Silent Night....

Good morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We've had a wonderful one...we had a bunch of family at my parent's house last night for Suday dinner and it started snowing!! My kids were so excited! It is still snowing...and a prefect lead into a Holiday week!! We've been having a really great time with cousins and family...such a wonderful blessing to have a wonderful family!!

I wanted to share a fun card with you. I think it is one of my favorite Christmas cards to date. I love Christmas cards that are about Christ and His birth...the whole meaning of why we have this wonderful holiday time!! The stamp is one from the new LAD December Monthly Mix. I love this image!! Around the snow globe it says, "Silent Night, Holy Night all is calm all is bright, sleep in heavenly peace." Love, Love, Love!
I started my card with an olive card. Oh, I used the TESC 91 for my inspiration for the layout of this one. I used three different patterned papers, all from SU. I tied the ribbon round, a May Arts polka dot organdy ribbon and 5/8" chocolate chip grosgrain. I stamped my snow globe image with black palette ink, then colored it in with copic markers. I used my circle nestabilites to cut the globe and the olive circles. I used some polar white flower soft to add some freshly fallen snow to my little church scene...and am so happy with the result!

My mom just decided she'd like to order a few....so that will be a fun thing to work on when I get home. Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make it a great one!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Monday morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We sure did...but my daughter is still sick with a fever...thank goodness for Ibuprofen and Tylenol! I'm hoping to get her into the dr. today...she just has a fever and nothing else...I hope!

I made this card a few weeks ago and wanted to share it before it goes it's merry way! It was a fun one to create. I've been enjoying the fun of making my own flowers...die cuts and punches are such great tools! Anyway, onto the jist!
I started my card with some whisper white cardstock. I mounted a piece of pumpkin pie and then a piece of pink passion cardstock onto the card. I ran my pink passion piece through the Big Shot with my swiss dots embossing folder before attaching it to my card. Next I took a strip of black cardstock and it took a turn through my large scallop and was then attached to my card. I stamped my sentiment, which is from PTI's Papertrey stamp set..the very 1st set released! I stamped each word seperately...with black palette ink. I tied some ribbon, from SEI around the seam and then moved onto my flowers.

For my flowers, I had an old book that I tore a page out of and used with my Blossom Nestabilities dies! My daughter had a hard time seeing me tear a page out of a book, I assured here, she isn't allowed to tear pages out of books! I nested the blossoms and then added a little center detail, from heidi swapp.

I hope that you all have a wonderful Monday! I'm hoping today proves to help my daughter feel better...no more fever!! Thanks so much for stopping by!! Make it a great one!

Fall Leaves

Good morning friends! Happy Tuesday to you! I'm excited to share some fun new products with you today! I think you know how I love nestabilites? Well, today I'm going to show a couple of cards that I made with my new Leaves Nestabilites! They are a bundle of fun!

This first card was a very simple quick card. I cut the leaves out of Chocolate Chip, Really Rust and Very Vanilla cardstock with my nestabilities and my Spellbinders Wizard. Next I ran the leaves through my Big Shot with my Swiss Dots Embossing folder. I mounted the leaves on my Very Vanilla card and then stamped my sentiment. This sweet sentiment is from the October Monthly Mix from Lizzie Anne Designs. I tied a bow with my Chocolate Chip ribbon, then tied a button to it and mounted it on a Really Rust circle and then I mounted it on my card.
This second card is also featuring my new nestabilites...and a few more new products too!! I just a big box from the UPS man today...a new PTI order...YUM-O! I have had a great time working today!

I started my card with a Spring Moss card base. I used some Chocolate Chip paper and my apron lace fiskars border punch to make my lovely chocoalte chip lace. I added some Raspberry Fizz patterned paper over top of the chocolate chip cardstock and then tied it up with some 5/8" chocolate chip ribbon. I used the tequnique found here on the JUGS challenge blog. I made both the flowers and a layered leaf, I'll show you my flower cards tomorrow! To make the leaves, I used my brayer and chocolate chip ink and covered some tissue paper with ink. Then I cut the tissue into squares and layered about 10 layers and cut my leaves out of that...a trip through the Big Shot with Leaf nestabilites. I love the look of the tissue paper leaf!!

Next, I stamped my sentiment which is from the Everyday Button Bits stamp set, with Chocolte Chip ink onto Spring Moss cardstock. I used my large oval punch to punch it out, then layered it on a Chocolate Chip scalloped oval, and then mounted those onto a wide Raspberry Fizz oval. I used some more Raspberry Fizz patterned paper and my smallest leaf nestie to create a perfect little leaf embellishment!

