For Sale

I've been cleaning up a little in my stamp room today and found some things I need to sell. The paper cutter is basically brand new, I honestly think I used it like 3-4 times. The stamps in are great condition. There are a few that are brand new and un-mounted (I can mount them for anyone that would like it done) and the ones that are mounted are slightly used but well taken care of. I can mail anything out, buyer pays shipping. Or you are more than welcome to come pick them from me :)

For Sale SOLD

Un-mounted Stampin' Up! set. Painted Posies. 8 stamps in the set. $7
Un-mounted Stampin' Up! set. Big Blossom. 1 giant stamp. $7
Mounted Stampin' Up! set. Daisy Crazy. 8 stamps in the set. $5

A Stampin' Up! Tabletop Paper Cutter. $35
Un-mounted Stampin' Up! set. Too Terrific Tags. 6 stamps in the set. $7
Un-mounted Stampin' Up! set. Alphabet Soup. 4 stamps in the set. $7
Un-mounted Stampin' Up set. Tags So Much. 6 stamps in the set. $7
Mounted Stampin' Up! set. All I Have Seen. 4 stamps in the set. $5

Name Frames

I made these cute little picture frames awhile back for my girls. I tried to personalize each one to there tastes or personality. My girls LOVED them! They were really easy to make. I just bought some frames at Walmart and cut out some cardstock for the background to fit in the frame. I used cardstock, rubber stamps, ribbon, brads and ink to create my frames.

Supplies: All supplies from Stampin' Up!

Menu Planner

I've made a Menu Planner to go along with my cute Recipe Book. I've made several of these before also and absolutely love it! When I actually incorporate it. It's very useful. I added some velcro to keep it closed, a previous one that I had made I had added some stretchy cord to go around it. I also added some extra pockets, who doesn't need extra pockets! I figured this way I can carry, extra notes, recipes, coupons, etc. You can really make it your own way. One of the other ones I've made had a spot for a small sticky note pad, a little pocket that held paper markers to hold your place in cook books and a big pocket to hold recipes.

I have templates if you want to give it a try. :)


Supplies: All supplies from Stampin' Up!

Herbs

I love cooking with fresh herbs but hate buying them at the grocery store because the bundles they come in are always bigger than I want. Why buy so much when it's just going to go to waste? Well I decided it was time to plant my own! Yeah! I will now have (if they'll grow) Cilantro, Spearmint, Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, Chives, Parsley & Basil!

For the little individual pots I just made some little tags so I knew what was in them for now. So easy with some scraps of cardstock & punches!




Supplies: All supplies from Stampin' Up!

Mother's Day Album

For Mother's Day I made my Mother-in-Law a 6x6 album. We went down to Richmond on Friday and I had my little sister take some family pictures of us. It had been awhile since we had done some family pictures. It was actually quite fun taking the pictures, but it did get a bit chilly. Here's the album I made [Now I do have to apologize for the quality of the pictures of the album. I completely forgot to take pictures before we left and when I realized that I hadn't was in a big hurry right before I gave it away. :) Terribly sorry] :




There are two little poems I added to the album also:
on p19

"Ten Little fingers, Ten Little toes..."
Ten tiny toes that always want to play That never stop exploring the wonder of today. Ten tiny fingers that from the very start Will reach out for tomorrow, yet always hold your heart.

p23

"Little Girls..."
By Karen Barnes

Little girls are made of daisies and butterflies and soft kitty cat purrs
And all the precious memories of times that once were.
Little girls are made of angel's wings and giggles and a firefly's glow
And all the happy feelings, deep inside, that we all know.
Little girls are made of cinnamon and bubbles and fancy white pearls
and snowflakes and rainbows and ballerina twirls.
Little girls are made of sunshine and cupckaes and fresh morning dew,
And these are the reasons, little one, why everyone loves you.

Supplies: All supplies from Stampin' Up!

FINALLY.... The Album!! Yeah!

