Hope everyone had a great weekend! I wanted to add some pics of a project I finished this weekend but Blogger is not cooperating with me tonight. I will try again tomorrow!

Blog Candy for a GREAT cause

If you haven't already heard about or checked out Wendi's blog Kaput Krafts, I definitely recommend heading over there. She has some awesome blog candy that she is giving away for a great cause!

Enabler alert: 10% off at Queen Kat Designs

All this month you can save 10% at Queen Kat Designs. Just use the code found in the blinky banner. Queen Kat just happens to be one of my SBS-13 sisters!

You Make My Day award

I totally forgot that I received a message a few days ago from Nessy (Nessy's Notes) that she was giving me a "you make my day" award. Thanks so much Nessy, YOU totally made my day!!!

I haven't even stepped foot in my stamp room all week :(
Hopefully tomorrow I will get lots of time to play while Tom watches the kids for a bit.

I did however finally make a list of all the stamp sets I am trying to sell (unfortunately, I need to pay bills so I can't even buy new fun stuff with any funds I make). If you are interested in any of these please feel free to send me an email or comment on this post.

Here is what I have available:
Stampin Up! FOR SALE:
A is for Adorable $8
Watercolor Minis $6
Pretty Princess $18
Baby Annoucements $8
Sweet Spot $10
Cute Converse $8
Cuddles and Tickles $8
All Natural $14
Cheesecloth $16
Island Blossoms (new/unmounted) $18
Retro Alphabet lower $26
Noteworthy $6
Too Terrific Tags $6
Festive Four $5
Around and About $5
Alphabet Soup $6
Tagger's Dozen $14
Dot Invitation $8
Everyday Celebrations (flower, sundae, Happiness is not perfect until it is shared, your baby is a dream come true Happiness to all of you) $8
Monkey Business (this set is on EZ mount - stored in a CD case) $18
Perfect Ending $12
Hearts and Clovers $14
Greatest Gift $24
DD set (don't know the name) has a large watering can and a bunch of flowery /leafy type stamps to go with $12
Headline Alphabet $30
Jumbo Wheel Everyday Blossoms $5
standard wheel Candycane Christmas $4
standard wheel Gifts Galore $4
standard wheel Love Swirls $4
standard wheel Butterfly $4 (I have 2 of these, don't ask me why)
standard wheel Blossoms and Bugs $4
standard wheel Busy Bees $4


Gina K FOR SALE:
Punchy Words (new/unopened) $15
Simple Pleasures (new/unopened) $15

Misc. FOR SALE:
Marvy GIGA scalloped Circle, MEGA scalloped circle & MEGA non-scalloped circle $28 for the set
Marvy GIGA scalloped square & MEGA non-scalloped square $20 for the set
Marvy GIGA scalloped oval & MEGA non-scalloped oval $20 for the set

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by one of my SBS-13 sisters, Nessy from Nessy's Notes. It is a great day for it since I don't have anything new to post today.
Here goes...

1. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO??? I was working in a dairy ingredient quality control lab...testing yogurt and buttermilk cultures to make sure they could make what they were supposed to.
2. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 1 YEAR AGO??? Pretty much the same thing I am doing today....taking kids to preschool and swimming lessons
3. NAME YOUR 5 FAVOURATE SNACKS
chips and salsa, rosemary/olive oil Triscuits, veggies and dip, Reese's peanut butter cups, Flavored chips
4. NAME 5 THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE A MILLIONAIRE: I would join a gym (and get a personal trainer), hire someone to make us delicious/healthy meals everyday, hire a maid, visit all of my out-of-state stamping friends (Mary, Kisa, Delia, Lisa...), donate to charity
5. NAME 5 THINGS YOU LIKE DOING Stamping, Reading, Sleeping, Camping, Biking
6. NAME 5 THINGS YOU WOULD NEVER WEAR AGAIN Leg warmers, Anything in Flourescent colors, Pants that you roll up tight at your ankles, a bikini, stirrup pants
7. NAME YOUR 5 FAVOURITE TOYS! Cuttlebug, Cropodile,iPod,...can't think of anything else right at the moment.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We had a busy weekend even though we didn't really do anything. I took advantage of the fact that Tom was home and got a lot of cleaning done on Saturday and then Saturday night my good friend Jen (glitterinmyhair.blogspot.com) and I got some quality stamping time in at the Archiver's scrap mania. It was nice to have 6 uninterrupted hours of stamping time. Hopefully I didn't annoy Jen too much with my non-stop chatter. It was nice to talk with her without having to yell over the kids screaming. Tom managed to handle the kids just fine except, when the kids went to bed, Beckett told him he could lay down next to them but only until mommy gets home and then you have to get out of her spot. I'm so glad to know someone here loves me.
I can't show you the project that I worked on at scrap mania because I didn't get it finished yet, but I do have a card that I made yesterday afternoon to share. This is just a simple wedding card. The couple image is Stampendous and the sentiment is from one of the clear Studio G $1 stamp sets. I colored the grooms tux with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. The rest is pretty simple...glitter, cuttlebug, ribbon, etc.
Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding Invites

One of my sister's coworkers asked me to put together a couple simple examples of wedding invites that she could make. She doesn't have a lot of time to get them done so she wanted them sweet and simple. Her colors are pink, black and white. Here are a few of the simple ideas I came up with this morning. For the 1st and 3rd examples I just printed and stamped on shimmery white cardstock. The 2nd example I printed the invite on vellum and layered it over cardstock that I had stamped one. Her flowers are tulips but I tried one using Roses in Winter also. Let me know what you think. Nothing too fancy but I think they are still quite elegant.

