Elliott Creations

Mixed Media Canvas

2011-12-26T22:09:00.000-05:00

I've always looked at the mixed media canvas' on the Internet and admired them. I kept thinking that must be so hard - I don't think I could do that. But...Madison got an easel and painting supplies for Christmas and is really into painting right now so I thought that we would give it a try.

I bought a value package of 12x12 canvas' as Michaels this morning (yah boxing day). This is my

first try. I have to say that I really like it. PS please ignore that boxes in the background - remember dark basement as craft room :-)

Here is Madison's creation. She really enjoyed herself and seemed to want to add one of everything from her stash of supplies. I really love it! The best part part and most fun was stamping with bubble wrap.

We'll definitely have to give this a try again.
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Delinquint Crafter

2011-12-26T21:51:00.001-05:00

I know, I've been really bad at blogging. The holidays have been busy and to be truth full I haven't made much stuff other than some cards and gift tags. I didn't even get my Christmas albums done that I had hoped to give away for presents.

But I did get out to Scrappin Great Deals to their 3rd anniversary and it was a blast. The had a ton of make and takes that were put together to make one big project in the end. I took all mine home to ink them up a little more before putting them together. Take a look at each of the projects and the finished stocking is at the end.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year! Looking forward to sharing more with you - stay posted.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

A Start to Christmas Crafting

2011-11-10T22:02:00.001-05:00

Alright so here's what I've been working on for the last month. I feel so bad that I haven't posted in a while but I've been working, studying and crafting my butt off. And I have to tell you that I am addicted to christmas and I'm pretty sure that I can make paper boxes in my sleep. I saw this project made by Kathy at Paper Phenomenon - I love you Kathy!! I really do idolize her.

Anyways, this is my first Advent Calendar - all made out of paper. And guess what everyone is getting for christmas :-) So I made the first one and everyone LOVED it so I had a class (yes with one person - thanks Claire!) Now Claire loves snowmen so of course we had to tweak it a little and make a snowman. Did I forget to mention that I got a Cricut Expression for my birthday - yah me!!

Here's the Snowman up close. And we also added a 25 box. Mine has velcro on it to keep it closed (added after the picture). I love how it ended up, so cute.

So then I decided that I had alot of "Countdown to Christmas" paper so I thought I should do up another one. This one I did with the tree but had just gone out to Walmart and found this super tiny garland (bought it in every colour). Love, love, love it. I added another layer underneath the JOY ornament but it got taken away before I could take another picure.

I even added magnets to the back so that they could go on the fridge in the kitchen, note to self: add more magnet to compensate for weight of chocolate :-) Hope you enjoy them. I have to get working on christmas cards.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Wedding Album

2011-10-09T20:52:00.001-04:00

After finishing the Paris Album I had to tackle my next project which was a wedding gift for my brother who is getting married at the end of the month. They're actually getting married in Ochos Rios Jamaica (sadly I do not get to go) and then having a wedding reception after they come back. So I got to work and surprisingly to me I got it done pretty fast. I have to admit it is pretty much back to basics scrapbook album style but it was fun making it.

And of course to share it I did my next favourite thing - I made a video. View my youtube video here. I have to say that it is fun to see the views going up on my video and I have my first subscriber!! I definately plan to share lots more.

Here's a couple of pictures. I really need to get a photo box made up and use a real camera, I apologize for the quality - I'm just using my webcam on my computer for now.

The patterned paper is from bo-bunny and then various cardstock. All the bling is dollarstore and then prima flowers used all over.
Enjoy!! Oh and if David or Jessica are seeing this - SURPRISE!!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Paris Album

2011-10-03T20:18:00.000-04:00

I've been working on this album for a bit. My mom wanted an album for my cousin Sarah who went to Paris this summer. We found the super cute box at HomeSense and just knew we had to make an album to go inside of it.

You'll have to go over to YouTube to see the full album. In the debut of my 2nd youtube video :-) Make sure you leave a comment to let me know what you think. I took a close up of the inside of the box, you can't really see it that well in the video. It was mom's idea to add some stuff on the inside - and especially a feather!

I'm sad to give this one away but I'm sure Sarah will love it.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Happy National Card Making Day

2011-10-01T22:52:00.000-04:00

Happy National Card Making day! I told myself I HAD to make a card today of all days and it only took about 8 hours between hanging out with the kids, making dinner and going to the fair. I'm very happy with it though. I have been wanting to try a 3D image ever since I saw Mariska's work on the Whiff of Joy blog.

And oh boy it was fun. Take a look...

Here's some extra photos to show the how to and a close up. Any section that had another layer on top was coloured in black. I also used my flower forming stylus to round the edges and help the 3D effect. I have to say that it really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and I will definately be doing it again.

Hope you all had a great card making day.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Halloween Mini

2011-09-20T22:20:00.006-04:00

So I have been stalking YouTube lately for some inspiration and found this super cute mini by creations by christie and thought "I can do that".

So here's my version. Of course the cover is not complete (I'm starting to think that my blog should be called Elliott's Incomplete Creations) but I wanted to share. When the cover is done I'm going to do a video of it to upload on YouTube.

Here is the overall view. Front and Back page have danglers, middle pages are pockets and then the ones in between have fold out tabs for more photos.

The base of the album is made with black cardstock and then the patterned paper is last years Hooligans line from Bo-Bunny, part of my stash that I have been hanging onto.

You'll have to wait until the video to see the rest. You'll be excited to see that I pulled out my cricut to cut out some letters - that was fun!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Little Over One Month Later...

2011-09-05T15:14:00.003-04:00

Oh Wow, Can you bee-lieve it took me that long to finish the bee album. Hehe, sorry had to do it. Well I finally got it done and jammed as many pictures as I could into it. And yes it was fun. I wanted to share the whole thing so instead of posting a million pictures I did a video and posted it to you-tube. My first you-tube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj15WQWyGWY

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Clovermead Album Cover

2011-07-24T21:29:00.010-04:00

$15 worth of photos from Costco and we are ready to Bee-scrapping. :-) sorry had too do it....

It's starts off with this super cute resin bee that was given to Madison and I by this wonderful women who owns a scrapbook store in Lambeth (sorry the name has slipped my mind and I can't find it online). We decided to go with a vintage feel because of this cute little bee.

On our visit to Michaels we picked up the $1.50 chipboard Bee album to use as a shape on the front cover.

I covered the bee with paper then three layers of UTEE and cracked it from the freezer, so much fun and I haven't done it in so long.

After that it felt like it needed something else so I added some gold embossing powder to the edges. I loved how it seperated when I heated it a little longer. Hopefully you can see it in this picture.

I decided to use a prima chipboard album that I have been hanging onto. It has an embossed cover which I played with like crazy. I inked it with yellow ink, then rubbed it with some brown chalk ink. Sprayed some glimmer mist and then rubbed it with some metallic paste. It sounds like a lot but it was totally worth it, awesome!!
I cut out the embossed section to make a window so that I could stick a Bee sign in there. Added some prima flowers and Michaels $1.50 roses and voila!

The black sign is a spellbinders that I borrowed for my mom, it was cut out of black cardstock and I used some of the metallic rub on it also.

One page down, 11 more to go. Stay tuned....

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Clovermead Bee Farm

2011-07-18T19:22:00.004-04:00

We've been spending some quality family time this summer with the kids going to Niagara Falls, Grand Bend and a couple weeks ago we went to Aylmer, Ontario to Clovermead Honey. They have a really quant farm for the kids with a playground, animals and fun stuff.

There wer super cute "Bee" signs all over the place and definately a scraper-tunity. So, after our trip to the Bee Farm the kids and I went to Michaels and bought everything in yellow and black to make our Bee album.

Now we just need to get the pictures developed and get going on our scrappy bee album.

Stay tuned!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Baby Teeth

2011-03-31T20:21:00.004-04:00

You are going to love this one - make sure you read the whole story. I made this framed 12x12 for a co-worker husband. She was saying how he goes on and on about the baby, kisses all around, naps on the couch together and lots of cuddling. Now Jayda's teeth have been falling out and daddy has been collecting them in a little jar. Apparently he's been going on and on about doing something to display these teeth so of course I say scrapbooking!! So I put together this beautiful 12x12 with lots of girly bling. The background page is sprayed with glimmer mist and cut out on the glittery swirls to tuck the layers into. I added some prima flowers with pearly bling and of course the acid free memory box which was wrapped with some black lace and flat pearls that I got at Hobby Lobby on a cross border shopping trip.

Isn't this layout beautiful?! Something you would love to display on your wall or bedside table as my co-worker assumed it would be. Cause here's the kicker for you - JAYDA IS A DOG!! Yes you heard it here the baby is a dog, the real baby hasn't been born yet, yes my co-worker is pregnant but the dog is number 1 in her husbands eyes. And guess where the framed doggy teeth are?? Well the only picture of the happy couple that they had displayed on an end table in the living room has been replaced with the 12x12 along with a photo of the super cute Jayda and her 6 little teeth.

You gotta love it!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Spectacular View

2011-03-24T19:09:00.005-04:00

March's technique challenge over at Paper Secrets is using stencils with your mists. Which I have never done!! Can you imagine, I had never used glimmer mist with a stencil. So I took out my homemade glimmer spray and a diecut Basic Grey sheet and went to work.

