I'm so embarassed!

I'm so embarrassed and tee'd at my myself all at the same time! I made this project for one of my daughter's pre-school teachers for an end of school year thank you gift. Well, I was rather proud of it and she was happy, seems I hit her style right on the nail...so I was doubly happy.

THEN...I was making the clipboard shown in the post below last night and I realized that my Studio G clear stamps that I used had a mis-spelled word! EEP! Nice thing not to notice, especially when I already used it for making a gift for a teacher of all people! lol :) How tee'd am I that I didn't notice earlier! It's the 'little' that's misspelled, they left out the 'l.' I know these were only cheap$1.50 stamps, but I still expected them to be ok. I used my brown Statler gel pen to fix the spelling, but the letters are a little cramped now. :( Oh well. That's my rant for now! lol :)

Hope everyone is enjoying a nice sunny day today and having a great Natal Day long weekend! :) We took the girls to fireworks on Friday night, not so good as the ceiling was really low. Most of the fireworks went off in the clouds. Jim commented and said those were the prettiest colour clouds he's ever seen! lol :) For a change for this show, though, they fired them off the MacDonald Bridge and did a neat waterfall effect off the bridge. We saw this waterfall effect in Windsor, NS a few years back and it was really neat. There is another fireworks display tonight in Lake Banook, not sure if we'll go or not. The girls start day camp in the morning for the next two weeks (just for the mornings) and they should get to bed at a decent hour and get rested. I don't need to be dropping off little cranky girls to the day camp helpers. lol :)

Well, have a great day and thanks for stopping by! :)

Altered Small Clipboard

This is the before pic to show you who makes this cute little clipboard. It measures 4" x 6".

Tonight I decided to alter a small clipboard that I got a while ago from Michaels. I got a great deal on it, it was on clearance for only $3. :) I seem to keep placing my sticky note pad in my craft room in different places so I thought this might be a great little idea to keep in somewhere where I'd always be able to find it.

I used Urban Couture - Pashmina patterned paper to which I used my SU Baroque Motifs flourishes to accent it. I added 'a little note' at the bottom from my Studio G clear stamps from Michaels using Coffee Bean pigment ink by Rubber Stampede. I used the same ink to add the little flower beside the saying from the same set of clear stamps.

I used my corner rounder for the edges and carefully cut the top to get around the clip...easier said than done...then I added double sided sticky tape to the back of the paper and tried my best to align it on each side. I added the sticky note pas and voila, I'm in business! lol :)

My brother and his wife came for a visit tonight after I got the girls down to sleep, they had a full day and were pretty tired and went right to sleep which was nice. It was nice for Jim and I to be able to chat with them without having to referee the kids. lol :) The left about 11 PM and I watched TV for an hour when I got the itch to go in my stamp room at midnight. Back to my old ways! Oh well, this was a quick project but I kinda like how it turned out. Now I just need to decide where to hang it. That will have to wait til the morning...not now at 1:30 AM!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Another Baroque Motifs card

Update: My Goodness, I just realized that I never gave credit to this design...or most parts of it. I loved a joy-fold card that Beate Johns did for one of her stamp camps, but instead of making it into a joy-fold card, I went with a standard A2 style card. Here's the link to Beate's card. I actually like the background of her flower better with the orange rather than the stark white that I used. Anyway, I just wanted to give her credit. Beate is such a wonderful artist, a total inspiration and such a sweet person.

I love playing around with this set...but I will try to give it a break for a little bit and try using another set for my next card. lol :)

For this card, I chose some of my favourite colours for card stock. Amoung them are wine (Michaels), chocolate chip (Bazzill), Mystery Mellow Moss (can't remember where I got this from), burnt umber (textured - can't remember where I got this from either). I started out with the wine base for the card, to which I used a sea sponge to do the edging in SU Chocolate Chip ink and added the small flowers in SU Baroque Burgundy ink. To this, I added the Burnt Umber (orange) layer to which I also edged in SU Chocolate Chip ink. I then randomly stamped the large flower and the small flowers (from SU Baroque Motifs) in SU Pumpkin Pie ink. From there, I cut out a piece of Chocolate chip card stock and added a piece of Mellow Moss to go on top. I stamped the Baroque Motifs flourishes and small flowers on this layer in SU Mellow Moss ink and also edged it again in SU Chocolate Chip ink. The word 'cherish' was stamped in SU Chocolate Chip ink.

