November 12, 2009

Hi everyone! My husband's grandmother came over today. She usually comes over once a week to spend some time with the children and it gave me some time to catch up with my house work.

Since I ended up having a pretty good day, I decided to make a nice supper (we had pigs in the blanket). I don't make them often, but my family loves them.

After supper we took our son for his weekly swimming lessons. This was only his second week, but he just loves it. He wants to know how many more days until he goes again.

I posted a picture (below) of my son at his swimming lesson today. He is swimming in the water with my husband. The parents go in the water with the children during the last 15 minutes.

I made another card for Monday's CAS color challenge- to create a card using white plus one color.

I made a card similar to this one awhile back- you can see that card here. I'm not posting this card under the CAS40 challenge because without thinking I used gold brads, so I didn't stay within the white plus one color limit.

I used the poinsettia stamp from SU's Perfect Presentation stamp set. I colored the poinsettia using my Real Red SU marker because I didn't want to stamp the wording that is around the poinsettia image. Then I just stamped a few of them together in a row.

My sentiment is from SU's Holiday & Wishes stamp set and my ribbon is from Offray.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a wonderful day! Tomorrow I'm going to post some pictures of my new ScrapBox.

November 10, 2009

Hi everyone! I spent the day today catching up on some laundry and house work. I have so many things that needed to be done today and I was cleaning like a crazy woman.

I hardly ever drink coffee, in fact I can go as far as to say that I hate coffee, but I do like a latte once and awhile, well I guess because I'm not used to the caffeine and after drinking my caramel latte today I had so much energy, I was going nonstop today. Now I know why everyone drinks coffee in the morning! That caffeine sure gets you going!

After my cleaning mood settled down today, I decided to make another card for yesterday's CAS challenge. Yesterday's challenge was a color challenge. The challenge was to create a CAS card using only white and one other color.

This time I decided to make a blue and white snowman card. My main image is stamped from SU's Festive Favorites. I just stamped and colored my image using a blue SU marker and I added some glitter along the bottom of the snowmen.

My background is embossed using my Snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder. My blue and white ribbon is from Offray. I decided not to add a sentiment on the front of my card. I wanted it to be a more of a simple and quick card.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

November 9, 2009

Hi everyone! I should soon be back to regularly updating my blog. I have finished organizing my new ScrapBox and the baby now has her own bedroom. It was a lot of work in just a short time, but I am thrilled that it's all finished. I can't post pictures of my ScrapBox just yet, but I have them ready for when I am able.

Here's my card for today's CAS or Clean & Simple challenge. Today's challenge is a color challenge and we were to create a card using white plus one other color. I decided to make yet another Christmas card (you can never have too many of them, right?)

I've been seeing so many Christmas ornament cards in the gallery lately and I do not have the Delightful Decorations stamp set and coordinating punch, so I thought why not try and make my own.

I stamped the large tree image from SU's Snow Swirled stamp set using Glorious Green ink and then I punched out a circle for my ornament. Next, I punched out a small square for the top of my ornament. For my ornament hanger I just cut a small piece of scrap card stock and glued it using 2 way glue.

It's hard to see in my picture, but I added some glitter on my ornaments using Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder. It's real glittery in person.

I scored three horizontal lines just below my ornaments and above my sentiment. My sentiment is from SU's Holidays & Wished stamp set and I used my SU marker and Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp my Merry Christmas sentiment horizontally. So what do you think? Do these look like Christmas ornaments?

November 3, 2009

I'm just now getting to my card for Friday's limited supply challenge. The challenge was to create a card based on the weather in our area. Well on Friday it was rainy here, so I decided to ink up my SU Rainy Days stamp set.

We were also to use 2/2/2 of something on our cards. My 2/2/2 items are: I used 2 stamped images (the girl and duck), I used 2 embellishments- ribbon and Crystal Effects, and I only used 2 colors of cardstock (except white of course).

I stamped the girl image and colored her using my SU markers and then I added Crystal Effects over her rain coat and boots. I did a little bit of water coloring using my SU watercolor crayons and aqua painter for the rain water on the ground.

My sentiment is from SU's Under the Weather stamp set and I thought it would go perfectly with my stamped images. I only inked up part of the sentiment stamp. I added a few score lines along the bottom of my card using my scor-pal and my ribbon was leftover from a scrapbook kit that I purchased at Wal-mart a few years ago. (I never throw anything away....LOL)

Have a great day!