I had this super cool Paintables paper that I have been hoarding for a while - yes hoarding - that I thought would be absolutely perfect. So I went to town on the spraying until I used up all my spray - lol - they are just tiny bottles that I put together one at a time. All the black images are actually pre-printed on the page with all the swirls and the clock. I found the stickers at the dollar store, they just jumped out and said "buy me". And then I added some bling swirls for more glitter. Even the letters are glitter.

Now I'm going to tell you a secret. The only things on this page that didn't come from the dollar store are the paper and the pictures. I know - it's amazing what you can get at Dollar Giant. I did add a little bit of Tim Holtz distress inks on the edge of the 12x12 to antique it a little.

I'm really enjoying the challenges at Paper Secrets! And I hope you are enjoying my projects.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Paper Secrets March Challenge

2011-03-20T22:02:00.003-04:00

I joined Paper Secrets - woohoo!!

I'm now part of a forum group and they have some super awesome challenges every month. It's great motivation to get some stuff done. This 12x12 layout was from their scraplift challenge. I chose a layout from the gallery and made it my own. You'll have to go there to check it out.

Paper Secrets

I also made a repurposed file folder that I'll show you tomorrow with some instructions on how I did it.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

March Break Project

2011-03-18T15:47:00.008-04:00

So I had told myself that this march break I was going to finish the growth charts that I had planned on making for my kids quite some time ago. All that I had started was picking out the patterned paper and cutting down the chipboard. So of course I had a long way to go.

Well, today is friday and guess what?? After being sick again!! taking the kids to the states for an overnight shopping trip and just cleaning up the house in general I've finally "partially" finished Madison's. Now I say partially finished because I still need to cut tags to go into all the pockets and of course add pictures or journaling.

This project is from one of my favorite blogs to staulk. Following the Paper Trail. Laura has some of the coolest ideas and this one is one of my absolute favorites. The album or growth chart is held together with a measuring tape, so that you can put it up on the wall and measure your kids as they grow or put all your memories of your kids growing up if they already are.

At the side of each page is a pocket which will have tags with ribbon hanging off of them. The bottom has charms which Madison picked. A rhinestone heart and a soccer ball, because she loves soccer.

The paper clips on the measuring tape can be used to point out important occassions or just for decoration.

This was really fun. Jonathan's pockets are done, just need to attach them with the measuring tape and do all the embellishing.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Yucky Sicky.

2011-03-06T20:56:00.003-05:00

I feel so bad because it's March and I haven't posted anything yet but between studying for my insurance course and now being sick I just can't get anything done. I have tons of stuff running through my head, tons of ideas.

Even though I'm sick I still have to go to work - booo - and last week I had a business trip to Elmira. I had some time to waste before I had to be in Kitchener for dinner so I took that opportunity to run into one of my favorite stores - The Scrapping Turtle. And to my surprise I found a new stamp that I don't have. Bossy by Mo Manning from Stamping Bella. I can't wait to ink her up and make a super awesome card.

Stay tunned I will be back :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I am a Robot.

2011-02-22T22:27:00.004-05:00

I've been working on this project for quite some time and finally finished it. I got my inspiration from an older video on Paper Phenomenon. It's a canvas to hang on the wall with a mini scrapbook. Robot style for Jonathan.

I added some dimensional foam under the robot and gears and added some crystal laquer to some parts.

Oh how my baby has grown. I can't wait to get this one up on the wall. And Jonathan loves his Robot.

***Now I have to say that my counter is increasing but I'm not feeling the love :-)

Leave a comment, say Hi. When I start getting some more hits then I'll do a blog candy.

Need to know you are out there first***

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Cupcake Wishes

2011-02-21T21:15:00.004-05:00

I was playing around with my sewing machine to see what I can do. And ended up with this beautiful birthday card. Very simple but lots of detail. And I really love it!

I started out with a green cardstock base and stitched on some glitter cardstock right to the front of the card. Well that was interesting...I totally didn't think about the stitching on the inside of the card, hmmmmm. So then I had to decorate both sides of the inside of the card. I've never done that before - but I like it!
I made the flower out of layers from a sizzix's die cut (can't remember which one). On the back is a neon green prima flower that has been distressed. The layers on the flower are inked and shaped before being glued together.

On the inside I stamped my stampin' up stamp 'celebrate one cupcake at a time'. The ink wasn't quite dark enought so I had to write over it with a sharpie. Still looks good :-)

Stay tuned for some rockin' robots tomorrow. You're going to want to see them.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Class Valentines

2011-02-16T19:19:00.004-05:00

This year for Madison's class valentines we decided to do nice and easy. We love to make them but I know that the kids are just ripping them apart and throwing them out :-)
So cinnamon hearts in a baggie it is. Madison did all her own coloring too - less work for me.

We went to Port Huron last weekend just for fun on Sunday and of course I checked out the Jo-Anne's Fabrics flyer first. They had this little sewing machine on sale and I've always wanted a machine to do some stitching on my cards. I really like the look that you get from it. I'm actually pretty excited because I think it will go well with my chipboard album I'm working on - the paper is a sewing theme. The sewing machine is basic and only does the one stitch but for mre that's probably the best idea and it doesn't take up very much room. Even handier is that you can take it with you when you go to crops - neato!

Well stay tuned for some stitched projects. I'll be sure to share.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

New project...

2011-02-08T22:03:00.005-05:00

So I decided to pull out some of my prize possessions. A Maya Road chipboard binder album (it has chipboard pages too!) Some Tim Holtz metal flower fasteners and DCWV Crafty Stack paper.

Here's a close up of the beautiful paper and Tim Holtz fasteners. I looooove them.

So, you wondering...the theme of my project?

Well some of you may know that we moved almost a year ago to a new house, which I looooove (hehe). Finally I plan to scrapbook it in this super cool album.

Here's the cover but not really assembled, just the beginings. The front has a Maya Road chipboard plaque covered with paper and rub on home's with some glitter stickers for sweet. The flower will be used to make a ribbon clasps that comes from the back. You'll have to see when it is done. I will keep you posted on my progress.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Valentines Easel Card

2011-02-07T22:10:00.006-05:00

I bought this new Magnolia stamp yesterday and just had to ink her up right away. I thought she would be perfect for Valentines. I also haven't done much coloring lately so I thought I'd try out my Stampin' Up! watercolor crayons.

It was kinda fun, instead of coloring with the crayon and then adding water I used my brush with a little bit of water directly onto the tip of the crayon to pull off some color. This gave me alot more control when it came to shading. The only thing I wasn't too please with was the skin tone. I really like my copic markers when doing skin.

I've done one or two easel cards before but this time I added more layers and pretty big flowers. Don't know how it would fit in an envelope but finished it looks pretty nice.

I added a little bit of bling and a Happy Valentines Day stamp to finish it off. More layers is definately one of my other resolutions for this year. Use it all and layer, layer, layer.

Here's a side view for you. Hope you enjoyed.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Love Notes

2011-02-04T23:17:00.006-05:00

Okay so this year I vow to make whatever I want, whenever I want and use everything. Yes I said EVERYTHING!!

Are you like me that you have stash upon stash of the coolest scrapbooking supplies ever? But you just can't bring yourself to use them.

Well then ladies, this is the year. Use all those supplies that you have been hanging onto - what is it going to hurt. Wouldn't you rather see them in an awesome completed project than sitting there collecting dust in the package.

Check out this - a love note collector. You can hang it on the door to you bedroom or on your cubicle at work :o) Make one for the kids, have fun. I'm using my awesome pure white prima flowers like there is no tomorrow and guess what...I still have more left.

I used a giant coaster for the base and covered with some really awesome little yellow bicycle valentines paper. Yes it is double sided but you know what...that one side looks great! Check out the detail that I "hot glued" on. Yup I used my glue gun :o) I even made those little ribbon flowers from some really cool ribbon that I got at Michaels eons ago, you know the ones that come on the wooden spools that I bought with a big glass bowl to display them in. Well they are not going to be displayed anymore - they are going to be used.

Lastly I have a view from the top for you. You can see how deep I left it to put all your favorite valentines into. Even if you don't get valentines anymore it is a super cute holder that can be used for so many things. You don't even have to do it for valentines day, you can do one to hold postage or pencils.

I hope you enjoyed my ranting :o) All I can say is prepare to be amazed. There will be project upon project and I will not be holding out. I'm going to use it all!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

!!!Happy New Year!!!

2011-02-03T21:49:00.003-05:00

I know - I suck at blogging - do you need a big list of excuses - no I don't think so. I'll just remind you that I have two kids, a husband (which may also count as a kid) and a full time job. Whew! I am superwoman :-)

We took some time to do some decluttering and finish unpacking our boxes and guess what? We can park in our garage, wooohooo! I have to tell you that now that we are into our Ontario winter and getting blasted with more snow than we have had in years, parking in the garage is all worth it.

I've also had some bouts of artistic block. Yes, too many products, too little time and don't know what to do. I have some unfinished products lying around and just don't feel like finishing them. I'm keeping up with my blog stalking though. A shout out to my two most fav's right now - Following the Paper Trail and Paper Phenomenon. I'm a closet PITA babe - you'll have to check it out. Both of these talented ladies have live classes on Ustream, if you haven't seen them you need to check it out - it is fun, and if you can't be there live (like me) then they record them and you can watch them later.

Today I just did a real quicky card design that I found while blog stalking.
http://sendingyoualittlesmile.blogspot.com/2011/02/for-my-tweetheart-spring-fold-card.html

I had to make it right away. Hope you like it. Mariska has a link on her page to splitcoast with the instructions.

