Repurposing...cards too???

Hello everyone, happy Tuesday!! We're getting ready to head over to DD #2's house for a birthday dinner for her boyfriend and I wanted to share his card. So I made this card last July for a couple of challenges and it was actually an invitation. You can see the original post here. Well like most scrappers, I NEVER throw anything away and have 2 big boxes filled with all my cards. Knowing that DD gave her boyfriend a new bbq for his birthday, I thought this card was perfect. Luckily for most of my challenges I don't finish the inside of the cards, so I pulled this card out and voila! I repurposed it as a birthday card! And since I was short on time, this worked perfect!! I used a Pink By Design stamp for the front, and the sentiment stamp is from My Craft Spot. Easy peasy! They're planning on a bbq tonight, which should be interesting since it's been raining ALL day! Oh well, should be fun anyway. I hope you have a great evening, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Winner of My 200 Followers Give Away

Hello all, just a quick post to announce the winner of my 200 followers give away of a $25.00 gift card to Michael's. I hope your weekend was a good one. Ours here in the north state was a wet one, but we need the rain. Not to mention I love it when it rains and I'm at home! :) Well, enough of that. Since I was unable to contact my first winner and I waited over a month for her to contact me, I needed to choose another winner. The winner is:

#192 Lisa from Scrapping Spot!!!

Congratulations Lisa! Please send me an e-mail at lks5011@hotmail.com with your snail mail address and I'll get this right out to you! I just want to thank all my followers too, I love to hear from you all, so please don't hesitate to drop by to say hi!! Thanks for stopping by tonight, hope you have a fantastic week!!!

My 200 Followers Give Away - Again

Happy Wednesday! Just a quick post tonight about my give away. On February 18th I posted the winner of my 200 Followers Give Away as Candace S. Unfortunately Candace didn't leave me her e-mail address and the attempts I've made to contact her through Blogger have been unsuccessful. I will do another drawing on Sunday to choose another winner. So Candace, please contact before then, if not, I'll post the new winner Sunday evening. Thank you all and have a great evening!

Last Day of Winter 2012

Hello everyone! How was your last day of winter? I know some areas of the country are enjoying really warm conditions, but it was almost cold here in the north state, which was nice since it hasn't felt like winter at all. So to celebrate the coming of Spring, I thought I'd share a card I made for DD #3 last week. I finally bought some Wobbles and thought this was a great time to try them out. She LOVED it!! The best part was the huge smile on her face. I hope you enjoy the card, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Supply List:
CS: Recollection
PP: DCWV
Stamps: Scrappy Moms and Peachykeen
Ribbon: Michael's
Stickles

Nirbie's Room

Hello everyone, how's your week going? We have had a very stormy day, lots of rain and wind, but all and all it was nice since we need the rain. I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately, it's just been busy around here. I did get a chance to play in my room over the weekend and I wanted to share it with you. DD#2 is fairly new to scrapping and has wanted a sign for the room her and her boyfriend share for an office/scraproom. I've been working on it a little at a time, but finally finished it. This is the DD that created the new look on my blog and who's nickname was created by her boyfriend, a combination of Nerd and Barbie.

Well, when we ordered her scrapbook paper birthday cake, which you can see here, I spelled it one way, realized the boyfriend spelled it Nirby, and then for some reason when I made the sign I spelled it another way...blame it on menopause!!! lol But I look at it this way, since it really isn't a real name, I can spell it any way I want!! :) She asked me to include her boyfriend's name on it too so he wouldn't be left out which is where the "Stinky" came in...don't ask, you can use your imagination on that one! lol

I really love the colors of it, which of course match her room. This was the first time I cut vinyl on my E2 and LOVED how easy it was!! It's so nice not to have to remember what settings to use! And I was able to use a lot of scraps in my stash, win-win!!! Well, hope you like it and I want to thank you for stopping by. Have a great evening!!

Sunday Evening

Hello everyone, how was your weekend? Hard to believe that it's almost over and another week ahead. I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted, just so much life in the way! Between work and family I haven't had much time to play. :( Today I did get in to make this card for a very special little girl who loves Twilight too. She is the daughter of DD #1's bff and a little cutie pie. So of course I had to pull out my Edward stamp, sentiment stamps from Crafty Sprouts, DCWV pattern paper, Recollection card stock, Stickles, Stampin' Up colored pencils and ink, and American Craft glitter ribbon. I have been trying to perfect the Edward's "glitter" and still not sure I like this one. Guess I need to keep trying!! ;) Looks like I need to work on my picture taking too, sorry these are so dark. Well, this is just a shorty tonight, but I want to thank you for stopping by. Have a great week!

