Waltzingmouse Stamps SOAP Day #3

Good day to you!

By now I think you know how the Waltzingmouse SOAP (Stamp of Approval Parade) works so I will just get into my card for the day, which is actually a creation that will go with Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge 40 and Sketch Challenge 41!!

 

I used WMS Vintage Banners stamped in Ranger Ink NEW Victorian Velvet and then hand cut (because I am still wahhh! waiting for my Spellbinders dies) with my little Fiskars pinking scissors. 

The patterned paper is Prima Melody 6 x 6 paper pad and cut out and adhered to a small paper bag from Wal-mart!

I tied some ribbon around the patterned paper and then added the bow with the banner image. The sentiment is from Bountiful Basket Additions and really fit perfectly into the circle area.

The butterfly is from the Martha Stewart Monarch butterfly punch - love the daintiness of this punch!

Please make sure you take a look at all the designers that have made creations especially for you!!

• Anya Schrier
  
• Belinda Chang Langner
• Bonnie Sharp 

• Claire Brennan
• Jennifer Holmes
• Julia Aston 

• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lynn Mercurio
• Mona Pendleton
• Sandie Dunne
• Sarah Martina Parker
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Distressingly Beautiful.....

There is a new sketch blog in blogworld!

It is called 2 Sketches 4 You and I love the way they draw their sketches!! LOL!

Anyway, I made up a card for their sketch challenge, each out of the same designer paper, because I love it and shamefully, I don't know what the paper is called.

I know it is from Wal-Mart but I opened it up as soon as I got it and there is no name on the sheets, top, bottom back - nothin'....Should be keeping track of it......

The base of the card is Very Vanilla by Stampin' UP! and the stamp set is Beautiful from The Rummage Bin at Cornish Heritage Farms. I love this set because those flourishes and swirls are fabulous!! and I love the font on the word "Beautiful"!

Some of the layers are mounted on chocolate chip cardstock by Stamping UP! and some on the designer paper.

I did some faux stitching on all the layers with my brown tombow marker and stamped the sentiment with dark brown Colorbox fluid chalk ink.

The chipboard flourish is from Maya Road and I cut it in half because they are BIG!!

I traced it onto one of the green sheets of the designer paper, cut it out, glued it onto the flourish and then sanded it with a sanding block that I got at the hardware store.

Then I sanded the buttons too, for more of a distressed look and then went to town on the card. Hard to see it but click on the photo and you will see that I sanded everything!!

The flowers are Prima Hydrangea's and are my NEW favourite flower now!!

I hope you like it!! Have a good day!

SFYYT.....

I made this card for Jenn's sketch for you to try - SFYTT. I don't do the sketch very often, but today I decided - why not? I am going to TRY to do more challenges - I think I say that almost every day - but REALLY I am going to try harder - honestly - I am - really.

I incorporated Jenn's sketch with a thank you for our bank manager who is a golfer. We found this out after going to the bank for our annual visit. One of our withdrawals was a $4,000 that we did not remember making, so we had her investigate it and sure enough - we remembered - ouch! They just hadn't put any details in, which was strange, so she sent a whole bunch of golfing "stuff" for us - towels and tees and golf ball markers - kind of cool!! (Mind you our service fees are enough to cover the golf "stuff"! LOL!)

I paper pieced the golf bag and golf clubs - this is some of that designer paper that I have had FOR-EVER!! so I don't know the name and it didn't have a name on the back, but it had quite a bit of colours to choose from.

I chose glorious green and Blue Bayou cardstock- both from Stamping Up as complimentary colours and used them for the sketch.

I stamped the Cornish Heritage Farms Large Polka Dot Backgrounder in craft white pigment ink on the green cardstock and then sewed all three panels on to the chocolate chip background.

I used Very Vanilla cardstock for the golf ball, cut it out with my circle nestabilities and ran it through the Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug folder to make it bumpy.

The thank you sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Wedding Day set and the glitter dots are Gina K Designs.

Thanks for coming around to see today! It is waaayyy too cold to golf today so, unbelievably, TWO more loads of mulch are coming.....I am faking sick.

Another Quick Card!!

Well I was able to throw together another quick and easy card this morning!

It is a wedding card and again it is cased from Sharon Johnson from her blog, No Time To Stamp! Honestly that woman amazes me!! Even I can do these cards in minutes! LOL!!!

