Weekly Challenges

Hello!

It's been a great day today! Victoria came over for some stamp time! I think she's just what I needed to get myself in the stampin' mood again. I had a great time bouncin' ideas back and forth with her and have a bunch of new ideas but not enough time to work on them today. As usual, we worked on A Muse Addict weekly challenges. I only got around to doing the Stamp of the Week challenge, to use the Leaves clear set, the Wine & Cheese stamp or the Wine Glass. I also stamped an owl card cuz I've been wanting to make one for awhile and decided to go for it.

Here's what I made today:

The layout for this card came from ScrapJazz online. I was browsing through the galleries and came across a scrapbook page with this layout and thought it could be scaled down and make a great card layout too. I like it, but it was time consuming for me, deciding which papers to use and cutting all the pieces to fit right. The wine glass in the front is popped up.

This card uses the Leaves clear set (thanks for letting me borrow it V!!) and the new Trees 2 set. I have no idea for what occasion I could possibly use this, but the thought popped in my head and I couldn't resist putting it down on paper!! Maybe I can save it for when my kids go off to college in 10 years!! LOL! This ribbon has been in my stash for awhile now but I hadn't used it yet. I got it at a LSS that went out of business, I'm thinkin' it's May Arts ribbon, but not sure.

And last but not least, this owl card!! I'm so excited about this!! First off I need to admit that Victoria came up with the cute sentiment!! I was stumped trying to figure out what to use with it and she blurted out "yoo-hooo" and then there was no stopping me from using it! So fun! What I'm most excited about on this is that I got to use flax seeds on the wings!! At my DD's preschool, they have a sensory table filled with flax seeds and while working on crafts there, some of the seeds fell on the glue for a project and stuck to the page, it made a cool effect and I got to thinking it could be very cool on these owls!!! Hey, if people can glue sand to their cards, why not flax seeds?? :D

I hope you're having a great week! Hopefully I won't be a stranger and be able to post some more this week.

Blessings to you!

A Wedding Card

Hi Everyone!

Although I don't feel out of my stamping slump, I have done a little stamping lately. I made this card over the weekend for a friend of mine from Jr High. She finally tied the knot at a fancy country club nearby. Such a fun wedding and party, got to see a few friends I hadn't seen in years. It was a crazy blustery day though!! At one point during the ceremony we thought the tent was gonna collapse on all of us! (yes, some people do actually have outside weddings in the Fall in the Seattle area!)

Her wedding colors were black, white and red so that was the color combo I chose:

I used Shimmery White cardstock to give it a punch of elegance and used a quickie glue pen and DD glitter for the dress. It's a window card, so the Bride & Groom are stamped on the inside.

I hope you're all having a great week. It's thundering outside right now, so I'm sure we're in for a rainy one!

Hugs and blessings to you!

Stamping Slump

Hello!

How's it goin? I'm in a bit of a stamping slump! I'm thinking it has to do with my cold, but I'm not quite sure. If you all could send your creative juices my way, I'd certainly appreciate it!! I have no stamping motivation at the moment (or for the past week for that matter!)

I don't have much to show since I haven't really stamped for over a week now, but these cards I made a couple weeks ago and hadn't posted yet so I thought I'd share them:

These are birthday cards I made for a couple of my good A Muse Addict friends. I made a similar card awhile back with the Madeira stamp and Thank You Mix MA with the orange chiffon notes and decided to make some with different colors and stamps for these birthday cards. I love the layout, it'll definitely be one of my fall back on layouts in the future.

This was a quick, last minute card I made for my friend's bachelorette party. These are her wedding colors, chocolate brown and baby blue. A super simple card and not too over the top for me. I used Spica glitter pens to sparkle up the glasses a bit. It's tough to see but I did stamp the Tinplate bg stamp on the bottom portion of the card, tone on tone.

I hope you're all doin great and enjoying your week!!

Hugs and blessings to you!

My Baby is 5!!

Hey Everyone! It's my baby's birthday today, Courtney is 5! It's hard to believe she's not a baby or toddler any more, she's growing so fast! I know people say that all the time, but it's so true!! We had a party for her on Sunday which was very fun, but CRAZY! There were about 18 kids!! Our house just doesn't accommodate that many people well! It wasn't rainy fortunately, but the ground was wet, so most of the kids wanted to stay inside to play most of the time.

Here's a picture of her getting ready to blow out the candles, she wanted cheesecake for her birthday!! She had been asking for it for a couple months now, so we made sure that's what she got!! :D

The highlight of her birthday was these boots that my mom got her:

They're "real" cowgirl boots, Durangos! She's a horse FANATIC, so she feels so special in them!! And they're pink and have jewels on them, can't get any better!! :D

So of course getting ready for the party, I completely spaced making her a birthday card, so the day before I scrambled to make a quick card:

She's been noticing the squirrels everywhere lately and makes sure to point them all out to me and gets so excited to see one, so I thought this would be appropriate for her.

Ok, one more picture, I know there are a lot here, but this one cracked me up, she tried this wig on at the party store the other day and I think it's definitely her!! :D She's a silly girl just like her mommy!!

I hope you're all having a great week!!

Hugs and blessings,

Cityscape SOTW Challenge

Here's the card I made yesterday at Victoria's place, using the Cityscape stamp from A Muse for the Stamp of the Week challenge on the A Muse Addicts site posted by Jennie:

This was inspired by Julie's cute boutique card here.

Also, I thought I'd share a beautiful card that Victoria gave me that she wasn't able to post on her blog (forgot to take a picture before giving it):


Victoria is the biggest sweetheart ever and this card just warmed my heart and made me feel so thankful to have met her and blessed to have her as a friend.

Hugs and blessings to all of you!

Ahoy, me hearteys!!

Yo, ho, ho!! LOL! I had no idea today was national Talk Like a Pirate day!!! LOL!! I remember it coming around last year and thinking how much fun it was, but wow, this year flew by so fast, seems like it was only a couple months ago!!

Well, I was debating whether to post this cuz I was really just trying to figure out how they work, but avast ye, I made this little Fun Flip game thing after seeing the Star Wars ones me lassies got in their Lunchables and it fits in with the pirate theme o' the day!

It's probably tough to figure out what it is if you haven't seen one, but it's two pieces of cardstock adhered together in just the right places and each piece is cut in half opposite o' each other and scored opposite o' each other, so ye can flip it around every which way and it reveals different pictures!! Very fun but shiver me timbers it was tough to figure out!! LOL!!

Thanks for stopping by! Arrrrr!
Godspeed!!

Tic-Tac-Toe

Here's another game I made for the A Muse Addicts Step it Up challenge this month:

After seeing all those cute little Shrinky Dinks Jennie has been doing on her blog, it got me thinking about them and how they'd make fun game pieces for this so of course I had to pull out my old stash of shrink plastic and give it a whirl! I could not for the life of me, get those circles to stay flat though!! Maybe Jennie will give us another tutorial to show us how to do that?? (Pretty please??) Other than making the Shrinky Dink magnet pieces, this project was SOOOOO super easy to do! I did get to play with 2 of my A Muse clear sets for this project, Fancy Borders and Uppercase Large Polka Dot Letters!!

I spent some time with Victoria today, out drooling at Impress and shopping at Target. We did end up going to her place and stamping a little, but I didn't have much time there since I needed to come home to pick up my kids from the bus stop. I did manage to get one card made (yes, I finished it V!!), but haven't taken a picture yet, so I'll do that tomorrow and post it then!! :D

I hope you're all having a great day!!

Hugs and blessings,