Been way too long

My camera broke and I got out of the habit of taking pictures and posting cards. Here area few catch up cards from the fall as well as a whole batch Mom and I made in the last few days.

I got on a bright and happy pink kick for a while this fall. Nothing says happy like monkey cards. Here is a sample of them.




I also started the task of filling my sister-in-laws box of cards. Here are some of the more masculine cards for the set.


I also made her this pretty set of simple thank you notes.


Here are the cards from Mom and I this weekend. I love stamping with her over the holidays.





Here are some closer looks at my cards.

I found this happy hopper stamp in the clearance bin. I was not sure what I would do with it, but I really like how it turned out. It took the words from a pun stamp set from StampIn Up. The result should be a good Congratulations or Way to Go card.


This was in the sale bin too. Love the mice!!

I found the paper for the next two sets in Mom's stash of paper. The papers were so pretty the cards come together easily.

Here are some of Mom's. I love the flower on this and the way she made the tag effect with the ribbon.



Simple, cute and fun. They are even better in person where you can really see the dimension and glitter.


I like these two cards. We were playing with the different looks of markers and water color pencils. Both are great.

These are some of the cool cards my Mom has made this year. I wanted to copy some of the layouts at home, so I snapped some pictures. I thought I would share them as well.

I love this first layout. Too cute. I have most of these things and would have never thought of doing this.

The lighting does not show this one off well. It is a stunning card all in purples.

This one is a work of art. All of those flowers are punched out and glued on. A little glitter in each one. It looks great!!!

Finally a post

I have been swamped with work lately. I finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Then I got sick last week. I mean nasty virus with fever sick. Yuck. I am on day five of the fever. Ugggg. I am so annoyed. I must be a little better because I am board and annoyed. That is progress right???

My dog has been taking good care of me. However, the other night I fell asleep on the sofa. I woke up a few hours later and did not see Delilah on the floor where she usually is. I finally thought to look in my room. Here is what I found. Silly dog. I had to shove her over so I could sleep on the bed too.


Well, a little over a week ago I had a GREAT workshop at my demos. I cannot wait for my treasures to come from my order. However, here are the cute things we made.



The little box was fun. I think my goofy friends and I were taxing on poor Victoria (my demos daughter who was working to help up). They are really cute though. The candle was cute too. We had some rub on woes, but all lived.

I LOVE this blue birthday card. It was so happy. We used that spray thing with a SU marker. It always makes me laugh. I will never own one, but it is fun every once in a while.




This card is stunning in person. We stamped the butterfly on the paper and on vellum. We added some sparkling power on the vellum and embossed. So cute!



It was a really fun night. Two friends took up stamping. There were lots of laughs. It was GREAT!

More to come. It is time to go back to bed for now.

Same idea, different cards

I thought I would play with the out on a limb set again. I needed a birthday card and a sympathy card. It felt a little odd using the same basic card for such different things, but it seems to work.

I really like the crackle background on the brown and red. The cards came out nice an soft. The twine and distressing seemed to bring it together.

Here is the birthday.



Here is the sympathy.




I hope you like them.

Canada and blessings

I made two cards tonight. The first is a thank you note for a friend having me over for dinner. It is the perfect reason to use my really random Micheal's Dollar Stamps. I was digging through the bin and found these two Canada stamps. The first if of the country. The second is a version of the flag. I wondered if I would use them at first, then I realized I would find an array of reasons to get my $2 worth. Here is the first pass at using them.



The second card provided an excuse to use my new paper tray set. I used pallet hybrid ink and distressed the paper for the look I was going for. I wanted something soft and pretty. Nothing to perky. It is a simple blessings card for a friend that is having some health problems.



Hope you like the cards and have a great week!

Workshop Wonders

My demo had a workshop tonight. It was wonderful. There were great projects, great company, and great fun. Here are the projects.



I always show them to Delilah when I get home. Here she is checking them out.



Yep, she approves :) You cannot see the wagging tail, but it was going.


This is the first card I made tonight. I love this new stamp set. I forgot to write down the name, but it is GREAT. The colors are so nice. The metallic pencils are SO fun. What a pretty, pretty, look. Those things are like magic. I always love the cards I make with them. I might just have to crack and buy them soon.


