I've had some enquiries regarding the units beside my 4 x 4 expedit from Ikea. The drawer units are called Alex. I have four of them stacked two high. I've had these units for about 4 years now and they still look great. I have stored punches in the drawers with no problem with the weight. Most of these drawers are filled with wood mounted stamps. I can stack two stamps high in the narrower drawers and three high in the taller drawers.

Here is a link to the ikea website for these particular units.

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/40196241

Song Bird

I'm back with a challenge card from Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge was to do a card with a music theme. These stamps are from two sets from A-Muse that I picked up in Seattle called Chirrup and Avian Notes.

Craft Room

Well, I don't have any more excuses not to be posting anymore to my blog. My room is finished and will now be spending a great deal of time here. Here are some pictures of my craft area. I seriously could do a commercial for Ikea. I should really try to find some before pictures of this room. It was really ugly with ugly green carpet.

Another Christmas Card

I really should make some other types of cards, but I need to build up the stash for Christmas. Here's another one I did this last week. I'm trying to use of some of my scraps, and I found these Snowflakes that I had in a secret drawer of my Creative Memories cutter. I don't think it is suppose to be a secret, but I always forget about it and find all sorts of goodies in there. Anyways, the snowflakes are from Spellbinders. The circle sentiment is from Denami Designs as well as the ear muffs. The earmuffs come in a set of four and I thought they would go perfect in the centre of the sentiment.

Recipe:

Stamps: Denami Designs, A Muse Sentiment
Paper Stamper’s Select White, SU Old Olive; glittered paper, dp from Scrapworks - Season of Joy Trim a Tree
Ink: Mamento Black, New Sprout & Bamboo Leaves
Accessories: Copics, Nestabilities, Snowflake die cuts from Spellbinder, Word Window Punch and Modern Label Punch,Gems & SU Brads, Olive brads from stash,

A Winter Song

Winter Song is the name of this stamp from Elzybells Art Stamps. I love colouring her because all you have to do is colour her to match the paper and she looks good everytime. I wasn't sure about the ribbon, but I think it works.

Stamps: Elzybells A Winter Song, Sentiment by A Muse
Paper: Cream Card Stock base, SU Real Red, SU dp
Ink: Mamento Black & BrownAccessories: Copics, Label tag from Nestabilities, Oval & Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Glitter, Ribbon from Michaels; Candy Dots by Pebbles Inc, boarder punch from Martha Stewart, Liquid Applique

Star Light

Here's one of my new Elzybells Art Stamps inked up. I have this Memory Box dp that looked like a nights sky and thought it would go well with this stamp. I think this one would make an easy one to reproduce for Christmas. The bottom is cuttlebugged with the Snowflake embossing folder.

Stamps: Elzybells Reindeer Star, Sentiment by Make an Impression
Paper: Stamper’s Select White, SU Night of Navy, Memory Box Winter Wonderland dp
Ink: Mamento Black
Accessories: Nestabilities, Copics, Word Window Punch and Modern Label Punch, Glitter, Night of Navy Ribbon, Adhesive stars & gems

Winter Log Cabin

I started this card today before I went to the soccer fields at 9:00 a.m. and finished it four hours later. I saw on the Spellbinders blog where they had covered the Impressabilities with VersaMark and embossed the finished product with embossing power. I ran it through the Cuttlebug on Kraft Cardstock. I then embossed it with Winter Wonderland embossing powder. I then die cut it with the SU Top Note. I love how it turned out.

Recipe:

Stamps: Great Impressions, Papertrey Sentiment
Paper: Cream Card Stock base, Brown cardstock SU Kraft
Ink: Mamento Black, VersaMagic Jumbo Java, SU Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Candy Dots by Pebbles Inc., Nestabilities, Impressabilities, SU Small & Large Oval, SU Top Note Die, Copics, Glitter, Winter Wonderland Embossing Powder