Ladystamper

This is a page I did for my scrappin night last week. I wanted something that had a spring or Easter feel. I love the look of purple and yellow together for spring. I had these pictures I had taken a few weeks ago at the doctors office and they worked great. You may ask what kind of doctor has a forest in their back yard? Well, here in Florida, it is amazing how close the wilderness is sometimes. The natural vegitation and wildlife are always on the fringes. Just yesterday as I was on my walk around the neighborhood, I came upon two HUGE herons (I think) that were walking down the sidewalk. I was a bit nervous because they were almost up to my shoulders, but apparently I was scarier to them than they were to me because they took flight as I got close. Beautiful birds! Anyway, behind our chiropractor is a bit of wilderness with trees and bushes. Instead of sitting inside and drinking all the water from their fountain (Ben's favorite pasttime) we decided to have a photo shoot. These

I have been trying to upload some pages for days! My internet is either acting up, the power is out or I am just too busy with life in general. I made myself sit down to day and take some time to share these pages. I just love these pictures! These are from a field day at the school last spring. My B had such a fun time! He was a great sport and participated so well...it was wonderful! I really wanted to focus on the pictures so I kept the embellishments at a minimum. The base of the cards is textured Creamy Carmel. The spotted paper is from a retired SU packet from last year. I think it was called Playgroup(?) I only had two strips of the paper left so I used one on each side. They don't even reach across the whole page, but that works here. I used some celery grosgrain to give the paper a strong edge and mounted a couple pictures in the same color to keep the flow. The circles are cut from More Mustard. I used rub ons from the Anchored set for the circle words and the stars. Th

This week our challenge was to use Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate, and Brilliant Blue together. I thought it was a nice color combo. All bright vibrant colors. Here is what I came up with. I used a Pomegranate stamp pad to ink up my flower (heartfelt thanks) and an Old Olive marker to ink the stem. I spritzed the stamp with water and stamped the flower three times onto watercolor paper, without reinking. This gave me the varying colors of flowers. I used my heat tool to dry the flowers. I stamped directly over the flowers again with the same stamp using a Versamark pad this time. Because the Vmark is a sticky pad, I was able to dump clear embossing powder over that and emboss the flowers. The reason I embossed the flowers was because I wanted to be able to watercolor blue behind them without the colors smearing. I smashed the lid of my brillian blue pad into the pad to create an ink pallete and added some water to that. I used a wide watercolor brush to brush color across the entire

I am a craft junkie. I love gadgets, gizmos and just about every craft item I come across. I am a sucker for all things craft! And then there are the stamps. I have loads of them! I 'need' them. Special ones for special projects, all season ones for every possible holiday, bold ones for fabric, lines ones for artsy times, .... you get the idea. In spite of all the awesome stuff I have in my craft room, I find that some of my favorite projects have been made using bits and pieces of left overs hanging around my desk. It is almost relaxing to limit the items I use sometimes. That is the case for these two projects. I was cleaning off my desk, yet again, so that I could reward myself with some stamping time. (you do it too, don't you?) and I came across this little yellow flower I had punched, the blue button, and the strip of blue paper. They just went together so well I had to make something with them! This card is built on a river rock long note, because that is how long my

Yesterday was a fun day. We spent the morning working on 'the fort' in the backyard. (read: the boys worked on the fort, mom couldn't breathe due to allergies, dang!) After that,I took my girls shopping and bought myself some new running shoes. My excuse for not running has been that my feet hurt. So, now that I have these cool new shoes, I went walking this morning. It was beautiful outside! I walked over a mile and totally enjoyed it. It felt good getting some exercise! After my walk, I came home and spent 3 hours making chocolate truffles. (dramatic pause) LOL I have a Pampered Chef party tonight and wanted to share a new recipe my good friend Kimber gave me. I'll also be making these for my scrappin event on Thursday night so...if you want the recipe, you will have to come! We will also be making a recipe scrap page on Thursday. Here is a tin I made for my sweeties with some truffles inside. I had to make a special package for him or there wouldn't be any left f

I was at Target on Friday..one of those 'run in real quick and buy this certain thing and get out' kind of shopping trips and, as usual, I did not find what I was looking for but I did find some super cute stuff! You gotta love Target. I found some little scrappin kits on the end isle marked clearance. They were only marked down a buck-fifty, but that was enough for me! I picked up two. This page was a snap using it! The base paper is a sheet from the SU Ginger blossom packet. I used a rectangle of craft cardstock on the right side. I brushed a bit of white memory paint on the upper right for my journaling using a foam brush. I love this memory paint, it dries almost instantly! I kept my pictures full size for this one because I felt like it just flowed better. For the scallop border, I used my 1 inch circle punch to punch a bunch of circles out. I laid my base paper on my grid paper, lining it up with a line. I put a swipe of snail adhesive along the back edge of the base pape

...another pink and brown card! I hope you aren't too sick of them. I made this card a few days ago for a SU contest. It is one of my goals to start entering them again. I am SO glad they changed the timing so I can actually do them now! This is a pocket card made from 1/2 a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 regal rose cardstock. I started by random stamping the whole piece with chocolate chip ink and the Always set. I added some splatters with my art air tool and the chocolate marker. I adhered the strip of Chocolate chip to the center with just a bit of adhesive down the middle. I used my sewing machine to put a finishing edge on that. I kept my adhesive in the middle because I didn't want to sew over it and gum up my needle. I scored and folded the piece to the center so that it overlapped about 1 centimeter. I used sticky strip to adhere the back and bottom together. A bone folder was essential to get a good fold here because of the thickness of the layers. I stamped my heart with Chocol