Hope you like it and hopefully I will be able to find the time to keep sharing.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Happy September

2010-09-03T22:29:00.004-04:00

I'm so happy that summer is finally here. Madison will be going back to school, hanging out with all her friends, bringing home all the grade 4 drama. Yes, grade 4. Time flies by so fast. Even Jonathan wants to go to school but unlike his big sister he has to wait until he's 4 years old. We'll just have to pretend that he's going to Nana School". Hopefully he doesn't cry too much on the first day of school when he has to go back to the car.

Anyways, have you ever searched and searched for the perfect letters to go with your project but just can't find the right color. Well here's a quick fix for you...

I had some light peach glitter letters that just didn't seem to go with much so I took my sponge dauber and some Only Orange Stampin' Up! ink. Just place your letters on some scrap plastic from a sticker sheet and sponge the color over the sticker. The color just soaks right in and it made my baby peach letters into a saucy orange. Perfect for that project.

This is my newest mini album. Includes 8 pages and 8 journal/photo cards. They were so much fun to make so I did a whole bunch of different ones to sell. (sorry pictures aren't great from the blackberry :-)

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

My Spooky Box

2010-08-23T21:09:00.007-04:00

Madison and I were feely spooky the other day and decided to make a spooky halloween box. This was made with a piece of paper on the bottom and a piece of paper for the top. Oragami style.

When you open the bottom it folds out to a full 12x12 scrapbook page - just add photos.

The top was decorated with flowers and bling around the edge. The halloween brads are from the dollar store. I think I've been hanging onto those for a couple of years, just for the perfect project.
Here's the full page. The orange rick rack is only attached on the edges so that the photos can be tucked in. I love green and purple and orange together.

I've had these glitter letters hanging around for quite a while also. They were specifically for halloween and had skulls, bones and stars. I used the bone as a mouth for my spooky ghost. I used rhinestones for the eyes.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Shopping Goodies

2010-08-19T21:23:00.003-04:00

When the cat is away the mouse will play.

Well how true that is. My wonderful husband and daughter have gone to Winnipeg for a visit and Jonathan and I have been left home (without the digital camera). Tonight we went to the local scrapbook store - Scrappin' Great Deals. I love that place. They have a twelve hour sale going on right now.

20 sheets of paper for $4.99 This was a 6x6 paper pad that I just had to have - glitter and bling on half the sheets.

6x6 Mini Decks from Cosmo Cricket - Very cute and just had to have.

Well I just got home and I'm feeling like either I'm too tired to do anything or I'm heading to the basement. I can't decide :-)

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Fooling Around and Having Fun

2010-08-15T22:21:00.004-04:00

Well I've always really liked the easel cards but have never made one. So of course I had to do it. I chose to use one of my Craftin' Kimmie stamps from Scrappin Great Deals. I thought she was super sassy and had to buy her the day that they were released.

Madison wanted to help me take the picture with my laptop camera and of course had to get in there :-)

Here's a better shot - hopefully you can see some of the detail. I added a second layer with the froggie and use some glossy accents to make him a little slimy. Eeeewww!

Overall happy with my first easel card but need to do more detail.

My next job is to clean up the mess in my craft room after I let Madison and her little friend do some scrappin while I was at work - messy!!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

My First Video Tutorial

2010-08-10T10:11:00.004-04:00

Okay, so do I have a treat for you today. I was super creative and brave last night and made this mini tutorial video showing how to make the flower accent that I used on my envelope explosion box.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Envelope Explosion Album

2010-08-08T21:33:00.004-04:00

Wow, today was a whirlwind day! My wonderful husband decided last night to take me to Toronto today for a show. Rock of Ages - yes 80's Hair Band music - Rock On!!

Well now we're back home and I'm too tired to craft so I thought I'd share. I'm sharing this super cute explosion album made from envelopes. Yes, envelopes. All of the envelopes are from the dollar store except for the smaller white ones on the inside layer.

Suprisingly this only took two nights and yes it does need a little more embellishing and stamping on the tags, but I'm pretty proud of what I've finished so far.

I have to admit that I've done alot of blog stalking over the last couple of months and have gotten myself addicted to You Tube and Ustream. Very interesting stuff. This album idea is from one of my favorites Following the Paper Trail. Definately a very interesting site.

And my newest passion of the week is making my own hand made embelishments - the other day was flowers.

Hope you enjoyed my album. Feels good to be back to the blogging world.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

I'm Back and This Time to Stay!!

2010-08-07T15:32:00.007-04:00

Well it's been six months and I truly am sorry but alot has happend.

Firstly we finally moved, it took quite some time to pack up all my scrapping goodies and quite a while to unpack and get reorganized.
Okay so do you remember my old scrapbook room in an unfinished room in the finished basement....

Yes crowded but I really liked the pegboard wall.

So here's the new scrapbook room....yes it is in the unfinished basement - larger windows so it's sunny down there but I have more space to spread out - hehe - and there's a kids corner with a futon and the tv for them to stay occupied while I scrapbook.

So now that I have my new room all up and organized, and I've had some friends over to get my creativity going. I've been doing more scrapbooking which is good because now that Jonathan is 2 - yes 2! - I have finally started his baby album. Yah me!

I promise to keep my scrapping and card making going and sharing with you and maybe in the near future I will be able to get some kits up sale and I'm toying with the idea of doing some video classes - yes scary but I promise you will not see my face :-) hands only.

So, stay tuned and I promise you won't regret it!! I'll be back tonight with some scrappy stuff.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Need your Vote - Blog Candy

2010-02-06T21:25:00.006-05:00

I'm making Valentine Treats for Madison's class and of course have to get them done soon. So here's what's up....I've made a bag topper for convesation hearts or a open sided treat box (forgot to take a picture of the side view) with cinnamon hearts. Which one do you like better?

Leave your vote in a comment and link to your blog for your chance to win some valentines blog candy. I'll be away on the weekend of Valentines Day so I will draw the winner on Monday Feb 15th - Family Day! Here are your choices....

Cinnamon Hearts...Conversation Hearts...

And for some fun here is Madison's Valentines card that she made today. She's getting really good!!
Good Luck with the blog candy. You have until Family Day to vote and get your chance to win.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Pocket Full of Hearts

2010-02-06T18:42:00.005-05:00

I was trying to work on a spinny card for valentines day but ended up with a pop up card instead. I used these super cute Fancy Pants valentines paper, they are one of my favorites right now.

On the front I used a Unity pocket stamp that I got a while ago and just haven't used yet. I cut out the individual hearts from the patterned paper and popped them up from the heart.

On the inside is just a ton of hearts to show that "my love is overflowing" which I stamped out in Stampin' Up! alphabet stamps. I even added a little scallop label to give a spot for the card to be signed. Not a ton of stamping but pretty good use of patterned paper, I think!!

Here's a shot of the inside, I used Stampin' Up! cardstock in Not Quite Navy and Regal Rose. I think I made the pop-up a little big but it still looks pretty good. My first Valentines card but more to come...

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Sweet Treats

2010-01-27T22:42:00.005-05:00

I've been hanging onto these tins for a little while, my husband received them in a care package with goodies and of course emptied them right away. So I decided to make some Valentine's Sweet Treat holders. Maybe teacher's gifts?

Sorry the pictures are blurry, I really wanted to post tonight so I used my blackberry instead of the camera. I know better for next time :-)

I used a different part of the patterned paper for each of the tins. It had strips of different patterns on it, love it!

I also wanted to share some exciting news, I have access to a bind it all!! I say access as it is my mom's but it's living at my house for right now, yippee! I made these cute little mini books. Now I just have to get my hands on sime wires.

Here's my cutie boy. He refused to go in his crib tonight and kept pointing over saying "bed" so I thought I'd give it a try. He got up twice, once to close the door all the way, apparently he likes to be alone and then the second time was to pull the string on his music maker. What a sweety!! He pretty much fell asleep within 10 minutes. The only other time he slept in the big bed was when I would carry him in when he was already asleep. He's growing too fast :-(

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Mini Paperbag Album

2010-01-22T21:38:00.007-05:00

I started this super cute mini paper bag album for Madie's 8th birthday party pictures. I made it with two paper bags and some awesome glitter cardstock paper. Can't wait to get the pictures on there to finish it off.

The opening of the bags hold two pieces of cardstock to add some more pictures and keepsakes from the party.

I even added a little extra on the back to spice it up.

The inside flap has an extra piece of cards to do some journaling on.

The embellishments on the cover use a piece of the glitter cardstock in a scalloped circle punch from stampin' up and a glitter Bella donut.

I'll leave you with a cute picture from the party. We went to Adventures on Wonderland, a great indoor playground with lazer tag.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Guest Designer Call

2010-01-19T22:13:00.006-05:00

My super secret dream is to be a designer for a stamp company. Dare to dream.

Well guess what, Whiff of Joy has a Guest Designer Call and it was just the inspiration that I needed to get going. And look what I made...
I decided to make a Valentine's card for my super sweety. I used one of my images of Oakley with slipover cause he's such a cutey. I have to tell you I kinda struggled with the little boy hair cut but I like how it turned out.

Here are the details for the guest designer call. If it's your dream too, then go for it, don't let anything hold you back. And you couldn't ask for a better stamp company to design for. WOJ images are the absolute best!! Good Luck!

