Button Card

I love this new Sew Suite product line.  I used the stamp set for the button card, the button paper is from the new Sweet Stitches Designer Series paper, and the buttons on the card were made with the new button embosslit die.  It cuts the buttons and embosses them all in one step.  So cool and such a good way to use up scraps!  The verse inside the card is from the retired set Well Scripted, and the saying on the outside of the card is from the retired hostess set Best Yet.  It is good to have fun with some old favorite stamp sets.

You always keep me in stitches.

I was going to write "Good Morning" but I now see that it is afternoon.  How the hours fly when you are monkeying around on the computer.  I have been busy this morning setting up a group page on Face book.  I wasn't quite sure how to do it but found the "starting" point today so I worked on getting it set up.  I was having some trouble getting the blog to import to it, but after several tries, Face Book got their problem fixed.  I sure am glad about that as I wasn't sure I would be able to find that place to do that again.  You know how computers and websites go...sometimes it is like looking for a needle in a haystack!  So now if you are on Face Book, you can access the events page, rsvp, leave comments, etc.  Another way to connect!

Sale-A-Bration is on with Stampin' UP! now which is our biggest sales event of the year.  With a $50.00 order, you can choose your choice of a stamp set or free product in the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  A good time to get all those things on your wish list, and to stock up on paper etc.  There are some really nice things in the catalog.  And the Occasion Mini is to die for!  I want just about everything!!  LOL  You can visit the website at the link below, and click on shop now to see all the new goodies and to order.  Stay warm and safe!  Elaine
http://love2stampsewmuch.stampinup.net

Just another day in paradise...

Hello!  Just a quick post before I head to bed.  I am thoroughly enjoying my new sewing room upstairs and have been spending 2 to 3 hours up there per night the past few days.  I made 6 more brooches tonight and they turned out oh so cute....maybe tomorrow I will post a picture.  I need to shoot a bunch of pictures of things that I have been working on, and lucky for you, I do not have any pictures left on the computer to post, so I will have to get busy and take some pictures!  This card was on the camera from Monday.  I made this card to send to Pat Markor.  Her birthday is today, the same day that my grandmother's birthday was.  Happy Birthday Pat!  My grandmother made the very best chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  We always celebrated our birthdays together while I was growing up.  I received a birthday card today & money from my sister and Di and I got quite a chuckle out of it.  I had went up town to the thrift shop and was carry my loot out of the van when Di arrived.  She laughed when she saw me...said she caught me!  Any whoo..I digress.  The card Lenore sent was so appropriate, I will have to remember to bring it to stamping next month to show the gals.  It says Witch Crafts on the bottom of it.  Then there are two witches sitting at a table with a skull and glue bottle in front of each of them.  Then there is a witch standing with a skull and a bottle of glue in front of them and she is saying...Now we take our skull and glue macaroni and glitter to it.....(then you open the card and it says)...just witching you a happy birthday!  Too cute!  Thanks Lenore!  Nite!

One last Valentine

Hello!  Well, I am still celebrating my birthday today.  Susie was over today for a visit and to bring me  a birthday gift, and my friend Mike, from Germany called today to wish me a Happy Birthday.  He never forgets.  It doesn't always work out for him to call on the exact day, but he always calls sometime the week of it.  It is so great to be loved by so many people!  I got a little bit of crafting done in between things.  I sewed the buttons on the 9 pin cushions I started yesterday, made a birthday card, and did a stamped/paper pieced magnet that I will show you soon.  During my rest break this afternoon, I watched an episode of House and worked on punching up scraps, the ongoing saga.  I went to the Fibromyalgia support group tonight and just finished eating supper.  Right now I am trying to head up to the sewing room but someone from Oregon is detaining me...by continuing to IM me.  We won't name any names, the guilty party knows who they are!  LOL  I'd better run before she discovers that I am still on here!  Until tomorrow...have a good night!

A bumming we will go....

Today was road trip day for Lady Di and I.  We went to the Dells and Baraboo area and hit all the thrift shops and to Walgreen's.  We had lunch at Burger KIng and had blizzards at Dairy Queen.  It was a fun day....and this tells you how much I have corrupted Di...and how much she loves me :-D .....she really does not like thrift shopping and when I first met her, I could never get her to go with me.  And today she spent a whole day of it!  Now is that a good friend or what!?!?!

