Valentine Fish...

Hello, thanks for visiting my blog today. I wanted to show you one last Valentine before Sunday (Valentine's Day). I think I’ve shown you most of the others I’ve made. Seems like I've been postsing them a long time--but then I do love Valentine's Day. First I’ll show you my fish card we are making in class this month. This one is a cute card to send to anyone for almost any occasion. Kids especially will love it. The bodies of the fish are made with the ornament punch. I know, I know, it’s retired but I’m HOPING SU will have it in the next big catalog and besides, a lot of you own it already. OK, on to the Valentine card. So I was thinking how cute these little guys would be in pink and red, so I made this card. Don’t you love them as a Valentine? I sent this one to Jessica as her Valentine from me. I hope she likes it!! Thanks for stopping by!! Smiles, Laura

Happy New Year!!

I hope you all had a wonderful New Years Eve and are ready for another new year! Did you make alot of resolutions? Not me! I know we never end up keeping them, so I just don't pretend I'm going to do so. Ha! But there are some things I want to get "on top of" this year (2010) and I'm really going to make an effort to do that! My stamp room is a disaster and I am truly going to try to get it cleaned up!

I got to stamp a bit today. Tomorrow is my husband's and my anniversary and I needed to make him a card. Here is his card I'll give him in the morning.

Ellen Kemper first made this "full bodied" bear with sunglasses and "COKE" on his red scarf. Hers really does look like the Coke bears! When I saw hers, I KNEW I'd have to make one. When asked what he wanted on his anniversary card this year, my husband said he wanted "a critter", so I decided to make this one for him. He is a cute bear and hubby will love him! He's made with punches (the bear, that is) and the "I {heart} U" is from the A Happy Heart set. The border was punched using the new Pinking Hearts Border punch in the new Occasions mini catalog.

I also needed a few "get well" cards for friends who have had surgery or have a broken bone (one friend broke an arm for the third time in 3 years!!) so I made this card to send.This designer paper is the Sending Love Specialty paper in the Occasions mini. I cut out two shapes from the paper to use on the wording and the red heart. You can't see the glittered parts of this paper, but it is gorgeous!! The red heart is punched and embossed with the Scalloped Heart of Heart embosslit. And of course, there's that border again using the Pinking Heart Border punch. The wording stamp is from the All Holidays set. I am planning to use this card as a "get well" card, but it would be appropriate for any occasion.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful 2010! Thanks for stopping by! Smiles, Laura

We're getting closer....

We're getting closer to Christmas and I'm excited. No, nothing special happening here this year, but still I'm like a kid about Christmas! What a wonderful time with family and friends. We have been in most of the week because of the snow we have on the ground so I have had time to stamp! I have been getting ready for my January classes. So I have some shares today.

You've all seen my polar bears I designed and shared--apparently they have become all the rage on lots of blogs. Funny, we have all thought of lots of other "critters" but not polar bears. I made some last year but didn't think to share them. Well, now my customers want to make them, but I didn't want to make a Christmas card in January--so I decided to make a winter card for Valentines. My previous bears showed a mommy and a baby bear. I decided for Valentines, I wanted a male and a female, so this time the one on the right is made larger--using the 1-3/8" circle punch, rather than the 1" circle punch. And I added hearts over their heads to show they are in LOVE. Ha! The heart is punched with the Heart to Heart punch. I stamped the I {heart} U from the A Happy Heart set. That one is my all time favorite Valentines set!!

You've seen the mouse I made earlier, too. Here he is again. Well, again my customers wanted to learn to make him but I wanted a Valentines mouse. So I designed this card (below). This little fellow is holding a heart punched with the Full Heart punch. I stamped the message "always on my mind, forever in my heart" from the Always stamp set inside a circle from the new I {Heart} Hearts set which will be available in the Occasions Mini. (You are going to LOVE the Occasions Mini!!) I just love this little mouse that Ellen Kemper and Lynn Pratt came up with!! Check out their blogs to see how to make him. (I'm sorry that I do not know how to connect a link to their blogs!! I MUST learn how to do that!)

Here's another card I made this week. This one also uses the A Happy Heart and the I {Heart} Hearts sets.

For this one I stamped the dotted heart and cut it out and mounted it on a black heart punched with the new Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit die that will be available in January from the Occasions Mini. (Did I say you are going to LOVE this mini!!) OK, the right edge on this card is alittle different--something new I learned from Debbie Henderson (debbiesdesignsblog.blogspot.com) via Lynn Pratt's blog. (Thanks, girls!!) It's a neat trick using the slit punch. Check out Debbie's blog for step by step instructions.

Well, that's it for today! Check back later for more samples! Have a wonderful wintery day!! Smiles, Laura