What a SWWEEET surprise!

Slayton brought up the mail and said 'Mom! There is a package for you!'. Since I didn't order anything, I was curious...so I look at it and it is a package from Stampington! I made it into Take Ten!! On page 5, my chicken card is right there for all to see!! They have me listed as Sarah Peak from Brattleboro, Utah instead of Peale from Vermont, but it's all good!

Last one for today!

I will never get tired of this little Inky Antics turtle image! He is just so happy and carefree!

I just kept adding stuff to this little guy...stickles, brads, ticket corner, punch, faux stitching...but I think he works!

Ric Rac Flowers

I was just playing around with some supplies and I came up with some cute little ric- rac flowers. I think they would be so sweet for a Mother's Day card or a girlfriend's birthday. I will have to keep playing, but I had a great time making this.

I chose the colors based on the great May Arts ribbon I got from Starlit Studio on EBay. I just love how happy the colors are!

Happy summer projects!

It is just getting cold outside, but I have been working on some summer projects! I just love summer colors! They make you feel so warm and make me think of walking on the beach. Sigh. I wish I was walking on the beach! LOL!

I had a blast making this tag book. It is actually my first! I seem to have a hard time making things other than scrapbook pages and cards...don't know why! I will certainly be making more and trying other new things!

I promise...

to post a bunch of new projects soon! I have been really busy creating some things for submission to Papercrafts magazine. I'm hoping my card being chosen isn't a once-in-a-life-time deal...I really want to have some more in there! I think it will be a great opportunity.

Anyway, I will post more stuff soon!!

Monogram Band Aid Tins

These are a few of the Band Aid tins I am preparing for my stamping get together in December.

I am using the Holiday Thyme paper from SU! so they all coordinate and go with my Christmas Theme. The monograms are the new self ashesive mini monograms from Basic Grey. These babies are the BEST! These little guys are REALLY fun to decorate. They are small enough that they aren't a real pain!

I hope the girls like them!

This year's Christmas cards

So, I have never made my own Christmas cards before. Heck, I hardly ever send them out! Well, this year I am ahead of the game! The kids' presents are on layaway, the parts and pieces have been bought to make family gifts, and my cards are DONE!

I love this set, The Snowflake Spot. I think it is really adorable! It looks great embossed with the Irridecent Embossing powder. It is so sparkly! I daubed white craft ink around the edges of the Kraft cardstock to make it look like a frosted window. I used the ticket corner punch and love how it make a nice little home for the brads!

I decided to stick to traditional Christmas colors...don't know why...maybe next year everyone will get pink cards!

I'm going to be in Paper Crafts Magazine!!

So, I submitted a few of my cards to Paper Crafts Magazine for publication consideration. Well, I got an email that one of them was accepted for the April/May issue!! I sent it in yesterday!!!

Stitches!

OK, so yea, this happened almost a year ago, but I just got around to scrapbooking the pictures!

Poor Riley was trying to push between me and the sofa, ended up tripping and smashing his face against our coddee table. He managed to put his bottom teeth right thru his bottom lip. Poor Baby! Luckily, Peale had just left for work, so I was able to call him right away. He can racing home and we wisked Riley to the ER. He was so brave while he got his stitches! Daddy had to stay with him because I felt like I was gunna pass out. Plus, one of us had to stay in the waiting room with the other kids!

Luckily, he only has a tiny scar and I have a cute scrapbook page! LOL

Have you ever...

started stamping, had no idea where it was headed, and just kept adding til it looked right?! Well, this is my latest example of just that! I felt like stamping and just started pulling things out! I'm having a great time with this stamp set, Perennial Favorites. I love that it has paper that matches perfectly. I will definately get a lot of use from this set!

I only have one color Stickles and I wanted the Stickles in the middle of the Primas to be the same monochromatic green as the rest of the card. So, I put a little Stickles on a piece of paper and added True Thyme reinker (only a LITTLE bit) and mixed it up. Voila! Pretty green Stickles!