First, here’s my card using Kristina’s colors for this week: Pumpkin Pie, Sky Blue, Certainly Celery, and Very Vanilla. I am also doing this week’s SCS’s challenge… adding sewing to my card. I wish I have a tip for you on how to do this easily but I ain’t got one! I did use some pins to hold my ribbon together while I figure out how I’m going to place it but sewing it together… that was still tough. I had to stop here and there and as you can see… I didn’t have long to go. Oh, that’s my handwriting for the sentiment… I couldn’t find the perfect stamp.

What I can share with you today though is Feedburner. You all seemed to have like the last geek bit that I did… on stats counter… I thought I’d do a little more. Now, if you already use FB, you might want to read this info too… since I’ve seen many blogs who uses it but not all the way. You’re only getting half a count… maybe. So here goes… Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the last item that I did using Kristina’s color challenge #15. The only problem with this was that I forgot the celery.

I used SU cardstock, Alphabet Soup and Baroque background stamps, Sassafrass Lass pattern paper, Making Memories brads, and Martha Stewart ribbon. I used dimensionals, the thicker Making Memories ones, for the brown cardstock to give the card a nicer look.

So, everybody is looking for Jovia. I did receive a few emails (since I’m one of TDC’s hybrid chica) and so I thought I’d let you all know: She’s at SPD aka Shabby Pickle Designs. Go check her out, she’s got a new kit, and still awesome as always if you love realistic looking stuff for your digital pages. It’s too bad she moved from TDC though. I just downloaded a kit of hers and was going to use it for a hybrid project for TDC. I guess I’ll go download something else.

Hope you enjoy your Sunday. I had a fabulous time at my lss’s crop. I made a lot of pages. Ten I think between Friday and Saturday… or 12… oh I need to count. I did three cards too even though I have no picture of one. I did it at the lss and gave it to the lady.

It was funny, she showed use these pink elf Christmas looking papers. She said they’re the ugliest looking paper and I thought they were just the cutest. So she gave them to me. To prove that they’re cute, I made a card, used her paper, and gave it to her. Ok, she had to admit that the paper did make the card look cute {::SMILES}. I’m glad she didn’t ask for her paper back though because I intend to do more with them. She gave me three sheets. Score!!

Ok, I am going to bed. Have a great rest of your weekend!!!

I am quite embarrassed. I really, really, really, think that the game was rigged. Yes, I think there was something that kept pulling my ball to the bumpers. I don’t think the lane liked me {::SMILES}.

So remember, if we ever meet up and go bowling, you probably don’t want to ask me to be in your team. But, if it’s a one-on-one and you want to win, come play with me. It’s a guaranteed thing - you winning that is {::SMILES}.

Oh, I did hit all the pins on the first throw… oh what do they call it when you hit them all…, but I used both my hands to roll the ball. Lets just say it was a miracle! I didn’t even know I got them all, I was about ready to roll again when my teammate stopped me and pointed out that I got all 10. HA!!

This is my card for Kristina’s color challenge. The color of the day is chocolate chip, close to cocoa, white, real rust, and certainly celery. The owl is Sassafrass Lass Oliver and the sentiment is Stampin’ Up! Boho Blossom.

I LOVE these colors. Some of my favorites and I adore fall colors. I just love it when the leaves turn. SO, because of that, I made this page too with these colors:

The basis of it are the five colors. You can see them, celery-ish background card stock, brown and rust pattern paper, more brown and a lighter brown or cocoa for the Prima. There is also a touch of more celery on the butterfly and on the bottom right, where the date is.

The picture of M and myself is blurry. It’s not your computer. I love that picture and even though it is out of focused the memory is there and I do love it so I used it for the LO.

Material for this:

Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern Paper: My Mind’s Eyes
Ribbon: Offrey
Elements: Prima, American Craft, Basic Grey, Sassafrass Lass, buttons, La.Di.Da, staples, machine stitching, and K&Company
Alpha: American Craft

You can get a closer look of it if you click on the picture. It’ll take you to my Flickr gallery and there’s also a close-up picture of the rhinestone swirl and Prima. It’s not that great, I don’t have a macro lens, BUT, I am getting something soon. Currently window shopping.

TFL and have a great weekend. I actually have another page using this color scheme and another card. Yeah, I got extra motivated in the last few days but don’t want to make the post too long. I’ll post those tomorrow.

