Heat is on.

I gave in, I finally turned on my heat. I try to wait til' I absolutely have to turn it on. It's not that I'm cheap, it really is expensive and being a single mom and all, well we have to make some sacrifices. Now, don't think I freeze my butt off, the house is really comfortable. But it's the morning, when you wake up and it's a little chilly. So I've been turning the heat on at night and turning it off in the morning. I wanted to make this warm card using my new stamp set that I just purchased from stampin' up "Harvest home", isn't it a beautiful set. I paper pieced the leaves at each corner. Lots of cutting, but it's so relaxing. I wanted to make sure I stamped the leaves on watercolor paper so I can get that nice fall effect on them.

I'm back

My blog has been pretty sad lately. I had a huge mess to deal with at home. My son's XBOX live account got Hacked into! They stole my credit card information and charged away, so I've just been in a depressed/sad/angry/violated mood. On top of that, they sent a trojan (Virus, ladies) to his laptop and completely wiped it out. So, finally I think our lives will get back to normal. My advice to all the mom's with kids that have XBOX live accounts, DO NOT leave your credit card as a main account. Change it to a visa gift card or something else. Take my word. So onto some cards I've been making while my PC has been down. I hope you enjoy them all, because there are a few to go around :o)

This fun little guy is from Inkadinkado, I purchased him at a Stamp convention recently, I've had tons of fun with him. I created the background images using the cactus stamp from the same set. I used my watercolor pencils as well as copic markers to color images.

I received these two cards in the mail from my sister Marisol. Aren't they cute!!! She made these matching cards for Louie and I. I've never received a card in the mail for Halloween, it was so much fun opening them. Louie had a kick out of it. The stamps set she used was from stampin' up. I just love the versatility in the skull. Thanks Mari! :o)

So, Mari inspired me to make a Halloween card myself. I used the Monster Party stamp set from Storage Units, Ink & More .

Hope you enjoyed this post. More cards to come.

Cyndi

Sunshine on a cloudy day!

What a miserable day today. Rainy, cloudy and chilly. Only 3 more months left for the year to end. Where did the time go? Are you feeling the same way? I feel like I slept through this whole year. But I can't complain, I had a wonderful time this summer and gosh I love the fall. I've decided to pull out my stamped images of "By the seashore" from stampin' up, I know, I use it often. But I love it so much.

The card up above, will be sent to some lucky person that needs some cheering up. I love just making random cards I can send to folks. It's always great getting unexpected mail. The card off to the side I made and guess what, my son was looking for a birthday card to give me and he came into my craft room and took this one. LOL. So I got this for my birthday, which I created, but my wonderful son personalized it on the inside. I hope you all enjoy!

I did it!

I went Sky Diving and I'm alive. Pictures to come. It was the best experience of my life. I'm ready to go again, anyone interested? Just thought I'd leave a comment that I was alive. I'll come back and post later.

I've finally got around to stampin'. I had stamped and watercolored this image some time ago. I really enjoy the simplicity of this stamp set, you can use it for just about any occasion. I only wish I had this very old stamp set by stampin up. But I guess I can always stamp more images if needed. The pattern paper shown is from CTMH.

Hope you all had a wonderful Tuesday!!

Hip-hippo-ray!

Hello everyone. Today I got to work at 6:15a.m. and left at 5:30p.m., what a day, I could've stay a lot longer, but I was getting a little slap happy. Another long day tomorrow. I'm not really complaining, I actually LOVE my job. And I love, love being challenged every single day. I just don't like not having enough time to stamp, or spend with my son. Sometimes, I wish I was a teacher and had the summers off, but to handle a classroom full of children all day, hmmm that's a challenge. I love kids, but I don't have the patience when they are so many. I give teachers all the praise in the world. THANK YOU!! for doing an excellent job.

So onto card making. I made this card for Selena, she turned 5 a couple of days ago. The inside of the card says "It's your Birthday"!

Hope she had a wonderful birthday.

