Cherry Blossoms

I got this wonderful stamp at Joann's today, I just love it! I've seen several cards made using cherry blossom stamps and was so glad to find this one:) I used Bazzill cardstock for the base and the rest of the cardstock is bazzill also. I embossed the pink piece with my cuttlebug embossing folder! Then I did all the layering and edged the smaller pink piece with my scallop scissors. I inked the stamp using CTMH Cocoa ink and then colored it in with my aquapainter and CTMH inks Blush, Chocolate, and Hollyhock. I punched all the corners with my SU! ticket corner punch (This is my favorite punch, it really dresses the card up IMO). To finish it off, I pierced holes with my Heidi Swapp paper piercer and added the gold brads! The "Thank You" sentiment is by Hero Arts.

So, in one week I'll be signing up to be an SU! demo! I'm so excited! I've been ready to do it for like a month (had to resign from CTMH first), but I decided to wait until the new catelog comes out first! I'm gonna be sooo broke, hahahaha! I'm really excited though! CTMH was just not doing it for me anymore. All the images were starting to look the same, not to mention they all seem to be catered towards people with kids. I don't have kids so all those stamps did nothing for me! I looove their paper packs though and accessories and I'll continue buying those from my upline, but for stamps, cardstock, and ink, it's SU all the way!

Well, so far it's been a slow weekend, but Billy is taking me out for steaks tonite, then we're gonna go watch Ocean's 13! We love the first two and I've heard this one is even better! Well, I guess I'm gonna go crank out another card since DH commandeered the tv to watch golf! I'll post my new creation tomorrow!

Couple Cards For Today!

I'm lovin stampin lately, can't get enough! I borrowed some stamps from my friend today and thought I'd try them out:)

This card is a complete CASE by "veramat" over at Splitcoast Stampers. I used BG Romani and Kraft cardstock and tied a piece of Martha Steward ribbon over the seam. I stamped the flower from Petal Prints (SU!) in CTMH Lilac Mist and then did the two-step stamp over it in chocolate (CTMH)! I matted the Colonial White (CTMH) piece on another piece of kraft and then matted that on a piece of chocolate (mmmmm...chocolate....) which I cut with my scallop scissors. I pop dotted the main panel onto the card front. Then I stamped the sentiment from papertray Faux Ribbon on the colonial white cs and cut it with the smallest coluzzle oval. I mounted that on a piece of chocolate that I cut with the 2nd smallest coluzzle oval. Then to finish it off I cut the bottom of the card with my cloud scissors, that's it!

For the next card, I used the SU! set called Fishy Friends (sooo cute!) I stamped the little crab on a piece of watercolor paper and colored him in with prisma color pencils and OMS. I distressed it and sponged it with CTMH Holiday Red ink and matted it on a piece of CTMH Breeze cardstock. I mounted this panel onto a 3.75x3.75 piece of Holiday Red which I used the SU! Ticket Corner Punch on...this is the coolest punch ever! It adds such a neat look:) I matted the whole red panel onto the front of a 4x4 card using Breeze. I tied the red polka dot ribbon on and put some silver brads on the front to take up some empty space. The circle sentiment is SU! and from a set called Circle of Friendship. I stamped it in Pallette Noir onto a piece of white cardstock and cut it out using a coluzzle circle. I then punched a piece of Breeze out using a 1 3/8 circle punch and mounted the white circle onto it!


So yeah, I haven't done much scrapping lately, after making cards for awhile it seems like so much space to fill, lol! But, I do have 200 something pictures from my trip to OBX so I'll be scrappin before long! Maybe I'll make a mini book out of the pictures. I've actually been toying with the idea of making a mini book for everyone who was there (Billy's two sisters and their families and his mom) so it would only be three mini books:) I think they'd love it!

Well, here are some pics of my poor doggy:( Luke has a "hot spot" on his neck! It's much better now, but this is what it looked like on Sunday!





Doesn't it look horrible? He's such a trooper though, he doesn't fight when I put the antibiotic cream on it, he's just the sweetest! I love lil Luke!

Okay, that's about it for today, hopefully I'll have more time to stamp tomorrow after work, but I do have to do my homework eventually, lol!

Oh, and I was tagged too!

LoriAnn, from Croppers Cottage, tagged me today! She actually email tagged me since I've been a bad blogger, kinda gave me a kick in the pants to update the ole' blog! Thanks LoriAnn:)


Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the X from the ones you have not, and tag your friends. Copy to your blog.
( X ) Smoked a cigarette
(X) Drank so much you threw up
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) Been arrested (knock on wood)
( ) Gone on a blind date
( ) Skipped school
( ) Seen someone die
( X ) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Florida
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Been on a plane
(X) Been lost
( ) Gone to Washington , DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Gone skinny dipping
( ) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(X) Sang karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X) Made prank phone calls
( ) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( ) Laughed until liquid came out the other end (um...ewww.)
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue.
(X) Danced in the rain
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(X) Blown bubbles
( ) Made a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
(X) Gone roller-skating
(X) Ice-skating
1. Any nicknames? Snugs (don't ask), Bambi, Ambeer
2. Mothers Name? Dawn
3. What is your favorite drink? Lemonade or Diet Coke
4. Tattoos? NO
5. Body piercing? ears (I'm crazy!)
6. How much do you love your job? Love it!
7. Birthplace? Montana
8. Favorite vacation spot? On a cruise
9. Have you ever been to Africa ? No
10. Ever eaten Cookies for dinner? No
11. Ever been on TV? Yes
12. Ever steal any traffic signs? No
13. Ever been in a car accident? No
14. Was it your fault? N/A
15. 4 Doors? Yes
16. Favorite salad dressing? RANCH
17. Favorite Pie? Pumpkin
18. Favorite number? 1104
19. Favorite Movie(s)? Ever After, Pearl Harbor, Titanic, Bridget Jones I and II.
20. Favorite Holiday ? Christmas
21. Favorite alcoholic drink? Margarita
22. Favorite Food? Tacos!
23. Favorite day of the week? Friday or Sunday afternoon
24. Favorite brand of body soap? Irish Spring
25. Favorite TV show(s)? AI, Survivor, Sienfeld, Family Guy, Sex and the City
26. Favorite toothpaste? CREST CINNAMON
27. What do you do to relax? SCRAPBOOK, Stamp, Read, exercise
28. Do you have a message to your friends reading this right now? Ummm...hi:) LOL!
29. How do you see yourself in 10 years? Happy, and out of Japan
30. What do you do when you are bored? GET ON THE INTERNET
31. Your hero? My husband:)
32. Your middle name and be honest? Dawn

Something Exciting...

Hmmm...well, Becky from Croppers Cottage challenged us to blog about something exciting that happened this week. Since I refuse to look at the last time I posted on my blog, I'll move right along...
So, last week (until yesterday actually) Billy and I went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina with his family for a week long vacation! It was super fun, even though we only had 2 days of beach weather! Mondayand Tuesday were divine, Wednesday-Saturday? Not so much. It was cold, like 60! And windy, hurricane windy! So it was far too cold to swim at the beach or the pool:( We did alot of sight-seeing though, saw the Wright-Brother's Museum in Kitty Hawk, a couple light-houses, and some mini-golf! I have tons of great pictures I'll post later, I'm too lazy to down-load all 280 pictures right now!!! The exciting part of the whole trip was finding out we got orders to Japan! Yeah, Japan! Okinawa actually, a small island off the coast of Japan. The shock has now worn off and I'm really excited! So, now that I'm moving to the other side of the world, I gotta keep this blog thing going, lol!

Happy Friday!!

