Moving

We are moving from a small apartment to a 3 story townhouse with twice the space.

Yeah!  It has been a long time coming!

So...this means no crafting until April.  I do not know HOW I am going to do this.  I can't even sneak, because I packed my craft room up this weekend.

I will be back in April.  I am sure I will have my craft room unpacked first!

I post pictures of my NEW Craft room.  I am very excited ... my new room is very large, has a huge window that overlooks the valley and the Olympic Mountain Range.  I will be able to look out and have lots and lots of inspiration for stamping.

I thank all who have stopped by my little blog. Please spend some time looking around. 

Work Valentines

I made valentines for my co-workers.  This is not the exact idea in had in my head, but I think they turned out pretty good.  Especially since I finished the last 4 at 1:20 am.  I placed a Ghiridelli Chocolate Square inside.

The ink, stamps and butterfly punch are all from Stampin Up. 

If you would like to know which sets, please let me know.

 

Cute work stories.

I thought I would add a work story today. Since I spent most of today, think of being creative but not actually getting off the couch.

I work in medical office - a pain clinic. We give patients spinal injections to help relieve their pain.

Working with this type of patient population can be very rough as many of the days are filled with angry patients.  Their pain level is so high, they can't help but lash out. Often what they say does not make sense because of the pain, the frustration of nothing tried, has relieved the pain or even the medications the patient is taking. 

Here are some of the cute things patients have said:


~ A patient listed she was allergic to bee stings. Her reaction was redness and swelling at the sting site. Hello! EVERYONE has redness and swelling where they got stung by a bee.


~ Another patient called yelling into the phone, demanding he wanted to have his neck extracted. Thankfully he laughed when the scheduler explained to him he really did not his neck extracted, because this would be REMOVING his neck! What he really wanted was an epidural which is an injection of steroid into his neck, to relieve his pain.


~Yesterday I had an elderly women explain to me that while she was SLEEPING she was THINKING. That was very cute, but scary, because I knew what she meant!  She also told me she did not want to have the injection because she was afraid if she stopped her aspirin, she would have an MRI - a radiology test. Scarier yet, I knew what she meant -a TIA, which is a stroke.  And no, I did NOT correct her.

~I also had a patient yesterday when asked what her pain level was between 0-10?
Her answer...December.  Yep!  That is a number between 0 and 10!

It can also be very rewarding when a patient who has a hard time walking across the waiting room after a car accident who can now return to work or play with their children/grandchildren. 

Frog Prince

Well I have not been making cards the last week or so, but I spent tonight making this card for Stamping 411's Saturday Sketch Challenge 188.  I purchased this stamp a few weeks ago.  I saw it one night and thought I saved the website to go back and purchase it, but I couldn't find the site.  But Philippa from Splitcoast Stampers was wonderful and found it for me. 

I colored with a combination of Copics and SU pens.  I am new to Copics, but boy do I love them!!  I only own three plus a blender pen.  I do believe I will placing Copics on my wish lists for Valentines Day, Mothers Day and my birthday, etc.

 I really like the way their faces turned out.

Valentine Cards!

Here are some Valentine cards I made over the weekend.



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Front- heart is punched out showing white heart from inside



White heart is covered with crystal Effects- pops through heart opening on front.



Front.  Blank inside.



Supplies:

Stampology~ Girl Borders set
Fiskars ~ Woodgrain embossing plate
Cuddle Bug~ Square embossing folder
Paper ~ The Paper Company

Stampin' Up! ~

• I {heart} hearts clear stamps
• Heart-To- Heart Punch
• A light heart stamp set (retired)
• I {love} love Jumbo wheel
•  Real Red Classic Ink

I also posted these on Esty. 

 

Some of the cards I have made. Let me know what you think.

Brayered Cards

Yesterday was a half day at work.  I was able to come home and get creative.  I decided to make my favorite type of card - A Brayered Card.

I decided to make a beach card.  I tried to take pictures along the way.  I made a total of three cards- to see them look at the last set of pictures.

Supplies: 

~White glossy paper     ~Sticky note     ~Stamps     ~Brayer     ~Sponges

~Several blue inks         ~Versamark     ~Scrap paper     ~White gel  pen
~Yellow or orange ink    ~Heat Gun       ~Fantastix "pen"

• Put scrap paper down to cover workspace.
• Stamp image on sticky note, positioning so that part of the "sticky" is still on the back side of the paper.  Or use a 2 way glue, letting become tacky. 
• Cut the image out just inside the outer edge.  This will help prevent a white outline around the stamped image after brayering.
• Stamp image on white glossy paper using Versamark ink.