Today's card uses the stamp set Well Scripted, the new Polka Dot embossing folder and the highlight of the card are the butterflies and they were made with the new Stampin' Up Embosslit die Beautiful Wings.  It cuts and embosses the butterflies all in one step.  They turn out so cool!  I thought this would be a good card to show as the little lavender pearls that I put on the large butterfly were a thrift shop find.  I found a whole bag of pill bottles full of different colors pearls, all this size.  Today I found the tiniest little jingle bell's that will be cute to put on a Santa Hat, or on a collar on a reindeer at Christmas time.  I also found some tiny miniature wooden spool and already have a plan cooked up for them.  I just love finding all those little goodies at the thrift shop.  Di laughs at me, and I said to her, You just wait, you are going to be saying, can I borrow some of those little jingle bells some day! 

Congratulations Card

Hello...greetings from blog land!  It sure was nice to watch it lightly snow this morning.   I needed to return some books at the library this afternoon and I ran into Anita Wilson and the Wilson's kids.  We had a nice visit, and the girls might join us for stamping on Monday night.  I also took some mini catalogs over to Adams Columbia for some of the gals there.  While I was out and about, I decided to check out Practical Cents and took advantage of their book sale.  You could buy a brown paper bag of books for $5.00.  I got 38 books in the bag, can you believe that?!?  And I will probably only keep a couple of them for me, the rest I will be giving to other people in my life.  I really hit the jackpot!  I also picked up a few other things in the craft department and helped a guy that was in my class in high school find some curtains to fit his windows.  He had a locker by mine in high school and we were friends.

Today's card uses the stamp set's Well Scripted and I (heart) Hearts.  I used the Raspberry Lemonade DSP for this card, and it shows that you don't have to use the hearts just for Valentine's Day.  They will work good for cards year round.  Stampin' Up is donating $2.00 from the sale of every stamp set of I (heart) Hearts to Haiti.  The last time I checked, we had sold over 7000 stamp sets!  Isn't that wonderful!!!  There is still time to help the cause, let me know if you would like to order a set!

A New Look in Mayberry

Another busy day in Mayberry.  Jessie and Jackie, my helper's from the flea market, came over after school today for about an hour and moved some things around for me.  When you come to visit, it will look really different in here.  They did a great job as usual.  They sure are good girls.  I did some prep work before they came and my body is tired and hurting.  But it looks wonderful, and it may not be from that, it could be the weather or lack of sleep.  I was wide awake last night.  I had gotten a really good nights sleep the night before and was not at all sleepy.  I finally turned off the light at 4am!!!  I was laying on the bed, punching scraps and watching TV for hours.  My body is kind of strange like that, the rare times I do sleep through the night, it doesn't know what to do with the good sleep, and then I won't sleep the next night.  But I felt good today, got something accomplished and that is the main thing.

Razzleberry Lemonade

Brr.....it sure is cold outside!  I think that I will just stay in now and hibernate till spring!  LOL  I started my day off early today by going to the Community Center to pick up my Share package.  Not many people must have ordered this month, or they came very early this time as I was in and out of there in about 5 minutes today.  I had sewed 9 pincushion's up last night and finished stuffing them this morning on the bed watching TV, snuggled up with the cats watching Dr. Oz.  I fell asleep and got a short cat nap in before Susie arrived for a visit.  I had lunch after she left and then cut out both of the projects for Sandy's party.  So that is all done now.  Yay!!!!  Diane popped in with some magazine's for me to this afternoon.  I had another little cat nap tonight while I was watching Dr. Oz.  Seriously, the programs are interesting but I must relax during them just like Scrapbook Memories, which I love but usually watch at bed time because I fall asleep watching it!  Here is the recipe for today's card.  Stampin' Up! Stamp Set: Well Scripted,  Rich Razzleberry Ink, Wide Oval Punch, Scalloped Edge Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Rich Razzle Berry Polka Dot Ribbon, Razzle Berry Lemonade Designer Paper, Card Stock: Rich Razzleberry, and Whisper White, Perfect Details Embossing Folder, Big Shot.  Try and stay warm!  Boo

 

Birthday Cards

Today's cards shows the same layout but two different variations on it.  I used the stamp set Well Scripted on both of them.  The designer paper is the new Sending Love Specialty paper.  It is so gorgeous!  The piece on the top card has glitter on it.  The bottom card is the same sheet of paper only the flip side of it.  On both cards I used the Stampin' Up! Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder that is on page 35 of the Occasion Mini to emboss the card with.  If you have a Big Shot, this embossing folder is a must.  It just makes everything go from blah...to blahzay!!!! You will be seeing lots more of it as I have a whole stack of cards sitting on my table that I have just made with it.  These two cards are going out in the mail tomorrow to two people....hmmmm....can you guess who has birthday's this week!?!?

