I placed my order...

I received a call today so I could place my order for my SIX FREE stamp sets for winning the contests last month...Here is what I ordered...

All In The Family

Wonderful You

Flower Fancy

A Rose Is A Rose

Taffy Alphabet

Ticker Tape Alphabet

$228.70 worth of FREE stamps...now I will just have to put them together...I wish the Aplhabets were die cut already...That would be GREAT! Oh Well...I will just have to put them together siting in front of the TV...

Here is another card for you...YEP...I once again used the Top Note Die...

Can you tell it's my favorite? I loaned it out last Sunday to my upline so she could use it for her Founder's Circle swaps...do you think I could use another die? Apparently not! I haven't touched my Big Shot since last weekend...BUT that is going to change tomorrow...I have some ideas with the Envelope Die that I can't wait to play around with...so until nexttime...Happy Stamping!

I WON...I WON...I can't believe I WON!!!

Hey...I just received an e-mail from Stampin' UP! and I won TWO of the September Contests...I am SO excited!!! Here is the scrapbook page that I sent in for the Accent Your Memories contest.

This is a photo that I took of Reilly a few months ago in our backyard. I used the Define your Life stamp set to describe him and his personality. The Life is Good is mounted onto the Top Note shape and I added Crystal Effects and Microbeads for texture.

I also sent in the card in the previous post for the Rub It On contest...and I won that one TOO...the only difference is, that in the card I posted I used the white rub-on on the black cardstock and on the card that I sent into Stampin Up! I used the black rub-on on Kraft cardstock...I am so excited to win another SU! contest, but to win TWO in the SAME month...I am over the moon...Now all I need to do is go and pick out my 6...YES SIX...FREE Stamp Sets...which ones should I choose???? Which ones would YOU choose...Help me decide...I have so many stamps already!

4 September 2008

LOVE this bear! I think that he is such a CUTE and GRUMPY little animal...He looks a bit menacing, but he just LOVES me too...I found this rub-on last week in my stash of stuff and as soon as I read it, I wanted to use it with the bear...I think he's so cute...even my DH liked this card. What do you think?

Well..I went to the doctor for my follow-up yesterday from my surgery last week. I thought that I was going to be able to go back to work next week...NOT...he wants me to stay home until Oct 1st...which means I will have LOTS of time to stamp! I am looking forward to that...I have gotten so much done this week, and I have had such a good time doing it...I would love to do this full-time I just need to clear about $2000.00 a month which is just not possible right now...oh well...I guess that I will just have to keep my day job...Happy Stamping and come back soon!

Told you there was more...

I have been off of work,the last couple of weeks, as I had surgery...so I have been stamping up a storm! Here is one of the FIRST sets that I HAD to have from the Fall/Winter Catalog. I LOVE this set, as do my teenagers.

I used the Big Shot Top Note Die to make the card and added the Skull from the Just Jawing Stamp Set...My girls LOVED this card...and I think it turned out pretty cute too!...Come back soon as I still have TONS of cards to show you!

Come back tomorrow...there's more to share...

Hey...I found these cards on my Computer and I hadn't shared them yet. These are some of the cards that I swapped at Convention this year.

Make sure you check back tomorrow as I have been creating this last week and I have LOTS more to show you!

Another Challenge from Kristina...

Here is another Color Inspiration challenge from Kristina...

AND...here is what I came up with. I was really happy to have this to do today. I had surgery on Monday and a large order from SU! delivered yesterday, so I really wanted to stamp and this afternoon I was felling a bit better, so I did. I only took me about 5 hours to make this card, but I got it done...So what do you think? I really liked the button with the brad in the holes...I thought that was genius on my part...BUT...maybe it was all the drugs I'm on...those narcotics can do a number on ya sometimes...

Riverton Tour highlights

On Wednesday...Check in Day, after our 2 hour wait in line for Momento Mall and the non-existant line for picking up our Convention tote...we went out and got onto the bus for our 11:00 Stampin' Up! Riverton Tour. This was a tour of the home office of SU! and the Distribution Center where all of our goodies are shipped from...Here is Mary waiting in line to get on the bus.

Once we got to Riverton whcih was about 20-30 minutes away from the Convention Center...I lost track of the time as I was looking at the NEW catalog...We went in and looked through the Legacy Display Rooms...The rooms are little settings of how we could use SU! products and our unlimited imaginations to create and decorate things...Here are some photos of things that I REALLY liked and I would LOVE to duplicate some of them...

Here is the first thing that I LOVED...This advent calendar...it was really BIG...and so cute...might have to make myself one...

On the wall by the Calendar were these stars...and being from TEXAS...ya'll know that we LOVE our STARS...Might have to make me some of these to have laying around here in CA...reminders of home and all...

On the floor in this room was a little stand with more stars and some cute little paper ornaments, that we now know were made with some of our new dies for the Sixxix Big Shot.

