Pen Pal Card

Here is a card I received recently from Connie in Michigan. I love the layers!!! Great job, Connie! I love it! Thank you!!!

Wooden Recipe Box

I was just chatting on SCS but the site isn't working for me for some reason, so I decided I would post my recipe box pictures. This one I made using a plain wooden box from Michaels (by Darice). I love the shape of this box with the rounded sides. On my previous boxes I used round knobs for the handles and feet but this time I found some more decorative knobs. I believe they are called finials. The paper I got from my local stamp store, don't know which company it is, sorry. The polka dot paper is a hot pink which match the radishes on the printed paper. All the paper is attached with gluesticks. The apron on the lid is doen with pink cardstock, and the polka dot paper. I found this really cute card on SCS and thought it would look perfect for the box! So i drew out an apron trying to make it the same on both sides. The ribbon for the neck and waist line is chocolate gingham. I really love how this turned out; much better than my other ones! :) The dividers are plain ones from Staples and then I covered them with cream colored cardstock, and then added a strip of polka dot paper along the bottom. I used my Cricut to cut out letters for each tab. I didn't stagger my tabs across the top just in case I wanted to change the order of the dividers so each tab is lined up to the left. Now I just have to fill it with recipes! :) Thanks for stopping by! What do you think?

Lots of New pics!

As promised, I have new pics for you! And of course, since I get bored very easily, I have changed my layout and colors! LOL. I love to change things around!


I have been making cards for classes but I don't know why I have been forgetting to take pictures of them before I take them to the store to display them! So today I took several pictures. You'll see some of my new creations and also some great pen pal cards I have received this month. I will be posting pics of the cards I get from now on. I should have been doing that all along!


So this first card I is very simple. I did this in my Misting with Markers class this month. There's a great tutorial on SCS found here. The cardstock is all from Stampin' Up. The top layer is raised with dimensionals and the scallop circle is done with a scallop punch. The dragonflies are on white cardstock and then placed under the green layer. Very simple card....

The next card is from the same class and also done using the same technique. I love this card and how the colors turned out. I forgot to mention that I use Staedler markers. I love them! They have pointed spongy type tip instead of a fiberous tip. It's great because it will always keep the pointy tip.

This card is for my Pearl Ex-Painted Pearls class this month. Again here is a very easy tutorial. I had a hard time finding Future Floor Wax initially until I found out they changed the name and now go under the name Pledge with Future Shine. Very easy and fun technique. Using the pearl ex gives the cards a great shimmer and the nice thing is that you don't have to seal the card with you are done. The floor wax does that for you!

This card was also for my Pearl Ex class. It was easier to do than the first because it has bigger open spaces in which to color. The scallop circle is done using my Cuttlebug and the "thank you" is raised with a pop dot.

This one is from the Misting with Markers class. I used Tapestry stamps for the background and a stamp that has 4 different sides on a wooden block. I can't remember where that one is from; sorry! The butterfly is stamped on purple cardstock and then cut out and adhered to the card.

I wish I could take a better picture of this card, but my camera isn't the greatest. These butterflies are so cute and I love the size of the card. It's 3x6". The scalloped circles are cut out with my Cuttlebug and the purple circles are punched out. The butterflies are stamped on white watercolor paper, colored and then cut out. I used a lid to one of my bowls to make the curved cut on the front of the card.

And now for my Pen Pal Cards!! I have a ton of pictures to take but here are the few that I have received recently. It's going to take me awhile to photograph them all.

This cute card is from a pen pal, Connie in Colorado! It's so cute! The little pink blossoms on the patterned paper are sparkly! Thanks Connie!!

This one is from Pearl in Montana. I love that little bee and the little details she added. Thanks Pearl!!!This one is from Bergen in Ohio. The ladybug looks like it was punched out. It's so cute! And then happiness is done on a separate piece of cardstock and adhered under the top layer. I'm pretty sure she used an oval punch on the top layer. Thanks Bergen!!!! And this card is from Liz in Texas! I love monkeys! He is super cute!!! Thanks Liz!!!!

I've been so busy!

Hi everyone! Boy it's been awhile! I've been so busy with work and classes, I don't have time to come down and check my email or post on my blog! I suck! LOL

I have several pics that I am going to post today so beware! LOL Thanks for checking in!!!

