Can It Be??

I know you will drop over dead by this picture!!

Yes I am truly mailing off my Christmas cards today!! LOL LOL I know my friends will get a kick out of these VERY tardy cards.

This card I used PTI Berry Sorbet paper and heat embossed it with white snowflakes. I used Martha Stewart Icecles paper punch and that gorgeous sparkly big die punched snowflake is by Daily Bread.

Can't really see this on the card because I have a really crappy camera, but this is the Die-Namics Doily die that I stamped in black "Happy Holidays". Love this die!! You'll be seeing more of it in my cards. Gonna buy that second one this weekend.

PTI will be releasing their doily dies on the 15th too....here's a pic.

Lucious huh? Can't wait to buy all of them.
OK American Idol just started so I gotta git! Have a wonderful evening!
Erika

Papertrey 4th Anniversary Giveaway!

Just a quick note...go on over to Nicole Heady's Capture The Moment and check out their 4th Anniversary Giveaway and all the TOTALLY wonderful releases they are sneak peaking this month. I think it's gonna be exceptionally good!

Like this for instance!!

Finally! Christmas Cards Done

Oh My goodness.Can you believe it? I got my Christmas cards done for my 4 high school friends? Oh yes, I surely did. I mean afterall, it's only February 2011! So here they are...

Pink my fav color and for my girly girls.I love heat embossing the music image and the ornies. You can't see in the pic but I Stickled the ornies too so they are nice and sparkly. Two smaller ornies are All That Glitters Stamp Set and the larger one is by Hero Arts I bought at Archivers.

Love netting...my new fav thing to use. Used a Martha Stewart punch for that sparkly white branching. So this is card one.

Card two I used kraft paper and clear embossing power for the music image in the back ground.The Peace Be Still snowflake and tree are PTI dies and feltonthefly pink felt which is yummy! Added some Swarovski crystals to the snowflakes after Stickling they to death too. LOL Love that Stickles!

I used my new Die-namics doily die for the vellum here..ahhh I love this die!!

And here's my third card. Again I heat embossed the snowflakes and music images in the background.PTI Banner Border die was used at the very bottom using white glittered paper.I must say that this is one of my fav dies that PTI has come out with. Of course I had to add even more bling with the rhinestones. LOL

Here is the last card. Hero Arts ornie stamp that I heat embossed with silver powder and stickles.

Used Martha Stewart punch for the icecyles and added a little yummy lace on top.

Well peeps and ladies, I gotta git the ole face painted to go get my nails done because they look like I've been scratching at a coffin trying to get out. Jeesh...that was an old image from waaaaay back when I was a kid and saw Vincent Prices' "Premature Burial". Scared the tar outta me but became a huge fan of his movies and that's probably why I'm such a lover of Twilight and all the other fantastic vamp books out there. Have ya checked out my new pic of Rob Pattison over there on the right. Ahhh be still my heart. What a cutie pie. It's gross because I'm old enough to be his darned mother!
On that depressing note, have a wonderfully happy weekend!
Erika

Happy Birthday Happy Monday Card

Happy Monday friends! Beginning of a new week-what shall I do? I need a plan. I need motivation. I need a New Year's Resolution. It's so easy to do just nothing, isn't it? Well doggone it,  I'm gonna git me sum of that their mottivashun this weak! (I hope you know that I can really spell!)
So....this week my goal...no not my goal..this week I AM going to get my Christmas cards done!! If I say "goal" that leaves an opening for me to NOT do something. There ya go...I've done it now, I have a plan!! I feel sooooo much better now. I will journal my progress this week with you all and you will see, I CAN DO IT! LOL OK calm down.
I don't know of anyone who has a birthday in January but I'm sure someone does so in honor of all you January birthday people, here's some cards for ya.

I love color!! I love tickets! I love wrinkled multicolored seam binding! I live that little wiry paperclip thingy!!

LOVE Websters Bloomers!! Love scallops!!

I love all my embossing folders!I love tiny little tags!I love satin roses! I love green mushrooms! I love that little turquoise stick pin!!

For you newbies to my blog, here's a pic of what I used to do...for over 10 years! I made and designed primitive dolls. Far cry from scrap cards, eh?
Have a wonderfully happy day everyone!
Remember, The Bachelor is on tonight. We really do need to give Mr. Walmack (sp?) another chance. I think he's changed. Do you?

