Like Game of Thrones says Winter is Coming

Ok so I I know its only April and Spring has barely even Sprung but Iam busily working on Christmas cards.
I can not get enough of this adorable little Mr.Frosty stamp sold by Whimsy Stamps.
I love love love him.
I just ordered Miss Frosty because I can't wait to make a card combing the two images.
I love the Wee stamp line.
They just make me happy.
Back to colouring
Hugs
Sandy

Kraftin Kimmie CHALLENGE #274, DECORATE THE INSIDE

My entry for the decorate the inside challenge was made using my favourite new little kraftin Kimmie penguin in a top hat stamp found in the Snow Much Love stamp set.
The image on the front of the card is from Whimsy Stamps and its called Jingle Bells Giraffe.
With only 259 more days till Christmas this little card is a sweet and playful head start.

Enjoy
Sandy :)

Kraftin Kimmie Girly Girl Challenge and One crazy stamper May challenge

Iam submitting the glamour girls into the Kraftin Kimmie weekly challenge. This week its Girly Girl.
Pink and feathers sounds pretty Girly to me! Also entering this into the http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.ca/ anything goes plus an embellishment challenge.

KKS Anything Goes Challenge (May 14th ) and One Crazy Stamper Anything goes plus an embellishment

Iam entering this adorable Kraftin Kimmie Stamp into her Wednesday anything goes challenge.
I can't say enough good things about KKS Stamps.
Love them!!!
Also entering this one into the One crazy stamper Anything goes plus an embellishment challenge.
Actually sold this card to a friend for her little nieces fifth birthday.
Sometimes I wouldn't mind being able to fly around the neighbourhood with a balloon.
Hugs
Sandy

Oldie but a goodie

Entering into the Kraftin Kimmie Weekly challenge.
This weeks challenge is called an oldie but a goodie .
Scary to see how many KK stamps I have now that I have an old selection versus a new selection.

New friends and Old friends

Spent the evening with new friends.
It was so much fun getting to hear more about their lives.
Likes and dislikes.
Opinions we share or don't.
Its all so new.
Its like the early stages of dating.
I love my old friends too.
The comfortableness of our relationships.
Being able to relate to each other from shared memories and experiences.
Knowing that they have seen you at your best and your worst and they still love you.

I love all the people that choose to be in our lives because their friendship and support is truly a gift.

This Stamping Bella stamp says it all for me lol.

http://www.stampingbella.com

Hugs and goodnight  friends

Back in the craft room!!

I have let my blog suffer a bit since Christmas. Haven't meant too but just seems I have busy with so many things lately. My family and I just joined a new church and we have been very busy meeting new people. It has been super fun and grateful for how we have been embraced in their lives. My son in the last three months has turned into a man right before my eyes. He is so handsome, sweet and kind. I have to show you a picture of how handsome he looks in his new suit......or his first suit since he was two at his Aunts wedding.

Now enough bragging about my cute boy I also want to show you some of my newest cards I have been working on.

I was recently asked by a couple different friends to make them baby cards for their first Grandchildren.
The top card I made for a baby boy using the sweet Wee image from http://www.weestamps.com.
Iam so in love with her images they are adorable and always one of my go to stamp lines. FYI she just added two new REALLY cute images to her shop this morning.
The second card I made used baby Flora, my very first Mo manning stamp I ever bought. I remember I was thrilled when I had found her in our only stamping store here on the island.......as far as I know. I don't count Michaels as being a stamping store because they don't carry the brands I want lol.
You can also buy Baby Flora as a digital stamp here http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com.

Another thing I have recently done was sell off a bunch of old scrapbooking supplies I haven't touched in eons so that I could treat myself to a bit of a shopping spree.
Check out the stash. I can't not wait to get into the craft room and really have some fun with it all.

I ordered my stash from my favourite online site we have here in Canada http://www.onecrazystamper.com. Everything I order always gets to me in just a few days as opposed to a few weeks. I always tell my Bald Man that one of my favourite things is that she provides the best customer service in a box. You know when you open the box everything will be neatly wrapped in pink tissue paper with candies sprinkled on top. Nothing ever crinkled and always a thank you.
Forget a box from Tiffanys I want a box from One Crazy Stamper.
Happy St Patricks Day to you all
Hugs
Sandy

Simply Betty Stamps Wine Box Swap!

