Upsey Daisy chalks technique

This is the other project we made tonight at Stamp Camp.  It was a fun night with the group.  They LOVED working with the chalks tonight!

Recipe:  Stamp Sets:  Upsey Daisy, Inspired by Nature.  Stampin' Pastels, White Craft Ink, Bravo Burgundy, Garden Green Ink, Card stock: More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, and Chocolate Chip, Twill tape, Decorative Label and Wide Oval Punches, Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cards we made at Nadine's Party!

Good Evening!  These are the two projects that we made at Nadine's Stamping party last week.  The first one features shadow stamping.  I also talked about what the current trends are in stamping and showed them some examples.  We had some neat things for show and tell and had a great time as usual!  Our next stamping event is Monday, June 12th, starting at 5:30 for dinner.  Our hostess is Sandy Wellumson.  Everyone is welcome to attend, please email me or call me so that I have enough packets prepared!
This morning I went to bible study and then this afternoon I went to Mauston for a doctor's appointment. Tonight, I cut out 3 minature quilts.  They are all set to sew, so that might be tomorrow's project.  Who knows....I will see what I feel like working on tomorrow.  I am like Scarlett O'Hare.....fiddle dee dee.....I will think about it tomorrow!  I have found through the years that it is better to work on what you feel like working on rather than forcing yourself to work on something that you don't wish to work on that day, because if you do, nothing will go right!  Have a great day!  Elaine

Where oh where do all the days go!?!?!

Good Morning!  I sure do not know where all days have been going but I still have a whole slew of stuff on my to do list, and not enough time to do it in!  Yesterday, I went to Tomah with Diane to her doctor's appointment.  After we got done, she asked me if I wanted to stop at Goodwill.  Actually....I think SHE wanted to stop there, and just uses me as an excuse!  LOL  I found some cake pans for Roberto and a few other little things.  We also stopped at Walmart before heading over to China Buffet for lunch.  I don't know what is with Chinese buffet's lately.  They are adding more and more American food on them.  I mentioned this to Di and said to her that pretty soon there will not be any Chinese food left on them.  She responded, then we will not go any more.  What's up with that!?!?!  When we arrived back to town we tied the baby quilt and then I headed home.  I stopped back and picked up a stamp set I needed to get out in the mail that I had sold to a gal in PA.  I hauled my stuff in, cleaned the cat box, then headed with the lap top to bed.  A few minutes later I was out like a light, and slept for an hour or so.  I started working on putting the binding on the quilt, and finished one side.  I am going to get back started on that right now.  Another thing I need to add to my do list is to shoot some more pictures of things that I have been making as I have no more pictures on the computer for the blog, and that will make for some unhappy blog readers won't it!?!?  :-D

Recipe: Stampin' UP!  Stamp Sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Upsey Daisy, DSP: Parisian Breeze, Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip Ink, Brads, Card stock and 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon,

Upsy Daisy

Good Evening from Mayberry! The weather held out good today till 2 pm when it POURED......and I got soaked hauling my stuff in at the flea market. I got it all hauled in and then it stopped. This weather on the weekends this year is for the birds! At least we almost got a full day in today. Jessie, the 16 year old who's family rents the booth next to me spent most of the day with me and we had lots of fun chatting. Her mom told me when Jessie wasn't around that Jessie had seen my van at Pamida this week and was telling her mom...."There's my friend, my friend is here, my friend is here at Pamida!" Val told her she could go in and find me if she wanted to but she didn't. I get such a kick out of that, as she will do that at the flea market too, she will tell them that she is going over by her friend. An old guy this morning was asking her how old she was...14???? And she said no, I am 16. He said that she borrowed a few years from her mother, meaning me. We got a kick out of that so I was teasing her the rest of the day that she was my third daughter, which she liked. She took my Taylor Swift CD home today. I just finished 4 more cards for the Coffee shop and I think I will go get out my coffee stamps and start working on some gift card holder's for the shop. Until tomorrow! Boo

Recipe: Upsy Daisy Stamp set embossed with white embossing powder. Old olive ink. Card stock: Soft Sky, Whisper White, Garden Oasis DSP, Clip from clip assortment, and Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon

Upsy Daisy and Curly Label Punch Bundle

Good Evening! I am baking a Nana's Apple Cake right now to give out tomorrow at the flea market for samples. If you have not had this...it sure is yummy. It tastes a lot like apple crisp only it is firm like a cake. Delish!

Today's card uses the stamp set Upsy Daisy (the flowers) and the sentiment is from the Curly Label Punch Bundle. The punch will still be available but the stamps are retiring this month. Blue is my favorite color so this card makes me smile. I inked up flower's with the Baja Breeze on the ink pad, then took a marker to the inked stamp to make the tips darker. This will work with out ruining your marker if you go light first, and then to dark. You can't do it the other way around.

