Garanimals

Remember these, you match the top to the bottoms and they go together. Sometimes, I think these could still be used by my DH if they came in mens sizes. LOL. Anyway, I got some Hero Arts animals that I thought were just too cute. I paired them with DCWV Nana's nursery pack to make what I thought were some cute kid cards. I am going to try to get the courage to bring some sets into this mother-child boutique in the town where I work. I always have great intentions, but am wimpy when it comes to actually going in and selling myself, ideas. Oh well, I had fun coloring these with my Copics, using the new scallop punch on some and using the '07 In colors for the card bases

Bottle of Red

I love this wineabella, she can be so many things, dinner, congrats, thinking of you, etc. I colored her with my copics. The layout is from sheetloads.

Reach for the Stars

I did a VSN and posted this. You had to have stars on your card. I love what people do with stars, but I'm not as successful. I'm thinking about buying the nestie stars because how can you screw up nesties, I mean really. This is a Hanna stamp, and the patterned paper is K and Co, the card is from DCWV from Joann's in a box. Thanks for looking.

I had a vision....

And it worked. Do you have kids? Are you looking for things to entertain them for more than 3 minutes? EVERYONE loves bubbles. They have saved me many times. I had bought these at Walmart for 1.00

They are nice because they come in different colors too. Hey a dollar?? Can't go wrong. Plus you can refill them. Well I had this idea that because of the colors they could be made cooler, prettier, for girls, cooler for boys. So I thought maybe I could stamp them in Stazon. I did it and look, it came out great!!!! I even had my 3yo and 6yo helping me.

Here are the finished ones:

I laid my clear stamps on my table, inked them, then rolled the bubbles over them. I made some small flowers with fabric paint. If I had more Stazon colors, I could have stamped everything. But, I only have purple, black, and dark green. Can you say psyched!!! 2 of them are birthday gifts for a party we are going to tomorrow, and 2 are for my 2 favorite redheads. Here is a close up, because I am blog challenged and don't know if when you click it gets bigger or not.

Thanks for looking.

Luxury Monogram

I got the Luxury Stack, from DCWV for 50% off at Joannes--woooo hooo. I stamped the circle from PTI boxes and tags in a brown to match some of the swirlys. This set was ordered from my sister for a teacher. It is really sparkly IRL. I just love making monograms----can you tell???LOL

Martha Monogram

My nephew got married in a civil service to his fiancee. They plan to have a big wedding celebration when they've saved up some more money, but in the meantime, I wanted to give them something to acknowledge the very special commitment they have made to each other. I wish them lots of love and happiness, and although not always easy, a loving, truthful marriage is one of the special sacraments of life. Blah, blah, blah, enough of that. I stamped the monogram filigree stamp from Martha Stewart in Pallete spring moss, and put the Brenda Walton Clear stamps in the middle for Josh and Natalie. These are single note cards (1/4 sheet of 8.5 x 11). I figured they'd be nice to use for quick thank yous or if they wanted to send out pictures of their wedding. I love packaging nice ensembles in the clear boxes. Thanks for looking.

Lily

I love this Dress Up Lily set. I 'm still learning at positioning it and still working with my copics. I Love coloring her to look like the person I'm sending it to.

Great Color Combo

So I love this color combo--turquoise and chocolate chip. I really must use it more. This card is yet another with the SAME sketch, I know I need to move on, I had cut soooo many out when I was in the "mode". The paper is MME, and I used distress ink, in brown and colored with my copics. The smaller blue mat, is the back of some DP colored with the chisel side of my copic that I used to color the flower- a perfect match.

WELCOME ERIN

I think I told you I'm an aunt, again. My beautiful baby niece was born. I had to go see her in the hospital when she was only 5 hours old. She is sooooo pure, and beautiful and precious. Anyway I couldn't go to the hospital to see my sister and her, empty handed. I mean home baked cookies was a must!! I had a tub of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies that I baked up 3 dozen of to bring to my sister. I remember after having my girls anything home baked and sweet was just so wonderful. Of course 3 years laters I'm still paying for that, but getting closer to my pre-baby weight. Any way, I digress. back to the hospital. I wanted to bring something special to her because she has so wanted a baby girl and I have 2 of them, so I was trying to figure what I could bring. I put together a name frame, using All In the family from SU. It was just something quick, but meaningful, that I thought would look cute in the hospital room when people came to visit. Of course, I didn't know she was going to check herself out of the hospital 20 hours later so she could go home, to her other 3 children and husband, to get "some sleep". :) At any rate, she liked it.

I colored with my copics and wrote the names below with a black souffle pen. sorry for the glare, I forgot to take a picture until I was at the hospital.

