I "heart" Halloween!

I love Halloween - and I love the TGF images, I love how you can alter them and come up with brand new stuff. So of course I had to combine these 2 loves for a unique card. Here I used 80s Anya and altered her to look like a zombie - I left her skin pale white, colored her mouth red, and used a black marker to arch her eyebrows and elongate her eyelashes a bit. All other accessories are by Stampin' Up!

Off to create some more for a few challenges - be back later to post! Peace.

The end of WCMD!

OK - this is it - the end of World Card Making Day 2009. I managed to finish 2 gifts for friends at work, sets of 10 hand-stamped cards, with all the stampin' I did this weekend! So that's a good thing! I had a blast with all of the challenges and created way more than what I could enter. Here are some more of my creations - this was a challenge that asked you to use the colors chocolate, pumpkin, and vanilla - I used a Stampin' Up! set, Going Out In Style:

This one was for the Sugar Nellies sketch challenge, I used Dress-Up Maggie - I LOVE this one:

This was for the Hanna Stamps challenge, which was a sketch challenge. I am finding that I love sketch challenges:

This was my first attempt at another sketch challenge, but I didn't enter this one (using Stampin' Up! set Merci):

I ended up entering this one, instead, which I LOVE:

This one above used CC Designs digi image Mermaid.

This one was for the My Favorite Things challenge, and they gave us all a free digi image, Think Pink, to use for the challenge, which was just so sweet of them! The challenge was to use the colors black, white, and pink - how'd I do?

I made a few Halloween cards, too, which I'll share tomorrow. I'm so thankful that my health seems to have been restored - besides a little leftover coughing, I feel 100% better! I am actually looking forward to putting on real clothes and going back to work tomorrow! LOL Have a great week - peace.

WCMD - turned into WCMW

So yeah - World Card Making Day has turned into World Card Making WEEKEND at my house! I've been up to my elbows in glitter, paper, and ink since about 10:00 a.m. yesterday. hee hee I've been having a blast with the SCS challenges - here are some of my entries below.

For this one, you had to pick any country's flag and make a card using those colors. I chose Jamaica, for my son Trevor (he loves Jamaica) - the colors being green, black, and yellow. I decided to glam up Rockstar Anya, what do you think? I absolutely love her green eye-shadow, so '80's! hee hee

This was Stamping Bella's challenge, to make a card showing what you do to have fun with your friends:

This was for the challenge hosted by Unity Stamp Company, you had to follow the sketch, use the color chocolate, and make a thank-you card:

And last (for now), but certainly not least - the challenge sponsored by Magnolia (note: you did not have to use stamps by these companies, they just sponsored the challenges - I didn't have a lot of the companies' images because I'm a Greeting-Farm-Stamping-Bella-and-Stampin'-Up!-addict!) - so anyway, we had to make a Christmas ornament, I used my new digi images from Pink Cat studio, this one is Itty Bitty Betty on a Candy Cane Swing:

And then just cuz I was in the Christmas spirit, I made a bookmark/tag...

...and a regular card using Betty again:

Well, it's not even 8:00 a.m. on Sunday yet, so I am sure I'll be back later to post today's creations! I was up at the crack of dawn with stampin' on my mind - I may have to take a break to go apple-picking, depending on the weather and what my little cherubs have planned for today! Peace.

World Card Making Day

Today is World Card Making Day (WCMD)! I am participating in the SplitCoastStampers challenges, and having a blast! I am still not feeling 100%, so it was a perfect excuse to just stay in my pj's and make cards all day!

Soooo.... first things first! The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Friday challenge this week is by Kadie and is called "About a Boy" - so here's my entry for that:

This card below was the first card I had made for the challenge, but wasn't super-crazy about it, and I ended up happier with the one above - but this one is cute, too, using Skater Ian - I love the quote on this one:

Then this card was made for the WCMD SCS Unity Stamp Company challenge:

And this one was just so I could use up the rest of these paper scraps, using CC Designs digital mermaid image:

I wanted to thank everyone for their kind words regarding my earlier post, too - I never should have gone to work that day, I was sick and drained and definitely should have just stayed home! Live and learn! :o) I'll be back for another post later on tonight! Peace!