I'm excited to show you the other projects I finished up today, I comepleted some challenges and had a great relaxing day, so be sure to come back tomorrow! Thanks so much for stopping by and make it a great one!!

Sweet Pea

Good Monday morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We were a bit more relaxed, kind of, we are trying to kick the cold/etc. that is wafting through our family right now! We are almost all on the up, Ruby started coughing pretty hard last night...dang! But, the kids are at school today, so that is impovement!

I thought I'd take a quick break from holiday cards and I went with a new baby card...a Sweet Pea card! I took the colors from the card from the Sweet Pea rub-on that I wanted to use, it is from an American Crafts rub-on set. So for the color palette today, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip...yum!!
I stared with a Crushed Curry card base and then a layer of the Crushed Curry dsp. I used my fiskars apron lace border punch on a strip of Chocolate Chip cardstock and then added a strip of Old Olive just under the chocolate. I laid down a single strip of sticky strip so I could lay my ribbon (upside down) down and have it cover the seam of the two papers. I also added another curry pattern of dsp lower on the card base.

I used white cardstock for my rub-on and then cut it out with my circle nestabilites and a trip through the big shot. I also cut out a Chocolate Chip circle and an Olive scallop circle with my nesties. I made a little bow out of my Curry ribbon and then added a large Chocolate Chip brad to the center. I added it to the card with dimensionals.

I think I don't make enough new baby cards...so I'm hoping to get a few more made in the coming days! Thanks so much for stopping by today! I appreicate hearing what you think of what I'm creating....so feel free!!:) Make it a great one!

Love You!

Hey there friends! How in the world is today Thursday, and where has this week gone!? It's been a quick one for me! We're trying to stay healthy....the cough and sniffles have started to move through the kids and I'm doing my best to keep them at bay! The change in the weather always brings a few of these things to my family. But, the leaves are falling off the trees, and on the walk to school this morning, my son informed me that it really was fall, "look at all the leaves on the ground!"

So, onto today's card! I have a girlfriend that is need of a little extra love this week...she's having a rough time right now and I wanted to make something fun to send her in the mail. So, my card for today was started!
I started with my vanilla card basee. I used my fiskars apron border punch on a layer of chocolate chip cardstock and then mounted it on my card. I used a piece of an oldie but GOODIE, stampin' up's retired Au Chocolate dsp. I love this paper...it is so beautiful! It is so fun to get intot that stash of things that have taken a back seat for a while!! I used sticky strip to attach my dusty durango ribbon and then ruffled it a bit...which makes it a good contestant in the current Moxie Fab Challenge.

I used my blossom nestabilities to cut three flowers out of dusty durango and chocolate chip cardstock. I did a number on them, distressing them, then put them together with a chocolate chip brad. I attached it to my card and then moved to my sentiment.

I wanted to say "love you" but didn't really have the right stamp to use...so I chose to go with some alphabet stickers. These are from American Crafts. They were origionally white, but I went over them with my dusty durango stampin' write marker to make them match just perfect! I went over them a couple of times--to get a nice solid look.

I hope it will bring a smile to her face and help her know how much I love her and am thinking about her!! Thanks for stopping by today...have a great one!!

Feel Better Soon!

Good morning friends! I'm in denial that today is Thursday, how did that happen!? A crazy busy week, that's how! But a great one...I'm looking forward to just laying a bit low today...enjoying these last few days with my little ones before school starts.

I know that it is almost time for Beate's Weekend Sketch again, as the sketch comes out on Friday, but I've had this card waiting in the "wings" since Monday...and just finally getting on stage! So, here is the card I made using Beate's WSC93. I think this sketch is super fun...will use again for sure! Also, on this card I used some of my new "Something To Crow About" stamps from the September LAD monthly Mix!

Here is the set and it's images, a lot of fun in this mix, that's for sure! They will be avaliable soon!So, for my card, started with the fun flower image. I loved the polkas on the flower and kept the same polka theme by using some polka dot paper(SU Night and Day Specialty dsp from the Mini...coming soon!) and by embossing my Bermuda Bay panel with my Swiss Dots embossing folder. Polka's are fun.

My flower image was stamped with Black Stazon ink, and stamped onto Whisper White cardstock. I colored the image with my In Color Stampin' Write Markers, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Bermuda Bay. My flower image took a trip through the Big Shot with an oval nestability, to be cut and then embossed. I took some Crushed Curry on the same trip and used a scallop oval nestability to cut and emboss...I love the look of the nestabilities shapes embossed! That little detail is so fun!!

