Live, Laugh, Love with LunarLana

Eggstra Special Easter Wishes

Good morning to you all! I am posting my Easter wish to you just in case I don't get to it the rest of the weekend. Tomorrow is Easter, and we aren't normally home. We are usually up at good Ol' Uncle Phil's house, but he is recovering from surgery. So we are planning on a huge Polish breakfast tomorrow morning for starters! 

I am also running around like crazy through out my house. We are having a garage sale next week Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I have been pulling tons of stamping and scrapping stuff to sell. If you are a local friend of mine, feel free to stop by and check it out! I officially open at 10am on Thursday, but you know I wouldn't mind if you stopped by early.  I hope to be set up by Wednesday night for sure. 

A few weeks back, my friend, Robin, taught me how to crochet these sweet little flowers. I am having so much fun making them!  I had to incorporate them into the few Easter cards that I made.  I borrowed this stamp set from a friend. It is a Taylored Expressions stamp set that is just adorable!  The saying is from an Our Craft Lounge Set, and I felt it fit perfectly with my image!  This is a very simple card, but oh so sweet and soft! 

Okay, I better get back to work!  I don't know if I told you or not, but my husband said to me a few months ago as he was walking through my shop, "Your quarters are cramped."  So I am trying to do something about that!  I thought that was really funny when he said that! 

Cupcake Factory

Who doesn't love cupcakes?  When I first saw this stamp by Lili of the Valley, I thought it was so darned adorable. When I actually got to sit down and color it, I loved it even more!  How fun is this!  It's a very easy image to color too. The mice are little and there isn't much to them.  This card probably took me about 5 minutes to make. You have to remember I already had the background made!  And all I did was layer my image and plop it on the card with foam tape (which I cannot live without).  Then add a lucky button and you have yourself a card!  I have had a lot of birthdays lately so I may just whip up some more of these!

Okay, I have a lot to do today. First thing I'm going to do is head to the grocery store before it gets busy!  Once I'm home I can get a handle on things around here!  Happy Friday!

 

BoBunny Gardener

Good morning folks!  I was wide awake this morning at  5:00am for some reason. Oh well, I guess I just have to go with it.  Wisconsin had SNOW yesterday. Yes, on April 19th.  I am thankful I live further to the south. I could not handle even 5 inches of snow.  I'm waiting to hear the totals from our family that lives North!

Anyways, you have to believe that eventually Spring will arrive and we will all be sporting our rubber boots and ready to garden!  I don't even have gardening boots, but that sounded good! Ha ha ha!  This card is made with Bo Bunny paper. I love the purples, turquoises, and greens together!  The image is a digital image by Heather Ellis (her Pure Innocence line).  I use a mat stack from Papertrey Ink. Again, I am loving this way to make cards!  The best part is coloring the image to fit the rest. I love it! 

I hope you enjoy your Wednesday. My daughter will be coming home from college tomorrow! That ALWAYS adds energy to the household!

Sharing a good book!

Good afternoon bloggers. I'm stopping by with a quick post to show you this cute card I made this last weekend. I was inspired by a card that my friend, Lisa Zappa made. It didn't turn out to be like hers, but it was my starting point!

The paper is from The Girls' Paperie. Isn't it pretty? I spent a day at Archivers in their workroom a weekend ago. OH BOY is that a dangerous thing to do!  It was a blast though, and I didn't do too bad on the shopping.  The lace stamp on the bottom was another good find. My friend, Bevie, gifted it to another friend, and soon we were all running through the store to buy them out! Ha ha ha. The stamp set is a part of the Stella and Rose Collection (My Minds Eye) and it was only $5.99. What a deal! I think this was a perfect combination to plant my Lili of the Valley image on. I had fun coloring it, and bringing the scene to life!

I hope your Monday was great, and you can relax this evening!  

 

Homemade Goodness

Good Sunday morning to you!  This week got away from me a bit!  Mostly, because I was nervous about my Brother-in-law having surgery on Friday. All is well now! Both of my of my Brother-in-laws have prostate cancer. My husband was diagnosed with it last October and had surgery in November. Brother # 2 had surgery Friday. Brother #3 will have surgery probably in May. Yes, it has been a rough few months!  The reason, I am telling you this is simple. Get the men in your life to go to the doctor! Have their PSA tested. One in six men develop prostate cancer at some point in their life. It is very treatable if caught early.  In my family's case, it is genetic. Both my husband's father and grandfather had it.  So any ways, those are my words of wisdom for today!  Get those men to the doctors!

Now onto my card! I'm sharing another Lili of the Valley cutie! I love these stamps so darn much!  These mice love to bake! I'm sure of it! All I did was color this image to match my background papers, and slapped it on the card. Easy peasy and so darn cute!

This weekend has been cold and dreary so I am spending my time in my stamp shop! I LOVE IT!  Today I will have to clean the house, but I am going to make fast work of it!  Enjoy your Sunday!

Cherish-to hold dear.

