Mommy

 I got the email that my mom has received here card so here it is for all of you to see.  I had something in my head of what I wanted but it didn't quite come out the same way.  I didn't let it discourage me, remember ("It is only paper").  I still really like how it turned out though.Again, I gotta run.  I love having company visiting.I will be back with details on the card and hopefully soon after I will have some more projects to share with you.

Mother's Day

My goodness, I didn't realize I had been missing for so long.  We have been quite busy here.  I won't bore you with the details.  I do have a couple of Mother's Day cards I wanted to share.  I will save my mom's card until I know she has it since she reads my blog. 

 This card I made this card for my Mother-in-law.  I ended up matting the cardbase with berry sorbet cardstock and then again with white cardstock so it had the border of berry sorbet.  I was going to use a copic and just draw it on the base of the card but I didn't have a copic to match.  I am working on adding on to my supply of copics but it is slow going.The sentiment base was cut out using Wplus9 die.  I also used Wplus9 coordinating stamp for the border.Otherwise, everything else is pretty self explanatory and I need to run.  My little man has what I am hoping is his last Physical Therapy appointment  He is doing so well walking around and driving us all crazy  :)I hope all you Mom's, mom's to be and someday mom's had a great Mother's Day.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Color Cue

It is no secret that I love Wplus9 stamps.  There really isn't anything I don't like about the company.  What I love even more is that they just launched their own line of cutting dies.  I won the first die and I am in need of getting the new one with the coordinating stamp set.

Wplus9 does a Color Cue Challenge.  I have yet to figure out the frequency, I am thinking probably about one a month but I could be wrong.  This is the current color challenge.

 To find out all the info go here.

This is the card I came up with.  All but the paper and ink are Wplus9, those are PTI.  I started with a dark chocolate cardbase and took some Hawaiian Shores cardstock, used pure poppy ink to stamp the background with the Damask Frames stamp set.

The flower/branch image was stamped first with versamark on kraft but I didn't like how little it showed so I restamped it with Tim Holtz distress ink.  That image is from the Woodgrain Silhouettes stamp set.

The sentiment was cut from kraft ink with the first die that Wplus9 released (All Occasions Label).  I stamped it with the coordinating stamp in pure poppy and the sentiment is from the same set stamped in fresh snow (Brothers & Sisters).

For a little more flare I took some "pure poppy" and "Hawaiian shores" DMC floss with some twine and tied it around the Hawaiian shores mat then tied a brown button and called it good. 

That is about it for this one.  Today is my son's Friday.  Apparently here in South Dakota they think a 4 day weekend over Easter is spring break.  We do have a fun activity to go to Friday afternoon for the hubby's work so that should be fun.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

  

Masks

Happy Friday everyone!!!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned.  We are not sure what is going to happen for us this weekend.  We should know by end of the day if we can even start making plans.  I think that is going to be the norm for us while here.

I wanted to share this picture with you and show off my crafty boys.  I had a meeting to attend yesterday morning and since my husband had the day off my 2 little guys stayed home with daddy (big man was at school).  While I was gone my middle man decided to have some crafty fun with my supplies.  One of the things he got a hold of was my stickles.  I have forgotten about them so I guess it wasn't a big deal (at least they were getting used.)  Unfortunately during his craft time he got stickles on the floor or kitchen cabinet.

Later in the afternoon my husband decided to put some locks on the kitchen cabinets since little man has been throwing things around.  Needless to say some of the glittery stickles got on my husbands drill cord and the cool thing, it is my favorite color.

What you don't see in this picture is that after it was taken my middle man grew tired of holding the drill and dropped it.  The drill bit, that was still in the drill, landed first and broke.  Now I owe the hubby some new drill bits  :(

The card I am sharing with you today is one I used trying to channel Dawn McVey.  Her style always inspires me and wants me to try to be better.  I saw a post of hers explaining how she is always able to make beautiful cards.  She said something that made sense but at the same time was like a "duh" moment.  "When things aren't going just right just take it apart because it is only paper." (not a word for word quote).  Cards are only paper...duh, I knew that but I didn't understand it.

