Hello again!

Hi everyone, I realize I have been MIA for sometime now but I have opened a business and it is consuming much of my time. Which of course it should.... :) I opened a small coffee shop back in May and we are doing so well. Our little town is such a great place to live and have something like this in. We have some really fantastic people here and I am very grateful to all of them. I will try to post some pictures of it soon. Anyway I have had a chance recently to do a few stamping projects and thought I would upload them. The checkbook covers are so fun and easy if you haven't tried one yet you may want to. I purchased my covers online from American Kelco. I have made these before and my Mother's finally wore out. She asked me if I would make her a new one so hers is the flowered one. I of course have the coffee one! This card is for my nephew Logan Cook for his birthday. He lives in Arizona so probably doesn't really get to see many frogs but if he could I bet he would be out there catching them! He is such a cutie I really thought this little guy was perfect for him. The checkbook cover with the flowers are of course stampin' up and the coffee themed one is a Paper company studio clear stamp set I got at JoAnn's then the little guy with the frog is High Hopes. Hope you are enjoying the last of your summer as I am. Not really ready for winter to set in just yet :(. Have a great week everyone.

It's Mojo Monday!

This is my card for Mojo Monday, you can play along. Just go to their site here and make a card following the sketch of the week, then upload it with the directions they give you and on your blog of course. This little gal is such a cute image but she is to large to do on a regular sized card, so I used her here. Hope you like it and you play along.

High Hopes - A darling girl and her Pig

This little girl and her pig were so cute I couldn't resist buying it, I have had it for a few months now but am just getting around to playing with it. DP is some doodlebug design that I picked up at Roberts Crafts. Picture is colored with Prisma pencils and gamsol. This card by Sandy aka "shulsart"on SCS was my inspiration for mine. You can check out her blog here.

Valentine Pig

Wow can you believe it 3 posts in 3 days? I am back!!! Well today I worked on this cute little valentine pig from High Hopes, I made the cuts with my new cricut machine I got for christmas. I also used some Basic Grey paper that I fell in love with and just had to buy. I hope to get much use from it in the future. I am working on some wall words, but that hasn't gone the absolute best.... If anyone knows of any tips on that I would love to hear from you. I will let you know when I end up with some good ones to hang up. I have a fabulous saying though. Hope you all have a great week. (This photo was edited on 2/10/09 I touched up the pig somewhat with a deeper color as he was washed out so badly, then I added Twinkling H20's in addition to that to really pop him out some.)

These are my posts for Ila's blog candy go to her site and check it out! Here is a link or I always have one in my blog roll for her. Ila I hope they are right!

I wanted to use Frankenstein from Whipper Snapper because of the square card, he is a tough one. I still had to cut off most of the stamped image. It is extremely large. The Just a note is a High Hopes image that I received last week. The wording on Just a note is a Rubber Stampede stamp.

High Hopes

Is there any thing better than a Day off in the Spring? Okay maybe some of you are saying ...yes, but my guess is most of you are saying NO. I just love spring , today I had a day off and cleaned the house! My hubby will be shocked when he comes home... I was even happier when I checked my mail and found that my High Hopes stamps came in. I have been waiting for them because well *sigh* I am a High Hopes Virgin, until today. I called Tina at HH Friday concerned that I hadn't gotten them, she was so very sweet and pleasant to chat with. Did you know you can make ornaments with stamps, she was telling me about these and she has some on her SCS gallery. Her SCS name is Pickled-Tink. Anyway she assured me they should be in within a few days. I'm not a very patient person. I love these stamps though and they were worth the small wait. So here is a sampling of my first HH Card. I don't know what to add in that empty space on the top left, it was worse with out the doodling. If you have any ideas I would love to hear them. Hope you all like it.