Living on the Edge

First up is this little cutie from Papertrey Ink, the Quilter's Sampler set. I rotated the sketch to make it work for me. I don't know where the quote came from, it's a random stamp I picked up somewhere a long time ago. I purposefully did not add a ribbon to this card. I tend to think all cards need a touch of texture, which is easily found in ribbon, but I decided not to add ribbon today. Living on the edge, I am! The paper is from PTI (Dark Chocolate) and an SU Variety pack.

And who can resist these little Doodle Factory monsters from Starving Artistamps? I love these creatures. I ordered the whole set for myself for Mother's Day. At less than 25 bucks I get about 8 or 10 creatures in both the large and small sizes. Score! I used paper from Basic Grey.

Not much is going on. After a couple of beautiful days we now have another dark and gloomy day. I am headed to my friend Jenny's house to pick up items to sell in our neighborhood garage sale this weekend. I have very little to sell, so I am glad I get Jenny's loot, too. She is moving, so she should have a lot to donate to my cause. Now I need to find friends and neighbors with tables I can borrow so I have somewhere to place all the loot.

Mother's Day

This is a card for the Inspiration Challenge on SCS. The challenge was to find inspiration in the fabrics used by a cushion company. I cannot remember the name of the company, it had a French name that roughly translated to something like "My sweet cushion". I used Hanna Stamps' wedding set in the colors my niece used in her wedding two weeks ago. Someone made a comment on SCS that they are unusual wedding colors. Hey folks, I don't make this stuff up! The wedding was beautiful, the ladies wore yellow and the men wore black. It was a gorgeous spring wedding.

I used a cuttlebug folder to emboss the background and just added some ribbon, and colored the image with copics. Simple and pretty, the best combination.

For Mother's Day we went to my brother's church to see his daughter get baptized by immersion. It's one of those big white people mega churches in a small town. Well, not really a mega church by mega church standards, but very large for their small town. What surprised me was that as we wondered lost through the church looking for the Baptism area, not one person spoke to us. No one greeted us, no one even said hello in passing. No on pointed us in the right direction. There is nothing I like less than a non friendly church. Well, I like even less the fact that there are only men on the staff in ministry positions, but that is a rant for another day. You folks come here for goodness and light and crafting ideas, don't you? And now I have just offended many of you with my liberal ideas.

So, afterwards we lunched with family and hung out at my brother's, then came home to nap and had friends over for dinner. They say Mother's Day is the busiest day in the restaurant industry and I successsfully avoided having to compete with the crowds. I also ordered myself some stamps from Starving Artistamps for my present. I love it when I get just what I want!

Thursday Update

Not much is happening this week. I spent yesterday with my friend Jenny and her two daughters. We were going to spend the day crafting, but we always underestimate the amount of time little kids suck out of you. I got some cards made and helped her a bit.

The top card is for today's challenge to use Kraft paper. Having recently stocked up on some kraft paper from Papertrey Ink, I was in good shape. I used Hanna Stamps' new set Pool Party and paper pieced the swimmers onto the blue paper. Isn't the little swimming dog adorable?

Yesterday the challenge was a sketch challenge and I flipped the sketch to a horizontal lay out. I popped Riley Moose up on pop dots so he really stands out in real life. The scene in the back is the Neighborhood stamp wheel from SU.

I am meeting my mom for lunch today. She recently started crafting and has a Cricut. (It's an expensive electronic die cut machine.) She loves to tell me how much she loves it, and how I need one, too. I don't know where she thinks a few hundred dollars for an optional crafting device would come from, plus all the money that would be spent on cartridges. If she brings it up at lunch again, I may just bite her head off. She truly forgets what it was like to raise kids on a budget.

Wedding Favors

Good thing I am in a wedding mood, I loved my niece's wedding last week and have tons of ideas about how to get the part started with wedding stamps. I need to move on, but I just can't, I am having too much fun. I made some little wedding favors to highlight Riley and Sophie, aren't they the cutest?

I am really looking forward to the release part tonight, too. I love the contests and seeing what evryone has made. This is really my favorite time of the month. I hope to see everyone tonight online around 9PM for the party at SCS.

Today is a beautiful day and I want to go get the oil changed in my car, and get it washed and get some groceries so we can grill out tonight. I really have to learn how to start the grill so we can eat at a decent hour. The kids don't care, they could play all night and not stop for dinner. But me? I need dinner. And I like it at 6PM. Too many years of living on a schedule, I think. My biological clock is set and cannot be denied.

Wedding Wishes

Hanna Stamps is having a "Retro Summer" and highlighting some previously released sets. The two for this month have a wedding theme, a wedding Hanna Stamps set and the wedding Moose stamp. Lucky for me, Scott's niece got married last weekend so I had plenty of ideas on what to make with the wedding sets.

I made Mary and her new husband luggage tags for their honeymoon trip. You can put whatever personal info you want on the back (or really the inside) of the tag, so your info isn't hanging out there for the world to see.

I love Sundays. It is a beautiful sunny day and I managed to squeeze in a nap.

Don't forget to join us for the Release Party at SCS Monday night at 9PM. The full sets will shown during the party if you are one of the people who just can't wait to see what's goin' on. (Like Me!) I Love a good party. especially one I can attend in my jammies.

Retro Summer

Hanna Stamps is having a retro summer, where stamps from the past are highlighted. For May one of those stamps is the wedding of Riley and Sophie. I made this card for the inspiration challnge on SCS. We were to pick a dress in the Fabiana prom dress line for inspiration and the one I chose was number 6425 and was hot pink. I used Raspberry Fizz paper from Papertrey Ink, which looked like a perfect match.

Today it is suposed to be a little cooler than I expected but my day will be full of yard work, like shoveling mulch and watching my husband mow our shaggy yard. We have had rain for the past four days so we have to tackle the yard while we can.

Sneak Peeks

Today is the start of sneak peek releases of the newest Hanna Stamps sets. I am showing you pool tags I made for my kids and a neighbor. We go to our neighborhood pool a lot in the summer and the big question among the kids is always "Does this belong to you?" We all have a pretty open policy about bringing things to the pool, if you bring it, you share it. The pool tags will be helpful when the kids want to borrow something, they'll know who to ask for permission before they make off with an item.

I am in love with this set, called Pool Party. It has adorable children it and even a little dog in a floatie. Too cute! I did some stitching around the tags, but it is hard to see. It might be better if you don't see it, then you'll know why sewing is no longer my hobby. Hanna has two new guest designers this month but I'll come back and update their info already. I lost the scrap of paper I wrote the info down on. I know, shame on me. It happens enough you'd think I'd stop writing on scraps, but no such luck.

Hanna Stamps' release party will be on SCS at 9PM and the new sets will be available that night at the party. Look around the other DT member blogs for sneak peeks on the To The Beach set. If you are a beach person, rather than a pool person, you will love it. Well, I love it, too, but I don't have it to show you sneak peeks of!