One long Monday and finally some Mojo!

Good Afternoon!!! Ok, it has been a Monday all day today!@#$#@$% eh,hem sorry. I feel better now. I won't bore you with all the details of today, but I will talk about my fridge for a second before I move on to the fun stuffs!! Our fridge decided to go on the fritz last Thursday. It has one of these funky control panels that is run by a computer I'm sure. Thursday night, I'm all comfy watching my Survivor when all of a sudden the little flap door thingy where the ice comes out starts opening and closing. And opening and closing. And Banging!!! And the lights start Blinking!!!! Well, we don't know what's going on. SO we plug the door thing with a towel so it won't make so much noise. We call the repair people on Friday. They'll come Monday. Guess when our one year warranty runs out? Tuesday. Thank goodness we got in under the wire!! Then, over the weekend, the fridge stops cooling so all of the food has to be taken out or thrown away. BLECH! I hate to waste food. We got it fixed today thank goodness. Listening to that banging constantly for 4 days was wearing down my nerves. Enjoying the silence, you ask? Yes, from the fridge, NO from the 3 year old. He has really been feeling his threes lately.

But now that the fridge is fixed, on to fun stuff. Today is Mojo Monday!!! Woo hoo! I am participating for the second time. It really is a lot of fun. You should check it out HERE. I worked for quite a while on my card. My mojo was just not flowing this morning. I'm sure it was mostly due to the fridge fritz. But here's what I finally came up with. Let me know what you think!
What I used: Stampin' Up! only. Papers: Certainly Celery, Pacific Point, Real Red, Whisper White, Vellum. Inks: Stazon, Pacific Point, Real Red Marker, Going Grey Watercolor Crayon. Stamp Set: Pun Fun. Other: Hodgepodge Hardware (this type is retired, but it's all I had right now), Vintage Brads, Word Window, Corner Rounder and Small Oval Punches, Celery Buttons, Paper Piercing tools, White Grosgrain ribbon, Aqua Painters.

I had to use the corner rounder punch for my scalloped edge on the vellum, because I don't own the scallop edge punch yet. Yet! The whale has been stamped twice and the top image has been colored, cut out and popped up from the bottom image. The red circle and the green oval have been popped up also. It's hard to see in the picture, but I have pierced the paper around the blue and under the oval. I wish you could see it better. I'm going to work on taking a better picture later.

I am fairly happy with the way it turned out. Even if it did take me all day. Tomorrow I hope I'll have a chance to play the color combo challenge on SCS.
Have a Stamptacular Day!

Mama said there'd be days like this.....

But I don't think *my* Mama was talking about the fact that I haven't stamped at all today. Yikes! and ugh! and bleh! and so forth. I had to deliver the 5 dozen cookies this morning. Glad that's over. I made 1 dozen flip flops and 1 dozen sunglasses - all decorated sugar cookies, plus 3 dozen Citrus Shortbread cookies. Which, if I had not been soooo tired last night when I finished them, would have gone into some really cute tubes of DSP (double sided paper) that I like to make. As it was, I rolled each dozen in wax paper and just used some retired SU yellow organdy ribbon to tie the ends. Then we had to wait for the Termite inspector guy to show up. I didn't realize that they come in and look at all your baseboards, window sills, etc. I mean, like with a flashlight! And even in the closets!! Ok, yes, I want him to be thorough, because I don't want termites, but really? Every dust bunny (and I've got loads!!) was peered upon by this guy and his flashlight. And when was the last time I dusted the window sills behind the sofa??? Errmmm... when we moved in last year and I put the sofa there? Oy. Then it was off to the post office for supplies. Then we had to go to Taco Bell. The little man demanded that he have two cheese roll ups for lunch. I didn't want to eat there because I am trying to diet(haha), but we went anyway, of course. The drive through was to long, so we went in. I ordered two cheese rollups and one small drink. THEN, because I still wanted something to eat, we went to the drive through at Wendys for a salad. Uh-huh. I got a burger and a baked potato. At least I left off the cheese. So now we have food and we head home. I feel like I need to clean house thanks to Termite Man. And I am behind on laundry - am I the only one who never seems to get caught up with that?? Anyway, now it's almost time to pick up kids from school and I still haven't had a chance to stamp. Well, I had a chance, but as soon as I sat down at the desk, Little Man decides he needs paper airplanes and some tape and a punch and more paper and crayons and maybe some more tape.... I swear it's like the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books. So I can't stamp anything, because he'll want to stamp and use the ATG and the paper trimmer and he needs more ink and a different stamp and.... you see??

So today, sadly, I have nothing new to share. My stamping desk is covered with half done projects and scraps of paper, but nothing I can take pictures of yet. Maybe tomorrow the DH will take all 3 kids to Number One Son's Quiz Bowl. Maybe....

Check back tomorrow won't you? Oh and check out the video link in the post below. It's a way cool new die for the Big Shot machine. Have a Stamptacular Day!

Just a quick post today. This week has been Craaazy!

Take a look at the awesome new video tutorial from Stampin' Up! showing how to use the new pop up ball die for the Big Shot!!

