EEKS Look what I found in my Craft Room...

LOL Yup it is my floor! I haven't seen it in weeks!!! I have been busy Unmounting some of my Retired Stampin Up sets, since I am running out of room to store them. David thinks I should get rid of them...Could you imagine the horror??? So I have been unmounting and putting them in CD cases to free up some space. I now have some empty drawers!!! Yeah me! I wonder how many more stamps I could get if I unmounted all of my Non-Stampin Up sets????????

INCHIES!!!!!!

OK so I jumped on the bandwagon for inchies. But I haven't gone crazy over them as of yet. I needed to make cards for December's Addicted to Cardmaking swap that I host on my favorite message board. And yes I did say December. I am a little bit ahead! Aren't you proud of me??? So I used the "Wild about you" stamp set from Stampin Up. And I stamped all of the cute little critters out. Then I grabbed my cutter and cut them all out to 1 x 1. I know what you are thinking. No I don't have a 1" punch. I have looked through all of my punches, and I have every size BUT 1"!!!! So that is now on my list of things to purchase!

Anyway.....I stamped and cut out the animals. Then I punched out a slew of the black Scallop squares using my SU Scalloped Square punch. (Perfect size for matting the 1" squares by the way!) Then I ran the brown through my embossing machine, tore the edges and put them all together.

A few things that I learned from this card.

1. It really is a pain to try to stamp out the images and then eyeballed it to cut the squares. That was a pain!!!! Get a punch if you are going to be making inchies!!!
2. If you are going to do a torn edge on something that you run through an embossing machine, do it AFTER you emboss. Unfortunately it doesn't give a nice torn edge look as if it wasn't embossed, but I ended up trying to line them up with the edge of the folder so the torn edge didn't have embossing, and that gave me lines, so I just ended up tearing them again!
3. I tend to make things more difficult then they need to be.

Second card for a teacher

This is the second set of cards we made for Cheyenne's teacher. We CASED the idea from my Upline Claire Lawrence. But Cheyenne wanted to make it "her own". She decided she didn't want as much of the red to show, and so we changed that. I think that it looks a little too white, but it is what she wanted, so I went ahead and let her express her creativity. We went a little crazy with all of the flowers! This uses the "Fifth Avenue Floral" set from Stampin' Up. We also used SU's Real Red and Pixie Pink Classic inks. All other supplies are non-Stampin' Up.

She is proud of the card, and that is all that matters right?

Cards for a Teacher

Cheyenne and I wanted to make something special for her Kindergarten teacher for such a great year. I had made cards like this before, but I guess I never took pictures of them. Anyway Cheyenne liked them and wanted to make them for her teacher. So I rolled out the image using my Stampin Up "So Swirly" Jumbo roller (which by the way is retiring in June! :( Sad about that!) Then we added the blue border, and added that to the red card. We didn't know what her teacher's favorite color was, but figured you couldn't go wrong with red white and blue! The close up shows the little beads that Cheyenne had the job of sticking on! Those little guys are tiny! There were two sizes, this one is the bigger of the two. She did a pretty good job with it though!

I am such a goofball!!!!

I always wondered why there was no Spell Check on the blogs. Duh, turns out there IS!!! Open your eyes Gina and see the little abc with the check mark? That is spell check! Sometimes my blindness for the obvious amazes me!!!!!!!

So for all of those other posts with misspelled words, please forgive me! I will be spell checking form here on out!

Thanks you and please forgive me!

WOW another award????

This must be my lucky month! I got another reward! My friend Crystal from: http://creationsofmyheart.blogspot.com/ sent it to me! I am super flattered by BOTH awards! Thank you so much! Now hopefully I am doing this right!
Thanks for sending me the award! I am SUPER glad that we met, and can chat about so much!!
Here is what I have to do:
1: Thank the person who gave me the award and link to their blog (check!)
2: List 10 honest things about myself:

1. I love creating! I wish I had more creative juices at times, but I do what I can!


2. I wish I had a higher tolerance sometimes. I get frustrated too often, and don't know a way to vent without blowing up.


3. I wish that I could provide a better living arrangement for my family. Mind you it is better then how I grew up, but I still wish I could do more.


4. I am absolutely addicted to Rubber Stamps! AND I would NEVER tell my husband that! I may have a few too many....no maybe not!!!!


5. The same goes for ribbons and patterned paper. I could probably go for many years on what I already have here in my home. LOL but I won't!!


6. I spend too much time on the computer, and not enough doing housework. But I heard that housework is bad for your health so....


7. More than a hand full of people have called me a Smart Ass. That offends a lot of people, but I am proud to say that I am one! Same goes for that word that rhymes with "Witch"!


8. I do not like the way I look. I haven't for more then half of my life. I would love to change, but lack the will power, and motivation. Surgery is too drastic, and too many horror stories about the after effects of medicines. Truth be told I like to eat. I am only going to live once, so I might as well enjoy the food while I am here. And so I guess I won't change...


9. I don't believe in Fairy Tales. I have never known anyone to love someone the way they do in the stories I heard growing up. Maybe there is love like that out there, but I haven't found it. Don't get me wrong, I love David, but there just is no Happily Ever After. Sorry.


10. I have very few friends outside of the Internet. I used to have friends, but I just got tired of the fakeness of some of them. Friends that thought I should turn my back on my family and take their side. Friends that got married, and/or moved away. There are times that I really miss my friends though. I miss cookouts, and hanging out, and going to the movies, or the mall, or just for rides in the car. I miss having them to talk to. I don't miss the petty stuff though. I wish I had someone around that I could call when the kids are driving me nuts! Or just to vent. It's tough not having someone to talk to.

And now that this has turned totally negative...on to the next step...

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Then I also have to:
Put the award on my blog(check!)
Pick 7 people to give the award to:

1. Eileen at http://www.blondcrafter.blogspot.com/


2. Sue at http://dream67646.blogspot.com/


3. Albert at http://agoscraftomonium.blogspot.com/2008_11_09_archive.html


4. Terri at http://puggledaisy.blogspot.com/


5. Karel at http://karelj.blogspot.com/


6. Laurinda at http://lulus-creations.blogspot.com/


7. Diane at http://lostgrl16.blogspot.com/

Wow that was a lot harder than you would think! Picking only 7 blogs out of so many! That was harder then the being honest part!

Thanks again Crystal and to the recipients, enjoy! :)

Aw shucks - thanks Eileen!!!!

My good friend, Eileen, sent me little "award" for my blog. The first ever! I always see them on people's blogs, and I am very flattered that she has sent this one to me. Take a look at it over there on the side bar. I am going to add it here to....if I can!

Thanks again Eileen! :)