I spent lots of time on the phone today.  I ended up talking with both of the girls today.  Their Uncle Louis gave CD's of photo's to Aunt Anita of the wedding for Jenna, Sarah, and I that he took and that Aunt Mary took.  So that was a very nice surprise.  Anita dropped them off last night.  I loaded them up on Face book this afternoon and the girls have been having fun tagging them, commenting on them, and chit chatting back and forth with people about them.  I talked to Zach tonight on the phone and he gave me an update about his week on the fire department.  He said that one night he didn't get home from the station till 11:30 because he was playing Yeucker with the guys.  I think he was surprised that they played cards after practice.  I told him that I remembered when I was a little girl driving by the Adams Fire Department and seeing the garage door's open and the guys playing cards in there.  He said that they have had 3 calls this week, and he went on two of them, today's call was a false alarm.  He is absolutely loving every minute of it.  He told me that he has 29? brother's now.  That they all are his brother's and that they take care of one another.  So that is pretty cool that he feel's this way about these guys already.  And this is the first time for him to have brother's as he has two sisters in his family.

When I was talking to Jen this afternoon, Antonio was getting ready to go to work.  He comes up to her and she starts laughing.  I guess she was suppose to be looking to see if he had any pimples under his nose.  He says to her that she can never see anything.  I tell her to tell him that I can see a big one under his nose from here!  Jen tells him this and then Antonio says: Tell her to Shut Up and that I love her.....Jen and I were just cracking up.  He can be so funny, and with his cute little accent, I swear everything he says is funny. 


I also had a very pleasant surprise this afternoon.  Nadine called and she stopped over for a while.  I have not seen her for several month's.  When Diane, Beth, and I were having supper at Cat's Down the Road on Monday night, Beth asked if we had seen Nadine.  None of us had seen her for months so it was kind of cool that she "came out of the wood work" or where ever she has been hiding out today!  She is having 4 little girls over to stamp next week so we talked about some idea's, and I sold her some Love Notes and some envelope's.  They all need to make Valentines to exchange with their classmates at school.  I am sure she will come up with something cool and the kids will love it!  When Nadine is old and gray and lives at Villa Pines, with the rest of us....the kids will still be coming to stamp with her!  She is planning on coming to Sandy Renner's party on February 8th so everyone will get to see her!  We miss you buddy! 

Congratulations Zach!

It is definitely a "boy's day" as far as cards are concerned!  My son-in-law Zach has wanted to be a fireman since he was a little boy and his dream is finally coming true.  He was just voted on for the Reedsburg Fire Department.  One of the first things he told me when they bought their home in Reedsburg is that he wanted to get on the fire department.  That was a year ago.  It is not like here in Friendship, where they will take just about everyone as they are so desperate to get volunteer's.  In Reedsburg, you have to wait till a position open's and are put on a waiting list.  I am so happy for him as he is so excited.  We are having a family get together tomorrow and Sarah asked me to make Zach a Fire Truck cake with my fire truck pan.  So I got that baked last night, and put in the freezer.  I just whipped up the frosting and will start decorating it after I am done with this blog post.  This card is a easel card and I took a picture from the side so you can see how it looks.  I also made a pocket in the back and a tab so that the message I wrote to Zach is hidden, he will have to pull out the tab to see it.  I took a picture of it so that you could see it.  One piece of advice I can give about making guy cards is that if you really want to WOW them, add some hardware of some sort on it.  They like brads, eyelets, etc.   I added twill tape as the "ribbon" on it as I think it look's more masculine and reminds me of the hoses that they use to fight fire's with.  If they are still the same as when I was Friendship Fire Department's treasurer, they were a canvas type material.  Zach really appreciates the cards I make him so it will be interesting to see what he has to say about this one!  Sometimes I think men appreciate handmade things more than women.  When I had my store, men loved to watch me stitch.  It would remind them of their Grandma, or someone in their family that they loved.  Not many people embroider any more.  I plan on teaching Brooke some hand sewing tomorrow.  I will give you a report on how that goes!  Well, time to go decorate the cake!  Me

