No power

I'm sitting at McDonalds because I have no power at home.  So it's been a bad week for blogging.  I was up at my brother's cabin until Friday.  Then I came home because I had a class reunion on Friday night.  I was home about 1/2 hour when the power went off.  Now the power hadn't gone out during the storm so I checked with the neighbors and no one had power.  Called Consumers and reported it.  Later we found out that a Consumer tree trimmer, working in Elsie, had dropped a limb on the line.  So now it's Sunday morning and we still don't have power.  The estimate for restoration is tonight at 11:30pm.  Bummer.  When I get some power back I'll do some posting.  After a shower.  And some laundre.  Oh well, such is life.  Just glad it happened now and not when I'm trying to get ready to leave for convention.  The only good thing about it is that I now have all my swap cards done for Tues. meeting and convention.  It was cooler in the Paper Palace than anywhere else.  And the reunion was great.  Went to my cousin's house to take a shower on Friday afternoon.  Haven't had one since but Laurel will be home this afternoon so if the power doesn't come back on soon I'll be at her door begging for water.

A 3-D project or a stocking stuffer??

Here’s the 3-D project that we did last Thurs.  You can use any size notepad from small to large.  Then you just need to pick out a topper.  In this picture we used the large framelit from the set called Apothecary Accents.  The only thing that you need to be real careful about is that you don’t want to adhere the topper to the note paper.  Be sure to stick it only to the top of the note pad.  We added ribbon and a paper flower but in the second picture I had a flower and a tag. 

In this picture can you see that I layered the framelit?  It's really easy to do.  Just lay the framelit face up and trace around it.  You have to cut it out by hand but it doesn't have a lot of small curves so it's not to bad to do.  And can you see the piercing on the tag?  The template is from our new paper piercing pack.  With the template it's really easy to do. 

These notebooks will make great teacher gifts or stocking stuffers.  I found a pack of notebooks that are only 3" x 4" and they're in different colors.  They'll make great gifts.

Card for a Handy Man

Here’s a card from this week’s card class.  It’s a punch card featuring wrenches.  You could use this for any occasion in a handy man’s life.  The head of the wrench is a 1 ¼” circle punch with the word window punch used to punch the opening.  A little hint is to cut the word window punch first and then cut the circle.  The handle of the punch is just a ½” strip and the bottom of the wrench is a ¾” circle with a flower punched out of the center.  The flower punch is from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack.  The greeting is from the Itty Banners stamp set.  There are framelits that can be used to cut out the banners but I don’t have them yet so we had to resort to scissors.  The background used is the  Woodgrain stamp.  I did a little sponging to give it a more used look.  Punch cards are so much fun and this one is so easy to do.  I copies this from someone else but I don’t remember who it was so I can’t give them the credit that they deserve.

To busy to stamp.

It seems like I've just been to busy to get anything done.  Which is part of my problem.  I start a project and then I think of something else that I should be doing so I switch to the new project and then something else occurs to me.  And then at the end of the day nothing is completely done.  But now that graduation open houses are done maybe things will settle down just a little.  So while I haven't been doing a lot of stamping, well, except for convention swaps, I do have some cards to show you.  Last Sat Ronda had a baggie book/ new catalog kickoff and here's a couple of swap cards from that event.

Terri McNamara made this first card.  A wonderfull summer time card.  Makes me want to get out there and go for a bike ride.  Now if I just had a bike.

This card is from Bonnie Keiser.  I love the colors in this one.  Another happy, feel good card.

More new stuff

I have a terrible habit of trying out something and then laying it aside to finish later.  Well, yesterday I had to try this new embossing folder.  It's called Argyle.  Well, I tried it on a piece of Very Vanilla and I thought "that's nice.  But what would it look like if I sponged it"  So I sponged it with Soft Suede and I really liked how it showed up.  So then comes the point where I would lay it aside to finish later.  But I decided that I need to quit doing that.  So I finished the card with a new stamp set called "Horse Frontier".  I think it turned out pretty good.  A nice masculine card.  What do you think?

More new gadgets (aka accessories)

So here's a couple of cards that are showing two new accessories.  This first card is showing an embossing folder along the right hand side of the card.  This folder is a narrow one and it comes in a package with another folder (that I showed you yesterday).  The duo is called Delicate Designs.  It doesn't say it's snowflakes but that's what I see when I look at it.   The snowflake stamp is from "Jolly Bingo Bits" and the mittens and greeting are from "Chock Full of Cheer".

And this next card show a new edgelit that comes in a package with the edgelit that I showed you yesterday.  The duo is called Finishing Touches.  It's a little hard to see but it has a small saw tooth design.  Here I used it on both sides of the Bashful Blue card stock.  Then I put a piece of the 1/8" ribbon down the center.  The greeting on this card is from a set called "Itty Bitty Banners"  and the rest of the images are from "Baby Boutique".