Sue's Stamping Stuff

House Mouse and Friends Blog Hop

2012-02-12T20:00:00.000-08:00

To find my post for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Love and Hearts Blog Hop,

Click HERE.

This sticky will stay on top of my blog until the evening of Sunday, February 12th! Hope you will join in!

WOYWW What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...#139 and SFYTT

2012-01-31T21:10:00.000-08:00

Tonight I am showing off a big pile of twine sitting on my desk. Yucky, frustrating, irritating.... I get so impatient I end up just pulling a piece and cutting it off. I found this great tip on pinterest! Wrap your twine around a clothes pin (bought the pins at The Dollar store ) When you finish wrapping the twine, tuck it into the "clamps" of the clothes pin and that will hold you twine or ribbon in place! I think it would be better to do this before you start pulling on the twine...too late for me LOL! This will be a perfect project while sitting and watching my favorite TV show!

So neat and compact...such a simple idea! Gotta love pinterest!

If you have a few minutes, stop by Julia's Stamping Ground and take a tour of desks from around the world!

And...here I am skidding in sideways finishing my SFYYT (sketch for you to try-January 2012) over at Jen's i{heart}2stamp. The last day of challenge!

Thanks for popping in today and welcome to all my new followers! Wow-weeee!

I hope to show you some fun Valentines projects if I can find the time this week!

Card details:
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Stamps: Penny Black Piece of my Heart Transparent set, Retired SU sentiment
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black (SU!) and the Crush Collection from Bo Bunny
Ink: Memento Black and Versafine Black
Copics:
Kitty: Greys C 2,3,5 R 14 and 20
Heart box: R 12,14,17 Ribbon R 81,83
Misc: red pearls, circle nesties, real red satin ribbon (SU!), twine, dimensionals

Outlines Monday Challenge-Follow Your Heart!

2012-01-30T02:05:00.000-08:00

The House Mouse and Friends Blog Hop is posted below this entry---- Click here.

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Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Follow Your Heart !

I fell in love with this week's sketch challenge over at Clean and Simple and immediately knew that it would be a perfect fit for these Outlines stamps! I used an Outlines tiny sentiment and these fun Valentine Posy Centers.

I used my new Sizzix hearts embossing folder on kraft cardstock and sewed that piece onto a white piece of cardstock. I used the slot punch from SU! and punched in to the panel. I added some red ribbon, twine and the tiny sentiment. I punched each Valentine Posey Center with a 1 inch circle punch and layered it on to a red 1 1/4 red punched circle. I added each one on to the panel with dimensionals.

I love the simplicity of this card and those posey centers--- aren't they great?

Cardstock: Real Red, Kraft (SU!)

Ink: Versafine Black, Real Red

Misc: SU! punches 1 inch and 1.25 inch circle punch, Real Red Satin ribbon, Twine

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Love and Hearts!

2012-01-30T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge!

We are so glad you are here and just in time for the First BLOG-HOP of 2012!! It's going to be such a treat because it's also the very first challenge in which all of our New Design Team Members are joining in the fun! :)

Our sweet teamie Christine chose the theme this time-Love and Hearts!

Heyyyyyy....where are the meeces???

don't DELAY! :)

Oh here they are the little pranksters!

A red version on top and a tiny pink (it really is red rose pink) version on the bottom.

I made up a couple meece Valentine cards...I really want to send some out this year so I am trying to make doubles of everything I make. I cut a pretty little silhouette file , added the meeces and then made a little embellished belly band to hold them closed! I love cards that come together so easily- and this one was a jif!

Check out the candy on some of the Teamies blogs that is up for grabs...( check each blog for their requirements). My requirement is just a simple comment and as usual, my followers who comment get a double chance-just let me know though!)

Win me!!!

We have wonderful inspiration and some yummy candy along the way, so don't miss out!

And we have wonderful sponsors of the hop as well!

House Mouse Designs- $25 Gift Certificate

JoAnna Sheen-Unmounted Gruffies set

Pink Gem Designs-Your choice of 3 digi's

Die Cut Dreams-a selection of shaped cards and stands-contact Susie

Priscilla Styles-$10 voucher for digi's only

Start the Hop here by heading over to "America's" Blog....

If you came here from Sue Dree's you are doing good! Your last stop is at Tracy's blog!

(In case you get lost along the way, below is a complete list of participating DT Members' Blogs)

We hope we have inspired you and can't wait to see your lovely creations! After you have completed the HOP, return to the main blog to enter your *LOVE* themed project for your chance to win fabulous prizes. :)

HAPPY HOPPING....

Card Details:
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Stamps: I Give You My Heart (Amanda and Mudpie) HMJR1024
Cardstocks: Riding Hood Red, Rose Red, Garden Green (SU!)
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
    Greens: G 20,21,24
    Pink Tulips: R 81,83,85, 89
    Red Tulips: Y 38, R 11,14,17
    Sky: BG 0000, 000
Silhouette file: card fancy occasion heart
Misc: Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon and Rose Red grosgrain ribbon, swiss dots embossing folder for the belly band, Martha heart border punch

WOYWW What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...#138

2012-01-24T22:41:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it is time for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday already! If you want to see what I am talking about, Hop over to Julia's place at the Stamping Ground for a peek!

Here's my workdesk...not a whole lot going on, did a tidy tonight instead of stamping. It has been a tough week for me and my heart is just not feeling very creative. I thought maybe if I went into my craft room and rustled some papers around I would feel crafty, but it didn't work. I did get some stuff out to make a couple DT cards due next week. I do better with a deadline for sure! You also see a pile of new stamps from Art Impressions and some new shimmery SU white paper waiting patiently.

Last week someone caught the fact that I moved my desk ...Yep, I moved it a while back when I bought my new desk. I need to get around to showing you it to you someday soon!

When I am sitting at my desk I have a veiw of this wall below...ribbon, Martha punches and a whole bunch of House Mouse stamps.
On the dressers I have my big kick on the left and on the right dresser is my light box.

I cut these cute little penguins with my new silhouette. My daughter and I cut out over 30 of these little critters for her classroom bulletin board. Worked perfect for her penguin math unit! We had a fun afternoon mixing and matching different colors of earmuffs, mittens and head bands.LOL! Of course I had to cut a couple for Lukey and Cole. Need to get these in the mail soon!

That's it for this week. I hope things get better next week...maybe I will be better about visiting...soon I promise.

If Today Was Your Last Day

2012-01-23T21:28:00.000-08:00

I woke up this morning to this song playing on my radio.

Nickelback's song titled

If Today Was Your Last Day

...I laid there and listened to the words..finding it a somewhat odd selection for so early in the morning. And then the same station played it again just a few hours later. I mentioned to my coworkers that this was strange to hear this song twice in just a few short hours.

Thank you Linda. Rest in peace my dear friend.

Outlines Monday Challenge-Feeling Blue

2012-01-23T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Feeling Blue!

I always think of winter or snow when I think of BLUE so here is my BLUE/WINTER creation for our Monday Challenge.

I finished this card waaaayyy different than I had planned, but I like it anyway! Turned out sort of fancy for such a humorous sentiment. I love this gorgeous Bo Bunny Snowfall Collection DP. It matches the Stampin Up Baja Breeze cardstock and ribbon perfectly! I am tickled as Baja is one of my favorite cardstocks!

I double stamped the sentiment and used part white and part blue and then added some dimensionals.