You'll have to click on the link below to go to the video until I can figure out how to put the video on here for you. Sorry 'bout that!

http://www.stampinup.com/us/enu/11120_13873.asp

Quick drop by just to show you the card I made for today's color combo challenge over on Splitcoaststampers. Today's colors are Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and Pixie Pink. Now I don't love pink in and of itself because I am more of a red and black or maybe blues kind of girl. But when paired with chocolate, pink can be very pleasing. But then again, almost anything is better with some chocolate isn't it?? mmmmmm, chocolate..... oh, sorry, i was dreaming there for a second.

So here it is. Let me know what you think.
this card measures 6 1/2 x 3 1/4 and fits into SU's small open ended envelope.
Ingredients: Stamps: Schoolbook Serif Alphabet, Fundamental Phrases, Seeing Spots;
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Pixie Pink, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White; Ink: Kiwi, Chocolate, P. Pink; Accessories: brads, sponge, tool kit, dimentionals (which I doubled up on because I wanted the image to really stand away from the background.)

I have a lot to share today, so I won't do much chit-chat. Also, I have a terrible cold and really just want to be in bed, but I have to make about 5 dozen cookies today. I guess that means no rest for the weary. On a more upbeat note, here are some of the things I have been working on.

This is a little 3x3 gift card I made for a gift my daughter had to take to a school mate's party last weekend. She tells me about the party the day before and so of course I have to run out at the last minute and buy a gift for this kid that I have never met. Always the way! Ingredients: Stamps: Big Bold Birthday; Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Summer Sun, Celebrate DSP from Bold Birthday Scrap kit; Accessories: Silver Brads, Tool Kit, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, Heat tool, Dimentionals; Ink: Turquoise, Versamark.

These are some "Thank Ewe" notecards I made to give to my hostesses. I made the one on the left first and it was too girly for me, so I made the one on the right and liked it enough that I made several to have on hand. Ingredients: Stamps:Pun Fun; Paper: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Rose Red, Whisper White; Ink:Stazon, Rose Red Marker; Accessories: White grosgrain ribbon, tool kit(hard to see, but the one on the right is paper pierced), Embossing tool (the flowers on the left are dry embossed), Watercolor Crayons, Aqua Painters.
Last one for now. Whew, I'm worn out! This is a little grasshopper gift box I made that coordinates with the bug card I posted a few days back. It's a 2-4-6-8 box and is so easy to make. They are great make and takes for workshops. Ingredients: Stamps: Bugs and Kisses; Paper: Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Real Red, So Saffron; Inks: Celery, Red; Accessories: Small Cello Bag, Hemp Twine, Key Tag punch, 1 1/4 adn 1 3/8 Square punches.

Right - now I am off to take some serious cold meds and try to rest a minute before the baking begins. And don't worry, germaphobes, I will take care when baking the cookies! :)
Have a Stamptacular Day!

It's Mojo Monday! (my day is looking up!)

Here's my entry for today's MojoMonday Sketch Challenge. So much fun!


Ingredients- All Stampin' Up!
Stamps: A Little Birdie Told Me, Sincere Salutations
Ink: StazOn, Basic Black
Paper: Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
Other: Tool Kit (paper piercing), Dimensionals (pop dots), Turquoise and Celery Ribbons, Watercolor Crayons (Celery, Turquoise, Apricot), Aqua Painters, and Turquoise and Apricot Markers.

Good Morning?

Is it a good morning? Well, not really. My dear husband gave me his cold over the weekend. Yuck!! The little one had a bloody nose in the middle of the night Saturday, so we didn't get much rest. Then last night he had some sort of fit in his sleep, which woke us all up. Then he got in the bed with me and decided to kick and flail his arms the rest of the night. So, not much rest last night either. And! it's Monday morning. I am dragging here. I need more caffeine! One of my (many) obsessions is Dt. Dr. Pepper, but I have been trying to only drink one a day. It's tough! Plus, I am trying to cut out chocolate. I know! The horrors! SO today may just have to be a cheat day, KWIM??

Let's move on to the fun stuff! I did get to stamp a little over the weekend. Not nearly as much as I wanted, but that's OK. I have several things to share today. First up is a WAY Cute ribbon storage box. I found the coolest tutorial on it by The Squareheaded Stamper. She is unbelievably talented and I spend way too much time on her blog. Unfortunately I don't have any of the new DSPs in the SU catty - which I am Luuuving, BTW. So I had to use some retired papers, which I hoard! Here's the front, closed:


And here's the top open, so you can see the ribbon holders:

The little ribbon holders are made with the rounded tab punch by SU! Love it!! But winding all that ribbon up took forever. I think there are 16 of them. It took longer to wind the ribbons than it did to make the adorable holder! Here's another shot:

And one last one (did I mention that I LOVE this little box??)
Sorry the pictures are not clearer. It was rainy here when I took them and I don't have a nice photo set up like some folks (green with envy!). But hopefully you can enjoy it all the same. I would love to know what you think.

If I keep adding pictures, this post is going to be way too long, so I think I'll wait on uploading the other projects until tomorrow. Besides, I need to go work on my Mojo Monday challenge!!! Right after I drink some more DDP!! Waaaaaahhh, I can't get my little smileys to work and the IT guy, my 10 year old, doesn't come home until 3!! oh well, I'll go old school :) Have a Stamptacular Day!