Stamping Expressions

Knock..Knock...Anyone still there?

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Knock..Knock...Anyone still there? So I've received emails from a few of you asking if I was okay. I really appreciate the concern, but I am doing great, just not stamping at the moment. I haven't made a card in forever! I still haven't gotten rid of my stuff though. I fully intend to get back to stamping one of these days.

When I kind of lost my stamping mojo, I picked up a few new hobbies with all of my free time. One of them is actually making soap! I would have never in a million years guessed I'd be making my own soap, but I'm so glad I did! It all started because I was trying to figure out why my hair was so dry. I haven't dyed it in years, I don't blow dry it and I hardly ever use a flat iron. So that left shampoo/conditioner. My shampoo was drying out my hair. Did you know the first ingredient in shampoo, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or Sodium Laureth Sulfate is the same cleansing agent used in garage floor cleaner and engine block cleaner? Not only that, but it's a skin irritant, and some believe a potential carcinogen. This is really bad stuff. You really should look into this. There is a ton of info online about it. I had no idea. So I decided I was going to do something about it. I started researching alternatives and discovered a lot of people use shampoo bars to wash their hair. It's just a bar of soap, but formulated for the hair. So I ordered the supplies, did a ton of research on what oils are good for the hair and got to work. My first batch wasn't quite moisturizing enough, but from that point on they have been wonderful! You don't even need conditioner! My hair is softer than ever, and I get way less frizz and flyaways now. I am totally amazed! I will NEVER use shampoo ever again. Everyone that has tried them loves them. My skin is so moisturized too. I used to have a little bit of eczema, but it's long gone I'm actually planning on starting my own online business sometime, hopefully soon. Right now I am awaiting an order for the supplies to make mineral makeup. You would not believe the horrible ingredients in your makeup. Type toxic makeup in on google you will be blown away. Did you know that the over 80% of ingredients in makeup have never even been tested? A lot of the chemicals cause birth defects and cancer in lab rats. I sure don't want to take a chance. I highly recommend a book called Toxic Beauty by Samuel S. Epstein. It's quite an eyeopener. For some odd reason, this book is selling on amazon for $900, but it's list price is $24.95. I can't find anyone that actually sells it though (for under $900 that is, lol), but I was able to read a good bit of it on google books LINK. Oh, and there is a great website called cosmetic database where you can search for your makeup or it's ingredients and see how toxic it is. Seriously, I really think everyone needs to know about this stuff. Please look it to it. Haven't you ever wondered why cancer rates and birth defects have increased SOOO much? I honestly believe cosmetics deserve a lot of the blame. It's not just cosmetics either. There are even bad chemicals in the things your children are using, like baby oil for one thing. Check out this study done by the Environmental Working Groups on Phthalates, Not to Pretty (it's a PDF). THIS is a link to a list of toxic ingredients that you should avoid.

Anyway, I just thought I'd post a little update and let you know I'm still kicking. I honestly don't know if I'll be posting cards again, but who knows. Thanks so much for all of the comments and the emails! And seriously, please take a few moments to read about the chemicals that you are using on your bodies everyday. You can find products that don't contain this stuff.

Chrsitmas Scrapbook Page

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Good morning! Thank you all so much for the encouraging comments and emails. I really do appreciate it. You ladies are the best! I finally made something ! About time huh? I posted the Deck the dog page a while ago, and at the time I didn't plan on doing the rest of the pictures from that Christmas since most of them were so blurry. I finally decided to scrap them anyway since that's all I have from that Christmas. So it looks a little funny that the dog is the focus, but it is a really cute picture.
Do any of y'all ever do the Chinese Gift Exchange? It is so much fun! You really should give it a try. You just put numbers in a basket (1through however many people you have). Everyone brings a wrapped gift of a set amount. We keep a few others extras handy in case some one forgets, or didn't know so they can play too. Everyone draws a number. Number 1 grabs a gift from the pile. Number 2 can either get one from the pile or they can take number 1's gift. Number 3 can get one from the pile, or they can take number 1 or 2's gift, and so on. If your gift gets taken, you get to pick a new one from the pile, or someone elses. After a gift has been taken 3 times, it's frozen and no one else can take it. That year was the first time we played it, and we ended up with way to many female gifts. My husband Sam got a manicure set, and our friend Moose got a bath set . We've gotten better in our shopping since then, lol. We've been playing every year since. It's always so much fun!
When I made this page, I started off with the word exchange in the same font as the word gift. Well, I didn't realize until after it was glued down that I left the letter C out of exchange! I had to tear it off, which left the paper there looking pretty bad. I had to use a pretty fat font to hide most of it. That's why there are 3 different fonts on this page, lol. All letters were cut with my Cricut, and the scallops are just 1 1/4 circles.

