A Card and An ATC

A week ago I made used one of my stamps from "Smirks" to create a friendship themesd ATC. (I've had this stamp for awhile now and have been looking forward to finally inking it up.) All the stamps from Smirks are extra cute. This is one of my favorite ones. This is the ATC that I came up with.

Making the ATC inspired me to make this card for my one of my good friends. ATCs are supposed to inspire you to create a bigger card, but for some reason I have not been inspired by one until now.

I think the my ATC and the card that it inspired to make turned out pretty cute. What do you think?

I've Got Mail

Even as an adult I enjoy receiving RAK and cards through snail mail. They definitely add some extra sunshine to my day. I have recently received some very nice cards and thoughtful RAK that I would like to share with you.
My dear friend Cary made this card for me. She did an A+ job in coloring the image. I love all the detail. Thank you so much for all the hard work that you put into making me the card.

This card is from my OCS partner Gracie. She also did an amazing job in coloring all the stamped images on the card. If you look closely at the picture you can see that she has different shades of brown on his hair, added some silver accents on his tail, and put Inkssentials Glossy Accent on different parts of the stamped image to make it shiney. I also appreciate all the hard work that she put into making me the card. I love to color, but I am afraid that I don't do as good of a job as Cary and Gracie do. Maybe I should take some lessons from them. :)

My friend from church Patty surprised me with this "thank you" card. She used the Simply Card Elements nad More kit from Stampin Up. The kit is pretty cool because it comes with all the supplies to put this card together.

This is a RAK from my good friend Kris. Look at all the goodies that she surprised me with along with the cute card that she made using one of the fairies from The Greeting Farm. I love her layout and am also in awe of of her coloring. Thank you Kris for continuing to think of me this month despite all that is on your plate at this time.

This RAK is from my good friend and co-worker Diana. When she gave me Kylie's gift last week at work she surprised me with a little some thing too. I was teasing her that it's not fair that Kylie received a bigger bag from the Sanrio store than I did. :) Isn't this Hello Kitty stamp cute? It not only stamps a very cute image, but it lights up and plays music. This is the coolest stamp I have ever received. Thanks Diana for the extra special surprise.

Thanks ladies for bringing a smile to my face with the cards and RAKs. Your love, thoughtfulness, and friendship means a lot to me. Thanks to all of you for stopping by too. See you again soon!

A Gift From Our Hearts

The principal at the school that I work at asked me to help them order some Hawaiian themed rubber stamps for the staff to use on the reward charts at the end of each intervention session. Hawaiian stamps match perfectly with the name of our intervention program- "Study Island." A few years ago I helped the school order some Hawaiian stamps. When the principal asked me if I can help them order some more I was more then happy to it. The stamps arrived straight from Hawaii today from a company called TAJ. They by the way have very cute stamps. Here are the stamps that I ordered for my school. Aren't they cute?

Because the principal, staff and students have been such a blessing to me, Benson and I decided to surprise them with the stamps as a special gift from our family. I praise God for each one of them and consider them just like family.

I put the stamps in this bright hot pink bag and made a tag to attach to it.
I know that I promised some pictures of the decorations that Benson and I have been working on, but they are still in the works. I promise that the next post will have pictures of them. Until then, take care!

A Card For Him and One For Her Too

I hope that this is finding each of you doing well. This week has been a very busy one for me with paperwork to do for work to prepare for meetings as well as making decorations for Kylie's party which will be this Saturday. I have not been too motivated to work on much so it has been taking a lot longer to do everything. I hope to get motivated soon and speed things along. :) Thankfully as usual Benson has been helping me get ready for the party. I did force myself to make "thank you" cards for two of my preschool students from church for the Christmas gifts that they gave to me. Yes, I know it's a little late. I used a the same layout for both card. Here is the famale version of the card and

here is the male version of the card.

It was lots of fun making the cards for them as soon as I got my creative juices running. I hope that they had as much fun receiving the cards in the mail as I did making the cards for them. By the way, the stamps are the from one of the Build a Bear sets from Stampin Up. The punches that I used are also from Stampin Up.
Thanks for stopping by today. Please come back to visit soon to see some pictures of Kylie's party along with the decorations. I may even have some more cards to share with you. :)

A Surprise and Some Thing Yummy

My good friend Diana from work surprised me with some goodies last week. The red packages are much too cute to use for Chinese New Year. Of course my favorite one is the one with Hello Kitty on it. She also gave me some Vietnamese coffee mix which was extra yummy and came in handy last week when it was cold and raining.

