Need your Vote - Blog Candy

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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'?!?!

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

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

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

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...

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...

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!!

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!!

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!!

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