To all my Sassy Stampers......

I just need one moment to vent and then all will be well! When we decided to become a group we committed ourselves to that group. I am fully aware that we ALL have lives....myself included but come on ladies........you could check into our forum thread every once in a while. Most everyone is keeping up there blogs (that isn't the issue) but there have been some complaints about fellow bloggers not leaving comments and we all know there have only been about 5 of us on the forum thread in the past few weeks.
So here is the link to check in......Sassy Stampers blog thread
Also, one other thing, we all wanted to do challenges and as of the last 2 or 3 rounds the showing has been horrible. You do realize that the hostess for that challenge put's time and effort into putting it together and keeping up with it, you would think we could show our appreciation by showing up for them and joining in once in a while. I know most of you are very involved in other challenges on SCS so maybe you could try to support our group as well!!! Here is the link to our 7th challenge........letstampnscrap
Please don't think I'm saying you have to be involved in every single thing every single day but lets just try to be supportive of each other, leave the comments we are to be leaving, keep up with our blogs, and join in and be active once in a while!!!
I love all of you and I enjoy each and every one of your blogs and contributions!

Blogger 3 Challenge #6 Man Card

Making a "man" card is not exactly my area. I don't have that many men in my life and my husband doesn't really appreciate my efforts so he doesn't get many of my cards!!! But our challenge for this round for our blogger group was to make a card for a man. It needed to have a solid piece of cardstock, a piece of DP, 2 stamps, and an embelishement.

I used my one and only lonely fella! I used a clear stamp but I dont' know where I got it from. My solid cardstock is from SU! (of course) my DP is from DCWV and my embelishment is a star button. It's a 4th of July card....the best I could figure out!

Just a few things

The past few days I have been trying to finish up my rolodex swap info. cards. Can I just say these were a labor of love! I wanted them to represent me so I used a few of my favorite things. Stickles, primas, pink, and ribbon.

I think I went through just about an entire bottle of silver stickles. I used the stickles on the primas to add some glitz and I also randomly dotted the paper with stickles. The other side of the cards has my personal info on them!

I also am in a great swap doing Mother's Day cards for a women's shelter. I love love love doing swaps but I love to do them even more when they are for a cause! These were the cards I made for the swap. I also went ahead and made one for my mom and my MIL....I'm ahead of the game!

I used copics to color (of course) stickles on the wings of the angels and an SU! brad. The stamp and saying are both from American Art Stamp. I am a huge fan of angels....I love their angel stamps.

Rolodex cards

I had been dreading putting these together for an SCS swap because I had never done them before and was worried about how they would turn out. Once I got started, it was really easy. I had a lot of fun putting them together. My only problem was how to decorate the front. April isn't the easiest month for decoration ideas.
For the tab, I printed the word "April" on the computer, then I stamped with my tabs SU! set and then punched it out with the SU! tab punch. I used SU! DP to cover them and used Martha Stewart ribbon. I just used the SU! circle punches, the word "friend from one of the new SU! hostess sets and the eyelet is also SU! Simple enough right?! Oh and I can't forget the baubles from Stamping Bella!

Our WLG Challenge card......

For our SCS WLG challenge we were suppose to use a technique on glossy cardstock. I really wanted to do the soot technique. Well, I tried it and though it did work I could not figure out how to get it so it didn't smudge. I tried spraying it with acrylic spray but that didn't work. I actually really liked how it turned out otherwise. So then I decided to try the shaving cream technique. I thought what a good way to get my son involved. So he picked out the colors to use and we headed to the kitchen. We must have used way too much blue because as you can tell in my final card, you can't see any of the other colors (pink and coral). He had so much fun dropping the ink and stirring it up. We both have ink stained fingers this morning! But overall, I think the card came out pretty good and I got to spend a bit of "fun" time with my son!

Blogger 3 Challenge 5

Here is my challenge card for this round. Our challenge was to use two different hearts, a red and a pink color or two different shades of red. You also needed to have some sort of bling.