My card is a Crushed Curry base. I used a strip of Night and Day dsp, and then a strip of Melon Mambo ribbon(just used the back of it for a nice solid option) for my vertical lines. My horizontal Bermuda Bay panel went on a trip in a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder through the Big Shot...and came home with some great polkas!

I stamped my sentiment in Melon Mambo ink--the stamp is from the Everyday Sayings stamp set. I used my handy dandy word window punch to make it just right. A little button for some fun detail and then it was time to finish my flower.

I attached my flower to the card with dimensionals and then added some glossy accents to the colored parts of my flower. They are super rounded and shiney in real life..very fun!

I'm going to send this to my girlfriend that is having terrible back problems right now...a litle bright and cheery card, don't you think!?

Thanks so much for stopping by! Make it a great one!!

Thank You Kindly

Good morning friends! Hope you had a great day today...today marked a day that I'm happy for school to be starting soon! I hope I'm not alone in that! And, my husband is getting ready to go on a 56 mile hike...:) YEA! I've got a photo project lined up and will be working on busily while he is hiking!

For my card today, I'm in the same color scheme as I was in yesterday! I wanted to use this great Cosmo Cricket paper...and I have been dying to ink up this little polka dot purse! The purse comes from the LAD August Monthly Mix.
I stamped my purse on some Very Vanilla paper, ink Chocolate Chip ink. I then colored the purse with Real Red and Not Quite Navy Stampin' Write Markers. I used my Nestabilities and Big Shot to cut the purse out, and emboss the circle. The Real Red scallop circle was also cut and embossed with my Nestabilities.

The card is a Very Vanilla base, then a layer of Real Red and then the Cosmo Cricket paper. I used my new EK large scallop border punch for the Real Red scallops across the bottom, and some Vanilla taffeta ribbon across the belly. I attached my purse scallop with some dimensionals and then moved to my sentiment.


Thank you kindly is from the Circle Sentiments stamp set. I stamped it in Real Red on Vanilla Cardstock and then used my 1 1/4" punch to make it a perfect circle! My 1 3/8" is just the size to layer nicely under my sentiment, and I used the back side of my patterned paper. The button is just a random red button...but oh so cute!


Hope you have a great summer day. I think it's time to start thinking about school supplies, backpacks, lunchboxes, new runners, how fun!! Make it great! Thanks for stopping by!

Smile!

Good morning friends! Hope you are all doing well! Yesterday I had a day to catch up, get laundry done, get some projects finished up, and make caramel popcorn! My family was really happy that the popcorn was finished! I had a slight melt-down while in the middle of the popcorn...please bear with me...

When we moved home from Germany, I wasn't able to bring ANY food stuffs home, other than what would fit in our suitcases. So, I left ALL of my spice collection there for my friends to enjoy. In starting a kitchen from ground zero, you think you've gotten everything you need...then you have a day like I had today. I went to make some cookies to accompany the meal I was taking to a friend's family for dinner tonight, not enough flour. So, brownies could be quick, no cocoa. Ok, homemade Oreos are a quick fast one, but they were not to be, only a carrot cake mix! Then I thought of Caramel Popcorn. So, as I'm finishing the ingredients into the pot on the stove, I realize that I don't have any cream of tartar...get real! So, in my desperation,(it was too close to the time to run to the store!) I married two recipes and it turned out OK, but not the great recipe I was anticipating! And of course this happens when I'm taking something to a friend...I want it perfect, right!? So anyway, as I was talking to my mom trying to salvage my caramel, she reminded me that there are a lot of recipes and she was sure that my marriage of recipes was bound to be like someone's recipe somewhere! Thanks Mom!!

So, I'm going to fill my pantry with baking supplies the next time I go to the store. All those things that I'm used to just "having" because I have a supply of them in my pantry! So, my baking list is a good long one...I just hope I remember everything I feel I don't have!

Thanks for allowing me to share...'preciate it! How about onto my card!? This card was born from the LAD sketch # 90 that Joslyn posted Monday on the LAD blog. I love Josylyn' sketches, she is very clean and simple and I love it!!

I started out with a few stamps from the August Monthly Mix. I stamped the cupcake in Chocolate Chip ink, onto Very Vanilla cardstock and then colored it in with my Real Red and Not Quite Navy Stampin' Write markers. I also outlined the image with my Sahara Sand marker. I mounted this panel on my Very Vanilla card base.

I used my rectangle nestabilities and my Big Shot to get my rectangles cut and embossed. I love my nestabilities, they've been neglected for a while, but boy I do love them! I'm feelin' it again! My scalloped rectangle is Real Red and the patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket.

