Scraproom

Good evening!  I spent most of the beginning of the month organizing my scraproom in my spare time.  It was OUT OF HAND! The mess I had.  While I have it somewhat organized, I still have a few hours of intensive organizing to get it to where I want.  Here are the pics I took of what it looked like before I started making a scrappy mess!

Thought I'd share these for now!  Once I get the closet cleaned out and organized, I'll post a picture of that as well ;-) 

Have a great evening! 

Watermark

YAY!! I'm so excited!  I finally learned how to add a watermark to a picture!  And one of my favorite online stamp stores--www.whimsystamps.com offers digital watermarks for only $5!  I was able to find a design that went with my custom "handmade by" stamp that I had ordered from them!  Now I just have to get busy an finish taking pictures and writing descriptions for all of my stuff I have in a box ready for Etsy :-)

Here's my "practice card" that I did my watermark on.  Now I just have to work on my picture taking environment (My DH is going to build me a little "studio" for the stuff to have a picture taken on) :-)

I'm going on Saturday to my childhood neighbor's house so that her wonderful daughter can teach me some photoshop tricks and help me create a new banner for my Etsy shop and blog that matches my business cards :-)  I'm so excited to learn!! 

Better get to bed--have a good night.  Hopefully more to come this weekend :-)

Hello!! Sorry I've been a stranger

Hello everyone!  Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged--things have been crazy.  But, I've been able to quit my part-time job and be abel to focus on my full time job (which I have been putting in extra hours) and on my crafting!!

I'm trying to catch up on all of my blogs and stumbled accross this one that is having a Blogiversary give-a-way!  Check this out!!  http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2011/01/really-reasonable-ribbons-one-year.html#comment-form

Off to the airport to pick up my father-in-law.  Hope to post more tomorrow :-)

New Blog I found

Happy Sunday! 

Check out this awesome new blog I found--she is going to go "live" this Tuesday with Tips and tricks!  Plus she is going to give fabulous giveaway each week :-) 

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/2010/07/welcome-candy.html

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

Mandy

Sorry it's been so long...

Sorry it's been so long since I've been on here but, I have lost track of time over the past few months!  With work, work, and more work and a few weekend trips here and there, I haven't had much time to scrap or card make and I have been a coloring fool lately and have neglected the scrapbooking I am supposed to be completing for gift giving! 

I have always loved to color as a kid and even as an adult--it is therapeutic to me!  So, when I was introduced to the Copic markers, I was hooked!  Since then I have been Copic Certified and am hopefully going to be able to take the intermediate certification soon!  I have been "collecting" and stamping Magnolia stamps (they are wonderful to color) from Sweden.  My Copic collection has increased to almost all of the colors I want (only a few shy of the about 300 colors that were on my wish list) :-) 

I am attaching a few of my cards I have made using Copics and some new stamps my friends and I have gotten and stamped for each other as well as some other new products such as Flower Soft and some new flowers I have gotten recently!!  (Sorry the picutres aren't organized very well--I'm still learning! )

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!  My goal is to try and blog at least twice a week until I can get on here more regularly!

Mandy

So much to do so little time!

Sorry I haven't posted in forever! I've been working about 70 hours a week and haven't had time to even clean my scrapbook room up to walk through! 

I was finally able to take a break and escaped for the weekend to the Creative Hideaway retreat for our do-over of our no electricity weekend in February.  It was a FABULOUS weekend!  My goal was to get some scrapbooking done but, I made the mistake of taking my Copic markers and Magnolia and Riley stamps with me.  SO, I ended up making cards all weekend instead.  However, I did get 18 cards made and have been diligently trying to get at least 3 listed a night on Etsy!  I've ended up selling more cards at work than anywhere.  And I was even asked by our secretary to create a card for a wonderful co-worker who is retiring.  I'm going to try and upload a post for that.  Our president asked that I create a professional looking card that some how encororated our company logo into it.  I was frantic trying to figure out how to do this.  But, my wonderful mother had a poem already created that I was able to change a few words to use for the inside wording and I found a card map from Becky Fleck (http://www.pagemaps.com/) that I though would be perfect.  It turned out wonderfully!!

I was able to play with my new MuddPuddles product this weekend that I purchased from CreekBank Creations (http://www.creekbankcreations.com/) and made an awesome few cards using the Mailibu Sand with a High Hopes Stamp and the Golf Green for Riley the Moose Golfer Stamp (I'll have to post the pictures later--they are on a different computer). 

I also ordered some new Spellbinders (on Friday) from Flowers to Flourishes (http://www.flowerstoflourishes/) and they arrived yesterday so, I was able to use them on the above card. 

I was so excited to get so much done (even though it wasn't what I intended to get done)!

Gotta go now--will post more later!

Copic Class

Good morning!  Hope everyone had a wonderful week!  Mine was great.  I was able to take the day off work from my full-time job yesterday and attend a wonderful Copic Class.  I had already been certified but wanted to take the class again to sharpen my skills to be able to work with one of the other certified ladies at my part-time job to make a class curriculum and teach Copic Classes!  I was able to meet some really wonderful ladies as well as learn a few things!!  I brought home a long list of blogs and websites to check out! 

I haven't had much spare time this week to craft anything but, hopefully I can get some more cards made and posted on Etsy in the next few days!  I am secretly hoping it rains all day so that we are "stuck" inside and I can play in the scrapbook room :-)

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!