I am sorry I haven't been posting anything, I have had some really bad things going on and just haven't had time to stamp. I haven't made a card in weeks... 2 weeks ago my fiance' and I hit a deer on the turnpike coming North into Wichita. We are both ok. The deer came through the windshield and flipped backwards off the car thank goodness... I have some pictures to share of the car. Now we were able to put the car back together... It cost around $400 out of our own pocket as we only had liability on my car. But at least my car is still drivable. I have a silver hood but other than that I have a new windshield, new light, new wipers and a front clip. Thanks to my wonderful man who made it all possible to get us through the winter without a car payment.. hooray! Here are a few pictures to share... I hope everyone is having a great month and are ready for Thanksgiving, cause I sure am **happy dance**

I am organizing "Cards for Troops" what this means is I am needing at least 200 or more cards from you all to send to Iraq to wish our men/women a Merry Christmas! The deadline is November 20, 2009. All cards must be in my hands no later than that date or they can not be mailed. You can make as many cards as you want, but I want them to be Christmas Theme. You are also welcome to make anything else you wish to be mailed to our troops. I will list my mailing address at the bottom of this post. I want to send Holiday Cheer to our troops on Christmas Day as it is so hard for them and their families being apart this year. If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to email me at sweetsunflwr@gmail.com I look forward to getting this done in time for the Holiday's if you will please post this information on your blogs, I would appreciate it so much! Let's do something special for our troops this year and make their Christmas a special one!

Stephanie Martin
781 N Custer
Wichita, KS 67203

Another Happy Birthday card using my Bella Stamp. I used white card base, then black then Pink Stitch from The Paper Studio. I adhered some flowers to the top left of the card, then a Black base and I used my corner punch to give the corners a rounded look. I colored her in with watercolored pencils. I added some diamond stickles to the 2nd present she is holding. I also adhered 2 hot pink and black ribbons to the card. She turned out really cute and I am pleased. This stamp I do actually have but my devine sister did send me a few of these stamp images (she didn't know I had them) Have a wonderful Sunday folks. I think I might put together a Halloween card for my great neices and nephews in Texas. They just love getting cards from me.

Happy Birthday Bella Card! I recently got a cuttlebug and let me tell you, I am enjoying it so much. I didn't have any die's so my boss at work she gave me some dies to play around with. I used several dies for this card - I ran each one through the cuttlebug using different colored paper. I then used the circle spellbinders set and die cut them through the cuttlebug and adhered them to the card and as you can see they are different sizes along with different die prints on them. The Bella image is one from my big sister through Devine Sister Siblings Group at Split Coast. She has sent me several Bella images for me to play with. I colored her in with water colored pencils, I added fruit punch stickles for the cherry on top of the cupcake and then I added diamond stickles to the bottom of the cupcake as well as purple stickles on the polka dots on her dress! Stickles are my New Best Friend!!! I love them. The Happy Birthday sentiment is from a word document that I printed and cut to shape the card. I tied it with a pretty purple ribbon. This card is going to a African American friend of mine whose birthday is on Tuesday :) I am having a wonderful weekend - I have done some scrapbooking - As I go through birth pictures, crawling pictures and several others I stop and think how quickly time has gone raising my daughters. Both my children are growing up my oldest with graduate next year. I just can't believe it. Sad because I miss them being small but also a blessing watching them grow, and seeing all the things they have accomplished in their life. I love them so very much.... I have another card to post I hope all of you are having a great weekend... Halloween is almost here! My favorite time. But what is funny I haven't made not one Halloween card. Maybe I should put together some tonight. :)

This is my card using my new Inkadinkado set! This little turtle is one of many animals in this set. I colored this cute little guy in with watercolored pencils and added purple stickles to the circles on him. The paper is My Mind's Eye called Purple Circles, then Penny Lane Purple Flowers. I added the sentiment "Hey There" using word document. Added some flowers and 2 brads at the top of the card as well as my circle punch. Pretty cute!

I have some cards to upload tonight and I can't wait to share. Life has been busy... real busy. I hope everyone is having a great Thursday. It is getting cold here in Wichita, our high today is 42! YIKES! Until tonight ladies have a happy stamping day! :)

This is an image that my Big Sis sent me in our DSS challenge off SplitCoaststampers. I colored the image in with watercolored pencils and added stickles to the purse and the big dog... I also added the 3 little beads to the right side of the card which totally messed up and got glue around one of them so I decided to put some stickles around all 3 to cover it up and I don't like that part of the card at all. The sentiment was printed from "word" and adhered to the card stock. Otherwise really cute card. Been so busy at work and we have been restriced to internet sites and one of them being my blog AGGGHHH! I normally do all my posts from work and now I have to be careful when posting... I hope all of you are having a great day! I hope to be back soon to post more... Talk to you soon!

Here is another Christmas card using my Classic Snowflake paper. I think out of the 3 different sketches I like this one the best. And I am not even using my new snowflake punch which I am a little bummed but oh well. Tell me what you all think? Have a great evening- I can't wait for the weekend, we are going to Haunted Houses on Saturday night it should be a blast! :) wink!

