Geisha Anya

Good afternoon everyone, hope all is well with you. I've finally finished another card. This one is for the SCS sketch challenge. I haven't been able to participate in this in quite awhile. It was so fun, but I must tell you that the whole circle part was quite a challenge for me, not sure why, but it was. so I used the Geisha Anya from The Greeting Farm stamp co. If you haven't seen this company's stamps, you really need to take a look. They are the cutest things. Of course I've had to order from them several times. The CS and DP are both DCWV. I finally found the Far East stack from DCWV. I've been looking for this forever, and Joann's finally got it in. It's totally perfect for this adorable little stamp. Oh and did I mention that this is a digital stamp. What could be better, instant gratification. They offer several digital stamps along with unmounted ones. So, I hope you like it, thanks for looking, and let me know what you think.

Sara

My First Anya Card

Good evening, hope all is well with you. I have an Anya card to share with you tonight. If you don't know who Anya is, then you are missing out on something great. Anya is a character from The Greeting Farm stamp line. They are absolutely adorable. There is also an Ian line, and he is too cute also. I actually made this card a couple of weeks ago, and it's been sitting here. I just haven't had the time to post it. I made it for one their sketch challenges, but did not get to enter it in that. Oh Well!!!! That just means I actually have something to post now. I hope you like it, and thanks for looking. P.S. you really should check out these adorable stamps.

Sara

House Mouse Sketch Challenge #25

Good morning, hope all is well with you. I've finally finished a card. As many of you know, my MIL has been in the hospital. And that has been taking up every bit of my time. Yesterday I had to stay home and get my daughter's school work together(she's home schooled). So while we were doing that, I actually got a minute to make something. It felt so good to do something else besides sit and worry. This is for the House Mouse Monday Challenge. These are so much fun, if you haven't checked them out, you should-you'll be hooked. This week was a sketch challenge, and I have to say these are my favorite. I got to use one of my new stamps, isn't it adorable?! I tried to use colors that I don't usually use. I kinda get stuck in the "girly" colors, so this was a little difficult for me but I really like how it turned out. The CS is DCWV, and DP is DCWV-glitter stack. The ribbon is from my stash. Hope you like it, and thanks for looking.

Sara

I've been tagged!!!

Hello again, it seems I've been tagged. Karen tagged me a few days ago, but since I've been a little busy I just saw the post. So, I was supposed to go to my 6th picture folder and my 6th picture in there, and tell you a little bit about it. It just so happens it's of my adorable son. Him and his sisters, and cousins love to make movies. And of course they play like they are in the army, and pretty much anything to do with guns. Well the other day he was by himself and bored so he decided to camouflage himself and his gun. Isn't he too cute? So of course I had to grab my camera. I love the cute little things he does, and hope you like it too. Now I have to tag 6 other people. So here it goes:

Melyssa

Julie

Dru

Jackie

Sharon

Joanne

So have fun everyone, can't wait to see your pics

House Mouse Challenge #23

Hello everyone, hope all is well with you. I've been very busy with my Mother In Law, she's been very sick. But my sister in law is here now and giving me a little bit of a break. So I finally got to finish a challenge. This has been sitting on my table all week half finished. This is for the House Mouse Challenge Blog. The theme for this week is Valentine's Day. I just ordered this stamp and was so happy to use it. I used Pink CS from DCWV, Dp from DCWV. I used a border punch from Fiskars for the bottom border, under that I used a lavender heart embossed paper. The yellow cs is from Michael's pack, white cs is GP. I colored the image with Prismacolors, and blended with baby oil. The ribbon is actually from the Dollar Tree. Brads are from Target dollar spot. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the jewels, they are from Michael's. I inked the edges with ink from MS. Hope you like it, and have a great day.

Altered Pail

Good afternoon everyone, hope all is well with you. I've made this pail for my Valentine's Day Secret Sister swap on SCS. I joined this swap and it is so much fun. You've already seen what I got from my SS, now I get to send this pail full of goodies off to mine. I was looking through my punches for a heart punch, and found this one. I totally forgot I bought it. It's really neat, it's by EK success. It doesn't actually cut the image out, it kind of cuts an outline, and then another heart on the inside. I'm sure I'm not explaining this very well, but it's really cute. Hope you like it and thanks for looking. I forgot that I altered this little can too. Isn't it cute?

