SU Haul - New Products

I am so excited to share with you my first video! I hope to try to do some more videos in the future of actually making cards for now I decided to start with showing you my first order from the new Occassions Mini and Sale-A-Bration. Hope you enjoy.

Shadowed Daises

This is the third card we did at my Shadowing class last weekend. I just love this card. I have made this card many times before but always with different colours. I really have a thing for stripped paper so it shouldn't be any surprise that every card like this has always used stripped paper. The paper used on this card is from the Designer Series Washington Apple pack (now retired:( ) I think this is such a bright and cheerful card, I just love it.

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: Upsy Daisy
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Whisper White, Washington Apple DS
Accessories: 1" Circle Punch, Silver Brad, Stampin' Dimensionals

I hope to be able to post quite a bit over the next couple of weeks, I am on holidays and we are staying around the house. My plan is to spend alot of time in my stamp room, stamping and hopefully getting some scrapbooking done too. My husband is suppose to be working on drywalling our basement with a couple of friends, however if the drywalling goes anything like the building the shed earlier this week went, I think I might have to take his spot in the drywalling process. Tuesday evening we starting building the shed and in the process Andrew cut his finger pretty bad, I had to take him to the hospital, got it bandaged, he just has to be careful for a while. So Wednesday morning I called a friend to help me finish the shed. Just as we were finishing up we asked Andrew to just hold something for us and he ends up getting poked a little bit with the drill, nothing serious. But he sure has been accident prone this week. Hopefully we can get through the next couple of weeks without having to go back to the hospital.

Personal Note

Let me say how sorry I am that I have not updated my blog in a while. Life has been a little crazy around here. My dad was diagnosed with cancer in January and was going through a bunch of chemo treatments. My parents only live an hour and a half from us, so we would try to go and visit my dad at least one weekend a month, sometimes more. My mom called me Aug. 26th to say dad was in the hospital and was going downhill very quickly, the doctor's wanted her to call the family in. I took the rest of the week off work and went to go see him. The first day we went up I was able to give him a scrapbook I had made for him and was able to really talk with him. The next few days we could see him going downhill. On August 30th, my dad passed away and went to be with the Lord. August 30th was my parent's 37th wedding anniversary, earlier in the month my dad gave me some money to pick up an anniversary gift for mom and to do a card for her. That morning my brother and I were debating on whether or not to give mom our anniversary gifts because of the situation, we knew that most likely he would pass away that day. However after asking mom how she felt about it, we decided to go ahead and celebrate it. So we gave her the gifts. I am so sure dad hang on until mom had opened her gift from him, he passed away very shortly after that. Dad was a minister and he was a minister until the end. His last words were a prayer that a pastor does at the interment ceremony at the cemetery. I miss him very much, but know that he is no longer in any pain. After the funeral I went back to work for a week and then I had the next week off as holidays. After spending a few days with mom, we went up north for a few days to visit some other friends. It was so nice to get away and relax for a while. I go back to work tomorrow and try to get back into the normal routine. Thank you so much for sticking with my blog and I promise to try to keep my blog more updated. I do have lots of cards to share that I have not shown you yet, so that is my goal for the next few weeks or so.

Moved and Getting Settled.

I realize it has been a long time since I have posted, things have been crazy around here. On Oct. 19th we moved into our new house. Since then we have been trying to get unpacked and settled. We have been having issues with getting the phone and internet connected. After three weeks of frustration we finally got our internet connected yesterday. We are still waiting for a working phone, but we were told yesterday that it should be working today. We will see if that happens. Most of the house is pretty much organized and set up the way we want things, there are only a few more boxes left to unpack. However I do still have my stamp room to get organized, I am just trying to figure out where to put all my stuff. I am going to start work on organizing it this afternoon.

Excitement!!!!

This is not stamping related at all, but I just have to share my exciting news. After 5 and a half long months, I am excited to say that we have finally sold our house!!! We signed the papers last night and will be moving Oct. 19th. Because it is such a quick closing I guess I better not procrastinate on the packing. I am dreading the thought of having to pack up my stamp room, it means I won't be able to stamp for a little while. But I can't wait to move and settle in. I guess I better get back to work on a few cards I need before I have to pack up my stuff. I just had to share my news.

I got it and I love it!

About a week ago my friend Sue came over and showed me how to use the Quickutz Handtool and the Quickutz Revolution and then explained how the Cuttlebug worked as well. I was so intrigued by these tools. I really love the look of dry embossing, but find it pain to do with the stylis. I also love the idea of using Alphabet Die Cuts. After my little training session, Sue and I went to her favourite scrapbook store in the area (dragging our husbands of course), and checked out the machine and available die cuts, etc. There is many options to choose from. After debating over all the different tools and such, I decided the Cuttlebug was what would work best for me. The size of the embossing dies is what really did it for me. I love the idea of being able to do a whole card front at one time.

I was able to get the Cuttlebug last Saturday at Wal-mart in Kitchener, I also picked up a few embossing plates. I did not get any cutting dies yet for two reasons, 1. There was not really any shapes I wanted there and 2. I really only want the Alphabet dies anyways, but my husband says I have to wait for my birthday to get some of those. Can November come fast? So here is a picture of my new tool:

I am loving it so far. I have found it really easy to use. And the embossing on the cardstock is so vivid. I love it. I can't wait to start using this in my scrapbooks. Here are a few cards I made last weekend. I had to try out my new machine. :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Summer by the Sea
Ink: Night of Navy
Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Dimensionals, Pencil Crayons

Supplies:
Stamps: Eat Cake
Ink: Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Rose Red, Apricot Appeal, White
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Rose Red
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Dimensionals, White Ribbon

Supplies:
Stamps: Think Happy Thoughts
Ink: Almost Amethyst, So Saffron
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, White
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Dimensionals, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8 Circle Punch, 1 1/4 Circle Punch

Mounting So Many Sayings

I recently received the stamp set So Many Sayings. It includes 28 saying and 6 designs. It comes with three pieces of rubber and three blocks, and is meant to be mounted with one piece of rubber on each block. If I had mounted it this way and wanted to use just one of the sayings I would have had to use a marker to highlight just the word I wanted. So I thought why not mount each saying separately. To do this I got some square dowels from Rona and had my dad cut them into two inch pieces. My husband then offered to sand the pieces for me so I would not get any slivers (what a nice guy). I then went to work mounting them. I am so happy with it.

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