Halloween Card

 

Happy Thursday!! Sorry I haven’t been active on here for a little bit. 2020 has been a rough year, especially with the coronavirus. I injured my toenail and it has to be removed as well as having dental surgery. My son also broke his finger during the same time. We are both on the mend thankfully and I hope to get in my craft room again!

This card was so much fun to make. I started off using Tim Holtz oxide inks for the background. The images are by Lawn Fawn, which I colored using copics. I took my embossing pen and used glow in the dark embossing powder for the fox, tombstones, and windows. 

I also did the eclipse technique using a Taylored Expressions caps lock “happy”die (letters are attached together so they are always the same distance apart). I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!🎃 

Birthday Card

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone is staying safe and finding time for crafting. My husbands birthday was this week and it is now safe to show the card online 😂 since he has seen it. 

He loves pizza and I knew we were getting pizza for dinner that night so I knew this card was a must. The stamps are from Inky Antics and features their scratch and sniff line. I used Copic markers for quick coloring and quick blending. I then added the scratch and sniff sticker to the pizza image. The background die is from Reverse Confetti. 

Thanks for stopping by...come back soon for another card!

Guilty Feelings..

Hello!

(Like the new design?!)

Oh goodness, where has time gone?!  LOL- I know thats the story of my life nowadays.

I feel the struggle to blog alot now, which makes me sad because I LOVE blogging.  I get the mommy guilt going on when I do orders and then blog.  I feel like I am on the computer all hours of the day (not really, but alot!) and I don't want to think back when Aiden was 3 and I didn't spend time with him.

I know, I need breaks too and right now I am doing all the Etsy to build our dream home and get Aiden the things he needs in life and to help Brent out since hes our worker in the house ;)  But really, I hate working when Aiden is home and sometimes I have to do but I try to focus on only Aiden when hes home and its just him and I :)

(so please dont stray away from my blog LOL)

Besides...can you believe how bored I would be without constant orders ;)

My sisters birthday card

(she loves bling, zebra, shopping, and the money inside the card!)

I used my Taylored Expressions 3d bag die, adding some bakers twine ribbon, gems, and ruffle ribbon and of course sparkle tissue paper for the bag!

Winter onederland parties are still a hit in my store!

I promise..I will be back soon LOL.  Besides, its time for Inked Treasures to have a new release!

Teacher Gifts 2011

Hello!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  We are still enjoying our Christmas Break and Aiden goes back to preschool on Tuesday. 

Wanted to share the teacher gifts we made for his teacher and class helper.

A fun giftcard holder, where you untie the ribbon

and out pops a gift card.

 Also made some candy jars for them!

Had so much fun making these! 

Halloween Card

Hello!

Happy Wednesday.  I cant believe its only Wednesday...feels like it should be Friday already!!  This will probably be pretty short.  I need to take Aiden to preschool here in a few min and then come home and work on orders galore!

I hope today goes well for him.  Today is the first day of actual preschool he is wearing his big boy underwear, we usually put him in a pull up, but not anymore.  I hope it goes okay! 

Here is another Halloween card I created a few nights ago.  I love this stamp!  I cannot find my mini pom poms for the cheerleaders pompoms or the clowns hat, oh well it still worked out.  There is glitter on them anyways.

Love this ribbon...so fun, sparkly and 3d!

Well, gotta drop Aiden off at school!

Halloween Card and Video

Hello!

Hope your weekend was nice.  It was Brent and I's 5 year anniversary. We ended up staying home since Brents mom wasnt feeling well at all and we wanted her to feel better instead of watching Aiden...and getting him sick ;)

I have set aside some time each night to do something crafty for personal crafts....however, the first night was cleaning my scrapbook room but still..it felt nice!  Its all clean and I even created a LOOOONG video tutorial/show you how I made a card.

Seeing how its 20 min of me just rambling on and talking, you can tell I havent done a tutorial in a while and missed them obviously.

Here is the Halloween card I am creating for my cousin and Aiden and my nephew Carson.  Love this Northwood Stamp. 

(I cannot take credit for the card layout/idea....recreated based on their card sample)

Love this card!  I used acetate to make the window...really look like a window! 

