it".  I am planning on going into Victoria Secrets... I'm going to see how it feels to wear and try on some really Lacey frilly things...lol
It's not even been a year yet, and I'm down to my goal.  Maybe I can even get down to 145 lbs by the end of the year. 
Thank you all for the encouragement and sharing this journey with me ... And Thanks to my hubby and sons for their support and much encouragement too.  I love you all.