merry & happy...

it's getting closer to sending out chritsmas cards!!  i still have a few i need to get done.

 merry & happy
stamps:  unity, maryse carrier
cardstock:  crumb cake, white, stampin up pp
ink: cherry cobbler, onyx black
embellishments: washi tape
tools:  swiss dots embossing folder, nestabilities

yum!

so my friend chris has a great story about a goat.  i won't pass along the details other than it involved a certain college with a goat and a trip to mickey d's with said goat. in honor of her story, we are having a goat themed swap.  these are the atcs i made for the swap.

yum!

stamps: maryse carrier, american crafts, stampin up
cardstock: early espresso, pear pizazz, glorious green
ink: pear pizazz, onyx black
embellishments:  baker's twine

hippos and things...

my niece turned 16 a few weeks ago. old news. sad part was her birthday bbq was snowed out! so we had a make up on saturday. and the weather was absolutely gorgeaous! i had a crazy busy week last week, so i was in a rush to make her card before her party and didn't get a chance to get a good picture. so sorry about the phone quality of this photo!! the party was fun and her cake was crazy!

hippobidietwoewe
stamps: basic grey, maryse carrier
cardstock: kraft, cloud 9 pp
ink: riding hood red, onyx black
embellishments: su ribbon, prismacolor markers, staples
font: snf playground blacktop


inside of card

cute syd and her cake

my dream, my reality...

how i want to spend my summer...that is the theme of patty's summer circle journal. i decided that how i want to spend my summer and how i actually will spend my summer are probably going to be two very different ways. so i created this entry accordingly!!



my dream, my reality
stamps: dear lizzy+american crafts, riley, maryse carrier, stampin up, hanna stamps, stampendous, imaginisce
cardstock: pacific point, kiwi kiss; colorbox pp
ink: pacific point, baja breeze, soft sky, purely pomegranate, tangerine tango, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers, stickles, me & my big ideas
tools: corner chomper, scallop punch, circle punch

hello spring...

i love that as i'm writing this blog post, it's 6pm and the sun is just beginning to set. and when i get to work in the morning (in about 12 1/2 hours), the sun will just be coming up. know what that means? spring is coming!! this card fits into the theme of spring. i made a dozen of these for someone at work (for her card club, isn't that a hoot?)

hello spring
stamps: heidi grace, maryse carrier, stampin up, purple onion, paper salon
cardstock: certainly celery, stampin up pp
ink: baja breeze, old olive, so saffron, wild wasabi, onyx black
embellishments: prima flowers, liquid pearls, prismacolor markers

back in the craft room...

ahhh...a new year, new swaps! i just signed up to host 5 new atcs swaps over at the shack. i must be crazy. not only am i hosting about a dozen, not counting my 6 month summer circle journal swap, i'm also in about a dozen more. geeze. what was i thinking? i got a jump on the a few that are coming up soon today. both are being hosted by chris. the first one is a cute critter theme. i have this cute set of stamps from my favorite things and i was looking at them the other day and thought it would be cute for this theme.


critters
stamps: my favorite things
cardstock: hot fudge-mft
ink: onyx black,soft suede, baja breeze
embellishments: prismacolor markers



the other swap theme was feathered friends. i went through all my stamps that could fit this theme and nothing was really jumping out at me. then i found this cute stamp by maryse carrier (oh how i wish she was still making new stamps!) and i just wanted to use it.


birdie
stamps: maryse carrier
cardstock: apricot appeal, certainly celery
ink: onyx black, tangerine tango
embellishments: prismacolor markers, cuttlebug embossing folder, american crafts ribbon

gift tags...

my cousin asked if i would make her some christmas tags so i made three different kinds. i blinged them a little with some stickles, but you can't see it very well in the picture. i think i might make some more for me!



christmas tags
stamps: purple onion, maryse carrier, hero arts
cardstock: craft & candy apple-bazzill; handsome hunter-su
ink: onyx black, riding hood red, soft sky
embellishments: prismacolor markers, stickles, extra large brads-wrmk

shapes & sizes...

some of my favorite stamp designs are by maryse carrier. here stamps are getting harder to find, but i have a lot of them. i decided to host an atc swap using her stamps.


shapes & sizes
stamps: maryse carrier, stamping bella
cardstock: melon mambo, pink passion, pebbles pp
ink: melon mambo, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor & bic markers

flakes...

snowman. i have a bunch (i know, i mentioned that before) and now i've used two of them in the past week in two seperate projects! i need to branch out!!


flakes
stamps: purple onion, maryse carrier, tac, stampin up
cardstock: vintage violet, all my memories pp
ink: tempting turquoise, kiwi kiss, onyx black
embellishments: hero arts bling, prismacolor & bic markers

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

christmas eve...

the holiday circle journal is making another round. joanne's theme is "all about the night before christmas" and what our christmas eve traditions are. i added my entry and wrote about the christmas eve tradition we did when i was little.




christmas eve
stamps: maryse carrier, purple onion designs, rubber stampede
cardstock: old olive, three bugs in a rug pp
ink: old olive, oynx black, versamark
embellishments: prismacolor markers, crystal effects, stickles
font: sf little star skinny

5 favorite things...

the end of the 2009 holiday circle journal is getting near. i can't believe how fast this one has gone by. i have loved seeing each one and trying to figure out what to do for each one! this entry is for sherri's holiday cj.




