If at first you don't succeed...

Those of you who read my blog often know that I am in love with the new rub-ons from Stampin' Up. I went to Dollar Tree and just wondered around looking for stuff I could use the rub-ons on. I found this picture frame and thought I could spice it up a little. I tried the black rub-ons on the white mat but when I pulled the film off part of the rub-on that I didn't want to come off did.

Here is the mistake:


So I took a piece of Certainly Celery and traced that mat to make a new mat for the frame. Then I used the brown rub-ons and tried again, this time I cut out the part I needed. I usually do that but for some reason didn't the first try. Here is the second attempt, I turned out better than the white anyway.

My Journal

A friend of mine at church, Jane, recently received a gift from a friend of hers. She showed me her gift which was the cutest journal someone had made for her. I took that idea and made 3 journals to be used for part of my bunco prizes last night. They were fairly easy to make but did take several sheets of paper. I put paper on 3 of the pages and used the round tab punch on the inside to make a divider of sorts. I also put a pocket on the middle divider and included a bookmark. I need to find a printable 2008 calendar because I would really like to include that on the inside cover in a similar way. Anyway here they are.

Coffee anyone?

Here are a couple more cards I made over the weekend. I recently got the Earth Element watercolor crayons. Before I only had the Rich Regals and I love using those to color my images in. Now I just need the other two sets. This set just begged to be colored in EE colors (even though it is retired) so I used it for a couple of cards.



Supplies used: Espress Yourself stamp set; Creamy Caramel, More Mustard and Garden Green cardstock, Chocolate Chip ink, and ribbon.



I also recently got some of the wide Chocolate ribbon. I didn't think I would like the wider ribbon but boy was I wrong. I have got to get some of that in the other colors.



Supplies used: Espress Yourself stamp set, Ruby Red, Cameo Coral, and Chocolate Chip cardstock, Chocolate Chip ink, Wide Chocolate ribbon, watercolor crayons and aquapainter.

Watercoloring

I made several cards last Friday night while watching the Memphis game at my BIL's. We usually go out there about once a week and this is where I get the majority of my stamping done during the school year. I just don't have time or motivation to stamp at home. My house is always a mess and my kids are around so there is never a moment. I find the occasional stamp moment at home but most times I just pack up some stuff and stamp at my BIL's. I have thought about leaving some of my stuff in a corner over there, but he probably wouldn't like that too much.

Anyway here is one of the cards I made the other night. I have really gotten into watercoloring lately. I did finally get some watercolor paper. Archiver's gives out a free cardstock coupon about once a month so I will use that to get my watercolor paper. It works so much better. My favorite method is using the watercolor crayons and my aquapainter, although I also enjoy just using the ink pads and the aquapainter, that is just not as portable.



Supplies used: Because of You stamp set; Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, and Always Artichoke cardstock and crayons, Basic Black ink, and ribbon.

I have a really cute journal that I am working on to show you later in the week so stay tuned for that. Thanks for visiting!

WSC #41

Here is my interpretation of Beate's Weekend Sketch challenge. My blue piece is a little bigger than it should be I think but I still like this card.



Supplies used: Cupcake stamp set, White, Tempting Turquoise, and Pixie Pink cardstock, pink brads, aquapainter. I watercolored the cupcake image using the aquapainter and ink pads.

Silver swirl

I love the hardware pieces but I usually have a hard time figuring out how to use them on my projects. Here are two cards I made using the swirly pieces. This is a retired set (Little Layers) but could easily be adjusted to use a current set.

Finally here are some cards

I did not get to stamp yesterday, we were so busy with other fun stuff. But I did manage to take some pictures of some cards I had previously made to show.

This was the first stamp set I ever bought, Button Bear. I used it here to make a monochramatic card using Glorious Green ink and cardstock.



And here is a card using A Tree for All Seasons and Wonderful Words stamp sets.

Somebody stop me

Or I will put a rub-on on everything. I bought these little pink buckets in the dollar spot at Target and used the white Stampin' Up rub-ons this time. The rub-ons didn't go on quite as smoothly as the glass and candles but it still worked.

Rub it on

I received a stamp order for my friend Kelley on Monday. I had ordered a couple of things with it but nothing too exciting (no stamp sets). However I did get a set of the rub-ons that were part of the sale-a-bration promotion. Below you will see the project that I made but Oh My Word! why did I not get any of those sooner. They are fantastic!! They are way better than any other rub-ons I have used. I had seen several people use them on some objects (as opposed to paper) and I loved the idea. So while at Dollar Tree today I picked up a couple of candles and candle holders. Here is how they turned out. (the picture is not real good of the glass, just imagine that it is better IRL)



I tried to get a close up of one of the candle holders, not sure if it helped though.



And here are the candles:

Ask Away

Sorry I haven't posted any projects in a while. Last week was the end of a nine weeks for me at school and I am always frantically grading and trying to get things finished. I did not stamp at all last week, I know it is too terrible to go for one day without stamping much less one week but it happens. Well this week is spring break and I am hostessing bunco in April so I have lots of things that need to get stamped so I should have several things to upload in the future. In the meantime I thought it would be fun for you to ask any questions you want of me. I will answer these in another post this week so ask away.

Cased card

I made this card the other day. I cased this card from a similar one I saw on SCS. You can see the original card here.

Supplies used: Pumpkin Pie and Really Rust cardstock and ink, Time Well Spent and Sincere Salutations stamp sets, Circle Punch, Scallop Punch and Target dollar spot ribbon.

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Here is my attempt at Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. I had printed the sketch at work Friday and then when we got to leave early due to the incoming snow I forgot to pick up the copy. So last night when I was working on this my husband was on the computer so I was going from memory. The middle part doesn't exactly look like the sketch but it works I guess. I made this pretty quickly and there are no embellishments so needless to say it is not my favorite card but again it works.



Supplies used: For a Friend stamp set, Tempting Turquoise and Chocolate Chip cardstock, and non-SU patterned paper.

Flower Coaster Box

I made this coaster box using these instructions from splitcoast. These coasters I used are pretty thick. I found them at Dollar Tree, 8 for $1. I of course used my crop-a-dile to punch the holes. I made this box for Wendy who was the bunco hostess last night for the month of March. Then I added some cards I had previously made and a little bag of candy.

Front view:


Top view (I covered both sides of the coaster with different patterned paper to make it a little more attractive):


Candy bag:


And finally here is the box with all the stuff in it:

Hot Air Balloon page

In September we went to a sort of fair in town and rode in a hot air balloon. Now the balloon was tethered to the ground but still fun. I wanted to make the scrapbook really neat and looked everywhere for hot air balloon stuff and of course could not find it. A friend of mine went with me and she created her own balloon on her scrapbook pages so I copied her. Only she won't put anything 3-dimensional on her page so she just drew her ropes and I decided to add string to my balloon. Anyway here are the pages.

Some scrapbook pages

I always forget to post some of my scrapbook pages on here. Yesterday I was too busy playing the American Idol game at my BIL's that I did not stamp anything. These are some pages that I created a while back at a crop.

"Look Mom, I built a road"


Wonderous Winter


Easter Morning


In The Pool