~All Hallow's Eve~ Halloween Card

I had my surgery.. I'm in a big sling thing that makes me so hot,, my poor family is getting frozen out by the AC while I try to find a happy medium.

I went upstairs last night and made this card. With my arm in the sling thing, it keeps my arm from moving to a point that hurts. I was proud of myself when I was done.

I have my follow up appt. this afternoon for my shoulder.. I hope that it all goes well, maybe I'll get my staples out today.


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September 23, 2010 ~ Surgery Day!!!! it's finallly here

Tomorrow morning I will be having surgery on my rotator cuff to repair the tear, also a spur, and whatever else needs to be cleaned up in there. This is long awaited because the pain has been ongoing for nearly two years.. only getting better. I tried physical therapy, patches, pain meds and cortisone injections.. each playing a part in keeping me going, but not enough to really help.

I will be so glad to be on the mend so I can get back to stamping without pain.

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Stampin' UP! Holiday Mini begins today!!!

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Stampin' UP! Holiday Mini Catalog




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STAMPIN' UP! CATALOG PDF LINK

STAMPIN UP CATALOG PDF

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~ My husband is coming home from Iraq tomorrow ~

My husband is coming home from an Iraq deployment tomorrow ~ we are so excited and can hardly wait. In about 17 hrs he'll be back in the U.S.A.!!!!




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~*AMAZING*~ card with additions

This is a card that I made a while back.. it was one of those that I made and just couldn't part with... however, yesterday I wanted a card for a special someone and pulled out this card. I added the saying stamped and them punched with an oval punch and layered it onto a scallop oval. I did three layers on each panel on the inside and stamped sayings on each side.. I hope that Nikki liked it.. she is a special someone and I just wanted to let her know.

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~*YOU'RE NEVER MORE THAN A THOUGHT AWAY*~

This card is so shimmery ~ I hope that it shows up in the picture. After I made it, I laid it on the grid paper and spritzed it with the Smooch Spritz in Vanilla Shimmer.

I used a set that I recently received from SU for an SAB incentive ~ Greenhouse Garden. I stamped the flower in different colors and the over stamp in a coordinating color for each flower. I used the SU Sizzix Embosslit die for the butterflies. It's such a pretty spring card.

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~*I WISH I WERE A FISH*~ bright & colorful card

I picked up a cute $1.00 set "I wish I were a fish" set a week or so ago.. and thought I'd make a card using it.

I pulled out Stampin' UP! colors Soft Sky and Pacific Point. The ribbon is from a pack of SU ribbons that I had never opened up before (bad, I know!) ~ the layout on this card follows a sketch challenge on SCS.

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~*YOU'RE A CLASSIC*~ Father's Day card

I made this card last week.. but never got around to taking a picture of it.. and I wish I had taken it outside that day because it was sunny and nice.. today it's gloomy and windy ~ go figure!

I used a cuttelbug embossing folder on this front panel of this card, a Stampin' UP! stamp set Classic Pickups. Everything on the card is all Stampin' UP! except the use of the embossing folder.

Pretty easy card... I was messing around after making the Mother's Day card and made this one. I like the Always Artichoke and Basic Black color combination.

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~*HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY*~

~ Happy Mother's Day to all Mother's ~ I hope you all have a wonderful day!

I made this card several days ago ~ it is for my mom. I took the picture outside and I think that the super bright sun washed some of the colors out. I used SU Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Pink Piourette (sp?) and some Berry Bliss DSP (at least I think that is what it's called ~ ha ha).

I seen a card somewhere on the web and had saved it.. I got the layout idea from their card (I need to go find out what their name is) ~ thank you!!!

I made a Father's Day card the night I made this, but haven't taken a picture of it yet.

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~*HAPPY BIRTHDAY!*~ Bronc Buster/Wanted card for a teenage boy

Yesterday was the birthday of a friend's son ~ he turned 14. We had a baseball game last night, so we are all going out to dinner tonight. We are going to pick up something to tuck inside the card on the way to dinner (can't say what it is in case him or his mother see this!!) ~ I used all Stampin' Up! product except the saying and the copper and brown paints I used for stamping the images.

Their family has horses, so I thought this might be something that he would like.

Have a great weekend!

