ATC Swap

I am hosting an ATC swap on the Purple Faerie yahoo group and the first of them has started to come in. These are Deborah Cariker's ATCS. She was in fashion, open, and java groups of the swaps. I will get more posted as I get them scanned.

Swim meet

Ainsleigh had her last regular season swim meet this weekend. She has finally decided to listen to me and use her arms when she swims and what do you know- she's fast! Here is her freestyle race. She also finished first in breast stroke and second in back stroke.

Thinking About Crhistmas

I always have such great plans of sending out handmade Christmas cards. It rarely happens. Last year I did make 10-15 cards, but none of them made the mail. They were all given to teachers and coaches and no one had to go to the post office. I haven't had a stamp in this house since they were like .37.

Anyway, this year I am determined to do it. I have already made a Christmas card and it is early July. It's actually more winterly than Christmasy, but hey it's made! So here it is. I call it sledding polar bear. I hope to follow with many more and if these cards are lucky, they will make it into the envelope and into the hands of a friend or family member PRIOR to Christmas!

not very good at this

I am not much of a blogger. I guess it takes some getting used to. This ice cream stamp is one of the very first stamps I ever bought. I made this card with scraps, the cuttlebug, prisma pencils with gamsol, stickles for some glitter and a skittle cherry on top!

More cards

Here are some more. The first card was made with the cuttlebug puzzle die as a background. I left some spaces in between the pieces so that you can see the different pieces. I call this next one Happy Birthday to Ewe. This card uses the new coredinations black magic paper with a pink core. It looks so pretty after it's been sanded.

Recent Cards

Recently, I have been making a lot of cards. I don't know how I made cards before I had a cricut and a cuttlebug! Here a few of my new ones.

The cat card uses the Cuttlebug textile embossing folder and the cat is from the Stampin Up set Cool Cat.

The puppy card uses the cricut paper pups cartridge and a sizzix texturz plate in the Cuttlebug.