Happy Monday

Hi guys! Happy Monday! I've been going through all my favorite blogs and have added several to the list, so check 'em out when you have time. There are so many that I love that it takes me forever to go through them all!

I am going to take pictures of my new recipe box today. Gotta charge the camera again from last night.

Going to work on some samples again today. Hopefully I will remember to take pictures of them! I took 5 cards and a photo wallet to the store yesterday and forgot to take pictures of them first! DUH!! So anyway, will try not to brain fart today! LOL

Have a wonderful day all!!!! Thanks for checking in!

To be young again....

Wouldn't you like to be a child again? Look at that face! I love this picture! This is the same night that we went to dinner on the waterfront. My two dd's are swinging together. I just love the look on her face. To be a child again..... Swinging like that as an adult makes me nauseaus!! LOL

Had to share this photo...

I had to share this picture of the sunset on the waterfront last week. It was a beautiful night! A good friend of the family was visiting and we went out to dinner at a seafood restaurant on the waterfront. After we ate we took a walk down to the little park behind the restaurant. It's also the same area where you can ride the ferry from Vermont to New York. It's pretty funny to see all the cars lined up on the ferry! It was such a pretty sunset that night! Just had to share!

Stampin Up Flip Chart

Happy Sunday! Boy it's been a while since I posted. I have been making so many samples for classes but I forgot to take pictures of them before I took them to the store. These are samples for classes I am teaching this month. So I can't stare them with you! I also have a new recipe box to take pictures of as well.


But I do have some pictures of my Stampin Up Flip Chart. I mentioned it over on SCS and it's so hard to describe that I said I would take some pics of it. I hope that you guys can tell what it's supposed to be! LOL


I made this flip chart at my demo's house when I was still a demo. It was easy to make because she had them all printed out and cut for me! LOL. It has the basic colors from all the color families. It doesn't have the special colors that expire. It is great to have because I can choose the colors I want without having to pull my sheets of paper out. I will try to explain it the best I can....In this first picture, this is the front cover. I never decorated it so it looks plain but it has a plastic sheet on top from Walmart, cut to size. It is spiral bound using the Rubi Coil. There are four tabs across the bottom separating the color families.

When you fip the first page up, you see the color Glorious Green. Also listed below the color name is the product number and available size. Colors don't come in 12x12 separately anymore. This chart is a few years old. The whole pad is cut into three sections. No specific reason why the far right column is wider than the other two. When you flip all the Glorious Greens up you will see three Green Galores next and then three Gable Greens after that. All the colors are done this way going through the whole book. The colors are in order according to how they are listed in the catalog.

In this picture you see Glorious Green, Yoyo Yellow, and Green Galore (I think). Say you were making a card and wanted to see how these colors looked together before you dig them out of your pile or drawer or paper tray. So all I did was flip the second row up til I saw the Yoyo Yellow and the far right section up until I saw the Green Galore.

In the next picture you see Chocolate Chip, Brocade Blue and Close to Cocoa.

You can see how these colors would look together on a card. Most of the time I stay within in the same family when choosing colors to go together but there are times when colors from different families look really nice together. So I can easily just flip through this book and see what goes well together. Does that make sense? I don't know if what I am saying makes sense. LOL Can you tell how it's put together? If you need more pictures I can take more.

To make this book you would need every color in the catalog. My demo had all the colors so that's why I made it at her house. She just bought the multi pack of each color family. She ran them through her printer so the color names would be on each piece. You would each color through the printer with Glorious Green printed across three times. When the piece came out, you cut it into three strips. Then the next color goes through and you cut it into three strips. You're going to make three separate piles on your desk starting with Glorious Green and going down through the colors in the catalog. After cutting Glorious Green, flip them face down on the desk and then lay the next color face down on top of them. This keeps all the colors in the same order in each stack. Go through and print and cut each color flipping them over face down as you lay them on each stack. Then you cut a front and back cover and the plastic piece to protect the top. If you have some sort of binding machine like the Rubi Coil or the Bind it All, follow the directions with your particular machine on how to bind the book. I think that we punched the holes BEFORE we cut them into three pieces. Yes, that's right. Punch the holes before you cut the colors into three strips and make sure you keep the colors in the same order when you put the book together. Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I will take some more pictures!!

