New Cards

I have been busy lately! So busy that I didn't realize that I did not upload the neat father's day card I made for my dad!

I have really fallen in love with this new Circle Circus stamp set from SU! I try to use it on everything! It is so versatile. I am finding that even with the big flowery circle and the scallopped one, it is great for masculine cards. Just depends on what colour combinations you use.

This is the card I made for my dad. Whether he says so or not, he loved it! Who knew black white and grey would be so fetching?

This is my most recent creation. Used it for a make and take and I will be making a bunch of them for a swap.

Two different cards and two VERY different looks.

Enjoy! And until I post again... :)

Long time!

Huge apologies to any of my avid followers (if I have any left!!)

Getting to my blog to update has slowly fallen to the bottom of the list. Such a sad state of affairs, Hopefully I can get back more often... time will tell.

I have, excitingly enough, put a couple of updates in on the right hand side!

As an SU! demnstrator, I am so excited to announce the Summer Time Demonstrator Promotion! For a $105 you can become a demonstrator! As a demo, there are so many perks and benefits, that I would be crazy not to share them with you!

Contact me for more information
christine_ramsahoi@hotmail.com

I will share more tomorrow... lots going on and not enough time to post it all! (if it makes any difference, it took me more than two hours to get this simple post written!)

Get Connected!

Stampin' Up! is offering another great promotion!
The new Occasions Mini Catalog is live from April 1st to June 30th the (pictured at right)! Take a peek from some great, limited time offer selections... sure to make your stamping collection even more attractive!
Also, from April 1st to April 30th, with any $50 purchase from the new mini catalog, you can choose any one item from the "Under $12" page in the Spring/Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog (page 208) for FREE! Click on the thumbnail to the right to view the current catalog. Likewise, if you host a $200 workshop (or place a $200 order yourself from any catalog), you can choose one item from that page for FREE!
With such great selections and 'freebies', it would be a shame to let them pass you by!

LONG LONG TIME!

They don't call it March Madness for nothing!! And I am NOT referring to College Basketball... Life around here has been super busy... with March Break, Birthdays (mine) and Work it is amazing that I find time for sleep! ha ha ha... not really, but it feels like it sometimes...
Anyway - just wanted to let all followers to know that I am still alive and creating... once the camera is charged, I will take pictures of some recent creations and post them!
Must get back to writing my April to June 2009 newsletter for my Stampin' Up customers!
Take care and happy surfing...

Creative Explosion

So today one of the orders from an SU! workshop arrived. No big deal really - although I got this sudden urge to create... so create I did!

Not more than one card mind you... but I created, and I made this really cute little card! I would love to know what you think!!

Made from SU! cardstock (whisper white, basic black and pixie pink), ink (basic black & pixie pink), Silver brads and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

So simple, but I am in love.

Sale-A-Bration Reminder

Today's entry is just a short note that Stampin' Up's yearly Sale-A-Bration event is nearly over for 2009. There are quite a few cute stamp sets as well as ribbon and designer patterend paper this year!
My mother hosted a workshop today and she is getting almost each of the available items in the sale-a-bration flyer! Way to go mom. Great workshop today.
Must go start the daily bedtime round up now!

Lovely Little Layout

With another workshop fast approaching (comprised of quite a few beginner scrappers) I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the 12x12 cardstock papers that SU! carries. And of course, one of my most adorable little photo subjects!

The paper used was from the Soft Subtles colour family (Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst & Barely Banana). I also used Whisper White to mat the photos on and use for journalling.

Inks were Closa to Cocoa and Versa Mark. Ribbon is 1/4 inch Whisper White grosgrain.

The letting is Schoolbook Serif and the decorative set of choice was Baroque Motifs! "Quel-Suprise" it is my set of choice on almost a regular basis!

I am pretty sure that this layout will get the oohs and ahhs that I LOVE! :)
Happy creating and until next time!

Long Time

HUGE apologies to anyone following my blog! I have not posted in two weeks to the day! Things have been busy! The youngest (5 months) is now in daycare and I am now back at work full time.


The last couple of weeks have not been wasted though!

Last week sometime I made this cute little card with an acetate window in it. Needless to say I am quite pleased with myself! Using a two step stamp, I stamped the first image on the inside of the card, assembles the whole thing then stamped the second image on the acetate window!

Very pleased I am with myself indeed!

This adorable little card was made with all SU! products. CS - Whisper White, Basic Black and Orchid Opulance. White Grosgrain ribbon. Orchid Opulance ink and StazON jet black ink. Also the 1 3/8: punch and 1 1/4 punch.

I am having another workshop this weekend and cooking up some pretty cool stuff for April/May/June!

Stay tuned for more stampin' and scrappin' stuff!

Thank for reading!!

FAMILY DAY!

So this is the second year that Ontario is celebrating its newest statutory holiday Family Day. Such a nice idea. Not that I did anything much... went to visit my brother and his son, with my DH and sons. A really nice afternoon. Chatting and watching the kids play.
My sister in law was not there today... so in troth, I spent a lot of time listening to my husband and brother talk...
I had forgotten that she is a scrapbooker! So imagine my surprise when I saw her albums on their coffee table!! I sat down with much excitement and flipped through the pages. Her layouts are so cute and well planned. I have watched her scrapbook before and she takes a long time to complete one page. She puts a lot of thought into each of her layouts and it shows! Her style is so different from my own. She will cut her photos into circles and ovals and mat around them. I don't ever remember doing that, and to this day can't say that I would be that comfortable doing it. But my sister in law does such nice work that the photos look like they were taken to fit those spaces and shapes that she creates.
Sometime I will have to see if she will let me post some of her work on here...

