Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas to one and to all! Sorry about not posting much lately, just been to busy with cleaning house and preparing for the Christmas party for my side. DH's side had their party last Saturday. We had a great time with lots of yummy food and lots of awesome presents. The kids already have their gifts from Santa opened this morning. We as the family got the Wii game system and the Wii Fit board plus a few more games. We'll probably be hooking up the Wii system in a few days. DH had to work today from 9 am to 5:30 so our party won't start till 6:00 pm. DH also has to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday. DH will be off on Monday so we will probably be going to a movie and a dinner. I'm making a Hillshire whole ham today. I'm slicing it up and layering it with pineapple and brown sugar and putting it in 2 crockpots, my mom made it this way for Thanksgiving and it was yummy. I have to get busy, so have a great day. See you again soon. :)

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Have fun on your day!

Hello...
Here is a fun card I made for a challenge. The stamps used are Snowman Riley and What Hanna Would Say, both from Hanna Stamps. The white paper is run through the Cuttlebug in the Tiny Bubbles emboss folder. Yesterday I had my daughter pick out one name from the enteries of my blog candy drawing and the winner is....

The winner of the blog candy drawing is Carrie.... Carrie please e-mail me at jellychick@yahoo.com so I can get that right out to you. There is suppose to be a big snow storm here tomorrow and the kids bus driver said that they probably will not have school tomorrow, we'll see.

That's all for today!

BLOG CANDY!...and my secret is released...

Hello and welcome old friends and new friends and anyone in between... The secret is...I have been asked by the owner LuAnn of "Stamp N Plus Scrap N" to be on her Design Team. I of course said that I would be honored to be on her team. LuAnn owns a local stamping scraping store in my home town area and she makes high quality red rubber stamps. All the stamps come mounted on wood and most are available as unmounted. The card that a made here is stamped with a stamp from the "Stamp N Plus Scrap N" Company and it is called Santa with Candycane. It's a really fun and easy image to color. The background paper here is Memory Box DP. Now unto the BLOG CANDY... In honor of being on a design team, I am giving out one of these unmounted red rubber stamps as blog candy. I somehow ended up owning two of these Santa with Candycane unmounted red rubber stamps...I guess I liked it so much and bought two at different times. So you ask... What do I have to do to win this stamp? Just leave me a comment here and I will put all the names in a hat and have my kiddos pick one on Sunday night, December 7. I'm leaving this candy open for USA and Canada people. I'll have the winner posted on Monday evening. You must come back to see if you won so I can send it out to you...


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!!! Today my six year old told me he was thankful for his family. Nothing to post today other than that. We'll be going to two places today. First to my DH's families house for lunch at 11:00 a.m. and then to the deer cabin for supper at 3:00 p.m. with my family. Tomorrow is a big shopping day and DH has off this week, so we will be out there in all the shopping mess. The secret from the last post still remains a secret...LOL...
Have a wonderful Holiday!

Welcome Christmas!

Hello and welcome! Christmas will soon be here and it is past time to start in on making our Christmas cards. I'm not one that makes a bunch of Christmas cards but I do like to make a few just to get in the Christmas spirit. For my Christmas cards that I send out, I dress my kiddos up and take a bunch of pictures and have them made into cards at a Picture Studio. Here is a fun card that I made up today. It is an Iris Folding Stamp from Stamp Affairs, Stamp N Plus Scrap N: Iris Folding Christmas Ornament. The tree branch is made with the MS branch punch. The sentiment is SU: Heard From The Heart. The designer paper is holographic Christmas wrapping paper from Target. The ornament is embossed with SU Gold emboss powder.Thanks for looking and have a great week! P.S. come back soon I have a secret to tell you!

Chocolate cupcakes anyone?

Hello! Here is a card I made today. I've been planning it all week. It's a card for a challenge at Hanna Stamps by a blogging friend Janette. I used some new designer paper from Basicgrey...Sultry. I think that it is awesome paper and so yummy. I need to get more packs. All the stamps used are from Hanna Stamps.

Thanks for popping in and see you soon!

Sleepover Party.

My daughter had her best friend Emily over for a sleepover party. They played outside first for awhile with my son and the neighbor boy Seth. Then my DH got home from work and we had pizza, torilla chips with cheese sauce, and rootbeer. Then they played inside and settled down to the movie Kung Fu Panda. They were up before me asking about breakfast. I assisted them in the making of sausage links and scrambled eggs with cheese on top. I have been teaching my daughter to cook, of course I'm by her side the whole time. They went and watched parts of Kung Fu Panda again and they each made a card. They then went ouside to play. The moose stamp is from Hanna Stamps,the sentiment is from Stamp N Plus Scrap N, and the heart is a G studio from M's.

Have a nice day!

Hip Hop Hangover!

Hip Hop Hangover...

