Happy New year(early)!

Yes I am alive! It had definately been a while, life has been very hectic. Hope everyone had a great Christmas. The reason I haven't posted in so long is because I haven't been able to make anything cause my stamping stuff has been packed. We have finally moved. Goodbye South Dakota, Ill miss you maybe, or at least my friends. After a very hectic time we have a place to live in Billings and we move in on monday yeah It kinda sucks when you don't have a place to land we have been staying with my parents for the last week and a half and im sure they are sick of us. So once we get all moved in and I get my stamping room set back up maybe I can get a card made with all of my new stampin up stuff that I haven't been able to use yet. I cant wait, untill then Happy New Year Everybody! I cant believe its 2009.

Color inspiration Challenge 28/sketch challenge combo.

I wasn't so sure about these colors at first but I ended up really liking the combo. Cute purse huh. Of coarse if you know me you know I love, love, love purses. My Mom and my siser used to tease me cause I got a new purse every month.

Here is the sketch I really like it im sure I'll use this one again.

Here is my card, I was having such trouble with this combination and then it finally came together and Im pretty happy with it.

Recipe

Stamps: Fabulous flowers, say it with scallops.

Ink: Ruby Red.

Paper: pumpkin, ruby, whisper white, autumn vine dsp.

Misc: whisper white taffeta ribbon, baby half pearls, square scallop punch.

Winter Post

I made this card a few weeks ago for world card making day, and for gina k's project for the troops. I love how this one turned out. I also love this ribbon but found that is is kinda hard to put on a card because it takes up alot of space.
Recipe

Stamps: Short and sweet, Winter Post.

Ink: Choc chip, close to cocoa, baja breeze, riding hood red, old olive

Paper: Riding hood red, old olive choc chip, baja breeze, vanilla.

Misc:riding hood striped gosgrain ribbon, dazzling diamonds, disigner label punch, 1 inch circle punch, I used my cricut to cut the oval, blender pen.

I am alive!

After a few weeks, I finally made a card, I have had alot of stressful and scary things happen in the last couple of weeks but the lord blessed my family and we were able to come through it. At the time of my last post I was so upset that I had actually packed all of my stamping stuff up and decided I wasn't going to even touch it till we moved in december. But my husband and my MIL convinced me that I shouldn't quit something that I love just because some bad things happened to me. Sorry I can't expound more but, I have been able to forget or at least try to forget everything and I was able to sit down yesterday and make this card for Jen Del Muro's Sketch for you to try. It was a cute sketch and I got to use a new stamps set I got three weeks ago and my new ski slope paper, and also some filigree brads that I got with my great rewards points from last quarter which I still cant believe I got and I doubt I will ever get again. So here is my card. I don't know how much I like it. Im thinking It might take me a little while to get some of my mojo back.

Recipe

Paper: ski slope dsp, riding hood red, baja breeze, old olive, choc chip, whisper white.

Stamps: a flower for all seasons

Misc: filigree brads, pearl stickles, blender pen, word window punch, scallop punch.

Saying goodbye for a while.

Just wanted to let those who follow my blog know that I probly wont be posting for a while, I love stamping but I have some more important things to take care of right now. Thanks for all of your support and greats comments on my cards they always made me feel good about something that I love to do.

Coffin Treat Box

Hi, I just wanted to share this cute coffin treat box that I made. I happened to turn on the tv he other day when martha was on and she was making this, so of coarse i had to try it. If your intrested here is the link to the template. Now im havent really made anything halloween cause I dont really have any halloween stamps but I just got a cute set from papertray ink and i used some of them for the front of the coffin. Maybe Ill be able to make a couple of cards before halloween has come and gone.

Here is what it looks like inside, this was all of he candy i had in my house.

I Just used black cardstock and some generic scrapbook paper I had laying around, the stamps are in black and pumpkin. the stamp set i think si called spooky sweets or something like that.