This card is so self-explanatory I am not even going to describe it!

Although I should say that the script stamp is from Hero Arts and the wedding Cuttlebug embossing folder is called Wedding Cuttlebug embossing set (duh) and I bought it at Scrapping Great Deals, a fantastic on-line store with EVERYTHING!!

I am going over to Marcie's this afternoon to stamp!! YAY!!

LUCKY ME!!!!!

Bats in my Belfry or is Love Still in the Air.......

This may very well be my last post EVER!!

I was watching television last night with hubby, when I saw something out of the corner of my eye, FLYING around in my kitchen!!!

I looked over and it was a FREAKIN' BAT!! I hollered at hubby that there was a bat in the kitchen and he, who was laying on the couch, whipped around and looked and said, "AGGHHGH! I HATE BATS!!!!" and then dove under the afghan...........hmm.......

This took me back to the last time we had a bat in our house.

It was our beautiful old farmhouse, and I was up in the night to go to the bathroom. When I opened the door to come out, I saw a bat and quickly retreated into the bathroom and slammed the door shut! I hollered at hubby that we had a BAT!! He said, "stay in the bathroom"!!!

So I stayed and stayed and stayed.....finally, I cracked open the door to see what was going on and I saw that there was an blanket scurrying across the floor towards me! Hubby says "let me in", in this tiny squeaky voice! I said NO, I wasn't opening the door again until that bat was gone!! So then he HAD to get a broom and kill the bat. And then we hear later, that bats are an endangered species and it is against the law to kill them!! Give me a break.......

But I mean REALLY, aren't husbands supposed to DO this sort of thing!!!

I must have jinxed myself because Kim Hughes on her blog Paper Cuts was just talking about how she hates to walk in the dark and I responded saying - me too, because we have BATS! ugh!!

Anyway, I haven't seen it today, but I am still walking around with my eyes darting around every corner, hoping I don't see any bats!! I am terrified to go downstairs incase it is in my stamping room......even thought I know that it probably 99% is not in there. 1%.......

Oh well, back to the card.

This is the same paper as the Papertrey Ink card was on. It is such a funny colour on the blog but not so much in person. It is a kraft colour and it does look very pretty paired with the chocolate and pink cardstock.

I stamped and clear embossed my Pink Cat Studio background hearts stamp on the bottom of the card and added the cardstock.

I put a hole through the card and tied the ribbon from Costco around it.

I used my Verve Visual Heart set again, only this time I stamped both the big hearts, one inside the other. I embossed it and popped it up on the card.

I thought it looked kind of plain so I added a tag cut from my Cuttlebug little tags set and stamped the sentiment with Verve Visual stamp 'I Love You", popped up a prime flower with a Stamping Bella pearl bauble on it. For the finishing touch, I added a heart designer pin from Fancy Pants

and done!!

Well, the Super Bowl is on and even though I know nothing about Football, I am going in to watch with hubby, because I don't want to be alone when the bat strikes again! (although a lot of good he is....!!)

LUCKY ME!!

Be Mine Little Penguin....

I so LOVE this stamp set!!.....again, I think I start almost every post this way!!

But seriously, he is sooooo dang cute!!

I broke out the Basic Grey Periphery pad and actually used some paper from it!

I don't know what it is about a NEW paper pad, but I detest using it-for fear I will use it up - I mean look what happened to my Figgy Pudding! GONE!! Well, I could probably scrounge up some scraps - but come on!

This little guy is from CC Designs and is EZ Mounted Little Penguins - that is they are all cut out and ready to be used. As soon as they arrived from All That Scraps, I opened up the package and started stamping - so freakin' FUN!!

Pengy (as I lovin'ly call him - hard "g" by the way) was colored with my copics and I used my NEW copic glitter pen for the little flowers - this pen is similar to the Sakura glitter pen but apparently it has ground up glass in it to make it REALLY **sparkle** Personally, I couldn't really tell the difference, but I guess I will have to use it ALOT!! *wink* and I will tell you again what I think....

I cut him out and embossed him with my nestabilities, then adhered him on various shapes and sizes of my beloved Periphery (I know, I know - my Figgy was beloved too-and it was!)

Scrappin' Great Deals has nestabilities, by the way, and they have new shapes and sizes in too!! Don't forget about her Wednesday sale 9:00 am - 9:00 pm, but she usually posts it about Tuesday night at 9:00 pm, so you can get in on it early!!