The circle my button is on is the back side of the Cosmo Cricket paper, punched out with my 1 3/8" circle punch. My button is just a misc. one from my jar of random buttons. The ribbon in the button is Real Red ribbon from Stampin' Up! I attached my button accent to my card with
dimensionals.

My last piece of the mix, was my Smile sentiment. I stamped it in Real Red ink and then used my 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches to give it a home.

I love this sketch. I love white space and clean lines...thanks for a great sketch Jos!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great one!

Love You!

Hello friends! I hope your day is as bright and sunny as it is here in Seattle! Yep, it's bright and sunny in May in Seattle! What a beautful thing! I'm just stopping by for a quickie...wanted to say hey before I'll be gone for a few days! Do you know what today is? The day before the movers bring the sea container to our house...so almost like Christmas Eve! My kids were SO excited to make that connection this morning, they'll get all their toys tomorrow...we are all so excited!

So I was at Joann's in Bountiful, Utah a few weeks ago and found a GREAT stack of paper! Yes, I am a paper-holic! I freely admit it! Back to my story. I found this great stack of paper from DCWV--it's called Recycled. It's full of great designs/colors/texture...way fun! So, I had a coupon and I'm so happy I picked it up! I've had a great time playing with it!

I loved this woodgrain paper-it feels so good! I wanted to use that as my main layer, so I attached it to a ww cardbase and then looked for some great paper to pair with it! I love these little birds! Yes, I'm a huge bird fan right now too!

I cut my bird strip of paper and then a piece of Ridinghood Red cardstock. I scalloped the Ridinghood Red with my scallop border punch and then attached bird paper to my scallop. Next came my ribbon. I used my Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain. Instead of making the ruffles come "forward" I stapled them "up and down." After attaching my ribbon, I attached the scallop/bird/ribbon panel to my woodgrain paper.

I love this "love you" stamp from Technique Tuesday. It is one of Ali Edwards stamps and it is quickly becoming a favorite! I stamped it with Chocolate Chip ink onto WW cardstock. I used my 1 3/4" circle punch to punch a perfect circle! Next, a scrap of Ridinghood Red cardstock made it's way through the Big Shot, accompanied by a scallop circle nestability. I ran the scallop circle through the Big Shot again with my silicone mat to emboss it. I attache the circle to the scallop circle and attached it to my card with dimensionals.

I wanted few little "interest points" so I punced a few circles out of some coordinating paper-and added them to the card. I also added a Coco Latte button...yum!

Just a quick note to tell my girlfriend that I'm so thankful for all the help she's been during our crazy transition time!:)

Hope you have a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by!:)

So Grateful For You

Hey friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! We just got home from church, my husband is getting lunch ready and my baby is alseep...so I've got a few minutes to share! This weekend has been fantastic weather...74 degrees and beauty all around! The sun sure does something to increase my happy factor!

I had a few minutes to play Friday night...I had a great time! I am finding myself in the need of several thank you cards-we've had an outpouring of support and help in our house projects and we are so thankful for all our great friends!! So, I thought I might start on my stack of thank you cards!

This card was made with some new products...and I can't wait to get more use of my new toys! I got some new nestabilities-Peony and Dahlia flowers! They are so cute and super fun! I used them to make my Peony's for this card. My card base was made with some core-dinations cardstock. The chocolate side is a great textured cardstock and then other side of the chocolate is the minty green color. I used a small strip of the chocoalte paper and turned it over for my "mint chocoalte chip" strip across the card. My white and choclate peonys took a trip through the Big Shot in the peony nestabilities...fun! The brown peony also took a trip through the Big Shot with my flower Impressabilities --and got the great embossed detail! I took a sanding block and sanded the embossed flower, and you can see the great core of the cardstock--isn't that awesome!?

My regal rose 5/8" ribbon was attached with 1/2" scor-tape. I laid a strip of scor-tape across the card and then made a few "ruffles" with my ribbonn, then laid the rest of the ribbon flat. I added my flowers to the card with dimensionals. I added my rub-on sentiment from the Chit Chat rub-on set--which always has the perfect sentiments--I might add!

The finishing touch of this card was my little circle embelishment. I punched a 1" circle from the core-dinations paper and used the minty side. Next my 3/4" circle punch went to work and punched out some regal rose paper-from the SU level 1 print pack. I mounted my clear button on top of the regal rose paper--and then attached it to the mint circle.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope that you all have a great day! Make it a good one!:)

Impressibilites by Spellbinders

Hi friends! I am alive! We're finally kind of getting settled...kind of! We learned that the boat with our goods is on it's way through the Panama Canal! Yippy, it's getting closer!! I've been running like a crazy woman...but now I've got myself ready to get stampin' again...YEA! Since I was MIA last week, I decided to post three cards today! I've had a great time working with the new Impressabilites from Spellbinders! They are such a fun new product! If you love Nestabilities, you'll LOVE the Impressibilities too!

