My Big Shot is Here!

Well my Stampin' Up! Big Shot and pre-order from the new 2008 Holiday Mini has arrived. Here is a picture of some of the items. I had planned to play with the Big Shot this evening but my back is really bad and I'm sitting on the heating pad right now trying to get it to calm down. I guess it will have to wait till after work tomorrow. I see another weekend of playing in my craftroom in my future. Yipee! I always enjoy spending a weekend like that. I will post pictures this weekend of different things I create.

Stormy Tuesday

I don't know about you all but we had a wicked storm blow through Hammonton at noon today. I got out to pick up my lunch and go to the bank just before it started. The sky got black, the wind kicked up, there were bolts of lightening and thunder. Then the heavy rain came down. It was awesome. I love thunderstorms.

I wish I could have been home instead of at work. It would have been great to be working in my craft room with a thunderstorm outside.

I did come home after I got off work, ate dinner and then went to work on my swaps for my SU Demonstrator group. Here is the card front that I did.

Stamp Set: Batty For You
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Whisper White,
Kiwi Kiss and DSP
Ink: Versa Mark, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black
Accessories: Black Grossgrain Ribbon, Black Brad, Circle Punches,
Black and Irridenscent Ice Embossing Powders, Heat Gun and Stampin' Dimensionals.

New Toys

Well when I got home from work today (well, actually yesterday, since it's after midnight now) there was a box from Stampin' Up! of new items I ordered from the Stampin' Up! catalog. After dinner I went to my craft room opened the box and this is what I saw.

I went to work right away mounting the stamp sets and putting all my goodies away. I then created two of my three cards for my September Stamp Clubs. I don't want to spoil the surprise for the club members so I will wait till after the clubs meet to post pictures of the cards.

We are expecting Hanna to come through our way today and bring lots of rain and wind. I hope everyone stays dry and safe. I know I will be playing in my craft room all day so I will be dry.

Donna

Happy Wednesday!

Well, after checking my Stampin' Up! Upline Jacki's blog just now I noticed a new background to hers. So I followed her link to http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/index.php where I got this FREE background. It is so cute. I hope you like it.

This past weekend one of the projects I worked on was a Wedding Card for a friend who is getting married this Friday. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the background and also used the Stampin' Up! Pretties Kit to embelish the card. Here it is. Let me know what you think.

Donna

Faux Silk Card

I had read about a Faux Silk technique and wanted to give it a try. You take a piece of tissue paper, stamp your image on it, then crumble it up. Straighten it back out and adhear it to the paper. This give it a faux silk look. It is hard to tell in the picture. I used versa mark to stamp the saying "embrace life" on Pacific Point card stock and used white embossing powder and heat gun.

Stamp set used: Embrace Life
Cards Stock: Whisper White, the new In Colors Baja Breeze and Pacific Point.
Ink: Versa Mark, the new In Colors Baja Breeze and Pacific Point
Supplies: White Pearls from the Pretties Kit
White Ribbon
White Tissue Paper
Large Oval Punch
White Embossing Powder and Heat Gun

Donna

MIA this week.

I know I have been MIA this week. It has been a busy week and I was having laptop issues and then Internet connection issues. All is up and running now. It was a busy week at my full-time job this week and then I tore apart my kitchen pantry and re-organized it. I have also been straightening up my stamp and scrap room. Now that is all done and I am hoping to spend the rest of this weekend relaxing, spending some time at my parents and getting a little stamping done. So, check back later this weekend and I will have some new cards to share.

Have a great and safe Holiday Weekend!

Donna