WOYWW What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...#143 a desk tour and a Get Well card

Welcome to another week of What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.  This week I am going to show you my desk and a couple of fun Art Impression get well cards I just finished.  If you want to see what's going on over across the pond, pop on over and wish Miss Julia and all the other WOYWW'ers well!

My desk is still somewhat clean this week, so I thought I would show you what it looks like with the new drawers...and what's in the drawers.  I have been working on some get well cards...I need like a zillion of them, but here are a couple I just finished...look down further for a closer look at my desk drawers.

A fun Art Impressions image and some retired SU! bandaids...a  perfect pairing. I paper pieced the the chair on both cards. His head is stamped separately and added on with  dimensionals.

 I just love this guy! And you know how I love cherries too!

Another version...

Now on to rightside  desk drawers. I hope to show you the other set of drawers next week! (they are not near as tidy yet!)

Drawer 1---The essentials...my trimmers, atg gun, centering rulers and remote for my music system.

Drawer 2- When you open it you see my copic chart-underneath is my go to ink pads/reinkers

All my adhesives, tapes, and  glue dots.

magazines and copic cardstock

so far the bottom drawer has turned into a scrap drawer for my dp, but I  hope to change that soon.

There you go...a tour of some of my crafty desk drawers. I am so tickled to have these new IKEA cabinets...they really help keep the chaos controlled!

Card details:
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stamps: Art Impressions Recovered and SU Happy Healing bandaids(retired but well loved)
cardstock:Night of Navy and Riding Hood Red, MMEYE Honey Cake paper pad
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:  W1,3,5
B93,95 or BG 70,72,75
E 00,11,13   42,44
R17
Misc:dimensionals

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge-Sugar and Spice

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge!

Our teamie Lori is waiting  the arrival of a new baby granddaughter, so she picked the challenge theme this week!

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

I decided to use the SFYYT sketch layout for February to start my card...and I certainly am not making it the last day of the month this time. Finally--- once I am not skidding in at the last minute LOL!

I thought this yummy meece  stamp would fit right in to the sweetness of this challenge. And you know I can hardly make a card without polka dots either.  I paper pieced the ice cream using some pretty Melon Mambo dp from SU! along with matching ribbon. The little ice cream cones are a Martha punch.

I have to say...I LOVE Sweet Treats too!

Our sponsor for challenge #114 is House Mouse Designs with a $25 gift card from their store,

 Pizzazz A Plenty -$10 Gift Package

And last but not least!   My Creative Classroom-one free class of your choice

Hope you can join us for this challenge...some very sweet DT cards to be seen!

(Don't miss my Outlines Monday Challenge card below this post! )

card details:

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Stamps: Mice Scream for Ice Cream (Mudpie, Monica, Friend) HMKR1044 and sentiment DR1124 Love Sweet Treats

Cardstock: Melon Mambo dp and cardstock, Bashful Blue dp and cardstock from SU!

Ink: Memento Black

Copics:

Faces: E 00,02  R 20

Meeces: E31,33 and W02,03

B000

Misc: SU melon mambo polka dot ribbon, Martha Stewart ice cream cone punch, 1 1-4 and 1 3/8 inch circle punches. circle nesties, dimensionals

Outlines Monday ChallengeSt Patrick's Day

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -St.  Patrick's Day  !

 Where is the time going???  Already making St. Patrick's Day cards and soon on to Easter...Oh my I can hardly believe it is almost March!

I had fun coloring up this Outlines stamp...I really wanted some bright shamrocks and I think I got 'em LOL! I also used a silhouette cut file  for the bottom shamrock border and adding in a little SU basic gray cardstock with paper piercing to tone it all down a wee bit.

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!  
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge! 

card details: 
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Stamps: H-1018 Sketchy Clovers 
Cardstock: Basic Gray, Green Galore SU!  DCWV green
 Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
YG 01, 05,07 67
C 1,2,3,4
Y38
Silhouette file: clover edged card
Misc: gold pearls, dimensionals, paper piercer
 

Music Saves My Soul Saturday

Popped in to see what was going on over at Marcea's today for Music Saves My Soul Saturday. She has a strange video posted today LOL!