And in case you have 20 min of your life you dont mind ever getting back (ha-ha)

Also..be sure to listen around the 13:15 min or so...Aiden has something adorable to say to me!  He melts my heart!



Harley, School, and Pumpkins

Hello Everyone!

This will be cut pretty short.  Its time for me to go and pick Aiden up from pre-school.  I went to Michaels and Jo-Anns today and also talked to my mom for a little bit and before I know it....my 3 hours are up and time to get Aiden.  I love dropping him off now...he LOVES school and always tells me he wants to go back tomorrow.  I miss him at the same time but its oh so nice to go places by myself once in awhile LOL

A customer on Etsy needed me to make a birthday card for her "Harley Man" she claimed..so here is what I came up.  She liked me Harley Invite and wanted me to change it to a bday card instead.

Love the fun chrome technique on the card.  The real card is very shiny and fun to look at!  He loves mountains AND his Harley so she was so excited to find this card...I love getting reponses like that!

I also created an adorable pumpkin themed banner for a twins bday party.  Love the way this one turned out.  For more details...visit the party blog!

Come back tomorrow for more projects!

Time to pick up Aiden!

And the name is.........

INKED TREASURES

Yes....I can finally tell you the name of my NEW digi stamp company!! 

I also just logged into my blog "dashboard" and I realized I had over 40 comments throughout the past week-2 weeks that hadnt been published until I said they were ok...which is weird because I didnt have that moderation clicked.  Oh well..So THANKYOU for all your kind words!

Click here to see the new shop!

Here are the 3 characters that make up Inked Treasures:

And because summer is fastly coming to an end and school starts soon....here is Back to school Ellie.

Perfect for fun cards for your child or sneak into their lunchbox and even create teachers gifts with!

On a personal blog note...We embarked on potty training with Aiden this past weekend.  I officially started on Friday the 29th and it was a mess, literally

Aiden didnt understand when to know he had to go to the bathroom and it was bad.  We were both tired, cranky, and frustrated and I was ready to give in.  Do you know how hard it is to NOT ask if he wanted a diaper change, which of course he was asking for them as well.   :(

Saturday-  I had Brents help and it was SO much easier.  Aiden had a few accidents but quickly caught on.  He really wanted to look at our prize bag and get a sticker. 

Sunday-  I felt confident enough for me to leave to my grandparents real fast, well I thought it would be real fast.......... until I was ready to get in my car and I couldnt find my keys.  Yep, they were locked in my car right in plain view in my cup holder.  I am 26 and have NEVER done this and of course I had to call Brent (we live almost 1.5" away") to come with the spare keys.  I was upset because that meant Aiden would have an accident and we messed this up.

Anyways...of course we are having troubles with the other car and they got stranded and could go to Kroger (thank goodness for air conditioning close by!)  I had to borrow my grandparents car, come and get them, head back down, borrow a truck from Brents dad and we made it home)

Aiden didnt have an accident......he held it and went before we left to my grandparents, at my grandparents and at Brents dad!!!!!!

I am so proud of Aiden.  Alll we need to work on now is going "poo-poo" in the potty..he still isnt a fan of that! LOL



Today the letter is "B"

Hello!

Hope everyone is having a great and relaxing Saturday!!  We are still under a heat advisory so we will be staying indoors for the most part.  I got the house cleaned Friday afternoon (and believe it or not..it actually still looks nice even with a 2.5  year old LOL)

So I am able to catch up on orders, work on my digi site for release day, and spend time with my boys (my favorite thing to do!)

If you read the title of this post, B is the letter today.

Baby Shower Banner!

Such a fun way of meeting this client!  Her and her sister were pregant at the same time and had baby showers together (both girls).  There other sister emailed me via Etsy to create a banner for them combined shower.  Somehow one of the sisters found my name and contacted me because THAT sister is now pregnant!! How fun is that!!

The sister told me that her sisters nursery theme was the Pottery Barn Kids "Jackson" bedding which is whales.  I created this banner to coordinate with the theme and I love the way it turned out!

And also with the theme of the letter "B".  Its time to meet Bella.  This fun younger bear who is just like Ellie and likes the girly things but also in up for any activity or hobby (you will later on see why this is true!)