The card is on Baja cardstock and I have also used browns to compliment the pretty DP. I added an EK Success punched border, twine and a fun snowflake charm to finish this up!

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip (SU) and Bo Bunny Snowfall Collection

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Misc: Baja Breeze ribbon, Cappuccino Twine, snowflake charm, dimensionals

Happy Birthday Brother!

2012-01-19T23:02:00.000-08:00

Friday is my brother Richard's birthday! With all the happenings going on over at Bugaboo, I had to print up Gus and color him up! He and Stella were rockstars this week for the Bugaboo 2nd Birthday Bash.

My brother is always so handy dandy and helping me out around my house with repairs or projects so I thought this image was perfect for him. This image is called Gus Tidbits-WTF. I cut around the image and added it to the card on dimensionals. I also added his birthdate on the calender and stamped a birthday greeting on a hammer I cut out with my silhouette and chalked a bit. I might add some crystal effects to his glasses and call it good!

Hope you enjoy Gus as much as I do! Thanks for stopping by today...Happy Birthday Dinky!

card details:
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Stamps: Bugaboo Gus Tidbits WTF digi, Something to Celebrate (Happy Birthday) from SU!
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Kraft and Grey, DP by Basic Grey (life of the party)
Silhouette file: Simple Tools
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
E 00,11
C 3,5,7
W3,5
YG 93, 95,97 E33
E 31,33,34
YG 07
B000
Misc: Silver Pearls, Chalk, dimensionals,

Winner!

2012-01-19T08:38:00.000-08:00

A quick post this morning before I head out to work and fight the ice and snow! OH MY!
The winner on my blog of the wonderful shadow box frame and surprise purse templates from Creations by AR is......

Anja at Anja's Weblog! Congratulations Anja, you can claim your prize by emailing Adela at

creationsbyar@sbcglobal.net.

Thanks to all of you who stopped by to say hello and hopped along...it was fun, wasn't it?

Music Saves My Soul Saturday-or any day!

2012-01-18T20:56:00.000-08:00

Blame it on Jovi...I was going to stamp tonight and just fiddle in my craft room and I was browsing my google reader and stumbled on Jovi's Music Saves My Soul post...Now, I really wanted to start a Rob Thomas love fest (blame that on Carol L) because Jovi posted a Rob/Matchbox Twenty video...so I popped over to listed to some Rob video's. Boy that man has one of the most soulful voices!!! Makes my heart go pitter patter! Love his voice...as much as I love Daryl Hall from Hall & Oates (high school days!) and a new love of Jimmy Wayne. That boy is an inspiration in pulling your life up by your bootstraps! I saw him in a concert hall that held about 250 people just as he was hitting the big time. His life story is so inspirational !..What better video to show you today than Jimmy singing with Daryl at Daryl's House! And then you can pop over to other Daryl's House video's and watch Rob sing with Daryl...I am in heaven. I think I needed some soulful music tonight...I feel better just listening to some good tunes.

If you want to join in Marcea's Music Saves My Soul Saturday (you can post any day of the week!) Don't miss Rob on Jovi's blog and a real cool version of an Adele song this week that I loved!

WOYWW What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...#137

2012-01-17T22:30:00.000-08:00

Can you tell me I am having a hard time getting focused? I have finally started a wedding present that I should have had done last May...well within my 1 year limit LOL!

You can see I have started a vintage printer tray(struggling as it is not my style), finished my little heart shadow box with a wedding picture of Abby and Rick, got out some Bugaboo images to play with and a couple Mo's images too...lots of embellies for the printer tray, some Outlines stamps for next weeks challenge..and a list of cards due this month-- next to some dandy lindt truffles in case I need some energy LOL!

I think I am going to put away the tray and think about it for a while. It is straining my brain LOL! Maybe tomorrow I will finish my Bugaboo card, maybe not....Maybe I will finish my Outlines card...maybe not...

Take a few minutes and hop on over to Julia's house and say hello to the other WOYWWer's!

Creations by AR 3D Valentine Blog Hop!

2012-01-17T03:00:00.000-08:00

Creations By AR

New Releases!!!

Win two new templates!

3D Valentine Blog Hop

A pretty 3D shadow box Valentine for the new Mr & Mrs!

This is a sweet template created by Adela at Creations by AR. It is very quick and easy to cut, fold and put together! Truly can be made in just minutes!

I made this shadow box with some black and red cardstock and some printed DP from Bo Bunny. One of the things I love about electronic cutting templates is that you can manipulate them any way you want...change sizes, change layers, add layers, ---whatever your 'heart' desires!

I added an additional red layer between the black printed paper on the top of my shadow box and the black box itself. (I just resized the top piece a tiny bit smaller and then inserted it in between the box and cover sheet).

Here you can see how the shadow box has a dandy little stand on the back.

A few details about this box. The picture is of my daughter and her new husband.( I hope he doesn't get upset that I plaster his mug all over my blog LOL!!!! ).. I cut around a picture of their first kiss as husband and wife and added dimensionals on the back of the photo to add dimension inside the box as well. I did use a black pen to ink the edges of the picture so the white edges wouldn't show. I added a couple strips of Heidi Swapp rhinestones around the heart opening and added some "squiggly" ribbon and the perfect SU! sentiment.

(This template also comes with a square opening too.)

The new templates:

Shadow Box Frame Set

Surprise Purse

To see some wonderful examples of these new templates follow the list of the team from Creations by AR. Each team member will be giving away both templates and all you have to do to win is leave a comment on the blogs by Wednesday afternoon. Winners will be announced Thursday morning! Good Luck to you all!

Adela Rossol

Amy Park

Julia Moss

Lisa Somerville

Magdalena Cortez

Mandy Gill

Maria Bell

Patti J Gilliam

Sue Kment

project details:
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Stamps: sentiment from Love Matters by SU! (retired)
Cardstock: Black and Real Red cardstock, DP from Bo Bunny
Ink: Versafine Black
Misc: 3/8 Real Red ribbon from SU!, Rhinestones from Heidi Swapp
Box is a finished size of 4 x 4

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Black and White

2012-01-16T02:05:00.000-08:00

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Black and White

This card was very easy to make...basically all you need to do is stamp an image and slap it on some paper. I did stamp a small little hello friend sentiment on the mouse stationary. Easy!

I used one of my very first House Mouse stamps (back in the days when Stampa Rosa made them) I used my silhouette to cut out a postage stamp card base so I could carry on the stamp theme! Very fun and very fast. I actually made a couple of these to send out! This felt a bit like cheating just adding a "naked" image LOL...It was hard not to pull out the copics and do a little coloring! But hey, that might be cheating a wee bit LOL...I almost did it........hee hee

This is a challenge you all could find time for! Give it a whirl!!!

Take a peek over at our HM&F's Blog and see what the rest of the team has created! You will also get to greet our new teamies that will be joining in over the next several challenges.

Thanks for stopping in today. Scroll down to see my Outlines post----a pretty blingy Valentine!

card details
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Stamps: Signing a Card
Cardstock: Basic Black SU! and Bo Bunny DP
Silhouette file: postage_stamps_C00046_41853
3/22/2011
Ink: Versafine Black
Misc: SU! 1/8 inch ribbon,

Outlines Monday Challenge-Love Is In The Air, Valentine Creations

2012-01-16T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Love Is In The Air-Valentine Creations)!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge!

A super simple and blingy Valentine today for the Outlines Monday Challenge!

