TGIF!

This has been a super long week for me for some reason!....It is Friday and I am tired...should I not be more awake as we head into the weekend...lol...I belong to a Stampin' Up Hostess Club and I have completed the year....I was really undecided what to order for this last month...I looked at the sets that were retiring and nothing jumped out at me or cried pick me pick me......so I ordered this set from the Spring Mini called "Bundle of Joy".....now why would I do that you ask.....I was asking myself the same thing when I ordered it.....okay jump ahead almost two weeks now.....I have to make a mono-chromatic card, using Stampin' Up stamps....like yesterdays card I went through my storage cabinet to see what I had that was current that I could use....hmmmm nothing was calling me.....lol....I got a call yesterday morning from my demo and my order was in....yipee....I went and picked it up and low and behold I had this set.....so today's share is a card that I made for the swap I am in, the set is current and all things worked.....this is a really easy card to put together, just piddly (is that a word)....lol....all supplies are Stampin' Up with the exception of the brads and the background paper which was done with my cuttlebug.....oh how I love my "BUG".....The colors that I chose for this card were, Pixie Pink and Pretty in Pink.....the ink used was Pixie Pink.....I cut the background paper and ran it through my cuttlebug....I then stamped the image on a piece of Pretty in Pink paper and used my Giga Oval Punch to cut it out, I sponged the edges with Pixie Pink Ink and layered it onto a piece of Pixie Pink Paper.....I then used my Spring Flowers Punch to make the butterfly, I just cut off one of the petals from the flower, drew in the antennae for the butterfly and then punched a 1/4 inch circle out to complete the butterfly......the greeting on the bottom was done using two different sizes of circles and a small slot punch.....I then used some pink ribbon to adhere it to the card.....all in all it is okay, the idea I had in my head, just did not come through on paper as I thought it would.....but all 11 of the cards are complete, so the swap is ready to go.....well I am not sure what my plans will be for the weekend as the hubby has informed me that he is going trucking tomorrow and will arrive home Sunday...asked if I wanted to go....hmmmmm....we shall see....okay it is time to get moving for the day...hope you all have a great day and a wonderful weekend....later gaters!

Thursday Share! A Flower

Okay I have been working on swap cards for the various groups that I belong to....I decided to venture into a swap with a group that I have only been part of for a week...lol....this was for a card with Flowers, had to be a Stampin' Up set that was not retiring.....well this should be easy peasy right.....wrong!....I was looking through the Stampin' Up catty cause I had marked all of the retiring set off in the book.....I only have a handful of sets left that are not retired....well I know that is not a bad thing...means I get to buy some new stuff.....well....if I was a demo that would be okay....I am just a SU customer and now I have to buy new sets to be able to stay current so that I can swap with these ladies......hey.....what is my problem?.....rofl.....I am thinking that I have a big problem here....lol...can anyone help.....so I had this stamp set Heartfelt Thanks and unless I did not mark my sets off right, it is not retiring from the catty, so I set out to make a card with it.....again I am having issues with my scanner and I think it is winning....roflmao.....This cards was made with Taken with Teal cardstock from Stampin' Up and Black....ladies if you own these two colors go and put them side by side..... am right or am I right they are much prettier and brighter together in real life......so this card is buggin' me....it looks so fresh and inviting, then I scan it and to me it looks like I forgot to add color.....hmmmmm....I am bugging the dear old hubby to let me buy a new one...I am not sure I am winning this battle though....and here is my dilemna when I try to load pictures that I have taken with my camera....okay I take the picture, I add it to my photo files, I resize it small, and then I try to upload it onto my BLOG, it looks like it is working and working to upload it, then it tells me the page is not available.....does anyone have a suggestion for me.....lol....cause the pictures that I am taking are much sharper with the camera.......oh well....just my musing for today....I have some more swaps to finish in the next few days and then I can relax and wait for the return mail....I so love getting these swaps back......I got a couple new stamps this past week and once these have to use Stampin Up stamp swaps are complete, I will dig into this stamps and showcase some cards....have a great day!...later gaters!

Wednesday!

