Anything Goes Tag

Here are the tags that I created for the Anything goes theme for the Tags tags and more tags swap that I am hosting on "my fav MB". The flowers in the background are from Stampin' Up's Garden Greetings.

Time flies

You don't always stop to think about how fast time flies. This is especially true up until you have children. When your babies arrive, things change. One day you are holding a little squirmy ball of love in your arms so tiny and sweet and cute. And the next minute you turn around and here comes a cute little toddler taking their first steps towards you. Next thing you know they are starting school. Time moves way too quickly in my opinion when it comes to our children. The other day my daughter, who is 6 was laying on the couch snuggling with me and I felt something hit my shin. "ow" I said "what was that?" "She looks down and says "my foot". I look not believing that my 6 year old who's head is even with mine could possibly have legs almost as long as mine. Sure enough there were her legs, only about a foot shorter then mine (maybe a little shorter).
That hurt, not the fact that she kicked me, but the fact that my little girl is getting so big! Granted she is only 6, bu she is such an "Old" 6. Most people talk to her and don't realize how old she is until they ask her what grade she is in. They always look at me for confirmation when she says she is just going into 1st grade, or that she just turned 6 in August. Most just look at her in disbelief. But that is how it has always been. When she was 2 months old I tried to enter her into a Infant Halloween Contest. They told me she couldn't enter into that age group. I assured the woman that she was born on August 1st of that year, and she didn't believe me. When she was 2 1/2 we were in a restaurant and a lady actually argued with me that she couldn't only be 2 1/2. "what school does she go to?" she asked. "She doesn't" I replied. "What do you mean she doesn't?" was her answer. She actually asked my mom when she came back to the table!

Anyway I had a moral to this story.

So tomorrow my little girl starts First Grade. And although I am sure she will be fine, i both worries and saddens me. I don't want her to grow too fast. I want to be able to hold her tight in a hug without her telling me to stop because I am embarrassing her. I want her to not be embarrassed to just tell me out of the blue that she loves me. And I want her to know, every day that I love her and her brother so much. And that I will always be here for them, and love them no matter what.

I only wish she'd stay little for just a little longer.....

Change to my Stampin' Up Blog address!!!

HI everyone! I just wanted to point out the change of address for my Stampin Up blog, and I know a few of my followers are also followers hre, so I am hoping you all see this!!!

I thought that I heard someone say that you couldn't have Stampin' Up in your blog address, and rather then get into trouble, I decided to change it!

So for all of you faithful followers, and to those who are blog stalkers (wink wink!!) Here is the new address:

http://ginathorntonstamping.blogspot.com/

I just dropped the "up" and added a "g". So hopefully folks will still be able to find me!!!!!!

Hope to "see" you soon!

Gina

Summer tag

I am hosting a swap on my Favorite Message Board, for tags. I believe the swap is called "Tags, tags, and more tags". There are different themes, and people signed up for whatever theme they wanted to do. I did most of the themes. I am trying to think of an idea for Vintage as that is the only one I am having issues thinking of an idea for.
Anyway I made these tags for Summer, but the more I looked at them I thought they could go for Masculine also. No frill. I did add some hemp twine to each one so that the receiver could continue with the natural look to the tag. OK, I decided these are for summer!

If you are wondering, I didn't add the holes to the tags, because maybe not everyone wants the holes. Although some may use them for gift tags, others may choose to add them to Layouts, or cards even, so I figured when they received it, they could decide. Also I have seen some nice tags that the maker stapled the ribbon on, so they can have that option also. If I added the hole, they may not want to do any of those things. So now you know.

PS A side note, my mind isn't functioning quite right today. Could it be that I was still wide awake making the snowman tags at 4:30 am this morning. Could be. So if this post makes absolutely no sense, or if it seems like I am just babbling...that's the reason! :) I just couldn't stop once I got started with the snowmen!! Ok going to bed now......

Winter tags for a swap

So it has been a while since I posted some of my creations! Sorry I am such a slacker! Ok so I made these little cuties for my Tags, tags and more tags swap that I am hosting on my favorite Message Board. The papers are from a winter stack of printed papers. I cut all of the circles, and the pieces for the little guy's hat and noses, from scraps. The blue cardstock tags weren't from scraps, but I did cut the ovals from the scraps for the tags! Talk about using everything! LOL. I had to use two different papers since I had used the swirly paper for the Christmas in July Card fronts. I was pretty excited how they turned out!
I used the 3/4", 1 " and 1 1/8" circle punches, and the 3/4" square and 1" square punch for the hat. The little noses are cut freehand, so they may vary in size, but then again all carrots are not created equal!!! :)

Last creation (for now) by my daughter

Here is the card she made for her cousin William. He is 10. Inside it says "I think you are sweet". She colored the mouse with my markers. Then she ran the background through an embossing machine. The folder has little bubbles on it. After she did she got upset and said she couldn't "put on the words", so I told her to put them inside instead. She did pretty good I think.

Again, the picture isn't the greatest, because my light source-aka the Sun- seems to be on vacation....again.

Thanks for all the comments on her first card. She is great at creating. I can't tell you how many times I ask her if something looks good or not. I often ask her when I am stuck what a card needs and she will say "A ribbon" or buttons or whatever, and can I tell you, she is right 95% of the time???? She has an eye for color.
The only thing that worries me is.....who's gonna have control of the craft table when she is say 9 or 10? There's no more room in here to add a table that's for sure! Maybe I will have to hit the lottery and get an EXTRA big room to house the craft goodies!

LOL I will have to make her her own blog also!!!!

Another card by my Daughter

This is the card that Cheyenne made for her Aunt Ginnese. We (my brother, mom and I )always tease Ginnese as she loves to wear tie dye. My Brother calls her a "throw back hippie". So she wanted to make a tie dye card for her.

So she made the background, with believe it or not, coffee filters which we watered down some paints, and she painted the filter. After it was dry, we used my new shapes die to cut it out.
Then she made a frame for that with the larger shapes die.

The frog is a stamp I have had forever, and I thought it looked kind of Hippie (a flower frog). As you can see she is still trying to color in the lines, but she didn't do too bad on this one. We stamped the sentiment and she used my oval punch and my SU Scallop punch to punch them out. The second is a close up of the filter. The teal and pinkish-purple are actually kind of glittery, but it doesn't show to well.

We tried to get a good picture, but it is raining today, so my new "light box" trick didn't work so well.