Snappy Birthday!

Here's another card I did for this weekend's VSN.

The challenge was to include shells somehow on your card, either as an embellishment, a patterned paper, or as your stamped image.  I thought of this image since I had just used it on this card a couple weeks ago.  I used the same basic color scheme for all the cards I made for the VSN, and I was in a beachy kind of mood!

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!

VSN is Here!!

The August VSN officially kicked off tonight at 6:00 EST! Here is the card I did as a sample for my challenge:

My challenge was Lets Go Camping!  When I think of Summertime, my favorite memories are of going camping and fishing with my Dad. Now, we never caught very much, but we had a lot of fun doing it! We also camped in all sorts of environments, from the woods in Kentucky, to the canyons in Utah, to the Nevada Desert! Luckily, I married a man who also likes to camp, so this is one activity that we can do together. There's nothing like being trapped in the woods to stimulate some real conversation! LOL

Here were my requirements:

Nature - think of all the things you see out in the woods (or desert!)
Masculine colors - you rarely see a pink tent in the woods!
Twine - think tent lines, fishing line, clothes lines
Hardware - tent stakes and zippers, fishhooks and battered frying pans
Distressing - everything gets dirty when you camp, but that's half the fun when you're a kid!

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!

A Challenge to myself

So I've been thinking about switching to a different stamp storage system for my clear stamps.  I've been eyeballing these fabulous little containers from Stampendous since you can store 12-18 clear stamp sets in each container.  I had the brilliant idea to count up the number of clear stamp sets I have to see how many of these Stufftainers I'd need.

*sigh*

I shouldn'ta done that.

It was depressing.

Especially when I saw how many of the sets have NEVER BEEN USED!!!  I would say at least 85% of the stamp sets in my stash fall into the "still new" catagory!  Most of the rest of the sets have only had one stamp used out of the entire set.  See?  I told you it was depressing.

So I am challenging myself to use at least one "new" stamp every day for the entire month of September.  I'm going to pull out a stamp set and use every single stamp in the set until they've all been inked!  I'll get a jump start on this over the weekend with the VSN challenges, and I think I know just the set to start with since the theme for VSN is Summertime in the Land that I Love!  Wish me luck!

Cheers!

Forest Friends

Thought I'd share a couple of friends we met out in the woods while we were fishing this past weekend.

Here's Longtail:

And here's Shorttail:

So we didn't get very creative with naming them, they wouldn't come when we called anyway!  I love the way Shorttail would pose for the camera, she's tres chic in the Chippy World!  Longtail actually got pretty adventurous when we were packing up to come home.  He strolled right into the campsite looking for leftovers!  I think he wanted more puppy chow, personally!

Cheers!

Going Camping!

I will be out in the woods all day today and this weekend, having fun camping and fishing!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers!

Sorry For Being Crabby

Here's a card I made for a friend I recently snarked at:

I felt like a complete heel for snarking at her when she didn't deserve it, and I thought this would be a good "I'm Sorry" card for her.  For the uninitiated, to Snark at someone is a combination of a Snarl and a Bark  It's usually embarrassing and shouldn't be done often.  Especially when you can't immediately apologize for it!

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!

The Greeting Farm ROCKS!!!

So remember the Blog hop for The Greeting Farm's 2 year birthday?  They were giving three lucky participants the ENTIRE August release and Guess What?!?

That's right!  I Won!!  Woohoo!!

Here's the contents of the Happy Mail package they sent me.  I won CC Tuesday, CC Friday, Flirty Anya (my fave!), Later Sk8er, and Cupcake Anya (a digi stamp.)  I'm super excited, and can't wait to get inky!!

Cheers!