Meet my new friends......

Wow.. Do I have a stamp'in hangover. Saturday was quite the day. Last evening I sat on the sofa wanting so much to go upstairs and clean my stamp room... Only to have my legs and feet tell me that if I did.. they would divorce me. And since I really need them... I choose to go lie on the bed and watch tv. Today.. is a whole new day...

Allow me to introduce you to my new stamping friends. Every single person I met on Saturday was wonderful. I apologize if I leave anyone out there's a few of you whom I hope pictures will surface of and I can add you later...

Allow me to introduce you to my new friend.. Teresa (white top) .. and Linda (green top).. Teresa was my driving buddy.. She is the sweetest thing. Thank you Teresa for taking me all the way to Syracuse... After the gathering we went and had dinner at Chili's and then we had to make a stop at Michael's for a little Martha Stewart fix.. Now the ? is ... when is Martha coming out with her holiday line.. ????

This is Nancy (in the brown), Linda again and my new friend Michelle... aka flaxychick.. Please go check out her blog here. I have to say that when I saw that Michelle was at my table is was star struck.. And then as luck would have it.. We sat right next to each other. So we chit chatted a bit. She is the sweetest and most talented thing you'd ever like to meet. She made me feel so welcome. She even turned me onto My Favorite Things stamps. I've never used them.. But OH ... How fun are these???? Kim is very fortunate to have Michelle as part of her design team.

Here's a group of stampers working hard...

And last but certainly not least.. Linda is on the right. She coordinated this whole extravaganza. Without her hard work, the October gathering would not have been such a success... Thank you Linda. And I can't forget Nancy in the middle. Nancy sat on the other side of me and was sooooo nice. Everyone made us newbies feel right at home.. I'm looking forward to February in Elmira :)

Bella's For Sale

Note.. These have been sold. Thank you for your interest... :)

Hey there everyone.. I have the following Bella's for sale that I would like to sell as a set..

the martini glass
blingbella
cakebella
cosmobella
jammybella
flowahbella
frizzybella and
walkabella

They retail for $40 + shipping from Canada.
I would happily sell them all for $35 which includes shipping to the US..
If your outside the US we can work out the shipping details.
Please email me if your interested. Thanks so much

Toto... Were not in Kansas anymore

But we were in SYRACUSE for the SCS (SplitCoast Stampers) CNY (Central NY) get together!!!! and boy what a day we had. It was fun (and sometimes a little over whelming to say the least)... Over the next few days I'll be sharing lot of pictures and new friends with you. I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I did.. Tonight I'm super exhausted.. It's been a long week so let me show you the display boards.... Enjoy..

My Papertreyink stamps have FINALLY arrived

Ok so it took a month.. but that's only because I had to have those nugget tins that were out of stock for what seemed like forever.. These were going to be my WCMD projects but that's a whole nother story I'm saving for sitting around the bomb fire when I'm 75 telling ... Do you remember when stories... Do you remember back in 2007 that WCMD well... let me tell you.....

Tonight I started to feel a little better (that usually means that tomorrow I'll feel worse because today I did too much and should have just rested.. but what the hey.. ) and these darn stamps kept calling my name.. Lisa ........ Lisa........ Hey are you down there.....(there's a really good possibility that I have a fever with my tooth so I could just be delusional... may be my stamps weren't really talking to me... but that's neither here nor there).. So you I went to stamp anyway... Here's my first attempts at Take a Bough.. Next time ... the tree will have SNOW... I need to get to Mike's this weekend and stock up on the MS twill ribbon.. I need green, white, ivory...

My Green tree uses....
Stamp Set... Take a Bough (Papertreyink)
Card Stock... True Thyme, Very Vanilla & Cosmo Cricket "Believe" DS paper...
Ink... Close to Cocoa, True Thyme, Ruby Red & Going Grey...
Accessories... Moss taffeta ribbon, page pebbles, Antique Brass large eyelets
Tools... Crop-a-dile

And now my Blue Tree...
Stamp Set... Take a Bough (Papertreyink)
Card Stock.. Blue Bayou, Very Vanilla & Daisy D's Heirloom Blue Blossoms DS paper
Ink... Close to Cocoa, True Thyme, Blue Bayou, Ruby Red & Going Grey
Accessories.. Blue Bayou Double Stitched Ribbon, Page Pebbles & Pewter large eyelets Tools.. Crop-a-dile..

