HOOTERS!!!

Hello! I didn't get a chance to get my DZ Doodles challenge card today (maybe tomorrow) but, I did want to come on really quick before dinner and post some cards I made before hubby's surgery. My bestest friend Mary Jane gave me the NEW adorable & cute 2 step owl punch from Stampin Up and I just had to fit sometime in before surgery to use it! The little owl is just TOO DARN CUTE!!! I made 3 cards!

The first one was hubby's get well card, the pink one was for Mary Jane as a little gifty and the 3rd was the first get well I made for hubby but then looked to much like 4th of July haha!

A Birthday Card!

I haven't made any cards this past week. I have been feeling kind of blahish but, I made this for one of one of my Auntie's Birthday at the beginning of March. I wanted to share since I really love the way it came out.

A Birthday Gift

I made this for a friend of mines birthday last week and I wanted to share! I got the instructions from Splitcoast Stampers HERE! All the papers, ribbon and stamps that I used on this project are from Stampin Up! The little card that I made for the inside I stuck a gift card in.

Happy Anniversary Card!

About a week and a 1/2 ago was my parents Anniversary and I wanted to come on and share the card I made for them..I "ceased" a card from Splitcoast Stampers gallery. I can't remember exactly who's card it was but it was from there. The idea was so beautiful I just knew I had to make one too and what other than for this perfect day and for the best parents in the world!

Sunday Fun!

This last Sunday my Angel Friend Mary Jane came over to spend sometime together. We had a great time of stamping and chit chatting and getting caught up since it had been a while since we hung out. We made a couple of cards with the new set she just bought from Stampin Up called delightful decorations..what a lovely set this is! We looked on Splitcoast Stampers to get inspration since we couldn't get started on our own haha! We got both these wonderful ideas from some ladies there...I should have wrote down their names to give them credit but I didn't..so sorry! Anyways...here are the two cards we made...

Cards...Trish & I made yesterday!

Happy Friday! or maybe it's not so happy :(...but, I'm trying. I'm kind of down today...My Uncle that passed away in April well I miss him a lot. I called my Aunt today to ask her if she wanted to go to dinner tonight. It just breaks my heart thinking how much she missing him and I miss him so much too. I know that he's in a better place but, it's been so hard. I think of him so much and wish he could still be here with us.

As I mentioned yesterday in my last blog...Trish and I got together to make up some pretties and I wanted to share them with you all. On the two first cards we used the new color in colors from Stampin Up...aren't they beautiful colors? We also used the new ribbon to match.."drool" I just love the polka dot ribbon! I'm thinking I want to do my next blog banner in them colors...I just love them so much they are so fun and cheerful! The stamp set we used is one of the newest level 2 sets called Wings of Friendship.

The last two cards I made for my Grandmother that lost her sister a few weeks back. Those two cards are using the old in colors. We used the sets called thoughts & prayers and pocket silhouettes also from Stampin Up. Sorry for the poor pictures I took of them...My Mom was picking them up and I took the pictures really fast.

(the card above...we used sketch #22 from Card Pattern to inspire us! They have some fun sketch challenges stop on by the blog and check them out.)


(the card above we used Mojo Monday sektch #94..I really enjoyed this sketch. If you haven't already checked Mojo Monday's card sketch's out go right now and take a look you won't be sorry you will love them all!)

If I can get off my butt I will post a card that I want to get done for Sassy Studio Designs! Lindsay just opened her store..check out her digital designs...she's AWESOME!

Hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Helloooo Kitty!

Today wasn't a perfect day...last night I went to bed with a HORRIBLE sore throat. I tossed and turned all night long. It hurt so bad to swallow and drink anything...I was afraid I was getting strep so, I drank some hot tea with honey real slow and took an antibiotic since I had a refill from the last time I had an infection. Today I feel a tiny bit better but still not 100% I'm hoping that medication kicks in no matter what it is I have.

This Sat. is Amanda's sweet 16th birthday! This is Trish's adorable daughter that I simply adore. I thought I'd make her a card...she loves the little goth hello kitty so I printed out a coloring page image of hello kitty from online and added a digital skull that I had from Toxic Desirez she makes awesome digital scraps to use for online tags and digital scrapbooking!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post...Modern Sugar Blvd. is releasing a bunch of new digital images and I will have some cards to show you done with some of the new stuff!