Recipe:
Stamps: Whiff of Joy
Paper: Stampin' Up! Not Quite Navy and Fancy Pants Patterned Paper
Others: Prismacolour Markers, Ribbon unknown, Prima Flowers, Crafts Perles, Forever in Time Rub-ons

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Cards, wow - look, Cards!

2009-08-25T22:10:00.008-04:00

Can you believe it, I actually got some cards done and I'm finally posting some. It's been challenging, I got my room clean and then had to move things around for the new furnace and air conditioner to go in, which made another huge mess (dust and wood shavings everywhere). And now it's clean again.

These cute cards were made as a set with Wanda's Wit and Wisdom from Stampin' Up! I love this one. I coloured in the images with my prismacolour markers (my supply seems to be growing, I think I have 200 markers :-) The background paper has some glitter going through it, just the way I like it. Ticket notch punch and scallop circle punch both from Stampin' Up! Then I added a little bit of bling, from the dollar store of course!

Here's each seperate card and what they say inside:

No saying inside this one.

That's a first!

If life's boring make something up.

Next year I'll forget mine.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Absolutely Awesome Blog Candy

2009-07-25T22:46:00.002-04:00

Anyone wanna win a full set of copics?!?!

I DO, I DO!

http://mypaperprojects.blogspot.com/2008/06/northern-papercraft-retreat-blog-candy.html

And what about some news stamps?!?!?!?

ME TOO, ME TOO!!

http://rockstardj1.blogspot.com/2009/07/birthday-candyx.html

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Working hard or hardly workin'?!?!

2009-07-02T22:45:00.005-04:00

Okay so I promised some cards, but really the only thing I got done was some super fast "thank you teacher" cards the night before the last day of school, whew. And of course no pictures. So here's a couple of picks of the kids (big and little) on the new toy we got on Canada Day!

Better late than never, I created the post and had to get the pictures off my memory card. Still wanted to share them with you though.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Cleaning Up the Clutter

2009-06-07T22:27:00.006-04:00

Okay, so here's what my room has been looking like lately. It is the drop zone, I buy something and drop it off, clean up something and drop it off. Well it has not been fun, since that gives me no place to create.

Well, looky looky. It took me two days of "off and on" cleaning day and night in order to get it in this tidy position. Do you know how good that feels. And I sat down right away on sunday night at 10:30 when I finished to do a card. I got one tiny card completed, blah. I need to get some creativity going.
I'd have to say that this little guy is the main reason for me not getting anything done. He's so cute though, how can you blame him. Doesn't that face just say "what, I didn't do anything".

Oh well, I'll just have to stay up later to get my time in :-)

Keep watching, I guarantee a card any day now.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Stay Tuned

2009-06-07T22:18:00.003-04:00

Wow, it has been a long time since I've done this. Life has been crazy. But I got some new stamps this weekend and I am super excited to make some new cards and maybe even do some scrapbooking. So stay tuned cause this is the first place that I will be showing it all off.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Temporary Shutdown

2009-02-08T21:38:00.002-05:00

It is so much harder than I thought it would be to get some crafting done, unless I want to stay up all hours of the night. It was okay to stay up late when I was home with Jonathan but now that I'm at work during the day I need my sleep!

So between work and life I am going to have to have a temporary shutdown on my blog. We are in the process of finding a new house and we have to pack up some of ours in order to put it up for sale so of course my craftroom is one of the places that needs the packing. I promise that as soon as we have moved and my new craftroom is set up I will make a card right away. And if I ever get some card time in (I have a wedding order to work on) I promise to share.

Just pretend that I'm taking the summer of but a little out of season :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I can see clearly now...

2009-01-16T23:32:00.010-05:00

Wowee, what a day! Can you believe that I actually got creative and made some cards - 2 1/2 to be exact :-)

Ever since I saw the tutorial on SCS for the acetate card I wanted to make one, but I usually use my acetate sheets on shaker cards. A couple of weeks ago I co-hearsed my husband into buying me a whole box of 100 write-on overhead sheets ($19.99 at Staples).

So today was the day. I had one of my stamping friends, Amy, over for a little bit of fun. I cut some standard cards and ran them through the cuttlebug embossing folders.

and here's the inside...Don't you just love it. This is one of my new stamps I got from Michaels over the holidays. I loved the first card so much that I just kept going.
and here's the inside...
I know it's hard to see the embossing on the front of the cards, but it looks really awesome irl. I will definately be making more of these.

Here is one of Amy's cards that she made today too..

Hope you enjoyed the cards, it felt really good to get some creativeness going today. I'm back to work on Monday from my maternity leave, really going to miss my little monkey :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I made something!! and an Award...

2009-01-05T23:01:00.006-05:00

First with the award...

I received this awesome award from one of my SCS friends - that is totally responsible for my Bella adiction :-) Janet. Thanks Janet!

Here's the rules...list 5 of my addictions and list 5 fabulous blogs. My adictions....1.buying stamps, 2.buying ribbon, 3.buying embellishments, 4.buying paper, 5.buying markers...does anyone see the pattern :-) Now for nominating five blogs...I have to say that I am stumped right now, I have not been good at my blog staulking lately so this award is going out to all of you!! Enjoy!

Now for my creation...I have to admit that it is fairly boring but I made something. It was really hard to get into my very messy craft room so simplicity was the rule.

I used Tinkerbella from Stamping Bella, coloured her in with my prismacolour markers and a glitter gel pen. I always like to rub my finger tip accross the whole image after I've used the glitter gel pen, it spreads a tiny bit of glitter all over. The saying is actually a rub on - not sure where it's from but it was in my stash. Here's a close up of tink...
I started some long awaiting scrapbooking today, but not enough to share (only a title page). I will share as soon as I get some more done.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

2009-01-01T20:15:00.004-05:00

Look who decided to come back to the world of blogging...

The holidays have been a whirlwind of family, fun, presents and the worst of all sickness!! I have been constantly sick from December 21st until yesterday. The kind that I would never want to wish on anyone :-(

Now it's time for things to get back to normal, get the house re-organized and start the countdown for the dredded back to work. Aaaaagghh! Did I actually say that, I have to go back to work, booooo. It's about a month early but you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm gonna miss my little man, and maybe his sister too :-)

I would love to be a stay at home mom, but I don't think I would be very good at it. I never have dinner made on time and card making generally takes president to cleaning the house. If only I could win the lottery so that I could stay home and have a maid, lol. Every womans dream!

This weekend I'm going to start off right and clean up my craft room so that I can easily get in some crafting time when I get home from a long hard day at work. And then I hope to have some awesome new cards for you. I might even do some scrapbooking, it's been way too long for that.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Snow Day!!

2008-12-19T23:24:00.006-05:00

Of all days, why would they pick the last day of school for a snow day! I was really looking forward to that time to wrap presents. And there was so much snow that we couldn't even go anywhere. Can you say "cabin fever". Of course I wasn't able to get any crafting done, but I was able to take pictures of the teacher gifts I made since we weren't able to deliver them, lol.

The first is a lunch tin of cards for Madison's teacher. She is retiring at the end of the year so I though what better than some "thank you" and "just because" cards.
This is my favorite. I found the instructions here... http://www.stamphappens.com/stamp_happens/2008/08/mini-backpack-r.html

It is the perfect gift box for a teacher. Inside it has some chocolate coins and candy canes. I'll definately be making more of these in the future for all kinds of celebrations.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Merry Christmas to All!!

2008-12-16T22:56:00.004-05:00

Well looks like I'm not getting too much crafting done, life is getting in the way. Not sure if I'll have a chance to post before christmas, only one week left and then I'm off to Barrie for christmas. Just wanted to share a couple of family photos of the kids....

Madison always talks about writing Santa a letter but we usually forget about it and don't get a chance, so this year I found www.emailsanta.com and went online with her to send Santa a letter. I have to tell you that it is awesome, they even have a "naughty or nice" list and of course Madie was Nice (daddy was naughty and is definately getting coal). She even got a reply of Santa right away. Just love it.

Well, just wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!! Hope everyone has a great holiday season.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Blog Candy Galore

2008-12-13T21:02:00.002-05:00

You would think that now I have my own computer I should be able to blog more, but it's a real learning curve :-) I have to get used to everything again, and blog staulking really makes time past so fast, lol.

Here's some great blog candy up for grabs on Papermonkey. And check out this one at Poetric Artistry also.

Good Luck and Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Christmas Came Early This Year...

2008-12-09T21:14:00.002-05:00

YAH ME!!!

Look what I got for christmas this year, just a little early :-) I am so happy, I finally got my new laptop and can get back to all my fun blogging and blog stalking.

I just came home from my first craft show of the season, which was a bust. I know it's pretty late for people to be buying christmas cards, I'm sure most people have already sent theres out. Oh well, craft show is done, company has come and gone. Now I only have to focus on wrapping all my christmas presents and get packed up for our family christmas is Barrie. Then I can play with all my new stamps. And maybe even catalogue them.

This year has gone by so fast and I'm heading back to work at the end of January, boooo! Oh well maybe next year I'll be more prepared for all the christmas craft shows.

Here's a bella Teacher card that I made for the craft show, didn't sell any, but I know what cards Madison can use for her teachers :-) Love this teacherbella, she is super cute, thanks to my bella sister Jacqueline for sending her to me.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Chillin with my Penquin Boys

2008-12-02T22:11:00.004-05:00

I don't know why I think these are boys but they are super cute! Don't you just love them. I just had to use my chunky ice glitter for the iceburg and the snowflakes. Can't really see it in the picture but it is awesome.

