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!

SCS Challenge for Today and a Baby Card!

Hey how is that for timing...I needed to make a baby card for the Minister and his wife at the church...so I decided on this style....well after the card was complete...I went to SCS to see what the challenge was for today...teehee....well it was to use small stamps....hmmmm....how much smaller can you get then this stamp from the SAB set called Very Punny....works for me.....so this cards is a 5.5 x 5.5 square card, made it this size cause it is the card that will be used for the group gift from the congregation.....it is layered on Bashful Blue, then Certainly Celery paper was ran through the cuttlebug with the embossing folder called Baby (at least I think that is what it is called) I left the Apricot Appeal Paper bare....I then layered the stamped piece on gold shimmery cardstock and layered that on Bashful Blue and then that is layered on gold shimmery cardstock....the brads are ones that I have had for awhile, the ribbon is from Stampin' Up and the saftey pin again is one that I have had for awhile......the "Blessed" is from a Papertrey Ink stamp set.....It really is very pretty IRL.....I was happy with the way it turned out...well I need to finish some house work and then get some groceries for the house.....have a good one...later gaters.....

SCS Weekly Sketch Challenge

Okay where has this past week gone! I was off for three days with the hubby with a long haul load...got home late Monday afternoon, and woke up yesterday feeling fine....well by lunch hour something had hit me and hit me hard.....I was down for the rest of the day and am feeling

a little better today...although I am going to go to the Dr.....thinking it is a sinus infection or so....so while I was sitting here today I decided I had better do some stamping..so I decided to do the SCS Sketch Challenge for this week.....Kinda like this card, although I can not get the scalloped edges quit right using the corner rounder...more work needed there....lol....so I started with a base of Pretty In Pink Card Stock from Stampin' Up, the patterned paper is from The Basic Grey, Blush Collection (I love this paper), following the layout challenge I was able to do this card, the stamp is from The Angel Company and is part of a set of Paisley's that they offer, I love all things Paisley, so I stamped in Chocolate Chip ink on a Piece of the Pretty in Pink Cardstock, sponged the edges in Chocolate Chip and added a little dimensional Bling (found these in the Bargain Bins at Michaels last week for $1.50)...the ribbon is a piece of May Arts ribbon...so all in all it turned out okay....this is a long weekend coming up for us this week, I am thinking that I am going to have to be out in the garden...I need to get the Potatoes and things planted...it is supposed to be very warm....I hope so....well that is all for now.....later gaters.....

SCS Challenge for Today!

UHG! I am having one of those days!..I wanted to get started and do this challenge first thing this morning, but my darling hubby needed me to help clean chicken crates....yuck...for those of you that know me...know how much I hate chickens...but just real life ones...for some reason I have a thing for Chicken stamps....teehee...okay so I look at the challenge on SCS today and say hey I can do this one.....I turn and look at my paper supply and see the perfect paper...so now I have the paper...I need the stamps....these four stamps were purchased from www.stampingfreak.com about 6 weeks ago and were just waiting for ink...for some reason when I think of farm animals, I think red, blue and white...lol....so the challenge today was to use four square blocks on your card, this card ended up being a 6x6 card.....I stamped the images and colored them with Stampin' Up markers layered them on to the red and blue cardstock, also from Stampin' Up, the patterned paper is a piece that I have had for awhile from Making Memories.....the red brads are also from Making Memories, (red and blue paper, red brads, hmmmm I am thinking that I had a theme going here and was going to use them for something else...lol)....the ribbon is pieces that I had in my ribbon bin and they are from Stampin' Up...the Prima's are from the Prima Share from Jodi, (and wouldn't you know it.....I searched through all of the Prima's and I did not really have the right color red, so I used this one).....so then I decided I was going to take a picture of the card and load that onto the site, but for some reason, pictures from my camera will not load...so I scanned this one...I could not for the love of stamping...teehee...get it to scan straight.....I also hate how you can see all the spots that I missed while coloring....I am thinking that I am going to get some of those alcohol based markers..they say that you can not see the coloring marks....we shall see.....I kinda like this card in real life....again it is a challenge to myself to do something different.....well it is around 85 degree's outside, I really should be helping the hubby with things......later gaters....