Good Morning! Well I am off for the day here shortly so I thought I should get my BLOG done for the day, so that I have it done .....I have art work all ready to go for about a week or so, so there should be no reason not to post.....the weather is still gloomy, no sunshine since Sunday here and I am tired of it......it stays around the 70 degree mark, so it is not cold, just not sunny....The card that I am showcasing today is one that I have completed for a swap on one of my groups that requires the card to have Faux Stitiching on it, as you can see I added the stitching to the layer around the Bella.....for this card I used some paper that I purchase from Heather Hind, she has an ebay store and has a ton of product for sale....The paper is layered on Close to Cocoa paper from Stampin' Up, I used my small corner rounder from Stampin' Up to make all the scallops on the various layers....I colored the Image with my Watercolor Crayons from Stampin' Up and layered the completed image on a piece of Bliss Blue Cardstock from Stampin' Up.....I then used my white gel pen to add all of the accents on the card.....I am going to learn to use my camera to take pictures of my work....I seem to loose the color combinations when I scan them.....I am going to make a effort to start using some of my other stamps that I own....I am addicted to these Bella's....lol....well I have to run....so I will see you all tomorrow...later gaters!

Something Different Today!

Good Morning! Well it was a dark and gloomy day here yesterday, but no rain...hmmm...well it is a little better this morning, not nearly as dark but still no sunshine.....hopefully this weather will turn around soon...I chose something different in my crafting to showcase today...I was busy yesterday working on swaps for my various online groups.....The upload for today is actually a tag that I made for a tag book that we are doing on a group.....this tag is big it is 6 inches long by I think 3.25 inches....it was a lot of fun to make and I made 10 of them....I cut my tag from pieces of black cardstock from Stampin' Up....the white layer was cut to fit and ran through my cuttlebug (although it is hard to see in the picture), I added a piece of black and white polka dot ribbon that I got from Jodi at Confessions of a Ribbon Addict, (honestly if you have not bought into one of her shares, you really need to do so, I now have the perfect color ribbon and or prima flower for almost all of my projects), from there I cut the black cardstock for the butterfly, which by the way is from the set called Butterfly Kisses and it can be purchased from www.papertreyink.com , oh how I love these stamp sets.....I then stamped the butterfly in white craft ink from Stampin' Up and set it aside to dry....the flower petals in the corner where punched from my Stampin' Up Punch and then outlined with my white gel pen(this is my favorite new toy)....the brad that I used to hold them down is one that I have had for awhile.....I then used my white gel pen to add the little bit of polka dots around the outside of the tag....all in all I am pleased with the tag...this will go off to be added to the booklets of tags that each lady does in the group....I love these little tag books that we do on the group and often use them for inspiration when I am needing some....so that was one of several projects I attempted to get completed yesterday, it was a great stamping day for me.....well I must run and get some house things completed so that I can play again later today.......later gaters!

It's Been Awhile!

Hello! to all of you that follow my BLOG and I see by the counter that there are some who do!....Well I never meant to be gone for 10 days that is for sure...lol...I did not do any stamping in those 10 days either.....My son and his family from The Northwest Territories came home and we were busy busy busy....we spent time at our daughters having a BBQ. we went shopping, he had friends from High School over, we went shopping, we cooked and cleaned, we went shopping, laughed and cried.....all in all we had a great holiday with him and his family....Did I say we went shopping... will be posting some pictures of his children shortly....once they left last week, I spent a whole day...being sad....I did not do too much...read a little, did some BLOGGING and just relaxed.....for the rest of the week I went shopping, cleaned house, made meals and all that sort of stuff.....so this card that I have posted is the first card that I have made in the past 10 days.....I was sitting her yesterday looking at the new paper that I had purchased from Ebay and thought....hmmmmm....I really need to get back into this stamping.....so this is what I did...although I have no one graduating, this little Bella Stamp in the one that arrived in my Mays' Box of the Month from http://www.paperpretties.net/, this is a new online store that is so neat...these crazy ladies offer a Box of the Month and each and every month you get one of the new Bella's that are available for sale on the www.stampingbella.com website...what an adventure to start into...in this box you get all the supplies needed or required to make a minimum of 6 cards and a pattern book with the recipes to make cards....this is so cool...and the best part of this online store is that it is Canadian....yippee.....so onto my card...the Bella that I am presenting here is from the May Box from Paper Pretties.....the paper is from a small stack of Basic Grey Paper, Scarlet's Letter that I purchased on Ebay, I stamped the Bella on white cards stock from Stampin' Up and colored here in with my water color pencils from Stampin' Up...(I need to use these more)....I then sponged the edge of the white card stock with black ink, layered this onto black cardstock...this in turn was layered onto the patterned paper that was layered onto red Stampin' Up cardstock....the ribbon is a piece from on of the shares I received from Jodi at Confessions of a Ribbon Addict......this card took me about 15 minutes to make......I love red and black tones together....and these little paper packs of Basic Grey Paper are just the thing for making one or two cards....gotta love this paper.....so this is my share for this morning....I am off to work on various swap cards that I need to complete and get in the mail....have a great day!....later gators!