Smash book..... finally got one.

Finally got to Archivers and bought myself a Smash book. Love love love it. Go to Youtube and look up Smash book EZ sucess to get the idea of what it is all about. They have 4 colors right now and each one has a different type of theme inside. All come with this groovy pen/glue combo thing that is attached to the book. You can buy extra ones of course.

Here are some of the goodies I bought with it.... I personally think they need to add more stuff but I guess this will get me started. Starting from left to right.. Smash tabs that are self stick and made of cloth, 2 pads of neat little tear out pages (see the quick quick sheet in middle) Each one is a different theme. They had maybe 2 or 3 other ones but I will start with 2. Then I have some little self sticky tabs in neat patterns and then some other smash tabs that have little sayings like: I will make this, Makes me happy, Do not forget.....There are 10 of each so 70 will last me a while. The roll at the bottom has a bunch of sayings.. It has my favorite one FAB.... so I had to get it. You just rip it like masking tape and stick it in your book. super cute.

The rest of the goodies include some metal paperclips that have saying on them, pockets that stick in the book where ever you need t hem and even they have neat sayings on them.

So to get started I used a cloth tab and marked it Bucket list. I found this article in the paper while in the Dr office. Ok ok yes I ripped it out but I had to have it. Its for tours of all the Harbors in New England. I have been all over the US but not so much in this one area so I would love love to go there. Now it is on my bucket list. I will try to put some new pics of my book as I add to it so you get an idea of how to use it. You can also use it as a scrapbook or any type of planner like for a wedding. super neat.

All about the ice cream

This card is for one of Jenna's friends who was turning 8. Who doesnt like ice cream? Her party was at the beach and I almost did that theme... but I just love these cones using our new punches. I love to put the little scoops thru the swirls embossing folder to give that scooped up look. I used dimensionals to put behind the 2nd and 3rd scoop just to give it some pop. I got to use my new alphabet set called broadsheet alphabet. It sure has a lot of character.
Dont forget that Aug 12th and 14th is stamp camp. Come make 10 cards for your collection. Nobody likes to be caught without a card.
Till next time... Happy Stamping.

Challenge #3

Hello ladies. Last night I tried my hand at another challenge. I wanted to use the new lace ribbon border punch so I punched out a piece and then tried to figure out what to do with it. I did turn the template on its side because the lace was longer and I didnt want to cut it down to fit the other way. I started with weaving hemp thru it but that didnt show up well so I looked at my wall of ribbon and the blue bliss caught my eye. I just wove it thru and knotted it. I thought it contrasted well with the cherry cobbler which by the way is one of my favorite colors. Maybe because it sounds like food and my Girls Weekend Queen name has cherry in it hehe. So anyway I then figured if I needed 3 images I needed something small so I chose the tiny butterflies. I didnt want to overpower the card. I used the flower from the Flower Fest set and made it a 3D image. I chose words from Swirls & Curls Verses just because I love the loopy letters. So go on over to www.inkspire-me.com to see all the other entries. Till next time.... Happy Stamping

Color challenge #2

This weekend was a bit busy getting all our school supply shopping done. With 3 kids still in school.... it sure makes for a lot of supplies. Not sure how my 5 year old is going to use 20 glue sticks in 9 months .... maybe they are going to be doing some stamping this year.. haha. With all that shopping I kept this challenge in the back of my head to get done so here is my card for the Inkspire color challenge. It was to use Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Black, White. This little turtle is from the set called Turtle & Co. It is the set that donates $2 from each one sold to the Ronald McDonald house foundation. The saying is a bit hard to see but it says....Hope you're back on your feet soon! too cute.
So go on over to www.inkspire-me.com to see the other entries. Till next time.. Happy Stamping

Donate cards to Soldiers overseas.

These are some of the cards we made for the soldiers. These are stack of 10 and I had a bag of 100 off to the side as well. 340 total. All occasions.

Rebecca, MT, Marybeth and Karen hard at work on the cards. We had a nice taco salad for dinner and I made some awesome Almond pound cake with strawberry rhubarb spread from Tastefully Simple for dessert. Yum. Kept us going till 10pm. haha Only 4 hours to crank all these out. We now have to pick up our envelopes and sort them in sets of 5 to put into zip locks. Each set can go to a different soldier and the sand will stay out of them. Karen said no glitter..... It shows up in night vision goggles so we had none of that. Thanks ladies for your hard work.

Oh yes. I had to get myself into the picture of course since I worked too :) Thanks Michael

Cards from camp

This card is so colorful and cute. One of my recent favorites. It was inspired by a fellow demonstrator Melissa Davies. I used the Pennant parade stamp set with the Pennant punch. Of course I had to add lots of texture of course.
Had to send this one to Grandma Helen in TX for her bday.



This card was inspired by Elizabeth Hurst. Just a touch of spring.
Till next time... Happy stamping

Weekend cards

This first card was made for Angie. It was a Graduation card but I didnt want to use the traditional cap and gown. just some background paper, a bit of texture and my favorite word set swirls & curls verses.

This was a little 3x3 card for Anna's gift. Does it look like a sundae? I used the cupcake punch to make some scoops of ice cream and then added some swirls to make it look delicious. I used the Large Oval punch to make the bowl and the word window for the spoon handle. Hope you like my creations for this weekend. Till next time.... Happy Stamping