Almost a year since I've blogged on here?

Hi Everyone,

Wow it's been a long time, It's been a busy year, no longer in school, both boys are now in High School and one even has his license, can't believe it. I've been stamping often between pen pals Braks and the classes I hold every month, it's been keeping me busy. I work at a restaurant as a waitress and on weekends I cook out back.
Can't believe we are in the middle of October and the holidays aren't too far away. I'm in the process of making candy bags and Halloween toppers for my regular customers at the restaurant, started some Christmas cards, then there are projects for my stamp group calendars and name frames all on my dining room table, this is where I stamp. Would love to some day have a room for my stamping. But until then My dining room table is always a mess, good thing I don't entertain or need it to eat dinner on, we use the kitchen table for that. Hopefully I will be able to blog more and get some of my stuff on it, if I can remember how that is.LOL. Til next time.

What's up

Hello Everyone,

Well it certainly has been a while since I've blogged, It's been tough getting a turn on the computer lately with the two teens.Things that have been going on, well Ive been stamping but really haven't uploaded anything recently. My older son is now learning to drive and I've been taking him out on the roads, We went to see the musical Wicked 2 weeks ago, it was awsome, everyone enjoyed it, but now it's gonna give me a different perspective on the Wizard Of Oz. I went with my mom and three teenagers, then we went to eat after. It was a beautiful day in Boston. Two weeks from now we will be going to Boston again to see the musical White Christmas, I am a real theater buff when I get the chance. I love musicals. I've had a stamping class this past Sunday, we stamped on candles, they came out really nice, I'll have to take a picture an then scan it to upload it, first I have to get new batteries for my digital camera. It will probably be awhile before I get that one uploaded.
Halloween was quiet here, my kids are beyond the age of trick or treat so we just headed to the mall to watch all the others kids in their costumes, there were some real cute and new ones out this year, then came back to watch a movie and have some pizza.
I got some Christmas shopping done, I like to get the bulk of it out of the way before the real season gets here. I have only 17 Christmas cards made an I need about 30 so I betta get moving on that, also I made Hallowen candy bags for the people at work and some of the customers and ran out, I need to make more than what I made for Halloween for Christmas, I made 25 for Halloween. I need to get those started so I'm not rushing around last minute. Thanksgiving is only about two weeks away, I can't believe it, I'll be working in the morning, but we'll be out by 12:00pm so w can have our dinner, I don't usually cook, I'll bring something and we go to my brother's house this year. As you can see there will be lots to keep me busy and don't know when I'll get another turn on the computer, Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday if I don't get back on before then, thanks for visiting and til next time take care.

Here are some more cards that I've ben working on this week. As you can see I'm still in that fall mode. I've been doing a lot of stamping lately and it's great. I'm having a ball. Here are the supplies for the card below. Stamps: Autunm Harvest, Everyday flexible phrases.
Inks: Chocolate chip,versa mark, more mustard Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie,Chocolate chip, Very vanilla.
Accessories: Stampin writer markers, Gold ebp. Technique:masking, Dtp.
The next card below was made with these supplies
Stamps:Autunm Harvest, Loads of love and accssories.
Ink: chocolate chip, versa mark.
Cardstock: Blubyou,pumpkin pie, an Whisper white.
Accessories: aqua painters, Stamping write markers,pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon.

Here are th 3rd and 4rth cards again

Sorry I had a feeling something wasn't quite right. Here are those other cards . The supplies I used to make these are in the above post #'s 3 & 4.

October Already

October already, and I' ve been busy making Autumn type cards so here they are.

I was trying to use up some Christmas designer series paper from last year.

Card one:

Stamps: Autumn Harvest,Lovely as a Tree, and sincere salutations.

Cardstock: Cranberry Crisp, More Mustard, Natural Ivory

Inks: Cranberry Crisp, Versa Mark, Stazon black, Only Orange

Accessories: encore Gold Ep, Aqua Painters, Lg Oval Punch

Technique: Water coloring and embossing

Card 2

Stamps: Autumn Harvest, Sincere Salutations

Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Stazon Black, Versa Mark

Cardstock: More Mustard, Christmas Designer series paper, Natural Ivory.

