Superbowl

I am not into football, but a friend of mine down the street invited us over for a Superbowl party. I am not one to refuse a party! We took over our Rock Band II game and it seemed to be a big hit. It was an enjoyable night. Craig went with us and seemed to have a good time. But maybe that was the wine! LOL

It was nice to get together with friends and just relax, eat and have a good time. I think Craig got to see a little bit of Amy's funny side they were cracking jokes all night long. I thought I would share a few photos of our evening.

I went to the women's retreat this past year and these were some of the women that I was with during our small group time. Left to right, Angela, Mary and Amy. We have decided to try and get together once a month to pray for each other.

Everyone wants to be a rockstar! Sarah likes to play the drums, I think she likes to be like her daddy!

Here is Amy P and her daughter Maleah. Amy came in and saw Rock Band and was dying to play, I think she played the most! When we left she was still playing!

As we were leaving I snapped this photo. Our church has a bread ministry that the Winter's are a part of. On Sunday evenings they go to Panera bread and get whatever leftover bread there is, they separate it into various bags and a then some other people from our church come over pick up the bread and deliver it to various ministries through out the county. This thing has grown like you wouldn't believe. It does sadden me that there is such a need for it, but makes my heart glad that there are people who will take time out to help to distribute this bread which would otherwise be thrown out. Here is Angela, Steve, Mary and Amy's friend Louis helping to bag it up and separate it out. I feel very fortunate to have friends like this!

Card for a Coffee Lover

I bought these stamps at AC Moore at the $1 bin, and I absoultely love them. I figured I would give this to a friend who loves coffee.

Details:
Cardbase: PTI Dark brown
Main Image was stamped on PTI Kraft (love this)
Background Image: Standing Strang LG by Tamarind (?) stamped with Versamark
Main Image: Three cups by A Muse colored with Copic Markers
Ink: I sponged on Vintage Photo (Tim Holtz), stamped the image with Brillance Graphite Black
PP was K&C Company Designer Paper.

Hope you like! I really like how this came out.

Christmas gift

I belong to a small group of women called The Best Group Ever!! For Christmas we decided to to a secret Santa, the only catch was we were to make something for our present, not BUY. So I decided to make this stationary holder for mine. I knew she loves cats so I purchased some clear stamps from ______________. They are really cute. I only had time to make 3 cards, but I loved how this came out.

I used the All Boxed up Template from Papertrey Ink

I love this stamp company, they have so many stamp sets that I want. I find myself going there and putting so much in my cart, but no actually getting it, because money is tight right now. Anyway, Wendy loved her gift.

The stamps I used for this were Inkadoodle called Cattitude. I embossed the main image on the cover of the template. CS is PTI, PP is from Basic Gray and I used some of Tim Holtz's ink and blending tool to highlight the images.

Let me know what you think!

Birthday Card

We went over to a friends house and it was his girlfriends birthday on Tuesday. I had been trying to make some cards to have on hand for when particular situations happened, I would have something on hand. Well thank goodness I had already started the card, because I needed one.

It is more vibrant in real life. I used the swiss dot, cuttlebug folder, and the circle and scallop Nestabilities, if you want info on the stamps and Copic colors that I used, just let me know! Hope you enjoy!

Birthday for a Friend

I have a friend who about a year ago, we had some problems. We have recently worked them out and have become quite close. I have really enjoyed her friendship. Her birthday was in November and I decided to make her a stationary set. I got the template off of Papertrey Ink and made her this set, which she really liked. It is always unnerving to give someone something that you have worked hard on and hope that they like it. But I do think she liked it and it made me want to make more. I used the Birds of a Feather stamp set, Kraft Cardstock from Papertrey and various different patterned papers that I had.

Let me know what you think.

I know the pictures aren't the greatest sorry!

Gift for a friend

WOW! It has been awhile, sorry about that, however I know that you are patient and kind when it comes to me not posting new stuff. Life is crazy and with DH being layed off and me working more hours, still going to school, and regular home life, things have just gotten away from me! Any whoozers, here is a gift I made for a friend's birthday. She really liked it and I had a lot of fun making it.

I got the template for the holder from Papertrey Ink I love their stamps and now they have started with these templates that you can purchase and download for like $5 and it comes with a whole bunch of ideas and instructions. Very, very exciting!!!

Anyway here it is.

The stamp set is Birds of a Feather, CS is Kraft from Papertrey, PP is Cosmo Cricket, Ribbon is Papertrey Ink and I colored the 3D flower with my Copics and added a little bit of bling to the center of the flower.

Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card I did for my office manager. It was my first try at a gate fold card, I hope I will do better as I do more of these. For the base I used Bazill which I tried stamping the smaller cupcake with the candle all over it in brown. It didn't come out so well as it is a textured paper so I decided to put two panels of brown and then used VersaMark to stamp the same image on it. The big scallop is a Bazill chipboard which I covered with some Creative Memories paper. The main image I stamped and colored in with my Copic and then added some Crystal Effects and a little bit of glitter to make it a little more festive. I then stamped the main image on some PP for the cupcake holder. I also stamped the envelope with the three cupcakes.