New stamps new stamps and my Easter goodies!

So yesterday in my email inbox there is an email from my friend Felicia. Felicia is a CTMH demo and I had ordered some things last month..because it was buy two get one free. We all know I am female and LOVE a sale. SO...tada look at my goodies! I can't wait to find a reason to use them! I LOVE how these things store. Felicia has a closet..with about 90 plus sets..but you don't really know that..WHY..cause they fit all in these cute little boxes! I love it! Anyway..so this is the goodies I got today...I have to think of something to make!!!

Then these are my Easter goodies from mom!!! Ice Tea from home. I LOVE NOH ice tea. The floral printed paper and tags are the best. Mom knows I love paper..so she sends me some! Love her! She also sent me some flowers for me ear. You know us girls from Hawaii and there flowers in their ears. Mom hates that I buy them from Michaels..and cut the stems. They are huge and in all types of colors..SO she felt bad for me and sent me a bunch! SO that's it for tonight..I know..I totally just made up for not posting all week! Okay back to doing the real stuffs! I gotta still clean my house..I am having a Passion party friday! It's going to be a blast. SO if you happen to be in Charleston Friday..drop by!!!

My swaps for Sunday

This months Carolina Swap is being hosted by Patti. Patti is an SU! demo and is very talented. But her theme this month is a Masculine card or Father's Day. OKAY..this was a problem for me! Masculine cards to me means not a little boys birthday card. SO no dinosaurs, no frogs, no cute little trucks and tractors. RIGHT??? Secondly, I do not own a Father's day set! Mental note, purchase a set for both...anyway..So here I am with about 50 sets and nothing popping out at me. All I have that I think I can use is Balmy breezes. Now I knew I loved this set..but for what..I don't know. So I pull it out..and think back to Ala Moana Beach Park. Now if you have ever visited the island of Oahu you know Ala Moana and it's awesome beach park. I smell the salt air. Flash back to the no parking. Days lying on the beach! BUT I think Palm Trees. Well I need a starter color..So a dusky green...ah..True Thyme. So that's my cardbase. SU! New In color True Thyme. I used the same color ink and swept it across whisper white paper. Sorta aging the paper's look. Then I stamped the Palm Tree in Chocolate Chip craft ink and embossed that. The effect is awesome. Now I attended on using a sentiment stamp I have had forever. It is Happy birthday in Hawaiian. Hau'oli La Hanau. BUT after I stamped them all I realized that the sentiment was too big. UH OH..for future reference check stuffs like that out! Anyway..so I have to come back and handwrite it. SO to me..the final product does not look as clean as it could, but heh..it's a masculine card..right?? I thought it looked a bit plain..SO I added the hodgepodge piece and a gave it a small piece of grosgrain ribbon in cream and spring moss.

I like it. Minus my handwritten words. I think it came out well. I love the old style feel of the card. Makes me miss home!!! I can't wait till Sunday.

Sorry I have been busy!

Heh there everyone! I am sorry that I have been neglecting you guys! I hate nothing more the to go to a blog has hasn't changed in a bunch of days! Though I know it's hard to do something everyday..SO as promised I have a bunch of pictures. Firstly, about two weeks ago I headed to Keri's house to create. Keri Serika is awesome and opens her house up to a bunch of us to come and stamp. Well I brought a project. Just a notebook to cover. SO I decided that I needed to have a notebook that I can jot all the information I get from blogs. Like Marvy Punches that are in stock..or where they got this paper or that paper! Everything..So I made this. It is the SU!'s notation paper ad the stickers are from it's Sellabration Scrappin Set. I had wrote "Things I need" and then my name. I also used SU!'s Spiral Punch. Did I mention that I just love it!


Then this past Saturday was stamp camp. Michelle, Gail, and Kim get together the first Saturday of each month and put on a kick butt stamp camp. I am always amazed at the designs the girls come up with! This month was no exception! I love every project we did! I had to rush out though..I felt bad. Mostly because I love to run my mouth with my friends..but plus I had "brought" Felicia..and then I had to leave her! Anyway..for $15 you get all this.