This was the first time I have entered into a swap and found it to be a lot of fun.

The top picture is my Valentine from my partner Trish and the picture below is the wine box I sent her filled with goodies.

The image on the wine box can be found http://simplybstamps.net/item_2530/Betty-Valentine-Swap-Digi.htm

I hope you all have a Happy Valentines Day!!

Eleven Months Till Christmas

Image by Mo Manning 

Image by Molly Bloom

I have been away from my blog for  a couple of months. Life gets busy sometimes and you don't always have time for all the things that you love doing. Luckily right now things seem to be settling back down. Happy New Year by the way!!! The two cards I am showing off today are images from Mo manning and Molly Bloom stamps. I discovered Molly Bloom stamps this past October in a little craft store in Victoria. I love them. Its going to be hard to resist the temptation not to buy them all. Sometimes I think I need a support group. Hi I am Sandy I am addicted to rubber.  Truly my craft room is starting to look like a well stocked shop. The mo manning winter Fairy stamp is a divi that you can find at her online store mo's digital pencil. I love the images and the price point makes me feel a smidge less guilty than rubber. Just a smudge lol. As I write this I am sitting on my couch with my wee dog sleeping in my lap while the rest of the family is still sleeping soundly upstairs.  Its very peaceful!! Soon enough the house will be alive with sounds of "Mom whats for beakfast".  Just a side story my Bald Man has agreed to let me keep the Christmas tree up all year. Yes all year. Its not going to be Christmas decorated its going to be my year long seasonal tree challenge. so on a very small budget as the holidays or seasons change so must the tree. My jaw literally hit the ground when he said I could do this. I always think he is the sweetest man when he agrees to the christmas tree going up on the first Saturday of November every year. So right now my tree is decorated for Valentines day. Next will be St Pattys day then Easter and so on. I will post a picture soon maybe later today if I get a chance since the only pic I have at the moment is on my phone. Not sure how to upload phone pics to my blog yet. Need to ask a teenager. I hope that you have a great weekend with the people you love.
Hugs
Sandy

A card a Day for Christmas and today I did two!!!!

Today I got to play with one of my favourite Kraftin Kimmie Stamp Sets.

O Holy Night!

With all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season I love that this stamp set reminds me what Christmas is really about.

Iam going to also enter one of the two in the Kraftin Kimmie Wednesday anything goes challenge .

http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca

Card a Day for Christmas!!!

I made this cute non traditional coloured card as part of my card a day till Christmas!
Iam entering it into the Kraftin Kimmie Wednesday challenge.
Drove my daughter to a babysitting job tonight and was happy to see all the Christmas lights that are starting to pop up around the neighbourhood.

http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Sandy

One month till Christmas!!!

Iam so excited that Christmas is in only a month!
My tree's are up, the stockings are hung and my three pound Chihuahua is wearing his very own mini Santa Suit.
He actually loves it.
Tries to bite me if I try and take it off.
I could see his name on Santa's naughty list if he wasn't so darn cute!
So this months Blog theme was silver and gold.
If you have arrived here from Sallys blog than you are in the right place.
If you have missed any here is the blog hop order.
I hope you enjoy all the creations and have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

Blog Hope Order

 

 Shari

Heather

Mary

Sara

Sally 

Sandy thats me!!

My first card is a mo manning image Baby's First Christmas I used silver glitter accents and gold stickler in the stars on the ornament.

My second image is Molly Blooms penguin. I used silver and gold on the tree's and on the snowflake and gold on the stars.

 

It feels like Christmas!!

This past weekend my family and I decorated the house.
The tree in the living room and a second smaller tree in the dining room.
Nutcrackers on shelves.
Snowman on the mantle.
The Holy Family looking out at us all.
I love the feeling the house gets when its dressed up for Christmas.
Iam always surprised when people ask me if I get sick of it since I decorate so early.
Nope!
I wait all year long for it to get here.
Even leaving it up for two and a half months seems so short compared to the rest of the year I spend missing it.
Iam grateful that my Bald Man gets me and indulges me in my crazy Christmas love.
I have made two simple Christmas cards using the new Wee Stamps friendship is the greatest gift and winter friends.
Now I have to ask.
Who wouldn't want to go for a walk and get to have a penguin hold your hand.
That would be AMAZING!!!!
Iam entering these into the http://www.onecrazystampercom.blogspot.ca christmas card challenge.