I am in LOVE with the crystals from Outlines. These stamps are made so that you can add Swarovski crystals everywhere for a special touch of bling. It literally takes seconds to add them to your creation! You can see how it's done HERE.

Take a peek at all the pretty layers and peridot Swarovski crystals.

Thanks for stopping by today!

card details:
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Stamps: Tattoo Heart H-915
Cardstock: Rose and Celery from SU! DP is misc paper from SU! as well.
Ink: Memento Black,
Copics:
R 81,83,85,89
YG 03,11
Misc: Certainly Celery ribbon (SU!), Peridot Swarovski crystals, dimensionals and glue dots

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #136-RAKS

2012-01-10T23:12:00.000-08:00

Well It is What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday over at Julia's today. (Tuesday night on the west coast of the USA).

I don't have anything of my own to show you today because I went to play BUNCO (a dice game) tonight. You can see my clean desk did not last too long, although it would be a 5 minute clean up just to put my copics away and mail the box of Outline cards to be displayed at Conventions. Not much of a snoop I am afraid!

I was hoping to do a wrap up of all the wedding stuff, but maybe next week! I promise to finish all that good stuff soon!

I thought maybe I would show off some of my wonderful RAKS I received over the last month!
Enjoy!!!!

Curt O'Brien from Curt's PlayHouse

Charla Fraley

BRAK from Yara Baird

BRAK from Barb Nesta

RAK from Shirley Nakaima

BRAK from Terry Serman-SCS

These wonderful creations remind me of why I started stamping...I am tickled to receive such wonderful RAK's! Thanks to all!

Sue

Outlines Monday Challenge-

2012-01-09T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Winter Wonderland (snow or winter themed)!

When I first saw this branch stamp I fell in love with it. It is so delicate and I can see lots of possiblities! Since this in a Winter/Snow theme I added some polar white Flower Soft to "winter" up this card. This little addition added so much...Love the pretty look of it. Unfortunately we have not had any snow this year, but there is still hope!

The background is from the Silhouette store-snowflake background. I added dimensionals on the image panel to raise it as well as the little red chirper!!! The snowflake is from a cricut cartridge. The little circle heart is also an Outlines stamp. The bird is cut from another Outlines stamp...That's 3! (see links below)

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge!

card details:
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Stamps: G37-Tree Branch, l-1144 Birdhome (bird), F-1141 Valentine Posey Center
Cardstock: Marina Mist, Real Red
Cut files: Silhouette Snowflake background, Cricut snowflake from When It's Cold Outside
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Black
Copics: E42,43 R 24,29,39
Misc: 3/4 and 1 inch SU! circle punch, dimensionals, Flower Soft Polar White, red stickles
Card size 5.5 x 5.5

Silhouette Get Well Card-A CASE from Meg

2012-01-08T14:22:00.000-08:00

I saw this creation made by Meg at Corgi Creations. She's a talented crafter and boy can she give her Silhouette machine a work out! Her creations are so inspiring! This is a CASE of a card she made and I could not get it out of my head. I love 3D cards! She has a template she shares on her blog so pop on over and give it a try!

I have a couple of dear friends that have been under the weather, so I made these cards into get well cards with my banner sentiment. They are a little hard to read in the pictures, but in person they show very well.

Looky---even the doors open

This is what it looks like when the card is closed. (It doesn't really stay shut like this very well )

I had to try a couple different paint jobs on the houses! Everything was cut with the silhouette except the little Penny Black puppy I had to add!

The best way for me to learn, is to hop right in and try making something like this. It helped me get familiar with the Silhouette software-which I just love! Thanks Meg for sharing your inspiration .

card details:
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Silhouette files: Meg's files, Silhouette picket fence, detailed house card kit
Stamps: Dog from Penny Black--Stay!!!
Cardstock: Kraft, Certainly Celery, White, Rich Razzleberry, DP from SU! Cottage Wall

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #135 The Peanuts Gang

2012-01-03T23:39:00.000-08:00

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday! #135

Well, this week my desk is much cleaner! I have been working on some serious de-junking and cleaning of my crafty space this week. You can see I have been working on the card posted below. My beloved Oregon Ducks college football team won the Rose Bowl yesterday...Whooopppeeeee! I know my friend Kecia won't be so happy about that...so I will have to make sure she gets a peek of this lovely yellow and green celebration card LOL! Hey Kecia!

Lots of little snoops to see on my desk this week as there is a little more order to be had. I am still trying to figure out where I want to place everything on my new desk, so it will probably look different every week for a while...decisons, decisions! If you look carefully, you can see a one eyed Mickey Mouse (where did that eye go?) and a bottle of etching cream ---I am going to try to etch a mug-any tips for a first timer?

I made this Peanuts gang card in celebration of the Oregon Ducks win at the Rose Bowl yesterday....GO DUCKS! HA! That does sound a little funny to anyone over the pond...I mean DUCKS? Normally not too ferocious right?---- but I tell ya, our OREGON DUCK football team was ferocious yesterday! WOOHOO!

I started out getting ready to make this image into a New Years card, and finally decided to go with Yellow and Green, Oregon school colors! I made a few additions to the image (adding an O to a shirt and sleeve stripes on Lucy's shirt and and little Nike swoosh on Charlie Browns shirt(oops I mean Chip Kelly's shirt!) Perfect timing to dig this stamp out of hiding!

Well, it is late and I am off to beddy bye! If you get a few minutes, stop by and say Hello to Julia over at The Stamping Ground and see what everyone has sitting on their work desk. Always some fun surprises each week!

I am tickled to have this card listed on the Favorites of the Week ending January 8th, 2012 over at Splitcoast Stampers HERE!...WOO HOO!

card details:
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Stamps: The Peanuts Gang JR1011 by Stampabilities-sentiment computer generated
Cardstock: So Saffron and Green Galore (SU!)
Silhouette file: Banner
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
Y- 15,17
G-17 64
E-00,11,13,33,35
C-02,03,05
YG 03
YG0000
W 01, 03
Misc: Nestie tag, green pearls, SU Sizzix alphabet Naturally Serif

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Something NEW!

2012-01-02T02:05:00.000-08:00

We're back! House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge is back for 2012! Although we all enjoyed a wonderful holiday break, it is always nice to get back to the ink!

For this challenge, we are asking you to use the theme NEW! That can be a new stamp, new papers...pretty wide open! In my case-I have a brand spankin' new baby nephew born December 23rd, so this card is for little Nicholas. Welcome sweet baby!

Now, I know if you have followed the last several posts, you know I have a new Silhouette machine(an electronic cutting machine) so you had to know this was coming LOL! I have had so much fun playing with my new toy. I really love the software it comes with too! It is sooooooo easy to use! I struggled with Cricut/SCAL as I am not too techie, but this software was so easy. Of course, I have the benefit of knowing SCAL so I am sure that made my learning curve much easier.

I used several files from the Silhouette Online Store and a sweet Stampin' Up! sentiment!

Feed Meeeee!!!!!!

I hope you can join us for our first challenge of 2012!

Our sponsors this week are Simon Says Stamps and Pizzazz A Plenty.

I have two posts today...don't miss my pretty Outlines card Here!

card details:
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Stamps: Yaaaawn(Itty Bit) HMGR1018 and Little Angel by Stampin UP!
Cut files from Silhouette : Crib Set 1, toys
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Bliss Blue, Real Red, Blue, Green, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, Kraft
Ink: Memento Black
Copics: E 40, 13,00 R20
Misc: Swiss dot embossing folder, SU plaid ribbon, dimensionals

Outlines Monday Challenge-A sketch

2012-01-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -A sketch challenge!

