summer days...

i am still dreaming of summer. probably because it keeps snowing almost every day. i can't wait to see the sun for longer than a day!! this is my entry in ellie's summer circle journal. hope she likes it! i think i used a record number of blue inks! i also tried embossing with versafine ink, which i didn't know you could do. i love it. it's my new fave black to emboss with. gives much finer detail than either black craft ink or versamark.

summer days!
stamps: hanna stamps, riley, studio g, purple onion stamps, eat cake graphics, kim huges, green grass stamps
cardstock: bermuda bay, soft sky, american crafts pp
ink: baja breeze, buckaroo blue, pacific point, blue bayou, taken with teal, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers, clear embossing powder

snowman tags...

sometimes i just get stumped by a swap. this was one of them. i have a ton of snowman stamps, so you would think it would be easy. but i couldn't figure it out! maybe it was the size that threw me off. they were to be 3x3 tags. and i didn't want to make a 3x3 card. i love this snowman from purple onion. it's one of my favorites. and i remembered i had this tag stamp, so i wanted to use it. trying to get them to fit together was a challenge, but i did it. and it made me use more brads, which i rarely use anymore!




snowman tag
stamps: purple onion, green grass stamps, maryse carrier
cardstock: vintage violet, all my memories pp
ink: vintage violet, tempting turquoise, onyx black
embellishments: hemp twine, brads, prismacolor & bic markers

pink, pink...

i've been working on a few swaps over the past few days. both swaps are hosted by my friend chris (aka stinkydog...) one is a baby atc and one is themed "drink up". i guess i'm liking the new in color from stampin up, melon mambo!




special delivery
stamps: heidi grace, green grass stamps
cardstock: melon mambo, pink pirouette
ink: onyx black versafine, melon mambo, pink pirouette
embellishments: doodlebug buttons, stickles diamond dust



cheers to you!
stamps: stampin up
cardstock: melon mambo, pebbles pp
ink: onyx black versafine, melon mambo
embellishments: glossy accents

my town...

this is my last entry for the "my theme" circle journal swap that has been going on for 6 months. i'm sad to see it come to an end. i will post my completed journal tomorrow. this entry is in joanne's journal, which the theme was "my town". i don't know much about the city i live in now, so i did the city i grew up in.




my town
stamps: inkadinkadoo, green grass stamps
cardstock: night of navy, riding hood red
ink: onyx black & vintage sepia versafine, riding hood red

birthday tags

i made some birthday tags, at the request of my cousin brandy. it was kind of a challenge for me, because she needed tags mostly for boys. i haven't really made many things for boys, so it was hard. but this is what i came up with. i really love the owl one!

birthday tags
stamps: su, stamping bella, green grass stamps, purple onion
cardstock: brilliant blue, green galore, real red
ink: onyx black, vintage sepia, riding hood red, brilliant blue
other: quikcutz tag

christmas and atcs...

i'm finally finishing up the bazillion swaps i had that were due in the past few weeks. whew!! here are a few that i've done in the past few days. i had more fun with fun flock (it's hard to tell, but the moose's hat has it) and i even broke out the glitter. i'm starting to be more patient with glitter. i bought some of martha stewarts chunky glitter, so it's not as fine and annoying. plus i put it in a ziploc storage container and just spoon it on over the container so it's much less messy. this is what i do with embossing powder, too, and it's so much easier on clean up!





merry kissmoose
stamps: kim hughes (cornish heritage farms)
cardstock: riding hood red
ink: versamark
embellishments: fun flock, clear embossing powder

snow owls
stamps: hero arts, su
cardstock: night of navy, 3 bugs in a rug patterned paper
ink: onyx black versafine
embellishments: glitter

merry christmas
stamps: su, green grass stamps
cardstock: riding hood red, american crafts patterned paper
ink: riding hood red, wild wasabi
embellishments: stickles, star brads

10 wishes circle journal...

well, here it is. the newest circle journal swap i've been talked into hosting (hehe!). the theme is 10 wishes. i've been working on this for a while. it is nothing like what i had in mind when i started it. i couldn't get the idea from my head to the journal. oh well. i like how it turned out anyway.

10 wishes

stamps: green grass stamps, stampin up

cardstock: stampin up (soft sky, night of navy, purely pomegranate); patterned paper from pebbles inc and heidi grace

ink: white craft ink and night of navy-stampin up; versafine, versamark

embellishments: ribbon from stampin up and pebbles; rubons from lasting impressions, american crafts and bo bunny; ep stampin up; cardstock stickers from american crafts; chipboard, staples

misc tools: bind it all, slot punch (su)

party time...

what do you know...another atc! and of course, this is for another atc swap over at the shack. this one is "have a drink on me" hosted by traci.

party time

stamps: stamping bella, green grass stamps

cardstock: wild wasabi, real read (all su)

ink: onyx black-versafine, old olive-su

other: prismacolor markers

stamp club...

yesterday, my friend jami, held a stamp club/party thing at her house. it was great to go. i stopped going to my monthly stamp club last summer after we bought our new house because i didn't really have any extra money for stamp club anymore. and i have missed it deeply. i don't know if i missed the stamping part so much, as the getting together with everyone on a regular basis. so me and my cute mom decided to go yesterday. it was great fun!! we did three projects, 2 cards and 1 scrapbook page. well, i only did the cards because i'm not a huge scrapbooker. they were all great projects, though! jami is great at making up projects (you can see them here on her blog).

well as it turns out, i was making one of the cards and not following my one cardinal rule of stamping things before assembling them, i screwed up my stamped sentiment. so i had to "fix" it. here is what i ended up with. i actually really like it!!!

i then came home and decided i liked the design of the card so well, i wanted to create one similar. so i thought about what i wanted and this is what i came up with. totally case'd from jami's card. but isn't that the best type of flattery?? i think so!!!

supplies used: stampin up and green grass stamps, stanpin up cardstock, ribbon

a little christmas decor...

so as you've read before, i'm in a holiday circle journal swap with some friends from over at the shack. well, the themes are getting hard to figure out what to do for a layout!! this is for sherri's journal. she wanted to know what our favorite christmas ornament is. so here is my version. i'm trying to find a picture of the tree when it was all decorated, but i don't remember if i ever took one!!!

stamps used : maryse carrier-tree with star, star; green grass stamps-the red tree on the background, that you can't see well; memory box-christmas tree scene.

edit: don't you hate it when you make a typo and don't find it until your project is complete?? argh!!! how to fix it...

holiday circle journal entry...

this is my entry for pam's circle journal. the man in the picture is my cute grandpa.

paper is from a sweetwater kit. merry stamp is from green grass stamps and traditions is a stampin' up alphabet set.