Why do I share this, because I wanted to make a thank you card, I wanted to use the new PTI Make it Monday challenge.  The challenge is masking.

I used a Martha Stewart border punch at my mask and sponged using plum pudding ink.  The border is spring rain cardstock.  The flower is prima and the button is PTI.

The sentiment border was stamped using a WaltzingMouse Label 4 stamp with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The sentiment itself is stamped using 2 wplus9 stamps in black.  The fun stuff in the middle was first drawn on with a white gel pen and the circles were stamped with PTI polka dot basics stamps in fresh snow.  I also added a bit of fun with a scrappy cat stamp on each corner and ran over it with a glitter pen.

I am so happy with it I am glad I took Dawn's advice and took apart what I didn't like and started over instead of just finishing just because I had already started something.

Have a great weekend...just got word, we may be without the hubby (he is on standby), not sure  :(

Thanks for stopping by!!!

  

Birthday

It has been way too long since I have posted.  Not because I haven't wanted to.  I have just been a crafty slump.  I don't what it was.  Things have been going well for us.  My son is better with school, still reluctant to go but he goes without a fight so I am not complaining. The only real "bad thing" that has happened here is that my husband was put on 12 hour shifts last weekend.  My oldest had Friday off of school and we had made plans to do some fun family activities Saturday evening.  Instead I got a text message late Friday afternoon from my husband, he was to work 12 hour shifts until further notice.  There went our weekend plans.  Thankfully that only lasted until late Sunday afternoon.  So, he missed church as well but we had a nice surprise when we got home.  I was so happy to see him but worried that it meant he was leaving on a deployment.  That is still up in the air but for now he is home and we are on a regular schedule again  : ) Now for the card...this was made for my niece's birthday which was last Thursday.  She is now 15 years old.  That is scary for me.  When she was born I was planning my high school graduation.  Yep, I am "that" old  ;)  My niece is beautiful, talented and very friendly.  She is just a sweetheart and I hate that we are no longer close to her to help her celebrate her birthday.  She will be graduating from high school herself in 2 years, another scary thing for me.  You better believe I will be there for that though.  As most 15 year olds are (I think anyway) she is very much into anime stuff.  She can draw anime like nobody's business.  She hopes to graduate, go to college and become a singer.  The smart girl that she is though she has a back-up plan, math teacher (I am so proud since that is what I want to do).  Who knows, we may end up doing our student teaching at the same time  :DAfter seeing some of her drawings though I told her that I think she could do very well if she pursued her art talents.  I wish I had, a well known art school scout came to my house to look at my work.  She wanted me attend their art school, I didn't do it :(  Oh well, live and learn.  All of that to show you my card.  It isn't my best but I am glad to have just finished a project.  Still working on my banner  :(

I am actually a bit distracted right now.  I am either suffering from a mild case of a head cold or allergies.  I took some meds and feel a bit better but still a little out of it.

What I can tell you is that I used PTI cardstock, PP is from a goodie bag I got from Wendy Sue from just me...and my little world.  The stamp is The Greeting Farm and was colored with copic markers.

This is the inside, of course..I used some more PP from the same pack that I got from Wendy Sue Anderson.  The flower is all made up from my stash of things and the sentiment is from Wplus9.