No news here...I LOVE sketch challenges! This is a very cool sketch and perfect for what I had in mind. I used some lovely MME papers, and a tiny Outlines sentiment. I added some pretty ribbon and some twine to finish off the vintage feel. Hope I pulled it off!

I love that fact that you can make a pretty card all around a tiny little sentiment like this. I know I say this every time, but I do love these tiny sentiments...they are easy to either sneak in on a card, or make as the the center of attention!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge!

If we are lucky, we may be introducing a new DT member tomorrow! Welcome Julie Warner -The Write Stuff!

Card details:

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Stamps: Tiny Have a Great Day AA-863

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, My Minds Eye Breeze Designer paper

Ink: Memento Black

Misc: Vanilla Satin ribbon from SU! and Cappuccino Twine, brown pearls, EK Success border punch

Year In Review-2011

2011-12-31T16:24:00.000-08:00

Karin over at "i" for paper is sponsoring a year end retrospect of your favorite projects each month of the year. Boy, it it hard to pick faves...but here are a few of mine. I had a hard time picking. ....
Enjoy!

January-Go Ducks....hope they win this year! Go Rose Bowl on January 2nd!

February-filled these paper sack hearts with candy and sewed around the edges.

March-oh so bright and fun...you know I love my meece!

April-one of my favorite layouts.

May-a fun paper pieced police car for my son-in-law. Pattern by Lynn Pratt

June-Ask me how much I love Peanuts and the gang. I need to get these out again!

July-I love mini albums. Made this one using Amber Ink digi train set.

August-I made this one for my Dad's birthday. Watermelon is his favorite food ever!

September-I made this little cupcake stand for my daughter Abby's birthday.

October-Dollar store creations full of Halloween treats! Outlines stamps.

November-I made this brooch bouquet for Abby's wedding. It is stunning! Not stamping, but it was crafty!

December-Outlines Carolers.

And Oh, don't miss tatertos & jello's year end wrap up party...so many cool ideas!

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #134

2011-12-27T23:01:00.000-08:00

Another What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday rolling around. Nothing much new to show you...I really wanted to have my new desk all tidied up and organized before I took too many pictures of it, but by golly guess that is not happening anytime soon, so here you go with all my "works in progress" mess. Right now I am going to finish up a baby card for a new great-nephew born a few days ago. Another Christmas season baby like his Mama and Aunt Susie. I still have remnants of every card I have made this month and every card I wanted to make and did not finish up.

I just need to clean and organize...what's new....?

Hard to get motivated to clean and organize with this new toy sitting next to me...(a Merry Christmas gift from my Sweetie)...so guess there won't be a whole lot of cleaning going on...more like a whole lot of blog surfing to try to figure this out...techie I am not!

I get so much inspiration from my blogging friends Deloris, Larissa, Cely, Cheryl...so love their cutting machine creations. Go check out their inspirations! I hope I don't go on brain tilt trying to figure this out! ETA: And OH MY...don't miss Meg as well...she can really inspire!

See You All Soon!
Sue

2011-12-26T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Holiday Thank You Cards

It is time to send thank you cards for all those wonderful gifts you received over the holidays! I was happy to be able to use some of this fun DP from My Minds Eye to show off this classic Thanks stamp from Outlines. This card was pretty fast to make...I just layered the MME papers and used my Martha Stewart reindeer punch...a perfect compliment to the reindeer paper. I even added a Rudolph nose on the lead reindeer. It is hard to tell in the top picture, but you can see it a little clearer on the bottom picture.

I added a band of Riding Hood Red Ribbon and the Thanks sentiment up on dimensionals. Fast and easy!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa,  Sandy and Robin !

Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge!

This is the last challenge for Sandy and Robin, so please take a few minutes and pop over to say Hello/Goodbye-job well done! Next week we will be introducing a new member to our group!

The winner of my blog candy from last week is Donna from Indiana Inking. Congrats Donna-Please email me your address.

Card details:
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Stamps: Thanks (c-261)
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla and MME Darling Dear designer paper

Ink: Memento Black

Copic: R 27

Misc: Martha Stewart Reindeer punch, gold cording, Riding Hood Red ribbon

Merry Christmas to You all-annual woodcraft project.

2011-12-25T22:24:00.000-08:00

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

I hope you enjoyed the holidays and family-I know I did.

Now that the holiday is wound up-I can show yous my annual Christmas wood project. Of course, after a busy season preparing for a wedding, I had to pick out something easy to complete. My crafting buddy Jill and I saw this on the Lowe's website and decided we could CASE this easily.

You could use a clip board, but we are always trying to keep our costs down, plus we love taking a saw to wood for our annual craftiness. We used 1/8 MDF board that we bought at Home Depot for something like $4 or $5. It came in a 2x4 piece of wood. We cut our boards to a 9x12 size -you can get 10 boards by cutting this size. FYI-(clipboards are 9x13). We drilled 2 holes at the top so we could feed the 1/4 or 3/8 inch ribbon through.

We painted one side with chalkboard paint, added some faux stitching with a Krylon red paint pen (chisel end) and a fun holly berry/ leaf svg from Creations from AR. I also used some of the glitter dots I made that I showed you in a previous post HERE. We used buttons on some of them as well, just for a different look.

For a finishing touch, we tied the chalk on with some sisal string. We left the boards blank so people could write their own Holiday message before hanging it up. . We always wrap up our projects in clear cellophane and tie it up with some pretty wire edged ribbon. This year we set a plate of cookies on top of the wrapped board and added the ribbon. A combo deal LOL!

Again-Merry Christmas to you all!

WOYWW What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...almost

2011-12-21T23:01:00.000-08:00

Yep...this was my workdesk yesterday...tables of cookie trays being made up and packaged for gift giving. My friend Jill and I each bake cookies and then get together with our tins of cookies and make up these yummy plates of goodies! We always think we are going to be short of cookies, but when we get to making up the plates, these is always more than enough! I am a wee bit late with my What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday post, but it is still Wednesday here on the Pacific coast in the USA, so I am still squeaking in!

Here is a cute little box that I made with the pizza box template from Creations by AR. I sized it down to hold 3x3 gift cards. I love making fun little projects like this. This box holds 3 cards and 3 envelopes. I made each card a little different and colored the fun holly with different copics as well.

I know this week will be busy for us all, so I will wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!

Card details:
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Stamps: Imaginisce Holly, Hero Arts Sentiment
Cardstock: Kraft
Ink: Versafine Black
Misc: SU! red ribbon, dimensionals, SU 3x3 envelopes
Copics: I will try to remember here...........
R 22,24,29,39
YG 61,63,67
YG 07, 21, G 07?
G 40,82

Outlines Monday Challenge-Let It Snow and Blog Candy

2011-12-18T23:53:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Let It Snow

My Oh My...I almost forgot it was Outlines Monday! Goodness, that would not have been a good thing!

I know you saw this same cute snowman last week, but guess what??? I forgot about the blog candy I wanted to give out with last week's card so I made another card with the same stamp this week! (hmmm, I think there is a lot of fergettin going on LOL)

I was browsing Michaels on my last trip to the big city and found this stamp and thought I would get it to share with one of you! This is one of my favorite Outlines stamps...I love snowmen!!!

