Monday, September 24, 2007



Sorry I was GONE so long......
TODAY is OCTOBER 4th
My 10th Wedding Anniversary
Time fly's when you have a FAMILY!!!!
I can't believe it's been 10 years.....I feel like we were just married yesterday.
We were married on my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary
I would definitely say it was GOOD LUCK!!!!
So today would be my grandparents 70th wedding anniversary...WOW!!!
I hope Jason I make it that long.....

We were moving.....

Our lease was up on our house and we decided to move into an apartment to save money!! We would like to buy a house some day and down sizing was the most logical thing to do. I hate moving, it's so time consuming.My kids are doing really well at our new "apartment" or as I call it "Our HOME". Even the dogs are adjusting well. Today I unpacked my stamp room, which is in Our bedroom. I am so surprised
how GOOD it looks!! I will share pictures soon. All the boxes are unpacked and broken down!! My mom and Jason are such a big help, I don't know what I would do without them. Here is a card I wanted to share with you, please enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamp Sets: True Friend, Vases in Vogue
Card stock: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, DSP Outlaw
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow
Accessories: Marker in Chocolate Chip & Blender Pen with Sage Shadow Ink,
Brads, Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon, Photo Corner Punch, Scalloped Punch







True Friends.......
I have so many "True Friends", that's another great reason to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator!! When you Stamp, Scrapbook or Paper Craft you meet the Greatest Friends. I belong to a LOT of Yahoo Groups, Sudsol & SplitCoastStampers, that's where I have met a lot of my Stamping Friends. I hope you too have True Friends..
Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: True Friend, Vogue Vases
Card stock: Really Rust, Apple cider DSPaper, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Markers Really Rust, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip
Brads, Photo Corner Punch





Saturday, September 15, 2007

C
Blogger Challenge #12
This weeks challenge was an inspiration challenge. We were suppose to post a card and also a picture of something that inspired us. Well I love the color BLUE & BROWN so I made this card using Blue Bayou, Chocolate Chip, River Rock & Very Vanilla. I don't have a picture to post because this card actually came from my Dream. I had been wanting to use this color combo, it's been on my mind for a while now. I was stuck on how I would use these colors and on Thursday Night I dreamt about this card sketch using my color combo I was having such a hard time with.
I wish I could make copies of my dreams, but that's impossible!
I hope that some of you will try this color combo too.Please enjoy my card!!! I had a GREAT time with this Challenge.....

Card Recipe...
Stamp Set: Garden Whimsy
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Very Vanilla & Apple Cider DSP
Ink: Blue Bayou
Accessories: Blue Bayou Ribbon, Brads, Scalloped Punch

Wednesday, September 12, 2007


Thanks... I Needed That
Fun & Fast Notes is a Great stamp set and can be used for many different occasions. I just love this bird! This card is a standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card folded long ways using Sky Paper. I stamped the Bird on whisper white card stock and layered on Really Rust used my word window punch to clip the corners. I then cut my Fall Flowers DS Paper into 2 parts measuring
4 3/4 x 3 and 4 x 3 1/2 added my 2 brads and tied a knot using Sky Ribbon.
I hope you will enjoy this card as much as I do!
Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: Fun & Fast Notes
Card Stock: Sky, Whisper White, Fall Flowers DS Paper
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Brads, Sky Ribbon
I Love Casing Cards!!!
Like this card I cased from Beate Johns!
Garden Whimsey is such an AWESOME stamp set!!
I love this stamp set and hope it will stay in the Stampin' Up! Spring Collection!! This card measures 4x4 folded in half, Cutie Pie Designer Series paper measures 3 3/4 x 2 1/2, I then used my word window punch to cut the corners on the bottom, I layered my Marvy Scalloped punches in whisper white & Certainly Celery. I stamped and cut out my Butterfly stamp from the Garden Whimsy Stamp set, I inked the butterfly in Rose Red. I added my Apricot Appeal ribbon, stamped the saying on whisper white and layer on certainly celery and added 2 brads.
Card Recipe
Stamp Set: Garden Whimsey
Card Stock: Rose Red, Whisper White, Certainly Celery
Ink: Rose Red, Black
Accessories: Soft Subtles Brads, Apricot Appeal Ribbon

Friday, September 7, 2007



BLOGGER'S CHALLENGE
WEEK 11
This weeks Challenge was to use the layout on page 12 of Stampin' Up!'s Holiday Mini.
I really found this Layout to be quite Easy & Fun!
I Love the Colors I used for this Winter Card! It has been so HOT here in Minnesota the past few days, so when I made this card I started to miss the snow!! NO!!! not really when you have 9 Month's of Winter, but it sure did Cool me off!! I used Wintergreen Designer Paper, I LOVE this Paper!!! I think I will be using this paper for my Christmas Cards this year!
If you would like to see what my Blogger Challenge Friends came up with for this challenge check out my Side Bar labeled "Bloggers Challenge" for the list of links!! I took a look and they are all so awesome!!
Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: Cold Play
Card Stock: Sky, Certainly Celery
Ink: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: White Brads, Window Punch, Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon

Thursday, September 6, 2007


Get Well Wishes!!
I have so many NEW stamp sets and have not had time to stamp all of them. I ordered Fun & Fast Notes , it's such an awesome set! So many was to use this set!!! The card sketch is #126 from Wednesday's SplitCoastStampers Sketch Challenge. I also used Designer Series Paper "Darling Doodles"
I am having such a FUN time stamping with all the NEW Stamps & Accessories from the New Stampin' Up! catalog!! I LOVE the Designer Series Paper the most!!
Don't forget the ribbon, brads, punches and all the rest.....
Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: Fun & Fast Notes
Card Stock: Rose Red, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White & DS paper Darling Doodles
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: DS paper & Groovy Guava Ribbon