Sorry for being MIA

Hi everyone - I'm so sorry to have just dropped off the face of the earth for a few months. My husband & I decided to seperate just days after my last post and have since filed for divorce. Needless to say I haven't been crafting much or felt like doing anything really. I'm so very thankful for the Lord's guiding hand during this difficult time...there is no way I would have made it without Him or my dear friends. I hope to have some projects going and new pictures and ideas soon. I hope everyone has a blessed day!!

Totally Tools Challenge

Hi everyone! Things have been going really well here. Work is great - we are getting a little busier so I am having a little less time to play in my room.

This is a card I CASE'd entirely from the Spring/Summer book on page 47. When I first saw this card in the catty I knew I wanted this set. I love this specialty designer paper called To the Nines. This paper is just too yummy!

Kat made a card using the same papers and stamps and this is what she came up with...she placed her DS paper lower and put her image on the opposite side.

I really do think that both of these cards turned out very nice. This set is just too fun and perfect for masculine cards. I really love how the image and saying are far enough apart to be able to use them together or apart.

I hope everyone has a great day!!

Flutter-by Butterflies

Hi everyone! I truly hope everyone has had a blessed day! We have spring moving through here and the temps and weather are quite nice (for now).

Kat and I did another card challenge the other day...this time we used up some supplies from a previous stamp camp.

My card is pretty balanced I think ~ I really try to follow some rules while card making. Sometimes I really think I need to become more loose like the kids are when they stamp with me, they really don't care if it comes out perfectly balanced or not as long as they are happy with the end results they are happy! That must be one of the reasons God created kids ~ to keep parents from becoming too serious ;)

Kat's card is typical Kat...she loves the grungy look of ink to paper and to tilt the panels on her cards every which direction. I really love how creative and free she is when gets to creating with me.

I hope everyone has a great evening!!

A Rose is A Rose...

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone has been having a great time...I know I have. My new job is really fun ~ there is a ton of stuff to memorize and learn, but the customers and my fellow employees have been really patient with me.

I have some more cards to share with you ~ I haven't gotten to stamp as much as I would like lately, but I'm sure as soon as I have my job down a little more I will be able to take time in the evening to play in my room some more.

The cards I am going to share today are from a challenge I did with Kat ~ she got to pick the stamp set and I picked the papers. She really likes to challenge me in a literal way when we do these challenge cards...

This is what I came up with. As usual I made a pretty symmetrical card with everything matted properly...I even got a little anal lining my scallop borders up so the same amount of pink was showing on each strip of the Bella Rose paper and the scallops were actually across from each other...the fact that I stay so symmetrical really makes Kat laugh.

As you can see Kat really likes to have her cards asymmetrical, which usually turn out beautifully as well. If fact I plan on CASE-ing this card in the near future. She used her pink scalloped pieces inside the card to accent the personal message she added and of course had to add a little bling to the front of the card to make it stand out a little more ;)

I hope everyone is taking a little time to play with the wonderful stamp sets you own and trying to challenge yourself to see how many different cards you can make from one set.

Thank You

Hi again ~ I have another card to share with everyone for the 5 way challenge...and this card completes a second stamp set!! Woo Hoo!!

For this card I used the Urban Garden DSP and the coordinating colors. I really wanted to grunge up the papers just a little and I thought that the direct to paper technique would be perfect.

I truly love this stamp set and can't wait to complete a few more challenge cards done so I can keep playing with this set... ;)

Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Papers: Urban Garden, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Inks: Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Gray

Great News!!

I just wanted to pop on real quick and let everyone know that I have a new job as of Monday!! Unfortunately that means my time at Michael's has come to an end, but I so loved it while I was there!! I want to send a big thank you to everyone who said a prayer for me - who would have thought that in such a short period of time I would have gone from upset about not getting the full time spot I wanted so bad to being so excited to be starting a new chapter in my life?? I have to say God is good!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!

Comfort

Hi there! I have the final card for my 5 ways to use it challenge for the set Zoofari...

I think this card turned out just too cute!! The colors come from the DS paper that I used - Urban Garden. After I put this card together my DD pointed out that it would have been ultra cute to have this zebra surrounded by some normal zebras - so I may have to create another card to try her idea out.... :)

I really do like this saying from the set Hope Happens. I plan on using this set for a lot of my cards!! For some reason I have been really into multiple mats lately and most of my cards are turning out very symmetrical...I may have to start following my DD's lead and start putting things off kilter...

I hope everyone has a great day ~ Happy Stamping!!

Stamps:
Zoofari, Hope Happens
Inks:
StazOn Black, Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Navy
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Gray, Urban Garden DSP
Accessories:
Pop Dots