Good thing I have a few Made up Projects -

HI - the Rodeo on Monday was really fun. Totally loved watching the sheep dog trials! And we enjoyed a really nice day together, Hubby and I.  Well until late in the day.... well accident prone Michelle entered ! But honestly this wasn't my fault - Really it wasn't! Working with the horses - I was holding a rope for Hubby and in a totally flash - my hand was pinned to the fence post and the rope was spiraling out of my hand and well... OUCH! I have rope burns on all four fingers on the inside of my right hand. Bad Rope Burns. I am actually doing pretty good considering I am not a Lefty and can't figure out how to do anything without my right hand. How do you lefty's do it? :0)

So no coloring for a little while, in fact I tried to use my scissors today and couldn't even open and close them once... so I moved them to my left hand and well cut right into the middle of what I cutting, so I think scissors will have to wait a little while as well. Sigh... Good thing I have a few made up Projects left from CHA!

Here is one of the new Stampavie Sarah Kay images  - "Bath Time"

I went vintage with this one. Colored the image with my Promarkers, then tore her out and inked the edges. I used scrap pattern papers one that looks like cardboard, and one with script pattern. Sorry lost the names. I backed it with brown card stock that I punched with a Martha Stewart border punch. Now do you recognize that chandelier? YEP another Stampavie image. From Penny Johnson - Now this was totally cool - I took a piece of the brown card stock, and I stamped with bleach! Yes plain ole bleach! Now I made sure to wash my stamp well after using the stamp. But the effects were totally cool - will be doing this again for sure. I stamped the brand new Tina Wenke Dream stamp with bleach as well on a scrap of blue paper.

Some sewing, pearls and dotted swiss ribbon and I like how this card came out! And I love that it was already done to show you!

No worries... I'll be ok, and my private nurse "Hubby" has been taking pretty good care of me... following me around asking if I have soaked my hand and checking my boo boo's every time he can. I feel so bad that I can't clean the house and do my chores around the house... really I do. LOL

Have a great day -
HUGS and-

New Releases - Tina Wenke - A Bird House -

Hello - Today I wanted to show you a bird house I made for CHA. You know I love bird houses. Well I found  a bird house with lots of sides to hold lots of different images! So I colored up a bunch of the new Tina Wenke Stampavie images and had some fun.

 So I started with a blank wood bird house - painted it brown and white. Then I took my colored images and cut them out and glued them down. The roof... I punched out a million Fiskars Medium heart punches and inked the edges. I then glued them down (upside down) added a border punch around the bottom, I then modge podged the entire piece. Then I added the metal frame around the opening, quickutz leaf border, flowers and buttons.

The new image I used are Bunny with Butterflies, Mouse  and Poppy Seeds, Fairy on Resting on a Mushroom, Fairy Hug and A Fairy Baby - adore them all! 

I hope you liked my bird house. It ended up in a good home, I gave it after the show to my new friend Suzan as a Thank You for take me to Disney and a shopping trip :0) Gotta totally love a person that takes you to the happiest place on earth and Shopping! Thank you so much Suzan she is a total sweetie, and oh she has a great Husband and Doggy "Woody" that also deserves a big thank you for a grand time!

Have a great day!
HUGS and

New Sarah Kay - Another Scrapbook page - Tea Please

Hello- today I wanted to show you another scrapbook page I made for CHA - this page is showing off a New Stampavie Sarah Kay image, "Tea Please" As soon as I saw this image my brain was going nuts thinking of my little niece a few years back in her absolutely adorable dance costume! They were meant to use together.. seriously... LOOK

 This page was so much fun to put together! It felt like it just went together all on its own. The image is totally wonderful I love it, but with my nieces photo I really love it!

I used Black cardstock, Pink cardstock, A piece of Tim Holtz Core'dinations embossed card stock that I sanded. The lace is a piece of vintage lace that I adore - It is pretty large for using on cards, but perfect for scrapbook pages, don't you think? Then a large black rhinestone flourish. The title is one of my very old Thickers - black glittered of course.

Here is a close up of the Sarah Kay image, you know you are going to have to have this Sarah Kay aren't you?

She is colored with my Promarkers. Cut out and then inked around the edges.

Hope you like my scrapbook page, it was really a ton of fun to put together.
Have a great Monday -
HUGS and

Another Sneak Peek from CHA - Tina Wenke - Fairy Hugs

hi - ok, now I can't compare to all those gorgeous pages I showed yesterday, but I did a scrapbook page before I left for CHA. I did a few actually - Here is one.... and I used the new Stampavie - Tina Wenke image A Fairy Hugs!

 I colored the image with Promarkers, LOTS of sticklers and then cut it out. It was perfect for my nieces dance recital photo... and a scrapbook page.

I kept it simple. But the background paper was a little bold, so I used a Lattice mask and white washed it. Then added some flourishes, and flowers. The words are Thickers - I have TONS of these from my days way back when I did scrapbook a lot. It was nice to actually use them again, they have felt so forgotten.

The photo is an older one - my niece is now a "teenager" ... hope she is ok with me sharing her photo. Little late though cuz it hung at CHA already... LOL

It was fun to actually scrap again. And the new inspiration is really starting to kick my MOJO up and I hope to get a chance to do some crafting this weekend.

OH Internet is up and working again... whew! Funny how we can't live with out the net isn't it. At least I had my phone so I wasn't totally cut off, but feels good to be back to normal again.

Have a wonderful Wednesday. HUGS and

Some favorite samples from CHA

Alright today I thought I would share some of the GORGEOUS scrapbook pages from the show - I totally get so inspired to scrapbook when I get home from CHA after seeing all of the beautiful pages!!

This is my favorite... but it may be that little cutie in the photo :0)

 Gorgeous use of flowers!

 Love the rainbow and the punched border...