I still need a couple of things to finish my banner.  I hope to have that done with a few more things soon.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

 

Embossing fun

Sorry for my lack of posts the last couple of days.  Wednesday was a bad day in our house but we made up for it yesterday.  I hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day.  My husband is Italian so not someone you would expect to celebrate an Irish holiday but...I am a mut with some Scotch-Irish so I wanted to have some fun with this seemingly unimportant holiday.  Next year I hope to have a fun banner to hand on my door.  This year I got busy making a traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner, complete with french bread (I forgot to add the food coloring and make it green) and some green punch.  I found the recipes here.  Only my oldest son didn't love the punch but everyone loved the french bread.  I made corned beef and cabbage for teh first time too.  It smelled wonderful while it was cooking and it tasted great.  I was worried about it turning out alright, my husband comes from a family where everyone knows how to cook.  My mother-in-law is a great cook and is always trying new things.  I was worried that my corned beef wasn't going to compare to hers but my husband loved it all and couldn't get enough.  I believe we have started a new tradition in our family.  I can't wait for next year already  :) 

 Today I wanted to share with you the card I made with the same layout I used on the previous thank you cards.  This time insted of stamping the medallions in fresh snow ink I stamped them in versamark.  After stamping them all I used some kaliedescope embossing powder and embossed them.  It is like a little rainbow medallion in the center of every tag.  I love how it turned out.  The cardstock is smokey shadow and scarlet jewel.  So pretty. Today I hope to get a "Welcome" sign made for our front door.  I still have my flower heart I made last Valentine's day up.  I think it is time to move on.  I thought about making a sign with our last name but we already have a fun sign on our porch with our name on it that my parents made.  I may have shared it here but if not here it is. 

My Dad used his amazing talent and cut out all the elements and put it all together.  My mom used her talents and painted it to really look like a moose.  Now what you don't see is two adorable little birds they made.  One sat on the top of the moose's head and the other on the sign.  Unfortunately with the wind we got in California and during the move to South Dakota we seem to have misplaced both of the birds.

Happy Tuesday everyone.  I hope you had a great Monday.  After the morning I had a wonderful day.  It was a nice day yesterday so we spent some time outside, I got to chat with our neighbor.  It was so nice.  We are supposed to have a few more warm days so I look forward to more days outside before we get some more snow. Yesterday I mentioned a card I wanted to make because of a bag I saw one of the ladies from church carrying...I believe I mentioned a few days ago that I also won the March release from Wplus9.  I am so excited to say that I received my wonderful goodies in the mail yesterday.  Of course, as soon as I got the chance I had to play.  Then I came up with this idea to make some patterend paper with some of the stamps I got.  I incorporated about 3 or 4 Wplus9 stamps and only Wplus9 stamps.  The embellishments and the paper are not Wplus9 or course.  The paper is PTI, true black, blueberry sky and ripe avocado. 

I started out by using the new Wplus9 set (Brother and Sisters) and making the patterened paper on true black using fresh snow ink.  At first I didn't buy the fresh snow ink for a long time.  I honestly didn't see the point buying white ink.  Now I am glad I did.

The center "snowflake" was stamped from another Wplus9 stamp from Mendhi Medallions.  I love that set and it definitely hasn't seen enough love lately.

 

The tag was made using the new and first Wplus9 die.  I used my cuttlebug to cut the tag out using both blueberry sky and ripe avocado.  It cut so smoothly and cleanly, I love it.  When I use my cuttlebug though, I run the die or empression plate/embossing folder 4 times (forward, backword, forward and then backword one last time)...I do that with ALL my dies, PTI, nestabilities, etc.

 The border was stamped using fresh snow ink.  After finding just the right sentiment in Mendhi Medallions I realized there needed to be something more on the tag.  I found this cool stamp in the Damask Frames, it was stamped using versamark.  The ribbon, button, and bling are stuff from my stashes.  Lastly I threaded the button using black DMC floss.I just love these cards and I had so much fun creating them.  I can't wait to do some more stuff.  After stamping the center medallion in fresh snow I thought it would be fun to try it in versamark and then using embossing powder.  Also instead of black cardstock and white ink I want to use white cardstock and black ink.Like I said, I have a lot of thank you cards to make so might as well make things a bit easier on me by using the same layout/look with different stamps.That is about it for today, look forward to being back for more goodies to share.Thanks for stopping by!!!

Verve revisited

Do you remember this post?I decided to try the layout again for my nephew.  I wanted to do something a little more age appropriate.  So I pulled out my dinosaur stamp from "Our Craft Lounge".  I used my copic markers to color up the dinosaur and ended up with this card. 