-Paper-River Rock, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Red, and Dashing DSP
-Accessories-Cricut, Red grosgrain, Sewing Machine, 1 1/4 circle punch.

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Hi everyone! Wow, I didn't realize it's almost been 2 months since I last posted . I don't know what the heck happened to my stamping mojo, but it is GONE! I'm totally not interested in making cards, or to be honest even looking at them. Usually when I lose my mojo, I don't want to stamp, but I still like looking at other peoples cards and shopping for stamping stuff, basically everything but stamping. Now I'm totally not interested at all in cards . I don't even feel like coloring with my copics . I've been pretty bored lately with no hobby.

For a while, I've been feeling like I'm wasting my time and money making cards. I have boxes full of them that just sit here. So maybe that's my problem. Things don't seem as fun with they feel like a waste of time. I don't send out anywhere near as many as I make. I've also been wondering why I've made so many cards with sentiments that couldn't possible fit any occasion. I've been thinking about making just Christmas, birthday and a thank you cards from now on, but now I don't even have the slightest interest in doing that, and I usually LOVE making Christmas cards. Oh, well. Hopefully I'll get it back. Did I mention I'm BORED out of my freakin mind! My house has been cleaner lately though, haha.

Anyway, I'm going to give scrapbooking another shot. It's a lot more challenging for me, and I'm a lot slower at it but I get a lot more satisfaction out of it, so hopefully my creativity will come out of hiding.

Hopefully I'll have something to post soon .

Have a great day!

Poppy Patch

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Hello! I hope you're having a good week! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Computer problems again! This time it was the heat sync. I had no computer for over a week! AHA! We recently put in a new motherboard too, which was also giving us problems, so we put the old one back in and had to reinstall windows again . Now my files are scattered all over the place, and I'm working on putting them back where they belong.

I finally got this gorgeous set Poppies by Flourishes. I received some images in WRAK a while back, and have been wanting it ever since, so I finally ordered it. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to make with it when this idea popped in my head. I just traced a circle in the middle of the card using a pencil. Then I just stamped the images all around, with some of each flower inside the circle. Then I just colored them with my Copics and cut out the circle. I wanted something to make it pop a little more, so I cut another circle out of black with my Cricut, so I could use the negative on the inside of the card. The sentiment is centered, but no matter how I took the picture it looked crooked with the card standing open.
-Stamps-Flourishes Poppy Patch, SU It's Your Birthday
-Paper-White, Black
-Ink-Old Olive, Memento black
-Copics-R24, R27, R46, YG93, YG95
-Accessories-Cricut

I'm baaaak!

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I kept meaning too, but time just seems to be getting away from me lately. I've been so busy! I haven't been online very much, aside from popping in on SCS here and there. I really haven't stamped much either. I've been reorganizing my stamp room, selling stamps on ebay, unmounting stamps and spending a little more time outside.

I started noticing before my unplanned blog break that I spend way more time blogging and blog hopping than actually stamping! So I think I'm going to cut back a little bit. I'll probably post once or twice a week. There are tons of blogs that I love to visit and leave comments, but I have to say it's just getting to be way to time consuming! I will still be visiting and commenting, of course, just not quite so much. I used to try to comment on most posts from some of my favorite bloggers, but lets face it...I have way to many favorite blogs!
I used an old Mojo Monday sketch for this card.

