Back in ACTION

Good Morning ... I must apologise for being MIA the last couple months... It has been a crazy couple months. My first problem was a mouse ... LOL ... I had a couple mice in my card room and was a little freaked out .. so was not coming down here . My DEAR SWEET HUSBAND .. has finally cleared the problem up . We have not caught one in a few weeks now. We back on to an open space and a canal and the little devils decided to move in with us. EEEEwwwwwwwwwwwww. They are definatley not as cute as the ones you see on stamps.

BUT ... I am Baaaaaack !!!!! I missed my card room ... and I am so behind now so expect to see lots of stuff being turned out in the next little while.

My fisrt assignment is very very EXCITING !! I have been asked to be a Guest DT member for ONE CRAZY STAMPER for the month of November !!! How exciting is this
I will post my first card tomorrow .. so stay tuned !!!




Hope you all have an awesome day and oh yeah .... HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!!!!!

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CS344 and Stampalicious Rocks!!!

Ok .. I am so not a lucky person .. I never win stuff ... BUT .. lately this seems to have changed for me. Well especially over at Totally Stampalicious anyway LOL. I won the 4 new sets released back in May .. WOW ..was I shocked!! And now I played along with them for the July release and won a 5.00 Gift certificate .. Yeah me .. I will have no problem spending that at all .. Thank You Ladies at Totally Stampalicious!!!

So here is a little card I came up with .. I used one of the sets I won in May called Violet Scarlette
The DP is again Jillibean Soup, Dutch Mustard Soup , pink cs and a Martha Stewart punch for the edge. I colored her with copics and also used some nesties for the sentiment circle. The sketch is from SCS .. CS344

Enjoy Your DAY !!!!

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Verve Birthday

Good Morning .. Here is a little card I made using my Nestabilities. I used the largest scalloped square. I folded my cardstock in 2 and set the nestie just at the little dips befor running though the cuttlebug to give me a cute little square scalloped card. The stamps are from the amazing company Verve .. I used 2 sets .. Birthday Surprise and Leaves. They are having a big 4th Anniversary sale over there right now ... Check it out !!
The dp is from Jillibean Soup caled Dutch Mustard Soup ..and I used both sides. The cardstock is from SU More Mustard and Pear Pizzaz

Hope you like ...

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A Thank You Quickie

This is just a little quickie I made .. I used a stamp from the 1.50 bin at Micheals. The sentiment is from Imaginisce ..

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My First Blog Award !!!!

Good Morning Friends....
I just wanted to share some great news this morning .. I have been awarded THE IRRESISTBLY SWEET BLOG AWARD from a fellow blogger Docerela (Catarina Silva) How excited was I ... Thank You so much .. it is an honor. Check out Her blog here . she is full of craftiness and and has a fab baker blog as well.

There are a few rules to follow when receiving this award ... you must pay it forward ....and ..

1) Send a Thank You to the person who nominated you and include their link.

2) To accept this award answer 7 random facts about yourself.

3) Pass the award on to at least 8 other amazing blogger buddies.

The 7 Random facts about me are ....

1) I have 3 kids Stacey 29, Shannon 26 and Matthew 23, and one amazing little Grandson Matteo 2 1/2

2) I love Dachshunds .. I have 3 Duke, Duchess and Dolly. I also have a Chihuahua/Shitzu Gizmo .. UPDATE >> Dolly just had 4 pups ...so so cute!!

3) I love blogging and following amazing blogs mostly related to cards of course.

4) I love Love Love Vegas !!!!!

5) I have worked for the same bank for 31 years ... yikes

6) I will be the big 50 this September ... another YIKES !!!

7) I am NOT addicted to texting or my cell phone ..I rarely turn it on much to the dismay of my hubby...

My 8 Awards are going to go to the following ...(now to pick only 8 ..sigh) In no particular order...

1) MissAlaineous' Mosaics Amazing Coloring with copics

2) Crystal's crafty Creations WOW a great blog for creativity , challenges and blog hops...

3) Curt's World a fun blog of cards and photography!!

4) This Is My Story Polkadot and Teapot challenges ..Fun blog

5) Hanna's Hobbyblogg An amazing 15 year old young lady !!

6) Outlines With Kathy Great site for Outlines inspiration and challenges...

7) Kittie Kraft Amazing Talent and great tutorials...

8) Stampin' with Markies Mom Uber super beautiful cards and she has an online store as well..

Well these are my 8 choices and they were very hard to pick ... check them out and again .. a great big THANKS to Catarina fo the award .. I wear it proudly !!!!