I used a sizzix texture plate for the embossed hearts then I used a new set of SU! stamps Something new to love and for the bling...I didn't use stickles LOL, I used some red crystals (or whatever they are called!) And I'm not sure where that ribbon is from but it matched so I used it!

Tag, I'm it....your next!

Melanie has sent me a challenge. Here are the rules:Go to where you store your photos on your computer. Go to the SIXTH folder and pick the SIXTH photo. Post that photo on your blog along with a SHORT story about it. Tag SIX people and leave a comment on their blog or email them letting them know you chose them. Here is a little bit about my picture and then I'm off to tag six people

Well, this is a picture of me and Leila shortly after coming home from the hospital. I guess it was nap time! This picture was taken by Jodus with his little digital camera! He didn't do a bad job huh!

Be looking for a comment on your blog to see if you've been tagged!

Busy busy busy

Well, my classes ended this past Friday and my new ones started...Today! I have been super busy with catching up on SCS swaps and taking finals. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted now that my math class is over. You just don't understand how much anxiety that class brought me. Once I turned in my last quiz yesterday I just felt better. My new classes are Sociology and Writing...sooooo looking forward to these two classes. To be honest, I was looking forward to anything but math!!!!

Enough about me, on to my swaps:

I joined a chocolohics swap and I sent German chocolate wrapped in these wrappers.

More LOTW's! I'm telling you I have about 4 of these swaps right now and I think after they are over, I am doing with LOTW's for a while. I'm going to be floating in letters. But I really liked the way these two turned out yesterday. My "A" for May and "U" for June. Bright and glittery!

Chipboard Albums

I finally have something to share with everyone! I have been working really hard on some chipboard coaster albums for an SCS swap. I finished them up last night! The more I did the better I think I got and the more I just loved them!

Accent Pieces and LOTW!

Here are a few accent pieces I did for a swap I'm doing on SCS. Okay, my three favorite things, Bellas, Stickles, Copics!!!! I need to start breaking away from the Bellas a little bit!

And here are my beauties! I love how these turned out. This is my "P" for the month April....I papered pieced the boots to go with the letter.

Blogger 3 Group #3 Challenge

Here is my card for the challenge in our SCS blogger group! I'm not very impressed with it but I guess it's okay. We had to use two different patterned paper on each side, ribbon down the middle and then a stamped image. Of course...we got bellas!!!

Happy Holidays

It's been a while and honestly, I have no new crafting pictures to show because I have not been at my table in over a week. I keep looking over at it thinking....today....today! So hopefully....today....I will be able to get some things done!

But here are a few pre-christmas pictures to share with you. I would say Christmas pictures but they are still on the camera. I'm behind in everything right now. Except schoolwork! That is a good thing! I had a week break last week so I was able to still do some work and get ahead! Yay for me!!!

Enjoy the pictures!

And please be aware, I am the worst picture taker ever! The pictures of our tree look horrible! I think I need to leave the picture taking up to my husband from now on!

This is 4 strings of German lights! They do not glow as bright as American lights do!

My dear husband working on our wreaths that go on the windows. He does such a great job!

In the kitchen. I totally lit up the shelf!!!

Diaper Cake

Last week I went to a baby shower and I decided to try a diaper cake. It was really really easy to put together and didn't take as long as I thought it would rolling all those diapers! I think it turned out okay. I will do some things differently next time but it's not too shabby! She is doing a jungle theme and I thought that Giraffee on the top was cute. It's basically an "essentials" cake with little things that we know we need, i.e.; baby oil, tylenol, desitin, along with some caps, onsies, socks and whatever else I missed! Next time I will be sure to get the diapers without a pattern on them. I think it will look a bit better!

Twisted Valentines Card Swap

So the idea for this swap that I am in, is to create a Valentines Day card that is not pink and red, or at least can not be the main colors of the card. I thought this would be fun and challenging! So here is my card!