Spring and Bugs Naturally!

Good Morning! And yes it is a good one here...I have been up for what seems like hours...sun was shining in my room and I thought it was time to get up...lol...it is to be a really warm day here today.....YEAH...I think spring is here finally....The card that I am showing today was one that I did for a one-on-one swap for one of my groups...it is a 5.5x5.5 square card...I found this idea at http://prairiepaperandink.typepad.com/amyr/, so I CASED it sorta...lol....I did not have the same color paper as her, but loved the idea....I laid out a piece of chipboard from the Stampin' Up On Board Accent Kit and traced the circles onto the back side of the printed paper...I used on of my circle punches to punch them out....I then laid the patterned paper over a piece of white card stock and traced the circles...this gave me the base and area to stamp the cute little bug....I stamped them randomly and colored them in using my Stampin' Up markers....I then punched out several black squares using my Marvy GIGA Scalloped Square Punch (say that fast 10 times...lol...) and put them together to form a border around the stamped area....then layered this onto Pretty in Pink Card Stock and then onto Certainly Celery Card Stock...the Prima's are from the Prima Share the Jodi did and the Brad is a Huge Brad that I got at Dollarama......oh yeah the image is one of my favorite right now and it can be found at www.stampingfreak.com...I found one thing making this size of card with this many layers...lol...the cards tend to be heavy....well that is my share for now....have a great day!....later gaters.....

Okay Another Card!

Okay well I did some weeding today...but I really wanted to play...so I came back to my craft room....another card done in the same tones....needed to use up the paper...this one I used a Bella image from

www.stampingbella.com ...colored in the image with my Stampin' Up Watercolor Crayons....the "You Go Girl" is from Michaels, one I found in the $ bin....I love these stamps as they seem to fit the Bella attitudes....lol....I added some orange brads that I had in my stash, not sure were I got them from....again I used some of the Prima flowers from the Prima share of Jodi's.....so just a another quick card using the same paper as the first share I did today......till tomorrow...later gaters.....does anyone ever read my BLOG?

I Will Get It Right Some Day!

Well I did not do too good last week at keeping this BLOG going each day...lol...that would be me..so it is a new week so I can start again....I logged onto SCS to start the week off using the daily challenges to have stuff for my BLOG....got there today and the challenge was to make something for a teacher and as I do not have any children in grade school, or better yet any left in any school.....I thought oh well I will not do this one...so back to my list of swaps that I need to complete....so I decided to do the swap that needed flowers on it....This background paper is much brighter IRL, but I am in bad need of a new scanner so things do not always seem the way they should be...the stamp is from www.stampingfreak.com, I love Gina's designs...if you have not been to her site check it, her work is amazing....so I stamped the image on white card stock and then again on the stripped patterned paper...I cut the vase out of the image that was stamped on the patterned paper and glued it to the image on the white cardstock.....very easy to do...lol...colored the rest of the images with my Stampin' Up markers, Only Orange and Old Olive....used the Ticket Corner punch and layered it onto a piece of Stampin' Up Always Artichoke Paper, then I used the corner punch on it.....the scallops on the patterned paper with the stripes were made using my Stampin' Up Corner rounder, just remove the guard....it was then layered onto the Flower Patterned back ground paper...the Prima Flowers are again some that I got from a Prima Flower share from Jodi at Confessions of a Ribbon Addict...this card took me less then 10 minutes to prepare.....one of my own challenges that I have set for myself is to start to stamp and make cards outside my comfort zone...lol...well the sun is shining and the weeds in my garden are calling...so I hope you all enjoyed todays post...see you tomorrow...later gaters......