So generous.....

scrappers/stampers are really the most generous bunch!!!!! I am amazed at how much is given away on blogs....its really quite nice to see some goodness in this world gone mad...thanks Tonya for your giveaway. http://oldecountrycreations.blogspot.com/

More Unity love.....

what could be better than combining awesome stamp designs like this little plaid flower with beautiful patterned paper like this Dill blossom SEI!!!! The first one is for the 2S4Y Sketch challenge, the other was for the give Unity a Bow challenge again...with pretty new ribbon i got at M's the other day. Love me some Plaid!!!!

THanks to Unity Stamp Co for their generosity with their Hip Hop giveaways....i can hardly wait for my stamps to arrive. Yipeeeeee. Super customer service there.

i ♥ UNITY

got my first Unity KOM yesterday and I just love the combination of designs and quotes....highlight to my week for sure. Here are the cards i made last nite for challenges over at SplitCoastStampers and for the Hip Hop Thursday Unity blog challenges.

Square card without any sentiment - "flutter"
Give Unity a BOW - bow on a card - "Aren't you Sweet" and "Happy Thoughts"
Hole-Y Unity - "May you Live.." use holes on a card, i punched around the paper with my piercer
and a color challenge one from lil Scrappers......all using Unity stamps.

Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Weekend. He is Risen!!! was a nice weekend, we are on spring break which is going by toooooo fast of course but i'm making some cards, went to the spa for some pampering yesterday with dd and that was great!!!! and haven't too much planned for the rest of the week so....

Carla always inspires with her creations and has a some blog candy to give away, yummy jems and jewels from KatyCards what a super collection she's offering up.

I'll have to share some cards later this week....dead camera batteries of course LOL. Sold my first card on Etsy today, nice surprise. Got my first KOM from Unity and what a beauty it is....

Spring is here!!

the snow is melting, the birds are back chirping at my feeders, the air is warmer, there are baby calves romping in the sunshine..........its been a long winter so i hope that is the last of snow we see till next year... so thankful for my hobbies to keep me sane during the cold winter months.

Some colorful cards, two for Mojo Monday based on their sketch, and two others for Laura's sketch 23 at 2 Sketches 4 You.

More creative fun!!!

Well i remember what i loved about quilting years ago.......taking gorgeous fabrics, cutting them and sewing them back up to create a design.........yep, love it still and i can say that i have been very productive this past few months creating 9 quilted projects from full size to runners i'm pleased with what i've accomplished (using up my stash in the process feels great) and i'll share pics when i get the bindings all handsewn up.

Did get some stamps in the mail this week and they are adorable and fun to color......and perhaps i'll win this blog candy Whiff of Joy and add these to my collection of fun images to color and create with.

Mojo?

yep, its a good thing to have and i'm finding more mojo for card creations these days than layout but perhaps its my newfound love of crayons/blending and the amazing adorable stamps Like this magnolia one that have me inspired to make card after card.

Another one here based on a sketch from this cool new blog Mojo Monday that uses the newest BG line in my stash. awesome colors and i think i was looking at the Tilda in her skirt and sham and thinking Happy St Pat's day.........so i'll have to save this card till next march!!

Generous

I must say that over the past 10 years I've been scrapping and part of online boards i've seen so much generosity amongst scrappers.......they are always willing to share not only their time and ideas, help and guidance and inspiration but actual GOODIES......lots of giveaways on blogs (like Sarah's here, giving away supplies to celebrate HER birthday, cool hey?) and store owners are always generous with their prizes for crops.....its a pretty neat community that i'm proud to be part of......I'm thinking its time I did a little blog giveaway so watch over the next bit for some spring candy from me.

Why Not?

I decided today to open an Etsy store and see if I could sell some of my handmade cards that way......i seem to make so many over the course of a year, more than i will use so why not? so if you're interested i'm Here (unfortunately when I registered to buy a year or more ago i didn't realize my username would have to be the same if i were to open a shop so even though I have titled it Corry's Creations its under Corrysv2, my account name.......:( no changing it unless i want to start from scratch and lose my rating.)

I hope its worth it..........time will tell.

added a few of my latest creations for ya too.

Irish eyes.....

are blue not green around our house.......i'm so glad Greg doesn't mind posing for a photo every now and again (happy vday babe), its fun to have them to look back at as the years go by.......here are a couple pages i did with the pictures as well as a few other goodies...........

TOOT check out the Spring issue of Canadian scrapbooker just out on shelves, i have a layout on page 109 featuring my Grandma and her twin on their birthday last year......so fun........and Canadian Scrapbooker requested two layouts featuring my good looking teens for their summer issue and idea book #4 so i'm thrilled!!!! Happy March!!

Ah poor neglected blog

my oh my how sad it is that i can't seem to post on here more than once a month (or less) but the weeks since Christmas have seemed rediculously busy, i guess i've been doing lots around the house with our bedro redo and sorting and purging to prep for the finishing of our ensuite, and then there's the quilting i've done, so i've accomplished lots when i'm not working or running for soccer but i am sad i can't get to this blog more often.

Anyhow, here are a few goodies to share with you for now.

a new Year

and i'm making it my resolution to do better with posting to my blog.............will it work? not sure but i can try. I don't know why it seems the last thing i do on the computer, perhaps its that i don't know if it worth it, who follows it? anyhoo I'm going to try to do better. here are a few goodies i've done over the past while, had so much fun making the mini quiltlet inspired by Donna Downey. Fun fun.

Finished my dt gig at Life Preservers and want to thank the crew there, was great fun. I got a guest dt spot at Lil Scrappers so that will be fun working with one of Bev's awesome card kits. can't wait.

Sketches

love the 2Sketches For you sketches that they share every week, great inpsiration!!!! and here is mine for this week based on Kazan's sketch #12.

Cards and more cards

I have fallen in love with card making again..........they are such fun little pieces of art, quicker to do than a layout SOMEtimes and its great fun to share them with friends and family. I'm thinking i should make some for the local Christmas craft sale this year and see how they go over.

I've been enjoying the challenges put on by the design team at Lil Scrappers as well as the sketches on 2 Sketches 4 You blog........great incentive and inspiration can be found there. Here is one i did for Kazan's #11 sketch. as well as a few others to get me in the holiday makin mood. And i'll wait to share the cards i created for their dt call :)
PS: THANK Carla for your ps tips on improving and jazzing up my project photos....... it really does help - if only the weather would cooperate for the actual photo taking.....was so windy on my deck i had a hard time keeping the cards on the bench LOL.

Change...

after 2.5 long years Lindsey got her braces off, whooooo, she is so glad, having to wear retainers for another year or so was a disappointment but at least she can eat carrots and apples again! A new cut/color to compliment the new smile too!

and a few more recent projects to share from the Savvy n sassy crop that was great motivation.

Happy Fall

Well once again i'm not keeping up well here.......but i had an awesome weekend participating in 3 online crops at Scrap Fanatics, Life Preservers and Savvy N Sassy (which goes all week long so lots of time to join in and play). I've been having fun stamping and making cards too and using up old patterned papers from my stash (after removing it all from the zip bags and placing into upright jumbo magazine file holders which takes up way less space and is easy to flip through).
Here are some recent creations and i must mention the RED flower layered on the green, the bottom is punched from acrylic packaging, alcohol inked and stamped and then heated with my embossing gun.... is this a cool element and great way to recycle !!







well thats all for today but i really am going to try and post at least once a week if not more often......enjoy the last days of september.