On around the corner was another "room" and I really fell in LOVE with some of the pieces. Here is a really simple one framed nicely and it just makes a nice decoration.

Then right beside that was THIS...How simple is this??? TOO Cute!! I might have to find one of these bell jars at IKEA tomorrow...I am hoping...but don't quote me on this because I have no 'extra' knowledge...that these butterflys are going to be new dies for the Big Shot...LOVE the one on the front of the new catalog.

How about this SIMPLE decorting idea...Photos in glass jars...the glass jars magnify the photos just a bit...I need to do this...one for each kid.

Underneath the shelf that the last two items were sitting on was a bench...between the bench and the shelf was this large piece of sheet metal with S, M, T, W, T, F, S with magnets and clips...CUTE...CUTE...CUTE!! to keep your week straight so you don't forget anything!

Only took a couple of photos in this room. I really liked how they put the leaves under the clear plates on the dining room table.

AND...How about this SIMPLE trick...DS paper on old door panels...

The next room was a sewing/crafty room...Loved how they wrapped the ribbon and DS Papers around the wooden spools.

And how about this 'faux' window...curtain valance is DS papers...

Here is one last one from this room...LOVED this shelf, LOVED EVERYTHING on this shelf...just wish it was in my house and I could have someone come in and dust it off once a week so it would stay looking this nice!

Here is another cute room. This room was done using stamps and acrylic paints...LOVE the border at the top!

OKAY...Here was my FAVORITE thing that we saw in the Legacy Display Rooms...LOVE this old glass paneled door with the DS Papers, Photos and the Decor Elements word 'happiness'. I SO want to recreate this. I have the word 'family', DS Papers, and plenty of photos...all I need is the door...I just need to find someplace in Sacramento, CA that I can get an OLD door CHEAP! Leave me a comment if you know of someplace!

Then we went on through the facility and I took a couple of photos of the Distribution Center. This is where ALL of the SU! orders are shipped from...

We had told them as the boxes were rolling past us on the line that a few of them were being shipped to the WRONG address...they needed to come here...to my house...to await my return so I could play with the stuff...we got to look down in them...most of the stuff that was being ordered was retiring stuff so it didn't hurt my feelings TOO much when the boxes went on to their rightful demos...

Well...I hope you enjoyed the photos of the Riverton Legacy room and the whole TWO photos of the Distribution Center...we had a really good time and I am looking forward to seeing what new stuff they have in store for us in the Legacy Room next year! Thanks for sticking with me during this LONG post...Happy Stamping!

A Couple of my Swap Cards...

Here are a couple of the cards that I swapped this year...



I did the SCS Dinner swap, and three other "Organized" swaps and I received some Great cards. There is lots of new inspiration floating around in my Stamp Studio. I just wish that I could sit and play...but NO...I gotta go to work. Today I need to clear out my Studio and get ready for my package that is arriving tomorrow from Stampin' Up!. I ordered the NEW SU! Big Shot and a few of the dies...they will be here tomorrow and I want to play...so today I have to clean, clear and make a home for my new Big Shot to live...I can't wait for it to arrive!


Yes...that is one of the things that was announced at Convention. Stampin Up! is now carrying the Sixxix Big Shot. We will also have EXCLUSIVE dies that you can order to match some of the new stamp sets...Well...I hope that you enjoyed the carde this morning...check back later today for more...

Where have I been...you ask?

The last month has gone by so FAST! I have been working on Convention swaps, Downline & Roomate gifts, and other misc. projects...so my blogging has been non-existant for the last month...then my Laptop's Screen went out...so...I didn't have a computer for the last week before Convention. Kirk (my DH) kindly gave me his laptop that we had purchased before he deployed in Jan and he will just buy a new one before he deploys again next year...Now onto Convention chatter...

WOW...WOW...WOW...I had a GREAT time. I flew out from Sacramento, CA and got to SLC on Tuesday. I was met at the

By My Momma...

She is a demonstrator in my Downline. She had driven in from North Texas to go to Convention with me this year...I was ambushed in the lobby...

We went up to our room on the 2nd floor...which was GREAT as we didn't HAVE to wait for the elevators once the hotel filled up with all the other demos, and SU! staff...we could just take the stairs...One of the other ladies in my Downline...Mary...joined us later that afternoon once her flight arrived from Austin, TX...

Check back tomorrow for more...It's getting late and I need to get to bed...I will share a couple of my swap cards that I made with you then...

Color Inspiration Challenge #14

Well...when I got up yesterday morning and checked out ALL of my favorite blogs and websites...Here is what I found...Kristina is challenging people again, so I decided to play along. I LOVED the inspiration photos...all balck, white and gray, so I stuck with that and made my card last night during the commercials of my shows...

