Hanna Stamp Challenge

Last night I stayed up way to long making a card for the Hanna Stamps Challenge. The big party is Thursday night. The challenge was to make a card with a Hanna Stamp and to use three Prism colors or colors close to match. This is what I came up with. I also made another one today since I was having so much funny with the colors. I used SU purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink, and an unknown turquise cardstock. I stamped my image with Versafine Onyx Black and I colored in my image with Zig watercolor markers. Ribbon is SU Pretty in Pink and I Cuttlebugged with the Happy Birthday folder. I went outside today and took the pictures of my cards in the natural light. What do you think? Tomorrow I'll post my other Riley card. Till then... I think I want to make another....

Nestibilities!!!

Ok I took the dive into the market for the Spellbinders Nestabilities. I ordered my first set of them at ucutahome.com last night. I ordered the Rectangle set, it's my Mothers Day present. Lots of places have been sold out on them. Ucutathome.com had the best price that I was able to find, of course that is after you use the 40% off monthly coupon. After you subscribe, you will get a monthly code for the 40% off. You can take advantage of each months code, one per household each month. So that way you can go there once a month to add to your collection of Nestabilities and in four months time you'll have them all. If I like them I may buy more sets, I'm thinking maybe the oval set next. When I get them, I'll do a review here and tell you what I think of them. I'll be using my new Cuttlebug for the process. If you order any, make sure you order the tan mats. You will need them for the embossing part. No new cards today, too much jabbing on the phone. See you tomorrow...

Snow???

Yes it snowed last night. We got up this morning and it was a winter wonderland outside. The trees were really pretty. By the afternoon most of the snow was gone but the chill was still in the air. It made it to 39 degrees above zero. A little to cold for me. Just last week it was like 75 and the kids were running around outside. Looks to be a nasty cold week. Tomorrow I'm going to try to make a challenge card for Hanna Stamps. Maybe I'll get it uploaded too. See you tomorrow...

No cards to show today.

Hello again. Nothing new to show you today. It's the weekend so that means it's time to shop. My DH has to work every other weekend and this so happened to be the off weekend. My daughter and I went stamp shopping at three stores. We both got a bunch of stuff. My daughter is only seven and she was pretty excited about the stuff she picked out. She got a couple of Penny Black stamps and an Elzybell Fairy Girl stamp. I got some Penny Black, Whipper Snapper, and some other company stamps. I also picked up three new Cuttlebug folders. I haven't tried them out yet since it's the weekend with Church and all. My DH plays the Organ at our church. He has been playing there for the last two years. But now that he has the day job, he can only play every other Sunday. The pastor has two step-daughters that fill in for him when he isn't there. He also teaches the Youth Bible Class. My Dh always has Mondays off so it won't be a very productive day. Mostly we go to the Library on Mondays. Well that's all I have to share with you today, I hope you can come back here tomorrow...

Another design card to share.

Another design card I made a few days. Also I wanted to say that I have one spot open for the Pay It Forward of stamped images of Riley stamps; check my post awhile back.

Another card for a birthday blog challenge, Flower card...

Here is a card I made for a LSS designs team calling. The LSS makes and designs their own stamps. I'll tell you more about the stamp company and the name of this stamp at a later time. I'm entering this card into a birthday blog challenge annescreativeside. You may go and check out here blog and enter a flower card to win some goodies...

Another card for a challenge...

Here is another card I made today for a challenge at the Gina K Designs forum at SCS. Probably a 1 in 50 chance to win a stamp set. I think this is my favorite card so far. Recipe: Stamps from Penny Black-Cheesecake Wish and Critter Party. Cardstock: brown and pink from LSS, GP white c/s, and Provo Craft designer paper. Ink: black Stazon. Rexel Derwent watercoloring pencils and SU blender pen. Ribbon: Offray gingham pink. I received the Cheesecake Wish image at the SCS Pif forum from Mrslaird. I love this stamp so much that I'll have to buy it myself.

