Novi Stamp Convention

Sorry I have been missing. I have been working on a few projects around the house, reformating my computer and getting my son ready to leave for college. We will be moving my son into his college apartment in a little under two weeks. I still have a lot to do. Then school starts two weeks later which means I will be going back to work. It will be strange not seeing my son in the school but it hopefully will be a good year.This past weekend, I worked at the Novi Stamp Convention for Denami Designs. If you aren't familiar with their stamps, check them out. It was a fun and enjoyable weekend. I really enjoyed meeting Nami and her family. Her two sons are sweet, polite, cute and well behaved. I would bring both home with me in a heartbeat. I hope I get to work for them again next year.

I came home and had to play around with some of my Denami stamps. You will be seeing a lot of them over the next few days/weeks. This is a cute little apple basket. I did it in yellow, red, green and a mixed basket.

Country Morning

The Stampin' Up set Country Morning is one of my favorites. It is one of the coming up retired sets. I have been playing around with it. This is what I made. I have one more idea I want to work but I need to make one more Father's Day card first.

Be back later.....

Quickutz Flower

While my parents were in town for my son's graduation, my Mom picked up this quickutz die at hobby lobby. I just had to play around with it.

On the yellow flower, I used copic markers Y000, Y11, Y02. The pink flower has RV21, RV02, and RV34.

Stampin' Up Thoughts & Prayer Set

I was look around Splitcoaststampers and I ran across a card and I just had to try the technique. The tutorial can be found here. I just love the look. I hope everyone enjoys it.

I am going to try and post more about the cards...

I used the above technique to get the clear area and then stamped it with the "Thoughts & Prayers" set by Stampin' Up. I colored the embossed flowers with Copic RV21. Oh, I almost forgot the embossed area is using the Stampin' Up texture folder "Petals A Plenty".

I will be using the technique again.

Graduation Cards 2

Here are two more cards I have made for the class of 2010. The gown one is my son's favorite.

The paper on the second one has embossed graduation caps. The picture doesn't do the paper justice. The stamp is in the new Stampin' Up summer mini.

Graduation Cards

I have been busy finishing up the school year and getting ready for my son's graduation. Both are over and I have the summer ahead of me. As always, I have some major projects to work on, but hopefully I will have lots of time to play.

Here is one of the graduation cards I made for my son's friends...


It is a tri-fold card using the school colors, blue and gold. I used Stampin' Up Congrats, Stampin' Up Say It With Scallops and Impression Obsession Graduation.

I will post some other cards later this afternoon, along with a couple of my son's graduation pictures.

Moving things around

I once had a craft room, but I found I just didn't like the lighting or something. I was always in the living area stamping so I moved everything into that area a couple of years ago and made my craft room a office/quest bedroom. A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time for another change. I moved my craft area again. It has taken me for ever to get everything moved but I love the new area. It is still in the living area but it is off to the side so when I leave a mess it doesn't get in the way. Here are some pictures....

Graduation cards coming up next....