Merry Monday Week # 44

Hello & Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!

 I had a terrific holiday but i'm glad it's over! 

Hope you don't think i'm sounding like a scrooge. I'm not, it's just that the holiday season this year has been crazy busy and I was ready for some much needed down time!

So, this week is the first week back for the Merry Monday Challenge and i'm relaxed and ready for it!!

Lesley from over at Always Playing With Paper gave us a color challenge to start off the new year! Hope you can stop by her blog to see what the other Merry Makers have created this week and also welcome our 2 new Merry Markers, Margaret Moody and Vicki Burdick!

Here is the first Merry Monday Challenge of 2013!

I think everything is pretty self explanatory on my card.

Shoot me an email if you have any questions.

Merry Monday Week #44 Color Challenge Card:

Stamps: Snowman from Stamps Happen, Sentiment from Amuse

Ink: Memento Black, Copic Markers

Cardstock: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Real Red, White

Accessories: Cuttlebug EF's, Circle & Scallop Circle Punches, MS Baker's Twine, Glue Pen, Glitter, Rhinestones, Dimensionals

Hope you can find some time to play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!
~Wendy

Holiday Candy Bars

Hello & Happy Thursday!

Hope your all having a great day so far!
I'm off to a slow start after being up very late last nite working on a project for all my stamp girls. We have our Christmas get together next Wednesday and my projects are very time consuming so any chance I get to work on them i'll take! By 3 am my eyes started to get all wonky and I called it a day!

So, today I wanted to share with you these Candy Bar Wrappers I made yesterday for the craft show. This weekend is the last and I was informed that there wasn't many left and I hurried and whipped a couple up before dropping the last of my stuff off last nite. Thankfully, I already had the images colored!!

These are one of my biggest sellers at the show!!


Holiday Candy Bar Wrappers:

Stamps: Santa Sophie from Riley & Company, Snowman from Stamps Happen, Sentiments from Hero Arts
Ink: Memento Black, Copic Markers
Cardstock: Real Red, Neenah White, Amuse DSP
Accessories: SU Circle & Scallop Punches, Glue Pen, Glitter, Various Ribbon, Jolee's Stickers & Snowflakes, Dimensionals, Scor Tape


Well, that's all for today!
Gonna try to get my White Chocolate Snack Mix made this afternoon before my older daughter gets here. She is coming up from Virginia for tomorrow's funeral services for Shawn's mom. Funeral's are a very hard thing for me and i'm so not looking forward to this. It will be nice though to see the rest of the family, just wish it could be under different circumstances.

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day!
~Wendy

Sketch Challenge 362

Hello & Happy Wednesday!

Hope your all having a great day & staying warm!
It's another rainy, dreary day here and the cold temperatures are heading east later today with some snow on the back side of the cold front. I hope this cold spell is short lived but then again I guess we have been spoiled by temps in the 50's & 60's here lately!


Anyways, besides being a rainy day, I have declared today a stay in my pj's kind of day! And what better to do than stamp in my pj's!!

Today is Sketch Challenge day over at SCS. Below is the layout and my sample!

I so love this snowman stamp from Stamps Happen. I have had him for a few years. Last year I found this designer paper by The Paper Studio in Joplin and it was .10 cents for an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet. I only grabbed a few sheets and i'm now down to my last sheet which I really DO NOT WANNA CUT! I have not been able to find anymore, sadly! It makes such a pretty holiday card too!


Sketch Challenge 362 Card:

Stamps: Snowman from Stamps Happen, Sentiment from Penny Black
Ink: Memento Black, Copic Markers
Cardstock: Marina Mist, PTI White, Glitter Paper from Micheal's, The Paper Studio DSP
Accessories: Marina Mist Grosgrain, Jolee's Snowflake Sticker, Scor Tape


Well, that's all for me for today!
I hope ya like my card....
Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful day!
~Wendy

New Year/New Challenge

Hello & Happy Thursday!!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I had a fabulous holiday!! We left 2 weeks ago today from Joplin, MO to head back home to Wrightsville, PA. We seen so many friends & family, it was awesome! We arrived back in MO on Monday night and i've been getting the piles of laundry done and just trying to catch my breathe. It's been a crazy week and a half away but much needed to see everyone! I am happy to say that i'm happy to be back in my own bed!! :)


I haven't done any stamping since before we left but I do have a few things to share with you now. Some of it I was to share on the blog while I was back in PA but our schedule was so busy that I didn't do much blogging at all.


Below is a pic of me on New Year's Eve that hubby took of me sporting my new Celtics t-shirt. It makes me giggle to look at it! LOL



The Sunday before we left to come back to MO, I met up with a few girls that I went to high school with. The one girl, Tracy, is my sister in law and I see her quite a bit but the others I have not seen in 27 years! They all still look fabulous! We are planning a trip to either Cancun, Mexico or Jamaica in the spring of the year for a girls weekend away! I think it'll be fun!

Had to take a picture of my little Christmas Tree before we left to go back home to PA.

Cards I made for next Christmas. I thought I lost this Stamps Happens stamp in the move but of course it was hiding with my Whipper Snapper Penguin stamp!

Next is a really cool Christmas RAK I received from my online blogging friend, Tammi Buck!
I truely love the card and the non traditional colors and the little Magnolia box that was filled with stamped images! And the 2 Turtles Candies were quite yummy too! LOL Thank you very much, Tammi...I LOVE it!:)

Lastly is the gifts I made for each of my stamp girls back in PA. We met at Chili's for our yearly Christmas get together and had a fabulous time! I received so many neat gifts from them. Thank you to all my girls back home whom I miss each & everyday!

Inside the little box is a small bottle of Bath & Body Works Hand Sanitizer. I seen the idea on SCS and thought they would make a great little gift so I tried my hand at them! LOL The girls loved them! :)

There ya have it!

I'm back from my trip and all my chores are done and I feel so refreshed and ready to hit my stamp table now! I hit up L&L Stamps while I was home and got me some new goodies to play with. Since it's a new year I have given myself a new challenge! I have SO many stamps & sets that collect dust day in & day out that each day I will use a different stamp set so by the end of the year most of my stamps will have seen ink! I love a challenge and hope I can carry this one thru! :)

Well, i'm off to my stamp table now to get started!
Thank you for stopping by!

Happy New Year!
~Wendy