Mojo Monday 98-Contest

Happy Mojo Monday:) Well here we are again and I am still not finished making cards. I was lucky enough to be able to pick up a new nestie at my local craft store. We don't usually get nesties that fast but we have the new pendant collection that is out, I was not fast enough to get the borderabilites that go along with this one but I have my name on the list. I am happy this week my sister-in-law is down from Ontario for a visit and we have not seen her for 9 years. This is the card that I will be sending back with her when she leave Sunday. I wasn't sure how I wanted this card to look but Becca Feeken always can inspire me, so this is taken from her Tulips for sale cards. I seem to be making a lot of cards lately with orange, so why not continue with this cards. This is the 5Th cards that I have made in my series of 7, I plan on extend that series has I get my new nesties. Here is the recipe: Cardstock by Bazzill, DSP by My Mind's Eye "Pretty Please" Spellibinders Lg Scalloped Octagons, and the new Tulip Pendant, the ribbon is from Fabricville, the pearls are from Dollarama, the sentiment is from Stampin' Up and the ink is Tea dye by Tim Holtz. I hope that you enjoyed looking, I am enjoying creating:)

OCC Challenge- color challenge

Well here we are again, this is 4 of 7. This is the challenge for OCC. I was helping my mother-in-law clean her house last night and we came across, some nesties that she forgot she had bought, I asked if I could borrow them to try. I was wonder what I was going to make for my next card, when I remembered OCC, so here we are for this weeks challenge, purple is may favorite color so this was not a hard color for me to use, I have lots of it in my craft room. Let me start by say that the idea for this card come from Becca Feeken of Amazing Paper Grace, the card I cased is called It Is Not How Much.
Here is what I used to a make my card: Co'ordinated cardstock, Bazzill cardstock,DSP by My mind's Eye but I am not sure, the sentiment is from Stampendous "Encouraging Words", the ink is Elegant Eggplant from Stampin Up, the gemstones are from Hero Art and the ribbon is from Fabricville and I also used my favorite product spellbinders classic squares lg and Foliage frames. I hope that you enjoy looking and enjoyed creating:)

CCEE A Supply Challenge for Monday July 27/09

Here number 3 of 7 that I plan on making this week. I saw this paper by Heidi Grace on CCEE Stampers, and I just loved it, so off I went to find it, my local craft store only had one sheet of 12x12 left "lucky me":). Then I made this card for this weeks supply challenge hope you like my creation. Here is the recipe: Cardstock is by Bazzill, DSP is by Heidi Grace Harvest Rom/Harvest Flower,my brad came from Dollarama, the ribbon is from Fabricville, Iused Martha Stewart border punch Doily and my favorite item Spellbinders label 4 and Beautiflies 2, the sentiment I printed out on my computer. I hope you enjoed looking:)

WSC 90

Well her we are again, I am having a great vacations, I am getting a lot of my cleaning done(ha! ha!), this weekend my sister -in -law is coming for a visit she is flying in from Ontario and staying for a week. The last time that we seen each other is 9 years ago when we both got married. Scott and I got married in August and she and Ron got married in September. So I made this card for her. Hopefully it won't be 9 years before we see each other again. So lets begin with what I used to make this card. The card stock is from Bazzill and the DSP is from My Mind's Eye and Cosmo Cricket, the stamp is from stampendous and its new to my collections, I used classic rectangles and Butterflies 2 from Spellbinders, the ink is ColorBox Chalk "Chestnut Roan" the pearl came from Dollarama and the ribbon is from Fabricville. I am hoping to have 7 new cards posted to my site by the end of this week. I hoped to enjoyed looking, I enjoyed creating:)

Mojo 97

Happy Mojo Monday, sorry that I have not posted anything for a long time but school has me very busy, we just finished first placement and now I have two weeks off. I can finely get some cards made and post them. I just added some new stamps to my collection and thought that I would share them with you. This stamp is by Stampendous and I just love the sentiment, the DSP is by My Minds Eye "Pretty Please" the cardstock is by Bazzill, I used Spellbinders Labels 2, the ink is Rose Red and the ribbons is whisper white both by Stampin' Up, the flower are from the Great Canadian Dollar Store here in Canada, and the gemstones I picked up at Dollarama. I am just loving my course and can hardly wait to get back to school. I have always been someone who loves to help people and with this course I will be able to help in so many different ways. I feel that God has given me a special gift and that I am able to share with you and everyone. Have a great Monday. I hope that you enjoyed looking , I have enjoyed creating:)