Have a wonderful night and thanks for stopping by!

Tutorials

Hi guys; happy Sunday. Cloudy gloomy day here; been that way for weeks now. It's starting to drive me crazy! Today I am putting together a new recipe box for my class tomorrow night. I will post it when I am done. And I am going to do some coloring tutorials, hopefully! I have using several different methods to color lately and just wanted to share them with you. You may already know how to use watercolor pencils or crayons, or prismacolor pencils with baby oil, or markers, but I'm getting bored with just posting a completed project without the pictures of the entire process. LOL. So we'll see how that goes! Will check back in later. Have a great Sunday!

New elements added....

Late post tonight! It's 11:30 pm and I am getting ready to go to bed but wanted to say hey! This week at work went fairly quickly. The guy I hired quit yesterday. He didn't like our boss! LOL. Oh well. He was starting to drive me crazy at work!

Tomorrow I am taking the kids to the fairgrounds. Animal Planet is coming to Vermont! I heard a commercial on the radio about some dog shows and different animals that are going to be there and I thought the kids would enjoy that! Besides that, it's free! LOL Can't beat that!

I have added more pictures to my slide show called Some of my Creations. And I have added a guestbook at the bottom of the page. Seems kinda cool. I saw it on another blog and thought it looked fun. Check it out and sign in if you'd like!

Oh and I added another favorite blog to the list......drum roll please......Cindy Haffner!!! Yay. I love her cards and her gallery at SCS. Check it out.

Sunday, Katie is doing another craft fair; purses, cards, cell phone pouches, jewelry. Wish her luck!

Post again tomorrow. Thanks for checking in.

So grateful...

Hi everyone, I was just going through my email and noticed a ton of email from SCS. I received a ton of notices that people had left comments on cards in my gallery! I just finished reading them all and I just wanted to say thanks for all your compliments!!! It really is sweet when someone takes the time to tell you how funny or cute they think your card is! I really love to read through all the comments in my gallery. Thanks so much!

I have a class tonight that I have to get ready for. I spent a couple of hours this morning cutting paper and gathering the stamps and ink I need. Oh that reminds me, I have to grab the ribbon! Tonight's class is on the star book. I am hoping that it doesn't run over! I have to get up early for work tomorrow!

Expecting thunderstorms again this evening into tonight. Probably down pour on my way to my class or walking through the parking lot with my arms full of stuff! LOL. Thanks for stopping by; I have more cards to post but I don't have pictures of them yet. Will do that soon! Have a great night! :)

You Make Me Smile...

This cupcake is from Hero Arts and the set is called Clear Design Cupcakes. I am really into cupcakes right now..........actually anything to do with desserts! LOL. I colored it with Prismacolor watercolor pencils and my dove blender. I stamped the cupcake with Stazon black on SU's watercolor paper, colored it and then cut it out and adhered it to the scallop circles from Marvy. I used some decorative scissors and cut out the sentiment (from SU) into individual words. Some of them are adhered with dimensionals. Fast and easy card!

Hi There!

Hi There! I think this is my favorite card among the several I've made recently. I love the bright bold colors! I can't remember where I got that patterned paper, but I've been holding onto it for a long time. Now that I have all these cupcake stamps, I have a use for the paper! The cupcake and the sentiment are both from Hero Arts. The sentiment is from the Spring Catalog. The cupcake is stamped with Stazon black and colored with Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils and Dove Blender. I then cut it out and adhered it to the circle with dimensionals. That piece is then adhered to the red circle with just adhesive and then that piece is attached to the patterned paper with dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped also with Stazon black and punched out with my Marvy oval punch. It's attached to the red piece with dimensionals. I used my horizontal slot punch from SU so that I could tie the ribbon on each end. I added dots with a fine tip marker. I love, love, love this card! :)

Yum!!

Yum is right! Can you imagine eating a huge ice cream cone like this? LOL This stamp is from Denami Design. I think their booth was my favorite at the stamp show. They have such cute stamps. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The set is called Clear Design Cupcakes. I used Stazon black to stamp the ice cream cone on SU's Watercolor Paper and then colored it with Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils and my Dove Blender. I mounted that piece onto the green piece with dimensionals and the ribbon is running between the two layers. Then the entire piece is mounted to the patterned paper which I can't remember where it's from. Sorry! The circle is punched out using Marvy circle punch. I used SU's ticket corner punch on the ice cream cone corners and then used one of my fine tip markers to add the dots. I like the bright colors of this card!

