Card Class TODAY!!!!

Hey, everyone!

I made some thank you notes for my customers this month. I asked my daughter which ink to use with my new PWP stamp and she said Orangerie and I loved it! I grabbed some white cardstock, black cardstock and my now retired paper pack Finger Paints. I love the bright colors in that pack! This thank you card looks very fall-ish, huh? LOL This stamp is only $2.95 with any $30 order and while the Double the Fun Promotion is going on, you can purchase TWO PWP for every $30 order!
I am having a card class at my home today! There are six ladies coming and I am so excited! I can hardly wait! Here are the cards we will be making.

The card on the left is using the Good Timber stamp set and Burnt Umber Palette Hybrid Ink. The designer paper is Amberley Grace.

The card on the right features the Sweet Goodies and Tag Tidbits stamp sets. I stamped the "box image" in Burnt Umber and the sun image and sentiment in Orangerie Palette Hybrid Ink. The designer paper is Amberley Grace as well. I used my circle punch and two scalloped square punches. All is available from The Angel Company.

These are the other two cards we're making today! I used the Gerbera Daisy stamp for the focal image. I stamped it in L'Amore Red and Viridian Leaf Palette Hybrid Ink. The sentiment is from Build-A-Flower and I stamped it in the same ink colors.
The card on the right is another Amberley Grace designer paper card. I stamped stars from the Wild West stamp set and the Just A Note sentiment is from Tag Tidbits. All can be purchased from TAC.

If you would like to purchase a card kit for these four cards, leave me a comment or e-mail me at hoosier_card_angel@yahoo.com and I will be happy to get these mailed out to you. The cost is $10 for the kit if you are local and can meet me for pick up. If you would need these mailed out it would be $10 plus shipping costs. I do accept paypal but no credit cards please.

Have a great day!

Hugs,

Fun Challenge!

Hey, everyone!

It's March 1!!!! Is that not crazy??? Wow! Looking back over the past couple months, I have been really busy but it was doing fun things so I haven't felt stressed or frustrated like I did a lot last year. It is great to work on fun things again and only the challenges I want to do!!! Speaking of fun things and challenges...I have some fun things to share with you today and part of it is a new challenge I accepted!!! Here we go:

I apologize for the blurry photo! I don't know why my camera does that sometimes. I kept adjusting the settings and it still wouldn't work properly! This is the prize package I am splitting up for Christina and Brenda since they tied for leaving me the most comments on my blog this month...21 EACH! Thank you ladies! I hope you enjoy your gifts!!! I will e-mail you to let you know when I have mailed your packages to you!
Have you seen this book before? I got it for only ONE DOLLAR at the Dollar Tree! I was so excited. I have seen some episodes of Knitty Gritty on television before and LOVED it so I looked through the book quickly and there's so many fun patterns in this book! I had to snatch it up!!! Yay! It's a great book with a really kewl system to rate each project. Most will say beginner, intermediate, advanced but she rates her projects in terms of how long it takes each project like: PLAYDATE, WEEKEND AT NANA'S, SUMMER CAMP so I thought that was kewl! Speaking of knitting, I have managed to knit a few more rows while Kadesia was at gymnastics and then a little today while I was waiting on something else. I will share a photo soon, I promise!
Yes, I know it's only March 1 and NO I am really NOT rushing Christmas along, but here's the challenge part... Last year I signed up for a Christmas card challenge but then I didn't do so well! Ugh! I just had too many other things going. This year I decided to try the challenge again. I set a goal of how many cards I want to make each month. For February, I wanted to make 3 and I did it just in the knick of time! I will sign these and address them tonight or tomorrow sometime and put them in my little holder. I am so glad I got these done!! Yay!
I designed this card so that it looks like wall paper and a window with some wall art! I hope you can "get" that from seeing it. I had a lot of fun doing this one! The stars were stamped with the star from the Wild West stamp set from The Angel Company. The snow and snowman are all sparkly with Prisma Glitter. The sky is sponged in Reflection Blue ink. The "JOY" sentiment is stamped with Iris Palette ink and the stars have my Purple Tombow marker outlined.
This is a stamp set that was offered in December. I just love this Whimsy Santa. He's so cute! I used Prisma Glitter for the snow and to outline his hat and coat. The sky is sponged with Starry Night Palette ink. The image was stamped with Noir Palette ink. The basket and wooden handles are colored in the Chestnut Memory Marker.
This card uses Burnt Umber sponged on the base card and around the script designer paper. The brown cardstock and sentiment edges also have Burnt Umber on them. I used Red and Green Tombow markers to color in the image and then L'Amour Red and Viridian Leaf for the sentiment. The sentiment is a FREE Gift With Purchase stamp that you can get with any $30 purchase!

