Monthly Archives: April 2007

It has been a very busy day here! Getting some more spring cleaning done and some things ready for a garage sale & mailed out a pile of stamp sets. I just thought I’d let you know, I separated  all the purchased sets into the bottom of the list to make it easier to see and added a pile of “new” stamp sets to the list. If you are interested, just click on the tab at the top right of my blog banner. Hope you are having a great day!

Tag seems to be the new blogging game! LOL It’s been kind of crazy around here and I’m just now getting a chance to play. I’ve been tagged by the following bloggers (that I know of)… Kurtis, Colleen, Trudee. This means my site is linked on their “Tag” entry of favorite bloggers.  Thanks so much guys!

Some of the instructions say to tag your favorite bloggers, some of them say to tag someone who hasnt’ been tagged. AS you can see, I have a huge blogroll of favorite stampers! Hard to pick my favorite five so I’ve decided to go with five great bloggers who dont’ seem to have been tagged yet. That being said…easier said than done! So I’ve done some searching and here are five great blogs that don’t seem to have been tagged…that I know of!:) In no particular order….

 Sarah and the Stampstars

Card Metaphors

Inkin it Up

Iris Garden

Inky Paws

Check them out and enjoy!

I just thought I’d take this opportunity to let you know about a little boy that lives here in Ontario. His name is Shane and he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2005. Shane has suffered a relaspe after his treatment but has a wish that you can help fulfil. Shane is hoping to break the world’s record for the most birthday cards. His eighth birthday is May 30th.  I first heard about this from my oldest son James, whose highschool is collecting birthday cards for Shane. The card below and some others that I already have  on hand will be going off to help Shane fulfil his wish. I know how caring and helpful my fellow cardmakers and papercrafters are! If you could send Shane some birthday cards to help make his wish come true, that would be fabulous…here is the address…

Shane Bernier
PO Box 484
Lancaster, Ontario
K0C 1N0
Canada

If you would like to visit Shane’s web-site to learn more about him and his wish…just click SHANE’S WISH Thanks for helping!

I just love this Ruff Day dog set from Stampin Up! SOOO cute! So fun! I think my fave is the little dog with the beret on his head but this is a close second. I just had to make this card and have a little fun with the sentiment…Bone 2 B Wild! I’ve had lots of soft and pretty and lots of clean and Spring-like so it is time to shake things up a little around here! LOL If you take a look at my counter…I think it is pretty much time to have some more blog fun too! Check back soon!

Bone 2 B Wild

I actually came up with this sentiment idea when I was brain-storming for a Design Call. While making a quick stop at my local scrapbook store a few months ago….my oldest son actually came in the store with me!  (Perhaps it was to breathe down my neck to make sure I didn’t get lost in there!) He saw this fun Harley Davidson tread pattern paper and wanted me to make something with it. I just about dropped…not too often he comments about anything I’m working on unless it is (as he thinks) constructive critism. LOL One thing that is kind of amusing though…Papercrafts seems to take a lot of the designs he hates, so I try to design things he is really going to dislike.;)

For this card I started off with a top hinged card made from black cardstock. The cool Harley Davidson is actually pre-embossed…I just love the texture of it. I added a strip of it down the right side leaving a large space on the left and a tiny border of black on the right. I then added a narrow strip of Sahara Sand cardstock and evenly set eyelets the whole length of the strip. I used my favorite tool…my Crop-a-dile for this. The design was actually planned with its limitations in mind…you can only set eyelets so far from the edge with the Crop-a-dile, so I plan around that. I just hate having to go back to a regular eyelet setter!

For the main image, I stamped this fun little party dog onto sahara sand cardstock and then watercolored him. I inked the edges of my paper with basic black ink direct from the ink pad and kind of swiped it to give it that edgy look. For the sentiments, I used my Dymo label maker. I love it for creating sentiments that I don’t have stamps or rub-ons for and I really think it adds to the “industrial” look of this card. The little bone paperclip I added on to highlight the Be Wild. It is from Staples Business Dept and a package of them are really fun and reasonable. The last little touch I added was some paper piercing. I thought the left side of my design needed a little subtle definition so I pierced a little bracket of holes along the left side and around the corners with my mat pack.

 Supply List:

Cardstock: Black, Sahara Sand – Stampin Up

Patterned Paper: Harley -Embossed Paper “Diamond Plate”

Stamps: Ruff Day – Stampin Up

Ink: Basic Black, Sahara Sand, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie

Other: pewter brads – Making Memories, Dymo label maker, Bone Paperclip- Staples Business Depot, Mat Pack – Stampin Up, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers