Playing with some of my new stuff!!!...

Found a few minutes today to try out my new Santa Suit die from MFT. These two cards came together literally in minutes!....they are very basic but if you were doing a little pile and wanted cute and quick then these would be perfect!....I'm off to find someway to 'fru fru' them up!!!....

Looks like Christmas....no really!

The Fed Ex lady delivered my happy package from MFT today, sooooo of course I had to have a quick little play this evening! This li'l tag measures just 2 1/4" X 3" not including the loop at the top. My craze for 'shakers' continues....I must admit to doing my happy dance when I'd finished it though!!!....

Let's see what I can get upto with the rest of my happy delivery!

Last Minute Gift Card Holders.....

Just dropped these samples off at the store. A last minute gift card holder class, jazz up that gift card in one of these little happies!!! Monday December 7th, 10:30 - 1:30 at Scraps of Love in Peoria. Give the store a call to reserve your class spot or kit and get happy with the gift card giving!!!.....

I love this little die from Your Next Stamp....I see it a lot

In my future!!!

More for my Christmas pile!...

Good Morning! A couple more 'Clean and Simple' cards to add to the pile! I did a little multitasking yesterday....making candles and cards, my two favorite things to do!....I used my new stamps from Your Next Stamp, I just love those Reindeer....I'm also loving the Clean and Simple approach!!!...

If I keep going like this I'll be ready with my Christmas cards on time!!!

Convention Time....

I spent Friday with a great group of friends out at the Scrapbook Convention in Mesa held at the convention center, we managed to do lunch, squeeze in a visit to ETC (formally Scrapbooks etc) and returned to the convention center to finish off shopping the booths! The convention was much busier this year than last. I picked up some goodies to add to the ever growing pile, it's time I got to using some of it! A quick pic of my haul and a pic of the new Easel Card die and the make and take using it from Art Impressions....I HAD to have it!......I have several ideas floating around my brain already!

It's a start!....

Remember back in August I received my happy package from Stamping Bella? Well, I did ink up a couple of them and color them, here they are finally finished! Very clean and simple because IF I do manage make my Christmas cards this year they need to be simple!!!..

All I have to do now is get cracking and ink up the rest, right!?!?

Happy Masking!!!

I think it was last week when I was watching Jennifer McGuire on YouTube, she was testing the new masking pen by Molotow....it looked AWESOME....as per, everyone is out of stock of this wonderful looking new happy sooooo I broke out the rubber cement. Yep, good old rubber cement! I decanted it into a fine tipped bottle and off I went! I've again taken some step by step pics so you get the idea. Basically all you have to do is stamp your image, cover it with rubber cement...be careful not to go out of the lines....let it dry and then either go ahead and create your background or continue stamping to create endless scenes. Once you've finished creating gently rub the rubber cement off your image...it's like magic! Go ahead and color your image, I used my Letraset Promarkers and noticed no difference with the surface of the paper....Score!!! The best bit for me, NO SCISSORS!!! If you know me you know I avoid scissors like the plague! No more cutting out masks for me not that I did very often because well, scissors had to be involved!!! I will grab one of the pens to try when they become readily available because it looked truly awesome....but for now I'm LOVING good old rubber cement!...