The card base is Papertrey Ink.  I also used some Wplus9 stamps to add some background to the kraft square.

The "happy birthday" is PTI and stamped on a vintage cream cardstock strip.

That is about it for this card.  I hope you had a great week and fun things planned for this weekend.  I am going to try and have fun this weekend but my husband has to work his 2nd Saturday in a row.  Thankfully he has Sunday off and I will have help at church.  Next week is full of 12 hour shifts but at least he will be home for dinners.  I am not sued to these hours anymore.  He hasn't had to work these kind of hours since the first year of our marriage and that was over 8 years ago.  Nothing like new places and new experiences.  I know we will all learn to adjust.

Like I said, I have new stamps on their way from Wplus9 and I also received my "My Cute Stamps" set in the mail and look forward to playing with them.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

 

Nieces

One of my four nieces celebrated her 2nd birthday last month.  Unfortunately, circumstances have made it impossible for me to even meet her yet.  Something I hope to correct sometime soon.I finally got this card made for her.  I know it is a little growin-up for a little girl but I just couldn't help myself.The card base is vintage cream and matted with som PP in my stash. 

I used spring moss cardstock for the banner and used fiskars border punch on the side.  The stitcher are rub-ons.  I used a verve stamps die for the tag (hawaiian shores) and used a wplus9 stamp to add some more dimension to the card.

The "M" is a sticky letter I received from a nice lady I go to church with now.  She also gave me the flower.  They are both Petaloos and are all white to be colored or designed anyhow you choose.  Lastly, I took some stickles and went around the end for bling.  I got the idea from another card I saw.  I wish now that I can remember where I saw it.  If it is yours, please let me know so I can add it here.

 

Your're invited

My Goodness!!!  Does anyone else really believe that today is Friday?  It has been a very short week here for me.  I have no idea what happened.  I am happy and sad all at the same time.  Time...seems to be slipping away from me.  My baby is 9 months old, as of the 2nd, my oldest will be 7 in two weeks, and my middle precious boy will be 5 next month and starting kindergarten next fall, well, summer.  I am not sure what I am going to do home all day with just me and the little guy.  I am thinking my house is going to be quite spotless, either that or a messy house because little man and I have been playing all day long.  Only time will tell and time can drag on. Anyway, speaking of my oldest little man turing 7 in two weeks.  We are doing his birthday party a week early because we are heading out to Wisconsin to visit my sister the week of Thanksgiving. 

I had to rush and get the invitations done last night because the plan was to have them to the kids today so they had time to make plans or change plans if they so chose.  I say that was the plan but that isn't what happened.  Again, this morning we had a little extra time so I wasn't going a million miles an hour.  That is until I saw the clock and realized we should have left the house a couple minutes prior.  In my haste to get all 3 boys out the door I forgot the invitations.  I was going to bring them up to the school during recess (we couldn't invite all the kids so I wanted to hand them out secretly so we didn't hurt feelings) but my little man wasn't cooperating so the invitations will have to wait until Monday.I started by asking my big boy what he wanted on his card.  He chose super hero Billy from Pink Cat Studios.  He also wanted to color them.  I asked him his favorite color (because it changes often) and he chose green, specifically New Leaf green from PTI.The background was stamped with Wplus9 Design Bacics: Background 1 stamp set in vintage cream.  The ribbon is fine linen colored with copics.  The sentiment is from PTI's very first set (Paper Tray).  The buttons were just in my stash.I didnt' have any stamps to use on the inside so I just wrote out all the details.  I wanted to make it simple since I had to mass produce.  The cards are 4 1/4 X 3, a perfect size for invitations, just wish I had a smaller envelope to put them in.I hope you have a great weekend.  This Sunday is my husbands birthday.  We aren't doing anything special, maybe take the kids to watch "Megamind" but that is about it.  If he ever tells me what kind of cake he wants I will make that.  He already bought his own birthday presents so I don't have to worry about that.Happy Birthday Jason!!!  We love you so much. Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Simple Birthdays

Hello all!!!  Today I am going to share with you the card I made for my Mother-in-law.  Yesterday was her birthday.  It was also my younger brother's birthday.  Now, all 4 of us kids are stair stepped, meaning we are all one year apart.  This will only last until December when my older sister and I celebrate our birthday though.So, Happy Birthday Joan and Brian!!!  I am sorry we weren't able to celebrate with either one of you.

