RAK

I am long past due for posting this one! This was an RAK from Tracy at
Tracys Happy Place!

This was an RAK from JT'S Monthly RAK club Expressively Me Pieces of Me!
We had a break for December and now the RAK's are bcak going for the New Year!

I received from her back in November! Sorry I did not post this sooner Tracy.
Thank you Tracy for the wonderful card and stamped bella images and flowers.
I have had a great deal of fun working with the Bellas!

Winter Weather!

Woke up the other morning and all the trees and homes were covered in ice and snow. This is a picture of the tree out side my office window where I work. It is the most perfectly shaped tree I have ever seen. This tree is beautiful all year around, I hope to get a picture of it when it starts to blossom and each season as they go by this year! Isn't it beautiful!
This is the street looking down my street from home heading to work. Pretty yucky. It was too cold and wet to step outside for the picture so I just took it from inside the car looking through the wind shield. Turned out pretty good! The bottom of the picture is the cross street that the plows had allready gotten too. Looks more like a boarder but it is not.

My stepdaughter Grace likes to write so I decorated this little notebook for her to use at school or for a journal. Hope she likes it. She turned 16 last sept, I know 16 year olds can be alot of fun!
there is a clear (or some what clear) plastic covering that came on the notebook so the picture looks a little fuzzy.

I opended the cover up and you can see my work a little better.

Well I am off to work! I have to get the little ones dressed before I head so I better get off this. I have alot of stamping to catch up on this weekend. I ahve joined more swaps, and have fallen in love with HouseMouse again so come back soon and check out what I do with my House Mouse. Have to get a head start on Valentine cards too.

Have a Great Day!

Cigar Box

I recently received a Fabulous gift from my secret sister last month. There is a moose and bear stamp, ribbon, small gift tags, a box of chocolates, a card stock purse, and a stampin up ink pad. to include a Christmas Card. it was all wwrapped into a cigar box.
This is the card stock purse that held a good deal of the goodies.
This is a picture of the Cigar box before I got my hands on it.
This is what the box looks like now. I used a 12x12 sheet of paper from The Angel Company. I also used TAC ribbon. I am not sure if I am glad that I used all the ribbon behind each letter but it does add to it. I brushed on brown ink around the edges and then added gold metallic paint for some shine.
Closer look at the top! I am not sure what I am going to put into it just yet but this was a lot of fun to decorate. I think it would have made a good gift box, filled with candies and goodies. Like I received it! Also to make up some cards that match the box and envelopes to match and give as a stationary set. Or filled with home made goodies, decorated to celebrate the closest holiday. However this was a gift for me to decorate so i am chooseing to keep it, and I think I will store scrap ribbon in it or a journal maybe both the possiblities are endless.

Thank you Secret Sister, I absolutely LOVE this gift! It has all ready given me hours of enjoyment.

Decorated Envelopes

These last six are your basic card Envies! I thought these turned out great! Please post me a comment and tell me what you think!
Once you get started on decorating envelopes you can't stop!

Usually I decorate an envelope to match the card but I decided swapping a decorated envelope would be just as much fun as swapping cards. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=310978 So please come to Split Coast Stampers and check out my swap and Join. You do not have to be a member to join my swap leave me a comment here on my blog and I'll add you. It's also a good way to meat new people.

Any way today was a crazy day at work, the other assistant called in late because her well water froze her pipes and she had to go into her mother in laws house to take a shower. So she was 2 hours late getting to work. Then we started off late with a really bad broken tooth that put us behind schedule by 45 minutes. Our schedule was not logged into the computer and our charts were not pulled for the day so everything was fighting us starting at 8 am. I know I know typical for a doctor's office, then the front desk added an extra patient. We ran all day long and still didn't catch up. But I am off until Monday so I have a three day weekend and I am going to work on swaps and cards for my pals. Take it easy weekend to recoup from Christmas and New Years stress

Decorated Envelopes

I am hosting a Decorated Envelope Swap at the Split Coast Stampers! Come check out the fun and challenge yourself. Decorated Envelopes. I will be working on decorating my Envelopes today!



I am also working on making Valentine Inchies today and small ATC cards for them to be displayed in. I will try to post a picture of them later this week. I am also hoping to make up 20 Peek a Boo boxes, for my son to take to school on Valentines Day! All though I do not have enough red CS paper. So I may have to wait until I can get down to the stamp store. Unfortunately the stamp store is closed todaydue to it is New Years Day!



Happy New Year!