I used my white gel pen to make white scallops around the scalloped square and then popped the whole thing up onto the back ground of - yes - you guessed it- Periphery!!

The little tag was cut out with the small tag Cuttlebug die and then stamped with "be mine" by Papertrey Ink's Limitless Labels.

I tied it on with some Stamping Up celery ribbon (I can't BELIEVE I am starting to know the colors..... yay me!) and done!!

Thanks for looking!!

LUCKY ME!!

Pink Cat with Orange trim?!!

Ah yes, what I mean is my Pink Cat Studio Oriental Cat stamp with orange trim... LOL!!

I really didn't know how to color this stamp, but I love a challenge, so I delved right in!

I colored her with my copics and LOTS of pearl accents!! Her blue flowers are done with blue liquid pearls - I LOVE the liquid pearls!! so much so, that her eyelids are also liquid pearls - white this time!

She is popped up with dimensionals on Basic Grey - Mellow designer paper - PERFECT paper for this image, as it has lots of blues and oranges and greens in it - green to match her SPARKLY green eyes!!

Her sash and neck are done with copper stickles. I LOVE sparkly things!! (I might be half crow - lol!!)

I popped up her little oriental word --I'm really not sure what it means, but it is surely all good!!-- and added a folded orange flower behind her head. When I find out what the oriental symbol means, then I can stamp a sentiment inside the card!!

My sewing machine came in handy on this card, as I stitched up around the edges.

I love it!

Did you see on my anniversary post that Stampin' When I Can linked me up!! because she loved the card!! How great is that? I didn't even make the card - my daughter did..... Kudos to her!! Check out her gallery here!!

Thank you everyone for the kinds words and blessings you have offered us for our anniversary!! Love it and it is so wonderful (and fun!) to get such thoughts!

LUCKY ME!!

Warming my Heart......

I love this set so I had to make another card by Papertrey Ink's My Punny Valentine and Year-Round Puns.

After all, you can never have too many Valentine's!!




The paper is from Basic Grey's Scarlet's Letter.

I thought it looked rather foresty, somewhere a squirrel would live with his girlfriend/wife/luvah!!

I punched out a heart from my heart punch (obviously -phththt!!) and attached it to the stamp.

Then I covered it with Versacolor Chalk Ink - Sahara Sand and then did the roll-around-the-ink-pad thing in Adirondack Espresso.


I very carefully removed the punched out heart from off of the stamp with my tweezers, and stamped the image onto white cardstock.


The little heart stamp was stamped in Cherry Staz-on because it is such a beautiful vibrant red, although I did read somewhere that chalk ink is recommended for acrylic stamps.

I like the look of Staz-on - it is all in the look you are going for. Also, Staz-on will stain your stamp, but it doesn't hurt the way it stamps.


I used my nestabilities circle scallop punch and although you can't really tell by this picture, I paper pierced the scallops and used my 18K gold pen to dot the holes.

Nothing but the best for my little squirrel!! LOL!


The tag was punched out with the Tiny Tags set from Cuttlebug that I got at Scrappin' Great Deals, and the sentiment was from Year-Round Puns at Papertrey Ink. I tied it on with some Offray red ribbon from Wal-mart along with gold cording and voila!! done!


Such a cute little set. Honestly, I didn't think that I would like the squirrel stamp, but I love him/her/it!!?! Too cute!


Now, I see that the Year-Round Puns has an individual stamp missing off of the set. Nichole Heady has addressed that at Splitcoast Stampers, for anyone who is wondering.


Apparently, there wasn't enough room on the sheet of stamps for that stamp and the sheet was put on the website by mistake. I mean mistakes happen people. Let it go.


According to Nichole on this post, there will be a small set offered, perhaps in January, with these two stamps on it and MORE!! How great is that!!


More stamps from Papertrey Ink can only be a good thing!!

Okay, I am catching up on some laundry and this is the SECOND time that my washing machine has danced across the floor! LOL! The dog runs under the table everytime....it's really quite funny!!


Well, I better go dance the laundry dance!


LUCKY ME!

Flower Power

I think we are all a little bored with making Christmas cards so I switched themes and went with springtime and flowers!! YAY!! I can hardly wait! ROFL!



This card was done for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast Stampers.



