Thoughts and Prayers gets some ink

It seems like as soon as I think life is going to slow down a little, I actually start getting bogged down even more. I guess I should quit thinking and start doing more stamping! Either that or start lowering my standards at work so I can have more time to myself.

Over the past few weeks a couple of my friends have lost family members, so I had to make some sympathy cards. I love the Thoughts And Prayers set and took the opportunity to put some ink on it. Hopefully I will be using it for more than sympathy cards. This first one, I couldn't decide if I liked better with or without ribbon, so I did one of each. I figured this way I have a spare, since often it seems that you need three within a short span of time. Hopefully I won't need it! I totally CASED it from mfleig on SCS. She used the Parisian Breeze Designer paper, and since I didn't have that, I dug through my non-SU paper and found some that is nearly identical, imagine that!

I liked this one better, but wished I would have used brown ribbon instead of the organdy. But, since my resolution was to use what I have, this is what came out of the box. I used some SU designer papers from Bali breeze and Brocade Backgrounds, working in another resolution; to stop hoarding the paper......

Well, I'd best get busy on the pile of work that's waiting for me. I have a plan for some Easter cards, so hopefully on next post I'll have gotten to that.

Spring break is coming up and I've decided I WILL get busy in my stamping room, no matter what else is on my plate!

Busy

I've been so busy lately, that I have not had time to post. I'll share few things I've done over the past couple weeks, but I only have little time for chatter.

This is a prediction card. I have a cousin-in-law who is pregnant, and she did not share the sex of the baby. I think it's a boy, so this is the card I made for her shower.

I've been dying to use these papers and these stamps, so I did. they are for no particular reason, but I'm sure I'll find someone who will appreciate receiving them.

I want spring! This was one of those days when I just had to have something springy going on.

A card for a colleague....

A gift for another colleague....

A couple of my colleagues gave me a wonderful gift; the Urban Oasis DP, matching ribbon and matching brads. What thoughtful people they are! So, I had to bust into the paper right away to make them a thank you. I just couldn't resist, so I totally CASE'd this from melissa-aggie on scs. Thanks Melissa! I absolutely love the Splitcoast Stampers website. I could spend (and often do) hours there.

I was in such a hurry I didn't even fix this picture before I posted it. Sorry about the tile taking up so much of the photo. This was last fall. A few friends went to the Mission Point Peninsula and did the tour of the wineries. The plan was to do the whole Lelanau (did I spell that right?)Peninsula, but we didn't get past Mission Point. It was a blast!

Go to go do my chores.... ugh!

Finally

Well, I've been feeling pretty bad for the last weeek or so (some sort of virus that attacked me), and I'm quite disappointed in myself. First, for not posting for 2 consecutive weekends and second for not meeting my annual goal of finishing last year's scrapbook by 2/14. I actaully did work on some projects, but just didn't post them. Here's the stuff from 2 weekends ago: It was the beginning of SAB and my wonderful demo had a make and take bash at her home.
This was what we made. I love the texture plates!


All week I had been working on this next project for a friend. I cased it from a bunch of SCS posters, so i can't give a single person credit, but I guess it it most similar to the one posted by amherstamper. I love the way it turned out, but it really took a long time to make.
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I was able to get a little scrapping in the following weekend, but that's when I started coming down with the dreaded virus. This layout was a baby shower for a collegue who adopted a baby from China.



In addition to the scrapping, I had to make a couple valentines since it was Valentine's Day. Hubby and I are trying to save money, so we did not go all out for that holiday. I just made him a super simple little package for some candy and made a few of the same card for my other valentine's. I forgot to snap some pics of the cute little Ghiradelli boxes for my colleagues for Valentine's Day.




Well, that's all from the last couple weeks. I also made a cute little chocolate bar and card Thursday, for another colleague's birthday, but forgot to snap a shot before I gave it away, It was adorable and she loved it. It was a Dove dark chocolate "Beautiful" bar. They are chock full of nutrients to help keep your skin in tip top shape. Hey, it works for my excuse to eat one!

