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So Sweet

Good Morning! Happy Monday! It is back to reality today. Boy was it hard to get up this morning! I hope everyone is starting to wake up a bit more than I am! Today's card is brought to you by October Afternoon Cherry Hill Rub Ons. I love using the rub-ons. These happened to be just leftover sitting on my work station. I had the spellbinders cut-out sitting on my table too. I like to cut up some small scraps of things so that I can just grab and go. Sometimes this way of creating works. Sometimes it doesn't. All of the paper is from different lines from October Afternoon. One thing I have learned is a lot of their different lines coordinate. I love that. I used a sticker from SRM for the saying. I am in love with the scallop from My Favorite Things. I cut out a bunch of scallops too from scrap pieces of paper and then have them handy at my workstation. I hope you enjoy your Monday!

Santa's Workshop

Well folks, it is time to start working on Christmas cards! We arrived home from a wonderful Thanksgiving up at Uncle Phil's house. My hands were feeling good (thank you Predizone) so I fully took advantage of this time. 

This first card is made with a stamp set from Raisin Boat, called Santa's Workshop, that I bought at the One of a Kind stamp show in Madison.  I just love the idea of renting stamps, but I knew I would want to keep this stamp.  I really love the fun whimsical part of this set. 

The paper that I used is from a 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park called Seasons Greetings.  I really like the vintage look of the paper.

That's all for today!  Stay tuned for more this week!

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Good morning!  We are preparing to head up north to good Ol' Uncle Phil's house for some of the Thanksgiving weekend. I hope you are all able to spend some time with your families and appreciate all the good things in your life.

Today's card is made with a Whimsie Doodles digital stamp. Oh my goodness! When I saw this stamp, I had to get it. I thought it was so darn cute. I paired it up with some October Afternoon paper and away I went.

Okay off I go to start packing up my things!  Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

 

Cherry Hill

Hello there stampers. Today is Monday, but it is like a "Monday-Thursday" for me. How cool is that? I have one more day of school before Thanksgiving break. BUT, before you get too excited, I want you to know that your teachers out there and anyone that works with children in your schools is really EARNING THEIR BUCKS this short week. Oh my goodness. The kids must be intuned with the vacation satellite or something!

I did a little bit of creating over the weekend. Oh how I love to create with the October Afternoon. I recently bought some Cherry Hill paper from StartlitStudio and the matching rub ons.  Also, just remember to check out both sides of the paper by clicking on the thumbnails. I oh and ah as I look through them. I love the bright colors of the Cherry Hill line. It just brightens MY day to create with them.

Okay, I am off to enjoy an after school snack. I hope you have a nice evening.

Christmas Cheer

Good morning stampers! I was up early this morning! Yesterday I went to the Madison One of a Kind Scrapbook and Stamp show.  It was so nice to visit with friends that I met up with. Not to mention some of the vendors who I have become friends with over the years.  Jackie from Inky Antics is one of the nicest gals in the business! I have been going to this show for many, many years. This year it seemed smaller with less vendors.  I was still able to find a few things for Santa to perhaps bring me come Christmas Day!

Today's card is one of my favorite layouts because it is different.  I copied it from a card that my friend, Lisa Zappa sent me.  It is actually quite fun to make.  I used the Flourishes stamp set called Sweets of the Season. The detail on the stamps from this company are just incredible to me.  They also send you your stamps all packaged up and the presentation is just oh so pretty when you open your new stamps.  I also love the sayings they have. The font is so stylish. Oh this was so much fun to make!

 

Good deeds

Hello again.  I am doing pretty good on the blogging this week. I also want to share some things about real life as I go along.  Last weekend, I found Cards that Care.  If you are a stamper and have been for many years, you have an abundance of cards.  I thought of my grandmother who is now passed away. She was in a nursing home towards her last year or so of her life. I always felt it was a lonely place.  So in honor of my Grandma, Louise Makofski, I wrote out some Christmas cards this year and sent them in for this card drive. It made me feel so good. As I wrote in each card, I thought about what it would mean to each individual. I really want to make this holiday season be about what it really should be about: Love, comfort, and peace with a little joy and a whole lot of good will!