-Stamps-Stamping Bella Maisy Ketto, PTI Papertray
-Paper-Groovy Guava and White cardstock; Soft Sky prints and Cutie Pie DSP...not sure who makes the other one, but it came from Hobby Lobby.
-Ink-Memento, Chocolate Chip, Copic Markers
-Accessories-Pomegranate ribbon,

House Mouse Again

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Good morning! I hope you're having a great day so far! So I found out this weekend, that I've been washing my hair wrong my whole life . Seriously! I have a lot of broken hairs, and I was googling how to prevent them, and apparently a lot of them come from how I've been washing my hair! The broken hairs curl up and the ends and look frizzy. Now that I'm not scrubbing my head with my fingernails, and rubbing it dry with a towel (your supposed to blot it), I'm having hardly any frizz, without using any of the many frizz products that I usually use. It's crazy, just about everyone I've talked to had been doing it the same way I was. I also mixed together some olive oil, mayo and an egg and put that in my hair (the amounts don't really matter much, but the more oil the better). Wow, it makes it very soft! I left it in for 1 1/2 hours, but you don't have to do it that long. You should leave it for at least a 1/2 hour, and as long after as you can stand it, and then just shampoo it out. I'm going to start doing this once a week. I am amazed! Anyway, I just wanted to share in case any of you are having frizz problems too.

I am loving these adorable House Mouse images! I've got to buy some of these. I used Taylor's sketch challenge from a couple of weeks ago. It seems like I'm always at least a week behind on sketch challenges. This is totally random, but if you like Taylor Swift and/or T-Pain, you've got to watch THIS video! It's so funny!! I love them both, and it's so funny to see Taylor Swift rappin'.

-Stamps-It's your Birthday, House Mouse
-Paper-Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue and White; Washington Apple DSP
-Ink-Black
-Copics-E30, E31, E35, E37, R20, C1, C3, B93, YR31, Y17
-Accessories-Silver brads,

House Mouse

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Good afternoon! I thought I'd post this before I head out to see my dad. I made him and my father in law cards, but I actually just cased myself, lol. I made them identical to THIS card I made for my hubby for our anniversary only with a different sentiment, so I won't bother posting those.

I created this card using last weeks Stamps and Smiles sketch. I got this adorable House Mouse image from WRAK on SCS. These are so fun to color! I could easily just sit around and color all day! The only reason I don't is because I don't want to use up my markers .
-Stamps-House Mouse, PTI Papertray
-Paper-Kraft, Tempting Turquoise and White cardstock; Washington Apple DSP
-Ink-Black
-Copics-B00, B02, B05, R27, R46, YR31, Y17, C1, C3, E30, E31, E35, E37, R20
-Accessories-Paper piercer, plastic canvas, Cricut, Nesties, buttons, thread, and apricot grosgrain.

Hello!

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Good morning! Well, I think maybe my mojo is back! I really enjoyed coloring this adorable image and making the card. Erin sent me this image along with a bunch of other really cute images for making the header over at Stamp Something. Thanks so much Erin! I believe you may have started an obsession! This image was so fun to color! I used THIS MFT sketch by Cindy Haffner. I love this layout!

-Stamps-Whiff of Joy, Hero Arts Thinking of You
-Paper-Real Red, White and Bashful Blue cardstock, Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Black, Old Olive
-Copics-R27, R29, R46, R59, E11, B93, YG95
-Accessories-sewing machine, cuttlebug folder

Fishing Riley

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:58:00 +0000

Good morning! I hope you had a nice weekend. Sorry I haven't been posting. My stamping Mojo must be on vacation . I sure hope it comes back soon...I'm really starting to miss it . I just don't really feel like stamping right now. I want to, but when I go sit at my stamp table I just stare off in space, and I just don't feel like it. Friday was hubby's 28th birthday, so of course I had to make him a card. I just wasn't feeling it though, so I used a sketch I drew a while back to make it easier.
-Stamps-It's Your Birthday, Hanna Stamps Fishing Riley
-Paper-White and Close to Cocoa; Washington Apple and Riding Hood Red patterns DSP
-Ink-Riding Hood Red and memento, Copics
-Accessories-ribbon

Deck the Dog =)

