WOYW?W #248-storage solutions

Oh...my...isn't this a boring desk?  Actually I cleaned it off so I could get serious about finishing all the taxes I have to finish...easier to think when there are not piles everywhere!  I am making slow progress! I am sure you will see more creative desks than mine this week at Julia's What's On You Workdesk? Wednesday.  I must tell you that I probably won't have much time for visiting desks this week, so don't feel bad if you don't leave a msg-totally understood!

So, since I have no craftiness to show you...I thought I would show you what is directly behind me if I turn my chair around---another IKEA storage unit(with drawers).  I love the drawers as I store all my SU! 8.5 x 11 cardstock in there and do not have to worry about it fading in the sunlight. I sure wish they would adjust some of  their other units to fit 12x12 papers! 

It is a little bit of a tight squeeze, so I am careful how I put the paper in and take it out-but I do love it!  In the cubby above the paper you can see  how I store my unmounted stamps. On the left are my Art Impression stamps  and  my Inspiration Emporium stamps and dies. They are held in a clear refrigerator drawer I bought at the local grocery store. My stamps are all put in clear Avery Elle envelopes with some white paper inside for stability and uniformity. I have lots of new stamps waiting to be organized and filed!  In the right drawer are House Mouse, Simon Says, Inky Antics, Lily of the Valley, some unmounted SU! sets and some misc stamps. I was surprised how fast I can fill these drawers up!   Each drawer can easily store about 200ish sets I think...I am sure I will find out someday!  I love that I can just pull out a drawer and take it to my desk to flip through!  I think I will make some tabs to divide the brands--someday...You can watch Jennifer McGuire's video on setting up this system. It really is a great storage solution!

Well off to bed! Thanks for stopping by today and will see you soon. Next week is Bunco night, so I am not sure if I will get to join in, but I will try! See you later!

♥ Sue

Hero Arts-Just My Type

I have wanted this stamp set forever...yep I think it is just so fun! It would be very easy to add your own personal message don't you think?. This red rubber cling set stamps up perfectly! Wow, I was impressed!

I cut the card  base with my Silhouette, the ovals with my nesties and used some pretty Authentique- Irresistible paper to showcase this fun Hero Arts Cling stamp set My Type from Inspiration Emporium. 

I debated for several days whether I should add some doo dahs onto the card but finally decided to leave it clean and simple-loving that dark charcoal, grey and cream paper.

Thanks for stopping by today!

♥ Sue 

card details:
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Stamps from Inspiration Emporium
My Type-Hero Arts.
(10% discount if you use the code suestamps13)
Cardstock-Authentique-Irresistible
Ink-Versafine onyx black
Misc-oval nesties
Silhouette cut file-Square Laced Frame

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday-New Schtuff

Hello fellow What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday friends! It was so nice to hear from so many of you last week! Great to be back again this week!

Just showing off some new "schtuff" today!  My new Paper Smooches stamps and Sizzix dies, and my new IKEA shelves!  I have this lovely craft room upstairs, but it seems I do not like to be so far away from the action. So.... I have a huge family room that was calling my name.   I gave the piano to the grandsons and filled the spot with these cubbies full of crafty "schtuff"! Sounds like a hardcore crafter doesn't it? HA!

 My desk is much cleaner than last week, but still has lots of paperwork that needs to be completed...and lots of tax paperwork to finish too. So....off to finish this post and work a little bit on that project...my plan is to work a little each night while watching The Voice and American Idol-let's see if I make enough progress that way! Time is running out!

I have 4 more white storage boxes to fold and that will give me more storage. Right now I have one full of Christmas projects, one full of vinyl, one with misc things and one full of copy paper, envelopes-office type stuff.  Pretty darned handy!  On the top of the tall shelf you can see the pretty blown glass vases and dishes my brother buys me each Christmas. I love pretty glass...!

 I always love black and yellow together...makes for a very striking card!  I adore the pierced circle around the sentiment...very cool-this little die came with the set too! I love these new Sizzix cutting dies...sure makes for fast and easy cards!   I embossed the yellow paper with a Darice Honeycomb background embossing folder-it doesn't show very well in this picture though. 

I had to tie a little bow and add couple little buzzie bees on the back too!

Off to work on unfun "schtuff" now, but had to take a few m inutes to play along with Julia over at STAMPING GROUND!  Check out whats going on over there-it is quite a dandy time!

Project deals:

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Product from Inspiration Emporium

Sizzix-Framelits Circle Flip-its #2

Bee Mine by Paper Smooches

(10% discount if you use the code suestamps13)

Cardstock-MME Lost and Found Yellow, Black

Copics:

Y 35,38  C2  R29

Misc: Darice twine, pop dots

Honeycomb embossing folder

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge 164-Anything Goes-Sam's Box

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #164

Anything Goes

I made this little box to welcome new baby SAM (my friends new grandbaby)-I thought this little box would be perfect to save little keepsake type thingies!  I used my new stamp-Stacking Baby Blocks (with Pebbles). I colored up the image, cut it out with a nestie and also made a mat for it by tracing the outside of the nestie. I added the date on one end of the box and some baby details on the other end.

