Call Me Punch Happy!

I love all the cute critters that you can create using punches and have created a file of them to case when I have time.....here's one that I found here.  Okay this is not the one I looked at to case--can't find the original anywhere on my computer, but Tami White's dragon is pretty close!  I finally had time to make this dear dragon!  Isn't he adorable!
I used wild wasabi from the dsp stack and also cardstock.  My red is cherry cobbler I think.  I'm away from home and am only looking at the photo so it's hard to say!

Punches used:  wide oval, large oval, small oval, star #2 die for the triangles, small flower from the bitty blossom 3 pack, 1/4 in. circle punch,  scallop circle punch (not sure which size) 1 3/4 in. circle

The neck and black part of the eyes are hand cut.

Father's Day!

I have one of the best Dad's in the world--and am so lucky to be visiting him and my mom during the week of Father's Day and his birthday!  Here's my dad with me last summer....

And here's the card I made for him--he loved to sail back in his younger days.....and I knew right away that I was going to case this card when I saw it on Mary Brown's blog!  It turned out great!

Love you Dad!

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Pitiful!

My lack of posting on my blog is just pitiful!  Here I thought I'd have tons of time to work on my stamping as soon as I was checked out of my classroom.  Then my summer fun began.....VBS, math curriculum work, reading book study, traveling to Indiana for graduation, family reunion and a weeklong visit with my parents.  Now I've enjoyed or will enjoy each of these things....but I feel all that time I thought I'd have slipping through my fingers already!  =-)  Here's the graduate, Benjamin with his sisters--Kate and Mackenzie.  We had a fun day and are so proud of him!

Here's a card I made for my son and daughter-in-law--who are going to be parents in early August!  I love this little giraffe and had to get a quick picture of it before Abby took it home!  Ha!  I totally cased this from Carrie who also cased it, but I did change the legs and some other things to suit me.  I'm so sad because I wanted to demo this card, but the small oval punch is retiring and it is used pretty extensively for the head in this creation!  Guess I'll have to do some experimenting for a replacement punch that might work.

Last Chance Promotions!

FYI--Here's some info/links to what's retiring and what's left on the accessories list!  If it has an X by it.....it's no longer available!

Click here to see the list of retiring stamp sets

Click here to see the list of retiring accessories

Click here for the list of retiring Definitely Decorative items

Give me a holler if you are interested in ordering any of these things!  I'd be glad to place an order for you!  You have until June 30 to make your decisions!  =-) 

Finally.......summer!

Aaaah!  I'm thinking I finally have time to stamp.  Report cards....done.  Classroom cleaned....done.  Checked out of school.....done!  Here are the cards I demonstrated at a recent party.  I'm sure the majority of them were cased since the party occurred during the last week of school and things were a bit crazy at that time.  =-)  I'll try to put in links as soon as I can!

Card #1  Top Note Flower Fancy (miracle of miracles---not cased)

Card #2  Flight of the Butterfly--Embossed & Punched (cased from here)

Card #3  Versamarker Fabulous Florets (cased from here)

Card #4  Big Shot Butterfly with Elements of Style (I can't remember what blog I found this on, but I didn't have the same embossing folder or ribbon that was used on the butterfly and I'm not sure if it had a pretty in pink card base or not)

Okay--this took For-Ev-Er to load pictures and get them put on here!  Yikes!  I'm tired and need to get to bed so I can be fresh for Bible School tomorrow morning bright and early.  Hopefully I'll get the links to all the retired lists on here tomorrow for you!

The Lost is Found! Yay!

I finally found my card reader for my camera (since my cord is long gone).  So now I can get some pictures back on my blog!  I have 2 days of school left in the year--a few days to clean my room and then I'm going to have some time to focus on my stamping most days---can't wait!  Here's a sample of the graduation card I made for my nephew and a little purse that can hold a gift card or something small--it's made from a 6 x 6 piece of paper.

I made both at a recent class and the ladies that were there chose to add stars behind their owl--it looked so cute that I made the rest of mine (10 more) that way....I'll post a better picture for you as soon as my camera battery is recharged!  I may have to redo Ben's card also.  The directions for making both are here (the gift card holder) and here (for the purse) at Frenchie's blog.  I changed the owl a bit to my liking, from several other posts that I have seen using the owl punch.  Stamp sets used were:  Teeny Tiny Wishes for the "Happy Graduation" and Happy Greetings from the new summer mini catalog for the Way to Go etc... stamp.  The Queen for the Day comes from a stamp set now retired from the last mini catalog.  E-mail me if you have any questions!  I'm off to work on grading and report cards!

Long Time No Post!

Hi all!  Can you tell that May is a crazy time of year for me??  I have 7 days of school left and in that time we have our field trip to my farm, field day, sleepover at school and program for parents!!!  On top of all that I can't find my camera cord to download pictures....NOR can I find my card reader!  Not a good thing for someone who wants to post pictures of cards made!  I'm heading out on a search and hopefully will be back by tomorrow with pictures of an adorable graduation card that is a combination of case-ing two great bloggers!  =-)