March Stamp Club Challenge Cards

Happy Friday! Hooray! At last! I'm running super late today, but I wanted to share the fabulous cards my Stamp Club members made for their February challenge and returned to me at the end of March. They amaze me every month with their creativity!! They started with a Certainly Celery card, 5 1/2 x 4 piece of Summer Picnic floral paper, Old Olive scallop circle, Old Olive felt flower, and a piece of Bashful Blue striped gingham ribbon.

Lori Franklin:


Michelva Evans:


Vina Nguyen:



Andretta Lowry:



Beverly Mohler:


Hoai Nguyen:


Aren't they awesome?! Great job girls! Hope everyone has a fabulous Friday! Thanks for stopping by!

RAK from Jackie Ross

Happy Thursday! Just had to sure this fabulous Fabulous Flowers card from my fabulous upline and friend Jackie Ross! I love the color combo she used with the Basic Gray, Purely Pomegranate, and Very Vanilla. I need to use Very Vanilla more, I always seem to go to Whisper White. Also love the Doodles she mixed in and the hodgepodge hardware. You know you feel loved when someone sends you a card with their precious hardware on it!! lol! Thanks, Jackie!

We're one day closer to Friday! Do I seem more desperate than usual this week?! I hope you have a great day!

"Welcome"

Happy Wednesday! It's Hump Day! Is anyone else ready for Friday?! Or I guess Saturday is even better! What do you think of this picture? Can you believe I took it at 10:00 at night? I put it on my desk and aimed my desk lamp and my Ott Lite on it...so not too bad I guess for the late hour. I want to order a little light tent that I saw on someone's blog, need to do that.

Anyway, I started this card on Sunday but gave up in frustration. I had punched an arrow out of the Summer Picnic paper and planned on pointing it at the "welcome". I never could get it how I liked it, so I gave up. I picked it up again last night, added a bigger piece of red behind it and the brads and liked it. Only then I looked down and saw the arrow and remembered my original plan. Oh well! Then I looked up the name of this set and saw it's not even current! It was a level 1 hostess set in the last catalog. Can you tell I haven't sorted out my stamp closet yet from the last catalog change?!

On a side note, Nick the dog is much better now. Maybe it was his allergies, or something he ate. Who knows. Nancy cracked me up with her comment about "thanks for sharing the details"! Sorry if I grossed anyone out...I just needed you to understand and feel the full extent of my bad night! ha! ha!

Have a good day! Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe Stamps: So Many Sayings. Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White; Summer Picnic & Close to Cocoa Prints DSP. Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red. Accessories: SU Vintage Brads & Dimensionals; felt star from Hobby Lobby (50% off embellishments, who can resist?!).

Ribbon Flower Pocket Card

Happy Tuesday! No time to stamp last night (I'll get to that in a minute), but I remembered this card I made back on Christmas Break as a possible Stamp Club project, but I ended up rejecting it for some reason, can't remember why now. The flower is made from ribbon, by punching holes in the cardstock and drawing the ribbon through, very easy! The Build-a-Brad makes a perfect center to the flower.

So, the short version of last night: left work early at 4:00 to avoid bad storms, flat tire on the way home, hubby comes to rescue me, off to Firestone for a patch or new tires (patch, luckily!), get home at 8:00 finally to find four piles of dog vomit. Ugh! Poor sick Nick! He seems to be better today, but he had a rough night.

Okay, running so late today! Hope you have a great Tuesday!

Hey Girl!

Don't you love a rub-on that says "HEY GIRL!"?! It's from the new A Perfect Day rub-ons in the SU Occasional Mini Catalog, and it seemed appropriately sassy for this girly, little pink owl. The layout is based on Beate's Weekend Sketch #WSC41, go check it out and play if you haven't yet! I colored the owl with the Pure Color Pencils, still one of my favorite coloring tools.

My lazy weekend flew by too fast! I took pictures from Stamp Club yesterday so that I can post a tutorial for this project I posted the other day. Hopefully I'll have it up in a few days. After Stamp Club, I had to get busy and finish all the "schoolwork" I had put off the rest of the weekend. Doh!

Oh, almost forgot, yesterday's funny from dh after stamp club:
Dh: You have some glitter right here on your chin.
Me: That's weird, we didn't even use glitter on the stamp club projects today.
Dh: Well, if you walk in your stamp room, there's a good chance you're gonna come out with glitter on.
Me: {busting out laughing}

Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Monday!

Recipe Stamps: Just Celebrate, Dotted background. Cardstock: Kraft, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Berry Bliss & Wild Wasabi Prints DSP. Ink: Chocolate Chip classic, Pretty in Pink Craft. Accessories: Pure Color Pencils, Vintage Silver Brads, Slit Punch (for scallop), Wild Wasabi Double Stitched Ribbon, A Perfect Day rub-ons, Dimensionals, Pink Flirty Ribbon (retired), Library Clip (retired), Stapler.

Splitcoast Sketch Challenge #169

Happy Saturday! Or I should say Lazy Saturday! I have been a total lump, feeling too tired to do anything and then hating myself for not doing anything. Ugh! Anyone else ever have this problem? (Please say yes!)

Finally around 4:30 I decided to checkout the weekly sketch challenge at Splitcoast and found this one: #169. It called for a long, narrow panel, 4" x 1 1/2", and I couldn't find any of my SU images that would really work (and I felt too lazy to get creative with the ones I did have), so I found this "Writing" stamp (I call her Pencil Fairy) I had bought a long time ago and never used. It is by Karen Stolper for American Art Stamp. (Dang, I just googled her to find that link, there are some cute stamps! Noooooo!) I always thought it would be cute for something for school, ya know. I added the "due" and the checkmark from the SU Mark the Date set.

