My Organized Stampin Room

This has been a project that I've been wanting to undertake forever.  About 6 months ago, I had my room all set up and it was okay, (I posted pictures way back when on here.)  It just never quiet sat right for me.  So this past week I just had to re-arrange everything.  It doesn't hurt either that I took my daughters DSI away a month or so ago and I put it somewhere "safe" and now can't find it!  I decided that was the perfect thing to get me to re-arrange my space and see if maybe it was in here "safe".  So, here's the pictures of my room.  I would love to put it on video, cause I really like taking tours of peoples space, but since I can't figure out how to take it off my camera and put it on here, pictures will have to do.

Here's the view from my door way.  Looking straight ahead.

This is the view turning right a little bit.

We're still turning right.

This is right behind the door to the right.

I've got a ton more pictures, I wasn't sure which ones would be the most interesting.  Anyway, I always love watching the video's people post of their scrap rooms.  It's nice seeing where someone is working, I'd love to see your space too!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Masking technique

This months technique for my swap group is masking..  You can find the technique step by step here.    I've never done it before and I admit I struggled with this one.  Not so much the technique, but coming up with a card.  Having never done it before I wasn't sure which stamp set would work the best.  I'm really happy with how my card turned out, and masking is pretty fun.  it's super simple and just makes a nice look.  What do you think?  I'd love to see some of your posts with the masking technique used.  Thanks for stopping by and as always I love comments.  Oh, and for those of you who've asked how my 5-10-15 event went, I've posted pictures, you just need to scroll down a couple of posts.  It's funny, I disappear for a week and then I come back with post after post.  I had a lot to make up for.  By the way, this is a sale-a-brations stamp set that I got.  FREE!!  If your interested, it's only going until March.  Every $50 you spend get's you a free stamp set, paper, or buttons.  Very, very cute stuff this year.

By the way, I have just entered this card in the SUO challenges.  I love this stamp set, and the fact that it was free, well that just makes it so much better.

St. Patricks Day

I've gotta get my swaps out in the mail Tuesday, so I've just started working on them of course today.  I love how this card turned out.  I got the original idea here.  I'm not too big on St. Patricks day, I never send out cards, or do anything except maybe wear green, (my kids will pinch if I don't.)  This is entirely out of my comfort zone.  I don't even own 1 single stamp set that's Saint Patricks.  So this card was great cause I could do it without owning anything just for Saint Patty's day.  Anyhow, I'd love to know what  you think, and see what you've come up with.  Thanks for looking.

Oh, and just cause I looked at my picture again, I realized that I fibbed.  I didn't knowingly purchase any St. P day stamps.  One of the stamp sets that I used is from the Sale-a-brations stamp set "So Happy for You."  It just happened to have a clover in it.  LOL.

I've been away for a week or so, I've been re-doing my stamp room.  I think it's finally the way I can live with for a bit.  At least until the next bug bites that tells me I just don't like it.  I'll post pics soon cause I can't figure out how to load my videos.  Anyway, I'm off to check on my sick kids.  Yucky stomach bug has hit our home.

OWH

Last night my friend Kathy and I were able to do some more cards for this great cause, Operation Write Home. It's always such a nice feeling as we're working so hard to make nice cards and knowing that it's all worth it because a soldier who is seperated from his/her family will be able to take this and write a heart felt message for his/her family, spouse, child, parent. I know how much I loved getting a personal letter from my hunny when he was over seas, and to get a beautiful card along with his words would of been amazing! I LOVE this cause. Here's the card we did.

The inside is my favorite part. We stamped the sentiment, "you're never more than a thought away." I think it's such a nice sentiment. We did case this card, and you can see the original here.

Now, I need to give some shout outs! First I'd like to thank Hill Chiropractic for their generosity. They donated our envelopes for our cards. So thank you!! By the way, he's also my chiropractor and he is great! He's really friendly and knows what he's doing. So if you need one, check his site out! Secondly, I would like to thank Office Depot (in West Valley) for giving us the envelopes at a discount price. They were very kind when we told them that we were doing cards for OWH and gladly gave us a discount on the envelopes. So thank you wonderful people for your contribution, and of course Kathy for helping me get cards made.




As always thank you all for stopping by! :)

Here's what happened...

Last night was my 5-10-15 event. It went well, except in typical Yolanda fashion, all of my prep work went out the window. I changed almost all of my cards. I didn't like the originals when it came right down to prepping the stuff. So, these are the actual cards we ended up doing.

 This cupcake green one is the exact same one as the original one I had planned on doing, I just changed it from the Chocolate Chip base because I completely spaced ordering more chocolate chip paper.  I like the way it turned out though. 

 This card is using entirely sale-a-bration stuff.  The paper, the stamp, the ribbon, and the buttons.  Now, I have to say that this card was cased.  I just have no idea where I saw it.  As soon as I find the original link, I will be posting that.  I'm sorry!

The other two cards passed my scrutiny test.  So what do you think of these new cards?  I really liked them much better than my originals.


So, as promised here's pictures of my event BEFORE people arrived.

 I had this idea that if I bought 5 of those clear boxes I could organize each of the accessories the cards need and stay organized that way.  It did work, but I realized that some of the stuff in one box I still needed for another card.  I still say the idea was pretty good.

 Here are my yummy cupcakes.  I am not a big chocolate fan, I love the vanilla, so I was surprised to see that the chocolate one's went very quickly.  I'm glad I thought outside my own little box. 

I'm still figuring things out as I go.  I realized only after we had finished the cards, that I had them only do one card and they were suppose to do two of each.  Thankfully, I had a few friends that came just to visit and I put them to work assembling cards, I thought I'd have a bunch for OWH.  It turns out that it was good because I owed them each 5 more cards.  DA!!  Like I said, I'm still figuring this out.  I'm thankful I have such a good group of friends that are so supportive and understanding.  Over all I think it was a great night.  I always love getting together with ladies and doing what I love!  Thanks for stopping by!

Wow!

I've just noticed that I have been given another stylish blogger award.  How awesome!  I feel so flattered and grateful at the same time.  I've really just started out with being crafty, and still feel like I've got alot to learn.  I'm so grateful to all of you who stop by my blog and offer such nice comments and support.  I appreciate it more than you could know!!  Thank you Holley for the award.  Thank you all for giving me the inspiration and the motivation.  I appreciate it.  Since I've already done my 8 random things about me, I won't bore you again with it.

When you receive this award you are to:

1) thank the person who gave this award to you and link it back to their blog

2) share 8 things about yourself

3) pass this award to 8 other individuals


4) leave a comment so that they can pass along the recognition!


Here are 8 new blogs that deserve the stylish blogger award.  (in no particular order.)

1.  Ginnie Binion
2.  Karla Anders

3.  Ann Marie                                                              
4.  April
5.  Rita
6.  Melinda
7.  Roberta
8.  Robyn

Again. thanks so much for all of your support ladies!  And for the award Holley.  Right click on the award and save it and then you can paste it to your blog.  Make sense?  Hope so. 

OWH challenge

I came across OWH's blog and they are having a challenge to make masculine cards that the soldiers can send home to their brothers, fathers, sons, etc.  So I decided that my birthday card that I'm doing at my 5-10-15 class would be great!  So now it's serving several purposes.  1. My class, and 2.  I'm gonna make extras and include them in my box for OWH.  YA!!

 You can get in on this challenge here.  It's such a great cause, and it's really not hard to do something that we all LOVE.  How great is it to do something you love and actually can be so comforting and nice to others.  It's a win, win.