I used my SU Word Window punch to make the little buckles and added Making Memories antique copper brads. Now, I attached them to the Mellow Moss, folding the extra in behind. Lastly, the flowers, I stamped those onto white card stock in SU Baroque Burgundy ink and the small flower centre was done in SU Chocolate Chip ink. I left the outer dots on one flower and the flower on top was cut without the dot border so that the other flower would poke through. I added another MM antique copper brad to the centre and adhered it to the card with a 1/8" dimensional square.

Now, I will sadly put my Baroque Motifs set aside for a little while and use some other sets...but it will make a re-appearance soon!

I'm gonna call it a day now and turn in early for a change. Thanks for stopping by! :)

Have you Ever?

I found this over on, Charly's Crazy Corner and thought it looked like fun. :) Thanks Charly for sharing. :) Anyone else who feels like playing, please do. Here goes . . . the things I've done are in italics.

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink – On a Canadian Navy Ship and in Varadaro Beach, Cuba…the drinks were cheap!
2. Swam with dolphins - In Varadaro Beach, Cuba
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candle lit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you" and meant it
9. Hugged a tree....while trying to climb it - LOL, haven't we all
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day – I’m often teased for my Valley accent, when I was a teenager, my friend Brenda and I pretended we were Aussies for the day and fooled a bunch of tourists! Lol :)
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign – bad teenage days…we felt guilty and returned it a fews days later, though! Does that still count! Lol :)
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving – Nope, but I’d love to try it!
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow – at Ross Farm in the Valley. I don’t think our elementary school knew how to go anywhere else! I think I’ve been there a dozen times.
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke…Oh, it was bad, but a lot of fun! 5 of us were singing together. Love Shack by the B52’s.
59. Lounged around in bed all day…pre-children days, of course!
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving – I’m NAUI Advanced certified
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud - Brenda and I used to make mud pies and throw them at each other when we just kids. The crazy things you do when you’re 8! Lol J
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class – I took Kung Fu for 2 years
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an expert
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage - I played the clarinet in the school band in Jr. High.
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Eaten fugu (pufferfish
89. Had a one-night stand
90. Gone to Thailand
91. Bought a house
92. Been in a combat zone
93. Buried one/both of your parents
94. Been on a cruise ship
95. Spoken more than one language fluently
96. Performed in Rocky Horror Picture Show
97. Raised children
98. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country – we rented mopeds in Cuba where they are absolutely no rules of the road, or it doesn’t seem so, the way people drive over there! It was a blast!
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over - we got posted to Ontario for 3 years, that’s over 1,600 kms…does that count?
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds – I’m down 69 lbs...still another 31 til my goal weight. That’ll make 100 lbs!
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Ridden a bike
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone yup, broke my foot in gymnastics when I was in grade 7.
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild –Chanterelles are very yummy!
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had surgery - Tonsils when I was 8, Appendix in grade 11, Wisdom Teeth when I was in grade 12 and Gall Bladder 2 days postpartum after my first daughter.
120. Had a snake as a pet – grass snakes as a kid, we kept them in aquariums.
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes – I didn’t much care for them!
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life - shared air with another scuba diver on accent from 70 feet under water because his air tank froze up and starting free flowing and he ran out of air .

Whew, that was longer than I expected! lol :) Thanks for stopping by!

Baroque Motifs Cherish

I got to play again tonight with my SU Baroque Motifs set. Is there anyone out there that doesn't just love love love this set? Can you tell I love it? lol :)

I started out with a base of Chocolate Chip Bazzill card stock. Then, I layered a piece of what I thought was SU Mellow Moss cardstock, but apparently it's Not! That's the problem with buying card stock all over the place... it's hard to figure out later where each piece is from. With my bad lighting, I thought that it was SU Mellow Moss. Oh well close enough, I guess. (I wish I had an OTT light... maybe for Xmas.) Anyway, on this layer, I randomly stamped the gorgeous Baroque Motifs flourishes in SU Chocolate Chip ink and then roughed up the edges with my scissors.