Accessories: Gold EBP Aqua Painter Lg Oval punch

Technique: Water coloring an Embossing.

Card 3

Stamps: Sweet Seasons, Riveting, and Autumn Harvest

Inks: More Mustard, Creamy Caremal, Only Orange, Really Rust, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip ,and Ruby red.

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Water color paper

Accessories: Stampin Markers, Aqua Painter, Tafta ribbon chocolate chip, neutrals buttons, Vintage Brads, 1 3/8 circle punch, Slit punch linen thread

Technique: water coloring.

Card 4

Stamps: Autumn Harvest, Riveting, Loads of Love accessories.

Inks: Only Orange, stazon black, Ruby Red, More mustard, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive,

Cardstock: Merigold Morning, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, an water color paper.

Acessories: Taffeta chocolate chip ribbon, Aqua Painters, Stampin Markers, sponges

Post it sticky notes for the mask and Dimesionals.

Technique: Sponging and water coloring, and masking

Hope everyone has a good night and I hope my 2cnd set of pictures doesn't end up too far to the side. This happened once before. Thanks for visiting and til next time.

September

Well the kids are fully back in school now and both seem to be enjoying it for now. Not much happening on the creative part. I just had a class on Sun and we made the folder with the 5 cards inside it that was posted earlier. My next class will be Sun Oct 7 and we will be comcentrating on Halloween cards and bag toppers. The technique we will be focusing on is masking, which I find myself, to be kind of a confusing technique.
My older son just got his permit, now the fun begins lol. He failed the first time so he was very nervous re-taking the test again but did it. Now I'll have to put aside some time to take him driving, I don't know if I can do that, take him driving I mean, I'm afraid that I will make him more nervous especially if I am jumpy with his driving. I don't know what I'll do, another guy that works with us said he would take him, maybe that will be easier on evryone. We'll see. Already the middle of Sept, the holidays are going to be creeping up on us soon, I can't believe it. The days are getting darker earlier and the temps are starting to feel like Fall. I love early fall, it's still fairly warm during the day but evenings are getting cooler, there are even some trees that have alrady started changing. Well got to go, just figured I would update a bit, I will be uploaing some of the work that I will be creating in th next few months. Thanks for visiting and til next time.

Wedding gift for niece Name Frame

Hi,

Here is a name frame that I made for my neice and her husband. They will be getting married this weekend and this will be their name. These are fun to do. I had some left over simply Scrappin' kit from another project and figured this would be a good way to use it. I like the colors it took a while trying to decide what color flowers should be used.

Stamps: Pure & Simple Alphabet Lower Case

Cardstock: Simply Scrappin' Kit " At Home"

Ink: Chocolate Chip, encore Gold.

Accessories: Tag Punch kit, Soft Subtle buttons an brads, Got Flowers primas,Antique Brass Hodge poge Hardware, sm. oval punch,Burgandy grosgrain ribbon.

Well thats it for now, kids will be going back to school in two weeks how sad. Back to a routine schedule though. Thanks for visiting and hope you enjoy the rest of the day. Til next time.

Bay Queen Stamping Cruise

Hi Everyone,

Just went on a wonderful venture yesterday. My SU upline had a get together on a Brunch Cruise ship over to Newport RI. We left from Warren RI and cruised to Newport where we were able to spend a couple of hours looking and shopping through the many shops that were there. On the way over, it's about an hour in a half, we had the most delicious brunch from scramble eggs ,to a rice and chicken dish, muffins ,mini pastries, sausage, Ham, some kind of a julienne potatos, bread puding , oj and coffee. We shared a table with other stampers and just talked and laughed and had a good time. Once back on the ship from our shopping endeavors, it was time for some serious stamping we made this folder with five note cards inside. It was a lot of fun. This is the folder that held our note cards.

