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Monday, June 13, 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Under Construction
Hi All,
Seems as if my life has been under construction lately. After 18 years in my house I am getting a new kitchen...Yippee! The project that was supposed to take 2-3 weeks has taken almost seven. Nothing goes smooth during construction. Like getting your much anticipated glass cabinets with no glass doors. Counter tops that should have been measured and delivered in 2 weeks took 6. The best was the decision about the light over the sink. We couldn't decide in the store so we purchased the two we liked the best and asked every family member and friend who came to visit. Naturally it was a split decision! The kitchen is complete now with a modern antique feel, new kitchen items mixed with my family heirlooms. I absolutely love it!
So my dream kitchen is finally done, however, now I start on the blog pages. I found a young lady who will be helping me redesign my blog. She talented an she knows what she is doing! I'm sure it won't take 7 weeks...LOL! Once this is up and running, I'll be posting more creations that I've made in my "down time".
Until then...stay happy, healthy & creative!
Hugs
Seems as if my life has been under construction lately. After 18 years in my house I am getting a new kitchen...Yippee! The project that was supposed to take 2-3 weeks has taken almost seven. Nothing goes smooth during construction. Like getting your much anticipated glass cabinets with no glass doors. Counter tops that should have been measured and delivered in 2 weeks took 6. The best was the decision about the light over the sink. We couldn't decide in the store so we purchased the two we liked the best and asked every family member and friend who came to visit. Naturally it was a split decision! The kitchen is complete now with a modern antique feel, new kitchen items mixed with my family heirlooms. I absolutely love it!
So my dream kitchen is finally done, however, now I start on the blog pages. I found a young lady who will be helping me redesign my blog. She talented an she knows what she is doing! I'm sure it won't take 7 weeks...LOL! Once this is up and running, I'll be posting more creations that I've made in my "down time".
Until then...stay happy, healthy & creative!
Hugs
Sunday, February 21, 2016
It's been too long!
Hi All,
Wow, Wow, WOW! Can't believe a month has blown by and I'm so behind in my blog.
The month of January went by in a blur. Spent part of first week of the new year home sick.
Doctor said it was a sinus infection. I think I figured that out on my own, judging by the number of tissues I was using. No meds because it was viral. 10 days later, my nose was running like a faucet, so back to the doctors. He said he thought I was at the end of it. Well I wasn't. 7 days later I was back at the doctors' office. Now I had another full blown sinus infection, or maybe it was the first one still. But that virus decided to share with my ears, so I had an ear infection and bronchitis.
Nothing that 10 days of pills couldn't cure.
So that's how I spent my last month! Not fun but it could have been worse!
My drawer cleaning is still in progress and I will post some new scrapbook pages this week.
To top that off, I'm excited to start my amazing journey with Fun Stampers Journey. I'll share more later.
Hugs to all,
Chris
Wow, Wow, WOW! Can't believe a month has blown by and I'm so behind in my blog.
The month of January went by in a blur. Spent part of first week of the new year home sick.
Doctor said it was a sinus infection. I think I figured that out on my own, judging by the number of tissues I was using. No meds because it was viral. 10 days later, my nose was running like a faucet, so back to the doctors. He said he thought I was at the end of it. Well I wasn't. 7 days later I was back at the doctors' office. Now I had another full blown sinus infection, or maybe it was the first one still. But that virus decided to share with my ears, so I had an ear infection and bronchitis.
Nothing that 10 days of pills couldn't cure.
So that's how I spent my last month! Not fun but it could have been worse!
My drawer cleaning is still in progress and I will post some new scrapbook pages this week.
To top that off, I'm excited to start my amazing journey with Fun Stampers Journey. I'll share more later.
Hugs to all,
Chris
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Starting My New Fun Stampers Journey
Hi All,
These days just seem to fly by like a hummingbird! Sorry to say that I've not got much accomplished the past few day of cleaning out a drawer but I have made 4 sets of scrapbook pages. Yippee!
Add to that my opening of my Fun Stampers Journey starter kit and I am one happy person.
