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Terrific Thursday

Tommorrow ( Dec 1st) my  little girl  will be turning 14 yrs old ..  Can you believe that ?  Wowzie. I really dont know  how  we are so blessed to  have such a tender hearted, loving, sweet  beautiful  girl.. She  may be   taller then me But she will always be my baby  girl .. I will be running to  get a couple last minute things for her birthday tommorrow  and then  wrapping them ..   Did you know Areopostale' is one of the  only places she can get jeans  that are long enough  for her  long legs .. so yup you guessed it  she is  getting  a pair of jeans and  a few other things .. I  cant believe  how it seemed that my money went alot further  when she was  just a little girl  with toys .. Now its make-up/ clothes  just a few things  and  your over 50.00... oh well I guess  thats the  pains of my pocket book  when growing up .. another exciting day for  her is Tuesday when she gets her braces off ..  Will share the photo of her beautiful teeth  when that happens

A few days ago I  made these CD holders  I cased the idea from Cambria on SCS" Thanks Cambria"  here are her  directions  to make these  cute CD holders.. One sheet of cardstock...
Cut long ways at 5 1/8 (so you have a piece that is 11x 5 1/8) Score this piece at 2 1/2 and again at 7 1/5 Take the left over strip and cut it down to 7 1/8.. It is already the perfect height. Score on each end at 1 inch. This is the inside piece that keeps the CD from sliding out. Glue to the inside pocket.
The left over piece you can use to mat your main image.

For mine I used  Regal rose  and  bashful blue with my ole' favorite set " Frosty" I also used  the " Let it snow " from "Cold play"  and  then the back side I used" Riverting" with the little tiny snowman from the set " Year around fun II" ..    I also covered a blank  CD-R cd  and stamped that to match the set .. This cd  they can upload photos, or music  and then share it or keep it in the holder for themselves..   well  today I am hoping  to make all the placecards with  each item and their  price for my craft table .. I have  maybe 20 or so  things for sale  and then I will hopefully finish up  a few of my 5x7 frames ..

Christmas cards are already rolling in .. Started recieveing them  the day after Thanksgiving .. Talk about being on the ball  these girls  are  right on. I will post the ones I have recieved already  maybe  for tommorrows post   ..

I have  My Christmas cards  all made But  not being mailed out until  maybe next week ....  You know that craft show  has put everything else on the back burner  for now anyway .. I tell ya my life will seem  boring after this  Craft show .. which  will be a GOOD thing ..  I am sooo excited about the  show  But, now I  am getting those  feelings Like~  Did I do enough , Did I make to much, What if no one vists my tables .. I am sure ( at least I hope ) these are normal feelings I am having .. maybe its just  me being  alittle nervous  and excited all at the same time ..

still so much to do .. Oh yes I  was cleaning yesterday and found    cookie cutters ( 8 or so )  in a container  I had bought  awhile ago   dont quite remember where .. Its amazing what we find when we clean huh?  I decided  to  sell these also at the craft show ..  But I added  tags to the  cookie cutters ..( which you can see on the backside of the container  with the SU! angel policy stamp hanging )  I made an assortment of 25 or so tags  a few of them I took the actual cookie cutter  and traced it out on whisper white  and  made a tag  out of it ..  not sure if it shows up in this photo but the cookie cutter tags are the  star, Tree, snowman .. the others are from holiday woodcuts , and I also stamped on  Avery labels  for those  quick tags  I hope it shows in the photo.. I used the oval scallope punch for the  label  on the front of container daubed with real red ink  and added red gingham  ribbon I also added a tag on the outside  just incase they wanted to give this to someone ..

Hope you have a Terrific Thursday  and Thanks for peeking  in will see you all tommorrow.

Until later ... Happy Stampin! 

Wonderful Wednesday !

Good morning all..  Well Ithought I would share the 3 cards I made for the   give-a-way  winners friends.. Lots of sparkle huh?  thats the  irr. ice embossing powder . I used natural beauty  for all 3 cards  the pink one is using pixie pink, pink passion and  black .. The other two I used bashful blue, lavender lace, and  ballet blue  CS  with  a touch  of  sage shadow added on  the background  1st I stamped the leaf image on  whisper white CS and then I took   a dauber  and rubbed the  color of the ink .. In no particular order  just random,, then I applied  versa mark all over  ( DTP)  and then applied the  irredesent Ice embossing powder .. It looks sooo much more sparkly  IRL there is a trick to heating the IRR. ice .. Dont over heat or it will take the sparkle ..  Believe me been there done that .. you must watch it change  when heating  and not to over heat it ..

Yesterday I was able to get a few things at the dollar store  for my craft table ..YAHOO! I got a mini tree and some decorations for it .. also got  some  sparkly garland  with a splash of  ~you guessed it~ PURPLE in it ..very cute.

Today I will be back stampin away  for the craft show  ( 4 days away)  and I also have a haircut to do  later this afternoon  .. Thanks for peeking in and have a Fabulous Day

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

And the Winners are ...

For this drawing I cut up all the names and put them in a buckett .. and I drew out 3 names   they are in no particular order  ...

Nancy /Denise/blue

Vanessa /Jeannie/ Pinks

Marlene/ Karen/ Blue & purples

Please email me your mailing address along with your friends so I can get these out to you ASAP!

Yesterday was sooo awesome  this was the 1st time  I had ever went on hospital visitation  and wow what a blessing   mom and my self could see the Lord in everything we did yesterday .. I will spare you with all  the details ..But I would like to encourage you to take time out and vist with someone that is not doing to well .. even that  phone call  could mean the world to them ..and through it all  Me and mom couldnt stop being excited about what all happened  and to see HIS hand in everything .. the icing on the cake was  later yesterday when I watched Oprah ( did you all catch it ) WOW  she must had seen my Favorite movie  "PAY IT FORWARD" it was totally  awesome and  Oprah was the icing on the cake  from   what  my mom and me did yesterday  Boy yesterday was a crying day for both of us .. BUT only happy tears of course .. What a blessing !

I did  get to stamp some  late  yesterday ..  I made this other pen holder out of a cottage cheese  bucket .. Just covered it with the designer paper  and  tied some ribbon around it ..This will be much better than me Olive jar ones I made  since this  holds alot more  beaded pens at one time .. I also put beans at the bottom of the  container  I will put the lid on the container when in transit and add the pens once I get to the craft show .. Today I am off to  pick up some things for the  decoration of my craft tables .. I was thinking of adding that fake snow   around my tables . BUT that would be a real mess.. so I  dont think I will do that  instead I may do Garland or something  I really dont know what I am looking for but once I see it I will know .. .. Must go see what  they have at the great dollar store..I think I may  do a dry run  with my set up dont you think I should do this ?  to make sure everything fits on  the table ...OH my what a Mess  to do a dry run .. But at least this way I would have an idea how I want it to be set up right ?  will keep you posted on that adventure ..

I also made  another post it note  holder  with a 5x7 acrylic frame this time .. I used the hostess   simply scrappin kit   Friends and Flowers  for this one .. No thats not the HUGE flower But the next size down .. I also used the  blue and white flowery paper from this kit for the matching  beaded pen  for the set .. I  still have to make another card But  you get the idea  anyway  Right ? the top of the  post it note holder says  "Life is good " all  goodies used  are from this awesome kit ..

Thank you all for your posting yesterday I wish all of you  could have been picked ..  you all are winners on my book !! I was soo touched by your words of encouragement  and  this was  the" cherry on top "  durning my whole day  yesterday !!

Thanks for peeking in  again and I will see you tommorrow ..

Until later ... Happy Stamping !!

Friendship Give-a-way ...

UPDATE!! The BIG announcement on SCS will not be today Boo Hoo! so sorry  to get your minds wondering for  something that has not happened yet .. Maybe next week though , I will keep you all posted ..  I have heard   from many of you  wondering what this annoucement will be   All I will say is it is something I didnt think would ever happen to me  Maybe not earth moving but stil very exciting to me  Hee! Hee! I will keep you all posted  when its  a for sure thing Okey dokey .. Stay tuned .. Also Thank you all for your  wonderful / sweet words of encouragement in your comments .. I am  Truly Blessed !!

Today  my mom and myself will be going out and visting  our church family  that are in the hospital WOW we have alot of  dear ones  that are not doing well .. I  made these cards as soon as I got home last night from church  so  we can hand  deliver them  today on our vists ... The cards are all simple in design . I did use stazon on with the watercolored  CS  with reinkers and the aqua painter to color in the images , the Canas BG was used on the base  card  with lavender  lace & lt blue gingham ribbon was added to  finshed them all up    and I did  make 2 others but my photo didnt  turn out of those  .. But these 2 photos  did  turn out  of the 3 batches  I made last night .. Of course  these 2 are  lavender lace  and of course I added lots of glitter .. 

Since We are going to vist our friends in the hospital  I thought what a great time to post a Give -a-way right ..  I reached my  100th subscriber this past  Thanksgiving  day  and I would have posted the give-a-way then  But many  were   away so I wanted to wait until today .. Thank you FRIENDS for  peeking in on my blog  today and everyday and as a BIG Thank you  I  will draw  3 names  out of everyone that makes a comment  on this post today up until midnight .. Yes there is a  requirement ..  your Post should have your name , Your best friends  name and your favorite color .. here is what  Will happen.  Tommorrow morning  when I post I will pick 3  comment winners  and each will recieve one of the  stamps in the  following photo  PLUS I will mail your best friend  a  handstamped card .This is where your favorite color comes in,  the card I make for your best friend will be in your favorite color ..  so you want to see the  stamps   that will be given away ??? Here They are ....  Yes the  water bottle is included  with each of the 3 winners with 1 of  the stamps shown  .. the winners will find out  what the  water bottle is about when they recieve their  prize ..  Check back tommorrow for the winners and please  when the winners are announced  you will need to email me your address  along with your best friends address ASAP!!

Today may be the BIG announcement on SCS .. I am sooo excited I can hardly wait .. I really dont want to jump the  gun  here... I  Really want to make sure it is Today when it happens ,so stay tuned.... as soon as I find out for sure I will update  this post .. YAHOO!

stay tuned everyone ..  and once again Thank you for being my Faithful blogger friends .. you make blogging so Much more fun !!

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

What Fun!!

Look what I made yesterday ..  All Thanks to Amanda  you can find her directions to make your Christmas ornament HERE on her blog .. these   ornaments are fun and easy  BUT boy they use alot of stright pins  I made this one for my display table  at my craft fair ..I would love to make them  to sell But Man I got way to much going on as it is  so maybe next time ( if there is a next time )  I had to put an extra tie on the top of mine so I could get a good photo of it hanging there  since I  used alot of Organdy ribbon on mine  .. Maybe it just jazzs it up a tad bit more huh?  One thing I will say on making these  beautiful  ornaments is  cut and fold your paper 1st so  you can move right along  putting it together.. My hubby was amazed at it.  He kept telling me it looked like an artichoke .. MEN!... Go figure .. BUT The more I looked at it  the more it did look like an  artichoke .. see what planting a seed  does in my mind , Anyway I just love this   ornament .. sure wish I could make these  and sell them next week .. Maybe if I get extra time  between now and then I may squeeze a few in  ( Cross your fingers  I get some extra time  )

I was busy making  up those last 12  little santa wrappers WHEW got them done YAHOO! Since I finished those  and put them  away in my stash Hee! Hee! ( Boy do I have the stash of craft show goodies spred all over the place  YIKES!!)