Since, it is the day after Christmas, they went easy on us and just had a simple card with a circle on it, but the circle had to be cut off at the top.


I had a heck of a time doing that AND having a decent image in the middle but I guess I did manage.


The white cardstock is from Papertrey Ink. It is by far the best in my opinion and so very sturdy being 110 lb weight. Talking about paper weight used to be a whole other language for me a few months ago.....but now I know.....that is GOOD!! LOL!!


I was kind of fooling around with my new stamp set from Papertrey Ink called "Text Boxed", and stamped a whole lot of the same image in Paper Salon's ink "Petal", on top of each other.


I thought that would be an interesting background, so I used it for this sketch challenge.


Then I took Autumn Leaves "Flower Trio" single stamp by Rhonna Farrer that I got at Scrappin' Great Deals and stamped it on top of the Text Boxed images. I used Brilliance "Pearlescent Orchid" to stamp that image.


The image was adhered to pink cardstock and the whole thing was glued to the white background and done.


It really was easy except I kept cutting off the image. Finally I cut the circle first and THEN stamped! LOL! Sometimes it takes awhile to sink in to this old bean!! LOL!


Anyway, I am off to bed.....we have a little treat tonight....our 14 month old grandson is staying with us overnight.....he is just learning to walk so tonight he just kept going back and forth and back and forth, all the while looking like a drunk little grandpa.....hee hee!


I'm whipped!! LOL!!


LUCKY ME!!

I LOVE my mail lady...

Hang on to your hat, this is a long winded post....

Have I ever told you how much I love my mail lady .

I am expecting sooooo many parcels this week--- I am going to dance out to the mailbox at the end of our laneway and stand there waiting for her little blue car with the flashing light on top.

My heart will pound oh-so-very-fast when I see her coming and I will be grinning stupidly from ear-to-ear.

Now, you may ask, why this week? why not any other week when you have received your parcels?

Ah, the answer is simple....and maybe you have already guessed the answer.

Hubby is away hunting all day every day this week! Woo hoo!!

Okay - not woo hoo that he is hunting or woo hoo that he is away.....just woo hoo that he won't be stalking the mailbox as usual waiting to see if I bought anything. I mean really, sometimes we have a race to the mailbox and I just can't run as fast as he can drive his 4-wheeler....not fair really.....

This morning was the first morning that I was able to wait at the mailbox and sure enough....the little blue car came down the road with her light flashing right to me! I had a parcel!! Whoop whoop!!! I ran to the house with the box clutched under my coat, and when I saw who it was from, I let out a yelp!




Paper Pretties!! Paper Pretties!! My Paper Pretties order was here!! Wreathabella this month!! I joined their club of Stamping Bellas, so each month I get Bella-in-a-box with all the trimmings - paper, ribbon, and a brilliant idea to go with it - enough supplies to make 6 cards! It is really great!


They also have My Favorite Things in-a-box, Rubber Romance in-a-box, a Copic Club and a Nestabilities club. You should go on over and check it out. There is also a store where you can purchase add-ons if you wish and they will add them to your stamping box that month.


Of course, I had to add something so I added 3 Rubber Romance stamps, some acrylic blocks - I don't think you can have enough of those - a sandpaper file thingy to file down "stuff" (it's cute -what can I say) some ribbon, and the Cuttlebug embossing folder divine swirl!!

Oh, I can hardly wait until the mail comes tomorrow!! - but after this week that ALL I AM GETTING (she said to herself sternly)!!

Okay, onto the card which I did two of with Wreathabella, each with a different layout....speaking of Paper Pretties, last month was Expectafellabella and they had a great layout for that card, and since my brain is pretty well mush this month, I borrowed that sketch!

The base is red bling which is a really nice heavy cardstock to use. I made the scallops on the green glitter paper with my corner rounder. That paper is soooo pretty....it is from Doodlebug Designs and you can get it in several colors....It is sugar coated cardstock -check out their website to see their paper! It's cool!


I layered some DCWV glitter paper on top of that and then adhered my image (which I had just glued to some stock paper I had.

Wreathabella was colored with my copics this time. I love my prisma pencils but there wasn't much shading to be done so I was able to use the copics. I need to practise with those copics, but this week is not the time!!


I tied some ribbon and attached a flower with a glitter brad and it was done. So easy and sweet!