November 2, 2009

I've been a bit behind with my blog lately and I spent tonight trying to catch up. My ScrapBox is now complete and I have it all organized, so now I have some free time to stamp. The baby's room isn't quite ready yet, but we are working on it.

This is my card for Sunday's featured stamper. The featured stamper is Miss Boo. I love Jen's gallery and I often times look at her gallery for some inspirataion. Here is the link to her gallery if anyone would like to take a look.

This is her card that I chose to case. I kept the same layout and I used the same punches, but I decided to make a Christmas card and so I ended up changing the colors and I added a sentinment.

My card was really easy and very quick to make. Basicially all I did was stamp the snowman and color it in using my SU markers. I punched him using my circle punch and it's layered using another circle punch and my SU scallop circle punch.

The snowman and sentintment are both from SU's Merry & Bright stamp set and my ribbon is from Offray. I'm not quite sure if I like the ribbon I chose, but I wanted to use a polka dot ribbon like on Jen's card.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

November 1, 2009

Hi everyone! Here is my card for today's CAS (clean & simple) challenge. Today's challenge is a sketch challenge based on this lovely card by 1busymomof2.

I decided to make another Christmas card (I've been on a Christmas card kick lately) and I stamped my own pattern paper using the larger and small snowflake stamps from SU's Snow Swirled stamp set. I just stamped repeatedly using Bashful Blue and Encore silver ink. I did the same thing just to the left of my Season's Greetings sentiment.

I wanted to try and balance my card, I just felt that the right sided ended up being a bit heavier, so I added a few score lines on the left side using my scor-pal. It's hard to see in my picture, but I also add a score line on my sentiment panel.

Instead of adding ribbon to my card, I decided to keep with in my silver theme and I used some silver cording. I wrapped it around my card three times and then I tied it in a bow.

I just wanted to take a moment to let you all know why I haven't been around much lately. Everyone (except me) in my family has been sick for the past two weeks (including the dog), so I haven't been able to comment in the gallery like I usually do. Slowly everyone is getting better except the baby. Her fever is gone, but now she is coughing and just yesterday she developed a rash all over. I'll have to call her doctor in the morning.

And on top of all of this my ScrapBox has arrived. Yippee!!! My husband and I have been busy putting it together and moving all of my stamping items from my craft room downstairs into my new ScrapBox. We are also super busy changing my craft room into a nursery for the baby. I've been taking lots of pictures, but I'm not able to post them just yet (I will as soon as I can).

Thanks for looking!

October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

I just wanted to take a moment to post a few pictures of my children on Halloween. It rained here, but they still had a good time trick or treating. I'm just glad that the harder rain held off until the kids were finished.

My son wanted to be a fire fighter and the baby was a pumpkin. My husband said all babies are pumpkins, but she sure looked cute in her costume.


My son loves being a fire fighter, he has fire fighter dvds and he's always dressing up like one. He says that he wants to be a fire fighter when he grows up.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween!

October 30, 2009

Happy Friday to you all! I'm hoping that I have some time to work on today's limited supply challenge, but I wanted to upload a post for today. My ScrapBox arrived yesterday and I've been spending my time lately getting ready for it to arrive. It looks like it's going to take a few days to assemble and get it organized.

Yesterday I spent the day cleaning up my craft room and taking care of the baby. She's been sick with a fever, but she seems a little bit better now.

I'll be back later to update with a card for the day!

October 26, 2009

Happy Monday! I'll be updating my blog with today's CAS challenge and my challenge sample card later this morning.

This is my card for Today's CAS (clean & simple challenge). Today's challenge is a ways to use it challenge. For this challenge we were to create cas cards using brads or eyelets.

This was a super quick and easy to make. I just wheeled my background and then layered it onto Real Red card stock and the bottom portion is punched using my scallop border punch. My main holly image is from SU's Happiest of Holidays. I used three Real Red brads for the berries.

I decided to add some gold elastic cording for my embellishment and I also stamped my sentiment using gold pigment ink. My Merry Christmas sentiment is from SU's All Year Cheer.

I just wanted to let you all know that I'm not sure how much I will be able to post within the next few days. I'm planning on getting my craft room turned into the nursery for the baby and I have to move everything out of here and paint it and then bring in the crib and all of the baby's things. I just wanted to let you all know why I might not be here much this week! Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!

October 25, 2009

Hi everyone! I've been super busy with my garage sale this weekend. It went really well and I was able to get rid of so much stuff that we had just lying around our house. And what didn't sell my husband and I took up to the Salvation Army, so I feel pretty good that someone else is able to use the clothes and items that we donated.