Here are few fun ways to use them! For this first card, I acutally cut what I wanted out of the stencil. How fun is that!? I love that you can use either the whole stencil or just cut out pieces! Fun, fun, fun! I started out embossing the baja breeze paper--which is actually the back side of patterned paper-the back of the design I used for the accordian flower(paper by amy butler). I ran it through the Wizard Die Cut Machine, and was SO excited to see how perfect this embossed image was! It was just what I wanted! Next, I made my cardbase from Kiwi Kiss cardstock, then added a chocoate chip layer and then put my embossed paper down.

I made my flower by cutting a 1x12" strip of patterned paper and scored it at every 1/2". I folded it like a fan and then used sticky strip to attach the ends and made a circle. I pushed the inner edge of the circle together, and as it came together, this lovely little flower was born! I used some sticky strip to attatch it to my card--and it helped keep the center together. I used sticky strip on my button to keep the center together too! The rubon is from the Chit Chat rubon set.

This next card was really fun! I love this patterned paper by Amy Butler--can you tell!? It's my perfect color combination!! I started my card by cutting the white square with my Nestabilites--and Wizard die cut machine. After it was cut, I embossed with my Impressabilities. I left the square in the metal die and then added my flower Impressabilites and tan embossing mat and ran it through the Wizard again. Perfection! I know you can't see the embossing that clearly in the photo-but it looks so cool!! I mounted my embossed layer on some chocolate chip cardstock and then added my rubon(also from the Chit Chat rub-on pack).

My card is a chocolate chip base with a simpler layer of beautiful paper. Before I added my patterned paper to the card base, I added my baja breeze ribbon to the top. I tied my ribbon into a bow-while attached to the spool-and then wrapped the ribbon across the front and secured it under the patterned paper. On the left side of the card, I've attached the bow with some glue dots, so it's not going anywhere.

I wanted a little "somethin', somethin' to add to my white panel. I looked at my embossed image and had a light bulb moment! I cut up one of my Impressibilities! They are so delicate and fragile, it was really easy to cut out just what I wanted! I added the metal accent with some mini glue dots...LOVE it!! **I'd say for sure to buy 2 Impressibilites when you buy them, then you'll have some to cut up and some to keep whole!**
For this last card, I used my Label One Nestabilites. I cut the image first, left it in the metal die and then ran it through the Wizard again with my Impressibilities! Isn't that fun!? As I've been typing this post, I noticed that today I am more fond of the "debossed" look, I didn't use the embossed side but the debossed side! So, I ran the ridinghood red paper through the Wizard with the label one also. My chocoalte chip layer was "debossed" with using the whole Impressibilites--which is awesome because it covers a whole card front!

I added my ribbon to my debossed chocolate chip layer, then added it to my ridinghood red card base. I added my "label" to my card with dimensionals-a perfect fit over the ribbon! I added the sentiment-yep, from the Chit Chat rubon set-and then added some punched out butterflies. The ridinghood red one was punched from some of embossed "scrap" and then the other from chocolate chip cardstock.

Thanks for sticking with me through the long post! I've missed being able to share and am glad to be back! Hope you are all doing well! Have a great one! Thanks for stopping by

Sneek Peek!

Hey All! I hope you are all doing well! I'm so happy...the weather is SO fantastic! 78 degrees...love it!! With weather like this, everything is better, isn't it?!

So, today is a fun day for Lizzie Anne Designs! Today starts the sneek peek schedule for their new spring release on the 25th(saturday). The set I've used on this card is called Garden Inspirations. It's a great floral set! I don't think one can have enough flower stamps...do you!?

I started with a tangerine tango card, and was really excited that this funky paper, made by the paper studio, matched it perfect! I cut a strip of chocolate chip cardstock to mount my patterned paper on, then layered a little ww scallop edge. I stamped my sentiment with chocolate chip ink...it's a little hard to read in the photo...sorry! The sentiment says, "so very glad you're my friend," isn't that a great one!?

For my main image. I stamped my flower in chcoclate chip onto ww cardstock. I used my 3/4" circle punch to punch out the middle of my flower--and then put a piece of chocoalte chip cardstock behind the flower-so you see just the chocolate chip paper. I then used a 3/4" sticky circle and covered it with my supernova chocolate glitter...it is so pretty! I used my nestabilities and a couple of trips through the Big Shot, to cut the flower and sage scallop circle.

