actually there were..

a lot I really liked.  It takes lots of time and energy to do detailed cards to swap with lots of people, I guess that's why I'm impressed...

This one is made with Betsy's Blossom set and coordinating DP..I really like this one.  I guess I need to give credit where credit is due...I look it up later.

Have a great holiday weekend.  I'll be back on Monday.  We're going camping, so no stamping for me till probably Tues.

HS,
Wanda

wow, it's been a week..

since I last posted. 

My good friend, Debbie H, went to Salt Lake City, UT to the national SU Convention.  One of the favorite things to do there is to swap cards...I made 40 and she took them there to swap for me..this past Tuesday she came over and showed me all of them (she made about 120) and we looked at cards.  WOW, what a great job everyone did!

I'll be posting some of my favorites over the next few weeks...

Humm..I tried to enhance my photo, but maybe I didn't know what I was doing, the color Daffodil Delight should be much brighter.. anyway I love this mono chromatic card Basic Black, and Whisper White along with the Daffodil Delight.  I don't have this stamp set, but even though I'm no fortune teller, I see it in my future.

Well have a lovely afternoon..my hubby wants homemade biscuits for supper..yum

HS,
Wanda

wow am i ever sleepy....

and I don't know why....oh well who cares? not me...

Here is another card made with some of my leaves...

The piece at the top is a scrap from the embossed woodgrain piece that I cut off because it was too long...Mom's idea..looks good.  I made a couple of acorns but couldn't find a place that they looked good in.  Simple but I like it okay.

Well I don't think I am babysitting tomorrow, just exercise, get ready for Saturday swap and somebody needs to clean my house....any volunteers?

"Well Rabbit I must be off", says Pooh stickily....
HS, says Wanda......

another fall card...

this is another card we made...

I think this is the one Mom actually dreamed about...We used the Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock for this one, mounted it on Crumb Cake and added some DSP from the something Cafe' (have to look that up later) and added a brushed bronze Designer Button.

Well I was going to have to babysit for Rachel to put Scott in school today, but after a call she got yesterday that was all changed.  I am going to go to water exercise class (if it's not too cold) and then pick Scott up till church tonight.  I have to do Missionary Service tonight.

Well have a lovely day and Happy Stampin till next time.
Wanda

i'm back now and momma had a dream....

I'm home from camp now, and it was great, but tiring....and I need to stamp...

I have a shoe box swap on Sat and I need class cards and church cards and....

I had sort of an idea, but I also had a head ache and Mom picked some grapes and we made jelly today, then it was time to work on a card, but I didn't know where to go with it.

I cut out lots of leaves with my new leaf die in various colors and ran through a new wood grain embossing folder I got, ran some new kind of card stock we have in the wood grain folder and sanded it.(I love having new stuff to play with.)  It's all from the new mini holiday catalog.
Then I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it...so off to take a nap.
Mom took a nap too and when I woke up she had the backgrounds I had made; some card stock; embellishments; and leaves that I had sitting out and laid them all out.

She said she had a dream about the cards and came in here and put them together...So I did a little here and there, added a ribbon sponged leaves and we came up with 3 cards, I did the fourth a little later...so there you have it.

I will be posting them over the next few days, not sure which one I will use for Saturday,  Mom votes for the this one.....

This one is Cherry Cobbler card stock and the new Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations card stock, embossed with the Wood grain textured embossing folder. I also used the new Scalloped Tulle Ribbon in Early Espresso. The leaves are More Mustard, Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler.

Well gotta rush, be back tomorrow with Mom's second dream card.

HS,
Wanda

hungry anyone?

I do have a project to show you that I quickly did on Saturday.  I had planned on stamping most of the day, but...I cut grass, did laundry and can't remember at this point everything, but here is what I made...

It's a covered post it note holder and pencil.  I saw the idea somewhere on the internet, but when I went back to find it I couldn't...anyway I googled and got the measurements and here you are.

We will be making this in class next month (Sept.) and I will post a picture tutorial with measurements on how to make one too.

I probably won't be stamping or posting anymore this week as I am going to be at Comargo Camp (our church camp) where I am the breakfast cook, plus grandma duty, crochet coach and couple other things.

Now for the reason of the title of this post.....

This is Lea my youngest grand daughter enjoying her spaghetti....

Enjoy yours......

Have a Great Week and Happy Stampin' till next time.
Wanda

i want to play.....

I have so many new Stampin' Up toys and I want to play with them, but I'm too busy....waaaaa.

