Happy Monday everyone!!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It was a very nice weekend here. I love nice weekends. We got to spend some time with great friends on Saturday. It is so nice to have good friends. Today I want to show you a card I made for my niece. I am so way late it is pitiful. I hope she will forgive me.I used a painting that my older sister bought my husband and I a long time ago. It is this pictureIt has meaning because when my husband and I met for the first time it was in Las Vegas. We took a trip to the top of the eiffel tower. While up there they were having the grand opening of another casino with fireworks and all. It was just amazing and I believe I knew at that moment that we were going to be together forever.The base of the card is summer sunrise stamped in versamark using polka dot basics. I used a label Nine nestability and cut one mat in harvest gold and the other in lemon tart. The butterfly is a sticker I bought a while back.The bottom is a strip of simply chartruese punched with a fiskars border punch and wrapped with sweet blush ribbon. I then tied 2 harvest gold buttons to the ribbon using some rope.I hope she enjoys this card. Now I just need to get her a present and put them in the mail.Thanks for stopping by!!! 
I have been slacking in my duties as a scrapbooker. I am so behind on everything. I haven't scrapbooked much of our activities since we have been married, my middle son is still an infant in his scrapbook and my youngest has only 2 pages documenting his 3rd month in his.My husband has been bugging me to get going and I don't disagree with him. Since I do have some pictures already printed up I pulled them out and got started on putting them on a page.This is the only picture I took of my boys during our 4th of July celebration. I had a migraine that day and was doing my best not to be the party pooper. I did end up falling asleep on my couch while my sister and her family babysat for me (I didn't intend to fall asleep, thanks).We did head to the base sponsored festivites where we road a carnival ride and then watched the fireworks display. I need to resupply my stash of paper with 12 X 12 paper so I can have some paper to scrapbook with. I was able to use this paper that is actually for a cruise. I just covered up the steering wheel with the red paper and the rest of the ship with the white ribbon and stars.The red paper is pure poppy and was stamped in versamark with Wplus9 background stamps, then I embossed it with kaleidescope embossing powder. I figured it was perfect with the little stars in the center of the circles and then the shimmer of the embossing powder.The ribbon I got from Wal-Mart a while back and the stars were punched with my fiskars punch using stamper's select white cardstock from PTI and inked with pure poppy and enchanted evening ink. I added the eyelets (from Stampin Up') for an added element. Then made the streams of light with stickles.The journal section was cut using the notepad dye from PTI that I won and stamped in simply chartreuse with the journal image in the school time stamp set.I had the "4" from another project I started but needed a 3 not a 4 and then just found a "t" and an "h". I inked them the same way using pure poppy and enchanted evening so all the colors were represented.The picture was put together with a simple strip of simply chartreuse cardstock covered with some pp I had in my stash (cut using a nestability die) and then rounded the corners of my picture to match the corners of the nestability. I also had the small sentiment from a stash I got at Michael's when they were having a bunch of stuff on sale. I figured it suited the picture nicely and the colors worked out great.I really need to keep up with my goal to make one page a week. Maybe I should change that to 1 page every two weeks/2 pages a month.Well, that is about it for today. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned. See you back here on Monday.Thanks for stopping by!!!
Hello everyone!!! I hope you are still around. I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted something here. I feel terrible about it. I have just been so busy with appointments and such. We have more appointments again this week but not as many, so far.Today I am going to share a card with you I made thanks to my mom. We decided to take a trip to Big Bear City for the day on Saturday. My parents came along for the company. There was a store that that had a bunch of "cowboy" stuff. I found an adorable outfit I put together. My mom saw the outfit, loved it but said that it was Terricotta tile and dark cholocate, PTI colors. Since then I have thought about a card that would be awesome to recreate that "outfit" using those colors. This is what I came up with. Thanks mom!!!It isn't all PTI, the cardstock is though. I used terracotta tile and vintage cream like DMC floss, a chole's closet flower I had in my stash, as well as a button.The stamps I used were PTI Backround basics: hearts, Waltzing Mouse Labels 4, scrappby cat, and martha stewart stamps. The ink is colorbox dark brown and PTI vintage cream. The punch is a fiskars.I am so happy with it. One card down more to go.Thanks for stopping by!!!
Hello everyone!!! I am so excited to be back home and crafting again. We had to spend an extra day in the hospital since Garrett was a bit jaundice. He still has it a bit but things are looking good. He is such a great sleeper and allows me at least 3 hours of sleep in a row through the night. I couldn't have asked for anything better. He is just perfect.Today I am showing off the first card/project I have made since having my precious little boy. And keep stopping by because I have a few thank yous to make up as well.This card I made for my niece's kindergarten class. She lives in Wisconsin and her kindergarten class is celebrating their 100 days of school near Valentine's day. Her teacher has decided to ask friends/family of the children in her class to send cards. They will be studying the places on the map where the cards come from. It is times like this that I truly wish we lived in Alaska still. How neat would that be? This card started because of a card I saw on the cover of my PaperCrafts magazine. I think it was a Dawn McVey card actually. I just added a couple things and changed some of the stamp sets and colors. The base is kraft cardstock. I stamped the hearts border in brilliance white. The scallop edge is scarlet jewel punched with my fiskars border punch. The rest is hibiscus burst stamped with text in versamark ink. The ribbon is some that was on a Christmas present I received. I used a Vintage holiday button and tied it with pure poppy dmc floss. The most exciting part is that the labes I found at Joann's. It seems that Joann's has now decided to sell spellbinders products. I have been eyeing a lot of the labels dies from spellbinders but since budget is extremely tight (especially now with 3 bosy :D ) I had to wait. So when I saw that Joann's had this set I had to pick it up because I had a coupon. I love it. I have more coupons too. Since I will be spending next weekend at my sister's house we plan to make a trip to a very large Joann's and get some more.Okay, back to the card. The cupcake was stamped with black staz-on using tiny treats valentine's (borrowed from my sister). That is about it for this card but I am very please since I have been out of the craft area in quite a while. I hope to see you back here tomorrow.Thanks for stopping by!!!