 Great use of the border punch, and love the cut outs...

 I have done something simular to this, the folded pleat technique, but this one rocks...

 And very simple but stunning the folded circles - love that!

I just love all the scrapbook pages you see there... seriously so much inspiration your head could pop! I really am just busting wanting to do some scrapbooking heck... crafting. I think I am finally getting caught up around here now... so now I just need to find my desk and get some MoJo going!

Have a great day -
HUGS and-

CHA - Booths that just drew me in....

Hi -
Well today I thought I might show you a few booths that just drew me in. You know their decorations just were so me I had to take a close look...

The Jenni Bowlin booth.. ok her stuff is fabulous, love her products. But the decoration in her booth just made me insane! I would have loved to shop her old stuff! LOL

 Especially the cool old things to store stuff in!

 LOVE her new rolls of tickets, but the display ... wowser!

 Sorry.. I have no clue which booth this is, I snapped this while hurrying down and isle... but loved how they displayed their stuff on the old ladder! I would do this in my craft room, but Gato would climb all over it! LOL

 Now the La Blanche stamps booth was pretty but it wasn't the booth that drew Bev and I in... it was those amazing displays with gorgeous samples!

 Just look at all the detail!

Love this one with the old house and branches...

Loved the My Mind's Eye Booth as well. It was just so inviting.. like a big living room with cool decorations

Sorry.. photo ended up a tad blurry... 

This was the GCD booth... LOVED all the chicken wire with the clothes pins to hand things.

Ok... that was a few of my favorites. I still have lots of samples that I took photos of.. really gorgeous "art" and crafts.That will be a later post this week... 

Have a great day..

HUGS

New Sarah Kay - CHA release - I Little Bit of Country

Hi - ok so I have intermittent Internet. I am keeping my appointment with the repair people, if I let it go it could take a while to get another appointment. So for now I work for a while and then nothing. I thought I would take advantage of the working this morning to show you one of the cards I made for the Stampavie booth... I think this could be my favorite image from the Sarah Kay release. But seriously.... there are 20... YES TWENTY really fabulous images in the Sarah Kay release! And I know I say it each time, but I think this is my absolute favorite release. You can see all the new releases HERE. Warning... in my best "Jaws" imitation voice... You are gonna need a bigger wallet... LOL

So back to my card - "A Little Bit of Country" -

See I told you... I love this image don't you. So me.... LOL  For my card I used scraps papers, all sewed together. Then I found some Paper tape ribbon that I added a piece of vintage lace. Found a wooden embellishment that had that country feel. Especially after I inked it up.

The sentiment is from another new release from CHA - Tina Wenke's new sentiments!! 5 new sentiment sets that are just perfect for lots of occasions. OH and I colored the image with my Promarkers. Happy Happy Happy! Loving this one.

All right gotta get things going and start to find my routine again. Laundry going, and I need to unpack the rest of my "goodies" from CHA and put away the luggage for another year. And I missed a ton on the internet, so if things will stay working I want to do some hopping around and see everything I missed. Have a great Monday and I'll be back tomorrow with more of CHA!

HUGS and

CHA - must have dies!

Hi- ok so day one home was not fun. I spent the entire day trying to get the computer to "find" the Internet. Hours later and a few more hours on the phone the storms that came through on Friday night.... (4 inches of rain BTW)
Well it did something to our satellite, so now I have to have a tech out here, hopefully soon.

Ok so let's show off some CHA photos!

Love the butterflies

They had awesome samples in their booth....

Gorgeous!

And I also fell in love with the new Sizzix.....

Love how they displayed the samples.

Have a list of them that are a must to. Seems like there were a lot of vintage feel items this year. Yea!

I'll show much more this week. I just hope that my computer gets fixed soon. I miss working "normally" on it. And I have lots of work this week.

I will try and post each day this week until I run out of things to share. I know you are wanting to see what was there.

Hugs
Michelle

Sneak Peek - Suzi Blu - Spirit Girl

Well CHA is under way! And today it is my turn to share on the Stampavie DT Blog. And I had to share here as well right?

Really stepped out of my normal box here and just went with it and "tried" to do something a bit different. And I had a TOTAL BLAST doing it!

Started off with a canvas, tore pieces of cardstock to create my background. I colored the Spirit Girl with promakers, and then cut her out. The sentiment is also one of Suzi's new stamps called "Fall in Love".  Love these new quotes in her collection. I then cut out some roses and a bird from pattern paper, chipboard words and trimmed the edge with measuring tape twill ribbon.

So how have you stepped outside your crafting box lately? These new Suzi Blu images really help inspire and make it all so easy to have fun!

Hope you enjoyed it ;0) Off to CHA now!
HUGS and-

CHA 2011 - Wanna See some Scrapbook Pages??

Sorry I don't have a Dust It Off project for you today - been SUPER busy with work this week, and just haven't gotten totally back to normal schedule.

So I was thinking... I take lots of photos while at CHA of Scrapbook Pages while there. I started out as a "Scrapbooker" long long long before a card maker, or stamper. And I just love to stop and look at beautiful scrapbook pages - for me to awe over, and for my Buddie Tracey and my Sister Melanie to get inspiration for her books for their kids.

Sadly the people in my scrapbooks have not aged in my books for about 5 years... now for some of the adults they may like that... but my Nieces and Nephew have remained small children... LOL Maybe one day I'll find time to scrap again - but right now I am just totally happy in my stamping and card making -

But for those of you that still do Scrap - or that just love to admire pretty scrapbook pages... here are some of my favorites that I saw at the show. Can't tell you what booths or companies... I just snap gorgeous pages while walking by.... enjoy.... And for those that made these pages - hope you don't mind that I am sharing them... they were just to gorgeous to not!

 Told you... gorgeous huh?
Hugs and -