Well I finally got pictures of the album I had told you about that I had made for my brother, Luis, to give to his girlfriend, Vanessa. Who is now his wife!! It has been a long time since I last posted!! I always say that I know but WOW! It seems like I every time I post more and more time lapses between posts and the worst part is I keep swearing I'm going to update more frequently!! I just need to get on a schedule. ;)

Alright, the album I used was a Stampin' Up! 6x6 Black Leather I loved that I was able to directly stamp on it! I used White StazOn on it and it doesn't come off! Even when wiped! The pictures are mostly of ones I took of them here at my house the rest are ones they have taken themselves

Making Changes...

Well hello! I know I've been horrible at updating....why does life feel like it can get in the way all the time!!?? The very nerve! LOL Anyway, I've decided to make a few changes to my blog. First of all I've changed the look a little. Second it will still primarily be a place for me to post my crafts and stamping but I will begin including a little more about my family and third of all I REALLY hope to be able to post more regularly.

Well since it has been so long since I have posted anything I will share a quick card that I made last fall. I really fell in love with the new In Color Purely Pomegranate from Stampin' Up!


I hope everyone's new year has so far been good!

More Frames...

I thought I would share some frames that I made a while ago. These frames were made for a show that I had a booth at, I had to demonstrate a project on stage and decided I would show how to use stamping in your home decor. I actually only demonstrated this one, "Hope". I found the frame at Walmart, printed the word "Hope" on vellum off of my printer. It was actually a very fast and easy frame to make, I think the most time consuming was cutting out the Monogram H which "Imagine".actually only took me about 5 minutes. I then came home and decided I wanted to hang it in my scrap room but I wanted some more to go along with it so I made one that said "Dream" and this other one that says I couldn't believe how easy they were! And how much fun I had making them. It did take me a while to come up with what exactly I wanted but once I got going it was super easy!









Hope Frame-
Stamps: Monogram H & Dots and Daisies
Paper: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Whisper White, Apricot Appeal, Almost Amethyst Cardstock & Vellum
Ink: Certainly Celery
Other: 2 Black Brads, Hemp twine, White Signo Pen, Distress Wheel, Flower punch, SU! Font "Harry Paul" and frame from Walmart

Dream Frame-
Stamps: Monogram D, Polka Dots & Paisley
Paper: Bashful Blue & Whisper White Cardstock
Ink: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink & Regal Rose
Other: Hemp twine, SU! Font "Woodward Script", White & Navy Narrow Grosgrain Ribbon

Imagine Frame-
Stamps: Monogram I, Canvas, & Doodle This
Paper: Whisper White, Marigold Morning, Vintage Violet & Rose Red
Ink: Basic Black & Vintage Violet
Other: 2 Silver Brads, White Narrow Grosgrain & Vintage Violet Stitched Ribbon

Name Frames

I have been working on name frames for my daughters. I finished Adara's way back but finally got around to doing Senedra's now I've got one more to do! Yeah! They have actually been a lot of fun to work on and just let my imagination roam with them. I pick out a stamp set that best suits their personality and let them pick one color and then I just go from there. I never really have a plan when I begin. But I overall I really liked the final outcome!

On this one I wheeling the Flitting By Jumbo wheel across the Perfect Plum to create a background I then cut out Pale Plum, Perfect Plum and the Confetti White Cardstock to layer over each other. I also used the Color Spritzer with a Perfect Plum Marker to spritz over the entire thing once I was done.

All Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Bold Butterfly Stamp set & Flitting By Jumbo Wheel
Paper: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, & Confetti White Card stock
Ink:Perfect Plum, Pale Plum
Other: Silver Brads, Narrow White Grosgrain, Narrow Eggplant Grosgrain, White Organdy Ribbon, & Black Frame from Walmart

This one I really had fun with! I think in doing the first name frame I was feeling a bit intimidated but after seeing how easy it was to make one I really just had fun with this one! I used these fun animals on this one because my daughter absolutely loves animals. So I stamped them and then cut them out and used an exacto knife to cut around the elephants ear and the lions head so I could put them thru the letters. The two Flower brads that are on here I have no idea where I got them.....I am a horder! There I've said it! LOL Now that, that is in the open I've had them for years and just kept them for the "perfect" project, I'm sure many of you can relate to that! Anyway, I used the White Gel pen from SU! to make middles on the flowers...can I just say I LOVE that pen it works so well all the time!

