Prayers Needed

I don't even know where to start here, so I guess I will start a few weeks back when I got this frantic call from my mom.

All I could make out was her crying and moaning, then I faintly heard her say she had fallen.
Thank goodness my brother was here at the time. We rushed over there to find her semi-conscious on the floor. She had fallen while getting out of the tub and banged herself up very badly. She has bruised her whole side from the armpit to her butt.
In the last few weeks we have been keeping comfortable, and installed hand rails and purchased her a seat for the shower. The long and short of it is that the Dr. said she is not mending as fast as he would like to see, but she IS mending and will recover.

Not a week after all that we got a call about Dan's mom. She was rushed to emergency for an operation to relieve pressure on her brain, she has been ill for quite a while now and has had several operations but noone ever suspected anything like this .
The operation went well, then a few days after going home she was rushed back for more surgery, and it was discovered she is full of infection now. The Doctors are very concerened and as of this morning she is still in critical condition.

I am asking if you could say a prayer



Thanks for dropping today.
Hugs
Tonniece

Too funny..........hahaha

Ha Ha Ha, I don't have anything crafty to show for my absence, but I do have somethig that is too funny.
This is a caricature of me, no kidding, I totally forgot about this thing. lol

My youngest daughter and I were in the Centre shopping Plaza in 1999, -wow, just seeing this brings back that day so vividly,- and as is always the case with us we were being silly and this artist was doing quick sketches of passersby and paying customers.
Corinne and I stopped and watched for a min. oohing and ahhing at how beautiful they all were especially since he had them done in no time at all. It was amazing.
Anyway Corinne said quite loudly, the little bugger, that I should get one done.
Now anyone who knows me, knows that taking a picture, sketch, or anything that will capture my likeness is a NO-NO, plain and simple. I shot her a look that would kill with a sly smerk on my face which just made her taunt me even more. This went on for a few minutes when someone tapped me on the sholder and pointed my attention to the artist who was holding up this sketch of me and Corinne, see her on the side there?

Well I have to tell you that seeing what he had sketched we both broke out in hysterics, (where ever he got the tennis thing from is a mystery to us since we were both in jeans, but those earrings were my fave at the time), and the great part was his remark that watching us going on like that had been the funniest part of that day.

It's always great to be able to put a smile on someones face eh? Oh and he gave it to me for....... are you ready for this?.............................. NOTHING!!!!!!! Yup I actually have a pic of me that I love. lol And to think it was packed away for so long.

Just thought I would share. HEY, THIS COULD BE MY AVITAR FROM NOW ON!!!!!!!! hehehehe

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by

A 5 or 10

A 5 or 10 min. card that took me forever, AND made quite a mess. LOL

We had bought a really cute gift card for Danny's mom a while back that I fell in love with it, so I thought I would case it. Now I didn't take a photo of it, but it had a really simple embossed flourish border on it with a ribbon down the side with a beautiful heart charm, and a scroll type sentiment in the centre.
That being said, I had a sm. jar of flocking, bought when or where?... I don't remember, and thought I would give it a try...... I mean this was a simple design right?

It turned out taking me forever to finish and it really dosen't look anything like the inspiration card, but I am pleased as punch at the end result.
First I stamped the card front with my Palette stamp & stick glue pad, dumped the flocking on and hoped for the best. LOL
I think I over loaded the glue when I refilled the pad because I had one super sticky mess on my hands, desk, cs...........well everywhere, but I'm thinking because of that the flocking clung REALLY well. ANYWOOOOOOOOOO, the sentiment is from a foam stamp that Is one line, but I broke it up to fit the card front. I added the ribbon across the bottom instead of down the side like on the inspiration card, and replaced the heart charm with a broken earring with no mate that I found in my jewellery box.
I really like the christmas cards I did with the matching flaps, so I stamped this one also with black StazOn.

The stamp was purchased at the 2007 London Scrapbook Expo, but I can't remember from which booth, and it has no co. stamp on it.
The ribbon is a scrap piece I had laying around.

