Deals of the Week, week #4

The deals of the week this week are the best yet! I am so excited for this deal, and can't wait til it arrives here. I am doing a pirate party for my son's birthday and this is going to make it soooo much easier to decorate, and to do the invites. The Pirate Party kit is normally $21.95 but this week it is only $13.99!! There is also a Princess Party kit as well for $13.99.


Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Happy Everything

I just love using the DSP that Stampin' Up! has to offer. This purple is such a wonderful color, and I love the stripes the most. I think my most favorite embellishment to use it ribbon. I have so much of it and I keep getting more. Let me know what you think of this one.


I still haven't played with MDS (My Digital Studio) as much as I had hoped to. Mostly because I am working on fixing my home computer and I need to swap out hard drives before I load MDS onto it. I don't do a lot of work on the laptop if I can help it, and when I have had time lately it seems I am always in front of the home computer not the laptop. I am hoping to get my computer all fixed by the end of the weekend and then will spend some time next week playing around with MDS. I am also hoping to re-do the look of my blog with MDS soon.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Deals of the Week, week 3

It's that time of the week again, and this weeks deal are amazing! I love everything in the deals this week.

Item	Page	Description	Regular Price	Special Price
114348	179	Basic Jumbo grommets	$9.50	$6.49
109857	179	Mini Library clips	$18.95	$12.99
112571	179	Circle Designer brads	$8.50	$5.49
112581	179	1/2" Library clips	$9.75	$5.49

As always you can order directly through me, or you can click on my Stampin' Up! button on the left sidebar to order online 24/7

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

MDS scrapbook LO

Here is the LO I said I would upload yesterday. Last night we had some family drop in for a visit, and I got so caught up hanging out with them that I completely forgot I was supposed to get my laptop back out and upload this page.

I had a lot of fun making the album I am now waiting on, and this is 1 page of a 2 page LO from it. I took a template and added some elements to it, as well as changing and deleting some that came on it. It really is so easy to make fast but nice LO's in this program, and I have to say, so much easier to upload on here than traditional LO's. Those take forever to scan and stitch together and then to shrink... too much work.

I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions about this program please feel free to ask, I would love to help you out.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

My Digital Studio new downloads

Stampin' Up! has added 7 new digital downloads that work with the My Digital Studio program or whatever other program you have. The Medallion is one of them...one of my favorites, and just in time for Halloween the Cast-a-Spell and Night and Day DSP.

Here are the item numbers if you are interested

Item #	Product Name	Price
118114	Cast A Spell Designer Series paper - digital download	$6.95
118115	Night & Day Designer Series paper - digital download	$6.95
118124	Medallion stamp brush set - digital download	$2.95
118126	Circle Circus stamp brush set - digital download	$7.95
118116	School Days II stamp brush set - digital download	$13.25
118121	Great Moments II stamp brush set - digital download	$13.25
118122	Pumpkin Patch stamp brush set - digital download	$7.95

as always you can order directly through me by phone or email, or you can click my Stampin' Up! button in the left sidebar to shop directly through my store.

I am off to play with My Digital Studio, and I will hopefully have some LO's to show you this evening.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

My Digital Studio

I have been playing around with MDS for a couple days now and I really like this program. For those of you that don't know much about it, it is a digital paper crafting solution. You can make so many cool projects with this software and print it at home, at a photo center or have Stampin' Up! professionally print it and send it directly to you. I am now waiting on an album to be delivered to me. Last year I made gift albums for my extended family and ended up making 11 of them. It took me working around the clock and having my hubby help as much as he could for 4 weeks to get them all done. I started working on this years gift album and got it done in about a day, and that included learning the software too. I would highly recommend this program to anyone that is wanting to try digital paper crafting.

Unfortunately I am running behind with some other family needs right now, but I will upload some LO's I did in this album I hope tomorrow.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Train load of fun

I just love this little train set. I have used it for so many different occasions and for kids and adults. I was wanting to see if I could use it for Christmas too and this is what I came up with. I really love my In Color markers, they make coloring in small areas on stamps soooooo easy. Cute & Cuddly is also a new favorite of mine, as is the new holiday lounge DSP. I hope you all like it as much as I do.




Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Deals of the Week, week 2.

It's that time again, and this weeks deals are great!! Now is the perfect time to buy these wonderful Big Shot dies. As always you can e-mail or phone me, or you can shop online in my store on the left hand side of this blog.

Pop-Up Three Tier Cake Bigz XL die for only $34.99


Perfect Setting Bigz XL die for only $34.99



and Flower Burst Embosslits die for only $7.49

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Seasons Greetings

I am really loving the simple cards right now. I love the look of this card, and I especially love that it has a little bit of texture that just gives it the finishing touch. There is not much to say about this card except how easy it is to make. I hope you enjoy it.




Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Birthday Celebrations

I think this might just squeek in under the wire for getting posted 'today'. I did this one up for my open house last month. I love playing with the markers, and this is a great stamp set for using markers to tint the ends of your flower petals. I am running off to bed again as this is another crazy busy week, but I thought I would give you all some 'happy lations' as my son calls this card.





Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

PHEW.... what a hectic week!!

