My 4th "attempt"!

Sometimes I don't care if I have my camera settings "just right". I care about the subject way more. Here, above, is real beauty, just my beauty that I created with my body. She is perfect except for the "666" that is tattooed on her head.



That smile I will always love- it's clean. unobtrusive and fresh- simply said- my nephew- whom I love enough to have had a sleepover for the last three nights. I just want to see the smile more- that's all.






My family- I love them and am so glad that they are with me. They are really cool.


America Reigns- with freedom and just and all that is right. Have a great Monday and Tuesday- Lisa

Nathan from "The Jerk" says......

......the new catalogs are here, the new catalogs are here!

That's right! Today is the first day of a brand new year for Stampin' Up! Our catalogs have gone back to being published once a year instead of twice a year and this new cattie is WONDERFUL!

As I type, the people over at SU! are updating their systems and my personal website. But starting at 12 noon Mountain Time you can click on the photos (of the new catalogs) to the right in my sidebar and start perusing and ordering and drooling and ordering and wishing and ordering!!!!!!!

I'll be back later today- off to update my blog a little more!

Have a stampingly good day!

Lisa

See Y'all Later Saturday

Just checking in- I have to clean my studio today and take some photos of things I've been working on. I have to take TONS of photos.

I probably won't have anything to post for a couple (maybe a few) of days. I am taking a break from blogging and viewing others blogs as I am pretty ticked off right now at assuming people and "holier-than-thou people". Just makes me sick. I know that you can write whatever you want on your blog (as I am doing now) but I don't necessarily want to read what you have to say. And you don't have to read what I have to say. So, if I read something that is offensive to me, I'll back away from the computer for a while. And that is really O.K.

All right, finished now with the vent. Have a great weekend peeps!

Lisa

Punchy Present

Ooooh, I'm gettin' punchy! I made this card for a friend of ours that recently had a baby boy. My inspiration for the card came from this:




A Target gift card- once I saw it at the store I just knew that I had to make a card holder with punch animals. The animals on the gift card reminded me so much of the punch animals I have seen a lot of people create. They are just so stinkin' cute and fun to make.
The bear, hippo and lion are CASED from Angie here and the frog is CASED from Meredith here.


All Stampin' Up! supplies (except the Dew Drops- why can I never get those straight on my cards?) including Canvas Cuts.

Also if you click on the pics. and "super-size" them you'll notice glue around the tiny little (1/8 circle) punches. I really don't mind the glue around the frog's spots as frogs are shiny/slimy looking anyway. I DO mind that there is glue around the animal's eyeballs as I fear I might have given them a bad case of "glue-coma". Hee-hee, I crack myself up sometimes.


Kelly had to get on the card-making bandwagon and here is what she made:



SHE really cracks me up also: "A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do." Where does she get this stuff from? I love her sense of humor- well, most of the time- except if it has anything to do with teasing her big brother- that can get irritating..........especially now that they are out of school for the summer....................................somebody, help me!

I'm going to figure out how to make more projects using these "punchy" little guys! We'll see what I come up with.

Hope you have a GREAT day! I'm off to go buy some waffles for dinner. Yeah, you read right. I asked the kids one time what they wanted for dinner and they said "BFD". I said "WHAT did you just say?" thinking they were cussing. They replied "breakfast for dinner"! WHEW! That was close! They love BFD occasionally!

Chow Stampers! Lisa

Teacher Tiles

Well hello! While I have been absent on the blog front, I HAVE been creating enough things to post for a bit. Even though school is out for the summer and we are starting the "summer routine" I have finally manged to get caught up enough to play! Up above is one of the sets of tiles that I made for teacher gifts at the end of the school year. These are soooooo easy and inexpensive and FUN to create.

The card down below is one that I made at the Annual SCS San Antonio SWAP at the beginning of the year. I don't know who designed this card so I can't give proper kudos to them. If y'all know who did then let me know, okey-doke? I did add the green/white paper flowers to the card in order for it to go along with theme of these teachers gifts- you'll see the entire ensemble in a minute.

I bought this jade plant at a grocery store and stamped on the front and then covered it with sealant- then glue-dotted (is that a word?) the paper flowers on.


And finally decorated a gift bag with the teachers names for the coasters, plant and card to go into!


Well, I just realized that I didn't take pics. of all these items together- use your imagination! The teachers loved them. I made two sets and used mostly SU! products except for the paper flowers ( I stole those from my daughter's scrapbooking stuff- hee-hee- she'll never miss 'em!).

Like I said before stamping on tiles is easy-peasy. I glued cork on the back so they would not scratch any furniture- baked the stamped tiles at 350 degrees for 30 minutes to set the craft ink and then sprayed the front with a sealer.

Hope you enjoy and I'm off to work on yet another post- here's a hint- a card inspired by a gift card!

Have a wonderful day! Lisa