Welcome Baby Girl..

Hola! Today I have a card for no challenge. Can you believe it? LOL

I needed a quick baby girl card for my mom. Ok, so after I got started, I realized it was not going to be quick to cut out those squares without a square punch (note: buy a square punch today!), but once I got the sizes down it was fairly simple.

I just love Night, Night Moon and I thought these little images would be so cute in the squares. I added the Well Worn die from MFT and a sentiment, ribbon, and button and I was done! Voila! Hope you like it!

Quick Recovery

Hello there! Quick card for you today. A friend of mine had surgery and so I made this card to give her along with flowers and dinner that I am making (read: picking up from Famous Dave's..lol).

I used this week's Play Date Cafe colors which I thought were just lovely. 

I am not a huge "white space" person and y'all know how I am about my patterned paper, but I thought this card looked best simple like this and with a lot of white space. Of course, you know that there had to be a teensy bit of me there, so the buttons made an appearance.  I also used my new MFT dies (Well Worn) again. I really really love them. On this car, I used all three of the dies included in the package. Don't they look so perfect together?

Well, that's it.  Thank you for stopping by! Have a lovely day!

Little Rocker Girl

Hi everyone! Wow, Monday already huh? Sheesh, they come around fast!

Today, I am here with my card for this week's Play Date Cafe color challenge.

Here are this week's colors:

And my card:

I had so much fun making this card.  I used the SU paper that I have been hoarding for over a year now..lol. I think it's called Rockabilly and it is SO much fun to use. I thought it went perfectly with the Papertrey sentiment and MFT image.


Well, that's all I have for today. Have a wonderful day! Laters!

Well, Hello There..

Hi everyone! Happy Sunday! I must say, I just love this new stamp set from Papertrey called "Hello, Friend". It has the cutest little sayings in it including the one I used today.

Isn't it neat? "Well, hello There"..that's just so sweet. I haven't used my MFT Pure Innocence girls in a while, so I thought I would play with one today. I have been practicing my Copic coloring, but i'm still not proficient with skin. My kids are always too reddish or too pale. I'll find the right combo of brown one day. :)

This is the second card I made last week for the CR84FN challenge, but I didn't submit this one. I thought I would save it for today! haha

Anywho, that's all I have for today.  Thanks for stopping by!




Stamps: Happy Mail (MFT- Pure Innocence); Hello, Friend (Papertrey)
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Raspberry Tart dsp (SU)
Ink: Copics; Melon Mambo (SU)
Extras: Grosgrain (SU); Button (Papertrey); Twine (The Twinery)

Wishes...

Hello everyone! Can I just stop and say how much I appreciate all of the love I have felt from you guys regarding my husband's deployment. You guys are just the best. Whether it was here on or facebook, I have really felt the love from y'all!

Anywho...on to my post. Today's card started off being masculine, but it snuck over to a more feminine side while I wasn't looking. :) I am using the colors from this weeks CR84FN challenge. The challenge colors were these:

And here is my card:

I love that Cosmo Cricket "Wanted" paper. It's got this cool bohemian cowboy feel to it that I like. It's funny how you think you have one style, but the more you stamp the more you discover other things that appeal to you. I think that's cool. Well, that's it from me tonight. Time to head to bed.  I hope you guys are safe and warm wherever you are. Whether it is floods in Australia, protesting in Cairo, fighting in the Middle East, snow in the States and on and on and on, there is just so much going on. It's good to have things like stamping to de-stress, am I right?  Take care you guys and thanks for stopping by!




Stamps: Time to celebrate a la mode (MFT)
Card Stock: Hawaiian Shores (papertrey); Early Espresso (su); Cosmo Cricket "Wanted"
Ink: Vintage Vanilla (papertrey)
Extras: Star Punch (Fiskars); grosgrain and buttons (papertrey)

Happy Birthday, Mum!

