Mother's Day

I am trying like crazy to stamp again but I have a 12 week old puppy that I am baby-sitting until the 12th of may when my daughter gets out of school. She is finding things all over the floor in my stamp room and it's driving me crazy! Buttons! Scraps you name it she finds it.

Hi I am Sunny...I am naughty!

KOTM Time again

Seriously cute images this month. Really happy and just my style. I am so behind on stamping my KOTM's that it's like they are brand new to me everytime I open my binders evn though they are months old now.  I am trying to enjoy my favorite hobby more. Lately I have let my health get me down in the dumps and it's a shame. I need to snap out of it.

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Material girl, PTI Ocean Tides, SU So Saffron, PTI white
Ink: Mommento Cocoa, Colored with Copics
Stamps: Unity KOTM February
Accessories: A Muse twinkle stickers, deminsionals

Where have I been?

I have been on a little trip. I went to see my dear friend Jody Morrow in New Mexico for a few days. It's been a very long time since we had a friend weekend and I feel like we deserved one! My son had off from school for the first three days in February so I packed him off to grandma's house and took off. We had a great time hanging out, sight seeing, gambling, stamping , and talking up a storm. We went to White Sands, Riodoso, and El Paso. We shopped and ate and did I mention gambled? There is a casino in Riososo called Inn of the Mountain Gods. I loved it! I got to play a few slots and win a little, then lost a little more, but had a great time. here is a picture of me throwing a snow ball outside the casino.

Don't looked at my wind blown hair...I didn't know it looked like that when she took my picture LOL. On the way home we stopped at the Pistacio farm claiming to have the worlds largest pistacio. Another photo op.

Look how small I look *grin* I bought some super hot chili flavored pistacio nuts for my hubby that are too hot to eat LOL. The garlic flavor ones were a hit and are already gone. As is the pistacio toffee and pistacio crunch that I bought. Yummy!

  The next day we went to White Sands National Park with Jody's kids. We watched them slide down the dunes on their disks. It is crazy how beautiful the sand is in the middle of the desert.

Can you see the snow capped mountains in the background? I think it's beautiful there. I wish I had my whole family there with me. Maybe next time.

Before I left I made Jody a little gift set. It had socks, a cold gel eyemask, chapstick, chocolate, nail polish and bath salts.

 Tomorrow I will show off some of the cards i made in New Mexico.

  I always enjoy stamping with Jody.

Karen

Hero Arts Good Fortune

So while I was at Archivers the other day, I had a coupon burning a hole in my wallet. I saw this on the Hero Arts display and thought, ohhh that is cute! Then I bought it! She is so so cute! This is just a simple little card that I paper pieced together while I had out my SU DS paper pad. Hope you like it.
Stamps: Hero Arts Good Fortune Clear set, A Muse sentiment
Paper: SU Bashful Blue, Black, PTI White, SU DS paper
Ink: Momento Black
May Arts ribbon, black mini brads

It's a Boy

One thing I continuely struggle with is baby cards. I don't really buy baby stamps. All my friends are past the baby making stage. But once in awhile I need one. My daughters BFF's sister is expecting any day now and she needed a card. Today was the last day to get it made. After spending 20 minutes going through stamps I discovered this cute little plane and banner from Unity. It's was in the October KOTM. Then I decided to add the sentiment from AMuse. Woohoo! A card was created.

Stamps: Unity Wherever you go October KOTM, A Muse, SU sentiment inside
Ink: Mommento black, colored with Copics
Paper: Bashful Blue, Barely banana, SU designer series paper, PTI white
Buttons and twine

Basic grey Wisteria #2

Card number 2 from yesterday.
Stamps: 5th Avenue Floral, Upsy daisy
Paper: Egglplant, black, Basic Grey Wisteria pattern paper, PTI white
Ink: Versafine Hydrangea, bordering blue, plum, mommento black

I am back!

It's been a long time since I stamped and I almost convinced myself that I no longer could make anything crafty again. Almost! I had a little medical issue that put me in the hospital for 8 days over Thanksgiving and took another month to recover. Then of course there was Christmas. So no more excuses. it's a new year and time to get back to my favorite hobby! My friend Brenda(sassybee) talked me into dragging a suitcase full of supplies and meeting her and some of her friends at Archivers to use the workroom. I scrambled around and finally did it. I forced myself to use one pattern paper pack and coordinating cardstock and several stamp sets. I normally can't work that way because I change my mind a million times and then I don't have the supplies I need. I did need to go buy a stampin'spot size ink pad while I was there and I desparately looked for some matching ribbon, but I couldn't find ribbon in the store that would work.  Had I been at home I know I would have had some that would have been perfect. Oh well. I made do and ended up with 3 simple cards that turned out just fine without all the extra stuff. I managed 3 whole cards away from home and out of my cave. That in itself was an accomplishment!

Stamps: Stampin Up Upsy Daisy
Ink: Black, Versafine chalk ink Hydrangea
Paper: Plum, Black, Basic Grey Wisteria, PTI white
Accessories: crystal mini brads

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.