I received my SU order. WOOHOO

My SU order came on Monday. My wonderful demo brought it to me in a snow-shower!

I was determined to make some cards w/this bounty. I started w/the rubons (stinking COOL rubons!) I figured I'd use the black first. Ok, what color would look best with black. Not red, not white. Hey, I've got some In Colors left from last year & I'm going to get rid of them all! I have decided that In Colors are not a good thing (at least not for my weirdly wired mind). I bought 3 colors of ink & reinker 'cause I would not be able to get the ink again. Uh, what do you do w/the ink & inkers when the PAPER is gone??? I now have Cranberry Crisp & True Thyme ink & no paper to go with it. I hate that!!! But, I digress.

I picked out Vintage Violet 'cause I thought the black would look good against that color. Now, to find another color to go with it. All of the remaining In Colors look HORRID w/this color except Marigold Morning (the 3rd color of ink I bought. WHY??? I hate yellows!) This combo looks ok & I find a ribbon in my stash that goes pretty well.

I have to make something else to use my new stamps & Scallop punch. I look for a pattern paper to go w/dirty bruises (VV). Nothing! Finally, I find some scraps of an old Basic Grey. It actually matches (and the distressing matches the Marigold!) I'm not 100% crazy about this one.

So I try some more BG PP to see what else I come up with. These, I'm actually pretty happy with. I'm still not digging the VV. I went to a SU Color Matching site but, there wasn't much there I liked. I was going to try it with a rose or pink color when Shuggy posted that she LOVES this color. I'm sending the rest to her and not wasting any of my time on a really, really ugly color.

I LOVE my new SU Demo!

So, I had a SU party on 2/2. One of the two attendees said she's book a party from mine. Of course, I HAD to go to hers (and spend another $50 for ANOTHER SAB set!) These are the cards we made that night. I just LOVE her projects. They are so much fun & have so much "pop"! I had another stinky demo before.

Unfortunately, my StL friends have not yet met my new demo so they are still using stinky demo. One of them is having a party Saturday with SD. We'll see what ideas she has.

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Repurpose? I bought Becca a skirt for school & it came with this belt. She said she would NEVER wear it but I left it in the laundry room for the last 5 months. Today, I got a wild hair to clean up some junk left in there. I had it in my hand to throw away but then decided it could be reused for something.

It's been a LONG time since I've done macrame let alone UN-macrame but, I took the whole thing apart. I now have beads and fibers. Can't say I'll ever use them but, you never know.

Happy Valentine's Day

I'm am not 100% crazy about these cards. I wanted to use my Cuttlebug because I have yet to use it for ANYTHING except playing. I don't know if the first card (for dd) is missing something or if I just hate it 'cause it's purple & I don't really like purple. The 2nd one (for ds) is better but, I'm not sure about the frog. I debossed it 'cause I thought it looked better. Then, when I attached it to the card, it seemed to get lost so I went over the grooves w/pen. It's not doing alot for me.


This afternoon, dh made me a Valentine's card. He's going to be out of town on VD and asked what I wanted. I told him he didn't have to get me anything ('cause I'm going to a SU party on the 15th!!). He said he'd buy me a card. I told him to MAKE me a card. So, he did. I'll post it when I get it.

Dahlia Fold

I saw this 100 places last week but never bothered to save it. Then, Vicki at the Shack posted a blog w/instructions. Too much fun. I need ALOT more practice (and skinnier fingers wouldn't hurt!) but it is a sensational look. Both these cards were for friends w/birthdays on Saturday. Both were very impressed w/the technique

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BTW, the thing I love most about this technique is that you can use some less than groovy looking paper & it still turns out cool. The brown card is some butt-ugly SU DSP (outlaw) that I bought on a whim (liked one of the striped papers) and pretty much HATED!!! Love the way it looks all folded up!!

Uh, duh.

Saw this test on the Amuse blog. I found some of the questions really hard. Guess I'm not so smart. I had to have help from my kids on the prime numbers.

Your IQ Is 115

Your Logical Intelligence is Above Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Above Average

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

Ode to Joy!

Over at the Stamp Shack, Sherri issued a challenge to make 10 Chrsitmas Cards a month so when the holidays roll around, we won't be overwhelmed. I tried it last year & petered out after February. Hopefully, I'll do better this year but it did take me until 2/1 to get my January card done.

I believe this card came from a yahoo group that I am on. Unfortunatly, I didn't save the girls name along w/the card so now I can't give her credit. I dig go thru all the posts before and after the date I saved it & I still can not find her. So, on the off chance that you are the creator of this card & you happen to read my blog, Tell me who you are so I can credit you w/this idea!

Look, a Moose

I love this card. I found the striped paper before I even knew what I was going to do w/the ATCs. I fell in love w/it & decided it must be used!! Unfortunately, not much of it gets seen. Oh well. Happy Moose day!

Sorry for being a bad blogger, again!

I have no excuse.

Here are my snowman ATCs. What do y'all think? I LOVED them after I finished them. I brought them home & dh & dd neither one liked them. The girls I work with thought they were cute but, what if THEY were lying? They are VERY glittery!!

