Damp child

This was my boy when I picked him up from Cub Scout Camp today. 

  Son, you seem to be dripping a LOT! 

Why would that be?

Oh...  Well that would certainly explain it.   :>)

Have you ever had a time when you wished you'd bought that stamp set before it disappeared from the Stampin' Up! catalogs?  Did you miss my Stampy Yard Sale a few months ago? 

THIS SATURDAY IS YOUR TIME!!!

If you're in Ventura County, drop into Scrapbook Blessings in Newbury Park (on Giant Oak Avenue -- up the hill from Chili's).  It's a wonderful scrapbooking store with terrific people.  I'll be there this Saturday from 10 am until closing ( 6 pm, I think) selling some of my retired stamp sets.  Okay, a LOT of my retired stamp sets.  I'll have 153 (yes, REALLY... ) stamp sets and a load of embellishments available along with others trying to sell their goodies. 

See us and all the goodies Scrapbook Blessings has to sell. 

Cards for July 20th Card Buffet

Hi All.

Here are 5 of the 6 cards for this Friday's (July 20th) Card Buffet in Oxnard.  You can come and make these cards for only $1.50 each if you bring your own SNAIL (double-sided tape). or $2.00 each if you don't (or buy one of mine...).  I provide all tools and other materials.  You can come and play with paper any time between 7 pm and Midnight.  Contact me for the location.

Come try out:

Paper piercing,

a GREAT distressing tool,

Block printing,

Heat Embossing with Watercoloring,

And Spotlighting (outside)

(inside)

The spotlight Card is made with the "Reason to Smile" stamp set, available ONLY through the 31st of July.  You can purchase this set for only $5.00 when you purchase $50 worth of other Stampin' Up! Products.  Check out my blog posting from July 12th to see another card using this set.

Cards for my Class on July 29th

I haven't been able to play with paper for weeks so, when I sat down to do so yesterday, I decided I was just going to use the sets I wanted to with no real rhyme or reason.  What I came up with are the cards I plan to use for my class on the 29th of July.  Hey, it's summertime!  Who needs a theme anyway?  :>)    If these look like something you'd like to make, plan to come out to my Cardmaking Class through Camarillo United Methodist Church's Center for Creative Living.  We'll meet a 2pm and make all four cards for $10.  I need to know you're coming by July 22nd.

This first one is made with the "Reason to Smile" stamp set.  This set will only be available throught the end of July so now's the time.  Click the link above to see the entire set.  This set can be purchased for only $5 in either Clear Mount or Wood Mount but only with a purchase of $50 or more.  I also used the Neutral Colored Designer Buttons and Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon.

This one features the set, "Fabulous You," with this marvelous shoe!  I used silver embossing powder along with my heat tool to make it shiny and then colored inside with my wonderful Marvelous Markers.  I wish you could see that detail in the picture better, I guess you'll have to come to my class.  :>)  I added a few rhinestones and some Scallop Dots Ribbon  to finish it off.  One of the things I like about the ribbon is that it provides two totally different looks, just flip it over!   It's a fun, kicky little card if I do say so myself.  :>)

Speaking of kicky, I'm liking our new set with the boots more all the time!  "Bootiful Occasions" comes with stamps for 4 totally different styles of boot and they're all cute!  I did a little sponging and distressed the edges (look closely) of the brown piece.  I finished it off with the little stars made with a new punch coming out in our Holiday Minicatalog next month.

This last is a simple card which could be used for a multitude of reasons depending on the sentiment you wish to add.  I took Primrose Petals, one of our new In-Colors, as the base for this card and used the Papillon Potpourri stamp set and the Elegant Butterfly Punch to pop them up.  You may be able to see tiny spots of color on the light pink part.  Those were made with the new Stampin' Spritzers with plain water and just a few drops from my Primrose Petals ink refill.  The ribbon is our new 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon and just makes a nice place for those larger butterflies to hang out. 

I hope you can join me on the 29th.  Remember to let me know by Sunday, the 22nd.  If you can't, you can still recreate these cards by purchasing the necessary goodies on my website.  Just click the links to find the products and let me know if y ou have any questions, I'll be happy to help you out.

Marcia, where have you been?



Well, the short answer is, EVERYWHERE!  I haven't been purposely neglectling you, just BUSY!!!

Between a weekend of family reunion and back and forth to deliver Aaron for Grandma Week, I've been out of town 3 weekends in a row.  It's a long drive to Fresno...   Unfortunately I'm notorious for falling asleep in the car and, since I had to do the back and forth by myself two weekends in a row, I actually resorted to Red Bull.  That stuff is NASTY and I don't imagine it does anything good to our

bodies, but it DOES keep me awake.        

During the week Aaron was up north with the Grandmas, I spent the week shovelling out the house for the project below.  Yes, "shovelling," is a fairly apt term here.  For the past 4 years our son has only gotten to take a bath when we were staying in a hotel because our bathtub was being used for, yes, that's right, STORAGE!  The three Pack Rats and the business in our 1059 square feet make for a tight fit.  Well, we were getting our other bathroom remodeled so I had to empty the tub so we could use it.   The Duck Bathroom (which had the full tub) will still be ugly but at least we can use it again.

Here are pictures of what we had in OUR bathroom before: 

Monday afternoon:

Also Monday afternoon:

Wednesday evening:  It's not ready yet, but I'm gonna relax in my tub whether I have water or not!

I actually DID play with paper yesterday for the first time in WEEKS!

Pictures to follow...