Happy Friday Indeed! I'm still kinda recouping from the camping trip. For some reason, I'm just really tired from the trip! We went to Salt Springs up by Ocala, it was really nice and all...but there was a crap-load of bugs! I have been half-eaten by the bugs, I have bites ALLLLL over my legs, and when I tell you all over, I mean all.over. It really itches but I got some stuff to fix that today, hopefully it works!
I don't think the dogs had much fun camping either. They just laid there all day. Of course there isn't much they could do because we had to keep them tied up *cries* It was so sad! I can't wait to move back up north where we can leave them off the leash and go camp in the mountains. Florida camping is crap. I mean really...who wants to swim in areas with Alligator signs posted all over? Not so much.
So today I'm recouping:) I went to Joanns and bought some fabric and altered a 3-ring binder...saw this on DIY yesterday and loved it! I covered my idea book, inside this binder are templates and sketches...

And here are a couple cards I made using my new Cornish Heritage Farms bg, "reverse dots"...This is the coolest stamp in the world!

Okay, I'm gonna go take another Calamine lotion bath...

Ahhh Monday!!!

And I don't have to go to work! I'm off till next Tuesday actually, its beautiful:) We're going camping tomorrow, soooo excited for that! First time with the dogs, should be way fun!
I scrapped yesterday and today, how cool is that! Usually I'm too bored to scrap, lol!
So here are the fruits of my labor...
*This happy birthday card was totally lifted from a card in the new CTMH Idea Book, I just loved it:)*



And this is what my room looked like when I was done...



*sigh*...guess I better go clean!

The long awaited pictures:)

A couple cards I just cranked out! Don't you love it when you find super cute cards on a messageboard and they inspire you so you have to stamp, like RIGHT NOW!!!!!! I found the design for these two on splitcoast, there are some waaaay talented stampers over there! Anyways...





Next, my good lookin military man:) He's on his way to a graduation tonite, he cleans up good:p

Ever burn yourself so bad you cry for like an hour?

Well, I did. Last night. I burned the CRAP out of my thumbs trying to get my pizza stone out of the oven! I didn't have complete oven mitt coverage like I thought and went to grab the little rack that holds the stone (pampered chef) and grabbed it with my bare thumbs *cries* It really hurt so bad and now I have big ole blisters on the insides of my thumbs, can't even bend them without them hurting! Oy, thank God for Neosporin, it keeps the burning away:) Yeah, if only that was the first time I've had nasty encounters with my oven...but I won't make myself look worse than I already have, lol!

So I picked up a new hobby! I'm starting to watercolor paint, and so far it's been great! I haven't painted anything that even remotely LOOKS like anything, but it's fun:) And who knows, maybe someday I'll be uber famous and those "paintings" will be worth something *rolls on the floor laughing* One thing I love about the painting, its so much cheaper than scrapping, hahahah! Whoever gets into scrapping thinking it'll be a cheap hobby is seriously deluded! I've spent almost 200 dollars on stuff this past week and it makes me sick to think of it! So much wasted money, and really...the stuff just sits in the organizers looking pretty *sigh*. With painting, all I have to do is buy paper, brushes, paint, and some lil odds 'n ends and paint to my lil hearts content! Oh yeah, I also have to learn how to draw/paint, bwahahahah! That's gonna be the tough part! I have signed up for a couple classes at Joann's though, so I'm really hoping it'll help! I still have to post pics of my darlin honey golfing last weekend, his first "tour" tournament! He's going on another one this weekend in Daytona Beach and he'll be gone overnight...thus it begins...Seriously, it's a good thing I have two super fun hobbies or I'd be out of my mind! Anyhoo, since I'm at work I s'pose I should do something productive for the next 40 mins till I get off, till next time...

awww...here's a cute picture of me and my sweetness:)

It's Saturday, and my eyes itch.

Yep, my eyeballs are itching, think I might be 'lergic to something in the Spring air!

Well, I don't have much to say today, but in the spirit of keeping up with my blog, figured I should post something:) Billy played in his first tournament in the Golf Channel Amature Tour today in Viera, he had so much fun! I won't tell you his score though, he'd kick my booty:) I'll post pics tomorrow, he's so cute!

Here's a layout I did today of lil Annie...love this lil chick!

I want to, really I do!