Close to my Heart class and projects!

On Sunday I had a class with Close to my Heart products. Me and the Ladies had a blast! We first made a little bird house. I got the idea and template from Capture the Moment blog. It's really simple and so adorable to make! The paper was from close to my heart and is called Unforgettable, the bird stamp set we used was from Stampin Up called cheep talk.


The next project we did was a shadow box. For this project we used the tutorial that was posted on Splitcoast Stampers website here it's an A2 card box and can be used to put cards into also. VERY easy instructions to follow! We used prima flowers, brown ribbon, the background paper is from Close to my Heart called Daydream, buttons also from Close to my Heart and the stamp of the month for may called be yourself.

These are the little goodies that the hostess got that I made...



Last but not least we are all making a little punch book so every time we get together we will add to it and have lots of cute little punch art! This time we made a mouse.

Time w/my friend!

Yesterday was a wonderful day...My "angel" friend Mary Jane and I finally got together to stamp. We hadn't done this in a few months and I missed it very much! I worked on swaps, design team stuff and another card that I can share. I don't want to post the swaps yet since I don't want to spoil it for the others in case they come to visit my blog. The stuff that I made for Modern Sugar Blvd. will be posted VERY soon for you to see..we have lots of new releases coming on Sat. May 30th so make sure you come back to visit.

So here is the card that I made yesterday. It's a new set that I had purchased a few months ago and I hadn't even put it together...I don't know why I hadn't its beautiful and I can't wait to create more cards with this set. The set is from Stampin Up called bella blossoms.

I was busy again today in my craft room I can't share with you the other stuff I was doing today but will be able to VERY soon. I can share this card...It's one of the newest digital images from Modern Sugar Blvd. called belly mama...isn't she beautiful? She is for sale in the Modern Sugar Blvd. store right now.

I came across a WONDERFUL blog the other day her name is Amy and her work is SOO inspiring I just LOVE everything on her blog that she shares. She also posts sketches every Friday. I used a sketch that she posted a while back that is here for this card that I made today with belly mama.

Here comes the Bride...

My Cousin Leona is getting married this Sat. and so I made her a card and a little paper wedding cake. I was inspired when I was seeing all the ADORABLE little pop up cake cards in blog land. Stampin Up is selling this die cut for the sizzix machines that makes the CUTEST pop up cake and you can decorate it anyway you want it..it's simple ADORABLE! I know I just gotta have it sometime soon...then I'll be going cake crazy haha! Anyways this one is a lot bigger than the pop up card cake. I was really happy the way my first home-made paper cake came out! I just hope she will love it!


On Sat. Modern Sugar Blvd. is having a SWEET new release coming to the store and TONS of even more sweetness coming the blog. So make sure you drop by Sat. to see what's NEW! Here is a little sneaky peek for you for now hehe!

Flat Crescents Anyone? LOL!

Ok so everyone knows that I can only mess up crescents but then you ask How in the world can someone mess up Crescents from the Pillsbury tube? And no, I didn't burn them LOL! So let me tell you the story...Me and Trish decided to get together and stamp today since we hadn't gotten together in quit a while. I was really happy thinking ok..so I'll make chicken salad for lunch, choc chip cookies and jello with peaches...oh and I can't forget the YUMMIE strawberry cream tea that I bought from the tea store in Ruidoso! MMM GOOD! So I opened up the crescent rolls to make in the oven and 16-18 mins later I went to take them out and there were FLAT ummm so I left them a couple more mins thinking they need to rise and maybe it happens the last few mins lol! Well 2 mins pass by and they are still flat eeeek! ok so I don't know what happened...I called Trish and told her the story and if she could bring some rolls she said yes. She gets here and laughs and I told her I don't know what could have happened she then says well did you roll them or twist them..I said no, I didn't know you had to do that hahahaha! She tasted them and said they were good so we put the chicken salad ontop of the crescent and BOY were they YUMMIE! So next time you bake them crescents from the tube bake them flat haha! It's our new favorite!!!

We did make a card that was inspired from Mercedes Weber's blog here. Trish came across her blog one day and told me about it..Trish had the set so we made one just like it! Thank you Mercedes your card is beautiful!

Trish's SU class!

