Happy Birthday Waltzingmouse!!

WHEW!!!  I just made it. :)

I started this the other day, and all of the sudden, this morning, I realized that I never posted!!  So, I ran outside, thank goodness for a beautiful sunny day.

This is quick, because I'm unfortunately off to a funeral, but I wish Claire continued success always!!  I ♥ her company, and hope it continues strong for a long LONG time! :)

Happy Saturday!


Supplies:
Stamps: Way Out West, Back in the Saddle
Ink: Memento Black, PTI distress cubes, fresh snow
Paper: water color paper (SU!), Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream (PTI)
Accessories: Sakura stardust pen, WMS tea baggie template, PTI button, DMC floss

Long time...

No speak!!

It's been a loooooong time since I last posted -- nearly 2 MONTHS ago!!  eesh.  I've been a busy bee, not so much in the craft department, but busy, none the less.  I went on a trip to PA to meet some of my favorite people, my PSFs.  I've been chatting with these ladies for YEARS, and finally got to meet some of them IRL. How cool is that?!?!?  I'll tell you.  It was VERY cool.  The weather was unfortunately rotten, but we had a great time, and lot of laughs, despite the nasty weather!  Here are a few pics:

Here's Pam and Sharon working nicely together...

OH!  How'd that get in there??  You see, remember that nasty weather I spoke of??  Well, a few of us were stuck at the hotel while there was a severe storm blowing through the area, complete with flash flood warnings, and a tornado watch (cool, right?)  Well, we made sure we were safe in the lower floor of the building, away from any windows, and lookee at what we found!  What luck.

This is Pam - I ♥ this picture...don't you??  You should go here and tell her! 

This is Laura and I -- we were getting a little giddy at this point...it was late, and we were up waaaaaaayyyy past our bedtime. 

and this is Sharon and Renee...these are 2 of the sweetest people you will ever meet.  EVER.  Unfortunately I didn't get a whole group shot of all of us.  Barb tried, but that's a story for another day ;).  I'm blessed to have such great stamping friends that I can now call REAL Stampin' Friends!!

Fun Foam Make it Monday!

Happy Sunday!  WHEW!  I can't believe another weekend is almost over!!  We've had a great weekend of celebration, I'll share more about that a little later this week, but for today, I've got the card I made for PTI's Make it Monday challenge this week :).

This week's challenge was to use die cut fun foam.  We have no shortage of fun foam in my house, with two little girls who love to do projects, so that was the easy part.  I decided to do some of those fun little rolled flowers, using the foam.  So I broke out my 1.75" Limitless Layer dies, and die cut some foam, then cut a spiral into each one, and rolled them into little flowers, that I positioned on the large leafy image from Turning a New Leaf.

Finished off with a sentiment from Round and Round, some Hibiscus satin ribbon, and a few harvest gold buttons.  Thanks for stopping by, off to prepare for the work week!!

Have a great day!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Turning a New Leaf, Round and Round
Ink: New Leaf, Hibiscus Burst
Paper: Select White, True Black
Accessories: 1.75" Limitless Layers dies, Hibiscus Burst Satin Ribbon, Harvest Gold Vintage Buttons

February PTI Blog Hop!

How can it be the 25th already????  WOW that went fast!!

Welcome to my little stop on the blog hop :).  I'm here to share a quick, clean and simple card with you today...with...yes, scallops.

The sentiment is from Birthday Bash Sentiments, stamped in New Leaf ink, on Select White CS.  The image from Damask Designs is stamped in Fresh Snow ink onto Hawaiian Shores CS.  That layer is trimmed with a scalloped piece of New Leaf CS (punched with my EK Success Single Embossed Curve punch) and a bit of Hawaiian Shores Grosgrain. TA-DAAAH!

Easy to whip up a bunch to have on hand for when you need them, too!

Thanks for popping by (told you I'd be quick!) - make it a great day!

Supplies:
Stamps: Damask Designs, Birthday Bash Sentiments
Ink: Fresh Snow, New Leaf
Paper: Select White, Hawaiian Shores
Accessories: EK Success Single Embossed Curve Punch, Hawaiian Shores Grosgrain

Make it Monday with Chick Lil'

Heeellloooooooooooo...in my best "Uncle Leo" (RIP Len Lesser) from Seinfeld voice :)

It's been a while since I've shared some papercrafted goodness with you all.  I've got a fun little card to share with you today that incorporates not one, but TWO challenges going on right now.

The first is Papertrey's Make it Monday challenge, which was to add glitter lines to your project using scor-tape.

