You're drunk moon....

....go home!  Seriously!  I could tell it was going to be a full moon on Monday!  Yeesh!  Anyone else have a drunk moon week?????

Working in healthcare the crazy really comes out!  This week has been the worst one I remember in a long time...and that's saying something after the oh-so-fun fertility testing I had a few weeks ago!!!!  So, sorry I haven't posted!  I haven't forgotten about you but I haven't had either the time or energy to stamp or blog this week.  And I've been "working" on my display samples...which REALLY means browsing Pinterest for ideas and staring at my supplies.....

I'm going to be kicking myself soon for this but I'm waiting on a lot of them so I can get some more new supplies from the new catalog.  Don't forget you can order from the old and new catalog at noon next Friday!

I also had some super-stress over my Artisan entries.  They actually showed up at SU a day after the deadline.  The guy at the PO told me they would be delivered on Monday.....not Thursday.  But, I guess since it was priority and not express it's not a given.  Well, he could have TOLD me that when I explained that it HAD to be there by Wednesday.  Oy!  So, I've been in contact with SU and I don't have any definite answers but they THINK they will still accept my stuff since it was the PO's fault and not mine.  But rest assured UPS will be getting my business from now on!!!!!  No wonder the PO is in trouble!!!!   Anyway....I hope you're week has been better :-)


So, how about something fun (but kind of sad at the same time I guess)?  This is a card I think I've had done since right after last convention, haha!  I made a video with it but somehow never got around to editing it and everything...oh well.  I swear I'm going to get more organized ONE of these days;-)  But they showed us how to make a flower with circle punches and the pennant punch.  Basically you just insert the circle into the point of the pennant and punch making the little V.  Layer a few up and viola!  Really cute, huh?

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Distressed dots, pursuit of happiness
Paper:  Whisper white, daffodil delight, calypso coral, lucky limeade
Ink:  Daffodil delight, calypso coral, lucky limeade
Accessories:  Circle punches, flower punch, pennant punch, basic rhinestones

And it's a little sad because two of my very favorite things on this card are retiring in a few days!  Life just won't be the same without distressed dots and pursuit of happiness!  You can be that these are two things that will NOT be leaving my stamp room! Oh and add lucky limeade to the list!  Like my friend Rita texted me last night, who likes olive anymore???  :-)  Speaking of retired stuff......  If I can ever get my act together I need to have a little (or not so little) rubber rummage sale!!!!!!  Keep an eye out!

Ok, time to teach some turbo kick!  Have a safe and fun holiday weekend!  And go home moon, you're drunk!!!!!

Happy stamping!

Mailable Monday - Not my best work

Hi stampers!  Where did the weekend go?  I think I say that every Monday, ha!  I really think we need a do-over because it was so gloomy here.  The sun peeked out for a few minutes but other than that it was so blah!  I felt very blah yesterday and I think the weather was part of it.  Of course today when I have to go to work it's nice and sunny out and supposed to be almost 80 today...figures, right?

Even stamping didn't seem to cheer me up yesterday!  I did manage to get a few cards done AND to finish up my final scrapbook page for the Artisan contest!  I've still got my BIG 3-D project to finish (but I should have lots of time this weekend visiting my mom) and to even start the second one but I think I'm doing ok.

So, how about a mailable card?  I have to say I'm not thrilled about this one....it was the last one I made before work the day my pre-order came and I was in a rush and didn't have those in color ink pads.  I'm not real happy how the background looks with versamark instead of the actual coastal cabana ink.  But it will have to do for today :-)  I'll be giving this card to my cousin this weekend as we are going to visit my mom and I'll finally get to meet my cousin's little boy.  Although, being an 8 pounder when he was born in February he may not be so little now :-)

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Label love, distressed dots
Paper:  Whisper white, soft sky, costal cabana, subtles DSP stack
Ink:  Soft sky, so saffron, versamark
Accessories:  Scallop circle punches, circle punch, artisan label punch

You may need to click on the picture to enlarge it to see the greeting.  The soft sky ink didn't seem to want to show up in the photo very well.  It says "cutest baby ever".  And I've seen a few pictures of Karsen and he is pretty cute.  He looks a lot like my cousin when he was a baby.  Not having any brothers or sisters I was very excited when Dustin came along just before my 12th birthday...the new baby at my party...not so much, lol!  But it was fun to have a baby in my immediate family and he's as close to a brother as I ever had.  I still can't believe he's old enough to have a baby and it makes me feel old, lol!

