Shrooms Anyone?

I'm hosting a swap over at the Shack. I found the CUTEST Hero Arts stamps & knew I had to use them for this ATC. It took a few tries but I finally got the look I wanted. I wish more of the pattern paper showed 'cause it is really cute too. But, what are you gonna do?

Stamp Camp!

Sue always has marvelous stamp camps!! I love going! Here are the projects we did

I don't know which is my favorite! I will HAVE to buy the daisy 2 Sizzix/SU die. I MUST have it. I've seen some really cute things done with it. I will NOT be buying the pillow die. I love the whole bunny thing but I borrowed Sue's die. It does not work well in the cuttlebug. If you cut paper with it, the score lines end up cut. If you cut transparencies w/it, the score lines don't score. You can NOT use any sort of shim w/the die to make it work better. I made 20 of the pillow boxes for my friend Joan. I hope they work for her. I ended up using my scor-pal for the straight scores (and ruined my bone tool in the process) but the round scores??? Who knows?

I have stuff to share!

I went to Sue's stamp camp on Saturday! Oh my, her camps are SO MUCH FUN!!!! Anywho, 4 projects that are to die for are sitting on my desk. When my camera & I can get into the same space, I'll take some pics.

More birthdays and March Christmas Cards!

Same image, new pattern paper & b/g cardstock. I think I love this image now.

March Christmas cards. Simple but I LOVE this image too!

I'm working on it.....

I have my March C'mas cards almost done & I have 4 more B'day cards in the works. I'm going to my girlfriend's house today & we're gonna do something there. I have no idea what right now. Hopefully, I'll have something to share tomorrow!

Suzi does Cards for a change!

For so long, I've done ATCs with only an occasional Christmas card. I had card block. I had convinced my self I couldn't do a card. I could only do ATCs 'cause they were smaller & didn't need as much "stuff". Yesterday I decided I was going to do a b'day card & was NOT GOING TO GET STUCK!!! I made 4 w/4 more waiting for today. I really like how they turned out. I need to understand that the same layout you use for an ATC can be used for a card.

Oh yeah, I'm IN LOVE w/SU ink & an aqua-pen!! I LOVE coloring w/them!

February's C'mas cards -- 2 days to spare!

Whew, just made it! I finished up my February cards today. Now, to plan March's so maybe they will be posted more timely!!

I need your opinions. I only "finished off" this one, the others are un-poked. Do you like the piercing or should I leave it off?? Should I only pierce the one corner & leave the bottom left un-adorned? I do plan to put a tiny bit of glitter on the snowman as the paper is glittery (not that you can tell from this pic.

January's 5 a month Christmas Card

Over at the Shack, Sherri challenged us to make 5 Christmas card per month. If we follow thru, my November, we should each have 50 cards so there might be a little less stress. I had these done before the end of January but needed to borrow a sentiment stamp for the bottom. I did that WEEKS ago but never got around to taking the pic. Finally, tonite, I took the pic. 6 cards down, 94ish to go?

Hmmm, maybe I should start on February's card???

Punch Storage!

While my dad was home this weekend, I had him put in the 3rd and final (?) curtain rod for my punches!! I LOVE this storage idea. So easy, so inexpensive. As I don't have much room here, I had to have the curtain rod cut off but I liked that 'cause then there was a double layer of rod below the punches. I had asked my dad to put the 3rd row .5" higher than the 2nd row. I think he wanted to make sure there was enough room! I think I can live with it!!!

Pile O' Pizza Boxes

As promised (long, long ago!) here are the finished VD goodies. I hope the kids enjoy them (as Vicci planned to fill them w/candy, I'm sure they will LOVE them!!)

Of course, I won't know as I'm on a paid leave day. I did something REALLY STUPID yesterday and, sadly, I could lose my job because of it. The silver lining of it all, this may finally be the incident that teaches me to keep my temper in check!! I'm hoping for a written warning as I've never been in trouble before. Either way, it'll all work out for the best. I'm sure of that!

I'm the room princess!!

Fixed the technical problems (user error, duh!) and got my pics.

Here is the story. I work at an elementary school. My boss's daughter is a teacher of a challenged class. They do not have a room mother so my boss, crafty gal that she is, agreed to help out for the Valentine's party. I told her since she is the teacher's mom, that truely makes her the Room Mother. I asked what I was since I was helping her. She says I can be Room Princess. I wonder if it comes w/a crown??? (anybody remember that Patrick Swayze movie where he was in drag?? The one guy was excited 'cause he was the "drag princess". Sorry, my mind wanders. ALOT!!!)

Back to the craft (don't you wish you were one of those people who just looked at the picture & went to the next blog???) We originally made these pizza boxes at the New Catty Open house. They were fairly simple so Vicci bought all the stuff for them and pretty much I took the whole operation over. I ran out of adhesive so I'll post the finish project later today (I hope)

I finally gave in

and made a seperate blog for my Project 365. The good news was I was able to transfer ALL the 365 pics to the new blog (not before I tried to reload them all but that's beside the point). For now, I think I'm going to leave them all here too. I may delete them later. It's a PITA to delete them so.....

I have some craft pics on my camera but (as you may have seen on my 365 blog) I'm having a problem getting them to download. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Check back later!

Day 30

This is a tiny little tree that the kids' school planted last year. It looks so, well, let's just say it, Dead! I hope it's comes out come spring!

Day 29

This is a bush in front of my house. I think it's a boxwood. It's HUGE!!! I love snow covered greenery. I wish my holly bush was more dramatic 'cause I LOVE holly covered w/snow!

I have some pics

But haven't bothered to upload them yet. Sometime today I'll get it done :)