New Card samples from a swap I was just in!!!

This is my swap that I made...it is using the new Creative Elements Stamp Set,

Soft Suede c/s & Pad, Rich Razzleberry c/s & Pad, Very Vanilla c/s...our new Designer Frames

Embossing Folder, Victoria ribbon and Rich Razzleberry 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, Pearls....I then sponged the card and ribbon with Soft Suede and used the Color Spritzer to splatter the card with Soft Suede and to finish it off I used the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint and spritzed the entire card!  Love it!

This card was made by Cricket Thompson and she used the stamp set Established Elegance

and colors Soft Suede, Early Expresso, and Shimmery Gold Cardstock and the DSP Mocha Morning.

This card was made from Lou Ann Cruttenden.  She used the new Snow Much Fun stamp set and the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.  The cardstock colors are Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Old Olive, Soft Suede, and Confetti White.  She used the Northern Flurry embossing folder..did some machine stitching and tore the edges on the side...plus a little watercoloring and ta-da! Cute Christmas Card!!

This card was made by Diane Kipp.  She used the new stamp set called Raining Flowers. The Designer Series Paper is Berry Blossoms and the colors are Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Early Expresso and Whisper White.  She added our fun new Lucky Limeade Ribbon and our new Designer Printed Brad!  Cute Card!!

This card was made by Ann Welborn.  She used our fun new stamp set Pennant Parade with the coordinating Pennant Punch and our 1/2" circle punch. The words are from our great new Hostess Set called Happiest Birthday Wishes!  She used our new In-Colors: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, & Island Indigo...she finished it off with some stitching done with our White Gel Pen.

This card was made by Deb Snyder and I just LOVE this one!!!  She used our cute new stamp set called Furry Folk and the Hello is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  She used the Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, and Chocolate Chip cardstock.  The top was embossed with our new Stripes embossing folder and the bottom Very Vanilla was done using our Lattice embossing folder. The tag was added with a brad and the Jewelry Tag punch!  The opening to the mouse hole was made using our Extra-Large Oval punch.

This last card was made by Gwen Duckworth and is a fun easel card!!! She used the new stamp set called My Friend...the colors are Whisper White, Pool Party and Early Expresso.  She used the Polka Dot embossing folder on the bottom piece and then cut out 3 Top Note Bigz Dies (2 in Pool Party and one in Whisper White) and folded the middle one in half to make the easel.  She also used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and our Pearls and the Modern Label and Word Window Punch!  Such a cute card!

Well, I hope you enjoy the card samples for today!!!  I  will post again soon!!!

Lisa

Calli's 17th Birthday Party!!!

Saturday was my baby Calli's 17th Birthday!!  We spent the weekend back in Sioux Falls and that morning having her Senior Pictures taken...then we surprised her with a party at my friend Sarah's office!!!  Sarah is amazing with parties and everything matching!!!  It was rainbow themed and all different colors of candy to match the rainbows and she made the pennant banner with Calli's name on it!!!

My husband, Verlyn, and my youngest two children, Chelsea and Calli!!!

What a fun day!!!

Monkey Bathroom!!!

So, last weekend I finished one of the upstairs bathrooms!! I used my Big Shot and our vinyl sheets and the Serif Alphabet to cut out all the letters for my monkey poem!! Fun!  To get them straight I used blue tape to keep my lines straight...then I counted the number of letters per line divided that in half and started in the middle to go front and back to get the words lined up.

We used to carry these amazing monkey decor elements and I carefully took them off the wall from our house in Sioux Falls...put them lightly on wax paper and then transferred them to this house!  The frames are from IKEA and I put the matching little monkeys on the frames and then there are silly pictures of my girls "monkeying" around when they were little!

I painted just the one wall a Banana Peel Yellow and the other walls are a light tan to match the monkeys mouths...It was fun to do and makes me happy!!!  Hope you enjoyed!!

My new stamp room

I decorated my new stamp room with the Springtime Vintage Fabric and did all my decorating in the color pallette from there...Rose Red, Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, River Rock, and Not Quite Navy.  I had so much fun making paper flowers out of the Fun Flower Bigz Die and our 5 Petal punch and Fancy Flower punch. I ran the flowers thru all different embossing folders to give them texture, then wrinkled them up a little bit and put them together using a Vintage Brad.  I hot glued them to a floral wire and punched out leaves which I adhered with Mini Glue Dots.

 I used our Springtime Vintage Fabric and made valances for my windows...super easy!  I keep my punches in these baskets that I found at Home Goods...I spray painted them an Oil Bronzed color and added  labels to them.  The tiny drawer thing holds all of my ink cartridges for every color and I just cut cardstock to match and attached a clear label to each of them.  I got my 12x12 cardstock holder from Best Craft Products.  My walls are Pear Pizzazz....I just took in a sheet of cardstock and had it color matched!

These are just the little 3 drawer Sterilite containers that you buy at Wal-Mart...I cut cardstock to the size of the drawer...attached it to the drawer using Sticky Strip...printed my labels for what goes in each drawer and punched them out with the oval punch and layered on the scalloped oval punch.  I attached flowers using Dimensionals sporadically on the drawers to dress it up.  I keep my sponges, handles, mini glue dots, glue pens, embossing powders, glitter, etc. in all these drawers.

These are our Big Shot Die Storage containers and I wrapped the lids with Baja Breeze Seam Binding and a bow...stamped the labels with the Calendar Alphabet Set...added more flowers with Dimensionals.  The baskets and bars are from IKEA and they hold more of my punches.

I made this littler pot of flowers the same way as the other to sit on my desk.  You can see my shelves in the background where I keep my stamps and I have a long table in my office for classes or workshops!! 

Hope you enjoyed looking at my new stamp room....I LOVE IT!!!  It was so much fun making all the matching things in it!!!  I will add more pictures of my office when I get the Definitely Decorative Wall Decor up that I have planned!!!  Thanks for looking!!!

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!

So sorry for the long delay in posting and updating my Blog!!!  The last few months have been a whirlwind for me as we decided in mid June to move to Lafayette, Indiana and so we started packing up and at the end of June we started moving 12 hours away from South Dakota!  So, since June we have moved, my mother-in-law was very ill, we have had numerous family issues and I had my annual Stampin' Up! convention so busy, busy, busy!!!  I am not doing daycare anymore so my time is completely freed up so I have great plans to use my Blog much more than I have....so stay tuned!!