Sees Card

When I went on my last cruise I was able to stop by and meet one of my SCS Pen Pals Lisa. My sister and I had such a fun time with her and her family. She gave me a box of my favorite See's Candy. This card was made using the outside wrapper, pretty fall leaves, which happened to be made of cardboard. The dewdrops we recently purchased as a group also fit in with the colors. How cool is that?

SSNOTIME57 Challenge card

Who knew I wouldn't have time to stamp, but needed a card in a big hurry. I used my TAC DP paper and the matching tag. The background circle in burgundy was made using my Cricut George Basic cartridge, the Happy Birthday using the Beyond Birthday Cartridge. I embossed the bottom witht he Argyle CB embossing folder.

Red and Black Blossom

I finally used the flower I drew ages and ages ago. It has been sitting on my desk forever all colored and ready to go. I love the marble texture cube I have. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed in black.

More Polished Stone

Polished stone looks so pretty, however, for me it is so difficult to get something to look right with it. Silhouette stamps work the best I think. This card came together pretty quickly after I did the pink one.

Stamps: Penny Black Brush Stroke Sunflower, Hello sentiment is unknown.

Paper/Cardstock: White Glossy

Accessories: Wal Mart self adhesive clear chrystals (boy I love those babies!)

More Mustard chiffon ribbon, White Chiffon Ribbon

Vintage BD Card

My husband's niece is having a 65th birthday party. Unfortunately, she lives 400 miles away and since I work full time, we are unable to go.

So, I made her a special birthday card. This is a picture I had of her when she was 18 months old. They were on the ranch and my hubby says they had just gathered the eggs from the chickens when she toddled over and picked up an egg. She gently put it back a while later.

I scanned the picture and printed it in Sepia tones on Vanilla Cardstock and stitched around the picture and the rest of the card. My sewing machine is over 28 years old and is on it's last legs I think. My sewing is limited to repairing things and since I don't sew very often I have never replaced it. Maybe a little Janome sewing machine for cardmaking only, is in my future? LOL!

I used my new Martha Stewart Scallop edge punch that my friend gave me the other day, dewdrops, green satin ribbon and some vanilla and gold ribbon I've had for a long time. The DP paper is a scan of a paper storage box I have. TFL!

Another Sunrise

Another sunrise! The sun is coming out behind me while the moon is still visible and going down in front of me! How cool is this? You can just see the rays of the sun hitting the tree stump. Wow!

Pink Polished Stone

I have had some sheets of polished stone for YEARS! I got some silhouette stamps from my hubby in June and I finally used those too. Two things at once. Yay me! Simple card.

Beautiful Sunrise

So, I have been getting up before dawn this past week and I caught this sunrise from our front porch. Isn't it lovely? Stamper that I am, my first thought was, How can I use this in a card? Maybe I can duplicate it using the brayer? We'll see.

Simple Card II

Another quick and easy peasy card. Cuttlebug Swiss dot folder, Scor-Pal, flowers from Wal Mart, big black brad is from SU I think. A black square from my "scraps" box

Dew drop Card!

Finally, another card. I have been so longing to stamp. It has been busy, busy, busy!
This was a really quick and easy card. I used my new edge Cuttlebug embossing folders and the yummy dewdrops I got through Lisa! Thanks for looking.

Further explanation CS filing system

For those that asked about how the cardstock is separated, I cut a Georgia Pacific CS in half (because the cardstock is really inexpensive so it doesn't KILL me to WASTE it this way. LOL) stuck the label with the name of the cardstock on it and used it as a divider between the sheets of paper. For the "Scrap" box, I folded a piece of scratch paper (you know those sheets you mess up and are going to throw away anyway) in half, taped the sides to form a pocket, labeled it and stick the little scraps in that. Can you tell I am a FRUGAL person? I hate waste! Especially stamping waste.

Cardstock system

For my Pen Pals who couldn't visualize this, here is the cardstock filing system that I have sitting on my desk. Since the majority of my CS is Stampin'UP I filed it in alphabetical order by name. I keep 6 half sheets in each slot and right next to it I have a box with the scraps. It helps that I don't have to get up and go to my cabinet every time I need cardstock. It gives me more time to STAMP!!!

Mama Mia!

Took this for my Pen Pal friends! Picture of the Marquee for the play Mama Mia on Broadway (this was the back of the theater, a little sign beneath says entrance is around the corner on Broadway)

I'M BACK!!!

Whew, exciting and fun, saw a lot of different sites. New York was FABULOUS! We are going to have to dedicate a trip exclusively to NEW YORK. We were there only one day (rooms are beyond expensive!) but we certainly saw a lot in that short time.

The trip started out with me hooking up and meeting one of my SCS Pen Pals. Lisa and my sister Annie and I met, went to dinner, had ice cream and generally had a great time. Next day I got to meet my brand new Great-nephew Logan. What a cutie, and such a good and quiet baby! (see picture above).

We were off to New York the next night on the Red Eye from San Francisco, not my favorite part of the trip. Flying is ok but the seats are so cramped and I was sitting scrunched in the middle so it was VERY uncomfortable. We had a Limo pick us up (not as extravagant as you would think, the Limo was less than what the BUS cost to take us from the ship to the Airport in NY)

After New York we boarded the Cruise ship in Brooklyn of to Halifax, Nova Scotia, then Saint John, New Brunswick. Next came Bar Harbor, Maine and Boston, MA. We were suppose to stop in Rhode Island, but the hurricane made it necessary to hurry back to New York so that we wouldn't be caught at sea during the storm. Ah well.

They had scrapbooking classes on board and although I am not a Scrapbooker we took the classes. It was basic, but I got a lot of good ideas from the classes. Hopefully I will put them to good use. I will post some pictures and hopefully get to stamp again this weekend. I am giving a class on the 20th at the LSS and the owner called to let me know my class is full. Yippee!!!!