Misc. Ribbon Packs

I have 2 18.5L Rubbermaid Totes overflowing with ribbon! I was wondering if anyone was wanting to buy envies of misc. ribbons. I would post pics of the groups of ribbon and work out how many yards and so on and so forth? I was just wondering how many would be interested first before I went through all the work? We would do lets say enough to fit in a envelope that would be enough for 2 postage stamps so shipping would be $1.50 to the US and $1.10 in Canada. If you are interested please leave a little note in the comments and then I will know if it is worth my time to go through and make up some misc. ribbon groups. If this works out I have mondo fibers too! Please let me know!

Live It Up with Cosmobella

Been awhile since I stopped by to chit chat with you or show you anything. I haven't really been creating anything so really have nothing to show you! Tonight I am up waiting for Tayor as she is at a University Basketball game with her basketball team and coach. How cool is that? They are not expected home until like 11:30! What else does a girl do when you have to wait up? Play with her Bellas!

I know this is a horrible picture. I will try and upload a better one tomorrow. It is so glam too! I am one of those people that really don't like alot of the cards that I make, but I absolutely LOVE this card! I started off buy inking up Cosmobella with some black Staz On and stamping the image on some Prism white cardstock. I colored her in with my Aquarell Watercolor Pencil crayons and used my Auquaflo painter thingy for the first time! How have I gone without it for so long? My designer papers are from the Basic Grey Collection Perhaps. This wasn't a specific card for anything so I thought that the Live It Up sentiment fit it perfectly. That is one of the Studio G stamps from the Michaels $1.50 sets. Those sets are great just for all the little sentiments. I thought that Bella looked so glamorous that I added the 3 jeweled brads from Generations. The background pink cardstock is from Bazzill. Like I said this is one of my favorite cards I have made so far. Bella just makes it so easy!

I don't have anything new to show you today so I will show you one of my favorite scrapbook layouts. I cannot take credit for the design, I got the package from The Memory Workshop .

It is still one of my favorites! This is my daughter and I in 1999 at the Vancouver Zoo. The Cardstock is all Bazzill and the patterned paper is 3 Bugs in a Rug. It is from the Cabana Collection. I love the summery feeling. The chipboard letters are from Scenic Route, I wish I had more. The miscellaneous stickers are also from 3 Bugs in a Rug. The colors were just perfect to match the overalls my daughter was wearing. How cute is the picture with Taylor standing next to the pig that is bigger than she is? I have more layouts that came from the same package, I will post them later for you all to see. This was truly a great summery package from The Memory Workshop.

Mrs. ho, ho, ho!

It is such a beautiful day out, I have been cleaning (vacuuming at 9 am?) and puttering and I have even been stamping! Who wouldn't be with all the great toys I have been accumulating lately! I really need to put it all to work. I have got a cutie for you.
This is the Mrs. I started off by embossing the background with the cuttlebug folder which was a chore as I don't have a cuttlebug yet! I used my good old original Sizzix! I had some fun trying to figure it out but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! I love the look so much and I could only afford the embossing folders not the machine! Then I decided to ink up my new Let it Snow set from Inque Boutique . I was kind of hard to color her as she is all mostly white. ( any other color you know you are in trouble!) So I colored her nose and put a little color on her branch arms with my Aquarell Watercolor Pencils and kind of blended it a little bit. I also added a little bit of blue to the bottom of her so it looked like she was sitting on some ice. I also inked up the edges of all the white cardstock for a more frosty feeling with Baby Blue Versacolor. The ribbon is from American Crafts. I topped it all off with 3 snowflake brads from Making Memories. Hope you like!

Inque Boutique is in the House

All I can say is my LSS Urban Trends Scrapbook Co. in Abbotsford rocks! I went in there yesterday just to touch base with the owner, as my kids have put me on a only can buy 2 items diet, and she has got Inque Boutique Stamps! And the best part is they are not that expensive. I was going to buy 2 Bellas but I ended up buying a Fella (for my son) and 2 Inque Boutique sets!

This is the first set that I picked out. Isn't it cute? I thought it would be a good choise with the holidays coming up and all. This set is called Let it Snow. Can you beleive that I got this set of 21 stamps for under $11.00 CAD? That is the best part.

