Polar Express....

I just got back from Scrapfest in Oshawa today...I am filled with lots of inspiration and lots of new goodies! What's better then all your favourite scrapbooking stores all under one roof!

One by one, I have been trying to get a head start on the Christmas cards. For this card I used a LOTV image that a wonderful and very sweet blogging friend lent me! Oh how I love this one! I also stamped at the bottom of the card some snowflakes using my 2009 Holiday Tag Collection from Papertrey. I just bought some liquid pearls in White Opal and placed that in the center of each snowflake...wonderful product that is for sure!

Nicky, a card making friend of mine gave me these wonderful clear plastic memo pads that she was able to purchase at the dollar store. I was never able to find them and she got her hands on some to give to me....thank-you so much Nicky. These are wonderful to decorate all up the way you wish. So I made some inserts for each side and stamped them up with the row of snowflakes, and added the white opal liquid pearls. I then made up a little Christmas bouquet for the top...

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Thank-you so much for popping in for a visit. Your encouraging and kind comments are so wonderful to recieve.

Back to school time...

The days are getting shorter and the nights are a little cooler...and even some of the trees are starting to change colour. So we start to think...Back to School. It is good to get back to a little routine but sad for me to see the kids back at school. They are so fun at this age, and before you know it they are off to university or college...so I really try to enjoy their time they are home!

I wanted to try out a little project with the Back to School idea. I bought my scratch pad quite some time ago from the good ol dollar store and just covered it with paper, and Karen Lockharts itty bitty apple stamp, then the sides were covered using Monogram Edition from Papertrey. I placed the letters on my stamp and then stamped the paper. Now you may have a chuckle at the punch I used...you probaly recognize it...Martha's pumpkin punch. I thought I might get away with it looking like a row of apples!

Sorry for the quality of pictures but I took the pictures fairly late at night.

Have a wonderful evening.....thank-you so much for popping in for a visit!

Home Sweet Home...

I got up this morning and there was this slight chill in the air...where did summer go! Come back! My card today was inspired by a card Chris made...I just fell in love with her little step card, so I tried my hand at making a card like Chris's using my Papertrey stamp set called "Boards and Beams" and I used a Stamping Bella's stamp called "Ketto's clothesline". I also used a little tiny leaf stamp.

Thank-you so much for popping in and visiting, I appreciate your visits so much! Have a wonderful weekend!

baby shoes....

For some time now I have wanted to make these adorable little baby shoes! I googled it and came up with this wonderful template! Easy Peasy.....I just knew they had to have some pink for sure and then away I went!

I thought they would be so cute for a baby shower...maybe place some little pink goodies inside, or even, in place of a bow on your gift, this could be your bow, with a pair of newbie socks inside. Oh what fun I am going to have with these!!!
So what is a pair of booties without the card to match! I used "Bitty Baby Blessing" from Papertreys set for the sentiment and the little head popping out. The branch is from a stamp called "Nicely Nested Branch" Impression Obession. I used tombo markers to shade the back of the stamp and then stamped. Then tied a piece of string to the branch, hung the little sack with a little bow!

Paper Take Weekly has a Challenge: STITCHES!!! I think I will put this card in for the challenge!
Have a wonderful day...and thank-you so much for popping in!!!!!

Patriotic Basket.....

This Sunday my friends south of the border will be celebrating the 4th of July..... So I thought I would make a little card for the occasion! Now you may laugh at this one, but I tried to make my card like a picnic basket to go with my patriotic basket on the front!

I used Vintage Picnic for the basket on the front and just free handed a basket with some handles using the Kraft cardstock...coloured with copics and a white gel pen! I am going to enter the challenge over at StamptacularSundayChallenge: Stars and Strips!!!!!

Hope the sun is shining were you are, at the moment it is raining here. Come back sun!!!!!

basket full of daisies....

There are so many things I just love about summer...the weather, fresh strawberries, trips to the beach, spending lots of time with the kids, oh heck my list could go on forever! Another is going for walks down our country road and on the side are the patches of wild daisies that come up every year that we pick and then place in a vase to put on the kitchen table! So for my card today this is from the stamp set Vintage Picnic that I have used MANY times. I stamped my image on to Kraft cardstock...then coloured in the image with a white gel pen...I thought that was the easiest way to get that white stark look of a freshly picked Daisy!