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I do hope you will play along with us for  this EASY challenge!

♥ Sue

project details:

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Stamp-Stacking Baby Blocks(Pebbles)

Cardstock: Kraft and Blue from SU!

Copics;

E70,71,74,77  B12,14,05  W2  E23

Misc: White brads, nestie

Cut file:

Lori Whitlock 3d bookplate box

At The Movies!

I know-I know! A pretty wild card for me right? Although most of my cards are usually on the clean and simple side, I have had this card stuck in my head for months!  I have been sitting on this Art Impressions Girlfriends At The Movies stamp so I could make this special card for my longest time stamping and childhood friend Charla. I have to tell you she was the luckiest Gwamma of all on her birthday-she was given the gift of a new grandson! Oh such a special day it was!

Charla and I and several other movie buff friends meet once or twice a month to see a good chick flick-so this image really reminds me of her-of course she is the ring leader!

I had a heck of a time getting a pic of this card with everything all in focus because of the dimension...Thanks to my son for his help!

I colored this super image from the stamp set At the Movies.  It took me a while to find the exact cut files I wanted to use to embellish this card. I finally found the perfect set at Miss Kate's Cuttables-Movie Night.  I set it all up on charcoal grey cardstock and a stair step card file from the Silhouette Store. I parted with some of my new  festive Simple Stories "Say Cheese" paper too(I bought it at my LSS Urban Paper). YIKES I love that paper and that store!

On the back I stamped another sentiment that came with the set-
You're still the life of the party...even when we stay out past 8!

You can use any card you want that you can SHOW IT WITH WORDS-- Inspiration Emporium February Challenge. You still have a week to join!

I am sharing with the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge-Ladies Day!-Feb 27
Color Me Creative ScrapRoom-Anything Goes-Feb 27
Bloggers Challenge-Fancy Folds Feb 28
Die Cut Diva's-Girls Night Out-Feb 28
One Crazy Stamper-Anything Goes Feb 27
Sweet Stamps Blog-Fun Folds-March 15

♥ Sue

card details:
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Stamps:
Art Impressions At The Movies Set from Inspiration Emporium
(you get a 10% discount if you use the code suestamps13)
Simple Stories Say Cheese 6x6 paper pad
Copics:
E00,11,13
B91,93,95,97
BV 11,13
G82
Y 38
Hair-W2,4,5  YR21  E31,33,25
C 2,3,5
N1
Cut files:
A2 birthday stair step card by Lori Whitlock
Movie Night-Miss Kate's Cuttlables
Tag Banner

the best day evah!

Show It With Words!

It really is the best day evah!

Congratulations Lols!  My House Mouse teamie Lorraine is the featured stamper 367 over at Splitcoast Stampers...so this card is made in her honor!!!

I made this cute sledding card for all you folks still buried under the snow! Oh my, we have had quite an ordeal haven't we? Don't you love those little snowmen celebrating on the top of this card? Makes me smile....!

This cute little penny slider card is made with a Lori Whitlock file I won from her last blog  hop! How fun is that? I love surprises like that! ( It can also be purchased from the Silhouette store as well.) The little sledding bunny slides back and forth and can spin in circles too!

I used some lovely Fancy Pants Timbergrove designer paper, a darling sentiment from Paper Smooches, and a fun matching stamp and die set named Winter Bunny from Lawn Fawn!  I have linked them all below!

 I would love if you would join in the Inspiration Emporium February Challenge-Show It With Words! You could win $50 Inspiration Emporium dollars!


I am entering this in the following challenges!

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge-Snow Much Fun!
ABC Christmas Challenge-D is for diecuts-Hi Dorte!
Lawnscaping Challenges-Dust it off Feb 26 (charms)

♥ Sue 

project details:
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From Inspiration Emporium-
Winter Bunny-Stamp and Die
Slang Gang-Paper Smooches
Cardstock-Fancy Pants Timbergrove
Charms-Inspiration Emporium is now selling charms! This snowflake is not from them-but you will see some soon!
Copics: E23,25,29  R39,89  C2
Misc: silver cording, snowflake charm
Silhouette file: A2 Lori Whitlock slider penny card

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 246

 Wow, it has been a long time since I joined Julia's group across the pond!  Here is my desk today...a wee bit out of hand! I have really not been crafting at all this week. I have been doing big people work(working on tax stuff for my family) so no time to get crafty unfortunately. Hopefully soon! You can see a few stamps half buried on my desk, an unfinished Valentine, and piled in front of my beloved Silhouette is more bookwork to finish when I get home from my real job. OH MY! I am going to hunker down and get 'er done so I can do a little craftin soon...new toys have arrived in the mail and they are calling my name! LOL

I did go to Urban Paper (my local crafty store) to my monthly cookbook club night. Jill makes up the pages, (Two 6x6 pages tonight)---we scrap from a premade kit and taste the recipe! She does all the work and we get to enjoy it all! Thanks Jill!  I LOVE that Impression Obsession tree die!

