Slowly recovering...

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

Giving Thanks

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

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 Cute Desk Set

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 my Stampin' Up! Roots

Well I got some quality time in my stamp room today and decided to go back to my Stampin' Up! roots for these cards. When I first saw The Wheel Thing set (from the internet as it was retired), I said "I want it, must have it". I was finally able to find it online from someone that was cleaning out their retired sets (on Kijiji). But this is the first time I've inked it up and they looked like they were never used :-)

My idea with these was to put flowers on each of them like they were planters. I used the In Full Bloom set for the flowers. Love it!! Here's a close up of each of them...

I was going to add some of my mini rhinestones into the flower centres, but I forgot. I'll have to do that tomorrow. I think my favorite is the scooter, how 'bout you?

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

My First "Sarah Kay" and A Halloween Bella

I got these awesome Sarah Kay images from a stamping sister, Jhet and had to colour one in right away. Isn't she beautiful. I was a little messy on my colouring cause I was in such a hurry but I think it still turned out okay. I think I have a special person that would love this card ;-)

I love my prismacolour markers, I think that is my most fav colouring tool. I added some rhinestones to her shirt (where the buttons were), and some sequin flowers with rhinestone centers. The black scallop is popped with pop dots. Can't remember the brand for the patterned paper, it was one of the paper packs from Costco that came in an awesome storage box.

Now this halloween card is an entry for my Bellaholics group. Unfortunately I do not own any Bella Halloween stamps, so I took Cuddlycat and popped a pumpkin (SU) over her body. Don't you just love it. I think she is so cute, she doesn't have any arms but that's okay :-)

The background is made with patterned paper run through the Cuttlebug with the Halloween Spots embossing folder. And then I rubbed black ink directly onto the paper to show the embossing. The ribbon is one that I picked up at Michaels some time ago. I was going to add a "happy halloween" but I didn't think it needed it.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Sock Monkey Paper Piecing

I didn't get a chance to make a card today, but I promised myself that I would post once a day, so here's a card I made last week with my new Sock Monkey stamp set from Stampin' Up. I also used the new scallop edge punch. Both these will be available in the new catalogue next month.

I just love this little guy, he is soooo cute!

Recipe:
Stamps: Stampin' Up!
Paper: Stampin' Up Very Vanilla and DCWV Old World, the brown on the sock monkey is paper pieced from a Micheals Slab
Others: Prismacolour Markers for banana and mouth, Stampin' Up Brown ink for monkey, banana and saying.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah