Happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend. Today I am starting a new series of cards that are simple and easy to make, featuring just one stamp set per card – “Simple Saturdays”. I know a lot of us like to use multiple stamp sets when making cards, sometime we just need something easy and simple, hence cards posted on… Read More: Simple Saturdays – Lego Birthday »
Hi there, hope you are having a good week. Today’s card features the Botanical Blooms bundle (mentioned in Monday’s Post). This set bring numerous idea’s into my mind. To make my card I started with a top folding Whisper White Thick card stock card base. There is a piece of the Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper 5.5″ x… Read More: Botanical Blooms »
Hope you all had a nice weekend. The weather here was wild, with 50 degrees and sunny on Saturday and dropping temperatures with snow showers on Sunday. Saturday was spent doing those thing we need to do, food shopping, making chili for the freezer and laundry. Sunday I spent a few hours playing with the box of new products I ordered from the 2016… Read More: How do you use Designer Series Paper? »
Who doesn’t like a birthday hat, especially one you don’t have to wear. As promised here is another birthday card featuring additional products from the Birthday Bouquet suite in the 2016 Occasions catalog, page 9. This card features the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper, Honeycomb Embellishments and Pool Party 3/8″ Glitter Ribbon. Using my Stampin Trimmer and a piece… Read More: Who doesn’t like a birthday hat? »
Today both the new 2016 Occasion and Sale-A-Bration catalogs go live, what an exciting day at Stampin Up. There are tons of great products in the new 2016 Occasions catalog and for the first time as part of the Sale-A-Bration catalog there will be limited time items (while supplies last), how cool is that. While some demonstrators have been sharing… Read More: Today’s the day – new 2016 Occasion & Sale-A-Bration catalogs! »
Happy Sunday, hope all is well with you. Yesterday was one of those days were I just felt like cleaning out some cupboards/drawers/closets – as they say out with the old in preparation for the new. This included my craft space in preparation for the new 2016 Occasions and Sale-A-Bration products. I’ll be placing my order Tuesday morning.… Read More: Cherry on Top Birthday! »
Just a quick and simple card to wish you all a Happy New Year for 2016! Later today I will be enjoying some pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and baked beans, standard meal we have every January 1, for good luck! Thank you for stopping by, have a great day – Craft On!
Happy New Years Eve! Any plans this evening? Nothing special happening here, just a nice quite dinner with a NCIS LA DVD marathon. I know that starting next week I’ll be super busy (year end close at work and the new SU Occasions/Sale-A-Bration catalogs) so some quite time will be nice! I wanted to take a moment to… Read More: Thank you for 2015 ! »
Hi there, thought I would post a quick and simple card featuring two of the new Weekly Deals – the Wood Mount stamp set, Amazing Birthday and the Ornate Tag Topper Punch. This was a quick and easy card to put together. It features one of the stamps on the tag. While the theme for the card is… Read More: New Weekly Deals with Cucumber Crush »
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas and was able to spend time with family & friends. I enjoyed Christmas morning, that special breakfast and Skyping with my brother & his family. Even though we are miles apart they always seen close when I can watch them opening presents! Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get my… Read More: CYCI#100 – A Milestone! »
So were you all good little boys and girls? Did Santa stop at your house last night? Hopefully Santa will have brought me a new purse under the tree . . . what are you hoping for? I wanted to take the time today to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas! I appreciate all of you whether you are a regular customer… Read More: Merry Christmas! »
Let me start my saying while I enjoy the warmer weather something just seems wrong with starting Christmas Eve with a thunder and lightening storm at 60+ degrees vs. watching the snow fall for Santa’s sleigh. Something tells me we just might have Easter snow this year. Today’s post is a sneak peek of the parts included on… Read More: Sneak Peek for Christmas »
So how are you coming with your holiday preparations? Cards sent? Presents purchased and wrapped? Cookies made? I’m happy to report cards made and sent as well as cookies made. I spent part of the weekend prepping for the Christmas gifts I will be giving my Aunts, Uncles & cousins this Christmas as well as looking for that… Read More: Falala Santa’s coming this week! »
Thought I would show you have one of this weeks “Weekly Deals” , the Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper stack is for anyone. Don’t let the name fool you, using the Watercolor Words Photopolymer Stamp Set and a few pieces of card stock I was able to create a couple cards showcasing the versatility of the stamp set and… Read More: Which Weekly Deal is your fav? »
Happy Monday, how was your weekend? Did you know today is one of the largest card mailing days of the holiday season, are yours in the mail? I’ve mailed all the ones I normally do and have special cards (like today’s) that I will hand out on Christmas to my relatives along with a special treat! This morning… Read More: Jolly MOJO428 »