HUGS

Outlines Monday Challenge 7 RED HOT !!!!! One Crazy Stamper July Challenge

Good Morning !!! Hope all my Canadian friends had an awesome Canada Day long weekend and all my American friends had an equally awesome Happy July 4th long weekend!!! The weather here in Strathmore actually co operated this weekend and it was beautiful. I spent alot of time out in the yard trying to make it pretty and a little time n the card room making this little card.

I am entering it in 2 challenges .. Outlines Monday Challenge #7 RED HOT ... and One Crazy Stampers July challenge. A recipe .. 1 image, 2 pattern papers and 3 embellishments.. all stamps are Outlines ... the patterned paper is both sides of a sheet from Simple Stories called 100 Days of Summer. the 3 embellies are rhinestones, buttons and some red twine from Jillibean Soup....

Have an awesome day !!!!!!!

Happy Canada Day/Calgary Stampede/Canada Day Blog Hop

Good Morning ... I made this card for the Totally Stampalicious color challenge .. Canadian Colors , Red and White. I used Cowgirl Dottie from Totally Stampalicious as well. I used her in honor of the Calgary Stampede which starts next week. I left her hat white as we have a tradition here to honor important guests to our city with a WHITE HAT CEREMONY , although I did sparkle it up a bit with some Star Dust Stickles ... What Cowgirl doesn't need a little glitter :)

I also entered Dottie in the Canada day Blog Hop Stop in and play .. lots of prizes to be won !!!!

Happy Canada Day and Happy Stampeding and Happy Blog Hopping!!!

You are fabulous !!!

This is a card I made with one of the four sets I won from Totally Stampalicious .. how fun was that !!!! The sentiment is from The Stamps of Life .

This is being entered in the Something Old Something New challenge over at the Totally Stampalicious blog .. the new is ... my new set called Daisy Scarlette. The felt flower is from KC and Company.

Friend

Just a little quickie card .. The dandelion is a stamp from Hot off the Press and the sentiment is from Studio G i Cling. The dp is basic grey 6 x 6 pad from Hello Luscious.

Hello, My Friend

I am in The Stamps of Life Club. This is part of the set from the June stamp set called kids2love. it is a relly cute set with both a boy and girl stick figure and even a little dog. I paper pieced her dress and added some little flowers at the bottom. You can find this set here . The dp is from simple stories. i made some little flowers from a MS flower punch and the corners are a SU punch. I added some rhinestones and some stickles as well.

Hope you like it ....

Best Wishes....

This was a way fun card to make .... I used the Centre Step Card Technique off Splitcoast Stampers. The cs is SU Pear Pizzazz and Pretty in Pink. The stamp is from Stampingbella called Izzie with a cherry on top. Now the flower was so fun to make ... I cut out 5 scalloped circles .. misted them with water and scrunched them up .. pierced a hole through all the layers and added a brad to hold them together. then just shaped while they were wet to how I wanted them to look and let air dry. I then added a bit of stickles to the edges to give it a bit of sparkle. Give it a try .. very easy and so pretty....

Enjoy and have a most amazing day !!!!

Enjoy Life's Moments.....

Good Morning Friends,

Hope everyone is having an amazing start to their day !! Here are a couple masculine cards I made a couple weeks ago .. It was my Hubby's 52nd Birthday and this is what I came up with.. When I showed a lady at work she wanted one for her Hubby as well so I whipped up 2 ... I so rarely make a masculine card ...

I used a little stamp set from Bo Bunny called Timepiece. The blue card is made with SU Brocade Blue and the brown card is Archival Sepia .. I did a little distressing on both just to give it a little aged look... used some jute and a button .. and Voila !!!!

Hope you like ....

IC286 Live Laugh Love / Outlines Challenge 2

Good Morning ...
This morning I was popping around on SCS .. and decided to play the Saturday Inspiration Challenge 286 ... They went to a site called Plates and Napkins .. WOW .. what a lot of choices and inspiration on this site .. it took awhile to pick just one ... so I went with Black and White .. still one of my faves ... This is what I choose as inspiration .

I used a stamp from Outlines Rubber Stamp Company .. still one of my favorite stamp companies ... the stamp is called Izzy Background. Then I blinged it up a little with some rhinestones. The sentiment stamp is from Kaisercraft.

I am also entering this card in the Outlines Challenge 2 .. to use black and white.
Hope you like ...
and
have an amazing weekend !!!!