After that little card-making bout of activity, I decided to cook dinner even! If ya know me, ya know that's rare! I forgot to mention earlier that I did cook, 3 times, over spring break. (When I do cook, I make large quantities so that it lasts for 3 days at least.) I don't know how some of y'all do that regularly. It makes such a mess. I mean I had to load and run and unload the dishwasher EVERY day! So, my hats off to you cookers out there!

Have a good Saturday evening! Order out for a pizza! ;-)

Recipe Stamps: Mark the Date & All in a Row by SU, Writing by Karen Stolper for American Art Stamp. Cardstock: Close to Cocoa, Blue Bayou, Confetti White, Soft Sky DSP, Summer Picnic DSP. Ink: Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky. Accessories: Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pens, Build a Brad, Vintage Brads, Tag Corner Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, Spiral Punch, Pumpkin Pie Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals.

Studio Inspiration

Happy Thursday! Had a great time with the girls at stamp club last night! It was most special because Margaret moved back to Dallas and came in and surprised us all!! Yay Margaret!! We're so glad to have you back!

I didn't have a card to share today (the horror!), so I thought I would share this picture from my "studio." Jenni Bowlin always has a Studio Inspiration section on her website every month, and I always love seeing her ideas. I've had this old pink screen window on my wall as a decoration for a long time, and over Christmas break during a clean and organize phase, I decided to hang cards on it (mostly because I have cards coming out the wahzooo and need more storage space!). I just ran some string across it and used clothes pins. I like the way it turned out, it's always bright and cheery and inspires me to get stamping when I enter the room!


So what could you hang cards on at your house?! If you have any great ideas, post the link in your comments for us to see! Have a great Thursday! It's almost Friday! Hooray!

Sad Attempt...

...at Beate's Be Inspired Challenge #6, you can see it here. I tried to give myself another 30 minutes last night to make a card and do this challenge. Let's just say it was NOT happening! Ever have those times, when the mojo just isn't flowing?! Arghhh! I finally gave up trying to get the "feel" of the inspiration piece (see the REJECTS pictured below!) and just used the colors, so there you have it, 2 1/2 hours later! Arghhhh again!

On a side note, I've been getting 6 hours of sleep the last few nights, and I told dh last night it's amazing how much better the kids act when I get 6 hours of sleep! It's like they know if I get enough sleep and act so good, and they know if I didn't get enough sleep and act all irritating and loud! He said that's an "interesting theory" I have, but he's very smart and didn't say anything else! lol!

Happy Wednesday! Can't wait to see my "peeps" at Stamp Club tonight!

Recipe Stamps: Spring Solitude (hostess). Cardstock: Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Whisper White, Ginger Blossom DSP. Ink: Staz-On Black. Accessories: Scallop Punch, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Crop-o-Dile, 5/8" Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, photo Corner Punch, 2-Way Glue Pen, Chunky Black Glitter, Dimensionals.

Take A Number birthday

Happy Tuesday! I had lots to do last night, but gave myself 30 minutes to make a card. I used Beate's Weekend Sketch #40, although I changed it from rectangular to square. I'm not sure I got the placement of the circle exactly right by the sketch, but mine needed to go there because of the paper lines. Not sure if I'm crazy about this...decided to wheel the Take A Number over the patterned paper...seemed like a good idea at the time, but not sure of the results. The "4 you" is from the retired SU set Play on Words (never could bring myself to get rid of that set).

Below here is the inside of the card. I saw this idea on Nichole Heady's blog where she stamped the inside greeting and cut it apart in strips (I just took the picture this morning, sorry it's not too good). I like the effect a lot. I did it on my niece Emma's card (posted last week), but forgot to take a picture of it.


Gotta dash...early morning tutoring again. I swore after the reading TAKS test I was going to cut back, but I'm back to tutoring 5 times a week again! Argh! Now I have to help the kids who failed the Reading TAKS for their next try on April 30 as well as help all the struggling math students for the Math TAKS on April 29. Wish me strength! lol! Have a great Tuesday!

Recipe Stamps: Take A Number wheel, It's Your Birthday, Play on Words (retired). Cardstock: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Real Red, Summer Picnic DSP. Ink: Staz-On Black. Accessories: Scallop Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 5/8" Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, Crop-o-Dile, Dimensionals.

March Stamp Club Projects

Happy Monday! (Yes, that's me trying to be positive again!) Thought I would share my projects for Stamp Club this month, coming up on Wednesday night and next Sunday afternoon. I actually made the projects back on Spring Break, but just got around to photographing them last evening. As you can see, I waited too long and the sunlight was coming in, casting shadows and turning the photos yelllow, grrr (mad at myself here!).

This first project I actually pulled off the SU Demonstrator website. It's under the section where they introduced the new Bulk Buy program. I love this new program which allows me to have enough silver ribbon slides and rub-ons and die cut flowers for all my guests! Whoo! Hoo!

This project I was so excited about because I thought it up myself and made a template and everything! The cover design I also copied from the SU Bulk Buy program samples (they used the design on a long card without the "friendship".) Inside are little chipboard coasters that pull out and you can add photos to. I will share the template and tutorial next weekend.




Gotta dash! Have a wonderful Monday!