a little bit of this and a little bit of that

So much to do for all the areas of my life! And yet, creating something...anything...still drives it all...last night I was making decorations for my classroom. I also spent a couple of hours making cool tags to hang on the baskets in the closet in my classroom. Cool tags for pencils, red pens, bingo chips, highlighters, crayons, etc....baskets that I have always used to keep my supplies handy and organized. Now they will have cool, pretty, colorful tags hanging from them! I predict that every time I open the closet door to get something...I will smile!

Here are a couple of cards I made to send to my mom, who is recuperating from foot surgery (again). To make her ooh and ahhh,

This is a very elegant card (in my opinion) using all Stampin' Up materials perfect plum & pale plum cardstock and inks. The ribbon is Stampin' Up, too. The stamps are Stitched Exotics (background) and Fabulous Flowers (flower). Everything is clear embossed, which gives it a lovely, elegant, shine. (Thank you, Kristine Werner, for bringing me back to clear embossing powder...you inspired this card!) I used the NEW scalloped border punch (it's cool & easy...thank goodness no more corner rounder edges).

To make her smile,

I was just playing around with some miscellaneous products on my desk. This is miscellaneous silver cardstock that I cut out using a Scenic Route chipboard as a stencil, Stampin' Up's Tagger's Dozen word stamp, scalloped border punch, brilliant blue designer paper (now retired) and white organdy ribbon, and miscellaneous adhesive rhinestones.

{ I apologize for the picture not being very good. I am working on my picture-taking!}

This card makes me smile, and I think it will make my mom, too! (Love you, Mom!)

Time to create!

a terrific Tuesday!

What a great day! A little work in the morning and friends/lunch/games all afternoon! We met at Sandy's house today. S, J, G, P, BB and I had an amazing lunch then several hours of competitive dominos! Yes, dominos can be competitive and involve lots of strategy (especially when you're playing with P!)


(These are the days that I will recall in Jan. and Feb. when getting up and out of the house early is cold and and wet and sloshy, and being in school is so difficult.)


On another note, here is a card I made for my friend Lyn's birthday. She loves the beach more than any other place. Lyn, this one's for you!

(I love the balance of the three images. The flip flops are a diecut from a scrapbook store. I used my Cuttlebug to cut out the letters. The asterisk image is from an old Stampin' Up! stamp set in my collection. It says Happy Birthday inside.)

Make it a great day!

wind in my hair!

I went sailing yesterday with Stan and Wayne. It was glorious! The weather was spectacular...we had enough wind to keep us moving, sometimes briskly. It was lovely!

Here is a card I made last week. It's simple, quick and elegant. I've been experimenting with layers of inks...versamark, ink matching the cardstock, darker inks...

a whirlwind day!

What a day! Geri and I had a ball at the CK Convention. We each bought a couple of bags of goodies to use in our scrapbooking and card-making. Yeah! My goal was to buy a couple of Cuttlebug folders (I got one of the ones I've been looking for!), a refill of brown Stazon ink (couldn't find it) and to make as many make-it-take-its as possible to learn something new. I didn't learn anything new today, but I enjoyed it very much!





Then I've been reading the Stampin' Up! blogs about convention, and there is lots of news! Lots of new stamps, new punches, a new die cut machine in collaboration with Sizzix, exclusive dies for the die cut machine, and lots, lots more!





Today's photo is of my summer centerpiece for the dining room table. I love decorating my tables every couple of weeks and using a variety of materials that I find in nature or yard sales, make, buy at craft stores....definitely these centerpieces are always eclectic! Stan loves this one especially...because he loves his sailboat so much!

Life is certainly good!

scrapbooking too!

Today my friend Geri and I are going to the CK Scrapbook Convention

at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA. To celebrate, here is a scrapbook page that I've been working on.

This paper is BEAUTIFUL! I apologize, but I don't remember whose paper it is. I found it in a local scrapbook store. I cut the letters free-hand, the buttons are from my stash. The sunburst is from Quickkutz. This is my first ever Quickkutz piece, and I used my Cuttlebug to cut it.

I embossed the dots under the picture with my crop-a-dile, and then I inked over them.

Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

playing with my stuff again!

I've been watching the blogs about Stampin Up!'s new catalogue. To help me be patient waiting for the new stamps and accessories, I've been playing with my stuff. Off to play more!

Welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog! On this site I hope to show some of the beautiful cards and scrapbook pages that I am creating. Thanks for looking!