Days to remember

I made this desk top calendar for my hubby for Christmas. I was planning on posting this much earlier, but things have a way of getting away from me some days. I am planning on posting all the months on here, to give you ideas, in case you want to make one yourself.... never to early to get started on Christmas gifts.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Taken with Teal
Paper: Holiday Lounge DSP, Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal, Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Basic Black, Brushed Silver
Misc: Dazzlin' Diamonds, Cricut


Stamps: Loads of Love, Birthday Bliss
Inks: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Only Orange
Paper: SAB DSP, Green Galore, Real Red, YoYo Yellow, Tempting Turquoise
Misc: Stampin' Dimensionals, 1/2" Real Red Striped Ribbon

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend, and are enjoying the week so far. I spent a fair amount of time playing around with MDS and photoshop trying to make a new blog background. I love what I have created, but so far my dimensions are off, and I only have part of the background showing. Tomorrow I will be getting some help from Michelle over at Shabby Creations and I hope to be showing off my cool new digs very soon.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

better late than never

I made this card a while back for a PPA weekly color challenge, but didn't get it made in time for the submission deadline. I ended up going out of town right after that and never got around to posting it. Turns out that was a good thing, otherwise I would not have anything to show you today.

I am currently working on giving my blog a face-lift. Sadly I know nothing about how to do this, so it is taking me forever. It took almost no time at all to design what I wanted in MDS, but trying to get it to appear properly on my test blog is a completely different thing all together. Please bare with me if I don't get a lot of posting done over the next couple days.



Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Well Scripted
Inks: Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace
Paper: Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, Barely Banana
Misc: So Saffron Striped Ribbon, Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die, Stampin' Dimensionals

If any of you have any experience making your own blog designs, especially with using sidebar buttons and links and such and would be willing to help, please email me. Thanks

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Sweet birthday

I made this card for my niece's birthday earlier in the month. I was going to post it then, but decided to save it for while I was away. I have set up a few posts to automatically post while I am away so you will have something to come and look at while I am enjoying the warm & sunny (I hope) weather.

This is a case of a card I saw on LeeAnn Greff's blog. I did not have the set she had, so I used my brand spanking new set called Sweet Scoops instead. I could not believe how easy it was to do this card. It looked so pretty on her blog I just had to try it, esp, the syrup on the ice cream.





Stamps: Sweet Scoops
Ink: Tempting Turquoise
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Close to Cocoa, So Saffron, Crushed Curry, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss (retired) SAB paper (retired)
Misc: Corner Rounder Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Crystal Effects, 1/2" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Texturz Impressions Background, Crop-a-dile,

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Birthday cards for kids, by kids

My nieces were over the other day and they both love to play with my stamping stuff and they asked if they could make cards for another niece's birthday. I never pass up a chance to play with them and teach them new things, I mean why not get the next generation hooked early right? The first card was done by Alex and the second card was done by Sam. I did help them a bit but not much. They looked through my samples and found cards they wanted to re-create. Alex used different paper, but kept the design quite similar and Sam kept the card design, but used different stamps and colors too.

Stamps: Bugs & Kisses, Pun Fun
Ink: Real Red, Only Orange, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Brilliant Blue
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Green Galore, Brilliant Blue, Gable Green and some patterned paper from my stash not sure what or who
Misc: Pumpkin Pie Striped Ribbon, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Star Punch, Stampin Dimensionals

It's it fun to let kids create and see what they come up with?

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

I Choo-choo choose you....

Do you remember that Simpson's episode? The one where Lisa feels bad for Ralph since no one gave him a Valentine, so she gave him a train one that read I Choo-choo Choose You and then Ralph started to stalk her and all. I love that episode and every year I make my hubby a Valentines card that I can write that in. It's another little joke of ours, cause way back when he thought I was stalking him, when in actuality I was friends with friends of his and was out with them a fair bit.

This is such a fun stamp set and I love doing all sorts of cards with it. My son plays with this set at least once a week, and watching him play with it has inspired a few of my cards. Every time I am scrapping he has to as well. He has a few cheapie stamps for his box of goodies, but he loves to use Stampin Up, so this set and the Prehistoric Pals he can use whenever too. It's quite funny to see a 4 year old boy turn his nose up at 'regular' paper and supplies. He already is a loyal Stampin Up customer, I think mostly cause of the "Yay Man" and the boxes of goodies that "magically" appear, instead of his box that is leftovers from Mum.

Enough of my ramblings, here is the card.



Stamps: Choo-choo, Best Wishes and More, I {love} love jumbo wheel
Inks: Perfect Plum & Pacific Point (retired)
Papers: Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Perfect Plum DSP & Pacific Point (retired)
Misc: Modern Label Punch & Movers and Shapers Die, Dazzlin' Diamonds Glitter, Bashful Blue 1/2" Striped Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals

To get the layered effect for the Modern Label Punch I first used the punch on whisper white cardstock and then I used a piece of Pacific Point with the Modern Label Movers & Shapers Bigz XL die for the Big Shot. I love that the pieces for this die are just a little bit bigger than the punches so you can layer them if you want. I will have a card up tomorrow that uses the curly label die for this as well. It is a really neat effect when you cut it out from the card front.

For the smoke stack of hearts I inked up specific hearts from the I {love} love jumbo wheel in Perfect Plum and then cut them out and used Dimensionals to adhere them. After they were on the card I added the Dazzlin' Diamonds, I figured it would be too hard to try to do that one by one.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'