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More Genie Bags!
We have some new neighbors a few doors down with three small children. Two boys and one sweet little girl. The little girl and her mom, Tracy answered the door. (I can’t think of the daughters name for nothing!). She was so thrilled to get the little bag of goodies.
The little princess promiced to *try* and share the other two bags with her stinky brothers. Mom told me they would get to the boys. That little girl is so cute.
After making the first six (one at a time) I’ve decided its much easier to ‘assembly line’ and cut all the pieces and then put them all put together.
I stopped by my local Target, they didn’t have much for $1.00 buys but I did find some cute napkins for my table and I also found a really nice $19.99 Christmas stamp set that even included a really nice alphabet.
Today’s is my youngest son, Chad’s 14th birthday. Dang, the oldest, Craig will turn 20 on the 21st of October. I don’t *feel* that old, but hey I guess I am.
Onto my quest, I wanted you all to know I am feeling better, but have this cough that is hanging on. I am trying not to use the OTC stuff and allow it to run its course, but if anyone out there has a homeopathic remedy or cure I’d love to find out about it.
Oh the Genie bags above, sorry for the back of my hubby’s head, he is working from home this week and I kinda forgot he was even there. (I know that sounds odd, but we have an agreement, when he is working he isn’t here) this way I remember to not distract him and he can earn that great paycheck. He is such an enabler when it comes to my crafting. He is also very encouraging.
Hint of the day, if you are having trouble getting those cute $1.00 stamps to stamp nicely, try this, I use one of those white sanding blocks (the kind they use in nail salons) and gently go over the surface then clean them with a baby wipe and allow to dry. You may have to do this a couple of times before you get an image. Always use a scrap paper to try your dollar stamps before use so you know if these steps are necessary!
I wish you all joy and peace!
Stamp Happy!
Halloween Treats!
Aren’t these adorable?
Oh, I probally won’t blog tomorrow, we’ll see. Chad (da goof) is turning 14 tomorrow. We may be taking him out for dinner. We’ll see. He is being a bit stubborn at the moment!
Shoe Box Card Swap!
Hello everyone!
I hope you are enjoying a pleasant Tuesday! The card above is the one I am doing for the upcoming Baltimore, Maryland shoebox swap!
The recipe is very easy peasy!
Recipe:
Cut pink card base so it measures 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ folded
Dark blue card stock measures 5 1/4″ X 4″, and is randomly stamped using white craft ink and a speckle stamp. I then applied some dots of glitter randomly.
The embossed piece measures 4″ X 2″ and the back ground light blue piece measures 4 1/4″ X 2 1/4″.
The large pink scallop is embellished with a paper piercing tool, and measures 3″. The white scallop measures 2 1/2″ and is embellished with stickles.
The stamp is a retired stamping up set, snow angels. She is stamped with memories ink and colored with copic markers. The sentiment measures in at 1″ X 2 1/4″ and the card is embellished with gold ribbon, glitter and confetti snowflakes!
Yesterday I made 30 packets for the shoebox swap on November 1st. All that is left for this one is to type and print the directions as well as do a final quality check to be sure I haven’t forgotten anything!
Now, I am going to add more blog candy! I will be including some random stamped images. Stamped on high quailty white paper! It will be a surprise I hope that you’ll like them!
Stamp Happy!
Oh my aching feet!
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