This card was made using a layout and basic style I CASEd from Dawn from Wplus9 here.I just love the sophistication and simplicity of it.  I love the color combo I chose to use too.  I wish I could have used cream or rustic cream instead of white but I am out.  Dang it.  And now that PTI came out with 2 new colors this month I am afraid something is going to have to wait.  How I am supposed to keep up with all these gorgeous colors?Okay so the base is scarlet jewel (a gorgeous color that I have not used like I should)  I matted the main image with white and ocean tides.The main image was stamped on vellum using versamark ink and then embossed with detail silver embossing powder.  I used some stickles to dot the centers of the circles (Wplus9 Mendhi Medallions).the sentiment was stamped with PTIs fillable frames #8 and then I just cut it out by hand since I don't have the cutting dye yet.  The sentiment is one I got from PTIs latest anniversary set.  Then I just used the smaller version of the medallion in SUs baroque burgundy.  Then just added some rhinestones and a button.  Oh yeah, can't forget the ribbon, that is a cheap-o walmart find.  The ribbon was wrapped around and then I used my bow-easy tool and used a dot to adhere it to the ribbon.

I also went ahead and decorated the inside using white cardstock and stamped the ribbon image on the side using ocean tides ink and then the medallion in SU baroque burgundy.  The "happy birthday" is from Inkadinkado birthday wishes stamp set.  I just love how simple and lovely it is.I think that explains it all.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Joy in card-making

Hello all!!!  I hope you had a fantastic weekend.  We actually got a LONG weekend and I am finding out it was out of the norm.  My son had Monday off from school as well as my husband was off from work.  It was a nice, kinda casual, busy weekend.  We have a lot of things we are trying to go through and get rid of.  Kinda like spring cleaning in the fall. Today I wanted to share a card with you that I made for my husbands co-worker.  He is getting married next month and made a comment about a certain kind of invitation HE would like for the wedding.  It sounded like so much fun that I HAD to make one.  I finally got to it on Sunday night.

I started out with black cardstock and stamped polka dots with fresh snow ink.  The bottom half of the card is smokey shadow cardstock stamped in versamark with my scrappy cat flourish stamp.  The black ribbon is actually my fine linen ribbon that I colored black with my copic marker.The sentiment was stamped with fillable frames #4 in fresh snow ink on enchanted evening cardstock (the wedding color is navy blue).

I also decided to do the inside.  I just used some simple rectangular cardstock in smokey shadow and enchanted evening and then wrote the sentiment with my white gel pen.  The coffin was had drawn using my gel pen on enchanted evening cardstock.  From what I hear it was a huge success  : )This is sad to say but it was the most fun I have had creating a card in a LONG time.  Call me morbid if you want but it is what it is.  I am glad he like it so much.Well, that is about it for now.  I do have another card to share so hopefully I will have that up in the next couple of days.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

C.C. Designs

Happy Friday everyone!!!  It has been a crazy fun week this week.  There were days I thought it was later in the week than it was but to believe that we are already at Friday is crazy as well.This week I started volunteering in my son's class.  It is fun to see what he does all day.  It is especially nice because ever since he started school I would ask him what he did that particular day.  The response I got was either very, very short or "I don't remember".  I had a few moments to talk to his teacher about him and his classroom behavior and it was refreshing to have a casual conversation with his teacher instead of the formal parent/teacher conferences.Anyway, today I am showing you the card I made for one of my niece's birthday, finally.  She had her birthday on the 6th of September.  The same day as my younger sister.  This card is going all the way to Kansas so it is definitely going to be late.  I hope she likes it. 

