PocketBac Parade part 1

I have been making a lot of pocketbacs for stocking stuffers this year.  I thought this was a wonderful idea especially since EVERYONE in our house is sick!  Terry got a nasty cold from his brother and gave it to Evan.  Evan, being the nice boy he is, shared it with his mom.  Well not to be grinchy during the holiday season, I passed it on to Riley Kate.  (Dani has never been so happy to be living in a dorm.) Evan and I have been sick for about a week and Terry several days longer than that.  I'm ready to be able to breathe again!

This group of pocketbacs has my favorite little girl showcased in each of them.  It's amazing how she looks great in any color.  Maybe it's her Blush Blossom complexion.  LOL

Stamp set: Greeting Card Kids

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas....

Are you gearing up to make your Christmas cards?  If so, this is just the color challenge for you.  Krista's Cards & Things Challenge this week has great colors to kick up your Christmas creativity. 

Using the same sketch, I made two different cards.  The first card is your standard A2 size w/ a whisper white background.  It turned out pretty cute, but I thought I wanted to try something different and check out the results...   

This second card is a 4 1/4" square card.  The nice thing about this size is that you can still use your A2 envelopes and there's no extra postage.

This card has a crumb cake background w/ whisper white craft ink swiped over out to  make it look just a little frosty.  I love that look.

Which card do you like best? 

Are you making your Christmas cards this year?

If you would like to order any supplies to make your cards this year, please email me.  I would be happy to get your items ordered and ship to you right away so you can give handmade cards this year.  :)

Cherry Mist.. Christmas Nugget Tin

Today, I worked on some more nugget tins.  This was one of my favorites.  I can't help myself--this little girl from the Greeting Card Kids set it one of my all time favorite stamps.  Instead of traditional Christmas colors the Frostwood dsp has this gorgeous Marina Mist and Cherry Cobbler plaid.  I just LOVE it!   Sometimes I wish SU! sold some of the dsp by the individual sheet.  I would be a whole stack of this sheet.  The backside is the woodgrain that I have under my grosgrain ribbon and half the nuggets are wrapped in.  If you are doing Christmas stamping, I highly recommend the Frostwood.  I give it 2 thumbs up!  :)

 

Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler
Stamp Set: Greeting Card Kids
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi,  Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist
Accessories: 2 way glue, dazzling diamond glitter, aqua painter, retired Marina Mist Grosgrain (there's other ribbon that would match perfectly, but I was using up some of my retired product), Big Shot, Tastefully Trim die, non-SU! circle and scallop dies

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Have a Fruity Halloween

I can't believe that Riley Kate goes back to school in one week and Dani leaves for college just two day after that!  It's crazy how fast this summer has flown by.  I am; however, ready for cooler temps, sweatshirts, hot apple cider, changing of leaves and HALLOWEEN!  Halloween is such a fun holiday.  I loved the fact that the whole day is centered around candy-a lot of which is CHOCOLATE!  :)

Today, I made a fruity Halloween card.   This card is Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz and Perfect Plum. I love the names that SU! gives their colors. 

 I think this little witch is so cute sitting on a pumpkin.  She makes me smile--she must be a good witch.  Yep, no ruby slippers!

Stamps: All Holidays-retired, Greeting Card Kids

DSP: Just Add Cake

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Perfect Plum and Peach Parfait

Accessories: Staz On Ink, Scallop Dot Ribbon, Spider Web Impressions folder, circles #2 die, scallop circle punch, aqua painter

If you would like to order supplies for this card, you can do so online by clicking on my shopping cart or emailing me. 

   My daughter, Dani works on two hobby farms.   I am amazed when she gets home and recaps her day at work. Here are some of my personal favorites.  She has ripped out fences, built a round pen, split wood, vaccinated animals, insulated a garage, hung plywood, refinished doors, pulled out posts,  and tiled a bathroom.
  

She also does little everyday things to like planting gardens and trees and LOTS of mowing and weeding.  

This morning, Dani took her camera with her to work. I told her to take some pictures of some of her favorite things about working on the farms that I could scrapbook for her.  I wasn't surprised when there was a picture of this little one.

Isn't she sweet?!! Her name is June or  June Bug as Dani calls her.  She was a surprise lamb born 2 months late (in June). This little one has adopted Dani as her mommy and bleats whenever she hears Dani's voice.  She runs up to the fence and waits for Dani to pet her. 
Dani has  brought June home to babysit a few times while the couple she works for went on a couple weekend trips.  June evidently rides well in Dani's front seat of her car. 
I think there may be a few tears when Dani has to leave her behind to head off to college.

Brooke's Get Well Card

Happy Valentine's Day!  It is such a beautiful day in Wisconsin.  The sun is shining and it's a unseasonal 35-40 degrees outside. Riley Kate was sure that this was t-shirt weather and was really unhappy when I said she had to wear at least a hoodie to school.  Can you believe we are midway through February.  Spring is getting closer and closer.  I can't wait to take Evan out in the stroller walking w/ me.  Hopefully he will like being outside as much as I do... 

