Kids back in School

The kids are back in school and it's about time. Yesterday I had to seperate them all day. Thank god the phone rang for one to go on a play date, so we phone for a friend to come over and entertaine my other lovely child and they invited her to their house. Yay!! kid free for an afternoon. I did the groceries, dear hubby cleaned the entire house. I got supper going, Rachel Ray's turkey burgers. MMMM they are good. Our bbq is put away for the winter but i just cooked them on the George Foreman and they still turned out great. Also made a Bacon, cheese and mac for supper tonight's dinner. Another Rachel Ray recipe. Both kids were home by 4pm and they were not in the house together more than 3o minutes and the war started all over again. I was doing the happy dance this morning, singing , school again, school again..... my kids just rolled their eyes at me. LOL As for scrapbooking goes, I did get another layout done but that's about it. Hopefully this week I can post some pics of my work for you to see. I'm so busy trying to get my son's birthday party put together. So far all I've got done is the guest list and I bought the cake mix and icing. He wants a Nerf gun party. My hubby has the keys to his school so we will do it in the gym. I pray that our store in town has enough small Nerf gun and darts, that would be the loot bag. I figured they have enough candy from Halloween and Christmas that just the Nerf gun would be fine. My son only want vanilla cupcakes so I'll make the tops look like a dart board and I'll stick a Nerf dart in the red center. His invites are being done on the computer. I googled an image of Nerf and I'm going to print it up. Wish me luck!!

Happy New Year

I'd like to wish everyone a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I have made a new year's resolution to start up my blog again. I'll try and keep it updated with many new projects I have done. Another resolution is to pay more attention to my Stampin Up goals. I hope to make this my best year in sales to date. Wish me luck!! I just opened up a new Stampin Up web page to make it easier for my fellow Canadians to shop with me. Please don't be shy and visit my site. Hope you all have the best crafting year ever!!!

Looking for Recruits for Stampin Up

If there are any Canadians out there looking to be Stampin Up demo's please email me, I'd more than happy to sign you up. It's a great second income or a great way to get discounts on your favorite Stampin Up products. Hope to hear from you. LeeAnn

World's Worst Blogger

I feel so horrible that I've let my blog go. So sorry for not posting in some time. Life, family, children, work is my excuse. I have done very little scrapbooking and card making since February. I did go to a crop in April and I'll be going to another one this weekend. Hopefully my mojo will come back. I hope to post some of my lastest creations for you to see within the next few days. Please come back and see what i've posted. I'd love to hear your comments.

Feeling the Love for Valentines

I bought the new basic grey card kit for valentines day and it was so nice not to think!! I love all the designs and pattern papers. It was lots of fun to do. I asked dh to take them to work and sell them to his co-workers.

Baby Boy Card

My friend wanted me to make her a card for a baby boy. I love my SU stamp set Bundle of Joy so this is what I was able to create with scraps I had and the template I got from a talented lady at splitcoaststampers. I coloured my image with SU markers and the blender pen.

Purple Bling Birthday

I made this birthday card for a client and she wanted it to be purple with flowers and lots of bling. So this is what I came up with. All supplies used for this card was in my stash or scrap pile. I use a SU stamp called "merci". I used my blender and SU markers to colour my image. I really love this set. What set dont I love?? LOL

Love is in the air

I've had lots of fun playing with the new stamp set "Love You Much" and it's matching 3 hearts punch. Cardstock is also from SU. The pattern paper is retired from SU. (sorry trying to use up stash). Ribbon is from my stash. I hope you enjoy them.

I was in this green and pink mood day when I was asked to make a card by two different clients. The first card I used some basic grey pattern paper couple with some SU green cardstock and stamps and scallop and star punch. Of course I had to add some bling also. The second card I used all the same pattern papers and cardstock and used some green fibers to accent the card. I really liked making these cards. Something about the colour combo that was just so soothing.

January Wedding

A client of mine had a winter wedding to attend and wanted something unique to go with her wedding theme. This is the card I came up with, I got my insperation from a talented lady over at splitcoaststamper. The poem I found online. I hope the bride likes her card. I cut the heats out with my cricut. I also embossed the envelope to make it match. Enjoy.

Sympathy card

A very dear friend of mine had a miscariage and I found this poeam that I loved so I made her this sympathy card to show her that I cared. The cardstock is SU and the butterfly is also a SU image. I have fallen head over heals for the cuttle bug embossing folders. On the front cover is one of there many images. I can't wait to get my hands on the new SU embossing plates. They have some yummy designs. Enjoy.