Most Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Monogram S, Monkey Business, Wild about You, & Big Deal Alphabet
Paper: Certainly Celery, Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal, Old Olive & Whisper White Card stock
Ink: Certainly Celery, Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal, Going Gray, Pumpkin Pie, & Close to Cocoa
Other: Silver Brads, Narrow Apricot Appeal Grosgrain, Narrow Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain Ribbon, flower brads (unknown origin) & Black Frame from Walmart

Have any of you done name frames? I would love to see pics of them if you have any!

Confessions....

Alright, alright! I confess! I've been holed up in my scrap room DEVOURING my new Stampin' Up! Catalog!! YES! I got my 2 boxes earlier this week and I have not wanted to put it down since I got it!! Once you get a glimpse of this catalog and if you have the whole "demonstrator/stamping" sickness you'll see why! It is....Beautiful. The cover, the stamps....oh, the accessories! I'm trying not to drool on my keyboard as I'm telling you all of this! LOL Ok, so you can tell I've got the "sickness" bad! I really do think this is one of Stampin' Up!'s best catalogs yet. I feel like they are truly in touch with the market on this one. If you haven't seen one PLEASE get a hold of a demonstrator, quickly!!

Well, since now you know the REAL truth of why I haven't been stamping I'll show you a scrapbook page I did a while ago. On this page I used a 12x12 sheet of Pretty in Pink card stock and I wheeled the Petals Wheel (found in the Spring Mini) with Pretty in Pink ink across the bottom. The "Happy Together" is from the Double sided Petals & Paisleys Designer Paper. The three little flowers and the little saying "find joy in the little things" are from the stamp set Polka Dots & Paisley. On the flowers I stamped them with Versa Mark then used daubers & chalks to color them.

All Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Polka Dots & Paisley & Jumbo Petals Wheel
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White & Tempting Turquoise Card stock
Ink: Versa Mark & Tempting Turquoise
Other: Silver Brads, Narrow Light Pink & White Organdy Ribbon

I don't scrap book very much, I will get a page done here and there as I need them for samples. It's not that I don't enjoy doing them but that I never feel that they turn out "cute" enough. Oh, well. Although I was quite pleased with this one. My husband, Jeremy, is holding our youngest daughter Arell Lynn and cuddling a little bit with her. She was about 3 months old in that picture and now she is about to turn 9 months!!! Where does the time go!

Wild about You!!

Well I'm still at it....playing Bingo with Julee!!!! I haven't had too much time to actually stamp much these past few days but Julee posted another sketch for the Bingo game that I just had to try it! I'm not sure how well I like this card. I really love this set. I'll post more info on this card tomorrow along with a recipe. It is way past my bedtime. :)

All Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Wild About You
Paper: Only Orange, Confetti White, Taken with Teal & Old Olive Card stock & Simply Scrappin' Party Pieces Designer Paper
Ink: Only Orange, Old Olive & Basic Black Classic Inks
Other: Silver Eyelets; Slider, Corner Rounder 1 1/4" circle & Key Tag Punch; Coluzzle, Metal Edge Tags, Crafters Tool Kit

Another Blogger Bingo Card

Alright, I told you a few days ago that I had joined a Bloggers Bingo Game over at Poetic Artistry.
Well here is my 2nd attempt at the card challenge. I used Real Red as my card base , then I stamped the cake from a BRAND NEW stamp set out of the Preview Brochure called "Year after Year". I used a blender pen to pick up some sliver ink from my Silver Encore pad to color the platter stand, a Real Red Marker for the heart and added a bit of Dazzling Diamonds around he edges. I used the sentiment from another stamp set that was in the Preview Brochure, "Hugs & Wishes". I added a little flower and a silver brad to the corner of the sentiment and adhered it using a dimensional. I then used the Silver Encore pad to ink up French Flair stamp that was in one of Stampin' Up!'s minis a few months ago, I really hope it makes it into the new catalog.

All Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Year after Year, Hugs & Wishes, & French Flair
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, & Brushed Silver Card stock
Ink: Basic Black, Silver Encore Pad
Other: Real Red Stampin' Write Journaler, Silver Brad, Dazzling Diamonds

Taking the Challenge

Last night I thought it was about time to break into my Baroque Motifs Stamp. I've had it for a few weeks now and still hadn't played with it!! I loved this stamp set when I first saw it in SU! Preview Brochure, I love swirly's! Now the REAL reason for making this card was because as I was stalking my favorite blogs last night I went to Shadowcatchers (she has such an awesome blog!!) and saw that she was doing "Bloggers Bingo" well who can pass up Bingo and she has some cool Blog Candy for the winners! Along with this cool game she has a sketch challenge for anyone that wants to participate! So I figured it was great way to really push myself to make a card on my own instead of C.A.S.E.-ing one. So besides challenging myself with the sketch I thought I would really push myself to use the new "In colors". So the main card is Purely Pomegranate, with Wild Wasabi, River Rock and the Designer Paper that matches the Stamp set Baroque Motifs. I'm not quite sure if I like it or not. What do you think??

Editing to add that the overlapping of the swirly's was something I saw on Stamping & Stuff I loved the effect that I had to try it!!

Editing to add the Recipe:
All Supplies from Stampin' Up!:
Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, River Rock Card stock, Brocade Background Designer Paper, & Vellum
Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi Classic Ink, & Whisper White Craft Ink
Other: Wrought Iron Punch, Dimensionals

Grandpas' Happy Birthday Gift

I had a goal, really I did!! My goal was that I would post to this blog everyday (at least REALLY try), if not at least every other day. And here it is Tuesday!! 5 days after my last post!! Where does the time go!!

Well let me share something with you that I made for my father-in-law for his birthday (we have the same birthday, June 12!!) . We have a tradition of always getting together and having pizza for our birthdays and this year our birthdays were in the middle of the week so we decided we would do something over the weekend and cover Father's day along with the celebration! It was a good weekend, we had pizza, presents, cooked out, and the boys went and played Golf. Anyway, getting back to what I made my Father-in-law...I love the way this turned out! I made him a little mini album of his 3 granddaughters!! I used the Stampin' Up! On Board Bitty Book and Simply Scrappin' Kit-At Home to create it. All Supplies from Stampin' Up!

Now off to plan Hostess Appreciation get together and a New Stampin' Up! Catalog Open House! I'm working on some really cute gifts for my Hostess Appreciation party, I'll post those as soon as I get them done!!

Big Clippies

How did we ever survive without computers before!? I went all weekend without internet because our providers router "blew up"!! I was feeling very deprived especially since I had JUST started this blog and then I couldn't do anything with it!

Well I did do SOMETHING this weekend with some of my new Stampin' Up! stuff!! I've been seeing the cutest bookmarks made from jumbo paper clips and decided I would give it a try...do you want to see them? I thought they turned out pretty cute! So here they are!

I traced the flower out on to the designer paper, cut it out and then covered the fronts of the flower chipboard with the pallet o' prints paper and then used the 3 flower punch (it is in the new Preview Brochure...it is AWESOME!! If you haven't looked at it you will definitely have to ask your demo or contact me to get one) to punch out a small flower for the middle that I mounted with dimensionals. Then I sanded down the edges and stuck a pop up glue dot onto the back and and used the
3/4 " to punch out a circle from some coasters that I have and covered it with So Saffron cardstock to stick it to the back of the flower. I've seen a lot of these made using the matching flower for the back too but I didn't want to use them up so fast so that is why I opted to use just a little circle for the back. Some of my favorite ones that I've seen are done by Cambria she always makes the cutest things!!

Supplies:
SU! Pallet O' Prints Designer Paper, SU! Whisper White Cardstock, SU! So Saffron Cardstock, SU! On Board Blossoms & Basics Chipboard, SU! Three for you Punch, SU! Large Slider Punch, SU! 1 1/4" Circle Punch, SU! 1/16" Punch, SU! 3/4" Circle Punch, 3.5" Paper clip, SU! Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, SU! Silver Cord, SU! Pop Up Glue Dots, SU! Dimensionals