A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do!

My New Catalog Open House is Thursday afternoon.  Bradley had a ball game last night, tonight and he's got one tomorrow night.  This mean that I should be at his games (or the Mom guilt in me tells me I must be there).   Of course, being at his games mean that I can't do too much preparation for my event.  But I'm not going to let it stop me!  I took my Big Shot, some embossing folders and 48 cocktail napkins to the game.

Bradley is on first base in this photo - he's in the black jersey.

My brother took these photos with his Droid and I haven't a clue how to edit them and add my watermark.  (I'm sure there's a way, but I'm too tired to concentrate and figure it out.)  I used the Manhattan Flower embossing folder on the green napkins and the Petals-a-Plenty on the pink ones. 

It was windy and cold, so I embossed at the front seat of my van . In a "perfect" world, I would've been sitting on the bleachers talking with other parents about Stampin' Up!  No networking occurred at this game ; ) 

Bradley's team lost.  They were tied 3-3, then the other team got TWO home runs.  The final score was 9-3.  My score was 24-24.  Get it?!?

Stamps: none
Paper: cocktail napkins
Ink: none
Accessories: Big Shot, Manhattan Flower and Petals-a-Plenty embossing folders.

Happy Stamping!

Susan

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Birthday Bash #4

I love, love, love punch art!  And this card is so creative! When I saw Kelly Acheson's card here, I knew I had to add this one to the line-up in my Birthday Bash stamp camp. All I changed was the sentiment, the embossing folder for the "leaves," and the flower center.

This one of the most feminine card of the group.  You could change the sentiment and put this card to another use.  Creating this flower shape does take a little bit of adjusting to get the "petals" evenly spaced.  We used Tombow adhesive.  (Kelly posted an update about assembling it here.)  In the end everyone's flower turned out well and they were all pleased.

My new Stampin' Up! catalogs arrived a few days ago!!!  If you can't wait until my Open House on June 7th, stop by and I'll be glad to give you one.  Just don't mind my messy house. We've got lots of school activities/baseball games/swim lessons going on - and no time to tidy up.  What little time I've had at home I've spent outside cleaning up the garden.  That is WAY more fun than picking up toys, LOL!

Stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes (Hostess set - retiring on May 31st!!!)
Paper: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Summer Smooches dsp
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango
Accessories: 1 1/4" Square punch, Butterfly punch (retiring May 31st!!!), 3/4" Circle punch, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Big Shot, Manhattan Flower tief

Happy Stamping!

Susan

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Punched Butterfly

We were spoiled by the warm weather the last few days.  Now it's cold and rainy.  Some people might not like to read this, but I'd much rather have it snowing than this cold rain.  Also, the kids have to stay inside. And that's not real fun - for all of us.

I copied today's card from Julie Davison.  What I did that (I think!) that is original is cut the antenae with the blossom petals punch instead of drawing them on with a marker like like Julie did.  Here's how I did it:

Stamps: Tiny Tags, Build a Blossom
Paper: Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Basic Black
Ink: So Saffron, Jet Black Staz-on
Accessories: Big Shot, Manhattan Flower textured impressions embossing folder, Blossom Petals punch, Moonlight Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink, dimensionals

Bradley baked a chocolate cake this morning.  It was from a box, but he did it all by himself - except for spraying the pan.  It's cool enough to frost now.  Bad thing is that it's already past lunch time and I haven't fed the kids and they're hungry for cake.  Instead, I've been photographing and blogging.  Better get back to my "real" job!

Happy Stamping!

Susan

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