Inkin' It Up With Kendra!: November 2006

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Snow Day!

WOW is it cold outside - Today we had a winter storm here in Texas, the sleet and snow are coming down and my work is closed for the day so I decided to do what? well spend my time stamping and getting some christmas/birthday presents finished of course!!! This is my very first lunch tin and I think I really like the way it turned out. I covered the tin with some really pretty rose paper that i found at Hobby Lobby - I used ModPodge to adhere it to the tin - it did bubble up a bit, but I took another piece of paper and laid it on top and ran my hand across it until all the bubbles were gone - then I added a layer of ModPodge. I took a chipboard letter N (my boss's initial) and painted it with craft paint (white paint that I added a couple of drops of regal rose ink refill to). I used the Roses in Winter set and stamped each rose individually, cut them out and sprayed them with water. Then i curled up the ends with a small paintbrush and let them dry. once they were dry I sponged on some chocolate chip ink - then I put the flowers together. I attached them with LARGE dimensionals and covered them with ModPodge. This was a lot of fun to make - now I have to get busy on the dividers that go inside!

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

GIVEAWAY! Now who doesn't like to win something every now and then? I know I do (but that very seldom happens lol) I have an extra Card Candy and I would like to give it away to one of you lovely people that reads my blog!! Just leave me a comment on the card candy below and Saturday December 2, I will randomly choose a winner! You never know, there might be a little something extra with the Card Candy too! :)

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Monday, November 27, 2006

Gifts for Stampin' Club! We have our last stamp club meeting of the year next weekend and I have been trying to come up with a little gift for all my friends in the group. I finally decided on CARD CANDY........I don't know who came up with the idea, but it was a great one. Making 9 sets of card candy was definitely a challenge - but I enjoyed every minute of it. Deciding on what stamps to use for the candy was also a bit of a challenge until I realized I just gotten my new Lockhart cupcake stamps in the mail - so of course I had to use those. One of the girls in the group is having a birthday around the time of our meeting so I am also surprising everybody with cupcakes! Gee, that sounds soooo good right now. :) I will definitely post a picture of those this coming weekend. I still have to make a set of cards to swap out with everybody - yikes! Not much time and I am still working on Christmas gifts. Have a great rest of the day!

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

This is the one!

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving, I know I did! After putting up my christmas tree and putting out all my christmas decorations I finally decided to get down to business and sit down and work on my christmas cards, after creating a few I finally decided on a card........and here it is! This card just kind of evolved and I must say I LOVE the burgundy and I LOVE how the patterned paper looks like toile!! The tree from the lovely as a tree set was just perfect with this paper (thanks to my friend runae who let me borrow her set). Now that these are done I can get down to finishing all my card sets, notebooks, lunch tins, pens and the rest of my handmade gifts that I am giving for christmas. Wish me luck! :)

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

I haven't posted in a few days - I have been so busy working on all my cards for christmas gifts that I am giving out this year. Making several of each card is definitely time consuming and definitely challenges your creative side! I bought 7 lunch pail tins to decorate and fill with cards and I can't wait for them to arrive. Tonight we had our stampin' up hostess meeting and of course I felt the need to order tons more paper and a couple of stamp sets (needed them like I need a hole in my head lol). I made several of this card this morning at around 1:00am - I was on a roll and didn't want to stop. I had to cut this daisy out by hand and whew was that a chore! I used staz-on to stamp the image and colored with prismacolor pencils and gamsol - the rest of my creation just kind of evolved - I am really happy with the way it turned out. I will be back tomorrow hopefully with a rough draft of my this year's christmas cards!

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

WOW - I'm a Winner!

I can't believe it - it actually happened, yes that's right, i'm a winner! I participated in my first ever Splitcoaststampers VSN this past weekend and oh what fun I had. I submitted a card for the Happy New Year challenge. I only had 45 minutes to make the card and was a little uneasy about it at first (I take forever on my cards and I'm real picky lol).....I whipped that card right out and I thought it looked pretty good, but definitely not worthy of a win. I was looking on the VSN forum today and realized that little old me was yep, a Winner! I was speechless (which is rare for me). I want to thank all those super duper VSN pixies that did so much to make the VSN a success for everybody that participated. I am sure a lot of hard work went into the entire event. I will definitely participate again. I hope everyone had a great day today, I know I did. :)

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Christmas Gift Set For a Lucky Family Member! This past weekend I decided I was going to spend the ENTIRE weekend on getting a head start on this year's Christmas gifts. I had sooooo many ideas swimming through my head and wasn't really sure where I wanted to start. Then I came across a 6x6 Page Protector Pouch that was in my favorites on SCS. I thought to myself "this would be the perfect item to start with". I got started stamping and the next thing I know I had 5 sets of these made, cards included! I stamped over 25 cards, made three candles, a couple of beaded pens and some post-it-note holders. I couldn't decide what to put the candles in, then I had a thought........I had some medium size gussett bags and put one of the candles in there and tied a ribbon on it and voila! It's the perfect thing to package the candles in. The page protector pouch is sooooo easy to make and I loved every minute of putting all of them together. I haven't decided yet who will be getting these, who knows I might decide to keep them for myself lol j/k. This coming weekend will probably be dedicated to getting my christmas cards finished........I have tried a couple of different ideas for my cards and think I have finally come up with a winner, I'll post that tomorrow.

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Finally decided to join the masses!

Yes, I finally decided to join all you other bloggers and see what all the fuss is about. I am going to share a little of my hectic life and also some of my creative side (and not so creative side lol). Hi, my name is Kendra and I am an addict......a stamp addict that is.

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