I sure hope you have enjoyed checking out these cards today. Be sure to check back tomorrow because I will be posting the tutorial for all of you who wanted to know how to make the little box to hold the sticky note holder!

Hugs,

Valentine's Day Recap

Hey, everyone!

Well can you believe that today is February 15? That means we are past the half-way point for this month! Wow! What a great month to celebrate...love! There are so many ways to celebrate and you know I remember my mom and dad making every single holiday just extra special with little treats and things. I try to do that now with my children, too.

My daughter has given school Valentine's for 4 years now because she had 2 years of preschool, then Kindergarten and now she's in the first grade! This year I didn't want to do the traditional Valentine's you buy at the store. She loves to stamp and scrapbook and do paper crafting just like her momma so I told her we could make her own special Valentine's this year. LOL What was I thinking? LOL

These cute little boxes are really easy to make. I love the color of the paper. I had originally put peppermint patties in these kinds of boxes but I wanted Kadesia to pick the candy to put inside. We picked up fun-size Butterfinger candy bars and they fit perfectly inside! I was so excited!!!!
I saw a tutorial from one of my favorite stampers, Dawn, and came up with these Valentine's for Kadesia's classmates. She only has 5 boys in her class. The other 15 (including Kadesia) are girls. Those poor boys are outnumbered! LOL
Kadesia is very creative. I couldn't just stamp the Valentine's in black or brown ink and let her color them in, I had to use specific colors that she chose for certain areas on each stamp! I was so happy to have them all stamped! She got to color them in and she helped me assemble them.
We combined a stamp set Happy Heart Day from Stampin' Up! with a stamp set from The Angel Company called Kid Praises (T-2686). I used Sunflower ink (TT-186) on the yellow cardstock and Belle Rose (TT-193) on the pink cardstock.

This is a look from the side. It is such a fun little card and I was excited we went with the chocolate hearts because Kadesia got a lot of non-chocolate treats in her bag!

Here are the Valentine's, all ready to go in a basket.
Here is Miss Kadesia putting treats in all her classmates Valentine sacks.
Kadesia loves, loves, loves to play Bingo, so you should have seen the excitement on her face when the head room mother announced what game they would be playing!
Oh yes, that is right! She just won BINGO! She got BINGO two times!!! That lucky duck!
Here she is with her treats and her Valentine sack sitting at her desk.
Can you believe the loot? My friend and I were talking the other night about how crazy it has gotten! It looks like she's been trick-or-treating! LOL
Just so you know, I hate to have my picture taken. A room mother came over to me after seeing the Mother Paparazzi (ME, LOL) taking photos of Kadesia and asked me if she could take our picture. Ugh...okay, Jany gets all the credit on this one. I normally would have said something like no, thank you or whatever, but she reminded me that it is important to get in FRONT of the camera sometimes, too, instead of hiding behind it. Now I know I am not photogenic, but I am so glad that she did this for me. It really made me feel good because I want Kadesia to always have special memories of times I spend with her. I love her so much!!!

Do you not love this photo? Here is my entire world in one picture! The kids got Paul a little box of chocolates. It says YOU ARE A WINNER on it and has a race car with a checkered flag on it. He loved it because he is a race car driver and fan and thinks it's great that his kids have motor oil in their veins, too! LOL Just look at Kadesia such a daddy's girl! I love that!! They have the best relationship...and of course she will always have him wrapped around her little finger! I also just love Javan's face! It's so cute and unexpected...like hurry up guys, I want to see what Mommy is hiding for me!
Here's my sweet little girl! She got a High School Muscial card that plays music when you open it up. She loved that!! Then she picked out a DVD that she wanted. I remember watching Alvin and the Chipmunks when I was little so I am kind of not wanting to see this movie. I just figure it won't be anything like the cartoons I used to watch on Saturday mornings and I guess I am a little resistant to change when it comes to things like that. LOL

Javan is trying to figure out how to open his card with the "dee-bwa" on it! LOL Paul finally helped him! This is the WILD FOR YOU card I made using the WILD FOR YOU (T-2727) stamp set and the WILD WEST (T-2633) stamp set.
There was a Walmart ad laying on the chair and "Melmo" happened to catch Javan's eye. It was the Many Kisses Elmo and Javan went crazy over it. He got so excited and repeated over and over, "Melmo! Melmo! Melmo!" He was pointing with his chubby little finger at Melmo and how could I resist? I decided to get it for him!
Isn't this so sweet? Javan's leaning in to give "Melmo" a kiss! This particular Elmo is so neat because it has a lot of sweet sayings and it even sounds like it's blowing a kiss when you put his hand up to his mouth. So sweet!