Stamps: Polka Dot and Paisley

Ink: So Saffron

Cardstock: Lovely Lilac,Very Vanilla,So Saffron

Accessories: Lg. Oval Punch, sm. Oval punch, Moss Gingham, appricot Grosgrain robbon

Card 1

Stamps: Polka Dots an Paisly

Ink: Versa Mark

Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Basic Black

Accessories: Build A Flower Accents and Elements,Black Gingham

Card 2

Stamps: None

Ink: none

Cardstock: Bashul Blue

Accessories: BAF Accents and Elements

Card 3

Stamps: Sincere Salutations

Ink: Basic Black

Cardstock: Purely Pmagranite, WW

Accessories:BAF Accents and Elements

Card 4

Stamp:Wonderful Words

Ink: Basic Black

Cardstock: Lovely Lilac

Accessories: Build A Flower accents and elements

Card 5

Stamps: Polka Dots and Paisley

Ink: Purely Pomagranite,So Saffron

Cardstock: So Saffron, Close To Cocoa, WW

Accessories: Lg Oval Punch,

Technique: DTP and stamp off. Which is a technique used when you want different levels of color, We stamped off on the side on a scrap piece of paper before stamping it onto our ww to make the 2 lighter flowers than the other 3 .

I couldn't believe how quickly these came togther 5 cards and the folder in an hour in a half. These were simple cards but I loved the result that came of it. Til next time thanks for visiting.

No Inspiration

Hi

Haven't made any cards recently, I just haven't had that inspiration kick yet. Hopefully I will soon again. I'm just so tired lately. I did get a chance to go to the beach last week that was nice, althuogh it rained on Monday all day so we went shopping and got to see the movie Hairspray which was so good, A very happy and upbeat movie, on the other hand I got the last book of Harry Potter and have been reading that. It's really good, saw the 5th movie and thought that was good also. Today we are in severe thunderstorm warnings too. We've had a lot of rain this summer. Thats what I've been up to lately besides work, not much going on here or in my life at the moment. Really want to be less tired and more creative, hopefully ideas will start kicking in soon and then I'll be uploading more cards. Thanks for visiting, til next time.

Birhday card for my brother

Hi Everyone,

This is a birthday card I made for my brother. The colors were chosen by using the SCS color challenge of night of Navy, Not Quite Navy ,Mellow Moss, Bordering Blue and WW. I didn't have Bordering Blue or Not Quite Navy so I had to improvise a little. I used Buckaroo Blue to replace the Bordering Blue and the Not Quite Navy. It was cased but don't remember from who sorry.

Stamps: Lovely As A Tree, Sincere Salutations

Inks: Always Artichoke, and Night Of Navy

Cardstock: Night Of Navy, Mellow Moss, Buckaroo Blue,an WW.

Accessories: Eyelets in Sahara Sand, colored the image in with SU pastels. Ticket Corner Punch. Very easy card to make and a masculine card too which I was shooting for.

Well Got to go got to get up early for work tomorrow, so glad I only have to work 4 hours and then I can leave, unfortunately I have to get my car inspected it's due this month. I hate doing it ,it's always nerve wracking, gotta sit there an wonder if it's gonna pass this year. Thanks for visiting. Til next time.

A new card

Hey everyone,

How's it going? I got a chance to stamp and this is what I came up with. I wanted to use red white and blue because it is July but I didn't have a patriotic stamp set so decided to use this one. It's been an interesting week for me this week. We we're kitty sitting a niece's cat. He came on Wed. and stayed til Sat. He was' nt happy staying the first night, needless to say our cat wasn't thrilled either, so they hissed at each other for awhile and eventually just ended up at opposite ends of the house. By Fri they were able to withstand each other in the same room.

I'm really excited I'm going to get to go on vacation for a couple of days next week. I haven't been on one in about three years. I will be going to Maine. I hope we have nice weather.

Here are the supplies I used on this card.
Stamps: Polka Dots & Paisley, Flexible Phrases.

Ink: Nigt O Navy, Real Red, and Craft Wisper White

Cardstock: Real Red ,Night of Navy and WW

Accessories: Square Step Punch and Real Red Grosgrain ribbon.
All supplies are SU

Help How o I fix th picture to fit in

Hi,

Just noticed that my purple card didn't fit on the page, I tried to fix it but couldn't if anyone does know how ,I would appreciate any help on how to do this. This is me having a lack of computer knowledge. Anyways thanks.

Some More cards

Hi Everyone,

Here are a couple of more cards that I did the other night. Lately I've had time to stamp, I'm surprised. This is the one that gave me so many problems the other night. I started with it and then didn't know what else to do. Nothing fancy but this is what I ended up with. Easy card.

