A New Baby!!

The most talented Kristine Reynolds from over at Paper Pretties sent me this RAK card today!!

Isn't it the cutest!! I love Stamping Bella's stamps.

I honestly don't know how they do it over at Paper Pretties,but everytime I am feeling a little blue or down or - well - you know what I mean - "some days are diamonds and some days are stone" (my mom used to sing me that song when we were having bad days), those cards just turn up just at the right time!!

Thank you Kristine!! so much !!

We have a new baby girl in the neighbourhood!! Always wonderful to have a new life in our midst....and so Kristine's card has inspired me and this is the card I made for the parents and new little girl - pink of course...... I LOVE PINK....Well, naturally I would have done blue for a boy but ya know LOL!...I still LOVE PINK!

I used Papertrey Ink cardstock for the base of this card. It really is the best paper as far as sturdiness goes....

I have a bazillion 12 x 12 sheets of patterned paper.....so I sorted through them and found a little girly paper. I cut a 4 1/4" x 2" piece for the band and did some faux stitching on the top and bottom of the band of "girly" paper.

I stamped the Stamping Bella baby carriage in versamagic rose and punched it out with the giga scalloped Marvy punch. I paper pierced around the scallops, adhered it to some pink cardstock and glued it to the card.

"Blessed" is from Papertrey Ink Papertray stamp set which I love desperately!! LOL It has so many everyday saying that you would use on a card and the font is not too fancy nor too plain -- just very elegant and stated.

I promise the pinks all match in this card, it is rather late in the day and this photo does not show up the best colours after this crazy time change.

I'm not liking this time change! I was in bed at 7:30 pm last night--so tired! Tonight may not be much different....

Well supper is in the oven....smoked pork chops, baked potatoes and I guess a salad ---some sore of veggie still to be decided! Ron is out chisel plowing and I am supposed to call him when supper is ready--hmmm---I wonder if I have time to do another card...LOL!! *wink*

LUCKY ME!!

Nugget Tins Galore!!

Marcie and I have been busy making things for our church's bazaar the end of November.

I chose to make the Nugget Tins filled with Hershey's Nuggets so I have 25 tins to fill and decorate!! Woo hoo!!

I could only keep my hands off of the chocolate!! A "pushing 50" woman is not that great to look at when her face is filled with zits!!

Occasionally I read about rubber stamps that you can buy at Micheals for only $1 .....so off I go to Michaels, and being in Canada you never know if you are going to get the same deals or not and so I wasn't sure if I would even find them.

Well, 7 stamps and 20 rolls of ribbon later, I decided I got off pretty darn great!!

The stamps were $1.50 and their rolls of ribbon were on sale for .59 cents!!

I mean HOLY COW! How great is that!

Thanks to Amy R. from Prairie Paper and Ink. I read her blog religiously (oh yeah) and she said sometimes she grabs up the cheap stamps at Michaels when she is there so I thought, give it a try and I was pleasantly surprised.

I stamped the Avery labels with The Holiday Treats set of stamps from Papertrey Ink and wrapped them around the foil wrapped Hersey Nuggets. Then you just place them in the tin and decorate!! So Easy!

Both the stamps that I used on these tags are from Michaels and they turned out pretty cute. I punched them out using my Marvy punches except for the background on the green one. It was just cut out on my paper trimmer and then the corners rounded with my corner rounder because I don't have that size of punch.

Both tags are punched with the paper piercer because right now that is such a neat way to add a little bit of oomph!!

The ribbon is all from Michaels also, so these tins didn't cost me very much.

The most expensive thing in these tins is the chocolate!!!..... and that is my own fault because I couldn't wait to go to the bulk food store and get them, I had to get them at the grocery store where they were a little extra!

Not sure what to charge for these tins....that is the only problem with these bazaars, you want to make money for the church but you don't want to overprice yourselves.

Oh well, if that is the great problem we have on the 24th then we are laughing!!

LUCKY ME!!

Bazaar Holiday Wishes!!

