Card rack and VSN

I got my cards organized and put on the rack! :)

Please excuse the green sheet on the bed. I leave that on there so that my cat doesn't mess up my quilt. :)

VSN!!

Don't miss Virtual Stamp Night this weekend on Splitcoaststampers.

Friday August 22, from 6pm-11pm Central Time

Saturday August 23, from 3pm-11pm Central Time

MY ROOM!!!!!

My mom and I spent the past 2 days organizing my stamp room. We hit the MOTHER LOAD of storage items from a store that was closing down the road. :)

BEFORE:

AFTER!!! :)

My stamp storage and alterables storage, this is one of the shelves we got from the store. It was a nasty dark green and we painted it white.

This shelf was another find from the store. It's got a little bit of everything.

This magazine rack was also another find. I'm using it for my paper towels and all my On Stage and other SU! publications.

This acrylic rack was another find from the store. As you can see it's just got all my general stuff and I love how its laid out so that I can see everything.

I put my water color pencils in the white cup and my regular colored pencils in the brown cup. I like them at my fingertips like that. :) You can kinda see my embossing gun hanging on the shelves on the left. I screwed in hooks for some things.

Here is all my business materials. The paper sorter was another find at the store. They were in great shape and just needed a little cleaning.

This is the next big thing we found. It's a card display. I haven't put my cards in there yet but plan to do that tomorrow. I'm beat tonight!

We did some research online and what we got for a very small amount of money could have cost 5 times that if bought new!!!!

Scrapbook page!

I went to a scrap yesterday and learned a lot about scrapbooking. I am looking forward to learning more about it. I have very limited experience with scrapbooking.

OK starting out with the whole page. The green cardstock is a piece of Bazzill shimmer cardstock. I don't know much about Bazzill but I loved the texture and sheen on it which is why I chose this. The striped paper is from Stampin' Up's Afternoon Tea Designer series paper. I matted it with Soft Sky and matted the picture with Groovy Guava. All of those Stampin' Up papers are retired now, sadly. On the left side is a rub on from SU! the chipboard "snow flakes" which are actually flowers are from SU! as well, and is also retired. The buttons are from my LSS and are just random buttons. The brown swirl is stitching as well as the swirls on the right hand.

More detail below.

These swirls are all hand stitched using a stencil from Bazzill. I REALLY enjoy the stitching! It also adds serious dimension to the page!

I covered the 'stars' with white craft ink and embossed with a snow white sparkle embossing powder. They turned out beautiful imo.

thanks for looking! :)

Take me out to the ball game

I wanted to make an insert for my window bag that would fit. This is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. I decided to do a scrapbook page that I can add to a 12x12 page at some point. This picture was taken at Wrigley Field. I used Summer Days scrapbook pack from Stampin up. All of the pieces are from that kit. Colors included are Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi and Whisper White. I added some Stickles to give a little shimmer. :)

Recipe:

Cardstock: Real Red textured, Wild Wasabi textured, Summer Days scrapbook Kit DP

Stamps: None

Ink: Basic Black Marker for writing

Accessories: Summer Days scrapbook kit accessories, Stickles

Back from vacation!

I went on a last minute vacation last week and I'm back! I do have some things that I need to get pictures of and post. So there should be a stamping related picture here soon! ;)

Thanks for your patience!!

NSR - Beautiful Bride!

My beautiful sister!

Sour lemons

This watercolored with markers, pastels and aqua painters. I did spend a good amount of time on the coloring itself. I used crystal effects on the lemon and the ice cubes. I used a variety of colors.

Cardstock: Afternoon Tea, Blue Bayou, Ruby Red

Ink: Variety

Accessories: Chocolate Chip 5/8" grossgrain ribbon, staples, crystal effects

My sister is getting married Saturday so that is why y'all haven't heard from me in a while. :) Just be patient. I promise I'll add things after Saturday.