7-23-11 cards

I was supposed to be working on special scrapbook but it is so overwhelming to me, I decided to play with cards. I had all these scraps on my table and decided to use them.



I got the idea for this card from a OWHer. Ann's only be cardmaking for a year and she does a wonderful job!




I love googlely eyes! This paper and sentiment are from Create with TLC.


Have a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by and keep your heart open. Susan

Card 7-17-11

Layouts 7-16-11

I love all-day crops. We had a crop at church from 9-9 and boy did I get a lot done!!

cards 7-10-11

I didn't do any scrapbooking today but I made some cards. I got several sentiments from Create With TLC and decided to create cards for my OWH box that's going out this week.

This first card was inspired by this one from on She Who Must Stamps blog. I've had the patterned paper at the bottom and couldn't find a good use - it looks like rain drops so it went great with this sentiment.


I just bought this heart paper and thought it was so cute.


The ribbon on this one is something I wouldn't have used before I organized my ribbons - it was hiding at the bottom of the basket before.


This is my favorite for the day and I copied it from here. This digi was Create with TLC and that's where the card came from. I love it...now I just have to get my guys to write some Any Hero notes to go in the cards for my OWH box!


I think that's it for today. It's only 7:00 but I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open.

Keep your heart open and let your creativity change lives around you. Susan

Ribbon Storage

I finally got my ribbon storage put together!!

Remember this piece I bought at the thrift store - for $5? Well, I finally got my son to take a few minutes to drill holes thru the sides where the towel bar hung. I put a metal rod (from a quilt rack) thru the holes to hold the ribbons. I then put push pins with mini binder clips along the bottom to hang ribbon cards.

The rod here is thru toilet paper holders that came with the shelf above. I used the 3m picture hanger dealies to put the holders on the wall.

The picture frame with ribbon cards is something I found at Scrapbook Art (I think it was, either that or another LSS). I'm going to scrap some cards to put in each opening (some day) but until then, it'll help display my ribbons.

I still have my ribbon baskets with pieces not on rolls. The yellow arrows show the basic still full like they are here and the blue arrow is on the basket that has my special ribbon. Okay... who cares... but I wanted to play with putting arrows in the pictures :P


NOW maybe I'll start using it :)

No scrapping done today. I really want to start working on page kits I put together...hopefully tomorrow. I think I'll go read.

Thanks for stopping by. Susan

Happy Birthday to my beloved country

and my fellow Americans. I love living in this country.

OWH party challenges 2

Good morning. It's another day of partying! The challenges at OWH continue all day today. C'mon, you know you want to play along.

This first card is challenge #9 from Patricia - 1 ~ 2 ~ 3. One patterned paper, 2 images, and a sentiment with 3 words (or more). Easy, right - not so :)

I finally settled on (1) patterned paper - kept pulling out matching paper and having to put it away. My (2) images are the embossing on the green and the sentiment cut out from (matching) patterned paper - I think that's allowed. The sentiment stamped has (3) words.


Challenge #10 from Sandy was a challenge for me. I don't do well with "scenes". She challenged us to use the same stamp or image on 2 cards - using different seasons or holidays. You know by now that I LOVE the Stampin Up bench. I need to use the other chairs in this set (some day). So, here is summer and winter (hope you can see the snow flakes).




Challenge #11 - Kate showed us how to make these way too cute (and easy) pinwheels - yes, you will be seeing more pinwheels on my cards :P


I'm taking a break for now so I can go eat lunch. C-ya later.

I'm back. Here is Challenge #12 - Sarah challenged us to use fruit or food on our card. I've been waiting to use this cherry paper. I wanted to put something like "you're sweet" but my printer still is not working (out of ink). Forgot to got to Staples!


And challenge #13 - Linda wants us to use a bear in our card. I love bears. This is a copy of a card I did long ago and just loved it so I made several more to put in in my next OWH box.



Challenge #16 - Lisa challenged us to use a play on words. I created these two cards. The dog was so cute and his "ruff day" was more of a play on words than the squirrel's "nuts for you" but I liked them both.

Sorry the picture is out of focus - it's getting close to bed time :)