It is late here and for goodness gracious my blogger text is stuck on red tonight LOL...I decided I kind of liked it..
Merry Christmas!

All you have to do is leave me a quick comment here on this post. I will draw for a winner next Sunday 9pm PST. As always, if you are a follower you get two chances, just don't forget to tell me.

I want to wish you the Happiest of Holidays this week. I hope you all get to relax and spend time with your family! I am looking forward to seeing all my family and especially my little grandsons. Can't wait! See you next Monday for another Outlines Monday Challenge!!!

I used the sketch from Jen's SFYTT December here.

I have completed all 12 of her sketches this year...whoopee, I did it! You can see all 12 here.

Card details:
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Stamps: Zarek the Snowman , sentiment is LOTV

Cardstock: My Minds Eye 12 days of Christmas--- Christmas Designer papers and misc red paper

Ink: memento black

Copics: YG14(nose) 21,25 ,
BG0000
R 81,83
E 31,33
Y 21
BG 01, 02

Misc: pink pearls, Twine (Outlines now carries great colors), fluer de lis motif nestie.

Day Eight of 12 Days of 3D Christmas

2011-12-14T22:43:00.000-08:00

Welcome back for Day 8 of the our 12 Days of 3D Christmas at Creations by AR!

Today is my turn to be hostess and I chose to use the gift card cut file, and do you blame me!??!!

Tis the Season!

I know you are are as busy as I am, so I chose to make a fast, easy and very cool gift card! I fell in love with this the first time I saw it posted. I love how it folds up and can be used as a tag and a gift card and hung right on the tree or tied onto a bag or present! I have several special friends that I wanted to give a Starbucks gift card to so I made THREE of these to show you today.

I downloaded a freebie font called Lynda Cursive and cut out the initials. I ran my letters through the Xyron(do this with your letters upside down so the sticky gets on the front of the letter) and then dipped them in some sparkly Martha Stewart red glitter. I attached the letters with dimensionals. To complete the gift card holder I added a few pretty punched snowflake elements and I was done!

A quick peek inside the open gift card...(sorry for the dark picture.)

Each day there will be a different promotion, so make sure to keep checking Paper Craft Planet group each day to see the great projects posted!

Leave a comment on th PCP page for a chance to win this template.

For those of you without an electronic cutting machine, this gift tag comes in a file for electronic cutting machines as well as PDF's for those who like to whip out their scissors and create!

You can find all 8 days posted so far HERE!

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #132-Cookies

2011-12-13T22:12:00.000-08:00

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday.

It is Wednesday across the ocean but really Tuesday night for me, so here is what I have been working on today! Cookies and Cookies and more Cookies!

Today is my annual birthday cooking day. I take my birthday off of work and turn on the Christmas tunes and bake away. A soothing way to end a few days off of vacation. It is back to work for me tomorrow! DRATS!!!

If you want to see some of the cookies (or recipes) I make each year, click HERE.

I went to spend a few days with these characters!!! Little Lukey was not too thrilled to be so close to Santa! This is the best pictures of all my efforts! Gwamma saved him though!!! LOL

Little Lukey-22 months old

Cole-4 years old. He wanted to pose like this.

It was a great visit and ended way too soon. It is always hard to leave them in Eugene and come back home. A great visit as always-Thanks for the Olive Garden lunch Erin and Matt! I will hopefully see them next week for the holidays too!

Hope you have a few minutes to pop on over and say hello to all the dedicated desk flashers! Stop in and say Hello to Julia too.

Outlines Monday Challenge-Shiny and Bright

2011-12-12T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Shiny and Bright

This week we are asking you to make it shine and sparkle using metallic papers and crystals.

It was veryyyyyyyyy late when I started this card, and all I wanted was to be snuggled down into my bed. In my attempt to make a fast and simple card, I really struggled in how to add the shiny and bright into my card. I was just stuck on this pretty paper (definitely not shiny or bright) I finally remembered some fancy red mirror paper I had. I used that for my SHINEY and BRIGHT! I used very pale colors to highlight my snowman-had to make it fast and easy as my brain was already on tilt LOL! (did you noticed the upside down trees ???LOL)

I hope you can add a little Holiday Shiny and Bright to your creations and join in our fun this week!

Card details:
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Stamps: Fancy Frames, Zarek the Snowman and Script Happy Holidays.

Cardstock: My Minds Eye Lost and Found Christmas Designer papers, basic black, misc red mirror paper

Ink: versafine black, memento black

Copics: YG 91,93, R000, 39 E30 BG0000 (I think that's it)

Misc:: 1.25 inch striped ribbon from SU!, dimensionals

12 Days of Christmas at Creations by AR

2011-12-09T08:43:00.000-08:00

A quick note to let you know we are showing off some fun Creations by AR over at Paper Craft Planet. You won't want to miss out on some good coupons too! You can hop on over HERE!

WOYWW #131-Rudolph Reinbeer and Rudolf the Reindeer Candy Bar Wrapper

2011-12-06T22:05:00.000-08:00

Welcome to another What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday ....#131. Julia is working this week on her organization skills, so lets all hop over and see what she has done with her desk and her list too! This project literally just came off of my desk tonight. I am purposely not showing you my actual desk this week because I want to surprise you and show off my new desk, but I want to work on my craft room organization first , so it may be a few weeks because of the Christmas rush. I still want to finish showing off the rest of the wedding project too...maybe I can finish that off next week!

I saw these Reindeer candy bar wrappers on Splitcoast and had to re-create them. Aren't they just festive and fun? They take about 10 minutes to make them all. I know a few little ones that will be tickled with these! I just wrapped the candy bar in brown paper- The eyes are 3/4 punches with the black piece using a 1/2 inch punch. The brown part of the nose is the 1 3/8 punch from Stamping Up and the red is the 1 inch punch. The little "hair" on the top of the reindeer's head is half of the SU! round scallop punch. I used a Hershey plain chocolate bar inside and added some brown pipe cleaners for antlers(attached with glue dots inside the brown wrap). It would have been fun to do a little sponging, but I wanted to make these really fast and easy.

Then I helped my crafting buddy Jill make a six pack of Reinbeers.

Just kidding.

Here is the whole herd! After I took this picture, I see these Reinbeers look like they may have already hit Happy Hour...their eyes are pretty wonky. LOL Jill is going to give her six pack to her nephew...and I am going to make one using a six pack of rootbeer for my son. I found this idea on Pinterest! So many good ideas on there. If you have not experienced Pinterest...you must!

I just wrapped a brown fuzzy pipe cleaner around the cap, added a few small pieces for the spikes on the antlers, glued on a red nose and of course the wonky eyes LOL! They are a little bit of a booger to put on because of trying to put hot glue on those little eyes. Hotsy on the fingers!

Thanks for stopping in today! See you soon. I am heading off to see my grandsons this weekend and do a bit of shopping too! So looking forward to some Gwamma hugs!

Outlines Monday Challenge-Tags

2011-12-05T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Make a Tag

I just love Christmas time!!!

I am usually so busy with my annual woodcraft project and cookie baking to do too much in the papercraft department, so I am enjoying making these fun stamping Christmas creations. I made these tags using images from just ONE Outlines stamp! It was love at first sight when I saw this Christmas Carolers stamp! It is so very versatile.

