Spring Silhouettes

Good Monday morning! The flu is making round # 2 at our house, Sadie has it now. I am the last one left standing! My husband says I out run it, I am so busy it can't catch me. I am so ready for Spring and needed today's card to brighten things up since it is raining outside. I love this color combo of Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red with a little bit of Daffodil Delight. The stamp set is a Level 1 Hostess set, Silhouette Sentiments, which can be yours for FREE if you book a workshop and have $150.00 in sales plus you will also receive a FREE SAB item with every $50.00 spent. No time to have a workshop??? Well I would love for you to contact me about my Workshop in the Mail which works like this...you plan a time that is convenient for you and your friends, decide which stamps from your collection you would like to use, I send you projects that are ready to be put together based on the stamps you choose, you collect orders and send to me, and I place your order and it ships to you! Interested??? Want to know more??? Contact me by phone or email(#'s listed in my blog banner) and we will work out the details.  Thanks for stopping by!

God Bless You

I can't believe today is Friday, this week has flown by. Today I have a card made for a sketch challenge that is also a blog hop started by Mary Jo Price-Williams.  I found it while visiting Elizabeth here. I didn't follow the sketch exactly as it has a rectangle and I did a square but I wanted to try making this frame which was demonstrated at Regionals. It only works on a 3 inch square and  uses the Dotted Scallop border punch.  You line the punch up evenly and  punch all sides and this is what you get. I cut the banner with the Petal Cone die and the stamps are Crosses of Hope. The DSP is Sweet and Sour.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

 

Summer Fun

Good evening, been a super busy but productive day. I am working on a huge wedding order and used most of the day to tackle part of that. I have until June to get the biggest part done but I know better than to put it off because I have spent a few all-nighters trying to meet a deadline. Anyway, today I am sharing a card that was on one of the display boards at Regionals. That is one of the things I enjoy the most about a SU event, they have tons of samples displayed and you can get a lot of ideas that way. The good thing about this particular card is that it uses a brand new stamp set that isn't available yet but will be in the Summer Mini and it gets even better!!!!....the first person to join my team between now and the end of SAB will get this set FREE and so will I! I don't know about you but I love the word FREE!! You want more FREE....then check out this blog post to learn what else is yours for FREE when you join my team!

It's the Little Things

Good morning! I love how this card turned out but I do not like how the photo turned out, I guess it is just too overcast to get a good photo which is another reason to wish for Spring. I have been wanting to use fabric on a card but didn't want the swatch of fabric look so I played around with making fabric yoyo flowers. I will cut my fabric a little wider next time but this size is perfect for using a stem from Sweet Summer(FREE!!!SAB!!!). The DSP is Springtime Vintage and the bow is made with Rose Red Seam Binding ribbon. The sentiment is from You're a Gem and is in a Baja Breeze button.

Stylish Blogger

I was given this cool award by a very sweet gal, Tonya.  You can check out her blog here, she has very pretty cards.

Part of the award is to do the following:

1) thank the person who gave this award to me and link it back to their blog
2) share 8 things about myself
3) pass this award to 8 other individuals that I have recently discovered
4) leave a comment so that they can pass along the recognition!

Eight things about me....
I am a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ.

I have bee married to my husband Toy since 1975.

Toy and I have five children.

I was a Medical Technologist(lab tech)  in my former life and retired about 7 years ago.

I retired because my husband and I adopted our two beautiful girls who were 8 months and 5 1/2 at the time.

I have to stay busy doing something so I do paper crafts instead of housework.

I got my Bachelors degree in Biology from UVA-Clinch Valley College..

I have been a vegetarian for about 20 years.

Now to pass this award on to 8 people who inspire me:

http://fourfiftythree.blogspot.com/
http://flipfloppingmamma.blogspot.com/
http://scrapstampandplay.blogspot.com/
http://www.stampingtoshare.com/
http://inkymoose.blogspot.com/
http://fromwhereistamp.blogspot.com/
http://amysstampinplace.blogspot.com/
http://stampinwithsuzee.blogspot.com/

Create

Good afternoon! Today I have one of the Make & Take projects we made at Branson Regionals. I have to say that most of the time I don't even do the Make and Takes because to be honest they are usually so simple and more for a beginner stamper and I have even told them that in surveys after events.  But this project is awesome, I love it!  It uses the Petal Cone die to make the triangles, Nature Walk stamps, Botanical Gazette DSP, pearls, ribbon, and even a trinket key.  Make sure you click on the photo to enlarge so that you can see all the detail.  This is one of the projects we will make at my upcoming Petal Cone class so be watching for the details about that.

Birthday Wishes

Good Monday morning! Quick post today before I put this card in the mail to my friend Sherry. Happy 5? Sherry! This is a CAS card using the Celebrations DSP and a few punches. Hope to get some time today to photograph a few projects from Regionals and some I have ready but first I have to unpack and do laundry after I play with Dalton a little while. I missed him terribly while we were away. Thanks for stopping by!

Water Fun

If you ask my girls how to have fun, their answer is sure to involve water.  They are both skilled swimmers and are on a swim team in Summer.  Every time they get a few scheduled days off school we go somewhere fun.  They just so happened to get off for a 4 day weekend which coincided with a Stampin' Up Regional event so we headed off to Branson.  When I looked for lodging, I found the perfect place.  The hotel has an indoor water park and was just a 5 minute drive to the SU event.   They have had a ball here and I have had some relaxing time as well.  I have some neat ideas from Regional which I will share next week.

Get your sunglasses out...

because this card is bright!!! It isn't hardly this bright IRL but it definitely makes me think of sunshine and flowers and Spring. I am at Regionals and this is the card I made as a swap, I ran out of time so not all of them have the Daisy on them. I used Daffodil Delight card stock and Greenhouse Gala DSP. The DSP is embedded into the Real Red card stock by layering them together and them embossing with the Square Lattice(I think that's the name of it, I don't have a catalog with me) embossing folder.

We are staying at a hotel that has an indoor Water Park called Castle Rock and the kids are having a ball.  They love any activity that involves water.  Hopefully I can drag them out of the water long enough to do some sight seeing and shopping later.  I'll post some photos tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by!

Mr. and Mrs.

Good morning! Today I have more wedding favors, aren't they so cute! I had these both facing forward and just as I snapped the photo Mr. turned just slightly toward Mrs(they are so in love!). Seriously, these were so hard to photograph and they are really a lot cuter IRL. I used the Heart of Hearts embosslit to cut them out and then embellished to look a tux and wedding gown. These are part of what I sent to my potential customer as samples of what is available. I'll share more samples occasionally. I am off in a couple hours to Branson, Missouri to a Stampin' Up Regional event. I am sure to come back with lots of inspiration.

Click on the photo to see the detail a little better.