My Profile Picture

So are you wondering about my Profile picture????

Well the kids and I had gone to the pool one day last summer, and when we got home, I came around the corner of our house and there it was. It looked like someone had cut the sky into sections. I had to grab my camera and get a picture! Cheyenne said it was the "beatifulest sky she had ever seen!" I must admit it was really cool to see! Thank goodness I had my camera with me!

A really bright card!

Ok so some of you are going to hate this card! I wanted to make something with all of this bright pink cardstock that I had laying around collecing dust! I made these for my Addicted to cardmaking SWAP on my favorite message board. The theme for these is "Buttons and/or bows". I chose to do bows. The flowers are different stamps I had around. I used three different stamp pads that had a pearlescent ink. I didn't stamp a sentiment, so that the reciever could decide the occasion! Maybe they could do a "A card to brighten your day"????

Pirate Birthday card

I made these cute little Pirate cards for a friend of mines' little boy's birthday. I liked it so much I decided to make some more! I used the "Ahoy, Matey" set by Stampin Up (it is now retired) I colored it with my Stampin' Write Markers. I cheated on the sentiment, I typed it on my computer and then cut it out and mounted it. It's kind of plain, but I think it turned out cute! I used a grey ink pad to stamp the images on the background paper.

Spring/Easter Card Front

Ok so this was supposed to be for the Monthly Card front swap that I am hosting on my fav MB. Just one problem, it is a card, not a front! I realized when I had finished it that I had made the mistake. But since I am the hostess, I chose to still use them! Whoever receives them will just have the whole card, rather then just the front!
I used my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder to do the embossing. Then I used paper from a patterned paper stack. (I think it was a spring one, but I could be wrong). I added the paper to a torn piece of paper and tore the pattened paper to give it some dimension. I cut the oval with my Word Window punch from Stampin Up, and stamped the little "Easter Blessings" sentiment. It will show on the inside of the card once it is opened. The flowers and the buttons are from a wonderful RAK I recieved from someone on the m fav MB. I added some ribbon and Viola Easter card!

Thank you card

I needed to make a Thank you card for my 2009 addicted to card making for February. It is a little hard to be creative right now with all that is going on with my mom. (she fell in January and broke her leg. She is staying with us while she recovers). Anyway, I needed to find a design that was simple but still cute. So I used this paper I had it in my paper box, oh, for YEARS. I got it from one of the big boxes stores way back when. I stamped the “Thanks so Much” from the Sincere Salutations by Stampin Up. I added a ribbon that I tied in a simple knot (don’t ask me what that kind of knot is called, couldn’t tell you!). It’s a simple card yes, but I still think it turned out ok.

Wow Flowers Birthday card

I needed to make some cards for the folks in my Stampin Up club, and also some cards for my 2009 Addicted to Cardmaking swap. I also wanted to show the difference that using Stampin Up products make when you create a card, so I went ahead and made these.
Now please know that I CASEed (Copy and shared everything) from a design by a fellow PhillyInker, Ilina Crouse. (thanks Ilina!) She had designed this card for a ShoeBox swap that we had at one of our PhillyInker meetings. I used the Stampin Up set “Wow Flowers”. The first picture is the two cards together. The card on the top used all products (except the ink colors) that I had purchased at one of the big box stores. In the card below, I used all Stampin Up product. The cardstock is Real Red and Pink Pirouette. The ribbon is the 1/4" Real Red Grosgrain ribbon. I also used the Real Red Classic Ink along with the Pink Pirouette Classic Ink. I used the 1 ¼”, 1 3/8”, 1 inch circle punches, along with the Scallop circle and the scallop border punches, all by Stampin Up.

Dips recipe Layout SWAP

I joined a swap for Dips on my fav MB, hosted by HeidiK. Now I don’t normally do the layout swaps, because I still feel that my layouts are lacking, but I wanted to do a swap for Pumpkin Dip so I went ahead and joined. I didn’t want the layout to be overly “in your face” so I decided to start with torn edges, add a little color and design with my Stampin Up rolling stamp, “So Swirly” with my More Mustard Ink pad. I then colored two different Pumpkin stamps that I have with my markers. I used Dimensionals to adhere them to my page. Now, I did run out of colors of the cardstock, so I had to make some of the LOs with grey in the background, and some with the grey in the foreground. I hope that everyone likes them! Also I covered the recipe, as I heard that that was “the thing to do”.