Insomnia equals....

A bunch of new cards today!! For once my sleeplessness actually led to productivity this time! I managed to get 16 cards and 23 gift tags made last night while I couldn't sleep. Yay, me!! It's a good thing too, cause I didn't get anything done all week long, so I was behind in how many I need to get done.

Here's some pics, alot of the cards are the same as ones already posted so I won't post pics of those, but I did make some that are a little different so here they are...

I love these little gift tags! I used the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die from Sizzix to cut out the flowers from red leather. I used 2 flowers per card and then put a yellow brad in the middle to make them look like poinsetta's.
These gift tags were pretty quick and easy too. I used Nestibilities label thirteen, stamped Merry Christmas on it and then just added them to a quick background. Love quick and easy!!

These are similar to ones I've done before, just different paper and different colors.

This was a quick wedding card cause I needed a break from Christmas cards and besides my regular stash is pretty low right now too, so I need to add any cards I can!

A quick gift tag using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die again....I love that die....it have 4 different flowers on it and I love them all!

Christmas cards & a couple more canvases...

Sorry that it's been a couple weeks since my last post, but I haven't been feeling the greatest and well, I just haven't had much to say or much to post about. I have managed to be a little creative over the last week or so though, so here's some new pics...

Two more canvases...these are for my bff to give as Christmas gift's so they are made in color's to match her mom's house.
A quickie little gift tag I made using a new flower die that I got and using scraps left over from the above canvas.

Some Christmas gift tags...

Quickie Christmas cards made from a kit that I got as a rak age's ago and came in really handy when my mojo was missing, but I wanted to make something...it was great cause I only had to put these together but in doing so I found my mojo!!!

These cards are using Making Memories pattern paper and then the poinsetta stamp is colored using Copic markers, and the cardstock is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and everything is inked with Distress inks.

These cards are made with Imaginisce pp, inked with Distress inks, and a little sparkle from Stickles.

More Making Memories paper...

Imaginisce pp, Copics markers, Distress inks, Nestibilities die, Fiskars border punch, Cuttlebug die (corner punch), buttons...

Bo Bunny patterned paper, Colorbox ink, Hampton Arts stamp, Core'dinations cardstock

BoBunny pp, Cuttlebug snowflake die, Nestibilities die, Core'dinations cardstock, dollar store chipboard embellishment, Fiskar's border punchBo Bunny pp, Coredinations cardstock, Hampton arts stamp, unknown border punch, Nestibilites star die, Colorbox silver ink, Silver embossing powder, Nestibilities deckled rectangle die

A couple Christmas cards...

Well, it seems to be that time of year again, and my dr. told me that I needed to force myself to do things I enjoy even if I'm not really in the mood...it's supposed to help with the depression, so last week I made these three Christmas cards, using some Making Memories paper that I had picked up a couple weeks ago and not even taken out of the bag yet!

The stamps are ones that I used last year, but I still love them, and the shabby chic colors and inking suited my mood so it wasn't too much of a struggle to get these done. Usually I make almost all original cards for everyone, but I think given my mental health I may be doing some mass producing, but hopefully that's ok.

So here are my three prototypes for this line of paper...what do ya think?

What I've been up to...

Well, I know that one thing I haven't been doing in the last two months is blogging and for that I'm sorry! I just have not been doing much scrappin' so...as a result I haven't been blogging either. I know that is not a good excuse, but it's all I have. And I have been struggling with depression a bit again so that has contributed to my lack of scrappin & blogging as well. But enough with the excuses and onto the pics, right?

Now I know I have a fair amount of projects posted here, but this is literally EVERYTHING I have done in the last 2 months...so when I say I haven't been doing much, I wasn't kidding. I did however actually make my first 2 Christmas cards last night, but I decided to save those for my next post.

Here's a few gift tags that I made using some leftovers from the canvases that I've been making/working on (I posted 2 here and I have 2 other different ones that I'm not finished yet).

Here's just an assortment of cards done over the last couple months...

These are the canvases that I've been working on. I'm making four in total, each one different. These two are quite similar cause they have the same background paper, but the other two that I'm working on are totally different. Same composition, title, saying etc, but totally different colors. I will post them as soon as they are finished.

This blue one is for my girlfriend's MIL while the green one I made for my own mom.

And last, but definately not least here is Mercedes back to school pic. I can't believe she is in grade four already! She is enjoying school so far this year and is in choir again and is also in a theatre program that she is thoroughly enjoying and will culminate in a play that they will put on for 3 nights in the beginning of December.

I will try to post more regularly from now on and hopefully that will happen as I get in the swing of things making Christmas cards and finishing those canvases and getting other Christmas gifts/orders ready.

The Memory Box is finished....

I know that I have been a terrible, terrible blogger lately, but it's summer, and we've been busy, and well you know how it goes. Plus I haven't been that creative other than a couple cards, a canvas (that I'll post later) and slowly working my way along on this memory box...and it is finally done!! Yay!! I put alot of hours into this between editing pics, looking for quotes, buying supplies, planning and then the actual work itself. But I am very happy with how it turned out and I just hope that my cousin is happy with it too!

So here it is...

Left side
Right side

Back (there will be hinges on the back for the lid I think)

And this is the front

Catching up...

I know that it's been ages since I last posted, so I'll start where I left off and try to get you all caught up on what's been happening with us!

Here's Mercedes getting her medal for finishing the marathon, and yes I did walk the last mile with her!

After the marathon, Mercedes finished up school and we left for Edmonton on Monday June 28th and I stayed until July 7th and Mercedes stayed until July 10th. It was awesome and I had a great time the whole time I was there! I have been feeling really good since I've been out of the hospital and I've been on different meds and I'm really enjoying life and enjoying just feeling like a normal person. I'm so very grateful that I was able enjoy my time with my friends and especially have a good time at my girlfriends wedding and all the associated celebrations.

Here's me & Jackie just before we left for her stagette party...

Here's Jackie, Mercedes and I at Jackie's wedding...

This is my favorite picture of just Mercedes that I took before we left for the church.

So I had an awesome time every second that I was gone on vacation, but I did come home a couple days before Mercedes so that I could have a few days to myself. I was outside when I heard this buzzing sound and I followed it and to my surprise, this is what I found....

At first we thought it was a beehive, but we eventually decided it was just a big swarm since the next day it was totally gone. And all that was left was these few bees...

Now Mercedes is back home and we are enjoying our clean and organized house, and Mercedes is enjoying her many birthday presents...one of which was a new bike...

And one of the gifts I gave her was these gift certificates. She's already used 2 of them!! She loved this gift!! It ranked right up there with her new bike and her Wii!! It's nice to know that my daughter appreciates things that arent' just about big bucks! And it felt good for me to get to do something a little creative, to make these look cute.

So now we are trying to get back into the swing of regular summer life. I've got all the bags unpacked and the laundry is just about all caught up, so hopefully I can get back into the groove and get back to work on this memory box, so I can get it finished and I need to get some more cards made. And of course, I do have more projects lined up, just waiting to be worked on.

And hopefully I will be posting regularly again now too! I does feel good to be back though, and I hope to have lots of pics of projects to post soon! :)