Girl Scout cookies delivery day

this is what my troop leaders front room looked like after we unloaded ALMOST 400 cases of cookies from their trailer to her front room...

and this was after we had loaded at least 1/3 of them into the cars of the people who picked up their orders...

Tri-fold birthday card for neighbor...

I have 5 boys that live next door and I don't really have a darn thing to make cards for boys...so, his mother said he likes red and black for colors and dogs and monkeys...and this is what I came up with...

Birthday tri-fold card...

Here is a tri-fold card that I did for my friends daughter for her birthday...she loves Jacob from Twilight and I could not find anything from Twilight last minute...so, I took a picture from a candy bar wrapper and used Tim Holtz memory glass to put the picture behind and then used the foil tape to seal the two pieces of glass together...I used the same method on the other side but with flowers...

Newest birthday cards for my husbands birthday...

Here are my lastest creations that I made for my husband....It is so hard to make cards for him when he is home so I did not make recipes for these since I had to make them on the sly with him walking around the house...LOL

this is the card that I made from me...the stamps are from a set I got at Michaels last year
and the monkey ribbon also is from there...

this is the card that I created for my youngest to give to her daddy...
the stamps are yet again from Michaels and the paper is also from there.

Most of the sock monkey paper is on sale there right now for 19 cents per sheet.

this is the card that I created for my oldest to give to her daddy.
the stamps are yet again from Michaels I got them there
last year or the year before...

Blog candy giveaway

Here is a blog candy giveaway from my friend Gill over at

 CREATIONS by Gill M...

2nd Blog Award!

What an awesome way to start my morning!
Hello All!



I have been really busy this week. I helped out in my little ones Kindergarten class for their Valentine’s party - I had to take my oldest to community service for Girl Scouts – my oldest is in a play tonight – and we have Girl Scouts on Saturday…we get to pick up our cookies and then deliver them!




When I checked my blog this morning I noticed that Tisha from Tisha's Craft Cove had nominated me for a blog award. I was so honored that she nominated me. I love the cards that Tisha has made…they are so cute! Please visit her blog and become a follower.

So in order to receive this award, I need to nominate 3-5 other new blogs. Please check out these fantastic blogs when you get a chance!

Gill @ http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com/
Candace @ http://papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com/
Diana @ http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/
Gina @ http://www.ginascraftingspot.com/

I will go to these ladies blogs and give them the great news that they are the "chosen ones" LOL! Hopefully, they will pay it forward with shout outs to other newbie’s like me.

I am so glad I decided to take start a blog and I have to thank My Pink Stamper for that. I love looking at all of the wonderful creations that everyone is making.

I love my followers and thank you for all your words of encouragement. It really means a lot to me to see the wonderful comments that you all leave.

Favorite Valentine card....

I had so much making this card...I made it for my mother who was in town over the weekend...(recipe to follow...)

Valentine card for my girls...

Here is the Valentine card that I made for my girls...

(recipe to follow...)

Thinking of you card...

This is a "thinking of you" card that I made for a friend who had surgery...

thank you card...

My friend asked me to make her a Thank You card so that she could send it out to someone and this is what I created for her...

first card...

Here is a picture of my first card that I made with my Cricut a while ago...the friend that I made it for dug it out to remind me...

My Pink Stamper Challenge

Here is my newest creation.  I have never done a card like this before and I have always wanted to.  I found the instructions on the Splitcoaststampers web site.  In their "resources search" box enter "shutter card" and it will have a tutorial for you to follow....

• butterfly from Michaels (where the flowers are)
• flower from Michaels
• stamped saying is also from Michaels
• paper
• card is regular card stock
• print is from Michaels - American Girl stack
• paper behind printed  (hard to see) is from the Glitter Stack at Michaels

check out this new site that I found...

This is an awesome site...check her out!

http://kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com/

Birthday card for a special friend...

I made this card for a special friend.  Her birthday was in September but I just recently found out that her birthday is forgotten a lot so I thought that I would make her feel special and I made her a very belated birthday card to make her feel special!   :-)

recipe:

• card is 6 1/2 x 5
• animal print paper cut at 1/4 " less
• found paper at Michaels in a sale bin (there were 5 different prints and fun colors)
• cupcake from Doodlecharms pg. 49
• used gold stickles for the flame of the candle
• popped up the cupcake with pop dots
• black ribbon found at Michaels in their Valentine's ribbon
• cupcake brads found at Michaels
• I think the ball ribbon was found at Micheals but I am not sure
• I have had it for a long time and this was the first time I used it
• I used Hotfix Crystals in black and hot pink for bling on the cupcake
• "make a wish" stamp from stampset from Michaels

Valentine treats for the girls to give out at school...

Here are the treat bags that I made for my girls...so much fun making 60 of them...

recipe:

• white card stock cut at 4 1x4 x 4
• folded to make 4 1x4 x 2
• heart cut out at 2" (I think) I was from the SweetHearts cartridge (I need to check what page, but I know it was a blackout)
• I used Peachy Keen faces (pk-490)
• I acented the center of the eyes & the eyelashes with a white pen
• The "Happy heart day" stamp is from Michaels
• pink paper cut 1/4" less and taped to the white cardstock
• stitching around outside of heart done with black felt pen
• I used pop dots for the heart
• filled the bag with Dum Dum suckers...{one of the girls in my daughters class is allergic to peanuts so I wanted to get something that would not contain peanuts.}

bag of 25 for the Kindergarten class



bag of 35 for the 5th grade class



Valentine"s Treats for the teachers...

recipe:

• white card stock cut at 4 1x4 x 4
• scored and folded in half so it was 4 1x4 x 2
• the pink paper was cut 1x4" less and taped on top
• I used a alphabet stamp set to put the teachers names
• Peachy Keen Stamps (pk-490) for the brads
• heart stamp with red Martha Stewart glitter glue inside
• made my own brad with the Imaginisce i-top brad maker
• I used red card stock
• I used a medium brad
• I filled the treat bag with chocolate covered sunflower seeds with a candy outside (like an M&M) in pink, red, & white that I got at Michaels.

Valentine card for my hubbie...

recipe:

• the card is an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper folded in half to equal a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 card
• red = 5 3/8 x 8 3/8
• black = 5 1/8 x 8 1/8
• the couple is cut at 6" from Sweethearts pg. 32
• I colored the balloon strings with a black pen and then went over it with a Martha Stewart silver glitter marker
• I cuttlebugged:
• the dress with "perfectly paisley"
• the hair with "D-vine"
• "swiss dots" for the mans shirt (turned it upside down so the dots were recessed)
• I used the following glitter glue on the balloons
• red = Martha Stewart garnet glitter
• silver = Martha Stewart
• pink = studio g
• B mine stamp purchased at Michaels (it has about 3 different holiday stamps in the set)
• color box cranberry pigment ink
• stampendous red tinsel embossing powder

Card for some gorgeous twins...

I created this card for my co-workers daughter who had twins a

little over a week ago...