I am so loving my burst of creative energy lately! It's definitely been a long time since

I have had this much mojo in my Purple Palace!

My Sweetness

A stamping friend of mine hand-crocheted
this awesome purple headband flower for my niece.
When my sister took her for her 3 month pictures,
she took some special ones in just purple
(obviously, I loved them! lol)
So here is the scrapbook page with a few of them.

I used the Jasmine Cricut cartridge for the lettering.
Then I embossed them in clear embossing powder for
some added shininess to this special page.
I also clear embossed my picture mats and flowers.

Here are two more cards for my monthly Christmas card challenge

(6 a month)

no stamp, no ink Santa

I wanted to do a simple, no stamp, no ink card.

I used designer paper for the main focus of the card.

I used SU ridinghood red and wild wasabi cardstock.

I used the striped SU wild wasabi ribbon and hodgepodge hardware

for an added touch.

holly jolly reindeer

I love reindeer!!! Cute ones, fancy ones, I love them all!

This is a designeer paper from my new stash that I had to use.

I used SU chocolate chip, ridinghood red, and whisper white cardstocks.

The holly jolly sentiment is from SU's A Holly Jolly Christmas stamp set.

I used SU markers to color the small stamp from SU's Season of Joy stamp set

underneath the sentiment, stamped off for faded images, then punched

it out with SU's wide oval punch.

The wide chocolate chip grosgain ribbon finished off the outside.

This card is a gate fold card, meeting in the middle. The ridinghood

red layer is only adhered to the left side of the card base.

On the right side, I adhered a cut-out reindeer image from the

designer paper, and layered it using SU's 1 3/8" circle and the scallop circle punches.

I added gold dots around this with the zig painty to help it stand out from the card base.

A creative start to 2012

Starting 2012 off creating :)

I am starting this new year off creating! And I love it!
I set a personal monthly goal to create 6 Christmas
cards, 10 gift tags, and 1 homemade gift each month.

Gold and Holly

This is a very simple card, but I like clean and simple on
many of my cards. The holly background is a designer paper that I received,

as is the gold paper. I did use SU whisper white cardstock for the
card base and to stamp the sentiment from the SU stamp set Christmas

Punch in gold encore ink. The image works with the SU wide oval punch.
I also used some gold ribbon from my stash for an extra gold element.

Cruisin' Sparkling Santa

I definitely had the recipient in mind while creating
this card. I decided to use the SU Cruisin' Christmas stamp set, with my uncle

in mind. I used SU whisper white, glorious green, and real red
cardstocks, as well as a designer paper from my shopping. To bring out the red

sparkle in the designer paper, I covered real red cardstock with versamark,
then embossed it with iridescent ice embossing powder.

I stamped the Santa motorcycling image in Memento tuxedo black ink

and added some color with SU markers.
I stamped the sentiment in versamark and real red, then also
embossed it with iridescent ice embossing powder.
Then I finished it off with a fun, sparkly fiber from the Paper Studio.

I Said a Prayer Angel

We found out that my mom was the designated
recipient for a challenge on SCS, where we are members and friends
with so many great people. She has received some beautiful cards
from people on SCS - some she knows, but most she doesn't.
I thought this was such a cool idea, and decided to check out
the weekly challenge. I am jumping on the Teapot bandwagon, and
decided to start with this very challenge for my mom.

I used SU bermuda bay, cool caribbean, and whisper white cardstock.
For the background, I used the shaving cream technique with
the SU bermuda bay and cool caribbean refil inks.
The angel image and the prayer sentiment are non-SU
stamps, and unfortunately I cannot name what company. I received the
angel image in an image swap, and I received the sentiment from a

friend, and there is no company name on it. But I love both!
I colored the angel in with a blender pen and the same SU inks. I covered

her wings using the versamarker, then embossed with iridescent ice
embossing powder. I stamped the sentiment in marina mist ink onto cardstock vellum,

trimmed with decorative scissors. I finished the card off with some SU hodgepodge

hardware and a non-SU cord from my stash.

Cody's birthday

Today my Little-Man turned 11 years old!

Cody is currently really into his farm toys, now actually playing with them and taking care of them. He prefers the 1/64th scale to play with. So he got new farm toys from us, as most of the boys' farm toys are pretty used and abused, and need to be retired to staying outside for the dirthill. He loves his tractors! He now has a whole farm set up on the pool table in the basement - with Daddy's permission because that was what he enjoyed doing as a kid.

Here is his card. This is a tractor stamp that I got at a local stamping store when it was still in business. I stamped the image in SU craft basic black ink and embossed it with SU clear embossing powder. I stamped the sentiment in SU real red ink. I used SU basic black, real red textured, brushed silver, and whisper white cardstock. I used SU wide real red and narrow basic black ribbon, as well as a silver ribbon that was purchased elsewhere and given to me as a gift.

We had his family party over the weekend. He chose to have a farm theme on his birthday cake this year. He liked what I came up with.

Quacker exchange

My Quacker friends had another secret gift exchange. I sent to Suzy.

I only took pics of things I made for Suzy, not the store-bought items.

her card

Friendship bookmark

Merry Christmas picture frame

Quacker ornament

a Christmas blessing

Suzy is from Texas, so I couldn't resist when I saw these tiny ornaments. I'm picturing a pillar candle standing in the middle with rope or twine tied around it.

Texas wreath

Suzy's sister Debby sent to me :)

She spoiled me with goodies!

Debby hand-painted this Chicken, and it will go perfectly in my kitchen!

A Weekend of Creating

I did a lot of creating this weekend,

with paper and ink, as well as with frosting.

Well, my big sister turned 40 today :D

I was nice on the cake for her surprise party though.

... and of course, the card had to match the cake

A Christmas gift for our dear friend

a couple small cards to go with gifts

Our friend Sue took a road trip to come visit us, and she brought some new toys, including

a new Sissix die and embossing set that I absolutely fell in love with! I spent most

of our crafting time playing and making stockings. LOL
Of course, Mom ordered this set for us to play with now. :D

Sympathy cards

These are never my favorite to make! Last week, there was a tragic car accident that killed 3 teenagers and injured two. One of the young men lost belonged to a family we know. He was the oldest of three children- having a younger brother and sister, and they just lost their father to cancer one year ago the same month. This family has been through so much! And now this horrific nightmare upon them tears at my heart! So I spent today creating some special cards for my friends.

This one is for my little buddy Kaylee. She and I have done a lot of talking over the last year, as we have both lost our daddies. Now she is facing the loss of her big brother on top of it. My heart just breaks for this girl, as well as the rest of her family. But she needed a special card just for her.

And this one is for her brother Lucas.

~R.I.P. Levi~

~You are forever loved and missed by many~

Ali's b-day creations

My Angel-Face turned 14 this year!!!

Here is what I came up with for Ali's card. She is really into the zebra stripes and hot pink. In fact her bedroom is done in it, her bedding set being black and white zebra stripes on one side, and hot pink leopard print on the other. So I decided to go with that.

Now I realize this isn't really what I create in my purple palace, but my cakes are another creative outlet of mine. And since it was the same theme, I wanted to share it here as well. Ali loved it, so I'm happy with it. I had fun with this one too.