It's Your Day!

Winter months are slow on birthdays for us. Then out of the blue spring hits and I am sitting now saying "darn it I am out of birthday cards" ... lol. When I checked last week I thought I still had some. Boy was I wrong. The only thing that is bugging me is that I cant find my happy birthday stamp. :( I am sure it is some were in my craft room but I cant remember where.
I have the sentiment "it's your day" from stamping bella but I cant seam to locate it in the sentiments section. *sigh* I hope this is not an indication of how my day is going to be. So I have been using that as it has a variety of uses for different occasions! For the image I used agnes ketto. I can not get enough of her. She is sooooooo darn cute! As you can also tell from my last few postings I have paper pieced her. I love this technique!

Ok enough yapping. I am going to attempt trying to find my missing sentiment (or make a card for these weeks bellarific challenge). Thank you all for coming to take a look. Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday!

Ivy Ketto!

I hope everyone had a good weekend. It has been cold and raining here for most of it and has dampened the mood in everyone. :(
I should be cleaning house after being gone all weekend ..... but shhhhhh .... we wont tell anyone ... lol.
I got the girls off to school and thought I would try and cheer myself up. Well at least that's the story I am sticking to ... lol.
I decided to use ivy ketto for this card and try a layout I have not done in what seams like forever. I am okay with the way the card turned out but I feel as if there is something missing. Hmmmm. Well I guess I will have to go back upstairs and try making something else and hopefully be able to figure out what it is I don't like about it.

Thank you all for coming and taking a look.

New Nestabilitie!

After purchasing a a few different shaped nestabilities last year I saw the spellbinders nestabilities labels one and knew I had to have them! I have made a few cards using the nestabilities as a background for an image. This time I chose to use the largest size as the base of my card. The possibilities for the nestabilities are endless. I love the way this card turned out! I also love the fact that Em has such a wide variety of nestabilties so close to home. If there was ever one stop shopping, this would be it!
For this card I chose to use rumor has it girl. As I noticed I was running low on birthday cards, I thought what a cute image to use as a birthday card! But yet again this is one of those images that can be used for many different occasions! Thank you all for coming and taking a look. Now I am headed back over to Em's blog. Something there about a blog hop??? Sounds like fun!

Happy Birthday Mae!

Zoe's little best friend Mae celebrated her 8th birthday a couple of weeks ago. These two are inseparable. She wanted a special card made for Mae so I chose to use missmatch ketto. This Ketto describes Mae to a "T".

Zoe herself made Mae a card but she ended up giving Mae the card before I had a chance to take a picture of it. :( I will have to remember to ask Mae's mom to take a picture for me and I will post it so you can all see Zoe's creation!
Ok another short and sweet post my craft room is calling...lol.

Thank you all for coming and taking a look at my card I will post again over the weekend!

Bellariffic Friday Sketch!

Note to self : I must try and get some more creative juices flowing. It has been a while since my last post and I have been feeling the withdrawal affects....lol.
I have been able to sneak upstairs and play a bit in my craft room these last couple of days. Oh boy did it feel good. I religiously read Em's blog every day and I have wanted to participate for a while in one of her many terrific sketches and challenges, but have not been able to do so. Today even though I was cutting it close I finished this card and I think its ok. I had more fun participating and that's whats important!
I chose to use agnes ketto for this challenge. She is one of the few Ketto's I purchased a while back and had not used yet. I love the whole Ketto line so it was hard to pick one. Ok its late so I am going to keep this short and sweet but I will post in the net few days and show you the other creations I have come up with. I hope you all have been well and I look forward to any comments you leave!

In Love!

Wow I can not believe it has been this long since my last post. :( To those that have been checking to see if I have made anything, I thank you! My health got the best of me and I have been to under the weather to make anything. :( I am finally on the right track and taking it one day at a time. I wont bore you all with the details but for those that have expressed their concern I can not thank you enough. Hmmmm ok I hope you all understood that...lol.
I want to send two special thank yous to Nicky for all the emails and Eulanda for the beautiful card she sent me wishing me a speedy recovery. I will post the card she sent tomorrow as soon as I figure out where the girls put my camera....lol.
Now for the fun stuff. It has taken me a while to get back into the groove of things. I find that my inspiration came from the few (hahahahaha) Stamping Bella stamps I own.
The teddybella card I made the end of February for Nick's cousin Ellen's baby shower. I was so happy she loved it! Now considering she was due last week and we have yet to hear word on the baby being born I am starting to think the little bugger does not want to come out of his mommy's belly...lol. (Mind you I would not want to come out either after the cold days we have been having since the end of last week.)
The next two cards were made with eloise greengrass and patricia birthdaycake .They have always been two of my favourites.
Not being able to sit long enough to make anything has not discouraged me from keeping up with all of your blogs. And the one that I check religiously is Emily's .
OMG!OMG!OMG! for those of you that have not seen her new line of stamps. Well what can I say. You are MISSING out.
Her ketto stamps are a must. Not only have I been itching to get my hands on one or two. I was feeling well enough yesterday to make a trip down there and get a few. But shhhhhhhhh Nick and the girls don't know I spent more that ummmmm what was that figure....oh ya $9.95....lol.
I AM IN LOVE!!!!! It was so hard to pick which ones to get that I (if you can believe that) had a hard time deciding. I ended up making my first card using a stamp from this new line with
tatiana ketto. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE her. :)

Ok enough yapping for now. I am feeling some creativity coming on so I am going to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for keeping the faith that I will return. And try and post on a regular bases again. :)

Please feel free to comment on my post or cards as I have missed you all!

Two New Christmas Cards!

Ok another late night :( . But I am calling it quits as soon as I am done this post. It has been a busy week around here. The tree is up. The decorations are hung! And Nick finally put the lights up outside...lol. The girls brought home report cards. All I can say is "YEAH!!!!". The girls did awesome!!! Tomorrow is parent teacher interviews and then they get Friday off.

Ok enough yapping...lol. These are two more Christmas cards I have been working on. Now if all goes as planned I should have them in the mail by Monday :) . Ok I am off to lala land. I hope you are all having a good week and that you have an even better weekend :) . Nite!