Second, after having my family all home for the holidays, is the handmade gift my son’s girlfriend made for me. She took some of the pictures from when we visted them in Arizona in October and made me a photo coffee mug. I LOVEEEEEE this gift. Thank you Tara
               

I hope you all had a very blessed holiday. Did Santa bring you everything you wished for?? I am very blessed to have had my whole family home for Christmas. With all the recent snow we got here in Buffalo it was touch and go if Jason would make it from Arizona. At one point [...]

The two cards today are very appropriate for the weather here in Buffalo!! We got lots of snow around here-12 inches in my backyard and more is expected tonight and tomorrow. Not good if you haven’t finished your xmas shopping…Oh well if I can’t shop I’ll just have to  stamp- LOL!These cards were inspired by [...]

Here are 2  get well cards that I received from 2 very talented teamates…Diane and Micki. Thanks …love these cardsThe first card is Diane’s and uses A Little Birdie stamp set and Sweet Always DSP ….both from Stampin’ UP!                                                                                This second card is Micki’s and uses Pocket Silhouettes from SU and the colors of the [...]

                    This is one of my favorite holiday cards. It was cased from a card I received at convention from Gina Scheetz (Stampinpetra)                                                                        I used  brush silver cardstock for the card base. I doublestamped the trees on whisper white cardstock. TI then used a stamp a ma jig and stamped over the trees in versamark. I [...]

I am working on finishing up some christmas gifts and home decorating ideas. The items below were made using all SU items. The candle I got from  The Christmas Store and embellished it with paper and die cuts from the I Wish simply scrappin kit. The bow around the pinecone and berries is The candy [...]

I finally had some time to participate in Kristina’s card challenge. The challenge this week was to use 5 colors which is a challenge for me. The colors were: Pale plum, perfect plum, bordering blue, sage shadow and certainely celery. Here was our inspiration:and here is my card:                                                       This card is made from all SU [...]

Here are 2 more cards and a cute scalloped gift tag that were projects at our team meeting last week. These were made for me so I am not sure who created them to give proper credit                             
 
 
I also replicated the calender that is in our current mini catalog and available only until January 18th. [...]

I just had some surgery and had to miss our monthly team meeting. The girls on the team are awesome…they made me the projects that I missed. I love these girls. Not only are they awesome stampers, they are great friends. I can’t Thank them enough.This gift card holder was made by Deb Adams and is [...]

These candy jars are so easy to make. All my stamp club members got one from me at our last club meeting.                                                                                                           I got the jars at Ikea, but you can find little jars at Joann’s or Hobby Lobby. I filled with peppermints and then tied some holiday grosgrain ribbon aound the lid. [...]