Challenge Week 4!!!

Sorry to be late.....I have been VERY tired lately....many of you probably don't know but I have Multiple Sclerosis and some days are better then others. That's why I have not been POSTING much this week! I'll be fine don't worry, I have had MS since I was 19 and am now 33. I am doing fine besides little flare ups I have, like this week.BLABLABLA.....

Let's get back to this Beautiful Card I made for the Bloggers Challenge this week......

The CHALLENGE was to copy the card on Page 97 of the Stampin' Up! Fall Collection

I don't have the Key Tag Punch they used in the Sassy Stems Card, so I changed it up a little to still make this card work! I hope all of my viewers will enjoy it!!! I love being part of the Blogger Challenge Group! Go take a PEEK at my fellow players.....there website are listed on the side bar as Challenge Blogs Group!!!! All of these ladies do a GREAT job every week.....Thanks to them for sharing artwork!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Baroque Motifs

Card stock: River Rock, Certainly Celery and Chocolate

Ink: Certainly Celery, Chocolate

Accessories: Brads, Hodge Podge hardware and Ribbon (non-Su Contraband)

Casing Cards in the New Catty....

I just LOVE the New Stampin' Up! Catalog. The artwork is awesome and so easy to copy. This is a card from page 140 of the New Catalog! I CASED it......I just love that all of the artwork is so easy to case. My Customers are so excited that they can case the artwork with just a few supplies. If You Get a chance take a peek at the new catalog!!!

Card Recipe...

Stamp Set: Happy Everything

Cardstock: Sky, Old Olive, Really Rust, Whisper White

Inks: Black, Old Olive

Accessories: Spiral Punch, Staples, Ribbon (non SU..contraband)

Contest Winner!!!!
Thanks to everyone who left a comment about your Hubby Stamping!! Jason and I got a kick out of everyone's stories. I was surprised that some men do stamp. Maybe it's a gender thing with me. I see all the beautiful cards and altered creation and think a "women" had to have done that!

Well before I announce the Winner...I have found some Blogs by MEN who stamp!
If you get a chance take a look and see all the wonderful artwork that they do...
http://www.captain-crafter.blogspot.com/
http://www.stampinkub.com/
http://mycraftarea.blogspot.com/

I placed everyone's name in a basket and let my daughter Madeline pick 1.......

She picked.....

Linda SS.....
and this is her comment
My husband hasn't got a creative gene in his entire body. He works with numbers & logic only. Even when I ask his advise on a card I've created, he always gives the same answer, "You should sell your cards, how much do they sell for?" Arrgh!

Congratulation !!!!!
Linda will be recieving a RAK from my Hubby Jason....

Thanks to everyone who played!!!!!

Bloggers Challenge

Week 3....

Sorry I'm late..I could not get my camera to work so I used my Camers PHONE...which took HOURS because I DONT know how to use my phone, but my KIDS do!! What's wrong with ME!!!

Oh well here is my card!

This week's challenge was to make a Christmas card using any stamp set,inks, cardstock,embellisments that you wished but without using 'traditional' Christmas colors.

I just LOVE Crab & Company!! It was and is my Favorite stamp set. Except it was in the Spring Mini....and not in the new catalog. Well yesterday Stampin' Up! announced that Crab & Company IS on the dormit list. Which means you can still BUY Crab & Company!!!! I am now going to use this set for my Christmas Card this year!!!!! It's too CUTE....

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Crab & Company

Cardstock: Groovy Guava, Sky & Purely Pomegranate

Ink: Black

Accessories: Blender Pen, Slit Punch

Swap...Swap...!!

This is a Paint Can Swap I just completed. I send a Paint Can decorated with goodies inside..I found the Clear Paint Can at Archivers I sent ribbon,brads,eyelets, and homemade paper clip & Post It Note Holder! I used the Petals & Paisleys Designer Series Paper. I just LOVE these papers and am so happy to see them in the New Catalog. I used Office Accourtment Stamp Set, another one of my favorites...it also made the New Catalog! I used Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive cardstock & Inks.