Yes that is what it is...I was there at the Unity Stamp Company Hip Hop on SCS most of the day. I made one card for the one layer challenge. I chatted with a bunch of people, a good time is always had by all that attend. Did I win anything? Nope. Haven't had any luck there for like three weeks. Did I order? Yes for sure...who wouldn't with them awesome deals yesterday. Will I be there next week? Yes...I'll be there again next week so hopefully I'll see you then...Hip Hop...

Here is my one layer card. A simple little Hello. Unity's Tiny Trinity kit and SU Old Olive. Here is a card I made for my former pastor that moved to be closer to his family. He sent us a card for when my grandama passed away so I'm sending one to him. The tree is from Unity's Growing In Unity kit. What a great kit that is! The bird and heart are from Unity's So & So Loves. The sentiment is SU Heard from the Heart.

I made this card for a challenge at SCS this week...Make a medallion with a corner punch...how cool is that! Here is the tutorial for the medallion. Stamped it out with Unity's Bitty Christmas Tags.

Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Hip Hop Hangover Day!

Get well soon!!!

Hello and good day to you! Here is a card I made for one of our friends... Challenge card with Pretty In Pink, old Olive, and Ruby Red. Sentiment is from Stamp N Plus Scrap N and the others are from Unity Stamp Company.
Thanks for stopping in and have a nice day!

Growing in Unity!

Hello and Happy Sunday! Here's a card I made with Unity Stamp Company: Growing in Unity and Stampin Up: Inspired By Nature. I used a brayer to put on the background and a sponge. Thanks for looking.

Have a wonderful day!

Hey there cupcake it's November!

Here is a card I made for a challenge at the Hip Hop on Thursday at Unity forum on SCS.

Thanks for visiting and see you next time....

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween You All!!!

The kids were very excited today. Actually they have been very excited all week. Dh took off from work today to take us out Trick or Treating. We signed up at school to help in DS's class with games and dressing up the kids. Were going to visit my DH's work to show off the kiddos, and then to relatives houses. It will be a fun day and night...See you soon...

A few Iris folding Holiday Cards.

Hello everyone!

Here are a couple of Holiday cards I made with a Iris Folding stamp from Stamp Affair...Stamp N Plus Scrap N: Snowman stamp. It's a very fun project and not very hard to do at all. You stamp out the image, the image has the iris folding on it already and then you cut out the iris folding section with a cutting tool. Tape it to the image and start layering the pieces of paper on...The sentiment is from Hanna Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by...

Halloween is almost here!

Hello everyone!

Sorry I've been MIA for awhile but I have had alot of issues like a grandma funeral and some teeth problems...Anyways, Halloween is fast approaching and will be here soon. Here is a card my 7 year old daughter made with a stamp I won as blog candy. She is giving this to her sub teacher for Halloween. Her permanent 2nd grade teacher has been on maternity leave all of this school year and is coming back on Halloween. She also made a sucker with a tissue over it and it looks like a ghost...She made this card all by herself with her own supplies. The background is colored in with black chalk. Thanks for looking and have a nice day....~Kathy~...

Happy Birthday Matthew!

Today is my sons birthday! He is 6 years old. We have a fun day planned for him at a local hotel with all the relatives invited. The fun consists of swimming, lots of food, and presents. There is no school today or yesterday because of teachers convention so we have him all to ourselves. DH took off of work yesterday and today to spend with us. Here is the card I made for Matthew. It's Hanna Stamps Riley Car with SU So many scallops and SU punches. Image was colored in with Prismacolor markers. Thanks for looking and have a nice day! Come back again soon...

Joy To The World!

I thought I'd try this technique of bayering different colors...SU Wild Wasabi and Ruby Red. Then I inked up the image "Joy To The World" by Unity Stamp Company with Black Onyx Versafine ink...eye balled it...in cases it on the Black cardstock and waalaa..all done...pretty quick. That's all for today...

Unity Stamps

Here is a card I made for a SCS challenge FS85...Cased a card by E3Stamper: Shannon...The Santa and Distressed Dots are from Unity Stamp Company..,. The Sentiment is SU: So Many Scallops. Ink: Rubber Stampede green and Versafine Black Onyx. Paper: red and green Paper reflections, and GP white. SU punches: scallop circle, 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle, corner ticket. Prismacolor Markers for coloring and Stickles to accent. Did you notice that I got a watermark? I found this free program to edit pictures and add a watermark. The free program is Picasa3. The first time I used the program it took forever...now it is simple. Unity Stamp Company has an all day party on Thursdays at the SCS Unity forum, start at 10:00 a.m. central time. It's called Hip Hop Thursday. It's a time to meet the designers and owners of the company...plus they have over $300.00 worth of prizes to give away every Thursday. If you go there on Thursday...you'll find me as jellychick. Thanks for stopping by...See you again soon...

Happy Birthday Brother-In-Law...

Happy Birthday Jeff!!!Here is the card I made for him...The moose stamp is Super Riley and the tag is from the SU Tag punch set. The tag was inked with SU Real Red, and Riley was colored in with Prismacolor Markers.

