Happy Monday!

Trying to start off on an upbeat note, but another gloomy day here in the South (weather wise that is!). I really miss the sunshine! This weather is so weird! We get 1 or 2 days of beautiful Spring like weather with Sunshine and warmth!

I am now on the 3rd book of the "Left Behind " books "Nicolae" and about half way through it.

If I did absolutely nothing else, I could read all 12 of them in a week, but we all know how that is. You can't just stop the world and get off for a week! LOL!

I received this card from a member of my group Karyn, for the Getting to know you swap. Isn't it adorable! I just love the Happy Hoppers and frogs too! It was the perfect card to send me. Karyn is so talented! Thank you so much Karyn!

Well thanks for stopping by and I will probably come back later and show some more of my cards. Happy Stampin! Hugs Lori

More Cards!

I just love this image and made a couple of them. If I can ever find some Gamsol, I would like to change to coloring with my Prismacolor Pencils.

I am also finding that I want to start using smaller images, so that I can add more elements to my cards.

Later in the week, I will share some great cards that I have received lately and give you some fantastic Icandy!

Now lets see if I can get another picture up for you.

Well I got the "Make a Wish" Card Loaded, but the layout is not what I wanted. I had so much fun making that card. I used these foamy letters that one of my House Mouse Friends sent me and those little letters are like Gold to me! I just love em!

I think I will save some more to show you tomorrow! I have to go wake up Mark (hubby) as he has been off today and slept most of the day off and on! He is suffering with a broken toe and a

really bad toothache! It will be off to the Dentist for him tomorrow! At least I hope he will go so he feels better. You know how men are when they don't feel well....wimper...wine! LOL!

Have a great evening and see ya tomorrow! Hugs Lori

Remember Me?

Yup! I am still here.....just sometimes life gets in the way, so I haven't been able to post lately.

I want to share with you my Saturday! I went shopping with a dear sweet friend yesterday!Boy, did we have fun! It started with her picking me up and bringing me a glazed donut and a bottle of Pepsi (My all time favorite drink!). From there we went to Hobby Lobby and we stayed there long enough that we were hungry, so we stopped and had a little burger at McDonalds, then on to a Stamp Store. After we left the stamp store we headed to a Scrapbooking store and then on to A.C. Moore. Needless to say we spent no less than an hour in each place and more money than we should have. After A.C. Moore we carried our tired hungry behinds over to Cracker Barrel (By this time it was evening). Believe it or not we had another stop before she brought me home. We stopped at Walgreens, so my sweet friend could by a ton of candy to donate to Meals-on-Wheels. Isn't that a nice thing for her to do!

I must share that this sweet friend spoiled me rotten while we were out. She bought me a stamp and a Cuttlebug Embossing folder, amoung other items and paid for our dinner. Thank you Derenda! You are such a special person and I am honored and proud to have you as my friend.

I also wanted to share some cards that I have been working on.....Yup! I figured out a way to use my scanner by setting up my old pc, scanning the cards and transferring them to my little zip drive and then transferring them on to this pc. A little bit of a pain, but at least I can scan them. Hope you like them!

The one at the top is the first one and they look much better in person than the scan shows them. That little mouse is flying to Canada as I type this. It is for a Getting to Know You swap and it is a card I am very proud of because I don't usually use ribbon on my cards because I am ribbon challenged. I am trying very hard to get out of that rut and do things that I don't usually do on my cards. I just love the Harlequinn background paper. As a matter of fact that is the stamp my friend Derenda bought me yesterday....a Harlequinn Design.

I will send them in separate posts because I am having a hard time getting them uploaded under my post. Watch for the next post in a few minutes!

How the Name came about...short funny story!

Hi Stampers,

I wanted to share how I came up with the name for this blog.....besides the fact that I am hopelessly addicted to stamping!
It started when DH, Mark went to buy my first new pc. I had to work that day, so he went to Staples to get it and since he purchased it and they set it up there, they asked him what the main e-mail address would be. Well I had told him Stampninklady and he told the tech Stampninclady. See the difference is I look like I am a corporation!

Well that is how they set up my very first e-mail address and try as I might, I could not change it. I wanted to spank him for getting it wrong....LOL! So when I started this blog, I finally got my original name! Kind of cute, don't you think!
I wanted to share that I was recently gifted with a new toy.....It arrived in the mail yesterday.....A Score-Pal! I just love it so far and played it some last night and today one of my dear House Mouse friends shared a great tutorial on it at Gina K designs. If you like the Scor-pal, you really must go there and see her tutorials. There are 2 parts and both fantastic!
Another thing I wanted to share is that last week I ask Dawn Griffith to do a video on making bows for our cards and the sweetheart that she is did it and it posted today! You will just love it, she did a great job! Thank you so much Dawn! You are so talented and I love all of your videos!
Thanks for coming to visit and I will try to update more often. Hopefully, I will have some artwork of my own to share with you soon. Big Hugs Lori

Whirlwind of Busy and Thank you!

First I would like to take a moment to thank a special friend from my House Mouse Group, Jovita at Inky Impressions for this great card she sent me and all the wonderful Happy Hopper Valentine Images! Also thanks for the help with the Links Jovi!

I have been so busy lately that I don't know what to do first! Do you ever do that?

Friday night I went to Heavenly Stampers Stamp Club! We worked on Alcohol Inks, Punching and using our Cuttlebugs. We had so much fun and found something wonderful. If you make your AI backgrounds and then emboss them in your CB, the effect is stunning, especially if you used metallic AI's in your background. Something you may want to play with in your spare time, if you have any!

Then I went to a friends House over the weekend to play and she made us all a wonderful dinner! We played with our Cuttlebugs some more and I broke my first "B" plate! Actually, I just made a very large crack in it and was still able to use it as the bottom plate! It was the cutting plate that broke and I think it was just weak from so much use. Luckily for me I had a brand new set at home. Now I will use the unbroken one for my cutting plate and a new one for embossing. Then I still have one new plate if and when I need it, for a spare!

Well, I have so many swaps to complete and things to get in the mail and am running way behind, so I will close for now!

Happy Stampin! Lori