Aug 22, 2014 | family |
I’m still here – just busy and needed to let something slide to the bottom of the list – and for right now its been my blog. I am posting a few things on my Facebook page – if you haven’t liked my page go do that – Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – be sure to select GET NOTIFICATIONS – and then you should see whenever I post.
Recently we took Ryan our youngest son to college – moved him all the way from Georgia to Indiana! And he has never been away from home for very long. He did do a spring break trip with the school band this year and was gone for a week. But now we left him 10 hours away with a bunch of strangers. I think by now he has a whole pile of new friends though. He has been super busy. Here are a few pictures.
So proud of him! I’ll be back – hopefully soon with some more stamping projects for you.
Aug 13, 2014 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Virtual Crop
Did you know that once a month I have a My Digital Studio Virtual Digi Crop on Facebook? My friend Cindy and I host a virtual crop on our Facebook Group – MDS Virtual Digi Crop. If you’d like to join the group leave me a comment here so I know to approve you.
Last night was our Virtual Crop for August and Cindy and I each had a challenge for the group. Everyone has until tonight to make their creations and then add them to the photo album for everyone to see. Then we choose a Pick of the Crop and you get a fun little badge to display on your own blog or Facebook page.
For last night my challenge was to create a planner – either a monthly or weekly planner. I created both. My weekly planner look like this –
I printed out my page and filled it in for this week. I have a some changes I’m going to make and I’ll print a new one for next week. I just use regular paper and keep it on my desk. I’m planning to write my shopping list on the back for dinner each night. I’m trying to do a better job planning out the meals for the week – I haven’t done that in many years. We were just all so busy going in all different directions. Now that Ryan is going off to college it will all be different.
And Cindy had us do a sketch challenge using one digital kit. Here is my creation for her challenge.
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Aug 11, 2014 | Big Shot, Cards, Thinlits |
I loved the new Hot Diggity Dog stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual catalog. Of course if you are a cat person then you need to look at the You Little Furball stamp set instead. But I’m a dog person so I bought the Hot Diggity Dog set. Several years ago I created a bobble head Dog card, and then later a bobble head Frog card, well when I saw this set I decided to create a new bobble head Dog card. I think they are fun!
It’s harder to “see” in a photo but the little head bobbles. How do I do that? It’s not that hard really. I stamped and cut out the head – which is easy with this stamp set since the heads are all separate. The body is stamped on the circle underneath. Punch a hole in the circle and put a brad through it loosely – you want the brad to be loose so it can move around and wobble. Attach the head to the top of the brad.
Oh – and I also discovered that we have a dog bone punch. Really – we do. It’s the new little flower in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack – just snip away two petals on opposite sides and you have the perfect dog bone! I added two of them to this card.
The card itself is made from the Circle Card Thinlits die and the Big Shot. I was also featuring the new Lost Lagoon In-Color on this card. Love that color.
Here is a list of supplies used:
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Aug 6, 2014 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Paper Pumpkin, Tags |
Did you get the Wish Big July Paper Pumpkin kit? It was a great one! Packed with tons of supplies to make 6 fun cards and 6 adorable boxes plus tags. Here is a look –
I also wanted to use the stamps and ink and make another card idea. And this is what I created.
My Paper Pumpkin subscribers were able to make this card free at my July Card Maker’s class. Everyone else was able to make it as part of their 6 cards for the class fee.
If you are a current subscriber you can now order refills for this July 2014 kit. Not a subscriber – then hurry up and join you can use the code HALFOFF2 and 50% off your first two months. You need to subscribe by August 10th if you want to start your subscription in August. JOIN HERE.
These are the additional supplies I used to create the alternate card idea –
During the month of August there is a Big Shot Promotion. Here are the details.
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