Bind it all extravaganza

Recently my next door neighbor rang my doorbell and asked me if I would like to help her with some Christmas gifts. I had given away a notepad I had made as a prize during one of our monthly Pokeno games. Everyone I play Pokeno with was totally impressed. LOL. They are not crafty , they don't stamp or scrapbook so they had nothing to base their impression of them on. Lucky for me! Anyway, she wanted them to be personalized with her recipients names. I had a hard time coming up with a way to do that. I cheated and borrowed an idea from a previous project. I told her I would make them each different, no 2 alike and she liked that idea. It really only took me about 4-5 hours total to make these. I got faster as I went along. They are filled with plain copy paper that I had cut at the Office Depot, then I just bound them using the Bind It All. The chipboard is mostly from Stampin' Up. Most of the paper is basic grey, different 6x6 paper packs. I used PTI papers on 2 of them. I hope she likes them.

My heart is a flutter

A little something I threw together to celebrate my 23 wedding anniversary.

Spooky Card

This weekend was super busy. I was Co-host for the Austin Texas SCS Shoebox swap and wow, am I tired. Tonight as I was going through all my doorpizes and cards and stuff I was motivated to stamp. I won this Unity stamp set called Unlucky 13. I have to admit, it's the first Halloween set I have ever owned. I always think Halloween cards are so cute but I know I would never send anyone a halloween card...until now. My daughter is away at college and I will send her a little something this year. I had no idea where to begin so I just went for it. The ribbon across the top is bats...how cute is that?!

This view shows the embossing

I know it's kind of plain but I am a Halloween card virgin so try to cut me some slack.Maybe I will dream up something more elaborate tomorrow.

The final piece

Here is the final piece of my doorprize. No one really wants just a bunch of homemade stuff so I am including a giftcard with my prize. I love to alter tins, they just have endless possibilities. Again, matchy matchy!

Doorprize

Hello everyone. I know it's been a very long time since I posted. I have had some major changes in my life over the last couple of months and stamping and crafting have taken the biggest hit. I had to just let it all go for awhile but hopefully I can get back to it soon. I do have a couple things to show you. This weekend is the Austin Texas SCS shoebox swap and I am co-hosting with a couple other SCS'ers. We are having 38 attendees this year and we are doing something different. It's going to be at a retreat center in Georgetown instead of our usual location. That means we will be staying overnight, well actually, 2 nights.Not everyone is staying over night but we do have the facility all weekend. So I have my card ready and most of my doorprize ready.I decided to use a color theme for all my projects...it simplified my life. I need simple right now. I am recovering from major surgury, a hysterectomy, followed by a major post-op bladder infection. Not fun. I hope to be ready to have fun this weekend!

This is the first section.

This is the second section for projects other than cards.

The chip board album is from Jody Morrow she sells all kinds of cool diecuts and chipboard products. I was able to use my CB to cut out the chipboard letters for the cover. When I ordered the album I went ahead and purchased a 12 x 12 sheet of black chipboard and I used the CB Redtag alphabet. The nightlight was a Target dollarspot item that I covered and altered. I plan to have one more item that I haven't got yet (yikes)but will be ready on Friday for sure.

I used PTI CS in Razberry Fizz and Black. Razberry Fizz ribbon. SU oval punch and scalloped oval punch. All stamps are penny black stamps. Images colored with Copic markers.

Inspirational tree

Starting to try to stamp again this week but not sure I can keep it up or not. My daughter is leaving for college on Friday and we have stuff to do this week.

Stamps: Unity Pocket Full of... and ...Another Sweet Day

Paper: Basic grey Lemonade, PTI white and rasberry fizz

Ink: Mommento, colored with copic markers

Accessories: PTI ribbon, Sworovski Crystals

Heading out

I will be without computer access for a few days while I take my son and a friend to Port Aransas, Texas to the coast. I will also be without my stamps. I will probably need therapy and detox by the third day. Good thing I have my Smirnoff Green Apple drinks and a couple girly, romance books to read and my iPod charged and ready to go. I plan to sit under an umbrella and pretend the water is blue and relax. Be back next week when I plan to knock out some more Unity cards.

Karen

Unity daisy

So my good friend Jody recently enabled/pushed/enticed/coerced me into to getting into the Unity stamps. Now I have successfully avoided going down the Unity path for over a year while I was busy getting over my A muse and MFT addictions. But Jody has a way of making every stamp she uses look so fabulous that I must follow her like a lemming and get whatever she is using at the time. its like stamp crack or something. Anyway, I am now the proud new member of the KOTM club. That means I will be buying whatever they throw out there for me once a month. It's great, there are like 25 images per sheet of unmounted rubber. Woohoo. This is the first one I inked up. Its from the Perfect in Every Way set. I pared it up with some Basic grey Junebug paper and some SU pumkin and grey. colored with Copics. I am still using outdoor lighting for taking my pictures. I have not set up my light box in a couple months. I will eventually get it out again. I am waiting until it drives me crazy enough to force my hand. I am weird like that.

I stamped...its a heat wave miracle

I finally stamped again! I think I broke my creative muscles or something this summer. I just haven't had the urge to stamp. I needed a birthday card ASAP and I wasn't about to go buy a card! I also had to install my photo editing software on my new computer before I could even post a picture. It's been rough LOL. Anyway, here it is. I used the SU set Trendy Trees. The sentiment is from A Muse. Paper is from Basic grey Lemonade 6x6 pad. Hope you like it. I even broke out the buttons. I have been hording them for awhile now!

Another Fathers day

Here is the next one. This time I used Park Avenue and 5th Avenue sets from SU. DS paper from SU too. Gotta run quick because I have 3 birthday cards to make as well.