I hope you stop and check out the LAD blog to catch a peek at some of the other sets they are showing today! It's a great release...super exciting!

I'll be back tomorrow with another fun sneek peek!:) Have a great one and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Thinking of You

Hello Dear Friends! I hope you are all doing well! Have you found springtime yet?! We're working on it...it's supposed to be beautiful tomorrow...here's to hoping!! So, I love this little Forrest Friends stamp set!(Avaliable from the occasions mini starting April 1st!) I think they are really cute little images! My kids also really love it...and are excited to get to make cards with it.

Speaking of kids...my sweet little Ruby just deleted my post...I was all finished and somehow before I could select publish, she had selected the whole post and then deleted it...isn't that lovely!? I don't know how she did it so fast...5 seconds MAX!

So, to the card I wanted to share today. I had some scraps on my desk and they were sitting just "so" and this card was the result! I love So Saffron--one of the best neutral colors around in my opinon! So, my card base is So Saffron. I added as strip of Chocolate Chip dsp, and then a strip of Pink Passion c/s. Before adding the Pink Passion, I ran it through my Big Shot with my polka-dot background texture plate...SO fun! (I know it's hard to see in the photo...I'll try to get better at that!)

I stamped my little deer with Chocoalte Chip ink and then ran it through my Big Shot with my oval nestabilites. I ran a piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock through my Big Shot with my scallop oval nestabilites for a perfect frame for my deer. I attached the deer to my card with some dimensionals, for a bit of a boost.

I stamped my sentiment, which is from the Trendy Trees stamp set, in Chocolate Chip ink onto some So Saffron paper. My Word Window Punch went to work giving me a lovely addition to my card! The last bit of work for me was to tie everything together with some delicious 5/8" Chocolate Chip grosgrain!

Tomorrow the packers come and start packing everything that is left in our house...so today I'm packing up our suitcases and getting ready to check into the hotel for a few days! We're really moving!! I'll hopefully be able to stop by tomorrow....Thanks so much for stopping by!! I appreciate it so much!! Have a wonderful day!

Plane Fun!

Ok, I might be a whole week late on getting this posted...it was for last weeks Lizzie Anne Sketch Challenge, but better late than never right?! I think this little plane and "plane" fun sentiment are so fun! These stamps are from the 'Things that Go' stamp set. Fun, Fun, Fun.
I think this is a great layout-very versatile indeed! I like to take part in Kristina Werner's 'A Year in Cards' over at 2peas. I love the way she inspired me to staple my ribbon! I'm not normally a ribbon stapler...or stapler on cards for that matter-but it's fun to try something new! I think that class is super fun, check it out if you haven't!

Onto the card at hand! I started with a saffron card--such a delicious color! I used some scalloped scissors to make the choclate chip scallop border and then attached it to my card. This designer paper is American Crafts-isn't it fun!? I attached my designer paper, then started my ribbon fun! The ribbon is part of SU! sale-a-bration ribbon bundle. It is a wonderful 5/8" saffron grosgrain...LOVE it! After I finished my ribbon (Kristina shows you just how to do your ribbon like this in her class), I attached a sliver of bashful blue cardstock to the top of the AC paper. I stamped my plane image with palette brown ink-and colored it in with a saffron SU marker. I made the window chocolate chip with my SU marker too. I used my wide oval punch to punch the plane out and then layered it with a scallop made with my nestabilities/big shot/chocolate chip paper. I stamped the cute sentiment in palette ink as well, and then glitifed my plane. 2 way glue and dazzling diamonds make glitter super quick! So, there you have it friends!

We're starting the real process of moving...selling stuff we can't/don't need to take home...and will have the shipment that will go by air packed this Friday!! I can't believe it! I'm hoping to stop by daily...it makes me feel somewhat "normal" to keep sharing!! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great one!:)

I Heart You!

I am so in love with the new Stampin' Up! designer papers! They are just beautiful! Today, I'm sharing a fresh and edgy design from the Goodmorning Sunshine set. I love this combination of color--and I might not have know without some help from this fun paper!:) Summer Sun, Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss make this pattern just pop! I haven't used my Summer Sun for quite sometime, so yea for paper that makes me branch out!
This card is featuring the LAD stamp set So Much Love, as was my post yesterday. It does have valentine sentiments, but I have many a person in mind that I feel "I heart you" would tell them how I feel!

