It's A Plan Clip Board

This is what I made for Nadine for her hostess gift for hosting her party this month.  I used the stamp set It's A Plan and stamped To Do List's for her and also underneath are a sheets that I stamped with the flip side of this stamp to plan out your week.  This stamp set will be soon retiring....you only have a few more days to order it.  It will be retiring on June 30th. If you are interested in ordering it, click on the link on the upper right hand corner of my blog and it will take you to my Stampin' Up site and online store.  I can see lots of uses for this set.  I used Razzleberry Lemonade designer paper to make the clip board with and covered my chipboard front and back.  I also covered the office clip with matching paper and tied ribbon into little bows on it.  To finish it off I used the stamp Fresh Cuts to stamp "for you" on a Regal Rose tag, and then attached a felt flower from Sweet Pea.  I used Baroque Motifs to stamp the swirl on the front sheet with Regal Rose ink, and more of the Sweet Pea felt along the bottom of the clip board.  Nadine really liked it.

Owl Tag

Hello-  I must be getting relaxed as I am sure am getting sleepy.  A quick blog post and then off to bed!  This is the tag that I made for Jenna's baby quilt package.  I made her tags instead of cards so that she could use them in Mason's baby book &/or scrapbook.  And I love to make tags.  I am hoping to have a play day soon to just fiddle around and make a bunch.

Diana made us her famous tuna fish sandwiches today.  She loves to make her "secret" recipe for us.  We worked on finishing up Jenna's big pile of thank you cards late this afternoon and evening.  I have 44 boxed up for her.  We will take them to Madison tomorrow when we meet Jenna.  Jacqueline came over tonight and she helped us with finishing the last of them and then we worked on punching out a bunch of scraps and we sent we the ones we punched home with Jacqueline so that she and Brittany will have some embellishments to work with.  Jacqueline said to me, "I could do this kind of stuff all day long".  I said me too.  That is my kind of girl!  Brittany was sick and was upset that she couldn't come.  I told Jacqueline to tell her not to worry about it, they are welcome to come any time.  They are such good girls.  Diana thinks it is pretty cool that they have chickens and wants to go out to see them.  She has decided that she would like to move up her so that she can have a chicken.  What a nut.  I can hardly wait till her parents hear that one.  She told me that her mother asked her what she likes the most that I cook while she is here and she told her beer bread!  Oh my...what a good impression.....LOL  I said to her what did she about that, and she said her mom makes things with wine and beer too so she didn't care.  WHEW!!!~  I thought she had me in trouble for sure!  (Like that would be the first time!)  Good night!  Elaine

Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man...

It's a rainy day in Friendship, WI.  Let's hope it keeps raining and that it get's the rain out of it's system before the weekend so it is nice for the flea market.  I am cleaning out a few stamping things so you may want to stop down and take a look.
Melissa stopped over this morning for a little visit before her hair appointment.  After she left I started decorating the baby shower cake and I have that all done except for the baby buggies I want to make for the top of it.  Hence the patty cake...can you tell I am excited about playing that with the new baby!?!?!  Actually I will get to do that next week at the baby shower in Milwaukee for Jenna with little Saul.  He is now 2 but he loves when I play patty cake with him as no one else does.  I had just finished cleaning up the table from the cake decorating and Sandy Wellumson was over for a visit and to place an order.  After she left I got the order put in and then headed up town.  I had hoped to get to the bank before it closed but no such luck.  I decided that I needed some Hershey's Kisses so picked some up at the Family Dollar store, which I have discovered to be the cheapest place in town to buy them and they are fresh.  An important thing for a chocolate lover!  Any whoo...while I was there I asked if they had any of those touch circles/lamps that people put in closets that run on batteries.  The one clerk said no and then the other remembered that they had them in the baby section and asked if I minded if it was tinker bell.  I said no, I didn't care.  But when I got over there, I discovered that they had Cinderella, my favorite Disney character.  Perhaps I like Cinderella because  I am still waiting for Prince Charming to come and rescue me....LOL  Not much chance of that happening any time soon, so I will happily stay in my own castle.
I may have told you this before, but when I was five my dad told me that if I learned how to tell time he would buy me a watch.  So I quickly learned how to tell time and I got a beautiful Cinderella watch with a pretty blue leather band.  I wore it for a long time and it finally stopped.  I really wish I would have kept it as I absolutely loved that watch.  You are probably wondering what this has to do with the tea of china as I have been rambling on, and you are probably wondering why I wanted the touch lamp.  Well this winter, the interior lights in the van went out. All of them, so if you go any where at night and you open the door to the van, you can't see a thing.  Or if you come home at night, like after stamp camp, I have to park by the back door, turn on the outside light, to be able to see to unloaded the vehicle. The dash lights work fine but none of the interior lights.  I haven't been able to get it fixed, and when Kim and I were going to Mauston last week I had mentioned it to her, and she said she had the same thing happen with her car and she had bought one of those touch lamps and put it in her car and it worked great.  So for $1.50 I now will have a light in my van and if you ride with me, you will now know why Cinderella is sitting on the dash!  I told Di about my Cinderellie lamp tonight and she thought that was quite funny.  So how do you like my stamping project today!?!?!  Didn't these turn out cute!?!?  It is a set of 3 mini note cards and envelopes.  This will be one of the prizes at the baby shower.  I think I will make some to sell also, when I find the time!

