Goals/Resolutions

This is a paper bag mini I did for a swap on Scrapbook.com. The theme is Goals and Resolutions. The papers I used are all from one collection by DCWV the all Dressed Up Stack. Some of the paper have silver glitter flourishes and centers of flowers. I used my cricut using the Doodlecharm cart to cut the hat for celebration, the water globe I used as a crystal ball. the basket of egg and the cup cakes. The print is from the computer. Thanks for looking. The last picture is the tags
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Mini for Swap

This album is done for a swap on Scrapbook.com. Thanks for looking. I did a lot of stamping and direct to paper. I have also started using my new toy the cricut. That's what the tree was cut from on 2 pages and the ticket tag on the last page. The swirls were also done with my wonder cricut.

A Tim Holtz Rose

This is my take on the TH rose. I tried this after looking my my material for an hour. Then I realized where I had tucked it away for safe travels. The flower is with the sizzix originals die large. Anyway I used my made glimmer mist; forever red, green patina, walnut stain. Then I spread rock candy stickles on top.

Superbowl XLIV 2010

This is our site in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. We're ready for the Super Bowl XLIV. It has already been a great time.

Yesterday we toured the Sun Life Stadium where the Miami Dolphins play there NFL games. It is also home to the Marlins baseball. Our tour guide was a Miami Heat Championship winner in 2001.


This picture is where the stars chill until they go on stage at the big game.


In side the stadium on the 400 level. Not bad seats.

Honoring MLK and a Salute to President Obama

This is a layout I did for the Sistas Scrap Too. It is a page that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. I included in my layout a salute to our President Barack Obama.

November Swap

I have joined a mini kit club called Deux Shabby Chic DSC, It is so wonderful. The kits are out of this world. They chalked full of beautiful paper, chipboard pages, chipboard pieces, die cuts, metal, and all sort of great stuff. This is my swap with my November DSC swap partner. Okay this is it some the materials I used were stamps, brads, pearls, glossy accents, crackle accent, the papers are - My Mines Eye, DSWV, Anna Griffin, distress inks, distress crackle paint.
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Happy New New

Hello, everyone and Happy New Year. For those of you that have made those New Year's Resolutions I hope you are keeping up with them and not letting them "In one Year and out the other" Ha! Well, tonight I went again to my Stamp Addicts meeting. For those of you who are new to my blog we have a group of 9 lovely, creative, friendly ladies. We meet 1st Tuesday of each month and exchange cards we made and explain the technique we use or how we made it. Then one of us will teach a technique or provide the goodies for a project. I have attached some pic from tonight's meeting. My cards were actually tags that were distressed an stamped with some home made glimmer mist.

My cards were actually tags for the month. I distress and stamped from the Nick Bantock Collection. I love this stamp. The colors distress inks I used was broken china, tattered rose and home glimmer mist.





This is the January Project- A coaster 5 3/8 x 3 7/8 the and 2 pieces of pp for the front and back and then the calendar is glued to the lower half and then (not shown) put into a binder clip and that is the stand for the calendar. Cute, Cute, Cute!

Merry Christmas

Hey, this is the day before the day before Christmas. Yeah like Christmas Eve, Eve. I have gotten most of my shopping done. I got a late start this year. All the presents that I got I have wrapped already. Had a little problem with my tree this year so there isn't one. This does not make me happy. But it's still Christmas. While watching a video by scrapstress she did a technique on the slider card and I tried it and here are a few of the pictures of how I did it. Thanks for looking leave a message if you care too.

These pictures show the slider closed and a picture of it open (the bottom of the slider I used for a gift card. The card showing is my Carnival Cruise card)- for a tutorial from injoystampin on this go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yePID1H__9o&feature=channel Thanks for looking leave me a comment.

Flowers I Made

I had fun making these supper great crafts. While blogging I found some talented ladies making these. Check them out at the link below. One of the flowers I didn't save the link so I can't give her the credit. I'm sorry I don't remember the crafter's name and site.

These are some paper and acetate flowers. The 2 flowers on the top are made from light weight brown paper bag. The products used for this are Adirondack color wash terra cotta, glossy accent and the center is a clear pebble this is a link to the video that I CASED (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqVkcKgxls4) The flowers to the left are made of paper and acetate. I punched out 5 petals from and oval punch. I inked one with color box ink, sprayed memories mist-mango lemonade then I stamped manuscript background stamp in black ink, and the top middle was embossed with my cuttlebug and then I brushed on perfect pearls and vintage photo on the edges. The last flowers are made of acetate, alcohol inks, versamark and black and gold ep.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JupOwM-5w) In all these flowers I used brads to hold them together. Some were embossed, alcohol inked and sanded. Thanks for looking, if you like leave me a comment.