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Good morning! I hope you had a nice weekend! I finally got another page made! Maybe I can make them a little faster now that I have the Cricut. I can't believe how easy it is to make titles! Now if there were just something to make journaling easy. All the words on this page were cut with the Cricut and the sure cuts a lot program. I got the inspiration for the layout from Scrabooks etc. I planned on casing it, but I didn't actually stick very closely with it. The scallops are just a bunch of 1 1/4" circles. I'm so happy with how this came out! I've always loved this picture of Dumpy and have wanted to scrap it. Dumpy is my mom's dog, and the mother of my dog. If your wondering how she got a name like Dumpy, that would be my fault . My mom got her when I was 15 or 16 during the summertime when school was out, so I got stuck house breaking her. My mom was calling her gypsy which I didn't like so I started jokingly calling her dumpy since I had to clean up after her so much. Well the name stuck . Dumpy is the coolest dog. She didn't even mind having bows put on her. Everybody is crazy about this dog. I wanted one so bad, so in 03 my mom breaded Dumpy so I could have a puppy , so that's where I got Reese.
-Stamps-Inkadinkado Christmas Characters (holly)
-Paper-River Rock, Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Real Red cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Memento
-Copics-YG95
-Accessories-Cricut, Red grosgrain, sewing machine, pop dots,

Cheers to You!

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Good morning! I made this card for last weeks MOJO Monday sketch challenge, and for the Cat's Pajamas color challenge which was to use yellow, aqua, brown and optional red. I love how different these colors are! I need to start doing more color challenges. I find myself wanting to use way too much pink .

I can't even tell you how much I love my Cricut! I've spent so much time finding pictures to convert to SVG files to cut. You can take any picture, convert it and cut it with the Sure cuts a lot program! I made some really pretty butterflies last night! I can't wait to use them. I also don't have to use my piece of junk circle cutter anymore! I've always hated that thing, but I couldn't find anything I didn't hate even more! Aside from how bad it cuts a circle, it can't cut circles small enough to do 2 of my smaller nesties. One of them I use a SU punch for, but this one I haven't been able to use yet since I couldn't cut a circle that would fit inside.

Well, we still can't figure out what is wrong with our AC. Everything seems to be doing exactly as it should (the coils are even cold), except warm air is coming out of the vents. We had the freon checked, and it's fine. We tried running it on the fan setting when it was cool outside and that air was warm too. We had to replace a part this winter, so we are thinking maybe something somehow got wired wrong so that the heat is coming on too. Oh well, someone loaned us a window unit they aren't using, so at least we won't roast until we can get it fixed.

I'll try to post again in a few days, but I guess that depends on my Mojo . Have a wonderful day!

-Stamps-Cheers to You
-Paper-Cool Caribbean, Close to Cocoa, and White cardstock; So Saffron, and Petals and Paisley DSP
-Ink-Memento
-Copics-B00, B02, R46, YR31, YG95 C-1
-Accessories-ribbon, sewing machine, nesties, cricut, pop dots

Riley

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:07:00 +0000

Hello! I hope you enjoyed your weekend! My mojo seems to be hiding right now. I've sat at my stamp table many times in the last week, and just didn't feel like doing anything. Maybe it's the heat combined with the fact that our air conditioner isn't working , but I don't feel like doing a thing! Ugh, it's 89 degrees in here right now. Our air is blowing fine, but the air is not cold at all. I tried it earlier and it was actually making the house hotter! Hopefully we can figure out what's wrong with it soon!

-Stamps-Many Merry Messages, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Hanna Stamps Riley -Paper-Kraft, Real Red, and White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP -Ink-Memento -Copics-E31, E33, E35, E37, YG93, YG95, R27, R37 -Accessories-Corner rounder punch, Red grosgrain

Hope you have a great day!

Ketto Blog Hop!

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Good Morning! Welcome to the first Ketto Blog Hop sponsored by Stamping Bella! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella. There is blog candy somewhere along the blog hop, but the fun part is they aren't telling us where it is . One pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post, and the winner will receive a $40 gift voucher to Stamping Bella!

I used the adorable Agnes Ketto on my card. I love the Ketto stamps! I want them all! The image and the silk flowers were colored with Copics. I think this layout may have been an old SCS sketch, but I made this card last week and I can't remember now. I cut the lighter pink part of her skirt out of a second image and layered it on top. I used mini glue dots in the middle of each piece and glue on the ends so each one sticks up a little in the middle.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Christy's blog. Have a wonderful day!

-Stamps-Agnes Ketto, Hero Arts Thinking of You
-Paper-Purely Pomegranate, Regal Rose, Black and White cardstock; Cutie Pie DSP
-Ink-Memento tuxedo black and Copics
-Accessories-Paper Piercer and Mat pack, white embossing powder, silk flowers, Hodgepodge Hardware, mini glue dots, Black Grosgrain ribbon.