Very simple I must say...but cute! What happened to lazy hazy days of summer...I am going crazy with lots to do! Anyone else... busy busy! Once the kids finish up school it will settle down I am sure! Well, have a wonderful day and thank-you so much for the visit!

Teacher gifts.....

I am so sorry for the lack of posts lately...but our school has so many things going on that I love to help out with...such as track and field and our grade 8's graduation! Now for me this time year is a sad one but also a happy time! I enjoy spending time with the kids throughout the summer but it also means that another year has gone! I have been very busy making some gifts for my sons teachers. I have known them for 9 years and truly appreciated all they have done for the kids.

I have used my trusty ol justrite stamps that allow me to personalize these cards. Now my theme here is strawberries to go with the homemade jam that will go with the gift. At Allsorts Challenge they have a great challenge to put this project into: Strawberries and cream!

Inside the card I have placed my recipe that I will use to make my strawberry jam that will go with the gift. Now strawberries are just about ready here in Ontario, so I am just waiting until I can go and pick them to make my jam! I will be posting my jam jars at a later post, so stay tuned!

Now what teacher does not keep lots of notes.....hopefully my notepads will come in handy for them. I used my Papertrey stamp set "Vintage Picnic" to keep my theme going and my justrite stamp set too. Love to personalize it up! I don't think you can see it, but I have put lots of glitter on the strawberries too.

Now I am off to finish up lots of grade 8 graduation decorations...lots to finish up! Have a wonderful day...and thank-you so much for taking time out of your day to come and visit!

life is good.....

Life is good...the weather is co-operating and I received this awesome image from a wonderful blogging buddy! I fell in love with it...and thought it would be so fun to colour! This guy is in for a feast!I so love to finish the inside of my cards...for me I think it might be an excuse everytime just to play a little more with my stamps! I used "Vintage Picnic" from Papertrey and it has got to be one of my most used and most loved stamp collection!

Have a wonderful weekend...I hope the weather is great were you are! I am off for a soccer tournament this weekend with my son. I really hope it is not too hot; not much fun for the boys!

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge: Buttons

summery card.....

There is only one thing on my mind and that is warm and sunny days! But the weather here in Ontario is not co-operating...it is very cold. I actually heard we may have a little flurry activity tomorrow. So with that said I am going to just ignore it all and just keep making summery cards! These stamps are from the Lockhart Stamp Co., they are some of my most favourites.

I thought this stamp set was perfect for a card and another recipe card that can be added to my growing recipe album. I am so thrilled to be getting that done...then I hope to be moving onto my scrapbooking albums, something I have totally neglected. Not right...I have sooo many memories to get into an album before I forget all the little things I need to remember to say in my albums!

The sentiment for this card is from the papertrey stamp set "A day at the Beach". Oh I so love that saying! This is a girl that LOVES summer! I keep trying to convince hubby to move to the Carribean or even Arizona where the heat is dry, no humidity! One day...one day! Do they have scrapbooking stores in the carribean? LOL

Well..have a wonderful Friday...I hope the weather is warm were you are! Blow those breezes our way PLEASE!

some more recipe cards.....

Welcome to the first day of May...do you find this time of year you are pulling out all the fun recipes to do for summer cookin'? Well if you saw my messy recipe book you would know it was time to make up a nice recipe booklet that would be a little more organized! I love this time of year, our grocery store starts to bring in the locally grown fruits and vegetables which in my opinion are so good. Next year my project is a veggie garden...for sure!

At Stampers Dream I purchased this binder which you can doll up the way you like, so I brought out my favourite October Afternoon papers and used my new stamp set "Cookin Up Memories"

also from Stampers Dream! I love this binder as it comes with 4x6 recipe card sleeves which really protects your cards from any mess.

This recipe is great for those really hot days of summer.....for this recipe card I used Papertrey's stamp set "Day at the Beach". I had lots of fun with this stamp set. I used the little lime wedges to stamp up the background and then used my tulip glass and coloured it with the copics....then stamped the icecubes with a white stamp pad, sprinkled with some glitter just to give it that ice look. I think it worked ok!

