Working again and it feels good!

I am excited because I have sold my mini album! I am planning on putting several other items on Ebay in the next few days. I have been really busy getting some ideas down and I have a wonderful idea for a year in review 9x9 calendar album (using the MM spiral albums) but it is going to be a long process. I am hoping that it will come together nicely, but it always seems to. I have been working on Christmas cards for an order that a customer sent me. And I was at my local scrapbook store looking for pp that would work wonderfully with the Vixen reindeer heads that I made, and while there I showed them to one of the ladies there...and of course she wanted some. And she suggested that I put those on ebay...so of course I thought about it and decided that maybe I should. And so I am...here are what they looked like.

They are made using bazzill cardstock, felt for the hats, stickles, googly eyes, and tiny tiny pom poms for the nose. And of course as with my other diecuts I like them to be sturdy so I put them on chipboard. It took me hours....to make these little buggers! But I really do love how they turned out...I might even do these for a little while. Or even on my own Christmas cards.

And also I made this great Thanksgiving page that I made too...love how I used patterened papers that I just got from the CKC-St.Paul. Speeking of that...oh well I won't talk about that whole experience. I just now know what it's like to volunteer ....so I won't have do that again. LOL! But here is the page

Be thankful everyday mini album....it's done!

The album that I have been working on for the last month is finally done. I really do love the finished project! I really do...

So here are just a few of the pics of the 20 completed pages. There are tons of patterned papers used, hidden journaling, pull out tags, stamped images, diecuts, glitter, embossed pages and more.... Oh and did I mention the tons of ribbons that I have on here...it is really a great album for displaying fall family photos. I can even see it being used with Thanksgiving decorations...

You can check out my auction of this item here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230301996067&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling

And since I am doing my post this am...I just had to show the cards that I made also this weekend. They are cute...I had not used the penguin diecut for my own personal cards but I finally decided that instead of using it to make diecuts to sell; I could also use it to make some really cute cards...so here are those too!

Oh had to come here and add that I counted most of my stamps...and I couldn't believe that I have over 756 stamps and that doesn't included me counting invidual stamps in certain sets like AL calendar stamp, Monthly calendar stamps or even alphabet stamps...but I have a ton of them in my small space and it doesn't even seem like that many are in those 77 cd cases...but so far this move to putting in them in cd cases in themed sets was one of the best moves I have made in organizing my space. It has been over a year since I unmounted my wood stamps, went on the hunt for cd cases (including having my hubby bring some home from work) and I haven't once changed this around.

As fellow scrappers know organization is often a huge part of being a scrapbooker but this one storage method has eliminated the chaos that once was my stamp selection. So if you are looking for a better method and this option seems like it might work...I say go on and do it!! This helped me out alot...and now I stamp so much because it doesn't take forever to find a stamp like it had once before...

I need cards!!!

I am so going to be making cards for the next few weeks! I went to grab one for a birthday party for one of Vele's co-workers daughter and realized that we didn't really have a girl themed birthday card. I was so shocked because at one time I was overflowing with girl themed cards and there wasn't anyone to give them too...but since LeiLani's birth we have been to so many girl birthday parties and such... So I will be making cards like a mad woman when I get some free time.


But I did get an hour this past weekend to go to my craft space. It's so nice because I usually don't watch tv so while the kids are playing the game on the weekends and Vele is usually on the computer, I am with the kids in the basement and I am scrapbooking. I love that my space is in the family room because I am not away from them. And they can join in. But this weekend I made a few cards to have on hand for birthday parties...and here are the few cards I made using my Archiver's exclusive QK dies...it's amazing that when I first got these dies I thought that I would just sell them, but now I really like them! I can see using them on several types of pages and cards.

I used a bunch of different dies that I had and stamps. The little hat of the animals are an actual stamped image and then I cut it out and backed it with chipboard so that it was bold enough for the actual die. All the animals are backed with chipboard also. I used all products from my stash, nothing here is new!

I have been trying to get back into the swing of things and to be honest I have been more interested in making cards lately than making pages...I have made several the last couple of weeks and love how they turned out. I just keep forgetting to upload pics of them on here. I got so excited about several of them, that I forgot to even take a photo of them. Here are the 2 birthday cards that I did last weekend both are for my nephews...I just hope that I can remember to send them out to get there on their special days.

I love these little robot/space alien/space ships stickers (got them on clearance from Micheals). I also love this Catslife Press round Birthday stamp! It has been used more than a few times in several different ways for adult and child cards!