Last week was such a busy week around here. I still have no idea if I am coming or going. I hosted a stamp club, made 2 very unique and different cakes and then taught my Christmas card class! I then hurriedly went off to my BIL's house to celebrate his 40th birthday and today I spent the day helping a friend start to organize her scrappy space. I am hoping this week will be a bit easier on me, but so far it seems to be just as busy as last week. I will try very hard to get my blog updated tomorrow with some pictures of new cards. I just need to get to bed tonight as I can hardly see, and I can not for the life of me get my camera hooked up to this computer properly.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

I love brayering

If that is even a word...lol. It took me a long time to start to play with my brayer, and while I am still no where near as good as some people are I love to use it to create quick and simple cards. This one I did a while back for a challenge to use only the very basics of card making. Cardstock or paper and ink. I sort of expanded that by using the brayer, but I figured since it was not an actual embellishment of any kind, that it was ok. I also love that this card took me only about 4 minutes to make, including cutting all the cardstock, and putting it all together. Normally my cards are about 10 minute cards, since I am very particular about placement, making sure everything is exactly lined up and all that. I sometimes hate that I am so picky about that, but in the long run, it always looks great, so I guess that is the reward. This card is called 'broken flowers' since the petals go downwards I can not convince my son that they actually grow like this. I hope you like it.


Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

polly wants a flower

Ok, well this isn't really a 'polly' and I am guessing 'she' doesn't actually want a flower, but my son sure thinks she does. This was made quite a while ago at a regionals seminar. I changed very little, but I did change a few things to make it more mine. I would have done more, but it was my first attempt at a make n take. I have yet to make more card wallets, but I really like the idea of it, so I am sure in the future I will make a few more, possibly even for my stampers 10 group. I love hearing what you think of these, so please keep the comments coming.





Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

"Not Yellow Sun"

I am trying to use new and different color combos, and I mostly like this one. I am still not sure I love the card, but I think I really like the colors of it. According to my son there are 3 'not yellow suns' on this card and he has named it accordingly. Again you can see that I have used a stamp to make a background pattern... this is really starting to be my thing. I LOVE background stamps for just that reason, but unfortunately I don't have a ton of them, so I improvise a lot. I hope you like it.




Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Thlumper no bambi....

Isn't Thlumper cute?? and no that is not a spelling mistake. My son calls thumper, Thlumper, and this card is 'Thlumper no bambi'. I really like the look of designer series paper, but sometimes I just don't have the right color of paper, so I make it myself a lot of the time. I mainly use white ink on colored cardstock to get my homemade DSP.





Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Lots of Bots... sort of

I fell in love with this robot but wasn't sure I wanted to buy the whole set, so when I saw the So Cool rub- on set and saw him in it I had to have it. The card from yesterday came from the same set of rub-ons, so there is lots of versatility with this set, and for a great price too. I knew as soon as I started making this card who I was going to give it to, and while it will be hard to part with, (cause I think it is the cutest thing ever and I sure hope my nephew will love it as much as I do) I know my SIL will keep it, so that makes it easier to part with.

I had a fairly busy day today getting ready for my classes coming up, (there are still a couple spots left if you want to join in the fun and mayhem) and also unpacking an putting away all my wonderful new goodies that the 'yay man' delivered. Yes my son names everyone and everything.... the UPS man got his name because I say YAY a lot when he comes with my goodies. Ohhh I almost forgot, this cards name is "MO and friend"... ever seen the movie WALL-E? there is a little cleaning robot named MO and my son insists that the bag this robot is holding is MO and the robot is his friend.... Life is soooo simple when you are 3.



Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Rub-on Rub-off.... oh wait that is wax on wax off.

I love rub-ons, well now I do. I used to hate rub-ons, they never rubbed on completely, they came off with the slightest brush, and were just in general a PITA. I finally tried the ones from Stampin' Up and I LOVE THEM!!!! They are so smooth and go on so well. I could go on and on, but I will leave it with you really need to try them out if you haven't.




I am off to try and find a cool cake idea for a friend.

Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Aren't sundays for resting?

I have snuck back into the house to post this a bit earlier today than I have been posting lately. This is called "spider houses" since my son insists that there are actually 2 houses... one sitting on top of the other. I LOVE this jumbo wheel. It is probably my favorite one, at least right now. I love Halloween and this wheel has basically everything I love about Halloween on it, haunted houses, cemeteries and graves, and bats and spiders. The only thing missing is a witch, but come Halloween that is me so I guess it is ok to be missing the witch.

Today we are working on building a dog run in the backyard for our wonderful puppy Meika. She is a Siberian Husky and not so little anymore, even though she is only 5 months old. She will need it for the Fall and Spring when she sheds the most, so my house is still sort of decent. The only downside to this dog run is the 'floor' of it is cement blocks that weight about 110 lbs. Thankfully my wonderful hubby moved almost all of them without my help, so now I am helping as best I can for the rest of stuff. I had better get back out there before he realizes I ditched him to post on here. I think I might even surprise him a little later by making garlic cheese biscuits, you know the ones they make at Red Lobster? I love those and they are sooooo easy to make and one of his favorite things to eat.

I hope you like the card.



Until next time, Happy Scrappin'

Ouchie!!!

This is another Halloween card, and it is called (courtesy of my son) Ouchie bones. I had so much fun making this card. I used a tool I had not used in probably a year. I forgot how much I love the look it gives. I should also mention that the image is stamped in off white, but it looks white in this picture, I am not sure why. I love the look on the skeletons face, it really is priceless and reminds me of a face my son makes often.




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Finally done!!!!!!!!!!

It seems like I have been taking pictures of cards forever.... and yet it has only been 3 days. I spent most of today uploading the pictures to my computer and adding my watermark. My hands are cramping from hitting the same keys over and over again. I have a whole new appreciation for my hubby after today. While I was taking pictures of the cards and uploading them my wonderful son decided to name them all, and proceeded to tell me I HAVE to call them by their NAMES....

So this is "pumpkin head hat witch" I love the names he comes up with. He always laughs this wonderful soul filling laugh after naming something too. It is an amazing thing to behold. Anyways I hope you enjoy this card


Until next time, Happy Scrappin'