There's another new sketch challenge over at Krista's Cards & Things Challenges.

This was just what I needed to get me down in the basement stamping.  

 My friend, Lois had couple knee replacement surgery last week.  I also have a cousin in the hospital w/ some complications from a recent surgery.  I needed to make some Get Well/Speed Recovery cards for them. 

I had to use the little Greeting Card Kids girl again w/ the heart for my cousin, Brooke's Card.  This little girl reminds me of Brooke when she was little.  :) 

Here's the entire card: 

I didn't have time to dye an SU! flower so please excuse the non-SU! embellishment.  Sometimes you have to settle for what you have when you are in a pinch.  LOL

Ohhh and I just got the Sweet & Sour DSP---omgosh, it's Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red.  I love them together! I think you'll be seeing a lot of it in my blog posts.  ♥

Riley Kate's Valentine

Here's a quick little Ghirardelli holder I made for Riley Kate for Valentine's Day. 
She is all about Valentine's Day and L-O-V-E.... 

I paper pieced the little girls dress and bow.  I love her in little polka dots!

I Love You....

I spent all day Sunday cleaning my Stampin' Room.  It's been months since I have had more than a few inches of clean space to stamp. I cleaned off my table, the counter and the closet,  organized my ribbon, punches and scraps and even vacuumed the carpet.   WOW!  It was like a new room.  Now my DH can stop shaking his head every time he walks in when I'm trying to stamp in my 3" x 3" space that was clean on my table.  It felt so good to get it cleaned up that I had to sit down and mess it up a bit. 

 This week Krista has a new sketch challenge over at the Cards & Things Challenge blog.  I love this challenge.  I was so ready for another sketch challenge.  It's great to get those creative juices flowing. 

Here's the sketch!  Doesn't it look like a good one?  :)

Here's my card...

I was so excited to finally use this little girl. 

She is just too sweet!

 

I added some faux stitching w/ my Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Write Marker

 

Using my sewing machine, I ran a running stitch through my Daffodil Delight Ribbon and give it a pull and scrunched my ribbon.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Three Little Words

CS: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Staz On, Soft Suede

DSP: Brights Stack

Accessories: mat pack, paper piercer, aqua painter, sewing machine, daffodil delight taffeta ribbon, Cherry Cobbler marker, daffodil delight brads, heart punch, glass mat, circle scissors plus



Christmas in Pink and Pear

Tis the season for pink and green. Okay yes, it's a little untraditional, but I LOVE IT! I just don't believe that there's any card (except masculine of course) that doesn't look good in pink and green.
I'm back to using that sweet little Greeting Card Kids set. They are too cute not to use! :)

Look at all that glitter!

I sat tacked just my Pretty in Pink dsp on my card back and ran it through the Big Shot using the Northern Flurries embossing folder.

Then I carefully removed the dsp, mounted it on Pink Pirouette. (I didn't want the mat embossed too.)

Here's my inspiration! It's a Sketch Challenge over at Cards & Things! Come on over and play along this week. You don't even have to use pink and green--unless you want to. ;)

Recipe Recipe:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids

Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry

DSP: Subtles Stack (Pretty in Pink Polka Dots)

Ink and Markers: Stazon Black, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Pink Pirouette, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Big Shot, Northern Frost, Northern Flurries, 2 way glue, Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals

Greeting Card Kids

Over the weekend, Riley Kate and I went to the apple orchard and bought a bushel of apples. We spent most the day Saturday (and half the night) making and canning applesauce. It was a lot of fun to spend the day with Riley Kate. I will be sad to see her go back to school Wednesday. She is good help. We canned 25 pints of applesauce and OHHH the mess we made. :) Sunday, I cleaned the kitchen and started canning again. I had another 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes that needed to be preserved. I packed all the canned goods downstairs this morning to my root cellar--35 quarts and 7 pints of tomatoes plus the 25 pints of applesauce. The shelves are filling up. It's a good feeling.
BUT... I need a break from canning. It was so hot in the kitchen--I started to think about how nice it would be to spend some time in the basement in my Stampin' Room.
When I got Evan down for his nap--I ignored the mess that I should have been cleaning up and headed right for the basement! :)

I ordered the Greeting Card Kids set from the new 2010-11 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog. I just couldn't resist the cute little kids. They remind me so much of the cards that we received when I was a little kid. They are so sweet and simple.

This week's color challenge over at Krista's Cards & Things Challenge Blog was a perfect excuse to use my new stamps. I thought immediately of the little girl w/ the Christmas tree when I saw the colors.Here's my card!

She makes me smile when I look at her. Awwwww!!!

Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: Greeting Card Kids
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black
Stampin' Write Markers: Crumb Cake, Wild Wasabi, Real Red
Accessories: Real Red Striped Ribbon (retired), 2 way glue, dazzling diamonds glitter, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, Scallop Square die, Big Shot, Circle Scissors Plus, Non-SU scallop square and pearls