Happy Saturday, welcome to the weekend, any special plans, holiday parties? enjoying the warmer weather? Here is Pittsburgh we could hit 70 degrees (the normal temperature should be about 41 degrees), Woo Hoo ! I will be spending time on the sun porch today, enjoying the Christmas decorations and beautiful weather! Today’s card is for the Stamp Ink… Read More: Mint Thank You SIP#26 »
Getting ready for the holidays? Last night I made some cookie dough, tonight I will roll it out and up (for pinwheel’s) and Friday night I will slice and bake it. It sure makes the process at lot easier when you break it up like this? I’ll be sending a batch to my nephew Jake in exchange for… Read More: CYCI#98 – Tag a Card »
Happy Sunday, Are you working on: Ppurchasing and wrapping holiday gifts? Wondering what to do for small items or gift cards? Have left over “non holiday” designer series paper? Why use this paper to create some pillow boxes or treat bags? Today’s project shows a square pillow box and treat bag I created for the Christmas holiday that uses left… Read More: Outside the Box with Designer Paper »
Happy Birthday Jackson! Today is my cousin Lisa’s, son’s birthday – he is 2. Thought I would share his shaker birthday card with you. Lisa has two boys and one of the reasons I purchased the “No Bones About It” stamp set was knowing it would be great to use for their birthdays! The card starts with a base… Read More: No Bones Birthday »
So how has your weekend been? Do any Black Friday/Small business Saturday shopping, I did. Happy to say while I might have been away from the computer for a few days, I’ve completed a large chunk of holiday shopping. House is completely decorated and a large pot of homemade spaghetti sauce is on the stove today. I plan… Read More: Flowers for SIP#24 »
Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for each one of you for taking time today to visit my blog, have a great day! Thought you might enjoy these fun facts to impress your family and friends with today: The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and lasted three… Read More: Happy Thanksgiving »
Happy Pre-Thanksgiving Day, will you be spending the day preparing for tomorrow? I plan do to as much kitchen prep as possible and pick up the pumpkin pie, might even get my new tires installed today, we’ll just see how that goes. Have you taken advantage of any of the sale items this week as part of the… Read More: Snow Place like #GDP012 »
How’s everything with you? It’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been busy with work, making holiday cards in the evening and dealing with my car. My goal is to have as many cards as possible done by Thanksgiving so I can enjoy December and not feel rushed to get things done. As for my car, tomorrow I… Read More: Grateful for SIP#23 »
Each month I have a group of ladies who meet to stamp the 3rd Sunday of the month, they are called my Sunday Stampers, today was our November date. Thought I would share with you the cards we made. First is the Festive Flower Card: Card base is Sahara Sand, stamped with Sahara Sand ink using the flower… Read More: Nov 2015 Sunday Stamper Cards »
Happy Friday the 13th! Today’s card is for the Can You Case It weekly challenge. For my card, I decided to switch from a portrait to landscape version of a layout. To make my card I first started with the Festive Fireplace Bundle, stamped, colored (with various Stampin Write Markers I have purchased through out the year) and… Read More: MC with CYCI #94 »
Happy Wednesday, we have made it half way through the week, it sure was rainy here yesterday and the rain will be back on Thursday. I have some errands to run, so today after work seems the best time, at this point they say no rain but you know how that works. Today I want to give a… Read More: Let it Snow with #GDP010 »
Happy Monday, how was your weekend? I had a pretty busy one, visited a few Holiday Craft shows where I picked up a Pumpkin Roll and some birthday gifts, stopped at a few consignment stores, Home Goods, Dollar Tree and food shopping – and that was just on Saturday. Sunday I decided just to take it easy, catch up on watching… Read More: Make a Wish for PCCCS#169 »
Happy Friday, how’s your week been? I’ve been busy at work with little time for crafting this week. I’m looking forward to the weekend as there are Christmas Craft shows and special events happening all over our area. Hopefully I will be doing some shopping, I just love to decorate for Christmas. At the one craft show there… Read More: Clean & Simple for SIP#21 »
Happy Wednesday, half way through the week. They say today we should have temperatures in the mid 70’s, what a great fall day, I hope to spend my lunch hour enjoying it! How’s the weather in your neck of woods today? Today’s card is for the MOJO Monday 422 challenge, you can check out their blog by clicking… Read More: Grateful for MOJO422 and Weekly Deals »
Happy Monday, welcome to the week. Not sure about you, but it takes me a few days to get use to it being lighter earlier in the morning and darker sooner at night. I forgot the change one of the kitchen clocks and it through me off this morning. Fun story about the clock in my car, a few… Read More: Sitting by the Window for CYCI#93 »