5 favorite things...
stamps: amuse, rubber stampede, my favorite things, maryse carrier, eat cake graphics, inkadinkadoo
cardstock: riding hood red, stampin up and deja views pp
ink: riding hood red, wild wasabi, cranberry crisp, onyx black
embellishments: glossy accents, xmas red & diamond stickles
other: bic & primsacolor markers

got ice cream?

this little creation is for a black and white atc swap. i just had to add a bit of color, though!!








got ice cream?
stamps: maryse carrier, studio g
cardstock: basic black, going gray
ink: onyx black
other: prismacolor markers, bic mark it markers

christmas favorites...

i can't believe that the latest circle journal swap i'm hosting is half way done. where has the time gone? it's been fun (and challenging!) doing this swap. here is my entry for ellie's cj. in it we were supposed to use our favorite christmas stamps. (and i think we were supposed to put why they were our favorite, but i forgot!)

christmas favorites
stamps: my favorite things, eat cake graphics, maryse carrier, rubber moon, stampin up, river city rubber works
cardstock: riding hood red, blue bayou, wild wasabi, my minds eye pp
ink: riding hood red, blue bayou, wild wasabi, onyx black
embellishments: stickles, liquid applique

cup o' joe...

i know, the last entry should have been labeled "cup o' joe" since it was a coffee theme. but i coudln't think of anything catchy to call this atc, so i called it "cup o' joe" since the bear is holding a cup of something! might as well be coffee, right?








cup o' joe
stamps: purple onion designs, maryse carrier
cardstock: buckaroo blue
ink: onyx black, alyways artichoke, buckaroo blue, going gray
other: prismacolor markers, bic mark it markers

got fish?

i {heart} this stamp. i made this atc for chris's cat atc swap. i love how it turned out. i also used the new in colors from stampin up. they are growing on me more and more each time i use them!

got fish?
stamps: maryse carrier
cardstock: dusty durango, soft suede, we r memory keepers pp
ink: onyx black versafine, dusty durango, soft suede
embellishments: buttons
other: prismacolor markers

all things christmas...

another circle journal headed out to continue on it's journey. this is my entry for patty's cj in the holiday cj swap. her theme was 'all things christmas'. i had a hard time with this one, trying to figure out what i wanted to do. i love christmas trees, so i grabbed my favorite christmas tree stamps and then decided to add little pieces of christmas to it. and this is what it evolved into.





all things christmas
stamps:amuse, rubber stampede, stampin up, stamps happen, river city rubberworks, cats pajamas, maryse carrier, purple onion designs
cardstock: riding hood red, glorious green, american crafts pp
ink: onyx black versafine, riding hood red, always artichoke
embellishments: glossy accents, stickles: stardust, diamond, christmas red
other: prismacolor and mark it markers

a bunch of atcs...

i've been busy with a few more atc swaps!! i am absolutely addicted to these tiny creations!! the themes for this group are: the great outdoors, life's a beach, and planes, trains and automobiles.

marty moose
stamps: my favorite things, purple onion designs
cardstock: river rock, sage shadow, true thyme
ink: soft suede, always artichoke
other: prismacolor markers, paper piecing

happy place
stamps: stampendous, stampin up, maryse carrier
cardstock: buckaroo blue, sahara sand, riding hood red, imaginisce pp
ink: night of navy, yo you yellow
other: crab punch

road trip
stamps:scrappy cat, inkadinkadoo
cardstock: bordering blue, river rock, night of navy
ink: majestic blue versafine, buckaroo blue

first class mail...

i have a ton of stamps. i'm not even going to guess how many. so when i was talked in to joining a swap (thanks sherri!) that had to have some sort of mailbox, i thought no problem. oh my. i went through nearly every stamp i own and could not find a mailbox anywhere!! i even went to archivers to find a mailbox stamps and found nothing!! so i had to improvise, since the swap is due in a few weeks. thank goodness for the internet and clip art!! i ended up printing out a little mailbox and just cutting it out and adding it to my atc.

first class mail
stamps: eat cake graphics, maryse carrier, my favorite things
cardstock: melon mambo, kraft
ink: going gray, rich razzleberry, morning marigold, melon mambo

a-z of me...

another entry in the my theme circle journal. this journal is sherri's and her theme was "the a-z's of me". what a hard thing to come up with!!




a-z of me
stamps: stampin up, kim hughes-chf, maryse carrier, magenta, stamping bella, memory box, heidi grace
cardstock: wild wasabi, unknown patterned paper
ink: onyx black versafine
other: bic markers
font: fonts for peas summer sweetness