Anniversary card

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:20:00 +0000

Good morning! Monday was me and Sam's six year anniversary, which is why I didn't post like I usually do. We had a really nice day. We went canoeing, and out for a nice dinner. He also surprised me with a Cricut!! What a sweetie! A couple of months ago I was looking in the Walmart sales paper and saw a Cricut, and I jokingly said to hubby "hey you wanna buy me one of those?" Well apparently he's been putting aside a little money each week so he could get it for me ! He also got me the Sure Cuts A Lot program! That thing is awesome! I will never have to buy a cartage for this thing! I've already added tons of fonts, and dingbats. Now that I can make great titles so easily, I have no more excuses not to scrapbook! I found a really great set of dingbats HERE that have a bunch of shapes like nesties. Here is the anniversary card I made for Sam.

This card took forever! I used Michelle Zindorf's brayered sky technique. I must have done the main image for this card 15 times! I kept messing something up. It's funny, my first two came out perfect, but I forgot to put in the moon on the first, and on the second the sentiment wasn't inked up well enough. I'll probably just case myself and make some of these for Father's Day too. The boat and the cattails are from Impression Obsession. It was one stamp, but I cut it apart so the boat could be a little further away.

ETA: If you participated in last weeks Stamp Something Challenge, and linked your project using Mr. Linky, you need to go back and leave a comment to make sure you are entered. Mr. Linky is having problems.

-Stamps-Impression Obsession Boat and Cattails, unknown Happy Anniversary
-Paper-Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, White and Chocolate Chip cardstock; Chocolate Chip prints DSP
-Ink-Memento
-Copics-E47, G99
-Accessories-Hemp twine, brown button, paper piercer and mat pack.

Stamp Something Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Good morning! Well, this week it is time for me to say goodbye to the Stamp Something challenge design team. It's hard to believe it's been a year! I've really enjoyed it! Denise, Erin, and the rest of the team were awesome! The challenges were so fun! I'm sure you'll still see me participating in the challenges whenever I have a chance though!

This weeks challenge is all about sketches! You can either CASE one of my previous cards using a sketch I've drawn for Stamp Something, or use the new one on the right.

-Stamps-Hanna Stamps Hammock Riley, Hero Arts Thinking of You
-Paper-White and Real Red cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Black, Real Red
-Accessories-Copic Markers, silver brads.

Smile =)

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:02:00 +0000

Good morning! I hope you are having a nice Wednesday so far. Remember THESE two cards I cased from Lauren for the last Stamp Something Challenge? Well, I loved that layout so much I had to use it again . I just can't get enough of it! I colored one of the silk flowers with my BG10 Copic marker. The flowers and the ribbons are from Walmart. I really wanted that flower there, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to put the sentiment, so I used a rub on on the ribbon. I'm really happy with how this came out. Sorry this picture is a little dark. I couldn't go any lighter without the soft sky completely washing out. In the picture it looks like the ribbon is much brighter than the flower and the soft sky layer, but they are actually a really close match in person.

-Paper-Black, White and Soft Sky cardstock; Paper Studio DSP -Copics-BG10 -Accessories-Silk flowers, Silver HPH, SU rub on, cuttlebug folder, and satin ribbon

And here is an award I received from Tiffany! Thanks so much Tiffany ! Make sure you check out her blog! She has such creative ideas! Usually when I receive awards, although they are very much appreciated, I usually forget about them before I have a chance to post them . I am SO forgetful it's ridiculous! I really do appreciate those of you who stop by my blog and leave such sweet comments. Your wonderful comments always make me smile! I usually don't pass on awards since I don't want to forget about anyone, but you all know who you are! If you comment here on a regular basis, this one's for you!

Have a great day!

Thank you

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:46:00 +0000

Good afternoon! I hope you all had a nice weekend. We just stayed home for the most part. I made this card last week to thank Tiffany for the blog candy I won. I used one of my favorite SCS sketch challenge layouts for this card, #18. I love these colors together.

Denise is giving away some great blog candy to celebrate her birthday! Check it out HERE.

-Stamps-Priceless, Cute & Curly
-Paper-Bashful Blue, Kraft and White cardstock; Riding Hood Red prints DSP
-Ink-Bashful Blue and Riding Hood Red
-Accessories-White grosgrain, Antique brass brads, Cute & Curly punch.