A Fun Day in the Stamp Room

I had a Wonderful Day today, got caught up on alot of stamping and swaps. A few of us stampers in my area get together every month and stamp and share ideas. Our next month get together we were given a challenge. It was to decorate a tiny post it note. She mentioned doing something other then a match book. So this is what I came up with: This is the size of an ATC

2 1/2 by 3 1/2. The bottom half flips open to reveal the post it note. With a calendar on top the picture uploaded a little blurry.

This is the other post it note holder, more in the shape of a pack of gum. Which I thought would be perfect with a pack of gum in it for the kids to take to school as a Valentine's treat. I may be making more of these. My 5 year old will need to take treats to school. Let me know what you think of these.

I also had time to make up some more ATC's for swaps. I used the Bridal Bella with a rose for a rose swap on Split coast stampers

This is an ATC I created for my pals that I swap with every month. It is a small calendar with the saying "Take time to smell the dewdrops on the flowers" Just something I typed up. I thought my pals will enjoy having a calendar set up for the year to enjoy.

Happy New Year! Be Safe!

Christmas Gifts and ATC's

How is every one in Blog Land? Did we all have a great Christmas?

I had a wonderful Christmas. I received a sizzix, with 12 die cuts and an alphabet set. Soo much Fun! It was something I wanted and had to order myself to make sure I got what I wanted HAHA!

My husband did go out and get me two bamboo cutting boards a small one and a large one, along with a new frying pan. Which was also a few things that I wanted for the kitchen. He also got me three new sets of clear rubber stamps. I will try to post pictures later. My Lovely mom gave me a new House Mouse stamp and a carry and go ribbon case because she knows I have an addiction to ribbon.

From my secret sister I received a cigar box, undecorated, so I can't wait to decorate that! Inside was a moose and bear stamp, along with ribbon, stampin up ink pad, and a box filled with chocolates. And three tag christmas cards. A wonderful surprise just before Christmas.

This is an ATC I made a while back. It is stamped with Stamps by Judith. Obviously the camera shot is not the best.

My mom and I joined an ATC

House Mouse swap on split coast stampers, where we had to use a certain House Mouse and incorporate it into something else and this is what my mom came up with. She sprinkled glitter all around the globe to make it look like a real snow globe and that is a real picture she took of her home while it was snowing. This picture does it no good it is totally a neat idea! I had to share with you!

This is what I was able to come up with, not quite as neat as the snow globe, but still pretty creative. I needed some more inspiration before I worked on this. But what canI say!

Blog Candy at DeStampinCorner

There is blog candy give away at http://destampincorner.blogspot.com/ Go and check it out! I recently found her blog through Angelosity! Also a wonderful blogger athttp://angelosity.blogspot.com/ go and check her out too. They both do wonderful work!

I have been very busy trying to work and get ready for Christmas. My lovely Husband helped me out and wrapped all of Santa's presents for the boys and hid them in our closet. Well the oldest boy told me last night that there were presents in my closet just fo him and that they should be under the tree. So Santa presents were spotted. Darn now where am I going to hide them. Any way we are going to have to rewrap with different paper and hope he understands to stay out of mommy's room. So that Santa can still bring them. I think we will take them to the neighbors house for hiding.

We have 4 inches of snow on the ground and it is pretty! Wish I could stay home and stamp but I have to get to work. Have a great Day!

Day 4 Maria's Blog Challenge

I have been trying to keep up with Maria's Blog challenge. Today is Blog Candy Challenge Day 4. Today Maria wants us to show off our Christmas Tree. I have a few pictures form my son's Birthday Party of out decorations. First off would be our fireplace where the stockings are hung!

This second picture is the bottom half of our tree where we have a train trck set up under the tree and a train goes around and around, gives the boys something to watch.In this picture you can only see the track, there is a toy semi tracker trailer sitting in front of the tree. This is also my brother in law and my son playing horses.

For some reason I cannot find a picture of the full tree I may have to get back to you on this one. This will be alot of fun to see other people's Christmas Ideas. Well I am off tko work now. Have a Great Day!

School Candy Bags

Dallas's Birthday Treat Bags!

I was cleaning things up and just realized that I did not post the Birthday Bags I made up filled with candy. The bear is an unknown stamp, the balloons and hats are stampin up. My mom punched out the Happy Birthday Balloons on her sizzix. I stamped the Happy Birthday Saying on them, a stamp also from stampin up. Then there is also spots of confetti stamped all over them. For added color, another unknown stamp. Dallas had alot of fun passing out his Birthday Treat bags. I had a lot of fun making them. There was 19 bags all together.


Don't forget to check out my Envelope swap at the Split Coast Stampers. Under cards. It is not going as well as I expected it too. Maybe it is because my numbers are too low and I am too new. Just trying to make myself feel better.