Next, I added to strips of chocolate chip coloured grosgrain ribbon from Michaels. Centered on top of those strips is a strip of Mellow Moss coloured grosgrain ribbon that was also from Michaels.

Then, I cut out another piece of Chocolate Chip Bazzill card stock for the base of my flower image. I roughed up the edges again. To this I added a layer of cream coloured card stock to which I stamped the medallion stamp in SU Mellow Moss ink at the top and 'cherish' in SU Chocolate Chip ink at the base. I stamped the large flower on a piece of chocolate chip Bazzill card stock using SU Black ink and cut it out. I stamped the large flower again on another piece of cream card stock and cut it out without the outer dots so that the layer beneath would poke through. Lastly, I stamped the small flower in chocolate chip and cut it out as well. I hate to admit it, but I'm actually starting to enjoy cutting out flowers...yeah, forget I said that, I'm changing my mind...I'd still rather have a punch for everything! lol :)

I added an antique copper brad to the centre of the small flower and after gluing each piece of the flower together, I attached it with a 1/8" dimensional square. I added 3 more antique copper brads to the base of the chocolate chip card stock below the 'cherish.'

Whew, that's it! I'm caught up with my tags and tonights card is posted. I'm off to bed.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Global Bumper Card Tag

I have been tagged by my friend Charly Weaver in a 'pay it forward' type of tag. I have to send out an RAK (Random Act of Kindness) to a friend, family or fellow blogger and then tag 5 others to do the same. I will do my best to get mine out by the end of the week!

The following five people can consider themselves tagged:

Catherine (My Stamping Grounds)
Kim (Creative Diversions)
Shannon (Live, Love, Laugh and STAMP)
Kimberly (Crafty Me)
Barb (Barb's Card Creations)

I've been tagged...again!

I've been tagged by Kim over at Crafty Me. I'm supposed to list 7 facts about myself, then tag 7 more people to do the same. Well, I'm gonna be a spoil sport...I've given up. I can't find anyone that hasn't already been tagged, so this round is gonna end with me! Here's a link to another fact list that I did from being tagged, actually one month ago today. Just in case you weren't bored enough with this factual tour alone! lol :)

Here goes:

1. I'm a bit obsessive about keeping my house clean and tidy...but I absolutely despise cleaning! Sorry, Mum! lol :)

2. I love to cheat on my LA Weight Loss plan with Caramel Pecan Crunch frozen yogurt. OK, it's not like real cheating, I guess, could be real ice-cream, but it's soooo good, it's like a treat for me!

3. When I was a little girl, before I got involved in gymnastics (which I loved) I took Ballet, but my Mum actually had to bribe me with presents so I would go! Isn't that terrible?

4. I love card making and altering projects whether it been tin cans, tin containers, picture frames, notebooks, journals, candles, oh and I got some huge clothes pins to alter the other day...can't wait to try those! They're super cute! :)

5. I love the lock of a tan, but I hate being outside and getting hot in order to achieve a tan...not to mention the fact that I probably shouldn't sit out in the sun because of the whole skin cancer issue. I guess I just get tired of being teased cause I'm soooo pasty white if I don't get any colour! At least it's nice sitting in the pool and cooling off while getting a tan, that I enjoy!

6. I love water, I could drink gallons of it a day. I'm not big on flavoured water, just plain ol' filtered water for me. Oh, and note to self, don't buy flavoured, carbonated water again by mistake and open the bottle inside the car! Yup, what a mess that was last week! Total explosion!

7. I sooo would love to go on a vacation. My last real vacation was probably 10 years ago when we went to Cape Breton around the Cabot Trail on our first anniversary. We've been on a few little road trips since then and to NB, but I wouldn't consider that a vacation. Not when I have to chase after the kids and stay at my in-laws in a bedroom with my kids, too. I want a vacation to a beautiful spot for just Jim and I. Is that selfish. I don't think so, I love my girls, but I think it's good to spend some 'alone' time, too. I think it'll be a while before that happens, though. :(

Ok, that's all about me for now.