Hope you like it.


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Picture Tower

Sorry for the poor quality picture, but it late right now and so no sun to capture this beauty and I just had to show it to someone.
We were at Micheal's last Sept. or Oct. when i spied this tower, and I tell you every where we went in the store that day for some reason I kept gravitating right back to this baby. There was a black leather one on display, but then i saw that they had it in brown leather too, sooooooooooo I put it on the bottom of my cart, got about 10 paces away, paused, put it back, went another 10 or so paces, turned, put it back,.................................... well I'm guessing you get where this is going Right? lol
Debbie was getting a bit flustered with me at this point and asked why I kept putting it back if I wanted it so bad, to which I replied, "welllllllllllllll, we are here to buy for others,"
She gave me this really weird look, snatched it up and put it on the cart and said, "well then I am buying it for you, now can we go?".
Gots ta love Big Sisters eh? LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any whoooooooo, here it is closed, and no this is not my family, lol, I wanted to wait till we were in our new home before I filled it up, and trust me I will fill it and then some. I think I better start downloading all my pics to cd's like NOW.












And here it is opened, just look at all those Photo albums, each one holds 100 pics so if you put them in back to back to back you get 200 PICS PER ALBUM, that's 1600 pics in 8 albums. Then there are 3 Lg. drawers and 1 Sm. drawer. HOW AWESOME IS THAT? OH YA, and on the front you have 5 -5x7 pictures windows too.

Just wanted to share this treasure with you all.


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With Love

This is another card I did last summer but never posted. I made it for my mom for Mother's Day, but ended up makeing a different card for her.

The pp is one of several my friend Dianne at http://magpiesenvy.blogspot.com/ made and gave to me.
Punches: Marvy Uchida and tonic studio
Sentiment: Karen Foster's small casul Snap-Stamps.
Flowers: from my stash
And of course that cute little paper clip paint roller.









Have a great day

I decided that

I am going to be posting a few cards I did at the end of 2008 but never added them to my blog for one reason or another.

This rubbernecker image is the same one I used for my sister's card a while back, but that one was done in blue. I do have a few sentiments printed out with different embelishments, but I like it plain, how about you, what do you think?

pp from a Micheal's pp pack
Stickles from paperworks
bling from tayloredexpressions
Stamp'n Up word window punch

Another Simple card

LOVE IT. The blue that is, after all it is my fave color.

HEY DEB, A 15 min. card.
YEAH ME, lol

I did make this for Christmas and did intend to get it out, but now I guess I can add it to my Christmas cards for this year.
All there is to this sucker is the Snowflake and Winter House cuttlebug folder which I sanded to bring out the white core , shear white dot ribbon, some blue chalk and a few minutes of my time.
The thing that took the longest time was chalking the snowflaks on the card base and the envelope flap.





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Christmas card for this year.

Well this is now a Christmas card for this year.





If you click on the pic you will see i went off the leaves, trying to touch up spots after I had put it all together. I was going to put a little something more on it, and messed it up.


Typical tonni move. lol




I do still love all the glimmer on it though, and as you can see the first pic all I used was a gel pen and a copper ink pad to do it. I applied both with a Q-Tip, just brushing it on. Ribbon is from a ribbon share with Jody -http.confessionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com













Here I was trying to let you see how it shimmers. Pretty cool eh.

I did the envelope flap also with the same embossed folder. The corners were done with my new Basket weave punch from http://www.stampart.com/

you all have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

I just had to do another card with this image. She is so cute.
The dp is from the Basicgrey's wassail paper pad , the ribbon is again from Jody Morrow's ribbon share, and the cute string of lights I bought at Mike's.





Stay warm and enjoy the rest of the weekend

For a Very Special Person

Brrrrrrrr, Hope everyone is staying warm this Morning. It is reading -27 here right now, I am so not liking this way too windy and cold winter this year. How about you?