I started by stamping my birds with brown palette ink. I colored the birds with a summer sun and chocolate chip marker--giving the little girl brid a few white polkas with my white gel pen. The other bird was colored with a blender pen and kiwi ink pad. (I just noticed that the kiwi bird looks a little "off" -in real life he doesn't--). The birds are both embossed with clear embossing powder and are super shiney! I used my versamarker (love, love, love it!) to add versamark to the birds. I used my Big Shot and my oval nestabilites to cut the birds and their scallop frame out. The sentiment was stampe with chocolate chip ink on whisper white paper, and then punched out with the small oval punch. I layered the sentiment on a large summer sun oval, and then on a wide oval of kiwi kiss. I wanted to add a few little hearts-thanks to the heart to heart punch!

To construct the card, I layered my Goodmorning Sunshine paper onto a layer of chocolate chip, and then mounted on my summer sun card. I tied a chocolate 5/8" grosgrain bow around the card and was reminded how much "I heart you" 5/8" grosgrain!! I used dimensionals to add my bird image to the card and then added my sentiment. The last touch was adding a couple of little hearts!

We're off to Frankfurt today...we've got to get in a couple more stops before we move! I hope you have a great weekend! I'll be back Monday! Thanks for stopping by!

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Hi friends! I hope you are all doing well! I'm still working on getting over my cold, why in the WORLD is it lingering so long! I've had a fun day today. I'm working on some assignments and just about ready to start a baby book from my son's teacher that is expecting a baby boy.

My card to share for today is using the So Much Love stamp set from Lizzie Anne. It is among my favorites. I love the images!! This little vase with flowers is so fun! I love the polka dots (of course!).
Like yesterday's post, I started with a Kiwi card base and Kiwi designer paper...I can't help it...I'm SO loving that color!! I used my scallop edge punch to make a little chocolate chip scallop-attached it to my Kiwi card, and then tied my beautiful Regal Rose 5/8" grosgrain ribbon around. I then stamped my little vase on white cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot using my rectangle nestabilites. I used my scalloped rectangle nestabilites also, ran some regal rose through the Big Shot, and there I have a lovely mat for my flower vase!) Just a side note: good tools make the creating process SO much easier!! I love my Big Shot! Ok, so back to the card. I colored the vase with kiwi ink and a blender pen. Next I used one of my favorite things...my versamarker! I inked the vase with my versamarker and then dumped some clear embossing powder and heat set it. I love the way clear embossing powder makes things shine! I lined the stems with kiwis ink little too. I punched out a regal rose flower, from the three flower punch, and gave my little brown brad a fun home. I attached the vase to my card with dimensionals--and THEN used some rose stickles to give my flowers some pizzaz! My sentiment was stamped in Chocoalte Chip ink, and punched out with a 1" circle punch, then layered on a 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches.

Thanks a bundle for stopping by today! Hope you have a great one!!

Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a great weekend! We've been running like crazy...enjoying every minute with my parents! We've been on a "have as much fun as possible" schedule, but today is a little bit of laundry, cleaning, kids back to school, etc., which feels good doesn't it!? But we'll do a bit of playing without the kids, which will be fun too!!

I made this card with one of my new LAD stamp sets called Tutti Fruiti, you can see it here if you haven't seen it yet! It's a super fun set! I just love this pear! I got my color inspiration from a few scraps of SEI paper that I used last week on a couple of notebooks. Pumpkin Pie, Barely Bananna, Regal Rose...SO delicious!
My card is a regal rose base, then a layer of barely banana. My pumpkin pie layer has been tied with a beautiful dose of 5/8" regal rose ribbon. I used my scallop edge punch to create a little scallop border for the bottom of my pumpkin pie layer. My pear was stamped in pumpkin pie ink on WW cardstock. I ran it through my Big Shot with my oval nestabilites to create the oval shape. I then ran some of my striped paper through the Big Shot with my scallop oval nestabilies for the scalloped frame. I attached the pear to the pumpkin pie layer with dimensionals to give it a little "lift". The sentiment was stamped in pumpkin pie ink, and punch out of ww cardstock with my word window punch. The last few pieces of this card were the flowers! I finally broke into a bottle of fun pink petals from Prima! I gave the flowers each a brad for their center, and attached them with mini glue dots!

I'm finding myself just basking in these great bright colors...I think I'm getting ready for WARMER weather! Thanks so much for stopping by!! Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Quick Birthday Gift

As we were walking into the school today, we met my daughters friend Sophia who walked in with us. As we were saying hello, she mentioned that today was her birthday! We wished her a happy birthday and then she went to her class and Lucy went to hers. I came home and wanted to whip a little something up for her...so I looked through my stash of "alterable" items...and this fun little notebook came alive! I also have a little set of "blendy pens" that I'll attach with ribbon and give her as a little something.
I always keep my eye out of "good" notebooks. By "good" ones that have a good sturdy cover-not necessarily cardstock-but a good cover and a fun size. I grabbed a handful of these notebooks a couple of weeks ago, just to have on hand, and I just finished altering the last one, so I'll look for more today during my shopping.