I am still Alive

I am sorry that I have not been posting anything new to my blog but I have been in school and I have had no time to make new cards. I am hoping that I will be able to add new cards through out July, we will be on placement for 3 weeks then off for two weeks. Still stampin and enjoying it:)

Mojo 82/ Strength

Happy Mojo Monday:) I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter. I am off today so I had time to make a card, I have been busy with school and my mom, but she is better now. So here is a card for her. My mother is the strength in my family, she is the strangest person that I know, when life gets her down she just holds her head up and faces it head on, she never wavers, and I believe that a butterfly is an excellent symbol for strength and my mother loves butterflies. Recipe: Bazzill card stock, the butterfly is from spellbinders Butterflies 2, the flower is from Dollarama, the ribbon is from Wal-Mart, the DSP is from imaginisce" Fairest of them all", the sentiment is from Stampendous "Encouraging Word", the ink is from Stampin' Up Elegant Eggplant and Pink Pirouette. I hope that what ever life throws your was that you well have the strength to stand up and face it head on. I hope you enojed looking, I enjoyed creating;)

"For Me"

Hi just me again today:) I am in a card making mood
I have started my mother's day cards, my class mates are looking for cards for there mothers and I was happy to make cards for them, here is one of the cards that I have made, more to come! Recipe: Bazzill card stock, DSP by Cosmo Cricket Everafter Something Blue, the ribbon is from Dollarama and the butterfly is spellbinders butterflies two. I will add more cards later. Hope that you have enjoyed looking because I love to make to make them:)

Mojo 80/ Mother

Hi again, sorry that its been a long time since I added new cards to my blog, but I started school and mom was sick, so here is something new. I was out shopping today ans seen this beautiful DSP by My Mind's Eye and just had to have it. So her we go with the recipe: card stock is by Bazzill, the DSP is by My Mind's Eye the Deena's Penny Lane Collection "Tiny Dancer Chasse Graceful Circle Paper, the flowwe is by Prima, the ribbon is from walmart and I used my cuttlebug embossing folder " Birds and Swirls", and I used my spellbinders. I hope that you enjoy looking, I love to create:)

OCC Sketch Challenge & Giveaway

Hello everyone, what a busy week I am having, I am getting ready to go to school on Monday and my mother is in the hospital, so I have finely had time to make some cards this week. I just love the the challenge for this week and I could hardly wait to get started making a card to go with it, I picked up some DSP on sale on this paper just jumped out at me today, so here is the creation that I came up with using this paper, I hope that you like it:) The card stock as always is from Core'dination and bazzill, the DSP is from MY Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus Dad Diamond/ Lime Paper, I used the reverse side of the DSP for the matting, the ink is night of navy and the stamp set is Upsy Daisy both by Stampin' Up, the ribbon is from Fabricville, and I used spellbinders Petit oval lg. Hope you enjoy looking, I sure enjoy creating:)

Mojo 79/ Life

Happy Mojo Monday everyone, sorry that I been so late putting up a card for this week, my mother is in the hospital, I was up to my hometown(Sackville NB) on Monday to see her, she was retaining fluid and it was affecting her heart, she had about 17lbs of fluid that had collected from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning and she was having a hard time to breath. She is doing a lot better today, so I have finely had time to get some cards done. Here is the recipe: the card stock is from Core'dination, Stampin' Up and Bazzill, the DSP is from imaginisce Out on a Whim- Sweet Pea, the ribbon and the bling is from Dollarama, the ink is Kiwi Kiss and the stamp is from Hero Arts, and I used spellbinders curved rectangles.

mojo 78/ Oh Baby!