I cut out the tags on my Cricut, using a svg file from Lettering Delights named Delilah Tags. I colored the Carolers and then cut each one out and added them on to the tags with dimensionals. I added some pretty gold ribbon that I think is May Arts...some I have been hoarding for just the right project!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin !

Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge!

tag details:
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Stamps: Carolers H-818 by Outlines Rubber Stamps
Cardstock: Real Red, and misc music paper that I forgot the name too..oops..
Die Cut: SVG from Lettering Delights-Delilah Tags
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
Greens: YG 61,63,67
Gold: YR 21,23
Reds: R21,24,29,39
Browns: E 42,43 33,34
Face: E00,02,R20
Misc: May Arts gold satin ribbon, Marvy snowflake punch

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #130-Wedding and Glitter Dots

2011-11-29T22:42:00.000-08:00

Just a quick What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday! post! Showing off the wedding favor I made for Abby's wedding.. I used plain paper bags and punched the edges with a pretty Martha Stewart punch. I stamped Abby & Rick(with Just Rite alpha stamps) on the clothes pin that held the tag onto the bag full of candy. The tag is just a manila shipping tag stamped with Chocolate Chip ink and the perfect Stamping Up sentiment. We ordered a bunch of bulk green candy online to fill the bags. These were easy to make and looked very cool sitting at all the table place settings at the wedding.

The next picture is actually what my crafting buddy Jill and I are working on now...our annual Christmas gifty project for family and friends. We needed a bunch of "holly berries" for our project but that seems to be a bit spendy considering the quantity needed to complete everything so we got creative and made them!

To make the glitter dots, use your glue gun and leave small dots of hot glue(try to keep them small as they tend to spread a little) and then cover with glitter. Let them set up for a few minutes to harden. I used this super fine glitter from Martha Stewart. This picture is actually taken after we picked the dots out of the glitter....that was a wee bit of a pain. You may need to trim the glue gun strings off of some of the dots, but they really turned out great!

See how fun and glittery they are?

I missed out posting last week for WOYWW, so I am trying to get back on track in this week! Hope you can stop by and say Hello to Julia and the rest of the crowd.

If you are looking for the blog hop for Creations by AR click HERE!

See you all next week!

Creations by AR blog hop-Come join in!

2011-11-29T00:01:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone! Today I have some fun projects to show you and a fun blog hop to join in!

Soup and Breadsticks!

I am tickled to be joining the team at Creations by AR. Today the team is having a BLOG HOP to show off the brand new Crafter's Apron file.

I really had every intention of making this fancy schmancy Christmas apron with candy canes and/or red and green M & M's, but darned if it just kept calling to me to make it a simple MAN project. I think this would be a great gifty to give to a guy, don't you?! Soo...I went with "man" colors and skipped the festive plans for this one...

I had the perfect dp from TCP, added some brown ribbon and then cut out the actual recipe from the soup mix box and tied it to the front. Really, really easy!

This file comes with an insert as well that holds tubes that you can fill with goodies.

You can find these at her store in clear , colored or oval should you want to use them with this file.

I am so busy this time of year, so it is important to me to be able to whip up a project quickly and have it look great. These really are quick and easy-and they look so professional!

And here is where "Christmasy" kicks in! LOL
I could not resist the urge to make something Christmasy for my second project!

I made this fun mitten mini album with the new Winter Mitten Set. If you size this mitten small, it makes a great little ornament for the tree, but I chose to increase the size (for both mittens together in SCAL I used 10.660 x 7.545 for the mittens and 4.223 x 3.813 for both cuffs cut together) to make a quick and easy mini album for my daughter and her new hubby. Now I am itching to make one for each of my grandsons too. Don't you think this would be cute to add their pictures, a Christmas list, maybe a Christmas tree or a hand drawn Santa picture....Lots of special memories can be shared in here!

I cut the sentiment in SCAL. I also used a cuttlebug folder on the cuffs, added a little doodling and chalk on the edges and for a final touch I added some pretty May Arts silk ribbon.

If you remember back last year at this time, I was honored to be a Guest Designer for Adela's Winter Release. You can see those creations HERE and HERE.

I love making projects with my Cricut and SCAL program so I am excited to get to join the team full time! It is so much fun to grab a cutting file and whip up a quick project.

You can literally put these files together in minutes! (They come in PDF files as well should you not have a cutting machine).

I hope you hop to all the teamies and see what they have whipped up! You just might be a winner! Each team member will be giving away a free Crafter's Apron template/file All you have to do is leave a comment on this post or any of the others by November 30th for a chance to win! Good Luck to you all!

ETA: Winner of my blog hop pick is Elena- The Red Haired Girl! Congrats Elena...I will send you the info.

Here is the order for the blog hop-Enjoy!!!

Sue Kment -- that's me!

Outlines Monday Challenge-Hang It Up!

2011-11-28T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Make an Ornament

Isn't this just purrrrrrrrrrty??!!!

I LOVED making this ornament! I thought it would be a pain stamping this so many times so I could get all the layers, but it was fast and very easy! I know this would be gorgeous embossed in gold or silver, but my craft room in currently undergoing a transformation and I could not fathom the thought of that powder all over(I am so messy with that stuff). I thought I would add a little glitter instead...OH MY...I was covered all over with that darned sparkly stuff HA!

In this picture you can see all the pretty layers and the sparkly glitter! 7 layers in all but OH SO EASY to cut and layer. The coloring was minimal as you only had to color the parts that show on each layer. The cutting was super easy as most of the cuts were straight points. The ornament is layered on SU! Real Red cardstock.

I plan on making a few more of these as keepsakes for the tree!

I used some more of that yummy May Arts silk ribbon to hang the ornament with. Sorry, I was going to show you how pretty it looks on my tree...but I am way behind my normal decorating schedule. If I get one taken this week, I will add it to this post later.

I am going to enter this in the Trim the Tree Let's Craft and Create Challenge #33.

And wait till you see the rest ornaments!!!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin !

Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps each challenge!

ornament details:
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Stamps: I-979 Vintage Ornament by Outlines Rubber Stamps
Cardstock: Real Red
Ink: Memento Black, Copics R27, G84, C1,3
Misc: Dimensionals, glitter, May Arts silk ribbon, bakers twine

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #109-Warm and Fuzzy!

2011-11-21T02:05:00.000-08:00

hOUSE mOUSE AND fRIENDS mONDAY cHALLENGE!

YES, I had my caps lock on...oops, but I thought it was sort of fun anyway!

Challenge #109 is all about what makes you feel warm and fuzzy! Anyone that knows me knows I love the Christmas holidays...yes, I already have decorations up!

I used this sweet Peaceful Dreams house mouse stamp...Muzzy looks like me after the holidays! Not really resting-more pure exhaustion...I swear this year will be different! I am ready to start baking my cookies and listening to my Christmas tunes! How about you?

I cut a green frame with my labels 4 nesties to frame the sweet image. I added a fun little Michaels $1 sentiment with a little Bazzil holly leaf. I used some gorgeous Christmas DP from Authentique, punching out the poinsettias with a square punch.

I have had a sneak peek of the rest of the creations made by the design team, and I tell you...not to be missed for sure!

Thanks for stopping by...get your mouse stamps out and join the fun!

Two posts today----Don't miss my Outlines Monday baby gift card HERE.

