Sleigh Ride

This is another Sugar nellie stamp called Jingle Bell.  The image is stamped on Whisper white card-stock and matted with Chocolate chip.  The card base is baja breeze with a matte of Basic Grey designer paper.  I used a saying from Stampin Up!’s All Holidays.  I added ribbon and outline stickers to complete the card.

I made this card for Beate’s weekend sketch.

My new Sugar Nellies

I just could not resist purchasing some of the Sugar Nellie girls.    The top one is Sweet N’ Sassy.  She is colored in with watercolor pencils.  I made this card for Sketches ( by tamara).  The card is on a kiwi kiss card-stock base with a sampling of the new Bella Rose designer series papers.  The image is stamped on Whisper White card-stock with a pink piroette matte.  The saying is from Stampin Up!’s warm words.  The ribbon was added, along with some Darice adhesive gems.

The next card is Pen Pal and she is also stamped on Whisper White card-stock with a very vanilla card-stock matte.  The card is a pal plum card-stock base with a Basic Grey Gypsy matte.  The prima flowers with brad , darice adhesive rhinestone gems and the arrow punch by Stampin UP! with the warm words saying top it all off.

I hope to get some more stamping projects done today.  We got nothing from the hurricane except some much needed rain  and a mess in the garage that the dogs created for us.  I am busy planning a yard sale, ebaying items and trying to get my house as organized as possible. 

Lay a SBS5 Sister has completed more summer Challenge

For some reason I could not copy the photos from her blog. Please go check out the project that she made with some of the things I sent her.

Cards made with Jany’s supplies

This card was made with the TAC image that Jany sent me, the Bella Toile from Stampin UP! stamped with craft white ink and most of the rest were from Jany’s supplies.  The card stock is Berry sorbet from Papertrey ink.  The image was colored in with watercolor pencils.

This image was colored in with watercolor pencils and punched oout using the 1 3/8 inch punch. The card-stock in greengalore by Stampin Up! and the matte for the image is yo-yo yellow from Stampin Up!.  All the other supplies were from Jany.

This card is made on a pale plum card-stock base by Stampin UP!  .  The saying is one of our new hostess sets, called the best yet.  The rhinestones are some I picked up in the $1 bin at Micheals.  All the rest is I believe TAC supplies.

It just shows that you can combine any products to get a great card.

Thank you Jany for letting me play.

Package from Jany

I received this package from Jany my SBS5 sister in Puerto Rico.  She is a TAC demonstrator.  I am suppose to make some projects with the items she sent me.  It is like the Summer Challenge I did this summer.

 This is the card that she sent with it.  Go to the link and check out her site.  I will post my creations later today.

Color Challenge

I made this card for Kristina’s Color challenge this week.  I used Stampin Up!’s new background stamp Bella Toile and Warm Words.  I stamped the image with the rose red ink and then watercolored with ink to fill it in the way I wanted.  Some of the extras are the scallops made with Stampin UP!’s new scallop border punch, the regal rose ribbon and the faux pearls on the word punch phrase.

Life’s Lesson

As I am busy cleaning house, preparing for hurricanes, helping my son with homework, trying to prepare for a yard sale and not getting any stamping done , I thought I would take a minute to share this with you.

I found this many years ago and I don’t know who to give credit for it.  I have always hung it on my bullentin board.  Today I stopped to look at it and thought of posting it.

The Rules to Being Human

1. You will receive a body.  You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons.  You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called life.  Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.  You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation.  The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".

4.A lesson is repeated until it is learned.  A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.  Then you can go on to the next lesson.

5.  Learning lessons does not end.  There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons, if you are alive there are lesson to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here".  When your "there" has become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here."

7.Others are merely mirrors of you.  you can not love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8.  What you make of your life is up to you.  You have all the tools and resources you need: what you do with them is up to you.  The chioce is yours.

9.  The answers lie inside you.  The answers to life’s questions lie inside you.  All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

My first Sketch on Design Team

This is my first Sketch on the design team of Am I a Scrap Addict ( click on box below to see more samples).  I have been so excited to show you this card.  I started out with the red riding hood Flower card ( inspiration by Mel Stampz).  There is a Bella Rose Designer series paper flower with stickles around the edges.  The image is from Stampin Up!’s Dreams du Jour stamp set.  I punched them out in hopes of making them look like stamps.    The inside also has a pink pirouette flower. 

The outside of the card is a transparency, cut in half and folded to make the outside of the card.  I used white stazon ink to stamp the flourishes from Baroque Motifs and the butterfly from Dreams du jour.  I then punched holes in the sides to thread the white ribbon through and added beads to the ends.

Please check out the links below to see what the other girls on the design team created.

Tutorial Tuesday-Making Light Blocks Part 2

Welcome back from last week.  Here is the decorating part to the tutorial.

This first picture shows how my block turned out.  I have been meaning to use this picture that I took at Seaworld for awhile now.  I try to make light blocks that can stay on display all year round.  This will probably be my son’s new night light.  I also plan to make one for my husband’s office with both children on it and I will add a memory voice recorder to it so that when he presses the button my kids will say "Hi dad"

I started out by printing my picture on vellum, trimiming it to fit the block and then adhering it with the sticky tape.

The next step is to take a sheet of the red sticky tape and trim to the size of your picture and carefully adhere it to the surface.

Then I peel off the top layer of the red sticky tape and heat it with my heat gun to make the micro-beads stick real well.  Then pour on the micro-beads and press into the sticky tape.

Then embellish the outside.  I used sea glass to accent the water.

When the embellishments have dried, then start to add the wide ribbon.  I use the sticky red tape on the sides to adhere the ribbon.  I leave the tails for decoration.

The last part is to make the bow.  I use the Bowabra to assist me.  Then I glue it to the top with a hot glue gun.  Sometimes I add shells, faux fruit and faux flowers around the bow but I decided not to on this one.

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