ATC's, Cards and Pink Zebra...

Just a quick post with some updates. First off I have been Jamming a little bit with my yahoo group ATC Jams. If you are not familiar with jams, it is really quite simple. One person starts a set of 3 identical jams and sends them to a 2nd person, who "Just Ads More" and then passes them on to a 3rd person and she/he finishes up the set, keeps one for themselves and then sends the 2 back to person #1 to distribute. When a jam leaves you never know what kinda turn it is going to take on it's route...it is ALWAYS fun to see how they finally turn out. They are all little works of art! Sorry for the lighting on the first one...my camera flash would not cooperate.
Next is a couple of cards I made for a yahoo group that I am in called Friends that Scrap. There are about a dozen of us that participate in a birthday club. These 2 are on their way to 2 gals that have birthdays coming up. I used my cuttlebug embossing folder on the white for the dots and then a little bit of Springtime cardstock from Echo Park along with some ric-rack and ribbon. The button card was a printable I found online at Pinterest...oh, have you found Pinterest??? I have a brand new addiction...you MUST check it out. You can visit my boards right here. The button card is in my file titled "Print It". Anyway...the buttons on the card are from my stash.

Second I wanted to let you know that the first Pink Zebra Home Spring/Summer catalog will be available the first week of February...yaaaay! Here is a sneak peak of some of our new products. These are our new Shimmer Warmers. You have a one time purchase of a base and then you can purchase the different sleeves separately. I think there will be 7 sleeves in all this year...maybe more...who knows...lol.. Here I have wire, metal, bling and cracked glass to share with you. I always have scent samples and catalogs if anyone wants one, just let me know. You can also visit my site at www.pinkzebrahome.com/sprinkles.


Well I am going to close for now, but I will be back later with some more to share.

TTYY

She is finally here....

After what seems like an eternity, my new granddaughter Scarlett Grace made a quite easily entrance into the world on May 2nd. She weighed 7 lbs. 15 oz. and was 19 3/4" long. Mama had quite an ordeal getting her here. Because of blood pressure problems my daughter was hospitalized over 4 weeks before Scarlett was born. Daddy works 24 hour shifts, goes to school and has clinicals to do, so Na-na (that's me) took care of the boys, who are 3 and 5 and FULL of energy...Na-na is not! I had little time to do anything else. I now know why God give us our babies when we are young! I also have a whole new respect for those grandma's out there that are raising their grandchildren for what ever the reason may be. They are also in my prayers!


Sion the 3 year old is not sure what to think about his new little sister. Seth on the other hand absolutely LOVES his little sister. He will sit and hold her on the couch for long periods of time. He talks to her and sings to her.

I have had little time to do any scrapbooking over the last couple of months. Before my daughter ended up in the hospital, I did participate in an ATC Scripture swap and recipe card swap in my Friends That Scrap yahoo group. The topic for the ATC swap was "honey".

I also wanted to share with you some more of my "Jams" that I have participated in over the last couple of months. This is from another one of my yahoo groups called ATC Jams Galore...I absolutely love doing these! I haven't "jammed" in a while, so I am anxious to get back to to it!

Well, thanks for stopping by. Hopefully I will have some more soon to share with you as things settle back down around here.

TTYL

It's almost February....

and yes I know, it has been a while since I posted and I do apologize. I started a part-time job at my local Post Office the end of September and with all the training (never knew so much was involved in moving a mail piece from point A to point B!) and the holidays, I was just about working full-time...Yikes!!! I fill in for the Post Master when she is off. Now that we have the holidays behind us it is slowing down just a bit and I am finally on my 2 day a week schedule which I am liking pretty well. Now I can get back to what I like doing best...playing with paper and ink...lol

Christmas came and went pretty quickly around here. But I did manage to snap a few pics...or tried to...of my grandsons.

First attempt...
(Seth) but Na-na...I don't want to take a picture...
(Sion) C-H-E-E-S-E!!!


Take 2...
(Seth) Wait Na-na...I want you to take a picture of my new Bakugons...
(Sion) Bubba what you doing??...notice the little fingers poking through my crochet tablecloth...
and finally...

Take 3...(Both) C-H-E-E-S-E!!!

Ok, this will have to do....LOL Just think...next year there will be 3 to try to get together for pics ...yes we will have a little girl arriving some time around the end of April, first of May.

I have been busy this month with a new Yahoo Group called "Friends That Scrap". Lot's of great gals here and lot's of things going on. Definitely a lot of chatting going on, but we also have swaps, PIF's, games and a lot of chatting going on...oh wait...I said that...

Right now I am working on ATC swaps and an ongoing recipe swap. Just finished up my recipes. This months theme was "Chocolate"...so I chose Oreo Truffles. If you have never tried these, do yourself a favor and run to the store right NOW and pick up the ingredients...you will not be sorry!! I used my Cricut Expression and my "From my Kitchen" cartridge to cut out the little mixer. The pattern paper is some from my stash from the Cookbookin' line and the cardstock is Bazzill that I picked up at Big Lots 25 sheets for $5 bucks! Lot's of great colors in this stack.
We also had our very first ATC swap. If you are not familiar with ATC's, they are like Baseball Cards for Artists. There are only 2 rules with ATC's...1) they must be 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 and 2) they must not be sold...only traded. Each one is a little masterpiece. These little guys are VERY addictive. I have been collecting and trading now for about 2 years and I have almost 150. I love each and every one. Most swaps are themed, but our first one was an "anything goes" theme.
We are taking sign-ups now for our next one in February...theme is "Sunshine"...maybe that will help to warm our cold toes!!

I have also discovered ATC Jam's and I am absolutely having a blast with these. What is a Jam you ask...let me tell you. " JAMS are where one person begins by preparing three (3) identical backgrounds and sends to person #2. Person #2 adds something (same thing to each card) and sends to person #3. Person #3 adds something (same thing to each card). The set is now complete. Person #3 keeps one card and mails the other two cards to Person #1, who in turn will mail one card to person #2. This completes the JAM." (Explanation comes from the welcome page of another Yahoo Group called "ATC Jams Galore"). I joined this group about 3 months ago and I have been a jammin'. Here is a photo of some of the completed jams that I have worked on. I've worked on several more in the #1 and #2 position and am patiently (not) waiting on them to come home so I can see how they turned out!
In the midst of all the December craziness I made a Christmas gift for my mom of note cards. The stamps are from Our Daily Bread Designs...great site! The insides are blank so my mom has lots of room to write in them. I got the directions for the box from Splitcoast Stampers in their resource section.









And last but not least a quickie ATC that I made using some left over scraps from the Mariposa line. Gold stickles and Skittles finish it off.

Sorry for the long post, I will do better next time...lol. Thanks for stopping by!

I've got to run, the grand's will be here shortly and I will get nothing done after that...

Talk to you later...