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 37

Time for another Cupake Challenge from Taylor, except this week I did not use a cupcake this sketch to me just worked purfect for the turkey. Here is the sketch. And here is my turkey, isn't he cute I have seen a couple of these on SCS I think, and have been wanting to try. I got to use some more of that awsome autumn vine paper I just love it. Recipe.
Stamps:None(the words are from chit chat rubons)
Paper: Autumn vine, choc chip, mustard, rust, sage, whisper white.
Misc: white gel pen, 1 1/4 inch punch, 3/4 inch punch, boho blossoms punch, scallop circle punch. 1/8 circle punch. Coluzzle.

Photo Album.

We Have this church craft day on saturday and this is one of the things we are making and the my friend in charge of this spacific project asked me to make one of them decorated for display so people can get ideas and stuff. Its this really cute photo album not really hard to make either.

And here is what it looks like opened up.

I used the navy paper from the prints pack and, some scrap urban garden paper. I also used some baja blue and happy everything stamp set. some not quite navy brads and some kiwi 1/4 inch circle punched. And the ticket corner punch, and some kiwi/vanilla satin ribbon.

Birthday stuff.

Here are some gifts that I made for my MIL for her birthday with a little help from Kaden.

Kaden and his grandma have a special thing with pumpkins so I wanted to make a card with pumpkins and I saw a card like this on someones blog dont remember whos and I thought oh perfect. It also happened to fit this weeks color challenge on SCS which was choc chip, tangerine, and kiwi. Oh and on the inside kaden drew a pic and Its stamped(from your favorite little pumpkin).

Ingredients: choc chip, kiwi, tangerine paper. Photo corners, word window punches. I used my cricut to cut the ovals but you could use stampin ups punches for them. choc brads.

Here is a really cool bag made to imitate the big shot one stampin up has now here is the tutorial for it. I made this to put her presents in.

Ingredients:rust and aumtum vine paper. Stamps:happy everthing, lovely as a tree. 1 1/4 inch punch. Sticky tape, chocolate ribbon.

World Cardmaking day, Cupcake challenge.

Happy World Card making Day Everyone, I hope everyone is making some cards and having some fun. If you don't know what to do today may I suggest that you go to Gina K's Blog and check out what they are doing for the troops for world card making day. Its Very inspiring and also she is having a drawing for ten different prizes for people who participate. I did another card for Taylors Cupcake Challenge.Here is the sketch.

Here is my card, you can't really tell in the pic but, I put dazzling diamonds on the cupcakes.

Recipe.

Stamps: Tree house stamps(cupcakes), the yum is from Seize the cupcakes(hero arts)

Ink:Adirondak pitch black, real red, old olive, baja blue(I dont have a bashful blue inkpad)

Paper:Real red, old olive whipser white.

Misc: green dew drops, dazzling diamonds, sewing machine, copic red markler, blender pen, dimensionals, glue dots for dew drops.

KWerner color inspiration 24

Time again for Kristina Werner color challenge, I really liked this one I want those plates they are so pretty.

Here is my card, I distressed the choc chip again by running the ink pad across it, I colored the flowers with stamp n write markers then stamped the image.

Recipe:

Stamps:upsy daisy, Stampendous TC54 tiled quad cube

Ink:versamark,choc chip, old olive

Paper: pumpkin pie, choc. chip,vanilla, kiwi kiss

Misc:white ep,copper hodgepodge,pumpkin 1/4 inch grosgrain, green dew drops.

Double Duty

I did a double on this card with the SCS Color challenge(Rust, choc chip,Baja) and Julee's Mojo Sketch.
Here is my card, I distressed the card base by sponging and running the ink pad across the cardstock. I wanted to put vanilla behind it but I was all out the square on the front I found in my scraps bin.

Recipe:

Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes

Paper:Choc Chip,Really Rust, Vanilla, Baja Breeze, urban garden dsp.

Ink:choc chip, rust.

Misc: sponge,blue dew drops,choc tafetta ribbon,copper hodgepodge,chit chat rubons,dimensionals.

Verve challenge, Beates Weekend Sketch.

I did this card for the Meet the divas Verve challenge and Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. I've been really annoyed with my camera lately it just wont take a good pic one of the settings must be off.

