Monogrammed Notecards

My BFF loves these Monogrammed note cards. The tote holding them is from a tutorial created my Leslie Rich on her blog. You can find the link below.

Recipie: Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Bashful blue, Whisper White

DP: The Paper Store, Hobby Lobby

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Gingerbread

Stamps: Trajan Monogram Alphabet PTI

Ribbon: Chocolate Grograin Mike's $1 spot

Accesorries: Nestabilities http://leslierich.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2007/07/30/ruby-tuesday-stellas-tote-n-tutorial/

Peanut Butter Treat

This is the little yummy for my youngest son for Valentine's Day. I saw this idea on SCS you can find it there (Sing n' Stamp) or at her blog www.hemidemisemiquaver@wordpress .com. I fell in love with it and immediately went running to dig out one of my Papertrey boxes that I've been hoarding in my closet. ( I know they would come in handy someday). I used red and gold wrapped Resse's Peanut Butter Cups. I don't have any measurements on the tray I made to slide inside. I just measured the box and took off 1/16 of an inch to compensate for the creases of the box. I arranged the cups all in the right direction so that you could read what was stamped on the PB cups. Have fun putting this together. Link me to any that you create like this. I would love to see your creations.

Valentine Treats

I made this fun treat box for my oldest son. I found this FAB box idea at Melanie Meunchingers blog. You can click on her name in my blog roll to get there. I used my Stampin Up Love Matters set and VersaChalk Ink in Red Magic and Sea Breeze. The ribbon is from Mike's $1 spot. The box is from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the entire back and focal point in the front. The flower brads are Making Memories(?). I stuffed it with Vanilla flavored tootsie rolls (one of his favs) The boxes are SUPER easy to make and are adorable.

Get Well

I needed to build up my card stash and wanted to create clean and simple designs that would work for either men or women. This is one of 3 cards I did only changing the color of the ink, stickles and the sentiment. I think that next time I'll emboss the vanilla background. These were also completed with SC158 in mind. I just flipped the layout to a horizontal format.

Kickstand Cards

I am having such a blast making these kickstand cards. I have never tried them before so these are new territory for me. I made these for the splitcoaststampers.com Sketch card challenge (SC158, kickstand are the keywords to search for to see all the FAB creations for this challenge. The first card is made with Papertrey stamps, PP is making memories,the cardstock is from Mike's, the Prima came from my Target and of course my nestabilities and I can't forget the large pink rhinestone from Mike's in the center. The second card is a Bella image. It's RetailFellaBella. The PP is Anna Griffith, the cardstock is from Hobby Lobby. I used my nestabilities to cut the image and scalloped circle out. Then colored with Copics, Zig and Versabrush. The phrase says..

New Boots: $65

New Outfitsto Match Boots: $250

A husband willing to follow you around carrying packages without complaint: PRICELESS!

Hope you like it..

Splitcoast Challenge

Every once in a while I seem to get in a rut style wise with my cards. When I get that way I always turn to splitcoast and their challenges to help me through. These three cards were completed as part of the SC157 sketch challenge. This is my first try at the sketch challenge. I love bling so I had to add a little rhinestone or sticles here and there. If your interested in trying one of these sketch challenges go to the Forums tab at Splitcoaststampers.com and look for the Splitcoast Challenges section and click on Card Sketches. All the directions are there for you to complete challenges. If you find yourself using the same old colors try the color combinations challenge. Happy Stamping everyone.

BUSY BUSY BUSY

It feels like I haven't posted in years but I have a good reason. At Christmas I am always consumed with activities that I hold dear. I bake cookies for all our neighbors and friends and last year we added the units that my husband oversees in his job at BAMC. This year we baked over 2400 cookies ALL FROM SCRATCH. We also volunteer for the childrens Christmas party at the hospital and we have the annual holiday ball to attend. As if that weren't enough I was bound and determined that all the cards we sent out (80 plus) would be made by me. TA DA mission accomplished. The cookies were baked, parties attended, cards handmade and sent, and all presents wrappped by December 23rd. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I work my fingers to the bone but I LOVE IT all. Not bad for a months work. We also celebrate Three Kings Day in January so onward to the New Year we go. This year has been one filled with blessings and trials but we are so fortunate to have those blessings far outweigh the trials. I am looking forward to creating new and beautiful things in the coming year and seeing everyone out there do the same. Wishing you all peace, love, joy and creativity in the coming year.

Cheers Girls!!

This is a little card that I made up to send out to my friends who love cocktail time. It was made in their honor. Cheers to all of you and the best of all things wonderful during the holiday season. I love this time of year and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we are going to this season.