One other tip for this card is the little scallop.  Our smallest scallop punch fits the sentiment perfect on this one!  And don't forget that distressed dots is on the retiring list :(  I'm very sad about that one!  It's a great background stamp and so versatile!  It can add just what a card needs sometimes. So, don't forget to get it while you still can.  I know I won't be parting with mine anytime soon;-)

Happy stamping!

Fresh Snowflakes

Hi stampers!  Well the Artisan finalist blog hop is over so it's back to my regular posts.  Weren't all the projects just so fabulous???  I can't wait to see all the winning entries too soon when they do their hop!  They have already started posting their design team stuff last week!  So many pretty things!!!!

So I'm back today with a challenge.  I was able to create quite a few cards during the 10 day hop so I hope to have a lot to show you this week!  I've got a couple of videos coming up too if I can figure the editing software out on the mac!  The card I have today is for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge which I loved this week!  As I thought about this card I realized I had been wanting to case a card out of the holiday catalog so I just altered it to fit this sketch.  I think I'll probably go ahead and case the actual card at some point later but I love the way this one turned out!

Cute sketch, right?  Well I knew I wanted to use some glimmer paper and I had been needing to cut into my festival of prints DSP stack for like ever sooooooo.....

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Distressed dots, tiny tags
Paper:  Whisper white, certainly celery, garden green, silver glimmer, festival of prints DSP stack
Ink:  Certainly celery, garden green
Accessories:  Snow flurry bigz die, 3" circle bigz die, argyle embossing folder, jewelry tag punch, cherry cobbler baker's twine, large pearls, basic pearls

Isn't it FAB?????  I have to say it was a nice change of pace to use garden green and certainly celery since I haven't in quite some time.  I just love the colors and all the prints in that DSP stack!  The large snowflake is adhered with a glue dot and then the middle one is on a dimensional. The smallest one is also adhered with a glue dot and then there are small pearls around the smallest one.  I also tried out a lot of different colors and patterns on the embossed left panel but I finally settled on the argyle for a little variety.  I had tried more polka dots but it was too many dots, ha!

Happy stamping!

Craft Central

Hi stampers!  I found a new challenge blog!  Not sure how I hadn't ever seen this one since it seems to be hosted by the creator of another challenge blog that I like but I think it's fairly new.  It's called Craft Project Central and you can check out the challenge by clicking on the name!

I'm always on the lookout for good sketches as that is the part I tend to struggle the most with on a card.  As you know, my style is fairly clean and simple so this sketch was perfect!  It's very much like a card that I cased for my Fall Frenzy class as well.  This time though, I took a Christmas approach.   For some reason I'm in a Christmas card kind of mood the past few days.  My head says I should focus on Halloween first then fall/Thanksgiving due to the date (and I'm way behind on Halloween cards this year) but my heart is all about Christmas colors this week!

Stampin' Supplies:

Stamps:  Welcome Christmas, distressed dots, tiny tags

Paper: crumb cake, whisper white, cherry cobbler, in color DSP stack

Ink:  Cherry cobbler, versamark

Accessories:  Pewter EP, cherry cobbler dotted scalloped ribbon, border punch

I also went for a sort of bold color scheme too.  I paired lucky limeade with cherry cobbler!  Not super traditional but it works, especially with some crumb cake and clean whisper white.  It's a bit vintage and a but clean.  Anyway, here I go with the distressed dots again and I added the striped DSP panel to counter the dots.  I like all the textures going on!  The sentiment was embossed with our new pewter EP.  It looks funny in the picture with my lighting but it's very pretty!

This was a fun sketch to play along with!  Happy stamping!