I am baaackkk!

Photos and news of my trip to VA in awhile.

Taking a break

I will be taking a little break for about a week from blogging. I am not making anything right now because I am concentrating on my trip to the SU regionals in Virginia this week. I had some projects that I am working on that are secret and I can't show anyone until I get back. Gifties and such. I am bursting with anticipation for the trip. I fly out on Thursday April 19 and return Monday April 23. We are staying with our friend Cyndi (CPW3431) and I will be traveling with my friends Jody (Texasjodylyn) and Tracy(kid305). We are all three flying in to meet at DFW and then we are on the same flights to Virginia.....I hope the airlines have earplugs for the other passengers because we can TALK when we get together. We have lots to say about everything and we get loud when we are excited. LMBO! I can hardly wait! I seriously am ready to leave right this minute! I have started packing and planning and can't stop checking the weather forecasts and such. I think its going to be very springy while we are there because the bad weather is moving through this weekend and will have cleared before we arrive.

We plan to go to the SU regional convention on Friday, then have a SCS dinner/cardswap with door prizes afterwards. We are going to a really cool waterfront restaurant(I have already been looking at the menu online). I can't wait to meet other SCS people in real life! At some point during the weekend we are heading to the beach to have a look at the Atlantic Ocean. I have never been to the East coast so I am excited about it. We may even go sight seeing in Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend. There are many historic sights to see in the area. I love all that Civil War era stuff because I used to read romance novels set in that time period. I will have lots of pictures (I hope) to post when I get back. I am not the best photographer but the last time we all got together I was too busy to take pictures and I still regret it. This time I promise to be better.

Happy Easter

A little something to see before we leave for Easter. Just headed to our parents houses so it will be busy. I stamped this this morning while I was waiting for my hair to dry. LOL. I am still loving the Penny Black stamps.Happy Easter everyone!

Penny Black score!

Its a Penny Black card explosion! I promise to stop as soon as I am out of ideas! The new PB catty came out and I went a little crazy. I bought like 11 stamps or something like that. Right now I am casing the cards that sold me on the sets in the first place. Hopefully I will come up with my own layouts soon. They are fun stamps!

Heartfelt Challenge

Over at Amanda Sewels' Blog She offered up a challenge starting today and a new one next Friday, to use a stamp set she hasn't used in a very long time. Todays challenge was Heartfelt Thanks. I happen to love this set so not so hard for me. I do have trouble using the sentiments from the set, but I am all over the flowers. Colors are Rose Red, Apricot, and Celery.

Wow thats Bright!

And now for something completely different LOL. My niece is about to celebrate her 8th birthday and I needed a card. She is having a Pretty Princess party and well, I am fresh out of princess stamps.This will have to do! The colors are from the BB color group. Orchid, Pixie Pink, and Black.I used the Paisly Background stamp and the Petal Prints set, as well as the Fancy Flexable Phrases and Small Sayings. This card is inspired by a card by JackieG from a shoebox swap in Arlington Texas back in October of 2005. It is fun to make these bright and cheerful cards once in awhile. Oh, I forgot to add that the flower centers are stickled.

My stampin' space

It ain't much, but its all I got! I am a closet stamper. I have a largish walkin closet in our office that I have taken over as my place. I am bursting at the seams and have some overflow (lets not go there), but almost everything I need is at my finger tips. My husband ran electricity so I have an outlet to plug in my heat gun or my glue gun, or light table if I need them. Its a nice little spot for me for now. Someday I will probabaly take over the whole office, but I am not ready for that just yet. I am trying to keep rubber stamping my hobby not my whole life. I have a fear I will completely go crazy and buy up everything I see if I have more space. Trying to be a good girl and limit myself so the kids can eat and go to college someday LOL. After they are out of the house........I may go crazy and take over the house! Here a few photos of my space: Disclaimer.....Its not all that clean but its works for me this way!

Little Bandaid tin

I plan to put a giftcard inside to Starbucks, it also has 4 giftcards inside with envelopes for whomever wins it to use to make their own cards. This was made for the SCS dinner in Virginia Beach April 20. I used Basic Grey Blush papers and the Like it a Latte set. Stickles on the foam and the heart. Hope whomever wins it likes it.

Dots and Harmony

Here is a little card I started because of an experiment using chalk inks over colors. I love Ballet Blus but it never seems to go with anything I am making. I decided to use Lavender chalk ink over the top and the Aida cloth stamp. It definately changes the color in my mind. I know you can't see it in the photo (stupid rain is making it hard to photograph anything in the right light)but the flowers are covered in stickles for a shimmer. This card is "punch happy" I used the scallop punches, the ticket corners too. I also used the polka dot ribbon I recently received from Jody.

What do you think?

What needs to change on this card? What would you do different? I am not at ease doing no layer cards and this is no exception. Its on high quality Fabiano Medivalis paper and supposedly the paper speaks for itself in the stamping world. I used markers to color it instead of watercoloring because I wanted bold colors. So.........opinions please.