Sara

My Valentine's Day Secret Sister

Hello all, hope all is well with you. I'm sharing a picture of what my Valentine's Day Secret Sister sent me. I joined this swap on SCS. It's the second one I've done like this. The first is a 6 month secret sister swap. This is the first one like this that I've done, and let me tell you, it is SOOO much fun. I rec'd this amazing package from my SS. So, let me tell you what I got. I got the cutest pair of pink polka dotted socks, pink and brown polka dot ribbon. Pink and hellokitty ribbon(how cool is that). An altered frappuccino bottle with clear buttons. A tin with adorable brads and eyelets. A ms Christmas Star punch. Pink note cards with envie's. A small alphabet stamp set. Two bottles of stickles, beautiful pink glitter. MS coarse glitter(a very big bottle of this). Three wood block saying stamps. Totally cute Gelly Gems, in pinks. And the best for last, a bella stamp. AND a Rachelle Anne Miller stamp-Playtime-which is totally cute turtles, and a Sarah Kay stamp=-puppy love. I'm so excited about these, I've been wanting some of these stamps forever. So thank you very much SS, I absolutely LOVE everything!!!! You are very generous. Have a great day everyone.

Sara

House Mouse Challenge #21

Oh my goodness, I've been going through withdrawls not doing the house mouse challenges. So here is the newest one. This week was a color challenge. The colors to use were coral, navy and olive. This was a challenge for me, I'm not used to using those colors together at all. But it was very fun. I received this image in a swap, isn't it cute!! This is also for my SCS blogging group #6. We were given a fantastic sketch to work with. I used olive cs for the card, and layered the coral and navy. The image is layered on olive cs, and then on a white cuttlebugged background. I sponged navy ink around the edges of the image and over the cuttlebugged background. The flowers are from the $1 section from Joann's. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession. I put it on a scalloped nestability. The brad is a glitter one I got from Joann's, and finished it off with 3 jewels from Michael's. Oh I forgot, I used deckle edge scissors on the right edge, and sponged white ink around the edge. Hope you like it, and thanks for looking. Sorry, the picture isn't the greatest.

Sara

Blogger group 6-challenge 1

Hello again!! I made this very simple card for my blogger group #6. Again it took me forever, but it's here. I love this stamp, it's Sarah Kay-my sweet lili. I love these stamps, and just received my very first order of them. I kept it very simple, because of all the chaos going on. Hope you like it. Have a great day.

Sara

Altered Pail Swap

Good afternoon everyone, hope all is well with you. I've finally got something to post-yay!!!! After the holidays, my computer died, and then I couldn't find my camera. Does anyone else have these days, weeks, months, or is just me?! LOL Anyway, I received this pail with all these wonderful goodies in a swap I did on SCS. This was the first swap like this that I joined up for and let me tell you it was so fun!!!! I got this from Ms.Rhetta, she did a wonderful job. I got several studio G stamp sets, pop dots, candy, Michael's GC in the cutest little holder. She also sent these little glass bottles, that are darling. I got a set of empty ones, and a set of ones that were filled with glitter, and small dewdrops. She sent several rolls of ribbon, and a nail bottle with brads. Thank you Ms.Rhetta, I loved everything. Have a wonderful day everyone.

Sara

Sabrina's Pencil Holder

Good Morning everyone, hope all is well with you. This is just a quick post to show you the pencil holder I made for my youngest daughter Sabrina. She wanted colored pencils for Christmas, and asked that I make her one of these to hold them in. I made one of these for my other daughter and Sabrina wanted one too. Her favorite colors are purple and green. She loves fairies too and picked the image. She loves it, hope you like it too.

House Mouse #20

Well Hello Everyone, how are all of you!? It feels like forever since I've posted anything, probably because it has been-lol. I finally finished the House Mouse Monday Challenge, which I thought was just going to be late, but imagine my surprise when I checked to see what the new challenge was and it was to finish this one-yeah me!!! I'm on time anyway. So this challenge was to use embossing. I embossed the image, and then embossed the yellow background with red glitter. I also embossed the cherries that are floating around. Well thanks for looking and have a great day.

Happy New Years!!!!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!!! Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday. I know I've been MIA for awhile but I'm back now.