I will take a couple photos of my starter kit, but for now, please enjoy these pages. I seem to be on a butterfly kick lately. Must have stocked up when they were on sale:)
Hugs,
Chris
odds and ends I added for depth.
These days just seem to fly by like a hummingbird! Sorry to say that I've not got much accomplished the past few day of cleaning out a drawer but I have made 4 sets of scrapbook pages. Yippee!
Add to that my opening of my Fun Stampers Journey starter kit and I am one happy person.
I will take a couple photos of my starter kit, but for now, please enjoy these pages. I seem to be on a butterfly kick lately. Must have stocked up when they were on sale:)
Hugs,
Chris
odds and ends I added for depth.Sunday, January 17, 2016
Fun Stampers Journey Coach 814771
Hi All,
It's Sunday...the day to make my major announcement. Drum roll please.....
I am pleased and excited to say I am a Fun Stampers Journey Coach!
Fun Stampers Journey is your source for the best arts and craft stamps, paper arts supplies and ideas for paper crafts!
After nearly two decades in the craft industry, Richard Garay founded Fun Stampers Journey with his wife, Gabby. Richard wanted to share not only his passion for creating but also provide a business opportunity for the creative individual. Though stamps are the foundation of Fun Stampers Journey, we offer a complete collection of everything you need for papercrafting, gift giving, party hosting, and home décor.
Our product line is among the highest quality in the industry. The entire product line is designed to work seamlessly together, with coordinating cardstock, inks, printed paper, die templates and stamp sets.
Our color palette is comprised of 44 exclusive colors that are all designed to work seamlessly together. Our cardstock, ink colors and accessories are all coordinated to make creating easy, fun, and always beautiful.
All of our stamps are made in the USA of high quality red rubber and static cling mount. Our stamps create one of the best Impressions on the market, giving you a perfect crystal clear application on your cardstock.
Our True Color Fusion ink pads represent an innovation in stamping ink technology. These unique hybrid inks eliminate all the confusion over which ink to use for what surface – because they work on everything and are non-solvent inks. Because the ink is created by fusing both pigment and dye, you get the fast drying aspects of a dye base, but the true color of a pigment. They have no chalky residue and do not fade. They can be used on all types of materials, including paper, fabric, wood, and acrylic, and become permanent when heat set on non-paper materials.
I'm excited to share my Journey with you!
Hugs
Chris
It's Sunday...the day to make my major announcement. Drum roll please.....
I am pleased and excited to say I am a Fun Stampers Journey Coach!
Fun Stampers Journey is your source for the best arts and craft stamps, paper arts supplies and ideas for paper crafts!
After nearly two decades in the craft industry, Richard Garay founded Fun Stampers Journey with his wife, Gabby. Richard wanted to share not only his passion for creating but also provide a business opportunity for the creative individual. Though stamps are the foundation of Fun Stampers Journey, we offer a complete collection of everything you need for papercrafting, gift giving, party hosting, and home décor.
Our product line is among the highest quality in the industry. The entire product line is designed to work seamlessly together, with coordinating cardstock, inks, printed paper, die templates and stamp sets.
Our color palette is comprised of 44 exclusive colors that are all designed to work seamlessly together. Our cardstock, ink colors and accessories are all coordinated to make creating easy, fun, and always beautiful.
All of our stamps are made in the USA of high quality red rubber and static cling mount. Our stamps create one of the best Impressions on the market, giving you a perfect crystal clear application on your cardstock.
Our True Color Fusion ink pads represent an innovation in stamping ink technology. These unique hybrid inks eliminate all the confusion over which ink to use for what surface – because they work on everything and are non-solvent inks. Because the ink is created by fusing both pigment and dye, you get the fast drying aspects of a dye base, but the true color of a pigment. They have no chalky residue and do not fade. They can be used on all types of materials, including paper, fabric, wood, and acrylic, and become permanent when heat set on non-paper materials.
I'm excited to share my Journey with you!
Hugs
Chris
Thursday, January 14, 2016
So Far Behind!
Hi All,
Wow...Thursday, already?! Sometime I wonder if my days were really longer, if I would accomplish all that I want to. Or will I just be that much farther behind?!
