STuff A Little Late!

Okay awhile back I talked about posting some pictures with stuff in it....well I finally got it done and today is the day to post the stuff...part of this post is for accountability purposes for me......I do not need any more stuff and yet I continue to buy and hoard it....first picture is of the one small area of one wall of my crafting area......

These shelves are about four feet long each....aand they hold some ribbon(the ones that I have actually rolled on doll pins, prima flowers, baubles and other small things....now tell me do I need any more ribbon, any more flowers, and any more embelli.....NO....yet I continue to buy them and hoard them......so this is my plea.....do not sell me anymore ribbon.....no more primas and no more baubles......

Oh wait just one more package of Prima's please...I need a red one to match some card I am making...............

Later Gators!

Alanna

A Bright Birthday Wish!

 

Good Morning!

Well day three and I have another post for you...I just love this new designer paper from Stampin' Up it goes so nice with the stamp set Cheep Talk, that they have...I ordered the stamp set on my last order and it has not arrived yet....but I belong to a group on Yahoo and we send birthday cards to the members that have birthdays each month....I had an idea for this card...but alas no stamp set, so I used a different one.....not sure that I like the flowers in the corner....but it works for this months card....the saying is from a SU set also, it is one of the Salebration Sets, it is a promo that SU does each year, i believe that the promo is done today though.....the card is very straight forward to make...I will probably remake this card using the Cheep Talk Set once it arrives.

Well it is Monday morning and still no real sign of spring around our neck of the woods...it is actually kinda depressing....I want to start seeing some greens of the grass starting to peak through.....two weeks and it will be Easter and I would love to be able to hid some goodies around the yard for the grandbabies....oh well we will see what happens...

Card Stuff:

All products are from Stampin' Up....

Later Gators!

Alanna

A Bunny, Reading and Friends!

 

Good Morning!

I hope your morning is going well....mine did not start as early as it did yesterday!....I was looking at yesterdays Blog post and was horrified to see that my card looked so washed out.....the actual colors of the card stock used were white, desert sand black and grey....you can not tell that by looking at this picture.....YIKES

I have talk to Cowboy about a new camera...we are going to price them out today...then we can decided.....

So today's card is for a friend of mine that I had sorta lost contact with over the past 6 months or so....it will be going in the mail tomorrow as soon as I can find the darn address...

It is a fairly straight forward card...started with a 5x5 card base, the patterned paper and the stamp set is from MFT, www.mftstamps.com , I love this bunny he is from the Flopsey line, I do not know why I always refer to the set as a he....but I do....the patterned paper is from on of the digital downloads that are available on this website.....I stamps the bunny on the original white centre and then stamped him again on a scrap piece of white, cut him out and used a pop dot to layer the second one over the first bunny, this gives the bunny dimension...(You can not see it on the card posting though).....for embellishments I used some Prima Flowers that I got from ...www.stampingreatdeals.com , and the silver centre piece and brad I got from www.cdstamps.com , see I have been spreading my stamping allowance everywhere....lol...and the black and white cardstock is from Stampin' Up......the inside of the card is also finished I layered white card stock inside and used some of the patterned paper and punched the edge with Martha Stewart's Doily punch and the saying inside is the completion of the front...."And they livid happily ever after".....pretty easy card to complete...but the little touches of red, gave it the punch that it needed....

Well I am off to do something around the house.....

Later Gators!

Alanna

I'm Back - Cards to Share

 
Good Morning!

I did not want to start back on my BLOG until I was sure that I had enough cards made to keep up with posting on here....The weather will just not give up, it still wants to be Winter here...did anyone not tell the powers that be that it is spring here.....lol...I am sitting at my window in my craft room and wondering when all of this snow is going to melt and where is all the run off going to go.......

For todays cards I combined a couple of ideas, the KISS (keep it simple, silly) and I needed an Easter card for a one-on-one swap that I am in...so this was my final product. It took me longer to come up with an idea then to actually make the card.....The stamp set is one that I got last fall from Gina K Designs, I believe that it was released a year ago....I had so many ideas for this set, and yet here it is 6 months later and I am finally getting around to using it.....hmmmmmm.....all paper that I used was from Stampin' Up and the little dots in the corners are Black Pearls made by Kaiser Craft...pretty simple card and looks elegent...so hard for me to capture the true card with my camera...speaking of which I think I know why my pictures do not look good, my camera is a couple years old and the Pixels are not very high......so now I am out to convince the Cowboy that we "need" a new camera....lets see how long that takes......