Tuesday Evening

Hello everyone, how's your Tuesday going? It's always busy after a 3-day weekend, but that's ok, keeps life interesting. I made this card for a coworker who is going through some very tough times. When you see others struggling with life's ups and downs, it makes you realize how fragile life really is and to appreciate what we have in our lives for however long we are here on this Earth. These cards can be a struggle at times, but this one came together pretty quickly. Maybe because it's so simple. The hardest part was distressing the bottom layer. I used a very dull pair of scissors, which worked well, but makes me feel like I'm scratching my nails on a chalkboard. Guess I should look into one of those distressing tools! ;) I used Stampin' Up and Bazzil cardstock, and a piece of patterned paper that I bought as a single sheet from JoAnn's and the sentiment stamps are from Pink By Design. And the ribbon is from Michael's. I hope you have a great evening, and I thank you for stopping by.

The Winner of My 200 Followers Give Away!!

Hello all!!! How is your weekend going so far? I have been enjoying mine immensely! Today was very productive and I'm so happy to have another 2 days off! I've been working on purging some of my old supplies, which DD #2 is thoroughly enjoying too. So enough of that. The winner of my $25.00 Michael's gift card chosen by Random.org is:

#166 Candace S.

Congratulations Candace!!! Please e-mail me your address so that I can send you your gift card!

I want to thank each and everyone of my followers for stopping by my little blog and becoming not only followers, but friends as well, and leaving such wonderful comments. I hope you have a great rest of your weekend, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

The Liebster Award

Happy Friday everyone!! Has it been a busy week or what?!? ;) Well, to my surprise, I was nominated for the Leibster Award by Divinity over at Scrap 'n Patch. Thank you so much Divinity!! This is the second time I've been nominated for this and feel very blessed to have been chosen again. A little info on the Liebster Award, this award is meant for the blogs in Blog Land that have 200 or less followers. As part of the tradition the award is passed along to five other blogs that have motivated and inspired me. It comes from the German meaning dearest or beloved but can also mean favorite. To accept the award you must:

1. Link back to the person's blog who gave it to you and thank them.
2. Post the award to your blog
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value
4. Leave a comment on the five blogs you chose to let them know

So here are the 5 blogs I have chosen to pass this award on to:

1. Karen at Crafted With Love By Karen
2. Sharon at In the Big Blue House
3. Stephanie at Once Upon a Paper
4. Stephanie at Scrappy Rae 10
5. Jennifer at Country Cricut

Each of these ladies are very talented and show off their wonderful projects on their blogs. Thank you ladies for all your inspiration, it is always a pleasure for me to stop by your blogs. Please take a moment and stop each of their blogs and show them some love because I know you'll enjoy your visit as much as I do! And one more thing, I see that I have finally reached 200 followers, so stop by later this weekend when I will announce the winner of the Michael's gift card. Have a great evening and thanks again Divinity!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Good morning everyone!! Happy Valentine's Day!! I wanted to share the card I made the love of my life. I found this cute Penny Black hedgehog stamp on HSN and just had to get it. As some of you know, DH is in a band called TC and the Hedgehogs, so now the hunt is on for everything hedgehog! lol I used a combination of Zig and SU markers on it and of course some Stickles for the water and some chalking for the sky. The paper is from Martha Stewart, cardstock is SU and Recollections, and the ribbon is from Michael's as are the heart doilies.

The stamp sentiments are from Scrappy Moms and stamped with SU Real Red ink. So to celebrate my card I thought I'd enter it into the Valentine's challenge at CTO. I hope you enjoy the card and that you have a fantastic Valentine's Day! Thank you for stopping by today, I really appreciate all my visitors and their comments!! Share some time with your love today and let them know how special they are to you, I know I am! :)

Happy Birthday Nerbie!

Hello all and Happy Friday!!! Sunday will be DD #2's birthday and we're having dinner at her house later. I just had to share the cake and the card for her. The cake is from the same bakery that baked my beautiful Birki's cake. You can see it here. I e-mailed them some pictures of a couple of scrapbook pages I had created so he could get some ideas. This is supposed to be a stack of scrapbook paper with the top sheet as a page being created. I LOVE it!!!

Now I know you're wondering what's up with "Nerbie", right?? It's a nickname her boyfriend gave her which is a combination of Nerd and Barbie. I'm not sure why he chose Barbie since she's not much of a frilly girl, but the nerd part came into play cuz she's always dinking around on her computer and loves all things techie. And since she's just getting into scrapbooking, I decided to create the card using both ideas. I used my Cricut Everyday cartridge and the stamp sets are from Pink By Design. All the papers are from my stash. I used my Stampin' Up punches and ink, Prima Flower, and some Glossy Accents on the computer monitor and iphone. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!!