Don't you just love it! I am SUPER grateful to Claudia and EVERYONE there for loving me and just taking me in!!! I love being surrounded with stamping genius!
I gotta post go finish my swaps for Sunday...yes I said Sunday is Patti's Carolina girls swap! I am SO excited. It is turning out that to be a weekend filled with stamping. Saturday Keri Serika is teaching a card class at the Scrapbook Store in Mt. Pleasant. I can't wait. Plus if you take the class you get 20% off anything you buy!! OH..Keri said that there is TONS of new stuffs! I promise to be good! I promise to be good! I told Ryan that at least. He gets commissioned the first week in May and we have to prepare a dinner or lunch..some kind of party for him. Plus I have yet to make his Commissioning invites OR his graduation anouncements! I know I am delayed. ALSO I have to finish the insides to those baby shower invites I made...but to my defense I finished my Easter cards..they will be in mailboxes soon! Okay..I hope you guys are doing great!!! I will post a bit later on today..I gotta finish dinner!

Happy Birthday, Beate

Today is Beate's birthday. If you have not been to Beate's blog you gotta get over there. This is my first attempt at posting a link..SO wish me luck. http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ I hope that works! If you have time..stop by her blog and wish her luck! Happy birthday, SUPERSTAR!!!
xoxo
ronee

Happy Easter Sunday! He has Risen!!!

Happy Easter everyone! Our Sunday started a bit behind. We ended up running into church a bit late, but thank goodness there were still seats. BARELY! It has been a busy week and weekend for our house. I haven't created a lot this week. I had promised the girls that I would not do anything for the rest of the week, and hang out with them the remainder of their spring break. Thursday I took the girls downtown to the aqurium and some lunch. Then Friday we went egg coloring. Saturday was Easter picnic, stamp camp for me, and then Eva Grace's First Birthday. My batteries died when I got to the Easter picnic. Plus, I am a goober thinking that the batteries that were in the camera bag were new ones. NO. They are the died ones. But luckily I headed home before Eva's party. I haven't taken pictures of my items from stamp camp. Before we headed to the picnic I had to whip out Eva's present. SO my stamping table is a mess. I need to put things away before I take pictures from stamp camp. BUT..Gail, Michelle, and Kim are truly gifted! I loved everything they taught us! They ROCK! Gail had a card and a notebook holder with pen. Gail is too much fun!!! The color schemes and everything was perfect! Michelle had two cards. One right out of the SU mini..too cute..and the second one is faux metal! It is awesome. She used it on a watering can. It was perfect. Kim had us altering a clipboard. OH it is too cute! I can't wait to use it for something! I was grouped with my normal bunch. Pat, Claudia, Cindy, and me. I invited my friend Felicia along. OH and she was having a blast! I am so happy that I am going to move to Felicia's neighborhood. I am sorta hoping she is gone by then, not because I don't love her..but because she needs to get her orders and be on the move already. Anyway...I promise to post tomorrow after I get the girls off to school and my days back to normal.
Anyway..so after stamp camp was Eva Grace's first birthday. Eva is a cutie! Traysea loves her! Her party is all the two babies talked about. Because there was going to be a pinata! Plus they think she is adorable! I was able to replace batteries and make it there, a bit tardy, but I had let Shelly know.

The girls coloring eggs!

This is Eva Grace Jancito. She is one today!
So Eva's Mom Shelly loves dragonflys. So I was on Beth's blog the other day and saw the nameframe she whipped out. I totally knew I wanted to make one for Eva. LUCKILY her name is short because all I could find was an 8x8 frame. But it came out pretty cute. I stamped dragonflies from the tags and more SU! set in SU white craft ink. I came back and embossed it with Hero Arts Sparkle embossing powder. Eva's name is stamped in Lovely Lilac Craft Ink and embossed also. I layered it on Sage Shadow cardstock followed by Lovely Lilac cardstock. I layered that on top of some Dots and Dashes ribbon I picked up at Michael's forever ago. Then layered all of that on top of Enchate paper. I nicked the top of the frame and was forced to cover it. So I went with some of the sticker strips from the Simply Scrappin Kit, Just Delightful. i love these Scrappin Kits. They are so awesome! In the bottom right hand corner I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Harmony SAB set. "Dreams come a size too big so we can grown into them." Here it is! Thanks Beth for the inspiration!

After church we geared up for Easter Baskets and Egg hunting. My kids love the egg hunt. I know you are saying..which kid doesn't? But my kids really love it. They love to hide eggs for each other all year long. I think children in general like the hide and seek idea. Anyway last night Ryan packed 96 eggs. So we headed outside and went a hiding. The girls broke free once we gave them the go ahead!

Look at our eggs!

Well I am off to supervise Easter dinner and Egg Salad sandwiches...yum! Plus the girls are dying to watch their movies. Every year they get a movie in their baskets. Happy Feet, Charlotte Web's, and Eragon. Hopefully that holds them till dinner time! So enjoy your Easter celebration!
xoxo
ronee

Am I neglecting you??

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting as much this week. The chickens are home on spring break and I have been trying to be a good mom. Also, I was doing my Easter cards and I don't want to post those until people start to get them. Just a quick note, there are several that are going to arrive after Easter. This for me is a normal event. I often make cards that never get out. So this is a step in the right direction. Anyway..I made the girls put on these cute dresses my mommy bought and we headed outside. It was crazy windy. But I am not posting the pictures that are going in the Easter cards, but I can give you a sample of just how cute they are!
Tyra Krystyne and Trysha Emmaly

Tyra Krystyne and Traysea Nycole

The three of them together

Trysha loves the swings. We are lucky enough to have the playground in my backyard!

Traysea and her trying not to smile

Today we are going over to Kelly's house to dye eggs. We feel so included! I am kidding! You know I love you. The girls can't wait! I promise to take pictures!
I just realized I haven't stamped or posted anything that I have been working on. Sorry. It seems like my blog is just filled with pictures of the girls. But tomorrow is a busy day! Easter picnic is in the morning...then STAMP CAMP...then Eva's first birthday! So if anything you will get to see my AWESOME creations from stamp camp. Michelle, Gail, and Kim are SU! Demo's and they do a super job sharing their skills! Plus, I am taking my friend Felicia with me. Plus I get to hang out with Claudia and Pat! They are great fun! I will see you guys tomorrow!

Hello there blogging world!

It has been a busy few days. One of my favorite friends is currently "with child." She is the cutest thing! I loveher. So she is going to Illinois to be with the in-laws and is having a baby shower. SO, she asked me to make her invites. Which I was totally jazzed. We..like it involved me..but We are so excited that she is pregnant! She is a great Aunty..she already has three nephews. So she found out she was having a boy a few weeks ago! I totally knew it. So I sat down with Leana and wanted to know what she had in mind. What colors..if there was going to be a theme? You know the basic questions. Ethan..her hubby is a huge sports fan. So I was sure their theme would be basketball or baseball. Something along those lines. But when I went to go and talk to them and she said they liked this bear that had all the sports themes I knew I would be using Bundle of Joy out of SU's summer mini. The bear was going to be perfect. I used Choco Chip as the card base and Brocade Blue for the insert. Anyway..so I made this for her invite!

I made criss cross cards. Okay now in theory this was a great idea! EXCEPT multiply by 30. Why do I do these things to myself? Well because I love her! Everything I used was from SU! I used the swirl and stars to stamp on the Chocolate Chip card base with Chocolate Chip ink. I stamped the moon and stars in Brocade blue on Brocade blue card stock. I stamped in Brocade sweetheat on the twill. I stamped the bear on Very Vanilla with Chocolate chip ink and used Close to Cocoa watercolor crayon and blender pen to shade him. I decided to go with a later brown because I wanted him to contrast the cardstock. I used French Blue and Silver skinny organdy for his tie and the top of the insert card. We are going to print off the details of the shower on whisper white card stock in the same blue hue and the layer that on the insert piece. So I took me most of yesterday and this morning to get these finished. The three girls are on spring break so it's been hard to find time to create. They want breakfast, they want lunch, they want to go outside! Just playing! I love spending time with the girls! We were playing the sprinkler yesterday and riding our bikes..But we had to come in because I had to get ready for my friend Shelly's birthday dinner! Shelly is 30! Happy Birthday, Sexy Mama! This is Shelly and her Olive Garden cake!

Use for some post dinner drinks!

Shelly in the car on the way home!

Oh and I can't forget the the girls! Right..well here are the girls outside having some fun! I love to take pictures of the girls! Tyra wasn't interested in playing...she just wanted to sit outside!