To start blogging again, that is! There has been so much of nothing going on in my life that I haven't had time!!!!!!!!! Bwahahaha! Don't you even dare look at the last time I updated. For realz.
In the middle of the big inspection on base right now, finally got Malabar out of the way, that ish was no joke, soooo tiring! Talkin 19 hours out there on Saturday and 14 hours yesterday and the boss wouldn't even let me have today off...grrr. I hate no weekends.
On a good note, we're going camping in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier!
Don't expect too much out of me today, I gotta get back in the groove:p

Happy Day for the Hights!

My honey made MSgt! WOOHOOOO! I am sooo excited for him:) Anyone who knows Billy knows he studies his arse off, he was studying 6 months before he took the test...3 or 4 hours a night...every night. Sometimes I would get upset because I wouldn't see him all day, then he'd go in the office and study all night. It was selfish of me though, cause I know he did it for us:) After he took the test, he didn't think he made it! He was actually positive that he DIDN'T make it, so he's ALREADY been studying again to re-take the test next March! When he called yesterday, he wasn't wanting the list to come out because he didn't want to see people around him getting stripes, and him not get anything; well...I guess it didn't work out that way:) My baby got one too! It was also his first year testing for MSgt, and anyone who knows how the military promotion system works, you know that making a stripe on your first try is amazing. Billy is so amazing, he just puts his mind to it, and does it. I *love* him:)

Now he can buy momma a 52" plasma and a cruise! w00t!

<-----HaWt MaN!

<-----HaWt MaN's NeW sTrIpE!

I have had a productive weekend!

If you call lots of scrapbooking productive:) Actually, I made two accordian albums for two friends who are having babies! My friend Jasmine is having a lil boy, and my friend AJ is having a girl (well, his woman is anyways)! I had soo much fun making these, all CTMH stuff, its the greatest stuff to work with!










So, that was my weekend:) Did the little boy album at the crop last night at Lauras, then the girl album I did today! I have like 6 more pics to do layouts for, so I'm hoping the creative mojo will stick with me through the week!

Talked to Billy yesterday, he's doing well in Kuwait...one more week there then he's off to Iraq for 6 months! I'm starting to finally get into my groove now, its still hard, but sadly...I'm getting used to it! I guess thats good too though, I'll just be freaking glad when he's home again:) Well, gotta go let the dogs back inside, the poor little critters have been outside for a whole 5 mins *gasp*! LMBO! Okay, hopefully I'll have something interesting to blog about tomorrow, if not, you'll get more of my whining:) Either way, see ya later!

Turning over a new leaf

THats right, I'm turning over a new leaf! Meaning, I'm going to quit being lazy with my blog:D Okay, so its been almost 2 months since my last post...so much going on, yet it doesn't seem like much to post about, lol!

I've pretty much just been wallowing in my self-pity with Billy being gone, its been a whole month and he JUST NOW got to the desert. At least time can start counting now. Billy said it was 115 degrees in Kuwait, wow. Once it hits 100, I think hot is hot. It all feels the same after that; however, I still feel so bad for him having to work in that heat:( Construction work too, the real manual labor! My poor baby...at least he's makin some big bucks so he can come home and buy momma a 52" plasma tv:) Yeah baby!

Not too much goin on in my scrap room, I managed to crank out one lo for the Croppers Cottage Newsletter Sketch contest!


Isn't Jesse just the cutest little man ever? I *heart* this picture of him:)

K, so I've been getting lots of AWESOME CTMH goodies too, I'm soo lovin the new Solo stamps! Here is a card I did with the Solo "T"



Here are a couple fathers day cards I made using the new Rustic Trails paper from CTMH!





And last picture, the cute Embelly organizer I altered out of a spice rack! I used CTMH Laid Back paper pack!





Okay, so maybe the scrap room has been getting some action, it just doesn't feel like it! Okay, so I promise to post more, its my hope to post everyday, not like I have a whole lot goin on right now, lol!