Awwww! Isn't she adorable? I love how this card turned out! I used Birthday Polka Dots and Birthday Stripes on this card, card base is orange with yellow layered over it. I adhered a bright yellow ribbon to the card- I colored her in with watercolor pencils and added some "fruit punch" stickles to the pink polka dots and "diamond" stickles to the green and yellow polka dots. I also adhered the "25" to the card using glitter stickers. I cut her out to adhere her to the card... gosh that wasn't very easy but all in all it turned out really cute. This is so Corissa! She is all bright and bubbly so I knew this card would be perfect for her.

A friend of mine asked me to make her Mother a "50th" Birthday card and this is what I decided to do. I punched out several different peices of patterned paper using my circle punch. I then used my scalloped punch in black to adhere all the circle punches to. I added 3 dazzle beads and a beautiful red ribbon. I also adhered with glitter stickers "50" I sure hope she likes it. I have a few more cards to upload this morning. Hope all of you have a happy stamping Wednesday!

I put a few cards together lastnight but I haven't had a chance to upload them to my blog. I purchased some stickles this past weekend and I think stickles are now my new best friend. I couldn't believe how well they make a card pop! I made a birthday card lastnight and I used two different colors of stickles- I left the card at home so it could finish drying. I upload my pictures here at work since the system is so much faster. I hope to have my pictures uploaded for you all tomorrow. I had a fantastic weekend my honey and I won over $2500 at the Casino's this weekend. Yes Yes I am a Casino junkie but it was well worth the trip... Have a great Tuesday Peeps! :) Wink!

This next card is a Christmas card I am working on what layout I really want to utilize for this. I purchased the classic snowflake paper the other night and I am just experimenting different layouts. I am not sure if I like this one or not? I always seem to have a problem creating Christmas cards. Not that good at it. Tell me what you think? I posted another one scroll down my blog there is another layout using this paper. Everyone have a wonderful wonderful weekend. I am going out of town tonight with my gorgeous honey to spend some time away from it all... TTYL!

This card I put together for my bosses wife. She loves ships and lighthouse etc. I used my Inkadinkado set for this card. Using dark brown for card base layered in light blue I stamped the 3 images on watercolor paper so I could give the effect of water under the boat. I also put some stickles on the sun to make it a little brighter and then I stamped the little bird down in the lower right hand corner. I added 3 buttons to make and a beige ribbon. He loved it when I showed it to him this morning. Today is my Friday I happened to work for a co-worker on Sunday so I am off tomorrow 3 day weekend ---Happy Dance--- :) I have another card to post it is for Christmas. I am experimenting with Christmas cards so I can get exactly what I want to mail out this year.

My sister's best friend was just diagnoised with stage 1 breast cancer. Her name is Judy she is devistated. So I made her a card to send in the mail today to let her know that we are all thinking about her during this difficult time. The card base is orange, layered is olive green. The patterned paper is from "My Mind's Eye" and is called "Spring In Bloom" the "Thinking of You" stamp is I believe from stampendous not exactly sure. The ribbon is from Stampin up and then I adhered some prima flowers and added 2 dazzel beads. I sure hope this lifts her spirits with this terrible news she was given about a week ago. I hope all of you have a wonderful Wednesday! The weekend is almost here! Hooray!!! I hope to create something new tonight to post tomorrow... I am in a creating mood this week.

Here is my take on Spoon full of Sugar Challenge - the sketch this week is Christmas Cards. Card base is more of a brick red, the patterned paper is "Classic Snowflake" from The Paper Studio. I used my new snowflake punch for the embellishments and then I adhered 2 brads to the center of each snowflake. The sentiment is stampendous "Merry Christmas" I also used a white ribbon with a little bit of red on the edges. Very cute quick Christmas card. I have one more card to upload this morning it is Wednesday "Hump Day" we are almost to the weekend ladies "happy dance" :)

See card below:

Here is my take on the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I used red card stock for base of this card, then white and then green. The patterned paper is Vertical Christmas from "The Paper Studio" My stamped image is one that I have had for many years and I do not know the name of it. It came in a box of stamps that I purchased on ebay. I colored the image in with colored pencils and I added some white stickles to the bells and stars. Added a nice green ribbon. The sentiment is from my new Inkadinkado set. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I was only able to make this card lastnight as it was so late when I got home. Hope everyone has a happy stamping Tuesday!

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This is a little basket I made for my Devine Sister Sibling Group. I honestly can not tell you where I found this idea? I sure do wish I knew. It was so simple to make and turned out so cute! You would need double sided paper for this project. *note* I took 2 12x12 sheets and glued them together* I let them dry. I then folded the paper into this adorable little basket. I added some treats for her as well. I have 3 stamps some Rhinestones Strass, altoids and a little picture frame for her. We have to spend within a 3 month time period $15 on our little Sis. This will be my gift to her. I hope she likes it? After I folded the paper and made the basket- I added 2 lovely polka dotted flowers, I added 2 brass brads to the center and then I used my "sending you hugs" from the card maker kit I received last month. I just love this! You could fill this up with anything- candy, hot chocolate, marshmellows, popcorn it is a really neat and easy idea. If I do run across where I found the idea I will surely post it on my blog. That is all I have to post today! I hope to make some more wonderful creations tomorrow. Hope you enjoy my posts this morning!

This next card I am posting was very easy to do. It is a Thank You card using glitter stickers. The card base is light brown. I also cut a square peice of patterned paper for the bottom of the card and adhered 3 buttons to match some patterned paper. I took my white gel pen and added the dots around the whole card to give it dimension. Pretty cute and easy way to make a thank you card if you are in a hurry.