A little birdie told me.... of a sketch

These are more of the same sketch that I got from the sheetloads of cards site. This little birdie, from SU, I bought because of the versatility of the set, and it lends itself to paper piecing, to show at workshops. However, when I saw this DCWV Nana slab, that had both glitter and seemed to be made specifically for this set I had to buy it. I had bought it to use in the scrapbook I was making for my sister for her newborn daughter, but had to "borrow" those pages. The sketch calls for three embellishments in the corner. I didn't want to cover too much of the paper, so chose 2. I punched out the flower from some DP that I HAD to have, but never used, and now do not LOVE anymore. So I turned it over and colored it with the chisel side of my copic the same color as I colored the birdie. Then it's a perfect match!!!

Sheetload of Cards

I found sheetloadofcards, which is a monthly e-zine. You know an electronic type magazine. They show you great sketches, with the measurements of how to cut and assemble like 6 cardfronts, or 8, or whatever depending on the sketch and month. I gave it a try with Mikey, from Hanna stamps, and some green, masculine colored paper. They went together very quickly and I added them to my stash.

The one below is one of the cards separately. I made a little embellishment out of one of the smaller stamps that came in the set, a baseball hat.

This last one is using the workout girl from Let's get Physical, another Hanna set-- just had to get my girl in there.

MFT Mother's Day

If you read my blog you'll remember that I just had a round birthday. Well my AWESOME sister bought me a 36 set of Copics. DOES SHE ROCK OR WHAT!!!! She does. She ordered them from MFT, and the set she had was delayed in shipment, I think from China, and Kim at MFT was so awesome she sent her the Mother's Day set and a quickie glue pen too. So my sis gave me those too. Plus she made me a truly incredible scrapbook, that has pictures through the year. If you knew that my sister has like everything from Creative Memories because she has 3 boys, 8, 6, and almost 4, and now a newborn daughter, but hasn't completed any of her scrapbooks-- because, um, she a little busy-- you'd realize how much even more awesome it was of her to make the scrapbook for me. She is officially done scrapbooking for the year. LOL. Funny thing is that I had made a girl scrapbook, minus the photos, for her and had given it to her for a shower gift less than 2 weeks before.

Any way , I made this card for my sister to give to my mom for mother's day.

I made this one for my mother in law. The paper is Amy butler, the cardstock is SU, and the flowers are paper flowers from WalMart.

I love coloring with my copics, I'm not that great with them, but love them anyway.

Monograms

I am really into monograms these days. I made these cards for the teachers (for teacher appreciation day) at my daughters preschool/daycare. The girls that work there are just great and I feel so grateful that they are because it gives me a sense of calm to have my daughters there the 2 days they go there. They really appreciated it. The patterned paper is from MME, and the circles are from PTI tags and more, the letters are from a Brenda Walton set I got at Michaels.

40 and Fabulous

This is my sister and my longes best friend. She is at my 40th birthday party and 8 months pregnant with my niece. This picture was taken in April. On May 2nd Erin was born and is soooo sooo cute, beautiful and another example of modern day miracle.

Easter Pim

These are the Easter pins I made for the ladies that joined us for Easter. These were my mom, sister, SIL, MIL, and some nieces. Sorry for the blurry picture, but how I made it is that I punched a scallop out of shrink plastic, stamped brilliance perarlescent blue roses background and then PTI black cross. After I shrunk it with my heat gun, I put glue and microbeads on them. Everyone loved them.

Autograph Books

These are the autograph books I made for our trip to Disney. I purchased the notebooks at Michaels in the 1.00 section and covered with scrapbook paper that I had and stamped the names onto them. The girls loved them and we collected quite a few signatures in our trip through the magic lands.

Basket O' Cards

This is a basket of 40 cards and envelopes that I made for a raffle for my daughters school PTO. I donated it to the PTO, but don't know how much they made as I was on VACATION when the raffle took place.

More Mickey Moments

Here are some more pictures from Disney. We truly enjoyed ourselves. Can't wait till next time...

This is me an my 2redheads inside "Its a Bugs Life", which is a 3D aminated show. Don't the girls just look yummy!!!!

I don't know if you can see the girls shirts or not, but I MADE THEM, sort of. I stamped a flourished stamp from Inkadinkado, in MoulinRouge Pallette ink from PTI, then ironed on the Mickey iron-on. I was psyched, because they really looked like good, Disney shirts. Plus with the ears, I mean who could resist????

Our Trip

Here we are on our trip in Florida. We had a wonderful time and can't wait to go back. Definitely recommend the dining plan. We saved a bunch and it was so much easier.

This was on our way into Animal Kingdom. These days it's rare to have all 6 of us together.

Bad Blogger

I've been a bad blogger. We had much going on, a family vacation to DisneyWorld, school vacations and a 40th birthday. I am back from the lengths though and think I created a signature. Let's see if it works.