I'm so cute for a challenge

Here is a card I made yesterday for Gina K Designs Challenge. The stamp is from a set called Critter Party by Penny Black. The stamp is a smaller verse of the stamp I'm So Cute. The sentiments come from the set Bubbly also from Penny Black. Cardstock from The Paper Company and GP white, ink: SU basic brown and black Stazon, pink polka-dots ribbon,Rexel Derwent watercolor pencils, SU blender pen, SU 3/16 corner rounder punch, Paper Shapers lace design scissors, and Cuttlebug with Spots and Dots folder. All the people that make a card are having their name put in a hat to win a new stamp set from Gina K Designs, about a one in fifty chance to win.

Cards I made with new H&M Stamps are "Fresh and Fun"

Here is a card I made with a new set called Wild Birthday Wishes by H&M Stamps from Heather Rolin. Cardstock: yellow, red, and black the Paper company, white GP. Marvy LePlume markers, black Stazon ink, and SU word window punch and ticket corner punch. Yellow Offray ribbon, yellow stickles, and Fiskers tile emboss.

Here is the second card. I use red and black Cardstock from the paper company and GP white cardstock. I used the word window and scalloped paper punches from Stampin Up. I used my cuttlebug to emboss with the Spots and Dots Cuttlebug folder. The image was stamped with black Stazon and colored in with Marvy LePlume markers. Red stickles were applied to the balloon and I used red Offray ribbon for the bow.

I got some new H&M Stamps today!

I got some new stamps in the mail today from Heather Rolin of H&M Stamps. I was put in a drawing and I received these from her. They will be available on April 25 for the first release ever. H&M Stamps is a new stamp company. They have some cute stamps. The set that I got was Wild Birthday Wishes. I've been coloring in images, I'd like to share some cards tomorrow, please come back then...

Pay It Forward now playing...

Ok people here we go...We're playing a round of Pay It Forward. I played this with Julie Koerber on her blog Out To Impress. Thanks Julie for the Pifs you sent me. What you have to do is leave me a comment telling me that you want to participate and the first three people will receive pifs of Riley stamps(Hanna Stamps) from me. Then you must post about this on your blog and send out three pifs from yourself to three other people. Sounds easy enough right! Ok lets go....

Pay it forward soon...

I know all of you are waiting for the Pay It Forward, well so am I. My package is either coming or lost or ? When it's here, I'll need three people to post a comment to receive my Pay It Forward and pass a Pay It Forward to three more people. You must have a blog and post it there. The Pay It Forward can be anything from a card to some stamped images to whatever you want to get rid of. So keep checking back often. The mail came today and no package, better luck tomorrow...

Three cards...

Ok, I been busy today making three cards for a stamp company design team contest. Two of them have the same stamp. One stamp has two fairies on a black-eyed susan and the other one is a little fisherboy with a fishing pole, a fishing rod, and a frog. All these stamps I bought from the company that I am making these cards for. I think they turned out pretty good. I think tomorrow I going to try some other stamps and a different color. Todays colors were mainly yellow and green. Maybe tomorrow it will be pink and brown. I'll post some of the cards at a later time when I'm done making all the them. Till tomorrow...

Hello Spring!

Hello, I think spring is finally here. We do still have a little snow in our yard. To many pine tree prevents the snow from melting to fast. Just last Friday we had a blizzard here and now I think it is time for Spring. The kids have been playing outside alot the last few days. Yesterday Dh took the kids to a park to fly his kite. It's big and looks like a ship. It was very windy yesterday and it did fly. Now today was very windy to, but when we went out to go fly the kite, the wind dyed down. We still went to the park to let the kids play. We had a cook out today. DH made marinated steaks, grilled onion and peppers, baby bella mushrooms, and asparagus on the gas grill. Awesome for me because I didn't have to cook, just had to clean up the vegetables. Today we took my son to school for his Kindergarten registration. He is such a people person. He had a ball playing with the other kids. Thats about it for today. Off to design some cards...

Happy Birthday Granny Sue! Today's Your Day!!!

Ok a few days ago I actually posted the card for my MIL. Today is her Birthday. Today also is tax day, so if you didn't get your taxes done yet, you had better be doing them now...Happy Birthday Granny Sue, we love you!!!

I won the monkey card contest!

First of all I'd like to thank Sarah from MustangSarah's Card Creations for all of this blog candy that she gave away for her March 19 Birthday, that I won in her drawing. I just received it today in the mail, it came all the way from Canada.