Kisses

Good Evening!  These are some more of the samples that I made for Doris's Party.  These are the new "Kisses" from the Occasion Mini.  They come to 20 to a package and can be used as is with the matching glassine envelopes or they could be used on a scrapbook page or greeting card.  The first one I punched around it with the mat pack and paper piercer.  I love the dainty look to that.  I left the other 2 plain so that the gals could see what they looked like without  pierceing. Quick and fun to make and could be used year round with different stamps.  I love how they keep coming up with these different doo dad's for us to play with! The one on the bottom that says hugs & kisses on it uses our new small heart punch.  That is a great little punch.  I save all my scraps, and I find that sometimes little punches that I have (mainly contraband) do not punch thin pattern paper very well.  The edge's don't come out crisp and sharp.  This little guy punches them like butter and they look great!  I think you will be seeing a lot more hearts in my "free" box with a $50.00 order.  Oh....I am working on some new things for the box.  I ran a whole bag of clear packaging that Lady Di saved for me, through the Big Shot with a flower die and I am stamping the cut out flower's with Stazon.  You are going to love them.  After I get some more done, I will try to take a photo of them.  I am not sure if they will photograph well, but I will give it a shot!  I hope you are all stamping up a storm!!!  I would love to see what you are doing....bring it to Sandy's party Feb 8th for show and tell!

Yes....I am still alive!

Hello!  I am sorry I haven't posted for a few days.  On Wednesday I went to a quilt shop that I had not been to before in Menasha, and boy it was a nice one.  I throughly enjoyed it.  My quilting friends out there...if you want to make a road trip over there, I am game!  It is called Primitive Gatherings Quilt Shop.  When I was wandering around the store, I saw that there were some pattern's and book's with the same name on them so I asked if they designed, and they said that the owner Lisa Bongean does.  They had some beautiful samples made up of her work.  I asked if they were at Quilt Expo and the gal said that they were.  They also have a website and do a mail order business.  The store is two large floors, and I saw a gal doing packaging at one end of  the basement.  They have fabric, quilt books, and patterns, some notions, and novelty things, candles, rug hooking supplies, wool, punch needle, lots of embroidery and embroidery and applique patterns.  A real feast for the eye's for a needle worker like me.  Here is some more information if you are interested in going there or to see the website.  The phone number is 920-722-7233.  The address is 850 Racine St., Menasha, WI 54952.  The website is www.primitivegatherings.us

I have some other news to share too.  If anyone is interested in getting into the ceramic business, you can contact Rick or Diane at American Auto Body, 339-7400.  You could set up a complete ceramic business, as they have a kiln, ton's of mold's and supplies.  For more information, contact them and they would be happy to talk to you about it.

Yesterday was Diane's birthday and I made her a pistachio torte for her birthday.  I spent the afternoon and evening with her.  We were playing down in her stamping room, and having fun coming up with nutty idea's for a birthday card that she is working on for her sister.  I was working on coloring images, and hope to work on putting together some cards with them soon.  We also watched a new DVD she had bought on projects that were made using the Cricut.  There was some pretty cute stuff on it.  We had supper at the restaurant on13 & 21 then went back to her house to play some more.  I blew in here around 9:30 last night after a fun day.  Happy Birthday Di!  Wishing you many more birthday's on the Route 66!!!!

Doris party was lots of fun, and everyone loved the little pincushion, door prizes, and samples that I had made.  This is one of the samples I had done.  The designer paper on this card is all sparkly and glittery and everyone fell in love with that too!  Doris is getting lot's of free stuff and is very happy about that.

We started booking parties for this year and are filled through May right now so that is great!  We always have so much fun.  These are held at the church and everyone is welcome to come.  We would love to have you join us!  It was so good to see all my buddy's again!

Freezin' Season

Happy Sunday!  Diane and I started the day with church and then went to Family Affair for breakfast.  We each commented that it had been along time since we had breakfast out.  I had my usual Ham & Cheese Omelet, Hash browns & Homemade Toast.  Di checked out my samples for Doris party and gave me a "thumbs up" on them.  She thought they were adorable.  I cut out a bunch more ponytails after she left, sewed a few, and then headed downstairs.  I did some stamping tonight.  I made a few more samples and this card.  This card is done in Elegant Eggplant, and Pretty in Pink.  If you are coming to Doris party, you will be able to see this one in person.  I used the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, 2 new stamp sets from the Occasion Mini.  One is called Well Scripted, the other is called I (Heart) Hearts.  I bought both of these in the new Clear-mounts.  I left a few unmounted so that I can show you how to mount them.  The cases are very slim, labeled on the front and on the spine.  An excellent storage system.  I have quite a few sets of contraband stamps from different companies and no one out there has a system as good as these new boxes.  If you are a clear stamp person, you are going to love them.  And.....they stamp just as good as our wood mounted stamps.  You will still be able to purchase the wood mounted stamps if you decide that you want to stick with those.  But it is nice that they are now offering us a choice.  I also used a clip from the Clip Assortment on page 179 and the large heart punch, the scalloped edge punch, and 1/8" hand held punch.  Stay warm!