A Good Thing

I love the saying on this card "too much of a good thing is a good thing". Isn't that so true!

I'm not really happy with this picture. I usually take my pictures during the day with the natural light. But I bought a new smaller camera today and wanted to try it out. I may retake the picture in the morning.

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Time Well Spent.

Paper~ Really Rust, River Rock, Shimmery White, Ginger Blossom DP.

Ink~ Basic Black, Ruby Red, Cameo Coral,Really Rust, River Rock, Mellow Moss.

Accessories~ Fire Circle Rhinestones, River Rock Stitched Ribbon, Blender Pen.

Another Happy Heart

I just couldn't resist making another card with my Happy Heart Set. I still had some Blue Bayou & Soft Sky CS laying on my desk from last week's color challenge so I thought I would use it up for this card. Instead of the Real Red I decided to soften it up by using Pretty in Pink & Regal Rose.


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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Happy Heart.
Paper~ Blue Bayou, Soft Sky DP, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Shimmering White.
Ink~ Basic Black, Going Gray, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery.
Accessories~ Blender Pen, Pink Brads, Silver brads, Heidi Swapp ghost heart shapes, SU Punches: Key Tag, Window, Heart, 1 3/8" circle, Photo corners, Ticket.

I made this card yesterday for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #32. I also used last week's SCS color challenge Real Soft Bayou. I didn't have a chance to post it until tonight.

My daughter Megan and I went to the Mall of America to look for a dress for Snowdays (Sadie Hawkins dance in my day). We were there for 6 hours looking for that perfect dress! We should have went with our first pick but didn't because of the cost. Wow, the price of those dresses are amazing! We came home with the second choice, but it just wasn't working for any of us, so we will be going back tomorrow to get the other one!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Happy Heart.

Paper~ Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Shimmering White.

Ink~ Basic Black, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Going Gray, Pretty in Pink.

Accessories~ Blue Bayou Stitched ribbon, Ice Circle Rhinestone brads, Heidi Swapp Ghost heart shapes, Blender pen, Punches - Designer tag, window, heart, photo corner, three for you.

Weekend sketch challenge

I don't know what the weather is like where you live but, brrrrrr it's cold here! The last couple of days have been the coldest of the season. Last night it reached -14, that's right 14 degrees BELOW ZERO. And right know it's -2 at 1:00 in the afternoon. You would think that with the cold weather I would be getting alot of stamping done, but not the case, the cold weather doesn't keep us locked up inside! So wherever you are I hope it's warmer than it is here!

I did find some time to stamp this sweet valentine using the sketch from Beate's weekend sketch challenge. As you can see I flipped the sketch so this cute little elephant was facing the center of the card.

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Happy Heart Day.

Paper~ Watercolor Paper, Whisper White, Basic Gray, Regal Rose, Berry Bliss DP.

Ink~ Basic Black, Going Gray, Basic Gray, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery.

Accessories~ Aqua Painter, Blender Pen, Heidi Swapp ghost heart, Silver brads, Jumbo pewter eyelets, Fire circle rhinstones-pink, Punches- Designer Tag, Ticket, Heart, Window.

Challenge from Chat

I was blog browsing the other day and I came across a challenge that looked like fun! Another one of my favorite stamper's, Chat (aka: nitestamper over at SCS) put out a challenge on her blog, Me My Stamps and I.

It was fun! Check it out!

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Here's HOW TO PLAY: A Challenge Just for You #001

Main Stamp: Use the Mouse from the Happy Heart Day Set.

Paper: Your colors are-Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Whisper White

Embellishments: Black, Red Embellishments only.

Please try not to substitute above. That is the whole objective of the challenge.

Ink: Your choice of colors

Background Stamp: Any

Sentiment: Any

Tools: Any

Designer Paper: Optional

Weekend sketch challenge

This is my card for Beate's WSC. When I first saw this sketch I knew that I wanted to use ribbon as the two stripes that went across the sketch. And of course I had to use the Ginger Blossom DP again! This was a fun sketch to get me back into the challenges. Thanks Beate for the challenge!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Embrace Life.

Paper~ Groovy Guava, River Rock, Ruby Red, Shimmery White, Ginger Blossom DP.

Ink~ Basic Black, River Rock, Groovy Guava, Ruby Red, More Mustard.

Accessories~ Blender Pen, Fire Circle Rhinestones, Silver Brads, Punches - Large Oval, Key Tag, 1 1/4" circle, Photo Corner, long reach circle punch (for ribbon).

Nancy Riley - Featured Stamper #48

I was finally able to get to the last week's Featured Stamper #48 Challenge. Nancy Riley is one of my favorite stamper's and one of my favorite blogging friends, she is one of the sweetest ladies I have never met (but hope to someday)! Nancy always leaves the nicest comments on my blog and on my SCS gallery. Nancy you are such an inspiration!

This is my version of Nancy's card, click HERE to see Nancy's card. While you are there, check out all of Nancy's other beautiful creations, Nancy is also known as the queen of alterations.

I LOVE the new Ginger Blossom DP by Stampin' Up! The colors are just beautiful!

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Time Well Spent.
Paper~ Ruby Red, River Rock, Ginger Blossom DP, Shimmery White.
Ink~ Basic Black, Groovy Guava, River Rock, Ruby Red.
Accessories~ Blender Pen, Fire Circle Rhinstones, Slot Punch, River Rock Stitched Ribbon, Mustard Brads

Color Challenge - Wild Banana's

Yeah, I can't beleive that I was able to get back into stamping after yesterday's distraction! It's been awhile since I have posted any of my work, but life at our house tends to get very busy this time of the year with all of the hockey games and volunteer work I do.

I love doing the SCS color challenges and this week's color combo is awesome! The challenge was to use Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou and Barely Banana. I love the way these colors look together! This was the perfect challenge to get my mojo going again!

Now I need to get over to one of my favorite stampers gallery Nancy Riley aka: Stampingat6213 and case one of her beautiful cards for this week's Featured Stamper Challenge. Ohhhhh which one do I case? They are all fantastic!

Supplies used: Stamps~ Embrace Life.

Paper~ Shimmery White, Wild Wasabi Textured CS, Blue Bayou DP, Barely Banana Textured CS.

Ink~ Basic Black, Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou, Barely Banana.

Accessories~ Blender Pen, Silver brads, 5/8" White Organdy Ribbon, Punches -Large oval, Key Tag, Designer label, Giga Scallop Circle, Giga Circle.

A little distraction

I had every intention to stamp today but I just kept getting distracted by these beautiful deer that have been hanging out in my backyard all afternoon. My oldest son Matt & I spotted five of them just hanging out in the little patch of woods that we have behind our house. Here are a couple of pictures that I was able to snap. Lily even got into watching and barking at them, she is so
territorial at times!


Well off to stamp (I hope)!