I really like how it turned out...Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Gray with a bit of bling and frill thrown in...I know my teenagers liked it....So what do you think?

I am so excited...

I entered Kristina's Inspiration Challenge #13...I didn't get into her top 10, but my cards was one of the 10 random ones she featured...CHECK IT OUT HERE... http://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog/ ...it is the very last one in the 10 random cards...YEAH!!!

Now onto some other stuff...Here is a project that I made a couple of months ago...

A couple of them have been featured on SU!'s Stamper's Showcase...I am missing photos of two of the cards, but I thought that ya'll might like to see a few more of them. I used the Messenger Accents & Elements and the Hi & Hello stamp set...Let me know if you have any questions... Happy Stamping!!

Color Inspiration Challenge #13

Here is the inspiration for my card. I have wanted to participate in these challanges since they began, as I LOVE Kristina's simple style, but as I have been working so much overtime, they just end to quickly for me to, UNTIL NOW! Overtime is no more...I am done...it has FINALLY ended and I can get back to what I LOVE...stamping! Here is one of the first cards I have made in OVER six weeks...talk about withdrawl...

So what do you think...I hope you like it...keep checking back as I have LOTS to post from before the overtime started and a few cards that I have made in the last couple of days...I will also be starting to share my Artisan Award entries soon. Most of them have been featured on SU!'s Stamper's Showcase...there is still one Scrapbook Page and my 3-D items still left to be unveiled, but all of the others have been show, so i will show them here soon...Check back soon!!

A Little Birdie Told Me...

That I CAN'T have BlogSpot...auto post...so I am gonna try typing up my posts ahead of time and saving them as drafts and just hitting the "PUBLISH" button every morning...but I am not going to make any guarentees...and here I thought that I had a solution for my non-publishing self...Self...just set it up once a week...it should be automated...NOPE...just like our computer system at work...that part is BROKE!! Nope it has the option for you to set it all up to publish at a later date...but then you you hit PUBLISH and expect it to go into the line of your posts and publish on the day and time that you have it all set up for....BUT...BLOGSPOT mocks you...yep...it stares back at you from your computer screen and says "Ha, Ha, HA, HAAAHAAA"...you wanted to do what? I don't think sooo...SO, I am back to trying to rember to hit the Publish button every morning, but I will have most of the post typed up from the weekend...so we will see how this works out...

Onto the card...Yep...A Little Birdie Told Me...I LOVE THIS STAMP SET...it is SO darn cute and so easy to use...A bit of coloring, with some DS Paper and ribbon thrown in and you are all done...

Here is the card that I did for my February workshops...we used the Sticky Letters - we used the heart - and the "Short & Sweet" stamp set to make this CUTE Valentines Day card...We used the Bead Duos in red. Everyone who made this card really liked it as it was very tactile...So what do you think?

Here's what I'm gonna try...

I have such GREAT intentions of posting everyday, but life ALWAYS seems to get into the way...so here's what I', gonna try...I am going to try to set my posts up once a week and have them AUTO post everyday...So I will try this and hopefully since I only have to do it once week...I can be more diligent in getting it done...

So here is my first AUTO post...

Here is a photo of my "TREAT CLASS" that is scheduled for this weekend...if you are interested in attending please leave a comment with your e-mail address and I will send you the details...We will be making THREE diffrent items with CHOCOLATE treats inside...A cute Box, A Baid Aid Tin and a Treat-a-Lope...Even the chocolate coordinates with the projects...See you tomorrow...

Good Morning...

Here is a card that I made for a swap a couple of months ago...I am running late for work so no chatter today...

OOPS...Missed yesterday...

BUT...I will make up for it today and post TWO cards...Here are the other two cards for my Basic Stamping 101: Watercolor Wonder Crayons Class...well...I am running late, so just a quick post this morning...ENJOY!!

A Stamping Fool....

I did a TON of stamping this weekend and ya'll would be SO proud...I actually took photos of everything that I had done AND all of the stuff that I have stamped in the last month or so...so check back often. I am trying to get back into posting daily...

Here is one of the cards that we will be making this week at my Basic Stamping 101 class. We will be learning to use the Watercolor Wonder Crayons...check back tomorrow...I will be showing you another card from this class...

I know...I know...it's been TOO LONG...about three weeks since I posted last, but life keeps getting in the way. I have decided to blog first thing in the morning instead of leaving it until I get home from work...we'll see if this gets better.

I do have quite a bit of stuff to take photos of and post...it's just getting it done.

I even submitted my items to the Artisan Award contest again this year, but I don't have my hopes up. I know that I submitted some spectacular stuff last year and was really dissapointed when I didn't win...and even more dissapointed when I did see what entries had won...not that they weren't great entries also, just that mine were on par with them...but you never know what they will be looking for...so maybe this year!

Enjoy the card this morning and look for another one tomorrow........Twila