Vintage Images

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. I've been so busy getting everything ready for Christmas, sorry I haven't had many posts. I found this website this morning and fell in love with it. It offers all kinds of vintage images, and the best part is they are free. So please check it out, if you love vintage then you will love this. Hopefully I'll have something to post later today.

Blog contest

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. I've discovered a new blog-just what I need-and she is having a sort of contest/blog candy thingy going on. She does great vintage things, and love thrift stores-which I also love-she's come up with some prize pkgs. So please visit her blog Here. And have fun, good luck everyone.

House Mouse Challenge #17

Good afternoon, hope all is well with you. Yesterday was supposed to be the new challenge on the House Mouse Monday Challenge Blog, but they were having computer problems and got it up today. Let me tell you, I was worrying-I do love the challenges. Anyway, today's challenge is SNOW-paper, snowflakes, whatever. It just had to have snow. So, I got to use my new HM stamp, isn't it cute?! My snow is the glitter everywhere, and the snowflake jewels, and snowflake paper. The CS is DCWV, the script dp is Kaiser Scrapbook, and the snowflake dp is Imaginisce-I hope I spelled that right. I colored with prisma pencils, and Martha Stewart glitter markers-love these too. The ribbon is from Joann's, when it was on clearance last year after Christmas. Hope you like it, TFL, and let me know what you think.

Paula's Blog Candy!!!

Oh wow, you guys have to check this out. I just found her blog from one one my SCS blog groups. She has the most adorable woodland elf images, and she has some amazing blog candy right now. So go check out Paula's blog, I promise you won't be disappointed.

Cupcake Craft Challenge Blog

Good evening, hope all is well with you. I've discovered a new blog. It's called Cupcake Craft Challenges. They have a new challenge every Monday. This week was a sketch challenge. So I used this as another excuse to get another Christmas card done. I picked up this stamp set when we were in Medford, OR. visiting friends. It's Winter Birds by inkadinkadoo, and they are beautiful, and I've dying to use them. I embossed the stamp in Dark Night EP from sparkles and sprinkles. I don't think you can really tell in the picture but it's the most beautiful shade of midnight blue, and it's shimmery. The blue CS is Bazzill Bling, and some silver metallic cs that I've had forever. This ribbon is from Joann's, and a clear snowflake-not sure where I got this at. I stamped some silver snowflakes on the blue bg, these are from Studio G. The sentiment is from a set I got at Michael's last year. And of course there's the bling from Michael's also. So, I hope you like it, let me know what you think.

Christmas Bella Style #2

Good afternoon, hope all is well with everybody. Well, I'm finally on a roll with getting Christmas cards and goodies done. I seem to get things done, when I'm running out of time. I hate that, I try to get them done earlier, but never works out. Stamping Bella is celebrating their 2nd anniversary, so in celebration they had a bash on SCS, and gave us challenges to do. I combined 2 of them. This first was to use the Bella signature colors: Pink and Green. This was so not hard for me, since they are my 2 favorite colors. The second was a sketch challenge. So this is what I came up with. The Green cardstock is Bazzill Bling in "Bank Roll", I'm in love with this paper. The dp is Daisybucketdesigns, I got last year at my LSS. The stamp is of course Stamping Bella-wreathabella, which I got in a swap. The sentiment is a studio G 1 dollar stamp from Michael's. The bling and ribbon is also from Michael's. The colored cardstock is also DCWV. I used my nestabilities to do the scallop square. The gold circle stickers are Class A Peel's. The buttons I got last year at the scrapbook expo-no idea who they are by. Thank you for looking, hope you like it. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

House Mouse Glitter Tag

Good evening, hope all is well with you. I made this tag for the House Mouse Monday Challenge. This week's challenge was to use glitter, glitz, whatever sparkles, and the more the better. I'll admit I don't have that much. I kinda cheated, well not really-maybe!? I started my card with a very cute image. I got it all colored and glittered, and started to make it, and decided that I did not like it AT ALL. I tried everything to fix it, change it, mat it, anything and everything. And I still did not like it. But it was getting to late to do a whole other image, so I did this little tag. I know, I know, I'm sure it's not exactly what they are looking for, but it'll have to do in a pinch. I used Bazzill Bling CS in High Heels, and crystal stickles, and lime stickles. The ribbon is gold glittery that I had in my stash. Hope you like it and thanks for looking.