One of the many things I love about Nicole's stamps are how easy they all coordinate. The pine boughs line up perfectly with the tree branch, the centers of the ornaments fit perfectly.. and being clear, they are soooooo easy to align.

Happy Wednesday

HEEEELLLLLLLLOOOOO.. Oh what a week. I must say.. I haven't been feeling all that well and yesterday all I wanted to do was sleep.. I did though manage to work all day, had my dr. call me in a new antibiotic and then lie on the sofa for the rest of the evening.. Even though I could hear my stamps calling my name.. I had to shut the door at the bottom of the stairs to my stampin room.. I couldn't take their taunting any longer... Tonight if their good I may get up there and play with them a bit..

As I promised here's my card using a 'primitive stocking' I promised last week. For some strange on reason not only was this card blurry when I tried to take a picture of it but scanning it wasn't much better..

MOM.... where is that new camera I've been begging you for??????

Here's what I used....

Card stock... Mellow Moss, Ruby Red, Very Vanilla... CosmoCricket Designer paper

Ink... Digi image printed w/ laser printer

Markers.. Bravo Burgundy, Grey (copic), Brown (copic), Mellow Moss, Blush, Bush green (copic)

Accessories... Silver & Red stickles, Vanilla wide organdy ribbon

Die cut... Spellbinders (enlarge the image they are also embossed)..

Congratulations Melissa S

We have a blog candy winner... Comment # 19...

Congratulations Melissa S...

Melissa said..

"My RAK for the Dunns is on my blog, whatdoyouink.blogspot.comhttp://whatdoyouink.blogspot.com/2007/10/rak-for-cause.html Thanks for adding to the candy!
Wed Oct 10, 10:31:00 AM"..

Melissa.. I have emailed you for your mailing address.. :)

Thank you to everyone who sent cards and well wishes to the Dunn family. I hope Andrea is able to fill at least 2 boxes with cards for the Dunn's...

Keeping Isabelle, Madeline, Mom Alissa, Dad Michael and big brother Isaiah in my prayers..

Count our Blessings.. a little blog candy for a cause

NOTE>>> I will be keeping this post on top until the 15th so please scroll down for new posts..

ps.. I've updated my blog candy so please take a look... :)

As I sit here with tears in my eyes and a heavy heart I can not help but to pray for the Dunn family (Michael, Alissa, Isaiah and 3 mo. old twins Isabelle Grace and Madeline Ora). Isabelle and Madeline are both undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Children's Hospital in Detroit Michigan for stage 4 Neuroblastoma. Please check out their story on both Andrea's blog here as well as the Dunn family personal blog (here you can see pictures of the entire family)

As my heart weeps for these 2 precious little girls and the brave battle the entire family is fighting I wish there was more I could do for this family. But some times praying is the most any of us can do. Today I will be sending my wishes, thoughts and prayers to Michael & Alissa and I hope you all do the same.

Andrea is offering a little Blog Candy for a cause and I would like to do the same. Please send a RAK to Andrea for the Dunn family. When you do, please post a link to your card HERE on this post (or) if it's posted on SCS please indicate that as well with your SCS name. Please feel free to send more than 1 card as each card you send will earn you a chance to win my blog candy. EDIT... I ventured off to Michael's this weekend and picked up a little candy.. I'm offering up 2 spools of Martha Stewart (MS) twill ribbon (1 putty & 1 chocolate), a jar of MS white glitter (I think this will be awesome for holiday cards.. can anyone say snow) and 2 stamps.. 1 says 'thanks' (many times) and the other says thinking of you today.. I thought they were appropriate..

Please mail all entries to Andrea by Monday October 15th... Her address is..

Andrea Vernagus

Blog Candy for a Cause

2797 Warwick Dr.

Bloomfield, MI 48304

Here's my card.. (don't forget to click on it to enlarge it!!!)

Card Stock... Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla

Stamps.. CTMH, Fall Frolic

Ink.. Close to Cocoa, Buckaroo Blue, Walnut Tim Holtz stain

Accessories.. wide SUP grosgrain ribbon, antique button, hemp twine

Technique.. Sponging/ distressing, paper punch

God Bless the Dunn family !!!

Happy Friday

Helllllllllloooooooooo.... I hope you all had a wonderful week and it's even better now that it's FRIDAY !!! YIPEE... anyone have fun plans for the weekend? Here in the great NE Mr. Weatherman is predicting Rain Rain Rain.. So I hope that means a little stamping, maybe I'll make some soup and Oh don't forget working on Sunday towards my mandatory OT for next week (that one's a YACK !!!)