Stamp Something Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Good morning! This week over at Stamp Something we are honoring Lauren by doing clean and simple cards. You can CASE one of her cards, or come up with your own. The theme this week is thank you. Clean and simple cards are usually harder for me for some reason, so I cased THIS card of Lauren's, which I LOVE. I made two, because on the first one I forgot to use a Thank you theme . On both cards, after dry embossing with my cuttlebug folders, I covered the whole thing in versamark, then heat and stick powder, then glitter. I did have to re dry emboss the swiss dots one because the dots didn't show up very well after. I really love this layout! -Stamps-Seeing Spots, Impression Obsession Cupcakes
-Paper-Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink and White cardstock; Bali Breeze DSP
-Ink-Versamark, Purely Pomegranate, Memento tuxedo black
-Copics-R81, R83, YG95
-Accessories-Ribbon (walmart), cuttlebug folder, heat and stick powder, Martha Stewart glitter

-Stamps-Papertrey Take A Bough
-Paper-Baja Breeze, Soft Sky and White cardstock; Baja Breeze patterns DSP
-Ink-Versamark, Baja Breeze
-Accessories-Ribbon (RABOM), cuttlebug folder, heat and stick powder, Martha Stewart glitter, glue dots, paper piercer, mat pack

USS Ark

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Good afternoon! I hope you are having a great day so far! I am in love with this image! I saw it on recently on a couple blogs and had to have it! This is a digital stamp from Doodle Palace. It was only $2.50! I am really lovin' digital stamps! I think I actually prefer them to actual stamps. No matter how much I color the ink never runs, you can print them at any size you want and they're are cheap! My favorite thing of all though is the instant gratification!

-Stamps-Doodle Palace USS Ark, SU Nursery Necessities
-Paper-So Saffron, White and Creamy Caramel cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Bashful Blue, Memento tuxedo black
-Copics-E31, E33, E35, E37, YR31, B93, C1, C3, C5, R11
-Accessories-Satin ribbon, button, yellow thread

Debbie is giving away some awesome blog candy! Make sure you stop by and check that out!

Cute & Curly

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:25:00 +0000

Hello! I hope you all had a nice weekend, and a Happy Mother's day! We had a nice time with our moms.
I made these two cards with the Cute & Curly punch bundle I won from Tiffany . This first one is a CASE from Beate.

-Stamps-Cute & Curly
-Paper-Chocolate Chip, White and Pink Pirouette cardstock; Baja Breeze prints DSP
-Ink-Chocolate Chip
-Accessories-Rhinestone brads, scallop border punch, paper piercer, mat pack, flower fusion, chocolate chip grosgrain, punch.

-Stamps-Cute & Curly
-Paper-Old Olive, Very Vanilla and Red cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Real Red and Old Olive
-Accessories-5/8" red grosgrain, punch

Stamp Something Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Good morning! So as I forgot to mention last week, 4 of us are leaving the Stamp Something design team at the end of this month. So because of that, the challenges this month are going to be a little bit different. This week the challenge is to use Melissa's favorite color, which is pink to honor her, and to use a Birthday theme. I used this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch for this card.

-Stamps-Priceless, So Many Sayings
-Paper-Riding Hood Red and White cardstock; Pink Pirouette patterns DSP
-Ink-Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette
-Accessories-White grosgrain, Scallop edge punch.

Stop by and check out what the rest of the design team members came up with! And why not play along with us? Stamp Something is looking for some new DT members, so if your interested in that you definitely want to play along!

Mothers's Day Card

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Good Morning! I made this card for my mom for Mother's Day. I still don't have a Happy Mother's Day stamp, so I used an alphabet set to spell mom. I've got to buy sentiments more often. I usually avoid them because they're no fun, but they also aren't there when I need them, .

-Stamps-Flourishes Poppy Patch, Image Tree Alphabet -Paper-Riding Hood Red, White and Black cardstock; Pink Pirouette and Riding Hood Red DSP -Ink-Riding Hood Red, black -Copics-R22, R27, R46, R59, YG95, YR31 -Accessories-Satin Ribbon (RABOM) and pop dots

I made this to store my 6 X 6 patterned paper. I had it all just shoved in this plastic thing and it was just about impossible to find what I needed. So once again, I got out some cardboard and got to work . I made this the same way I made my recipe box, only on this one the top comes off completely, and of course it's lot bigger.

