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Finding the Right Pair

No stamping or crafting  yesterday for I spend the day looking for the right pair of boots for my daughter.   We started looking at Macy's and ended back at Macy's after walking and checking the inventory at every department store and every shoe store the mall has.  I must admit I do like her choice, a pair of Coach boots but vowed next year she can do her boot shopping on her own.  

Simple Gift Idea

Here is a quick little gift one can make and keep on hand, also makes great stocking stuffers.

Pads of paper can be purchased at Michaels for $1.00, and all you need to do is make a cover for them.

Emergency Holiday Gift Sets

Above is a sample of what I call "Emergency Holiday Gift Sets" that I make and  give out to family and friends for when they need a card NOW and have no time to run out and get one.   

The gift sets can have theme's as birthday, children, thinking of you, or can be grouped to make an all occasion set.  

All those cards we made for challenges,  just for fun, and our blogs fill these sets up fast.  

Simple Christmas Card

Santa

This is another image I received in an image swap that I took part in last year.  

Image: Unk; prismacolor markers; cardstock: Paper Company

Let It Snow!

I just love this little snowman and used him on many of my Christmas cards this year.  

Patterned Paper: Sweetwater; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ribbon; May Art; Gems: Hero; Glitter; Prismacolor Pens; Card stock: Bazzill and Paper Company

Celebrating the Season......

 Penguins will adorn most of my christmas cards this year.......above is one example of a card I'm making.  I used fun flock on the penguins hats to give a bit of texture to the card.  If you've never used fun flock its easy for you put glue on the area you want flocked,  sprinkle the flock on it, press gently and rub off.  

Stamps: Hero Arts; Fun Flock; gem: Hero; Prismacolor

Holiday Mail

I just love holiday mail.....what about you?  The image above is one I got in an image swap last year and I have been having fun using these images for this years holiday cards.  If anyone who stamps would like to take part in an image swap just let me know.

Christmas Tags

Last night I spent the better part of the evening making tags for Christmas gifts.  Above are two of the several idea's I came up with, however for scanning purposes I left off the ribbons that will be attached to each tag.  I detailed the hat by using Fun Flock for the fur.

Stamps: Hero Art;  Paper: Paper Studio;  Markers: Prismacolor;  Fun Flock and glitter 

OPB Stamps (Thanksgiving Theme)

Stamps by Odd Bird Planet, patterned paper: Debbie Mumm, card stock: Paper company

Halloween Night Family Photo's

Son's family on Halloween Night......
Oldest granddaughter Isabella  (A Princess)
Addison's first Halloween  6 weeks old.  (A strawberry)

Loving those cupcake stamps.....

At OBP one can purchase several cupcake stamps that have unlimited uses for making cards. One can also find an array of sentiments to match up with them.  The two different cupcakes above are my favorite ones for coloring and decorating.  Check out www.oddbirdplanet.com

3 Rail Road Engineers

It was a perfect day for the trick or treating in our area for the temperature reached 70 degrees which is very unusual at this time of year.  Above are photo's of my grandson's in the Rail Road Engineer Costume's. 

Happy Halloween

Wishing you lots of tricks, and even MORE treats! Happy Halloween ......

Think Monday....Staples

Theme this week at "Think Monday ATC's"  is to use staples on your ATC........One can use stapes to fix paper or ribbon, I used the idea to just give texture to my ATC.

Stamps: Inkadinkado, Rubber Stampede, Paper: Paper Studio, Paper Reflections, Prismacolor Pens

Celebration

Stamps: Whipper Snapper, Card stock: Paper Company, Prismacolor Pens and Glitter

Gift Card Idea......

Using left over supplies, sticker, papers and embellishments I created these gift card folders. 

The folders can be made to showcase any event or holiday for that special person.

Card Sketch A Day #54

Below was the sketch in which I created the above card from from: http://cardsketchaday.blogspot.com

Same stamp different layout.......

Stamps: mfts stamps, card stock: paper company

Holiday Card Samples

scrapbook paper: Mumm, card stock: Bazzill, ribbon: May Arts

New Stamps Arrived from OBP

9 new stamps just in this card alone.....how fun was this card to make
This card has 2 stamps that are apart of this months deal at OBP, check it out here: http://oddbirdplanet.comLove these cows....however might have pinked their nose a bit too much

All stamps are Odd Bird Planet, card stock Bazzill and Paper Company, prismacolor markers

Note Card Gift Sets for Campers

      Note Card Gift Sets.....Each set has 4 note cards 

      Sample of cards included in gift sets below..
                

My Granddaughter's

My daughter-in-law just sent me these latest photo's of my granddaughter's...how precious are these photo's.  Bella is 4 and our new little Addie is almost 1 month.  Just had to share these with all of you.  Being they live miles away and I seldom see them, I deserve bragging rights.

Noah's Ark Cards for Children

Burgoo 2008 & Starved Rock Trip

Photo's are from our recent trip to Starved Rock, the first one is my husband and our camping friends posing in front of a Halloween decoration outside Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Lodge in Utica which we found so neat. 

  Next are a few photo's of  one of the canyons that we hiked to and one can see at Staved Rock State Park.  We are standing in the one photo at the French Falls.  

We also attended the 39th Burgoo Festival while in Utica, with about 30,000 other people. The festival is held by the LaSalle County Historical Society and it is their main fund-raising event of the year.  

Burgoo is the highlight of the festival for it's a pioneer stew that  gave its name to the festival.  The stew contains beef and many kinds of vegetables and secret herbs and spices.  It is cooked outdoors over a wood-burning fire for 12 to 18 hours and volunteers stir and look over it until the festival begins.  The festival also has over 225 vendor, a flea market and craftsmen who sell 

every thing one can imagine.  Just a fun time for all.