Recipe

Stamps: Black Tie Birds

Ink:Versamark, elegant Eggplant

Paper:whisper white, elegant eggplant, perfect plum

Misc: white tafetta ribbon, clear dew drops,silver ep,white gel pen, blender pen, sewing machine, dimensionals,glue dots.

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 35

I missed Taylors challenge last week cause I was out of town, and that made me kinda sad, so I was happy when I sat down to make this card. Here is her sketch for this week. For more info go to Taylors blog.

Here is my card, I love this stamp its so cute, I got it the day they released it but I haven't used it till now. I dont really have any christmas paper so I improvised. I was going to use my new sewing machine on it but I forgot.

Recipe

Stamps:Treehouse christmas cupcake.

Ink:choc chip,artichoke.

Paper:bella rose dsp,riding hood red, whisper white, choc chip.

Misc:red dew drops, riding hood red striped gosgrain, ticket corner punch, burgandy stickles, snowflake cb embossing folder.

Splitcoast tuesday color challenge

Ok, so I am alive for anyone who was wondering I haven't posted for over
a week almost two. I was out of town and for almost a week and I Kinda got side tracked
by some books last week one of my friends let me barrow her twilight books by stephanie meyer, they were so good I read all four of them in 4 days. They were so good I literally could not put them down. Well anyways on to my card I did yesterdays SCS color challenge It was baja, vanilla, kiwi. Im not so sure I like this card but oh well I guess.

Recipe.

Stamps:Treehouse cupcake stamp.

Ink:Adirondak black, copic markers.

Paper:baja, vanilla,kiwi.

Misc:vanilla/kiwi satin ribbon, cuzzle,nestabilities,paper piercer,pearl stickles,pink stickles

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 33

Heres Taylors sketch for this weeks challenge, Simple but good I love it. Will definately be using it again. Thanks for another great sketch Taylor.

Heres my card, its kinda simple, but I actually spent a fair amount of time making it. I still feel like its missing somthing but I cant put my finger on it. I dont know if you cant tell but I Paper pierced the corners. Im pretty happy with it though. This is my first time using my new copic markers I had fun. Taylors images are perfect for that.

Recipe.

Stamps: Sweet Celebration(Taylored Expressions)

Ink:Stazon jet black, I colored the image with my copic markers

Paper: Only orange, regal rose, whiper white, yo yo yellow,I dont know what the dsp is sprinkled somthing or other.

Misc: blue dew drops, walmart yellow grosgrain, I cut the ovals out with my cricut,dimensionals, glue dots, paper piercer.

Mojo Monday Sketch 52

Here is Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch, Its a good one. Go check it out on her blog.

Here is my card.

I have had this color combo in my head since the color challenge on scs this week, I just didnt like the green galore in it so i never did a card. So I decied to use them for the mojo sketch. I love the card it so pretty. I wish I had a better camera cause the pics dont do it justice you can see it better here on SCS gallery .

Recipe

Stamps: Short and sweet, upsy daisy.

Paper: Urban garden dsp, going grey, basic grey, riding hood red, whisper white.

Ink: old olive marker, real red marker.
Misc:designer label punch, oval cut out with cricut, white tafetta ribbon dyed old olive, pewter brads, stampamajig.

Remebering 9/11

I Just want to take the time today to remember all of those who died on 9/11, I pray for those who lost family members and also thank the firefighters and policeman who died trying to save others. May the lord bless their families and give them comfort.

KWerner color inspiration 22

I did Kwerner Color inspiration Challenge today, which I also combined with SCS Sketch Challenge.
Here is the challenge

Here is the sketch.

Here is my card, Im pretty happy w.ith the way this card turned out, good color combo Thanks Kristina

Recipe

Stamps: Fabulous Flowers,

Paper: Afternoon tea dsp, whisper white, regal rose, rose red, bravo burgandy

Ink:Burgandy, rose red, soft sky

Misc:Hodgepodge hardware, soft sky ribbon, ticket corner punch, half pearls