Image was coloured in with prismacolour markers. I didn't put any colour on the penquins body but I'm thinking maybe I should have. I have to refil my ink pad as it is a little low, too much stampin'.

Well I have a house to clean and a craft show to get ready for. It's going to be a very busy week and weekend :-)

(Image is from Serendipity Stamps )

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

CD Tin Calendar

2008-11-30T19:20:00.008-05:00

Thought I'd give you a sneak peek of what I've been working on, it's not complete yet but it's really the only thing I've been working on. I decided to make some calendars for christmas presents and have had these cd tins lying around. Now I just have to come up with a way to stand it up.

All the of the images are Bellas. It was so hard to pick 12 out of so many of my favorites. Here are the first 6 months...

Each of them are going to be double sided with the other six months and then all packaged in a cd tin. I really hope my cousins like them.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-27T20:43:00.002-05:00

Just wanted to send out a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and sisters! I may be in Canada now but most of you don't know that I was actually born in Concord, New Hampshire and lived in the states until I was 3. With a Canadian mother and an Amercian father we celebrated both thanksgivings every year. Yah me! Double turkey and best of all double pie :-)

Sorry about the lack of postings lately, it is really hard to share a computer with a workaholic. But the end is near, I am getting a new laptop for christmas, and this time Jonathan will not be able to give it any drinks :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Glitter Snowflake Fun

2008-11-20T21:47:00.003-05:00

Here's another of my cuttlebug creations. For this card I used the rubber gasket from the hardware store and the snowflake embossing folder. In the centre is an SU Penguin from Punch Pals. I added lots of glitter with my favorite diamond stickles. I kept the card fairly plain but I still really like it.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Happy Holidays times two

2008-11-18T22:48:00.006-05:00

I finally got some cards put together with the images that I coloured during my relaxing two day vacation, hehe.

Whenever I need a small simple saying for the front of my card I usually turn to my Michaels $1.50 wood stamps. This Happy Holidays is one from last year and is one of my favorites.

The first card is one that has a little non traditional colour with the turquoise. I actually coloured the image to match the paper for a change. For a little bit of embelishment I added a picture hanger with some ribbon tied on. Very cute.

This one is a Penny Black image from this years collection with my favorite hedgies. For accent here I added a metal christmas tree also from last years $1.50 section at Michaels. Feels good to finally use some of these. I also used my clear Sakura Glaze pen on the christmas lights for a little bit of shine.

Feels great to get some time to create, hopefully tomorrow will be just as good.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Cuttlebug Creations

2008-11-17T22:53:00.005-05:00

Ok so when my girlfriend Lisa emails me and card and says "I want to make this"...I deliver :-)

http://www.heartprints.net/gallery/cuttlebug/card/3303/

Above is the link to the card that she liked and below is my cards.

It was using the cuttlebug embossing folders but with a portion of the card not being embossed, all one sheet of paper. If you go into the forum it will give you directions, but here's how I did it...

First I cut out frames from some cardboard, I had to use two sheets to get the right pressure. And I also picked up a rubber washer from the plumbing department of the hardware store ($1.27 what a deal).
Here's the order to put it through the cuttlebug...first comes the A plate, then your embossing folder with the paper inside, then your frame of choice and finally your C plate.

All my images were coloured with Prismacolour markers and then stickles were added for some bling. The wreath got some rhinestones from the dollar store.

What do you think? How 'bout you give it a try, post a link to your creation so I can check it out.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Re-Model in Process

2008-11-16T20:52:00.002-05:00

Well now that November is here and half over, I have decided to do a make-over on my blog and add some christmas cheer :-) Just have to come up with a new banner to go with the new background. My current banner is actually a picture that I took myself quite some time ago, maybe I'll see if I can find a nice winter picture.

I'm single for the week so I hope to get lots of cards and blogging done. My husband is off to Texas on another business trip. Isn't he lucky that it decided to snow yesterday and probably for the rest of the week too. I wish I got to go to Texas - were it never snows!!

Keep watching for the full make-over to be complete and some great christmas cards to come.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Snow Much Fun

2008-11-15T14:56:00.003-05:00

I took a little break last week and went with my husband to a conference in Toronto. It's only two hours away from where I live but there was a hotel room and peace & quite. How could I resist :-)

I took a great big bag with me full of images and my prismacolour markers. I didn't get much done but it does look like a lot. I finished 12 of these little snow angel boys and then 12 big christmas moose images. It was a great boost to get some cards done.

I had a need for 12 chipboard circles, so I punched them out of my coasters and then was kinda upset that I had used up 12 coasters for nothing really, so I came up with this card. I really like how it turned out and my coasters weren't a waste after all. I put it all together on an embossed card from Michaels (in the $1.50 section) and added some stickles for a little embellishment.

Now only 11 more to put together! All images are from SU.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Goodies in the mail :-)

2008-11-11T19:35:00.007-05:00

I received an awesome package from my Bella Sistah - Jacqueline today!

Thank you so much, I love getting packages in the mail. She sent me some awesome stuff...check it out.

There are some pretty awesome cards there too, I just love Knobbly Knomes from SU, one of my fav sets.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Check out this awesome blog candy...

2008-11-09T23:02:00.003-05:00

Anyone wanna win some blog candy... well head on over to visit Lara at You Want the Cookie? and enter for a chance to win 2 sets of stamps from The Cats Pajama's and a Little Monkey's starter kit. Ooooh, I'm so excited...pick me, pick me!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Warm Winter Wishes

2008-11-09T18:56:00.005-05:00

As promised, a waterfall card. This is one of my favorite cards but is quite a lot of work. I borrowed some images from one of my mothers cube stamps, so that all four images matched.

Coloured them in with my prismacolour markers, of course :-) and then bordered them with a silver paint marker to make it look like they are matted in silver.

The rest I just followed my instructions, which I believe are available on Splitcoast Stampers. I decided to use my SU divider punch on the bottom of the tab and added a sparkly snowflake. It's hard to tell but I added some glitter to the white trims on the hats. I love glitter!!

I took a picture of each square to show...

It's really going to be hard to decide what card or even image I want to use for my personal christmas cards :-)
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Catching Up

2008-11-08T08:06:00.006-05:00

Well it feels like forever, but it's only been since tuesday. With my computer on the fritz again and then going through everyone in the family being sick including myself (I blame it on Halloween), it's been really hard to get on and get blogging. But I plan to make up for that in this super long post.

I'll start off with a belated birthday card I received from my sbs22 sister, Jhet. Thank you so much, I really love it!

And now for an award...

I received this award from one of my blogging/bella friends, Janet. thank you so much Janet, I feel so honored.

The rules are:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

So with that I nominate ... this is hard since I don't have my favorites that are on my computer...

Jhet, Spike, Peggy, Cindy, Gwen

And now I have to catch up on all my sisters blogs, such a job :-) But before I go I will leave you with a card or too. Here's some shaker cards that I finally got put together. Tomorrow I will have a great waterfall card so don't forget to check in.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Shaker Santa

2008-11-04T10:06:00.005-05:00

Madison asked the other day if she could make a shaker card with me. Here's what we came up with. All the colours were picked by Madison and of course mommy assembled :-)

This is probably one of the first cards I haven't done any stamping on in quite a while. Everything was the paper which was all from Hobby Lobby in the christmas department.

Hope you enjoy it. Madison loves to walk around and shake it and show off :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Happy Halloween

2008-11-02T23:20:00.003-05:00

Well we are back to computer issues again - looks like my laptop may have picked up a little virus, lol. So I have to share again, but that gives me access to all our family pictures, so I thought I'd share some halloween pics of our Little Tigger and Little Mermaid.

Most of the snow had melted and it had warmed up quite a bit. I was actually just wearing a short sleeve t-shirt for the first half of our outing. The kids had a great time, Jonathan just hung out in the snuggly and Madison ran around with her friends.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Delinquent Poster :-(

2008-11-01T08:40:00.003-04:00

Sorry guys, I just realized that I haven't posted since wednesday, how terrible of me. I've been so busy finishing christmas cards for my aunt and Madie's halloween treats for her school mates. Now we're headed off to Barrie for my grandfathers 80th birthday - wowee!

Unfortunately we have a little hold up this morning, my parents were the victim's of halloween pranks last night and there's a nice mess to clean up before we head out :-( I'm just holding down the fort while the men go to Home Depot for supplies.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Loads of Holiday Cheer

2008-10-29T23:00:00.005-04:00

As promised I have another christmas card to share with you. This one was made with SU's Loads of Love. I've had this set for quite some time, but rarely use it. I really love the way it worked out. I stamped the truck and coloured in with my prismacolour markers (of course) and cut it out to pop up on top of the trees, which are from Lovely as a Tree.

It is very simple and glittery!! I gave it some glitter snow with a snowflake spot stamp, my glue pad and glitter, love it.

I also received another birthday card in the mail today from another SBS22 sister, Marge. Thanks Marge, I really appreciate the lovely card.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Thank You for the Birthday Wishes

2008-10-29T11:38:00.008-04:00

It was so exciting yesterday to get the mail and find birthday cards on my actual birthday, lol.

I received a couple of cards from some of my SBS22 sisters (thanks girls) and then of course from my family. I took some pictures to share, they aren't great quality since it was late when I got around to doing it. And then little man woke up and decided to play until after midnight, so of course I didn't get a chance to post yesterday. But I'm here today...