Stamps: Doodle This, Hugs and Wishes

Inks: Vintage Violet

Cardstock: Vintage Violet, Almost Amethyst, and WW.

Accessories: Scallop punch from local craft store,Violet stitched ribbon SU

The one on the left I made last night. I'm not one that uses the bold bright colors much but was pleased with the way this one came out.

Stamps: Looks Like Spring, Hugs and Wishes

Inks:Tempting Turquoise, Versa Mark

Cardstock: YoYo Yellow, Orchid Opulance,and WW

Accessories: Turquoise Grosgrain Ribbon, Square Step Punch, Many marvelous Markers, Stampin Pastels

Technique: that was used was poppin pastels

This Technique is easy. First stamp the image in Versa Mark in this case the flowers on my WW paper, then take the pastels with a q -tip or the sponge daubers and color right over the versa mark this makes the image pop. This technique gives a slightly different look than coloring with just the pastels.

Now to get ready for my Christmas In July workshop going on July 15. I've ordered some supplies for this, I hope they show up in time, with the holiday, I fear they will be backed up, I'll have to go with an alternate plan if that ends up being the case. We will be making a Christmas card and some gift tags. I'll be playing Christmas music and even a little Christmas tree, I,ll have Christmas gifts as door prizes. There will be some refreshments.

I don't do many workshops I usually do two a year myself The Christmas In July and then the other usually around sale-a-bration time, other than that I do classes once a month at my home, We focus on different techniques and some projects and once in awhile a scrapbook page. I don't have many people that are into scrapbooking. My new Year's resolution was to do more scrapbook pages but my customers aren't into that much, I myself would like to do more scrapbooking for this is one of my least strong points. Well moving along I ope veryon has a ggod week. Thanks for visiting, til next tim.

A couple of new cards to add

Here is the other card I made I like this stamp set. I wasn't crazy about how this came out, I like the layout but it was the colors hat seemed to be somewhat off, but it's different in colors, hey bln but thy on't match real well I guess.
Stamps: Waterwheel.
Inks: Basic Black
Cardstock: Barely Bananna, Choc. Chip, Mellow Moss and Confetti White.
Accessories: SU marvelous Markers in many colors and Sq. Step Punch. This will be used as another B-day card. These are two cards I have another but I still need to upload it. It was one of those cards that I had no inspiration for and it took a long time to find something that I liked with what I had already started.
Anyway hope everyone has a good rest of the day ,keep blogging and thanks for visiting . Take care.

Hi again, Hope everyone's holiday was a good one. We Had a very nice one, on the quiet side but it was relaxing, I was able to get a couple of cards made. his is one of them, I love thse monkey guys they always say fun to me. This is a B- day card I made for a SCS friend, I wasn't sure what I was going to create but this is what came of it. Pretty basic though, nothing fancy.

Stamps: Monkey Buisiness,

Cardstock: Barely Bananna, bashful Blue, Choc. Chip and WW.

Ink: Choc Chip, So Safron

Accessories: Brown satin ribbon om Michael's Organdy Gold from SU and an organdy ribbon from Michael's in light blue. Creamy caramel su marker, The new fire sq. brads from SU in the yellow. Dazzling Diamonds on the balls that he is juggling.

Another Summer card

Here is another summer theme card. At the same time using a retired Stamp set. Also using up some designer series paper.

Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Sparkling Summer.

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel.

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Recollections Designer Series paper, Pretty in Pink.

Accessories: Got Flowers Primas, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Su markers in Pretty in Pink, Cc, and Creamy Caramel. Dazzling Diamons which is on the ice cream cones and the sentiment but doesn't show here. Copper brad from Vintage Brads. Now I'm in the mood for an ice cream. Maybe I'll get one later.

It's been quiet my younger son has gone on the eighth grade class trip to Washington and won't be home til Friday but he has called me 5 times since he left on Mon, at least I know he hasn't lost his cell phone while there yet. My older son went two years ago and had a great time but was exhausted when he got back, I imagine the same will happen with this one too. I hear they are moving from the time they get up until 9:00 at night. Well got to go to make supper for hubby, til next time. Tanks for visiting.