Blossoms and Butterflies - Not SU related

I've been busy the last couple of months creating cards for clients. Here are some projects that I have been work on. The paper I used here was from a stack called "Blossoms and butterflies". Enjoy Lookings.

Wow! It's been so long!!

I've been away for a long time. Life!! Children!! Hubby!! House management!! seem to have taken over and I never had time to attend to my blog. I hope that things will settle down a bit and I can post more of my creations for you to see. I'm still doing Stampin Up and I may be adding new card kits to my lists of things to do. So please be patient while I trie to remember how to link and post on my blog. I'm not very good with computers so it takes me some time to figure things out. LOL Have a great week. LeeAnn

Counting down the days!!

In three weeks I leave for a four day, three night camp crop at Billowood Lodge with my scrap booking girlfriends. I'm so excited to leave, I've been counting down the weeks since July. I've started putting some kits together but I'll end up bringing everything I own plus the kitchen sink I think. We are 6 that go and we need to travel two per vehicle because we have so much stuff BTW all of us. We have been attending this crop for four years now. I hope the hostess never decides to stop running it, or I'll have to take it over! (Maybe) it's a lot of work. LOL Our hostess does an amazing job organizing this crop and getting prizes. I hope to get pics from my girlfriends to post here when we get back. Remember I have no camera for the time being. Totally sucks. I've been doing lots of blog searching and I found some pretty cool blogs that I'll be posting on the side so make sure to go and check them out. I'll have to go and look at some older scrapbooking pages and cards I've done that have been saved to add them to my blog. Kinda boring with pics don't you think. Going to help out a girlfriend tonight with a recipe box she is creating for her sister's wedding gift. I think it's such a wonderful gift idea. She used only old family recipes her mom made from their childhood till today. That's so sweet and sentimental.

No time for creating

I feel so overwhelmed that my mojo has disappeared for awhile. Traveling to Toronto with the kids to visit friends and Ontario Place, then helping my brother move to his new beautiful home. No time for crafting. Also another bummer is my digital camera broke and it's gone for repairs and it might be two months before I get it back. So I wont be able to post any pics until my camera comes back. I will keep you updated with any news or events with Stampin Up or myself. Hopefully the mojo returns and a fixed camera comes home soon. School starts tomorrow and my kids are so ready and very excited. They love school. I love that they love school. Makes my like so much easier in the mornings. Well need to get to bed because 7am will be here soon.

Note cards gallore

For an incentive at my SU party next week, I made these little note cards for the guest that spend $40.00 or more. They will get 5 cards, 5 envelopes in a clear bag with a 12 inch SU ribbon tied around it.

Note card with 3D scallop flower

This little note card will be my make and take at my SU demo next week. Materials are SU long scallop note cards, versa mark and a SU stamp, SU real red ink, SU pattern paper and a misc. brad., SU real red ribbon

Stampin Up scallop punch 3-D flower

First punch out four scallop circles. (Stampin Up used here) then fold three of the circles in half

cut the three fold circles in half, you should have six half's of a scallop circle

take all six half's and roll them into cones the same size. Then with the seam in the middle press flat.

The use the fourth scalloped circle to place your flat cones on. I used red to it easier for you to see. Glue you cones seam down. Place a medium size brad in the middle. Use something with a rounded end, (I used my poker) to open up your cones.

Voila!!! Hope this tutorial was helpful.

My Out of the Box challenge

I made this card with a stamped image that was raked to me from a two peas friend. The background stamped image was the one for the challenge. I is a really cool stamp. So many possibilities. I coloured the image with my pure colour pencils from SU and them used paper pencil stubs dipped in odourless mineral spirits and rubbed over the colouring. It gives a nice soft blended effect. This was my first try at this technique, hope to practice this more often.

More Christmas cards (part 3)

This card is stamped with the new hostess stamp from the fall/winter catalogue that will be coming out on Aug.11th 2008. I'm very excited to see all the other new items that will be in it.

Love the non traditional colours in this card, the snowflake stamps are also Stampin Up. This was a lift from my card magazine. This is other snowman stamp from Stampin Up, using up more of my scrap for this card. I also did some sewing machine stitching on this card This card is made with snowman pattern paper that I just punch out with my circle punch. Stamped on SU snowflakes on the background card stock This Christmas tree was cut from my cricut and I added red strips with bling, the stitching is done with my white gel pen. This was a lift from my card magazine.

Hope you enjoyed these cards.