weeds

Here are a few more weeds like some others I did. Quick and easy. I was at da Bella Store yesterday and got another weed. I think it is a bamboo?? Anyhow, stay tuned for that one. Man, she has a lot of new stuff coming out. CHA did her well. lol That store is to die for!! Always something in there you just HAVE TO HAVE!
Funky dandelion

Wacky weeds


both embossed with clear embossing powder, heart from buck store and celebrate from Quickutz.
I went to a family of clients' house the other night. THe papa played with my cuttlebug and came up with a few things I haven't seen around. So I'm excited to reproduce them and show you.

We're off to Montreal tomorrow, so we have to buy snacks today, pack, let the kiddies run around etc. (THey were dragged to a few mama related stores yesterday. They get to run, run, run today). lol. I'll be making announcement cards for the sister in law's upcoming event, so hopefully I'll have something to show you this weekend.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

lattice all work together

I was inspired by another blogger's card, but cannot remember who it was. It had the lattice front with a handheld bouquet punched from blue paper. I don't remember what else was on it. That's why I strayed and came up with this layout instead. If you know who it is, please tell me so I can give credit.

Lattice is 1/2 inch strips. Flowers are punched with Su retired 3 flower punch. The paper is from Creative Memories. The ribbon was stamped with Stazon and the sentiment is from Papertrey. Not sure which set. it lost it's home. Butterflies, Martha Stewart. Flower centre baubles dewdrops for the buck store.


That's all I got tonight,
Thanks for looking,
Amanda

sailing over the chaulk

Another boat themed thang. The erasers at the club were pretty groady. yeah, I said groady. Let's see what age you are. lol
They also had a plain box for chalk that was begging to be done over. so I swiped it and returned it.


yes, I know, I spelled chalk incorrectly. please, allow me to share a brief phone conversation with my husband after it was done and delivered...
"How do you spell chalk?" he says
"C h a u l k" I say confidently
he replies, " There's no "U" in chalk."
"It's the Canadian version" I say
"Oh, it's metric!"

Funny, funny. For my American readers... I don't know if you are aware, but Canadians often put an extra U in some words, like Labour, colour, neighbour. To name a few. Spell check just LOVES them. Not. Anyhow, that is not why I put a U in Chaulk.
Really, I do know how to spell.

Chaulk is a sir name in the little town in Newfoundland I grew up in. So to me, chalk has a u in it. lol

Hoping to play tonight and have something to show you tomorrow.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

sailing, sailing over the ocean blue

The sailing club that my DH sails out of is having their regatta today. i decided to do a little marketing and give the winners a card to go with their trophies and prizes. The sailboat is a Quickutz die and the "waves" are the swirls large stamp from Stampin' Up!
I embossed the swirls with seafoam embossing powder. The blue part is raised on pop dots.



The sun came out and the wind is a blowin' Lovely weather for a party and rib fest at the club. I'm waiting for the princess to awaken from her 2nd nap of the day and then we're off!!

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

another grillafella

Here's another card like another card I did. Haven't been stamping much lately. Ideas in my head, but the kids have been going to bed far too late for me to have energy to play afterwards. As the sun goes to bed earlier throughout the summer, so will they, I hope.
Have a great weekend. Off to do some yard sale-ing. Is that a word??

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Sympathy card

I've had to make a sympathy card for a specific person. Not something I've had to do before. I wanted soft and simple.


Card base is pre embossed from a pack from Michael's. Image is from Inkadinkadoo, I think. Nestabilites for the shapes.

The squirrel has left through the front window screen. Another screen shredded. But at least we know it's gone, gone, gone. We hope to nevuh see another one in here.

Thanks for looking,
AManda

Parental Unit tag

When my friend wanted the tags fro her baskets, they were labeled as one each for the 2 kids and then one for the parents. Well, I didn't feel like putting their names on it, so I called it "Parental Unit"

I went searching thru my plain paper scrap box and the colours of brown, turquoise and pumpkin pie came out. OOOOh. Lovely. Then i went looking for something a little more textured and tactile. The birds were singing to me so I found something with those colours. I tore some coordinations paper for the branches and already had the leaves cut form a previous project. The title was done with rub ons from the buck store. They aren't very vibrant, but did the trick. I just lOVE the texture in this tag. Oh yes, the circle on the top with the eyelet in it is actually a paint chip from Ralph Lauren. nice sample. I may have to try some more. :}


And now for a squirrel update:

I didn't go to sleep very soundly last night. I left the top of the living room window open with an apple on top to entice the rodent. And as I tired to drift off into slumber land, I kept hearing sounds and imagined/hoped that the squirrel gave into my plan. This morning as I came downstairs, I was very cautious, but didn't see any signs of it prowling thru the night and the apple was still there. "Maybe he doesn't like apples like the last one." I said to myself. So I went about daily business, Even going into the basement to do laundry.

