Deer Friends

After searching the Splitcoast galleries, I came up with this card using 2 of my new sets - Deer Friends and Best Yet. I think it's hubby's favorite Christmas card I've made so far. (He's more into fun and festive than elegant.)

Another snowman card

More fun with the snowman stamp ....


OK, the sleepy puppy and I are off to bed. Have a good one.

Elegant snowman

I was playing with my new stamps from Costco (thanks again for the tip, Marge) and came up with this snowman card. He's inspired by this card from Splitcoast.

Welcome card

I made this card this morning for our new tech girl at work. She was looking to brighten up her office, so I hope this helps. Nestabilities and Basic Grey paper - 2 of my favorite things. Have a great Friday!

Linda's believe card - part 2

Here's one with the brads. :)

Linda's Christmas Cards

My friend Linda from work asked me to make her Christmas cards. Here's the current prototype. I made a few different ones last night, but I didn't like them when I came back this morning. I think I like this one, but we'll see. Ideally I'd put silver brads in the corners, but if she mails them, that won't work too well. Oh well. Feel free to give me feedback - it's always appreciated. Happy Sunday.

Baby thank you cards

My college roommate is having her first baby in January, so I made these cards as thank you notes for her shower. The baby footprints are one of my favorite sets of stamps, and I got to use my new Cuttlebug embossing strip. How fun! Have a great weekend.

Blog Candy for Embellishment

Check out the chance to win fun blog candy from Natalie - http://nattykcards.blogspot.com/

Good luck!

The Best Is Yet to Come

My friend from work has a big interview on Monday morning, so I made her this card with my new stamps. I saw the idea on splitcoast to stamp the "Pocket Silhouettes" behind the sentiment from "Best Yet," and I like the effect. Think good thoughts for my friend's interview!

Thank you cards

I needed a couple cards to send thank you notes for birthday presents, so I made these tonight. The first one was inspired by a card by Beate Johns (but I can't find the specific card right now - here's her awesome blog, though). It's the first time I used my new circle Nestabilities, which I just love! The second card was inspired by this card by Brycia and uses my favorite color combo - pink and brown. Thanks for the inspiration, ladies. :)

What set is this?

Can anyone look at the attached picture and tell me what set these stamps are from? My friend gave them to me, and they say Stampin' Up 2004. Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited: Thanks to those who emailed me. In case you want to know, it's 5 of the 9 stamps from a retired set called Smorgasborders. Now I just need to figure out what to make with them!

For the caregivers

Good morning! Here are my cards for the caretakers of Alzheimer's patients. (See Cammie's blog or my last post for more details.) Cammie, thank you for organizing such a wonderful project, and thank you for the chance to win so many goodies. I'm mailing the cards today!

The most amazing Blog Candy ever!

It's from "My Blog by Cammie" and here's the link.

She's offering an amazing amount of stamps, goodies, and homemade cards from amazing artists. All you have to do is make a care for a caregiver of Alzheimer's patients and send it to them. See her blog for more details. What a wonderful ideas.... and what great gifts!

PS - Thanks for letting me know, Marge. :) I'll be posting my card soon.

Cat and Dog Halloween

I found this card on Ileana's blog and absolutely loved it, so I bugged Ileana for the information and tracked it down. Since Laura loves cats, Amanda and I love dogs, and Wendi loves stamping, I figured we'd all get lots of use out of the set. Here it is in case you love it as much as I do. (The set is from Inkadinkado and was 40% off at AC Moore.)

And here are the first cards I made with the set. Have a great day!

Hi

I needed a quick card, so I used a PageMaps sketch (of course) and some old { } stamps I hadn't used in a while for this card. Not so bad for a 5 minute project ... :)

Have a great day!

Need your creative help

OK, so I know August is insanely early to be thinking about Christmas cards, but I'm doing it already. My friends and I are getting together next week to start playing, and I wanted to have any idea before then. This is what I have so far, but I feel like it needs something else. Any suggestions? I have a gold brad star that I could put in the middle of the "joy" wreath. Or does it need something in the corners (or 2 corners)? Any suggestions you have would be GREAT! Thanks. :)

altered notebook

This is my first altered composition notebook. I've been looking at samples online for a while, and I bought a pile of them to make as gifts when I found a great back-to-school sale. I made this one for my co-worker's birthday this week, and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I got some great tips from this You Tube video on altered composition books. Enjoy!

My 100th post!

Wow - I can hardly believe I've posted 100 posts on my blog. Thanks to those of you who read them. :) I have a few cards to share that I made this morning. One is for the September card shower from Bela's Yahoo Group. Hope Janine likes it!

The other 3 cards are all made from the K&Company tags I won from the Springfest crop. Thanks Bela - love the tags!

Back from vacation

Hey ladies!

We just got back from a few days at the beach, so I've been catching up on some cards I needed to make this morning. The first one is a pocket card for one of my new teachers. I'm mentoring 9 new teachers this year, so I'm making each one a welcome card. (1 down, 8 to go!)

The next card is a thank you to my friend Wendi, who rented us her beach house for the week. It's 99 steps from the beach (according to her husband), and it was nice to be able to get away, even if it was only for a few days. Something about the sun and the sand makes everything else just drift away.....

The last card is for my friend Amanda who took care of Daisy while we were away. Daisy had a ball playing with Peanut, her pug. This card is based on another PageMaps sketch (no shock, I'm sure), and I like how it made me think outside of the box.

The last picture isn't a card, but it's my favorite picture from vacation. We ate dinner at Seacrets in Ocean City, and this was the view of the sun setting over the bay. Love it.

Girls' Weekend

My friend Beth and I have been doing girls' scrapbooking weekends for the last 3 years. Here are my layouts about this year's trip to Ocean City. The first page is based on a PageMaps sketch (love them), and the second page is a collage of everything else I wanted to include. :)