Boy did I have fun  yesterday   I really think My  Stampin Groove is in  making cards  I just enjoy making cards the most .. it seems to go fast.. Not that I dont  enjoy maing all those NON card items BUT I  think after doing all these goodies for my craft show I think I really found out I love  making cards the BEST!

  I moved onto my  holder for notecards .. you use  2 reg size envelope  and cut one of them at the flap  line ( cut the flap right off  then with the other  envelope you apply adhesive on the backside of that flap  and slide it into the other envelope w/o the flap  TA~DA instant  Notecard holder .. on one side I put the 4 notecards and the other side I put the 4  notecard envelopes  then  wrap it all up in a pretty bow..  for this pack I made 2 cards  with cool carribbean  and 2 cards  in certainly cerely with the set called "Sweet shapes " I love the way it turned out  I may need an other one of these ..

I also got to make more beaded pens yesterday too But tried  my hand at using  designer paper for them  WOWZIE talk about a no BRAINER these were super fun and super dee duper fast to make  I want to make  a handful more of these  Just need to  find all my other designer paper  buried under everything ..

Ok now on to my  retired list of stamp sets ... I  Do have time to post them  since I added them all via email late last night 1st.... If anyone wants just the list  I can email you that , Then you can cross ref. them off of SCS ( link below )  my email  link is on the right side of my blog  somewhere around the calendar towards the bottom   just click that let me know  that you want the email version of my retired list  of set  Okey  dokey .. I will keep this list  updated   on my blog and also on my  email list so here you go .. Thanks for asking about my   retired goodies  everyone  I   really want these to go to a happy home   since all they do here is  sit and be bored with me ...

I Must run and get around for Church  Thanks for stoppin in today and I will see you tommorrow

Until Later... Happy Stampin

Retired  sets for sale :

Please check out  SCS  stamp gallery  for the set  description  if curious about a set

look  HERE . Stamp sets & the prices listed are what I am asking for

each set  and you pay shipping ,Which I can sent priority 

flat rate for  4.05  we will talk about shipping

if you are wanting more than  one set ..

Unless you live close and want to swing by and pick them up

Brand New  Mounted  set for sale :

Botanical Garden 20.00

Bloomin wonderful  24.00

Garden Collage  10.00

Alphabet soup 10.00

Gently falling 10.00

Flowers of Gratitude 10.00

Around the block  10.00

Paint prints 10.00

Kid cards 10.00

Too Terrific tags  10.00

Flower Garden  16.00

Fabulous Four  10.00

Mounted set slightly used :

suitable for framing ( slightly used ) 10.00

Pocket full of posies (slightly used ) 10.00

Word Play   ( slightly  used ) 16.00

Reverse Prints ( slightly used ) 14.00

Listen with the heart  slightly used 10.00

Good times  ( slightly used ) 24.00

Just cause I like you ( slightly used ) 12.00

Mounted sets and used with slight staining on rubber &  blocks

Memory of the heart  14.00

Simple type  alphbet  Double = upper / lower  32.00

All around alphabet Double  = upper / lower  32.00

Pure & Simple Upper  20.00

Close to Nature  8.00

Good evening...

I am just coming up for a breather  from my stampin room  Hee! Hee!Just  stampin like crazy  today.. I will post  again early  tommorrow morning  like always  But   I just wanted to let you all know I am  putting together a list of the retired stamp sets I have up for sale  for those of you  who have asked about them ...I will  more than likely post the list tommorrow after noon>  I would try and post the list  in the morning~ but may take to long before church  so I may have to save that  for after church.. so Stay tuned  I have a box full to go to a  new friendly home ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin & sweet dreams ..

WOWZIE!!

What a Day yesterday ...  We all had such a fabulous time at the shelter yesterday  I just can not stop talking about it ..  So instead of me talking about it right now,  I have uploaded all the photos of yesterdays event HERE on my web shots gallery  under  Hope center  November 24, 2006 .. Also for your viewing pleasure I have upload  our Thanksgiving day  with my Family also  on my web shots HERE please  when browzing the galleries  please read the captions under each photo  this may help explain  the photo in a little detail .. I cant wait to go help again at the Hope center .What a Blessing .. Today is another busy day I must finish  up my santa wrappers today  Once I do that I will start on making all my  packs of Christmas cards and hubby  packs .. Which by the way what do you think of this  little title for those  cards for hubbys " 6 PACK FOR HUBBY "  get it 6 pack of cards Hee! Hee!  pretty funny huh? Well I have the title, Now I need to get  to making them ..

Yesterday I did  get a chance to sit down for awhile and whip these little  Cho. Nugget  holders  I made 53 of them  so far .. I used the tag punch, and I used Bravo burgandy for  caramel nugget  and always artichoke for Peanut butter nugget  I will  add this info to the place card with the price  so  everyone will now what  type of  cho. is inside the holder..

I was able to finish up my" From Santa" packs also  yesterday I got 10 made and thats it .. Man there is alot of  work in them .. not really hard Just alot of  steps , and  alot of cutting .. so  thats it for these babies  I will be selling these for 6.00 each

I am going to be doing alot of stamping today making cards  hopefully for the most part ..

I will be  running to get photos developed for  Bro Bishop at the hope center and for Shawnee .. Since I was the " Offical photographer of yesterdays  events Hee! Hee!  So many people were coming up to me and asking me to take their photo .. How great is that !  I also met a man named Walter  which didnt want his photo taken BUT he drew me a picture of Jesus  You have got to see this( its on my webshots  link above ) . Walter drew it in maybe 2 mins flat WOW it is fabulous!! He told me he used to work for the Big 3 ( GM, Ford, Crysler) here in Michigan as their sketch artist .. Have you ever  really thought about the homeless ?   No different than us .. so many times I have heard  that  why dont  they JUST get a job .. many of the homeless I met yesterday  have many other problems  then just getting a job  for most its mental illness .. We never now  until we  have walked in their shoes .. I visted with a young woman and her daughter at the shelter yesterday .. At the Shelter  we also got to hand out the socks we  collected at our church  how exciting  this was ..  you would have thought we were  giving them  1,000 dollars..  we also got to  see the clothes  closet open up  each person could  take up to 2 items from the closet and this Closet was HUGE  the whole basement  was used for this purpose.. Bro Bishop runs a tight  ship at the Hope center ..  which I am sure he has been down the road with  people taking advantage  of them.  1st thing when we arrived  we were told NOT to give  money  to anyone and  do NOT give out seconds  of the food.. sure enough  a couple asked me  for more cookies   thank goodness  Bro Bishop was standing near bye  cause he came over and put his hand on  this mans shoulder  and said Now how  long you been coming here  Robert? he just laughed and then Bro Bishop said you know we dont give out seconds... I guess I am alittle Native  But all I wanted to do is give them more  especially if they were asking ya know ? (But I followed the rules ) and  I guess they play on that when guest come to help out .. I  would have to grow some  pretty tough skin If I were to work there all the time ...  This hope center is  ran by Bro Bishop , Bro D, and 2 Fabulous ladies  in the kitchen Gail and  Shawnee OH my  talk about cookin LOTS of food  there were  probably  close to 80  people( not including our group that went and we all got to eat also.. can you imagine cooking for 100 or so people  YIKES!! )   there  ready to eat  a hot dinner   which was Spaghetti ( with Hambuger & pepperoni yummy  .. you gotta try it )  Salad,  roll, corn ,  turkey  and we brought desserts   and also  lemonade My hats off to Gail and Shawnee these 2 women  are awesome ..  We were told exactly how much to give out,  such as this spoon full  level in size and No more .. What a blessing .. Oh an the trip down to the Hope center in Downtown Detroit we got  all mixed up Thank goodness Andrew was driving with us crazy backseat drivers he was probably never so glad to get to the Hope center and let us OUT of his truck ..  I swear you put us 4 women  together we  can have a blast no matter what it is.. Even  going down a one way street  when there was   a heavy fog talk about funny and scray at the same time ..  and get this Andrew  flipped his very 1st U turn in the middle of the street.. we all laughed so hard I almost pee'd my pants while holding on for dear life .. Then we lost the church van with all the kids ..  we took the right  and Steve merged on to the left exit   we sat there waving our arms and yelling dont go that exit ( Yea like they could hear us  across I- 75 )  then some how we were  sitting in the packing lot  down the street from the hope center ( But we didnt  now  cause we were still looking for the Hope center at this time )  and out of the blue  there goes the church van driving right past us .. Again with flying arms yelling out  WERE OVER HERE!! still no avail  so bad we all didnt have the windows rolled down .. anyway  they take me up to the baptist center to see if that was the  AKA: Hope Center  as I am walking up to the door Low and behold  the  nose of the van peeks around the back parking lot ..I started  waving my arms then and  they saw me  then Praise God .. and It turned out  it was the Hope center.. WHEW!!

What an awesome day !! I cant wait to go back ..

Sorry so long  everyone I told  you I cant stop talking about it  .. It was truly a Blessing

Until later... Happy Stamping  and count your blessing today !!

remember these ?

Here are the other 2 small frames finished ..   I used  cold play stamp  set along with  Holiday Tyme DS  paper ( the light blue w/ snowflakes ) as my background  the hat and  scarf  are cut out seperately and the  snowmans face I used the 1 3/8 circle punch .. I also used  whisper white CS  with  the letterpress alphabet stamped in bashful blue  layered  on Black CS  and of course I added a little dazzling diamonds to the scarf.. I love the way they  turned out...  The  frame size are the same as the one I posted  awhile back on Nov 10th "  JOY "( just scroll down  and look on  left hand side for the calender and click on the 10th) the measurement of the frames are 3.5 X 5 .. they are all  packaged up in cello bags also to keep fingerprints off the  glass .. I am off to get ready for the  shelter  we are going to help at this morning I will be back later .. Hope you all didnt eat to much yesterday  like I did ..OH I am  still soo full.

Have a Great day  and thanks for peeking in today

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you !!