This card actually came together so easily it shocked me.  I started slowly.  Just grabbed some white cardstock and measured it.  Decided to go with a different size.  This is a 6X4 1/4 size card.

I had the polka dot PP on my desk so I started to play with it.  I had intended on using the shape on the front but used it for the inside since I used the frame on the front instead.

I was rummaging through my desk and happened upon a stash of already stamped images I got from my mom and sister and this one just seemed perfect for my niece.  The colors I used are aqua mist, melon berry, plum pudding and harvest gold.  I didn't intentionally pick any of these color they just seemed to pick themselves.  I think they all work together really well.

I have to admit, it was so much fun coloring images again.  I haven't done that in ages.  You might see more of them on here in the near future.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned.  Nothing planned here so we shall see what comes of our weekend.  I know the hubby has something he is going to do for a few hours in the morning tomorrow so we shall see what transpires for us.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Color Cue Thank you

Well, it is Thursday and I am just now getting on here to post something.  I needed a few more thank you cards and I so love Wplus9 that I decided to participate in the color cue challenge.  Wow, what a challenge it was for me.

I chose Aqua Mist, Harvest Gold, Pure Poppy and White. 

I wanted to use Vintage cream but apparently it doesn't show well on Harvest gold so I went with what worked.

I didn't like how this card came out, I will be honest.  I think it had a lot more to do with the bold colors in the challenge.  Also, I had the aqua mist in the frame background but that was it and it was bothering me.  I couldn't figure out what to do because I didn't have any ribbon.  I really need to work on changing that fact but it is so hard to keep up with everything.

This is when I realized I could cut some cardstock and make it into some ribbon.  After added just that little detail on both sides of the main image I enjoy the card more.

I already have a recipient for this card so it will be in the mail as soon as I remember to get some stamps  :) 

Many Thanks

Happy Friday!!!  Hopefully you guys all have wonderful plans for the weekend.  We don't really have anything planned and that is probably a good thing since we had such a busy weekend last weekend.  I am so glad that it is Friday though.  It is rough getting used to early mornings again.I have a few thank you cards to make so I thought I better get started.  I was going through my PTI cardstock flip book trying to decide on a color scheme when I remembered some PP that I haven't used yet.  It is PTI library ledger and some I bought at Joann's a while back from ancestry.com.

The cardbase is vintage cream (I so need to get some more since this was basically the last of what I have) and then topped with dark chocolate (again, almost out).  I colored in some of the dots with a glitter pen and the ribbon was just stashed in my desk.The detail flair is some I bought at Joann's.  It is from Me & My Big ideas garden chipboard set.  The boot is actually a button I got at Michael's and the only stamp I used on this card is from Wplus9 (Mendhi Medallions).Have a great weekend!!!Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Verve challenge using Wplus9

I am finally getting myself in my craft room to start playing around.  I started by using a new set I finally bought from Wplus9 (Mendhi Medallions).  I have been wanting this set since it first came out and finally got to use it.

I started the day by organizing all my PTI colors (cardstock) and then making a "book" of all the colors so it is easy to flip through and decide a great color combo.  I am also going to copy my mom and sister and put the copic colors on the label so I know which ones to use.So, I was reading Lorie's blog and decided to get a good start on cards again by using Julee, from Verve stamps, sketch.  It was fun and easy.I wanted to go monochromatic with a neutral color.  I decided on the blues, ocean tides, hawaiian shores and aqua mist.  The base is Smokey shadow (love that color and wish I had bought the ink before they stopped selling it, now I have to wait a few more months).  I also used vintage cream for the sentiment.I think I used just about every element in the Mendhi Medallion set because I love it so much.  Even the sentiment is in the set.  Again, if you have not had a chance to try out their stamps, run, do not walk over to their site and try just one.  They are priced VERY reasonably and so easy to use.Thanks for stopping by!!!   