On a different note - my inchies are done!! ;)
The sea ones turned out way better than i had originally anticipated. I am pleased with them. I will get some up here soon.
Now here is the thing - I have signed up for another inchie swap and need to make 48 more! Oh well... thank goodness they are little! They shouldn't take long at all. They keep me busy and out of trouble ;) Speaking of these, I should go and plan what I am going to do for them!

A sample of INCHIES

So since my last post I have been creating inchies 'inch by inch'! For a swap that I am participating in... I have to make a total of 108. I have 16 left to do! I am at a bit of a road block for the last group though. The theme is 'the sea'. Yuck. What on earth would I do for 'the sea'? I have called upon my friend to help me out. She has some fancy sea life stamps at home that I am happily going to use to finish this project off.

That being said - I feel the need to share a few samples of what I have done so far! As you can see - the photo is not that great and the inchie at the bottom in the centre is SO unclear. There is a glitter snowflake on the white circle.

From left to right and top the bottom, the categories are as follows; BABY, BUGS (drogonfly), FLOWERS, HEARTS, SEASONS (winter) and HOLIDAYS (valentines day).

I used various scraps of cardstock I had in my stash and broke out my stamps and QuicKutz. Super fast and super fun! My favourtie part of these? The acetate wings that I made for the dragonflies! They look even better than I imagined!

Happy stampin' and scrapin' and I will post again real soon.

HAPPY VALENTINE"S DAY!

ADS anyone?

So today, I am reading this long string of messages on a Yahoo! Group I blong to - and there is all this talk of whether or not to post ad messages for businesses, blogs, etc.

I completely understand how people don't want to have their email boxes overflowing with ADS! Very annoying indeed. Almost like spam and unwanted junk mail... so hopefully we can all agree that once a week is tagged as an "AD Day". Time will tell.

Not the most exciting of posts today... maybe I will have some crafty excitment tomorrow!!

Rain rain go away

It has rained here for most of the day, although the weather has been unseasonable warm!! It has been nice just running outside with a light sweater on over my shirt.

My SU! order arrived yesterday and I created two neat cards right away for a workshop I am demonstrating at in a little better than a week! Thought I would share them!!

This is a nice variation of another card I made a couple of weeks ago. Using the Eastern Blooms and Three Little Words sets, as well as some punches and Dazzling Diamonds I was able to make this! I like the way the Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa and Whisper White colours look together. Don't you?

This card is also a nice variation of another card I made a couple of weeks ago. Using the Priceless stamp set, Dazzling Diamonds, as well as Gable Green, Green Galore and Temping Turquoise paper and inks I got this nice and simple, yet elegant card! My personal fave on this card it the swirls and swishes along the right hand side of the card!

WhAt A dAy!

I have just finished preparing for a new shipment of Stampin' Up! supplies to arrive tomorrow and I am SO excited!!

The last couple of days I have been scouting out YouTube as well and boy, have I ever found some really cool projects to do! Not all cards either! I am always looking for ways to expand my creative knowledge... and interestingly enough YouTube has helped me do that - who'd a thunk it!

As a couple of really cool side notes

• I also found a great bargain at WalMart today on diapers! So I bought a bunch - Declan won't be needing any more for a while ;)
• Declan has exceeded the limit on his infant car seat!! Just finished installing the big one that is good to 80 pounds! That sucker is in there nice and tight! Joseph is excited that his baby brother can see out the front window now, like him!

Anyway - until tomorrow... may all your dreams be scrappy!

C.

Inchies

So I have just signed up for Inchie Swaps on two Yahoo! Group Sites that I belong to. Inchies are neat little pieces of art that are 1 inch by 1 inch in size. Doesn't seem like that big of a space to create on but you would be surprised how much time and effort can go into these little critters!

Check out these sites for some neat examples!

http://smallworldofinchies.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperfections.typepad.com/

I of course am more than likely going to stamp images onto my creations, then colour them in with blender pens, then quite possibly add glitter and other embellies. Time will tell.

On a different note;
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN!! I hope you have a wonderful day.

Anyway - until next time!

Organization

Word of the day - ORGANIZATION!

or·ga·ni·za·tion
a: the act or process of organizing or of being organized
b: the condition or manner of being organized

And this I'm afraid - I AM NOT!

I try and try to keep my creative clutter to a minimum - but sometimes it just gets out of hand! Still trying hard to find the best possible way to store all my Stampin' Up! supplies... and after today, I think I have almost got it!

So needless to say - I was not as creative as I would have liked today - but hopefully now, with the organization - I can get back at it!!

Must go though... the finishing touches of organization awaits... :(

Day One...

Wow!

Here I go... OMG I am 'blogging'. Pardon my excitement, but this is a whole new experience for me.

It is going to take me a little while to set this up... but it is going to be a wonderful place to come and visit often when I get it going!

Thank you in advance for your patience.

:)