Paper, Paper and MORE Paper!!

Yesterday we were in Wenatchee......I had my FINAL! WOOHOO! That would mean that I am on BREAK until the 17th of Sept!! Did I say WOOHOO??!!!!!

We had to make the ever dreaded COSTCO run.....BUT! LOOK what I found!

Paper, paper and MORE paper! Just what I, really DIDN'T need, BUT OH! SOOOOO wanted! It's called My Mind's Eye and it's Two 180 page books of paper. Three each of 60 unique Magnolia designs and 3 each of 60 unique Wild Asparagus designs. I think I LOVE about ALL of the Magnolia papers......

Here are a few pictures of SOME of my favorites:

Oh! And the BEST part! ALL of this paper for just $9.99! Did you know that comes out to about $.03/sheet!!

I couldn't WAIT to get up this morning and play with them. I ONLY had time for ONE card as I had a few things to get done today.........One being a MUCH needed haircut. I'll try to post a pic of that later. Noone here really likes it....but more on that later on..............

Anyways- Here's the card I made before my little man woke from his slumber........

I went to Beate's blog this am. She has the CUTEST card Christmas card there. I kindasorta used the same type idea but not really....It was my intention.....it just didn't work that way.

I used some of my new papers and Cocoa (CTMH). My Dad has been on my mind today, ALL day, so I made this card up for him. I liked that there were some really nice masculine papers in those books.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to play some more tonight--who knows. I'm thinking I am going to have a BETTER chance of playing when the kids go back to school and Joe goes back to work--BOTH next week!!! Cleaning and playing that's what I'll be doing!!

Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday!

Before I head off to bed.....

...I figured I'd post these last 3 cards......

After I posted the other photos I pulled out some reinkers that I've never opened either--some Adirondak inks--and started playing. I've been wanting to try the polished stone and just never took the time. SO play I did!! If you've never done it...DO!! It's addicting though-at least it was for me. I wanted to see all the different creations I could come up with. After a while I pulled out my CTMH re-inkers too. FUN, FUN, FUN!! Samuel came in, shortly after I'd finished, and HE wanted to 'play' too. Somehow I managed to talk him into tomorrow. -I'd already put everything away!! I also played around with spritzing the glossy paper and then dropping ink from the reinkers on. THAT was FUN too!!! SO, now I have all these colored papers waiting for images to be stamped on them!



I DID make up a few cards though. I used a sketch idea from Beate's blog ( http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/).
If you've never made it over to HER site-GO! As quickly as you can. She is AMAZING! I just LOVE her artwork (and sketch ideas)!! She's a very talented lady that's for sure!







I really shouldn't have taken this picture so head on as the sparklies caused it to glare a bit too much but you get the idea.
AND, I think if I'd realized it before I'd already stuck it all down, I would have used a different ribbon under the pink one. It brought out the yellow in the other butterfly but this butterfly was done with different colors-no yellow! Oh well.....too late now!

I just LOVE this layout.

FINALLY!

I have to thank Aura and Kris for inspiring me!! I got together with them yesterday after our test. Aura was helping Kris to put together, what turned out to be, THE SWEETEST poem/picture/collage for Kris' daughter--she's getting married in Sept. The poem was SOOO sweet and Aura is AMAZING! It turned out BEAUTIFUL! Anyways! It turned out we HAD (heehee) to go to the Craft Warehouse to pick up a few things for Kris' project-ahem...and a few little things for me too!!!! But, I'll get to that later.......................
All that playing REALLY got me into the mood so guess where I've been most of the day so far? Yeppers! In my, as Joe likes to call it, 'Scrap-n-Crap' room!
First I had to come in this morning to clean off the tables. UGH! I had school stuff, papers, stamps, tools, etc, etc...from the LAST time I tried to play scattered all over the tables.

I got MOST of it picked up and put away and then decided to PLAY!! I started using a retired, Stampin' Up set called Simply Circles.

I TOTALLY lifted this card from splitcoaststampers:

I wasn't AS pleased with mine as I was with the one I saw there--and my apologizes......darned if I can find who originally did this one! I went back and looked and looked and can't find it. It's there SOMEWHERE.

I used CTMH paper and stamps: Chocolate, Cocoa and Crystal Blue.

Using the same stamp set I did these up:

Again, I used CTMH papers and ink--
Colors and Ink= Watermelon, Orange and of

course Black. I just LOVE these colors together.

Something on the splitcoaststampers site inspired

me to do one of the resist techniques where you

first stamp with the versamark and then with a

cottonball rub chalk over the card. I love this

technique. It's just FUN!

This was one of the first cards I did. I wasn't real happy with how the small circles stamped out on the watermelon but oh well. I wasn't SUPER crazy about this one. It needed something.........

SO-After I took THIS picture, I added some ribbon............

Waddayathink?? Better??

I thought so.