Tornado Warning!

Ok not only does little Jared hate thunderstorms but he is deathly afraid of tornadoes! And we have a warning for those little twisters today! Will let you know later how today goes.....

Copic Marker Blog!!

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been on in awhile. Have lots to post and some things to share. First I want to tell you that I have had added a new link. Check it out! I added it to my "Fun Places" list and it's called I like Markers. I recently found this site while reading the forums about Copic Markers. And this is the blog to visit. You learn everything you need to know about Copic Markers. I don't have any yet but I want to start my collection after seeing them demonstrated at a stamp fair I went to.

I also wanted to share with you something I recently purchased called the Bind It All Round it All. Here is the link; you'll see a close up. http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-56935576670441_2005_6457906
I haven't tried it yet but I am dying to! Here is the product description taken from the site

"The only corner rounder made to handle thick chipboard, acrylic, tin, and most other materials up to 1/8" thick. It is available in two sizes. The R10 tool will be pink and the R5 will be blue. This Round-it-All is available for PRE-ORDER and will ship end of May 2008. If purchased with other products, everything will ship immediately with the exception of the Round-it-All."

Another new item that I have is from Denami Design. They have really cute stamps! Here is their link....http://www.denamidesign.com/shoponline.html
I need to add them to my shopping list as well. I just acquired the frog stamp shown here....http://www.denamidesign.com/stamps/pages/N/N114.html
and the ice cream cone shown here.....http://www.denamidesign.com/stamps/pages/K/K55.html
Their fruit is so cute too! I have the Small Citrus Splash and the Small Cherries. http://www.denamidesign.com/stamps/tropicaldreams5.html

Another company I recently found is called Class Act. Here is the link to their site. http://www.classact.ca/index.html
I have this stamp of strawberries, http://www.classact.ca/RubberStamps/Fruit/FT08C_C_Strawberries.jpg
this stamp of cherries, http://www.classact.ca/RubberStamps/Fruit/FT10C_C_Cherries.jpg
this fence which I love! http://www.classact.ca/RubberStamps/My%20Garden/CJ08E_E_Fence.jpg
and they have some great ice cream stamps but I can't find them on their site. Might have to contact them to add them to their site!

Other info............
Just this past Friday was my birthday and I was going to go have dinner with a friend because Jared's first officer candidate school weekend was this weekend and he was going to be gone. Well, little Jared had a stomach ache that got progressively worse in a matter of a few hours and ended up in the ER having tons of tests! They told us he had acute appendisitis and within 40 minutes, he was in the OR!! Not a fun evening but he's ok and recovering this week. This is his last week of school and he will miss all of it except Friday. What a crazy year with my family and surgeries! LOL

Anyway, have to get some cards done today and mailed out but wanted to share all that info with you! Thanks for stopping by!

Katie's Graduation Announcement

I managed to get Katie's announcements done today.....well some of them! LOL. It started out really simple with just the layers of cardstock. Then I added the stamping. I couldn't figure out what to do with the top black square with the limited graduation stamps that I have. So I decided to get my cricut out and cut out the year. At first I was going to rest the cap like a hat on the first 0, but then I got the idea to hang it and take up some of the space below the year. I love that part! LOL Then I added the stars at the bottom, which are brads and the yellow brads at the top. I wanted to spruce up the very bottom so I punched holes along the bottom and added a little dot between each hole with my glitter pen. I put yellow cardstock behind the holes so they would show up nicely. The card looks much better in person. My camera is yucky! LOL What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Recipe Box #2

Here is my other recipe box. I like this one better. This isn't the one I am teaching in my class because the people taking the class don't want the dimension on the top. So this is for my own personal use. This one is made the same way basically. I didn't mat the letters on the front and I cut out extra fruit and raised them with pop dots on the lid. I also added a ball to the top to look like a handle. My dividers will look a little different but I haven't finished those yet. I will post those pics when I get them done. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!