I'm still making progress in cleaning out a drawer, closet, cupboard or any other hiding spot. I did clean out 2 drawers at work this week. Does that count? I really have cleaned out two more spaces in the house. One drawer in spare bedroom and one drawer in my craft room. I figure at this rate I will be done by the end of the year!
I also did another 4 scrapbook pages as well as a Valentine card kit for a friend. Next on the list is a Congratulations card for a paper crafting group I am in. I've been with this group for I think 7 or 8 years now. We are a small group, scattered all over the US. I've been fortunate enough to meet a couple of the gals while I was at a convention several years ago. It was a total fluke...saw a Facebook post from one of the gals about being at the convention. We ended up meeting the next morning, crying with joy at the opportunity. Terri, you're a dear and can't wait to see you again!
I have to run...still have much to do before the end of the night. I leave you with my last 4 pages.
Hope you enjoy!
Hugs
Chris
PS: My big announcement will be this weekend! I'm so very excited!
I Stickled the butterfly for some extra pizzazz.
More Stickles on the leaves. They just needed something to help them pop!
"This one Moment in time will be forever etched in my Memory"
I think I have finally used every butterfly I've collected over the years.
Then again I may still have more butterflies!
Wow...Thursday, already?! Sometime I wonder if my days were really longer, if I would accomplish all that I want to. Or will I just be that much farther behind?!
I'm still making progress in cleaning out a drawer, closet, cupboard or any other hiding spot. I did clean out 2 drawers at work this week. Does that count? I really have cleaned out two more spaces in the house. One drawer in spare bedroom and one drawer in my craft room. I figure at this rate I will be done by the end of the year!
I also did another 4 scrapbook pages as well as a Valentine card kit for a friend. Next on the list is a Congratulations card for a paper crafting group I am in. I've been with this group for I think 7 or 8 years now. We are a small group, scattered all over the US. I've been fortunate enough to meet a couple of the gals while I was at a convention several years ago. It was a total fluke...saw a Facebook post from one of the gals about being at the convention. We ended up meeting the next morning, crying with joy at the opportunity. Terri, you're a dear and can't wait to see you again!
I have to run...still have much to do before the end of the night. I leave you with my last 4 pages.
Hope you enjoy!
Hugs
Chris
PS: My big announcement will be this weekend! I'm so very excited!
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| I love this layout! Orange is not a go to color for me but I must say...this works! |
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I Stickled the butterfly for some extra pizzazz.
More Stickles on the leaves. They just needed something to help them pop! |
| Beautiful Moments Definitely did not see this color combo coming on! |
I think I have finally used every butterfly I've collected over the years. 
Then again I may still have more butterflies!Monday, January 11, 2016
Monday Musings
Hi All,
I think Monday is the most dreaded day of the week. For most of us, after 2 days of rest & relaxation, it's back to work, the kids go back to school. It's trying to find how to squeeze another hour in a day, contemplating dinners for the week. Planning for all the errands that will undoubtedly, at least for me, fall on the very next weekend of which I should be resting and relaxing! Somebody stop this merry-go-round will ya! Maybe I will win the $ 1.4 billion dollar lottery. If I do, I want it all in $20's. Easier to spend in small bills...LOL!
While I'm dreaming of fortune and fame, please enjoy the next 2 page spread that I have done. A friend gave me this paper at a crop and told me to make something out of it. Well Ms. Hamm....here you go! Hope you like it.
Hugs,
Chris
for some strange reason my close up pics are importing upside down...LOL! Just a cute travel page. Very masculine in color. Notice the split picture in the middle. Don't be afraid to split pictures into two pages. Gives the layout some depth and interest. The light brown is actually corrugated paper. I crumpled the "Sightsee" word and inked it. Adds some interest to an otherwise flat surface.