Let's see what else to share, oh...I have taken our end of the summer family photo. My Hubby found an awesome location for pics and we took a bunch of them. Even though we are in summer clothes I am hoping to use these on Christmas cards or maybe we will take another bunch there in fall-ish clothes...here is one of the pics that I took. I didn't even realize that LeiLani's shoe was in the front of us in the pic...

Well this is mostly all that I have been up to! Also I wanted to share that I have another set of ATC acrylic pages that should be listed soon on ebay. These are so cute. I am waiting for one one item before I can list the entire set but they are all fall related embossed pages. So be on the look out. I plan on having them on there before Saturday.

Also I have been getting emails about the stamps...they are gone. Sorry, I sold them!! I am going to edit the post for that day so that people know that they have sold. Well I hope that it will let me edit it. Last but certainly not least, I challenge all readers of this blog to make cards and actually send them to the people that they made the cards for. I am trying to do this myself because I want family and friends to know that I didn't forget about their birthdays or holidays. So show those special people in your life that you love them be sending/giving them cards!!

Not sure where to begin!!!

I have been trying my best to look past the things that are going on in my everyday life and move past these things and do the ATCs and get them out there...but I am not able to. Especially not now. I have been working on them since Wednesday, but I haven't been able to do much because of the news with my Dad.

I know that people have been waiting for them to get on ebay and I want to appologize because I honestly can't tell you when I will get them on there and at this point I can't even sit at my desk and work. I just got the worse news that I have ever been told...my Dad passed away this evening. I can't go into details mainly because I don't really remember everything, but there was a DNR and so he coded around 4:17 this evening...

I am angry, sad and confused but I am trying to do some of things that I feel like doing instead of things that I have to force myself to do. I feel numb...I just wanted this to turn out differently! But I understand that he is in a much better place and that he isn't feeling pain but that doesn't really make me feel better right now. I feel like being selfish and I want him to still be here. He is going to miss so much of my kids' lives. My nieces and nephews. I had my first real conversation with him in May and it was nice, but if I had known that it would be the last one, I would have said so much more. Like I wish we could know each other better...Maybe a few more I love you toos...I just don't know what to say. I feel like I didn't try hard enough when he reached out but I didn't hold a grudge either...I don't know...I just don't know

I just had to say that the ATCs will be on hold for a little while. Thanks for listening/reading...

Another ATC almost done...

I have been getting emails from several people on ebay and twopeasinabucket.com asking me about the next ATC... I had promised a sneak peek of the one that I am currently working on and so I have to make sure that everyone gets that sneak peek today...but before I do that I just wanted to say that there is a small delay in when it will be listed on ebay.

This delay is mainly because the ATC punch that I have is busted (seriously). I don't know why or how exactly but it had been punching the holes perfectly in the cards for the last two ATC holders that I decorated but this time the spring shifted and that was the end of that ATC hole punch. So my ATC holder is sitting on my desk half completed and waiting for the rest of the pages and I can't get the another hole punch until later this week because I had to call around and the closest scrapbook store that has one is a distance away...so I will be making that trip a little later this week...But until then I will show some of the work that I have completed so far.

And to let you know that this ATC holder will have acrylic pages that are embossed and some that have been stamped...I am so excited because I got some great new stamps and can't wait to show the acrylic pages that have been stamped...

Just a quick stop in...

I just needed to update really quickly....I have been so busy this weekend with the 4th of July celebrations that I really haven't had a chance to sneak in and share...

First of all I have sold more ATCs and I am planning (since they are so popular) to do some more themed ones once I get the actual ATCs back in stock. I have been designing several themed ones and also another version of the yearly one...

Also the Studio G stamps and the Pick of the Patch layout have now been added to ebay. I had two email requests and I haven't heard back from the 2 requesting people, so I have decided to put those items on ebay.

I am so excited, I finally go to scrapbook for my family' s wall calendar, I was supposed to be working on a calendar layout for July and August but my boys school pics were just calling me to do something with them...and since I hadn't gotten all of the pics in the mail, I decided that I would use the ones that I have to create a fun layout for September...lol can you imagine our wall calendar is all dated and we have tons of things filled in for this month...but no layout above the calendar...(I know I know bad scrapper) ;o)

So here is the finished product and I if you can't tell...I used lemonade bag mesh on this lo...I pride myself on acid-free but I had to do something with those tons of lemonade bags that I had left over this weekend...And I pulled out those old hidden dies too...I was determined not to touch my QK dies this week, so I used my Sizzix/Ellison ones....oh I still used my QK file diecut though.

And since I took tons of pictures and haven't edited any of them yet, I figured I would wait to upload them, but here is one of the kids on the 4th.... and some fireworks. We had a ball!! And even last night we were out at the park doing more fireworks!