Sweet Pea

One of the gals from the girls playgroup had a little baby boy on Wednesday so I had to make card to welcome him. This is the same mom that I made 30+ invites for the baby shower here. I used my $1 Studio G Sweet Pea stamp, American Crafts ribbon, and Sandy Lion Lollia Paper. I used the rectangular and scalloped rectangle nestabilities for the blue mat and the stamped image. I paper pieced the blue baby blanket but that's hard to see in the picture. Isn't it cute?

Father's Day Early

Believe it or not, I am actually DONE with Father's Day Cards. This year is a hard one for me as my grandfather passed away less than two short months ago. He was my "father" as he and my grandmother raised me since I was nine months old. This is the first year I won't be sending him a card.

I made two cards, one for my husband (from the kids) and one for my dad. I had intended to the It's good to be King card for my dad but decided that it DH would appreciate it more! The stamp I used was from my Big Lots find ($2!) and the chipboard man is from my LSS.

This one again, the stamp is from Big Lots but I made my own paper using the stamp then popped up one I stamped on white paper.

After doing these cards, I realized that all I really have is girly paper! I need more manly paper!

Did you make anything for Father's Day? The girls and I are going to work on garden stones today. Each girl will have their own stone to decorate as they please or put their hand print/footprint on it. Wish me luck!

Over the Hill

My SIL was turning 40 and I knew I needed to make a card for her. I'm not the humorous type (that would be my hubby) but needed to make a card that had a little both of us in it, i.e. humor and elegance!

This is what I came up with:


It's a spinner card where the car "drives" over the hill. She loved it and I like how it turned out. I used Ranger Glossy Accents to make the car shiney too:

Sugar Nellies

We once again have guests coming into our home tomorrow so I'll be MIA again this weekend. BUT before I go, I want to share something I got in the mail the other day:

It's an INTERNATIONAL envelope! I've NEVER gotten mail from outside of the USA so imagine my surprise when I opened it to see this:

It's a BRAND NEW Suger Nellie stamp called Flowers. It's it ADORABLE! I won it on her website. If you haven't seen them, please go over and take a look! There are some amazing stamps!

And because I've been so lucky lately, I'm gathering STUFF for you know... BLOG CANDY! So keep checkin' back!

Have a great weekend!

I know I've been absent

So sorry for being absent lately! Things have just been out of hand. First my MIL came to visit, then my grandmother with my sister. After they left, my oldest daughter caught a virus, then I came down with it! Then work got really crazy (still is), my grandfather passed away, and now my youngest has the bug! I'll be absent a little while longer too because I am flying this weekend for my grandfather's funeral on Monday. See, my grandparents raised my sister and me so they are like my mom and dad. Grandpa was in the late stages of Alzheimer's too so I have mixed emotions about his death.

The only project I have had time to finish were 35 baby shower invitations! When the girls and I were talking about throwing a shower, I KNEW I wanted to make the invites! I had the perfect stamp (Stampingbella's Teddybella) for them. I think I should have just made them a little simpler, but she LOVED them as did most of the guests so for that it was worth it. I used stickles for the bow on her belly and bear, glitter pen for the blue bag and copics for all over coloring. Paper is Paper Studio and Bazzil.

Thanks for looking! I hope to be back creating next week.

Hanna Stamps

Have you seen Riley and Sophie? I absolutely LOVE them! I haven't had much time to play with them (working on 35+ baby shower invitations!) But I couldn't resists inking up two of them!

I made this card for a little girl we met up in NY at the Ronald McDonald House while Emily was recovering from surgery. Her birthday was this past weekend and I couldn't resist sending her a card with Sophie G! I used my DCWV Glitter paper, Copics and even added a little glitter to her swimsuit.

Riley I just wanted to color! Of course after I colored I HAD to put him on a card, right? I tried the tutorial for Reverse Topper (Melanie's Blog) and I'm pretty happy how it turned out. I don't have a Coluzzle so I used my CM cutting system instead. I still have to work on the patterned paper fitting correctly but I'm not picky since it was my first one! I do wish I had taken a picture of the INSIDE before I mailed it. Oh well. Live and learn, right? Again, I colored Riley with Copics, paper is CM.

I might be a little AWOL for a couple weeks. I've got to finish these baby shower invitations tonight and then clean house as my MIL is coming to visit. Of course the day she leaves my grandmother and sister are coming so I may not get to post for a couple weeks. Depends on if I can sneak some crafting/stamping time away from them!

Have a great week!

New stuff

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted anything! Things have been really crazy and I'm trying to catch up. Between the family getting sick (including me!), work being stressful and my daughter having to go up to NY for an emergency procedure, i just haven't had the time to "play." I can't wait for next week.

However, I did get the new Papertrey Ink Women of Life stamps last weekend. I found a few moments to make some cards for my oldest daughter's teachers (Teacher Appreciation Week). Of course, she ends up flying with her father to NY for her procedure so the cards are still here at home! LOL!

I also made a few thank you cards. I'm the silent auction chairperson of my ECPTA and a few gals really helped me out by solicting and picking up donations. So I made thank you cards to send out letting them know how much I really appreciated their help. These were also made with PTI's Women of Life Set. I think I'm in love with this set. It stamps BEAUTIFLLY and the design is so elegant.

I wish I could spend my weekend playing, but alas it will be doing work while taking care of my 2 year old! Maybe once my dear husband and daughter make it home safely from NY and my work project has been completed, I can get back into my craft area and play. I have baby shower invitations to work on!!