I think Monday is the most dreaded day of the week. For most of us, after 2 days of rest & relaxation, it's back to work, the kids go back to school. It's trying to find how to squeeze another hour in a day, contemplating dinners for the week. Planning for all the errands that will undoubtedly, at least for me, fall on the very next weekend of which I should be resting and relaxing! Somebody stop this merry-go-round will ya! Maybe I will win the $ 1.4 billion dollar lottery. If I do, I want it all in $20's. Easier to spend in small bills...LOL!
While I'm dreaming of fortune and fame, please enjoy the next 2 page spread that I have done. A friend gave me this paper at a crop and told me to make something out of it. Well Ms. Hamm....here you go! Hope you like it.
Hugs,
Chris
for some strange reason my close up pics are importing upside down...LOL! Just a cute travel page. Very masculine in color. Notice the split picture in the middle. Don't be afraid to split pictures into two pages. Gives the layout some depth and interest. The light brown is actually corrugated paper. I crumpled the "Sightsee" word and inked it. Adds some interest to an otherwise flat surface.Sunday, January 10, 2016
A Big Change Heading My Way
Hi All,
I'm getting ready for a big change in my life. Something new is coming that will help me spark that creativity I have burning in the back of my brain! I can't wait to share it with you, but you'll have to be patient a week or so longer.
I've been sticking to my index card schedule that I mentioned in my last post. I cleaned out the linen closet yesterday, made a scrapbook page and checked out a website I had noted several months ago. I'm in day 5 of this annoying sinus infection and am still feeling a little punk from it. But today I cleaned out the medicine cabinet, made a 2 page spread and also checked out a grocery website that I've been neglecting for some time. I'm making headway on my "home bucket list" but it seems to be growing...and growing.
I did want to make a scrapbook page a day, but if I make a double page layout does that actually count as two pages? While I'm checking out the websites I've wanted to visit, I'm finding more and more to view. It's like Pinterest. You say to yourself, "Self you can sit down for 10 minutes and check your web sites". The next thing you know an hour or 4 have flown by in the blink of a curser!
Such is life!
Well...here's a couple more pages I made. So if I count each page as one and I want to do a page a day, I'm only 6 pages behind!
Hope you enjoy and remember---Have fun & Stamp on!
Hugs
Chris
I love pearls with black & white!
Used 3 different papers and layered them.
I love this ribbon with the beadwork!
Doilies were inked black, pink just didn't cut it.
The final spread!
I'm getting ready for a big change in my life. Something new is coming that will help me spark that creativity I have burning in the back of my brain! I can't wait to share it with you, but you'll have to be patient a week or so longer.
I've been sticking to my index card schedule that I mentioned in my last post. I cleaned out the linen closet yesterday, made a scrapbook page and checked out a website I had noted several months ago. I'm in day 5 of this annoying sinus infection and am still feeling a little punk from it. But today I cleaned out the medicine cabinet, made a 2 page spread and also checked out a grocery website that I've been neglecting for some time. I'm making headway on my "home bucket list" but it seems to be growing...and growing.
I did want to make a scrapbook page a day, but if I make a double page layout does that actually count as two pages? While I'm checking out the websites I've wanted to visit, I'm finding more and more to view. It's like Pinterest. You say to yourself, "Self you can sit down for 10 minutes and check your web sites". The next thing you know an hour or 4 have flown by in the blink of a curser!
Such is life!
Well...here's a couple more pages I made. So if I count each page as one and I want to do a page a day, I'm only 6 pages behind!
Hope you enjoy and remember---Have fun & Stamp on!
Hugs
Chris
I love pearls with black & white!
Used 3 different papers and layered them.
I love this ribbon with the beadwork!
Doilies were inked black, pink just didn't cut it.
The final spread!Friday, January 8, 2016
Happy New Year
Hi All,
Sorry this is late. Have a really bad bug and it's been keeping me down for the first week of the 2016! Had the same thing in December. I certainly hope this is the last of it till next year!
Happy New Year to you all. I'm looking forward to a great new adventure this year. I'm stepping down from Stampin' Up and will be moving forward with a new company. I can't spill the beans right now, but it's sure going to be fun!
In the interim I have been working on some scrapbook pages. I've been trying hard to use my stash of goodies that I would have otherwise tried to sell at a local garage sale for scrapbookers and stampers.
