It's All About The Journey

Thank You In Rock

Late last night I began making this very simple card. I love the new Stampin'UP! In Colors and the new round scallop punch.

To make this card I used River Rock ,Wild Wasabi,So Saffron  and Whisper White card-stock. I used the stamp sets Seeing Spots and Petal Pushes. The ink that I used is the new Wild Wasabi  by SU. I used the new scallop circle also by SU. The center flower was punched out with my Punch a Bunch punch. Say that 3 times fast. :) To finish my card I added a brad in the center of the flower and a Wild Wasubi ribbon. To give my card a little dimension I added pop dots under the Wasabi scallop circle.  From start to finish it took me 10 minutes to make this card. I really like the simplicity of it.

Once again, we had a very hot and humid day in NH. We had rain but thankfully no thunderstorms. It will be like this again tomorrow. UGH! At least my plants are getting plenty of water. :) Other then doing housework and laundry I did Little else.  I hope to have a more productive day on Tuesday.

I hope that all of you are having a good week so far. Smile. :)

What Did You Do This Weekend?

Did you stamp and make a card?Did you scrapbook or paper craft? I took the weekend off from doing all of those wonderful things. I decided that it was time to clean out my stamp room. Oh what a disaster it has become! Bye-bye to a well organized and a clutter free room.  My problem is that I have too much stuff and not enough room. I did have room once upon a time. :) One of the things that I was able to organize was most of my ribbon. You all know I am a ribbon addict right? More on that later. Here is one of the ways that I was able to store some of my ribbon so that I would see it.

I saw this lovely glass vase at Wal-mart on Friday and thought that some of my loose ribbons would look  pretty in it and would be more accessible to me. It is a good size vase but it certainly will not hold all of my ribbon that is not on a spool.  I could have gotten a larger vase but then it would have taken up more of my work space. Such a dilemma right?;)  I love that I am able to see the ribbon in the vase and can just put my hand in and take out what I want. All of the ribbon in this glass vase was purchased from Stamping Memories. As for the rest of my room I am still working on it.

The other project  that I have tackled is taking pictures of most of the Stampin'UP stamp sets that I will be either selling on Ebay or on my blog. I have not made up my mind which way I will be selling them. I hope to make that decision tonight. I have so many sets that are retired but have not been cut or mounted. They have never been used. Either way it's a lot of work. ;)

Whoa! We have had a lots and lots of heat this weekend. Yesterday we had a thunderstorm that did not last long but the rain came down off and on through out the day and early evening.  It did not cool us off though. Just made the night air all soupy. No walk for me yesterday that's for sure. Tonight despite the heat and humidity Wayne and I went for a 25 minute walk. It sure was nice to get out for a little.  Now I am off to watch Big Brother. A mindless but entertaining show. :) I hope to  get a card started before I go to bed tonight.

Oh about the ribbon. Anyone else out there who is willing to admit that they are addicted to ribbon? Maybe we should start a ribbon addict club. What do you think?  I would be happy to start or be a part of an addicted ribbon club. Ha-ha.

I would *love* to hear how your weekend went and what you did. I hope it was a wonderful weekend. Smile. :)

An Elegant Halloween Card

At least I think it came out elegant. :) I was very inspired by the new Impression Obsession acrylic stamp set that I purchased from Stamping Memories and had to make a card. Those of you who have been wondering if I use all of the things that I buy.......yes I do. Some times it just takes me a little longer then I would like it to.

I had so much fun making this card. Once I got all of the items that I wanted to use to make this card it came  out just the way that I hoped it would. The card-stock that I used for the base of my card is from Bazzil and I have no idea what the name of the color is. Sorry about that. I used Very Vanilla and Old Olive card-stock from Stampin'UP! .The designer paper I used is from Reminisce. To make my card I used  VersaMark ink and Terra Cotta EP. I embossed both the image and the sentiment. On the base of the card I used VersaMark and stamped one of the Flourishes randomly. The Flourish that I used is from Autumn Leaves Flourishes #1 by Rhonna Farrer. I purchased this set from Stamping Memories.  To finish my card off I used some of the beautiful Orange stripped organdy ribbon by May Arts. I tied a piece of  olive organdy ribbon to the orange ribbon. I really do like how this card came out and I think it is perfect  to give to an adult for Halloween. Except for the card-stock that I used from SU all other products were purchased at Stamping Memories. ;)

Wowzer! What a day we had here in NH. Hot! Hot! Hot! And very humid so for those of us who have Asthma today was not a good air day. Never the less, we did have sunshine. :) After my trip to Hooksett today I stopped off at Michaels and browsed.  Then it was time for me to do my food shopping. When I do my food shopping each week I never shop at just one store because one store does not carry all of the things that I need. Or I know I can get different items at certain stores for a better price. That is one of the reason why I do not get home until after 8 Pm on Friday evenings. Well a big part of the reason. Another reason it takes me so long is that I always run into someone I know and we start gabbing. Today I ran into my step-daughter, Hillary. I have not seen her in awhile so we chatted quite a bit. We were out in the Wal-mart parking lot in the HOT sun. At least I got a little color right? :)

So that was my Friday. I hope that all of you had an easy but  very nice day. The weekend is here. Yay! Enjoy the sunshine if you have some your way. Smile. :)