Quick and Cute

Good morning to you all! Thank you for all your kind words and prayers for the family of Papa Al and for us. They are so appreciated!

This are some tags that I made to go on one of the items I put into the stockings that we went to a couple of soldiers through AdoptaPlatoon. I was wanting to get the box ready to go but also wanted to put a personal note with the stockings so I grabbed my Snow Much Fun set from Gina K, cut some cardstock and then just did a little coloring. I have to say while simple, these were perfect for their intended use. Love that! I think the red layer ended up being 4"x3".

This will be a super short post today as I need to hop in the shower before Kyler gets up. I'm going to drive some of the kids in Kyler's class to the assisted living home at which they will be singing Christmas carols this morning. They do this every year and I love it! Only a day and a half of school left for him. Well really, only a day as Friday is the day the 7th and 8th graders go and help with the child care at MOPS as part of their community service commitment. Anyway, all that to say....

Have a super Wednesday everyone!

A Trio Of Cards

Morning everyone! I hope your Tuesday is treating you well! I had a busy but productive Monday...hopefully just like today will be. Just have to point out that I like to switch up my watermark when I'm not using SU! products and I got two new watermarks a couple of weeks ago...the one with the hearts that you saw during Valentine's week and now this fun flower watermark. I like to get my watermarks from HERE. They are so cute and inexpensive...the perfect combination!

So, onto the cards. When I bought this flower set it came with a card kit to make these three basic cards. I changed things up a bit but it was fun creating from a picture and not having to think to make these. The blog that showed the cards originally is HERE. I just love the springy colors and overall ease of these cards. I have to do stuff like this more often!

Well, I'm off to get my day started. I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!

patriotic birthday CAS

Good morning girls! Can you believe it is Friday already? That means it is Kyler's last day of school. He is one of those kids who is excited and disappointed at the same time. It is so strange around here though...they end at 10:30 a.m. It will be the same thing next week when Jon is done on Friday. Is 10:30 a.m. an official half day or something like that for teaching purposes? Anyway, I'm finishing up a cute little gift for his teacher and then it will be good bye to elementary school and hello to middle school. That just made my heart beat a little faster! Boy, time sure does fly...especially with Scott and Jon both seniors next year!

Okay, enough of that! Onto the card! I've SO been wanting to participate in the Clean and Simple challenge on SCS. I saw what it was this week and decided to go for it. Our cards are to be based on some beach towels from Lands End. The towel I chose has the pattern of my strips of paper. I had to, of course, add a little something to the card so I added the stars (both popped up and stamped) and the sentiments. I used the free down loadable paper from Gina K for the paper strips. The stars are different sizes as I printed the paper different sizes...I didn't think about it ahead of time. I think it gives added visual interest, though. I have to tell you I really love this card! It will be going to a friend of mine for her birthday and it needs to go in the mail today!

I know I just shared one of my little Psalms thoughts yesterday but I thought you guys might appreciate this as I did...

Wait on the Lord. Psalms 27:14
I think I've already had this lesson. (And, no, I don't think I've mastered it.)

Anyone else struggle with the wait on the Lord part? Goodness that can be SO hard! Only good will come out of waiting for the answer God has for us though. I'm still working on it for sure!

Well, I hope you have a fantastic day! I think I'll share a couple of pictures from our trip to Leavenworth tomorrow...basically a couple of my favorite places to go when we are there.

And don't forget...you have until 5:00 p.m. tonight to enter your card with my sketch for limeLIGHT anniversary blog candy! Check it out HERE!

Until then...tah, tah!

Card deets:
Stamps: Let Freedom Ring (PTI)
Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy
cardstock: Red Stars, Navy Stars GinaK
Accessories: Dimensionals

a true friend

Good morning everyone! We have a very sunshiny and warm start (up to 80 at my house today!) to our week this week! It is wonderful!

Today's senior design team challenge at Sweet N Sassy Stamps in to make a scripture card. Inside or out it is up to you it just has to have a scripture on it. And, I literally just realized I picked a stamp without a scripture...but it is from a scripture set called A True Friend so maybe that will qualify me instead. Sheesh...what an airhead I am! Okay, and now I'm a true airhead as I just went back to link up the stamp set and it isn't even a scripture set so don't use mine as an example of this challenge!