I like it MUCH better with the little bit of white, organdy ribbon-CTMH of course! :)

This is a card I actually DID make last weekend. It was a QUICKIE and I didn't have a chance to post it. I DO like how it turned out. It's a SU set-Watercolor Garden. I LOVE it. -I say that about MOST of my sets don't I?! --Well, I guess that's a GOOD thing! I random stamped a piece of white cardstock using Cranberry and I THINK it was buttercup and Garden Green (CTMH ink and cardstock). All I did for the tag was cut out a flower from the random stamped page and used my tag maker thingy (Making Memories) to MAKE it into a tag. It is SO simple but I love it! I feel like it COULD use something in the bottom right hand corner but I can't think of what and then I'm afraid it would be too much. Suggestions are welcome.

So these are a few of the stamps I picked up yesterday-one of those 'few little things for me'.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE 'em but I'm not quite so sure what I'm going to do with them SO--PLEASE---if you have ANY suggestions.....PLEASE DO share in the comments section--OR you could email me.

Aura actually reminded me of the Twinkling H2O's I have. I think I bought them 2 years ago or so......anyways, don't you know I'd NEVER even opened the package!! SO, this am I broke 'em out and started playing with them but I wasn't really all that excited about them so my guess is I'm using them wrong! Any suggestions or ideas for those would be greatly appreciated too!!

Well, I guess that's all for now. I'm going to hope to 'play' for a while longer. Keep checking back to see what else I come up with.

I have OODLES of pictures to scrap also. While I was gone this week our pictures from the lake came in so I'm going to HOPE to get some of them done too! We'll see.

Until next time........

Happy scrappin' and stampin'!

FUN at the Lake!!!

We went to the lake yesterday (Lake Osooyos)with our friends-Tony and Katrina and their kidlets Luke and Tori. Nikki didn't go as she had a previous lake day engagement with some friends (her loss!! JK-I know she had a good time too--just NOT as good a time as US! teeheehee!)-- so it was just me, Joe and Samuel. We had SUCH a good time!! We had FUN but even more so just really enjoyed spending the day with good friends!! :) We've all been SO busy and haven't really had any time to spend together.

Poor Tori stepped on a bee and was stung (OUCH!) before we went out on the boat. Poor thing.
Joe and Luke were QUITE the clowns out on the tube.

Like Katrina said, "They look like they're playing twister out there." And they did. Little dare devils jumping around, kneeling, posing and being crazy!! :)

Go'in for a little dip to cool off!!

Just LOOK at those purty tootsies!!>

And what a pretty color too!! :)

And of course.......here's my little man!

Nikki told me how she liked this picture of Samuel so I just HAD to include it. It was SO nice to hear Nikki actually compliment a picture of HER BROTHER. They fight like cats and dogs most of the time anymore so it really was heart warming to hear her make such a nice comment.

So guess what??? You guessed it! NO creating for me yet AGAIN this weekend! I forfeited my creating time for a WONDERFUL day FULL of fun at the Lake with AWESOME friends. It was worth it! The added bonus?? I now have MORE pictures-errr, I mean memories to scrapbook!

Next weekend is MINE!!!!

PS

I forgot to mention....
My mom called right after I got home tonight. She was going through her new catty and it turns out she found Samuel on YET ANOTHER page!!! Page 81 bottom left hand corner!!

Look at my Baby......

If this isn't just one of the cutest pictures!

I let Samuel sleep in my bed with me last weekend while I was home. I woke up one morning and this is how he was sleeping. How precious is this?! Him and his 'bunny'-he sleeps with him EVERY night.

SO, I am home for another weekend. I got MOST of my paperwork finished this week in hopes it will free up some of my weekend time for 'crafting'. Will it work out?? Check back later this weekend and see! ;)

I was blog blocked!

I couldn't believe it! When I went to post the other day there was my notice....that I'd been blocked. I'm unblocked now.
I didn't create ANYTHING this weekend! :( I MAY get a chance to do something this weekend coming-we'll see. I'm going to PLAN on getting the rest of my paperwork for Monday done this week so I'll have free weekend play time. THEN, one more week, one test, my final and I have a MONTH!! YIPPEE!
This summer quarter sure is flying right on by!!
I'll hope to have something to share this weekend.....
-S

This is where I live...

This is what I see when I come home each week and it is when I see this that I am reminded, of one of the reasons, we live here. I just don't EVER tire of this sight!

It was ANOTHER BUSY week this week and I'm just SO glad it's over!! Two more weeks to go!!

I'm HOPING to maybe JUST MAYBE get some kind of chance to create, if even just a little, this weekend. I have (94) NEW pics from Shutterfly that arrived this week while I was gone....we'll see how far I get! I'm thinking if I out my 'ole trusty and true Cherish book I COULD be done in NO time. We'll see. Check back in and see how far I end up getting! Until then............................................................