Recipe: Stampin' Up! stamp sets: FYI, Baroque Motifs, Priceless, Card Stock: Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, DSP: Cottage Wall. Ink Orchid Opulence, 3" x 3" Square Envelopes, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Scalloped Circle Punch, Circle Scissor Plus and Glass Mat, Dimensionals, scoring tool, mat pack and piercer

Baroque Motif/Always/Embrace Life

Good Afternoon! I thought I would quick do a blog post before Molly comes back. She is being my lovey dovey cat today. She keeps hopping up on the computer desk, giving me kisses and wanting to be petted. She is a little lover and I suppose I was gone too much this weekend to suit her. She needs her petting and the rest of the world is suppose to stand still when she wants it! LOL I do love her and it is great to be loved!

I have been cleaning and trying to get things caught up today. I don't know what they are doing over by the new ambulance building but I can hear and feel the heavy equipment rumbling and it is driving me nuts. Or they could be working on West Street as they have stakes all over the place and they are suppose to do work on it, sooner or later. I may have to run away from home as the noise and vibrations are triggering a migraine and I felt excellent until a couple of hours ago. I think I will go outside and get the mail and see if I can tell what is going on. All I can see from in the house is a Semi with a big flat bed trailer that you would haul a Cat or something on. I will give you an update later! Have a good one! Me

Recipe: Stamp Sets: Baroque Motif, Always, and Embrace Life. Ink: Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, and Black Stazon. Dimensionals. Pretty in Pink Button. Crochet Thread. Glue Dots.

Jenna stamps her first cards!

Jenna asked me to teach her how to make some greeting cards as she had never made any cards before. She is a scrapbooker. The first one I had her do similiar to a thank you card that I had made for Sarah to use for her wedding shower gifts. We recreated it in different colors. Then the second card Jenna created herself. She signed up to be a Stampin Up Demonstrator and she wants to make cards to sell in her spare time and do a few parties. I also taught Diana (Antonio's daughter how to make a card too and she did a wonderful job. But I didn't have time to shoot a picture of it as I needed to get on the road to come home before the weather got bad. Diana gave it to Jenna for her birthday and Jenna loved it. She told me that she was going to scrapbook her birthday cards!

Shower Invitations

Here are some pictures of the invitations I made for Sarah and Zach's wedding shower. Sarah just loves this swirly stamp! It is from the stamp set Baroque Motifs. The fancy scroll on the top of the invitation is from Frames with A Flourish. It matches the swirl so nicely! It gives things an elegant look. The tag and the stamping inside the invitation is from the set Please Come.

January 08 Stamp Camp Pictures

These are the projects we did at stamp camp this month. We would love to have you join us....give me a call!