Play Time ...

I received numerous gift certificates for my b-day a few weeks ago and I have spent them all! My husband got me a GC from http://www.papertreyink.com/. I have had items in my shopping cart for months, just waiting for me to buy them and this is what I bought:

Beautiful Blooms http://www.papertreyink.com/stamps_beautifulblooms.html,

Borders and Corners Monogram Edition http://www.papertreyink.com/stamps_bcmonogram.html, &

Trajan Monogram http://www.papertreyink.com/stamps_trajan.html

I have not used the monogram sets yet, but the Beautiful Blooms set is awesome. The main reason I wanted this set is b/c some of the stamps were made for the Cuttle bug scalloped flowers die set. The stamps are clear, so placement is almost perfect. For, example, on the card below, the flower and the leaf are made up of two stamps each. It almost looks TOO perfect, but I like it.
And here is another card using different flowers from the same set. The ribbon slide is also a cuttle bug die and placing the "birthday" sentiment on it was effortless b/c the stamp was clear and I could see exactly where I was placing it.

These are my first attempts with clear stamps, so hopefully my future attempts will be much better. Thanks for looking!

P.S. I altered the way I type my posts (proper capitalization now) b/c my DH said the post were too difficult to read the other way. I think he was right :).

Curious? ..... George

well, my baby girl is turning 5 in a week and decided that she wanted a curious george cake and party. do you know how hard it is to find curious curious george stickers? it's impossible ... until the day that i casually look over my shoulder while in line at the market, and there they will be, the elusive curious george stickers. mark my words, it WILL happen.

anyhow, we did find a curious george cake at lowe's foods (and ordered it). i have to admit, of all the things that i make, i have never made her a b-day cake. our tradition is to let her pick one from the book at the store. works for us and the cake is actually very good.

dd and i decided that we would make a monkey themed invite this year and this is what we came up with:

we searched and searched for banana eyelets (even on the internet) and could not find those either. so we went with jolee's stickers. $0.99 for two little bananas! we are both happy with the result. the tree is actually a cuttlekids die cut (dd's not mine) of a flower stem and leaves. it held up very well to the abuse it received. it takes a lot of leaves to make one tree and we made 10 invites. i could run two pieces of cheap card stock through at the same time. however, two sheets of SU's card stock would have stripped the gears ... trust me i almost did!

Oooooooooo... i got my paper trey ink stamps yesterday and will post pictures later today or tonight. i feel like a kid in a candy store!

Scrapbooker's Hangover

scrap-book-er's hang-o-ver [hang-oh-ver]

-noun

1. the disagreeable physical after effects of staying up much too late on consecutive evenings to indulge in the hobby of creating stunning page compilations in scrapbook albums.

2. execssive exhuastion and crankiness as a direct result of sleep deprevation due to #1 above.

[Origin: 2008, M.T. Bustin]

yes, i am suffering from scrapbooker's hangover and i am proud of it. i spent 3 days at wrightsville beach with the girls (hi jen!) scrapbooking my little heart out and staying up way too late. i have no regrets because, in my opinion, i created some of the best pages i have ever done.

this page is one of my favorites. it is of my dd's toes right after her first "big girl" pedicure. how sweet!

I just HAD to!

so... i went to ac moore to buy just ONE thing, some paper cutter blades. on the way to get the blades, i HAD to pass by the dollar stamp section and HAD to "just look". well, i did and a cute pink and brown heart stamp caught my eye as well as a valentine sentiment stamp. so, since they were only a dollar i just HAD to buy them as well as a few other so that they would not be lonley in the shopping bag.

i drove home. i had only 1/2 hour before i picked up my daughter from pre-school. not enough time to clean anything of course, but enough time to stamp this cute card.

you can't tell from the picture, but the dots on the heart and the small heart in the sentiment are colored in with a sparkly gelly roll pen. i'm very pleased with way it turned out. i just need to learn how to take better pictures. thanks for looking :)

i'm still here!

it has been a while...a long while, since i last posted. i am trying to update my blog to make it look "prettier". i want cherries on the page damn-it and i'm having loads of trouble. i'll keep you posted (pun intended).

upcoming craft fairs

thank you again to everyone who supported (enabled) my crafting addiction on saturday. since the fair went so well, i've decided to add two more to my schedule. they are as follows:

• november 9 - 1 to 8 pm - scott's mill subdivision clubhouse, apex barbeque road, apex

• december 1 - 9am to 3pm - st. thomas more school, 920 carmichael st., chapel hill

i hope to see y'all there!

patricia

Whew....craft fair went very well

well, as i mentioned in my last post, i did my first every craft fair today. it was awesome! it is very validating to have someone other than family like my paper crafts (and to pay for them too). everyone was very nice and had wonderful things to say about the items i sold. i received a lot of good feedback on the booth design and display set-up (thanks jenn and michael). i was told time and time again that my items were unique looking, beautiful etc. it was wonderful to hear such nice things from total strangers.

today was a testing ground for products. it helped me determine what people were buying and what to make more of for the next time. and, yes, there will be a next time...thank goodness.

thank you to all the people who purchased my paper crafts. thanks also to jenn d. for helping me and being my "cheerleader" for the day. she's so sweet. and finally, thanks to my husband for convincing me that i should sell my creations.

here is a picture of the table display.