Playing around with summery cards

Well it' been a while again. I was able to get some stamping done and been on a summery theme. This is one that I will be making in my card Buffet class which will be held on Sunday June 24, from 2:30- 5:30 give or take. I ned o use up some of the designer series paper to make room for new stuff.

Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Sparkling Summer.

Ink: Tempting Turqoise and cameo coral

Cardstock: WW, Tempting Turqoise, Just Delightful Simply Scrappin kit.

Accessories: Got Flowers, Tempting Turqoise grossgrain Ribbon, SU Markers, Vintage Brads in black.

Pretty simple card and easy

Forgotten Mother's Day Card

Well I guess it's been a while since I've posted anything here. I never seem to have a lot to say. This is a Mother's Day card I had made for my mother in law but my absent minded husband forgot to take it and present it to her with her plant. So it's been sitting here for awhile, can't use it for anything else for it says Happy Mother's Day inside and mother on the outside. I guess we'll just have to save it for next year.
Stamps: Wild Rose, Floral BG
Ink: Pixie Pink, Pink Passion
Cardstock:Pixie Pink, Green Galore, WW
Accessories: Scalloped punch, versa mark, clear EB powder, Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, Soft Subtles brads, Word Window Punch

SU Retiring List is up.

Hi everyone, This is a possible Father's Day card. I'm still experimenting .Masculine cards are more difficult I think. I like the colors. I used the SU color wheel to come up with the color combo. Te other supplies I used are
Stamps: Lovely As A Tree, One of t All Year Cheers, I can't remember which one. Canvas BG
Ink: Cocolate chip, Old OLive, More Mustard, and Brocade Blue classic Stamping pads.
Cardstock: More mustard, Ol Olive and Brocade Blue and Kraft.
Accessories: Antique Brass Brads from vintage brads, small corner rounder punch and sponges.

The Retired Stamping stamp sets list is up. There were many that I have that will be discontinued. So sad to see some of them go. I'm losing 15 sets and 4 wheels. I am anxiuosly awaiting to see what SU has in store for our new catalog which will be coming out in July.

Any way just wanted to post this card to let you see what I've been working on an there will be more soon. Thanks for looking. Til next time.

Feeling refreshed

No matter how hard I tried I could not get this to come out any staighter, so I decided to just go with it.

These last two days have been so beautiful here we've been in the 80 temps. I am feeling so refreshed and energized with the gorgeous days we've had recently. This is my time of year. I love summer weather. The kids found it hard going back to school today after a week of vacation. I had the day off from work today and I have tomorrow off too. It's suppose to be nice again tomorrow. "Yay" I do have a class but only for an hour and then I get to enjoy the day.

Here is a card I worked on this week. I love this cow and I got the sketch from SCS sketch challenge, it was a week or so ago.

Supplies used
Stamps: Itty Bitty BGS, Very Punny
Inks: Basic Black
Cardstock: Pretty In Pink, WW,BB
Acessories: Pretty In Pink stampin marker, Spots and Dots cb embossing folder push tack for piercing and black gingham ribbon.

This card was fun to make and I like the way it turned out. I also love the cuttlebug and the embossing folders, they are real easy to use. I haven't triee any of the die cut pieces yet, they look more complicated to use.Thanks for looking , til next time, have a good night

Paperclip ideas

I've been seeing a lot of these and seen some real cute ones , so I decided to try my hand at creating a set of these. This is what I came up with . Not too bad for my first set, maybe I'll use thse for gifts along with something else small, especially for teachers and secretaries or someone who works in an office. Bookmarks would work if I did the real jumbo clips.

Supplies used

Stamps: Loving Hearts, Very Punny, Delight in Life,
Carstock : Whisper White, Recollections Designer paper, Spring Showers designer paper
Ink: Basic Black, Cranbrry Crisp,
Accessories:True tyme grosgrain,certainly celery grosgrain,apricot grosgrain, pink polka dot organdy ribbon. Summer sun stampin write marker,Pretty In Pink stampin write marker,Old Olive stampin write marker. Spring flower punch, soft subtle brads.

Thanks for looking til next time.