I have a few things to share today. First it is this beautiful M card. What do you think? Since I was working at home today, instead of the regular lunch, we did arts and craft for lunch. We liked {::SMILES}. M used the Embrace life stamp for this, SU markers, ribbon, sticker, buttons and glue glitter. She tied the ribbon all by herself and I had no say or help in this piece of work. I think she’ll be quite the paper crafter one day {::SMILES}.

Here’s my version of it. Not so nice I think. Hers is more original where mine was a combo of my version of Mojo Monday’s sketch and SCS’s colors: barely banana, chocolate chip, and groovy guava.

Since on work at home day I start work super early, I got done early too and made this video while I was in the video editing groove. I have a new laptop, work laptop, and had to test out the video codec and set up my video compression apps on my new toy. So, I just continued on with my video experimentation and finished the day off with a personal video.

This is my first video editing from my camcorder so be nice - not super great… just not sure where my hand, items, etc. was in the shoot. Plus the lighting wasn’t so great. I created this video so that I can show you how to create scallops using a corner rounder. I thought everybody knows how to do this until I met up with people at the lss and each time I’m the only one who knows how to. So here it is:

Just to clarify, you need a corner rounder that looks like the below:

See how you can remove the bracket?

When you’re punching, make sure that you overlap from one scallop to another for nice waves. Test it out on some scrap paper. I think you’ll like it.

Hiya! It’s like a Friday to me at work since tomorrows the fourth. YEAH!

I just want to share this card with you today. It’s based on Kristina’s color challenge and this time it’s monochromatic-ish with a splash of color. It’s for my MIL. It’s her bday soon and this is the front. The inside is going to say (I think in the bottom right corner) something like “or 45.” That’s what hubby said. I thought that was cute {::SMILES}.

This card is super easy. The hard part was the circles. I have those old Creative Memories punches (not sure if they still sell the same ones or not) and they are so hard to push unlike the SU or EK ones. But, I only had a few to do so it wasn’t bad. If this was a swap, I’d probably buy a new one, heee…

Everything is SU except the ribbon (Martha Stewart) and the chipboard (American Craft). I am the owner to many chipboard alphas and I don’t use the numbers so much and thought this was a perfect way to use them. I used a lot of dimensionals too. I used SU for the thinner ones and Making Memories for the thicker ones.

So what’s this Kiva deal? Well, it’s basically you helping people in developing countries live better by giving them a loan for their business or personal needs (so far I only want to lend to businesses). I did my first lending ($25) some months back and just recently she repaid her loan. She was a trash collector in Indonesia and asked for a $75 loan. Hopefully her business is doing well! This time around (with the same $25 I donated months ago) I picked a young gentleman, a cattleman, down south. I can’t remember what country in S. America it is and at this time the login for Kiva is down.

Kiva, FINCA, etc. do the same thing… micro lending to help rid of poverty by enabling/giving these people the finances to do better. What I like about Kiva is that I get the money (sometimes people do default though) that I lend back to me and I can reuse it for another person, donate it to Kiva or cash it back. FINCA I think seem to reach out more. Check out their calculator and see what $30 can do.

Have a great 4th everybody! I’ll be hanging out with friends tomorrow. I’ll probably be gone until later in the weekend or next week. We need some family and house time. Happy birthday America (that’s what M said)!!!

Wow, great scrapbooking day yesterday and today, I am hosting VSBN at SCS from 1-3 p.m. CST. Come play with me!!! Upload your page to SCS or post a comment to a link on your blog. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!!

Yesterday I got four cards done and five scrapbook pages. Two were digital. Yes! I was and am quite happy with my accomplishments. I’ll share them with you throughout the week.

In two weeks there’s a two day crop but I’m not sure if I’ll go the two days. I might just do the Saturday. Two days seem too many! I did it a few months ago at two different places and I wasn’t very productive the second day. I wasn’t inspired. But, we’ll see.

This card was a card that I made for my scrapbook blog sisters’ swap. The theme was summer. What do you think? Summery enough?

Well, I better go. I need to chat with the other ladies in the forum. Hope to see you there or see your work uploaded to SCS with JUN08VSBNN as the keyword or link here.

Laters and have a great rest of your weekend!!!