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~*WONDERFUL MOTHER*~ embossed birdie card

This card kinda was a "toss together" card... I had punched out the bird the other day.. I grabbed a piece of watercolor paper (not sure why I grabbed this other than a white piece, it was just laying there!).. ran it through the Bigkick using the Stampin' UP! Top Note Bigz Sizzix die, then embossed it.. attached the bird and branch.. stamped the saying using the Stampin' UP! Well Scripted stamp set, punched it out.. layered it on some punched out pieces. I attached some Stampin' UP! wide grossgrain ribbon in Real Red, then bunched some of that ribbon together with an orange button and some embroidery floss... that's it!



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~*DOLPHIN*~ card that I put together using a SCS sketch challenge

I made this late last night.. I had stamped and punched out a "congrats" saying for the lower right corner.. but with the twine on there, it made it next to impossible to put it on, so I left it off.. and thought I'd put a sentiment on the inside when needed.


The dolphins and splashes are from a $1.00 set I got at JoAnn's.

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.............miles may seperate us, but LOVE keeps us close at heart

I made this card a few minutes ago.. I am going to send it to my hubby.. when he receives it, we will only have about 40 days left of this deployment.. yeah!


The stamp set is a Stampin' UP! set: Service & Sacrifice, the wheeled images are Stampin' UP! Jumbo Wheel: Hero.

cardstock is all Stampin' UP!: ruby red, night of navy, kraft, white, more mustard

ink is: versafine black, SU Sahara Sand, Versamark

clear embossing powder, heat gun, Nestabilities, Bigkick, Dimensionals, ribbon die

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~*Happy Easter*~

Happy Easter ~ may you each have a blessed day.



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SC274 ~*The most beautiful view..................*~ card

I got an email last night with the new sketch challenge on SCS and printed it out. I got busy earlier today (tending to that arm of mine!) and wasn't able to get busy with the challenge till this afternoon.
Here is the layout:


If you'd like to try the challenge yourself, you can post your card in the SCS gallery and then link it to the SC274 thread. I subscribe to the challenges, so I get an email each week letting me know when they are posted.. it's a lot of fun!

This is the card I made.... I used all Stampin' UP! cardstock (mellow moss, white, bravo burgundy and Recollections DSP) Flower Fancy stamp set, saying is from a Fiskars stamp set, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug and Sizzix Embossing Folders, Bigkick, Leaves are a Stampin' UP! Sizzlet die, circles on flowers are punched from the Crop a dile, I put some glassy glaze on the circleson the flowers.... lots of Dimensionals are used ~ they are my most favorite in the Stampin' Up! catalog.




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~*Hang In There*~ cute monkey card & Clean Desk!!!

**I made a card for my hubby on Friday,.. I wanted to get it in the mail that day and right after I finished it, I put it in the envelope, addressed it and put it in the mailbox.. I later thought to myself that I hadn't taken a picture of it.. I will try to make another, it used a wonderful daying from a new Fiskars stamp set.

I cleaned off my desk today, in fact I cleaned off my table (I have a rectangle dining room table in the middle of the room that I can easily reach from my stamping desk by just turning around) ~ I got clear stamps into containers, bought some curtain rods from the store and mounted them onto a piece of material that used to be the desktop to a desk I had in Missouri that didn't make it here to North Carolina in one piece. I kept this big piece thinking I would use it one day, maybe mounting it to something and making a work station for say my Cricut Expressions.. anyways it's been up here leaning against a wall behind a computer desk, and today I decided to mount curtain rods to it. The drill ran out out "ompft" after the third rod, and I only bought 4, but could fit more on the thing so I am going to go back and get more.

I made this card tonight.. just finished it a little bit ago. It's nearly midnight, sadly I am not even tired and could probably make another card, but I do need to try and get some sleep!


I used all Stampin' UP! cardstock and designer paper, the punches are Stampin' UP! The embossed/cut layers are Nestabilities. The stamp set is a Hero Arts set called Playful Animals.


I hope everybody has a super week ahead of them.

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~*Nuts For You*~ card for my hubby

I got all the Easter cards on their way to Iraq.. they aren't there yet, but on their way.

I made this card this afternoon and sent it in the mail to my hubby.

The stamp set I used is from a Hampton Art flip book that I got a while back at ACMoore using a half off coupon. I hadn't used it until today.. I bought it because of the saying "nuts about you".. the set is so cute.


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........alrighty! I got another dozen cards complete

I am so very proud of myself for getting these cards made. They look so pretty in real life. I am going to keep making cards until I get to 100.

Wanna see what a big mess is?? my Sonic cup is over to the right about 6" over on my computer desk!! ha ha.



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