Hi everyone I am sorry that I was so long posting this week, but a week I have had. I started researching my family and was on the hurt for my great grandparents, I have been to Newfoundland and England. I was excited and happy to find my relatives, it is interesting to see were you came from, if just one single people in your family was not there you would not be here. So my card is about new beginnings (a new baby). Life starts with one small unique person and life goes from there. Friends of mine are having a new baby, so I wanted a card that would reflect new beginning, not only life but a new season. So happy spring and I hope that you enjoy this new season and new beginning. The poem inside reads "This little tiny baby was sent from God above, to fill our hearts with happiness, and touch our lives with love, he must have known we'd give our all and always do our best to give our precious baby love, and be grateful and so blessed. " So is true with each passing season, life is precious and we are grateful for what God has giving us. So here is the ingredients that I used, card stock by Core'dination, DSP by imaginisce Fairest of them all Royal Procession, rub-ons by Sandylion Baby, ink is so saffron, stamp set is Insppired by Nature,and the ribbon is white taffeta all from SU, the butterflies are punches out using Martha Stewart's butterfly punch. I hope that you enjoy looking :)

Mojo77 "Flowers"

Happy Mojo Monday everyone:) I can not believe the number of entries for last weeks challenge, Wow! 441 It going to take them all day and all night just to decide and with all the beautiful cards that entered its going to be hard just to pick 7. I just love Mondays because it means that I can making another card and I can look at all the beautiful cards that other people have made. I get inspired from other peoples creation and I always see new ways that people have used paper, I just seen a lady use wrapping paper what a good idea, I would have never thought to use it, but know I will be digging my wrapping paper to see what I have that I can uses. Well I am staying with a purple theme, all the card stock is from Core'dination, all except the dark purple, it is from Stampin' Up elegant eggplant., the DSP is from My Mind's Eye, I can not remember the name of it but this the last of it , the sentiment I wrote up on my computer and punched it out using my nesties, the flower are from Dollarama and the swirl are punched out using my EK success punch, and the ribbon is from Fabricville. I am looking out my stamping room window and the sun is shining, spring is on its way and soon we will flowers blooming, on a day like to day, it makes you glad to be you!!!!Have a beautiful day. Hope you enjoyed looking:)

OCC add a Doodle "Happy Birthday Mother"

Just me again, well how was every ones weekend I was busy making cards, this one is for my mother-in-law, she loves purple and I just picked up some flower on sale. Her birthday is Tuesday and she and I are going shopping in Halifax NS, we are going to Micheal's, she has never been there and I can hardly wait for her to see it. We do not have a lot of places in our hometown to by card making product, so the closes is Halifax, I am taking her out for lunch and I have got her some paper flower by Prima and a paper pierces, I hope that she like them. The card stock is Core'dination, the DSP is from My Mind's Eye, the sentiment I printed on my computer, the flower is from Prima and swirl are punched out using my EK success flourish swirl punch, and the ribbon come from Dollarama. I hope that she like it, I had a lot of fun making it, it will be given to her from my husband(her son) and me. I hope that you enjoyed looking, I have enjoyed creating:)

MOJO76/"Mother"

Happy Mojo Monday everyone:) Is this not the best challenge yet, I am so excited that there will be more then just one winner. Good luck to everyone!!
This is my entry. I have been reading a lot of poems lately and I recently came across this lovely little poem by Edgar Allen Poe and I fell in love with it, It says so much and just a few words, there is none so devotional as that of a "Mother" to quote the last line of the poem. Our lives are so busy that we only stop to think about our mothers and what she did for us so seldom. I try to call my mom at least once a week, just to see how her week was, that is the least that I can do for her because she gave so much and is still giving. So this card is for her my greatest supporter and fan my mom. All the card stock is by Core' dinations Retro Mod Squad, the DSP is from K&Company the Brenda Walton Collection, the sentiment is printed off the Internet that I printed on velum, the ribbon I got from my mother-in -law, the pearls are from Hero Arts and the swirl are punched out using my swirl flourish punch by EK success. To all the mother out there I say thank you for just being you, you give the greatest gift that one single person can give"LOVE".

Spring/OCC Challenge

Hi how is everyone? I hope that you had a good weekend. I was off making cards on Saturday with a bunch of awesome ladies, we get together once a month and make cards, we take turn having them at each others houses. I have an amazing time with these ladies, that I get some of my best ideas from them. So thanks to all those lovely ladies, you know who you are:). The idea for this card came from a lady named Cathy, she is always a breath of spring. So Cathy this card is for you. All card stock is by Core' dinations Retro Mod Squad, the DSP is by My Mind's Eye( Jen Wilson's 29th Street Market "Fancy Party" Centerpiece/Ice Cream Paper). The ribbon is from Dollarama and so are the little wood flowers, I used my spellbinders petit oval lg. The sentiment is a spring poem that I printed on my computer. I hope that you enjoy looking. Spring is in the air.

