Another Card Tote!

This card tote is for a gift exchange for the Stampin' Up meeting I'm going to tomorrow. We were asked to bring a small hand stamped gift and I'm hoping who ever gets this likes it. I'm putting the three cards I made from a previous post with stamped envelopes inside the tote, I figured this would be something someone could use or show as a sample for the new stamp set Time Well Spent that's going to be in the new Spring-Summer Stampin' Up catalog.

For more on how to create a card tote of your own follow this link: here to visit Leslie Millers blog Running With Scissors, she has some gorgeous cards and project on her site.

Supplies: Time Well Spent, Polka Dot BG, Slit punch, Circle punch, Piercer w/mat, dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds. Colors: Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, Regal Rose, Apricot Appeal and Whisper White.

Have a great weekend!

This is a close up of the flowers on the front of the tote and the other picture is of the back of the tote.

OMG

I can't wait till my daughter Gabby gets home from school today so that I can give her the exciting news that she's going to the Hannah Montana concert next Wednesday. Her Aunt Sharon has an extra ticket and is taking her girls and asked if Gabby could go with them. She is going to be shocked and scream her head off to find out that she gets to go, I think I'll video tape it when I tell her. Gabby is a big fan of Hannah Montana, she watches her on the Disney Channel, has posters of her, listens to her music and I even took her to Club Libby Lu (little girl heaven) to have a HM make over.

An Oldie but Goodie

OK this is the first scrapbook page I have posted on my blog and one of my favorites, not because of how it looks (go easy it's really old) but because of how I feel when I look at this picture of my son Zachary and my daughter Gabrielle and the poem that goes along with it. Their faces in this picture are so candid and sweet and even though they fight like cats and dogs some times I know they really love each other. This page is so simple and I could tear it apart and redo it and make it all updated and fancy, but I won't because it work for me, it pulls at my heartstrings.

This is the poem on the page:

I love my sister and I always will

I'm proud to be your brother that's how I feel

And some day when you're far away

And the miles keep us apart

I'm gonna whisper

I love my sister

And pray you'll hear it in your heart

sniff, sniff

A Sidekick of Figgy Pudding

I'm still trying to figure out a good place to take pictures of my stamping projects in my new craft room when there is no sunshine out side to take pictures with. I keep trying out different spots in the room to set up and take a shot, this one was taken on one of the shelves above my working area. I always try to use one or two sheets of white paper under and behind my project and then use my Ott lite to add extra lighting and some times things still come out looking dark and need to be tweaked on the computer.

This is a quick Christmas card using the stamp sets Sidekick Sayings, Polka Dot background and some Basic Grey Figgy Pudding paper. The colors are Always Artichoke and Ruby Red, I used the tag corner punch to create the tags after distressing the edges of the paper and then used the small oval punch with a large brad to make a fake tag pull. I used an aqua brush to color the tree, added some ribbon and voila!

Hope your week is off to a great start!

PS my little guy is feeling a bit better today - hooray!