I also made a card. One of my Saturday Stampin' Sistah's dad died. I don't think I've ever made a sympathy card before. I've NEEDED to make one but I think I've put it off everytime. I love this set! It's another one that's good for lots of things.

Went to a crop last night

My first in like 2 years?!?! I didn't scrap (too afraid to get the pics out & then be totally uninspired. Then what would I do?) Had a blast!! Worked on my Snowman ATC & they turned out darn cute. The moose ATCs are also done but my camera battery died so I have to recharge it before I can take pics. I'll post them later today.

Nothing new to post

It's been a trying couple of days. It started last week w/the burning not once but TWICE of desserts at work. It continued thru Monday when two attempts to produce healthy & tasty meals for the kids deteriorated into the Taco Bell drive thru and culminated yesterday when I managed to lock myself out of my house (I thought the fact that the house key & car keys were on the same ring went w/o saying but, I was wrong) for an hour or so. Of the 3 people who live near me that actually have keys, no one was home!!! Finally, my friend who lives 20 minutes away was located & she came to rescue me. (Will AAA break into your house for you??) Scott, btw, is in KC MO this week.

I did get Thanh's terribly cute CJ done. It's on it's way to Erin. In my efforts to get it in the mail on time (for once!), I forgot to take pics. My Moose ATCs are almost done & STINKIN CUTE if I do say so myself. I will try to post them tomorrow.

For now, I'm off to watch some TIVOed Martha & to hopefully have a better day tomorrow. It's supposed to be a balmy 6 degrees in the morning. Hopefully, the school district will think that's too cold for the little darlings who wait for the bus & cancel school. I'm afraid if they do, I'll still have to go in & bake brownies for tomorrow's special event. Wonder if I can incinerate them too?

Cute Michael's Find

So, we went to dinner out Outback Saturday night. I LOVE Outback. I even like their salad & I HATE salad. Well, darn the luck, Outback just happens to be very near Michael's. So we stop. When I walked thru the door, what was the first thing I saw? New Clear Stamps!!! Woohoo. I don't think I've ever used any of the other Michael's clear stamps I had but they were too cute to pass up. I was trying to be good so I only bought 3 sets. Aren't the adorable? I love this little "family". Should have bought more of those.





I went to Michael's in hoping to get a new embossing folder or die for my Cuttlebug. They had the CUTEST set of flowers that would be PERFECT for Thanh's CJ. They also had the b'day embossing folder so I bought both.


Yesterday morning, I was working on the CJ & cut out coordinating flowers. They won't come apart. WHAT?? So I try again. Still not fully cut in the middle. I notice the die is a little bent (but so are ALL my dies after I run them thru the maching) and my "b" plate is seriously bowed. I tried turning over my "b" plate & ran the die thru twice and still it won't cut all the way thru. The other 3 dies in the pack work just fine. Bummer that I have to run back over to Ms but, I GET to go back to Ms. Maybe they'll have some other new die I need & now I have another 40% coupon!!

Happy Birthday Paula

Yesterday, I went Eagle watching. My friend Paula's B'day is Tuesday and for her b'day monthy get-together, she wanted to go watch the eagles. So, we reserved a spot on the tram that leaves from Alton and made plans to meet up. Well, yesterday started w/a temp of 7 degrees!!! Yikes it was COLD!!!! I dressed as warmly as I could (I actually wore sneakers, not crocs!) grabbed my tiny little camera & headed out.

Brrrrrr. Good thing we decided to go w/the tram. At least it was warm inside & the drivers pointed out the eagles to us. I had no idea there were eagles without white heads. Until they turn about 5, their heads & tails remain brown. So, I've probably seen TONS of eagles & just thought they were a really big black bird. We had tons of fun. I think my toes are just now thawing.

Here is the card I made for Paula. Turned out just a bit pink, don't you think.

Sorry, nothing new to share....yet

I've been finishing up the ATCs from the previous post. I went w/the darker heart & liked it more & more as time went on. I'm starting my Moose ATCs and working on Thahn's 20 Questions CJ. Hopefully, I'll have both those done by tonite or tomorrow & can post. After that, it's on to my 10 Christmas cards for this year. I hope I make it!

Opinions Needed

This is for Kelly's ATC swap. In my head, I LOVED this idea but now, I'm not so sure. What do y'all think? The colors are not perfect even in real life. I loved the heart on the pinky-red b/g BEFORE I versamarked it, now it almost clashes.

Since I wasn't 100% sure on the colors before I started, I went ahead & stamped this color heart too. I'm wondering if it looks better....

I'm not sure y'all can help since the colors just don't look right in the pics.

What do you think of the layout? Does it need more?? Brads? Eyelets? I really don't think ribbon would be good. Any advice would be appreciated.

Now, a word on ColorBox chalk ink. I LOVE IT!!!! Both hearts were stamped w/this ink. The darker one was the initial stamp, the lighter one is the "stamped off" version. This ink colors so well!! It works FABULOUSLY on acrylic stamps. When used w/traditional rubber stamps, you can get multiple images without reinking with very little color loss.

And, you can stamp on skin with it. For some reason, my coworker decided she needed a heart tatoo & stamped one w/my stamps & ink. It initially rubbed off a bit on her shirt. We'll have to see tomorrow if it stayed on thru showers & sleeping.