Yesterday I was stamping pretty much all day and here is one of the projects I am working on  for my craft fair ..    I used whisper white CS and cut him out and  used Markers to highlight  his body  and such .. I then laminated  him with the  little banner on the bottom of his feet  leaving  a little tab on top and bottm  to I could punch a hole in the tabs and then slide the   wire through  and make the hanger  on top with a  jar  of Dazzling Diamonds , I then  attached the alligator  clip  to the bottom   with the wire ALL thanks goes to Jan  Tink for  sharing this awesome project with us check hers out HERE she sheds more light on how  she made heres also ..  The wire is all one piece  and I used  some wire I got at Joanns   It is 16 gauge wire

here is what the backside of mine looks like   I stamped  the  Hand made  angel policy stamp  right on the back of my  chef   before I laminated him   I also  put my infomation  on there also ( I didnt do this one  since I was still  working this out ) Since I am selling these at my craft show  I thought it would be cute if I used my moms  set "Whats for dinner " in   my set I will be selling the  holder and 4  reciepe cards  for 10.00  Man  alot of time  But once I got in the groove of things I whiped out   a totalof 15 of them yesterday YAHOO! I got them all packaged up so Cute  .. OH so you want to see them at work do ya ..  OK here is the chef hanging on one of my cabinet doors in my stampin room  what an awesome idea  Jan !! ( Kiss kiss)

and here are what all 4  cards will look like that are included with my chef   This is what I plan to do today  over  at Ruthies for Thankgiving after  we all  crash out from eating to much , Ruthie and me always have fun talking  about stampin stuff ..Maybe she will let me see her Chirtsmas  card for this year today .. Get this she said She  DID NOT add any glitter OH MY Goodness  shame on  her  Hee Hee!  actually there has been a  running little joke with Ruthie and  me about Glitter on our cards .. she is to funny !! so after  we are all comatose( sp?)   from eating  so stinkin much and  then drooling over the winter mini together ..  I may recruit Ruthie to help color  with me   my  recipe cards  to go with the 15  chefs I made ..

Here are a few of them packaged up  for my craft fair  I put the chef Recipe holder and 4 recipe cards into  SU! Med gusset  cello bag  inside  each bag also has my business card in the backside . Thanks for looking  everyone .. and I  really Really  want to  send out a HUGE thank you  to  Jan for   sharing her awesome idea

So many things to be Thankful for ... My Husband ,Daughter, My Mom,  Family , Church . health, Friends,  a  warm home,  and I am thankful for  all of  YOU!! Thank you  for your faithfulnees in visting my blog  and  leaving such wonderful comments  to me .... Your comments  really give me that xtra wind I need some days ... THANK YOU!!

OH yes ~ I plan on  doing a giving away very shortly  so Stay tuned ..

Tommorrow I will be heading downtown Detroit to help in a  Christian  home shelter  actually our youth  group and alot of us adults will be going  to help serve, and greet  those that come off the street.. I am so looking forward to this tommorrow , not only  are we  going to  be serveing and  greeting BUT  also  showing the Love of Christ  and  witnessing  to  everyone . How exciting . We will be heading down to "The Hope Center " at  8:00am-1:00pm..

I really hope you  take  the time today and  share what your Thankful for

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving 

until later ... Happy  stamping  and Happy eating

Thankful for ...

Yesterday I got a ton of things done ..  But 1st I would like to   show you what was in my mail box  a couple  days ago ..   Never have heard of this adhesive before until I popped in on my Friend Marys Blog .. and guess what the best part is that I recieved all these  for FREE ..  Hey Free is Great right ?  Right On! Check out  how you can get  your Free UHU  adhesive products From Maria .

I have only tried  the UHU scrapbooking pen  out of the 3 she sent me so far  and Love Love Love it ..    I am always looking for the next best  thing in the adhesive dept.  So it surprised me that I had never  heard of UHU  products .. .. Thank you Maria and Rebecca  for giving   these wonderful new  toys to me

I made this card  with the UHU  scrapbook pen I just had to try it out   yesterday  when I was making a Birthday card   and well even though you cant see  the underneath  where the adhesive is I am very pleased with the way it  holds and  goes on really smooth .. and not only that But I really like the  design of this card also Hee! Hee!

I used silly sea life  stamp set with watercolor paper ( love this stuff )  I also used cool carribean  and certainly celery  with Black Cardstock  accessories I used the white gel pen ( of course  for the dot doodles ) and the aqua painter  with cool  carribean reinker to color in my image final  touch was the celery GG ribbon with a vintage brad ( black )   I made 2 of these cards since we cut 1 piece of CS into 2 way not right .. One went  to  one of my glitter queens for reaching her  consistency counts  goal last  quarter ( way to go Kelly )  & this card is going to a special  young lady on her birthday   this Friday .

Yesterday while I was packaging up my  packs of cards (6 for 10.00 ) I had an idea to stamp the  saying on the inside  on a small piece of cs to attach to the backside of the  tied up  cards so buyers can view what the saying is on the inside with out  having to open the  cello back up   look  here and see what I mean this is the front side  and then look at the backside  ..  I will slide these into  a large  cello bag with my business card and  tape shut  .. So far I have 4 packaged up  like this ..( all 4 packages  are  different design but I love this snowman pack  alot ..) 

BUT guess what??

I ran out of envelopes ..OH NO I must find more   reg envelopes for my hubby packs I cant believe I ran out ..  worse comes to worse I will not make the hubby packs .. I could  make the hubby packs out of   Note cards ( 3 1/2 X 5 size ) what do you all think about  me making them in that size  ? 

Jessie is off school for the rest of the week  for the Thanksgiving  holiday .. SO you know you what that means ?? a   Long stamping day for me ..  I have to make up for the NO   stamping day on  Thanksgiving  since   We all are going over my  cousin Ruthies house  ( very excited about   being  with her and  my family  tommorrow ) Hope your Thanksgiving is  wonderful  tommorrow  and  remember   even though its Thanksgiving tommorrow we should be  Thankful everyday  right ?  Right! Right.. It seems  right after Halloween the media/ stores skip right to Christmas ..HELLO  Lets not rush it  already .. It  will not feel like  our Typical  Thanksgiving here in Michigan  since it is suppose to reach  the mid 50 degree mark tommorrow  YAHOO !  We usually have snow by now .. But nothing on the ground Yet Praise God and I am Thankful for that  Hee! Hee!

Until later .. Happy Stamping and dont eat to much turkey tommorrow ... YUMMY!!

WHEW!!

Yesterday I was unable to get  to stamp like I thought ( non stop  all day yesterday ) I would have been able too..Boo Hoo So sad I know huh?  How many of you demos out there  have Tons of those technqiue  booklets from SU! that come in your orders? well I found a crap load  I guess you could call me the  pack rat of  these tiny booklets  .Look  what I did  with them . ( so excited I didnt have to buy them ) I put all my info on them and plan to have them sitting out on my craft table  and   giving them out for FREE YAHOO! This clear box I kept from my daughters bedroom  makeover .. this box held her lights that went under her bed ..  I am so happy I kept it .. I have about 100 or more of these booklets  and  I  think it may be  a great thing sitting out  with a sign that says FREE TAKE ONE!!

Thank you all yesterday for your  great ideas for my   Hubby  pack of cards .. I  think I'm Sorry /In the doghouse card is  great!! I really need to make some Hubby packs today .. will keep you all posted.

I also wanted to share with you My popcorn holders   I have made 16 of them so far want to finish up  and have 20 done  so many those will get done today also ..I seen  Kisamari trim a tree holder and I knew I had to make some for my craft show .. here is HERS such a cute idea..

Here  are  a few of the ones I have made already  I am running low on  the burgandy ribbon so I started  to use Gold and Hunter Organdy ribbon .I used  Sarhra sand for the base  and then Always artichoke & Bravo burgandy . I  also embossed the   circle tag " Happy Holidays "  in Gold the set I used for that was  the Hostess level 1 Riveting for the main decoration On the  holder I used the  PINES set  and always artichoke  ink for stamping the image  on all layers .. Its funny when I stamped the always artichoke on the bravo burgandy It looked like tone on tone .. so I did them all this way. I   Didnt think it would give that effect  since you have to use  the same color ink on the same color CS to achieve the tone on tone look ..

Update on hubbys foot ....

It seems there  may be not stress fracture after all and it my be  a tendon, ligament  so  really nothing to do besides add a few   foam patches to that area and see if it  helps  with the pain ..   I hope & Pray  it helps him ..

Thank you all  for asking how my mom is doing  with her  eye.. She is doing Fabulous and  its funny she said where did she get all those wrinkles  from ? I guess she couldnt see them before  and its really throwing her for a loop ( chuckle)  believe me when I say she isnt all that wrinkley ( sp?)  But I guess she would notice them more since she hasnt been able to see very good out of that eye for  a few years now ..Whta a shock to her I suppose . but she has always looked the same to me ..

Well today as soon as I drop off  Jess to school I have a couple things to run and do   BUT then  Its  down to my stampin room  and  get  alot done today ( I hope  so anyway )

Thank for stopping by and  peeking in on the blog  see you all tommorrow .

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

Smile it's Monday !

Yup its Monday and Boy do we have lots of appts to do today..

But 1st here is a cute Simple Christmas card I made   I stamped the  faces and the hats from cold play 1st then I punched out a circle from the 1 1/4 punch  and  dry embossed the circle  around that cute little face .. I laid the circle  down ontop of my light table then I laid the   whisper white CS down (Face down ) ontop of the  punched out circle  and  it was easy to line up the circle with my  pre stamped snowman face  since the cs is white . To make my stylus run easier over the cardstock I  rubbed the  cs with  wax paper 1st  this always makes  the surface a  little less gripy  ( if thats a word) so the stylus glides along alot smoother .. This card is alot cuter IRL ( In Real Life)  since the faces are embossed  it just adds  that little something, I then took  my dauber in  Bashful blue and  swiped it around the embossed  circles , then added the  snowflakes and "Let it Snow " in bashful blue  and of course whats a card  If I didnt add dazzling diamonds  to the snowflakes  all stamped used for this card come from Cold play ( another set I love )  Oh I also stamped a couple  snowflakes in the inside  too  bring it all together  and also on the envelopes .. This will be a pack of 6 cards  for sale at my Craft show.

Today is gonna be a busy day .. I have My RA appt today at 8:30am  then Jessie is getting fitted for her  retainer at 1:30  Just  think in 2 weeks she gets her braces off YAHOO! speaking of daughter  Guess what I got to do  yesterday ??  Its way to funny for me anywho yesterday  before we left for church daughter had a brain storm of an idea and  painted her nails  right   before brushing her teeth .. So  thats where I come in .. I got to  Brush my babys teeth OH boy this brought back so many memories   except this time instead of  looking  down  at her  sitting on my sink  and brushing ..I was looking up at her  and brushing .. funny huh?

Then Hubby has appt at 4:00pm today with my knee surgeon  about his foot ( still hurting him )   so besides  going to all the appts today I will also have to squeeze in time for stampin of course .. I think today I will be focusing on  my cards  sets I want to sell at my craft show 6 in a pack for $10 .. these cards will be very simple in design  actually  most will be cased  from other fabulous stampers .. still Have so much to do .. 13 days  left OH MY!!

I would really like to  put together a Hubby pack of cards to sell  to hubbys of course .. In this package I would  have  a years worth of cards for them to use  for their wife .. Like  a Birthday , anniversary, sweetest day, valentines day, Thinking of you .. anything else  you  can   think of please  share  with me the ideas on these packs of cards for  the hubbys  I really want to keep it to  a limit of 6 cards in the hubby packs also for 10.00.. TIA ( Thanks in Advanced )

Thanks for stopping by  and peeking in  on my blog  today

Until later ...Happy Stampin!!