Being an American Idol fan I thought I would share this toe tapping tune today. Love this song, and love Kelly Clarkson's music, that girl can sing!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and maybe getting a wee bit of crafting in!

WOYWW #142-Birthday and storage tip

Another Wednesday rolls around and it is time to hop over to Julia's house and check out  everyone's What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday post. 

Today I gave this fun Art Impressions card to my life long friend Charla-now that she is 29 and caught up with me (yeah right)  Both of us are life time Weight Watchers members so I knew she would appreciate this sentiment!  She's the blondie all spiffed up and I am wearing the green dress LOL!  Happy Birthday dear friend!

 Here's my desk...yep, all cleaned up and ready to get messy again...never takes long. You can see my plastic shoe box of 6x6 designer paper pads.  Peek below to see how I have organized them.

 I put them all in this cheapo clear shoe box container. Looks like I need box 2!

 A while back one of the stamp companies had their teamies show how they store their paper. This is a tip I picked up from them...I think it was the My Favorite Things Team....I will have to check on that.
They tape a 6 inch envelope on the back of the paper pad and slip in the bits and pieces left after they use a full sheet. So nifty! Being a hoarder, I can never throw away little pieces, so this has saved my sanity LOL!

 If your paper pad comes apart, add one of those paper clips to hold it together and carry on...

And looky at these cute little easels and canvas's I bought for $1 each. Now I wish I had bought more...these will probably have my little grandson's on them in some manner....

That's it for this week! Hop over and say hello to Julia and the whole group of diehard fans! It is getting pretty big these days, but you can always pick and choose at random who you want to visit!

See all soon!

Card details:
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Stamps: Art Impression Girlfirends Out to Lunch UM3576  This comes as a single too. Happy 29th Sentiment
Cardstock: Pink Passion from SU!, Echo Park Country Drive
Ink: Memento Black for image, Versafine for sentiment
Copics:
RC 02,04,06,09
YG 03,07
Y 11,17,32
Cake E 31,35  Face E 00,11,R 20
B 02,04
Highlighting around image: B0000
Misc: EK Success birthday candle border punch, Green grosgrain ribbon SU! Scalloped nesties, pink bling

Outlines Monday Challenge-Keep It Square

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -Keep it Square-make a square card  !

This week our challenge is to make a square card.  Pretty easy for me as most of my cards are square! This week I made a girly creation  as well as a more manly version!  I wanted to use some of my new MME Kraft paper and also some of my Swarovski crystals this week. The pretty bling the crystals add brings a creation over the top! Gotta love bling!  I used several different sizes of the crystals  16,12,9 and 7.

I kept this very simple to show off the sentiment and dp as well!  I added some pretty Viva Decor  pearl pen in black around the sentiment.

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!  
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge! 

card details: 

Card #1

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Stamps: E-780 Happiest of Birthdays Sq Lg

Cardstock Girl Card- Melon Mambo and misc retired DP from SU!

Ink: Memento Black

Misc: 

Swarovski Crystals in Rose and Blue Zircon 16,12,9,7

Fluer de Lis Nestability

Card #2
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Stamps: E-780 Happiest of Birthdays Sq Lg

Cardstock -Basic Black and MME Kraft Funday Everyday Fun

Ink: Memento Black

Misc: Viva Decor Pearl Pen in black, twine

WOYWW #141

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday!

My desk looks like a dumping ground this week! There has been a frenzy of creating going on these last few weeks. You can see all the goodies I just dumped there after our Stampin Up meeting last night. You can see some  Valentine goodies that never found a home...a couple cello bags full of Valentines cookies my daughter forgot to pick up. Hmmm....I even had to go eat a Valentine cookie so I would get a sugar rush---needed that rush in order to have the energy to un-bury my camera LOL! (good excuse as any right?)

Obviously...I unburied it so I could take these pictures. Seems a good straightening is in order so I can have room to create.

Abby...come get your cookies or they will find a good home tomorrow LOL!!! (like in my tummy!)

