Merry Christmas

Awesome Christmas thanks to my girlfriend nick I got 3 new paper packs and my sis in law got me some great stampin up things. Don't you love Christmas! Now I need to get home and pack so I can get to my new destination and use these wonderful gifts!

Hope everyone had a wonderful safe holiday!

Oh for a white Christmas again!

Teresa

Update

WOW! it has been a long time since I have posted on here. I will be out of pocket until the first of the year. We are moving and will be down until we get internet again! But then I should have more time to post and make things yeah! Can't wait to be with our new family in Hawley, TX. They all seem very nice. I think Paul and I will be a great fit.

Long Time

Wow time sure does fly. This is another board I did to go in our window at work. Well need to get back to cleaning and weekend stuff. Hope you enjoy. Hoping to get to some scrapbook projects I need to get down soon.

Cricut is celebrating 100th cartridte

Help Cricut celebrate our 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! . They are giving away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week).

Here’s how it will work.

Each week they will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page.

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Work to be done.

Wow it is almost the weekend again. Where does the time go????? Well I have lots of other things that need to get done this weekend but I really need to spend some time working on some scrapbook things. I have to albums I am working on for other people and I really need to get busy on them. I mean can you get fired if you are doing them for free????? That would be really embarrassing. Plus I still have some more boxes of Junk (yes I am admitting it is junk) to go through in my craft room. My mom will be here in 2 weeks and I need my room cleaned so that she and I can play:)

Sign for work

who says you can't use your craft room for work as well. I pay a big role in our marketing at the office and so I came up with this idea to set a Menu sign outside the office. Here is a picture of it. It is drawing some attention.....that is what it is all about right?

Have a great Tues. I am running behind:)

Monday:)

I love mondays! I love Mondays! I love Mondays! Ok if I keep saying this maybe I will believe it:) Well here we are back to Monday again...... I didn't get much done in the craft room this weekend. I did get a few boxes emptied out and put away. I hope to get some time this week to get back to it. I still have some scrapbook pages to do for my neice. Maybe this is a good week to try to get the rest of my craft boxes cleaned out and this this weekend I can start working on the scrapbook. Have a great week!

Playing around with new stamp set

I have been wanting to make a card with this new set. I think I am going to like it:)

Have a great week!

Winnie the Pooh Scrapbook page

This started out as one of the pink stampers challenges from last week. Well it has taken awhile to finish it but here is it. This was for the making something you love. I love my nephews and I love Pooh. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do:)

Last week Pink stamper challenge

Ok so over the weekend I got one of the challenges done. Here it is...




This is the school challenge. I decided to make a card for teachers.

I also am almost done with my favorite things challenge. I can't wait to show it off. I just need to obtain some very special pictures and then I will be posting it here.

Craft room tour

Getting caught up on Callenges

Ok so today I have 3 challenges to get caught up on from the pink stamper blog this week. First I need to create something with school. I think I will try to make a card for Paul's parents with a school theme since they are both retired teachers. Then I will make a card with my favorite stamp set since the next challenge is somthing you love. I am not sure yet what I am going to do with something new. I am turn between water fall card and neverending card. Who knows maybe I will do both! Have a great day.

Teresa

Weekend

Well I just read my post from last Monday. Needless to say things did not go at all as planned. So this weekend I am hoping to get my house put somewhat back together again. I also am hoping to spend Sat morning in my scrap booking room. I need to finish moving in to it and get everything set up so that it is very functional. My mom is coming in September and I think it would be fun to spend a day making things with her. I would also like to get caught up on the challenges from the pink stamper if I have the time. I still have to do the School challenge and favorite things challenge and then whatever the challenge is for today:_

Have a great Weekend everybody!

Teresa

Here They are Cards I made over the weekend!

ok there are not many but here are the cards that I made over the weekend. Of course I made multiple copies of each one. It was a lot of fun and I am glad to be getting back into the mode again.

The Pink Stamper challenge!!!!

This is my take on The Pink Stamper's challenge today. We are suppose to use a product that we had to have when we started scrap booking and card making. When I started I had to have the embossing boards and the stencil tools to make cards. I used the embossing board party and the I used celebration to make the Stars around birthday. I now remember after lots of hard work why I really need to get a cuddle bug to do this for me! This was hard work what was I thinking???

Hope you enjoy:)

Weekend stampin

Well didn't get as much done this weekend as I had hoped but I got a few new cards done. Got to try the new Big Shot from Stampin up. Not sure that I liked it. I really like my Cricut and really want to get the Cuttlebug just to do the embossing. Anyone have any opinions on this?? Hopefully I will get the cards posted this week sometime. This is going to be as very busy week. Will be working on house every night to hopefully finally get everything in its place. Also hope to get my craft room put away and the rest of my stamps unmounted. DOES the WORK ever end??????

reaching goal

I have almost reached my goal of unmounting all my stamps. I have about 15 sets left to go. I have unmounted a total of 50 sets as of last night. I don't think I will have time to finish before my trip this weekend. 2 full days of card making. yeah!!!!!! Hopefully I will have some really cool fall things to show after my trip.