Well, that's it for me tonight...I might just go and clean my desk after seeing this picture YIKES!!!

Hop over the Julia's Stamping Ground and join in WOYW?W #246! (did you notice her blog on my monitor?)

See you soon!

♥ Sue

Creations by AR Baby Bundle February Release!

Welcome to

Creations by AR February

Baby Love Blog Hop!

Today the Design Team will be showing off the new Dress Up Baby Bag, Rockin' Horse Card and Rockin' Cradle templates!

From this view you can see the gift box. Actually, it is pretty big, but I resized it smaller so I could use  some specific designer paper that I had in mind! I also added a some stitching on the overalls with my Silhouette!  The little horse was resized to fit on the pocket and I added  matting for the sentiment.  This downsized version is still 8 inches tall to the top of the hanger...perfect for holding a nice baby gift! (it is actually over 9.5  inches tall if you do not resize)

The Rockin' Cradle and Rockin' Horse Card are separate templates, but all 3 can be purchased together as a bundle  HERE!

This was so cute that I had to make a girlie set up too!

I resized the Rockin' Cradle template so that it fits 2 Hersheys Kisses-perfect for guests at a baby shower, don't you think!?

Winner can choose any one of the three new sets

HOW TO QUALIFY TO WIN:

Leave comments 

• On each DT blog

• Creations by AR Facebook page 

Comments are accepted until Friday, February 14, 12:00 noon Eastern

One random winner will be announced on February 15 here:

• Creations by AR Facebook page 

and

Creations by AR 

Start your hopping at the beginning if you are just starting!

Adela

Doris Molina

Jak Heath

Julia Aston

Lisa Eisner

Lisa Somerville

Lori Brown

Lyn Bernatovich

Monica Soto

Patti J Gilliam

Sue Kment: you are here!

Tina Milbourn

Project details:

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Template by Creations by AR

Dress Up Baby Bag

Rockin' Cradle

Rockin' Horse Card

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Pink, Yellow (SU!)

Echo Park Bundle of Joy(Girl)

My Minds Eye Playdate (Boy)

Misc: Twine and buttons

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #163

Welcome to the 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #163!

Amethyst, white and one other color

Amethyst or purple is usually not a favorite color for me as it is so hard to photograph, but hey, it turned out pretty nice indeed!

I cut  several Valentine doilies from Miss Kates Cuttables. I could not decide which one to use, so I just made two cards!

I also had the sentiment in a cute little Inky Antics set that I cut so that it would fit perfectly. Clear stamps work so well for that! This is from the Sick Turtle/Inky Antic set

I have a dear Mousie Mom that is under the weather, and in need of some Mousie love, so I made this card especially for her. Hang in there Cathy!

I do hope you will join us for this colorful challenge that Donna chose!

We are very proudly Sponsored by...

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  "A surprise package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty worth $15.00. 
(Due to increased postage costs, the winner for this prize must reside in the USA)

♥ Sue

card details:

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Stamps:

Maxwell's Note(Maxwell)

Sick Turtle Clear Set/Inky Antics from Inspiration Emporium

(receive 10% discount at Inspiration Emporium by using the code suestamps13)

Cardstock: Black, Purple and Polka dot all SU! White is DCWV

Copics: E00,11, R20

E 31,33,34,37

Misc: Circle Nestie

Cut files: 

Miss Kate's Cuttables Valentine Layered Doilies

Penny Black TLC Blocks Card

 I colored up this darling little Penny Black image and made it into a card and thought to myself...UGLY layout....so....I set it aside until I was ready to start over LOL! I do that sometimes.

I pulled the whole thing all apart -- scrapped the card base and cut apart the image

Here is version #2!

I fussy cut the image and added it onto this really fun blocks card I have been wanting to make since I found this Youtube video!

I used this pretty pink and grey Fancy Pants Beloved 6x6 paper , and Penny Black T.L.C. image. Both are from Inspiration Emporium.

The hedgies are added on pop dots with a couple little heart sprigs and heart banners added for a little bit of extra 'sumthun, sumthun' in the background.  I forgot to take a picture of the back, but it has blocks of the Beloved paper on it too. You could easily decorate both sides!

You can look right through it!

I have used a 6x6 envelope and the card is actually about 4.5 x 5.5 ish I think...maybe not quite that big.


I hope you have enjoyed this fun fold Penny Black card today!