I've been trying to post an adorable card (at least I think so) all week but my camera is acting up. It really works best when there's direct sunlight and well, since it's been gloomy and doomy most of this week that hasn't worked so well.. I'm hoping to get a new camera for Christmas.

Next Saturday is the big day I've been looking forward to in E. Syracuse. It's the CNY SCS get together. We need a name badge and if we'd like we can donate a gift for the gift swap. Here's what I made.

My name tag uses...
Card Stock.. Only Orange, Pixie Pink, Green Galore
Ink.. None but I did use my Wal-mart rub-ons
Stickers.. These too are from Wal-mart
Accessories.. clear luggage tag, misc ribbons
the dots were made with misc. SUP circle punches that I then ran through my xyron machine.

Even though I'm not at the 'creepy table' (inside joke... my CNY friends know exactly what I'm talking about.. ) I tried to be creepy none~the~ less..

Now for my give away.. I actually made a couple of these as gifts. I found these 'candy corn' scented mason jar candles at Jo-Anns last week and I thought they would be perfect.

Stamps.. Haunting Halloween, Boogie Eyes & Tags so much ~ All are SUP..
Card Stock... pumpkin pie, very vanilla, (last years) SUP designer series paper
Ink... Black Stazon, Copic markers in.. olive green, brown, blush, purple, yellow, grey & orange
Accessories.. Black grosgrain ribbon & orange/ cream may arts ribbon, Martha Stewart 'putty' twill ribbon, black twine
Punches... Nestabilities Rectangle scalloped, Mega groovy circle scalloped & my SUP large and small tag punches
Everything was adhered with this awesome sticky tape I purchased from Taylored Expressions a while back.

I hope whom ever wins this will enjoy it. I know I had a lot of fun putting it together.

Here's hoping you all have a fun, dry weekend filled with lots of stamping..

PS.. Theresa.. GET off the computer and GET STAMPING !!! Your running out of swap time..

OMGosh.. This was sooo easy

And soooooooooooo much fun. Please scoot on over to Kristina's blog.. Don't let her know but I've been stalking her from afar. Her work is unbelievable and she has so much talent.. Please check out her tutorial for "Folding Origami Boxes".. Wow.. I watched it twice.. took a few notes and headed up to my stamp room. What do you think for my first go round at it. This whole box took less than 10 minutes. Can you imagine a bunch of these on a tiered plate display for the holidays with little gifts in them. I'm personally thinking homemade chocolate truffles (That is if I have time...LOL)... SHHH would these make good gifts for my table mates for the CNY get together on the 20th???? SHHHH .. I can't make any promises..

Here's what I used...
Card Stock.. Daisy D's red floral paisley for the top, Cosmo Cricket for the Bottom, Mellow Moss
Accessories.. Wide Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon, stapler

Guest Designer... :)

Happy Sunday everyone.... I hope you all enjoyed your WCMD. Me .. thanks for asking.. not so much, but that's for another time.. another place.. :)

This week I have a guest designer for you all whom I think your gonna L-O-V-E... LOVE...

Alex Maldonado

Please go check out her SCS gallery ... She also has an awesome blog Fairy Blossoms & Life by design and she even has a little store Fairy Blossom Designs. This is one busy woman who does phenominal work with prisma pencils and gamasol. Me .. nope haven't mastered that technique yet but Alex has promised to teach me.. She has no clue what she's gotten herself into.. LOL So please, go check out her work. I'm sure you'll be inspired and let her know I sent you.. :)

A few Halloween gifts to mail

This is a busy mail week.. I need to get my Secret Halloweeney swaps out in the mail and we were just given the names of our new little sisters on SCS for round 9... I want to put a little some'tin some'tin in the mail for her and her twin 7 year old daughters as well.. Here's what I came up with..

The secret Halloweeney swap I hosted on SCS required that you send your Secret Partner a gift valued at $15 minimum.. So my partner is getting ...

~ A purple spring spider (he's very cute.. I picked him up in Purple, Orange and Green for myself and they are hanging on my enclosed front porch)..

~ A Halloween 25710 box filled with dove chocolates..

~ A Halloween post-it note holder (see close up

below)

~ A Halloween card

~ A Halloween towel

~ SUP Chocolate Satin Ribbon

~ A Halloween clipboard advent calendar and,

~ Fall chipboard all tucked neatly into a Lang Halloween Box..