The next card used the same paper just in a different way. I actually thought this one up myself.....I colored Wreathabella little differently and tried to shade the wreath a little. It wasn't too bad.


I heard on other blogs that she was time consuming, but I didn't find her too bad.

You don't have to color in the same place for long because there is a lot of different things.....it was all good!!


Okay, this is the end of this post!


LUCKY YOU!! haha!

"Peas on Earth"!

Ooooo I love this Penny Black stamp!!

I think I have been starting my blogs luvin' every stamp lately! But that is the fun part - when you have the luv for a stamp, it is so much easier to stamp!!


I picked this stamp up when I went up to pick up my nestabilites at Scrappin' Great Deals. Needless to say, that was a $$$ trip!

So after I removed my parcel from under the seat of my car late last night (how did it ever get there?!) and snuck it down to my stamping room (all the time trying no to crinkle the bag so it wouldn't make any noise....oh you've all done it) I got started stamping......


I stamped the image with Staz-on black ink and then heat set it. That may not be a necessary step, but sometimes if I am impatient, I start coloring with pencils and then it smears and I didn't want that to happen again!

So I used my prisma pencils and mineral spirits to color this image then I mounted it on the scalloped nestabilities.

I cut the red cardstock with my round corner punch to make the scallops and then stamped it with the little circle background stamp from "Pink Cat Studio" and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. The little circles are so cute with the peas!

I was on the Pink Cat Studio website and saw where you could order a grab bag of 30 stamps for $22.50 so I jumped on it.....you even get to suggest the different categories you would like in your grab bag! You may not get them all-----but I did!!

I used my Stamping Up slot punch and attached the ribbon. I think the next time I would extend the ribbon all the way over to the edge of the striped paper, which is from Basic Grey - the Figgy Pudding set.

I am wondering what paper I will use after Christmas because this is practically all I use!!

I have to go for a walk and take my poor dog out.....she is crossing her legs and begging - oh bad doggie!!

Ewwww! LUCKY ME!

Cardinal Christmas!

Hey Everybody!

I babysat on Thursday and I was driving all over on Friday so I haven't been very productive!

However, today, I was able to get back at it and I have some things to show you! YAY!

I drove into Scrappin' Great Deals on Friday morning to pick up an order.

Oh my gosh....I ordered some nestabilities ages ago and they were on back order so when Sheila e-mailed me and said "The boxes are here!!! I haven't gone through them all yet - but they are here, so come on over!" I went!!

Of course when I was there, she had these sweet stamp sets - Inkadinkado Holiday Silhouette Stamp Set, and I really couldn't resist them.

So then when I got home hubby said, "Let's go to Chatham for groceries". For some reason that man always has to eat lunch and supper which means there has to be food in the house - which there isn't. So off we went to get groceries and the whole time I was thinking about my new stamp set and nestabilities!! (hidden in my car - but you knew that....)

I finally got to stamp this morning and this is what I came up with.

I stamped the cardinal in Versa red and then masked it to add the pine cone branch. Then I masked the branch to add another branch. The second one sort of looks like it is hanging onto nothing but that is how it is going to stay.

There was only one piece of evergreen at first, but then the sponging came out kind of wonky so I added a leaf to the branch. Then I got thinking that evergreens really shouldn't have a maple leaf attached and so by this time, I was getting frustrated and when I took it off --it ripped the paper!! That is when I decided to add another piece of evergreen. You can still kind of see it but not too much....cover up time!!

Basic Grey Scarlet Letter is glued to olive green cardstock for the background.

I added a ribbon and then glued the teeny weeny red ribbon to the green ribbon and added a halfbow for a bit of interest.

Sometimes it takes forever to do a card!!

Oh my gosh, I almost forgot the VERY BEST PART OF THE DAY!! ......besides being with my hubby (that goes without saying)

Since I get to look after my little grandson who is the cutest baby EVER...... (I betcha didn't know that) my son-in-law picked up a JANOME SEWING MACHINE!!!!! for me!!!!!

I just about fell through the floor! Now I have to figure out how to use it AND find a spot for it. Marcie is going to have to come over and organize my room so I can start using it. Isn't he just the best son-in-law EVER!? I doubt if Marcie had anything to do with it at all......(right)

LUCKY ME!!!

Warm Hugs....

There is nothing like a friendly group hug!

