Smitten

Hello! Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday. The Cowboys/Giants playoff game is on so I have a little free time. My husband is glued to the TV. I went to Michaels this morning to look for the K and Company line for Valentines Day called “smitten”. Coincidentally they have a Valentines line by Bo Bunny called the same thing but I don’t like it as much. The K&Company line is at Michaels but only some of it. I think they are still unloading boxes. Anyway, I got the small box of cardstock cut outs. They give you 200 various shaped hearts and scalloped tags in all different colors. The cut outs are embellished with glitter or colored foil and some are just plain printed paper. They are gorgeous. I can’t wait to make some cards with them. They are only $3.99 and if you use your coupon, they are a steal! I put a picture in here for you to see them. I called my friend Paula Bloom to tell her about them and the lady is about to move on to the next holiday for card making. I wonder why…I looked at her blog and she has been making Valentines Day cards since December 7th. I am pretty sure I was still designing my Christmas cards at that point oh and figuring out when to put up my Christmas tree. Creating comes naturally for her and her cards are simply stunning! Please check her blog: http://www.prbloom.typepad.com/ you will have to look back a page or two by clicking the arrow all the way at the bottom of the page. That will show her previous posts. She has made some great cards with the Happy Heart day set from Stampin up that everyone is buying. Well…I am off to make my thumbprint heart cookies. I just took all my Christmas stuff down today. These holidays sure do come and go quickly. Got try and keep up! Have a wonderful Evening. By the way, I am going to try and make my husband the Thai Lettuce Wraps from Cheesecake factory tonight. If they turn out good, I will post the recipe. By the way, if you get the Kraft kitchens recipe book I made the shrimp pasta in there and it is delicious if you like cream based pasta sauces. It is really easy too!

New Years Resolutions! No more procrastinating....

Well it has been a long time since I signed in. If you still visit my blog hoping I will update my post thanks for saving my blog on your links. I really hate when I visit a blog and they haven't updated in a few weeks much less a full month. So on to bigger and better things. Going into a new year and I have already started working on my valentines day cards. I am so proud of myself for these creations. I didn't scraplift a thing. I mainly used my cricuit and my basic grey pads from last year. I used the 6X6 pad called "blush" which I love and the "Stella Ruby" pad from Basic Grey. Not to much stamping on these cards. Let me know what you think! I plan to post at least once or twice a week in the upcoming year. But like all new years resolutions that I will probably fall off the horse by mid-February if I am lucky. So stay tuned and see how long I can keep it up! This weekend I am going to try and make these cute heart thumbprint cookies. Its the traditional cookie but you take your thumb print and do it twice to shape it like a heart. I will post a picture and the recipe once I am done. Hope everyone is having a wonderful new year thus far!

Gift for a friend

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I haven't really had much time to make anything. Last night I decided to make some thank you cards for a friend who is about to celebrate her twins first birthday. The theme is pea pod and her colors are green and yellow. Luckily, my friend Kim had loaned me her pea pod stamp from one of the hostess sets to use. I sat down and played around with the layout until I found something I was happy with. I used the certainly celery and I can't remember the yellow cardstock color. I used the cuttlebug to emboss. It took me four hours to make 10 cards. I really got tired of coloring the pea pods after a while but the end result was really cute. I gave them to her this morning. She really liked them. Next I am on to Christmas cards. And I am still going to make the advent calendar with the silver circle tins. I don't care if there is only 19 days left. I guess I will have to eat the first 10 days of chocolate to get caught up. I guess technically I could leave the candy out of those tins but where is the fun in that? Hope you like the card and I will be blogging again soon!

Getting in the spirit....Fa La La La La.......La La La La

Today at work I had lunch with a friend and she said that she wished she had time to enjoy the season. It got me to thinking...even though we only have three or so weeks left till the time is here (for some next week) why can't we enjoy the beauty of this time. It is just too depressing to think about spending this month worrying about everything that has to get done and leaving little time to enjoy it. So tonight I decided to sit down and play around with my winter/Christmas stamps. I must say, I have made quite a mess (I will clean that up later). Of the mess came two cards that I think are cute but could probably use another layer or embellishment. I didn't scraplift anything but the cards are a little plain. They still make me smile though!