I love her polka dot dress which is perfect to glitter or glossy accent!  Her lollipop is alot of fun to color too and is big enough to easily color!!  Hope you like her!  Tomorrow I will release the Lions name!!

Come back soon!



In the mood to shop & 4th sneak peak!

Have you ever been in just the mood to go shopping?!  I am feeling that way but its oh so hard to do it when we are saving to build a house next spring.  So I guess I will have to let her do it.......want to know her name now?!

Meet Ellie, the elephant that is ALL girly and loves polka dots, bows, glitter and everything else girly!

It is still so hot here and we have head advisories going on.  Aiden wants to go out side all day and its just too hot for it!  Although he doesn't quite understand that!! 

I did get an email on when I would be releasing the name (keep the emails coming!!) It is coming VERY soon.  Like I emailed her back, my website is out there right now LOl.  So if you someone found it...they could see everything and I want to make sure it is perfect and ready for the grand opening...so I pinky promise its coming in a matter or days!!   

Come back soon for another sneak peak! 

In the meantime I am linking to these wonderful challenge spots!
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge-animals
Clear it out Tuesday-anything goes!
Fresh Brewed Challenges-animals
Fab'N'Funky Challenges-animals
Die Cut Dreams Challenge Blog-animals
Allsorts Challenge-anything goes!
Papertake Weekly-cute!

3rd sneak peak!

I have been having so much fun showing you new characters/poses for my new digi stamp line being releases in DAYS now LOL.  So exciting!!

Ready for another sneak peak?  Here is another character!

(Sorry..its hard to take a picture of a spinner card!LOL)

This card is so bright and so fun in real life!  Its even an interactive card where the circle turns around and has a sand castle on one side and a yellow sand shovel on the other!  Check out the sand on the picture.  Stampendous embossing powder called Golden Sand (love this product!) really makes the sand pop as it looks like sand...but without the mess!

Since I  have introduced you to all 3 characters I am starting off with I hope you see a theme here.  Fun, whimsy digi stamps that have larger open lines.  If have read my blog before you know I LOVE coloring, especially with copics.  This was a big impression in my mind when having these created, tons of fun areas the color, glitter, flock, glossy accent, paint and more!!

I was also asked on face book regarding my "attacks".  I am proud and HAPPY to say I haven't had anymore since those awful days.  I'm telling you the pain was terrible and its the fact you cannot do anything about it that ups the pain I think as well LOL.  I feel great and the weird thing is I haven't had a headache since that day and I haven't even had to use Tylenol for ANYTHING for what about a month now.  I was getting headaches almost everyday before it happened.  Related?  Who cares!  I feel great (again, knock on lots and lots of wood)

I hope you come back tomorrow for more sneak peaks!!

Linking up to these wonderful challenge sites!

Make it Monday

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Lollipop Crafts

Sew Many Challenges

Dream Valley Challenges

Papertake Weekly

The Ribbon Girl

Allsorts Challenge Blog

Die Cut Dreams Challenge Blog

Fab'N'Funky Challenges

Fresh Brewed Designs

Clear it out Challenge

Cardmadfairy Digi  Challenges

Day 2 of sneak peaks!

Hello again!

Did you like yesterday's announcement?!

Today is another sneak peak and card sample. 

I did recieve a question in my email the early this morning and YES...there is a new blog for the digi stamp but I dont want to realease that until everything is ready to go for our grand opening...which is VERY soon!!!

Meet the second character!! If you are like me, coming up with things for male birthdays or any events can be challenging!  I hope you enjoy the second sneak peak and are looking forward to another one tomorrow!!  Come back soon!

Again, linking this Birthday Card to these wonderful challenge sites!

Simon Says Challenges

Cute Card Thursday

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Lollipop Crafts

Sew Many Challenges

New Adventure!

Hello Everyone!

I am SO excited to be sharing a new adventure for you! The time has come to reveal what will be happening here VERY SOON!!!

My love for this paper craft has grown and has become such a positive hobby for me. I have loved getting to know everyone, see all the new products, and keeping up with the trends!