Now what is summer without time by the bonfire! So you have to have smores for sure. I used the Stampin Up stamp set " Under the stars". This one I loved doing...I tried to make the marshmellow look, gooey and a little roasted. I used liquid applique on the marshmellow and used the my heat gun to heat it up to give it that puffy look...added a little copic marker to the top and voila...a cooked marshmellow!

It's a little early here for the peaches to come. But this recipe is one of my favourites. I used the Papertrey stamp set " Vintage Picnic".

Well that is all so far I have done, but I am on a mission to get alot more done for my booklet.

Have a wonderful weekend! Thank-you so much for popping in to visit, I so appreciate you taking time out of your day to come!

I have entered this post into two challenges, suggested by Lisa Jane. Thank-you Lisa Jane for the idea! I have never entered into these challenges and thought what a great idea! I am entering into the Papertake Weekly, which is something different and One Stop Crafts Challenge which is anything but a card!

I also want to thank WinterWonderland for being chosen as Top 5! I so appreciate it!

friendship....

Good Thursday to all...
I must say so many of you make distressing look so easy and gorgeous! I am still just trying to learn all the little tricks. I must say I do love working with them though, and now I see they have come out with some more beautiful colours.

My girlfriend Carolyn and I ordered these wonderful flowers and now I am just trying to learn how to properly place them on a card. For my leaves I did not have a proper punch to use so I just cut my own in the shape I wanted and then folded them in half to give the look I was after. After seeing my leaves I wish I had placed some glitter on them!!!

My friendship sentiment is from Papertrey ink, and the Just Because is from Ellen Hutson's stamps.

Well I am off to get the kids to school. Have a wonderful day...and thank-you so much for all your visits, I so appreciate them!!!

Many of you have asked for the template for the Easter basket I made on yesterdays post! It does not seem to link you to the direct template...so I have tried to put a direct link and it just does not want to co-operate! So if you go to:

http://www.stampinpretty.typepad.com/files/round-top-box3.pdf Try this out and it should take you to the template!!!

wishing you well....

Pretty soon the tulips will be popping up....oh I can hardly wait! For today's card I used one of my favourite stamp sets from Papertrey, Vintage Picnic! I have used this time and time again. for the lettering I just printed them out on the computer and then cut them out individually and mounted them on cardstock. Just something a little different.

I really like finishing the inside of my cards...so I used a Karen Lockhart stamp for the flower image on the bottom right! Pretty simple card really, but I seem to really like simplicity!

I hope you have a wonderful day....thank-you so much for visiting!

Blue and White Theme....

I finally was able to get a post up today....it has been kind of a busy day that is for sure! Stamptacular has a great challenge posted this week. They want you to do a winter theme card using only shades of Blue and White! I hope this qualifies as I added a fence into my winter theme and it is not Blue or White....

I wanted my fence to swing open...and then close when you want to fold it all up to mail off ...and I was successful! Yeh!

My pictures did not turn out that great...it's a little overcast right now so it makes my pictures not the greatest! You may not see but I used lots of Martha Stewart snow and lots of prisma glitter!

Have a wonderful day..and hopefully you get a chance to try out the Stamptacular Challenge! Now I am off to check out the Winter Wonderland challenge for this week!

Skating on the pond..pop up card!

Woke up to a beautiful Saturday morning! The sun is out and the temperatures outside are not too bad for January! In a couple of weeks we will be celebrating Ground Hog Day...will he see his shadow? I am so waiting for spring!
For the last week or so I have been wanting to make a pop up card in the worst way, but felt so intimidated by them. But I thought, oh just give it a whirl and see what happens! I used my Winter Wonderland "skater" from Victoria Case SCAC...and placed her on a circular silver mirrored cardstock! My background is popped up on different levels with dimensionals for that 3D effect. I also sprinkled some Martha Stewart snow flake glitter around the pond just to give it that just cleared off for her look!

I don't have a link to a torturial as I could not find one that I liked, so I just had to try a few things so that when you open the card she and the snow drifts just pop up! It was alot of trial and error! It's a little thick when you close it so I will have to put extra postage on my envelope to send it off!

I hope you are enjoying your weekend ...I don't know if we will be skating on the pond today as the temperatures outside may make the ice to soft!