I have lots of ideas floating around in my head, but no time yet to get them on paper.

Tomorrow I am finishing up the rest of my Button Buddies card kits, then doing some sewing for Angie and Alana as they get ready for school.  Scott is spending the night, Rachel is coming over sometime tomorrow to pick him up.  Angie is also coming over to help pack up my camper and to pack the one they are using, so I have to get stuff ready for that....and all I want to do is stamp.

Well anyway here is the card I made for church cards this week.. I found the idea on Heidi Banks blog. I mostly copied but did change up a few things...

Cut a piece of Very Vanilla out with the Apothecary Labels framelits ( I was going to use white, but used vanilla instead, since you sponge it all, I don' t know if it much matters.) I sponged it with More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze, then stamp the flowers from the Serene Silhouette with Black Stazon ink.  I ran a piece of Whisper White through the Big Shot using the Fancy Fan embossing folder. Did some paper piercing and scoring with the Scoring Tool.

I think it might need something else like a ribbon or something on the side, but left it blank for now.

Well it's about 11:30 pm, I went to bed already once around 10, but didn't go to sleep, so I got back up....

Have a lovely night and a great day tomorrow and if by some miracle I get to stamp, I'll let you know.

HS,
Wanda

the eyes of a child...

if only I had them sometimes....

My 3 year old grandson, Zeb recently made a couple of birthday cards.  One was for his Aunt Angie (my younger daughter) and one was for his brother Ethan. 
He had fun and was quite happy with the results...

I punch out the blue butterfly, and cut around the outline of it and he punch out the other paper one, stamped and did the shaving cream technique..

For this one I gave him a piece of orange paper that already had somethings punched out of it..he use some deco scissor, markers and tape..Orange is Ethan's favorite color and I think Zeb drew him a car....

I wish I could be as happy with some of the stuff I do....

Well I have been stampin/making church cards and visiting with grand babies so far this week, plus my water exercise classes...I didn't have the stamp set to finish the cards I was working on, so once again my hero Barbara P is coming to my rescue today and letting me use hers.  Hopefully I'll be able to post the finished card tomorrow..

Till then HS, and work on your eyesight while I work on mine...
Wanda

good morning....

I just got through downloading and emailing card kit pictures and directions...hope it works.

Here is one of the cards included in the kit.  I found this idea somewhere on the Internet and really liked it.  I changed the size up a little to save on designer paper. 

I used paper from the Summer Smooches..the colors are Daffodil Delight and Indigo Island. 

Busy day today....I must be off...

HS,
Wanda

i am working on the card kit pics...

I am going to try and get them done by Monday at the latest. 

I am going to swimming class in the morning and 2 or 3 hours home before going to Ethan's bday party. 

I will work hard on getting them done and posted before I go if possible, but I'm not sure how long it will take...

Thanks to everyone who ordered them, I hope you enjoy them.

Till tomorrow.

HS,
Wanda

my day just got better.....a christmas card....

 YEAH! it's still here.....long story...made short, I hope.

At our monthly Christmas gathering, one of my stamping girls, Gloria H, found a card on splitcoaststampers.com and wanted to make it.....It was a lot of work.  Phyllis saw it and wanted to make it..finally they got together for Phyllis to do it..after she made 4 of them she decided it was a lot of work.  Mom saw them and decided to make them, she made 12 yesterday and here it is.....

Card base is Cherry Cobbler a Very Vanilla 4 x 5 1/4 is on top of that stamping with some snowflakes from the Snow Swirls stamp set in Crumb Cake.  The biggest Cherry Cobbler scalloped circle (retired), the Crumb Cake is a 3 in circle embossed with the Snowburst embossing folder (retired), the next Cherry Cobbler  is cut with the Perfect Pennants Bigz L die, and the small circle is a 1 3/4 circle punch....whew that was a long list...the 3 snow flakes are punch with a retired snowflake bigz die...(the stuff just retired in June, so I still have it.)
The little girl stamp is from the Greeting Card Kids set, colored with markers, white gel pen glittered with dazzling details and pearls...

The made not have been long, but stuff we used was.....

My ppppp key is working fine today, go figure..

Well have a wonderful day....

HS,
Wanda

waaaaahhhhaaa...

i just lost my WHOLE post I typed.......can't re write it now, no more time or heart......maybe later..
hope this isn't a preview of the day to come...later..wanda...ps. hope your day has a better start than mine..