Happy New Year!

Good Evening to you all! I hope you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve!
Wanted to share this little card I made with my COPIC markers I got for Christmas from DH.
This is the first time I have used copics (well I had one skin color does that count?) I love, love
love them. This image from Hanna I borrowed from Angela...thanks girl! Isn't she just the cutest? I made this one for my friend Kathy for her birthday tomorrow 1-1-09! I stamped it onto PTI Vintage Cream then matted it with CTMH Crystal Blue the large mat piece is a shiny
silver metallic from JoAnn. I don't remember the brand and the pattern paper is a scrap piece
from a couple of Christmas cards I did and I THINK the brand is My Minds Eye. Snowflake punch is Martha Stewart. Well, I need to go get ready for game night at my cousins house. Take
care and be safe!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Remembering To Thank You #2

Hi there All!
Hope you have had a great Monday! Getting back to work after a long holiday weekend? Yesterday I case a card from the featured stamper over at SCS. While I was in the craft room I decided to make another one but just a tiny bit different. I used my fabulous Fiskars Threading Water Punch for the scallops and all the same colors and products from last post. On this card however, I added some fabulous Satin ribbon from PTI in Ocean Tides. I also stamped and cut out an unopened Poppy and added it to the middle of the ribbon. I like the way that turned out. Well, that is all for this little gem. Thank you for visiting please do come again!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Remembering To Thank You

Hello!!
Still playing with my new camera. Trying to figure out where/how is the best way to take pics of cards so please bear with me for a while. This card I am sharing today was a case from FS99 over at SCS I cased her card here. It was a fun little card. To play along you have to change at least two things about the original card. I changed the colors to Pure Poppy and Ocean Tides by PTI and I used Black from DCWV and SU White. I changed the stamp set to PTI Remember and the sentiment as well, also Remember. I also used CM circle punch and SU scallop punch. Hope you all are enjoying the end of your weekend. I am off to pick up the house a little before I watch the Titans play today!! Wooohooo GO TITANS!! Thanks so much for coming over today!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all!!!
I got a new camera!!!!! Wooooooohoooooo, I totally was not expecting it either. I LOVE it. I am having fun learning about its functions right now. I took this picture today. OMG. Isn't it the sweetest! This is baby Logan and my grandfather which would make him Logan's GREAT GREAT grandfather! Well, technically (step great,great grandfather) but we don't have to be technical do we? I could not believe PawPaw got down on the floor just to play with this little angel. He had a hard time getting up but, I think he thought it was worth it! I will cherish this photo always! I hope the rest of you had a wonderful Christmas. I have another day tomorrow with my in-laws. Yeah! All 7 of the brothers and sisters are in town so with their spouses and children we will have a total of 27 people in one 3 bedroom house! Whoa!! That is a lot of peeps to cram in one place. I am really excited it about it though, I love every single one of my in-laws. I know we will have a ton of fun. Thanks for the visit today!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Fiskars Goodie Box Layout

Here is a layout I made with some of the goodies in my Fisk-A-Teer package from last post. This is my friend at work and her new hubby when they got married in Jamaica last month. I made a few scrapbook pages for her. It was fun to not do a traditional wedding. All of the products are from the Snowflake Park kit by Heidi Grace except the base page which is Bamboo from CTMH. I followed a similar layout from a magazine somewhere but I cannot find it now so I cannot tell you from which magazine, sorry! That is all I have to share today. It will be a few days before I am back. Have a Merry Christmas!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Are You a Fisk-A-Teer?

I believe Fiskars has to be one of the most generous companies I know. If you look a few blog posts down you will see my post about the Fisk-A-Friendzy event. Anyway, if you are a Fisk-A-Teer you can talk on the message boards and play along with contests and challenges and they give away stuff ALL THE TIME!! So I have not won anything from them before on the message boards so they had some give aways for that! Just win something for never winning before! A couple of days ago I get this package in the mail! Holy Cow it is the entire line of Snowflake Park from Heidi Grace. WOW! It is a delicious kit, flocked and foil papers, chip board, rubons, colored "ghost" shapes, ribbon, stickers, etc. It was a plethora of stuff I tell ya, and don't be fooled just because it says Snowflake Park, I made a layout of the beach with this kit! Check out the Fisk-A-Teer boards and become a member today, It costs NOTHING!! I will share that tomorrow probably. DH just put dinner on the table so gotta run. I love him for that!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Little Guy Birthday