If you have Christmas images you need Christmas saying so I couldn't give up this set too. It is a mini set even though you cannot tell from the pic. It is considerably smaller and cheaper. Under $3.50 CAD. WOW! The bonus part is there are 19 stamps to this set. This set is called Mini-Christmas. I should be set for Christmas stamps for this year but I am sure I can find more.

So, want to know how I managed to 3 items at the store? Ah, this Surfafella is for Trevor! I cannot walk into Urban Trends Scrapbook Co. and not walk out without at least one Bella / Fella. I love them all.

I am off to ink up some of these great new stamps. I hope to have something for you later!

Thankful For Blog Friends Blog Candy Winner!

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Jan Scholl said...
I am thankful that summer stayed around a few extra weeks-it was 90F today. but sadly, it will be gone by tomorrow and the sadness sets it. so my happy place will be on the heating pads. Please summer come back soon.
October 9, 2007 12:37 AM

Congratulations Jan! Please email me your snail mail addy and I will get this package out to you during the next week!

Thankful For Blog Friends Blog Candy!

Hahahahahha, so I thought I would just get right to the point and show you the pics of the blog candy first. That's what you want right? This candy is because it is Thanksgiving weekend and one thing I am thankful for is my friends.

I am thankful for my family, my better health, my childrens health a roof over my head and all that great stuff too. But you gotta have friends to get through your day! Sometimes it is that one piece of Happy Mail that brightens your horrible rotten day or that great comment you get on your blog! I want to show my friends in the blog worls that I am thankful for them! Thank You!

For this candy please leave me a comment telling my what you are thankful for. I will leave this open until, hhmmmmm, does friday sound good? That will give enough friends a chance to enter to win. On friday I will use random.org and post a winner.

Oh, I guess you would like to know what this candy consists of! For some reason the pics are not that great. I am to lazy to take better ones right now.

1. 2 card making kits.

2. 10 yards purple Offray ribbon

3. 10 yards burgandy Offray ribbon

4. a package of funky fiber and trim

5. a small Roundabout Stamp from Daisy Bucket

6. Laugh out Loud package of stamps by Studio G

7. Flower within a Flower Stamp by Autumn Leaves

8. "Please Come to my Birthday Party" sentiment by stamping bella (I bought 2)

9. 5 stamped images of chrismatini

10. 5 stamped images of curly surprisabella

11. 5 stamped images of grumpabella

12. 5 stamped images of cosmobella

13. 5 stamped images of causabella

14. 5 stamped images of get wella bella

15. 5 stamped images of tinkerbella

16. 5 stamped images of retailfellabella

17. 5 stamped images of jammybella

18. 5 stamped images of cruisabella

19. 5 stamped images witchybella

I hope to be adding more. If I do I will add it to this list so you will know what is added. I will also leave this post at the top until Friday so be sure when you come back to the blog to read further for the newer posts!

Good Luck and Thank You!

A Quick Card

It has been awhile since I have posted something I have made for you to see. I decided to make a fall card, or is it a Halloween card? I am not so sure. It is a simple card but I a proud that I used some ribbon on it! I have oodles and oodles of ribbon and fibers all over my house. A gurl can never have to much ribbon and fiber! I started off by inking up this cute little pumpkin stamp that I got from Michaels and coloring it in with odd markers. (aux faux paus) I know! I have not had a chance to get any Copics Yet! I then mounted it on this bright orange cardstock. The patterned paper is be KI Memories, I think out of a Halloween Collection. I decided to put it all on the black backgrouck to make the brighter colors stand out. To top it off, to close up the bare space at the bottom just a thin little orange ribbon to match the whole orange in the card. Hope you like it!

Fall and Halloween Items

If you happen to be looking for any Fall or Halloween items at this point I am trying to list as many of my Fall and Halloween items as possible at my store Stamping Addictions. I will be listing all my fall colored paper at $0.25 CAD. So keep watch!

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ISn't this awesome I saw this on Kellys blog. Diaries of a Stamper. I just had to get one myself.

EZ Mount!?!

