Baby in da Belly! (no not me ;) )

So finally after much lamenting it seems my stamping mojo is making a slow comeback! I have stamped more in this last week than I have in 3 months I am sure! Kev's work friend from a million years and two workplaces ago is finally pregnant!! :) I am really happy for her cuz I know she really wanted a bambino! SO I decided to make her a congrats card. I started with this wonderful DS paper from SU's Ginger Blossom and Ruby Red and Groovy Guava Cardstock and of course Teddybella. Now this is not a Bella I even own yet, but I just LOVE how you can pop out the belly so she looks preggers!! I think pregnant women are so beautiful, even pretend ones! And I love ribbon, any ribbon and this Guava ribbon is beautiful!! This is one of those cards I love so much I don't want to give it away!! I have made a couple of other fabu cards but they will have to wait. I am mailing them to some girlahs that I love that do frequent both my gallery and my blog but I will tell you this, one is a valentine so I'll post it on the 14th and the other is a Canadianabella! LOL!! Dying yet?? I know I would be! TTYL!! Mwah to my girlahs!

I'm back -FINALLY!

Well, I didn't think I would ever get back to stamping or my blog. But I am HERE!! I briefly picked up a few stamps last Friday at Jenn's and managed to make a few cards and then I even managed to squeeze out a few minutes tonight. Things have been interesting around here to say the least, and I am hoping that it will settle back down to the status quo very soon. Anyway, this card I made for one of my PSFs, (Pretend Stamping Friend) a term that was coined by a special little girl for a special group of women. I knew as I was working on it exactly who the card was going to be for as it developed. Funny enough, I posted it in my SCS gallery for the Virtual Stamp Night Challenges and she saw it already! LOL!! But she doesn't know that it is on it's way to her and that it was made especially for her.

Hey Girlahs!!

So I have been neglecting my stamping. Worse yet I have been neglecting my Girlahs!! My training is going really fab but most days it is 9-7pm and I come home burnt out and after seeing the kids a little and Kevin a little, I head to bed. Also my Granny is in the hospital, long story that ends with surgery and her doing much better. But WOW have I been busy with trying to visit her every day after work. This is the Christmas card I designed for this year. When I am gonna find time to make 50 of them I dunno! LOL!! I'll try to post more soon. Miss you all!! Counting the days till January.............

MWAH!! (kisses)

Stamp Club

Once upon a time long before SU came to Winnipeg a group of stamping diehards found each other and began stamping together once a month. They are called Just Stampers. I joined about 5 years ago. Last night was the first stamp night of the 2007-2008 season and it was at my house. After a long week of grooming training I sure appreciated kicking back and stamping with some very talented stampers. We do a card exchange and some kind of technique or challenge. Since I was hosting I picked a fall card theme, either colors or stamps and a card sketch challenge. Susan suggested one sketch and the other I found on Lauren's (Mytime's) blog. I used my umbrella stamp set for the exchange and ended up not following the sketch too well for Lauren's and ended up with a pretty decent card for Susan's. Above is my fall card and below is Susan's sketch.

TGIF!!

I have had this lunch pail for at least a year. It sat patiently on my things to do shelf for all this time. Finally, I sat down and made myself this tin. I still need to modgepodge it but that requires digging out by craft bins from the depths of storage an I can't quite make myself do it yet! LOL!! You really can't go wrong with the Cutie Pie paper and Pomegranate tho! :) I LOVE ribbon so this Celery stuff is fabu!! Now I have a pretty tin to hold all my cards. But I am trying not to be a card hoarder and send more random cards to my friends! I am also hoping to finish cleaning my stamp room this morning, I got a lot accomplished last week end and my tables reflect it! LOL!! I also need to pack up cuz it's FRIDAY NIGHT -so stamping at Jenn's! I think I am going to tackle a few challenges. It has been awhile since I have done some! The best part of all?? My Favorite Things Shower Time set JUST arrived!! Wahoo!! I have been dying to ink up this set! The first card I make tonight will be with this set for sure! I just love umbrellas -go figure.

I made the Leaf Pile!!

So I get up this morning and I am having a dragging-your-butt-how-am-I-ever-gonna-get-6- kids-to-school-on-time?? kind of morning. I always peek quickly at my email before doing much of anything. More comments on my SCS gallery -YAY!! So I go and read the comment and it is a congrats on winning?? Well wouldn't ya know, but my wiper card was nominated for the Leaf Pile for the Sept VSN. I had big plans of my participation in VSN this month and had been looking forward to it since May, but with all the other projects that had been screaming to get out of my head and working on Sat, I just didn't get to participate other than this one pre-challenge. So anyway I am really excited about that. I need someone to pay me to stamp and blog all day long I think............ :)

SO not only are my gaggle of children back to school, but so am I. This past January I thought I would try something new and did a short apprenticeship to be a Pet Groomer. I thought I was doing it for fun like most of my ADD half-projects that I never finish, but low and behold I loved it. But you see being a pet store groomer just doesn't cut it for me....If I love something I have to be one of the best at something. Back to school I go!! SO now I am studying (if you can call it that) to learn fancy cuts and show cuts and stuff. I'm loving it but it is long days and it seems as tho I'll never be done (in reality hopefully I'll be done by Christmas). In addition to ADD I have a real issue with delayed gratification. This was my first week and I went Mon-Wed. Next week I'll go Mon-Fri. I like the flexibility of working at the shop, I can work as many or as few days as I want. This going everyday stuff sucks!! LOL!!

I made these this past weekend........
It's a cardstock purse and 9 matching cards done with one 12x12 designer sheet of paper. I am making them for all the kid's girl teachers for Christmas. (any boy teacher ideas out there??) I got the original template here. I love the Au Chocolate paper by SU but you can't get it wanted something a bit more mature that the usual invite so I used my quick notebook cover to anymore. Jenn says the Charbon is supposed to be nice and make cute purses. I think I am gonna try a Cutie Pie one next as soon as I get my new order of Pomegranate and DS paper. I can't bear to use all of what I have!!

I also threw together an invite for Bailey's birthday, he's gonna be 11. Boy does that ever freak me out!! I can't believe it was 11 years ago that that red-haired terror ;) entered my world!! He's thrilled with the results. When I made the notebook cover I colored it perfectly, but I realized that a less perfect coloring job is EXACTLY what a stamp like this needs! I love it!! Kevin even commented on liking the way I colored it and for him -that means something!!