I made this fun card for my Sweetie's Dad's birthday today! Yes, he was a Valentine baby! How about that for a built in celebration!?   He is quite the fisherman and has done lots of guided fishing trips so I thought this Bugaboo image would be perfect for him.   I wish I would have used just a little bit different paper on the bottom of the card so you could see the fun cat tails better, but oh well...love it just the same.

If you want to pop over and check out Julia (woohoo girl) and her blog The Stamping Ground, you can see many different desks from around the world!

card details:
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Stamps: Digi stamps from Bugaboo-Gus, Fish Whisperer  Retired Happy Birthday from SU!
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, MME Breeze DP
Ink: Versafine black for Happy Birthday
Copics:
YG  91,93,95,97 series
E 00,11   33
C 1,2,3
Cut file: file from the silhouette store cattails

A quick Stampin Up Valentine! and another CASE too

I made this card for the monthly Stampin Up group I belong to-my turn to be the hostess and bring a project. It is a CASE of the sweet card HERE.  I used the sizzix envelope die, 3 heart punch, red ribbon and a SU sentiment from a past hostess set. Very fun!!!

I made this cute little explosion  triangle box too. I found it on this blog HERE! I made the 6 x 6 size with pretty DP cardstock and some real red SU cardstock. I used the cute little Penny Black kitty that I used a while back. Just happened to have an extra image colored up and it fit perfectly! It fits a couple candy hearts or a couple Hershey's kisses. This is a quick and fun project you could make up with any theme! (sorry for the blurry pic)

I hope you have a great Valentine's Day!!!

House Mouse and Friends Challenge-Make Wishes Come True!

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge!

Wowser....did we have a great 2012 House Mouse and Friends Blog Hop or what???!  I have met so many new friends and got to look at some DANDY house mouse creations! Almost 100 cards were entered in the blog hop challenge...how cool is that???!!!!

The challenge this week is Make a Wish Come True...pretty open to interpretation I would say. I hope you can join in for this challenge.  Our dear Heather chose this challenge sponsored by  Simon Says Stamp!  A $25 gift card to SSS!

The card I made makes me smile! A great little meece image and the perfect papers to compliment it!

I used the sketch challenge from My Time Made Easy named Pretty Patterns Sketch #47...love the way they added the sentiment.  I used a computer generated sentiment...easy to make the words fit the circle punch that way.  After I took the photo, I figured  I should have added a flame to the candle. Oh well, done deal now!



 The mouse and strawberry are added on dimesionals. I used the end of a big round embossing tool to make the images rounded for a fun effect.


  I hope you can join in for challenge #113 at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge! 


All the prizes will be announced in the next day or so, so make sure to pop over and check it out!

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OH WAIT...you are probably waiting to see who won this cute little happy hopper blog candy.
My winner is Barb at Barbs Creative Corner. Congratulations Barb! Shoot me an email with your address and I will get you Happy Pops in the mail!

Don't miss my Outlines Monday Challenge Card below this post!

Card details:
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Stamp: Full of Hot Air  HMUR1072
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Pink, My Minds Eye Quite Contrary  "Sweetie Pie" Strawberry Paper
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
Face: E00, R 20
Body: E 33, 34,35
Strawberry: R 22, 24, 27, 29
Candle: R 81,83
Stems: G20, 82
Sky: B0000
Misc: Certainly Celery taffeta ribbon, pearls, 1 inch paper punch, circle nestie, dimensionals and glue dots.

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -A color challenge...Red, Black and White  !

I love this color combo...so very pretty!  I used this wonderful Outlines LOVE stamp and some pretty DP to make this a simple and dramatic creation!  I used a  Viva Black Pearl Pen for all the dots which added some great shine and dimension! 

This card whipped up quickly and would make a great wedding card too!

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!  
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge! 




card details:

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Stamps: H-911 Sparkle Love
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black and Bo Bunny DP
Ink: Memento Black
Copics: Red 24,29
Misc: Viva Decor Pearl Pen Black

House Mouse and Friends Blog Hop

To find my post for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Love and Hearts Blog Hop,

Click HERE.

This sticky will stay on top of my blog  until the evening of Sunday, February 12th! Hope you will join in!

Bugaboo Valentine

 Ever notice how Cupid rhymes with stupid?

