The fabulous Laura from 2S4Y is celebrating her birthday today! To help her celebrate, the 2S4Y design team is kicking off a Happy Birthday to Laura Blog Hop!Here's the line-up:Start hopping and leave Laura some love!We love you, Laura, and hope you have a super, fabulous day!
Happy Wednesday! Day 3 and I'm dying already, ha!Here's a couple of quick picks of my room!Favorite moment so far:End of Day 2 and little MB raises his hand and says, "I'm so happy!" SO. SWEET.Worst moment so far:Little AV looks at a picture of me taken four years ago and says, "Is that when you were young?" Yes. Before I started teaching.
How do you like the vinyl wall decor from Stampin' Up!? "Do good. Be kind." Love it.Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Happy Monday! It's time to play with Laura's Sketch #59 over at 2 Sketches 4 You!This week's Card of the Week winner will get a special prize: guest designer spot at 2S4Y!! Cool, huh?!Check out the sketch, the rest of the design team samples, and upload your card over at 2S4Y!As you read this at 8:00 am, I'm welcoming my students to the first day of 2nd grade! Sweet!Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Happy Saturday! It's the weekend! Whoo! Hoo!Here's a card I made a few weeks ago and seems appropriate since I've been *living* at the school! ha! The base is SU Bordering Blue, which retired, but I've always loved it.I'm finishing up a project here at home and heading back to school...still some more details to finalize. My room actually looks pretty good, but there's still more I can do. I'm going to try and make myself stay away tomorrow. I get so obsessive-compulsive, it sucks! I probably wasted two plus hours yesterday obsessively scrubbing the desks and trying to remove every last stain and bit of tape residue. Don't even ask how many Mr. Clean bars I used! ha! The day before it was the walls, baseboards, door trim, etc. It smells good in there at least!Here's a pic of my library I took with my iphone last night and facebooked. I got that rug last year (you may remember, hee!) and it was pretty stained by the end of the year. Well, it cleaned up great with that Spot Shot cleaner. I've avoided pillows in the past because of lice, but we haven't had any cases for the last 3 years, and this pillow and case were so dang cute at Target, on sale for $7.49 each, I couldn't resist!
Hope you have a great weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Happy Thursday!I played with some of my Unity stamps a couple of weeks ago! I had this fabric swatch in one of my old Scarlet Lime kits, then I found this sentiment in one of my Unity Stamp kits and it matched so perfectly! I know so many people who are sweet and deserve this card...who shall I send it to?! hee! hee!Tonight is Meet the Teacher night at school from 6:00-7:30, can't wait to get a look at which of last year's first graders will be mine! *wink* Hopefully I'll have some pics of my classroom to share soon. I changed a few things this year and I'm loving it!! Our new building is half-way done now, but we won't be moving in until next school year. It's okay with me, my room is huge and I love the 125 year old church building. We even got air purifiers in every classroom this year, so maybe that will help make this my healthiest year ever! ha!Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Happy Wednesday! Hope you're having a great week! I'm working frantically in back-to-school mode and this old girl is hurting! I'll try to take some pictures soon...Here's a quick share...another card with the Thanks stamp. I cut out a zig zag from this paper (I forget what it's called!) and sewed around it, easy peasy!Gotta roll! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!
Happy Monday!Time for Kazan's Sketch #59 at 2S4Y! It's a good one!This week the design team got to use some FUN digital stamps from AI Factory! Isn't this little birdy darling?! I took the "Wishing you a tweet day" sentiment and made it into the background piece. Be sure and head over to 2S4Y, check out the other samples from Kazan and the design team, and upload your project based on the sketch! Can't wait to see!Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!RecipeStamps: AI Factory.
Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, The Girls' Paperie patterned paper, beak/feet SU retired scraps.
Accessories: Pink Paislee ribbon, Buttons Galore button, SU Linen Thread, mini glue dot, dimensionals.
Happy Sunday! I hope you're having a great weekend! I had one more SU Convention page to share using the Thanks stamp set with my lovely friend Asha and her daughter again. She had another baby recently and shared more photos, so that's good news for me and my scrapbooking for events! I made up the journaling myself, but I'm pretty sure Asha would agree with it. 
This page is about as *simple* as they could possibly come. I used the new In Color Blushing Bride, LOVE it! I stamped the Thanks stamp in Basic Gray ink, but I stamped off on scratch paper first, then stamped on the cardstock, so it's lighter. Then I stamped the Thanks stamp again on another piece of cardstock in full strength Basic Gray and punched out parts of the words with the Three Hearts punch and laid them over the text on the page using Mini Glue Dots. I also attached some small hearts punched out of the plain, unstamped cardstock. That was probably way too wordy when you already had it figured out anyway! If so, sorry! Well, off to do some errands then get ready for my friend Lori's wedding tonight! SO happy for her!Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!RecipeStamps: Thanks.
Cardstock: Blushing Bride, Basic Gray.
Ink: Basic Gray, Basic Black marker for journaling.
Accessories: Three Hearts punch (I forget its *legal* name!)
Happy Friday! I'm back to having great reasons to celebrate the weekend! Whoo! Hoo!In case you were getting tired of the "Thanks" stamp, here's a change of pace with a new set called Paisley Prints. It's from the Holiday Mini and will be available to order September 1. I love the little paisley tree from this set best. This one's super simple...I used the matching paisley wheel for the Crumb Cake strip and wrapped it with a HUGE amount of Linen Thread...I was taking deep breaths to use so much! ha! For the folded green strip, I curled it up a lot, back and forth, breaking down the fibers in the paper, then pulled it apart gently so you can see the "inside" of the cardstock. It gives you a little different texture, that "suede" look.I'll be back tomorrow and I'll be catching up on my Google Reader too, it's amazing how behind you can get in just a couple of days! Yikes! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!RecipeStamps: Paisley Prints.
Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Wild Wasabi.
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso.
Accessories: Linen Thread, Mini Library Clip, dimensionals.
Happy Thursday! And Happy Birthday to my dad!As I was sitting in my stamp room Tuesday afternoon, I had this sudden feeling like "I'm forgetting something!" Then I always go to "What month is it? Whose birthday is it?" Does anyone else do this?! Luckily I had time to whip this little card up, run to Lowe's for a gift card, and get it mailed in time! Schwooo! I used the retired stamp set It's Your Birthday, still one of my fave birthday sets, and the Play Date designer series paper. I picked the part of the paper starting with high numbers, just to be ornery, he's not really close to 89, heh! heh! I was inspired by this teacher card by Charity Hassel I saw for Sketch #179 over at CPS. I am totally nuts over her card!So I survived the first day back to school yesterday, although I've gotten a little *soft* over the summer! It officially started at noon, but I worked in my room all morning and got a lot done. I think it's going to be a great year!Hope your week is going well! It's almost Friday! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!RecipeStamps: It's Your Birthday.
Cardstock: Pear Pizazz, Not Quite Navy, Play Date DSP.
Ink: Early Espresso.
Accessories: Early Espresso Button, Linen Thread, 3/4" square punch.