Happy Saturday everyone! We got snow here in TN. That's a not so normal thing for this time of year. We usually only get this in February and it's usually ice and it's usually just one day..lol. This season, however, the kids have had several snow days and I'm thinking they will be out on Monday and Tuesday because more is expected. This isn't Chicago...we get out of school for very little amounts. :)  Of course, the issue is that in our county, there are lots of back roads and things and if one can't get to school, none of us can! I grew up here and loved it then and still love it now for my daughter. :)

Ok, so on to today's card. My mum's birthday is next Saturday. We're going to take her to Stoney River and also for mani-pedi's and massages. I cannot wait!  Her favorite color is yellow..it's also one of my least favorite colors. It has taken me a couple of days to wrap my head around actually using the color on my card, though I knew I had to do it. I decided to work with the first Verve sketch for this month, seen here:

It just screamed at me to use it and I love love love the long cards. I don't make them so much, but when I do it's always fun.  I am also playing along with the Moxie Fab "Grey is the new Black" challenge. We were to use grey in an innovative way. Well, I love the grey and yellow that I see everywhere. I even bought a grey and yellow pillow, though I have no grey and yellow in the house..lol. It was just too cute to leave at the store. :)

So, here is the card that resulted from the challenge marriage (haha):

It was a fun card to make and I just love my Prima felt flowers. They're so pretty. I used a couple of different SU embossing folders on the grey portions of the card. It was fun to mix them up a bit. Well, that's all I have for now. Come back tomorrow for my OTWC challenge card. Thanks for stopping by..have a great weekend!


Stamps: Holiday Labels 14 (waltzingmouse); Polka Dot Greetings (mft)
Card Stock: So Saffron, Basic Grey, dsp (su); White (papertrey)
Ink:Basic Grey, So Saffron (su)
Extras: Prima Flowers, America Crafts flower ribbon; Labels 14, pearls

Feel Better...

Happy New Year, blog friends! I am so happy to be crafting again. This morning I woke up and said, "You MUST create something..anything!". It has been so long that it felt like I barely knew my way around my stuff..lol. Crazy! After a short amount of time, though, I decided to make a get well card for my Sunday School teacher. She has been out with severe back pain for about a month now and is scheduled to have surgery in a few weeks. It started with the card and then I got the wild hair to do a bag also and stuff it with her favorite snacks to take over today. I have never done anything other than cards, really, but I saw these bags at the Dollar Tree before Christmas and thought I would pick some up in case I ever wanted or needed to make my own gift bag. I really like the way they came out. Take a look:

First the set...

Now, here is a closer look at just the card:

And finally, the bag:

I used the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe challenge, seen here:

I really love the colors together and the distressed dots paper from Papertrey is so neat! I also decided to stamp the image directly onto the craft and do some select paper piecing. What do you think of that part? I really like it, I do believe. It's something different anyway.

Well, I better get to the store and take it over to her house now. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I am hoping that today's crafting was the push I needed to get back into things. I will say this...some of the comments you guys left on my post from Thursday were the sweetest I have ever gotten. It made me feel so good to read your thoughts on my "faves". You guys are too kind.


Stamps: My Umbrella (My Favorite Things)
Ink: Rose Red, Basic Brown (su)
Card Stock: Kraft, Distressed Dots (papertrey); Early Espresso (su)
Extras: Button (papertrey); floral ribbon (american crafts)

My Top Ten...

Hi everyone! Wow...has it really been almost a month since my last post? December truly got away from me for so many different reasons. I didn't really get back into stamping until March or so of 2010, and since hubby was home it was "easy" for me to just stamp everyday and still feel like the house was running smoothly. After he left, I found it next to impossible to feel like I had the time to stamp because there were other things that needed to get done. Being the only adult in the house meant I needed to be the one to do them..lol. After a week or so, it because more that I didn't have the "spark" to create anything...and fast forward to a month later and here we are. I miss it so much, so I thought I would participate in the Top Ten of 2010's I keep hearing about and hopefully that will spark something in me. I also cleaned my craft room today, so that should help also..lol.

Without further ado, here is my top ten cards of mine from 2010. Oh, and the links take you back to the original posts. :)



Birthday A La Mode

Rustic Peace

So Thoughtful

My Hero

Off The Wall

Hello Sunshine

Make a Wish

Thank You

Babies (ok, there are two here!)

And finally....