I guess I better get busy on some stuff to post for this weekend. I have a pile of papers to grade, an IEP to write and 3 more events to scrap from last year. In addition there are 2 birtdays next week, so tata for now....

Not much going on

Well, I had a really tough time getting motivated to do anything this weekend. I did manage to get a couple things done though. The first is a card and gift for a collegue. Inside the package there are a couple of stamps. The next is that darling little box on Splitcoast's tutorial for this week (I think I'll make a bunch of these for Valentine's Day). I tucked the flap in instead of leaving it on the outside. The last is my winter blues! I thought the flowers would pull me out of my unmotivated blah weekend. It didn't work. I'm still feeling like doing not much of anything. Oh well, it happens to us all sometime. Hopefully next weekend will be more productive. I still have 5 more events to scrap for last year's album, so I hope I get my mojo back! Valentine's Day is only 2 weeks away and I think we may head up north for that weekend so that doesn't leave me much time to reach my goal of being done!

Working on the resolutions....

Well I was able to spend a fair amount of time working on my 2008 scrapbook. I also used up some old half done pages and elements that never quite found a home. The first is a birthday party for a darling boy named Ryan, the next is Christmas Eve with my parents the third is "cookie party" with some friends (it's all about the cookies...not) and the 4th is my nephew's birthday. Even though his birthday is in January, and it isn't for the 2008 scrapbook, it still counts for my resoultion because I used up some stuff that I already had started...kind of....

I also made a card and chocolate gift for a friend and a very basic masculine card. So all in all I feel like I got a lot done.....even housework ;)

Another Party Hearty Card

What luck! It's been so cold that school was called off on Friday due to the extreme cold temperatures. I really needed the time because it's the end of the quarter and I have 7th grade mystery stories to grade. What torture! Once that was finished, I rewarded myself with some time in my little room. My nephew's birthday celebration is today, so I needed a card for him. This is what I came up with. The inside (below) has a space on the top for a gift card (the perfect gift for any 20 year old).

After I finished with that, my husband and I decided to ride the snowmobiles up to the local bar for dinner. It snowed all day yesterday, so the back roads were just perfect for riding. As a matter of fact, the roads were so bad we probably could have ridden down D-19 and not hit the cement! Anyway, we had a good time and a good meal. Hopefully the roads are better today since we have to drive about 45 minutes (in good weather) to the celebration.

This weekend also brought the last stamp club meeting :( I will certainly miss that monthly gathering. Lynn, our Stampin Up demo, always has such gorgeous projects for us to create. She is truly quite a talented woman! You can visit her blog and see for yourself at http://lwdesigns.blogspot.com/ Below is a picture of the projects I created.They are a little less embellished than hers, as I did not do as much piercing on the valentine and didn't make my background on the butterfly card as vibrant as hers. But they don't all have to look exactly the same! I'm looking forward to going to her Sale-a-bration/New Catalog Kick Off party on February 1st. Since we will no longer be having our monthly stamp club meetings, I guess that's how I'll get my February fix!

Hopefully I'll have something new to share next weekend!

Productive Weekend

Well, it has been a productive weekend. I was able to not only get the Friday layout done, but also did these 2 very simple pretty much unembellished layouts, as well. If I wasn't as far behind as I am in the 2008 scrapbook, I'd do a lot more embellishing, but at this point I'm looking at quantity rather than quality. I can always go back and add to it when (or if) the inspiration hits me. Sometimes I may see someone else's page months later and realize that what they did would be perfect for a page I had previously done. So, I guess you can call them works in progress. Anyway, I'm happy with them for now (that's because the pictures are finally in the scrapbook instead of still trapped inside my computer). The first was a really fun night at my husband's uncle's birthday party. We went to Genetti's Hole-in-the-Wall in downtown Northville, where they have a great family style dinner and an interactive show afterward. My DH was chosen to play the part of Elvis. It was hilarious! I had no idea Elvis was still alive.....

I also had time to make these two cards. The second one was totally CASE'd from smartblonde_2000 on SCS (except for the DP).

I hope next weekend is just as productive!