...from Chrissie
...from Peggy
...my mom
...my little Madie (I think Nana helped her colour ;-)

Well thank you everyone, your cards are awesome and very appreciated. I'll post some more christmas cards later today.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I love Snowmen!!

2008-10-27T23:58:00.007-04:00

Today was a pretty productive day. Jonathan had a great time on the kitchen floor while I coloured and crafted. Note to self - look at baby every now and then, especially if he is quiet:-)

Nope that's not lipstick! Don't tell his sister that he tried eating her handmade Valentine's card - thank god it was non-toxic marker :-) and washable.

Now on with the card...

I believe that this is a Whippersnapper snowman. Very cute! The saying on the inside is an Annie's Attic stamp. Fit perfect.

Well tomorrow is my birthday :-) Just having a quiet cardmaking day and ending it off with my favorite DQ ice cream cake, yah me!!
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Sleigh Full of Presents

2008-10-25T23:46:00.003-04:00

Here's another new christmas card made with SU images, sorry but I don't remember the name of the set. I picked the background paper that was all presents in blue, green, pink and red. There is also glitter all over the background paper, so I added some glitter to the bows on the presents and the stars on the sleigh and reindeer. I still need to put a greeting on the front but I was too tired to finish :-)

So tomorrow it's back to more christmas cards and gift card holders. Have to see how much I can get made in a week. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Highschool Musical - Woohoo!!

2008-10-24T22:59:00.002-04:00

Sorry no cards today...I picked up Madison after school and drove over to Westmount to see Highschool Musical 3, yah me. I bought the tickets on Wednesday for the 7pm show today. Can you believe that when we got to the mall at 5pm there was already one person in line, lol. We got out dinner and while we were eating the food court started filling up with tons of little girls so we knew it was time to hop into line. And wowee it started getting crazy in there.

Can you believe that a bunch of little girls are much louder and rowdier than the theatre during Mama Mia. Everytime Troy did something cute they started screaming. It was hilarious. I like the first two movies better, but this one was still okay :-)

Well time to get some cleaning done before I have to head out at 1:30am to pick up my hubby at Robert Q. A week feels like such a long time, can't wait to get him home.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Let it Snow

2008-10-23T21:39:00.003-04:00

Well it felt like it was going to snow today, but no way :-)

I got this shaker card put together, but only one, haha. Hopefully tomorrow will be more productive. I think I put a little too much snow in it but at least I know for next time.

Sorry about the picture quality, I didn't want to use the flash because of the window film on the shaker.

I am so ready for bed right now. Madison got an ear infection and decided to pass it along to me and along with that I got a sinus infection. My head is pounding so hard :-( I'm just waiting for Jonathan to tire out so that I can jump into bed.

Only one more day until my hubby comes home from Texas and I get a break, yah me!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Christmas Cards as Promised - Kinda :-)

2008-10-22T22:23:00.005-04:00

Okay so this morning was a little fun time with my girlfriend and Jonathan. And then this afternoon it was down to business. I think I'm getting carpal tunel from all the colouring and I don't really feel like I got alot done.

I only put together one card, but I coloured 18 images and cut all the papers to put them together with. First is the ever awesome christmas s___t :-) which is one of my all time favorites from Penny Black.

The next is three different shaker cards using SU's Big on Christmas. I'm going to be doing a rectangular shape box over the stamped image. An idea I got from my girlfriend this morning :-)

I still have to cut out the inside of the frame for the top but other than that they are ready to be glued, after a short trip to the dollar store for the right foam tape. Thought I had it but I guess not. Oh well, who doesn't like a trip to the dollar store. Feels good to get back to stamping and colouring and blogging!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I'm Back!!

2008-10-21T22:31:00.005-04:00

Well it's been a trying time, getting my computer on the mend. I have to admit that I kind of took a little crafting break and read the first two books from the Twilight series (in one week!!). I was intrigued by most of the bloggers that I follow posting about these books and the upcoming movie that I just had to get them. So now I have the third book but I know that christmas cards are more important - so minimal reading :-)

I was happy to see some exciting mail in the mailbox today. First was a package from my SBS22 Secret Sister (thank you rocking secret sister ;-) She sent me an awesome Riley halloween card, some Riley images, buttons, ribbon and flowers, woohoo!

And then I got a birthday card from Kathy from SBS22 also. She sent my some awesome bird images which will come in handy for my grandpa's birthday coming up.

Well tomorrow I will have some awesome christmas cards to share with you :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Slowly recovering...

2008-10-15T22:26:00.003-04:00

Well it's pretty hard but every now and then I get a couple of minutes to get onto my husbands computer and every now and then my computer decides to work for a bit before shutting itself down. It is so frustrating since my email is totally all over the place, when I open outlook on my laptop it receives all my emails from the rogers server, and then I'm not able to see any of them when I log on through the internet on my husbands computer. Sucks, sucks, sucks. Looks like I may be able to save my laptop though, as soon as I am financially able to send it in for some servicing, lol.

Well today I was able to get on for a bit and catch up on all my emails and hopefully tonight I will get a chance to brows my fav blogs. I haven't forgotten about you all...my sbs22 sisters also...I just don't get too much computer time :-(

I finally got a chance today to sit down and make a card. I saw this one done up on a fellow SU demo's site, I loved it, so here's my take. You can check out the original at Heathers blog.

The top of the card is actually a 4x4 coaster that I punched with my SU circle punch and then foam taped to make shaker boxes. I love this and I think I'm finally getting it down pat so it is much easier to make and takes a lot less time :-)

Time to get working on my christmas cards, I already have a good size order and I'm hoping to do a craft show or two this season. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Will be out of commission :-(

2008-10-10T23:20:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone. First off all I would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends and sisters!! I'm heading out to Barrie early tomorrow morning to visit with family for the long weekend.

Now for the bad news - my laptop was involved in a bad accident today with a cup of luke warm Tim Hortons coffee and a 7 month old! Needless to say that I am laptopless and heartbroken because I have now lost some really great pictures of lots of cards and lots of cute kids. I don't know how I'm going to fix this or when I will be able to get back to normal, but for now I promise that I will get on my hubby's computer whenever I get the chance and I will continue to post as often as I can.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Snowbunnybella and Secret Sister Mail - What a Day!

2008-10-08T22:31:00.007-04:00

I had a chance to play today and the first thing I picked up was snowbunnybella from Stamping Bella. I think she is my favorite bella right now, or just for today :-)

The next thing I picked up was a super bright christmas paperpad by Colorbok. I had bought it at Hobby Lobby last year!

So what do you think, I did three different colour combo's and flocked the fur trim on her coat and boots. I LUV flocking right now.

Here's seperate photos of each...I coloured the images with my Prismacolour markers and used SU punches for the tags. The saying is from SU also. I think the turquoise background is my fav.

Now onto my mail...I received a package from my SBS22 Secret Sister ;-) I got Peggy's Pretties, I got Peggy's Pretties, nana nana poo poo! I wonder who my secret sister is ;-)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU SECRET SISTER.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Awesome Blog Candy up for Grabs

2008-10-07T22:37:00.001-04:00

Check out this super great blog candy....here. Lim is offering some great candy including 150 images!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Goodies from my Awesome Bella Sister

2008-10-07T22:13:00.004-04:00

Yah Me!!

I received a great big package from my Bella Sister - Jacqueline. Check out all the goodies...she sent me a package of Elsie paper, some scalloped halloween paper, halloween cardmaking kit, halloween scrap paper, a mini album, some halloween stamps, some halloween images, a cute little card and much more...

And the best part....TEACHERBELLA!! Woohoo, yah me!!

Thanks Jacqueline, you're the best.
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Birthday Magnolias

2008-10-06T23:03:00.005-04:00

My husband had the nerve to ask me to go out and buy a birthday card for his step-mother the other day. So what was my response..."Can't I make one!!"

I had some really awesome dimensional floral stickers from K&Company and wanted to make a card with them, so I paired it with a Tilda stamp that I bought from the Towne Scrapper in Petrolia, ON. Still not sure what she has in her hands so I decided to cover it up with a flower sticker. I swear I'm going to go online and figure out what it is tonight :-) I coloured her in with my prismacolour markers and added some glitter to her crown. I always forget to add stickles to their wings.

So then I wanted to do some more and here's what I came up with. These Tilda's were from a blog candy that I had won. I just love her.

I started by colouring the image and then picked the paper after. I found this awesome paper that matched perfectly but it was christmas, so what did I do but cover up the christmas parts with more paper punched with my SU circle punch. I was going to add a scallop with a stamp in the middle but it just didn't work out, I might add something else later.

Oh yah, when I went to the mailbox today I had an envelope from one of my awesome SBS22 sisters Becky. She had read on my blog that I loved Hedgies and would really love to get my hands on some of the older SU Hedgies. Well what's just as good as that...some stamped images of them. Wowee, she sent me all of them...halloween, christmas and just because.

THANK YOU SO MUCH BECKY!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Some Amazing Blog Candy

2008-10-06T12:06:00.002-04:00

Head on over to Corrosive Creations by Janet and give a shout out, she has some awesome blog candy up for grabs. And while your out in blog land, pop by Paper Makeup and check out her great blog candy too. Congrats girls!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Happy World Card Making Day

2008-10-05T00:23:00.007-04:00

I know the day is over here, but I'm sure others are still celebrating, somewhere :-)

You would think that on WCMD I would be in my craft room all day making cards out of the ying yang. But of course that is not the case. Family time comes first for me, and we spent tons of it today. We went to the local park downtown to feed all the hungry squirrels. Madison just loves to feed them, she'll sit there forever to get them to take the peanuts out of her hand. And today we even had one little eager squirrel that grabbed the peanut with his mouth and was grabbing our fingers to keep himself steady :-) Too cute! Too bad we didn't bring our camera.