It'll Be Okay

I hope you enjoyed my stroll down memory lane. I DO feel like stamping now, so hopefully i'll make some time and get back into the swing of things! Thank you for dropping by!

Birthday a la mode!

Hi there. You know, I think I MAY just have my mojo back..or at least my desire to create. :) Yay!

I hope you guys are having a great week...it's inching ever closer to Christmas and I am nowhere near done with my Christmas cards, but I thought I would sneak in a birthday card I made for a friend of mine. I used the colors from this week's Color Throwdown:

and the sketch from this weeks Mojo Monday:

Every time Julee does a round or square option, I SAY I am going to do the round, but always end up with a square..lol. I"m so predictable, no? :) Anyway, here is my card:

I just really love using my MFT Rolled Flower die! I have found that it works best on felt and card stock that has been manipulated somehow. So, if I use my embossing folder on the card stock first, it seems to "roll" better. I haven't been able to make it look pretty with regular card stock (papertrey or stampin up anyway)..so that's just something to think about if you want to buy it (which I would totally suggest!). I also really like these A La Mode stamps from MFT..I cannot wait till my new Copics come in from papertrey so my people will look more natural..any day now!

Ok, well that's all from me. I better get going. Hope your day has gone well. Thanks, as always, for stopping by! Laters..



Stamps: A La Modes Time to Celebrate (My Favorite Things)
Card Stock: Rich Razzleberry, Vanilla, So Saffron, Old Olive, Razzleberry Lemonade (I think) patterned paper in purple (stampin up); Distressed Dots green pp (papertrey)
Ink: Versamark, So Saffron, Creamy Caramel, Black, Ols Olive (stampin up); Vintage Vanilla (papertrey)
Extras: Embossing powder, pearls (stampin up); Rolled Flower die (MFT)

Frosty Friends

Hi everyone. I made this card last week for the Play Date Cafe challenge. Here are this weeks colors:

I was browsing the other cards on the challenge site and saw that mine wasn't there...I obviously forgot to post it, so here you go:

I'm still down in the dumps about hubby being gone, so i'm not too talkative, creative, or happy these days. I tried to stamp tonight and nothing...ugh. Please keep us in your thoughts. Hopefully, I will feel like stamping over the holiday weekend and will get my overall mojo back. Thx

Laters..



Stamps: Frosty Friends (Tweeny Tween from MFT)
Card Stock: White, Distressed dot pp (papertrey); Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive (stampin up)
Ink: Black, Tempting Turquoise, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Old Olive (stampin up)
Extras: Stickles; Twine (The Twinery); buttons (papertrey)

Hello, Color Throwdown!

Hi there! Today I am doing some serious OCD cleaning of the house. We are having our entire SS class over after church tomorrow for a Fall Party. It's part get together/ part farewell to my hubby who leaves in a few weeks. It should be fun, but I am a TOTAL nut when it comes to clean especially when people come over. There is just no such thing as clean enough. I am hoping the family will leave and just let me do what I do cause I WILL get on their nerves before too long..lol.

Anyway, you didn't come here to hear about my craziness..lol. Today I am participating again in the Color Throwdown. I had trouble with these colors at first, but then this idea to use it in scalloped layers. Fun! So here are the colors for this week:

And here is my card:

I had a time coloring those individual letters and getting them to stamp evenly. There must be a trick to that! Anyway, in the package I rec'd from MFT earlier in the week was also the Polka Dot Greetings die & stamp set duo. Such a fun little set. I love all of the polka dot options you have when using this set. The little "hello" is from Michael's dollar bin. My ribbon is actually the white satin ribbon that I dyed perfect plum to match. I really like doing that.

OK, well that's it. I better get to cleaning. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend! Back tomorrow with my Off the Wall Craftiness/Waltzingmouse Sketch card. :)

Stamps: "hello" (Michael's); Polka Dot Greetings (My Favorite Things)
Card Stock: Kraft, Dusty Durango, So Saffron, Perfect Plum (stampin up); White (papertrey)
Ink: Dusty Durango, Perfect Plum, So Saffron (stampin up)
Extras: Polka Dot Greetings die (My Favorite Things); Satin ribbon (papertrey)