PTI July Blog Hop

This is my second post for today - please scroll down form my WMS sketch challenge. Thanks!

Hello! This will be my first PTI Blog Hop - I'm so glad to finally get to participate! The challenge this month is to use office products with our cards to "jazz" them up. I do alot of work on the computer, as I'm sure alot of you all do too, so I started thinking about computer related office projects. My daughter is getting married in October, and I thought it would be fun to create a dvd with pictures of her and her fiance during their years of dating. So I've decorated the dvd front and enclosed it inside a card envelope for her on her wedding day. Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Front of card

Inside of card with dvd

Supplies used: PTI Stamps: Delightful Dahlia, It's Official, Just the Ticket, Signature Greetings, Card from Paper Source, Heart paper clips from Michaels, Crinkle ribbon from my stash

WMS Sketch 7-24-10

Hello! Welcome to my blog! I've just started blogging and trying to come up interesting things to share. Today, I made a card to enter in the Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge for the week of July 24. Each Saturday, Claire and her team come up with a new sketch for us to design a card around. I think it's alot of fun and it makes me think outside the box that I normally create in. Here is the sketch for this week and then following is my rendition of it. Thanks for looking!

My interpretation of the sketch:

I used WMS Stamps sets Picnic Patterns, Rescue Remedies Additions, Asian Gardens and Vintage Labels 4. I also used PTI white, spring rain, and kraft paper, as well as Stardust Stickles on the background to give it some bling. Hop on over to the sketch blog here to see the rest of the entries.

Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge #1

This is my first ever sketch challenge! I just started my blog about a month ago, for the express purpose of being able to participate in these challenges. I just received my first shipment of Waltzing Mouse stamps with the May release and I've had so much fun using them! This is my take on Sketch challenge #1, although I've already realized that my card isn't square like the sketch. Hopefully it will pass and I promise I'll pay better attention next time.

I used Papertrey CS, WMS stamps "Say it with Style" and "Vintage Circles", Hero Arts stamp "Old French Writing", Spellbinders Impressabilities Floral, Papertrey Ocean Tides and Aqua Mist Ink, and Pearls Pearls.
Thanks for looking! Have a great day !

Ordered Craft Room Furniture!

 Well, I took the leap and ordered furniture for my 2nd craft room yesterday! I already have a bedroom upstairs in our home dedicated to quilting - complete with a HUGE closet full of fabric and other quilt related items.
I was trying to do my cardmaking in the closet of that room on a tiny little surface designed to hold my serger. I have definitely outgrown that space and needed to  expand. My computer is downstairs in our basement, which is partially finished (one side of it). I decided to purchase two bookshelves and a table top to create an area like a kitchen island, similar to Pottery Barn's Project Table. A local store in  my area, Solid Woods, has a man that makes bookshelves which are 13" x 13" cubbies stacked together. Each bookcase is nine cubbies. The tabletop will be made out of oak, and the bookcases are made out of pine. I will probably paint the bookshelves black and stain the oak tabletop, putting an acrylic mat on top of it to protect it. Since I was able to create this table area so much cheaper than Potttery Barn's equivalent, I was able to purchase a 3 x 6 cubbie bookshelf also, and two bar stools to go up to the table. It should take 3-4 weeks to come in, then I will begin the finishing process.

I will probably get baskets to store things in the bookshelf cubbies like punches and paper. I will put up pictures when the furniture arrives.

Just the beginning...

This will be my first post to my blog. I intend to post pictures of the things I enjoy doing on this blog. Things like making handmade cards, quilts and other gifts, designing digital scrapbook pages, and sharing pictures of my family and my kittys. I hope you enjoy what you see, and learn something every now and then. Thanks for stopping by! Susan :)