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I am so excited!!! It is now February and TODAY is the first time that I have stamped all year. Actually since before we left in mid December for Vacation. Just glad to finally get moving again, thanks Beate for such a great challenge! Hopefully I can keep this up as I really put three cards together today. I started off with two from Novembers' Stamp camp that Beate sent me, again thanks, which is what finally got me motivated to stamp again. I guess being away from it this long was a little intimidating to start again, but I did and had a great time. I am glad for this card too, it means that I have my hubby's V-Day card - such a relief!, especially since his birthday is friday and I have my Dad's birthday on Monday, my nephew Connor's birthday is right around the corner - certainly did not want to go back to old habits of trying to find just that perfect card on the shelf... So thanks for a great challenge and like I said hopefully I can keep going ;-)



Paper and Stamps from CTMH - Heart stamps on shimery white CS from Stampin Up!. Not sure who made the ribbon - velvet my fav!

Back???

We had a great time on Vacation. It was fun to spend time with the family and see Abigail with her Cousins, Grannie and Papa and Great Grandma. I have many pictures to share but have not even had the time to download pictures yet, so will share when I have the time to catch up. I hope that everyone is doing well and will be checking in periodically.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Christmas...

So I have been extremely busy getting ready for Christmas and well have been working on projects, work and cleaning. So I have made a couple different cards this year - which is something I have not done before - thanks to all of you for the inspiration. I did not get pictures of the cards, but will probably make up the couple that I have left and take pictures of those but I did make a couple trees and have pictures to share with you. They are so fun, not complete in the pictures as I was not sure what I would do with the tops at the time. I made a star for the one and am still voting on the second - we will see... Maybe next year at this rate!

Both where I have them displayed - just perfect for me...


Individual close ups!



Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone as I am not sure that I will get to post anything between now and then - You know visiting with family - opening presents, etc...

Missing...

Well I guess that I have been a little lax in posting. I have been working on some Christmas trees and just got most of my cards in the mail last night - so they will go out this morning. But because of all the Christmas doings I have not had time to make anything other than cards and trees, which I will try posting later. I may not start posting again until after Christmas Vacation. We will be visiting my family for several weeks. So with that have a great Christmas and I will be back in the new year. Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday Jim

My StepFathers B-Day is today and this is the card that I sent his way. I had to borrow the fishing set but am certainly glad that I did because I just love how this card turned out... The inside just says 'Happy birthday'

Happy Birthday Jim ;-)

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Wow this was a fun but challenging one for me. It was simple enough but cannot believe how it challeneged me, probably because I was trying to make a more masculine card, although my husband says it still would not work ;-) Oh well... I still like it and will keep trying that more masculine approach.

I also could not stay with the circle, I tried but an oval seemed to work better with how I choose to layout this card.



Thanks for checking!

Harvest Time

I have been very busy with trying to take picture of my daughter for her 18 month pictures, now that I have a really nice camera I do not want to spend the money going to a photographer. But, I did find some time to make up these pumpkins that I saw on Polished to Perfections web page. Super Easy and very fun. Next I am going to try making the Christmas trees that she gave 7 examples of. They look so fun and will be great as some decorations since we are not having a tree this year. Small ones will be just fine for us...

I really loved the first and second one so much that I couldn't even share with my Mother in law for their 40th anniversary, sorry!!! They are sitting on my candle holder in place of a couple of the candles and look great. The third one I really made specifically for my Mother in law. I thought that it would be perfect for the celebration and it fit in perfectly.





This is a picture of all three of them together in my little pumpkin patch!