Thankful Thursday at D.L. Art

Hi everyone! How's your weekend so far? You would never know it's winter here, but that's ok, I'm enjoying the sunshine. So my friend Diana over at D.L. Art has a challenge on Thursdays called Thankful Thursday that I have been meaning to upload to for a few weeks, but never seem to get it done. Well, this week's challenge is Anything Goes. Yay! Love those kind!!!! I decided to show the artwork on my scrap room door, my very favorite place to spend time in!!!

I made the scrap room sign about 4 or 5 years ago when I was able to "move in" to this room. I bought the frame at Michael's and used some of my tole painting skills on it. I decoupaged some scrapbook paper, added some vinyl lettering cut on my Cricut, some chipboard shapes and buttons and ta daaa!!!

Then the plaque below it was given to me by DD #2 for my birthday. She found this a craft fair and knew with the blue (my favorite color) flowers that it was perfect for my room. So, if you have a chance, go on over to Diana's and upload something for her Anything Goes!! Have a great weekend and as always, thanks for stopping by!!!

Thinking of You on a Tuesday Evening

Hello everybody! I hope your week is going well. DH is at band practice so I spent some time in my scrap room. I made this card for one of our supervisors at work whose son is in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. Masculine cards are hard enough for me, but then the thinking of you cards for men are even harder. I used Stampin' Up card stock and DCWV pattern paper from the Linen stack. I used a Sizzix label die, nail heads from Walmart, and Scrappy Moms stamps with Stampin' Up ink. Clean, simple, and quick. My kind of card during the week! I know it looks like a lot of white space on the card, but we have 18 people that will sign this and I knew we needed the room. Well, that's it for tonight, just a quickie post. Hope you have a great evening, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Saturday Evening

Hi everyone! How was your Saturday? I was out of town for training this week so I've been doing some catch up on laundry etc. but did make sure to take some time to spend in my scrap room. I started this 2 page layout last weekend when I came across this cardstock. It was part of a page kit that I got a couple of years ago when my upline demonstrator with Stampin' Up held a girls day on Superbowl Sunday. I was working on something else at the time and never used it, but like all good crafters, saved it for another day. :) The picture is of me and 2 girlfriends from high school. This was taken at the wedding of my bff on the right. It was such a beautiful wedding, an evening wedding at a Vintner's Cellar in Southern California. I thought the purple cardstock was a perfect choice for the winery theme.

Here's a list of other supplies used:
DCWV pattern paper
Stampin' Up pattern paper
Recollection cardstock
Stampin' Up ribbon
Stampin' Up paper punch
Fiskars sentiment stamp
Stampin' Up ink
3 Birds glitter letters and dots
Petaloo flowers
Misc gems and brads
Well, I hope you like the layouts, I am very happy with them. Thanks for stopping by my little blog. Have a great rest of your weekend and I hope you save some crafty time for yourself.

Good Sunday Morning!

Good morning everyone! Hope your weekend is going well. I can't believe that January is almost over! I don't know about you, but there just aren't enough hours in a day any more. But that's ok, we learn to make do with what we've got, right? So I wanted to share the projects that my Stampin' Up girls made Friday night. The weather was terrible here, but I still had a great turn out with a lot of laughs. Two of my daughters came which made it even more enjoyable for me. DD #2 is still rather new at paper crafting, but she is like her mother, when she begins a new adventure in life, she goes all out...she is now acquiring her own LSS!! LOL So she walked into the house and held up her new ATG gun and said, "Ok, let's get started!" And the laughs never stopped! I had the girls work on these 3 projects, which I thought turned out well. Note the kisses....I'm not sure if we ate more of them or packaged more! :)

Stampin' Up has just released some new Edgelit and Framelit products with coordinating embossing folders and I just love them!! I used an Edgelit with the embossing folder on the treat bags, and the Cup of Thanks card has another Framelit cut on it. I hope you like the projects and if you see something you like, let me know. Have a great day and as always, thank you so much for stopping by!

