OMG!!!!!!

Well it has been over a year since I have been here!!!!! Tammy was reminding me of the SU Color combo site and I had to come and check it out on my own blog.....Surprising I still know the password!!! Hopefully I will no be getting back into the swing of things (that's what I said on my last post over a year ago!!!) So check back soon you may be surprised!!!!

Wow Where Have I Been.......

Hello there everyone!!! Stampin' Valley Girl is back on the Blog band wagon after along down time!! For those of you who do not jnow where I was I was in the process of building a house, working, finding out I was going to have a baby, moving and now getting ready for the baby to arrive!!!

So this is why I have been on the missing!!!! Hopefully now that I have moved and have HIGH SPEED INTERNET (excited) I will be able to start posting more often so make sure that you check back on a regular basis!!!!!!

Till next time!!!

Doodle Time!!!

Well hope this has been worth the wait.....I finally took well actually MADE some time to stamp tonight!!! So I decided to break in Doodle This. I love this stamp set and I am so glad that I got it!!! When ever I look at it I just have to smile. I like the fact that it looks like someone actually drew the little doodle....hence the name LOL!!! SO I was cruising on SCS and seen this card so I decided to CASE it. Here the card base is Certainly Celery, I then used a Cool Caribbean piece of CS and paper pierced it and then I put some Polka dots and Paisley DS paper. I stamped teh squiggle on CC with white craft ink. I then stamped the doodle flowers on WW with BB, and water colored them in. I cut them out (which I will never do again, but it was not near as bad as the trees!!) and stuck them together with a flower brad. Slapped on a pop dot and put it on the card. I then finished it off with some of my AWESOME ribbon from Jody's Ribbon Swap and TA-DA the card that you have all been waiting for!!!

Speaking of Jody's Ribbon Swap, I received a package from her on Thursday with so May Arts ribbon that I ordered. It is so delish!!! I will post a pic tomorrow. I have not received my polka dot ribbon share yet, as a couple of the colors were on back order. I think she said that they will be in the mail by next week. I will keep you all posted. Why don't you all head over to her blog Confessions of a Ribbon Addict and check out the awesome share that she has going on right now!!! Of course I have placed my order!!!!

That's all for now!!! Happy Stamping!!!

Missing in Action???

OMG.....My faithful blog readers, I am so sorry for the lack of posting that I have done in the month of March!!!! I have just been so wrapped up with the arrival of our new nephew, the building of our new house, and me working all of the wonky hours at my place of employment!! I know that is no excuse!! So I just thought that I would update you that I am still going strong!
Now I do have to admit that I have not stamped, scrapped, or altered anything in that whole length of time that I took off. But once I get all of my stuff together I will have some wonderful creations for you to check back on!!!
Now I am not going to give you a time to check back on in case I do not honour that!! But keep coming back to see the wonderful stuff that I will have made!!!
Once again THANK YOU for checking up on me!!!!
*HUGS* Michelle

He's Finally Here!!

The first baby Marshall has finally arrived!!! Lucas Patrick Marshall lept into this world at 11:30ish this am, weighing 8lbs 91/2 ozs!!!! After a long long long night he finally decided to come out this morning. At first Victoria was going to name him Lucas, but she said that if he was bonr on St. Patrick's Day that she would use Patrick as a middle name!! I have not yet been to see him and it is so totally killing me. I think that maybe tomorrow I will go and pay a visit. So here is the card that I made for the new baby and mom.

The card uses one of the new spring mini sets called 'Bundle of Joy' I love this tamp set!!! The card base is barley banana, the next layer is , very vanilla, and the bashful blue stamped with canvas in bashful blue. I then used my markers and inked part of the announcement stamp and only stamped bundle of joy on very vanilla cs and punched it out with my sm oval punch, mounted it on gable green punched with my lg punch. Stamped that cute bear in basic brown used my markers to color him in, mounted him on barley banana, added some ribbon from Jody's swap and there you have it. The ribbon that I put on the card matches the barley banana cs, excellent!!!

That's all for now from Auntie Michelle :)

Bodacious Bouquet

Here is the other card that I totally cased from Atomic Butterfly. I used all of the same paper and ink. The card is a little bit larger that the other card I made last night. It is a 51/2" square this time instead of a 5x5 square. I used Always Artichoke for the card base then I used some of the Sarah DS paper. I used always artichoke and apricot appeal markers to ink up my stamps. I used Bodacious Bouquet and Small Sayings. Added some more hodgepodge HW, and a non SU brad, and tied it together with my awesome ribbon from Jody's Ribbon share.

Now for something non stamping related!!!! I am going to be a Aunt anytime now!!! We got the phone call at 7:30 pm that my SIL was in the hospital. Her contractions at that time were 6 mins apart and her water had not broke at that time. They were up walking around to try and help her progress. I was going to go to the hospital but I have to work in the morning at 7:00am and probably would not make it if we get that big storm. I called everyone to see if they would switch but of course not!! So I have to stay at home wondering what is going on there. My MIL went to the hospital so she will call and let us know what is going on. I am really disappointed that I am not going to be there to share in this special occasion. Maybe if I did not feel so guilty about missing work I would be sitting there right now. If it was through the week I would not feel as bad, but we are really strapped for workers and it would not be fair to let them work short, at least I think so, but other people do not feel that way! So my MIL took my camera, I hope she gets some good scrapping pics!! LOL I think that me and Chris will go up to the hospital tomorrow if they don't mind. I will call my BIL and ask him what he thinks!!! Well that's all for now. Hope you have a good night! I know I wont get ANY sleep!!!

Happy, Happy, Happy

I thought that was appropriate because there is just so many Happy's on this card. I just got the stamp set 'Bodacious Bouquet' and I decided to give it a go last night. SO when I got home from work I went to SCS to see if I could get inspired. While I did get inspired I seen this card made by an excellent stamper named Atomic Butterfly. Wow her work is awesome and i think that she may have been one of the featured stampers a couple of Sundays on SCS. SO when I seen this card I just knew I had to CASE it. On her original she used the Sarah DS paper and coordinating colors of CS and ink. I thought That I would change it up and use the Rebecca DS paper and coordinating CS and ink, but I so totally wish that I would have cased heres to a T. But I am some what happy with the out come.

Here's some details about that card. It is a 5x5 square. I paper pierced the Choc. Chip piece of CS in the middle. Distressed the Very Vanilla CS with my Heidi Swapp Paper Distersser, stamped off the Choc. Chip ink to give it the lighter leaves, only used 1/2 of the happy everything stamp, added some GG ribbon and some HPH and there you have it!!! Hope you understand me??!! I just love how the ribbon is wrapped on this card!! I think that I will do the original one tomorrow and post if for you then!! That's it for today!!!

Yay, and brand new episode of Grey's Anatomy tonight YES!!!!!