ScrappinGalz Cafe

Still Here...Just in the midst of moving

Hello All - Just a quick note to let you know I have not forgotten about my blog or thrown my stamps out the window.  I'm just in the middle of packing up and moving.  My house sold in a week (well ya already knew that) and the closing is on April 15.  On top of that I had to find a new place to live since I had not picked anything out thinking that I had plenty of time cause my house was going to be on the market a long time.  Yea that went flying out the window pretty quick. 

So about a third of my house is now in boxes.  Most of the big heavy furniture is in storage.  My whole studio is in boxes  : (   so needless to say no cards for at least another couple of weeks.

On the 15th dd and I will be heading over to Lamb City to stay there till the house we are buying can close.  If you are a longtime reader of this blog, you will remember this is where dd and I spent last summer.  Technically the campground does not open till Mother's day weekend in May, however, the owner has been nice enough to allow us to stay there early this year.  We won't have any water in the trailer until May 1, but at least we will have a place to rest our bones and the bath houses will be open for us to use as well since they have underground water and do not have to worry about the pipes freezing.  Once I get to LC, I am hoping to be making some cards and posting again.

On May 15, I will be closing on my new house.  Its a cute little ranch.  It needs some work but once I am done with it, it will be perfect.  I'm hoping by the 2nd week in June to be unpacked enough to really start working on my scrappin again.  You know me.  Summers for scrappin and winters for card makin'

I hope you all are doing great.  I can't wait to have non packing time again. 

Enjoy!

ScrappinGalz

Blog Candy Winner

And the winner is Tanya over at http://www.scramptastic.blogspot.com. Tanya I will be contacting you shortly to get your address so your package can go out this weekend.  Thank you all who participated for making ScrappinGalz Cafe's birthday so wonderful.

Sold..........

Hello my friends - Well I accepted an offer on Sunday night.  My home was on the market for one week.  I'm really excited about it, but I was really thinking it would take a minimum of 6 months so it caught me completely off guard.  On top of that the buyer wants a quick close, so I need to be out of here by April 6.  Yikes!  I don't know how I am going to do that.  As of right now I have no housing prospects for a home and haven't found anyplace that would be willing to do a short term rental.  Worst case senario I can go back to camp early but there won't be any water till May 1!  I was originally planning for an out of state move but some family problems have put that on the back burner for a bit. 

Another bit of great news...I got my latest shipment in from SU.  I got the Thoughts and Prayers set this time around.  I just love that tree.  Since I have to keep the house showroom nice, I am not bringing out alot of items to make cards.  Keeping to the clean and simple cards.  Here is the one I created tonight.  

Recipe is all SU

• Whisper White and Almost Navy CS
• DSP for background and butterfly  Parisian Breeze
• Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon
• Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

So now that you have seen what I created with my new set I wanted to show you how I am storing my set.  I unmounted my rubber from the foam and remounted it to EZ mount.  Then I took the SU clam shell and cut it to hold my stamps.  I used 6x6 clip it up storage envelopes to store the set.  The storage envelopes allow me to hold more stamps in less space, plus since they are all the same size, it makes them great to stack.  Here are some pics for you.

       

Well I don't know how soon I will be able to do another post so until then I hope you have a wonderful spring! Enjoy!

Happy Birthday- ScrappinGalz Cafe is one year old!

On March 11, my little blog will be one year old.  In order to celebrate, I thought I should give one of you a present since all your comments have been presents to me this year.  What's the present you ask?  Well it wouldn't be a surprise or present if I told you, but I will give you some hints...In the box will be some of the "hot" "in" markers that everyone is going gaga over...a very rare SU set from 1997 that you can't seem to find anywhere...Another goes round and round yet "says" the same thing over and over again.  So there are a few hints of some of the items...Anyway the box will have lots of goodies in it.

So how do you sign up for the blog candy?  Wish ScrappinGalz Cafe a happy birthday on your blog and link back to this blog.  Be sure to post a comment here to let me know you are participating.  On March 11, I will pick a winner using random.org.

Good Luck!

Tina

Free Spirit

Sorry I have been gone so long.  I was redecorating and spring cleaning for the open house I had this past weekend.  My house went on the market last Thursday.  Open house went fairly well and all comments were good so I am happy.  So if you know of a scrapper or stamper in the Central Mass area looking for a cool townhouse that's already set up with a very large scrap and stamp studio send em my way.

Now that the open house is over I have finally been able to get back into my studio.  Look at the card I made tonight.  I really like how it came out.  I got the inspiration from a card I saw somewhere online about a month ago.  I'm sorry I cant give credit since I look at so many cards on a regular basis.

  

(click on image to enlarge)

For this card I used my CTMH Free Spirit Stamp set.  First I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock that I got from work (which is almost as nice as Gina K's ultra smooth - but its free!  LOL), then I cut the sentiment out with my CM circle cutters.  I stamped and distressed with a dauber and CTMH Coco Ink.  Then I stamped two birds and cut them out.  I adhered the birds to a digital paper from Shabby Princess from the Sun Porch line. (I cropped and adjusted the paper and then printed it out on the white cardstock).  I popped up the circle frame with the high pop dots and popped one of the birds with a shorter pop dot.  The card base is SU's soft sky which seems to match perfectly with the patterned paper.  The last thing I did was add a bit of SU's River Rock ribbon.