Mojo75/Shoot for the moon

Happy Mojo Monday!! It's that time again, Monday just comes so fast, but I am so excited to see what the new sketch is. I was especially excited this week because as soon as I seen the sketch I knew what paper and what saying I was going to use. I recently picked up some paper on sale and thought it would be great to make a card for a young man. I love this saying, I had some stars all ready punched out and when I picked up this paper I was excited to see that it almost matched the color of stars that I had. So here is the recipe for this card, the card stock is from Core'dinations "Reminisce", the DSP is My Mind's Eye from there Tres Jolie collections, the star are punched out using a small star punch and a large star punch, the small star are chocolate chip and Baja Breeze, the large star is also punched out in Baja Breeze, these colors are from Stampin" Up, the sentiment I printed on my computer. I really like the way this card has turned out, I hope that you do too! Have an awesome week, have fun creating!!! Thanks for looking:)

OCCC You are one of a Kind

Good afternoon fellow card makers. This was the hardest card for me to make, first I could not get the mates centered, then I changed the DSP to a different pattern, so that did not look good with the color of card base that I had, so I just started all over again, I set it a side until today to have a new prospective on the way that I wanted it to look. I started with a dark brown card base and a burgundy DSP That is by My Mind's Eye "Home" Floral/Blue Paper, the DSP on the scalloped square nestie is K&Company Christmas Cheer Designer Mat Pad, a lot of this does not look like your usual Christmas paper, and I love to use different DSP together to give it that unique look. The center is on whisper white card stock and embossed using my cuttlebug folder from the Fancy Corners. I colored the the negative side with my markers then I embossed it, these corners fit perfectly in the third size scallop squares of my Classic scallop square sm.
I used the sentiment from the One of a Kind stamp set by SU, I used my markers to color the sentiment and matted it on my labels two nesties. I used chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon and I punches out two swirls with my swirl punch. This has been an awesome challenge for me, I just love the new ways that these challenges help get my creative juices flowing and thinking outside the box. Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for looking!

My Stampin Helpers

Here are my two stampin' helpers. Can see how hard I have worked them today! They are so glad to be done cutting, stamping, gluing and matting cards. They are taking a break in there favorite chair. I can not start a card until I have consulted my two expert helps. This is my cat Isis and his dog Trudy. Every time I go to my stamping room my pets have to come with me. They are great company and I do show them all my cards before I post them. My two biggest fans. So I am giving a little break before we get start again. Have an awesome Thursday!

SFYTT for i heart 2 stamp

Christmas has come early! I just love this stamp set and I did a lot of Christmas card with it. So why not use it for i heart 2 stamp sketch. I had some left over DSP ski slope by SU, and I love chocolate chip card stock, so here is my creation for the sketch. The card stock is old olive and chocolate chip, the DSP is ski slope, the ink is old olive, the stamp set is Snow Swirled all by SU, the ribbon is brown and silver organza from Dollarama. Have fun creating:)

Mojo Monday Week 74

Happy Monday! Everyone, It Monday again and you know what means Mojo Monday has a new sketch. Here is my sketch for this week, the layout kind of reminded me of a black and white affair, so I thought why not black and white. The cardstock is by Bazzill, the stamp is from Lovely as as Tree by SU, and the sentiment is Best Yet also by SU both are stamped in black stazon ink, the ribbon is white organza from Fabricville, I used my nesties label one for the mates. I am enjoying creating new and fun projects and Mojo Monday is a fun and fabulous way to go those creative juices following.Keep up the great work. Have a fabulous Mojo Monday. Hope you enjoyed looking! I know I enjoyed creating!

MOJO 73/TLC 207

Hi again just me with another challenge. This time I thought I would try two. The first is for Mojo Monday and the second is for Splitcoast. I have been a purple kick this week everything I am doing has purple as the main colors. So here we go. The card stock is by Bazzill the DSP is again from wild asparagus this time it "Mother's" Flourishes/Plain Purple. the ink is elegant eggplant by SU, the stamps set are Upsy Daisy and Barque Motifs in which I cut out the flower, the small flower are from the Great Canadian Dollar Store and the bling is Hero Arts, the ribbon is from an elastic hair band that had ribbon tried on it that come from Dollarama. I have been really enjoying the different challenges that I have been trying. I hope that you enjoy them as much as do:) Have an awesome Day!