Sick again : (

Sorry I haven't posted anything new in a few days. I am sick again. This time just a nasty cold but nasty enough to keep me pretty much from doing anything. Hopefully there will be something new to post soon. Hope you all have a terrific Friday!

Got Ice Cream?

We have been eating WAY WAY too much ice cream at our house lately. Last week I even bought a big gallon instead of the half gallons. We ate the entire gallon in less than a week. When Tom threw the empty gallon bucket in the recycling bin a little light bulb came on in my head. I took it out of the recycle bin and put it in the dish washer. A few hours later I covered it in paper, ribbon, primas and left it sit in my stamp room for a couple days. Today I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to Archivers to buy the Cropodile Big Bite. I couldn't drive home fast enough. As soon as I got here I punched a bunch of holes in the bucket and filled it with ribbon. What do you think? (I know some of the punches are crooked but besides that, what do you think?)

Monday already?

I just can't believe how fast the weekend went. I didn't really getting any real stamping done, although I did start working on a project that I will hopefully be able to finish and show you later this week. I did take some time for myself and went to see a movie yesterday afternoon while Tom watched the kids. I saw "Juno". It was a really good movie-VERY funny in a lot of parts but kinda depressing for me too. I had very puffy eyes when I left the theatre...good thing I had sun glasses with me. This was the first real movie I have gone to see in a long long time; I ususally see movies with animated characters. I'm thinking I may need to do this "ME" time thing more often. Next time I think I will see something a little more chick-flicky (cheesy, unrealistic, with a Happily Ever After ending)...like Fool's Gold. I will try and post again sometime later today if I get a chance to create anything. Have a great Monday everyone!

I am 32% weirdo

But you all knew that anyway. You were all probably thinking it would be much higher than that, right.
Here are my results:

You Are 32% Weirdo

You're a little weird, but you'd be even weirder if you didn't have a few quirks. You are just strange enough to know it, but nobody else seems to notice your weirdness. That's because, deep down, everyone is a little freaky!

Are You A Weirdo?

It's FINALLY the weekend!

I had a house full of kids all week and I am SO THANKFUL that it is finally Saturday. Annabelle has a birthday party to go to this afternoon so I thought I would try and make a quick name frame for her friend Lauren. I totally cased this idea from Janette Olen (blessingsx3). Janette hosts a monthly swap that I used to be in and last summer one of the months we made gift items. Janette made everyone in the group AWESOME name frames. I just love mine. I cased the layout of the frame she made for me and change the colors and the name (of coarse). I think it turned out pretty cute. The whole project from start to finish only took about 45 minutes.
The only stamping on the entire project is the word "friend" from the SU set Noteworthy and I also used sponge daubers on the white cardstock. The letters are cut out using my Cricut and the rest is well...simple. Hope everyone has a terrific weekend!

Happy Wednesday

I have been so busy all week I haven't had a chance to even think about stamping. I did though, want to share with you a little something the kids and I made a few days ago. Because our weather has been so bad we have been confined to our house for more days than I would like to think about. We spend a lot of days in the basement playroom. We don't have any real furniture in there, just toys and a tv, and the kids have been complaining of no place to sit. So... we decided to create some furniture for them. Here is our first piece. We decided to start with something simple...a chair. Ok, so it wasn't oh so simple but we finished it. We covered a bunch of boxes with construction paper and stickers and then covered the entire thing with packaging tape. I filled the seat box with paper so it wouldn't collapse when you sat on it. I think it turned out pretty cute. You can't have a chair without a foot rest so we made one of those too. The kids love it and actually use it so it was worth the entire roll of packaging tape it took to cover it. Not sure if we will be making any additions to our playroom furniture collection, but it was still fun coming up with this one.

Trying to catch up on some scrappin

Here is another one of the scrapbook layouts I made on Sunday. I made the page without having the 5x7 photo in hand so I had to hope my measurements were ok...they weren't. I just went downstairs to put the 5x7 on and take a picture and I realized I had obviously made an error in measuring so there is a wide black strip to the right of the large photo. I may add something down that strip like brads or something, who knows. I'm a bit disappointed right now as I had really liked the page when I thought the 5x7 was going to fit perfectly. I didn't glue the large photo down just in case I want to change something there. Let me know what you think.
Have a great day!

