Go Twins!

Oh Blogger--you are making me so very sad.  I am have been trying to leave comments and I had a post all set to go live yesterday...well from the looks of things I think you can tell that that never happened :( Oh how sad!  This was the project for FCCB!  It's time again for challenge me Monday!   The challenge this week is to make something to remember!  And you can remember an anniversary, a special person or a special time!  I have not quite figured out if I am going to use this as a place to remember my keys or if I am going to create a frame to hang from the bottom to remember all of the fun times I have at Twins baseball games! 

I am pretty sure I will alter this so it can somehow be a picture frame so I can treasure my memories from the games :) Even though my team isn't doing so well right now I still think they can pull it off :)  I found this wooden piece at a local craft store, I painted it red and then modge podged some baseball printed paper over the top of it.  The letters have been cut from Nate's ABCs and the glove, bat and ball were cut from the baseball solutions cartridge which has been retired. 

I hope you enjoy my project today.  Please join us at FCCB for this weeks challenge!  I would LOVE to see what you come up with for the challenge.

Meet My Girlfriend Ethel!

Ahhh meet my good friend Ethel.  She's how I feel when I wake up some mornings!  I most certainly don't sleep in my pearls nor in curlers--but I think you get the picture.  I love the coffee cup she holds in her hand...I feel like her before I have my first cup in the morning.  Ms. Ethel is from Rubber Necker Stamp Company lots of great stamps-- the "Old Character" section of stamps cracks me up.

I hope you enjoyed getting to know my good friend Ethel.  I love her pearls and fuzzy slippers :)

The Deets:

Stamp: RubberNecker Stamp Co.

Paper: SU!

Ink: SU! with aqua painter

Other: pearls, punch, Flower Soft 

FCCB Challenge #61: Blue Skies

Ahhhh I didn't intend for this card to be so dreary but I went with it!  I had started with the clouds and was going with a dream sorta theme to go with my blue skies but this turned into a card that might work for someone who's having a rough go at life or such.  I hope you can join us at FCCB! for our Fantabulous "Blue Skies" challenge.  Go ahead and make a project with the color blue and a cloud shape--using atleast one cricut cut! I can't wait to see what you create :)    I do love how the rainbow effect came through on the little cloud over the word rainbow-- love it!  Thanks for stopping by!

The Deets!

Cricut: Clouds cut at various sizes from Create-A-Critter

Paper: SU!

Stamp: Inkadinkado

Other: chalk and SU ink

UNITY Addiction...

Oh dear-- so I know I had mentioned I picked up some new stamps at the Stamping and Scrapbooking Expo last weekend...and wowzers I had  heard about Unity Stamps--BUT I had no idea I'd soon become addicted to them.  The people at the Unity booth were so kind and it just made me smile and it was cool to chat with them a little as they are a MN company--which I think is great.  I decided to pull out some of my "grab bag" goodies and this is the card I came up with.

I was dying to get my hands on this little tree and my friend Sarah and I had about 5 grab bags between the 2 of us and she had the tree and I pretty much begged for it...well it wasn't that dramatic but I did score the tree so I was happy :)  This cloud stamp...seriously...LOVE it!!!

The Deets:

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.

Paper and Ink: SU!

Other: rhinestones, MS punch

Simple Flag

Today there is a challenge over at Frosted Designs and I decided to play along.  My card is quite simple and of course doesn't compare to the lovely work of the design team but I like how it turned out.  I'm sorry I do know it is not an accurate representation of a flag but I took some creative license-- I hope I don't offend anyone.  I was inspired to do this card after seeing tons and tons of cards using punches to make ruffles.  It was super easy and kinda fun!

The Deets

Paper: SU, real red and night of navy, random white

Punches: SU border, Fiskers star punch

Ink: Night of Navy 

Happy Anniversary!

I'm not celebrating a special anniversary but I did make this cute simple card for the challenge over at Celebrate The Occasion.  It is their 14th Challenge and this week's theme is "Anniversary."  I am sure I can find someone to send this card to when an anniversary comes around :)  I do enjoy making the tall/long cards-- I love how it's a little bit different from the "normal" A2 card size...but I can easily find an envelope to send off my creation.  

The Deets

Paper: SU solid, DSP DCWV Mod Stack

Stamp: SU!

Punch: SU!

Die Cut: cut from cricut Sweethearts

Hey Chickie!

So over the last few days I've noticed I lost some blog posts :( UGH!  How frustrating when things don't work like you want them too!  I pre-did some posts as I knew I'd be away from my computer for a bit--but alas they are likely somewhere out in cyber-space.  Oh well! 

Over the weekend I went to the "Stampin' and Scrapping Expo" in St. Paul, MN-- it was a pretty good time.  If you've been you know that in the past it's been better-- as it has now combined with the "Women's Expo" hmmmm I loved when the building was filled strictly with crafts versus other "womanly" type things... hmmm but alas it was a great time.  I did pick up a few new goodies and decided I had to use a couple of my stamps right away.  I was intrigued by the cute stamps available from DeNami Designs so I picked up a couple and created this card.  They are actually having a challenge over at their blog and the challenge is to use "Patterned Paper."  This is what I came up with...I'm not 100% sold but I do like it...I just don't love it!  I hope you enjoy!