Customer Cards

I made these cards for my church. I had made them another card but when they asked for more the layout and everything wasn't sitting right with me so I decided to revamp it. I like this one MUCH better!!!




Recipe:
Stamp Set- All I have seen, Garden Silhouettes
Paper- River Rock, Purely Pomegranate, Very Vanilla
Inks- River Rock, Purely Pomegranate
Accessories- Very Vanilla Grosgrain
Other- Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder

Customer Cards

I made 90 YES 90 baby onsie cards for a client. I think they turned out amazing and I hope they love them as much as I do. I thought the baby's face in the center was precious!! All the baby's stats are on the inside as well. I love them!! I am also glad that they are done, those little cards are A LOT of work!!!

Wedding Card

So I had someone on Craig's List request a card sample for her wedding and I told her I would send her that sample but I also wanted to make her a design that was unique to just her and send that as well. This is what I came up with and I LOVE this card so much, too bad I didn't have time to print sample information for her on the inside to give her the full effect (she is going to be making her decision soon, so I had to hurry and get her the sample ASAP). I will be making up another one with the details made up on the inside for my web site. She is having a fall harvest wedding so she wanted her invitation to have a fall feel. I think I really accomplished that. Here is hoping for the job.

This is a card that our church is having me make them for people who visit. So if you want a awesome handmade card from me come to our awesome church and you will get one!! You can visit my church web site at www.buildingsolidlives.com

Have a blessed day.
BTW didn't care for yesterday's challenge much, it had me stumped. So if I get around to it I will do today's but don't hold your breathe, I am off to the Pink Pineapple tonight!! Yay baby!!

More projects...

Here are some more projects that I just finished.

I finished the projects for Heidi and I think I will be adding this to my web site as a birthday package that my customers can purchase, but first I need to get my gallery up and working, ahhh another thing on the to do list!! Well the pictures of the tins, place cards and banners are all the items that I made for her.

Here is the recipe (in case you missed it last time):

Stamp sets: Wild About You
Ink: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie
Patterned Paper: From the Cool Scrapbook Store in Poway
Tools: Scallop Punch, Large Circle and Medium Circle



These are name tags for our gift bags at our church retreat this weekend. These were made with all my supplies that I had left. I need to make a pretty large order soon!!

Anyway, here is the recipe for these:

Stamp sets: Doodle This, Taggers Dozen
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Basic black
Paper: Ruby Red, Whisper White, Basic Black
Tools: Tag Punch, Crop-O-Dile
Other: Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Pretty in Pink ribbon and Whisper White ribbon


Business is booming and I just completed more cards for the National Milk Bank, I love what I do and I love the opportunity that it gives me to be a stay at home mom. I wouldn't trade what I do for anything!!

More Stuff for Heidi

Here are some birthday party items that I am in the rocess of making for Heidi. She is having a Noah's Ark theme for her sons first birthday and I am so excited about these projects that I am making for her.

The banner is not completly finished it will have a red stitching on the top to hold in the red tread that will be to hang it up. Her sons name is Noah so the banner is for her birthday banner and she was talking about putting it in thier play room or in his room after the party, whatever she does with it it's just too cute to throw away.

Then the little containers will have play dough in them as gifts to all the kids that attend. So cute I love them!!!

Here is the recipe:

Stamp sets: Wild About You
Ink: Real Red, Tempting Tourquoise, Certanly Celery, Pumkin PIe
Paper: Real Red, Tempting Tourquoise, Certanly Celery, Pumkin PIe
Patterened Paper: From the Cool Scrapbook Store in Poway
Tools: Scallop Punch, Large Circle and Medium Circle

Thanks for looking!! I can't wait to have a party and do one of these for my kids!!

So this is why I have been gone...

Here are a few reasons that I have been M.I.A.

These are only half of the Milk bank cards that I send out once a month. I know it's crazy, so that is the first reason I haven't been posting anything. But I am caught up and for once have a little peace in my life with the Milk Bank, this is the year to organize and prioritize my life and my business....


which brings me to #2 reason for my not posting





I HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING MY CRAFT ROOM!! And not just cleaning and making it look pretty but really organizing it, my stamps are all number and color coded and logged into a book where I can browse for that perfect image. I am so excited about this new way of organizing. I cannot believe that I am finally done, now I only have to make a chart with the numbers of the sets, which will take no time at all. I am so excited!!