Anyway, I have a friend that moved here about 3 years ago and we became fast friends. At the beginning of the year this year her husband left his job and has been hunting for once since then. The good news? He has found a fantastic job! Pays well, great Christian boss, all that stuff! The not so good news? It is in Florida. I have been trying to get myself used to the fact that there will be no more weekly lunches with her and to be honest...it feels weird. Thankfully we both text so that will be a great way to keep in contact. All that to say...I have made several cards that I could give to her. This is one of them. I love the soft colors of this card and the Iris' are a lovely "watermark" of sorts for the sentiment. Anyway, the deets will be below but I recently got Gina K's first Stamp T.V. Kit and I used it for this card. And the layout is from Taylored Expressions.

Alright ladies...that is it for today! I hope you have a super Monday and I'll see you tomorrow for an all Stampin' Up! card!

Card deets:
Stamps: A True Friend (SNSS), Elegant Flowers (Gina K)
All the rest: Stamp T.V. Showtime Kit
See links above for more info

classic funky christmas?

Morning stampers! I can't believe it is Thursday already. Yesterday was such a busy day and I was so tired last night! Tired or not...I knew I had to post this card so you could see it.

While I had Gina K's Funky Christmas set out the other day I had to make another card. I thought I might use the carolers in a slightly different way though and see if I could make them a little more classic...Dicken's style. I think it worked.

I used more of Basic Grey's Wassail patterned paper along with Spellbinders Labels Two, Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio, Papertrey Ink's Holiday Wishes, Gina K's Funky Christmas, and some beautiful wine colored velvet ribbon to pull this card together.

I'm looking forward to sending this one out this Christmas season!

Have a super day everyone!

my cuppa joe

Good Monday morning friends! I hope your weekend was all you wanted and needed it to be!

I wanted to make a card for a friend and when I received this super cute My Cuppa' Joe set from Gina K...I knew it had to be with this set. I love all the coffee images and the sentiments are great too! Inside I put the sentiment "Friendship is like good coffee ~ rich warm and strong." Isn't that lovely? I used THIS sketch from i{heart}tostamp. I know the image is a bit small for this sketch but I just had to use it as the recipient and I both like our coffee!

All card stock on this card (except for the Gina K white) is from Basic Grey's Wassail holiday paper line. I'm actually really happy with how this came out and the picture doesn't really do this card justice. The colors are so rich and pretty that it makes the card nice without my having to try...yay!

Tomorrow is Created by Courtney Tuesday and while I haven't made my project for it yet...I'm excited to come up with something. I'm hoping I can be a little original at least. I hope you'll check back to see!

One last thing. I have some stamp sets that I'd like to let go of. All are Papertrey Ink. The list is below and if you are interested in anything just e-mail me and let me know! You can take a look at all of the sets HERE.

Borders & Corners Heart - Lightly Used - $20
Women of Life - Lightly Used - $20
Shapes by Design - Lightly Used - $20
Boxes, Bags and Tags - Lightly Used - $13
Women of Life Additions - Not Used - $3
Favor It Weddings - Not Used - $3

Today is DT Challenge Day over at the Sweet N Sassy Stamps blog. There are directions on how to make a cute Kleenex holder. Head on over and try one out! Have a super Monday everyone...see you tomorrow!

page plans week 33

Yep, it is that day again...Page Plans day! It sure did feel good to stamp this weekend. I'm not sure why I felt I needed a break but I'm glad I took a few days off.

Anyway, this sketch was another that was hard. Overall I like the card I came up with but the lower two squares were a little difficult to figure out what to do.

This card is made with the new Funky Christmas set from Gina K (yep...Courtney made me do it!). This little set has such cute images...you must check it out! Once again I've forgotten to keep the name of the manufacturer of the patterned paper (if you know please leave a comment). I've used Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, and some of Gina K's new Pure Luxury White card stock. Want to know something neat about the paper? I messed up on coloring my first reindeer so I flipped the paper over, stamped the image again, colored it up and you can't see the other image! Wow, that is fantastic! Okay, back to the card. The ornament is from PTI, colored with COPIC markers...yeah...you get the point. The size of this card is 4 1/4" x 4 1/4".

