The Bulletin Board is Up!

Well, here it is! I went to church
today and went back to the nursery
and my niece, Angela had put up the
bulletin board! I think she did an
awesome job!!! They are going to
take pics of the kids and I am
going to use a scalloped punch to
punch out their faces and put them
in the center of the flowers. Now it
looks like Spring, just in time for
Easter.


Below are close ups of it. The flower
and bugs were made with the Walk
in My Garden Cartridge. I think I
used the Plantin Schoolbook cart
for the letters. I will check later.

I had fun making these up. I love
using my stickles.

I stickles everything here. Even
used some rhinestones for eyes!

More...The 1 set of bees has yellow
stickles, & the other set has black
stickles, along with all the lady bugs.

I used 7 and 7 1/2 inch size for the flowers.


I cutout 3 different kinds of stems. I
used the Swiss Dot Embossing
Folder for the top of the pot. The
top lip of the pot, I used Bazzill
shiny copper looking paper. (you
can't really tell in the pic...no
sun in my sunroom that day.)

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I
had making it!
See you later!

Brenda

Tonight's the Night!!!

Wow!!! Have I been busy preparing for our Faithful Friends Night at church!!! The boxes are packed and full of goodies to play with. I have made up 3 cards and our Pastor's wife, Vicky made up a gift card holder and a card. The ladies will be busy tonight! If some really like it, we can start having crops more often. These are the cards we will be making! Wish you all could be there!!!



Recipe:
Stamp-PTI Everyday Buttons Bits
Paper-PTI Raspberry Fizz, White, & Raspberry Fizz Mix
Ink=PTI Raspberry Fizz, SU Kiwi Kiss
Ribbon & Buttons-PTI Raspberry Fizz
Cuttlebug, Swiss Dot embossing Folder, Spellbinders

Close up



For this card I stamped the leaves and flowers on
the Kraft paper. Then I cut it into 4 pieces.



Recipe:
Stamp-Stampin Up Treasury of Memories for
the leaves and stems, PTI Floral Fusion
(which I got for free at this past summers CHA)
PTI Labels for the spellbinders
Paper-PTI Vintage Cream, Lavender Moon,
& Kraft
Ribbon-PTI New Leaf
Rhinestones-Kaiserkraft, Spellbinder with Cuttlebug



Recipe:
Stamp- PTI Wishing You
Paper- PTI Berry Sorbet & White
Ink-PTI Berry Sorbet, SU Kiwi Kiss, Black
Martha Stewart Punch, Ribbon-From HL
Spellbinders
Added Stickles after the pic-Star Dust

Oh, here's something for fun, Rachel
stopped in my room and took this
from last night getting it all ready,
WHAT A MESS!!! This is just what's
in front of me. I'll clean it up and
post pics later....promise.






I had a great time and they LOVED
making cards! I had several people
say they were very interested in
meeting on our own. I told them
let's do it! How Fun!
Thanks for looking. Brenda

YEAH, I was Featured on SSC!!!

Wow, I woke up this morning and I had emails telling me that I was featured on Simply Scrapping Crafts!!! I just joined this week and I was one of the two named as Guest Designer of the Week!!!! How cool is that???? The card they featured is the Happy Birthday card. So both of my circle cards was Featured at two different times this week. How's that for starting off! See below what they posted on the main site. You go to www.simplyscrapping.ning.com to view the front page and it's on the left side bar just down a little.

This is what they have on the front page if you don't go and see.

Visit our Guest Designer Page for their Creations. Is is located in the subtab of Featured Designer's at the top of the page.

SSC is proud to present Jenny Bavaro Our Guest Designer of the Week! Stop in and visit her page and Gallery.

Our Second Guest Designer of the week is Brenda Raleigh and her Card-"Happy Birthday"

Check out her Gallery here! Way to go! Simply Scrapping DT

Thanks for letting me share the good news!
Brenda

My Card was "Featured " Today!!!

I joined another awesome site www.simplyscrapping.ning.com (click the link and go to the bottom of the page) last night and this morning I woke up and found my card on the Gallery's front page, Top Line!!!! I shared the Top with 4 others and it has remained there all day!!! It's pretty exciting!!! I took a pic, yes I know I'm silly but that would be the only way you could see it without going there and joining.....which you should if you love to scrap.