Mean people suck

So I wake up this morning and I feel like I'm getting sick - you know that feeling, headache-y, sore throat, stuffy, weak, etc. And I'm very lucky that I have a laptop and can work from home and no one ever gives me a hard time when I need to do that. But today, I had to go in - there were a couple of things that I just had to do and I had to physically be there to do them. So I went, hoping I'd feel better. But I didn't, I started to feel worse and worse. Then I answered the phone to find a semi-psychotic student on the other end, who yelled at me for a good 5 minutes before I finally just hung up. I was drained and really feeling crappy now, and it's not even noon yet. I started to get ready to leave, only to be confronted by a fully psychotic angry Nursing student who thinks we should change the way we do things simply because she doesn't like it, is basically the bottom line. I have no idea why, but our Nursing students at the college where I work have always had a bad reputation. When I started working there, I thought it was weird that everyone hated the Nursing students. Four years later, now I know why. I'd say about half of them are complete nightmares. The other half are compassionate, bright, sweet people. Uunfortunately, the fact that half are rude, obnoxious, miserable jerks really stands out - half is a lot. I do not understand how or why people like this even want to be nurses, to tell you the truth. If you cannot have a conversation with another adult without yelling like a fool just because you don't get your way, you are NOT cut out to be a nurse. Actually, they probably won't end up nurses, and that would be a good thing. I would run screaming from the hospital room, IV pole trailing behind me, if any of those wretches showed up as MY nurse, let me tell you. HMPH! So I came home immediately after letting that horrible girl make me cry, and then cried even more cuz I was mad at myself for letting her get to me like that. But you know how it is when you just don't feel good - any other day, I probably wouldn't have let it bother me that much at all! I came home and crawled into bed and took a nap. I still don't feel good, but I can't sleep. I am going to eat dinner with the kids and take some night-time cold medicine and hope I can sleep tonight!

Some cards I made over the weekend, this one uses My Guy Ian from the Greeting Farm:

And this one uses CC Designs Sugar Plums Mermaid digital image:

Just got some new Pink Cat Studio digital images - cards to follow soon! Peace.

Sugar Nellies Challenge - Frog Prince

The Sugar Bowl had a sketch challenge this week for Challenge 20, and I love sketch challenges. This sketch had a "please include" option and what you had to include was paper-piecing. So here is what I came up with, her dress is paper-pieced. The image is by Diane Duda, Frog Prince:

Now the funny thing was that I was having so much fun following the sketch, that I completely forgot to paper-piece my first attempt. It came out so pretty, though, that I had to share anyway. This one uses Rope Swing (Sugar Nellie):
I've been busy stamping on this rainy day, so will share some more tomorrow. Peace.

The winner is....

LINDA! Linda - you are the only one who left a comment, so you win the new package of Stampin' Up! Designer Series background paper, it's a 6x6 package. I'll give it to you the next time we get together. Thank you for being my friend - and thank you for reading my blog and leaving comments, I really appreciate it. This has been a crappy week and I'm feeling sorry for myself - I'm sure raging PMS isn't helping. *sigh*

Work has been stressing me out - and it's funny because it's not the "work" itself - it's people. I have a really hard time with miserable people who like to make everyone else miserable. I am just the kind of person who tries to be happy and smile and... I'm just NICE to people. I have a particular co-worker (who thankfully does NOT work in my building) who I have tried to be friends with for a few years now. I say "tried" because I've realized that it's just impossible to really be her friend. She's miserable. She's depressed - she's always ready for a fight. She's the kind of co-worker that you cannot ask ONE question to or she thinks you are accusing her of doing something wrong. I'm just sick of it. Yesterday I had the worst day at work since that person who made all of our lives miserable left in June. It sucked, and I hate feeling that way. I do think it might be time to start exploring my options, though, because things cannot keep going the way they are at my work without the place falling apart. It's scary, though, because I really love my job and I hate change. So much to think about.

And then there's my 14-year-old daughter who is a true teenager now. She's going to give me gray hair VERY quickly and I am learning how hard it really is to be a good parent. I think we'll get through this all just fine in the long run, because I AM a good parent (and so is my hubby) and she is really a good kid deep down - but I have to remind her of that so that she'll STAY that way. It's going to be a long 4 years (and a lot of tears, I'm sure)!!! Wish me luck.

Gotta get ready for work. Peace.