A card for Unscripted Sketch # 192

The sketch at Unscripted Sketches  was a great sketch.  I used a sentiment stamp from Hero Arts that I have had forever and the LaRue Flourish die from Memory Box.  The designer paper is from Stampin' Up's Festival of Prints.  I love the colors of this paper.

Sadness!!

Auntie Sis and Me!!

This week did not start off on a good note, my favorite Aunt in the whole world passed away during the night Sunday.  She lived in Montana, which is a few hours away from me in Washington and I hadn't seen her in a year and a half.  Her name is Vivian Cecelia Russell Honrud,  my Auntie Sis.  She was born in Custer, WA in 1932 and was the youngest and only girl with 5 older brothers, one being my Daddy.  She married my Uncle Fred (LeRoy) and moved to Loma, Montana to be a wheat farmers wife.  She had 6 kids, my cousins Don, Rick, LeAnn, Nanci Jo, Les and Russ.  A few years ago, my cousin LeAnn lost her battle with cancer and passed away!  My Dad loved his baby sister and missed her every day, when they would talk on the phone or get together, the love and laughter just flowed so openly between the two.  When Keith and I found out that we were having twin girls, we named Cecelia after her.   My aunt was here right before my dad passed away, we knew the day she left that he didn't have much time, he told her not to turn around, that it was ok and he passed away the next morning.  I know in my heart that my Daddy was waiting for her and they are together, telling jokes and fishing with my Grandma.  

Another card?? Yep and with my SOTW from Unity Stamps

I decided that I deserved to join Unity Stamps Stamp of the Week.  For about $24 a month I get a sweet stamp set every week.  I decided to make a card using Bernie and turn him into Bernadette using pinks!! LOL

I stamped him/her and colored in with my few copics and then found some scraps of CTMH papers and CTMH blush ribbon, that were happy colors.  I used Flower Soft white for the pompoms on her hat and icicle stickles for the snow on the branch.  I love how it turned out!!

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First Card of 2013 - Unscripted Sketches # 191

I finally got to make a card for a challenge.  At Unscripted Sketches this week was a cute sketch.  I used a Sarah Kay stamp that I borrowed from my sister-in-law and used my copics and some of the Letraset Promarkers Christmas Contemporary set that I won from my friend across the pond, Jak Heath.

I used some small baby buttons and some scrap papers that I had.

Happy New Year!!

So I am a few days late wishing you a Happy New Year. I have been busy rearranging my craft room. A few months ago, I moved my mom's sewing cabinet out into the dining room and put my machine on it and have been sewing up a storm, but by moving it, it left a good size space that filled up quickly in the craft room!! I used an old dining table to do my crafts on and used lots of rolling carts (3) and 3 drawer plastic totes and boxes to hold all my stuff. I even had an old broken square laundry basket full of stuff! You can see how it was in this picture.

And yes, there is a saddle holder in the bottom right, kid left it in there for a few weeks!! This used to be a second bedroom, but my brother-in-law put a hallway in to the back door and the old carport bedroom is through this room, so it really isn't big enough to use as an actual bedroom and I have used it for a craft room since we bought the house from him in 2001. I have always wanted to have cabinets so I can hide stuff and get more organized, so Mr. Wonderful got me my cabinets last weekend, we chose the unstained and unpainted ones and stained them ourselves. I got the cheapest countertop since I am sure it will be stained with ink and stuff soon!! I have spent three days going through stuff and I have two rolling carts now - one is all the scrapbooking for the Disneyland Albums and fastpitch that all need to be finished and the other one is different stuff, like one drawer is all my Tim Holtz stuff, one is my melting pot and UTEE, one is all my glitter and stuff like that!! So here is what it looks like now, still need to figure out where everything goes but I have been working in it tonight on a scrapbook and a card!!

The long white shelf I got at a second hand shop and it is like new. My papers fit in perfectly and I have my bling in one drawer and flowers and pretties in another so they are handy. My few Copics fit in it too and I can see them all. The big ribbon shelf in the first 'new room' picture is really special to me. It was my bestie Katie Renz's! A guy who worked with Kevin made it just for her ribbons and when Kevin re-did Katie's craft space, he gave it to me! I finally have it on the wall and full!! It makes me smile!!! So thanks for letting me share my new space. I am so happy with it!!!