This sweet little snowman hug stamp AND "warm hugs" sentiment is from Stamping Bella. Oh yeh, it really is! .......and you thought she just had the Bella's.. .....nope...she has lots of other things...check it out yourself!



Now my layout is a take-off from Poetic Artistry's Mojo Monday Challenges from last week.....I haven't done any of the challenges -yet- although anyone is welcome to join in the fun.


I was on the Verve Visual website (yes, I did buy some stamps - so shoot me) and saw a link to Julee's blog - so what could I do?!

Her blog had a sweet card that she posted to Mojo Monday and so to make a long story short - I liked the layout and used half of it!

I colored in the image with my new copics and cut it out with my circle nestabilities then the scalloped circle. The squares are cut with the Marvy punch - sadly, I don't have the square nestabilities (but they are on backorder hee hee)

The paper is Figgy Pudding Basic Grey. I only bought one 6 x 6 paper pack, which is great for small projects like cards-- and it does a tub load!

And if you have scraps left over you can make the tree card like this one ! (psst - click the link!)

I didn't know what color to stamp the sentiment so I stamped it in 2 different colors!! black and red, and my turquoise marker was used just to highlight the sentiment.....I love it!!

Crap!! I just realized that the sentiment is crooked....geeez!! I need a stamp-a-ma-jig....I think that is what they are called!

Off to bed...I have been a busy elf today!!


LUCKY ME!!

Sunshine Christmas!

Why a Sunshine Christmas you ask?

Because the stamp set used for this card is from Sunshine Designs!! and I couldn't think up a clever title today....I am whipped.

This set is actually a block with a stamp on four sides.

I only used 3 of the stamps (as you can see) for this card. I got new COPICS - oh yeh - and so I coloured the presents with my new copics!

Okay, now I keep typing copies instead of copics....so excuse if you see THAT!

Figgy Pudding by Basic Grey was used to mount the images on and then onto the background cardstock.

I got my Figgy from Scrapping Great Deals who just happen to have their 12 hour sale on right now until midnight! Every Wednesday from 12 midnight til 12 midnight -24 hours long.....and longer if it is still posted!

I got this beautiful satin ribbon from my dollar store and I used the Stamping Up photo corner punch for the corners.

My sentiment is from My Favorite Things Sassy Sayings Set. I really want the Essential Sentiments - it has a really cool font!! Maybe for Christmas!

LUCKY ME!!

Shameless Casing....

Hello, my name is Lucky and I am guilty of casing......LOL! Aren't we all!??

Yes......this card is directly cased from Michelle Giraud at Twisted Chick Creations or "Flaxychick" as some know her. She has a beautiful site and some fantastic creations! Click on the link to cruise!

She had a freaking ingenious way to use up scraps! By taking your scraps and trimming them into triangle trees!!

She used her precious Figgy Pudding and I understand that because I don't like to throw any of those scraps in the garbage and sometimes I even have to fight my dog for them - she likes to chew....


Since lately, that is the only paper I have been using, I used my Figgy too.

I used my Stamping Bella "merry & bright" sentiment and a couple of brads to finish it off. How clever!!

Well, hubby felt so bad about the Chinese food last night, that he took me out tonight - for Chinese food!! YAY! I love it!! (and obviously, so does he)

No dishes tonight!

LUCKY ME!!

I WISH I had supper....

At the end of my last post I was so excited because Tuesdays are the day my daughter, Holly has math class in the city.....so today my hubby graciously took her instead of me because I was babysitting for my other daughter, Marcie's little guy --my little grandson (who is pretty cute, if you didn't know) .

Well THE RULE IS, whoever goes into the city on Tuesday brings home supper for the evening........

My little icon on the right side says I am hungry? oh yeah, they went and had Chinese food and didn't bring me home dinner-for-one or leftovers or nothing!!! Geez....I freaking love Chinese food!

Anyway, I am over it.....kind of....


This card is a square card as you can see....I used my Technique Tuesday Children stamp set and stamped in black versa on kraft and embossed it with clear embossing.

I cut it out with my circle nestabilities and then cut out the larger circle in black and then larger scalloped circle in kraft again.


On the scalloped circle, I took my flourishes and stamped around it because it was soooo bare-naked.

Then I stamped more flourishes (gotta love them) in versa sand ink on the black background.

I popped up the circles and added some brads in a sort of interesting way.....if you're interested...haha!