See it on the left!



OK enough of this. Thanks for putting up with me today.
Brenda

TAKE TWO!!!

Just another take from the card below, I made it a birthday card. Will make more because it's fast and easy. I really like the Spring Moss paper from PTI. I'm starting to use the spring colors. Bring on Spring!!! Wanted to show everyone, Enjoy!



Close up



Recipe for this card is:

Stamp Unknown bought it years ago
Paper True Black and Spring Moss from PTI and the
circle paper is from ColorBok (from Michaels)
Ribbon Spring Moss from PTI
Kaisercraft Pearls

Thanks for looking!
Brenda

My Latest Card

We went to a wedding this past weekend and I went into my room and could not find a wedding card. I had to do the unthinkable...go buy a card. Enough of that!!! So last night I made this card up. I think I will make several of this one using different colors with the black and white. I like putting all the pearls on.



Close up of the pearls



The products I used are:

Stamp- unknown(bought it 4 years ago at Archivers)
Paper-PTI Lavender Moon, The Paper Studio-Black and White
Ribbon-PTI Lavender Moon
Kaisercraft pearls, Spellbinders,

Thanks for looking!

Brenda

Think Spring, Think Spring!

Well, today I took advantage of an empty house. Mike is out and Rach went sled riding. So it is just Bo and I hanging in my craft room. What a nice time we had. I wanted to use my new Copic markers, so I had to find a stamp that I could color. I had this heart one out because of Valentines and decided to use it. I always like shades of purple, lavender, and greens together, throw in a little yellow and this is what I came up with today! Hope you enjoy it!

A Spring Hello


Close up using my Copic Markers!


Bottom of the card


These are the Copic Markers that I used! I love them, they are the best! I only own 46 out of the 334 that they make!!! I have a ways to go to finish my collection of them. I purchased a set of 36 off of Ebay and then I go to Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon and buy 1 or 2 at a time. So, if you ever need an idea of what to ever give me, now you know!!!! teehee


Products used for this card:

Green paper- Stampin Up
Lavender and purple paper unknown
Stamp- Stampin Up
Kaisercraft rhinestones
Spellbinders fancy tags
Ribbon- Stampin up
Punch-Martha Stewart
Stickles-Diamond (glitter on the ribbon)
Copic Sketch Markers

That's all for today, might start another card later tonight. Oh, one last thing, I went over to http://copiccreations.wordpress.com/ and saw this and thought it was cute;






I should print it off and make up a card....
Brenda

HOW WAS YOUR VALENTINE'S DAY?

Mine was pretty uneventful until we got home from church and lunch. I was busy talking on the phone to a friend and had noticed that Mike had disappeared upstairs for a long time. After I got off the phone, I called up there and asked him what he was doing. I thought he said laying, which I thought resting. I headed up and I saw him rushing out of my craft room "Laying down I said???" and he told me he said "PLAYING!!!..not LAYING!!!" I said "What are you doing in there?" He said "Oh, you just couldn't stay downstairs for a few more minutes." What for I asked while I was walking in the room. And then I saw what he was up to!!!! He was making me a Valentine's Day card. Can you believe it??? Along with the card, he gave me a flowering plant too! This is the most special card that I have ever received. How cool is this??? Isn't he the greatest!!! This is why I love him so much. Thanks Mike your awesome!

He said he didn't get to finish it, that he was looking for a small alphabet set to stamp "Mike" in the middle of the heart. I told him to go ahead and finish it be he said that was OK. So, below is his finished card that he made. I hope it's not his last. It was such a great surprise. Love ya, Mike. Bren

Mikes Man Card!!!


Now for the recipe for this card:

Mike used the Diamond embossing folder with the cuttlebug.
(For his background...Look hard and you will see..Didn't show to well in pic.)
He cut the heart out with the cricut
He used Color Box Cat's Eye Cranberry Ink
Papertrey Ink Paper
Stamp set is Be Mine from Hobby Lobby

This is the plant he gave me. Too cute!!!

My First Card Post for this blog!!!

Can you believe it? I finally got to make a couple of cards this week. This is the reason I started up my blog. It feels great! I really need to clean up my craft room and when I do I will post a few pics. Mike has made me a few things to help organize all of my things. Matter of fact he has been working on one this week in the garage. Can't wait for him to hang it in my room!!!