Sunday

Well its Sunday and that means back to work tomorrow. I wish my job was stamping all the time. There are truly not enough hours in the day. I have gotten 40 stamp sets unmounted. This is by far taking me longer than I thought. I still have 15 or 20 more to go. Not sure. I think I am going to like it.
Leaving Thurs for Dallas to stamp with my sister in law for a couple of days. Hopefully by the weekend I will have some new projects to display.

Have a great week.

Well this is the Thank you card I came up with for My hubby to send out to all those who helped him at camp. I got the Compass from My going placed Cricut cartridge. I chose this because they used the theme this year east to west. The T-shirts that they got had a compass on it so this card seemed fitting. So far I have made about 20. Will need to make a few more before the weekend is over.

Making cards

Going to take a break from unmounting my stamps to making some some cards tonight:) hope to be able to post some one my site soon.

CARD MAKING EVENING HERE I COME!!!!!!

Early rise

Up early today. Was going to go in to work in the stamping room but turned on the computer. Boy how time fly's All is not lost though I think I will head out for Office Depot. They open at 8:00 so maybe I will make it to work on time if I get there when they open. I am going to get some empty cds so I can work some more on unmounting my stamps:)

my personal challenge for this week.

Ok my goal for this week is to make thank you cards for Paul to send out to all the wonderful helpers he had at camp last week. I am also going to work on unmounting some more stamp sets. Am I the only one out there that finds this very time consuming?????

un mounting my stamps

Well My ez-mount sheets came in yest. I started out with 10 81/2X11 sheets. I also got a set of 5 acrylic blocks. I am quickly realizing this set is missing the size I would probably want to use the most so next time I order I will probably get this additional one. I ordered my stuff from www.ezmountstamps.com they offer free shipping for orders over $35 in the United States. Their prices seemed reasonable as well. So far I have unmounted 6 stampin up stamp sets. I think I will get one more set out of my first sheet of ezmount. These are working very well will the blocks that I got. I am also making a log on a spread sheet as I go. I have included a number for each set. The set tittle, a discription: animal, text, food ect, a more detail discription and then a column for what the text says, also the stamp set year and if it is expired. I figured if I didn't do it now I would not get it done:)

Don't know if I will get to be in the craft room today. Paul is coming home and it is his birthday. Working on homemade duplings the old fashion way. A great receipe I got from an older couple I know. Paul says it reminds him of his grandmothers. If anyone is interested e-mail me and I will send you the recipe.

Have a great weekend and remember once I have some people following my blog I am going to do a huge challenge........Even I don't know if it is possible.

a day off

Well I have today off:) YEAH!!!!!! I was hoping my ez-mount system would be here today so that I can start unmounting my stamps. I hope it comes in the mail today. I ordered them on the 4th of July. Apparently there were some supply issues from the place I ordered. OH well it is not a life or death purchase. I guess since Paul is coming home tomorrow I could always get up and clean. Once I get some people looking at my blog I am going to have a crazy challenge coming up.....Seriously it is going to be insane. I'm sure it has been done before but I wander how many people really try it....... Soon to come the big time stamper want to be first challenge. I am not posting it yet because I am not sure if I am up to it.

I was at Hobby Lobby yest and got some more ribbon. Thank you to the Pink Stamper for inspiring me to use Ribbon on my cards. It really does give them a finished look. I am not a big bow person and really love the just having the ribbon. I looked at the stamps because they were 50% off and was not inspired by any of them. I guess I am going to start shopping on line for stamps. I really like the 2 part stamping sets.

Well I better get back to it. I am going through all my stamps to make sure all my sets are together and have the tittle with them. I think as I unmount the stamps and get them set up in CD cases I am going to number each set and set up a spread sheet with this information on them. That way if I want to sort out the sayings I can quickly look through all the sayings I have and then get it from the numbered set. I didn't realize all the different saying I had until I started going through them. I am also finding that I am missing some stamps. Hopefully they will show up as I am cleaning everything out.

Have a great day:)

Why I stamp

Well this is my first post on my blog. I work full time and have no children. I have a dog. Of course it is my husbands dog but I guess that counts. My husband is currently a youth minister so we stay very busy with the kids. I have recently set up a craft room in my house and am very excited to get to use it.

I like to make cards and scrapbook. My niece who has been with us for the last 7 weeks has actually used my craft room more than I have. She is now gone and the room is allllllll mine. I hope to have a video of my room in the next couple of weeks. I also hope to post some pictures of some cards that I made and sent to the kids at camp this week. One of the benefits of working I couldn't go to camp in South East, TX (NO AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!) Who are they kidding.

I am currently working on 2 scrapbooks. One for my in-laws and one for another niece. Most of my scrap booking and card making Projects end up as gifts. But I really like to stamp to get away from it all and to do something nice for someone else. I know I love getting homemade cards in the mail.

I have ordered the ez-mount system to try to convert some of my stamps. I will post on here how that works and if I like it that way. Everyone says that storing Stamps in CD cases is the way to go. I purchased some CD cases and when I took them apart I can not get them to stay together again. I got them at Target but don't know the brand so I will be posting more on this issue as well. I am guessing like everything else there are good quality CD cases and not so good. I hope I bought the not so good and there is still hope out there:)