The second is a challenge hosted by my friend Pam...well, her daughter actually...she issued a throwdown, and I decided I was up for it :).  The challenge is to create a card inspired by this photo:

What a beauty, right??  Sooo, I sat and stared at my stamp table for a while...and then I went to bed.  I just couldn't figure out what I could do that would pull the two challenges together.  And then, while I was at work yesterday, I suddenly had it!  Of course, so inconveniently in the middle of the day, when I'm away from stampland...but I had it.  So last night, I didn't even turn on the computer, as I knew I'd get sucked in to a round (or 200) of Bejeweled Blitz or Oregon Trail (such a silly game, but brings me back to my childhood).

Here's what I came up with:

I know my flower has more red than yellow...but while my intentions were good, I think I got a little carried away with my cherry cobbler ink pad.  The flower was made using PTI's Beautiful Blooms II #1 die collection.  I folded a single sheet of yellow tissue paper, so that there were 16 layers of tissue, and ran the 3 dies through my Cuttlebug together...talk about a time saver!  Then I stacked them, fluffed them, inked them, fluffed them some more...but the final thing that made it work was a spritzed it with a little water, and THEN fluffed some more.  Now -- the water may have done NOTHING, but I felt like it did something, so I'm sticking to that story.

Oh, "what's that" you say??  Look at that yummy glitter frame around the outside.  Yes, there's my scor-tape with glitter!  My card is 5"x5".  There is a scored frame (though kind of hard to see) at the 4" mark.  Just to the outside of that was a penned border, and then my fabulous glitter border.  Really dresses up that white base.

That cute little sentiment is from Flower Garden Sentiments, I'm so punny sometimes ;).

Thanks for stopping by for a look!  Make it a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Flower Garden Sentiments

Ink: Fresh Snow (PTI), Cherry Cobbler (SU!)

Paper: One Sheet Wonder (Cardstock Couture), True Black (PTI)

Accessories: Tissue Paper, Copic Multiliner 0.1, Scor-tape 1/2" width, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, chartreuse felt, scarlet jewel button, embroidery floss 

A Quick Comparison...

I was going through some pictures on my computer...and I found a few that I thought really showed off how much snow we got here this Winter...  This first picture shows my house, the day after Christmas...we were just getting our first "real" snowfall that day...

We have gotten near, if not record snowfall this January...here's what the front of my house looks like as of the beginning of February...

Remember the train in the front yard??  Yeah - it's still there...it's just buried under snow...oh and the little pathway Christmas trees????  take a look at this picture

These are my girls, but see that dark spot below her feet???  YEP -- the trees!  We're getting some warmer temps this week -- and I'm SO thankful...maybe some of the ice will start melting off of our roof!!!  Here's some icicle shots I took a few weeks ago we've had some incredible ones this year - some are at my house, some are at my Mom's...

Here's to warmer temps!! :)  Have a great day!

PTI Go-To Sentiment Card...

So, I've been wanting to participate in the PTI challenges going on this week, but have had a few obstacles... 1 being, for the first time since BEFORE CHRISTMAS, I've had to work a FULL week this week! LOL.  I'm still sort of in disbelief about this...ha! I'm EXHAUSTED!

Secondly though - the other issue is I've been taking my photos outside since one of the lights for my tent broke...and since I work all day, I only get to stamp at night...and by the time I get to photograph...too late!  I just might catch up and play along anyway, because there's lots of fun challenges going on!

ANYWAY -- enough blah blah blah, I know, I'm getting on with it.

The challenge for the first Make it Monday challenge was to create a "Go-To Sentiment Card"  I tried -- I kind of feel like I more made a background paper out of sentiments...but I'm going with it, and I'll keep trying on my own, just because I thought it was a neat idea.  This will be my hubby's valentine this year.

I went through all of my sets and pulled out all of the "love" sentiments, and got to work.

I've added the three little hearts from Wonderfully Whimsical, as well as one of the hearts from Heart Prints for accents.  I'm fairly satisfied with how this turned out - I will definitely be trying this one again!!

Thanks PTI for the challenge, AND for the opportunity!!

Supplies:
Stamps: (All PTI) Round and Round, Heart Prints, Damask Designs, Mod Squad, Simple Little Things, Signature Greetings, Wonderfully Whimsical, Beyond Basic Borders, Background Basics: Tin Types
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Versamark, Fresh Snow
Paper: Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, Select White
Accessories: Stickles, Clear EP, dimensionals