It's like learning how to ride a bike......

Jeep learned how to ride a bike without the training wheels today. We had meant to do this a lot sooner than now, but you know, time and money, lol.

First he had to learn how to get on the bike. With a little help from Dad. Then he was on his way downhill and loving it. Of course there was a wipe out or two, or five, but hey, how else did you learn how to use the brakes?

Overall he did amazingly well and he had a very good time. oh and so did we!

Joe's Valentine's

I found this card on SCS and wanted to make my dear husband this card for valentine's. I just love her cute scene and the colors changed with my editing a bit, but the greens match perfectly, lol.

Stamps: valentine defined

And everything else but the nestie scallop is S.U.

We made these in our S.U. club night as well. I love the vintage and the Aviary set and colors so much. We had so much fun making all the wonderful projects and getting together again to chat. I haven't been able to upload as fast as I would like to my blog, and now I am out of time.....my guys are waiting for me....but I got them uploaded here, yeah!

a playdate kopykat

I saw this card on Colleen's blog and I literally squeeled! I had just come from my S.U. club night and my demo had made the most beautiful flower to show all of us. I was in the flower making mood and when I saw this, I realized not only did I love it, I had ALL the stuff to make it!!!! Yippee.

This is the first time I have inked up my Now and Always ippity Unity set. I also used my October Afternoon Thrift shop paper and my nesties. This was fun to make.

reinker cards

Sandi Mac had the cutest cards on her blog. I just loved them. I had wanted to make these roses for a while now and this was the perfect incentive. And now that I've made them, I can see I am going to be using my reinkers a lot more than I thought, lol. I can't seem to find the link to her blog, but will attach it again when I find it.

stamps: fifth ave floral, Unity leaves

cardstock: kraft, old olive

dsp: newsprint and some scraps of S.U. and Kaiser

other: seam binding that I dyed myself using reinkers or glimmer mist and rubbing alcohol. S.U. crochet trim.

Pinwheel cards

We made the green and purple pinwheel in our S.U. club and I forgot to leave a border, lol, so I wanted to do another one the right way. I am so in love with this vintage paper....I must get more, it's not something I want to run out of. Hopefully S.U. will make more vintage dsp for the new catty. The pinwheels are two 2 5/8" squares glued together and we used 11/4" square punch for the dsp blocks. I used not quite navy and baja breeze cardstock and the vintage folder.

Quilt Card

There is a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers on how to make a quilt card. OMG, what a lot of work cutting those into 3/4" squares, but it's so cute. This is my first quilt....and of course it's with paper, lol. I saw this card, and wanted to make one.

My friend Jamie is having a blog contest today. We are all busy making quilt cards.

I love these new vintage papers from S.U. I am going to have to order some more so I don't hoard this away, lol.