NWR Week 1

This is the 1st completed page for my class with Jessica Sprague. We learned how to bring color back into a picture when it has been turned to sepia tones. We also worked on journaling blocks.

Self Restricted

OK ....I have not been on my blog deliberately due to the fact I had a Now We're Rockin class with Jessica Sprague coming up and I didn't want to be in violation of the Fair access Policy again. I am now trying to make up for my absence the cards I have been making. I felt like my mojo was out the window for some time so I went thru some OLD, OLD swaps to inspire myself and cased several of them. I am sorry if any of these are similar to your cards but I have lost names & papers from the swaps so if you see some that looks like yours please post that they may be yours.

This card was cased from my friend Jenn, she received it from someone else & when I went to pick up my loot from her shop..Just4funcrafts.com I loved it & thus cased it.
Monday, Jenn, Rachele & I got together to stamp & this was the shoebox card that Jenn came up with. She got the tutorial from Markie's Mom's blog. This picture doesn't do it justice....it is really pretty in person with all the glitter and bobbles.


I used SU! Pun Fun for this little birdhouse card. Cardstock is More mustard.


This card uses SU! Fast & Fun Notes.

My sweet Friend Vickie sent me this RAK which is so appropriate for me. When we would leave our Wednesday group, I would have her stop at Sonic for an Ice Cream cone so she decided to make me one too. Thanks Vickie!

Sue Ann came up with this chalk technique card for us to work on at Laura's house last Wednesday....or maybe it was a week ago but anyway I love how it turned out.

This was the shoebox card I came up with, it is using the SU notes that are being promoted right now.

More SU! Fun Pun with the little skunk. The monkey card is another card i came up with to do at Laura's.

Hope you all have a great week and hopefully it will not be so far between next time. Happy Stamping!

Golden Bouquet

I hope you are having a good Memorial weekend. I thought I would share what I have been up to. I have a sweet friend who is giving her sister $50.00 of gold coins for her 50th wedding anniversary. She wanted to present them to her in a unique way so I volunteered to help her out. I bought a cute little picket fence container, filled it with floral sponge and moss. I then used wooden skewers and attached my cricut flowers that I cuttlebugged to the end of the skewers. I then used the dollar coins for the centers of the flowers. I didn't take a picture of the finished project that is all wrapped in cellophane and tied with ribbons but I can tell you it looks much cuter in real life. Hope she likes it. Have a great rest of the long weekend!

Wednesday's cards

Just a quick post to show Wednesday's cards. The 1st card was made a shoebox from Vickie....our newbie to stamping. She used a SU! retired set. Cute card Vickie. Thanks!

Sam came up with this green & white card. She used a TAC stamp set and her card was actually cuter because she stamped it correctly. I on the other hand wasn't paying attention to detail so I stamped the whole sentiment on the outside. Sam put little dots after A road to a friends house.... on the inside she stamped the rest of the sentiment. Oh well, I can still just a little note inside. Thank you Sam for your creativity!

Carolyn cased this card but put her own twist on it. She saw her inspiration in the latest Paper Craft Magazine. I love the oranges, It looks better in real life. The sentiment was made using a computer. Love it Carolyn!

Last but not least, Sam also surprised us with this adorable water bottle & lemonade packet. We each received one at our place setting. I absolutely love this darling idea. I am lucky to have these wonderful friends to spend my Wednesday's with.

I do want to mention that Marie, although she didn't come up with a card she did come up with a very yummy soup that was delicious. She made a big pot of Italian sausage, Kale and potato soup. Man was it good....second helping good. Sam made a very tasty salad with strawberries, grapes, cherries, chicken, apples and walnuts in it. I ended up making the salad for dinner last night.....soup is coming up tonight! Next week I believe we are going to have Laura back, now that school is out! Can't wait! Til then have sun at whatever you do.

Two pages using same template

I love this template by Chrissyw . For the 1st page I used Bedtime doodle bugs by Melany Violette at SimplyClean Digiscraps. The bugs go right along with my DGS's personality. The 2ND page is with Castoffs01 by Anna Benjamin at Paper Moon. The bright colors are so springy & fresh to me and they remind me of my DGD.

Sorry no cards today, I am working on a project though & I promise to post it when I finish. Thanks for stopping by.

Not much today

We didn't stamp this week....too many conflicts. I did make a graduation card for a neighbor girl who is graduating from high school. It seems like yesterday she was just starting 1st grade....does that age me? I had to lighten the picture so you could see the top part of the card. I tried to make it look like a graduation cap. I uses the cuttlebug dot folder on the "top" part of the hat. The colors are orange & black. Inside the card I cut her mascot, which is a scorpion, out with the square mega scallop punch & matted it on orange. I them cut a black square using the giga & glued just the outside edges to form a pocket to hold her $.

This is a page I did this morning using a kit I received free. Thank you, Christy Skaggs,

for such a darling kit. Hope to be more creative next week! til then smile!

Friday Flash

Just a quick post to show you all what we did on Wednesday. First , I thought I would throw in a page I made of my grandkids a few years ago.

This is a shoebox card that Carolyn came up with. I just love this card. She found the pattern in a 2006 Papercraft magazine, the flowers are from Mike's in the bridal dept. Not sure what stamp the sentiment is. paper is SU! DS paper Groovy Guava.

Folded and with the paper band, I added stickles to some of the dots to give it a little shine. Carolyn used a floral double sided sheet of this DS group and she put stickles on just a few flowers. Her's was just gorgeous. Thanks Carolyn. JoAnne made a yummy Italian Sausage soup for lunch for Carolyn's birthday(which happens to be tomorrow). Happy Birthday Carolyn!!!!

I made the same card using the SU! DS Summer Picnic paper. Today is my DD's 10th wedding anniversary so I made this for them.

I just had to show you the Sunflower Bowl Jenn at just4funcrafts made using a quilling kit she sells. She makes it seem so easy and in person this is just beautiful. She sprayed it with a glitter spray that just makes it pop. That is all for this week.....hope you have a great week....