Marcie "volunteered" me to make cards for a bazaar we are having for our church!! Thanks a lot! So now comes the push to make cards..... Yaaay....!!!!

I don't like to HAVE to make cards but on the other hand it gives me an excuse to be in my craft room!! --so not so bad!....(quit your grumbling, Lucky...) ROFL!!

This card is a case from Taylor Van Bruggen, one of the fantastic designers over at Papertrey Ink.

Oh, I do not have a great imagination but I can follow direction pretty well, thus the need to case!! Oh my gosh, you HAVE to check out their gallery!! Fantastic projects and cards. Such creative minds over there!

It is a long cut card and when I say that --I mean that it is cut 11 X 4 1/4" and scored at the 5 1/2" so it can stand on its "end". The other cards I have done were 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored at the 4 1/4" -

Is that making any sense!!!?? Well, I had to cut it twice because I screwed it up the first time!! For some reason I had a mental block....(My hubby would say "I know the reason"!)

This beautiful patterned paper is from Flair Designs Inc. and is called Holiday Cream Paisley and is gorgeous to work with. It is cut to 3 3/4" x 5" and matted on cardstock measured 4" x 5 1/4" - so many measurements, but this card is so easy! and so beautiful!

I used my Marvy giga scalloped circle punch and the mega circle punch for the sentiment which was stamped on in Brilliance Green. The sentiment itself is from Papertrey Ink Holiday Wishes, a very beautiful set, with a lot of sentiments for Christmas time...

The little red snowflake is from Holiday Treats - a perfect set for all your homemade goodies - or even not so homemade *wink*!! LOL

Grosgrain ribbon that I just bought from Studio Ribbons , is adhered behind the scalloped circle and also behind the layer of CARDSTOCK. Then it just sets on the patterned paper and I put pop-ups behind the decoration so that it looks like a Christmas ball just hanging there. Add a bow and you are all set!!

I thought I would make four of these card and stick them in a see through box and give them away for a door prize. Anyone would LOVE to win them!

Well, back to the craft room!!

LUCKY ME!!

Christmas too.....

Before I race (hobble) off to the chiropractor, I wanted to post this card that I made a couple of days ago.

This card is based (or cased) from Nichole Heady on Papertrey Ink. I loved the non-traditional colors she used for her card, but I didn't have any shimmer paper, but I did have Heidi Grace shimmer glitter paper, that I got at Scrapping Great Deals,and Inkadinkado stamps so I made due.

This card uses Inkadinkado Christmas decorations stamped on cardstock then punched out with my marvy rectangle punch and mounted on marvy scalloped rectangle punchout.

I stamped the image in Versamagic Azure Blue and then used clear acrylic on two of the baubles and stickles diamond on the middle one. Hard to see the stickles, but it is there!

I used my Stamping Up slot punch to make a slot then threaded my ribbon throught it to tie a knot. The corners of the stamped image were snipped with my ticket punch and brads were added. I used my paper piercer to punch all around the scalloped (note to self: pierce the paper before adding the brads - it's just easier) Then I used pop dots to glue down my rectangle image and done. So easy a card!

Okay, off to the chiropractor to fix my back! YAY ! please, please, please...

LUCKY ME!!

Is it Christmas yet!

I love that Christmas is coming!!


I mean, I am not ready in the least, even though I am hosting Christmas this year for my hubby's family - YIKES!! but I love Christmas stamps and the variety of colors that are appropriate to use now.


Red and Green used to be the only colors but now anything goes!


Of course, to get in the mood I used the traditional colors in this cute little card.



Inkadinkado clear Christmas stamps are some of the greatest IMO, and this set Holiday Swirls is top of my list.


Just a snowman set, you say? ....no way! This set is so full of swirls and curls..there is a tag stamp, snowflakes, decorations and of course the snowman! and everything has few cutesy little swirls around them! I LOVE it!!



I used Basic Grey Fruitcake on this card, both sides, a bit of red cardstock and the dreaded sewing (that I detest doing!) - however this is faux sewing, which is a great timesaver and it doesn't look too bad!


Giga punched a scalloped circle and glued on the snowman and there you go. A bit of Bo Bunny ribbon (it's satin and soooo beautiful!)


I like it!


I put my back out at the beginning of the week vacuuming - so YAY! no more vacuuming for me, but Boo! I can't walk straight up and down like normal people - just sort of bent over ape-like,!! HAHA and that is why there has been no posting lately. Off to the chiropractor this afternoon because it still feels like daggers in my back....ugh ...


LUCKY ME!!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's SUPERBELLA!!

I am posting this in between loads of laundry, cleaning up after lunch, and throwing the ball for my dog!

I honestly wonder where I got the energy when my three children were little and I drove them to all their hockey games, doctor appointments, singing engagements, - school when they missed the bus (they didn't happen very often - but it did happen!)

This card is a tribute to mothers everywhere because whether you have one child or eight children, every moment is spent thinking and doing things for your children.

Superbella!! She is so calm and cool and looking so beautiful in her little outfit! Could I pull this off? LOL!!

Anywaaayyyy, scraps of paper again...these cards are the greatest for using up those scraps from 12 x 12 sheets of paper. She is stamped in black and then coloured in with my Tombows, which I love.

I was thinking I should get copics , but they are so dang expensive and these do a great job and they also have a blender pen that comes with them, so no copics for me!!

I went over her shirt and boots with 3D crystal lacquer so it looks like she has leathah on....ooooo.....

Making Memories stick on glitter stickers are the stars. They are so cool!! They are sticky on both sides so you just stick them on where you want and dump some glitter on, brush away the excess glitter and presto! Glitter on stickers with no messy glue!

I used my Marvy Scalloped Punch to punch out the circle and then used the cuttlebug to emboss the star with the word Super on it! I used my paper piercer to go around the circle and then just did faux stitching along the holes because I haven't yet done real stitching! See the next post because it has real and faux stitching on the card and I don't think you can really tell the difference at all (or maybe I am just kidding myself into thinking I never have to really sew!! LOL!!).

This card was done for the SCS Stamping Bella challenge which was a sketch challenge this week. It is their very first challenge so check it out!! It is so fun to read all the posts about Stamping bella - because we luv her!!

Okay, well back to reality and cleaning up the lunch dishes, folding clothes, feeding my little puppy Rosie and on and on and on.......

LUCKY ME!!

Rain Rain Go Away

Well, apparently Blogger is having problems with their uploading of pictures today, but I will go ahead and give you my run down on these little girls, out playing in the rain.

They are so cute and so darned determined to go out and play - reminds me of my sister and I when we were little and we would beg mom to be able to go out and play in the rain. We would just wear her down until she said "FINE! Go and get wet then!!" So out we would go with our little umbrellas and knee high rubber boots. Geez, I am getting misty-eyed...

These girls are coloured with tombows ( I wish I could afford Copics) and backed on baby blue cardstock. Then they are topped onto Wild Asparagus paper (don't you just luv Wild Asparagus!) and backed onto the blue cardstock again.

The tag has been punched out with my Marvy Punches oval and oval scalloped (luv 'em!)and stamped with Technique Tuesday sayings "All About Me" which I configured to say "I am invincible" Then I popped it up on the card and used my Stampin' Up slot punch for the Basic Grey Ribbon Lilykate to be threaded through.

I finished it off with a little blue flower and some yellow brads! So Sweet!!

If you are a Copic lover but just can not afford them......which I am sure there might be one or two of you out there ;) you have to head on over to Paper Pretties!! Christie has figured out a way we can all afford them!! She has started a Copic Club!! along with a Nestabilities Club!

YAY!!-- you just join these clubs and you get a box of copics or a set of Nestabilities every month!! So cool of her to do this.......really it makes it so much more affordable!! What are you waiting for!! Go!

Oh and maybe tell her "The Lucky Clucker" sent you -- hee hee!