Good afternoon folks!  I am sitting here having another cup of  coffee. I have things to do tonight, and I wanted a "boost".  Don't worry! It's only "half-caff".  I want to be able to sleep tonight too.  I have the day off tomorrow, and I will be hooking up with friends for the weekend. I am really looking forward to it. 

Remember how I gave you tips on cutting out the mat stacks and then stamping them and using them for card elements. Well here is another version. This one is easier. You cut the mat stacks out of patterned paper.  No stamping is involved at all. It makes it a lot faster! What I did when I made my "Lana-cuts" backgrounds was take some patterns from my 6 x 6 paper packs and cut out mat stacks. That way I have card elements that coordinate with my backgrounds. I cannot wait to whip up some cards this weekend. It's fun, it's easy, and I love the results!

Already, off I go to pack up my goodies!  Enjoy the weekend!

Icing Sugar

Good evening folks!  My goodness! This week is going by so fast!  I am actually quite happy about that because I will be getting together with friends this weekend to, what else, STAMP!  Well and laugh. I am sure I will be laughing so hard I may even wet my pants. These friends have been known to make this happen before!  They should have a warning on them even! 

Anyways, I just came in from a walk outside with my husband, and I thought I should jump on here and make a quick post. This is a card that I made with my new Lili of the Valley stamps.  I am one happy camper!  These stamps make me smile from ear to ear and coloring them is oh so much fun! 

I will try to get back here real soon!  I hope you are enjoying SPRING! 

 

How to make card elements

You've been hearing a lot of talk from me about making card elements. Today, I am going to show you how to do that.  Let's start with die cutting. First of all, you will have to cut your pieces out. All four of the dies I am using are from Papertrey Ink and they all have coordinating stamp sets. I like to think I am being very efficient when I am cutting out my mat stacks. As you can see, I use four dies at a time. I even double up my paper.  So with each cycle through the Big Shot, I get 8 pieces cut. Not bad!  Next up, I stamp the card elements using various stamps and colors.  This takes awhile and I do mess up one or two every now and again. I find that the more you stamp the image, the better you get at the placement.  Once I have the mat stacks all stamped out, I package them (this is how I store them) in clear plastic sleeves.  They are all set to use on a card.  I usually do the cutting and stamping on the same day. I do a ton of them.

 

The fun part comes when you go to use all of your card elements. I have already showed you how I make "Lana Cuts"  backgrounds. I have a box full of these sorted by brands of paper.  So usually I start with picking my background piece. Then I grab a card element that I like for the layout of the background. Finally, I chose an image. This particular one is a digital image by Pure Innocence. I color in my image with my Copic markers to coordinate with my papers. Once I am done, I cut out my image and pop it up with some foam tape on the mat stack.  I usually will add ribbons, and buttons at this time. The whole card just comes together so easily when you make them this way.

I have been using different images on these cards, but so far I am loving the digital images by Sweet & Sassy (Cocoa) and the Pure Innocence images. I like being able to play with the size before I print them so they will fit my card perfectly!

I hope you have enjoyed my little card elements class!  LOL! Happy Sunday!

Thank you mousie

I had two goals for my time off during spring break. One was to  exercise more regularly (as in as much as I could). The second was to get ready for our garage sale at the end of April. I started off just wanting to play in my stamp room. I had so much fun the first few days, but as my week went on, I started to feel guilty. 

So yesterday I started pulling out the junk and pricing it for my sale. WOW!  After 14+ years of stamping, I have acquired some "stuff".  I found out this morning that my Quickutz handheld thingie is obsolete! Ha ha ha!  Anyways, yes I am getting rid of some of my stamping and scrapbooking things, but I have no problem with that. Things have changed over the years.  I enjoy stamping so darn much. My style has changed, but I still love to stamp and make people smile. 

So with all that blah blah blah being said, here is today's card.  It is made with a digital stamp from Sweet & Sassy. I love this mouse, named Cocoa.  I like to print him off smaller so I can make cards just like this one. I used the Mat Stack 4 set from Papertrey Ink along with the die to make what I call a card element.  You will be seeing more cards like these because I just love making them!

Enjoy you Saturday!  P.S. I have ridden 10+ miles on my exercise bike each of the last 4 days in case you were wondering!

Sending You

Good morning! Good morning! It is Friday and I have 3 more days left to my spring break. It has been a wonderful week so far! Here is a stamp set from Papertrey Ink that I was gifted for my birthday!  The set is called "Sending You" and it has all kinds of neat little sayings that you would want to send someone. I paired it up with PTI paper from way back. I still love this stuff! I really like the die that coordinates with this set. I can see using that by itself without using the stamp set even.  Both the stamp set and the die are very versatile! Ya gotta love that! 

Oh and can you see the flower centers. I used my Viva Pearl Pens for the centers. I love these things. They are easy to use and dry pretty quick! I used the crochet ribbon from from Startlit Studio. This has become a staple in my stamping arsenol! LOL!

Okie dokie! It's time for me to get myself another cup of coffee! Enjoy your Friday!