Mandy with hair!

She is still cute, just looks like a Klingon!

VC Rocks! RAKs

I sent these out today to my VC Rocks friends.

Sorry about the shadows on the photos.  I was using my iphone.

Have a happy day!

My Stamp Room: desk, embellishments & paper

Before: a messy desk that day.

 After: cleaner, with my most used items at hand.

After: My dear engineering husband brought home this used drafting table from work one day.  It is awesome and I will show you what I use it for on another day.  My desk is parallel to it on the right side, so it makes like a U for me to roll my chair back and forth.  Also I love chocolate, so there it is on my window.

Before: embellishments, ribbons, etc...

 Before:  I even had some embellishments in the plastic drawers below.  They were labeled but not as organized as I thought.

 After: Candy and small embellishments on these cute little shelves, where I can see them & get to them easily.

 After: More embellishments on shelves & ribbons on spools down on the desk in right corner of picture.

 After:  I took all the retired ribbons, buttons, felt flowers, & other non-SU! odds and ends and put them in jars.  (The packaging of these items really did take up alot of space.) Some jars were re-purposed and I feel so frugal!

 After: Current ribbons in my ribbon keepers and current embellishments in my stack and store.

 Before:  Above picture shows my designer papers in my paper holders. Below picture shows my 12 x 12 card stock in paper holders on my rolling cart.

 Before and After:  I have always had my 8 1/2 x 11 card stock and their scraps in my filing drawers in my desk.  They are grouped by Stampin' Up! color collections, with specialty card stock & retired card stock folders in the back.  

 After:  I added more paper holders with retired DSP to my rolling cart.  I keep them grouped by the package they came in because I am not talented enough to just pick out matching papers of different colors. (SU! does that for me!) In the accordion file I keep my Simply Scrappin' kits.

 After:  This huge desk organizer was an ordering mistake on my part.  But I realized it was large enough to put files in, so I have my scrapbooking elements swaps (from Hot Swappin' Mamas) in baggies and filed according to season.

 After: I removed the closet doors and stacked the plastic drawers. In front of the plastic stacks is my black rolling cart with the 12 x 12 papers/card stock at the bottom and my organizer at the top.  It is so easy to roll to my desk when I am scrapbooking and then roll back when I am done!

After:  This paper holder on my desk holds my current DSP.

I hope yall like my new stamp room so far.  I have re-purposed several things that I really like, even though they are not that pretty, but they really worked for me.  I did buy a new rolling chair.

Have a great weekend!

My Stamp Room is almost done!

Before pictures are very surprising to me- how did I get anything done?!

 Before:  Stamp sets on shelves, punches are in sterlite drawers, and then there was the dollhouse.

 After:  All punches are up on rods above my desk.

 After: Punches and stamp sets organized, and now dollhouse is in daughter's room.

After:  Stamp sets- red dots indicate current sets.  The first three shelves are sets that are broken up (yes, Ellen, I took your advice!) and grouped by topic.  This is really convenient and freeing to know I can now get rid of those stamps I don't use.

More Sew Suite

More of the cards I made for my sisters, Jeanne and Jeannette, made with Sew Suite.  I still love this stamp set and the DSP!

   I copied the design by Mary Brown's card, just changed the colors.

Inspired by Julie Marshall's card.

Pretty much copied Gretchen Barron's card.

Inspired by Raissa Spatola's card.

Yall have a good day and great weekend! :)

Spring Card

Easter Blossoms stamp set and Springtime Vintage DSP.

Sparkling Sew Suite

I am pretty sure that I saw a card similar to this somewhere on the web, but don't recall where.  Everything is Stampin' Up!, except for the pink rhinestones.  I can see myself making these over and over again, just changing the sentiment.

This reminds me of a story about when we were young and my mom sewed most of our clothes.  We lived on a farm and the sacks that the grains for the cattle came in were colorful like these dresses.  My sister, Ellen, who was probably about 5 years old had a teacher that complemented her on her dress.  Ellen said my mom made this out of an old sack.  I am not sure that the teacher realized she was telling the truth. Lol