Happy 4th of July

Hope everyone has a nice and relaxing day. I just got done grilling some BBQ chicken and Brats for the family and now I am heading in my scraproom to index my Papertrey Ink stamps... Big job there haha... I wish they would come out with a catalog that has what they get new every year. I even email them to tell them that but no response lol doesn't hurt to ask. Maybe in the future... I ended up making a few cards last night with my Lili Of the Valley stamps. Oh have you seen the new Sugar Nellies release. I got an email this morning that mine are postal. I wonder if its the same person that is the artist for the Lili of the Valley stamps cause the little girl looks the same... Anyways I need to take pictures of them but haven't figure out where I can set my lightbox up yet since I am so limited for space. Here are some pictures of my stuff upstairs. Granted the room is smaller but its warm and no drumming over my head hahaha. Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally a Card

Well I finally got some cards done this weekend. Here is one of my new Riley stamps I got that I just had to ink up. I think I ended up making 8 different ones which I just got done posting on Etsy which I also haven't posted anything new for awhile. Now what to do with the rest of the day.. It's nice outside but too hot to just sit out there. I've been thinking about go getting some pizza and watching a DVD. Or maybe I will go and make some more cards... How are you enjoying your weekend?

I'm still here....

So yes I am still here I've just been laying low and gearing up to do some Holiday cards. I am also in the process of documenting all my stamps. I bought these Canon Sketch 5 x 7 notebooks which have 100 pages in them and see the picture above. I am stamping all the images in them and then when I am bored I am coloring some of them just to get some color schemes. I have almost one whole notebook just of Elizabeth Bell... So far I got almost 5 notebooks full and haven't made a dent yet. If anyone knows of anyway to get Memento Ink off the fingers i would love to know. I have to take a break every other day cause i have been getting blisters on my thumb lots of stamping. I also have been going to work with black fingers. Believe me i have tried everything. I even walked through our local Archivers and tried all the ink removers on it. None worked. I tried every home ingredient i could think of even bought some stuff off the internet called Removeez which that worked better than most ingredients but still no go for 50% of the ink. Yes it wears off in a few days but I have a business job so it kind of looks funny lol.

I also moved scrap area's again. My husband plays drums so we swapped spots so the noise would be less which i love it upstairs even though it's smaller so i am still having some of my stuff stored downstairs but majority is up here. It's nice and quiet and warm. It was freezing downstairs no matter summer or winter.

Well that's enough chit chat for today. I hope everyone is enjoying summer since we are finally seeing one here in MN.

Papertrey - Fruit Fusion

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I am glad I don't have work tomorrow it's been a nice long weekend. I got to work on some cards this weekend and made this one with my new Paper Trey Ink Set Fruit Fusion. There are several different fruits this is just one of them. I added those little glass balls which I can't remember what they are called I want to say like Robin Eggs or something but maybe I dreamt that anyways I have tons of them so added them to my little grapes on this set. I loved the way it turned out. Have a good evening..

Dad - Lili of the Valley

Sorry I've been horrible about posting lately it seems like I never have the time and then when I do the blogger website was down. Anyways I made this card a couple weeks ago using one of my new Lili of the Valley Boy's release stamps which I just love... Isn't it to cute. I colored it in copics and the background paper is Papertrey Inks.

So hasn't it been a stormy spring so far it seems like it's been one storm here after another and I forgot what the sun looks like. And those poor people in Missouri and Kansas my heart goes out to them.

As for stamping news i just got some new stamps from "love to stamp" - I believe the store is new. Of course I seen them on a blog when they were having the release and ran right over to order some. I got 4 of them so hopefully I can find the time to make some cards with them this week. One of the little gals is in a hot air balloon and I have a stamp set from Papertrey ink with Hot Air balloons so I am thinking they will go good together though I haven't looked yet.

As for reading new hmmm I just finished a great series by Jeri Smith-Ready about a gal who can see ghosts it's fabulous called Shift & Shade I don't remember which one is first off the top of my head but i think Shade is book 1. If you love Paranormal books this is the one to read. I just started Gena Showalter "The Darkest Kiss" which I believe this is Book 2 of her Lords of Underworlds series even though they don't need to be read together as they are all separate characters in the books. I like to multi task so i listen to TONS of audible books and do that while I am making my cards.

I also got this weekend some new shelves at Ikea to hold my ribbon and Marth Stewart punches well a few anyways. I will take a picture of those this weekend and show you. The shelves fit the Papertrey ink ribbon perfect and also the smaller rolls of Stampin Up or Michaels. They are like 40+ inches long and then they have smaller ones half that size. They also sell some cute little jars which 2 packages of them fit on one of the smaller shelves for buttons and brads etc...

Dang time is slipping and I need to get to work - Have a fabulous dry week..

Berries - Teddy Bo

Here is a card i made this week with a digital image from Teddy Bo. I just love those little Bo images they so dang cute. This one I added a sentiment that I had from TLC images. Link is under digital images. I also used some paper from my stash and the cute punch border is a die from MFT's from last months release. The Flowers are from Wild Orchids.

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week. Only a couple more days now and I go to Michelle Zindorf's class again in St. Cloud. I can't wait I had alot of fun last time I attend. I even took class 1 again this time lol.....

MFT's Card

Well I woke up to rain this morning but it's still better than snow haha... Here is a card I made this weekend from a new set errr maybe it was new last month I don't remember now but I thought the stamp was adorable. I added rhinestones to the sweater and her hat and then little pearls to the punch from Martha Stewart. Hope everyone has a fabulous week...

Finally Friday

I am so glad today is finally friday and it's actually maybe going to be nice and warm outside today. I can see the sunrise over the houses so that is a good sign. I am going to go to my parents house tomorrow and visit them and take my son and his gf out for lunch. But right now I am going to show you a card I made last weekend from Whimsey Stamps the designer is Chrissy Armstrong. They had a few birthday stamps come out and this is one of them. Isn't it too cute. I colored it in copics.

Before I forget I signed up for another Michelle Zindorf class in St. Cloud in a couple weeks. I've already taken them but I couldn't resist and it's not like I have done it since the last class a couple years ago so I think of it as a refresher... I can't wait. My sister lives in that town about an hour or so north of me maybe a little more. So I am going to meet her for breakfast that morning.

Cats Pajama's Bunny

When I seen this bunny with this saying I just had to buy it. Isn't it too dang cute. Not much coloring on this one. I made the little wind things 3d and put a rhinestone on each one and then the little fuzzy tail.

So did everyone have a nice Easter. I made a Turkey breast and carrot cake for desert yummy... Have a great week...

Happy Easter

Hope everyone has a nice Easter. Here is another one of the cards I posted on Etsy yesterday. This one is a rubber stamp from artist Elisabeth Bell. I bought it from SCAD I can never remember what that stands for it's like Suzannes Custom Art Designs or something similiar the link is up under my favorites on the right hand side. There was like 6 of them in the release I think. Anyways colored in Copics of course and used my EK Success punch on this one. Have a great day...