Christmas is coming, faster and faster!!!

In between making the cards and addressing all of them and signing them all personally by hand, I have been taking time to sew for Christmas. There are 4 pillowcases done for 4 little ones, with at least 4 more to make this week.

I also went to the Ladies Quilt group at my sisters the other night and they made these fabric napkins, I was working on those Christmas cards, so I made two today for a gift.

Stamping, Watercoloring, swishin' and glueing!!

I am working on 70 cards. I am using a stamp that I got from I (heart) Papers that is by Stampendous and is called Snowy Postcard. I stamped them and then used my watercolor pencils to give them some color and blended with my waterbrush. I roughed up the edges and am swishin' them with Tim Holtz Distressed Ink, Tea Dye. Once I finish all that, I can mount them on the blue background and then onto the card base!!!

Sewing for a new baby boy

Well, last night we found out that my great-niece and her husband are having a baby boy in April!! I am so excited as this niece was our flower girl in our wedding almost 20 years ago and she has a special place in my heart. My girls say I like her best!!! LOL They had a gender reveal party and out of the box came blue balloons, so Arason will be here in April!!! I made a bib and spit rag out of a fat quarter of International Harvester Farmall fabric so that even if it was a girl, either way, daddy could feel 'manly' while feeding baby!! Now I am off to make more pillowcases!!!!

Haven't posted due to Christmas is coming!!!

Alot of the things I have been working on lately is for Christmas so I have had nothing to post, well, lots to post, but I don't want my family to see them until they get them for Christmas. On thing I do every year for my nephew Jason and his wife Kristy is add something to their boys' stockings. My mom made Landon's stocking back in 2004 to match his mommy and daddy's, so my sister Julie has helped make the stockings and then I have done all the handwork and Snowmen on them. This year was fun to do, the family got their first travel trailer this summer and had a few adventures, so I made a travel trailer our of felt and blanket stitched it on. I even used my Nestabilities to make the circles for the wheels!!

I plan on uploading more as they get given out so I hope you will come back by soon.

Ornaments!

I saw these ornament stamps and dies online and I just had to have them to make these! They are from Stampin' Up and today my sister, sister-in-law and niece made these. You need 20 of each of the 2 stamp images stamped and cut out, so that took me alot of time to do. I got enough cut out sitting watching tv in three evenings to make 6 ornaments!! The red one I made tonight. I have learned that I should not use a hot glue gun - three burn blisters on three different fingers!!!

What I have been doing lately.

I haven't had much time to make cards, I have a list to do, but just haven't gotten in there, maybe tomorrow!! I do have this one that I did for a challenge and didn't get it done in time I used the Silhouette stamp from Childhood Portrait by CTMH. DCWV papers, My Favorite Things Die-namics Vintage Florish that I cut in half, Offray ribbon and half pearls.

I have also been working on a small quilt challenge. A local quilt shop, Two Thimbles had a Civil War Sampler Challenge and my sister Julie and my sister-in-law Darlene and I started it a month late, but have caught up. You have a month to do 4 blocks and then you go back in and get your fabric pieces for the next four blocks. It ends in January and then you have time to finish the quilt and then you drop it off by March 15th and March 20th they will be displayed during the Tri-County Quilt Tour through April. So here is my 12 blocks - the lighting for the picture is not too good, I was standing on a chair and they were laid out on the ironing board!!

Wishing for snow!! (CCT242)

At Cute Card Thursday their challenge was a sketch, so this is my take on the sketch.

My digital image is Bundled Little Snowboy from Meljen Designs. I colored him with my few copics and set him on papers from Whimsy Stamps called Merry and Bright. I used two different snow flake punches and covered them with Icicle stickles and added them to the snowboy!! He is so cute!!

Twinkle Little Star! (CFC10)

At Crafty Friends Challenges the challenge was to use a sentiment as a focal point. One of my favorite sentiments I have loved for a long time is a stamp from the Merry Stamper that just says Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I took this stamp and added it to papers from My Minds Eye Festive and Frost Signature Christmas that I just love because the glitteryness of it, the ribbon just kind of worked for me in there and I have no idea where I got it.