You gotta love Stella from Bugaboo Digi stamps. I made this using the SC371 sketch and some fun Bo Bunny papers. You can't tell, but the white strip has embossed hearts.  Super cute!

card details:
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Stamps: Bugaboo Stella cupid digi
Cardstock: Basic Black, Rose,  DP from Bo Bunny
Ink: Memento Black
Copics:
R 81, 83, 85
E 11, 33
C1, 3,4,5

Misc: Darice heart embossing folder, SU heart punch

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday!  Not the tidy-ness of the last couple weeks for sure! I gave a copic class tonight and came home and dumped those pens on my desk...and then started coloring and got even more pens out. Now it's late...so I guess they will stay there till tomorrow. It's been a long week and I have lots of projects to complete before I head off to visit the grandsons for Lukey's 2nd birthday! 2 already!!! Can't believe it!  I'll show you pics of him when I get home.

Just showing you a couple quick Valentines we made up at the class with our little birdies!

 Love Is In The Air

Girlfriends

 

We practiced coloring up these little birdies. We all decided yellow is the easiest to blend ...red the hardest color!  If you have a few minutes...get over to Julia's house for a bunch of links to pop into to snoop desks! I love reading the posts...being from the USA...some of the phrasing in the posts just tickles me!   

Off to bed...it's late here   OH MY!!!

card details:

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Stamps:  Imaginisce Bird , $1 Michaels sentiment , Love is in the Air-Technique Tuesday

Cardstock: Misc purple, sky cardstock is jillibean soup Blossum Soup Corn Kernels

Ink:  Memento Black

Copics:

Reds: 12,14,29

Yellows: Y 13,17,38

Purples: V 12,15,17

Pinks: R 81,83,85

Cuts: Branch Cricut cartridge Winter Woodland @ 2 inches

Birdcage is a silhouette file

Misc: paper shaper heart punch,

Outlines Monday Challenge-A Sketch

Welcome to Outline's Monday Challenge -A Sketch Challenge  !

This week we are playing along with a sketch challenge. I chose to use this darling collage stamp along with a new embossing folder I just bought!

I flipped the sketch onto it's side. I really wanted to add a big ole' yellow bow on this, but I could just not make it work darn it! You know how I like everything orderly LOL!

The cute little baby, the baby stroller and the sweetpea sentiment are added on dimensionals. I also added the green star to replicate the green stars on the image.

Please check out what the rest of the team has made for you today!  
Kecia, Jenny, Jeanne, and Lisa and Julie!
Don't miss a chance to win $25 worth of stamps on this challenge! 




card details:
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Stamps: H-798 Split Layering Collage-Sweetpea
Cardstock: Rose Red, Daffodil Delight, Quite Contrary MME
Ink: Memento Black
Copics: 
R 81,83,85
Y 31
YG 23
BG 70,72
Misc: Sizzix 5x7 embossing folder, star nestie, swiss dots embossing folder, Daffodil Delight ribbon, Martha Stewart border punch, yellow pearls, dimensionals.

Happy Birthday Maddie!

Awww. Today is Super Bowl Sunday and I have some company coming over for the game and dinner. One is a sweet little girl named Madison...Maddie for short. Yesterday she had a Cake Boss birthday party...(fashioned after the TV show)-but today is her actual birthday.  I wanted to make her a little surprise!

 I cut out this sweet little Piece O' Cake box from Creations by AR, added a few flowers cut with my silhouette, a tag and the word Love from the Sihouette store and a little Penny Black hedgie for a cute little touch. I filled this up with Hershey's kisses.

It was a little hard to photograph, but here is the top!

Enjoy and see you tomorrow for Outlines Monday Challenge!

Project details:
Stamps: Penny Black Piece of my Heart Transparent set
Cut files: Piece O' Cake from Creations by AR, tag and words from the Silhouette Store
Cardstock: Real Red, Pretty In Pink cardstock and designer  DP for the flowers,  MME Alphabet Soup Lovely DP
Ink: Memento Black
Copics: C 2,3  and R 11(cheeks) - 12,14,29 
Misc: swiss dots embossing folder, pearls for flower centers, felt leaves, dimensionals