I had an interesting day today. After a very good nights sleep (for a change!) Jenna called this morning and we had a long visit before I had to get ready to leave for the day. We made plans for me to come to Milwaukee in a few weeks to go wedding dress shopping! Yippee! I returned a call later to my mom who had seen a picnic basket at a garage sale this morning. I buzzed on down there and I could not believe my good fortune that it was still there! Another one for my collection, and I have to say this is the prettiest and the cheapest one I have bought!!! It was $4.00. When I was in the antique business, this type picnic baskets were selling for minimum of $25.00 so I don't know what they are getting for them now....more I am sure! Note to my girls: keep mom's picnic baskets when she is gone or get a good price for them! I also found a like new bread machine for $5.00. I used to have a large one and quite a few years ago, my sister and I decided to trade as she has a little one, and larger family, I had the big one, and just me. Well...I later wished I hadn't done that as my old bread recipes wouldn't work in the new one. So I am thrilled to have found this one today. I will test it out and if I like this one, I will sell the other one. This is the first garage sale I have been to this year, can you believe it??? I can't, that is for sure. But it seems like we have been going to Di's doctor's appointment's most Friday's. This afternoon we had to take her dog Bernie to the Rapids to get his haircut. She gave me the nicest thank you card for taking her to the doctor's appointments today. We were on our way to the Rapids and if we wouldn't have been going down the road...I would have given her a big hug as she said the sweetest things in it. (Knowing Di..she probably planned it that way so I COULDN'T give her a hug! LOL) And...she said she has something else for me, that is if she can find it and she was hoping she didn't throw it away! I said throw it away!?!? Is it that small? And she said yes, that she had gotten me a gift certificate for Michaels. She said remember last week when we were at the checkout at Michael's and after you got checked out I told you to go get the car and get the air conditioning going? I said yeah...well I was getting it then! Pretty sneaky Lady Di...I never suspected a thing. She did find the receipt so I have that, hopefully she will find the gift card. Back to the story....I think I should change the name of this blog to Elaine's random ramblings...LOL We hit GoodWill, Shopko, and a couple of garage sales before going to Apple Bee's for dinner. I had my usual Cowboy burger with Strawberry Lemonade. I sure do love those Angus burger's!!! Burger's come right after Chocolate on my list of favorite foods. When I was growing up and we would be on vacation and in a restaurant, I would always order a burger and fries. My folks would say don't you want to try something new? And I would say "no". And we most always were gone 2 to 3 weeks. Somethings never change. I will leave you with one more blast from the past. You can blame Yogi Bear for my love of picnic baskets. "Come on boo boo bear....lets go steal some picnic baskets!" Stop over and see my new one! :D Boo

Nadine's Party

Last night was Nadine's party and we had a wonderful turnout. The pictures above this are of the hostess gift I made for Nadine. We were teasing her that these were pictures of her and John. These "old people" are available in the current mini catalog and are fun cards to make. I used the Good Morning Sunshine paper on them. The box for them was made with the scalloped envelope die and was decorated with the Tea Party paper.



We made these projects. The red, black, and white card uses the stamp sets, Pick A Petal, Polka Dot Backgrounds, and Upsey Daisy. The other card uses Playful Petals and the Tea Party Designer paper. A great time was had by all and we all enjoyed the fantastic food that Nadine had for us. I want that recipe for the M&M mix Nadine! The next party will be Monday, June 8th at 5:30pm for supper and Beth Griffith will be the hostess. Come and join us for a barrel of fun!

April Stamp Camp

Here are three of the projects that we made at Stamp Camp this month. We also made Sarah's wedding invitation, see Oct 08 post for a picture of that. The gals learned some new techniques this month. The one with the black flowers from Upsey Daisy is an emboss resist technique with sponging. We had a lot of gals who learned how to emboss for the first time and they love seeing the "magic" of it rising on the card stock. The pink mother's day card was made with the new Manhatten texture die and vellum and was ran through the big shot. Lot's of fun pretty cards!

I have still been slaving away on my house but had a little break with Jenna, Antonio, and Diana being here the past two days. We met Sarah in the Dells last night at Applebee's and had a nice family dinner. Today we met my mom at Family Affair for lunch and had a nice time. The kids left late this afternoon and I was sorry to see them go. I had a couple of batches of company this afternoon and also marked a bunch of retired stamp sets to put out to sell at the Friendship Shoe Box Swap that Melissa and I are hosting here tomorrow. I did a few things at the fleamarket tonight before going to the church for final set up for the swap tonight. I just finished eating supper and returning a few phone calls and I am now headed to bed. I know I have been neglicting my blogging...but it has been an extremely busy month. After tomorrow I don't really have anything planned and I am SOOOOOOO......glad! If I ever get my new sewing and scrapping room's finished...I will post some pictures! Or better yet...come visit! Elaine

Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series Paper Cards

I usually make up some sample cards with a stamp set that I want to feature a particular month or in this case I decided to feature a Designer Series Paper. I made this batch of cards with a bunch of different stamp sets and accessories to show case the DSP Good Morning Sunshine. It is a fun funky paper, kind of retro with all the owls and birds and 70's colors. I had a lot of fun coming up with these and playing with our new chipboard owls and birds.