I am so excited to introduce you to some sneak peaks of

MY NEW DIGI STAMP LINE!!!!

I am SO excited and this has been in the works for over a year now. Each day until the big grand opening I will share a new sneak peak or card created with my images.

(I will let you know the name and the website address VERY soon!!)

I hope you forgive and understand why I haven't had any new cards that often...I have been busy creating and thinking of new designs for the digi stamp line!!

Here is sample #1 and the first character you get to see!

I am linking this card to some fun challenge sites!  Check them out

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

cute Card Thursday

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Our Creative Corner

The Pink Elephant Challenge

Dream Valley Challenges

Simon Says Challenge Blog

Lollipop Crafts

Sew Many Challenges

 

Be sure to check back tomorrow night for another sneak peak sample!!

Almost Friday!

It's almost Friday!!! We have a busy weekend ahead of us. Brents aunt is in town and wants to see the land we purchased and thats on Saturday and on Sunday I need to go to my grandmas to work on my train quilt/bedding I am doing for Aidens big boy room.

I have also been busy with my etsy store. Curious George seems to me very "in" right now. I have several larger party orders all with either the traditional colors or custom colors. Here is a custom color package I did

Love the coordinating confetti in these colors!

I also was asked to create a custom birthday card for an Aunt who claims her neice is obsessed with Justin and wanted her picture near his. So on the card her photo went! (Her photo has been blurred for privacy reasons)

Well I need to get some laundry done and get ready to place a large Copic order. Email me if you need anything before the prices go up!!

Saturday!!

Hell0!

Happy Saturday everyone!! I hope everyone gets to enjoy an extra long weekend! Hubby has Monday and Tuesday off!! I love his job...it works out so well for our family!

For some reason blogger has been giving me lots of problems. For example, it says I wrote that last post on the 6th, no 26th. Weird and now I cant move any pictures...which is why they are all at the top!

Sorry!

Those are some of the current cards I was able to create.

The first one is the card I created for my sisters college graduation. She loves black/pink so it works!

The second one I made for my aunt when she watched Mr. Aiden and my nephew when we closed on our land we purchased!

I also updated my party blog with another client photo! I love getting those pictures in my inbox and seeing how happy they are!

http://scrappinashparty.blogspot.com/2011/05/cake-topper-sample.html

Today we have a busy day. We are going to Brents family for the holiday and my uncles house on Sunday. I am OFFICIALLY caught up on ALL paid orders, just working on a few samples and I am SOOOO excited!! I finally get a chance to work on some BRAND new items!! I am so excited to show you these things..I also hope to clean my scrapbook room. Its terrible...I wont even lie. I step on about 23920 things when I try to sit down. No joke

Well I hope everyone has a great saturday! Come back soon!

Here is the link to my party blog if you are interested!

Rain Rain Go Away.......

Hello!

We had some crazy storms the other night. Lots of scary winds, rain, and the tornado sirens going off and on all night. What makes it worse is right now we live right on the county line so I heard both counties sirens going off LOL.

Tonight has been pretty calm but I guess rain is back in the forecast for Friday.

Aiden and I just stayed in the house today. It sure doesnt feel like April outside. I feel so bad not taking him out to play, but its pretty cold outside!

When we closed on our land (SO EXCITED STILL!!!) I was suppose to watch my nephew, but I couldnt see me taking a 3 year old and a 2 year old to closing, so my aunt watched the boys for me. THANK YOU DANA!

I wanted to give her a thankyou card so I created the card below and put a Hobby Lobby gift card inside just as a little token of appreciation.

Its hard to see, but the purple butterfly is popdotted for a 3d look. Love the colors together!

Well its after midnight and I need to package up some Etsy orders before going to bed so goodnight!

It's a party!

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I have been SO SO SO busy this weekend. I have been getting alot of orders still on Etsy (YAY!) AND it is my nephews birthday party today...so I wanted to make things for his party.

(which will be a post when I have pics!)

I have a few minutest to squeeze in blogging before Brent gets home with lunch and then we need to get ready to leave since they live almost 2 hours away.