Hidy HO!!!!
Today I played along with the Featured Stamper98 over at SCS. I chose this card from Paula's gallery. Go check out her gallery if you can. Lots of inspiration there. To play you are to change at least two things from the original card. I changed the colors, stamp set,used scallop rectangles
and used a paper strip instead of ribbon then added a little bit-o-bling. I think this would be a cute bday card for a little guy. I used CTMH new set Reach For the Stars and Happy Birthday. I colored the image with color pencils and gamsol. I drew Stardust Sakura glitter ink around the smoke although you cannot see it in the pic. I used my handy dandy score pal to make the lines on the Indian Corn Blue card stock. I mounted that onto Sweet Leaf cs. then stamped image onto PTI Stampers Select White. I added some stars from Jenni Bowlin Studios. Well, thanks for the visit today! Hope you have a terrific tomorrow!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Wedding Day

Happy Friday!! Gosh, can you believe how close it is to Christmas??? Remember when you were a kid and it to FOR-EV-ER for Christmas to get here. Our parents were so right when they said the older you get the faster time flies. sheesh!
Anyway off that topic for a minute I have a wedding card to share. It is SUPER simple and fast. I started with PTI Stampers Select White and stamped the little flourish from Wedding Day on one side of the card. Then ran some beautiful Spring Moss Satin ribbon down the edge. I stamped the large oval then cut it out by hand, I could not find an oval cutter the same size. I raised it on pop dots after adding the sentiment and another little flourish. All of the stamps are from Wedding Day. That is it, viola`. Thank you for coming to see me. I love that you are here. Have a super Friday!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Best Wishes

Hi Everybody!! Thanks for coming by today. I wanted to share this card I made from a sketch by Our Creative Corner. I have been having lots of fun playing with the new CTMH Cupcake Sprinkles set. I paired it with the scrumptious card stock and Polka Dot Parade pattern paper from Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is also PTI Let's Celebrate. The colors are Sweet Blush and Berry Sorbet. I punched the circle of the sentiment with Creative Memories Circle Punch and the scallop circle is Stampin' Up! I believe that ribbon is SU that I saved from a bad card a while back. This was a fun little sketch. I followed it to the T. Hope you find time to give it a try also. Enjoy your day tomorrow, I HOPE to finish Christmas shopping after work! (fingers crossed)

Cheers!

*Julie*

Happy Birthday Cupcake

Hi Happy Sunday!! Hope you are well, Whew what a whirl wind of a weekend! I had about a minute and a half today so I played along with Splitcoast Stampers for Sundays Featured Stamper FS97 Go check out her gallery it is amazing. I totally changed mine around but used basically the same layout. I used CTMH NEW Sprinkles stamp set, CTMH Good Times paper pack and Happy Birthday sentiment. The hardware is SU and I used fake dew drops from the floral dept at Michaels. Okay, still have lots to do, thank you so much for coming by to see me. Leave me some love! Have a super tomorrow!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Amazing Blog Candy Alert!!

You just have to go over to PaperMonkey.org to enter for some tremendous blog candy.
Check out her super artwork while you are there too. Man, some chickie will be jumping up
and down this Christmas!!

No Place Like Home For The Holidays

Hello All!! Happy Friday wooohooo. DD school was closed today for snow?!?!? We had maybe 1/4 inch. Anyway I am happy to spend time with her. Today I am sharing a shaped card I made. I used the Curved Rectangles Spellbinder Die 2nd to largest one. I stamped Snowfall stamp set from PTI in CTMH White pigment ink all over CTMH Cranberry card stock. I stamped Boards and Beams then colored it in and added Home for the Holiday pieces in the windows, door, snow around the trim after coloring and cutting them out. I also stamped a little Christmas tree and raised it on pop dots. Added the little sentiment and hand cut some snow for the bottom of the house and that was it. On the inside of the card I cut a smaller rectangle shape in white for my handwritten message. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Well, gonna run DD and I are running to WallyWorld. Have a great Friday!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Vintage Christmas Card

