Make a Difference

What a fun little sketch from Beate today! Really, really short with the blah, blah this morning. We’re having family day today and lots of good stuff planned. I used the Rummage Bin’s For the Men set to make a quick masculine card. The little star tag is from that set and says, ‘little cowboy, western star, sheriff wanted’. You can see other samples for this sketch from Beate’s regular girls: Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn, Mary Jo, Laurie and Sharon. I’m sure it will be well worth the click. Have a fabulous weekend!

• Stamps: For the Men & End Diamond Backgrounder - Cornish Heritage Farms
• Cardstock: Mystic Medium, Tawny Dark - Prism
• Ink: Cordouroy Distress & Espresso Adirondack and Denim Adirondack - Ranger
• Accs: Ribbon - May Arts, twine, Long Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities - Spellbinders

Do you remember my sweet friend, Jennifer, the one who loves her husband very much? I had lunch with her and 2 other friends today to celebrate the arrival of a sweet baby girl. I was in such a hurry to meet up with my friends that the picture is wonky, so excuse that, but I love these little baby girl shoes from Lesley’s Shoe Boutique set at CHF. They are just so cute to color and distress a bit. I love adding Crystal Accents to them to make them look like leather mary janes.

I’m supposed to be <insert eyeroll> working on something for dear hubby, so I’m gonna get off the computer before Wes catches me. Thanks for checking in with me, and I’ll have a sketch sample for Beate at 8:30 in the morning. Have a fabulous night!

•  Stamps: Shoe Boutique & Pretty Pattern by Cornish Heritage Farms

• Cardstock: Iced Pink, Tawny Medium and Tawny Dark - Prism

• Ink: Adirondack Espresso & Brushed Courdoroy Distress - both by Ranger

• Accs: Kaiser Pearls and Nestabilities by Spellbinders

So, I am bopping along last night getting ready for my mom and dad to come work visit for a days, and I realize that I agreed to scrap with the big girls over at CHF this morning….I’m not even worthy to carry their paper trimmers! Not only that, but I have 1200 photos in my Shutterfly account waiting for a coupon so that I can finally print some pictures from the last year and a half.

I start shuffling through one envelope of random photos, and find this picture of the girls taken in 2005 in my neighbors front yard. It’s one of my favorites (that’s why I have printed it already) because it was a special day for our little family. Not only are the colors bright and fun, but it will go well with my new All Things Fall set from the Rummage Bin line at CHF, thus a plan comes together! So here’s my little pieced together 8×8 page, you can see other real scrapspiration by checking out Alli Miles, Julia Stainton, Becky Olsen and Kim Hughes.  And if anyone has a good Shutterfly coupon, let me know! ;) 

• Stamps: Pindot Scrapblock ™, All Things Fall, Big Inspiration (’original’ and coming Thursday), Art of Framing and Beautiful
• Cardstock: Sunflower Medium, Blush Dark, Suede Dark Brown, Buttercream Prism
• Ink: Espresso, Cranberry & Butterscotch Adirondack
• Accs: Chocolate Twill (Ellen Hutson) & Chocolate Mini Brads (Paper Studio)  

Thanks for stopping by!

 Finally, a set for the folks (like me) who feel like they are spinning circles all the time! This set is called Round & Round We Go. This is my life….

• Stamps: Round & Round We Go - Rummage Bin from Cornish Heritage Farms

• Cardstock: Super Smooth White Prism, Striped notecards - Target

• Ink: Black StazON, Red Pepper, Citris, Peach Bellini, Pink Cloud Adirondack

• Accs: Dimensional Dots

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands so that you might win the respect of outsiders and so you will not be dependent upon anybody. ~ I Thes. 4:11

It’s time for my monthly Divine Design upload. We’re posting on the 9th this month because the 8th fell to a Sunday. It wasn’t hard for me to find a verse to focus my attention to this month. With vacation, the end of school, committee work, church activities and my real job…we’ve been a flurry of activity. It’s so easy to get caught up in the race, isn’t it?

I’m praying that I can find that quiet life in the warm, still days of summer. Of course, I’m not so naive to think it will just pop in on me. It will take due diligence on my part: saying no, scheduling some quiet time, resisting the urge to sign up for many fun summer activities and a tough one for me, getting enough rest.  I hope that your summer will be about finding balance and a quiet life, as well.