When I came home this afternoon to greet DH, all the doors were propped open. Uh Oh!!
Seems it was a very quiet squirrel all day. Hubby came home, went to play with his projects in the basement and heard the squirrel! he chased it up and down the stairs for 45 minutes he said. dang thing wouldn't leave. So he got it in the front room and closed the door. the room with all the shelves, wine bottles, christmas decorations, baby gear, clothes, books. Many, many things to ruin with it's remains. Oh and a huge bag of mini chocolate chip cookie snack packs!! lets see if he likes cookies better. hrmph
I hope Dh does something about it tomorrow. Don't like living wit da rodents.

Thanks for looking and reading!
Amanda

not again!!! and more news below

OH. My. GAWD!!!
we have another squirrel!!!!!!!!!
you can read about our 1st adventures of squirrel hood below

http://latenightstamper.blogspot.com/2008/07/squirrel-has-left-building.html

I think this one is more rowdy than the last.

help uuusssss

EDITED:
I've had people email wondering how the squirrels are getting in.
These are highly intellectual squirrels, they are very clever. THey wait till we play outside and come in ..... wait for it.. through the open back door! GASP!!! I know, imagine the nerve of it. lol Needless to say, I'll have to listen to my daughter yell about the closed door than have the neighbourhood squirrel population living with us. For those who live outside of Ontario, these squirrels are not cute and grey or brown., They are evil looking black rodents! I'd take a picture, but they aren't worthy enough. Can you tell I'm in love??

Tag the Ballerina

here is the tag for Saskia's basket:
Image is Stamping Bella. The glitter paper is actually the cards front from a glitter pack at Michael's. Crown punch, ballet slipper Quickutz. Pink papers from Stampin' Up's mini designer papers (hostess set?) and the jumbo eyelet also. The letters are Quickutz, Metro font and the little flowers on the crimped vellum are from the mini punches from the Philippines.

Fun to make, but let me tell you... that ballerina is not very paper piecing friendly. lol That hair is something else. Stamped her on the kraft CS and on white. Lost her shoelace under the vellum. Oh well. I coloured her with Koh-i-nor pencils.



The tags have been delivered and placed ont he baskets. Cute. I put them in clear envelope type bags to preserve them a bit.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Frozen Treasure!! Arrggg!

I got this idea on another papercrafter's blog. i can't rememebr who it is. Maybe when I'm blurfing later, I'll find it and put it here.
The kids are having a great time treasure hunting. Just grabbed things from around the house. It's finally a decent day. A day of poor air quality and humidity and then a full day of pouring rain.... We are really enjoying our little yard today and listening to Barenaked Ladies kids cd.. Snacktime. (I know, one of the band members just got arrested in the States, but it is still a good cd!) It reminds us of Portugal as we only had 3 cds for the whole 2 weeks.




k, off to do a card, I mean a tag post. If I don't get intrrupted to much. :}

Thanks for loking,
Amanda

Tag it!

Yesterday, I sat in my stamp room, air conditioner on, children entertained downstairs, things around me and couldn't think of anything to do. accckk!! I was worried I was in a funk.

This morning, my friend called and requested 3 basket tags for the catch it all ones at the front door. ZING!! ideas were flowing in my brain. thanks for the butt kick Barb. lol Each one created gave me excitement to create. I definitely will make more of these.

Here is the one for Zane:


Inspired by the star theme (does cuttlebug have a star embossing folder??), I started with Papertrey's Textbox set and chose the stars. Versa marked it on Nearly Navy CS and embossed it 3 times with seafoam white EP.
The stars below were using the mini punches my mother in law brought back from the Philippines. put them on popdots with the nearly navy beneath it. The barely banana star was punched with my new SU star punch and the letters were rub ons from the dollar store. Everything was distressed with SU white craft ink. Jumbo brad in the 2 inch barely banana circle.
The tag is big: 3.5 x 5 inches. it fit into some clear bags I have.

it makes me smile.




I was going to show you all 3 tonight, but it's much to explain. So here are some big sneak peaks of the other 2. Check back tomorrow.



Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Oldie, but goodie??

Well, I don't have anything new to show you. I'm working on a scrapbook layout!!! Can you believe it? Very rare.
So, nothing new, I can tell you a story or show you something old...
Let's go with the something old eh?



I don't have any details on the ingredients, only that the image is a retired SU set. I think I may have sold it. And the "live, love, laugh" I think is Hero Arts I bought at Scrapbooks by Design. Everything else is probably dollar store. It says it was d/l on Mar. 16, 2006. I wasn't even cardmaking then. Think I should look at the dating on my iPhoto.:}

Love how the ribbon matches the paper. I distressed the edges with chaulk ink and cut the fancy edge with my little scissors. I'm thinking of very limited supplies housed in a 3 drawer mini storage unit when I first started compared to my overflowing stamping room. Oh, the good ol' days. lol

Thanks for looking.
Amanda