I hope you enjoy this card!

I'm still here!

Its been crazy around here lately.  My house goes on the market on March 1 so its been nuts trying to get everything ready and just so for the open house.  Its exciting yet scarey all at the same time.  I haven't found anyplace that I want to move to yet, and in all honesty doubt I will stay around here.  I'm at a point where my wings need to spread and my bones need to feel heat year round.  It stinks getting old ya know?  I'm still creating here at home when I can I just haven't had any time to take pictures etc.  Hopefully I will be back in the swing of things by mid March.  TTYL

Tina

Are you ready for some Valentines?

Have you done up all your Valentines cards yet?  I'm doing really well this year and all my valentines and valentines gifts are out already.  Yippee.  I'm usually at least a week behind so I'm enjoying this moment.

Here is a card I recently did for Valentines (click on image to enlarge it)   .  I used an image by Penny Black that was sent to me by my Stampin Sistah Siberian Stamper up in the great white north.  I loved this image so much that I found it online and bought it with the money I made selling all my extra stamp sets on ebay.

I used my prismas, stampin write markers to color the image.  The PP is from Stampin Up Berry Bliss, and the cardstock is SU Real Red.  The sentiment is from a Stampin up panel stamp that I cut apart to make various sentiments eons ago.  I mounted the stamps on dominoes way back when.  I found the dominoes are not sturdy enough with the way I mounted them for my liking so I am unmounting them all onto EZ mount.  The Heart stamp I used is from the very bottom of my stamping drawer.  I have no idea who makes it.  I got it at Mikes in the $1 bin.

This next card is one I did at a Great Impressions class at Ink About it in Westford, MA  I just love this card.  The image of the peacock is another one I am adding to my wish list.  The heart flourish I got as part of the class fee since it was the stamp of the month.  I stamped the images with a black Memories ink and then colored in with copics, then I added glitter to some areas to give it some pop.    I'll have to make this card again soon.  I just love it.

Sorry about the scanning.  I'm still working with my camera to get it working again.  Hopefully in the next week.  Enjoy!

Friends Forever

I got this image from the bunch that my friend Siberian Stamper up in Vermont sent me.  This is a Penny Black stamp called Tea Cozy.  Isn't it so sweet?  This was so much fun to color and then I stickled the teacup to give it a little bling and glitz.  I used my scallop nestie to frame the image.

I have a friend in Mississippi that I have known for almost 20 years now.  We have been thru so much together.  So I am going to be sending her this card to let her know that no matter how many miles separate us, we'll be friends forever.

 

Sorry I have been having to scan my pics, my camera seems to be acting like a man lately.  Maybe I just need some new batteries, haven't checked that out yet, actually just thought about it. LOL

Enjoy!

 

Christmas Cards

Ok -  yes I know that we just finished Christmas season, but I got in my Stampin Up Sleigh Bells Ring set on Friday (ordered it back in December when it went on sale) and just had to play with it right away.  And since I am doing stamp to spend, I thought I should make at least enough cards to cover my costs of the order (check out the sidebar to see how I am doing).  I made 24 cards in total.  My first three were samples to figure out which one I liked best.  Two came out better than the rest, but I ended up choosing the one below with the scalloped oval as my main card.

 

Recipe:

• Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Cranberry Crisp
• Ink: Cranberry Crisp
• Sentiment:  CTMH Festive Thoughts
• Images:  SU Sleigh Bells Ring
• Ribbon:  SU Chocolate Chip

I started out by stamping the 1.5x4 Very Vanilla with the holly berry stamp, then I used my cricut to cut out ovals to stamp the sleigh scene on and adhered it to a Nestie cut scallop oval.  The sentiment from CTMH says This season the best gift of all... is your friendship (stamped on the inside). I also stamped the holly berry on all the envelopes and colored them in.

 I really like the Currier and Ives feel of the card.  I am happy with the clean lines too.  I now have all my Christmas Cards ready and waiting to be sent out the day after Thanksgiving.  Whoo hoo for once I am ahead.  LOL

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday

In the last couple of years I have "met" some of the most wonderful friendly ladies over on Splitcoast Stampers.  Recently, I had the opportunity to meet Siberian Stamper when she asked about swapping some images for bellas.  I PM'd her and sent her off some of my bellas, and shortly thereafter I received some of the cutest images from her.  I have finally had the time tonight to color in some of the images.  This one is from P Black Stamps and its called "Life of the Party".  I didn't add too much to the card and kept it really simple so that the colors would pop out at you.  I used my Prisma's to color in the tabby cat and used my Stampin Write Markers for the balloons, hat and present.  The sentiment coumes from CTMH's From Me to You set.  I can't wait to give this to my cousin's daughter for her 10th birthday. 

 

I also wanted to thank Siberian Stamper Anna for the lovely images.  I am looking forward to making more cards with the images I received.

Enjoy!