Then I submitted two monkey cards to a friend from SCS Pif forum that was having a monkey card challenge, and guess what, I won. All the peoples names were put together in a drawing and my name was drawn. Woo hoo, this is my first ever "My Favorite Things" stamps, thanks Tami. You can see the two cards I made in my last few posts.

I've been tagged

I've been tagged, so I must say 7 things about myself.
1).I'm the middle child of 5, I have two older brothers,one younger brother, and one younger sister.
2).I graduated in the top 10% of of my high School class of over 350.
3).I have always had a passion for making crafty things, I started at a very young age of sewing my own barbie clothes and learning to crochet and knit. I took all the home economics class in high school.
4).I got married at a later age of 31. I lived with my mom and dad till that time with a savings account to buy my own house.
5).After high school I worked in a filter factory for 7 1/2 years and then a major horseradish factory for 9 years.
6).I'm now a stay at home mom that never seems to get all my house work done, need more stamping time...
7).I never knew that Stampin up, CTMH, TAC, and other companies existed until two years ago when a friend invited me to a Stampin Up party.
Ok thats all I'm telling you right now...I have to pick 7 people yet...I'm new at this and it seems most of the people I do know have been already tagged, so I'll have to think about this one...

Another card for the monkey challenge...

Here is my second entry to Tami's monkey challenge. She love Curious George and so do my two kids. Stamps: Curious George (these are the kids) and sentiments by Monkey Love C.C. Designs. Paper: Gp white C/S and brown and red from LSS. Scallop punch from SU, ink: black stazon and SU basic brown. Also used yellow stickles on the bananas. I see I have been tagged by a couple of people this past week, I"ll have to take care of that later, ok till then have a wonderful day...

A monkey card for a challenge...

Here is a card that I made today for a challenge by Tami on the SCS Pif Forum. Her challenge was to make a monkey card. This monkey comes from a set called Monkey Love by C.C. Designs. For the balloon I used part of a stamp from the Penny Black set called Bubbly. And the sentiment is also from the Bubbly set. White paper by GP with the Happy Birthday folder and the use of a Cuttlebug. Purple and black paper from LSS. Stamped using black Stazon Ink. Image colored in with Su classic ink: perfect plum, basic brown, cranberrry crisp, gable green, buckaroo blue, yoyo yellow, and Stamps Galore and more orange with a SU blender pen. I hope you like it...

Happy Birthday Granny Sue card!

Here is a card that I made yesterday for my MIL, Granny Sue. I used my new Cuttlebug to make the background. The House Mouse image I got from catcrazy at Splitcoaststampers from their pif forum. If you ever really wanted a stamp or stamp set and your thought that you would probably only use it once or twice, then this is a good place to go and more or less you are kind of swapping stamp images. What you do is look at the list of the person that is up, and the first person to pick or snag an image from the list, will get that image sent to them. Then of course, it is your turn to post your list. Whoever picks from your list will have that image sent to them by you. And then so on, and so on. Sometimes it gets moving fast. You can go there just to chit chat with the ladies. It's very addictive, you go and you will see. You will find yourself there everyday, lurking... Back to the card...House Mouse is called Spring Blossums. Paper is Gp white; black and purple: The paper Company; black stazon ink. I used a Close to my Heart ink pad: Majestic Mountain and a SU blender pen to color in the flowers. I used Rexel Derwent watercolor pencils and SU blender pen with all the other coloring in. I used the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder in my Cuttlebug.

I got a Cuttlebug!!!

Hello and welcome. I joined in on the fun of owning a Cuttlebug. I got to try it out yesterday. I only bought one folder so far, the Happy Birthday Folder. My five year old son had to try it out too. Then when his sister got home from school, he had to show her how to work it. Hopefully I'll be able to make a card and post it here, it's my MIL birthday next week and I have to make a card for her. Also waiting for my pay it forward package to arrive before I post the pay it forward here. Hint: it maybe be some pifs of Rileys Stamps...Come back and find out...Till then...

A get well wish card

I made and sent out this card today for Ellen on SCS, who fell while skating and shattered her wrist. The stamp is a Patti's Kid stamp from Stamp Affair. Colored with SU watercolor pencils and used a blender pen. Get well soon! stamp from SU Mini Mates. The paper is from Walmart; red, white and black. Ribbon is Offray Nice and Narrow mini checkes red. Later remember to stay tuned for the Pay It Forward coming up soon...