Stampin' in the Prairies

Western sketch

Today I actually did a challenge of SCS!  I haven't done one of those in a long, long time...I did the sketch challenge as I am a bit rusty right now. :)

Supplies are all Stampin' Up.

Stamps: Bronc buster, So many Sayings

Paper: chocolate chip, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, outlaw designer paper, very vanilla

Ink: creamy caramel, close to cocoa, chocolate chip

Accessories: gold brads, chocolate taffeta ribbon, cutter kit (distresser)

First I stamped the horse with cocoa ink on vanilla.  Then I added the caramel and chocolate matting, distressing each one.  Then the gold brads were added.  Next I added the designer panels (1x4.5 inches).  I then matted those on chocolate and added the cocoa matting behind it all.  Then I added the ribbon and matted on caramel cardbase.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment with chocolate ink. 

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!

Andria

It's my anniversary!

8 years ago today I walked down the aisle and married my hubby.  I can't believe that much time has passed...as much as he ticks me off I have enjoyed very much being married to him.  I know my loved ones and friends thought I was nuts for getting married at 19, and him at 20, but we are as happy now as if we would have waited till 25 or so!  Here is a card I made him.  I know it is really pink but I was thinking of love, so these colors jumped out at me!  I hope he likes it...he hates pink! :)

Supplies used are all SU unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Everyday Blessings (Papertrey Ink), Gently Falling

Paper: berry bliss designer paper, pretty in pink, whisper white, purely pomegranete, white vellum

Ink: purely pomegranete, basic black, pretty in pink marker

Accessories:  purely pomegranete double stitched ribbon, pink brads, dollarama mini rhinestones

First I stamped the main image in pomegranete (my pad is too juicy so it doesn't look the greatest!).  Then I used the pink marker and colored in the hearts (I used a ruler to line the bottom of the fallen hearts, making that into a box type doodad).  I matted on pomegranete.

The vellum layer is matted on pom. using brads.  Then I added the ribbon and main image.  I added the sentiment in black and added the rhinestones.  Lastly I matted on pink cardstock. 

Please, let him like it! :)  I was drawn to this sentiment right away, so it feels perfect to me!

Have a great evening!

Andria

I finally got my mojo back!

I have a hefty pile of very ugly, tacky cards behind me and I am finally back in action.  Man, after not stamping regularly for a long time, it was hard to get back into it.  Even choosing colors together was hard!  Almost like starting back at square 1!

So here is a card I think I like....the picture is bad as my sunlight lamp fell and the bulb is toast!  So this is beside my window and not a great pic.

Stamps:  Always

Paper: groovy guava, chocolate chip. whisper white, afternoon tea designer paper

Ink: close to cocoa, groovy guava, chocolate chip, chocolate chip marker

Accessories:  wild wasabi double stitched ribbon, misc. buttons, dollar store rhinestone brad

First I stamped the bird with guava and then colored in the design with chocolate marker.  I added the brad for the eye next and then did some faux stitching and sponging on the corners.  Then I matted on chocolate and afternoon tea.  The ribbon was added and then I matted on chocolate.  The buttons were added and then matted on guava card base.  I sponged the edges with guava ink and then added the sentiment with chocolate ink.  Last, I stamped the doodleydad stamps along the botton with guava.

I just had to share a few pics here also.  The first is my son in the mud yesterday.  It got quiet in the backyard and I looked out in the alley and there was my boy sitting in the flooded tire tracks in the alley.  We had had a storm that morning so it was mucky as all get out!  He was practically swimming in it by the end.  Even washed his hair in it.  I couldn't even give him trouble because he was too cute!

Lastly, we were under a tornado warning for 3 hours last night...two tornadoes touched down just by us and we heard on the radio that there was a funnel cloud just outside our town!  This is Canada, like what is going on??  So we were all in the basement, not able to go to sleep.  The scariest part was it was night time so how can you see one coming?  The water was up to our basement windows so the water came pouring in...ugh.  We had to go outside between the first and second storm and do an assembly line with buckets to get the water away!   Here is a really cool pic I took just before the tornado warning...weird.

I feel like I have played a bit of catch up now!  Have a great day and see you back here tomorrow. :)

I can't get motivated!

I am enjoying my summer so much that I just can't seem to sit inside to create.  I hate that though, as I really do miss stamping.  Anyone still come here?  Probably not as I am MIA the majority of the time.  Ok, I am going downstairs to create for sure today.  I know you have heard it all before, but really I am this time! :)

Gonna miss em!

I am really gonna miss the current SU colors.  I love them, love them!!  I am all stocked up and will have these in colors for life!  Here is a card I made with my fave new combo for soft sky.