Here Mousey, Mousey

Good morning everyone .. Happy Sunday to you!

I am so excited about todays Blog post .. all Thanks goes to  my friend Karen  Gibson  who shared with  me / us this cute little mousey  so Cute that I made 12  right away for my craft show .. I would have made more But ran out of candy canes .. Guess thats on my list for the  next shopping  trip .  I will also have this as one  of my projects for my Stampers club-10 #3  meeting on Dec 9th .. So excited about that  cause  the mousey  is so so  cute and love that the candy cane is the tail of this cute little mousey...( Yummy  starburst candy canes )  Now the next question is what do I charge  for these at my craft show .. My 1st thought would be 2.00  each  do you think thats a good price ?

Here is a small grouping of the ones I made so far  Mind you I could not  get  all 12 in this  photo so you have to be stuck with seeing 5 for now .. Who would have ever thought  that seeing so many mice   at one time would be such a HOOT HUH?

Todays  Sunday School Lesson is agbout Daniel and the lions den .YAHOO!  and we are  coming close to having all my kids learning the New Testament books .. We have been singing a song with the books ..Its so great that they are all singing it w/ the  poster  as soon as All my kids can sing the  New Testament  books song  w/o the poster and any help we all will be going on a  day out to Ceasarland in Royal Oak .. Rewards are so very good for little ones to look forward to But its  this song  that will stick with them their Whole life Thats whats so  awesome and so BIG to wrap my brain around  KWIM? My mom has even said she finds herself singing the song  when looking for the book durning  morning  Church service .. I wish I could sing it for you , so very fun and catchy .. The next time you see me ask me to sing it for you, I would be honoured  ( believe me when I say   You dont  want me to give up my day job ..Hee! Hee!  cause singing is NOT my  forte' and thats funny since I do the Music for VBS also  go figure ) .. So as you can imagine I  will stick to stamping as my  "Thing" and keep the singing  just for my SS kids  ( chuckle )..... I feel sorry for the childern  that have to hear me sing  YIKES!! ...

It looks like I hit the BIG 30.000  hits on my  little blog last night  WOWZIE! Many Many thanks to all  my faithful blog readers.. YOU!!  When I 1st tarted my blog I wasnt even sure if I would   have  things to post   and  share with you all  every day ( not that I have been a short for words type of gal  Hee! Hee!)   but what really shocked me is  that  you all  are so faithful in visting my blog .. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.. I am approching  my 100th  subscriber also very soon  .. sooo stay tuned for  a FREE give-a-away  for this landmark event also .. so many kind words  from all of you  It makes me smile  to think you  say those wonderful things about me.

I have exciting news But  will have to wait  for about another week or so to blab about it .. so stay tuned for  this   BIG  announcement .. Hey have you ever wondered why we drive on a parkway , and park in a driveway .. something to ponder I suppose .. and  did you know shoelaces were invented before the  tenny shoe  Makes you wonder  what the laces were  even made for in the  1st place HUH?

Well I must confess Today I will be stamping On Sunday .. Not my reg order of business  I  have stuck  with my personal policy of NO stamping on Sundays BUT I have SO much to make for my craft fair  I must  take an hour or so to stamp today .. I will hopefully be trying my hand at   some Christmas  Ornaments Thanks to Debbie Seyer  for her awesome  turtoial  on making these ornaments..  I have to try and squeeze some in  for my craft fair .( Like I need more things to make ..Yea right )  I have made these before  and have totally  forgot how easy they are and  super fun  But Debbies  directions are so Much easy than what I have done in the past .... Check out Debbies tutorial HERE!  YAHOO for Debbie  and getting me insprired again with these awesome  ornaments.. Thanks  girlie ..

Yesterday was a very Productive day I got  tons of laundry done ,  cleaned  both  upstairs and  the basement Made a lot of things for my Craft fair  ( stay tuned )  My mom and Jessie went Christmas shopping yesterday  talk about  Shopping until you drop  They left at 2:00 ish and   got home after 10:00 last night .. of course they squeezed in a movie durning this time also ( Santa Clause 3) and ate some lunch & dinner   But still .. I know my mom  is Exhausted cause My Jessie girl can shop  like theres no tommorrow .

Ok  for you all that made it through this blog post and kept with the whole  write up.. Here is another goodie I made for my craft fair .. I love  Love  Love this set .. It is  retired of course  and all thanks to my cousin Ruthie for letting me borrow hers  a long time ago I had to  find one of  my very own..(  I am sooo very  selfish when I want mine own set HUH?  ok admit it you have felt this way too  so join the party )  I am not a big  supporter of  E-bay  But I knew I could maybe find it on there and  Sure enough last  year  I did    and for a awesome price I couldnt refuse ( chuckle)  ..  The set is " country Apple " This craft fair item  set includes a post it note holder, a matching pen and 2 gift cards .. Just think this would be so cute for a teacher huh? 

anyway  I think that about somes it up for today  So happy you stoped in to vist my blog   today  and I will see you all tommorrow ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin Friends !

FRIENDS!

For today I thought I would  showcase some goodies I have recieved from  friends of mine  Lorie, Ann Marie, Ruthie, Gina & Dale Ann .. Ann Marie  made this  frame and gave it to me  the day we closed her  catalog party , Dale Ann  sent me  this  Fabric  card ( its the coolest thing to see IRL)  the whole postcard is  made of Fabric , Ruthie sent my hubby her black , red& silver Birthday card and Gina  also sent hubby a birthday card using the  autumn elegance set  and then there Lorie  Ames..  well she  sent me these goodies  when we were paired  up durning the baseball world series ( remember that ?)  well my team ( the Tigers  ) Lost  and her team the Cards WON  well I was required to send Lorie 3 goodies  because  her team won  and really All I was suppose to recieve  from her for my team lossing was 1 goody  Well she was such a sweetie pie she sent me 3 items  also  and this is what she sent me ..  Thank you  girls for all your beautiful  items  you have given me and my Hubby .. you all are sooo very thoughtful  and I Love yas  xoxoxoxoxooxox 

Last nights play was awesome .. I got so many photos , But here are a couple  from last night  play" April Morning" the 1st one is of Jessie  and  her best friend Codi .... 

the next few photos are just  few sceens of the play  that were pretty exciting like the boys going off to war 

and then the hospital sceen By the way thats Jeb  the main charater  that was running from God He gets shot  and  well  we think he dies.. BUT  theres a twist  at the end ..

We ordered a DVD  of the play last night I am excited to get it  in a few weeks and re watch it all over again ..

and here is a photo of just part of the cast 

  Jessie is on the far right  and  you cant see her  in this photo but look in the next  photo she is on the end  standing up  in the  town square sceen  

Thanks for  all your comments on  the overlay card on yesterdays post .. I  have made a couple of these in 2 different ways ..One way I just used the overlay as a slip over( cut your  window sheet  just as you would like your base card)  and you can tie  a ribbon  to hold the window sheet in place OR with the one I posted yesterday I just cut a 1/4 piece  and had it lay over the  main card You cant see it BUT there is one mini glue dot up in the corner ..

Dawns TIP of the day :

Hey did you know that if you apply a mini glue dot on  your stamped image  it is alot  harder to view  then just putting a mini glue down on  whisper white / or any solid  color CS with out any  images stamped .. try it ..  I seen this at one of  the SU! events I attended   awhile back ..

Have a Great day and see you all tommorrow

Until later ... Happy Stampin!!

Its FRIDAY!!

Just want to let you know I have added a few photos  to past posts .. Look at  yesterdays posting you will see last night photos of dinner  with the Birthday boy .. and also look at " Happy Sunday" posting to view  Harriet with her new grandson .Thanks  for looking

Ok onto todays post:

I have ben seeing  alot of stampers making these  windowsheet over lay cards  so of course I had to make one also  so here is Mine .I used Mixed Bouquet stamp set with Pixie pink  and whisper white Cardstock  for the ink I used pixie pink with certainly celery  I also did the crayon resist  technqiue on the  little  circles.. I used white  staz-on ink for  the overlay on the window sheet .. I must say these type of cards are so fun and easy  and WOW what a  elegant touch .. 

Tonight My Daughter is in  her school Play production of APRIL MORNING " this play is a full  blown stage  production not your typical  school play you may be use to  attending .. Jessie has 2 sceens she will be in  and she is also doing  make-up and hair  for this production ..How exciting  .. She was at school until 9:30pm  reheasing and  I got a peek of these  awesome costumes her and everyone will be  wearing tonight.. The play is  centered around Civial  war time  so you can just imagine  the costumes  with soliders, the hair dos , Big  flowing  dresses  and  everything ..I am so excited to see  this tonight .  Jessie has a LONG day ahead of her today with dress reheasal   continueing today .. she will not even come home  after school today,  she will be staying all day  right up to when the play starts at 7:00pm tonight.   The  play is written  by a Christian Man in NC  and  is  about a young man running from God  , But we  all know we cant run for long  right ?  I will share some photos tommorrow .. I am sooo exited .. I know I think I said  thats already huh?

I  got only 12 or so More santas  wrappers to make ( the baby ones )  and I have also been making a few other items to mix up my day a bit. I have made a handful  of these beaded  pens   . still want at least 20 more of them .. But I wanted to share with you  this photo  mainly because   of the pen holder the  Jar is  a Olive jar YUP I kept the  empty jar and recovered it  and put some beans at the bottom  and stuck the pens in there  I think the jar it self will hold maybe  10 pens at once sooo I have 2 other jars to make  simular to this one .. I also added the price of the pens  to the outside of the jar .My thoughts are the more I have priced and they can see for themselfs the  more they may buy ...KWIM .. I know  for me I hate to always ask How much  things are,  dont you ?  I will also have place cards with the prices  for everything else  so they wont have to ask on everything .. pretty much everything I will be selling for the most part will be 6 dollars and under  with just a few items under the $12  mark .. The craft show  will be in the basement of  my hubbys  annual Christmas party at work  .. My thoughts are  the Christmas party will be going on and will be the Main attaction and  maybe  most people  wont have  Money on them to buy since they are coming for the christmas party ,  But everyone should have a  few dollars on them to  get something  from my table .. Hey should I accept personal checks ?  anyone out there in Blogger land  do this  accept  personal checks at a craft show ?  This is the 1st year  they are offering  the craft fair .. so I am  very excited ..

I have also been busy rounding up display goodies .. I 1st rented 1 table BUT then I got to thinkin I may need another one for displaying all kinds of other hand made goodies these items  will not be for sale ( of course if the price is right .. well then Maybe Hee! Hee!) things I have gathered are  of course  a couple of my scrapbooks,  paper bag books,  boxes ,  cards, accordian  books,  name frames  etc...  can you think of anything else I may want to add to this display ?

Here is a cute link  to  have a  fun time shakin the snow globe  and watch all those people  go flying around ..Shake the snowglobe

Have a Great Friday  everyone  and until later .. Happy Stampin!

 

Amazing Husband !