I've set up an index card box with a chore a day on it. So far I have 3 chores that need to be done each day. Check out a website that I found in the paper, magazine or online and made a note of. Too often I write them down but don't visit the site. Another one is to clean out a drawer, any drawer as long as it's cleaned out. And the last one is to make a scrapbook page or card. Needless to say, I'm already behind! Without further adieu...here's my first 2 pages!
Enjoy and stay crafty!
Chris
Loved the color combo. It just works!
How often do you use your velium words?
Sorry this is late. Have a really bad bug and it's been keeping me down for the first week of the 2016! Had the same thing in December. I certainly hope this is the last of it till next year!
Happy New Year to you all. I'm looking forward to a great new adventure this year. I'm stepping down from Stampin' Up and will be moving forward with a new company. I can't spill the beans right now, but it's sure going to be fun!
In the interim I have been working on some scrapbook pages. I've been trying hard to use my stash of goodies that I would have otherwise tried to sell at a local garage sale for scrapbookers and stampers.
I've set up an index card box with a chore a day on it. So far I have 3 chores that need to be done each day. Check out a website that I found in the paper, magazine or online and made a note of. Too often I write them down but don't visit the site. Another one is to clean out a drawer, any drawer as long as it's cleaned out. And the last one is to make a scrapbook page or card. Needless to say, I'm already behind! Without further adieu...here's my first 2 pages!
Enjoy and stay crafty!
Chris
Loved the color combo. It just works!
How often do you use your velium words?
These flowers just go with the sticker found in a box.
These flowers just go with the sticker found in a box.
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| Another cute find that goes perfectly. |
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| Some cute flowers. |
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Blogging Friends Blog Hop--Holiday Beginnings
Hi All,
Welcome to the December edition of Blogging Friends Blog Hop! My friends and I have been busy created some amazing items to share. This months theme is centered around the holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah or a snow theme.
If this is your first time around my blog....Welcome! I'd love it if you would follow me. And please don't forget to leave me a comment.
If you are following the blog hop, you've traveled here from Anna M's page. She's a very creative lady!
Here's what I've created....
I purchased some inexpensive white candles and made a trio using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies. I cut each die out using a scrap piece of paper. I used that as a template and sponged Night of Navy onto the candle above the die cut. I then used Crystal Effects on the white part of the candle and glittered it with white glitter. I also used some green, red, gold & brown stickles for added pizzaz!
See below for some of the items used to create these.
I decided to get really busy and make another project....
I created a mantle banner for our living room! It was fun deciding how to decorate my trees. I just love the versatility of the Festival of Trees stamp set. You could design a new tree every day for a month! The paper in the Merry Moments paper stack is sure to bring a smile. The plaid, polka dots and ornaments will make some cute items. I also used a red, green and white stickles to give my trees some dimension. See below for the items used to create this.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the above items, please click on the Stampin Up Holiday catalog to the right. It will lead you to my online store.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you've enjoyed my creations! Don't forget to leave me a comment. Click the button below to continue on to Libby's blog.
Welcome to the December edition of Blogging Friends Blog Hop! My friends and I have been busy created some amazing items to share. This months theme is centered around the holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah or a snow theme.
If this is your first time around my blog....Welcome! I'd love it if you would follow me. And please don't forget to leave me a comment.
If you are following the blog hop, you've traveled here from Anna M's page. She's a very creative lady!
Here's what I've created....
See below for some of the items used to create these.
I decided to get really busy and make another project....
I created a mantle banner for our living room! It was fun deciding how to decorate my trees. I just love the versatility of the Festival of Trees stamp set. You could design a new tree every day for a month! The paper in the Merry Moments paper stack is sure to bring a smile. The plaid, polka dots and ornaments will make some cute items. I also used a red, green and white stickles to give my trees some dimension. See below for the items used to create this.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the above items, please click on the Stampin Up Holiday catalog to the right. It will lead you to my online store.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you've enjoyed my creations! Don't forget to leave me a comment. Click the button below to continue on to Libby's blog.
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