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful

Paper: soft sky, taken with teal, bali breeze designer paper, watercolor paper, old olive

Ink: black stazon, soft sky, groovy guava, creamy caramel, old olive, close to cocoa marker

Accessories: soft sky double stitched ribbon, white gel pen, cutter kit (distress), color spritzer, aquapainter

I stamped the flower on watercolor paper in stazon and watercolored using the ink pads and aquapainter.  I sponged with caramel on the edges and then matted on olive.  I used  the marker and spritzer and spritzed the card base.  Then I matted the designer paper on teal and added stitching.  I added the ribbon and then popped up the main image and slapped it on top.   Last the sentiment was stamped with stazon on the card base.

Off to spend the day with the kiddies!  Have a great weekend!

Andria

Birthday girl

Yesterday I didn't have enough time to blog.  It was my oldest daughter's 9th birthday.  I can't believe I will have a teenager in 4 years. Time flies!

I made her a card using her favorite colors.  She LOVES green!

Supplies used:

Stamps: michaels dollar stamps

Paper: petals and paisley designer paper, old olive, regal rose, so saffron, whisper white

Ink:black stazon, markers- so saffron, old olive, tempting turqouise

Accessories: clear daubles, stickles, regal rose 5/8 inch grosgrain

I stamped the image in stazon and colored in and added stickles.  I matted on rose.  Then matted the designer paper on saffron.  I added the ribbon and matted on olive card base.  Then I added the main image layer.  Lastly I added the daubles.  Done like dinner!  Have a great day!

Andria

Blowing away

Man, I feel like Dorothy today....storms are building all around us andthe wind gusts are getting up there.  Perfect time for me to sit and stamp with my SU and CTMH orders that have been building up with no chance to play.  I babysat for three weeks so I had a 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 year old!  Yoi!  So, needless to say NO stamping got done!  I did make one project for my splurge that I will show you, other than that, no creations!  I am gonna sit and watch my Days of our lives and Young and the restless and stamp all afternoon!

Anyways, here is what I made.  I got the instructions for this mini scrapbook from the resources part of SCS.

Can't get into details about the ingredients of it now as I have had to walk away and come back to this post for the last two hours!  I will come back when the munchkins are in bed...and I hope to be done some more creations to show.

Andria

I got it fixed!!!

My camera that is!  I am so excited!  I thought I was going to have to go and spend another $500 on a camera.  This one was almost that, so I was heartbroken when it went on the fritz!  Obviously I would have posted more often, but my posts would have been really boring without the pics of my creations! :)

Here is a card I made a few weeks ago.  I absolutely love the patterned paper on this card, and am going to order another couple packs, just in case it retires!

I also really love the build a brads that SU sells!  I love the fact that you can have everything complimenting eachother....woot woot to SU!

Stamps: Embrace Life, Stitched exotics

Paper:  soft sky, purely pomegranete, wild wasabi, whisper white, bali breeze designer paper

Ink: purely pomegranete, wild wasabi, black stazon

Accessories: pink daubles, build a brad, soft sky double stitched ribbon

First I stamped the flowers in wasabi and pomegranete and then stamped the sentiment in stazon.  I then matted on wasabi and pom. papers.  The designer layer was matted with wasabi and then ontto the card base it went.  I added the ribbon and then the main image layer.  Next I used the build a brad and bali paper and added the daubles.  Off to enjoy this 35 degree day in the pool.  See ya back here tomorrow....those of you that still come!

Andria

More issues

Well, now my camera is working, but I can't get the memory card to read in my laptop.  I am calling Dell to deal with it and then I will post pics  with all my new creations.  Do I hear an echo??? lol :)

P.S.  Thanks for all your wonderful words.  They made me feel better.  On July 3rd it will be a year, so that will be a tough day, but for now I am feeling better!  So thanks! :)

A bit bummed

I am still waiting on my camera to stop being so buggered...but I do have some pics to share in tomorrow morning's post of some stuff.  But for tonight, I am going to post about my late uncle Paul. 

It is going to be a year on July 3rd since my uncle was brutally murdered.  So far there has been no arrests.  That is so frustrating!!  My uncle was more like a dad than an uncle.  He was always there for me.  He absolutely ADORED my kids and spent genuine time with them when we visited.  Why would someone take someone as good as him away from his loved ones?  How selfish!  It is weird, almost a year later it is finally sinking in that he will never phone me like he did, just to say hi...he will never take us fishing in the boat up north again.  He will never tell a LAME joke to me again, and I will no longer have to fake laugh, pretending it is funny just to make him feel good!  He was very gifted in stone masonry.  He did such an awesome job.  One thing I joked to him about all the time is the fact that he never finished anything he started around the house though...here is a pic to prove it!  This fireplace was never finished by him in the yard, and sadly never will be! (sorry the pic is so bad...I took a quick pic as it was really hard at the time to even look at it)

I look at this blog as a stamping "therapy", so naturally tonight, I wanted to do a therapy post and dedicate at least a little piece of the WWW to Uncle Paul....I miss you!

This song is a total nail on the head to how I am feeling!  And definately this song, too!

Sorry for being so sappy...

Andria