Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year! I hope that 2009 brings happiness and peace to you. Things have been soooo busy here, hence the lack of posts. Sorry!! I have lots to show, but just haven't had the time to post. Not sure that will change much as I am starting classes again on Monday. I have been working on my nursing degree since 2003 and have been on the long nursing waiting list. About a year ago I found out that my school dropped their part-time nursing program without notifying anyone. They told me that in order to pass their program, my kids would need to raise themselves. At that time, they were 3 and 6 months! I wasn't willing to sacrifice my family and my sanity for nursing school. In order to not lose my core sciences classes that I worked so hard on, I at least have to get an associates degree. So I'm heading back to school to get my associates degree in Medical Assisting. Once my kids are older and in school full-time, I'll go back to school to get my nursing degree.

Even with school, I am hoping to get in the craft room at least once a week. I'm going to need that "Kelley" time in order to keep my sanity with everything. Okay, enough about my life, and onto the card! I love Bellas, but I'm just not very good at coloring them in. I love the DCWV paper stacks, but sometimes they have papers in there that I just don't use very often. This would be one of them. The paper is cute, but I just don't use yellow very much, if at all, so this was a stretch for me. Enjoy your day and lots more to show you in the New Year!
Supplies: Paper: PaperTrey Ink White, DCWV DP, Bashful Blue, YoYo Yellow-SU!; Ink-Bashful Blue; Watercolor pencils, brads

Sassy Stems

I borrowed this set from my friend, Kristi. I didn't realize she had this set and thought it would be perfect to do a little watercoloring. I used So Saffron, Kiwi Kiss & Tangerine Tango. I'm not sure where the striped ribbon came from, but that was the inspiration for my colors. The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink. Those sentiments are perfect for fitting in my oval punches. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day!

Women of Life - Part II

My grandmother's birthday is next week and I made this card for her, from the girls. To be able to make a card for a "Great Grandmother" isn't something people get to do very often or even see on a card, so I wanted to take the opportunity while I could. I know that she will love to have a card that is personalized like this. I used my birthday money from my Grandmother to purchase this stamp set, so I thought it would be quite fitting to make her a card using it.

I like the colors of the card, but do not like the layout whatsoever. This card took me forever to make because I just couldn't decided what I wanted to do. The original colors for the card came from {here - scroll down the page a little bit}. I liked Melissa's colors, but I changed mine a little bit. After leaving the card on my desk and coming back to it several times throughout the day, I knew that I just needed to finish it and move onto something else.

Sorry for the short post...Camryn is down sleeping and I still have to take a shower and run some errands....she turns 1 tomorrow and we have a huge celebration in the afternoon. I gotta get my butt in gear!! Thanks for stopping by...enjoy your day!

Some Ribbon & Women of Life

I'm sure you've all been in the same situation...... you're willing to give your child just about anything so you can get a few minutes of stamping time in, right??? Emerson is gone at my in-laws for a few days, so Camryn has no one to play with, except me :) I thought she was playing well by herself, so I attempted to get a card made using my new Women of Life stamp set. Just as I am into the "thick of things" (Sorry for the Backyardagins pun!), she crawls in and wants some attention. So, I grab one of the first things I see.....my ribbon from Emily's ribbon share. I need to get more clothespins so I can wrap the ribbon around it, but in the mean time, it all still sits in the box. So I grab the box full of ribbon, and give it to Camryn. It kept her occupied for at least another 5+ minutes so I finish up my card!! Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, KWIM???

Okay, onto the card. I had been admiring the Women of Life set for awhile now, but when PTI added the Women of Life addition set, I was SOLD! My mom is "Nana" to the girls and the addition set had it in there. I used some birthday money and bought both sets. This is the first time I have had a chance to play with them! When I purchased the stamp sets, I needed to spend a little more to get FREE shipping, so I decided to purchase some of their white cardstock. I'd always been happy with SU!'s white cardstock and never felt the need to switch. Well....now I know why everyone raves about PTI's white cardstock. It's heavier, thicker and not as glossy as SU!'s white cardstock. I'm not going to stop buying SU!'s cardstock, but will definitely keep PTI's in stock.

I used my new Paisley Cuttlebug embossing folder. A LSS was having a huge sale....it was the owners 49th birthday and Cuttlebug items were 49% off! How could I pass that up?? They didn't have much that I didn't already have, but they did have the Paisley folder, which I can't find anywhere else around here, so I snatched it right up! I also used my rectangle Nestabilities to emboss the white cardstock, but it doesn't show up in the picture. I just recently got these, so I haven't had a lot of time to play around with them. I did stamp on the cardstock first, and then carefully taped the Nestie to the cardstock and then cut and embossed the cardstock through my Cuttlebug machine.

Supplies:

Stamps: Women of Life and Women of Life Addition

Paper: PTI-white cardstock, SU!-Pink Passion, Wild Wasabi

Ink: Pink Passion, Wild Wasabi, Summer Sun

Accessories: Round Tab punch, Rectangle Nestabilities, white ribbon-Michael's