This week our challenge was to use the layout from the birthday card on page 42 of the SU catalog. This is a very simple, doable card. I jazzed mine up just a bit. Not too much! I started by flipping through my berry bliss paper for inspiration and then stopped! "I cannot do another pink and brown card! "I told myself. So, I reached for my scrap basket instead. This card does have brown but...baby steps, right?! ;o) My card base is Chocolate chip with a slightly smaller piece of designer paper from last year's western packet. This set had a bit more green, this year is more blue. I like them both! Anyway, the paper came with the nice sponging effect on the edges, so I mimiced that onto the strip of mellow moss I placed across the middle. I cut the edge with some very old SU scallop shears. I wish me still had those..... I layered a piece of brown satin ribbon (theater collection) across the moss and stuck them down. The focal point is from the Wanted set. I stamped the ch

Do you ever look through your stamps and see a set and think....have I ever used that? I did that last night after my workshop. I was in the creating mood and thought I would make a quick card before bed. Yes, it was 11pm but....isn't that still early, creative-ly speaking? ;o) Anyway, I was looking for a certain set and instead found my Wild Rose set. I know I have had that for a long time, but I didn't remember using it. I felt a bit guilty so I got it out. Was I ever surprised when I found a bunch of cut out masks that I had made for the set when I (obviously) had used it the last time! That, my friend, is a happy find! I hate making little masks, so I try to always save them. Of course, I didn't use any of the masks on this card....but maybe later today....I'll get back to you! The base of this card is made with Blue bayou. The card measures 4 x 6. Kind of a fun size. I will have to make a special envelope for it. I layered a piece of river rock cardstock that I

Good morning! My daughter was telling me about a theory she learned at church. Act the way you wish you felt and you will start to feel that way. I am way sleepy today and just want to stay in bed, but there is too much to do! So, I am trying to act wide awake and chipper! We' ll see how that goes! First, an update on my son. He did in fact break his left arm. It was a fracture and not too bad, just painful. I wanted to put a picture on here but he has not held still long enough for me to snap on! Obviously, he is feeling much better. In fact, he was out playing manhunt again Saturday night! I told him to stay out of the trees! He surprised both me and the doctor when he decided he wanted a white cast instead of a colored one. He said he wanted people to be able to sign it. I also got him a waterproof cast. Yeehaw! I wish they would have had those when my little B broke his arm two years ago! Oh the headache that would have prevented! I had a fun workshop on Saturday with some gir

It is that time again! This week for the bloggers challenge we were to combine Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Pumpkin pie and Rose red. Not my typical color combo! I started by getting piece of each of the colors of cardstock and just laying them on top of each other in different orders. I realized that the color combo isn't a new one, it is the same basic color combo that is in the Bali Breeze DSP packet. I knew the exact sheet from the collection I wanted to use. Unfortunately, I had already used all of that sheet! Figures....I decided this floral sheet was my next choice so I pulled it out. I used it for the floral strip as well as for the tiny flower in the middle of my Build A Brad. (these are cool!) The card base is Old Olive with Taken with Teal layered over that. Because I was using a floral paper, I didn't want to put another flower on here unless it was the same. I went with a word for the focal point instead. I haven't used this set much but had a ball with it today

I just LOVE this paper! It isn't a new paper, it has been around for a while. The Cute Pie collection is just so fun and full of bright colors. I sat down at my desk to make some Valentine cards and this paper just flew into my hands! This first card is a smaller than normal card. It measures 4-1/2 inches square. I used Basic black as the base and a square of whisper white under the polka dots. The "Hello" is a rub-on from the Anchored collection. To tell you the truth, I was tempted to just leave the card with only the Hello on there! These rub-ons look so clean and awesome, I have totally fallen in love with them! They are super easy to use too. I don't even use the popcicle stick anymore. Just my thumbnail. (yes, that amazing discovery happened when I couldn't find my stick....) I decided to go ahead and add some more to the card by folding a bit of wide celery grosgrain ribbon for leaves and adding a big daisy from the pretties kit. I punched a circle from Bar

I had a workshop yesterday for a dear friend that always likes me to show a scrapbook page. Oh darn....I actually get a page done! I wanted to do a page that had patterned paper, stamping, sticky letters, and rubons. Here you go! I have a hard time coming up with a page without pictures so I printed out these beautiful pictures of my sweet neice Quincie. I'm sure I showed at least one of these before after my Arizona trip last fall. She really is sweet! For the base, I used a sheet of Chocolate chip that I stamped with the dotted circles from So Much. I used white craft to compliment the white dotted flowers in the patterned paper. The patterned paper is from the Berry Bliss collection...my new favorite! I trimmed it down to 10 x 10 and added some punched corner tabs also made from chocolate chip. The brads in the corners are pretty in pink. I used the S from my sticky letters on pretty in pink cardstock and dumped some (less than currenct) fusia glitter over that. It is so cool ho

Today the challenge was to make a card using the Happy Birthday card on the front of the Sale-a-bration brochure as our template. I fudged just a little by making my card a square. Hope that is okay! I just needed more room! I made my card base out of Close to cocoa and Regal Rose I stamped my new Save the Date calendar with close to cocoa and stamped the dots with Pretty in Pink. Uh oh....I did another pink and brown card! LOL Maybe next week the challenge should be to do a "not pink and brown card!" just for me! oh well.... The flowers are from the new SAB set. I stamped them with cocoa and colored them in with Regal rose marker. I stamped the smaller flower from the set using my marker and cut them out. I used a pink brad in the center to hold the two flowers together and added a bit of dazzling diamonds to the centers of the petals. "Celebrate" and the swirlies are stamped with craft white. I stamped "today" with my regal rose marker and punched it out