Card details:
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Stamps: Peaceful Dreams (Muzzy) HMLR1019, Michaels $1 sentiment
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Authentique Wonder
Ink: Memento Black and Always Artichoke
Copics:
Muzzy: E00 R20 E 31,33,34
Candle and holder: Y13, YR21, Y23, Y26 R20, 22,05,08
G20
Misc: Pear Pizzaz poly ribbon, Label 4 nestie, 1.25 square punch, Bazzil mini holly, red pearls

Outlines Monday Challenge-Gift Cards

2011-11-21T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outlines Monday Challenge!

The challenge this week is GIFT CARDS. A pretty easy challenge with the Outlines giftcard stamps.

They are designed so that you use the inside block to hold the gift card! I have a new baby boy nephew due on Dec 24th, so I made this design sort of Christmasy-hope he is not late to his own party!

( I did not have the gift card yet,so I had to use my Macy's credit card so you get the idea how it fits)

You can see that I colored and paper pieced the front panel separately-no need to color the center image on the main card as it will be covered with the finished one.

I added a small line of red sticky tape around the edges and added to the front finished card. Easy and quick!

Outlines Rubber Stamps

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin

Card details:
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Stamps: Gift Card Holder-Baby 1-922
Cardstock: Real Red, Bashful Blue polka dot DP
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
B000, R27

Penny Black Surprise-SFYTT Nov 11

2011-11-17T23:00:00.000-08:00

I had to take a coloring break and go color one of my new Penny Black images. Even though this is really a springish type image...I made it into a Christmas card, because that is what I need in my card stash! The challenge this week at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Gold and Presents.

Although you can not tell, I have three layers of dimension on the image and it looks very fun in person. I used some lovely green May Arts ribbon and made a triple bow. I then added a few touches of gold stickles for a touch of glimmer.

I used the Sketch For You To Try November 2011.

Oh boy, it felt good to craft again!

Thanks for stopping by..I will be seeing you soon!

Card details:
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Stamps: surprise! 1649K (Penny Black) Sentiment retired from Stampin Up!
Cardstock: Real Red, DP 12 Days Of Christmas by MMEye
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
Snail-C 1,3 Y18
Present-Y18, R27
Meece-YR 21, Y 38, YR 14, R20,21
Flower Pots; YG 61,63,67 YR21
Misc: May Arts ribbon, gold stickles, circle nestie, Jolee small poinsettia sticker, dimensionals

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #125-a few quick wedding pictures

2011-11-15T22:36:00.000-08:00

Here are Abby and Rick when they first saw each other at the wedding. I love how her veil is blowing in the wind! This is a picture I took but the pictures below are two that my son took of a couple of our projects. ( I am sure you can tell who the photographer in this family is...) I hope to find time to show you how we made them soon. I have been gone since after the wedding and just getting home tonight. No craftiness to show off yet, I MUST clean my room so I can get that crafty feelin' back LOL!

This is a picture of the brooch bouquet we made and that I gave you got a peek of last week. My son took this wonderful picture as well as the picture of the wedding cake below.

Both my daughter and her new husband graduated from the University of Oregon and the school mascot is a Duck (actually Disney's Donald Duck) so her cake toppers were perfect! I made this cake using a design I found online. I will link it up when I recap all the wedding details!

Sorry for the quick post, but I am off to start unpacking all the boxes of wedding table decorations and relax a wee bit.

Hello to all who play along with What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday and those who like to just peek at the desks and aren't brave enough to show off a messy, messy desk like I showed off last week(it still looks exactly the same LOL).

Outlines Monday Challenge-Thanksgiving

2011-11-14T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Outlines Monday Challenge!

Today's challenge is Thanksgiving. Outlines has many wonderful fall stamps that can be used for fall and Thanksgiving! I chose to use part of a collage stamp named Autumn. I only used a small part of the stamp. That is one of the great ways to stretch you stamps. It would be pretty to make a little set of cards with this stamp!

I scored some very vanilla cardstock to add a little background texture to this card and some pretty vanilla satin ribbon to show off this colorful stamp. As fancy as some of these stamps are, it is easy to make a quick and simple card with them as well!

Outlines Rubber Stamps

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin

card details:
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Stamps: Outlines Autumn Collage
Cardstock: Very Vanilla and Rust
Ink: Memento Black and Copics
Misc: Very Vanilla ribbon

Abby and Rick Cyphers

2011-11-12T10:45:00.000-08:00

The first wedding photo's of the Cypher's! I couldn't wait to share with you all! It was a grand night and a beautiful ceremony!

My son Matthew took these pictures. These are all before the wedding. In the bottom picture, Abby and Rick are separated by a glass door and had not seen each other in their wedding finery yet! It was fun to watch them go around the door and see each other. More pics too come later!

(the sun glasses Abby and the girls are wearing are of course Univirsity of Oregon Duck shades!)

2011-11-08T23:38:00.000-08:00

Wrapping up the last of the wedding projects...I hope to show them all to you next week after things calm down...too busy to stop at the moment...so stay tuned for the details! I can't wait to share! You can see my living room is lined with tables full of projects to be packed up for the wedding on Friday. We're almost there...11-11-11 here we come

You won't see me for hanging around this blog for a week or so while I take a much needed break as well! I am going to play tourist and do a little sight seeing with family from out of town.

Just in case you think I have had any extra time...I had to show you what my desk looks like as I am walking by it to fall into bed tonight! You can see a new white IKEA cabinet in the upper right corner, but I have not had a spare minute to decide where to put it.

I am off to bed but I hope you can join in the fun over at Julia's blog and play along with What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday!

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #108- Thankful

2011-11-07T02:07:00.000-08:00

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Thankful. (This can be as easy and as simple as a Thanks sentiment added to your card)

A quick post tonight...but I wanted to jump in and share with you what I am thankful this fall... Weight Watchers LOL! Yep...nothing like that scale to keep you flying right! Several of my friends are going as well...some weeks are good, some not so good...but the progress is slow and steady! And yes, I am thankful to be fitting into those clothes in my closet!

I hope you can join in for our challenge #108. I almost didn't make it for the challenge tonight, but at the last minute decided I would rather color than paint a bedroom ceiling---that's a no brainer huh?

Well, I am off and running! Have a good week!

Hope you can take a minute and check out the cute little 3D project I posted for Outlines Monday HERE!

Card details: I will be back tomorrow with the complete details. Sorry-I forgot my glasses and I am too lazy to run back upstairs and get them!
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stamps:Light as a Feather (Itty Bit and Hop-It) HMKR1041
Sentiment is Tiny Have a Great Day by Outlines
cardstock: cherry cobbler, very vanilla and Basic Grey Curio 6x6
ink: Memento Black
copics: E31,33,34 C 1,2,3 R12, 14 E00,R20
Misc: EK Success border punches, pearls, SU cherry cobbler seam binding

Outlines Monday Challenge-Inspiration picture

2011-11-07T02:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to this week's Outlines Monday Challenge! This week we are using an inspiration photo (you can see below).

Yep, call me a cheater...not any yellow...or even the right green colors LOL...I thought I had this challenge made...Abby's wedding is in just a few days and her colors are green and yellow! You would think I had it made anyway. As we crafted away, the colors have slowly changed to a darker rich green and black, with no yellow! And cheater that I am, everything I am making these last few weeks must be wedding related so I can find time to sleep too LOL! I made this great little gift card holder using a cut svg file from Creations by AR. I "purtied" it up with this perfect Outlines wedding sentiment and a left over rolled flower and leaves from other wedding projects. And don't you love lucious May Arts ribbon that my friend Charlene introduced me too???(she is on the May Arts Design Team and makes the yummiest things with ribbon)....oh my! I ordered a WHOLE roll of it for the wedding projects I have been working on. Thanks to Jill from Urban Papers for ordering it for me!

