Stampin' Chez Moi

Well I got a parcel in the mail yesterday from Lil' Inker, it was m y sentiment flag ~ thanks,  Laura !  and I just wanted to play so badly ~ I had to use my new toy! Well I found the layout that I wanted to use from Inkspirations  #55, isn't this a great layout! but just couldn't get my colors together, until I woke up this morning and found what I needed on CQC  #70, thanks so much girls! I wanted to create a valentine's card for my amazing husband and I knew these colors were exactly what I wanted in order to put this together for him... Don't you just love my new 'flag' die cut ~ it is just perfect! It was so fun to pull out this darling little girl from Greeting Card Kids (love that stamp set) her words of love are exactly how I feel.... i just love you! Thanks so much for stopping by today and sharing  a bit of your day with me! Happy February..spring is coming...it really is! Have a fantastic day! Stamps: Rough Type, Short & Sweet, It...

First I found the Sketch Challenge at Stamping 411 and then the colors at Stamp-A-Holics ...and was I ever challenged. I shuffled, reshuffled, went this way and then that way and just about called it quits, but then really rose to the challenge, put my head down and got to some serious playing...here are the colors that are being called for...can I do this? and the sketch challenge from Stamping 411 ~ love the sketches that are given,  it really helps me with a starting point.  So here's my card...still not sure how I feel about it, but she... is absolutely adorable! What a beautiful stamp set ~ it's a must have in my mind! I grabbed my Tulip Border Punch and added a garden of tulips to the inside of my card! Thanks so much for popping by, hope you had a little taste of spring! Enjoy your day! Stamps: Easter Blossoms Paper:  Very Vanilla, Rose Red, Very Vanilla, Old Olive Ink:  Old Olive, Rose Red Acc: Eyelet Border Punch, Oval Punch, Scallop O...

When I saw this challenge over at Just Us Girls  Wild Card Challenge I knew I wanted to enter a  little family Photo Album that I finished awhile ago.   I used my Scallop Flower Punch from SU ~ crumpled my DP from SU which is just fabulous! After I got everything mangled they way I wanted it,  I began to build my flower ~  poked a hole in the centre of it all and adhered it with a brad,  which you can't see as my flower if so full, but it's in there!  I really enjoy creating this little album as well as the flower ~ my front cover was covered with several layers of Modge Podge!  Thanks so much for taking a peek ~ I hope you enjoyed your stay ~  have a wonderful day!

Bad typo on my part ~ meant to say "Hoping you are doing so good" ~ so while we are on that subject, I have a bit of a different post for you...I had shared a post last month with a peek at how the frost had kissed all the trees in the backyard. So today, I'd like to share how the snow has blanketed our yard and plays hide & seek with our trees! This picture is looking out of our front door, you can see where I started to shovel the front walkway, the snow is up to my knees, Dean will be snow blowing us out when he get's home this evening! Our cedar rail fence is hiding and the old grain wagon is wanting to join in the game! You can just see the lights on top of our driveway markers, and yes, that is the sidewalk to our front door just in front of the circle drive! I took this picture from our sunroom, so the lighting is quite bad, you are now looking toward the back yard on the south side of our home. There is a old cedar plow just peeking out of the snow! A...

I created this card with a layout challenge in mind, went to get things together for my entry and realized that I was 8 hours late! I guess I need to learn to read the fine print ~ our little grandson had a sleep over last night (such fun)...put him down for a nap...and then I realized I was late ~ I then found 3 challenges  that I would qualify for ~ I'm not sure if that is against the rules...but here's a peek! The challenge from PPA78 was to use a ribbon in your creation, from FTTC102 was to use hardware ~ this was perfect as I created a note card, my SU Library Clip was exactly what my card was calling for. The CTD126 was to play with the following colors I had already created my note card, loved creating this, I found this idea while I was looking around and popped in on Becky Roberts (she's amazing, you really should pay her a visit. What a fabulous idea! I can't wait to teach this to my girls  ~ I know they'll be in love with this one! My girls are ...

What a fun day of stampin' ~ we went out for dinner with friends to celebrate Dean's Birthday, what a great day! Two times the fun for the day and then Two challenges in one! Stamping 411 Sketch  and then the Color Inspiration , so is this called Double Dipping! So this actually ends up being a little sneak peek for my up coming Birthday Stack Class ~ so Darlene....shhhhh. She is one of my faithful friends and checks up on me often! Love you my friend!   I Shimmer misted each of my Cupcake Toppers and then I added CE to each of the cherries (loving that look....quess I've been using CE a lot lately, can't seem to get away from it)! Here is one of the birthday cards that we will be creating...not sure why I didn't order the stamps to go with my new punch (which I love...you really need this one ladies) ~ Pulled out my Crimper, which I haven't used in quite sometime, but along with the new Cupcake Punch, this is a must and I'm sure it won't be fee...

Well I finally got a chance to play along with another challenge ~ tea with my girlfriend this morning, and then a day of playing in my studio...what a fun day I've had!  So the cQc Challenge #68 was asking for these colors I rose to the challenge and created a little birthday card for our 2 year old grandson ~ Thomas the Train is his absolute favourite, every train he sees becomes his Thomas! I can't seem to capture my pictures well ~ it really does look better IRL ~ and so, here it is.... I used clear EP on Poppy Parade CS for my smoke, cut them out and used dimensionals to adhere them! and then continued with the train theme on the inside of my card. Sure hope our little man loves his card...and of course he'll be opening up some Thomas the Train gifts to add to his collection! Here is our little Birthday Boy holding his baby brother! not the greatest pictures due to the water glasses....but can't you feel the energy ~ he is SO much fun! Thank you so much ...