This was the first time I have used my Loads of Love set. I always have this great idea in my head and then when I try to put it onto the paper..it just doesn't turn out the way I had imagined it would. But I think the card still came out okay! And I only used a bit of red and pink! The hardest part was cutting out the hearts and the truck. I'm not good at cutting things out. Too tedious for me!

We got all our Christmas decorations and tree up yesterday. The downstairs looks really pretty with all the lights! I will post some pictures as soon as I get some free time to upload them. I also had a few functions this weekend and pictures from that also!

The voting has begun

I hope this link works. I wanted to place the voting thing on my page for others that wanted to vote. Let's see if it works.
Blogger Challenge Voting

Blogger group #3 First Challenge Card

Here is my first card for our blogger group challenge. We were suppose to use orange and yellow as our main colors. I don't use much orange or yellow so this was a challenge for me. I think it came out okay though. I can't wait for the next challenge!

I love the saying on this card, it is a stamp from American Art Stamp. The angel stamp is also from them. I LOVE angels and when I found these stamps I was so excited.

I colored with my copics, another love, and of course the wings are done in.........STICKLES. I am really trying to NOT use stickles in everything I do but I just can't help it. I'm addicted to stickles.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. My husband made us a wonderful dinner. We are getting tons of snow here in Germany. I think we have gotten more snow in the month of Novemeber then we got all season last year. I think we are going to have a rough winter ahead of us.

More letters...I'm on a LOTW kick!

I'm almost done with the swap I'm in with the LOTW's. This is the "E" in leaves and the "A" in Fall. I think the letter in Fall could have been a bit bigger and I'm having issues with finding a good way to get my baubles to stick. I don't have anything small enough in the way of adhesive so I used super glue...Not a good choice! It changes the color of the bauble (it is green) and it leaves a wet looking spot around the bauble. But I did see on Bella's blog today that she found these adhesive sheets that I think I'm going to order the next time I put in a bella order. But anyway, I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

I actually have been busy.......

Stamping that is! My friend Melanie has gotten me hooked on doing swaps on SCS so now I'm doing like 9 at a time. For me.....that's a lot. I'm working on letters for an LOTW swap she is hosting. So here is my letter "L" for Halloween!

I will have my first blogger #3 group challenge card to put up next week. I can't wait! I hope everyone has a good weekend. Today I am headed to the holiday Bazaar on base, they host it every year and it is full of German vendors! I'm hoping to get some Christmas gifts!

Too many bellas...not enough time!

Finally, I got some time today to do some stamping. Okay, so I only got two cards done but hey...it's something. These are for my secret sisters on SCS. I actually used stamped images that were sent to me. Boy, what a time saver. I didn't have to dig mine out and stamp and clean and whatever.

Can I just say that the camera never does your images justice! It misses all the sparkly bling! Speaking of sparkly bling....I was looking at another blog last night and I saw that my favorite stickles are now in distressed colors. That's right. I went right to ebay and bought all 12! Not a single project of mine goes without stickles......I just love them! I also just recently bought some more bellas since she was offering free shipping...can't pass that up and I just put in my first order with papertrey. I had never even heard of them until my lil' sis (secret sister) told me about them....man SCS is bad for me!!!!!

Okay, on with the cards..................................................................................

My life wouldn't be complete without these three elements.....bellas, stickles, and copics!!!

No pictures today

That's right. I have nothing to show today! I feel like I do however need to keep in touch here especially since I am part of this new blogger group on SCS. I promise to have something to show, and maybe even brag about (if it comes out okay!!!) soon! I am taking my finals this week for my two classes and to be honest, I just want them to be over! It's stressing me out and my one release would be stamping but...don't have time for that. I feel horribly guilty if I am doing anything other than studying because I feel like if I have time to do something else I could be using that time to study. So I take my last test tomorrow and then I am done with classes until next week when the new term starts. So HOPEFULLY.....this weekend I will be able to get to that table! Plus, I need to put my November secret sister stuff together. So I'm off for more studying.......see you all around the blogs!