We also made this brownie box. Too cute right??? The added touches with the gel pen make such a difference. Dee cut the circle for me. What a great demo!!! She helped with my bow too. Dee is the BEST!! The other ladies were jealous that I outsourced some of the key elements.



I have been in love with this elephant stamp since the demos online started giving sneak peaks. I was super excited to see it out tonight for a card. Isn't it cute. I also love that we learned to tie those cute bows.



I don't have a good close up of the little triangle box for Hershey's kisses, but it is GREAT. That stamp set is one of the new ones too and is super cute. Dee's daughter was helping us with that project and the first card I posted. She has the patience of Job with all of us. She is really wise beyond her years.

I must delve into the new catty tomorrow. So many treasures and I just got my paper copy. It is much better than the online version.


Have a great weekend!

Soft birthday card

I have a friend with a birthday Saturday. I decided to use it as a chance to ink up a stamp that I had not used. It is from the Wreath of Roses set. I think it has been retired for a while, but I thought it was so pretty, I bought it over the summer. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss two of the layers. The top two layers are on dimensionals. I water colored the roses. In side is a simple script happy birthday and a small scroll of the same roses.



It was wierd tonight stamping alone tonight. I miss my mom as a stamping buddy. It was fun to play and make cards together.

Hope you all have a great day!

Time with the Christmas Gifts

Tonight, I decided I would only use the things we got mom for Christmas. This was in part because I don't have them when I leave and in part because they are cool. Before I share the cards, I wanted to share one of my gifts. I got a framed picture of Bubba. Bubba is this big mechanical gorilla that stands on the corner in my home town by the vacuums cleaner store. They dress him up for various holidays. He is pictured here in his Christmas outfit. He is pretty ragged and ugly, but I used to beg my Mom and Dad to drive by there when I was growing up. Do you have these sort of odd landmarks where you grew up?



Enough of Bubba. Here are the cards. My mom was doing Valentines Day and I was playing with some designer paper. Here is the set.



Here are closer views of Mom's.



Here are mine. The first is a birthday card.



The second two are some flowers I made with the oval punch. It was fun. I used the crop-a-dile to punch the whole through all the layers and once and add the brad. It was pretty easy. I like the way the came out. The ink is all mellow moss.




Hope you have a safe and happy new year.

Another set for the box of cards and more

So I guess I got used to making tons of cards for my SIL. Today, I sat down and decided I would see how many card I could make out of two sheets of designer paper from the Target pack I bought last week. It turns out 10 is the answer. I could have probably squeezed out one or two more, but I lost steam :) I like them. They are mostly Garden Whimsy and Short and Sweet stamps. There are are a few miscellaneous dollars stamps and another random set thrown in. The ink is all certainly celery. There is a little white ribbon and some flowers on the cards. The little flowers are also Target Dollar Spot finds from earlier in the year. The paper actually looks prettier in person. My photo editing software and I were not getting along today. She and my brother are coming back in on Monday. I might give her these to add to her box of cards. If I pull two out of what I have done this week to go with them, that would give her 75. That sounds like a good number :)





Here are the two cards Mom made. I really like the happy birthday card. Simple and cute. It is from little hellos.




The other card is a thank you mom made with her new oval punches. You know that really happy feeling when you get it all lined up and the stamp in the right place? It was fun to watch.


Hope you have a good day!

Many ways to say thank you

The stamping mania continues. Dad was doing other things tonight so mom and I took out the treasures to stamp. All but one of the cards are thank yous. Mom and I both have several to send out. Here is the set of all the cards.



This pink one Mom mad is my favorite of the evening. Isn't it pretty?



I pulled out my Gina K stamps for two fun ones. The first is fish.



The second is sheep. I love the sheep card. So simple. I cut an extra lamb out and put it up on dimensionals.



I took out the target designer paper to make this set. FYI, this was in the Dollar Spot with the Valentines day stuff. I LOVE this paper. It is a little thin, but the patterns are great.



Mom made a more manly thank you too.



Here is the one non-thank you card of the night. I simple but pretty birthday card made by Mom.




Hope you like it. Can you tell we are having fun? I think we will both have our stashes replenished soon :)

Have a good day.