My first card to post is a Valentine card.



Here's a close up



The supplies that I used are:

Stamp-Stampin Up
Paper- DCWV
Pearls- Kaisercraft
Punch-Martha Stewart Heart
Stickles
Square Spellbinder, and cuttlebug heart dies

My next card today is a birthday card



Close up



Close up



Inside the card is Celebrate



Stamp set is unknown--I will try and find out
Paper- DCWV
Copic Markers
Rhinestones-Kaisercraft
Spellbinders, ribbon

That's it for today. Hope to make a couple of more cards this weekend. Thanks for looking!!!

BO IS FEELING BETTER!!!

Bo in the snow

Rachel gave him this Valentine Heart

Bo

Sorry that it's been awhile since I have posted. For the last 3 weeks Bo has been sick. Long story short he started with an eye infection and ended up not eating or drinking for over a week. He ended up at the emergency vet and spent the night and then we transferred him to our regular vet. where he stayed 3 more nights. After many test, they thought he must have swallowed a foreign object. He was headed to surgery, but they said lets do a Chemistry blood test, which we are pretty sure we wouldn't find anything because he is so young(2 1/2 years old). But unfortunately, he came up with a problem related to his kidneys. They did fluid therapy and we brought him home and the latest news is he has improved!

Our next step is to wait 2 weeks and retest him. I am cooking for him, trying to put more weight on him as he lost 9 pounds. He is doing so much better, eating, running in the snow, and now he is barking more than ever especially at the Cincinnati Bell commercial that has a hairy stuff animal in it and the Disney commercial with miss piggy ...... Go figure....it's great seeing him up and about.

MY BLOG CANDY IS HERE!!!

How exciting to receive my blog candy from Lisa. You out did yourself for your first give-away!

Thank you so much!!! Lisa had a contest at her blog http://the-purple-place.blogspot.com/2010/01/brendas-blog-candy.html This has been a lot of fun.
Lisa, thank you for your cute card, it was so thoughtful.

AND NOW FOR THE BLOG CANDY

I ANSWERED A FEW QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT I

ALREADY HAD SO SHE WOULD KNOW IF I COULD

USE IT.

SHE ASKED IF I OWNED A CUTTLEBUG, YEAH

LISA, MY COPICS CAME TODAY AND NOW I CAN

LOAD THEM UP IN THE WALLET!!!

SHE KNEW THAT I LOVE GREEN

HOW AWESOME IS ALL OF THIS?

LISA OUT DID HERSELF DON'T YOU THINK?

I CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED USING ALL OF

THIS!!!

THANK YOU LISA

WOOHOO!!!! I WON MY FIRST BLOG CANDY!!!!

I am a member of the QVC scrapbook forum in Yahoo and a member (Lisa) had a contest to guess which color family of paper she had the most of and how many. Well, I guessed green and 200 pages of paper. Guess what she had 202. She was very kind and sent me an email asking me a few questions on if I own a Cuttlebug, and if I own Copic markers. My answer to both was YES! Lisa has packed up a box and has already shipped it me. I should receive it on Wednesday or Thursday.
I can't wait to see what's in the box. This below is what she has posted on her blog http://the-purple-place.blogspot.com/

I WILL POST PICS OF WHAT I WON LATER THIS WEEK.
AGAIN, THANKS LISA!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Brenda Raleigh who is the WINNER of my very first BLOG CANDY Contest!

The color of cardstock that I ended up having the VERY MOST of was GREEN!!!! Yes, it was actually the GREEN family....Not PURPLE......imagine that! I was totally shocked and that's what gave me the idea of using this as my very first contest. I thought for certain it would be Purple, but it was GREEN and the total sheets of CardStock I have in that Category is 202 Sheets, Brenda guessed 200, which was a fantastic guess!!

This was Brenda's guess --

January 6, 2010 5:49 PM

Brenda Raleigh said...

Ooops Lisa I forgot to leave the number guess above when I answered before. I was trying to listen to my daughter and leave a comment. Didn't work! So a guess 200 in the green shade. Thanks.

Thanks to everyone for playing along! I plan to offer more contests and BLOG candy again soon!

Brenda - Please email me at Purple_Place@verizon.net - I will need your home mailing address and will plan to send your goodie package out this week!