Color Challenge

This is a color challenge for She-She on Memories Always Forever -MAF. She challenge us to use the colors- purple, orange, black and green. I don't usually do Halloween but tried this and liked the way it turned out. The caption on the transparency is 'BOO TO YOU'. The skull is a Tim Holtz grunge board inked with acrylic paint with glossy accent over it. The flower was one I cased from Velma. It is made out of light paper bag smooched up and sprayed with gold shimmering mist and place on top of a frame, added buttons and ribbon. Oh the transparency is embossed with black ep.

A "Yard Sale" Haul

What you see here is the haul I got from a fellow craft person. She was downsizing and I got to be a part of her parting moments. Well let me tell you what I got. In the first picture standing up is a chipboard colored calender set, several file folder packet by Rustic Pickle, a brand new grommet tool kit, 4 CD cases of unmounted stamp sets (dress, ribbon & rick rack, labels, My Sentiment exactly letters) a set of unmounted leaves, Stampin up! Mat Pack, Christmas ball stamp set, small paper bags, a sizzix cutter, a container of form letters, so sponge dauber (12 piece) I had a wonderful time looking through all the craft items she had. They were very organized and she was so much fun. She has even been to my Church on several occasions and we talked much longer than I shopped but I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks to my "Friend in Crime" I was able to to get some craft goodies, some of which I have wanted for a while and I feel in love with last night.

Blog Candy

Today I came across some blog candy offered by A very talented lady. Her candy is sponsored by K&Co this week.

This blog candy is open from NOW until Sunday October 11th at midnight CST. The hostess will review all the entries and do a random draw to select a winner. Winner will be announced Wednesday, October 14th before midnight.

Click HERE for all the information! Also check out all her wonderful fantastic weekly challenges and play along!!!!!

Card Swap

These cards were made for a swap I'm in on Scrapbook.com.
The first theme is something that we like. Guess what? Yeah, I looooove to shop. I ordered this stamp from Flourishes. www.flourishers.org (Gigi & Chole set #60). I used memonto black ink and colored with new product that looks like twinkling h2o.

This card has the butterfly theme which had to have a butterfly on the card somewhere. I used the butterfly collage stamp- stamp it twice and cut out the butterfly colored and covered it with crystal lacquer.

This card a has the tropical theme. I used Bazzill texture paper and the technique is the crayon directly on the stamp and them mist and stamp, this makes it look like watercolor.


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RV Studio

This is my stamp studio on my RV. It's small and cramp but it works. This is where I produced some of my swaps and started challenges for Ebonysisters, etc. I had to pack up Sunday so we could start on our journey back home. Packing up took a very long time but I have it so tight even air will have a difficult time passing though. On our way home we stopped by our niece and nephew in Mississippi for a family cookout on Labor Day. We had a wonderful time with lots of food and family. Now today Tuesday we are headed for home, stopping in Anniston, Al over night at a campground. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

Believe

This is a tag using the technique I acquired at the Scrap Scrap Art Tour in Winston-Salem, NC July 25-26. Ted was the demonstrator and one of his suggestions; to women is to unhook you'll be fine (meaning be free with your design); put white pen on card to cover up block smudges (the pen he used is a galaxy marker; yellow ink covers anything (mustard seed).
Receipe for tag- manila tag, mustard seed, mini mister filed with water, Distress ink- vintage photo, faded jeans; stamps; tree(seaside stamping Ink), V-mail letter(River City Rubber Works, believe (Seaside stamping Ink), Fanciful Dot Filament (Hero Arts), stickles- frosted lace, Glitz stickles Champagne.

Christmas in July

On Monday my Stamp Addicts had a stamp meeting and it was a Christmas in July. Each person made a card and brought enough products for each person to make a card like they designed. I have labeled each card with the designer. If you like them leave me a comment. Thanks for looking.

Color Speak the Truth

As I was blogging today I found this “Colorscope”on the Paper Source blog. We all mix and match colors without really knowing what the colors really mean. PS says that Sue felt that a person's favorite colors revealed something interesting about them, so she create the Colorscope. Look at the Colorscope and pick two favorites ( mine fuchsia and beet) and read what it says you are like according to the color you pick. Leave me a comment to let me know what the colorscope says about you.