Home for the Holidays...

First off..I want to wish all our friends south of the border a Happy Thanksgiving!

Have you ever come up with your card ideas in the middle of the night and wake up the next morning excited to put it all together? I think I am going to have to put a piece of paper with a pencil beside my bed so when I come up with ideas they are there for me the next day! I have been making cards for Christmas the last few weeks that I want to send out to some friends...and here is the one that I came up with last night. I am quite happy with this vintage look on this card. I used papertreys stamp set Communique Curves and just love it!



My grandmother taught me so many crafts such as sewing, needlepoint, quilting, knitting and crochet and I am so glad that she did! I have used a French Knot technique for the wreath. I thought it would just give the card a real homemade feel too it. I used rustic cream cardstock and sponged the edges with brown chalk. I am loving this paper! I ran the snowflake template
thru the cuttlebug to the top of the card!
I know my card is very simple...but heck..that is just me! All about simplicity when making 50 or so cards!LOL

I hope you all have a great day!

Nordic Christmas Tags...

I find that I am so inspired this time of year by pictures in Quilting Magazines! They have all the quilts displayed with all the homey Christmas fabrics... I am especially drawn to the Nordic prints...your reds and creams! So after being to the grocery store this morning and looking at the quilting magazines I came home totally inspired! I wanted to make my own tags this year. I am going to buy some plain red wrapping paper and some big wide cream ribbon and attach my newly made tags. I used Papertreys Snowfall stamps which included these gorgeous mittens. I then used the 2009 Holiday Tag Collection and paper pieced the snowflakes on the mitten and used scalloped scissors to scallop the edge! I love buttons, so lots of the papertrey buttons on here!

Supplies:

Ink: Papertrey Pure Poppy

Stamps: Holiday Tag Collection

Snowfall

Ribbon: Papertrey-cream

Martha Stewart-white/red

Punches: Martha Stewarts snowflakes & Leaf

Buttons: Papertrey

It is so nice to get these all done. I now have to finish off quite a few Christmas cards as they have to go over seas the beginning of December! I also have a quilt to finish for someone special this Christmas! Can't mention any names as she checks out this blog!

Have a great day...and thank-you so much for all the wonderful comments each and everyone of you makes on my blog. When I started this blog and saw all the talent out there...I never thought anyone would come and visit mine..so I am so grateful!

...sweetest holiday wishes...

I can now stroke another Christmas card of my list! Now this card was out of the norm for me that is for sure! I used colours that are not very Christmas like. I just wanted to try colours that I love together and see what happens...

I used a couple of stamps sets that I have to create this card. I used, Old Fashioned Christmas Set from Justrite, Quilters Sampler and Holiday Button Bits from Papertrey. I coloured everything up with copics. I used my Martha Stewart snowflake punch for the center of the card. I finished the card off with a little stitching around the edge of the card.

I have to say I am truly enjoying the blogs with all the inspiration they provide! There is so much talent out there!

Holiday Planner....

This is a Holiday Planner that I made for my sister-in-law and her family to keep her organized for the Holidays this year. I am actually in the process of making myself one as well. For the inside of my planner, I made a little pocket to put all sorts of things inside. I will put Christmas receipts, my familys Christmas Wish Lists and I will soon add some hostess/thank-you cards. I also added a notepad for the inside!

I bought a lined notepad found at any dollar store or office supply store. I embellished the front cover with Papertrey Boards & Beams stamp set and the Home for the Holidays stamp set. I did my Wish List cards with Karen Lockharts Itty Bitty Mitten stamp and used my Justrite personalize stamp to put individual names on each one!

Holiday Gift Tags....

I was so inspired by Papertreys release this month that I had to do some Holiday Gift Tag sets using my favourite stamp set from them, " Made of Snow". You have seen me use this stamp set so many times...it is so handy for so many of my projects! I paper pieced the snowman scrafs and coloured with copics the mitts! I got these little bags from a restaurant in town that puts there cookies into them and just made them my own by embossing them with snowflakes. I made the gift tags to put a gift card on them for gifts at Christmas! Hope I have inspired you as much as Papertrey inspires me!

Have a great weekend!

Marianne is giving away blog candy on her blog. If you have a chance pop over and check out her blog!