Disney Goodness!

 

Those of you that know me accept that I have a “deep love” of all things Disney, but especially Disneyland.  *swoon*  I’m an annual pass holder.  I try and go at LEAST 4 times a year.  I start to get withdrawals and begin planning or counting down to my next visit within a few weeks of visiting. 

Well, my next visit is coming up in just 27 days!  Hooray!  This trip is a little different from my usual trips, normally I fly down one morning and fly home the next night, staying over 1 night.  This trip is the annual DISDivas Disneyland trip.  It’s a group of ladies I “met” on the DIS Boards, which is an online Disney Forum.  There are about 45 of us going this year.  We have a meet and greet party on Thursday evening and then group photos, rides and meals throughout the weekend.  There is also a scavenger hunt on Saturday.  Nothing is “required” and not everyone attends everything.  We have 2 or 3 meal options each night as well as a few lunch and breakfast options.  The only thing just about everyone attends is the meet and greet.  Here is our group photo from last year:

Good times!  I can’t wait!

I stamped something different, for once!

 

I had to make a birthday card for my mother last night.  I can’t remember what I sent her last year, so I figured I’d better make something “new”.  I saw a card on Pinterest and knew when I saw it that I would be CASEing (CopyAndShareEverything) it.  The original card can be seen on Chiaki’s blog.

Here is my version:

Mom likes green.  The colors used were Celery, Olive and Pear (the retired DSP is from the hostess 6x6 pad).  The white layer was stamped with my favorite Birthday greeting stamp in Olive and then run thru the Big Shot in the Dotted embossing folder.  Then I punched the heart out and attached a square of DSP behind it.  That was then attached to a piece of Olive cardstock, leaving a tiny 1/16” border and the Celery Taffeta ribbon was added.  Then that was mounted on a piece of Celery cardstock and finally adhered to the card which is Naturals White.  I like using that for my card bases as it has more backbone to it than Whisper White

I have to make another birthday card tonight.  I’m going to a party tomorrow.  The guest of honor recently turned 40 and we are all supposed to wear black to the party, so I’m thinking the card will be done in black.  Probably with red for accent, but I may go with turquoise.  We’ll see.  Thanks for stopping by!

The “Go-To” design

As a stamper, I am always challenged to do something “new”.  Well, I’m just not that creative.  Sorry.  I’ve got a couple of familiar layouts I tend to gravitate to.  Just like that familiar pair of jeans or sneakers that you reach for because you know that they will be comfy, no matter what. 

I’ve got a design that I have used a LOT this past year or so.  If I need to do a card in a snap, chances are, it will look like these.  If I do a bunch of cards at a sitting, yeah, this might be the result.  These are the birthday card I sent out a bunch of in 2011 and one of my Christmas card designs.  Most of what’s here is retired Stampin’ Up! product.  The Specialty DSP on the birthday card is probably my favorite DSP ever.  I’ve used almost 2 full packages and still have one package I’ve only sampled out of.  The red on the Christmas card is retired, as is the stamp.  The ribbons and colors are all current, as are the rhinestones and the oval punch and embossing folder.  It’s simple.  It’s pretty.  It mails for one stamp.  I like it.  It’s all good.

 

 

A new year, a new blog!

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to blow the dust off my blog and try and blog at LEAST once a month. I was going to continue using my old blog, but I realized that I hadn’t used it since October of 2009 and the nice template I had for it no longer existed on the internet and it was too much work to set it all up again, so I figured I’d just start over!

This blog will be a mix of stuff I create, photos I take and tales of my trips to Disneyland and other happenings in my life.

Today I am sharing a card that I made for a swap over on Stampin Addicts (a forum for mostly Stampin’ Up! demonstrators and their customers).

This swap was for our Sale-A-Bration mini catalog that starts on January 24th and runs thru the end of March this year. The stamp I chose is one that is actually featured in the current catalog (on pg 18), Triple Treat Flower. It will also be available as a freebie during SAB. The sentiment is from one of my favorite sets, Sincere Salutations (pg 160) The patterned paper (DSP) is from “Everyday Enchantment” and is exclusive to this year’s SAB catalog. It is one of 12 designs in the package. The cardstock colors are two of the current “In Colors”, Pool Party and Calypso Coral and I also used Island Indigo for the sentiment and the Bakers Twine (which will be in the Occasions Mini that goes live on January 4th), and So Saffron for the center of the flower. The flower was created using the Fancy Flower and 5 Petal Flower punches (pg 210), the 1/2” circle punch (pg 212) and Stampin Dimensionals (pg 206).

If you ever have any questions about something I share here or about Stampin’ Up! products, just leave it in the comments and I will do my best to answer you in a timely manner. Also, bear with me as I tweak the appearance of this new blog until I get it to where I want it. I’ll probably go thru a whole bunch of fonts!