Happy Friday, don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to the weekend. I’ll be working on getting ready for my Sunday Stampers workshop on Sunday and packing for a business/vacation trip. The first five days are business, followed by four vacation days including a trip to Wildwood New Jersey with my brother and his family. Today’s card… Read More: CYCI#81 – Color Challenge »
Thought I would sneak in making one final card before I leave tomorrow for the last Stampin Up Convention in Salt Lake City. The convention starts Thursday and ends on Saturday, I will be joining Ann, Linda and Valory from the 24/7 Stampers. As the week goes on, I will be posting the cards I made for some of the swaps I am participating.… Read More: SIP#6 Tic-Tac-Toe »
How’s your day going? No better way to end the day than making a card and posting it on your blog. Some people can’t believe how I fit this all in, but after a full day of work I find it rather relaxing to make a card. Normally I already have a layout planned and after a few… Read More: CYCI#75 »
Hi there, how is everything going with you? Do any stamping or crafting lately? This Sunday morning I was busy with my Sunday stampers and took a nice nap in the afternoon once I put away all the supplies. When stamping is at my house we seem to use soooooo many supplies, best I guess that’s the advantage… Read More: MOJO402 »
Tomorrow is the monthly meeting of my Sunday Stampers. Thought I would share with you one of the cards we will be making using the new Watercolor Wings Bundle – featuring the Watercolor Wings Stamp Set and Bold Butterfly Framelits – both new items in the catalog. To get started on my card I used the colors in the… Read More: Butterfly Sunday »
Hi there, how’s the week going for you? I’m sitting here watching the CMT Music Award show red carpet show waiting for the show to start. Looking forward to seeing some of my favorite country artists perform, that includes Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood. For Carrie it’s her first performance since having her baby earlier this… Read More: SIP#1 – Stamp Ink & Paper »
Happy Monday, hope you had a nice weekend. For me Saturday was busy with running errands and visiting friends, Sunday was busy with some housework and moving all the retiring product out of my main stamping area and marking the catalog to know which stamp sets, punches, embossing folders, thinlit and framelits I have, what about you do… Read More: Butterfly Birthday »
Well the weekend is finally here. I sure had hoped to sleep a little longer this morning, after getting to bed at 2:30am, but the boys (Bandit & Baron) had other plans. So while I sit here having my first cup of coffee thought it was the perfect time to write and post a blog entry. You may… Read More: FMS186 »
Living just north of Pittsburgh, I am a born Pirate-Penguin-Steeler fan and all teams have the colors black & gold. For family or friends who are big sports fans I really enjoy making black & gold cards. Today thought I would share a birthday card made with the Striped Scallop Thinlit – one of the new weekly deals… Read More: Black & Gold Birthday »
Happy Monday, I wanted to get in a couple more cards before Sale-A-Bration ends tomorrow and thought the Can You Case it weekly challenge had the perfect sketch to use. Butter was this weeks special guest designer. You can see the sketch below. For this card I used one of my favorite newer Sale-A-Bration items, Sheer Perfection Designer… Read More: CYCI #63 »
It’s Thursday, one day closer to the weekend! Weather has been nice this week, some rain but temperature around 50, much better than the cold & snow! Today at lunch I want to make a run to the party store, I’m in charge of Easter desserts and thinking about ‘shot glass’ desserts and want to see what my… Read More: Wish Big Feathers! »
Today my cousin Lisa is having a birthday party for her son Connor, he’s 4 =- – – were does the time go. I thought I would share with you the card and matching envelope I made for him. The envelope is made using the Envelope Punch Board and a piece of the wrapping paper. I used the gift wrapping… Read More: Happy Birthday Connor! »
One day until the weekend, yeah!!! I’m looking forward to the warmer weather expected this weekend, temperatures in the 40’s, it’ll be a heat wave. When I saw the sketch for this weeks “Freshly Made Sketches” hosted by Cindy Hall, I knew I needed to participate. The card is an elongated shape, 4″ x 9 1/4″ size. Don’t… Read More: FMS176 »
Welcome to March! It’s another snowy Sunday morning here, you can’t even see where the street is, its been snowing since after midnight and the snow is still falling. They say we should see snow until Monday morning, hopefully we will not get the icy mix they are talking about. A sunny warm beach sure seems good right now!… Read More: Amazing You! »
Happy Tuesday! Today I thought I would create a card for Can You Case It blog – its a Clean & Quick design. Stop by there blog to see other cool design. Who doesn’t like clean & quick when time is tight! For my clean & quick card I decided to highlight the Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper, a… Read More: CYCI #57 – Happy Birthday »
Happy Sunday, today my group of Sunday Stampers meet and I’m sharing with you the projects we will be making. Each month we meet and make three projects. We will be using a variety of items from the 2015 Occasions catalog as well as the Irresstibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. The first card uses Sheltering Tree… Read More: Sunday Stamper Cards »
The cards featured today will be made during my January Sunday Stampers Gathering later today, thought I would share them with you now. Each month we do three cards, I decided to use the card from my Demonstrators swap earlier this month that features the Butterfly Basics Stamp Set & Butterfly Thinlit Dies (which are sold separately or as… Read More: Sunday Stampers Cards »
HHappy Friday, sure has been a busy week at work, looking forward to a little down time this weekend. Still cold here, weathermen say its going down to zero tonight with wind chills will feel like -20, brrrrr 🙂 Only one around here that likes this weather is our husky Bandit. He loves to curl into a little ball… Read More: Butterfly Swap Card »
Tomorrow the family will be celebrating my cousin Lisa’s son Jackson’s first birthday, today I thought I would share the card I will be taking to the party, it’s a shaker card! Thought it would be entertaining for the little guy. 🙂 Before I share the card with you, thought I would fill you in on the Year-End Closeout… Read More: Happy Birthday Jackson »
Happy Memorial Day, let me first thank all the service men and women – past and present who have served our great country – you are reason we have the freedoms we do today! It’s been a busy weekend around here, we opened the pool which is an all day affair and had some great bar-b-q and grilled steak.… Read More: Paper Craft Crew #94 »