Owl Gifties

It started just before last Christmas when Rhonda asked if I liked owls. I responded with a resounding YES. And I was given this gorgeous wall hanging quilt at our "Ladies Who Lunch" Christmas Brunch gift exchange. Rhonda made it and I have had it on my wall in my living room ever since.

Then Rhonda surprised me with this cute quilted owl in the summer time. He is so cute sitting on my bookcase.

And today I received these two adorable tea towels from one of my best friends in the USA. They are in my kitchen colors and I love them already. It was a surprise treat and I am so excited about them.

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Aren't they adorable!!

Also in the surprise package were these two tea light holders!! And they are so cute and so detailed.















I had to take side view pictures to show you their feet!! So cute!!

I think I may need to expand my home to include an office of owls. What do you think??

sultry

This is what happens when you invite a friend over to stamp with you. 3 1/2 hours of talking and a 1/2 hour stamping. Grin. But we still each managed to make a card. And there you go.

Paper- Kraft and white cardstock. Basic Grey Sultry 6x6 paperpad. Ink- Stampin Up Pink Piourette, Kiwi Kiss, and Basic Black. Pearls- Kaiser Kraft. Stampin Up dimensionals. Flower Stamp- Stampin Up Happy Harmony set. Words- Impress.

Canvas

My new canvas that I did with Stampin Up vinyl Decor Elements quote (pg. 29 in the 2010/2011 Definitely Decorative mini catalog). It is the small option, and definitely larger than it looks in the catalog. Flowers by Prima. Paint "cream" by Heidi Swapp. Buttons from Rhonda. The canvas is 24" h by 30" w. It is now hanging in my entryway.

Digital

I have officially ordered the Stampin Up My Digital Studio software. After my friend and demonstrator Sarah convinced me. Yep. It is time to start scrapping digitally. Cardmaking is still my first love and I think I may like this digital thing better. Yeah for a new computer with a massive hard drive. Whoo hoo!!

And I may have ordered enough just in the nick of time to get a Saleabration set or two. The Saleabration ends on Wednesday. So get to clicking and get your order in.

I ordered some of the new clear blockable stamp sets to try out. They are still red rubber with foam mount to use on the clear blocks. I am so excited!!

Quote of the day

"There are plenty of fish in the sea. But really, there's not. It's not just our imaginations. It would be great if decent men were as plentiful as jumping salmon in a rushing river, but they aren't. For every Mr. Darcy (and he's married, incidentally) there are a hundred Mr. Wickhams. Or in more contemporary terms, for every one of Colin Firth, there are several thousand Hugh Grants. The odds are against us. But what can I say-I'm a romantic, and I can't abandon the fantasy of Prince Charming altogether. What girl with a heart can? I mean, I'm not asking to feed the five thousand; I just want one good fish! I should give up the dream. Especially now, when common sense dictates that anyone possessing an IQ might want to take serious stock. If I were in battle, the general would yell, "Retreat! Retreat, stupid!" Kristin Billerbeck

This quote of the day is brought to you by one of my favourite people ever my friend Ang.

Cindy's birthday

Yesterday Rhonda planned a surprise birthday lunch for Cindy. It was such a great time. The cute tea shoppe/bakery was delicious. And the details in the shoppe were adorable. Some of the tables were placed on old Singer sewing machine foot pedals. And there was an old door on the wall as decoration. Time flew by and it was so great to spend time together with Sarah, Andrea, Madelyn, Andrew, Rhonda, and Cindy! I think we should do it every month!

I made this tent topper card for Cindy, whose kitchen is green! I didn't make the connection though until after my card was made and then I squealed with delight. All the stamps are Unity, my new favourite stamp company. I even joined their monthly kit club! It really is a great deal, and I love all the stamps that I have from them already! The window scene stamp is from the May kit of the month. And the flowers are from the November kit of the month. I paper pieced the curtains with some Making Memories paper. And then colored the top, the cup, and the flowers with my Copics. The flowers on the curtains are Prima and the brads are Making Memories. Used my Nestabilities Labels 2 for the tent topper part of the card. Cardstock is all stampin up, except for the white which is from a LSS for copics so I am not sure of the brand name.

Quote of the day

“Meaning is not something that you stumble across, like an answer to a riddle or a prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you.” -Anonymous

two cards I made

A quick card for my friend who is moving. It is hard to read but the sentiment is "I moose you." I included it with a loaf of pumpkin bread, which I made fresh last night. Yum!












Patterned paper- Making Memories.
Stamps- Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink & ribbon- Stampin Up
Nestabilities
cardstock- Bazzill, Stampin Up










A card for my friend who got a new job.












Stamps- Amuse
Ink- Stampin Up
Nestabilities
Cardstock- from my stash, Stampin Up, Bazzill.

Retired Stampin Up set "Power Up". Made this for a co-worker who's daughter's boyfriend just graduated from heavy duty mechanic school. The sentiment I printed from the computer. The snaps are from Chatterbox. The background paper was run through my Cuttlebug with the "distressed stripes" embossing folder

love you card

My handmade valentine that I gave to my friend and co-worker. She loved it.