My daughter started Second grade today...while my son had a two hour Kindergarten class. They will both have a full day tomorrow and both be riding the bus...The last few days have been super hot and humid, while today only made it to about 70. The rest of the weeks forecast is predicting about 70. Oh don't we all love the fall weather...Have a super great day...I know I will...

Happy Birthday Gramps!

Happy Birthday Gramps!!! It's my father-in-laws birthday today! We'll be visiting him later today. Here is the card I made for him...

Recipe:
Stamps:SU Espress Yourself
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx
Paper: brown LSS, and Gp white
Extras: Bic Mark-It Markers, Cuttlebug and distressed stripe folder

Thanks for visiting and have a super day!!!

Hello!

Hello everyone...I hope you had a great weekend. Yesterday was my moms birthday and it was a total surprise. Yesterday I found a coupon for Michaels. It's for 40% off the regular price of your whole purchase. It was a mistake by the company because it was to say 20% off the whole regular purchase. Michaels changed it after the fact that lots of people had already gotten it. Here is where to find the coupon... http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/dottecom/Forum%20Chatter/330929741.jpg So they have to honor it...Make sure though if you use this coupon, give it to them first because they manually ring up every item or it will only take off 40% off one item. Another beautiful day here again. I hope you have a nice day.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my moms Birthday...Happy Birthday Mom. We are having a surprise Birthday party for her at 4:00 today. My dad bought the cake and ice cream and all of her kids(5) are bringing something. I'm the party planner of this birthday. I hope she is really surprised. Here is the card I made for her yesterday...

Recipe:

Stamps: SU Garden Silhouettes, SU So Many Scallops

Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, SU real red

Paper: black and red LSS, white GP

Extras: Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots folder, ribbon, SU 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches, SU circle scallop punch, Rectangle Nestabilities.

On a lighter note...Obama was in our area today. My dad took my mom to the airport to see his big plane. The plane went right over my house. Hope you're enjoying the weather like I am...It was about 60 outside this morning and it is about 75 now and beautiful. Have a nice day..

Adding a signature line...

Hello. I don't know if you have this problem....but everytime I add my signature at the bottom of my post, I have to go and look it up and copy it and paste it everytime. Well I got tired of doing that, so I stopped placing it there and just typed it in. Today I found out how to automatically add it in everytime. I made up my signature at http://www.livesignature.com/. When I log into blogger, I see these options: new post, edit posts, settings, layout, view blog. If you are already logged in but viewing your blog, click customize in the upper right hand corner.Then when I click on settings, the new screen has three big tabs with a bunch of smaller tabs listed underneath going across the screen. Formatting is the 3rd one from the left. So when I start a new post, the signature is right there at the beginning, and I just click in front of it and it follows along as I type. I hope this helps. It sure is alot easier and saves alot of times.
Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!!!

Hello

Hello all...Not much to say today...My moms birthday is less than a week so I'll have a card to show then. The kids will be back in school in about two weeks. We have alot of cleaning to do before that time. First step, cleaning the kids room. As I'm typing I'm having them empty out all the toys in there room so we can at least get to the closet to hang up all their new clothes. We have most of the things they need for back to school. I better go help them, sounds like a war in there...See you later ~Kathy~...

Happy Birthday Melody!

Happy Birthday future sister-in-law, when will the wedding be...Got me...They've been engaged for more than 12 years. Anyway I made a card. I used one of my daughters stamps, Penny Black: Air mail. Apparently Melody got a real kick out of this card because she loves frogs, who knew? Recipe:
Stamps: Penny Black- Air Mail, sentiment: Hanna Stamps- Everyday Sentiments.
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx
Paper: unknown red, green ,and DP paper, also GP white.
Extras: Bic Mark-it Markers, brads, SU crystal effects, diminsionals, ribbon, and paper piercer.

That's it for today. Have a nice day. ~Kathy~

Happy Birthday Katie!

Today is my niece Katie's Birthday. She turned 13...She had a big party last Saturday.
This is a cute image from Stamping Bella: Partygirlabella and stamped with Versafine Black Onyx. Sentiment by Hanna Stamps: Everyday Sentiments. Image colored in with Bics Mark-It Markers. Paper unknown pink and green, and GP white. Punches SU circles and scalloped circle. Balloons were highlighted with SU crystal effects. I have one more birthday card to show for a birthday that was yesterday, so come back tomorrow. Have a nice day. ~Kathy~

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Happy 45th Anniversary to my mom and dad today. All their kids were their for their special day...all five of us and our families.
Here is the card I made. Image is Hitchedafellabella by Stamping Bella, and sentiment is Happy Harmony by Stampin Up. Paper is SU Certainly Celery, unknown pink, and GP white. Ink used was Versafine Onxy Black. I used my Cuttlebug for the Swiss Dots folder and the Nestabilites. Scallop punch from Fiskars Threading water and Ribbon is Certainly Celery from SU. I colored the image in with Prismacolor markers. I put stickles on the dress, shoes, veil, and hairpiece. ~Kathy~