I have been a horrible blogger! It has been 6 days! I have been so busy! So remeber I was hit with that horrible cold, wouldn't you know it, I get it better and BANG everything happens at once! My father drove out from Calgary on Wednesday to spend some time with me and my children and take me out for dinner on October 5th for my birthday! How cool is that? Drive approx. 11 hours to take your daughter out for dinner, above all it was a great steak dinner! Mmmm....Milestones. It meant alot to me as I do not get to see my father as much as I like to as he is in Calgary and I am in Abbotsford (for those of you who don't know, about an hour out of Vancouver.) Dad left Saturday morning, and Mom and her man took me out for my birthday dinner, what did I pick again, steak! (the kiddies were out all weekend) I had some good old adult time all weekend it was great!


It is Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada so we will be having Thanksgiving Dinner on Monday as I have to share my daughter with her father and he will have her for dinner on Sunday! Mmmm....I love turkey. Dinner will be at moms, so that leaves no mess for me and good eaten all weekend!


Onto some stampin' business! I finally had some down time today after I had picked up Trevor, he was watching a Pokemon movie. I decided that I was getting quite a collection of Bellas and that I should mount them all before if seems to overwhelming to even bother. I hadn't started when I first got them as I did not have any EZ mount. I decided again getting a hot knife as I was told that why waste your money on that when you can use a good pair of scissors and get them all sticky then clean them off. "It works just as good" also "more money to spend on Bellas!" Well that convinced me. Anything more Bellas! So now a couple of my Bellas look like they have gone through a chop shop! What is so EZ about the EZ Mount? If anyone know you can let me know! But hey it does not matter what my Bellas look like it matters what the stamped image looks like to me! If anyone wants to laugh they really don't need to use them!

There is my finished products. I even got some other stamps mounted with the not so EZ mount too! I will eventually do more...but I think that is enough for a bit as I was getting so frustrated and I have to wait for my LSS to get more in!

So because the is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and I am thankful to be Canadian I think that is a cause for blog candy! I do not have it ready today, be on the lookout for it tomorrow and think about what you are thankful for!

Mail Call...

Ok let's first of all get this straight, this is 2 weeks of catch up mail! I didn't get this all at once! I am trying to get everything all in order and give everyone credit where credit is due!

So quite a while back I put out a plee on Splitcoaststampers for some newer Stampin Up images as I kind of felt out of the loop not having any new images. This awesome gal Traci (chooch)answered my cry for help and decided to send me some images. She had mentioned that she also had TAC (The Angel Company) images too! I was overjoyed as you know they do not have TAC stamps here in Canada! So I anxiously awaited Traci's package. On one of the rottenest days Traci's package shows up in the mail and wow it was well worth waiting for!



Traci sent me oodles and oodles of stamped images. I will be busy for a long time. She even sent me coloured images. What fun is that? Might I add they are perfect stamped images.

Look at this beautiful card traci sent along with the package! Now what is better than stamped images? Stamps! I got 2 packages of TAC stamps and 4 mini Stampin Up stamps. This packaged totally brightened my day! Of course I had never seen these TAC stamps before either so I cannot wait to start playing with them.

Onto another day! I got back my Summer Tag Swap that I had showed you way back at the beginning of my blogging journey. I participated in this swap with a great group of ladies from a yahoo group called Swapheaven! Here is a pic of all the tags together!

Ok now onto today! Well my birthday is coming up in 4 more days so I have been getting Birthday cards too! I got a whole whack of happy mail today. First off I got a RAK from the Swapheaven group of ribbon and flowers. Well, who can't use ribbon and flowers? Then I got a beautiful birthday card from the penpal group on Splitcoaststampers from Dolores. What a great lady Dolores is, she is the one who got me hooked up on the penpal group!

Isn't this a beautiful card? Dolores is so talented! I love cards that have been cuttlebugged? Is that a word? Then I recieved this great card with a great layered flower on the front from Marcine Luke. I love the navy and yellow ribbon combination!

Last but not least I got this birthday card from Deborah Stevens on Splitcoaststampers also. I do not know if you can see that the circles pop out. The picture does not do this card justice. Wow that was alot of updating. I will not let it get that behind again! Now onto all my thank you's to everyone!