I couldn't make it to Belinda's house this evening to actually stamp, I had to work a couple of hours today. I did stop by her house to stamp a few images on cardstock, before coming home. Belinda has "A LOT" of stamps, I wish I had half of what she had. But I just can't afford it being a single mom. :o) If I won the lottery, I would buy everything.

I created a few cards knowing the girls had fun today stamping and creating. I thought I'd post them here, so they can see that I was thinking of them, I just couldn't make it. I also got alot of watercoloring done on images that I had stamped. Here's a close up of the images. The stamps sets used were from an old Stampin' Up set and the little old ladies are from Diamond Stamps.

Here is a close up of the cards I created. The card on the left was stamped using CTMH "With love" set, which was June's SOTM; the flowers were glittered with art institute glitter. The card on the right was stamped with My Favorite Things mini set "By the Seashore". This card was my favorite card for the day.

Here is a close up of the final 2 cards I made this evening. The first on the left is from Stamping Bella she is your "Cosmobella", the olives are from Bugawumps set "Olive you". The card on the right is not a stamped image, it's just cut out cardstock and I also used a CB folder for the embossing.

I've been busy tonight :o)

I'm really excited about tomorrow, I'm going down to Chicago to watch a soccer match between Spain(Barcelona) and Mexico(Chivas) I love both teams, they are fantastic. But my heart is and will always be with LAS CHIVAS!! Hope we have wonderful weather.

Simple, yet elegant.

I was challenged by a friend to create a black, red and white card with polka dots. And this is what I came up with. I do hope that I did her idea justice. It's a very simply yet elegant card. Love CB embossing folders, they make your card "POP". I also added a glaze to the rose petals, but you really can't see the effect on here, even if click on the image, it just appears dark.

Today I'm going over to my friend Belinda's house for a creative day. She's my very good friend and my Stampin' Up demonstrator. Can't wait to hang with all the girls and be creative. I'll have to take some photos on what we all come up with. The Lake County Fair in going on this weekend. Rick Springfield and The Plain White T's are coming down to the fair grounds. I missed the Plain White T's yesterday. I just couldn't believe they were here. They also had pig racing yesterday :o) and Izzy's pig won. Congrats Izzy. poink, poink.

Friendship

This weekend was great. Went to see the movie "Sex & the City" it inspired me to send a card to a good friend. What a fun flick, if you were not a Sex & the City fan, you might not get "Mr. Big". The movie was just what I expected. Although I think it would've ended better if Samantha would've been with the neighbor.. Huba, huba.. I cried and laughed the entire time. LOVED IT!!!

I loved good ole' Charolette, always can rely on her character.

Friendship is what inspired this simple card

that says it all.

CS: SU Close to Cocoa, PP: K & Co., stamps: SU set

"One of a Kind"

Up, up and away

I love this stamp set "Pun Fun", it comes with really cool small stamps for every occasion. I don't always make many boy cards, I just don't get the opportunity because I'm always doing cards for friends. But this card was very fun to do. I used a bunch of bright colors. I just recently bought a few copics but they are so EXPENSIVE, I'll have to come up with different alternatives. I've used some Mavy markers on this set, nothing to complicated. I made a few of the same cards, just in case we had another birthday boy. ENJOY!!!

It's Monday, out a little early from work waiting for a shipment. I promised myself that I would try and work on posting to the blog everyday. I love reading and seeing other blogs. Every morning before I start my day and leave for work, I sign on just to look at some creations.. they make my day. My friend Belinda makes a card a day and I try very hard to do the same, but something always comes up. I stop by her desk every morning just to see what she has in store for me. I have so much going on in life, I enjoy just looking at people's ideas. I hope you enjoy mine as well.

My first Craw Fish Boil, what a great time, just hanging out with friends and enjoying good food and company. My son tried a raw oyster today, and said it was not that bad :o) He's always been good at trying new things. But I'm not sure how soon he'll eat another one.

I'm not feeling so good tonight. I'm just hanging low and making note card sets as thank you presents for Louie's 8th grade teachers. I love using fruit and veggie stamps. I hope you enjoy.

Thanks for stopping by.