Designed 2 Delight Catching Flakes Digital Stamp Challenge

This month's image at Designed 2 Delight's blog is the sweetest snowman catching snowflakes. I used my copics and white flowersoft and Icicle stickles on the sweet snowman and flakes. I then layered him with pattern papers from Whimsy Stamps called Merry and Bright. Then I used a beautiful piece of red ribbon from Ribbon Carousel.

A little orange, black and purple!

Purple is not my favorite color. I will put up with it, but when I was younger I had huge purple flowers wallpaper on my wall in my room and my mom's favorite color was purple and well, she and I just didn't hit it off too well the last few years of her life and so the big joke now is Becky hates purple!! LOL So anyway, I digress, Crazy 4Challenges blog's challenge was to use orange, black and purple. Ok, I don't have any purple paper! But wait, my niece Chrissy gave me all her scrapbooking stuff a while back and lo and behold there was purple. So, I stamped Hazel designed by Sylvia Zet Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps. I used some stamps called Swirls by Autumn Leaves on the purple and my Spellbinders Fleur de lis Nestabilities. I tied a little ribbon sideways!!

Monkey Toes!!!

At Unscripted Sketches this week was to use their sketch and also do a piggy back challenge which was to add movement to your card. I have this sweet stamp called Monkey Toes that I got from Whimsey Stamps and Monkey Toes is a Meljens Design stamp. So I cut a square out of the front of my card and decorated the front, so as you see the card, you see the monkey,

Then, when you open it, the monkey toes pop out!!!

Clean and Simple Kitchen Challenge at OCC

This weeks challenge at Our Creative Corner was CLEAN AND SIMPLE KITCHEN - to make a CAS (clean and simple) card or project featuring something you would see in the kitchen. I had pulled out my pickle jar stamp a couple days ago to make two cards to send to my two nieces who just announced that they are both expecting, so it was perfect for this challenge. I used my cuttlebug swiss dots folder and then some ribbon and 3 brads to offset the image. Of course, we don't know what either baby will be yet, so I used the green but as you can see I just had to get that little bit of pink in there with that one brad!!!

A couple of fun cards!!

Here are a couple of fun cards that I have done. Both are already in the mail and one has arrived at its destination. Splitcoast Stampers had a tutorial a couple weeks ago for a Twisted Circular Easel Card, so I decided to make one.

I used Whimsy Stamps Suzi with Bunny stamp, My nestabilities Tear Drop Circles, Die-namics Fancy Florish from My Favorite Things stamps and recollection papers from Michael's. Another card was for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge. I used Pure Innocence Cowgirl stamp set with my teardrop cirlces, Die-namics Country Charms, Recollection and My Minds Eye papers and twine from Ribbon Carousel.

So, I have this friend, who likes to do cards too.....

So, I have this friend, Emily, who likes to do cards too and she posted a card a week or so ago, here on her blog about a challenge from designed to delight and it was to use this one image of a cute owl sitting on pumpkins with the moon and Emily's was so cute, you can see it here, that I decided to use it myself and created this card.

The bat papers are from Carta Bella's All Hallow's Eve that I got from this great place called Pumpkin Spice. It is a sweet online shop here in WA and she also has a blog that I am really liking. I used my fleur de Lis Rectangles on the backside of the bat paper and my Scor-pal to make it look like a fence! Then I did the goofy grass and popped the image up on pop dots. I hope you like my card!! Thanks Em for sharing!! LOL

A few cards. . .

I have been making a few cards, but just haven't had time to upload them. So I thought I would share a few today.

Cissy picked this boot stamp up when we were at Michael's a while ago. So I think this sketch was for a challenge but I am not sure. I really like the look of this boot.

I used the Hazel from stamp by Sylvia Zet that I got from Whimsy Stamps. to make another candy box for a little girl for Halloween.

This cute Little Wizard Owl by Meljen's Designs Collection I also got at Whimsy Stamps. I used one of my new nestibilities that I got with my birthday gift card called Fleur de lis Rectangles. I added a couple start brads to it just for fun!! I will be back sooner with some more cards!! B