Just a super quick post before I head out to work. This is a card that I did last night when I was super high on caffeine {::SMILES}. Last night was Wednesday card night at my upline’s and I couldn’t help but drink some coffee. I think I shouldn’t but she makes the best coffee! So I was up until 2:30 a.m. BUT, that’s probably just a little bit more than when I’m not on caffeine, ha!

I’ve been into layering my cards lately. I still like to keep it clean but me likey the randomness. If you haven’t checked out the card I did for the PaperTrey Ink blog hop yesterday, I did some layers there too… a bit more like my scrapbooking style {::SMILES}. You might not noticed but used a transparency sheet behind the ripped notebook paper.

The colors was from Kristina’s color inspiration for this week. Very pretty! You should play if you haven’t. Very fun! The colors are purely pomegranate, regal rose, wild wasabi, river rock, and white.

I have an announcement too… I am a new Creative Team for Lydia Kurniawati at Shabby Pickle Designs. First I love SPD and second, I love what Lydia’s created for them. I’ve just downloaded a couple items and I can’t wait to use them for my digital and hybrid stuff! Very excited AND, the best part, she’s Indonesian too. The very first time I’ll be working directly with somebody from Indonesia. So cool! I’ve also received an award but I’ll post that later… I really got to go to work {::SMILES}.

Anyhow, have a great day and I’ll share more later (with less caffeine).

Just a card that did last night that I want to share. This card is inspired by Sarah. She actually has a blog candy on her blog and the giveaway… some Nestabilities! Wow!!

So here’s my version for her blog candy. What do you think?

I used the SU’s Spring Solitude set and the sentiment is from PaperTrey. Ribbon was a $1/7yrds at Michaels.

I should probably retitle my blog huh, Scrappin and Stampin (with ribbons) with Savitri {::SMILES}.

It’s FRIDAY!!! TGIF! I think I’ll do some housework this weekend. I think I’ll do some painting. I know hubby would appreciate it more than me disappearing into the craft room. More later…

I got two cards put together. Yeah!!! This first one I did Tuesday night and the other one, the blue cardstock base, I did last night. They’re super quick cards because I was only in my craft room for a few minutes. I smuggled myself in there {::SMILES}.

As you can see they’re super simple. The material for this tan card is:

Paper: SU Kraft paper
Ribbon: Offrey grossgrain
Ink: Chocolate chip
Stamp: A*Muse Clear stamp and SU Dots

I created this card for my blog sisters’ swap BUT, I fail to remember the theme: SUMMER. So… no can do. This looks awefully, fall, don’t you think? One thing about this stamp set… I LOVE A*Muse’s clear sets. They stamp SOOOO well!! They’re not like some clear stamps where it just doesn’t stamp clean, which I hate. I want to buy more!

Due to my lack of attention to details, I have to think of another card design for my swap. Pressure, pressure! Due date’s the 20th!!

This second card I made just because although I might use it for another swap that I have here locally. Again, the theme is: SUMMER, and I think this is more summery than my first try. Yes?

The material:

Cardstock: SU Whisper White and Soft Sky
Ribbon: From Michael’s (on sale last week for $1!)
Stamps: SU’s Always, Dots, and PaperTrey
Ink: Regal Rose, Old Olive, and some blue one (ha, so bad me!)
Tools: Corner rounder for the scallops, piercing tool, and Stamp-a-Majig

These are just two items I want to share today. Two super simple cards that you can do under five minutes and with the right touch of ribbons they become more jazzy. Yes, I am a ribbon freak-o {::SMILES}.

I am quite behind. I have six swap cards to make and my scrapbook page for the Scrapperie contest. I haven’t even touched that last item. Ta-ta for now. More later!

Just a quick card post for the weekend. I used Kristina’s color inspiration #11 for this card. It’s rose red, so saffron, going gray, white, and old olive. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought that I’m using purely pomegranate.

This week has been a busy and fun week. Emma loved going to VBS (she’s always sleeping on our drive home) and yesterday, the whole family had a great time taking pictures and watching the kids have fun. Then a BBQ after the event was just the perfect ending. I’ll share a few scrapbook pages from the event later. It’s my goal to create a few pages, digital pages, for the church so that people can print a page or all of the event.

Ok, they’re all waiting for me… have a great weekend and if I don’t pop in tomorrow, have a great father’s day!!!!