Happy 4th

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!!!  

Color Cue

Happy Monday!!!  It seems that I have been a little behind on my posting.I have fallen for a new stamp company called Wplus9.  I have only one set from them but plan to get many more.

Over at Wplus9 they have a challenge colored color cue.  They give you about 4 colors and challenge you to make project using those colors.  I loved working with these colors. I chose to use berry sorbet as my coral color. 

Since this card is a very simple card I am going to leave you with just a few details.  The background stamp is Wplus9.  The other stamps for the sentiment are PTI (Life and little lady).  

      The frame is one that my sister cut out for me using her silhouette.  I love that and would love to get one of my own.  What a neat tool that is.I hope you had a wonderful weekend.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

8X11 Box

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you had a great weekend.  This week is going to be pretty crazy for me.  I sure hope that makes the week go by fast.  I do plan on going to the movies on Wednesday though.  The plan is to go down and get a haircut and see "Eclipse" with my mom and my niece.  I am actually looking forward to it.

So today I am finally able to show you a box I had made a while back.  I wanted a box to put the Amish bread starter in.  I thought that I would try my hand at making my own box.  I just wanted to use one sheet of cardstock and all my templates use two.  So, I set out to make one.  I did, however, it was too small to fit the starter in.I figured I would continue to make it though, decorate and use it for something else.  I stayed the night at my sisters house Friday night and went to a performance for my niece on Saturday.  As a thank you for putting myself and 3 sons up for a night I left the box for my sister.I started with some kraft cardstock.  Stamped the background image using Wplus9 background stamp using tim holtz distress ink.The medallion was made using spring moss cardstock cut out using a nestability and stamped with another background stamp and then embossed with kaleidoscope embossing powder.  I then used a Waltzing Mouse stamp, stamped on terracotta tile cardstock and then cut out by hand because I do not have the nestability to match.  The butterfly was a sticker I bought from Michael's.I am very pleased with how this turned out and might have to make more.Thanks for stopping by!!! 

Pretty Purple birthday

*disclaimer:  I am using an old laptop and some of the buttons don't work so if I am missing a letter or a space,  I am sorry.* Happy Thursday everyone!!!  I am actually quite surprised at how quickly the last couple of weeks have been flying by.  It seems crazy to be saying it is already Thursday.   I couldn't be more happy about it.Today I am finally showing you a card I have been wanting to make for a couple of weeks now.My husbands former co-worker had a birthday on the 14th.  She was out of town so I didn't get to give it to her on her birthday like I had planned.  I then planned on giving it to her on Wednesday but she didn't get back until this past Monday.  I finally got it made yesterday and plan on dropping it off to her at work today.

 

My lack of mojo has been affecting me lately.  Well, maybe not mojo just my desire to be in the craftroom.  I hope to have a craft day with my mom and sister soon so we will see if that helps.I found out that the birthday girl loves dark purple.  A girl after my own heart, I love purple, any shade really.I took the basic layout from Geny Cassidy, I hope she doesn't mind.  I really hope this card isn't too girly for her either.I started with a plum pudding cardbase.  I stamped my first Wplus9 stamp on the bottom of the base, Design Basics: Background I, in spring moss.The main image was stamped with inkadinkado stamp set from joann's an stamped in plum pudding ink.  The sentiment is from the same set and stampd in black.  I used the spring moss ink and a sponge to sponge around the image and used different brads from my stash in the corners.  I felt like it was still missing something so I remembered some flowers I got from my sister for my birthday so I pulled them out and added a bridal flower colored with a copic marker.  The basic image was popped up using pop dots.I wanted to add mre but I usually add too much so I left it as that.  Besides, I didn't want to overdo it.  I was afraid of going over the top girly and the recipient not liking it.That is it for today.  I hope to have some craft time this weekend so I hope I have more to share next week.  I am so behind on cards it is pitiful.