Today is  my hubbys  Birthday .. He is turning 39 today .. Yes I married a younger man ?  Not  alot younger just 1 year and 11 months younger  and boy  he reminds me  of that .. of course in a loving way .. YEA Right!  well todays plans   have changed as far as the card I  gave him this morning and the one that will actually go on his present .. Todays card  on my blog is the one I gave him this morning  and the  card from 2 postings ago( Bugs and kisses )  is the one what will go with his gift tonight  here is his card I made him for this morning . I cased  this from Mona Lisa on SCS  I love her card .. you can see her card HERE just so stinkin cute .. I used cool carribean  and orchild opulence  and black  cardstock .. for the  little racoons shirts( from the hip hip horray set) I used  the  wonderful weaves set  ( I stamped the  racoon in the  wonderful weaves  set  & for the orchild opulence   shirt I used a stamp from   background basics and then cut out the  shirts and attached it to the  image to  this card . The polka dots I used a pencil eraser  and I  also used  " wild about you " for the title for this card  and then If you look really close I used karen foster snap stamps for the tiny  "Birthday boy " under the image ( you may have to click on photo to enlarge  to see that little part )

the small size  from the karen foster snap stamps cant think of it right now  maybe the  1/8 font size.. humm I dont know  then I added some  doodles around the edges  also ..

Tonight  we will be going out to dinner to celebrate and my mom is going with us also ...

   This is what I will then  give him with his other birthday goodies  which will include  this Sour gummy  worm jar . I wrapped it all up with  the other goodies  we got him and stamped the  wrapping paper in the Bugs and kisses  set also .. I wish I had a photo of the actaul present all wrapped up so Cute  But I dont sorry

Ok On to my  amazing  husband , Father  & my Best friend.  Thank God for today .. Cause today My hubby was born . I am so blessed to have such a   awesome man  to share my life with.  Like I have said time and time again I dont think  there is anything my  guy can NOT do ..  well last night proved to be one those things again that my  hubby  can do .. you will never guess what it is  and I am  thinking I probably shouldnt say cause it may be really really gross to some .. BUT  those that have   doggies with  this problem you would understand .. OK stop twisting my arm  already .. All I will say is  has your dog ever had a  annal gland problem ? Not to sure if he did fix the problem BUT Hey  He gets a  Gold star  for  trying ( Cause I wouldnt  do it )to relieve Bowzer of this  problem  which seems to be every 6 months  and a trip to the vet for 12.00 for them to do this  Butt of a problem ..  see I told you he is  the  greatest .. even Bowzer thinks so ( now thats its done ) ( Ouchy  Poor bowzer )...But  with Labs I hear this is a common problem ..

Happy Birthday to my honey bunch today !!

Thanks for stoping by  and  checkin out my blog today . see you  tommorrow

Until later ... Happy stampin!

Update 11/16/06 10: 15pm : Here are a couple photos of  my Honey bunch  tonight at dinner ..  By the way we went to Old County  buffet  for dinner  and I got a photo of him with the OCB Bee  how cute is that ?  and then  the other photo is of him with the gummy worms  I gave him .. of course  we went as soon  as he got off work so  this explains the  dirty hat and  shirt  But he still is sooo handsome .. If I do say so Myself ..  Theres nothing like a man that likes to get dirty  right girls ..  you know what I mean too ...so get your minds out of the gutters Hee! Hee!    

I  made this card a few days  ago  for my Dear Friend Gwen  ( its already on its way to her and her hubby Kay )  Gwen lost her Mother-in law ( Kays Mom) this past weekend .. Its  tough  losing a loved one  No matter if your prepared or not.  Color Cardstock I used is Apricot appeal & Camero Coral  with Certainly celery  GG ribbon and cs  for mat as the accents . I used the  flower set  level 2 Hostess  Freebie  ( Springtime Stems )  and I also used  Aida Background  with of course a  little doodling  and a slight touch of Dazzling diamonds  for a added  eye catcher .. So if your  reading this Gwen .. Remember to Be surprised  when you get it in your mailbox  here shortly girlie  ..

Yesterday we finally  got our Hot tub cover .. I have photos of it on my camera But I have not finialized  the cd yet so I will post  them tommorrow.  Hubby and myself even got in the hot tub last night since we can lift the lid now  YAHOO!! ..  it was so nice. I love getting in the hot tub on cool  crisp nights  and turning on the  colored lights under the bubbly water .. Its just so relaxing.

Yet another busy day  today  making goodies for  my Craft show.  I was able to get alot finished yesterday   with  yet 2 new items I added to my  craft show list .. stay tuned I will post those later  this  week. Its   sooo exciting  to see everything come together  even if it is ALL  a BIG  mess on my craft   tables .. Trust me It is organized , at least to me  ( Chuckle )

I was able to  make hubby a little  gummy worm jar   yesterday simular to the one in the SU!  catalog  using bugs and kisses set  will post that later this week also just have to pick up  one more  thing for his  box of goodies  to be wrapped and stamped with the Bugs and kisses  set . I need to also go to the DMV to renew his  truck tags  today  YIKES! 120.00(  would be nice if we had a 50 % off coupon  for that   too Huh?)  .. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to do that .. I know , BUT   If I wait  until after  his birthday( tommorrow )   it would be 10 bucks  more,  so  DMV is on my list  today . speaking of  Hubbys Birthday ..  He got a awesome card from  My cousin Ruthie  & Kirk yesterday ( hand stamped of course ) I will post that  soon also ..  Awesome  Girlie!! Thank you !!

I havent used the 50 %  off coupon yet..  Nothing I am needing right at this time except more hours in a day  to give me more time  to  finish up these  things for my craft fair .. I will be recruiting my hubby and daughter this weekend  to help  with the rest of those santas  though

Thanks for peeking in today  and I will catch you all tommorrow ..

Until later... Happy Stampin!

Over Due!

Hi  Its me again :

I come  bearing good news . Here is the most resent coupon for Joanns 50% off this coupon is good through this Saturday  Nov 18th

Until later .. Happy shopping!

The next few days I thought I would take a break on posting  things I am making  my craft fair .. and  stamping " just for  the fun of it " is way over due ! So let me start with this  card I made  with my moms   brand new set set Bugs and Kisses .. I really like these colors together  Orchild opulence and  Cool carribean  with black accents .. I especially Love Love that Ant .. what is it ? he is sooo little and cute I wanted to stamp him all over .  For This  card I  used Crystal effects on the  grasshoppers eyes and the   dots on the upper and lower part of the  orchild opulence  bottom layer .. Very  faint you may  not be able to view  them crystal effect dots in this photo so click on photo  to make larger to view alittle better ( if you want ) .. I then added  tiny black dots with the SU black marker  around the 3 edges of cool carribean and also along one of the left  side on the orchild opulence  I then added Black GG ribbon  with a  staple  to the corners .... My Hubbys Birthday is this Thursay the 16th and this card started out  to be for His special day BUT  then   I made another one  which I think that the other  one will be  for  His main Birthday card ( will post it soon ) .. This one may be  a added bonous   and have it sitting on his steering wheel of his truck  Thursday morning . OK  back to  my  stamp room  and get those  C.F  ( Craft fair ) items made .. Thanks for peeking in today  and  I will catch ya tommorrow ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

Ben ! Ben ! Ben!

Oh my   Jessie was on cloud nine yesterday Not only  did we  go out to Lunch with Ben , Linda, Whitney, Jake,  & My Mom  But Ben came over  after  lunch and   stayed  until we went back to church .. Ben & Jessie  raked  our back and front yard and then my moms front yard , Here  is Ben and Jessie  raking our back yard . so cute  seeing her  all gushy around him ..  and of course  what would a day be without getting a picture with Bowzer.. I know Moms are always sneeky  huh? Jessie loves this photos of her 2 favorite guys ( Bowzer and Ben ). I  felt like I was spying  on them while they were raking ..  ya know taking photos from the  inside of the house through the window .. Ben is  a cute kid  I can see why Jessie likes him ..

Well here  are all the Santa wrappers I have finished so far .. I have a total of 16  Large ones done with 4 more to make  and I have 9 little ones made..ONLY  27 more to go of the little ones .

This weekend is such a blur it went by to fast .. We are still waiting on our hot tub cover  I will be calling on that today  and of course making  little santa wrappers  Once I get in the  assembly line frame of mind making these they go pretty fast .. You know  pre cut everything 1st , then emboss, the  put together .. this way seems to work the best for me . Since I am not big on  re- producing   tons of one item. It does make a difference  though when I know I have only  20 days to complete everything I want to ..YIKES!! thats to close .

Until later .. Happy Stampin!

Happy Sunday !!

Yes its Sunday ... I love our Sundays   Jammed packed with Church activites  and  getting to hang out with friends  Today Ben is suppose to come over ( OH happy day for Jessie )  But before  that we will be going out to lunch with  Ben &  Linda ( Bens Mom )  gonna be a good time We both are husband less since they are both also on the  pastor search committee and they will be together with 4 others  today  so it only seems like more fun to hang out with my  dear friend Linda today too right ?. .. Hubby and the pastor search committee will be going this  morning to see the   pastor canidate they had dinner with him and his wife last night .. Just keep praying .. yesterday was a  Craft show  making  day .. I made all my snowman poop bags ( so far 30 are done  want to make 10 more at least )   and  then I  started  making all those santa wrappers .. whew !! So much to do  its scary.. No Kidding   down to  3 weeks left I really need to  get busy and  start making everything .. BUMMER I ran out of Vintage black brads for my santa warppers eyes  SO Mad  I thought I had bought some  BUT nope   I need to order  them asap..  and of course the  demo site will be down today so I will order them  Monday  YIKIES!!  cutting close for time  thats for sure . Maybe my mom has a  package  I will ask her at church  this morning .. ( crossing fingers )

Friday night my friend Harriet became a grandma  again  her new  grandson Micheal Patrick  weight 7lbs 7 ozs..   I made the  candy wrappers and card for her  becoming a grandma  again ( it always seems grandmas are left  out  dont you think )  & I am waiting to  see if she  minds me putting the  photo on my blog of her and her new grandson  she sent me ( soooo beautiful)

UPDATE: Here is Harriet withher new Grandson Micheal Patrick

Yesterday I  got to vist with Philly .. Philly was  talking a while back and  said something about a fundraiser  her organization was doing  the  1st weekend of Dec . I then asked Philly if she would like me to donate  a basket of goodies for  the event  and she said she would love that .. so plans were set in motion.  I had done a couple of these types of funrasiers before  with this one  Philly is helping me out  In a big way ..  she has bought  some  goodies  also to add to the basket  then at the last stampers club meeting she comes walking in with this  big   organizer on wheels  this thing is awesome in size   and she  says here  is the  organizer I was telling you about to use as the basket for the fundraiser . WOWZIE!! who ever gets this will be lucky girl  its really nice  and lots of space  which we both agreed to filled the inside with paper to bulid it up so  we can lay everything on top  she has also  added to the basket  the snowflurries  set , 2 way glue pen ,  dazzling diamonds &  bone folder and also 8 handmade cards   .. I keep thinking of items to add to it so any more thoughts you can share  I would love to hear  them .. I added 2 past sell-a-bration sets, another  stamp set   which the name of is slipping my mind right now ( its right in front in the photo behind the santa wrapper ) a  catalog ,  info on SU!, business cards,  santa wrapper ( the baby one )  snowman , reindeer pop bags , a $10.00  GC, black ink pad,  sponge,  hot to dot wheel ,handmade cards ..   here is what it looks like so far .. Pretty  nice if I do say so myself Hee! Hee! after Iget my winter minis in I will add one of those also to this   basket.. here is a upclose photo of  whats inside the top part   when I am finished I will wrap it all up   really cute  Hopfully   she will raise a  bunch of money and maybe my basket will help out .. To fill the bottom of this organizer I just recieved that SU order this past  Friday  and there was a  small  box  just perfect for the very bottom of this   cart  then I used a little of the brown  stuffing  paper for the top filler over the box  and TA-DA!!  I love the catalog, and GC and info  brochure on SU! in the front clear pocket  pretty cute huh?  I want them to see they will get a GC also But they wont know for how much .. since I placed it behind the catalog ..