I think I am going to hunker down under my warm blankets, watch the TV, and hopefully
get a few cards done to show you.

This card is going out to a very, very special person in my life who's Birthday was a few weeks ago. I did have it done on time, but am quite late in getting it to her.

I tried the gamsol and prisma pencil blending on her............. not too bad'
The card base is Kraft CS, the DP and balloon brads are a Micheal's find. I added drops of acrylic paint to one and wrote Happy B'Day on the other with my mica permanent ink pen, I popped them up with dimensional and added gold thread. Her piggy tails have gold gems from tayloredexpressions, and added a strip of gold ribbon to the bottom.

Stay safe and warm
And thanks for stopping by

Last 2 for now and Check out these blogs

These are the last I will show you ( can I here a collective sigh there) ?

ETA: (Be sure to check out the end of this post for a chance to win some JAW DROPPING candy)

Anyway, this top one is a collection of images from Rubbernecker............the cutest things ever, but, well, they didn;t cut the mustard.
OH and here's a chuckle for you,
I have been trying to, master the Zindorf technique, and that cute little zebra from Artfulinkables is about the closest I have come, (how's that for embarrassing) but I am still trying.
Then I got so excited and started patting myself on the back and totally forgot to mask the the little bugger before stamping. LOL
Can I hear a "Scrap it"?


Tomorrow I will start to post a few cards that I managed to get together. Honest.

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And Last but not least, Anne http://ahlacartegreetingcards.blogspot.com/ has the sweetest way of composing a card and leaving you feeling breathless plus a little something to knock your socks off also.

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Enjoy you day

2 of my no no's

Ok, so as I threatened/promised here are 2 of my NO-NO's
I couldn't get a good pic of these, but maybe that's a good thing.

I got them from Rubbernecker beacuse I just though they were so beautiful, buttttt I have yet to do them any justice.

Well enough said about these flops, More tomorrow then I promise I won't bother you with anymore.



Hope you all had a great day
and thanks 4 stopping by.

If you have been asking yourself

Where the heck I have been, (As if), well wonder no more.
I tell you this move has opened my eyes BIG TIME........................
The move was a success, but in trying to find a new home for all my things I came across a few ,as in 3, of these long Ikea totes
just jam packed full of what should have been images for cards, but ended up being my "ARE YOU CRAZY TONNIECE? THIS IS NOT FIT FOR THIS OR ANY CARD EVER!!!!!!!!!!!" and then thrown in bags for that particular company and then in turn in what has now turned into 3 totes.
Really, take a gander below at the first half of one of them.

And here is the other half
Now this is a shot of just one of them, cause lets face it just telling you all I have 3 is bad enough, but showing all three is down right embarrassing.
I think I will go and lick my wounds now, and add insult to injury by taking pics to show you all just how inept I have been/am.
Well................. that is if I can remember how to take a decent picture after this mojo sucking absence.

Hope you all have a brillant day
See you soon

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
ENJOY THE DAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
AND I WISH YOU ALL
A SAFE, HAPPY, AND HEALTHY 2009!!!

Old memorie are new again

I was cleaning out my spare room so I could pack and throw away things last night and came across an old and ragged card I had recieved from my sister years ago. The date wasn't even ledgeable anymore. As I was about to toss it out, (something that tears at my heartstrings as all the boxes of old cards in here would attest to) I noticed there was a tiny image on the back that was the same as the worn out card front.
This reminded me of a stamp I have and have never used, so needless to say cleaning was the last thing on my mind at this point, and I dug through my stamps and inked it up.

I am happy I did because I actually Like this card. Then I even dressed up the envelope by stamping in bleach, AND IT WORKED. I stamped the image on some paper I had colored with watered down water color paints, then embossed with Rainbow sparkle embossing powder. Matted that on SU glossy white cs. Using my clear ruler I ran beads of my embossing pen to create a border around the image and sprinkled the ep on that.
Yummy glitter. Added the ribbon and adhered it with ribbon glue. All done.