My "E" blog award choices

It is now my turn to spread some "E" love...I picked 5 blogs of fellow stampers that I have met or swapped with at one time or another on SCS or ASB. I visit the blogs of these 5 ladies every day and am truly amazed at their AWESOME stamping abilities. They all inspire (and enable) on a daily basis!

In no particular order:
Linda (studbo) - The Stamper's Touch
Jackie (Babitoons) - Stamping Sister
Lynn (Lynn in St. Louis) - Stamperosity
Dawn (Dawnsing) - My Favoite Things
Tricia (T. Joy) - Simply Stamping

Here is the graphic for you to copy and display on your blog

Scrappin Sunday and an "E" award!!!!

Yesterday was a great day for scrappin at our house. We were snowed-in (more like iced-in actually) and Tom was home to help watch the kids! I got 3 (2-page) layouts done yesterday. WOW, I haven't scrapped that much in 2 years. Here is one of the layouts that I did (I'm way behind so you will notice that Annabelle is only 2 years old, instead of her current 4).
This is the first time ever that I have used the computer to print something out for a scrapbook, and I really like how it turned out.





And on another note.....


I also wanted to mention that last week while I was sick and not posting, I received an email from Jen (Glitter in My Hair) nominating me for an "E" for Excellence blog award. I am so sorry it took me this long to thank you and get this posted but it has been a crazy week or so. I feel really honored to be nominated especially since my blog has definitely not been all that excellent as of late. Hopefully now that my stamp room is back together and our housesold is a little healthier I will have more to post. Thank you so much for thinking of me! The cool thing is I get to pass on the love to other deserving bloggers, YAY! Check back later today for my list of Excellent bloggers!

Another Verve Visual sketch challenge card

Here is the third card I made the other night using the Verve Visual sketch challenge. I really liked the sketch, it works with any theme!
We got terrible freezing rain overnight and EVERYTHING in town is closed so it is a great day for stamping. Hopefully I will have a couple more projects to share later tonight. Hope you are all having a terrific weekend!

I'm FINALLY stamping again!!!!

After weeks of not being able to stamp due to broken pipes and sickness...I FINALLY got to stamp tonight. Since it has been a while since I've stamped I decided to use a sketch challenge and what better one to use than the Verve Visual honored guest sketch challenge contest. I made the first card using SU! Roses in Winter. It turned out ok but not exactly what I had envisioned. The second card I made is in my opinion MY FAVORITE card I have ever made. I absolutely love this card. I used my Verve Visual set "Starlight Starbright". I LOVE this set and I LOVE this card. It was really hard to get a good picture of it. I sprayed the black background cardstock with glimmer mist and you can't see the shimmer in the picture but it looks great in real life. I bought some silver curling ribbon after Christmas at Target thinking "this looks cool" but never really thinking I would find a use for it...I was wrong! It worked great with this card. Can you tell I'm pretty excited, I seldom make cards that I think are good and I am so happy with this card. Let me know what you think of it. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great night!

Here is my Roses in Winter card. I used SU Ballet Blue, Apricot Appreal, Real Red and Whisper White along with some Basic Gray dp. Along with Roses in Winter I also used SU! French Script and a Flourish Set from Autumn Leaves.
Here is my "Rockstar" card. I used "Starlight, Starbright" stamp set from Verve Visual. I stamped the sentiment in Brilliance Black Ink and the Stars in silver pigment ink. The black cardstock is sprayed with glimmer mist. The first picture is taken with the camera flash off and the second one is taken using the flash. The main image squares are elevated using SU! dimensionals.

Wish RAK goodies

I am finally feeling a little better so I thought I would drop in and say HELLO!!!
I still haven't stamped anything but I did want to share some pictures of some goodies I received in the latest Wish RAK secret swap on SCS. The reveal day was last Saturday but I was so sick I didn't even open my package until Monday but WOW was it fantastic! My secret wish RAK friend was Karen Haynes (greyhound stamper on SCS). Karen went WAY WAY over the $15 minimum you are required so spend and TOTALLY spoiled me. The package was AWESOME. Thank you Karen for all of the wonderful goodies!!!! Here are some pictures of my new treasures:
This is the ADORABLE card she sent. I just absolutely love it! I always struggle coloring the hedgehogs but Karen did an AWESOME job! I just love it!
She sent me an adorable flowered 8x8 scrapbook, 2 8x8 packs of designer paper from provo craft, a hard cover A to Z of cardmaking book, 2 packages of Marth Stewart dimensionals, some MM shimmery brads (oh how I love bling!), a multi pack of SU! In Color cardstock, a cute decorated bag of bath salts....
and theres more...4 packages of Art Accentz glitter, some mini clipboards, some luggage tages, a provo craft roller to picking up glitter, a bag of primas, a photo wallet, 3 provo craft clear stamp sets and 5 packages of bits and pieces storage containers (not shown).

THANK YOU SO MUCH KAREN!!! YOU TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!!!!!!!