Joy & Happiness

 This card features a K&Co chipboard butterfly and epoxy sticker. I also used a page from a Making Memories notepad. I love that little pad; it's so cute! The satin blanket binding is vintage. It adds a beautiful luster to the card, which is hard to see in the photograph.

 This is a Gina K. Designs card from the Holiday Cheer Stamp TV kit. I was trying to add glitter just to the top edges of the trees when my Designer Dries Clear glue gushed all over my card. So, I just took my finger, swiped it all over the card, and dumped on the glitter. It's pretty dang glittery now!

 Similar to the top card. There's also a Prima brad. Those things are exquisite little additions to a card-love 'em.

 This is a GKD card, also from the Holiday Cheer stamp set. I changed the shape of the dies from what Gina used. I also stamped on A Muse Studio 'Twas the Night Before Christmas cardstock, which is fabulous stuff!!

Same stuff as the other two. The butterfly die cuts are from my favorite a|s die, Butterfly Trio. I use that thing constantly, as I am sure you have noticed! I hope you aren't sick of it.

How beautiful a day...

 This is a Gina K. Designs card. I used the butterfly from Eclectic Summer, and added some cardstock from my supplies. I just got the new Days of Summer Stamp TV kit, but I haven't used it yet. I also ordered Organize It! and Picture It! which are old STV sets. I think I'll get a lot of use out of them.

 This is just a crazy, scrappy, collage card. Most of the supplies are from K & Co., Making Memories and SU! The epoxy tag reads, "Sweet Dreams." The pink crochet thread is vintage, and it is slippery as the dickens. It's nearly impossible to work with, but the sheen is exquisite!

 This is a CASE of a GinaK card from the Holiday Cheer Stamp TV set. I changed her card up a little by embossing a pear shape instead of an oval.

 Another scrappy one. That's an A Muse Studio die cut from the Butterfly Trio die set.

This is another GKD CASE. I added wide gold ribbon, whereas GinaK used three strands of gold cord. This stamp is also from the Holiday Cheer STV kit. It's currently my favorite Christmas set, and one of my oldest.

Gina K is in tha house!!

 I recently stumbled upon a delightful pile of plastic containers in my stamp room. They each held a Gina K. Designs Stamp TV kit. I LOVE these things, but I forget about them. If they arrive when I don't have time, I look them over, then put them away, sometimes for years. All of these cards are from the Eclectic Summer Stamp TV kit. You can get the stamp sets still, but not the rest of the kit. (At least not all together. You can get the cardstock and some of the ribbon.)

 I stamped these little guys on patterned paper and colored them with copics. I enjoyed playing with my old kits so much that I ordered the new one, Days of Summer, and I think it will arrive tomorrow. If you want to see what comes in this new kit, go here. You can watch the video and see the exact contents before you buy it.

 I added a couple of A Muse Studio die cuts to this one. They go perfectly with this stamp. While I was ordering from GKD, I also ordered two sets from an old STV kit, Organize It! & Picture It!.  I like the projects Gina made with them and want to make them myself.

 I did not take a full front shot of this card. Isn't that the weirdest thing? I really like it that GKD stamps now come in pre-cut red rubber and clear. I hate trimming my own stamps, and I could not be happier that it is no longer necessary.

Although I love the stamps in this kit, I did not like the Basic Grey Lime Ricky paper collection it came with. Not one little bit. It's just too bright and grungy at the same time. Or something. This card practically gives me a seizure when I look at it. *grin* Maybe it's just operator's error, and these should not be mixed like this.

Project Life Week 8:Now

 This was the week of my birthday, so I used some old SU! birthday themed stamps to note that. Also, lots of machine stitching, and some K&Co chipboard buttons.

 These rocks still sit on my front porch. They are covered in black ants now because the wind keeps spilling the hummingbird feeder. I need to go take a picture of that.

 I sold this typewriter in my Etsy shop for $150, plus $50 shipping to a gal in Australia. She loves it, and I'm so glad. It was my favorite typewriter, so I'm glad it went to a good home.

On the bottom right, I typed my journaling portrait instead of landscape. That's one reason why I think I am going to choose a page layout and stick with it when I buy my next refills. Sometimes I forget the size and orientation of the pocket I'm working on.

