creating today :)

I went downstairs and did a little bit of creating today. I did 2 scrapbook pages for my Daddy album. I want to do an entire album dedicated to pictures of Daddy and memories of him. I found these papers and stickers when we went to Archiver's Father's Day weekend knowing what pictures I would use for them.

I also finished up the last double page layout I started at that crop I went to a while back. They are from Cody's baseball last summer.

New Fabric

Woo-Hoo! I'm excited! We went to Hobby Lobby and found fabric for Mom to make curtains for my Purple Palace! :) It's in the basement, so I have one small high window. My cutting counter has two cabinet bases that are open. So we are going to use tension rods and hang curtains. I can't wait to see the end result!

Finally Finished Pages

My sister Tammy made this wonderful page, and I just loved it! She made one for me too :)

Daddy passed away this past April. He had an adoring love for eagles, making this page so perfect! She also included the two poems that we chose at the funeral home for the printed items used for services, Safely Home and To Those I Love and Those Who Love Me.

Here are some pages I started working on a few months ago at the last crop I went to with Tammy. I finally got around to finishing them up this weekend.

Cody's Four-Wheeler Accident

left page close-up

right page close-up

The kids were all dressed up for my cousing Abbey's wedding since they were helpers in the wedding. I couldn't resist taking some pics of my precious kiddos looking so beautiful!

It was great being back in my Purple Palace working again. I have been trying to get it reorganized now that I'm no longer a Stampin' Up demo. I'm working on getting all of my goodies together and ready to create with, and not having to have everything separated for business reasons. Everything gets to be organized for creating reasons now :)

Getting Back Into the Swing of Things

Well, it has been forever since I last posted. In all reality, I haven't done much work in my Purple Palace in the last year or so. I even let my Stampin' Up demoship go this past February. Too many things going on at home and with the family to schedule or plan much. I have come to the conclusion that doing the business, I put so much into keeping that going, that I didn't hardly get to any of the scrapbooking that I love, which is what really got me into the paper crafts in the first place. I have decided that the scrapbooking is too important to get any further behind in. My family is the most important thing in my life, and I need to get it in scrapbooks for all of us to enjoy. So my contentration at this moment is getting my room back in shape and reorganized now that my focus has changed. Then I want to get my scrappin' back in gear and enjoy all the many memories that I am treasuring. :) So hopefully there will be many more posts to come in the near future.

Another spring flood

Well, another spring flood interrupted my stamping and scrapbooking. :( At least this time, my floor didn't have anything laying around on it! We also didn't get as much water in the basement this time around. However, we were not able to save my carpet after this flood.

My room is so sad without the carpet!

Until we figure out why we're getting the water all of a sudden and get the issue fixed, I don't want to put any more carpet down there, just waiting for it to happen again. So I decided to paint my floor purple in the meantime. It's definitely a brighter shade of purple than my carpet was, but it was the closest color they could tint the special floor paint. So I put two coats of the purple paint down, then a coat of concrete sealer over it, which ended up giving it a nice glossy finish. I'm hoping to be able to get some stuff moved back in there soon, so I can work on getting organized again.

My daddy helped me with the first coat of purple.While I'm redoing my room, I decided to add stamped flowers to the wall. Originally, I only had one row of flowers all the way around the room. It was the layer under my clock. The concrete sealer added such a pretty glossy finish to my floor :)

I'm liking it! :D

I did some creating today! :)

A young couple we know just had their first baby, a baby girl. So here is what I will send to welcome her. Everything for this card except the embossing folders is Stampin' Up material. The card base is sage shadow, ran through the cuttlebug with the d'vine swirls folder. The pretty in pink layer was ran through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder. The toy elephant image is from SU's retired Year After Year set, and the congratulations sentiment is from the retired Baby Talk set, all on whisper white cardstock. I colored him in with the watercolor wonder crayons. The grosgain ribbons are in the same colors as the cardstock.

Keith has known the new baby's grandparents most, if not all, of his life, so I am sending this one to them. All products for this card, with the exception of the embossing folder, is Stampin' Up, whether current or retired. The card base is a retired in-color pink pirouette, with shimmery white layers. The embossing on the card front is the cuttlebug folder swiss dots. I used SU's new scallop oval punch as well as the sale-a-bration scallop trim border punch. The giraffe image is from the retired Wild About You set, and the sentiment is from the sale-a-bration set Whimsical Words. Both are stamped in pink pirouette. I topped it off with SU's beautiful organza ribbon.

I also needed a birthday card for my mom's dear friend that I have known my entire life. I decided to play with this year's in-colors. My card base is rich razzleberry, with bermuda bay, crushed curry, and whisper white layers. The background and cupcake images are from the retired Big Bold Birthday set, and the sentiment is in the Heard From

the Heart set. I used the same colors in ink pads and markers for both. The finishing touch was the matching rich razzleberry polka-dotted ribbon.

Getting into some challenges :)

In my lack of interest in getting downstairs to actually play in my stamping room, I have fallen very behind on our group challenges. The hostess of the month sends the same images, pieces of cardstock, embellishments, etc. to everyone in the group, and we all see what we can come up with. It's great to see how many different ideas come from the same supplies! Well, I decided to start with the March challenge, which I just received in the mail a day or two ago, and the February challenge, which my mom was hostess for. So here is what I came up with.

March challenge

February challenge