Ladystamper

I hope you are all having a great weekend! I have been so busy...do I say that all the time? I think I do. I apologize. I guess I am just still getting used to having teenagers. They are alway going somewhere. It wears me out! I promised to share more of the awesome birthday cards I received at my party. Here is a really cool card by Jesse S. She is so creative...more so than she knows! She is a great lover of purple, like me! I really like how she made this card. You can't see the inside, but the collage theme continues in there. It is a fun card! This next card is by my good friend Laurel P. She cut out the oval in the middle and put a beautiful picture of purple flowers in it. It is almost th ree dimensional. Very cool! I especially like the stitching around the oval. I LOVE getting hand made cards! It is not only because I'm a SU demo and that is what I do, it is because when someone takes the time to make me a card, I feel so honored and loved! It is a neat feeling to g

This sweet card was from Shari B. She is a new demonstrator, but you sure can't tell that by her stamping! She has a great eye! She is also very sweet. She drove all the way over to my house to hand deliver this card, the flowers behind it, and a balloon...all on the day before she was going in for surgery! What a friend! She used the Notations designer paper, the cool spiral punch, stapler, and the It's your Birthday stamp set. I love it!! This next card was also hand delivered. It came from Michele G, all the way from another town! She drove all the way over to give it to me. I tell ya, I was feeling the LOVE yesterday!! Michele used the Serene Sunflower for her card and not only did she stamp it great...she cut it out! This has to be the hardest flower in the catty to cut out! sheesh! It looks awesome!

Today was my birthday. I am 30 and some change. I had a wonderful day! I decided to throw myself a party. Why not?! My friend, the amazingly talented Amy came and taught me and some friends an awesome bead project. We had a ball! I have the best friends in the world. They brought, gifts, food, and LOADS of fun! I felt very blessed today! Thanks guys!! I am going to share some of the awesome handmade cards they brought me over the next few days. I am too tired to do much tonight...must be the old age! This card was actually sent to me by Karen Giron. A dear friend that shares my same birthday! She lives in Colorado tho. It is a totally cute card and the very first birthday card I received this year. Way to be on the ball Karen!!

I tried to post these pictures yesterday but there was a problem with blogger. So, I am trying again today! I have been SO busy lately! Doing lots of good things, but not much time for stampin or bloggin. I usually stamp on Tuesday but had the opportunity to help out a good friend so...I stamped today. I also had the plumber coming today...I've waited almost 2 months for that guy so, I was going to be here! I was expecting a huge amount of work and a huge bill to match, but...it wasn't bad at all! I love that! But, I tell ya, plumbers make the money! The labor was more than 4 times the material and he was only here ...just over an hour! Anyway! I did stamp today! Here are two cards that I came up with. One is a Mother's day card that was inspired by a card Debbie Olsen did a few days ago. She used patterned paper, I used the Roses in Winter to make my own patterned paper. I like this card, I just wish I had a Marvy giga punch for the circle mat! I used a big circle punch fo

Spring is definitely in the air here in Florida. Of course...since we have spring like weather all winter, what that really means is...it was hot! Not too bad yet, but I think the cool weather is coming to an end. I took advantage of the weather and had myself a 3-1/2 hour nap today. I know, that doesn't sound fair, but since I have been staying up really late for the last week and still getting up really early, I felt I was due. I feel much better! I took some time this evening to make a few simple spring cards. I pulled out the Bodacious Boquet set and came up with these two cards. I used the prescored cards and envelopes from SU for my card bases. On this one, I stamped the daisy in Summer sun and the stem in Certainly celery. I added a few bold button to the centers and tied a spring green ribbon through some 1/8 inch holes to look like leaves. The spring tag is from the everyday expressions stamped on one of my tags from the tag sheet. It is funny...I have had these tag sheets

I stamped today!! I was busy all day, but I just made some time tonight to make a card. I needed an extra special card for a dear friend. She sent me a surprise package in the mail yesterday...I was so excited!! She truly is wonderful. For this card, I started with the premade square white SU cards and envelopes. I stamped the canvas background in basic brown onto a square of rose red cardstock and then stamped the French script over that in the same color, but only on half of the background. Now, the canvas stamp is not as wide as this card so in order to cover the entire square I inked it up and moved it around a couple of times, overlapping where I stamped. It gives it a weathered fabric look and makes it so you can't really see any seams. I also rubbed the edges of the red with my Bloody Mary chalk spot to distress it a bit. I mounted my rose red onto a square of chocolate chip and set it aside. For my flower, I used watercolor paper and stamped again with the Basic Brown. I us

