Stampin Up Fairies

Made this card for a friend of Valerie Stangle's, who is going into hospice shortly.

Stampin Up Fairy Nice set, paired with Basic Grey Phoebe paper.

Have a fairy nice Monday, everyone!

Sugar high.

Is everyone on an excellent sugar high today? I went face first into piles of malted milk balls, jelly beans and chocolate. Yummy.

I threw these little boxes together on Saturday night to bring to our Easter gathering, because there's never enough food or sugar there. (SO KIDDING) OMG if I threw up right now it would be TECHNICOLOR.

The boxes are from dollar tree in the wedding section. I used the SU set "Polka dot posies" to stamp flowers all over them with Caribbean blue & certainly celery ink. The ghetto chipboard is from Outback Steakhouse (coasters stolen from my hood). I used the Sizzix "Large Daisys" die http://www.sizzix.com/shop.cfm?function=detail&ProductItemNumber=654631 for the cutout flower.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

MOM DON'T LOOK~!

This, my friends, is how a girl gets putzy looking for an Easter gift for Mom & Dad. I started out at Michaels the other day with a 50 percent off coupon, which I intended to use on adhesive. But I walked past these UNBELIEVABLY CUTE buckets at Michaels, and my eyes bugged out. What a perfect thing to store cards in! Or a perfect bucket for a plant to go in! So I decided I'd give the bucket to Mom & Dad for Easter with a plant in it. Fast forward, I ran to 4 places looking for a plant, to no avail. Even BACHMANS had nothing great. So for a last ditch effort, I ran to CUB FOODS, yes you heard me, the GROCERY store. They had these gorgeous Azalea trees there, freshly arrived and buds barely opened! SCORE! So I bring it home, and well, you know the vintage kick I've been on, right? Well I found this gorgeous paper out of the Crafty Secrets "Earthy" pack, and this great bird image in the wacky and wonderful booklet. And the rest is history. www.craftysecrets.com

Spring birdies!

Still stampin with the bird notes set! Its sort of a crime, I think that I should be coloring these WAY more than I do...the images don't need a lot of color to pop! You have to look at a closeup of this one, the swirl is all glitterfied. Love this paper, it's from the "classic" paper pad at Crafty secrets. Little bird feet come with the birdnotes set! I love those feet!

http://www.craftysecrets.com/popup/product%20pages/hvp01classic.htm

http://www.clearartstamps.com/

Easter Bunny, Shabby Style!

Here's my attempt at Easter cards... I promised I'd switch over from vintage to Easter! Although I didn't stray too far from vintage, did I.

The set I used was "Tender Toile" from Stampin up. It was a limited edition hostess set that I wanted in the worst way, but never could earn. I found it for $10.00 at a convention in St. Paul; a demo was selling some of her unused sets! My heart did a few flips when I saw it there for sale, and I snatched it up! I love when life hands you little surprises...well, good ones, anyway!

Paper by "My Mind's Eye", http://www.mymindseye.com/magnolia/dream.asp

Stampin Up Sets: Polka dots & Paisley, Tender Toile

Bonjour, mon ami, oui oui, je suis ici!

Bonjour, mon ami! Oui oui, je suis ici!

Hello my friends! Yes yes, I am here finally!

Ok, I don't really speak French. Theres a cool online translator program that helped me un peu.

Can you tell the french mail set is speaking to me lately? Are you ready to throw yourself off the Eiffel tower because you're sick of my Paris cards yet? I promise tomorrow I'll mix things up and go all "Easter" on you, OK?

I mixed that great Basic grey "Tea with Jane"paper with a great french floral patterned paper from the "Radiant" paper pad from Crafty Secrets. I gotta tell you, because I'm mainly a cardmaker, I shy away from papers with huge patterns on them. I'm glad that some of the paper companies are making smaller patterned paper packs for that very reason. I couldn't resist the colors on "Tea with Jane", so it ended up in my basket at Archivers.

Turned out ok, no? I've been making birthday thank you's like a crazy woman, so a little bit of Paris is on its way to those that made my birthday special.

Tea with Jane: http://www.eclecticpaperie.com/basicgrey-stellaruby-teawithjane.html

Radiant Pad: http://www.craftysecrets.com/popup/product%20pages/hvp04radiant.htm

French Mail Stamps: http://www.clearartstamps.com/

Mercy!

MERCY. I have to show you guys my new bed. It got delivered
yesterday and I had palpitations when they put it up on the bed
frame. Apparently I should have ordered the "low profile" box springs, because my bed is now exactly THREE, count 'em, THREE feet high. (Did I mention I'm 4'11"?) I have an antique brass bed, so it already stands pretty tall off the ground.

I have to use a stool to get up into it. QUIT LAUGHING! You have to see this beast. I feel like I'm the princess from "princess & the pea", sleeping on 15 mattresses. So Steve-O to the rescue, he's got a truck and will help me go get the new box springs this week. MERCY.

This is a layout sketch challenge that Katrina K. aka "Kookie"
posted this weekend for us to play with.

Banner, stamp set and paper by Crafty Secrets: "French Mail" set and "Radiant" paper pack. http://www.clearartstamps.com/

Check out the cat. Doesn't he look like he's thinking:

"How the heck am I gonna get down from here?"