A Stamping We Will Go…

When my daughter finished Grade 1 a couple of days ago one of the things she suggested in her report card was having a “Summer Journal” to help with her reading and writing skills, I thought it was a great idea.
I had this journal already (of course!), I just wanted to do something quick and [...]

I went to a downline meeting last night and my upline demonstrated this Gift Card Enclosure, it was really great the way she showed us how to do it…future workshop demo perhaps? It was a very quick way. You could also makes these into wedding invites.
The first one is mine using Whisper White Cardstock, white [...]

These are the Wedding Invite Samples I made for my best friend Kara’s Wedding to Jim in the Fall of 2008 in Mexico (it’s about freakin’ time!). We have been best friend’s for 21 years now and I have known Jim about the same amount of time.
First card idea is from Jenn Balcer at:
http://jbalcer.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/page/4/
Second card is my [...]

These are the Teacher’s gifts that I made for my daughter’s teacher’s end of school year gifts. I started late Monday and we finished last night. The idea is from the latest Papercrafts Magazine. They were not the quickest to make, I didn’t realize how hard it is to get stuff straight on a round [...]

On Sunday the kids went to a birthday party in the neighborhood than we went looking for a garage sale (I’m on a mission to find a wagon!), than we stopped at the park for a bit…we got home just in time before it started pouring rain and than a double rainbow appeared, it was [...]

I found this to be quite comical…a great laugh this AM! I can totally relate and I cannot wait for Monday to come because catalogues have been delivered in Calgary as of yesterday…waiting patiently…I don’t dare leave my house! This was posted Splitcoast by Roxi4Stamps.
UPS Memo
To: Drivers and Security
Date: June 20th , 2007
Subject: Crazy Stampin’Up! Ladies
This [...]

Again, I was looking for something to give to my hubby for Father’s Day…last minute of course! Than I visited Starr’s blog:
http://starrmercer.blogspot.com/
and I said I can do this! This was Thursday, I finished yesterday afternoon. I totally cased her just changed up the paper, etc. Thanks Starr for the inspiration, I really love Starr’s style, [...]

It was really important for T to buy Daddy a Father’s Day present so yesterday afternoon we ran out to the mall and she decided what we would buy, Purdy’s Chocolates because anyone that knows Daddy knows how much he absolutey, absolutely LOVES chocolate! and than a pair of shorts because that’s what he wears [...]

Today I received this wonderful RAK from Sue Mylde at:
http://suemylde.typepad.com/
Thank you Sue! I just love these colors and I loved the envelope it came in!

My daughter had her ballet recital pictures yesterday, she is having her recital at the Jack Singer Hall next weekend, she is performing in her group which is called “Honey”. There are 11 girls and 1 boy in her group and they are all dressed up as bees!
We were told to buy gold eyeshadow, black [...]