I hope that you will all try out this sketch and let me see! Have a super day everyone and I hope you get everything done that you wish too!

surgery survival

I had decided some time ago to make a tin for my grandpa for after his surgery. Wasn't sure what I was going to do but I was definitely inspired by Melanie's What's in your tin? sets. I know...this looks like the tooth fairy tin but different paper and stamped sentiment...and it is but isn't it a great guy tin? I love the colors and the fact that I could use a ribbon and different patterns and it still looks good!

Above is what the tin looks like closed. The papers are SU! and DVWV. I love DCWV stack packs as you get just the perfect size. The stripe on the top is DCWV and the rest is SU!.

This is the view inside. If you can't read the list for items for some reason just e-mail me and I'll come back and edit the post for ya. I am still making one more tin for my grandpa's wife and then I think I'll be done with tins for a little while as I need to move onto other things. HERE is where I got the info for the survival kit.

Don't forget to check out my image swap at the top of my posts. Feel free to join us! Have a super Sunday and see you tomorrow!

has the tooth fairy come?

Although my kids are grown now I have great memories of when they lost their teeth and would wait for the tooth fairy to come. While I did a great job of making sure she came when my oldest two were little the tooth fairy was a little more forgetful when it came to Kyler loosing teeth. Here is something that would have totally made it so much easier! I made this tin for my friends little boy who is in 1st grade and has (or had...he may have lost it already) his first loose tooth. Isn't it cute? Inside will be some cotton on the bottom for the tooth/money to lay and then I think I'm going to try and put a small piece of lined paper on the inside top of the tin so that the dates of when the tooth was lost can be written down and, hopefully, never forgotten.

So, anyway, I used Melanie Muenchinger's What's in your tin? 1 to stamp the top part of this tin. The paper is from DCWV and the ribbon is from a ribbon share I was part of quite awhile back. There are several fun "sentiments" in both What's in your tin? 1 and What's in your tin? 2. As a matter of fact set 2 has a stamp that says "Survival Kit. In Case of Emergency Open Me." I'm going to use that to make a get well tin for my grandpa. I found a great website that lists lots of "survival kits" that you can make by just adding a couple of things from the list and then typing out the meaning of each item, packaging in a fun way, and then giving to the bride, mom-to-be, skier, chef, get well, etc, etc, etc...I told you there were lots of them! I may find something to make for my grandpa's wife to as I'm sure this whole ordeal is taking quite a toll on her too.

Well, I hope you all have a great Sunday! It is supposed to be cloudy here today BUT up to 70 degrees and virtually no wind so it will be a GREAT day! After church and Todd getting up we plan on going and getting 13 rose plants and planting them in our new rose garden. I'm so excited! Have a great day!

Something I've Never Done Before

After all this time paper crafting I've never done a recipe swap. Don't get me wrong...I like recipes, I just don't think I'm 1. a very good cook and 2. able to put something cute together. Well, my friend Courtney asked me to join her 6x6 recipe swap I couldn't say no. As a matter of fact she could hear my foot stomping through the miles when I said FINE...I'll do it. You see...I only join swaps with 10 or less players. For some reason that is about the most of on thing I can make without getting frustrated. Also, it's 6x6...I mean really...what do you do with the extra room if you have a 3x5 recipe?! BUT, I said yes so I needed to get to work on it. So.....there it is------->

What do you think? I went to my LSS and got the veggie designer paper. Used my Chefabella, GinaK's Scalloped Frames & Doodles, and my word set from the Kim Hughes Collection at CHFs. The recipe has a brad on the left top because there are two pages and you can move the top 3x5 card up and around so it is out of the way to read the directions on the 2nd page. Would you be pleased if you received this page in a swap? I hope so 'cuz this is what I'm going with!

A little later today Todd and I are going to get my new car. I won't keep you in suspense...it is a VW Passat Wagon. It has everything on it that a person could want...leather interior, heated seats, 6 disc CD changer, lots of room, and the best part is that it is WHITE!!! I have always wanted a white vehicle (don't ask me why...I don't know) and now I have one...woohoo! If you click on the link ignore the price in the left corner as it isn't what we paid and I'm not gonna tell ya! LOL! I will take a picture when we get it home and post it. I'm sure I'll have a huge smile! Oh...if I have your cell phone number and you can get a text you'll probably see it that way first! LOL!!!

Alright...have a super Saturday and I'll see you back here later!