I put the natural ivory Stampin Up cardstock through my big shot with a swiss dots embossing folder for a little texture. Gotta love that folder!

Abby wanted a little holder of some kind for her bridesmaids gifts--so I whipped up these cuties. Although they are gift card holders, there is also room for the gifty she wants to give the girls. (Can't show you that because they might peek here.) I guess they can at least look forward to a Starbucks treat when they get here though!

A peek inside of the little purse/gift card holder. The girls will be needing a little caffeine I am sure! (me too)

Here you can see the side view and see that it is fairly slim little box. I love how this turned out!

Outlines Rubber Stamps

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin
(wait--Sandy is not playing this week but you could stop and say Hello anyway!)

project details

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Stamps: Outlines AA-851 Tiny Happy Wedding Day

Purse pattern: Creations by AR
Cardstock: Natural Ivory and Garden Green from Stampin Up, DCWV dp for flower
Misc: May Arts 1.25 inch silk ribbon, misc pearl, SU! leaf die cut

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #126-wedding cake practice

2011-11-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #126

Ah...not much time to craft this week or next...wedding preparations in full swing...this is what I am doing tonight..............

Tonight is "practice wedding cake" night. I used to make lots of wedding cakes yyyeeeeeaaars ago and gave it up because I so loved the frosting that I gained about 5 pounds with each cake! LOL

I am thinking I need some more practice and also need to try a different frosting recipe just for the heck of it. (can I blame my dissatisfaction on the frosting???-it could not possible be lack of practice???) GOODNESS... I need to figure it out before next week!

My son is more than happy to eat the samples!

Since I am in the kitchen tonight...I thought you might enjoy this sign I have hanging under my cupboard. Yep, this is so me!

Pop on over and say Hello Julia and to all the crafters playing along...sorry I have not gotten to comment so much these last few weeks, but I promise I will be back to "normal" after 11-11-11!

SFYTT October 2011-Penny Black

2011-10-31T20:33:00.000-07:00

Boy oh Boy! I almost forgot to join in the SFYYT October 2011. I hope to squeak in with minutes to spare. Since I only had about 10 trick or treaters (and 4 of them I had to chase down LOL) I had plenty of time to finish this card I started days ago. I just have too much going on I guess.

I used one of my new Penny Black stamps that have been piled on my desk. Penny Black stamps are always so happy!

I am going to make this short tonight so I can get some chores done around the house. See you tomorrow for WOYWW!

card details:
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Stamps: let's party 4137K by Penny Black, sentiment is a very old 2000 SU! sentiment from Smile.
Cardstock: DCWV, Echo Park Country Drive
Ink: Memento black, Versafine black for the sentiment,
Copics: sorry I can't remember as I colored this too long ago :)
Misc: SU! pink satin ribbon, twinery twine, dimensionals

Outlines Monday Challenge-Friendly Fliers

2011-10-31T02:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to another Outlines Monday Challenge...Today we are all about Friendly Fliers! Use a stamp that has butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs or anything that flies!

I chose I-1143 Natures Fairies and did it up pretty with paper piecing! It looks time consuming, but really it was very quick! I am going to show you how I made this...sort of LOL! I started taking pictures of the process and then got a little side tracked, but you will get the basic idea....

I first stamped my image Natures Fairies I-1143

Stamped it again on Jillibean Soup Dutch Mustard DP-then cut out the flowers for paper piecing.

Added the BG000 blue halo around the flowers.

Glue on the paper piecing.

I used E31, 33 and 35 to color and dot the center of the flowers and YR20 to shadow the flower
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I cut small pieces of the DP to ink and cut up for all the leaves. I also paper pieced the butterflies with a Bo Bunny polka dot paper. Oops...this is where I got lost in the whole process...must have been all those tiny little pieces driving me nutso!

Ta-DAhhhhhhh at least you can see the 3D butterflies in this picture. I added a fancy little Martha Stewart punched border and some shimmery Viva Decor Pearl Pen dots.

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, Lisa, Sandy and Robin

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card details:
Stamps: Outlines Rubber Stamps I-1143 Natures Fairies
Cardstock: Jillibean Dutch Mustard, Chocolate Chip (SU!), Bo Bunny polka dot
Ink: Memento Black
Copics: YR 20, E31,33,35 BG000
Misc: Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Martha Stewart cornice border punch

A little Gwamma Time

2011-10-30T22:08:00.000-07:00

I have been gone visiting a couple cute little guys this week! I whipped up a couple quick Halloween cards for my little grandsons. Nothing too fancy because they might just get loved to death very quickly! I think little teddy bear survived with both of his arms! The bear is a free digi I found online(Di's Digi's-thanks Chris) and the vampire is a Stampendous stamp I bought last year. Paper is Echo Park. SU ribbon and Martha spider border punch. Both sentiments are Studio G.

Peek A Boo Gwamma! Luke is 20 months old.

Cole at 4 years thinks about sports pretty much nonstop!

Where's Cole?

Can you see Lukey loosing his pear here...it is rolling off the steps.(And Lukey right after it.)

A little scratched up but boy that is one good pear!

A perfect Gwamma weekend!

Midnight Madness #127

2011-10-27T23:40:00.000-07:00

I decide to make this get well card using the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #127. Our House Mouse and Friends Challenge Blog is sponsoring the challenge this week with a great giveaway of FOUR brand new House Mouse stamps...what a deal!

My sweetie's brother fell while trimming a tree and really did a number on his wrist, so I thought this image would be perfect! Just a little note to let him know we are thinking of him!

I broke out some new My Minds Eye paper and some new Baja Breeze ribbon. Also dug out an old SU stamp (the bandaid)

If you get a chance to pop over to the Pricillastyles Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge blog-don't miss a chance to win some cute, cute stamps by playing along with the great sketch.

card details:
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Stamps: Dr. Amanda (Mudpie and Amanda) HMJR1101 , bandaid is from retired SU! set Happy Healing
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, My Minds Eye Blink of an Eye DP
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
Meece- E00, R20
E31,33,34,35 and 42,43,44
C 2,3,4
B000
G20
R 20,22
Misc: Baja Breeze seam binding, gold embroidery floss, nesties label 8

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #125-More wedding preparations

2011-10-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday!

Who can resist playing along showing off your desk with the likes of bloggers with names Wipso, Twiglet, Voodoo Vixen. fairy thoughts, Rumtruffle, craftywomble, Lunch Lady Jan, Shaz in Oz...oh my--- the list is so long! Checking out the names is just as much fun as checking out the desks of all these talented crafters!

Today I am showing off a whole pile of rolled flowers the bride to be and I are making for wedding decorations! This is just a small amount of them. I have so many projects in limbo, I can't show you anything that is finished yet...but it is all coming together. I am so thankful for my cricut and my SCAL cutting program! I can tell you having a quilling tool to roll these babies up has really made this project sooooo much faster.

The little bride to be did not like these glass candle holders until............

Mommy

...Mommy got busy with her black spray paint again. Don't you think they look much more elegant...or at least they will when they get some pretty May Arts green silk ribbon and a pretty clear bowl on top full of green candy.

November 11, 2011 here we come!