Tomorrow we go get our middle son from his college town, bring him home for one night, and then take him to the airport on Monday for his trip to Austria. He is a travelin' fool, that one. I just wish I got to see him more often. Our oldest, a recent graduate from Tulane, is moving from NOLA to San Francisco next month. He's planning to live in all of America's most beautiful and historic cities. I immediately asked Google to compare the distances between here and those two cites. Unfortch, he's moving two hundred miles further away than NOLA. These boys...

Happiness is a direction...

 All five of these cards are Unity cards. As I mentioned before, I have a lot of Unity because of my sister's obsession. It's funny, because I discovered Unity first, and was a member of their kit club. Back then, Noelle wasn't a stamper yet-she just scrapped. I kept telling her that the kit club was the best deal in stamping, and that it would be a great way to build her collection. She finally heeded my advice, and the monster was born. *grin*

 You will probably need to click on these to see the silver embossing well, especially in the top photo. Yes, that's some Blue Awning from K&Co peeking out there in the background. My old SU! ep has gone over. It has bubbles in it now. I don't know if it's because of our swamp cooler, or if it will still be bad after the house has dried out.

 I love this image. It's so perfectly vintage without being TOO shabby chic/Victorian. It really is a gorgeous rose stamp. That trim is antique. I have been hoarding it for years, but really, what good is it doing crammed in a plastic bag in my stamp room?

 This one is Unity, 7 Gypsies, MM and MME Bohemia. They play well together, don't you think?

This one is Unity, MME, and the butterflies on the envelope are Gina K Designs. I use that butterfly all the time, probably more than any other butterfly stamp I have.

I hope it's not too boring when I do posts where everything comes from the same manufacturers. That's how I stamp, though. I get really focused on one company, and use just it for a few days. Right now, it's GKD. I have been stamping like a mad woman with my old STV kits. I even ordered the new one, and an old one that I missed. I have SO. MUCH. FUN. with those kits, I tell ya!

Project Life Week 8: Then

 This is the other side of that 12 x 12 page protector. I will probably throw another 12 x 12 in sometime, but I might try a more traditional style layout. I think it works the way I did it here, though, because the rest of the album looks like this, not like traditional layouts.

 The only embellishment here is a banner ended piece of cardstock behind two photos.

 The journaling card is from my BH Amber Edition set. At Week 8, that was still the only Project Life specific product I owned. That has changed. A lot. Those tags are K & Co. epoxy stickers. I added a Nestie die cut heart, some puffy angel wings, and some sequin hearts.

 Just pics here, and a bit of the edge of the Sassafrass Lass paper. I think they were the first to come out with the cool edges.

 Just another view.

 This is the bottom left hand side. I used more of that paper edge-from a different sheet of paper this time. I think this paper is from 2008. I think Sassafrass was ahead of its time. All the paper I have from then is way more in style now than it was when it came out. They were trend starters.

This is the bottom right hand side. Well, I will finally admit it in writing: I haven't done new PL pages in weeks. I'm not stressed about it, I have just lost my mojo a little. I've been working on a gift album for my mother and father in-law, and I guess I can't do two albums at once, or something. It has been a month since I made a layout, but I am almost finished with the gift album, so I'll catch up this month. 

The secret to having it all!!!

 This is another Unity stamp. My sister is a Unity fanatic, and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. *grin* She is always letting me know when there's a great Unity sale on, or giving me stamps because she bought duplicates. I love that, and her. Another thing I love is this quote stamp. I think Unity does a really nice job with quotes.

 Here's a perfect example of taking a sentiment and making it special. Lots of action here to keep it interesting. I added a silver glitter star, and a strip of silver glitter because I actually want to add silver glitter to everything I make, but I thought it made sense here. I guess this is for a baby boy, what with all the blue, orange, and touches of brown.

 Another quote stamp from Unity. This one is about friendship. There's more of that Green Galore. I like it with light blue quite a bit. I've also been getting friendly with my washi tape. That's A Muse Studio washi.

 This card started out with a K&Co. Anna Griffin Flora Collection tag. Then I just piled on the goodies until I was satisfied. I added a MAMBI rub-on, an epoxy stamp, and a tag. The stamp is from Waltzing Mouse. That's a real vintage button from my magical button jar. It makes me happy every time I look at it, so I think it has magical happiness powers. You really should get one.

This adorable image is from Crafty Secrets. It's either the childhood or summertime booklet. I have them both and love them to death. (Surprise, surprise.) That's A Muse Studio Blueberry cardstock. It's nice for cards because it's white on the inside.