Now for my secret little sis.. This round I signed up to send her a small gift each month.. This month.. HALLOWEENEY... So she's getting the 2nd advent calendar and a post-it note holder.. She has twin 7 year old girls so I hope they like the calendar..

Sorry this picture is a little blurry. I thought I saved the clear one ... but I guess not.. WHOOPS... See.. I told you my digy camera stinks like a snunk in garbage.. This is on the top of my christmas list.. Now if only my mother read my blog... LOL

My Halloween colored post-it notes were 4x4 so I used...

Card stock.. Black, Whisper White & Pumpkin Pie

Stamps.. Not quite sure about the witch.. but I do know it's retired and I do know it's SUP.. The pot and frog is Haunting Halloween

Ink... Black Stazon

Makers.. Green Galore, Magenta, Orange, Brown & Grey

Accessories.. Misc grosgrain ribbon, stickles, large glue popup dot, misc Halloween chipboard (Wal-mart), Velcro dots & 4x4 post-it-notes

Punches.. Large slot punch, Rectangle nestabilities

Got to run.... Check back tomorrow for an adorable card..

How do you make a 'snowmouse'

I've tried my hand at building a 'snowmouse'. The leaves have barely started to fall here and I'm already playing in the snow. I hope this isn't a sign of what our winter is going to be like here in the great NE... :)

This is my shoebox swap for the CNY get together. I have to bring 4 completed samples and enough supplies for 12 swappers..

For this little fella I used...

Stamps.. Building a Snowmouse (Housemouse), Snowfall

Card Stock.. Mellow Moss, Cranberry Crisp and Very Vanilla

Ink... black stazon

Markers.. Close to Cocoa, Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom, Sahara Sand, Boroque Burgundy, Mellow Moss, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Going Grey

Accessories.. Artichoke Grosgrain Ribbon, Stickles, Small Slot Punch

I've been working very hard to get my Happy Halloweeney Swap ready for my partner and I've got a cute little gift for my new SCS little sister. Be watching tomorrow for a few spooky treats..

Can you believe I'm over 10K hits already????? Is anyone starting to get a 'sweet tooth'????? HMMM... What could it be?

Some times I'm soooo blonde..

I swear. Some times I don't know why I do the things I do.. I've previously mentioned the CNY SCS I'm attending on the 20th.. (Ohhhh I can't wait).. Well, one of the things I signed up for was swaps.... It may do me good sometimes to READ before I start stamping.... Let's just say I headed up stairs this weekend bound and determined for finish my swaps.. Here I go, batton down the hatches I'm in for the long haul. I made 40 of these bad boys.. 1 for each person attending the get together. How many did I actually need? Ugh.... 22.... So I made about 18 .. extra.. HAHAHA... I always like to be at the head of the class... LOL

Here's the recipe... I hope you like it. The get together is on the 20th so I tried to pick a fall theme. And since I just received my latest package from EclecticPapire what could be better than using a brand new stamp set..

Stamps.. Fall Frolic (Paper Salon Clear Tailored Tin) , Green Thumb (Papertreyink), Canvas

Card Stock... So Saffron, Cranberry Crisp, Very Vanilla

Ink.. So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Pumpkin Pie, Cranberry Crisp, Timberland Brown Stazon, Tim Holtz walnut stain

Accessories.. Brass eyelets, Crop-a-dile

Here's a little something for a giggle....

This is what 40 swaps look like...

Here's Carter guarding my swaps for saftey... LOL (swaps are stacked on the wicker coffee table)... Do you wonder what he's thinking... Reach for the swaps. I DARE YA !!!

Say Cheese

Hello everyone. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Mine was just that.. Wonderful all wrapped up in a little box.. I spent my weekend working on my shoebox swaps and my regular swaps for the upcoming Central NY SCS get together. Theresa and I are venturing out to Syracuse on the 20th and well.. You know me, I want to be prepared. Stay tuned for pics of what I finished.

Today when I was taking pictures of my swaps Cater came out and decided to sit next to me on the porch. How could I resist not taking a few snap shots of him. I told him to 'say cheese' and well, this is what I got. How adorable is he????
Well, I'm off. DH is cooking tonight so let's see where he's taking me. TTYL

Look at me...

and then there's this one.. How cool is this???

Check out this link if you'd like to give it a try..

PS.. Thanks Theresa