I am having a HARD time mailing it to my partner! I just LOVE IT so much....I know the one I will get back will be just as CUTE!! Can't wait til next week when the Mailman brings me my PAINT CAN!!

Bugs.....who's bugs are the best??

That's a silly question....well while I was stamping tonight my hubby Jason came upstairs to see what I was making!

I was casing Beate Johns card and was having some difficulty with the scalopped edging....I just can't seem to get it!! Well this is my finished card(top) I said to Jason how do you like my card? He did NOT like my card.....and thought he could do better....so he sat down and proceeded to stamp Beate's card(bottom)......and did a WONDERFUL job!!!

Your Thinking....WHAT??

Why don't I have a hubby like that......or maybe you do....

It all started in 2001 when I brought home a Stampin' Up! Catalog.....I had never stamped, scrapbooked or craft anything before!!! I saw the catty and new I needed to learn this NEW craft....so I signed up as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. When UPS brought my box of stamps to the house..Jason called and said my box came.........

when I got home he was STAMPING!!!!! and ever since then he enjoy's Stamping & Scrapbooking!! Now that he works so much he does'nt always have time .....Jason even made a SCRAPBOOK for his MOM for Christmas!! So I guess I am so lucky to have a wonderful hubby who love's to stamp too!!!!and it does'nt even bother him that I SPEND $$$$.....

I let him GOLF so I guess you could say we are even......naaaaa........I still spend way more $$!!!

Does Your Hubby(or significant other) STAMP???

Leave me a comment with your address and I will pick a name and my Hubby Jason will send you a RAK...... I will wait till FRIDAY 7-13 to pick a name and then announce who WON!!! So who will play?? YOU......

Happy Stamping!!!

Weekend Stamping!!

Hello all my Stamping Friends....

What a busy weekend at our house, I did have some time to sit and make some cards while my hubby took the kids ROCK CLIMBING at DICKS SPORTING GOODS! I am so excited that Doodle This & Office Accourtment made the Fall-Winter Collection. These are some of my favorite SU Stamp Sets!!!

Bloggers Challenge....Week 2

It's Friday and that means it's Bloggers Challenge Day. A group of stamper's decided to do a weekly challenge and post our cards on Fridays so we could see what everyone came up with for the challenge. I have a side bar for the Bloggers Challenge Group so be sure to check out their blogs as well.

This weeks challenge was to create a card using the template of the card posted on Page 108 of the new Fall/Winter Stampin'Up! catalog.

My Card Recipe....

Stamp Set: Wild About You (page 90)

Card Stock: Sky, Close to Cocoa, White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Staples, Pumpkin Pie Ribbon, Jumbo Wheel

Take a look at all the other Bloggers who play too!!

Today's Stampin' FUN!!

I just love this stamp set BAROQUE MOTIFS from the Fall- Winter

Collection......

I was searching all the Wonderful Stampin' Up! BLOGS and came accross Beate's Blog http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ and saw this cute card, I had to CASE her card and this is MY version!

This card was so fun & easy to make. I love the Half Circle and paper piercing tool I used to make the dots on the circle! This is a great card sketch! Go take a peek at BEATE"S BLOG, she is an awesome artist and I visit her BLOG daily or I guess I should say many times during the day......Thanks Beate for all the wonderful ideas!

Card Recipe.......

Stamp Set: Barque Motifs

Card Stock: Appricot Appeal, Sky, Chocolate Chip

Inks: Sky, Chocolate Chip

Assories: Chocolate Chip ribbon, Jeweled brad (NON SU)

Card I Cased from New Catalog.....

This is a card on page 90 of the New Stampin' Up! Catalog that I decided to copy. The Stamp Set is ZOOFARI, one of my NEW favorite stamp sets!

Card Recipe....

Stamp Set: Zoofari

Card stock: Real Red, Ballet Blue, Pumpkin Pie, White

Ink: Black, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Pumpkin Pie Ribbon, Red Button, Red Brad, Chalk, scalloped scissors