♥ Sue

I am entering in this in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirtations-Anything goes/Heart  Feb 9

The Cheerful Stamp Pad-Love/Valentine Feb 17

Craft Your Passion #199-Love is in the Air Feb 10

Creative Cutting Challenge-Love Feb 15

Shopping Our Stash-Love Me Tender Feb 11

Cute Card Thursday 307-Lots of Love Feb 13

Hanna and Friends-Hearts Feb 13

Milk Coffee Challenge-Valentines/Love Feb 13

Simon Says Challenge-Love Notes Feb 10

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Have A Heart

Penny Black Saturday Challenge-For Someone Special Feb 28

Lexis Creations Love/Valentines Day  Feb 14

card details:
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Cardstock:
Fancy Pants Beloved paper pad
Grey Bazzil
Stamp:
Penny Black TLC
(10% discount if you use the code suestamps13 at Inspiration Emporium)
Copic Colors:
Hedgies: E00,11  N 1,3,5,6
Tree: E25, G43,46 R83,85,89   E13,E08
Youtube Blocks card tutorial
Silhouette cut files:
House of 3-Heart garland
Heart sprig

Lukey is turning 4!

Yep, my little grandson is turning 4! 

 Oh my, where did the time go?  He picked out this chubby puppy from the Silhouette store all by himself-and Gwamma made the invitations! When I went to put the sentiment on it, I asked him if he wanted Luke or Lukey for the name. I was tickled when he chose Lukey!!(he will always be Gwamma's Lukey-even when he is a grown man) LOL!

He is a funny little duck, he wanted to have his party at home because he was worried that there would not be a table for his birthday cake if the party was held somewhere else. Makes you wonder what goes through little minds when you hear something like this!

I used a postage stamp file and mirrored it and  made it into a card and then added the cute little Chubby Puppy on pop dots to the front. Lukey wanted the theme of his party to be Puppies, so this worked out like a charm! His mommy went and bought dog dishes for his guests to eat out of, and we will add their names in vinyl if we get organized enough. Looking forward to a great party and hugs and kisses from my boys!

catching snowflakes with his tongue

swimming in the summer!

♥ Gwamma Sue

Baby Belly-My Scrap Chick

Baby Sam!

We have a new baby arriving soon in our circle of Gwamma's! 

I made this little baby belly cut file from My Scrap Chicks for a baby shower gifty. I added in a few little blue rolled up Nike socks and stuck a gift card to the bottom of the 'diaper'. Turned out super sweet and was so fun to make!

Who doesn't need a polka dot binky?(I could have used one yesterday but I am oh so over it now LOL)

Last year My Scrap Chick had a bundle sale on the 'belly' files-so  I scooped them up after wanting them for a long while... so I have several of this style...my goal is to make them all up! Now I want the new Dinosaur..and the lady bug....and the lamb...and the mouse...super cute! Always sumpin'.........

My goal is to use some of these files I already have-that's my story and I am sticking to it!

I have several other cute little My Scrap Chick projects coming up.  Fast and simple. They have a newsletter that they send out every Friday with a Freebie. I always save them with every intention of making them...I finally made a couple fun ones you will see coming soon! 

Thanks for popping in!  See  you soon!

♥ Sue

Project details:

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Baby Belly Boxes by My Scrap Chick

Cardstock-Skin is DCWV and Blue Polks foyd snd Brushed Silver are SU!

Misc- SU! chalk, baby socks

Penny Black Found Love! Happy Valentines Day

Isn't this just pretty?  This is a freebie Heart cut file from Birds Cards that she showcased on a Design Team Post HERE. She has wonderful free files on her blog!

I added a little surprise inside that just tickles me!   

 

 Don't you just love this little Penny Black Froggie???

...and don't ask me where those random little rolly aroundy Sixlet candies came from...It appears they might have come to a yummy  end as they seem to have disappeared from most of the other pictures!!!? HA-they were pretty tasty...

This  Penny Black stamp came from Inspiration Emporium.  You can check out their  Penny Black Stamps HERE.

Thanks for stopping in today-see you again with some more fun Valentine cards coming your way!

I am going to enter this in the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge-New-Jan 30
Fan-tastic Tuesday-Square/Make it Cute or Sweet
Everybody Art Challenge-Heart
Squigglefly-Have a Heart
LexisCreations-Fancy Folds
Creative Cuttings Challenge-Valentines Day

♥ Sue

card details:

Stamps from Inspiration Emporium:

Penny Black Found Love 3340F

(you can receive a 10% discount at Inspiration Emporium if you use the code suestamps13)

Cardstock:  Rose from SU! and by golly I can't remember the name of the designer paper. Drats!

Copics:  

Frog-YG21, 23, 17

R 81,83  24,29

Water-B000, B01
Cut file: Birds Cards