Spring Riley

Happy Wednesday Blog readers! I've decided to be a part of another swap. I need to use up a lot of my supplies so I won't have to worry about shipping them to Italy, so I figured fun swaps would work to use up some stuff! Also, since I got reaquainted with my Riley stamps with the challenge card I made, I decided to join a Riley swap. So, I got working making a card that I could like to duplicate for the swap. I made this card, then realized I didn't have enough of that patterened paper to make all the cards I needed. So, I decided to just finish the card and keep it for a future occasion. You can't tell in this blurry pic, but I added sparkly stuff to the flowers in the top square panel and to the spade and the flower that Riley is watering. I also added glaze to the watering can and the handle of the spade.
I'm really not liking this picture, so I think I'll retake the photo and repost the pic a little later. *Edited: I reposted with a better pic, hope you can all see it now!*
Thanks for stopping by my blog again today. Tomorrow I'll post the first set of Riley cards I made for the swap.

A RAK from Colleen

I got a great little package in the mail on Saturday! Like I mentioned in a previous post, I am part of a monthly Random Act of Kindness group. I got paired up with Colleen and these are the goodies she sent me! There is a card and matching candy snack, some ribbon, beads, and three stamped images! I'm especially excited about making something great with the Bella image, and the monster is going to be so fun to color! Thanks so very much Colleen, I love this stuff!
This has got to be a quick post for today as I'm typing this up on Sunday night and I'm in the middle of one of my favorite movies, Labyrinth! Ok, so I hope everyone has a wonderful week and tomorrow I'll be posting some of the cards I got completed this weekend.
Until next post, be blessed!

Riley likes coffee and cupcakes too!

I love these Riley stamps. I haven't bought any new ones since the very first release, but I still love them, and the new ones are so dang cute. I want them! But it's not in the budget right now so I'll just be happy with what I have... for now. lol! Taylor VanBruggen always does a Cupcake Friday sketch challenge, and while I have admired all the sketches and the resulting cards I've seen, I never seem able to participate for one reason or another. Well, this week I got the card done, photographed, edited, uploaded, and all of this on time! WooHoo for me! The lighting is a little funky because it's been a cloudy, gray, and rainy day. The upclose photo is so you can see my coloring. This is the first Riley I've colored with my copics. I bought the browns with Riley in mind, but it's taken me a month to finally color one! Boy, time flies when you have kids to chase after...If you'd like to check out Taylor's challenge (she gives away prizes too!) you can click HERE. I hope everyone has a great Sunday, with lots of blessings.

My Purple Penguin

Happy Saturday Blog Readers! This is going to be a quick post since I'm writing this on Friday to be posted on Saturday, and I want to get busy with some more projects... This adorable little penguin is one of the stamps in one of the Christmas sets I bought to do my Christmas cards with this year. I'm going to get a big head start on them since I'll be moving during the Christmas Holiday and I won't have any time to stamp and send them out. So, hopefully I'll get them all done before Thanksgiving and they'll be sent out by then! When I opened the box, this little penguin just jumped out at me. I had to ink her up and make a quick little card. She doesn't have to be used for a Winter card, so I made this quick little card. In the past, I would have never used purple and green together, but Tinkerbell always has purple and green and this pad of paper has purple and green, so I've been using that color combo a lot lately.
Once again, thanks so much for stopping by and reading my blog. I hope you are all having a great weekend!

A sketch challenge

Happy Friday everyone! It's been a quick week here, even though not much has been going on. I took Angel Baby into her 9 month checkup/follow-up appointment on Wednesday and she's good to go! Taking into account her "corrected age" is 6.5 months, she's right on track for all her milestones, weight, height, etc. That's great news! God sure has blessed us with our Angel Baby. And just in case you wanted to know, she's 27 inches long and 16.5 pounds now!
Well, last weekend I made this card for a sketch challenge that Gina K. posted on her blog. We needed to have the card completed and uploaded into our SCS Gallery by Monday morning (Gina K. time-Eastern I think) in order to be in the contest. Well, I got the card done on Saturday, forgot to upload on Sunday, and woke up Monday morning knowing that I had missed the deadline. Oh well! I like the way the card turned out anyway, and it was a challenge to use this sketch. I'm not usually one for doing something a little off, like the turned up corner of DP, but it was fun to step out of my "comfort zone" and give it a try. I also received my stamps that I plan on using for my Christmas cards this year and used one for a quick little card, but I'll post that one tomorrow probably.
I hope everyone had a great week and that you all have an even greater weekend! What's everyone up to this weekend? We may hit the theater and check out the new kid movie (the Space Monkey one, what's it called?).
Thanks for stopping by again and be blessed!

Magnets and Toes

Yes, Magnets and toes! I've decided to keep a lot of my wood mounted stamps unmounted, so thye don't weigh as much and will be easier to take with me to Italy when we move. Well, that means that I have a lot of wood blocks! When I got this new set of stamps, I decided to use the blocks to make magnets! I stamped the images with classic Stampin' Up! ink, added some glaze with my Sakura Glaze pen, used my Signo white Gel pen to add some white, and finally put some rain drop embellishments on the cherries. Once everything was dry, I put the magnets on the back of the blocks, and waalaa! These magnets are so cute in real life, I wish you could all see them.
I think I mentioned in my previous post that I spent all day Sunday in the ER for Angel Baby. Well, here is a picture of her with her rash. It's actually not that easy to see the rash in the pic, but it's a cute picture of her eating her toes anyway! But can you see the red blotchy-ness on her face? Luckily the rash is pretty much gone today, and it wasn't an itchy rash so we didn't have to deal with all that irritation.
Well, that's it for today. I hope your week is going well and until next post, be blessed.

A gift set and a RAK

Hi Everyone! We had a busy weekend so I didn't get a chance to post, sorry about that. Saturday we had a yard sale that wasn't all that successful, but I did sell a couple stamp sets. I still have more that I need to sell before I move to Italy, but I have to get them photographed and posted somewhere. I'm thinking on SCS or Ebay, but I don't want to pay on Ebay. I tried Craigslist and that didn't do me any good. Maybe the second time will work better. Also, Angel's been a little sick, and she broke out into a rash on Saturday. It got worse on Sunday so we spent ALL day on Sunday in the ER. MAN! Everyone was sick and we waited for 5 (yes, FIVE!) hours in the waiting room! Sheesh! Oh well, she is doing great now.
Anyway, I am part of a monthly Random Act of Kindness group and I made this gift set to send out. I made a coaster magnet, a post-it note holder magnet, a notebook and matching pen, and an altered tin. I just need to get something to put in the tin (I ate all the gummy bears!Lol!) I used the Summer Picnic paper again. I think it's so happy and fun. Also, I was part of a Gina K. Designs Secret Swap and I got a beautiful decoration from JenMarie! She used the "He is Risen" stamp set which is so pretty in real life. I love the silver embossed cross. Thanks so much JenMarie!
Thanks again for stopping by, and until next post, be blessed!