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Welcome. My name is Lisa and I live on a farm in Northeastern PA. I have a wonderful husband of over 30 years and two fabulous sons. One with a wonderful wife and another with a wonderful girlfriend. I have a 6 year old granddaughter and an 4 year old grandson. We have a dog, two cats, and 5 horses. I started into this art as a possible scrapbooker until my good friend Lou Ann (SCS Crooked Stamper) invited me to a Stampin' Up party. Now I'm hooked. We had to turn a room of our home into a craft room for all my stuff. Then I needed a second craft room and did classes. Then I decided to open an in home store using three more rooms of our home. Between Lou Ann (Crafter and IT department) and Mary Ann (Crafter and Jewelry department) and a few other friends, I'm having the time of my life!!!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

IC337 L*O*V*E

     This is my first Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge.  I sure hope I did it right.  This week there's a link to an on-line store called Red Envelope and you pick something there that inspires a card.  Cool, huh?  So this is my inspiration for "L*O*V*E

square insignia charms

   And this is what I came up with.


     I've been waiting to use those stamps and.......ta da.......there it was.  The PERFECT inspiration.

SUPPLIES
Stamps:  SU Letters of Love
Paper:  SU Cherry Cobbler & Whisper White
Ink:  SU Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:  Ribbon-Ribbon Carousel; Pearls-Zva;  Flower-Ben Franklin Craft Store Wedding Dept. 
Tools:  Spellbinders

Friday, May 18, 2012

OCCC Vintage Friend

     Well, with an hour to go before the deadline,  I finished my card for the "Our Creative Corner" Challenge.  It's a really great sketch and perfect to try out my SU Labels Framelits.  And I just LOVE my Melissa Francis paper.  I took a class she had last year at the CKC in Valley Forge, PA and she was GREAT!



SUPPLIES
Stamps:  SU Oval All
Paper:  Melissa Frances Attic Treasures; SU Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla
Ink:  SU Early Espresso and  Blushing Bride Markers and Crumb Cake for Sponging
Accessories:  Ribbon and Lace from my stash
Tools:  SU Oval & Scallop Oval Punches; SU Labels Framelits


Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Thought

Splitcoast Double Whammy Challenge SC385 and CC375


I really had to dig into my dsp to find something with Navy, Orange and Light Blue, but I did it.  Basic Grey came through for me.  I also used two items that I got from two different SCS swaps (the buttons and twine).  And I had to do a little redo of the blue ribbon, which originally had pom-poms, but they just didn't look right.  Enter----scissors; exit---pom-poms.

SUPPLIES
Stamps:  SU Whimsical Words
Paper:  BasicGrey Picadilly; SU Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie
Ink:  SU Night of Navy
Accessories:  Trim, buttons, and twine
Tools:  Spellbinders; SU corner punch; SU oval punches

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Grinning on the Inside




     Two challenges in two days.  Looks like I'm on a roll.  Debbie Carriere made an adorable sketch for this challenge from the Ribbon Carousel and I had to play.  The only thing that isn't a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) are the pearls.  I seem to have every color there is, except for gray.  My very good friend and fellow giggler Diane (aka Splitcoaststamper's own Cookiestamper) of http://papercookies.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ told me about coloring pearls or bling with copic markers and it worked great!  Thanks Diane.

SUPPLIES
Stamps:  Cloud 9 Design-Simple Thoughts, Laughter
Paper:  October Afternoon-Farmhouse; SU Going Gray, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
Ink:  SU Basic Black, More Mustard, Copic Marker C6
Accessories:  Recollections Pearls, Gray Ribbon
Tools:  Spellbinders Classic Rectangles and Deckled Rectangles; SU Flower Punch; MS Punch

Monday, May 14, 2012

The Wind of Heaven

IT'S MOJO MONDAY AND TIME FOR SKETCH #241


It's been awhile since I've done a horse card.  So welcome in the herd.  This is the first time I've stamped on twill before and I found that the hardest part was to cut the "V". 

Supplies
Stamps:  SU Wanted and Bareback
Paper:  SU Basic Black; The Paper Studio "Hee Yaw" dsp; Scrap drawer cream
Ink:  Memento Rick Cocoa
Accessories:  SU Twill; pop dots
Hardware:  Spellbinders; SU star punch

If you want to join in the fun visit Mojo Monday here.  You have until 5/20

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mothers Day

     Wow!  It's been over 2 months since my last post.  I'm having a hard time remembering how to do this.   And as you can see my photography skills need to be sharpened up.  Actually, I was late to pick my Mom up for dinner and my craft table was such a mess I didn't have room for my little light tent, so I just took this among the mess.    But enough of that.  Today is Mothers Day and I made this for my wonderful Mom!  This card started with the pretty floral paper and everything just fell into place.

Supplies
Stamps:  SU-Well Scripted; Verve Hope Blooms
Paper:  SU- Whisper White, Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade; My Minds Eye- On the Bright Side;  Some blue paper I had in my stash.
Ink:  Color Box Wicked Black
Accessories:  Darice Bling
Tools:  SU Oval and Scalloped Oval Punches

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Everyday Enchantment Get Well

     Hello again.  I've been gone for awhile, but I'm back now.  This card is one I used as a shoebox project for a swap in Ilion, NY a couple weeks ago.  I got some Stampin' Up hat pins and  I'm hooked.  Aren't they the cutest things?  Now I have to go out and but a bunch of beads to put on them.  Hope you like it!

SUPPLIES
Stamps:  SU Perfectly Penned
Paper:  SU Everyday Enchantment dsp; Whisper White; Soft Suede; Lucky Limeade; Pool Party
Ink:  SU Basic Black
Accessoreies:  SU Oval Punch; Making Memories Paper Reverie Sienne lace; SU Lucky Limeade Ribbon: SU hat pin; Assorted beads