New Year - New Look (still under construction)

Good morning everyone!! How is everyone? Hope your New Year is off to a good start! What do you think of my new look??? Isn't it gorgeous??? My beautiful #2 daughter has been working on this for a little while and then surprised me yesterday with this!! As you can see, it still needs some tweaking, but I LOVE it!!!!!!!! The leopard apron is the best and you just have to grab my new cute button!!!! I am so blessed with my 3 daughters, I could just bust!!! :) Speaking of daughters, my oldest had a birthday yesterday and DH has one on Tuesday, so since we're having everyone over this afternoon, I figured I could share the cards I made for them. I stepped way outside the box when I made DD's, but I just love it!!!

Supplies:
DCWV pp
Recollection cardstock
Stampin' Up stamps
Prima Flowers
Twine and pearls from my stash
Stickles
Doily from Michael's
White Gelly Roll
Now for DH's, he's the drummer in a band called "TC and the Hedgehogs", hence the Stampin' Up hedgehog on the inside. :)

Supplies:
DCWV pattern paper
Recollection cardstock
Dollar stamp - Drum set
clear embossing powder
Scrappy Moms sentiment stamps
Stampin' Up Hedgehog stamp
chalks for coloring hedgehog
Stampin' Up punch
adhesive gems from Michael's
Sorry this is such a long post, but I wanted to get it all in this morning. I hope you enjoy the cards and my new look. I know DD is working hard on completing it, so enjoy the changes!! Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you have a great week!!

DL Art 1 Year Blog-a-versary!

Happy first day of 2012! I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve last night. We stayed in and made a yummy steak and lobster dinner and watched a video that DD #1 gave us for Christmas. We don't usually go out on NYE, but try and have a special dinner. I think our surf 'n' turf was pretty special! lol So, not only is it New Year's Day, but my dear friend Diana over at DL Art is having a blog hop celebrating her 1 year blogaversary. As you go through her hop 4 of the ladies have clues as to what kind of challenge we can make to link up to her blog. So, this is my take on it.

I used my E2's Cricut American Alphabet cartridge for my cup, and if you can believe it, all the papers used were scraps yet again!! woo hoo!! I used Stickles, ribbon from Michael's, My Pink Stamper and a portion of a Scrappy Moms stamp. I printed the Blog- which is totally not my style since I hate my writing. But I liked the way the card turned out, had a lot of fun with it. So if you have a chance, please stop by Diana's blog and join in her hop and wish her a happy blog-a-versary!! Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone!! It's hard to believe that yet another year has come and gone. I remember once my mom told me that the older you get, the faster time goes by. And you know what? She was right again!!! I just wanted to post the New Years cards I'll be sending out on Tuesday. Yep, right on time!! lol But I figure it's still the new year for at least a week! I used my Simply Charmed cartridge for the bottle and glass and my new Peachy Keen face stamp set, appropriately named New Years!! And I used some more scraps to create the cards. Gotta love cleaning out those scraps! The pattern paper is from one of my DCWV stacks, the ribbon from Michael's (I know, a shocker!), the stamps are from Scrappy Moms and the ink from Stampin' Up, and don't forget the Stickles!
I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and that it be a safe and prosperous one for each and everyone of you. Thank you for stopping by my little blog and leaving such kind comments this last year. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading not only your comments, but visiting so many talented people who I now call friends. Have a great New Years Eve and as always, thank you for stopping by!

Baby Bumps

Good evening!! Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the week after Christmas. I'm on vacation this week, which is the first time in over 20 years that I've taken the week after Christmas off. I must say I am enjoying myself. I finally got back into my room to play today. I spent the first part of this week doing chores around the house and cleaning/reorganizing my room. I was so busy the last couple of weeks that every time I made a tag or a card, I never cleaned up. What a mess! I've promised myself never to do that again, it was bad! So, I made a couple of cards for my bff's daughters, both of whom are expecting. The girls are only 13 months apart and I thought it was cute that they are both expecting and only 6 weeks apart. And the best part, is I was able to make both cards using all scraps! Yay!!!

I used my Cricut and my Gypsy for the first time in ages and my New Arrival cartridge, and of course, Stickles. The stamps were a combination of Pink By Design and Scrappy Moms and the ink is from Stampin' Up. The little flower on one of the hats is from Prima and I don't know which manufacturer the ribbon is from as it was in my stash too. Well, I hope you like my cards. Oh, and before I forget, don't forget about my 200 followers give away! $25.00 to Michael's is a fun way to start of the New Year! :) Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!!

Merry Christmas Eve to All My Blog Friends!!

Good morning and Merry Christmas Eve!! I hope everyone is ready or at least almost ready for Christmas. I just wanted to wish all my blog friends and their families the Merriest of Christmases! I have met so many wonderfully talented people here in blog-land and feel blessed to call you all friends. Enjoy this time with family and friends and I'll see you back here next week!