Well that is my post for today...hope you enjoy!

Later Gators!

Alanna

What to Do!

Okay I got up early today...(took a mental health day from work)...all set to take the pictures of my new cards I made and also of the "stuff" I wanted to share....wouldn't you know it, the batteries are dead in the camera and it is -38 out with the windchill....so needless to say I am not making a trip to town for batteries.......

Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary...Trev and I have been married for 15 years tomorrow.....oh how the time has gone....for the most part it has been smooth sailing...we have had the storms mixed in....but we always manage to weather them together......I look at him each morning...and realize that I love him more and more each day.....it is funny cause when I first met him....I was not interested at all.....he kept chasing me till' I caught him....or at least that is how he puts it.....I made a card for him and really wanted to share it on here.....but oh well I guess I will share it later in the week.....

So happy anniversary Trevor....I love you!

Hopefully I can find some batteries some where in this hours and get some pictures posted later today!

Later Gators!

Alanna

Stuff!

Well already I missed a day....hmmm....as I sit here looking around my crafting space...I am overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that I have in this room....when and how did I come to have so much of it....and how will I ever use it all.....I have taken some pictures of some of it and am going to post them.....I will do that later today......my goal for the rest of the week is to use some of this "stuff", that I just had to have and now I am hoarding it...keeping it for just the right occasion....hmmmmm....is today not a gift and the right occasion.....I told the hubby the other night...do not let me buy anything else...and he started to laugh.....he said how would I know if you add anything new to this room....there is enough "stuff" in here for 6 women.....lol....so the goal is to use it up....or at least a dent in it.....
So after work I will be back to post the two pictures of some of the stuff that I have accumulated over the last year or so......

Later Gators!

Alanna

MFT Meets Basic Grey

 

For this card I used one of the new stamp sets that I ordered from MFT...I am not sure if it is from January or February release......I paired it up with some of the new delicious paper just released from Basic Grey called "Porcelain"...this card is all paper pieced with the exception of where I used my copic markers......I made this card for a DSP swap that I was in...I made four of them and they took me like three hours to do....lol....I need to practice paper piecing me thinks......

I played around with my photo editing software this morning before I posted the card....I am not really liking the effects, but I have to make do with what I have.....maybe I need to do some reading about working with cards......so as promised I did in fact do a post today.....

Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFT (www.mftstamps.com)

Paper: DSP (Basic Grey), Card Stock (Stampin' UP)

Ink: Pallette Ink

Markers: Copic Markers (www.scrappingreatdeals.com)

Embellishments: Flower (www.scrappingreatdeals.com) Brad (Stampin' Up)

I think that is all for now......

Hope you enjoy the post!

Later Gators!

Alanna

Change

I have been away from my stamping and paper world for so long that I am feeling so lost and overwhelmed by the work that I am seeing on other peoples BLOGS.....I have been away so long that I am not sure if anyone ever looks at my BLOG.....

So with these two confessions I am going to make another conscience effort to dedicate some time each day to this BLOG.....

Life has not been good for me this past 6 months or so, but I am not going to dwell on all of that (as most if not all was self-induced...)it will soon be spring here in my part of the world and with that comes more day-light and more opportunities to share my art......I love to papercraft and yet I do not share my work with many people...oh I join a few swaps....I give out a few cards.....but for the most part I do not share it.....it sits here.....and sits here.....I have been asked to make cards for the Church.....I will do it for awhile, then I start to loose the courage to make them....I have been asked to make many wedding invitations, but I choose only to make ones for the people that are close to me.....I do not make cards for my grown children or even my grandbabies......you ask why am I sharing this......well in order for me to start to really enjoy my art.....I need to start with a clean slate....

So for the rest of this year....I am going to set some goals and try to stick to them.....here are the goals that I plan to to do this year:

1. Learn to use my camera to it full extent
2. Keep this blog up daily
3. Learn to make my BLOG a pretty place
4. Make more cards and share them with my family and friends
5. Tryout for some design teams(I believe my art is good enough, at least in my head I do, I just need to make my heart understand)
6. Go to Mexico - yes this is a goal for me this year
7. Enjoy each day to the fullest
8. Enjoy what God has given me and not want for more!
9. Stop worrying - cause worrying never did anyone any good
10. And to remember every day we get an incredible gift - 24 more hours.....

Well now that I have posted it...I need to live it right.....so starting tomorrow I will be posting some of the art work that I have....if a week or so I will start to post work as I produce it......thanks for stopping by!

Later Gators!

Alanna