Snowflake Case

This one I totally cased from Papertrey. I saw it and fell in love with it. Isn't it gorgeous!!

Snowflake Serenade

This card was made with the Snowflake Serenade set from Papertrey Ink. Do you love this or what!!! The background is embossed with the snowflake cuttlebug folder. There are also some stickles on the snowflake and Peace.

Merry Texas Christmas

This is one of our Christmas cards that we'll be sending out this year. The inside says

Merry Christmas Ya'll!!!

These are more sets I made for customers... Hopefully they'll love them and keep the orders coming.. I love making these and get such a feeling of accomplishment when I see all those sets completed. FUN FUN FUN...

Close Up Shots

These photos are close up shots of the earlier overall shot. Keep watch for more close ups. These notebooks are the 5x8 size covered with printed paper from the paper store. The post it note holders are covered in either solid or printed paper and decorated with scalloped punches and some stamping. The bugget boxes hold 4 nuggets, they are wrapped with ribbon or raffia and a stamped tag is tied on to them.

Dia de los Reyes

These were made as a special request for my Aunt who lives in Puerto Rico. We celebrate both Christmas and Three Kings Day ( January 6th) in our family.

CRAZY BUSY!!

This is what has kept me so busy for the last week that I haven't had time to post. They are a decorated notepad, pen, post it note holder and a decorated chocolate nugget box. All are gift wrapped in cellophane and ready for those quick holiday gifts... I am working on a few more still but wanted to post these before I sent them off in the mail. Keep watching for the close up shots. I know this one is really hard to see.

Nugget Tin

Here's another nugget tin. Makes a FAB teachers or secret santa gift.

Packaged Set

This is one of the sets all packaged and ready to go..

Triangle Coaster Box

Here's a fresh take on those fav coasters... I cut the coasters in half and used three halves to make the sides and once they were tied together I traced to bottom onto another coaster and cut to size, hot glue sealed it into place. Then I filled it will halloween goodies for my niece. I plan on wrapping it in cellophane and sending it to her this week.

Gift Sets

This is one of many sets I made for my mom and my aunt to give as gifts for the holidays.... Keep watch for more pictures. Each set contains a covered notepad, pen, post it holder and a nugget box. They are all gift wrapped and ready to go in a cellophane package. LMK what ya'll think.

Nuggets On Sale

Hey all just wanted to pass on a little tip. Walgreens has Hershey Nugget packages on sale 2 for $2 with a coupon they provide in the store. Happy Hunting!!

Yummy Treats

These yummy looking treats are what awaits the little ghouls and goblins that haunt our doorstep in Halloween. I used the spolly sweets set from Papertrey and printed paper I found @ Mike's. The solid orange paper has spider webs stamped on it in Graphite black. The stamp is one I have had for years.

This is another winter set. There are several epoxy stickers. The PP is from last years Christmas pack from DCWV The cardstock is pale blue and red from CM. The snowman stamp is SU! The quote stamp is from Mike's$1 spot as is the happy holidays and checkered ribbon. Enjoy and Happy Stamping.

Victorian Christmas

I love this set. It just feels like old fashioned christmas to me. I Love the paper, the Holly Paper is from the paper store, the other printed papers are Anna Griffith, The cardstock is cream and cranberryCM cardstock. The images in the punched shapes are 3-d stickers. Thanks for checking them out.

Searching

Our oldest son was teasing our youngest(pictured here). He placed his baby on the top shelf of my desk. As you can see Georgie got as far as he could then just stood there waiting for his baby to fall. I just love this picture. Georgie is CRAZY for that baby, I call it his doggie crack. He would wait for hours to get it. He will literally lay near where you put it for hours.

Halloween bookmarks

I made these bookmarks for my niece and her friends. I thought it was a cute little something for her to share with them.

Candy Cone

I made this and the Halloween nugget

tin posted earlier for the oldest daughter

of a friend @ our church. I wanted

something a little different for her

than for her younger sister.

Bag Tag

I made this for my niece. Just a tag to make her backpack

stand out in the crowd when she is searching for it. I got my

inspiration from my good friend Dawn. You can link to her

blog from my list on the side.

Halloween Coaster Box

I made this for the daughter of a friend @ our church. I think

she is just going to flip for it.

Winter Wonder

Although I am not a lover of the cold, I do love snowmen. Unfortunately for me (a hawaii baby) they haven't figured out how to have snow in 70 degree weather. This set is inspired by my love of how snow looks!! HA HA HA!

Rejoice

I am trying out my new stamps for the holidays. I love Christmas and a large part of our celebrations center around our religion. So we try and also have cards that reflect this.