I'm not really loving the papers and colors I used, so I may end up tearing at apart and recovering it one of these days. Not sure what I was thinking. It doesn't even match anything in my stamp room, and I didn't have enough of that pattern paper. I made the box a lot bigger than what I needed so I won't ever have to make another one. I made the 'folders' out of white 12 X 12 cardstock cut in half. I scored them at 6, 6.25, 5.5 and a few marks in between, so that the back of the folder is the same height as the paper so I can see the tab on the back. I LOVE this! It is so easy to find exactly what I need now!

Supplies-cardboard, White, Tempting Turquoise and Chocolate Chip cardstock, masking tape, glue, round tab punch, DSP from Hobby Lobby.

Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Good morning! I hope you all had a nice weekend! We didn't do much, but I had something pretty funny happen. Well, it wasn't very funny at the time, but now I can't stop laughing at myself. I flipped my buggy over in the Walmart parking lot! Seriously, it completely flipped over full of stuff! I had a bag of mulch and two bags of soil under the buggy, but when I checked out I just put them on top since they were hard to get out from underneath. They didn't fit well and it was poring rain outside so I didn't want to have to get soaked trying to get them out. So I'm walking out to my car, one of the buggy's front wheels bumps the curb, and there it went . Completely upside down with all my stuff on the pavement. Glad I didn't get any eggs. I got completely soaked! Two really nice people stopped and helped me get everything back in. Note to self, don't overload the front of of the buggy . I still can't believe I did that.

Anyway, I used Jen's Sketch For You To Try from last week for this card. Her sketches are always so fun!

-Stamps-Impression Obsession What's Brewing, Inkadinkado sentiment
-Paper-Tempting Turquoise, Black and White cardstock; Paper Studio DSP
-Ink-Memento Black, Tempting Turquoise
-Copics-BG01, B00, B02, B05, E44, E47
-Accessories-Brayer, silk flowers, paper piercer, mat pack, HPH, pop dots, Cuttlebug folder.

Have a great day!

Stamp Something Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Good morning! The theme for this weeks Stamp Something Challenge is Something For Mother AND to CASE (Copy and Share Everything) something created by Cindy Beech . I really enjoyed Casing Cindy. She's got tons of fab projects to pick from! I chose THIS beautiful card to CASE. I love that layout and how she used the hodgepodge hardware. I'm not sure if it's just my computer, but the picture doesn't show up unless you click on it.
-Stamps-Fifth Avenue Floral, Image Tree Alphabet
-Paper-Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie and white cardstock; Apricot Appeal prints and Bali Breeze DSP
-Ink-Memento, Pumpkin Pie
-Copics-YR31, Y17, Y38
-Accessories-HPH, Cuttlebug folder, Pumpkin grosgrain, pop dots, and SAMJ.

On another note, I am no longer a demo. I'm actually surprised I made it close to a year and a half with my lack of customers . Now that I'm allowed to sell current stamps, I'll probably be listing a some for sale in a few days.

Oh, and I won Tiffany's blog candy! How cool is that! I've been wanting the curly label punch bundle and now I won it! Thanks so much Tiffany! You rock!

Have a wonderful weekend, and don't' forget to stop by and check out the rest of the DT's fabulous projects!

It's 5:00 Somewhere!

noreply@blogger.com (Emily) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Good afternoon! So I made this card a couple of years ago when I started stamping, but never posted it because it came out so bad. My coloring looks horrible! I did really like the idea of the card though, so when I came across this card in a box a few weeks ago I decided I wanted to recreate it now that my coloring doesn't look like a second grader did it . Only problem was I didn't' have the stamp set anymore, but I was able to request the images in WRAK.
So here is the re-do! The frog images are from SU Unfroggettable, and the martini glass is one of the older Michaels dollar stamps. I just cut the legs off the frog and glued them to the glass first, then glued the rest of his body to it.

-Stamps-SU Unfroggettable, Straight up Alphabet and numbers, Michaels $1 stamp, and alphabet set
-Paper-Pretty in Pink, Garden Green and White cardstock; Pretty in Pink prints DSP
-Ink-Garden Green, Memento black
-Copics-R81, R83, G07, G14, C1, 0
-Accessories-White grosgrain, Mat pack, paper piercer, nesties, circle cutter.