Afternoon Everyone! Hope you have enjoyed your Thursday. I spent mine cleaning house and washing clothes, I live the life of a princess I tell ya! LOL. Hey, in today's world I am thankful to have a house to clean! I made a little ditty of a Christmas card I want to share. I used all CTMH products except for the ribbon which is JoAnns. I started out with Vintage Travel paper pack used Vintage Christmas stamp set. That has to be one of my all time fav stamp sets so far. Seems like I say that alot. I distressed each layer with CTMH Edge Distressor. My favorite part about this card is the cream color piece which originally looks like an old hand written letter, I stamped Christmas all over it. Then I stamped the Christmas tree image and cut it out. Next I stamped the holly and berries, cut it out and raised it on pop dots. I inked the edges to each piece and viola` I had myself a vintage Christmas card. Colors used: Cocoa, Olive, Cranberry all CTMH and the edges were inked with Ranger Archivers Ink in sepia. Thanks for looking at my card. Hope you enjoyed it. Have a great night!

Color Me Purple

Hi All!!!
Hope you have had a great Monday so far. I had an EXTREMELY busy day in the ER today. It is that time of year I guess. Thank goodness that I have a job! Thanks for coming in to see me today. I have this card for your view pleasure today. I got the stipe idea from a magazine. I also have shared a card similar to this before. ANYWHO....I used Bazzil monochromatic card stock. I punched out the snowflakes with Martha Stewart punch. I used the emboss resist technique on the label one die cut. Holiday wishes and the snowflakes are a Papertrey Ink stamp and the hardware is SU. Gonna run for now DD has lots of homework. Take care!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Oh Christmas Tree!

Hidy Crafty McCraftersens!!!
Hope you all are enjoying your Sunday. It is chilly here but it is so sunny and beautiful! Today I am sharing a card i made last week. I used Papertrey Ink Holiday Vintage patterned paper (polka dots) and for the argyle paper I stamped that with CTMH Argyle Backgrounds stamp set.
The tree was stamped with PTI Merry and Bright the dark green ribbon is JoAnn I think, The light green ribbon is Spring Moss from PTI as is the Pure Poppy red and the White. I stamped the tree and stamped a second one on scratch paper then cut out and added on top of the other tree with pop dots. The sparkly looking brads are stickles. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also PTI from Silent Night. Thanks so much for looking. I had an above average crafty weekend. I got LOTS of stuff done. That makes me soooo happy. I also got to spend time with my friends Gina and Angela at Gina's craft day at her church. I just wish I could have been there longer! Thank you so much for visiting. I sure hope you have a great day!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Glisten

Good Friday Morning!!!
Note to self. Take a photography class! This card is so pretty IRL. The card stock is PTI Gold Shimmer and that beautiful ribbon is also PTI. I just can not get a good pic this am. This was for a challenge over a SCS for limited supplies. Your creation can only be snowflakes and bling that is it! and only one sentiment. I used glisten, I stamped it in Vintage Cream ink then sprinkled glitter over it. It does look good IRL but it did not come out in the pic, this is the only stamp on the card. The snowflakes are a punch from Martha Stewart. Super easy. Oh, the glitter and bling is CTMH. TFL! Enjoy your Friday
Cheers!
*Julie*

Finally Got Around To....

...finishing what I started. Do you remember me posting these back in October? Well, I finally got around to making the folder to put them in. I made it for Grace to give to her teacher. Well, I forgot somehow that this year, 4th grade, that they switch classes/periods. So she has 4 teachers. I decided to make two folders and divided these cards so each folder has 4 cards and 4 envelopes. The other two teachers get a handmade necklace or bracelet made by Grace. She is very exited to make these as these two teachers where VERY impressed with her jewelry making skills when she modeled her stuff one day. To decorate the folders I used the same paper pack as I did with the cards, Life Delights. The cardstock used was Chocolate Chip from SU because it has a nice weight to it for durability. That awesome teacher stamp fit the theme perfectly. It is a new set from PTI called Teachers Apple. I am excited to work more with this set, seems it has lots of possibilities. Thanks so much for your visit. Have a great day!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Holiday Wishes

Hey Guys!! Hope your day has been great. I wanted to share a card I made using Mojo Monday sketch 62. I used all yummy PTI products. That fab snowman...Made of snow I paper pieced the hat. stamped the scarf and cut it out too. The sentiment is from Silent Night and the snow flake is from Rustic Snowflakes (i think, i am too lazy to get up and go look right now). opps. the green is Always Artichoke by SU. thanks for looking! gotta run.
Cheers!
*Julie*