A friend asked me to make a congratulations on your wedding card in purple and silver so here is what I came up with. Stephanie also wanted a special 80th birthday card made for her grandma. Here is the wedding one:

Its hard to tell...but this card took some time. The dress is in layers. It looks so neat in real life. I had to stamp the dress image 3 times and pop dot each one after cutting around it. I also used the Viva Decor pin in silver chrome....I love it!! You can probably click on the pics to make them larger to see the silver accents!

Well I need to get off here and get ready to get going...we have some errands to run before heading down. Come back soon!

Where have I been?!

Goodness it feels like ages since I last wrote! So much has been happening and I cannot believe how fast the days have gone!

Here are my resons ("excuses" LOL) for not blogging very much:

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  Sickness- It started with Aiden..and then I got it. Except I got it SO MUCH worse than Aiden (thank goodness!) It was terrible. I finally caved in and went to the Dr after being so sick for over a week. Today is the last day for my antibiotics and I am still not 100% well. But at least I can function now. Terrible I tell you. Aiden seems to be fine! Like I said before...he didnt get it as hard as I did and Brent didnt get it at all. Amazing!

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  Also on the 8th we CLOSED ON LAND!!!!!!!! This is so exciting...especially if you know us in real life and could see us trying to find a new house. We have looked at alot and nothing ever seemed to "fit", or they were out of our price range. We still want to have vactions and nice things so that wasnt going to happen with a house out of our comfort zone. So we found 5 acres we liked. It was terrible..the first day we drove to the land to look. THREE others cars pulled up at the same time..and that was just when we were there. So who knows how many actually came and liked it. We were told there were other offers and to put our best one in....and we got it! (and we still got a great deal...well as much of a deal as you can get for 5 acres)

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  I finally was able to play around with a fun new digi stamp from an artist called Loopy 4 Digi Designs. Lori hand draws these all herself and they are mighty cute! I really loved this digi because ALOT of Easter bunnies or even other designs such as flowers, chicks, etc all look so girly and having a son and a nephew it was great to find a male rabbit!

This digi is only 2.50!! And you can find her Etsy shop HERE

I colored him with my copics and used some pattern paper from Hobby Lobby. The brads are fuzzy and reminded me of Spring...they also came from Hobby Lobby.

So I am sorry for the lack of blogging but now that I am feeling better I SWEAR (on my copics....) to be a better blogger again. Yes, I just swore on my Copics so you know I am being serious here.

So now I am off to start looking at house plans. Have some you like leave a comment with the url of them!

Beach Banner

Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the lack of posting. We have been SO busy here lately. I have been working so hard trying to keep up with my Etsy orders and on Tuesday I actually took a break and Mr. Aiden and I headed to my moms house for the day/evening.

Had a great time but as usual, I received 3 new orders LOL. And tonight I am going to meet a friend for a late dinner...then coming home to work on orders that have to get shipped out tomorrow morning.

(I have a hard time doing anything Etsy related during the day when its just me and Aiden and hes up and not napping.....I am a mom first thing and he gets all my attention besides doing daily things like picking up, laundry, etc)

Here is a custom banner I did to match their beach wedding/star fish design.

And here is a card that looks yummy enough to eat LOL.....the customer who bought this card purchased it for her daughters nursery!! Do you know how cool that makes you feel LOL

My next thing to work on is finishing up my big surprise project I have had in the works for the last year or so. Life happens so there have been some changes but still VERY exciting!!

Come back soon :)

A card!!

I was FINALLY able to get in my craft room and create a card!! AND its Valentines Day!! Believe it or not...I actually created 3 cards that night. It felt soooo good!

But now..I have 4 custom Etsy orders to work on ASAP....so it looks like I will have to create cards later again.

I am loving this new ribbon I got from Michaels..so much fun!

Lots of little details on this card. I do have it for sale in my Etsy store if you are needing a fun card for a loved one!

Are you ready for Chrismtas?! I am so excited and ready to spend time with family and see everyone.

Well Im sorry to make this short but its almost 2am and I have to get up early tomorrow...I hope I can share some exciting new with you that I have been crossing my fingers about!1

(And no...I am not pregnant LOL..that is what everyone always assumes when someone says that right LOL)