Just under the wire

Good morning! Today is the last day to play along and enter the Kitchen Sink monthly contest. The challenge this month was: Use school supplies or items to make a card or project. You can alter an item too! Extra apple points for a school themed card. Well here is my try at it. The green card stock is Stampin Up Old Olive, the other card stock is assorted Bazzil. The ribbon is random from my scraps and the boarder punch is from EK Success. The School items I used are a red paper clip and a scrap of a post it note from a pad. The lines are already pre printed on the post it note and it reminded me of way back in the day when you went to school and practiced our writing on our Big Chief tablets with all the lined paper. The samples that the teachers would give out would always start with the dotted line letters to give you an idea of what they are supposed to look like. So I hand wrote Happy Birthday in the lines just like the old days! The ind I used for distressing is Wild Wasabi. And the tie to Kitchen Sink is the Hey Chick stamp that I stamped in Wild Wasabi as a background on the orange panel. I hope you all enjoy it and I hope I win some more Kitchen Sink stamps so I will have some more to play with!!!! Thank you ladies for sponsoring such wonderful contests. Again, I'm sorry the image is so small, but if you click on it, you can see a larger image.

Happy Birthday Peanut!

Wow, It's been a very long time since I have posted! Just when I got things under control with being able to upload my cards using jpg files, work went and got a new copier/scanner which does not seem to have that option. I have several cards that I have scanned that are all in Adobe. ARGH!!!!! I have to figure out how to get them up here. I have to get a camera, figure out this technology and than we will be on board. So in the meantime, I have a card to share today for my niece, Olivia, or as I call her..."Peanut". Today is the big day! One year ago, I got the call from my sister - "Dars, it's TIME." OMG - IT'S TIME. So I call my boss, jump in my car and head down to my sisters to pick up my little nephew. She was on her way to the hospital and by mid afternoon we had the good news that Olivia Lea had arrived. She was soooo tiny and beautiful. Fast forward to today. She is ONE! She is still tiny though, hence the "peanut" I made this little card today with her in mind. She is born on the first of July and it really doesn't get toooooo much more patriotic than that, (unless you are actually born on the fourth) so I used the red, white, and blue for the card stock (Bazzil and Bazzil Dots). There is a great collaboration of stamp companies on here: The Greeting Farm with the Wild West Anya colored in with Copics for skin tone, and than Stampin Up markers for her western wear, and hair; than we have Clear Dollar Stamps with their supercute!!! Charlie horse who is also colored in with Stampin Up Markers, and the Giddy Up sentiment is from the same set; and last but not least Kitchen Sink Stamps with 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet and 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet Buddy for the Number 1. Congratulations, Peanut! You've come a long way this last year, and today is the first day of the rest of your life! Enjoy

Happy Easter Wishes

Hello all. Well, my company is giving us Friday off as a "holiday", so I won't have access to Blogger over the weekend. I decided to give you all something to look while I am away. A co-worker asked me for an Easter card for her mother, so I put this together the other night with my BFF's help, well actually her stamps. I was so honored to be able to ink them up before she had the chance to do it. I doubt that will happen very often ! I am fairly happy with the way it came out. This is from the Multi-Step Lily set from Kitchen Sink Stamps (http://kitchensinkstamps.bigcartel.com/products). There are 5 steps for these flowers - that's a lot of blue! I also stamped some ATC's for a Thank you note set I am giving as a gift to the mother to be at the shower this weekend. I was a stamping fool I tell you. I used Archiver's Card stock - Wildberry Pie for the mat and the card and I used SU Whisper White for the image and the background. I used the Scor-Pal to make a grid pattern embossed on the background panel of card stock. I didn't have a Happy Easter sentiment so I just made one! I used Ballet Blue for the sentiment. The recipe for the flower is (Soft Sky, Almost Amethyst, Bordering Blue, Ballet Blue, and Pacific Point) the stem is (Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, and Garden Green). I wanted to put ribbon on it, but I didn't have the right one, so I went with Bling. My co-worker said that her mom would like that, so I'm glad I went with that decision. Well, I am co-hosting the baby shower this Saturday and hopefully going to see my nieces and nephews on Sunday. I hope you all have a great weekend and I will make sure to take pictures of the diaper cake I am making for a future post. Until next time.... Happy Easter!