Baby You Can Drive My Car

My baby finally got her driver's license today!!! She has waited so long and worked so hard to get here!! I am very proud her! Now, all we need is a car for her. :( Let me know if anyone has a reliable car out there for sale.

Crabby Days II

This is the other card I worked on today. I thought of making it for convention but again it was too hard. I love the way this turned out and for instructions visit Dawn Griffith at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.

Crabby Days

I thought I would show you this great new card I learned on Dawn Griffith's blog Dawn's Stamping Thoughts www.dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com She has some awesome video tutorials and some great ideas to share. The recipe calls for 12X12 cs, but I didn't have any, so I had to finagle it a bit. I love the results though. I thought about doing this as a convention swap but unfortunately Mr. Crabby Pants is too hard to color so I have to come up with something else. My swap group might see this in the future though. :) I'd love to hear what you think, so drop me a line in the comment section. Click on the photos to make them bigger.

Hats Off to Stampin' Up!

My good friend Kari Ransom asked me to figure out how to make a hat out of SU's designer paper. Well she showed me a picture of what she wanted but there was no pattern or instructions so I thought , "I can figure this out, no problem". Okay, first of all, I sew but not very well. Secondly, I suck at math. BIG TIME!! I called my mom to ask if she had any ideas, but she's all the way in Michigan and she felt I needed a pattern. (Which I didn't have and couldn't find) So then I called my SIL Gaye, and she so sweetly agreed to come over and help me. Well, after cutting out butcher paper and playing with it for a while we finally came up with a prototype. It turned out really cute. Kari came over and said she loved it, so we set to work. Here are some pictures of our final products. Kari and her friend will be wearing these to convention. If you plan on going, let me know if you see them and what you think of them in person. We originally didn't put a stitch line in the bill of the orange hat as you can see in the single picture. We felt it looked so much better though with stitch line so we added it and took the picture of both of them together. Hope you like them Kari!!!!

Kaney's Orlando Trip

Hi Everyone! I have been so busy today finishing a project for a friend. I finally got the pictures of my daughter Kaney's trip to Orlando. For those who don't know my father lives in Orlando and works in security at Disney World. A friend of mine, Deanna, was taking her family on vacation there and invited Kaney to tag along. She had so much fun and my dad was able to help them out with tickets to Sea World, dinner at the best restaurant in the French pavilion at Epcot and of course Disney admission. She was able to meet my father's new wife, Sonja and my new little brother Gabriel. I wish I could post all of the pictures as they are awesome!! (Thanks, Deanna!!)

Hi All! I wanted to share a card we made last night at our 10-10-15 club at Kari Ransom's house. We did a few unique things with this card. First of all we used the SU punch Round Tab to make the circle window in the front. Secondly, we punched 2 round tabs out of Whisper White CS and layered them on top of each other to create the white circle under the pink scallop. The last cool thing we did was to use the Stamp-a-majig to line up our stitching from All in a Row. On closer look I think I need a little practice with this. :) Greg and the twins are heading to the river so I hope to get some work done on a cool project I am doing for Kari. If it turns out I will post so all of you can see. If not you will never hear of it again.
Thanks for stopping by!
Angie

Hi Everyone! I wanted to share a card I made for our friends that lost their father. I used the soon to retire Wasabi and Guava along with Chocolate Chip. The main image was covered with Versa Mark and embossed with Iridescent Ice. The paper was from the Occasions mini, Afternoon Tea. I really like these colors and will be sad to see them go. The set used is Close As A Memory. I don't own it, but after the past week, it is definitely on my "too be ordered" list!

Along with the card, I will be taking over a Texas Sheet Cake. I have made this cake a hundred times, but for some reason, all I had were problems with it last night. Hopefully it will taste good. (Fingers are crossed) For those who don't have this recipe, I thought I would share it.

Texas Sheet Cake
2 c flour 2c sugar 1t baking soda 1/2 t salt ....... Mix in bowl and set aside
1 stick butter or marg 1/2 c oil 4T cocoa 1c water
2 eggs 1/2 c buttermilk 1 t vanilla
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In a saucepan bring to a boil marg, oil, cocoa and milk. Let cool.
Add to flour mixture making sure it is mixed well. Add eggs, buttermilk and then vanilla. Pour into 15X9 sheet pan and bake at 425 for 20 min.
Icing
1 stick marg or butter 4T cocoa 4T milk 1lb powdered sugar
In a saucepan bring to boil cocoa, marg, and milk. Pour hot over powdered sugar and mix well.
Pour the icing over SLIGHTLY cooled cake.
Variations and additions:
1 c nuts can be added to icing
1t cinnamon can be added to cake batter.

See ya soon!
Angie

Happy Saturday! My daughter Camryn is such a tomboy! Our next door neighbors have a son named Justin. He is a year younger than the twins, 8, and was out mowing his front yard yesterday. Well, Greg got the mower out today, and Camryn shows up and says she wants to help mow the back yard. So Greg showed her what to do, and she did it. It was way too big for her to do the whole thing, but she gave it a good try! Here she is proving she can do anything a boy a can do!

Bye for now! Have a great weekend!
Angie

We're Back!!

We finally made it home from the river late Wednesday night. I have been playing catch up with laundry and cleaning. We have had some bad news this week that has hit many of our friends. Tim and Kelly Collins are our neighbors at the river. Tim found out on Tuesday that his mother passed away. The Marriotts have been our good friends since we moved into our house and Wednesday Kerry lost his father after battling cancer. On Thursday our good friends the Birch's found out that her father passed away. This has been a very hard week on these families and I would like for all of you to keep them in your prayers. I will be posting some pictures of Kaney's trip to Orlando as soon as I get them. She had an awesome time! Also, Callie went today to have some warts removed and she couldn't be happier! All went well and she is excited to see them go. As you can see she is quite proud.
Until the next posting. Be safe! Be happy! Be well!
Angie

Weekend on the River

We had an awesome 4th of July at our river house on the San Bernard. The girls rode the jetski and Greg bbq'd. We swam and fished and enjoyed our family. Greg's parents and sister joined us on Thursday and then his brother and his family joined us on Friday. Our next door neighbors kids came down and we all had so much fun! Clayton, Zach and Greg bought a bunch of fireworks as did everyone else on the river so we just kicked back and watch the show. Saturday, Kirsten had to leave, so my SIL was kind enough to help her out with a ride! As soon as I figure out how to download pictures, I'll post some.

The Blogging has begun!

Hello blogging world! I have arrived! For those of you joining me, this blog was created to share my love of stamping/Stampin' Up! and family updates with all who are interested. I have been stamping for about 5 years, making cards and projects for friends and family. I hope everyone enjoys my journey with me.