Happy Easter!! I thought I would share a scrap page that had springy colors on it. These are pictures of my younger daughter Sarah. She is a lot of fun! She is our peacemaker in the family. She has such a tender heart. We were trying to take pictures of the kids in the back yard for Grandma's yearly scrap pages and the kids had fun doing lots of poses. These pages went together pretty easily. I started with two 12 x 12 sheets of whisper white cardstock. I then took two sheets of barely banana cardstock and cut curvy lines on them. I adhere the banana paper to some pixie pink paper and cut more curves in the pink. It was all quite random.... Then I took those layered pixie and banana papers and adhered them to the white page bases. I used blue gingam ribbon over the pixie and banana seams and then punched out a large quantity of daisies and circles in the pixie, white, banana, and celery cardstock. I put my pictures on coordinating cardstock layers and then adhered them to the page.

I am totally wiped out today! First I painted the second coat on my staircase walls...those walls are HIGH! And then I took my two girls shipping for Easter dresses. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a decent dress for a very tall, slim 14 yr old? All the dresses we saw were made for streetwalkers in Vegas! Sheesh! It took hours, but we finally found one we could both live with. Shopping just wipes me out tho! I am sharing another scrap page today. This is one I did in November while my wonderful sister was visiting. It took me several hours to do this one. I took an 8 x 10 photo and cut it into a million squares the size of the edge of my trimmer (how's that for a measurement!), leaving the rectangle around my focal point in tact. Then I placed my focal point on the page where I wanted it and started building my mosaic. I didn't use all the "tiles" that I had. I skipped a few due to the 'grout' taking up some space. Now that I have done it once, I d

I have been in a major organizing mood. Do you ever get that way? I tend to get that way at certain times of the month (if you know what I mean) and also on Thursdays. Yep, Thursday is a big cleaning day for me. I have to be careful or I stay up all night Thursday night and then I sleep through my date on Friday night! I think the Thursday thing is due to years of scrapbooking with friends on Friday mornings. My Alabama scrappin buddies were awesome. We would get together "for a few hours" on Friday and end up scrapping til the kids came home from school....and sometimes longer! We would slow down for lunch, but keep on going. I have some scrappin buddies here in Florida now and we actually meet on Tuesday and Friday. I guess the scrappin mostly takes place on Friday and Tuesday is general stamping. Lately, Friday's have been busy and we haven't been able to scrap. I am missing it! Since tomorrow is Good Friday and the kids are out of school, we won't be meeting t

How would you like to have one of these for a pet? There are a couple of these peacocks that roam our neighborhood. The first time we saw them was on the way to school one day. My daughter was running late and we had just come around the corner when we saw these birds in the middle of the road. What could we do? We stopped and gawked at them of course. When she got to school, she told the office she was late because there was a peacock in the road. Funny excuse, but the office worker said, oh, you must live in my neighborhood! She was excused. That was a couple of years ago and the birds are still wandering free. Sunday was only the second time we were lucky enough to see them open their tails. It is an amazing sight! We tried to get closer but they closed up. Today was another session of Stampin' Therapy at my house! I was finally able to play with my big blooms set a big. Here are a few cards I came up with. I admit I was highly influenced by the samples on Debbie's blog. I

Today was a beautiful, relaxed, inspiring Sunday. I slept til 10:30 and then got up and went to the church for General Conference. The speakers were wonderful and so were my children! That was quite a blessing! Of course, Ben and Jared were home with Brad, so it was possible! We traded off for the second session. Needless to say, I didn't have any stamping time today. Therefore, I am sharing one more scrap page I did for my contest. This picture is of my wonderful daughter Maegan. She is my right hand and my buddy. She really is fabulous and beautiful! The paper I used for this is from Basic Grey. The flowers were printed on the paper when I got to it. I trimmed it down a bit and mounted it on Chocolate Chip paper. I added the butterfly transparencies (Bohemia) , the felt stickers (can't remember where those are from), and the gold rub-ons you can barely see...a rectangle in the upper right, a butterfly on the left and some other flowers here and there. I anchored it all with s