So this is what I did, I sorted out my stamps into 3 categories: Occasion and Christmas (green), Flowers and Kids (pink), and Sentiments and Backgrounds (yellow). Then i organized my shelf in box sizes so that everything would look uniform and nice and then just started numbering the cases with the appropriate color sticker, then took a hectic trip to Staples with my 3 kids and photo copied all the sets that I had and for the ones I didn't have a photo copy for I hand stamped the rest directly on the paper. So now my binder is full of inspiration and ALL my stamp sets which i realized is A LOT, but now I also realized that I do not need anymore flowers but i do need more sentiments, so it was a great way to see what I really "need" out of the new catalog. BTW this would be a great way to know what images you had if you had to store all your stamps away out of sight such as in a closet or somewhere where you can't always see all that you have, sometimes all you are looking for is a small star and what a great way to easily sort through all that you have.



The other picture is of all my paper and scraps, I am using up more scraps since I started separating them into their own individual file folder so if I am looking for a certain color I don't use a whole piece but i get a small scrap. I am very excited about saving more paper this way.

Now I can't wait to get in there and stamp finally, the only stamping I have gotten done lately is either Milk Bank or a few cards I got done at the Pink Pineapple!! I will post those a little later too many pictures on one post may be a little overwhelming. Well I hope you enjoyed my organizing tips, hopefully it inspired you to get organized this new year.

Here are some things that I have been working on..

Here are some things that I have been working on for other people... I need some ME time!!

• The first picture are some table name tags that I did for a kids table, I thought they turned out SOO cute!! I love them. I made them with Real Red and Cert. Celery SU card stock then used the scallop punch with some Michael's paper shhhh... I used the SU Merry and Bright Stamp set from the winter mini catalog then finished off with my favorite detail of dazzling diamonds glitter. Oh yeah I also embossed the snowmen in blue and green embossing powder and then added glitter to the hot embossing powder, I think they just turned out great!!

• The next picture is of a wreath that I made for Heidi and I will for sure make one of these for myself next year. I used color combinations of Sky Blue, Cert. Celery and Real Red and the stamp sets that I used were Punch Pals, Snowflake Spot, and Wishing You Cheer. They are 3 X 3 "ornaments" that I hot glued to the wreath, I have also done this tieing them on but I like the hot glue the best, it just gives it more of a finished look. I also accessorized with hodgepodge hardware and real Red and Cert Celery ribbons. The ribbons that are wrapped around the wreath are from Michaels.... I know shhhh again. I LOVE making these wreaths and I will probubly do a class with them at one point. Let me know what you think.

• Then the last picture is using my favorite embossing friend. I LOVE my cuttlebug, i don't use it for the die cuts since I already have a cricut for that but it works great for those as well, but I do use it to dry emboss with, it's so easy and I just adore the effect it brings to your card or scrapbook. This card is made with Real Red cardstock and real Red ribbon, that's it!! I also used the happy Everything set, but I think it would be a great card even without it.

I will post more stuff soon!!

Blessings and thanks for looking!!

THEY ARE DONE!!!!!

So they are finally done, this is a good day and a lot of stress has gone from me right now.

So here they are completed, the picture frame wall hanging one was all done in the SU In Color colors and ribbon. I used the in color card stock Soft Sky and Purely Pomegranate. The stamp set is SU snowflake spot. They turned out great just how I had envisioned. Hopfully I will get some more work from these.

The other one is done in the In Color River Rock, Ruby Red, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, and another green that I can not remember right now. It also has silver brads on it along with black stitching which adds so much to a card. I also took their picture and thought it turned out pretty good. I backed their picture in with black card stock and stamped the baroque bouquet stamp set and the Christmas saying with Always Artichoke. I printed a saying from the couple on the inside and then did the hand stamped by Heather stamp on the back. I think they turned out great and I am excited to hear what people will say about them.

So now that they are all done off to make mine and some milk bank cards!! It never ends!!
Thanks for looking!!

Busy Busy Busy

So I am one busy girl right now that's why I haven't been able to post many pictures of anything, I had 150 Milk Bank Cards to do and write in for "In My Thoughts..." and then I got 2 orders both for 125 from Heidi a wonderful mom i met at Super Play and then my aunt ordered her Christmas cards from me too. YIKES!! They all have to be made and sent out in the next week too!!

But here are pictures of what they will look like the first one is Heidi's and it will be something that her clients can hang on thier wall (or whatever) and it will have the top picture of the family, the next one of the kids and the bottom has a Christmas Blessing. SOO CUTE!!

Then my Aunts is the example that I made up for her so it will have thier picture in the place where Luke is and it will have a different saying on it as well. Thanks for looking and if anyone is a little bored and needs something to do give me a call.

A invitation to a surprise party that i did for someone at church. I thought it turned out pretty cute!! The other picture is a Christmas Ornament that I made using the On Board Trimmings from the Stampin up Mini Catalog!! Love it!!