As I promised, I'm uploading another set of cards that I made for Dustin Pike's card drive to help raise money for Primary Children's Medical Center. I have links and more information in my last post.

For this set of cards that I made I used my SU stamp set 'Give Thanks'. My sentiments are from SU's Happy Harmony, Holiday's & Wishes, and Give Thanks stamp sets. The embellishments that I used on my cards were: ribbon, brads, twine, paper piercing, and my scor-pal for dry embossing.

My pumpkin images were water colored using my SU watercolor crayons and blender pen. The pattern paper I used is also from SU (I think it is retired dp called four seasons).

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day!

October 20, 2009

Hi everyone! I came across this thread on splitcoast stampers yesterday and I thought I would share it with all of you.

Dustin Pike has some really great digi images, if you haven't visited his blog yet, be sure to check it out.
Dustin has come up with a great idea to help raise some money for Primary Children's Medical Center. Dustin is asking for us card makers to donate a set of 5-6 cards w/envelopes for the center to sell.

You can find more information about this in the first link that I posted, there's still some time left if you are interested in sending Dustin a set of cards.

I decided to make a tote and a set of six matching cards. This is the first time that I have attempted making one of these totes.

I have seen several of these throughout the splitcoast gallery and I decided to give it a try. Here is a link to the instructions that I used for making the tote.


I'll post pictures of each card so that you can see them better.

I used my SU snowflake punch on each card and it is layered using my scallop punch and 1 3/8" circle punch.

The snowflake pattern paper is also from SU and my Season's Greetings sentiment is from SU's Snow Swirled.

The cardstock that I used to make my cards and tote is: white, Night of Navy, and Bashful Blue. I also used some silver accents on my cards. I used some silver cording and silver brads.

On my first card that I posted above I used my scallop punch to create the scalloped border. I punched each piece of card stock using my scallop punch and then I staggered them pieces to give it a different look.

I also used my scor-pal to create some decorative score lines on some of my cards.


My card that I have posted just to the left here was really simple to make and I find myself using this layout quite often.





On my card just to the right, I again used my scallop border punch for the Bashful Blue card stock and for some added interest I scored two decorative lines just above my Season's Greetings sentiment.

I've also added two small ribbon tabs just to the right of my punched snowflake.




I really like this layout out as well on my last card I have posted. I'm sure that I'll be using this again and again.

Thanks so much for looking!

I hope you all like my set of snowflake cards!

I ended up making one more set of cards with a matching tote bag. I'll try to post that tomorrow.

October 18, 2009

Hi everyone! Well, it sure has been an exciting week for me and I'm glad to be back in the swing of things and stamping again.

Here's my card for tomorrow's clean & simple challenge. The challenge was to create a cas sympathy card.

I've always wanted to try the shadow stamping technique and I thought this tree image would be just perfect for that.

I wanted to take some pictures to show how this technique is done. The first step is to stamp your image. (Shown in the picture above.) I used Certainly Celery ink and the tree image is from SU's Thought's & Prayers stamp set.

Then next step is to stamp your image onto your stamp-a-ma-jig plastic sheet. Then line it up over top of your first stamped image. You'll want to move your image sheet just a tad bit either right or left, just enough to create the shadow effect you want.

This time when I stamped my tree image I used Close to Cocoa ink.

Ink up your stamp and stamp again. In the picture here on the left I wanted to show what my stamped image looked like.

Using the stamp-a-ma-jig comes in handy for this technique; it just makes it so much easier.

I used the same technique again with the stamping on my background.

I stamped my image first using Certainly Celery ink and then again (after aligning it with my stamp-a-ma-jig) using Close to Cocoa ink.

I had to be sure when I was stamping my background that I stamped it so that you wouldn't be able to see the tree part of my image once I place my main image panel over it.


To the left here is a picture of my background once I am finished stamping it.

You can do this technique without using a stamp-a-ma-jig. You just have to try and line it up the best you can.

I know the first time I tried using my stamp-a-ma-jig it was so confusing, and it took me a little bit to get the hang of it.

This picture shows what background looks like once I place my main image panel over top of it.

You'll notice here that you don't see the tree trunk part of my image.

And here is a picture of my completed card. I added some score lines above and below my main image using my scor-pal. My ribbon is from Offray!

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day!

I've been working on two sets of totes with matching cards, so be sure to check back. I will be posting pictures once I am finished with them.