I used my large rectangle scalloped Nestabilities to create this 5″ x 4″ card. It did require piecing to rectangles together, but with scallops and a little ribbon it’s easy to hide the ’seam’. Stamps from “Beautiful” and “Time to Stamp” made quick work of the main image panel. the flowers and corners are embellished with Latte Pearls from Kaiser Craft. (I got mine at eP.) The ribbon is May Arts, available from Jacksonbelle.

You can see other inspiration from Taylor, Nancy, Angel and Jami. Please feel free to participate, you can load to your blog or share in the Splitcoast gallery using keyword: BVC08. And, as an aside, when I went to grab the link for the SCS gallery, I was so humbled to see the vast number of ladies who are sharing in this challenge. May God be glorified through our desire to walk closer to Him.

Blessings ~ 

I’ll get this back up as soon as I can!

Working with this Elvis is… Backgrounder is like having an entire hip sentiment collection on one backgrounder. I used the words ‘hunka burnin’ love’ and ‘dreamy’ and a marker to accent my shipping tag. Wouldn’t this be cute tied to a pair of flaming boxers for your man on Father’s Day!? Of course, I’m not going to post men’s flaming unders here on my blog, but you can imagine how fun that would be….right?

I started with a regular manilla shipping tag that I ‘rangerized’ using Distress Inks, cut and dry foam and a water mister. Then I overstamped with my new Vintage Ledger Scrapblock (TM) from CHF in Pitch Black Adirondack. These huge hunks (Scrapblocks (TM)) of rubbah (6×6) are being released next week. At 6×6, you are not confined to either portrait or landscape for your card design..either works! Added my Elvis, glitter with a Tsukineko Glue Pad (I use a stamp-a-ma-jig to over-stamp my glue), sentiment stamp and the backgrounder words ‘marked off’ with a black marker and a romantic swirly-do from the Rummage Bin Beautiful set,  heart shaped brads and ribbons. 

See you in the morning…

We’ve been travelling this last week, and we’re heading home from Disney World today. This is just a quick post to share another card from the Rummage Bin Shoe Boutique set that is being released today at CHF. OK - I’ve got to catch my shuttle. We’ve had a blast, but we’re ready to be home.  Here’s a view of the whole set:

I’ll see you tomorrow. Have a wonderful day!

Both of my nephews have birthdays coming up. I’ll be sending this one to my littlest prince. Boys will be Boys (available Tuesday) compliments the sweet little girl in Cherish Every Moment. Now, moms with boys or moms with one or some of each will be happy. Lesley, the artist, does such a beautiful job with these images.   (scroll for Poison Ivory winner details)

• Stamps: Boys will be Boys & Storybook - Rummage Bin for CHF
• Cardstock: Cryogen White, Mystic Dark & Suede Dark Brown Prism
• Ink: Shabby Shutters, Faded Jeans, Dark Walnut and Brushed Cordouroy Distress Inks from Tim Holtz
• Accs: Dew Drops, Key from www.starlitstudio.com, thread, Cut & Dry foam (Ranger)

 WINNER! I loved reading about all that you have to be thankful for, and for the most part, you were thankful for ‘relationships’. That is a wonderful, wonderful thing!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

15

15! That would be Courtney, who said: “I need to thank all of the women who have been “Motherly” influences in my life. They have made a huge impact on me.”

Courtney, send me your address, and I’ll get these out today! Cards magazine recently sent me a goodie box with 2 issues of their beautiful March addition, so I’m throwing one f those in, too!

See you tomorrow with another card in the Divine Design project!

Last fall, my sweet, sweet neighbor (who loves my daughters very much and feeds them cookies at dinnertime) asked me if I would give a simple, little stamping demonstration to her professional teacher’s group the first Saturday in May. I love my neighbor, and I was so glad that she asked me to do it. She & her husband have treated my family like gold, and I wanted to make it special for her friends. I was playing around with new Rummage Bin stamps, used old reliable layout - probably all time favorite #1 and came up with the prototype.

Then I went to my stash of supplies and found something that would work for 20-25 cards. This is a slight variation to the make and take that I took for the ladies. Unbeknownst to me, the ladies of this group have been supportive of a local organization that collects and distributes new shoes for children who need them, so they seemed to be thrilled with this selection. It was a wonderful morning. 

** Shoe Boutique from the Rummage Bin line will be available next Tuesday, and I’ve already got a few things stamped and set up to show you in the coming days. I hope you’ll like it.

See you Wednesday morning when I’ll draw a winner for those Shimmery Poison Ivory notecards.