I had seen Taylors kid card kits she was selling  at her craft fair so I had to make a couple for mine too.. But I didnt use a tin I used a  small   cardboard box  simluar to a pencil box  But  1/2 the size  I have made 2 so far.. I cased Taylors  cause I loved hers so much .. and since I   announcing at my craft fair  that everthing is Made in the USA I needed to find  inexpensive  little crayons also MADE in the USA and I found them  at Micheals for 69 cents by Rose art  YAHOO! If I couldnt find crayons made in the USA for a reasonable price I wasnt going to sell these and just give them as a gift  to  a couple little people ..BUT I found those crayons YAHOO!   I made one boy one girl  & this is the boy set  Minus the crayons ( I didnt have them when I took this photo )  I  found a little notepad  that I covered and  also added 4  color  cards in 3x3 size  also stamped the envelopes for them to color .. Thanks all goes to Taylor for this FAB-O idea . Thanks girlie if your reading this ( kiss Kiss)

Well I need to get around here for church  My lesson this morning for Sunday school is   about those 3 boys in the  Firery furnace.. OK really 4 ( wink wink ) >  Sadrack, Meshack and Abindego ( of couse I am really  not spelling  their names right  but you all know who I am talking about RIGHT?)  very excited  about todays lesson ..   Thanks for peeking in today  and have a Great SUNDAY  everyone  and see you  tommorrow

Until later ... Happy Stampin !

Fun day yesterday

Remember  the squirral  eating my pumpkin on my porch  ..   well mom got her photos back  yesterday and  here they are .. They are  shot far away  so you may have to  click on photo to see larger ..  isnt   the squirral so cute ..  even though I dont like squirrals I must admit  this one is cute ..  the second photo looks like  the squirral is looking right at my mom  HUH?

My Moms   eye appt. went awesome  yesterday , she is seeing 20/20 with her  surgery eye  as of yesterday  WOWZIE Huh?  Just 1 day after surgery and already 20/20  it really blows my mind  all  this new technology  stuff  we see and hear about now a days.. Its just amazing .. But then again I  feel the exact same way about my  knee replacement I had 1 year ago this month ..Man times flys huh?  After my moms eye appt. Mom needed to go to Sams  and well since I had no car and I was her  driver for the day , I thought I needed to go also  and get some orange  juice, bottle water, bread, and cranberry juice( at least the was the plan )   Mom  was just wanting to drop off some  film to be developed ..( can you believe it .. she has NO digital camera and still uses the old  camera she has has for 20 some years  )  well I told her  she needs to get a  digtal camera like mine .. (she is a woman  who does NOT like change  ) well once I got her looking at them the digital cameras   it took her  maybe 5 mins tops to  say OK lets do it .. she got the Kodak  easy share  with the printing dock .. BUT get this  she got the whole package with the camera and dock for only 189.00  then she bought a  memory card for 49.95 that holds over 800 photos WOWZIE!!  so glad she did get this one so I can help her  hook it up and   everything  since its like mine  BUT hers is a 5 pixal thingy and mine is a  only 3.. What a fun day I had  Hanging out with my mom  yesterday ..

Ok backing up a couple days ago ..

My mom and daughter went to  the Great lakes crossing mall  and  while they were there  My mom bought me a gift ..  a nail kit ..  Most of you all know that  I  USE to wear acrylic nails  But I have been set FREE ..  I wear them NO more after over 18 years  Just took them off and havent went back .. I was wearing them before I even  went to beauty school  anyway this nail kit is just  AWESOME!! I may be enabler here  so BEWARE!! When she gave this kit to me I must admit I wasnt sure  of it myself since I usually get all my  "Beauty " things at  the  beauty supply ...  well let me just say this kit is AWESOME!!!  Here is the link  to Obey Your Body this site has many things check out that  dead sea mud masks ..( gonna have to try this stuff out )  But  its the Ultimate nail kit that I am  mainly talking about . It is cheaper  at the mall then here on the site The kits sells  for 29.95 at the mall  BUT the more you buy the cheaper it is at the mall keyosik ( sp?) she ended up buying 4 sets  and that  broke down to about 20.00 a kit  in the end )   .. Its  made from  dead sea  minerals , and plant extracts , This kit removes  ridges, stains , yellowness , and promotes  growth stronger and faster than usual,  helps prevents craking and breaking  and brings out the  shine of your natural nails  give it a try .. This kit is totally AWESOME and I love Love Love this Kiwi  hand lotion that comes in this kit .. I usually am a big  seller on Bath and body works lotion and etc... BUt this stuff truly ROCKS!!

ok back to yesterday .. See I  should have told you it was going to be one of those type of posts today .. sorry ...

Then I got  my huge stampers club order in yesterday  all my club girls  are so great and understanding  they all came over and picked up their orders since I was without a   car at the time ..  Hubby did  put new brake pads on last night  which you all  probably read my update  from late last night  anyway ..

I also got  time to stamp  I made this card last night for our Friend Andrews birthday on the 14th , Andrew and my hubbys birthday are only 2 days apart ( hubbys is the 16th ) No wonder they get along so good huh?  anyway . Guess what Andrews Favorite color is ?? YUP Purple ..  so you know me.. I love'n it !! This card I did something funky . I  added  little dots around the edges of the  main  image  mat and then made  tiny cuts with my scissors  inbetween each dot and fliped them upward .. pretty cool HUH?  Andrew is also our song leader at church ( Man he can sing )   and I  didnt want the typical  Music  Birthday card so I used  the  level 3 hostess set " Love it " along with tiny talk for the saying  " you're a star "

Ok one more thing  before this post gets way out of control  here is my snowman poop that I re- did for my craft fair . These will be MUCH easier to re- produce  in mass quanity ( since I want to make 40 or so of these also )  ..I used cold play and Inside are tiny  marshmellows..  I will post the  other things I did yesterday on tommorrows  post  since  this is getting to be Long and I dont want to  put you  to sleep  reading it for hours .. so stay tuned  for tommorrow post  and all the other goodies I did ..

Thanks for peeking in on my blog today and hope it wasnt all a Big Bore ... Until later ... Happy Stampin !

NO Driving today

UPDATE:   Look what I got  YAHOO!  Are you looking ??  look really close ..... your still not looking  hard enough...  I got new brake pads for my car YAHOO !!! I  got my wings back this evening and had to  quick and  let ya all know  My Hubby is the GREATEST man alive ..  you all now I think  he can   do everything ( except rebuild my hot tub cover )  anyway  he stoped at autozone tonight on the way home from work and picked up  brakes pads  for...get this > ONLY 18.99  for the  lifetime warranty ones too ,which by the way the car dealer wanted over $100.00  for  Forget that noise ..  By the time he got home it was  5:30 and you  know that   its pretty dark outside by that time... anyway I figured he would wait until tommorrow  ( which it is suppose to rain and then turn to snow ) BUT nope not my MAN  He  did them as soon as he got home, took him maybe a hour tops .. He is sooo great..  Just had to share  that  BIG event with you all ..  have to wait to hear about all the rest of  todays  events  tommorrow

until  later .. Sweet dreams of Stampin

Good morning  everyone :

Well  just par for the course  I suppose  Daughter and I were  driving home yesterday from picking her up at school  and   just before I got home   My brakes on my car  started making the  LOUD Gridding noise ..  YIKES!!  so I will not be  doing any driving today  with my car  since hubby will be replacing  my brake pads tommorrow ..   sad news  because I am expecting a HUGE Club order  today some time YAHOO ..  so I will not be  able to make deliveries today  MAYBE late tommorrow .. so all my  stampers club girls    if you want to you can come over and pick up your order  if you cant wait until Saturday .. I am sorry .. I will keep you  girls posted when the goodies come in  Okey dokey ..

Ok on to other exciting things like stampin right ?  here are  my finished poop bags ( I have a total of about 36)  I will sell these for 2.50  each .. Last night I was able to  make a couple snowman poop  bags using a different set then what I had planned on ..( to much coloring and  to many layers on the other design I had planned to do ) as soon as I  get a photo of the new snowman poop I will post it  ..

Here is a 3.5" X 5" little frame I picked up the lasy  3 of these at Meijers for 1.00 each    I  will be selling these also at my  craft show .. Not to sure If I like this one .. but you get the idea.. and the next question what should I sell them for ? any ideas ? I will be playing around more with these little  frames to see what I can come up with ..  I will keep you posted on these also

  I also made a  very simple  card for my Daughters piano teacher  for her monthly payment check ..  and this was what I made for her this month .. This is my mom set  I just think this cowboy  is sooo stinkin cute ..

Well tonight  Daughter will be helping out  at the church for  our Skate night  tonight .. We start  this event   back up this month  its usually the 2nd Friday of the month durning the winter months ..  Lots of fun for the   younger kids  ..  Skate night is FREE BUT  the kids have to say a memory verse  to skate  and  we usually have a theme night ..  Tonight   everyone is to  wear Orange.. Jess is looking forward to going  cause she loves little  childern But BEN may also be there too.. which by the way if it doesnt rain on Sunday Ben will also be coming over our house  to  help rake the leafs in the back yard ( again )  Jessie is praying For NO RAIN of course   and we will also be taking  him out to  lunch after church with  us also .. Jessie is  so excited about this weekend ..

This morning   we will be driving my moms truck to take Jess to school and  then take Mom to her follow up  eye  appointment ..  she did rest all day yesterday   I am so excited to hear  how her night went last night  and  hear how much better her eye will be  this morning .. Have a fabulous Friday everyone and see you tommorrow

Until later .. Happy Stampin !

Todays the day !!

UPDATE: Everything went just perfect . My mom is home she has 2 sets of drops to put in her eyes  4 times a day, and tommorrow I will take her to  the doc to have a follow up and see when she can take the eye patch off.. NO not your typical  Pirate eye patch this one is  clear  Looks really cool .. also The 3 hr  recovery time was a  miss  understanding ,   she was going to be there a total of 2 1/2 - 3 hours  this included the hour pre surgery also  so we were actually  out of there in no time ..BUT I did get all my tags cut out and put together   for my reindeer poop and a few poopy bags made Hee! Hee!  Her  eye is very dilalated ( sp?)  which is to be expected  other than that  she is doing GREAT!! ..Praise God ! Thank you for all your prayers  . she said the surgery did NOT hurt one bit she was awake the whole time and cant wait to do the other one  so she can see good with that one too ( which will be in Dec )  .Its truly amazing what they can  do  now a days huh?  Praise God!  Now off to check my emails 

Happy stampin!!

