Following are a few cards to share:

Stamps are from Unity and sentiment from Papertrey Ink, the paper is from Papertrey Ink, and divine twine that I got from I Heart Papers.

This one was pretty quick to make. Stamps are from Unity, ribbon from PTI and the pin is from Maya Road.

Papers from DCWV and stamps from Unity, ribbon from PTI. I think that I have made one similar to this before, but I do love these papers and think that this is a pretty card, and it would be so easy to change the sentiment and make it for any other occasion needed.

New Puppy Blues

We finally got the puppy that everyone wanted (I did want a small white dog, but we ended up with a large black one), and the kids are all so very happy, so why am I feeling so upset and stressed about getting the dog? I feel as if I have postpartum depression, and go from liking the puppy to feeling really down and depressed about the new responsibilites. I sure hope this gets better soon....

Vaughnie loves the dog most of the time, but sometimes he seems a little afraid of Ranger too....

Oh well, at least I can escape to my craft room and spend some time relaxing and making stuff at night.

The stamp is from Unity, and the paper is DCWV, the flower trim is from American Crafts. This was super easy, and I love how it turned out.

I am having issues with my sewing machine, but tried sewing this anyway, and it did not come out as I had hoped. Stamp is a Unity Itty Bitty, and the sentiment is from Unity too (don't remember what set at the moment), the paper is from PTI. I used black sparkly stickles on the heart, which is hard to see in the picture.

I stamped the background (Inkadinkado) in purple and then stamped the dress form in VersaMark, embossed it and sponged purple ink over it. Embossed the yellow card with dots and used divine twine. The papers are from Papertrey Ink and Bazzil, and I am not sure where the epoxy sticker came from, just had it sitting around on my craft table and decided to use it.

Bargello...

When I saw a tutorial for the Bargello Technique, I thought that it would be a great way to use papers from my ever growing scrap basket on my craft table, so here is my first try at this, it was a lot of fun, even though it did not turn out exactly as I had imagined it, but I will play with this technique and try again. As usual though time is scarce, especially since we got a puppy 3 days ago, he is way more time consuming than I thought a puppy would have been....

As mentioned I used papers from the scrap basket on my table, they are all from DCWV, the stamp is a Unity itty bitty called Marah Love. I die cut the bargello piece with my Grand Calibur and attached it to a card that is just slightly smaller that the front.

Here is one of the cards I have made recently using this set from Unity, I love all the images in this set, but currently the Eiffel Tower is my favorite.

I stamped the Eiffel Tower in brown and then I sponged brown ink around it. The papers used are from Papertrey Ink and from Crate Paper, and the little banner on the stick pin I made with some paper from my scrap box.

Made using Unity KOM from February, Papertrey Ink paper and the sentiment was stamped on a piece of patterned paper from my scrapbox, and then I cut it up and mounted it on dimensionals. I colored the body of the bee with a yellow Copic and added sparkle stickles to the wings.

Finally stamping again!

Seems like the past month or so have been too busy to find time to craft :( but finally I am making sure that there is time for stamping and crafting again. Here are a few cards I made last night after Vaughnie went to bed:

I used scrap pieces from the Echo Park Be Mine collection and the stamp is from Unity (my favorite....).

I love how this card turned out, again the stamps are from Unity, paper from PTI, Kaiser, and October Afternoon, divine twine, and I used Spellbinders for the circles and the label.

Stamps from Unity, I used my Cricut for the frame and embossed it with the dots that I then sanded and inked slightly.