Big Birthday Wishes

Stamp Sets: More the Merrier, Big Birthday Wishes, Crazy for Cupcakes, Hugs & Wishes

CS: Pink Pirouette, Tea Party DP, Razzleberry Lemonade, Crushed Curry, Whisper White

Ink: Black, Craft White, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Glitter SU, Beads current and retired SU, Crystal Effects, Dimensionals, Ink refills - Baja Breeze & Pink Pirouette, Sponge

New Animal Stories

This new stuff is just what I needed. I have been in a funk lately and this seems to be the answer.

Stamp Sets: Animal Stories, The More the Merrier, Circle Circus

CS: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Mambo Melon, Rich Razzleberry

Ink: Mambo Melon, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Bashful Blue

Accessories: SU Edge Punch, Iridescent Ice EP, Fine Glitter, Dusty Durango Ribbon, SU Corner Punch, Build a brad, Wiggley Eyes

Circle Circus

Stamp Sets: Circle Circus, Teeny Tiny Wishes

CS: Crushed Curry, Mambo Melon, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Razzleberry Lemonade DP

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Mambo Melon, Crush Curry, Versamark Pad

Accessories: Sizzix Top Note, Modern Label Punch, Filigree Brads, Razzleberry Ribbon, Dementionals, Square Punch

More New Stuff - Hostess Set

New Hostess Set

Stamp Set: Wings of Friendship

CS: Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Rich

Razzleberry, Whisper White

Ink: Crushed Curry

Accessories: New In Colour Markers, SU Glitter,

SU Large Brad, Razzleberry Ribbon, Autumn

Harvest Rub-ons, Dementionals, SU Sizzix

Texture Plate & Top Note , Slot Punch

Used markers to colour stamp.

Playing with new stuff

This is the first card I did, just loving the new colours, ribbon and sets.

Stamp Set: Autumn Harvest, Teeny Tiny Wishes

CS: Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry

Ink: Soft Suede, Summer Sun, Dusty Durango,

Crushed Curry

Accessories: White Gel Pen, Dusty Durango

Ribbon, Large SU Brad, Autumn Harvest

Rub-on, 1 1/4 circle punch, Sponges,

Dementionals

Graduation Card for my Niece

Our niece Cassie is having her graduation party this weekend and I thought I would share the card I made for her. My daughter Shannon (age 7) helped, she loves Cassie to death.

CS: Raspberry Tart DP, Textured CS Pink
Pirouette

Accessories: Sizzix Manhattan folder, Vellum
Saying, Jolees, Button, SU Filigree Brad, Cordaroy Brad

Technique: It is called A Tri Shutter Card and I found it on SCS. Thank you so much to Bonnie

Szwalkiewicz for doing the tutorial, you rock.

Memories - tumbled tiles

I did these tiles awhile back. The saying and shells are from old SU sets. I sponged the background with pinks and blues. Coloured with markers and then sealed with matte spray. Tip: Heat set the colours as you go helps to stop colours from bleeding.

Summer Fun

Stamps: Crab & Company
CS: Bashful Blue, Creamy Caramel, Sky Blue and Caribean Blue
Ink: Craft White, Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Glassy Glaze, Cloud Stencil, Sand Paper, Stickers Assorted, Shells, Oval Cutter

Mothers Day Card and Set

Stamps: Live Your Dreams
CS: Regal Rose, Whisper White
Accesories: Markers, Filigree Brads, SU Pink Ribbon, Cuttlebug Embossing Folders, SU Sizzix Machine, Corner Punch, Pretties Kit, SU fine Glitter

Mothers Day Chocolate box

Stamps: Oval All
Ink: Baja Breeze
CS: Pink Pirouette, Raspberry Tart Dp
Accesories: Oval Scalloped Punch, Oval Punch, White Gel Pen, Eyelet Boarder Punch,
Hidden Garden Rub-ons, Small Xyron, Chocolate Nuggets, SU Ribbon

Mothers Day Gift Bag

Stamps: Live your Dream
CS: Delicate dots SAB DP
Accesories: SAB Ribbon, Eyelet Boarder Punch, Markers, Pretties Kit
Used markers to colour stamps and ink pads to colour flower

Buzz Buzz

Stamps: Just Buzzing By
CS: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, Confetti White, Tea Party DP
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze,Black
Accesories: SU Circle Cutter, SAB Ribbon, Vanilla Hardware, SU Punch, Cystal Effects, Markers, Old SU Cloud Stencil
Did direct to paper on pink CS.
forgot to add that the hardware idea came from my friend Katie, she used it on a card she send me. Thanks Katie.

Too Tweet !!

Well it's been awhile but I'm back. This page was a chance to use new stuff. I really love the sizzix machine and I also tried the new chipboard.
Stamp Sets: Inspired by Nature, Sense of Time
Card Stock: Bashful blue, Barely Banana, Tea Party DP
Ink: Old Olive, Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, Kiwi
Kiss
Accessories: SU Chipboard, SU White Ribbon, Sizzix Top-notch Die, SU Boarder Punch,
Markers, SU Fine Glitter, Build-a-brad, Bee stickers, Old SU Cloud
Stencil, Mono Adhesive, Glue Dots
I used markers and the huffing technique for the daisies, Cloud stencil to add soft clouds to background and found that colouring the chipboard with ink pads made it easier to get good glitter cover, if you miss small bits it doesn't show.

Merry Christmas to all our Military and Thankyou!!

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!
"For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.
Sleep without fear as you turn out your lights.
"It's my duty to stand at the front of this line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one has asked or begged or implored me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,
"Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembered."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you some money, prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.