This morning  I take my mom in for her eye surgery .. she needs to be there at 7:50am and her surgery is at 8:50 am. The surgery itself is only 10 mins  But she has  to be in recovery for 3 hrs .  soooo while I wait in the waiting room here is what I have planned .. ( Reindeer poop, 30 of them) I got everything  colored, cut, packaged  up .. all I need to do it assemble everything together  so this is what I will be doing  while I  wait for my mom to be released   this afternoon .

so if you could  say a little prayer for her today I would appreciate it  also 2 other prayer requests..  My hubbys foot .. it really hurting him  and  also  for our Pastor search committee ,(  which my hubby is also on this committee )

They will be going to  meet  with a pastor and hear his sermon  this upcoming Sunday  at another church .  They  also have another pastor to  see and hear from in the next 2 weeks . It has been 7 months  since our pastor left and Boy has Satan been having a field  day with all of us .. I will spare you all the details , We Just need to really bath this in Prayer .

Thank you all for your prayers and your wonderful words on my  craft show goodies ,if everyone feels the way you all do on the day of my craft fair , Then I should do Great!  what an encouragement you all are to me thank you so Much  for visting my blog daily and leaving your wonderful  comments ( which I read every one )  I will be back later to day with an update on my mommy  Thank you all  so Much

PS: Did you see the last ( boo hoo! )  show of LOST until Feburary 7th last night  OH MY  Poor Ben  his life is in the balance , do Kate and Sawyer get out ?  and whats with the message on Echos Cane  I think I said  something about  looking up and  North then  it had a scripture of John 3:3  Have you all read this scripture ? OH my this is  soooo awesome !

John 3:3 ~Jesus  answered  and said  unto  him, Verily verily, I say unto thee. Except  a man be born again, he  CANNOT  see the kingdom of God.

Hallelujah Is what I say to that !

Until later ... Happy Stampin !

From Santa !

Good morning all

Lets start out this morning   with some fun  with the kiddies  shall we ..Imagine you  laid out cookies and milk for Santa  and the next morning  next to the empty plate of cookies and  empty glass of milk  was this .. I must admit Me and my family are not big supporters of the Santa thing  But many are so This will be my target  group for my craft show ..  This is what my BIG idea was  on Sunday   of course this is not the 1st  design I had made.. I will post that later .. anyway    inside  the basket/ holder  holds a  package of M&M's  and a  mini hersey bar  wrapper  w/ a  saying from santa ,  and  then the notecard from santa ..

the notecard says ..See you next year! and remember to be good  Ho! Ho! Ho!  Love Santa

The  mini hersey bar wrapper says:  Thank you for being the BEST kid in town . Love Santa

This was my consern  with the post I made yesterday with the angel policy stamp, remember ?  I will be able to just  add the angel policy stamp somewhere on the outside of my holder  and thats it .. Thank goodness..

You can view the goodies opened  here I will more than likely sell these  between  $4-$ 5 dollars .. all the items are stamped with the small snowflake  like the  From Santa tag  But for some reason  my photo did not pick that up .. and of course  lots of glitter  used on those cute santas .. markers  and CS used  was  real red and  Glorious Green ( which I NEVER use Right  Ronnie? )  I gave my Glorious Green  to  Ronnie when she need a couple pieces  well  for this project I used the scraps I had left .. so it looks like I will be using more of this color I NEVER had used before   BIG SHOCK for me thats for sure .. )

Ok here is the 1st draft of what my BIG idea was going to be ..  the magic word here is WAS.. The paint cans  even though they are cute   and my  thoughts to use them were  so that  the parents  of the kiddies were able to add more goodies inside also if they wanted to .. BUT  I will not make any more for my craft show  since this was to time consuming  I will stick with the above  goodies  instead.. OH yes One thing I want to mention  is the note card, & mini hersey  candy bar wrapper with note   that is included in the above will also  be  included in the paint  cans from Santa also .. I will charge more for the 2  cans I have  already made .. You cant see the sides of  this paint can But I added   SU!   beads to the  sides of the  paper where they over lap with Narrow white Oragndy ribbon  also ..

Enjoy your day and  thanks for Voting yesterday  .. Things didnt go the way I voted  but   I know who is in control of everything anyway ..

Until later ... Happy Stampin!

GO Vote today ...

Ok Here I was yesterday  stampin away and  I did  end up  making my  BIG idea BUT it wasnt going as planned , so I  did something else to get my mind off it for awhile  and made other goodies ..  This Past Saturday I also made another  item  for my craft fair  using the Best of cluck  set.. you know me  with my animals  huh?  Anyway I need to back track a bit .. My up up upline  Debbie gave me and my  Glitter Queens a  gift  when we went to Lansing  regionals ,  a magnet  notepad holder .. Her awesome  gift got me thinking  these would be cute to make them into post it note magnet holders  for my  craft fair .. so with that thought I just ran with it ..  and here is what I came up with .. I Dont have measurements  for this at this moment BUT really  it fairly easy  I did have to add a bit of  chip board  or something simular( I used the stuff that  comes with our catalogs .( you all know what I talking about right ?)  I cut a piece of this  into a 3x3 piece and   used sticky strip and put on the last  page of the post it note to give it   some weight  to it so it could  slide between  the slit cut outs I made, other than that you can make what ever  size you want  using the post it notes as your  focal point  .

Once I was finished  I added  2 strips of magnets  I was only going to ad one strip But  then I got to thinking maybe I should add a piece   towards the middle where my post it notes sit  so it will  stay put when  they  take off  a post-it  note . Here is what the backside looks like with the magnets .

Yesterday I  found out from DS ( Demo Support ) that when we  are selling items for our craft fair  especially those items  that  are like a paint can/ pencil boxes/ etc... that holds little things inside  we ONLY have to stamp the angel policy stamp  somewhere on the can or  whatever item your  making to hold a bunch of other goodies .. Thank goodness..  because  my BIG idea from Sunday  would be  kinda  in hot water  with its reciever  if there were these   SU! copyrighted  logos on everything .. ( It will all make  sents when you see what I made  which will be posted on tommorrow  I just have to give it  a couple final  touches ..)

Hubby has fractured his top  right foot .. we think its from lifting weights  at the gym ( Were  talking Alot of  weight like 1,000's of pounds .. Dont ask me why he does that .. cause I dont know, maybe  cause he is a goofball )   anyway  he went to foot doc yesterday  and  all he said was  stop lifting weights for awhile and wear this  certain inserts for his shoes ..( He wanted Rich to take some time off work ..Yea right like thats going to happen .. My hubby has never been one to complain and  he has never   had a sick day from work in our 18 yrs of marriage.. I think the only  time he will miss  work is when he is dead) If he would have kept on going the way his foot was , he would have broken it and  would have had to have surgery and  get pins put in ..OUCH!!  so needless to say at the gym last night  he didnt work on his legs ..

Today is the big voting day I am so glad this day will  be the end of all those ph calls/ commericals I tell ya ..One day I came home to 15 messages on my phone .. and NO kidding they were all from  the candidates .. make sure you do go VOTE today.. its your   U.S.citizen right and  your Voice does matter.

Thanks for peeking in today  see you tommorrow .

Until later ....Happy Stampin!

I Have a BIG IDEA!!

Well Yesterday while I was catching up on my sleep between church services I had a brain  storm of an idea  for my  craft fair ..  as most of you know My target  audience will be men and  small childern  and of course women too but  anywho you get the idea .. I will share my  idea with you  as soon as It makes it from  drawing paper  to  design and actual project .. I am sooo excited ..

Here is the  card I have been taking about that I  had my stampers club members make  a few weeks back for the Oct meeting  I loved it so Much That I also reproduce it  for my  ATC swap  with SCS  that " Jen " invited me to join in on  ( if anyone  is interested I am in Group 4  OH my lots of fabulous stampers  in my group I can hardly wait to see all their ATC designs ....  This  is a Very easy card Just lots of steps .. like the background, embossing , sponging, stamping ,  daubing..

So here is my finished  ATC card with the full size version ..I really love little sets like this to photograph seems like its makes it simple to  set up  and looks sooo cute .. Embossing resist is what  this technique is called . I used  clear embossing powder  with the petal prints  stamp set over top of the french script, and  Warm words ( Cherish ) onto Vanilla CS  .. I wanted to make sure my embossing was the   last  step since I wanted to have the  french script & the word Cherish  come through under the weeds ( or whatever you call then thingys )  I also used perfect plum CS  for the edge and ink for the  resist part and I also used vanilla  craft ink  for the outlined weeds and sponged all the edges of the sage shadow and perfect plum . For the background I used Aida BG w/ sage shadow ink on sage shadow CS , mated the  embossing resist image on pale plum  and toped it off with cream  GG ribbon  and a vintage brad  .. Like I said lots of steps But sooo worth it IMHO ( In My Humble Opinon) I really love the way  it turned out .

Today I must  make  the project  I was mentioning   at the begining of my post  so thats whats on my list of things to do today .. wish me luck ..  Because you know as well as I do sometimes things in your head dont  come out the way you planed ..  But then again sometimes it turns out better right ? Right ! Stay tuned

Have a Great day  and  thanks for peeking in today

Until later .... Happy Stampin !

Late to bed .. Early to rise ..

Hi everyone .. exciting news on the home front Daughter   had her 1st  baby sitting job  with my cousin Ruthie( which I shared with you all a couple days ago.. anywho  .. She  gave me the phone call to come home at 2:00  so I went and picked her up and  by the time My head hit the pillow my clock  said  3:33am I was going to post to my blog   very early  this mornin BUT well  the sleepy eyed monster got to me 1st .. so even though I  am up at 6:30am.. dont feel too bad for  me I did sleep on the couch last night for a few hours... OH my I dont know who was more excited to go babysit   me or my daughter ..  Daughter because  she loves Gabby and Kurtis  Or me because I was so excited to see Ruthie and Kirk dressed up  for their party they were going to .. Ok so without further ado. Drum roll please  here is what they dressed up  as .....

  Yup  are they the cutest and most popular couple you have ever seen in the whole world  or what ? .. Cinderella and her Prince Charming.. I told you  the costumes  they picked everyone would love who they  were going as .. How perfect ..

All I wanted to do is keep taking photos of them  all night .. But they had to go ..   But I do have to share one more with you ..Look at her glass slippers.. soooo stinkin cute I tell ya.  Ok  now that we visted  Fairytale land for awhile  lets snap back into reality shall we  Hee! Hee!

