Hey, y’all! I’m excited about the Weekly Deals – there are some of my favorite things on tap for you this week. The offerings are all just perfect for your Christmas craft projects!
I’m probably most excited to see the Festive Flower Punch – you know I’ve shown you a just a couple of projects that you could make with your new punch. Take a look-see:
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Good morning! It’s Monday again. One week from today I’ll be getting on a plane for a fun-filled month in Yuma, AZ. I know – you’re envious of the glamorous, jet-setting life I live – I’m sorry to brag and rub it in! But, before I do that, I have to decide what to take with me – Stampin’ Up!-wise. My Big Shot for sure. Paper Trimmer. Envelope Board? Fall/Thanksgiving/Christmas stamp sets. Framelits. Embossing Folders. Inks. Paper – that’s always hard cause it’s so heavy. Ribbons and embellishments. I’m going to try to get my things there in suitcases – rather than shipping it. I’m only gone for a month – and when you ship, you have too many days on each end where you don’t have your things. We’ll see if I can make it happen.
These are the things that keep me up at night! 😉
The card I made today is a study in ornaments! Delicate Ornaments. Embellished Ornaments. Easy to combine them since I bought them as a 15%-off bundle! I used lots of shiny, glittery paper, too. Take a look-see:
Good morning! Hope you’re having a great weekend – we’re having a good one, if a wet one. It just won’t stop raining! 🙁 It’s hurrying all the leaves off the trees – as you go along our driveway, it looks like it’s raining leaves! I’m always sorry to see the trees naked – I love them in their Fall finery. So – STOP raining already!! 🙂
Today’s card is inspired by a beautiful card I saw on Pinterest, created by Kittie Carraciolo.
I changed it up a little, but keep the basic elements – the Lovely as a Tree image and the window from the Hearth and Home Thinlits. Take a look-see:
Hello Weekend! Whoo-hoo! Hope that you have some fun something to do! I’m getting a haircut today – which is always good. I love it when it’s just cut and easy to make look like something. Something good, I mean! 🙂
Just a quick news flash. Next weekend, I’ll be heading down to Tampa (hopefully with the hubby in tow!) to attend the Stampin’ Up! Onstage Live event. Amy Koenders and Jari Francis are both going as well, so I think we’re going to have a great time! One benny of going is we get a sneak peek at the new 2016 (seriously!? Already?!?!) Occasions Catalog. And I’ll bring home some goodies and be able to share some of that with you! So be watching for that in the next few weeks, okay?
Today’s card is so darned easy that I called it a Super Simple Single Stamp Saturday card. No Big Shot needed. No Embossing folders. No Framelits. Just a stamp set – the beautiful For All Things (in the Annual Catalog) and some paper and ink. Take a look-see:
It’s Friday! And I’m almost on my way home. Whoo-hoo! It’s been an interesting trip. Good that I came – I think they need my help, whether they know it or not!! 😉
But, I’m for sure looking forward to my Tempurpedic bed. I believe this one is a piece of plywood. With a mattress cover! From the Dollar Store. Sheesh. Definitely not the best Hampton I’ve ever stayed in – definitely will be the last time I stay here.
Got some good news today – my travel for my trip to Yuma (a 30 day adventure – did I tell you they have killer bees there!?!? Some kind of mutant bee that gets pretty pissy pretty quick. Can’t wait!) was approved today. Yeah?? That gave me the chance to go ahead and book my flight. Thankfully, there was one middle seat left. So I got it.
I hope the sarcasm came thru….
But – that’s neither here nor there. Today’s all about another glowing card!
I couldn’t help it. I had a piece of the Crumb Cake card stock left over, just the right size for a petite little fun fold card. I loved the first one I did so much that I just had to do another one. And this one uses Lighthearted Leaves – a stamp set that seems made for this kind of card. Take a look-see:
Good Blog-Hop-Thursday-Morning to y’all! I hope you’re ready for some beautiful projects from all the Ladies-Who-Hop. Yes – I know. Those are the exact same words I used last week to open up the Blog Hop post. Let’s call it our little tradition, shall we? 🙂
When this posts, I’ll be starting day 2 of my meeting here in Savannah. Yesterday, we were done at 11:30. Yes. A.M. After starting at the crack of 9 am. I’m not entirely sure why day 2 wasn’t in the afternoon….but, not my meeting, so….I’ll spend another day in lovely Savannah! Which I’m currently spending in my room. I’ve got a show on the television playing in the background called Million Dollar Real Estate (Listing??) Los Angeles. Have you ever seen it? One realtor dude shows up in a different high dollar car – Porsche, Mercedes, Bentley – in almost every shot. He did one deal where he made – HIS commission – $487,000. Four Hundred. Eighty Seven. THOUSAND dollars. In. One. Deal.
I’m definitely in the wrong line of work.
Of course, he has to drive around in Hollywood traffic. So….there’s that.
He doesn’t seem to mind.
$487,000. One deal.
Sheesh!!
On to the reason you’re here! Today’s blog hop challenge was a color challenge – we were to use Mossy Meadow, Real Red and Very Vanilla.