Thanks so much Diana for such wonderful treats. They surely made my day at work an even brighter one.
One other thing I wanted to share with you is a lovely Swedish Sandwich cake that I had the yummy opportunity to eat at a stamping bruch workshop. All the food by the way was delicious, but this was by far the most creative. (I had to share this with all of you because I was so impressed by how fancy and creative it looked.) The lady that made it used a round piece of bread and sliced it into 3 layers. One layer had egg salad, the second one had meatballs, and the third layer had jelly. The outside of it had sour cream, cucumbers, tomatoes, ham and shrimps. This is the most fancy an d pretty sandwich I ever had. :)


I hope that all of you had a good weekend and is looking forward to starting another week. This will be an extra busy week for me as I will be making decorations and making party favor tags for my daughter's princess theme party this Saturday.
I am sorry that I don't have any stamping projects to share with you today. Hopefully I will be able to get some stuff done soon.

New ATCs and a Gift for a Friend

It's been cold and raining here all week in California. I usually feel extra lazy in this type of weather. I had to push myself a bit to get motivated to work on my ATC swaps that are due very soon. Thankfully Benson helped me cut the cardstock for them which saved me lots of time. By the way, he won't need to help me cut the cardstock anymore for my ATCs because I received the Sizzix die that I ordered that will help me cut the cards- no more measuring. Since he won't need to help me do the cutting, maybe he can help me do the stamping. :) I guess he can still help me die cut the cards out. Here are the two ATCs that I made. For the first one, the people that signed up for the swap was asked to make ATC's that have Riley the Moose on it. (Everytime I see a swap witht this theme I can't help but sign up for it because Riley is such a cutie.)

I stamped snowflakes on the background using my versa mark pad and colored Riley and outlined the snowman using my Copic markers. After cutting the stamped image out I added glitter to the snow, Riley's hat and the snowball that he is holding.
The second one that I did we were asked to make the ATCs with a birthday theme.

I used a rainbow pad to stamp the cupcakes as well as the sentiment in the middle. The cupcakes is from a Stampin Up set called Darling Dots and the sentiment is from a set called Birthday Best. The confetti in the background is from the long time retired set Button Bear. I can't wait until I get the ATC swaps in the mail. I will be sure to post a picture of them when I do.
Last night I made a graduation gift for my friend Vanessa. She graduated from college in December during her Winter quarter. I was meeting with her today so I thought that it would be fun to surprise her with a card and a little treat.

I used a graduation roller from Stampin Up for the side of the card and decided that it would be cute to use the same roller for the sour cream container. The girl stamp is from Me and My Big Idea. I filled the container with some of my favorite Hawaiian cookies. After I sealed it I crimped the edges, added a tag, and tied it up with raffia.
I hope that you have enjoyed your visit for today. I will be back to post a few more things soon. Have a fantastic weekend!

Some Fun Cards to Share

I'm back like I said I would in my post from earlier today. I hope that all of you had a good day. Here are two cards that I CASED from two classes that I went in December. They were so cute and so much fun to make the first time that I could not pass up making them again to send to some friends.

I made another one one of my snowman punch art cards as a "thank you" for a friend. This time I made it into a gift card holder.



I have been feeling a bit lazy with stamping lately so I don't have anything else to share that I have made. I however have a very cute card that my friend Susanna gave to me using her new stamps from Hero Art. Along with the set that she used on the card she also ordered another one. I can't wait to see what she makes with that set. Be sure to check back to see what she makes. Along with the card, she also gave me a little cute RAK. She knows how much I like monkeys so she gave me a set of wooden monkeys to thread onto a string to make a bracelet. I better hide the monkeys from my kids. They like monkeys too. Maybe even more than I do. :)

Tonight I will be working on two "thank you" cards to mail to my Sunday School students for their Christmas gifts. Yes, I know it's a bit late. I am going to mail it them as a little surprise. I will also be working on two ATC swaps. I will hopefully get a chance to post a picture of them some time this week. Have a great week and God bless!