Yesterday  I made a  few things ..  and I cant tell yous How excited I am about my craft fair .. I think  I am most  excited about is making new contacts .. and then of course   selling my goodies would be in a close 2nd .. Yesterday I made this gift ensemble  BUT the only difference  this photo doesnt have  that the  set does have is another  card  so when you look at this set  imagine another  card exactly the same as the one shown here ...( BUT this actual set is a Gift for  someone  I wont say who  because  she may vist  my blog today ) Hee! Hee!  OH yes I will more than likely   apply  micro beads to my pen also when selling this set at my craft fair but  I didnt get to that part  yesterday .  My upline Debbie  B  sent us a cute photo of one of her girls (I believe)  that used this  title on her notebook and I fell in love with it so I cased the saying for mine  also ( Chicken Scratch ") pretty  cute  HUH? remember yesterday  me telling you how this Best of cluck  set was one of my old time favs WELL I  sure have been using it alot .. I think the reason I love it so Much  is(  like the froggie set, and my fishy friends set )  Is because   we have so many  cute catchy  sayings  to use for them ..I remember one year I made our Christmas cards  that used the fishy friends set and I  printed out the saying " FISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS " Oh my  how funny  Let me see if I can find that card from my  Archives...

Yup here it is..  As you can tell the scan is  not very good  and back then I didnt know how to ad my copyright  and name right to the  photo  so you can really tell its from awhile ago .. anyway  Just thought it was fun to share with you  anyway .. One other saying I loved to used for my  man cards with my fishy friends set is "FISHING YOU  A HAPPY BIRTHDAY " here is an older scan of the one I did  along time ago also .. This was  at least back around the time  of Orlando convention  a few years back,   since we learned how to use 2 colors with our fabulous brayer .. anywho... enough of my funny   animal, fishy  sayings.. I  really need to go get around for church  now  Thanks for peeking in and have a fabulous Sunday  everyone ..  see you tommorrow  same  time, same station

Until later ..." Fishing "you a Stamp Happy Day!!Hee! Hee!

Last night ...

Super fun last night at my Stampers club  meeting .. I thought I would post the other  item we made  long with the santa wrappers .. this  gift card holder  was cased from Gwen .. ( Thanks Gwen )  I couldnt find her measurements so I just winged it ...    for the measurements of mine  are 10"L X 4 1/4" W then  score at 3 1/4 on one end   and the other end score at  the mark right before  2 1/2 " ( you know me when It comes to  those silly measurements ) after you  did the cutting and scoring this will give you the base of your gift card .. Then punch a hole with 1/8 hand punch on each  side under the flap  to hold  ribbon. This ribbon serves as the closer . The hole  should be punched out  through the 2 pieces under the flap  so  then you feed the ribbon through the front side  to the back side  & then from back to front ( so the ribbon  wraps around the  whole  gift card in one piece )   I just love making   all kinds of gift card / Money holders seems I make alot of them ..

Today I have another stamping day ahead of me ..I ended up  hitting Krogers  yesterday  and  getting those Giant  chocolate  Bars  10 for $10 Thanks Jenny for the heads up on this  sale .. Boy have you ever realized those giant candy bars sure do range in different prices .. But I love the $1 price the best .. and I then got  the baby chocolate  candy bars at Sams club  Whew 36 bars for $13 something NOT to bad HUH .. Then my Dear Friend karen sent  me a whole sheet of whisper white  CS with the raindeer tag  covered all over  the whisper white  CS for me to use with my Raindeer poop.. This  raindeer is just perfect.. The raindeer tag is from the " Festive Favorites" OK Know I  am going to add this set to my collection  very soon .. especially before the holidays are over .. I think this is the one set that we can call the  "Sleeper set"  you know that one set that doesnt  do much for you  and then  once you see it and  all the things you can do with it ... Seems it starts to grow on you ..  every year seems  there is a "sleeper set " last year was " Best of cluck " &  Of course  its is still one of my favorite sets .. anyway I  will keep you all posted on my adventures today in my  stampin room ..  But before I go here is another  sample of  the same gift card holder template I used  above But just  alittle different  design  using the oval punch  ..  I used the Holiday tyme  DS paper again for this  holder along with the  Lg and Sm oval punch

Thanks for peeking  in today  & Have a Great Saturday!

until later .. Happy stampin!

Exciting Friday!!

Yesterday I was able to make this card I seen at regionals  Not exactly  sure what they call this card But I should do like it . I made mine  more on the simple side of things  with the snowflake spot , and  Hapiest of Holidays (  for the inside ). The finished card measures 4 1/4" X 4" I believe . I Cut CS at 4 1/4 X 11  score on both ends at 2 " and just past 3 3/4  then fold ends inward on score lines. thats pretty much it. 

Tonight Is my stampers club meeting ..I am so excited  about tonights  projects ( Dawn jumping up and down )  I have to show you something I made last night .. Have you ever been so excited about making something  that  you giggled the whole time making it ? well  this happened last night when I made  a baby santa wrapper to go with my papa santa  wrapper .. all I did was shrink the size down on my pattern to 70% and it turned out sooo stinkin cute .. The candy bar I used was the reg size hershey bar  you know that ones at the check out  screaming for you to buy ..Hee! Hee! I will sell the giant ones for 4.00 and the baby ones for 2.50  at my Craft show ..

Here is  another  photo of the  baby wrapper  with the candy bar sticking out . so stinkin cute ..

Also I got lots of comments on my squirral  episode even though I didnt catch him  red handed I thought I would at least show you  the pumpkin  and what he has done to it ..

My  famous squirral is your typical brown one .. I have not cleaned up his mess yet  since the squirral is more on the skinny side, I figured he may need  the food  for the winter. So I will leave it  for a couple more days .. I will  also  scan the 2 photos  my mom  got of him red handed  eating in it, as soon as she gets her photos back but until then look  at  the mess  so far 

Daughter is off school today due to parent teacher conferrence  ..  so we have a fun day hitting Sams club,  and  Micheals , and going to  a few dollar stores also  I am on a budget so I really need to control myself  YIKES!!.. Daughter also has her 1st real babysitting job  Saturday night   with my  Cousin Ruthies 2 little ones  she is sooo excited .. OH  yea My cousin Ruthie and her hubby are going to a custume party  and  guess what they going to  be dressed up as ?? stay tuned for Sundays  post  everyone .. you will fall in  love with them ... so fun and cute ..  Everyone loves who they are going as ...

We are down to the last 11 hours on the chevelle   still has not met the  reserve we put on it   still needs  another 12,000 to meet our asking price  .. I know it can get a little crazy towards the end .. Just praying we sell it  at least close to the  reserve price we want ...

Thanks so much for peeking in today , See you all tommorrow

Until later ... Happy Stampin

Just Chicken in & My Echo is gone and wheres that Squirral?

  Yesterday was a great day . I got lots done, Maybe Not everything I wanted to ..  Anywho , here is  something I did make  for my craft fair  yesterday  a post it note holder  with matching RSVP pen .I get my acrylic Frames at the Family Dollar  for $1 each ..  and I buy the  Staples brand of Post it notes .. Just as great as the  national brand IMHO.. I just love those chicken  feet prints going up the sides  makes me laugh ..

I found out why the Genie Bags are called Genie bags ..  Genie is  a screen name of Jen  on SCS  and she is the one that  started making these super cute "Genie" bags ..   As a matter of fact she is the one that  gave me a personal invite to her ATC swap on SCS .. Small world huh? All I knew is that I love those Genie bags  But didnt know why  they were called that .. So know we all know  huh?  Thanks Jen  AKA~ Genie1314.. I got my ATC swaps done for  this swap  yesterday also and sent them out to Jen yesterday also .I will post my  swap soon  I want Jen to be the  1st to see it ..  a BIG Hint .. My stampers club girls  at our  last  meeting we made  this  " Beautiful " card that I made into a ATC  size .. they will know which one I am talking about ..

BOO HOO  Echo died last night on Lost and  Ben has a tumor ? Jack  will decide if he will operate / or let  him die ... OR both .... HUMMM very interesting.. and whats  with finding another Hatch OH no someone else is alive  in the other hatch Or what ? I have to go watch  it again on ABC.com I was  busy through alittle bit of it .. gotta go get caught up on it all KWIM?

I have a squirral eatting my pumpkin  on my porch. My mom was able to get 2 photos of him But  that little stink pot  never is there when I want a photo.. He is making one BIG HUGE mess on my  front porch . Pumpkin seeds and  pieces of Pumpkin all over .. Seems he got a big enough hole in the top and now he just  is digging out the inside  and probably taking it to his nest  I will try to  get a photo today ..

Until Later ... Happy Stampin!

Finally..

  I finally got to use my FREE set " Because  of you " that I won at regionals  after playing family fued .. I really dont know what to think of this  card  But thought I would post it anyway  since I have nothing   else at this time on my camera  . I use elegant eggplant CS and my fabulous oval scallop punch , and coluzzle , The  white gel pen was used on the   side border and  for the dots  on my scallop punch . I also use the scallop oval punch for the little tag in the boytom right corner .. I just  cut the ends off the oval punch  and used as a  mat under  the  saying " Happier because of you ".. I used DTP for the main base  of card in elegant eggplant  and used a glue dot  to hold the GG ribbon behind the  small tag .

We havent  done the trick or treating thing in years  so  we went to dinner and a movie for our  yearly trick or treat time . We went to see the Prestige..OH my this movie was GREAT so many twists and turns    I do believe we must see it again to  totally  understand  the plot  But even so Me and Hubby have different  views on  how they did what they did.. It really makes you wonder how writters of these types of movies keep everything stright  , when we as  the movie goers get a little  confused.. I think this way about LOST also  such brillant minds to think of such a  Awesome plot .. speaking of Lost  Its that time  again ..YAHOO!

Thank you all for your emails and posts  about my Mom upcoming eye surgery .. She was in the office for maybe 5 mins all they did was take photos of her eye with a fancy machine  Her surgery is set for Nov 9th  she will get the call   about the time of surgery But our understanding is her surgery will only be 10 mins But she has a 3 hour recovery time  on the 9th. I keep telling her  how exciting it will be to actually be able to see  great when she stamps  with me  Hee! Hee!

Today I have a stamping day ahead of me I have lots to prepare for mainly my  stampers club I need to make out project worksheet  and  also pre cut everything  and then squeeze in some fun stamping for myself and my craft fair .. My Hostess Jenny has requested a gift card holder   for the other M&T on Friday night along with  the Santa wrappers that  I decided  to have them all make also .. Now I just need to   come up with a gift card holder design , pretty sure it will be  a Christmas theme  Just not sure yet .. .( Thanks Gwen baby )  Gwen  posted  a super cute gift card holder  that I  am totally casing  from her   Just need to  come up with a different  stamp design since I dont have the set she used ..  anywho .. thats the plan  for today ..  I also want to  finish  up my  ATC cards for my SCS swap I am in , and get those mailed  out to Jen  before the end of the week  also . Need to hit the dollar store for those  acrylic frames  for  my post it note holders for my craft fair also  sometime  this week.

It also is getting very exciting on EBay  with  the Chevelle  that we have on there we are down to the last 2 days and 10 hours  will keep you posted...

Until later ... Happy Stampin!