Valentine Tags #1

Hello chickies! Hope you are having a good weekend so far. I've been surfing pretty much all day..nooo the net, silly girls.It's so amazing to me how many talented women are out there in blogland. Totally amazing. I feel like a little fish in a huge ocean of talent. Sometimes I look at things and wonder to myself, how the heck did she come up with that technique or that idea? I've begun to set up files on some of my fav things I've seen and want to keep for future use to try for myself. So I feel good about that. I love organizing.
While I've been sick the last 3 weeks, I've also taken time to organize my pics into files. What a job! For example, Papertrey Ink just released their January stamp sets and dies today and during the countdown, I've saved the pictures that design team have taken showing off the new products. I've found that sometimes it takes me months to get to actually using the stamps and by that time I've forgotten about the inspiration cards/items that the design team came up with and then I gotta go back to their blogs and research all that and jeemany Christmas that takes time! I want to have inspirational pics of every stamp set I have and by golly, I've done it!! I feel sooooo good!  So now when I want to use a stamp, I just go to that file with the name of that stamp and there in front of me will be some examples of how others have used the stamp. I pretty much already know what I'm going to do but it's always interesting to see what others do.

Here are some tags I made BEFORE I started really scrapping.Didn't even know about stamps yet-only punches. I made these up for my customers who bought primitive dolls from me as little gifts of appreciation.

Here's another set. I love brown with pink and turquoise! I remember making these because the doll I made for the tags was a bunny wearing  a turquoise and brown dress.Gosh I'm so glad I don't have to stuff dolls anymore! LOL

And here's my table where I create...I cannot even walk by the table without cringing. Those are my Christmas cards that I haven't finished yet. I'm so embarrassed!

So let's change the subject of my messy table and take a peek at Deucy Boy who just hopped into the laundry basket minutes after Dave took the clothes out of the dryer. Thank God Dave doesn't have his tidy whities on top! LOLActually he wears printed briefs but don't tell him I told the world about it. LOL It will be our little secret.
So that's it for me tonight. Gonna go read my Kindle and have a banana!
Erika

Feel Better-Card to Myself

LOL Yes I'm sending a card to myself because I need to start feeling better! UGH! Yep stilll sittin around in my purple pjs feeling less than good. Just so ya know, I do have another set of pjs that I wear because I always talk about my purple pjs and I don't want ya'll to think I wear them exclusively. LOL Although they are my favs.

Just so ya know too, I don't go around callin myself "Love". LOL LOL How weird would that be? So this card is made with one of my fav stamp sets from Papertrey Ink...Scattered Showers Addition and my take on a card that Dawn McVey had made last year. Love those little boots! Stamp set comes with that little tag too so that's nice. I love the Martha Stewart lace border punch at the bottom of the card. I've used that so many times it's starting not to punch as great as it did when I first bought it.

And here's what we've been doing pretty much for a month now. LOL Aren't they darned adorable or what?

Forgot to mention that I ordered this cool stamp set from Practicing Creativity. Up Up and Away and Key to My Heart along with some silk ribbon and this wonderful champagne net. Can't wait to use that!
It's been snowing a tad here in Columbus, Ohio and it's pretty outside.Gracie loves the snow and has been buggin us to go out like a millions times a day to play. Can't blame the lil pup because it's fun to watch her tuck tail and run, dig her nose in the snow and act silly. You can tell we are getting close to becoming empty nesters because we talk about our dog like she's our baby. LOL
Well you all take care, keep warm and enjoy this wonderful season. It's a good day anytime ya wake up!
Erika

A Couple Sweet Cards

Hi Everyone. I'm alive and kickin but still down on the sofa wearing my purple pjs and blowing my nose. Gosh this cold has held on for 3 weeks now and I'm pretty sick of it. Butttttt, I wanted to check in with you all and share a couple cards with you.

I made several "I am Grateful" cards in November thinking about Thanksgiving and thinking about the blessings in my life.The main focus of this card is the glittered chipboard bird which I painted, distressed and then loaded up with glitter. The pretty fushia tags on the right I bought from Michelle Wooderson's Etsy store.The crinkled seam binding is from MemrieMare.

I used my Stampin Up punches for the sentiment. Loveeee those two punches!

Next up is a card I made by accident really. I bought a new Martha Stewart Punch-the paisly design at the bottom and when I saw it in person I was just thrilled to pieces at how it looked.It's so elegant. Thought I would use a couple different stitches on my sewing machine on this card just for fun.

The Artisan Element is by Pink Paislee I bought at Ellen Hutson.Just added a couple pearls and I think it speaks for itself with all it's delightfulness. These elements are just beautiful in person. Had to add some glitter there in between the paisley punch out. LOL

Seam binding is from Prairie Bird Boutique on Etsy and I added some rose velvet ribbon with that along with a flower button from Stampin Up. The felt layered flower is from Papertrey Ink dies, Beautiful Blooms II set that I seem to use a lot. Their felt is so easy to cut through. Added a little white plastic flower on top and then strung a chandelier drop I bought from Emma's Paperie.
So that's it for me. Time to get back on the sofa and get some hot tea with lemon into my bod. We will chat with ya later. Remember Nicole Headley (Papertrey Ink) is doing her sneeeeeek peaks! I'm so excited!!
Erika