A little fun

On Monday I received a wonderful package in the mail from Jeanne, she was my secret sister last year in a 6 month swap. She nominated me in a secret friendship appreciation swap. Due to some problems she didn't send her package in time so this was a total surprise. I had completely forgotten about this swap. Of course I forgot to take a picture of everything together, silly me. Let me try to recap, in my wonderful fun box there were brads and more brads, designer paper, a handmade little 3x3 album (don't recall what the name is but I do recall seeing a tutorial for it on SCS), primas large-md-small, a clear sentiment stamp, ribbon, a wooden purse to alter, a banner with the word dream on it, wood flowers to alter, a tape runner that has words on the tape, and two really cool stamps that were made from rubber tires. This card was made with one of the rubber tire stamps. They are black rubber unmounted so I mounted them on the foam EZ cling stuff and away I went. I think this cat is tooooo cute. I sent this card to Jeanne today along with some images of the cat inside for her to use, she mentioned she thought the cat was really cute too. Jeanne's in Canada so it will take a little while for her to get the card, I'm sure she'll like it. I wish I had put something on the background, I just don't like plain backgrounds, but I had Ryan in the tub so I kept running back and forth checking on him and trying to stamp.

I just joined a summer themed coaster swap on

SCS. I am one of 5 people making tile coasters and the other 20 or so are making chipboard coasters. I much prefer the tile coasters, I made about 5 sets for christmas gifts. I've had a two month break from coasters so this swap sounded like fun.

This is what I was thinking of doing for my coasters. What better way to portray summer than shorts, a smile and a drink? These should be fun to make. I'll post a picture once I get them made. They're not due to the hostess until June 1st but I usually like to get them made as soon as I sign up for a swap and mail them out. That way I know my part is done and I can sit back, relax and wait for the happy mail to arrive.

Thanks for stopping by.

Kim

Late night stamping

Hello everyone. Well on Thursday night I was surfing around SCS, I never do that (LOL), and I saw the Wednesday Weekly Inkling. The tutorial this week was for the little hangers for water bottles. I thought to myself, "Self this would be a nice little gift for the Pampered Chef consultant on Sunday". So "Self" decided to give it a try. It only took me about 10 minutes and I think it looks cute. I used the Groovy Guava designer paper that I received in a secret swap in December.

At the last stamp camp I attended at my demo's house we made this little tent shaped treat holder. The sentiment was a birthday one and she gave us little mini chocolate loaf cake to put inside. Well I ripped off, I mean gently removed the birthday sentiment, replaced it with a thank you sentiment, added a sample size of The Body Shop Mango Body Butter which I had received in my Body Shop order and last added a baggie with some Andes Mint chip cookies.

Tomorrow is the day for the Pampered Chef party I am hosting so I am giving the consultant these two items as a little thank you for doing the party for me.

The last thing I wanted to share tonight is a picture of me and my daughter, Lauren. This picture was taken on superbowl Sunday at our friends house, Jenny & Steve. They host a great superbowl party every year. I even won two quarters of the pool this year.

On superbowl Sunday Christine and I took our kids to the Jonas Brothers Concert at the Gibson Amphitheater (the Universal Amphitheater). Lauren had such a great time, it was her first concert and she just loved it. She got a shirt, pins and the light wand that she waved in the air the entire time, I don't think she sat down once the concert started. Ryan was not as impressed. He sat in his seat, got up once I believe, covered his ears and hid under his jacket. He did not like the volume at all. Since the concert Lauren has not listened to anything except Jonas Brothers songs, she is absolutely obsessed, especially with Nick Jonas. The concert was fun and at least their songs are nice, no profanity or anything like that.

So without further ado, here we are kinda tired after the concert, at the superbowl party. Doesn't Lauren just look wonderfully happy in her Jonas Brothers shirt? Next time we'll catch her for a picture without the cheek full of food.

Off to bed I go.
I am looking forward to the Pampered Chef party tomorrow. I think it'll be fun.

Love ya, Kim

Day 2 of my blog

I decided to upload some pictures today, I realize this will be two days in a row of posting but don't worry, I'm just experimenting and having fun trying to figure out this whole blog thing, I'm sure the attraction will wear off.


On Sunday I am hosting a Pampered Chef party. I haven't had one since we lived in Orlando, Florida back in 1998. They are such fun and I just love their products, their stuff is great. My wish list is well over $200 already and that's with the hostess discount already applied. I told the Pampered Chef consultant that I wanted to make little treats for everyone to take home after the party using the Twixit bag clips. She thought it was such a great idea that she gave them to me at cost. I thought that was great, especially considering I have never met her before, though free would have been even better. LOL. Last Thursday I took some stamping stuff to work with the hopes that I could find a little time to stamp since work was kinda slow (just don't tell my boss, he probably wouldn't appreciate it) and guess what, I did stamp. This past weekend the Twixit's arrived and I was able to put together the treats. I have them all in a basket to set out in the foyer. Here's what they look like.............................


The top chef with the sentiments is attached to the front of the basket and the bottom chef is the tag hanging on each of the treats inside the basket. I didn't put a sentiment on the treats just the image. You can't tell on the picture but I also paper pierced two opposing corners for a little added flare.

For Valentine's Day my forever friend Christine gave me a "Fastenator" so I had to give it a try. If you don't know what a "Fasternator" is, it's the stapler thingy that has wide decorative staples for your paper projects.


Here is a picture of Christine when we took the kids to the snow for a day trip..................





I made her a Thank You card for giving me this wonderful new toy. I cased a card from SCS using punches to make animals and here's the end result...................




Notice that I used the "Fastenator on the side of the sentiment", cute huh?



Here are two more cards that I made using the "Fastenator" and trying a technique I saw on SCS of making a ladybug out of scalloped punches...............................




Thank you Chris for giving me this super fun tool. She even gave me gobs of different staples to use with it. Isn't she great? I think so, even though she keeps trying to get me to drink and to get a tattoo. So far I'm still holding out. ;-)


On another note, yesterday I uploaded a picture of the magnetic valentine tin I made for Ryan's second grade class. I also altered a Target mailbox for his teacher, here's what I came up with...






Thanks for looking. So far it's been fun playing with the new toy, my "blog".

Love ya, Kim

My First Post

Well here we are. I am going to actually attempt to have a blog. For those of you who don't have a clue as to whose blog you are looking at, I'm also known as Mama Kim on Splitcoaststampers.com. Not quite sure what this whole blog thing is all about though I enjoy surfing through other peoples blogs looking at all their creativity.

Here is my first attempt at uploading a picture. I made these little tins for my sons second grade class for Valentine's Day. I used various images in the bottom of the tin, put magnets on the back and included a few hershey's kisses. I sure hope all the kids liked them.