Supplies
Diecut heart - bazzill paper.
Whisper White cardstock.
Prima flowers.
Making Memories jeweled brad.
SU- Short and Sweet stamp set.
SU- Basic black classic ink.

Winter Wonderland

Was able to go to Impress in U-Village Seattle with my friend before I flew home to Colorado. (Thanks A- you know I love that place!) Saw this stamp and this paper and fell in love. It had to come home with me. Mostly I love this Autumn Leaves paper because it reminded me of the big giant snowflake in the SU mini catalog that ended in November. I love this tree stamp because it is so geometric and yet soft.

Stamped it in Soft Sky classic ink. Mounted the patterned paper on Soft Sky as well. Had some photo corner punched out from Cindy and used brads to keep them together. The brad idea was from my SU demo Sarah. The ribbon is from my lss. I decided not to put a sentiment on this card yet, as I am not sure yet who or what I will use it for.

little christmas cards

Made these little Christmas cards quite a while ago one stamp night with Cindy. I hadn't really been into the Christmas mood enough to post them till now. Now I am in the Christmas mood!! I bought my first tree (artificial) and will be setting it up this year for me to enjoy!! I also had an egg-nog latte this weekend. whoo hoo!! :0) The Starbucks is all decked out in full Christmas gear, which always makes me happy. So happpppy!! Happy enough to post Christmas cards. Was thinking of using these for gift tags or on gift bags. They were super easy using scraps!

Also got an amazing jump start on my other Christmas cards, I just need to assemble them. It will be the earliest ever that I have had all my cards done for mailing out!! Yeah!!

Supplies:

SU-ink, cardstock -Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip,Not Quite Navy, Creamy Caramel, punches- ticket corner and horizontal slot, markers stamp sets- Festive Favourites, All Year Cheer 1 (retired), Cute Converse (retired), brad. Other Ribbon- unknown.

Christmas card contest entries

Sarah my SU demo who is uber-talented had a card contest and she just posted the winner. The winning card is stunning.

These were my entries into her contest. I made them with my friend Cindy a few weeks ago in the midst of my car breaking down crisis. At least we were able to get some cards made in the middle of my car being in the repair shop. I used her SU Baroque Motifs stamp set. It actually is such a nice and versatile set. I mean hello- Christmas cards too!! Hmm, maybe I do need it before the new catalog comes out in January to tempt me.

Supplies- SU cardstock- Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Very Vanilla
SU- Ink- Handsome Hunter, Very vanilla- which I then embossed in gold as it didn't stand out as much as I had hoped it would.
Other- SU Brads
Stamps- SU- Baroque Motifs and All Year Cheer I (retired)



My 2nd entry. During the making of my first card I decided that the flowers definitely look like snowflakes as well, and so this card just totally came together.

Supplies:
SU- Ink and Cardstock- Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla
SU- Stamps- Baroque Motifs, Warm Words
Other- Ribbon- SU retired. Brads- SU, glitter- stickles, Paper piercer, Circle punch 1 1/4,

Snowflakes cut out by my dear friend Cindy who doesn't have scissor dyslexia :)

Happy belated World Card making day.

This is all the stuff I had to take with me in my car to my friend's house in order to make that set of cards. he he! Gotta love the home front scrappin' and card makin' space. It requires so much less effort. At the end of the 2 day event- cuz I spent the night and we made cards the next day. My friend said- "you really need a tote on wheels!" Umm. I am not sure that it would help that much. But thanks for the advice, I will keep it under advisement. :) Hope that your Canadian Thanksgiving weekend was spectacular, and I hope that your world card making day was a success

This is the card I made for World card making day at my friend's house. It was a great day!!

This is from day 2 of our adventures!

Not a winner, but I love it anyway!

Dreamed up this card the other afternoon, literally during my before night shift nap. It was different colors, but the strips, ribbon, corners rounded on one side, and the layers were all there. I went straight to working on it for Cindy's card contest, which unfortunately I didn't win. However I still love this card- Ink, cardstock, ribbon- so simple and so exciting in the end. Love it!!

Supplies:
Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red- SU.
Ink- Versamark, Chocolate Chip- SU.
Stamps- Words- Serendipity Stamps, Flourish- Impress.
Ribbon- grosgain- retired- SU.
Other- Corner rounder

Vegas baby

Had written down this color combo way back, when using the online Color Combo site located here.
I have carried it around on a piece of paper and had it near my stamping stuff for a while. Finally had this card come to life. It was for my friend before she went on a trip to Vegas. The warm sun in the card is supposed to be tempered by the cool breeze in the background.

SU Cardstock- Cool Caribbean, Ruby Red, Soft Sky, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie.
SU Ink- Purely Pomegranate, Barely Banana, Soft Sky, Close to Cocoa, Basic Black.
Stamps-girl- Wordsworth, swirl- Autumn Leaves, alphabet- PSX.
sun design my own with aqua painter.

friend layout

12 x12 page that I did this weekend of one of my favourite photos of my friend and I. I still need to do the journaling which I am planning to hand write in the top left hand side by the swirl. Have my favourite Staedler pens picked, just need to sit down and do it.

Bazzill and SU cardstock, Basic grey patterned paper, Sandylion rubons, Technique Tuesday chipboard, SU ink, stamps- alphabet unknown at the moment, will have to look them up at home.