So I did get a little bit of crafting time tonight and I broke open some pre-made cards from Making Memories. One is a pocket card and the other is a matchbook. I really like the way they turned out. I used one of my fav SU sets called pretty princess.

I wrapped a ribbon around the outside of the card that has a bit of a sheer to the middle. And on the card is a printed line that has some polka dots on it, so they show right through the ribbon, how cute.
On the second card I used all the same stamps and ribbon. These were super quick and easy to make, I'll definately do more of these in the future.

Well hope everyone had a great WCMD and made lots of great cards.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Giving Thanks

2008-10-03T23:00:00.004-04:00

After posting yesterdays challenge of paper piecing I was on a paper piecing craze, and was itching to use my harvest set from SU (can't remember the name of it and too lazy to run downstairs to find out :-)

I took out my pattern paper scraps and here's what I came up with.

I stamped all the images on the patterned paper and then cut out, for this one I use the main line of the image as it is a sketchy set. Then I started with the pumpkin on the bottom, stamped it on the cream paper and coloured the stem with my prismacolour markers. Glued on the pattern paper and voila, move onto the next pumpkin until all four where done. Patterned paper is various scraps and letter tiles are from dollar store.

Well I have a new craft to work on lately, one of my daughters friends brought some plastic lacing to school to make bracelets and guess who had to run to Michaels to buy some supplies. She is totally addicted but off course needs some help from her mommy. If only there where more hours in the day.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

SBS22 Blog Hop Challenge

2008-10-02T23:21:00.010-04:00

It's a couple days late but here you go. This month Tina and I are hosting our SBS22 Blog Hop Challenge. So we are to post a challenge on the first of the month for our fellow blogging sisters...at the end of the month you can pop around and visit their blogs to see all the awesome creations. If you'd like to play along feel free, the more the merrier.

So for my challenge - I challenge you to make a card with Paper Piecing, now if your not sure how to do it I've taken some pictures of my card as I was making it to give you the general idea. Paper piecing works best with images that have large open spaces, if not you will have to be really good with the scissors :-)

So you stamp your image on white paper and patterned paper.

Cut out the pieces that you want to be from the patterned paper. It is best to cut as close to the lines as possible.

On the white image you colour in any sections that are going to be left original. In this one I am paper piecing the hat and cape. I realized when I was putting the paper piecing on that I forgot to colour her tail and hair, hehe.

Then you can glue your patterned pieces to the coloured image. I recomend a glue pen and applying the glue to the white image first. I opted to cut out the whole image after and apply to my card with pop dots.

I also paper pieced the cauldron with the same patterned paper. All images are from the SU set Haunting Halloween. Except for the little spider which is from Studio G.

Come play along.

Edited - I just thought of so much more to add. Like the inside of the card to complete the saying and I have a close up of the cauldron. I added crystal effects to the bubbling potion.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A Belated Merry Monday

2008-10-01T22:32:00.004-04:00

Remember a while back I was going to post christmas cards every monday - well wowee I've really messed up on that one :-) So here's a new christmas card to get you in the festive spirit.

I made this lovely simple card with my christmas cactus from Impression Obsession. Love it!! The image is coloured in with Prismacolour markers and the lights and star were highlighted with Niji Pearlescent Watercolours. I love these (thanks to Lisa :-) they are just like H2O's but way cheaper. Here's a closeup of the lights and star to show you the twinkle.

It is getting pretty cold out her in Southwestern Ontario. We actually had to turn the heat on tonight. I kinda like it because I like to bundle up in a nice sweater or even cuddle on the couch with a warm fuzzy blanket. Hope everyone is keeping warm.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A Cute Desk Set

2008-09-30T23:53:00.007-04:00

I've had this project in mind for a while but have never gotten to it. Well today was the day. This project is made from two sizes of chipboard coasters, some paper, flowers, images and pearl brads. And last but not least a calendar note pad set from Michaels!

Don't you just love this little Pagent Winner! She is a cute little Whipper Snapper Designs stamp that we picked up at the London Scrapbook Expo last saturday. I couldn't leave the little girl behind :-)

Okay so the first one is a large coaster with a To Do list that hangs on the wall. The coaster is an odd size (around 5 3/4 or something like that). I took some green cardstock and wrapped around. It isn't glued down in the front so that when your paper pad is empty you can just slip it out and slip in a new one (oh yah, I'm smart!). I added in a cute little saying from SU, some Prima flowers and a pearl brad from K & Company. The little pageant girl is coloured in with my prismacolour markers and the crown has some added glitter with a Sakura Gel pen.

And the second part is a little stand up calendar. It is made with two 4" coasters covered with paper and hinged with some cardstock. Once you get the calendar on there isn't much room to play around so I just added the flowers and pearl brad to keep the theme going.
The blue paper is from Magnolia and the green cardstock is Bazil Bling. They matched really good with the calendar.

I just wanted to share with you the cutest little guy. He is definately growing by leaps and bounds, Jonathan will be 7 months on Oct 3rd. He's totally mastered crawling at a super speed and has started couch walking. There is no doubt that he will be walking by christmas. I only hope that the christmas tree will survive his first christmas. We might have to go out and buy the gate that is big enough to make a little yard and put it around the tree, lol. It's gonna be fun.

Today Jonathan was sporting his "little man" golf shirt with his "railroad" jeans (they have the cute little stripe in them) and then his Faded Glory cowboy boots from Walmart in the states (we don't have Faded Glory in canada). The top of his cowboy boots is camo print, so cute.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Back to our Regularly Programmed Schedule

2008-09-30T00:16:00.006-04:00

Woohoo, I got two cards done today. It felt really good getting some cards done. After I took a huge nap to try and get rid of this darn headache. I think the weather change is getting to me. It's been really cold today and then tonight I am just sitting here listening to the rain, yuck!!

The first card I have for you is a great ExpectaFellaBella card. I absolutely love the way this card turned out. I had coloured the image ahead of time with no idea what the card would look like. The background paper is from my recent trip to Hobby Lobby, my mom and I bought 4 12x12 paper stacks that were all awesome glitter paper (unfortunately I can't remember the brand and my mom got the packaging that gives the deets). The turquoise and green stripes are full of glitter and it looks so awesome. The pink swirl on the side is from making memories and is an acetate accent, on top of that is a prima flower and a rhinestone brad. The saying is from SU.

Next is this super cute Pirate card from High Hopes. The only thing I have to say is that I really need some pirate-y sayings. The images were coloured in with my prismacolour markers and the sails and shirt of the pirate are masked and sponged with SU inks. Oh and the water too!

I can't wait til my little guy gets bigger and I get to make birthday invites and such for him and his little friends :-)

Have a great night everybody.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I did it - all done - and now I can play!

2008-09-28T23:28:00.009-04:00

160 mini gift bag wedding favors done and ready to be delived :-)

I thought I'd share what I have been working on (and complaining about) for the past little while.

These are mini gift bags made with a 6x12 sheet of paper and wrapped around a wooden tea box, so super cute and very time consuming.

I had to use my SU scallop punch on a strip of white cardstock for the top of each bag and then punch out the SU scallop circle and the the two largest SU circle punches for the tags. On the other side of the tag I printed from the computer "Thank you for sharing out day" and punched with the SU circle.

I'm glad they are done and I know for next time that I deserve a lot more than $1 each to make these little guys.

Can you see the little guy in the back just waiting for my back to turn so that he can stick one of them in his mouth :-)

Now for the fun stuff - here's a little sneek peek of all my fun purchased from the scrapbook expo here in London on saturday.

Can't wait to colour some up and make some awesome cards.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Two Amazing Blog Candies up for Grabs

2008-09-28T22:52:00.002-04:00

Jeanette over at Happy Thoughts & Inkspots is celebrating almost reaching 10,000 hits on her blog by giving away some really awesome blog candy. Run on over and check it out, and her cards are really awesome too.

Also, Anki over at Kortfralst is getting very close to 1000 hits and is celebrating with some really awesome blog candy. She is giving away two new stamps from the hanglar & stanglar stamps. They are super cute.

Check them out.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

My Bitter-Sweet Day

2008-09-27T23:23:00.002-04:00

My day started off with a trip to the local flea market, where they have scrapbooking supplies, hehe. And ended up at the London Scrapbook Expo. My mom told me that it was on this weekend and we were kinda debating whether or not we should go...there wasn't much advertising and there didn't seem to be alot of vendors. But it ended up being an awesome idea. The first booth we went to had all Maya Road Chipboard albums, boxes, etc. Wowee that was fun. And then we found this stamp store in Petrolia, hello Petrolia!! (not very far from me at all) that sells MAGNOLIA STAMPS!!, WHIFF OF JOY STAMPS!!, PAPER PRETTIES STAMPS!! and HIGH HOPES STAMPS!! Hello where have you been all my life.

But sad to say that I am not allowed to look at my purchases or touch them. My mom took them home with her and has told me that I cannot touch until these darn favors are done. And I was going to take pictures to show you what I'm working on and I just realized that my mom has my camera too. Fancy that!!