Pretty darned perfect colors for a Christmas card, yes? And even perfect-er for Home for Christmas DSP, Reason for the Season, and the Festive Flower punch. Toldja you’d see a festive flower again this week! 🙂 Take a look-see:
Well, here I am. It’s Tuesday night and I’m readying my post for the morning. I’m in Savannah, GA. Arguably a very food-y city. Home of Paula Deen. And….other chef-people. And seafood! Lots and lots of fresh seafood!
I arrived around 4:30, tired – not a terribly long drive but one that was undertaken in a rental car that’s annoying. And smells like an ash tray. A feature I didn’t notice – for whatever reason – when I picked it up on Monday evening. After a morning where things just didn’t want to work right as I tried to get out the door. Fortunately, Bo remains “good”, so that didn’t come into play. Just not a great morning, okay?
So, I get here tired. And hungry. And find out I’m in what appears to be the only Hampton Inn and Suites on the planet with no mini-fridge and microwave in the room. Wondering what to do with the bottle of froo-froo Peppermint Mocha Coffee Creamer sitting in my cooler. And watching it start to rain – buckets.
I solved the creamer issue – they brought a teensy mini-fridge. Done.
I start to look for suitable dinner ideas. I’m not far from really anything. I look thru the “This is Savannah” pretty picture book in the room. Seafood restaurants. Steak. BBQ. The Savannah Sweet Shop. So. Many. Options!
Rain.
Buckets.
Wind.
Final answer – a medium Pepperoni/Sausage pizza and some hot wings from Dominoes. In my slippers. In the dry room. And, because it’s been a crappy kind of day and I don’t want to be here, I self-medicated to take the edge off. Just a little.
With Cinna-Sticks and frosting.
I am a party animal. There’s no doubt about it. 😉
But – here’s what I brought along to share with you guys for tomorrow. Which will be today when you read this. All Hail the ability to schedule posts to go out the next day! There’s no telling what kind of gibberish you’d get if I actually typed the posts in the morning!!
This is a great little treat box – using a SU! Tag-a-Bag gift box (like I used for this cute Halloween box) and the Reason for the Season stamp set and bundled Festive Flower Builder punch. Take a look-see:
Good morning! There are some fun items on the Weekly Deals list – check them out. The Piercing packs are a lot of fun – and that Eclectic version coordinates with the Stars Framelits – perfect for Christmas time! Masks are a too-easy way to add n0-layers-required backgrounds and texture to your projects – all you need is a sponge or a spritzer! Also – the Flower Medallion Punch coordinates with the large snowflake image in the fun Flurry of Wishes stamp set…..
Okay. It’s official. I. Hate. Standard. Time. Hate hate hate. That’s because I, as if I were a farmer (no – a REAL one! Not a little farm with a few horses on it!) want to go to bed as soon as it gets dark. My body says….nighty night! Which is not even handy when that happens at 5! 😉 And then it’s still dark until like freakin’ noon. Slight – very slight! – exaggeration, perhaps. But it’s pretty late when the sun finally decides to get the heck back up! In short – the day is short. The night is long. I. Hate. It.
Please don’t send flames at me if you’re one of those people who love the winter dark. If such a person even exists!
Okay – so on to my share today. I saw a fun card on Pinterest. I tracked down the creator’s blog (Fine Paper Arts) and….did some Google translation from German to English. And then did my own thing with it!
This card uses the Tree Punch and the Festival of Trees stamp set – which I bought for 15% as a bundled set! Take a look see:
Good morning! Hope you enjoyed your “extra” hour. 🙂
First of all – thanks to the folks that were kind enough to ask after the health of my old horse, Bo. I’m happy to say that he appears to be – if not out of the woods – at least half way thru. We spent Saturday on “poop watch”. Yes, the life of horse owners is a romantic and glamorous one! We kept all his food from him, with the exception of some gruel. Quite literally warm water with some feed added and allowed to pretty much dissolve. And only a little food – and a lot of water! He was less than thrilled – Saturday morning he was “over it” and hungry. But, gruel and outside grazing was all he got. He finally presented us with the “prize” around 2 – after we’d pulled the whole group back into their stalls. Yes – the girls had to come in, too. Bo quite fancies himself the “stallion” of the herd. Or the Quarterback – with the ladies as his cheerleaders! And he’s not at all interested in them being elsewhere. So….in they came, too. (They very kindly allow him his fantasies!)
By “dinner” time – he was looking askance at us when we’d come to the barn (checking for more deposits). I’m pretty sure he was thinking we’d lost our brains. We spent the morning sitting out in the pasture, watching for the pooping, and occasionally going and listening to his belly with the stethoscope. I told you – colic is a big deal in horse world. But all the weirdness was making them all watch us pretty closely. Just in case we’d lost it – a pony can never be too careful!
So – I think we’re good. If we go thru this day with no more symptoms – he had none at all yesterday – we should be back to business as usual. 🙂
Card. Yes. I finally did make a card. I used one of my new toys tools – a lovely set called Birthday Blossoms, from the Annual Catalog. And, it’s a super clean and simple card, using only the single stamp set – and not an embossing folder or framelit to be found (so, no Big Shot required!). Take a look-see:
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