Good Morning Everyone!!! It is another beautiful day here so I'm not sure how much I will get done. Isn't that awful? But I'm pretty sure that the spring fever bug has hit me. I just love looking in the backyard at all the pretty colors and beauty. The little mama robin has 3 of her 4 eggs hatched. The flowers are in bloom. It is just so peaceful. I wish I could share this with everyone!

Yesterday I did manage to get a few of my swaps done. I've got some ATC and cards swaps cooking over at my MSN site. These you see pictured here are for the embossed ATC swap. You have to emboss something on your ATC cards. I used my TAC™ set Ice Cream T2630 and the Sweet Skunks T2674 sets. For the Ice Cream set I stamped her and colored her in. The colors were not very bright, the showed up muted. Once I embossed her she showed up really bright and I was happy. That's one of my favorite sets because of course I love Ice Cream!!! For the other ATC I only embossed a few of the flowers then raised them up with pop dots. Of course those little buggers were hard to cut out with my fumble fingers.

This next set of ATC's are for a Garden swap. I pulled out my Old Friend T2643 set. This set is so cute with the little seed box and different things you can put on the front. For the other ATC I used a very old set that I bought from D.O.T.S. years ago! The little farmer boy and the seeds.










Another swap that I am in is for Father's Day. And I need to make cards for that too to send out. Of course "manly" cards are so hard for me to create. Of course I thought what better set to use than something out-doorsy ~ SU! Noble Deer set!

For this card I used some of the paper that my friend Betty gave me that she ran thru her cuttlebug. I thought black and gold looked good for the card. After all I could not use my regular pinks and browns.... I colored direct on the rubber with my pens, I thought that looked best. Then I stamped the sentiment from another SU! set Thoughts of Father, sponged around that with Chocolate Chip, layered it like the rest of the card with black and gold and I was finished. When I showed the card to my hubby he said "that's the set you used last year for my card". I was a little shocked! I can't believe he remembered ~ I didn't!!!



No, these are not more swap cards ~ but cards that I made to sell. Remember I told you about me selling my creations at the Peddler's Mall? Well the cans are selling and so are the cards. I've sold quite a few of those so I decided to make some Father's Day cards. Just a few in case they don't sell.





These are made with stamps from MFT. When I saw this image my first thought was of my hubby. He just loves the TV. He's always been fascinated by it. When he was a little boy and his Mom worked late into the night she'd come home to find her young son sitting on the floor of the living room right in front of the TV with the volume down low watching old western movies in black and white. Yes, to this day he still watches all the old black and white movies, but he does not have to sit on the floor. He sits in the chair. He's not a couch potato, if something needs to be done he gets it done. And most weekends he gets up early and cooks breakfast for everyone. But he works hard all week and when he wants to spend some quality time with the TV I don't care ~ it gives me time in the craft room :)


So, now you know why I bought the set - on to the card.


For the base card I used Night of Navy cs. I used my scor-pal to make the grid design on the blue cs. I then stamped it in various places with SU! Wonderful Weaves set. I layered that on to a piece of grey cs and tied a length of dark blue ribbon around it. I stamped the image from MFT and colored it in with my pencils. I stamped a second image and cut out the recliner and used different size pop dots on it to give it the 3D effect. I layered that panel on to a piece of yellow paper and glued it to the card. I stamped the sentiment "happy fathers day" with white ink directly on to the card in the lower right corner. Once the card was put together I took out my Crystal Lacquer and very carefully applied it to the front of the TV screen and I was done!

I hope to get some more crafting done today ~ so check back tomorrow!

Just some of My Favorite Things

Good morning everyone! I thought that I'd share a little bit of what I've been up to!

My friend Betty came over the other day and we actually got some stamping done. Each time she comes over we really don't get much done but sit and gab ~ well this time we got to stampin!!

I needed to make a card for an upcoming swap that I'm in and the theme is Coffee. For some reason I just love to make coffee cards! I knew what set to use (SU's Espress Yourself) until Betty brought this adorable set from My Favorite Things called 'hot stuff'. And the cool part, Betty did not like it! So I am the lucky recipient of this set!!! I have ordered her a TAC set to "replace" it.

The base card is Close to Cocoa. I stamped the saying 'thanks a latte' all over it in Close to Cocoa ink. I then layered on a piece of Pixie Pink that I stamped the coffee beans on with Close to Cocoa ink also. I stamped the image and colored it in, outlined it with my Close to Cocoa pen, layered it on to a piece of Pink Passion cs and then adhered it to the card. The card was still a little plain so I added some doodles around the outer edge of the Pixie Pink layer with my pink gel pen and made a photo corner and I was done. We also had to make an ATC to go with it so I basically made the same thing just on a smaller scale.

The jury's out on this card though. I might use it, I might not. It's still a little plain for me. I like to add more to a card ~ but we'll see. I still made another card "just in case" I don't want to send that one.

Here's the other card and (somewhat) matching ATC. They are different colors because I wanted to experiment a little. I like the orange, and I knew what pink looked like so I wanted to try blue too. I did not want to make another card ~ I'd have a huge stash of coffee cards laying around!

The base card is Kraft cs. I stamped the coffee mugs all over the card in Close to Cocoa. I stamped the main image and colored it in with my Only Orange marker and layered it on to a piece of Pumpkin Pie. I stamped the sentiment with Only Orange and layered that to a piece of Chocolate Chip cs and glued that to the lower right hand corner. I stamped a coffee mug from the set, colored and cut it out and used a pop dot to adhere it to the upper right corner of the sentiment panel.

For the ATC I used Brilliant Blue ink and Tempting Turquoise. I also stamped the sentiment "thanks a latte" and used my word window punch to punch it out and adhered it to the ATC.

I hope that they are well received cards. One of my favorite swaps is the coffee swap ~ and I really don't drink coffee too much.... Go figure!

Just one more item of "business". April is also Double rewards month at theangelcompany™. What this means to you the customer is, well, DOUBLE REWARDS. If you hold a FUNShop (or place an order of $100.00 or more) you are eligible to receive double rewards. You will get not only one, but TWO gift with purchase stamps for each $30.00 spent, 2 Level A hostess sets instead of 1 and not only 1 but 2 half off items out of the catty! Now THAT's a great deal right there. Have you been wanting to get the Scor-pal or the Bind-it-all? Now's your chance! You can get those items with your 1/2 off discount. Now where else can you get a Scor-pal for only $20.00??

Also this flyer has these special Limited Edition sets that are available April 7 - May 5! They are a mini version of the regular sets. Each one is $2.95 each with a qualifying order of $30. You can buy 1 or all 4 (but no more than 1 of each)! All sets have a retail value of $5.95 so this is a great deal! Hostesses of FUNshops get 1 FREE with every $100 in net totals. Now what are you waiting for?


If your in need a of a catalogue or have any questions please feel free to e-mail me anytime!

Well, enough of the business, I've got to get DD up and ready for a doctor appointment! Ugh, so early on spring break too!!!

Have a great day!! Hugs to you all!