Stamps: Whipper Snapper  Paper: Pink Paislee & My Minds Eye

Here's the story

Today's card is yet another one of my favorites using all of the October Afternoon goodies. I made this card for my good friend in Minnesota who went shopping for me at the warehouse store. Oh my goodness does she get me excited about things.  First of all, she bought me the Thrift Shop stamp set for a gift. I stamped the doily on this card with that. Isn't it cool? I used my Hero Arts chalk in on it. I love the coverage you get from the chalk inks. On the rest of the cards I used the Thrift Shop rub ons.  When my hands are not feel the best from my arthritis, I love to use the rub ons. They are very easy to use. I have had some rub ons that no matter how hard you rub, they don't want to stick. Then you finally get them on your card and you can see your indentations from rubbin so hard. I can assure you the October Afternoon rub ons will not give you any kind of problems. I love them and have a great stock of them now.

 I hope you enjoyed today's card!

 

Party Coup

I was feeling so good about posting yesterday, I had to keep this sharing idea going. A couple of my friends have rented stamps from Raisin Boat and they really like this option. So I decided to give it a try too. They have a couple of different options on how many stamps you get per month. I started with the introductory option.  The two stamp sets that I am renting are called Chicken Coup and Chicken Soup. I thought it would be good to get the two sets together and coordinate some of them.  I made a lot of chicken cards this past weekend.  I also had some cardstock from a LONG time ago that I used to stamp the main images on. I used up a whole stack of it. You can't see it in the picture, but it has a dirty look to it which was perfect for my chickens!

 I used some paper from my October Afternoon stash. A few weeks back, a couple of friends of mine went shopping at the October Afternoon Warehouse Sale in Minnesota. Being the good friends that they are, they shared with me. My advice to them was, "Buy everything and then we will split it".  OH MY GOODNESS!  What deals they got! If you would like to get in on the action, October Afternoon is now having Santa Sacks go on sale each Friday for the next Month.  The paper is mostly from their older lines, but they are giving you $100 worth of goodies for $39.99 plus shipping.  The quality of the October Afternoon paper is fabulous and it is two sided. Generally, if you don't like side A, you will like side B. Or if you are like me, you like both side A and B and can't choose which one to use!  Yes, I admit. . . I am an October Afternoon addict. 

 

 

Priorities

Hello friends!  I promised my friend, Barb, I would come right home today after school and post to my blog. She informed me that it was October 3rd since I posted last. I should be ashamed of myself. So have you been wondering what I have been doing?  Well now that both of my daughters are away at college my focus has been on exercising. A lot of you know that I have psoriatic arthritis.  I started exercising back in 2008. On New Years Day of that year I promised myself that I was going to exercise every single day until it became habit. It did become habit.  I started an exercising calendar in September 2009 and I have my times and distances recorded until present.  I think there are many benefits of exercising. So I knew that once my daughters went away to college, I wanted to really focus on that.  I have been exercising about 5 days out of the week. I am really proud of that.  This is not an excuse though. I could also be posting to my blog. I think what happened was that my focus was so much on exercising when I went back to school. Once I stopped posting to my blog, and the days kept growing since I last posted, it was easy to not post. I have missed it though. I absolutely love to share what I create.

So today. . . what should I share. I have millions of things to share. I am sharing post-it note pads that I made using Cindy's Tutorial. Oh my goodness. I am addicted to the October Afternoon paper right now. I will talk more about that later.  All of these projects are made with October Afternoon paper, Chipboard, and rub ons. If you stop over at StarlitStudio you can get these items at a great price compared to a lot of other stores. If you click on the paper line, it will take you to all of the items (rub-on, miscellany, and other things) in that line. Cindy is the owner of StarlitStudio and she will really take good care of you. She is so creative and a wonderful inspiration to me!

Okay so I'm thinking I gave Barb enough to look at for one day! What do you think?  LOL!   Happy Monday everyone!