I also made a snowy winter scene using a Kraftin Kimmie Stamp called Eva!
Iam entering her into this weeks anything goes challenge http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca

Thanks for stopping by to say hi!
Enjoy all the build up that leads to the big day.
The build up is really the best part.

Big Hugs
Sandy

Two Months Till Christmas Blog Hop!!!!!

Iam so excited that we are almost officially in the Christmas season!!
With all the decorations at Costco you would think we were already but we do need to enjoy Halloween too.
We had a great Thanksgiving this month at my Bald Man sister home with her kids and his parents.
I cooked a small turkey the next day at home because my daughter almost cried at the idea of no turkey left overs.
Now I have five hundred pieces of candy waiting for the army of goblins we get every Halloween.
Thats what I love about this time of year.
There is always something fun going on!
Today the fun is our monthly Christmas Blog Hop.
Myself and the other lovely ladies get a jump on our Christmas card making and share them with you on the 25 of every month.
Its my favourite day of the month!
I love hopping along and looking at all the beautiful cards/projects everyone creates.
They are all very inspiring.

If you have arrived from Sally's blog then welcome and Merry Two months till Christmas!
I will post the blog order in case you missed any.
Enjoy the hop! Iam also including the second card for the http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca anything goes challenge.
                                                             This Months Blog Hop Order:

Shari

Heather

Mary

Sara 
Sally

Sandy

This months theme was inspired by a picture.

My first card I used a new Wee stamp called Friendship is the Greatest Gift.
I used the greens and the reds and finally used some of my new candy cane coloured paper flowers.

My second card I used my new Krafftin Kimmie Santa and Pup stamp from their September release.
I used the red and whites to bring out the candy theme from the mantle in the inspiration picture.
I added some holly printed card stock to bring out the wreath and the greenery.

I also played with my new Molly Bloom Polar Stamp!
I love Polar Bears at Christmas..........thanks Coke :)

Thanks for stopping by
Merry Early Christmas see you next month!!!
Hugs
Sandy

Three Months Till Christmas Blog Hop

Wow, wow, wow!!!
Three months till Christmas.
Its also ONLY just over  a month away until we put the tree up and settle into our families Christmas traditions.
When do you all start?
While working on this months blog cards I had Christmas with the Kranks playing in the background.
Skipping Christmas.........I just couldn't do it!
I am grateful and thrilled to be able to be part of this monthly Christmas Blog Hop to give me my Christmas fix.
I will admit it I am a jingle bell junkie lol.
It also allows us to get our cards prepared before the rush of the holiday season begins.
Thanks again to the lovely ladies of the blog that let me play with them and keep me inspired.
So today if you have arrived from Sara's blog than you are in the right spot.
If not I have the blog hop order listed so you can sit back with a coffee and hop around and enjoy all the Holiday creations. This months theme was Santa, Elves or Reindeer.
Also in the spirit of Christmas is my FAVOURITE craft supply store ONE CRAZY CRAFTER who is having a Christmas card challenge. So I think I shall enter these.
Check it out http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.ca

This Months Blog Hop Order:

Shari

Heather

Mary

Sara 

Sandy

                                         

                          My first card I used Mo Mannings  Sticky! 

    My second card I used an adorable little Elf from Sassy Cheryls Stamps

      Couldn't help myself so I made a third after getting the idea for a Santa Card from Pintrest.

Hope you all have enjoyed all of our Christmas Creations!
Hugs
Sandy

Fall is in the air!

Woke up this morning to wind and rain.
A couple days ago I was in flip flops today I was wearing a toque.
This afternoon I could be wearing flip flops again.
Typical Victoria coming of fall.
Weather that can't seem to make up its mind.
While it poured this morning I stayed in with a cup of tea and my new Simply Betty Digi that I am entering into the Facebook Fan Challenge for August 13th thru Sept 13th.