The first card I made using the holiday paper slab from Michaels and a card pattern a friend gave me. I used my gel pen to add some stitching and my Elzybells penguin. I added some winter snowflake brads and a little saying I got from a muse "happy winter".





The second card I used my 6X6 Figgy Pudding paper. I thought it was time to break into the pack I have been staring at the paper for weeks. I used another Elzybells stamp I got and my square scallop punches. The ribbon was a donation from a friend (thanks!). I used the deck the halls from the Season of Joy block stamp (I colored it in with my real red marker to get it off the block). I backed the circle with the mini scallop punch from Martha Stewart.





If you have any suggestions to add a little something to the card please share them with me by adding a comment. I could always use a new idea.





Well I hope you all take a little time this week to do something that reminds you why you love this time of year. Another thing I like to do is read a Christmas story. I have a few books of holiday stories I have collected over the years so I will probably break one of those out this weekend.

Cute card for the holidays

Tonight I went to Stamp Camp. I couldn't stay for long so I only opted to make one of the cards. Both cards were nice but I really liked this card. Leave it to my demonstrator to sell me on a stamp set I hadn't noticed before. The card is absolutely stunning. We used a sponging technique on the background with the mostly moss and then the absolute artichoke and chocolate chip to stamp the big tree. I got to use the new ribbon scissors! THEY ROCK! Such a smooth cut. Then we used the thinner satin ribbon from the catalog. The card stock is a pearly shimmer and is beautiful. This almost makes me want to make this for my Christmas card! Hope everyone is doing well. I will have to fill you in on my trip and the scrapbook store tour I did in Florida. Maybe tomorrow night. I am sleepy today!

Ribbons and Bows and Clipboards what fun!

Today I got to hang out with my friend Kim. We had talked about making a "countdown to christmas" clipboard we saw by a very talented splitcoaster... We put these clipboards together and had a lot of fun doing them! I have to say, she was quite the trooper she inked and placed and stamped every countdown day. Thanks Kim! I cut the squares to assist. At the end the clipboard turned out fantastic and it is so fun. One thing I learned today is that you have to use a sander to smooth the edges of the papers you adhere to give the clipboard a cleaner look. I would have never though of that. We also used the spica glitter pens to color in the words. Most of the supplies are stampin up! I also got the chance to try the bow tutorial while I was at her house. So easy and so fun! She had already made a few on her own. I don't know if I will ever buy a store bought bow again! You really should try them. Anyway, next time we are going to tackle the advent calendar with the small round tins that was on todays tutorial on splitcoast. Does anyone know where to find those tins cheap?

Today will be my last day of stamping for a week or so. I am headed off to the Caribbean with my husband and some friends. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving on the open waters. Hope you all have a great TURKEY DAY and that you get to spend time with your loved ones!

Come back and visit. I plan to be very busy creating in December....

$1 Bins---Gotta Love em

Today I went to Target to see what they had in the dollar bins and was quite dissapointed. The bins are full with stuff for the holidays but no scrapbooking stuff other than some cards with a frame you can insert a picture into. So I had to get my fix somewhere else. I went to Joann's but they didn't have anything either. I made my final stop at Michaels and found some christmas dollar stamps. I attached a picture so you can see but they have lots of other ones. These are just the ones I liked! The other ones are a snowflake background stamp, a Star of David Stamp, a skinny christmas tree, and a snowman. Better get out soon.

By the way...check out Kitchen Sink Stamps for their alphabet set. I played with it last night and I love it. I went out and bought a block to put the stamps on now I just need to get the stamps! http://www.kitchensinkstamps.com/ It is called playful alphabet. You can check out the smile card that Paula Bloom made with it. So simple and so cute! http://prbloom.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Have a great evening!