Flourishes

So here I am again with another card for a sketch challenge this one is for iheart2stamp.com I was not sure what colors I wanted to use for this card but I knew that purple was defiantly one of them. I have a stamp set that I have had for a while but was not sure that I like it until I seen Kelly Lunceford's card and the I knew that I was going to use that stamp set. The stamp set is from The Paper Studio called Flourishes, the card stock is from Bazzill and the DSP is from the wild asparagus "Mother" Plaid/Green Paper, the ink is Elegant Eggplant by SU, the flower are from Prima floral embellishment Petal Poetry, the bling are square lime green rhinestones from Hero Arts, and the ribbon is white organza from Fabricville. Purple is my favorite color but it is not a color that I use alot. I just how this card looks. Hope that you enjoy it as much as I do. Thanks for looking:)

The best is yet to be

Good Afternoon everyone! I was so
excited this week, I have been getting ready to go back to school. That is an amazing feeling. When you are young you can hardly wait to get out of school, and then when your older you wish you could back to school. I never thought at 40 I would be changed my career. My mother and sister both look after seniors and I have always enjoyed helping people, I worked retail for 20yrs and I always found that I
had more time for the elderly. I feel that the best is yet to be, you never know when God is going to open a window or door for you, I recently injured myself, and had to stay home, only to find out that when I could go back to work my position was no long there. So here I am making a career change and loving it.
This is my card for Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #54, sorry I have nothing with cupcakes, but these color remind me of cupcakes. I used Basic Grey pattern paper Sultry, the card stock is from Bazzill, the ink color are Rose Royal, Rose Red and Always Artichoke by SU. The stamp set are Upsy Daisy and Best Yet also by SU, the ribbon is 7/8 white grograin ribbon from Fabricville, and the little pearls are by Hero Arts. Hope you enjoy looking :)

Happiness

Good Morning all you crazy makers. Here is my card for the OCC crazy hearts challenge. We made this card at a workshop. We had so much fun making this card. Everything that we used comes from stampin up , the card stock is close to cocoa, the DSP is Bella Rose the stamp set is Season of Friendship(retired), the ink is Chocolate Chip Kiwi Kiss and Old Olive, and we used the new heart punch Heart to Heart. Hope you enjoy looking. Have a wonferful day.

MOJO 72

Happy Monday! Here is my card for Mojo Monday week 72. I am having a wonderful day today! I just heard that I have been excepted to the Continuing Care Assistant Program. I will be starting the end of March and I am super excited to be starting a new career. This card is a reflection of how we should live our live. The card stock is Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirouette from SU, the DSP is Bella Rose also from SU, the ink I used is Chocolate Chip and Pink Pirouette, the stamp set is Inspired by Nature, the Ribbon comes from Wal-Mart and is brown satin, the flower is a prima flower and the button is from my grandmothers button box. I used the pettit ovals Lg(S4 138) by spellbinders. Hope you enjoy looking. Have a fabulous day.

I made this card to give to my Husband. He makes my
feel fabulous. He is my biggest fan, I show him all my cards, this will be one that he will receive. I used Cosmo Cricket DSP paper Head Over Heels, Bazzill card stock strawberry and mocha. The ribbon is brown organza from Dollarama, the flowers came from The Great Canadian Dollar Store and the little heart pearl are from Hero Arts. The sentiment is a clear epoxy sticker from Cloud 9.The stamp is from Stampin up "Baroque Motif" and is stamped in Chocolate Chip ink. I also used the Classic Square Lg and Classic Scallop Squares Sm. by Spellbinders.

MOJO MONDAY Week 71

Hi Happy Wednesday! This is my card for Mojo Monday! This is my first card that I have for Mojo Monday. I used My Mind's Eye DSP from the wild asparagus line called "Mother's" plaid/green paper, the ink is stampin up elegant eggplant. The stamps are Inkadinkdo flourish and stampin up Best Yet. The ribbon comes from fabric ville and is 3mm purple grosgrain ribbon. I used the ticket punch from stampin up to punch the corners. I have had this paper for a while and did know what I was going to use it on. But today after seeing the blog spot of Mojo Monday it got my juices flowing and that paper came to mind. Thanks Mojo Monday you have inspired me.