Stay crazy~
Amber

Awww...I had to post another picture of Luke, I have been neglecting him in my pictures! HE's so purdy, isn't he? I think this is such a groovy picture too:D

Tuesday blogging! I'm sooo tired today, kind of angry also. Thats no way to live! I have to learn to let things slide off my back, life goes on. Okay, so anyways. I tried to come up with another blog challenge for the cottage bloggers, this is what I came up with:)

If you weren't scrapping in your free time, what would you do?

I love to work with crafts so much, that I believe it would still be crafty! I used to enjoy cross-stitching. My mom taught me how, and I loved it! Its just not so satisfying as scrapping because it takes FOREVER to see the end results! I have also always wanted to get into ceramics and pottery! I think I'd also try to make alot more time to get in the gym and be serious with the lifting! Its just a little tough right now, but when Billy leaves, I'll have alot more free time to get in the gym and stay for as long as I need too. I plan on knockin his socks off when he returns from the desert in January!
I soo enjoy scrapping though, and don't see myself giving it up anytime soon:)

~~Amber~~

New blogger topic for Monday!


Top 5 must-haves (ever changing of course)

in my fridge
1. Milk
2. Veggies
3. Vanilla Chai Spice coffee creamer
4. Unsweetened Ice Tea
5. White Zin or Beer (I'm only human)

in my closet
1. JEANS
2. SHOES (lots of em!)
3. Purses of every size and color
4. My laundry basket (so clothes don't get piled in the corner!)
5. Shirts (I know, so obvious)

in my purse
1. wallet
2. Gum
3. Pens
4. My weekly calender (for appts and such, you know I'm important!)
5. Extra house keys

in my car
1. Gym bag
2. CD player and CD's
3. sunglasses
4. Gum
5. My CTMH idea books

on my TiVo (assuming we had TiVo which we don't, but I can dream!)
1. American Idol
2. 24
3. Lost
4. Days of Our Lives (shut up)
5. 30 Minute Meals (Rachel Ray)

Tag, you're IT!!!

Oh yeah! I love today!

BeAuTIfUL FRIDAY!!! WOOHOOO! I love fridays:) We have been doing absoultely NOTHING all day today in the office! Just hangin out, chewin the fat! Then we went to the Slow n' Low BBQ place for a birthday lunch for Marie, it was so good! Plus, this place is right off the beach so we got teh nice ocean breeze out on the deck, all I needed was my man, my bathing suit, and a margarita and I would have been in heaven:) Its 86 degrees today, pretty warm out there! I can't wait for Sunday! Billy got us a boat and we're taking the dogs out for some water fun! Betcha I can find a layout out of all the pictures I'll be taking;) I feel the urge to go spend money at Scrapbook Cottage...I love that place *sigh*

Okay, well I gotta research some chemicals now, sounds fun eh? :) Have a great afternoon!

~~Amber~~

JACKPOT!!!

Okay, I told you I was gonna post these pictures of Jesse sucking on his bed, its so absurd, lol!



Okay, look at my loot! I had such a great mail day today! I got my new Rhonna Farrer clear stamps, AND my Carolee's clear stamps, along with some fab paper! LOVE IT!

Man, I get so happy when I look at those:)

So, the blog challenge on Croppers Cottage was to tell something that you want everyone to know about you. Well, I guess that would have to be that I am sooo needy! I NEEEED to be around people, I love to hang out with friends (IRL ones and my online buddies)! I think this is one reason I get so depressed when Billy leaves, its just me and the dogs! I totally miss the human interaction all the time. I only have 3 good friends here in Melbourne (only been here a year and its so hard to meet new people around here!) and all of them are leaving within the month. Getting stationed in San Antonio and Korea. So, I'll be completely and utterly alone. So look out, I'm such a whiner too when I'm sad! LOL!

Okay, Survivor is coming on so I must go! My Nick got voted off last week, so sad:( So now I'm going for Austin I think. Can't wait to see Shane go...he works on my last freakin nerve! Goodbye for now!

~~Amber~~