Ok there is as always a punch line here. As I was about to take a photo I noticed the mark on my ribbon, drat, but too late now it was all gluded down.



Supplies: rainbow sparkles embossing powder, bleach, may arts ribbon
Stamp, Artfulinkables


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Giggles and I

Giggles and I want to wish all our American friends a very Happy Thanksgiving

Is she too cute or what. I don't even know where I got her and her little mate - yup there is a Mr. giggles too, and there is no name on them as to who makes them, but I do know as soon as I saw them I had to have them. They are so darn ugly they are cute.

I was sitting here and getting bored and tired so I thought I would play a bit. I wanted to try my gesso again with some inks, and a dash of glitter spray on a scrap piece of paper.
What a mess, but oh what fun. I really liked the end result so I thought I would throw card together.

Now this is smaller then a card and bigger then a tag, so I'm not sure what to call it except just a silly tired Tonniece creation. LOL

Dosen't she make you giggles though? Ok I really am getting silly, i guess i'd better pack it in for today.


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"B" Day remake

Happy Friday everyone

Well a day later then I promised, but here it is. Debbie's new birthday card.

The inspiration for this card came from Linda at http://lindaduke.typepad.com . She is doing a set of 12 cards that are all monochromatic and OH SO STUNNING, but then ALL HER CARDS ARE. Hop on over, you won't be disappointed I promise you.

That great stamp is called "Monique" and can be purchesed at http://www.rubbernecker.com/ , and the sister stamp is by www.paperinspirations.com and purchased from http://www.stampart.ca here in London Ontario. There is a phrase that goes down the backside of it that I put on the inside of the card along with a few words from me. Sorry, no picture of inside and it's sealed now. The scallop is my new MS punch, LOVE IT.
I water colored the image with the same blue in three different strengths to make the layered dress pop, then added the bling www.tayloredexpressions.com to every tip of the layers and to the tips of each scallop also.
Can't forget the stickles and a dash of shimmer paint.
The skin tone is so different IRL, don't know why it looks so orangy here. I used a new flesh tone water color pencil here.

Well I hope she likes it.


Thanks for stopping by and enjoy you weekend.

"B"Day Card?

I know I have been MIA latley but I have been so swamped with the packing and Reno's that I just want to SCREAM.

For those of you that have been checking in to see if I'm still alive.
I AM, but just barely lol

I started this card a few weeks ago and have changed it, hummmm, about 15 times since then. And I must tell you that it looks nothing like this now. In fact most of it is in the waste bucket now. Why post it then you ask?
Well because I have not made a replacement card for it yet and I had the pic of it already so HERE IT IS/WAS.
The big problem here is that I only have till FRIDAY to do just that. You see it was suposed to be my sisters Birthday card, BUUUUT In my infinit wisdom or lack there of I kept changeing this one and now there is no card for Debbie. Oh my, what's a girl to do.

So I took this time out from the packing and all the crappy stuff that goes with it to hopefully get a few cards done and visit all my blogg'in buddies. But that will have to wait till tomorrow now cause boy am I tired, SHEESH, I tell you I am getting old, it's not quite 9PM here and I am so ready for bed.

So Thanks for stopping by, I am off to dreamland now and hopefully I will have something to post tomorrow.

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Lovely Surprise

Hi All
Although I did get a few cards done I wanted to show you the lovely surprise I recieved from my lifelong friend Dianne, http://magpiesenvy.blogspot.com
Last week after a much needed break from packing, Dianne, Jan and I went to Michaels, I mean after all what's more fun then a shopping break, and on our arrival home she very matter of factly handed me this Journal. I was thrilled and totally surprised to say the least.
Just check out the texture and detail, just Awesome.
You can view this beauty on her blog , Link above, and many other of her stunning creations.

Thank You so much Dianne I will treasure it always.

On another note, I will try to get my cards posted later today, and hopefully get in some time to visit all your wonderful blogs.

Well back to the grind, grrrrrr lol

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