It's Mario Time!

This is the card I made for my nephew's 9th birthday last week.
I have to say it's one of my favorite cards ever! It was a blast to make.
I pulled a screen shot off the internet and printed it on my card stock for my background.
I then used several files from Mardenz. I did take about her box file and remove the
question mark and put in the letters to Spell - Happy Birthday Clayton. I added a coin bouncing out of one of the boxes.
He thought the card was very cool!

School Play

The local High School is putting on the musical Aladdin this weekend. One of our church girls is the Genie. I made her this card today. I used the Paper Doll Dress Up and lots of Bling. Another of of our girls is playing Jasmine so I should get busy on another card.

Tweaking the ArtHaven

Well I've been at the new house long enough to figure out things that need moved. Last week I rearranged things in the Laundry Room. This week I had more fun by tweaking the ArtHaven.
I realized that my ink was completely in the wrong spot and I had some wasted space by the windows. So what do you think?

Fun with Acrylic Stamps

When I playing in the ArtHaven over the weekend I used a some of my colored images. This gal is a digi stamp from My Greeting Farm. She is a love of fun. The words are acrylic stamps from this months Close to My Heart's Stamp of the Month set.

The nice thing about acrylic stamps is that you can arch them to make then go different ways. Notice the first card I used the stamps straight as intended. In the second card I curve that stamp as I put it on my Block. I love how it came out!

Fun Day in the Art Room

Yesterday I spent most of the day in my room and got quite a few cards made.
All of the cards drew from colored and cut out box.
So some of the things are my stamps and some like the birds
above I must have stamped at a friend's house.

I used my new stamp set from Close to my Heart.
I'm not sure of the name, but it is an encouragement set.

I really like it because it has 2 stamps one for the outside and one for the inside.
Ex. Above - Just a note to brighten your day
Inside- and chase all those clouds away.

This card is my version of one they made at Art Club.
I just stamped my image twice and them punched them out with my Stamp punch.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cards and I hope the inspire you.
Two of the stamps are digis by Elizabeth Bell and one is a Greeting Farm digi.

Anniversary Cards

I was asked to make an anniversary card for a friend's son's 1st Anniversary. Since it was their first anniversary I wanted to use the colors from their wedding which was pastel green and blue.
The card I made I used Penny Duncan's Swing Card File and See from the Heart Stamp. I used VersaMark to stamp French Flair background. Mulberry paper from Korea I used behind the See with the Heart Picture. I cut Happy Anniversary from Martha Stewart's Elegant Cake on the opposite side. I used a variety of stickers from Jeffery Allen.

Since the card was for someone else to give I got nervous and made a 2nd card so she would have a couple of choice. I used some various die cuts in my accessories box.

My Hubby like the first card best and my daughter likes the 2nd one best. I like them both.
Tomorrow we shall see if my friend like either.

I think I am finally getting my ArtRoom the way I like it. Although I am still having trouble finding all my stuff. This week though it will be neglected for the sewing room.

Some Valentine's Cards

I couple of Valentine's Day cards using Dustin Pike images. These are cards for my nephews.

New Art Room

We are finally mostly settled into our new home. We are loving it and we are getting to know our new community. I've got a whole new room just for my Art! I am so giddy about it still. It is messy already. :)

MIA

Sorry I've been MIA for so long. We have been in the middle of a move! We moved about 100 miles away from where we have been living for the last 16 years.
We had amassed a great deal in those years.
I am thankful that the weather was nice, dry and warm when we moved with the first big snow of the year coming just 5 days later. I am still unpacking but I am super excited that I have a huge room for my Art Haven. WOOT! I am still knee deep in boxes but making progress.

Another Get Well Card

This another Get Well Card I made for my Dad. I used Lora's of Notes from a Scrapbooklady SVG file. I copied the back layer and flipped it and then welded it to the other copy of the layer to make a card. I think it is an older file from her first blog. I think the card came out good. The nurses at the hosptial all loved it.

Hello Again

I realize it's been a while since I've posted. Life has been very crazy this fall in my household. DH & I just finished the fall yard clean up except for the never ending job of mulching leaves. LOL

One of the major things last month was my Dad having open heart surgery to fix a valve.
I gave him a card for each day at the hospital. Unfortunately he stayed 1 more day than I made cards!

Here are a couple of the cards I made

The first Card I used a files from Mardenz for the Tin Man. I used my Circut Markers to outline and then cut it out. I never could my the face like I wanted so I just printed off a picture of the Movie's Tin Man. I just cut leftover metallic Yellow paper for the bricks.

I used the SVG file from Vicki at BGlad Papercrafts for this card. I also used the the Amazing Duo stamp set from Greeting Farm.

My Dad is doing great and still recovering at home.

Thank You Cards

Sorry I've been AWOL for a while. Life just got super crazy busy. Got my daughter back to college at the beginning of August. I've canned about 42 pints of green beans, 44 quarts of tomatoes and sauce and 48 quarts of Apple Pie in a Jar. Looks like our first frost will be tomorrow night so I will go pick everything left tomorrow.
Maybe things will slow down a bit and I will be posting more again.
I made this card as a project for a women's group at church back in May. I decided to make up the extra parts not used in the project and make a nice box for them. I used Bigger Bags from My Scrap Chick. I think it worked great but the next time I think I will use Velcro for the closure. It holds 14 cards.

Lovly Lady Part 4

Here is part four of my Lovely Ladies book. This is a variety of stamps. The paper I won from Notes from a Scrapbooking Lady. I thought it was perfect.

This is a stamp I picked up unmounted at a stamp show years ago. It's a hard one to get right but so worth it when it does!

Lovely Lady Part 3

Here are the next Pages of my Lovely Lady book. This Lovely Lady is Princess Katherine of France from Stampsmith.

The brads were picked up at a yard sale. The lace is someone's quilting leftovers.

This lovely lady is from Upset the Fruit Basket. The brads are Stampin' Up.

Lovely Ladies Part 2

Here is some more of my Lovely Ladies book. I don't the stamp company. Sorry. The music notes came from Hannah Montana Cart.

I know the lovely lady is a Stampin Up stamp but I don't know on the other stamp.s
I stamped the others on Vellum with White Brillance Ink and embossed with Sea-foam White.
I love the look it gives.

Finally the Font used throughout is Black Rose.

Lovely Ladies Part 1

This Month's ArtHaven Creation & Friendship Lottery was chosen by Diann.
She chose Lovely Lady as her theme. I wanted to do something a bit different.
She has a brand new Great Niece and I though it would be fun to make something
that she could share with baby Olivia.
I took the letters of Lovely Lady and used them in as Key word of each saying I made up.
Those letters are in a bigger font.
The cover is one of my favorite stamps. It is a Magenta. The paper is from
the DCWV Mariposa Matstack. I pretty much used Maripose and Lemon Flower Matstacks from DCWV and Birthday Extravaganza from Paper Studio. There are a couple of random papers thrown into the mix.

The back cover has 2 mats for Diann to add her own pictures to the book.

L is Love.

This stamp is also Magenta. "The are my ONE weakness!"
(aka Dorcas Lane - Larkrise to Candleford)