Not sure how much I am loving her streaks that I put in though.
I used a black glitter pen and thought it would be a bit more subtle than how it turned out.
Now she looks like a wicked hottie with shades of grey :)

                        http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.ca/p/halloween-colors-and-anything-goes.html

Almost Back to School

The last weekend before our routine goes back to " Normal ".
Make lunches before bed for the kids, up early for work and school, homework, bedtime and repeat the next day.
I may shake up our routine this year as I look further into home schooling.
Iam still undecided.
Homeschooling would be a new routine.
A big change.
We spent the morning with my Bald Mans sister and Niece.
Seems like forever ago that my kids were that small.
Back in the days that I should've put more thought into home schooling verses traditional schooling.
Arghh to be able to rewind and do things differently.
Iam sure I am not the only parent out there that wishes we could rewind and have a do over.
That brings me to my card that I worked on today.
Baby Card!!
A friend of mine asked me to make her a card for a friend who just had a baby boy.
I havent had a chance to play with this little cutie by Mo Manning so I thought today was the day.
I went with my Bo Bunny papers and a few of my my go to buttons.

Image by http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com

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Thanks for visiting
Hugs
Sandy

Four Months Till Christmas!!!!

Can you believe how fast this year has been going by.
Its already four months till Christmas!
Again I am so grateful to part of this Christmas blog hop with this wonderful and talented group of ladies.
Iam already feeling pretty prepared for Christmas with all my cards.
If You have arrived here from Sally's blog then welcome to mine :)
If you missed any along the way then here is the blog order because I wouldn't want you to miss out on any of the fabulous creations.

Blog Hop Order

Shari

Mary

Sara

Sally 

Sandy ( thats Me )

This months theme is Christmas songs.
I thought My Kraftin Kimmie Orphan Annie stamp suited the song Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Imagine her first Christmas in the mansion with Daddy Warbucks.
Iam also going to add her in the Kraftin Kimmie Anything goes challenge.

My next two cards are  inspired by Frosty the Snowman, What a jolly happy Soul!
Lol this Frosty may not be too happy to be photo bombed though.

I made two and the plan was to choose my favourite.
Honestly I like them both so I thought I may as well use them both.
This adorable image is by http://www.sassycherylsstamps.com
I love her stamps!!!

Love all around you

This summer has been a challenge with more than a few people in our lives leaving us to soon.
Family and friends, young and old.
Its made me realize that you really have to show those that are important to you a lot of love now, not wait till tomorrow.
I have been blessed this summer to have had a lot of people ask me to make them cards to express their love and joy for the people in their own lives.
I have made Engament cards, wedding cards and anniversary cards.
I have been thrilled to be even a small  part of all this love. 
Hug as often as you can everyday. 

Wedding card Using a image from Mo's Digital Pencil

                                   

Wedding card using Wee stamps Love Me Do

Engagement card  using Tiddly Inks Image

                                                                         

Five Months Till CHRISTMAS BABY!!!!!!!!

Iam so excited that we are only five months till Christmas!!!
Being lucky enough to be part of this monthly Christmas blog hop is literally a dream come true for a Christmas nut like me.
This blog gives me a chance every month to display my Christmas cards and keep me motivated so I don't fall behind for the upcoming Christmas craft fairs.
Its also allowed me to be part of an amazingly talented group of woman  that inspire me monthly.
If you have arrived from the talented Sallys blog than you are in the right spot to see the hop in order.
At the bottom of the post I have the hop order in case you may have missed one.
This months theme is Non-traditional Christmas colours.
For me Traditional Christmas colours are Red and Green.
My first card I used brown card stock as my base and some of my brown toned Vintage Whimsy stamp papers.
I used my Kraftin Kimmie Nativity stamps and coloured them all up in earth tones.
I did add some Poinsettia stickers after that are shades of pink and greens and a strip of red but it is mostly earth tones I think.
I also went a tad crazy with my Spica glitter pen lol.

My second card I used charcoal grey as the base than shades of baby blue and white.
I used my new Tiddly Inks Stamp  and got to play with my Whimsy Snowflake die cuts again.
Love, love, love them.
My Big Shot is the coolest  prezzie my Bald Man has ever bought me next to my first iPod.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Christmas cards I hope that you are enjoying the hop.
Next stop is Lee Ann blog and I know you will love it!!!
Hugs and Merry Christmas
Sandy

This Months Blog Hop Order:
Shari

Heather

Mary

Sara 
Sally

Sandy

LeeAnn (Guest Designer)