Well, that is all the photos but the gifts don't end there. My mother bought me a beautiful diamond ring. I love it!!!! It's beautiful!! Did I say that already? LOL It really is! Paul put in a new exhaust fan and light in the bathroom as our other one needed to be replaced. We had dimmer switches in different rooms and I would much rather flip the switch than mess with turning the knob, which then would fall off into my hand but only if I was in a hurry and then it would mess up my nails...it never failed! So he switched all that around for me and it only took 2 trips to Lowe's! LOL I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day! I know I enjoyed being with my family. That is what I truly LOVE to do! I also got my friend, Shelly's FunShop order in from the 50% off special. It was really neat to see THAT MANY stamp sets in one box! Cutting back on the clam shell cases saves a lot of room, let me tell you! LOL But I am so glad I could meet up with you, Shelly and I hope your mom has the best birthday ever! I am looking forward to her FunShop next Saturday!!! Well, thank you for hanging out with me for a while today! You'll definitely want to come back for more fun stuff I am eager to share with you.

Hugs,

Fun Share!

Hey, everyone!

I have some fun stuff to share with you all! My friend, and fellow Angel, Mary, knows that I have had some personal issues that were going on lately and was having a rough time. She not only sent me an encouraging message on the forum at Paper Wings but she also was kind of enough to send me a RAK. Would you look at this awesome package? I love it!!!! I was so excited when I opened it and was looking through it. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MARY!!!! What a great treat! That little flip flop is so cute! I could go on and on but you can see how awesome this is!!!

Shelly had a FunShop on Saturday and let me tell you...she and her family put the FUN in FunShop! I had so much fun. I am looking forward to doing it again next month!! THANKS, SHELLY!!! Here are the cards I came up with for us to make. The first card features the WILD WEST stamp set which is 50% off today but tomorrow goes back to the original price! I used my Tombow markers, Stardust Glitter Gel Pens, Gray Tombow marker, and Treasure Seeker stamp set which is also half price today only.

The next card features the Gerbera Daisy stamp. I love it! I colored it in using my pink Tombow marker and got the two-tone effect using the blender pen that comes with the set. The image was inked using Belle Rose and Water Lily Green. The edges were sponged with Belle Rose ink. The strip of designer paper is from the Winterberry collection.

I wish you all could have been there to see all the cards these ladies made. They are very talented and I loved to see what they came up with!!!

Don't forget to check back tomorrow because we will have the last StampTACular Tuesday challenge of the month! Can you believe January is nearly over? I am surprised at how fast this month has gone! I will have one more project to share with you featuring An 'Udder Birthday stamp set. It's so cute and I just had to share with you all just how versatile it really is. I will pick a new stamp each month! Tomorrow I will tell you what stamp set we've chosen for February! See you tomorrow. Hope you'll leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Some of you wanted to place your order today to take advantage of the 50% off sale. Just give me a call and I look forward to taking care of that for you!

Hugs,

CHECK OUT MY NEW TOTE BAGS!!!

Hey, everyone!!!

Guess what I am so eager to show you??? My new tote bags from Daily Window Bags! These are soooo roomy, so nice and plenty of pockets! I love how I can display my artwork in the front of the bags. If you aren't crafty, you could always add a picture in the window and it gets zipped inside, so there's no worrying about what will happen to your beautiful cards and photos!!! Here are the photos of mine, but you HAVE to go check them out!!!


They are beautiful and I am so eager to make some artwork to carry for both of mine! The bags are even cuter in person!!!! THANK YOU DAILY WINDOW BAGS!!!!!! Click on the graphic on the right side of this page to go straight to the website!!

Here's two cards my daughter made using the Scor-Pal to make the gate-fold cards. She did a great job! And bless her heart for using up all my extra punches!!! Yay! She made her dad the card on the left and mine is the one on the right!

And before I go, I wanted to share a few cards I made today! Since the weather is a little more chilly here, it kind of reminded me of fall...my favorite season!!! So, I made a fall-ish looking card and am very pleased with it!

Thanks for looking!
Hugs,
Bridgett