To alter the notebook, for the front cover I like to line the top, right side and bottom edges with 2 sided sticky tape. I like to put a line of tape down the spine of the notebook, and then for the back cover, down the top, side and bottom again. For these I used the scor-tape from scor-pal.com. It is WONDERFUL tape, holds really well, you can buy different widths and it is a great price!

I love this paper..it's from the Cupid's candy shop line by SEI. These are colors that my daughter really loves...and she'll be so happy to come home and find a notebook just for her! She always asks, "is that for me mom?" I do make her quite a bit of stuff, but she'll be super excited today!

I lined the notebooks with paper, trimed the edges with scissors, then decided to use my American Crafts rub-ons for the names. I pulled out my long rectangle nestabilities for Sophia's name plate, I used the regular and scalloped long rectangles. For Lucy's name plate, I used the labels 1 nestabilities. **I'm so happy that I made the pluge and bought my Big Shot!! I really do use it almost daily...it is SUCH a great tool!**

The flowers from American Crafts and Prima. The photo doesn't show really well, but in the middle of Sophia's flower, there is a little yellow circle with a black "S" in in...from SEI. Lucy's flower just has a fun random button.

Don't you the having the ability to make fun things?! It is so fun to give handmade-personalized gifts..it makes me so happy!

I hope you all have a great day! Today starts of "ski-week" for us, so no school next week, but my parents are coming Tuesday..YEA!! We are all so excited!! Have a great one and thanks for stopping by!!

LAD Sketch

So, how is it Wednesday already!? I don't know how to keep time from going so fast!! I'd really love any advice as to how to slow it down!! I was happy to have chance to get the LAD sketch for the week done! It was a great one(as always) by Joslyn. You can check out the sketch here in the LAD forum. **edited, Lauren, the link was set but not highlighted...thanks for letting me know!**

I started with Kiwi Kiss. I love this color and just can't seem to get enough of it! I'm thinking of a bunch of friends who are going to be giving birth soon, so my stock of baby cards needed to be boosted! The In the Nursery stamp set was just waiting to be inked up, so I thought I'd get to it! The patterned paper is Kiwi Kiss designer paper...and I LOVE it! I used a front and back combo on this card. I stamped the little flower face in Kiwi ink, on WW paper. I used a blender pen and my Kiwi ink and colored her in, then glitified her with dazzling diamonds and a two way glue pen. I punched her out with my 1 3/4" circle punch and then made a little scallop fo her with my nestabilities and big shot. I used the scallop edge punch for my white scallop edge. The sentiment was stamped in kiwi ink, and punched out with my window word punch. I punched a little white 3/4" circle punch as a place to mount my kiwi button...and there you have it folks!

I think my "baby" theme will continue through the week. I made a little scrapbook for my daughters preschool teacher...hopefully I'll share that tomorrow...it's proving to be a pain to photograph!:)

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a wonderful day!

Tea Time

I hope you are all doing well! I've had a sick baby...not sick enough to go to the dr. but sick enough not to be herself! She needed to held a lot this week, and while I'm not complaining at all(I love holding her!) it kept me from getting some planned things finished! She has also decided that she needs to be using the computer at all times. She has discovered the beautiful sound of the keyboard...and does everything in her power to get some typing in daily! It is so funny! But, yep, it keeps me from sitting at the computer! So, it is with high hopes for a better feeling week!
I think you all know how much I love the new LAD tea time stamp set, right? I think it is so fun! I just found a new tea pot for myself Friday, I'll share it soon...with a fun pot on my card to match! Ok, so I love the color combination of this paper...it is just happy defined for me. Pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, regal rose...delious!!

I started with my tea pot. I stamped it on white, then stamped it again on a piece of designer paper and paper pieced it. Then, cut the pot out and mounted on my regal rose circle. I used my nestabilities for my circle and scalloped circle. I added a bit of shimmerz to the handle and spout of my tea pot and a dew drop on the lid. I layerd some Sweet Always designer paper on my pumpkin pie card and then tied it up with some striped pumpkin pie ribbon. The get well soon sentiment is from LAD's new release as well. I stamped it and then used my window word punch to punch it out. The last detail on this card were the three little dew drops in the bottom right corner...just a bit of fun!!

I hope you are all healthy and happy! We've been fighting the yucky cold for weeks and I think we're all finally feeling better! Here's to hoping!! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your weekend is great!!