Falyn's Birthday card

I have not had any time to blog latley. It is hectic getting ready for the holidays. Now I am finished all my gifts bought, cards sent and jellies made. What a nice feeling to be done.



This is the card I did for our daughter's birthday. I just love the brown greena and ponk combo. I know she looks crooked but she sure looked straight when I finished her.

Oh Christmas Tree

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am so excited about Christmas. So excited that I already have my tree up. It just seemed a shame to put it and just take it down a couple of weeks later. So I decided let put it up and enjoy it for a while. I decided to take pictures of it from out of the box to decorated. There are somany decorations on it that you can hardly see the tree. I didn't even put all of them on it this year. Isn't it amazing how much you collect over the years when your raise children. Thanks for taking time to look at it.

BearyJoyful

Here is a Christmas card I did this morning. The stamp is one of my new bella stamps polar bear circle from the cruise. I also used the Joy stamp from GinaK Seasonal Sayings. One of my favorite accessories is dazzling diamonds from Stampin Up it just dazzles up a card.

Snowbunny Joy

I wanted to do a card using all the of the Host of this years cruise. Here is what I came up with. Thank you for looking and please let me know what you think.
Stamps
Seasonal Sayings - Gina K
Snowfall - Papertrey
Snowbunnybella - Stamping Bella
Paper
Bashful Blue
White
Ink
Stazon Black
Bashful Blue

Accessories

Bashful Blue marker, dazzling diamonds, snowflake punch, pop up dots

cruise stamps

I haven't posted this week. No paticular reason other than nothing new going on. I did however take some time to stamp today. I decided to use some of the stamps we got on the cruise. Here is what I came up with. These are both new Bella stamps. Thanks for stopping by and please let me know what you think.

Bailee's Birthday Party

Today we went to our oldest grand-daughter Bailee's birthday party. She is turning 8 on Tuesday. She decorated her own cake, but after the decorating it split. Still she did a wonderful job! She got lots of clothes, a pretend cash register with a scanner and debit card. Things they make for kids. She also got lots of lip gloss. Boy is she growing up fast. Her sister Kayla who is 4 was not feeling well today. Seems like every year one of those poor girls dosen't feel good on Bailee's birthday.

Fall Color

I took a drive to the other side of the valley today to get a fall picture of Paradise. I got the shot on the drive home. The weatherman said that this weekend was the peak of color for us. Also the new picture of the house is hard to see now that we have siding and not white tyvec showing.

Here is one of my Christmas cards for this year. I am not sure how many I will send this year but no time like the present to get started on them. I CASED this out of the Stampin Up catalog but revamped for my own taste.

Supplies

stamp set; Baby Jesus is Born

card stock: Night of Navy, Handsome Hunter, Kraft and Confetti White

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

watercolor Crayons

Blender Pen

Antique Brass brads

Bella Cards from the Cruise

Here are a couple of the cards we did on the cruise with the new Bella stamps. Of course these are not my original designs but they are totally cute. The stamps are called snowman cirlce with bird and prezzie and francine flapper( isn't she adorable). Thanks for looking. Please leave a link to your blog and also let me know if I can like you to my blog.

Here is the picture at the falls. We did enjoy the high climb and cold water.

Jamaica

Okay this was not our first trip to Jamaica but it was our first trip to a Plantation and that was cool. Here are some photos of baby bananas, me drinking coconut water, they guide climbing the tree to get the coconut, and just a picture of Mitch and I. We also went to Dunn's River Falls and climbed the falls. Here is a picture of us at the falls. We had a really great time. Came back to the ship later took a nap then went back to stamping. The workshops were really great.

Back Home

We are back home. The cruise was great. Emily, Nicole, and Gina were wonderful. They had the most awesome goody bags for us and some great projects as well. Scor-Pal gave all us cruisers a new Scor-Pal I didn't even know what one was, now i just love it. Oh and stamps whoo hoo did they load us up. If they do another one I plan on going and hopefully alot more ladies can go. Here are some photos of some of my new Sistahs out there. These ladies were great in making me feel as part of the group see i went without a buddy. In the first photo is Irene and Michelle they are from Canada and stamp with Bella once a week. They were a hoot. Thanks girls. These next 2 photos are Bill and Michele how cool for her her husband stamps and Debbie with me. Thanks to you girls and Bill as well. You have to ignore the date one the photos my camera was screwed up.

Another Bella

I made another card today. The color challenge on Bellaholicsanonymous was purple, black, and cream. Just a couple of my favorite colors. What else could I do but use my new Diplomabella. Well it is time to leave for the Airport almost "CRUISIN" time. Thanks for looking.

My Thanksgiving Bella

This is my Thanksgiving card for my girlfriends this year. Bella is so fun you can do any theme with any one of them. They are so versatile and addicting. I just love that you can color them anyway you want.

I just got an order with a 7 new Bellas

snowbunnybella

minivanabella

billybootabella

scissorbella

teachabella

diplomabella

and Chefabella

I am always willing to trade images just let me know.

One More Day

One more day and we fly to Port Canavaral for our cruise. I was excited but not nutty excited, now I am comming out of my skin. I have been packed for a week. All the animals have been set up, coffee pot unplugged. We are driving to the airport for the night then flying out in the morning. We are gonna spend Saturday sight seeing around Orlando and then on Sunday the cruise. We have been on a few cruises but never one for stamping. WOO HOO a week with Stamping Bella, Emily K, and Papertrey plus I think other stuff as well. okay enogh of boring you I will take lots of pictures. If anyone else is going let me know. I sure would like to get to know you.

Fall Party

My daughter has her first teaching job this year. She is teaching 2nd grade and has asked me to help with her fall party. Here is one of the goodies I made. The bag topper is 4 x 3 1/4 and scored on the 4 inch side at 2 inches. These are so easy and fun to make.















Ingredients:

Stamp: Big Pumpkin - Hero Arts

Staz On ink Black

Cardstock : Orange, brown and white


watercolor crayons from Stampin Up

Small cello bag

Reeses Pieces

Good Morning

Welcome to my Blog. This is my first post and I am a little unsure what to say. I have been wanting to do this for a while, but wasn't sure where to start. We are leaving for a cruise on Saturday. It is a Stamp and Cruise with Stamping Bella, Gina K and Papertrey. This is my first themed cruise and I am so excited. I will share photos when I get back. Since this is new to me if you have any ideas what I should do to make this blog interesting please let me know.


Good Day and God Bless