This last Sat. Trish had a class at her house...it was so much fun! We made a Stationary box with cards! This is the one that I made the week before the class for one of the samples to use. In the next few days I will finish the one that I did at the actual class. I still need a couple more cards to make.

I used the Simply Scrappin Collection called Love Sparkles from the current Stampin Up Catalog.

Christmas Wreath

WOW! today has been such a long day for me. I was very busy making Christmas cards (since I waited till the last min.) and knew I had to get them out by tomorrow. I'm hoping they reach everyone by Christmas. So I finished all of those got some boxes packed and ready to mail. I even got 2 little Christmas gifts (which will be posted soon) made for the weight watcher leaders in the meeting I attend every week.

I haven't had time to post these pictures and I have been wanting to share them SO badly! A couple weeks ago Trish was able to come and make the wreaths we'd been planning on making for Christmas. We got the WONDERFUL inspiration & idea from Janine's blog here http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2008/11/more-christmas.html When we seen this wreath we knew we had to make them and so we did. We collected all the supplies and got to work! Both Trish and I made 2 each. We wanted one for ourselves of course and to make one for our parents. We had a blast making them and BOY did we have glitter from head to toe and we loved it! We both were all sparkly and so was everything else in my kitchen haha!

Mojo Monday Challenges

YAY! I'm alive and well. Last week was a rough one. I was really sick with a cold but feeling A LOT better now.

I was up late last night visiting blogs. I was behind on Mojo Monday Sketch challenges so I did two of them today! I just love Julee's sketches they are so much fun. The first card was for Mojo Monday week #57 http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/mojo-monday-week-57.html . Julee also inspired me by the card that she did here http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/long-time-no-stamp.html the colors and her card is just SO beautiful. I'm loving the colors together which were Pixie Pink, Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango. The stamp set is a VERY old one from Stampin Up that I borrowed from my Stampin Up demo Kathy...she was so sweet and lent it to me. I thought it was perfect for breast cancer month...which I finally got a chance to do a card before the month is over.

Here is my second card that I did was for Mojo Monday week #58 http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/mojo-monday-week-58.html . The stamp set is an older one from Pink Cat Studio that you can still purchase here http://www.pinkcatstudio.com/Stamps/Christmas/CHP3.htm

I'm sick but still kicking!

So I have a REALLY bad cold but, I still managed to get some crafting done yesterday. I sat in front of the TV all day and finished making all my little spiders and also made some cute little Frankie's to give to my parents, brother, niece and nephew for Halloween. I got inspired to make these when I was blog surfing and found them on Cambria's blog here http://cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-mrs-frankie-treat-boxes.html and as easy as she said they are to make...I totally agree with her...they are not only SUPER easy but fun too! Thank you Cambria for the directions and inspiration!

On a side note I haven't put the candies in them or tied the ribbon at the top.

Stress-Free Thrusday!

WOW it's been since the 7th that I have posted on blogger! I didn't think it had been that long. Things have been kind of crazy around here but, it's calming down (i hope). Me and Trish got together yesterday here at my house and sometime last week at her house so that means I've got LOTS to show you!

I'll first start off with the cards that we made last week. I recently purchased 2 of the newest stamps from Clear Dollar Stamp so we played with those first! I just LOVE these 2 new stamp sets! Trish will be posting the cards she made on her blog soon so be sure to visit!

Here are the projects we worked on yesterday. The little spider idea I got from http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2008/10/am-i-norwegian.html who then got it from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1067897?si=patties aren't these the cutest little spiders? And really simple to make. I bought a little Halloween tree that I want to put spiders on sometime before Halloween. For now I'm going to use them at my Pampered chef party this weekend for my guests to take.

These little tins I found at Targets dollar spot and new I had to alter some. The one with the ghost is mind and the other Trish altered.

These were some wooden plaques I purchases at the Dollar Tree a while back and thought we could decorate them for Halloween . The first one is mine and the 2nd is Trish's..I just LOVE the purple on hers it really makes it pop!

My Cali girl Jen Jen gave me these BIG ol' clothes pins a couple years ago and I never did anything with them so when Trish was here yesterday I decided to pull them out so we could alter them. Tink matches my room so you guessed it the tink is mine (Jen had just also sent me these tink embelisments a couple weeks ago so I had to use them.) Trish altered the other clothes pin.

Have a WONDERFUL weekend and thanks for visiting my blog!