So hopefully I will get them done tomorrow and then I can show you everything I got :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Some Cute Cards

2008-09-26T23:46:00.005-04:00

I made these cards a couple days ago for a special secret someone :-) but I couldn't wait I had to share. I used some of my favorite Penny Black images coloured up with my Prismacolour Markers. Backed by a cuttlebug embossing and a little bit of ribbon. Now check out the bling on these cards. HUGE rhinestones from the dollars store (oh ya) with a prima flower. Who wouldn't want to get one of these cute cards from a friend.

I so have to get back to work and finish this wedding order. Next time I really need to rethink 160 wedding favors at $1 each. There is so much more work involved in them :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I won and made a card out of it!

2008-09-25T22:47:00.007-04:00

Look I won some blog candy, and what great candy it was, from Winxy Escapes.

So of course as soon as I get a new image I just have to colour it right away and make a card out of it, hehe. I love these Magnolia images, I would love to get some of the stamps too :-)

Check out what I made. I was going for something a little more for a boy, but's it's hard when I've been all girl for so long. It almost looks like he's sitting on a canoe, at least that was what I was going for.

Image was coloured in with Prismacolour markers. All paper is SU, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Kraft. Kraft cardstock was stamped with SU Weathered background stamp. The words are made with Studio G alphabet stamps from Michaels. The old olive cardstock was embossed with my cuttlebug. And I even added in some highlighting with my long lost white gel pen, took me a long time to find that one.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

In Celebration of World Alzheimer's Day

2008-09-24T22:33:00.004-04:00

One of our fellow blogging stampers has put together the mother of all blog candies in honor of World Alzheimer's Day. She has had many companies and individuals come together with donations and the value is well over $1,000 and growing.

I have made this card using the beautiful Eloise Greengrass from Stamping Bella and the official colour of the Alzheimer's awareness ribbon - purple! Now one of the guidelines was to send to card to someone you know that is a caregiver for an alzheimer patient or if not to the home which her grandmother spent the last few years of her life. I will be sending my card to the staff at the Artman Home as I do not know of anyone in this position right now.

Check out Cammie's blog for more information.

Eloise has been coloured in with my beloved Prismacolour Markers and a little Stickles on the wings. Stampin' Up! Lavender Lace cardstock , the print I cannot remember (took it out of the packaging, silly me). Ribbon is from Michaels. The "Thank You" is from SU stamped in Old Olive and outlined with a white gel pen.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Check out the Amazing Blog Candy

2008-09-24T22:29:00.002-04:00

Mel is offering this awesome blog candy. Run on over and check it out here.
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Blog Candy - NEW WINNER!

2008-09-23T22:37:00.002-04:00

I meant to post Sunday that I have not had a response from my blog candy winner, so I have drawn another number, here's the new winner....

V Colbourne said...
I happened to come across your blog tonight and it's wonderful! :) You are talented!!I'm going to add you to my blog list so I can check by more often!

Congratulations, send me your address and I'll get your Candy out to you.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Wow, what a lotta bella's!

2008-09-23T22:18:00.007-04:00

Want to see what 1,320 Bella's looks like?

Sorry there was no post yesterday, I was until 1am sorting out Bella's for an image swap that I am hosting on SCS. There were 6 groups of 10 ladies, and each person had to stamp 22 of their chosen image. So all together there were 1,320 Bella's to organize, repackage and send out in the mail :-)PS - Bella loves the Bellas - the ladies in my swap were very lucky to get them back, I had to fight with the wild cat to get mine back, lol.

So with that all sorted I jumped in the car at 8am this morning (let Madison play hooky from school) and headed on over to the border to send out the packages, and go shopping of course! Well only 13 hours later and I'm finally home. Can you believe that Hobby Lobby had 50% off all scrapbooking paper and selected stamps. Yah me!! I have a couple photos to show you a few of my little dollar purchases. Finally found those ever wanted Studio G stamps.

Well back to business tomorrow, have a great night.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Bella Goes Biking

2008-09-21T23:21:00.004-04:00

I picked up these scallop cards and jumbo scallops from my local stamp store. I fell in love and wanted to give it a try. So the base of the card is a jumbo purple scallop and then a black scallop card glued on.

Of course Bella has been coloured in with Prismacolour Markers and matted with DCWV glitter cardstock. I accented the card with a metal ribbon slide (from the dollar store) and some Michaels ribbon.

Don't you all want I-Wish-I-Could-Look-so-Good-on-a-Bikeabella!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A Bad Attempt

2008-09-20T23:20:00.005-04:00

I got some little address books that I thought I would cover and fix them up. Well I think I need to take a class on book covering...cause mine sucks!

And not a good idea to take pictures of black on black. It doesn't really help you show up your project...today is just one of those days :-)

The book actually has an elastic that comes around from the back cover to hold the book closed, that's great cause my cover is so tight the book just pops open. Like I said one of those days :-)

You can see the little white spot in the bottom left hand corner, that would be where the paper is torn, lol. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have something much nicer to show you.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Whiff of Joy Stamps - Guest Designer Call

2008-09-18T23:06:00.006-04:00

I decided to take the plunge and try out for a Guest Designer position with Whiff of Joy Stamps. I absolutely love their stamps, unfortunately I don't own any yet. I have a little phobia of buying online, that and my husband won't let me :-( I'm going to have to figure out how to get past that.

Well anyways, they are looking for a guest designer for two months so I thought I'd give it a try. I'd really like to become a designer, so this would be a great trial.

This card is for my girlfriend at work that just found out she is expecting, surprise!! She is actually due March 4th which will be a year and a day from when my little Jonathan was born. Too bad that she will be leaving work just when I will be going back, poohy.

I chose Sketch #22 from Katharina's blog as I've always wanted to make a card with a layer that is a circle (in this case scallop). I had purchased these large scallops from my local stamp store and didn't know what to do with them, just really liked them. Usually how most of my supplies end up in my craft room, lol. I decided to accent the card with my fav irridescent flowers from Creative Impressions. And of course the image is coloured with my Prismacolour markers, I'd have to say that they are my number one colouring tool :-)

I really hope Katharina likes it!

If you're interested and want to give it a try...check out Katharina's blog.

Recipe:
Stamps: Stamping Bella - Teddybella, She's Expecting - Studio G
Paper: Blue Cardstock by Bazzil, Glitter Cardstock by DCWV (Nana's Nursery), Yellow DS Scrapbook Paper by SU
Others: Prismacolour Markers, Jo-Ann Essentials Ribbon, Creative Impressions Flowers, SU Rhinestone Brad, SU Round Punches and Small Scallop Punch, Large Scallop was purchased that way at local stamp store - unsure of brand.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Get Wella Bella

2008-09-17T22:46:00.004-04:00

I have to make a get well card so I decided what better than getwellabella from Stamping Bella. I've only played around with her so this is going to be my first fully coloured image. The card hasn't been put together yet but the colouring and matting is all done.

Jonathan is still sick today but looks like he might sleep in his crib tonight. Yah me, no couch :-)
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Awesome Blog Candy up for grabs...

2008-09-17T22:46:00.003-04:00

Ooooh, I would love to win this one. But I thought I'd share it will ya'll so everyone gets a chance, lol. Visit all the things I love for your chance to win.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

I've Deen Tagged

2008-09-16T22:19:00.002-04:00

Heidi my Sister has tagged me!

Here are the rules:
1. Write 7 strange characteristics about yourself. They interest us all!
2. Tag 6 other people at the end of your Post.
3. Visit everyone that you have tagged and a leave a comment on their blog to let them know that they have been tagged.

Here are my strange characteristics!

1. I am still afraid of the dark.
2. My first car was older than me.
3. I have enough craft supplies to open my own store.
4. I've been told my husband and I look like brother and sister. (eeewww)
5. I'm a shopaholic (goes with #3, lol)
6. I am addicted to french fries.
7. I have itchy teeth! (couldn't resist, long story)

I have tagged Cindy, Denise, Gwen, and Chrissie! Sorry guys I can only come up with four:-(

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Great Mail Day!

2008-09-16T21:56:00.005-04:00

I'm am sooo sorry that I did not get any cards done today. My little guy caught another cold but this time it was way worse. The two of us were up all night because he would fall asleep, I would lay him down and then he would roll over and start gagging. Poor little man. I had him in the swing to keep him upright but he still kept waking up every now and then. So the night consisted of swing on, fall asleep, swing off, sleep 20mins, wake up screaming, swing on...you catch the drift. A very sleepless night. And then today he didn't want to take any naps or else he might start choking again...he finally fell asleep at 8:30pm tonight. I held him for quite some time and then put him in the swing, so far so good. "Knock on Wood"

Well enough of that. I didn't get anything done but I did get lots in the mail. I am in the process of wrapping up a Bella Image swap on SCS so these are slowly trickling in. Along with a couple of swaps I received a card from one of my SBS22 Sisters and cards from a swap that I had particiated in (I'll post photos of those tomorrow).

First here is a friendship card from my SBS22 Sister, Deborah(Megan). Thank you Deborah! Oh and thanks for the paperclips too :-)

And I also received this lovely card from Janet (corrosive69), she is the hostess of the swap I participated in which was Rockabella cards. Believe it or not but there is a 3D paint or such on the bunny slippers and her rollers, Very Cute!!
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Awesome Blog Candy up for grabs...

2008-09-16T21:53:00.002-04:00

Hop on over to Bits and Pieces of my Life...Angelique has some great blog candy up for grabs.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah