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!!!!!

Gramas' Quilt

This is what this page reminds me of. I love all of the different Basis Grey Blush papers that I used on this page, everything just flowed together. This is one of my favorite pics from the wedding and there were so many taken!!!

So on this page all that I did was left a 1" border around the outside of the page and cut each block 2x2". So that means that the patterned paper made a 10"square. I left the picture 4x6, added some stickers and there you have it a fairly easy page. I actually was really easy just time consuming, because you had to cut out every square. All I did was cut a 12" piece of PP and cut it every 2" well that was easy and then you have to stick them all down!!! For adhesive I use a easy runner, I like that for my scrap booking because it is cleaner and easier that regular glue. Now for my card making I use the good ol' Stampin' Up Anywhere Glue Stick.

So that all for today. I think that tomorrow I will surprise you with a card creation!!! Stay tuned!!

Happy Scrappin'

I thought that was an appropriate title for this post because that is what I did last night. I went "Gang Busters" on the scrap booking!!! LOL I made 6 pages last night, I am just so proud of myself. With a little help from PageMaps and ScrapMaps I made these awesome pages. So I am not going to show them to you all at once I will just give you a look at one I did for now.

Well actually it is two pages, it is a double page layout. So for these two pages I used my fabulous Basic Grey Blush paper and some Bazzil Basics textured C/S. I used the Stampin' Up Ticket Corner punch and the Corner Rounder. I used my Short Order Alphabet for the titles and it is stamped in Basic Brown Ink. I had all these stickers and rub ons kicking around and decided to use them. So on the first page I put stickers that said "together" "fate" and "a glance". Th brads at the bottom of the page are from Photo Memories and they were wedding themed. These ones are of a dove and the circle one says "our Wedding Day".

On the second page I used some Dollarama Brads on the 4x6 photo on the corners, I thought that I made it look classic. I added a pocket love note and journaled inside of it with my SU Signo White Gel Pen (LOVE IT). The journaling says "When the doors to the church opened and I seen all of the family and friends standing there, looking at me, I did not think that I would be able to make it down that long isle. But, when I seen you, Chris, standing there looking, and smiling at me, I knew that I would make it down that isle to YOU." Ha ha, I think that I sounds funny because I am not that mushy type of person, but I do like how it turned out! I added some more of those brads from Photo Memories and some non SU ribbon, and the title and ta-da I had finished this layout in about 30 mins. Gotta love that!!!

Well hope you all enjoyed that. Be sure to come back for the rest of the album!!!

Tangled Up in RIBBON!!!

Well I can't remember if I had said that I participated in a ribbon share in Feb or not, so I will recap what I did. I found this blog from SCS and decided to check it out. And wow what a blog it is!! It just so happened that this lady was doing a ribbon share and I decided to sign up. A ribbon share is when the person hosting it buys vast quantities of ribbon and cuts it up so everyone gets some. Well I'm telling you that I am so glad that I signed up for this!!! Just look at all of the goodies that I received in the mail. When I opened up the box it burst open with ribbon. The ribbon all coordinates with the SU colors, but IT IS NOT STAMPIN' UP RIBBON. This is neat because there are so many colors that you can not buy but you wish that you had. I know that a lot of the girls are buying white ribbon and dying it, which I have done also but I thought that I would give this a try, and I am pleased with the outcome. Not only did I get solid colors but I got striped colors as well. I got 30 different clolrs of solid

ribbon, thats 300 yards WOW, and 10 different colors of striped ribbon which is 100 yards. So I think that I am good on the ribbon for a while!!

Here is the blog address of where I purchased my spot in the ribbon share. I signed up for a polka dot share and that should be arriving in the next couple of weeks as well!!

It been a while.....

Since my last post. I have to admit that I have been slacking in the card and scrap booking department!!! I did manage to make this totally awesome gift for my friend at work who is having a baby next month. I made her a altered paint can and packed it with lots and lots of goodies that hopefully will come in handy for her and her little bundle of joy.

I had a hard time trying to pick out baby stuff that was either boy or girl, she does not know what she is having. So I decided on some practical stuff like: wash cloths, a bib, a white diaper shirt, baby powder, baby wash, baby soap, baby shampoo, a bottle, and a little toy to finish it off. I also made a post it note holder and altered a pen but did not have any micro beads so it is just covered with paper. The note pad and pen are for her to write down any important milestones that happen and then all she has to do is put it in the pail and then when she goes to preserve them just get the pail and they are all there. I though that was a neat idea, I seen it on another blog that I check.

The paper that I used is from Basic Grey Lily Kate collection and used some non SU ribbon to decorate. I just love how this turned out. I traced my chipboard letters from SU and cut them out and stuck them to the front of the can, they spell BABY. I would have put the baby's name there but since she does not know what she is having I just put that there instead. For the cover I copied the verse from 'A New Little Someone' and put it on the cover. I love that stamp set, I think that I may have to get it. Don't know why but I really like it to make some baby cards with.

Well here's an update on my sister in law: Last Monday she was 1 cm dilated, today her husband had to take her to the hospital because she was showing some signs of early labour, but I guess that I was a false alarm because they sent them home. But a couple of hours after they got home the hospital did call and make sure that she was doing alright. I thought that was really nice of them to do that. So her due date is tomorrow, so hopefully soon I will be a Aunt!! I am so excited for them. I do have to cover those letters that I bought for them so they can put them in the baby's room.

Well guess that is all for now, kinda long seeing how its been a while. I'll try to post something tomorrow. I work 7-3 so hopefully I will be able to come home and do some paper stuff!!!

Till later!!!

If Only.....

Well I have got to tell you all to go and check out this blog!!! Tammy aka More than a CODmaker e-mailed me this link and you have got to go check out this woman's awesome ways of organizing her photos!!! If I only was so patient and had way more time, maybe mine would look like that!!! Well no photo today just that link!!!
Hope you all out there weathered the storm well like I did!!!!

Itty Bitty Book

Well I decided to get a quick post in tonight before I retire for the night in front of the t.v. Let's see first I watch ER, and then Gray's Anatomy, and then CSI: and then finish it off with Survivor if I can stay up that late!! Which tonight I probably wont because I have to get up at 5:45 am to go to work tomorrow morning!!!!

So this is one of the Stampin' Up Itty Bitty Books that they have had in the last three mini catalogues. I have a funny feeling that they will be in the next Idea Book and Catalogue. I used the Enchante paper to cover it and my handy dandy Modpodge to glue it down with. I sanded all the edges and sponged them with Elegant Eggplant. Added some non SU ribbon a chipboard tag and some copper cord.

For the inside book I put a piece of my pewter Hodgepodge Hardware on the cover and sponged all around that with Elegant Eggplant too. Not quite sure what type of pictures I am going to put in the book or if I am going to keep it or give it away??!! Haven't made up my mind yet!!

Well my sister in law has not had her baby yet. Mind you she still has 11 days left to go!!! I am so excited for that little bundle of joy to come out so we can all meet him!!!!!

That's all for today. Hope you enjoy your night as much as I will!!!!

A trip to "Two Much Fun"!!!

Well I know that it has been awhile since I have been posting. I have just been stalking around checking out everybody blogs. Stampin Around made a comment that she thought that we all may have been at our cabins, but no I have not been at the cabin I have been laying around on the couch, and of course working!!! Friday was my only day off last week so I decided to take a trip to Two Much Fun our local scrap booking store. Well what an adventurous trip that was. I had only went there to get some 12x12 paper and pick up two things that I had ordered but you should see what I came out with!!!! LOL!!!! Oh well I am sure that I can find use for all of the stuff that I bought!!! So lets see what did I get?? Well I got my 12x12 Bazzil paper that I wanted, then I needed some more of that awesome Basic Grey paper, then I had to buy three bottles of Stickles, and oh yes I needed some scrapbook paint, then I needed another EZ Runner, and I had almost made it to the cash and seen a Heidi Swapp edge distresser, and then I picked up me Crop-a-dial that I had ordered in, and then the wooden letters that I had also ordered!!! Well I think that is it. So you are all probably saying "lets see some of the creations that you have came up with!!" and the answer is I have not created in like a week!!!! I did come home and got into my Crop-a-dial and had to fight Chris off of it!! I think that he really likes it??!! I did play with that and I punched what ever I could get my hands on to!!! Oh well I was having fun!!!

I do have to work at 11pm tonight. Ahhhhh the dreaded night shift. I think that I will take some stuff with me and work on it!! So check back and see what I have done!!!

Thanks for checking on my blog and leaving me comments!!! I really enjoy the feed back!!!

No card but......

I do have a scrapbook page to share with you. It is the cover page for my wedding album that I am finally getting around to doing. I still need to add the date to this page. I covered the chip board letters with the Basic Grey paper and mod podged over them. I inked up the alphabets using some Making Memories scrapbook paint. I like the look it gave the stamped letters on the textured C/S. So I started like 2 years ago buying stuff to put in to my wedding album, but a trip to Two Much Fun made me buy all new stuff!! Its funny how one store can put so much pressure on one person!!! So for the 'new' wedding album I am using the Basic Grey Blush paper collection. I love it. I think that I may have mentioned that many other times!! The page that I submitted for the Two Much Fun Happy Heart contest uses the Basic Grey Blush paper so I decided to go from there. I just got some pictures back from the superstore the other day so all I have to do is mat them on the pages I created last week at my friends house. The pages are 12x12 and I do have some two page spreads in the album. I will try and post one tomorrow or Friday.

Last night I was at Stampin' Around's house for a Stampin' Up party. I had a good time and she had some wonderful snacks to boot!!! The nachos were Awesome!!!!!!

Here are the cards that we made at her house. The big blossom card is done using the technique Faux Shaving Cream. All you do is ink up your solid stamp and take a jumbo wheel and 'SMUDGE' ,that's Myleta's new technical word, off the ink. It is actually pretty cool. Stampin Thursdays blog has a card on done using this technique too I think??!! I was just there and I cant even remember!!! LOL but check it out!!!

So the winter mini catalogue is well over for us, the last order went in last night. I am so glad that I got the 'Big Pieces' stamp set. I love it , but you all know that by now too!!! The new spring mini catalogue is out and I cant wait to get my first order back from that!!! I love, love, love, love EVERYTHING in the catalogue!!! Well that's all for now folks. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Stamp Camp Projects

So here are some pictures from yesterdays stamp camp that I attended. The first picture is of some of the cards and other stuff we did. We made a 5x5 card using polka dots & daises, I really like that layout and that stamp set, then we made a card using delight in life and stickles, gotta get some of them now too. We made a card using carte postale, that's really fancy, that stamp set is growing on me too, and I have to make up my mind because the winter mini is coming to a end. Then we made a hot chocolate pouch to celebrate the MINWAX incident, and then a Chinese take out box!!! They were fun to make I feel a trip to Micheal's coming on!!!!

This picture is of a draw that I won and it was two cards. The first card uses the delight in life stamp set from sell-a-bration, and the other card uses polka dots and daises. They are just too cute!! I need to get one of the SU white gel pens they work so good, I am sick of buying those cheap ones that stop half way through yor project!!!

The next picture is of the stationary box we did. Love this idea and so great for a Xmas gift. Guess I gotta get on the ball!! Inside the box are four 41/4x51/2 cards with envelopes, four 3x3 cards with envelopes, a address book we altered and a beaded pen but I left mine at Happy Stampers, so f you are reading it I left it in your stamp room on the counter and it was covered using the dark purple paper with flowers on it!!! LOL

So that's it for now Enjoy!!!! I know I did!!!!

Stamp Camp.......

was such a fun time today!!! I want to say that Happy Stamper out did herself today once again. Not only were the projects AWESOME but the food was GREAT TOO!!!! And you all know that I love to eat. Happy Stamper came up with some great projects: Stationary set, that I have to get to the dollar store and get some boxes, Chinese Take-out Boxes, these were too cute, and a bunch of neat and awesome cards. So I am off to bed tired out from a fun filled day of stamping and gathering with old friends!! Thanks Happy Stamper for the fun times that you plan for all of you stamping students!!!:)

Shane's Card

Here is the card that I made for Shane. I used 'Cowboy Kid'. I seen a card like this on SCS and I really liked it so I decided to case it. For this card the card is Kraft paper then Cranberry Crisp, Old Olive, Buckaroo Blue, Choc. Chip, Close to Cocoa and Confetti Cream. Inks used were Black, Stazon, True Thyme, Buckaroo blue, and Watercolor Crayons. This was a fun card to make and I am sure that Shane will like it!!

Guess what tomorrow is?? STAMP CAMP at Happy Stampers Headquarters!!! YAYYYYY I am so excited. I have not been able to go to one for so long because I am always working. SO tomorrow I will post all of the wonderful projects that we make!!!

Birthday Cards For Shane

I was just on my friends blog Happy Stamper and here recent post was about this little boy who is dying from Leukemia, and his last wish is to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the most birthday cards. I think that we should all pitch in and help him to get his wish. You can get more info HERE. So please lets make that possible weather it is a homemade card or a card you bought.

Happy LOVE Day!!!!

Well yes that special time of year has rolled around again, Valentine's Day. I hope that you all had a special and memorable day with someone special. My dear darling husband managed to find me a 'Wife' card, and there is a story behind that but we wont go there!!! And he brought me home a lovely bouquet of peach and yellow iris' after I told him I only wanted a 'Wife' card!!! Well that's why I love him!!!

Hate to disappoint you all but I do not have a Valentine card to share just a card from today's sketch challenge. The card is not the greatest as the scan mushed all the colors together. The colors are Cranberry Crisp, Certainly Celery, and Apricot Appeal. The stamp is the 'Cool Wheel' and the ink is Cranberry Crisp. Hope you enjoy, just a simple sketch challenge.

Oh yes and I want to give a special shout out to my SIL on the commencement of her new blog entitled appropriately "More than a CODmaker". Great wok sis!!!