Don't forget that Scrapping Great Deals , a great on-line store, has their 12 hour sale from midnight Tuesday 'til midnight Wednesday. Actually, I just got an e-mail from Sheila and the sale is starting RIGHT NOW!!! until midnight Wednesday...... go on over and on the right hand side-click the link that says "12 hour special"!

Well, I am off to get my supper because I am famished (see top of this post for reason why)....

LUCKY ME!! (not so lucky hubby *wink*) Marcie stop reading this.....

Happy Holidays Christmas!

I love plaid paper! I finally figured out how to use it! This plaid paper is from Chatterbox Inc. and I got it from Scrapping Great Deals - one of the store I deal with in person and on-line!


This card uses a basic layout (which I may be using a lot of in the next couple of weeks since we have another bazaar on the 5th-actually 12 days -YIKES!) and you can whip these up so easy!


I ticket punched all the corners in this one just for a change. I love my Stamping Up ticket punch! Everything is layered and sponged with ink - those little sponge daubers are the cat's ass! (can you say that on blogger?)

Papertrey Ink Holiday Wishes is the sentiment - that is a fantastic stamp set, so darn elegant, and if you don't care to be coloring images all the time it is great! And some people don't care for images on their cards so I am trying to please everyone!! (nervous breakdown - here I come!)

I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Olympia Green and then embossed it with clear embossing - it provides such a great punch...

Added a couple of ribbons and a couple (sadly - not 3) of brads and -as Rachael Rae would say - good to go! I didn't use 3 brads because I really didn't think the card would balance being as I only had two ribbons-which I got from Studio Ribbons. Anyway, it works for me!!

On to make the next card. I am going to try to make three cards with the same sheets of 12 x 12 paper. I know it is possible-I just don't know if I can do it! I LOVE cutting and pasting paper!!

LUCKY ME!!

On second thought......

You know how you make a card and think -

"Hey, I kind of like that"

and then you go make supper and when you come back and look at it - someone has been in there and made your card not so great!?

Well, I think that happened with this card - although it is growing on me.

The premise is good......that layout is fine, it is just that RED! and a bit of wasted space, now that I look at it.....sometimes you really have to take a step back! Probably best to do that before you post it! HAhaha!

I had to borrow Marcie's paper piercer because I broke mine trying to pry my scalloped circle nestability off of my cuttlebug mat........oh boy.....try to remember to keep that cutting side up.......LOL! I didn't notice until I started piercing that HER paper piercer was snipped off at the end also - thus the big piercings.

Then I had to use my Stamping Up tag maker punch for the bottom of this card (not so bad) because I broke my corner punch....... a wee bit of an expensive day.

Edited to add: Sounds like a lot of complaining about this card - funny thing is - the more I look at it, the more I like it! Forgot to mention about paper piecing the hat and scarf! Stamped it on red cardstock, cut it out and pieced it.

AND I bought a whole boat load of other "stuff" online today, because we are going to be at another bazaar, for the school this time, in two weeks so please, please, please hopefully everything comes in time!! (Papertrey Ink, Scrapping Great Deals, Pink Cat Studio, Verve Visual - if you are reading this please put everyone else's order aside and just look after mine..... ROFL!)

Actually, if it doesn't show up in time for this bazaar, there is always next year!!

Snowman Stamp: Inkadinkado
Sentiment: Sunshine Designs
Paper: Imagine That - Walmart
Accessories: nestabilities, paper piercer, tag punch, photo holder thingy


Now this card I loved right from the start because I absolutely think this is the cutest little stamp going! It is from Magenta and I bought it at the Paper Pickle, my local stamp store. Don't they just look like they are all snuggled up!?

Cuttlebugged the green cardstock with the snowflake folder (it definitely is not that bright of a green IRL) Used my corner punch on the bottom of the green paper ( I did this card before I broke my punch!) and then on the bottom of the stamped image paper.

I dug out my shimmer chalks that I haven't used in ages and just dusted the angels with them. Then I took my Krylon silver leafing pen and traced around the image-- popped it up with with some dimensionals, added some L'il Davis ribbon and brads and done.

Very easy!

I have to go and get my spot in front of the TV--Desperate Housewives is on soon and I think something happens to Lynette!!

I am sooo looking forward to the next couple of weeks when I get a whole bunch of NEW SUPPLIES!!

LUCKY ME!!