A New Year's Card

Just wanted to share with you a New Year's card I got from one of my SBS9 sisters...of course I don't have it with me to write down which sis, but it is so lovely and just as any handmade card, it made my day...what a good start to the year, eh?

Alex...I hope you got this already!

One of my SBS9 sistahs is recuperating and I wanted to send out a card...I told her since I couldn't send out my OWN Nurse Nancy (my daughter Stephanie) I dug out my retired Button Bear, and sent her on her way cross country...I used my new SU punch not only on the pink border, but on the corners of the Riding Hood Red as well...Hope you liked it Alex!! Now - GET WELL LICKITY SPLIT!

The last of my Christmas Cards from Friends...

Here are the rest of my Christmas Cards - the one's I received anyway...I have some more holiday things to post since I just got them off my camera...I was having a hard time with that...you really have to KNOW where you put the camera cord!!!! (Hey Wendy - OTD!!! lol)

This card is all Stampin' Up! from one of my SBS9 sisters...

This very cool spinner card was from my SBS9 sister Deb...

And this card was from my gal-pal Chatty Kathy!! LOL This card, too, is all Stampin' Up!

More SBS9 sistah Christmas cards!

I told you I wanted to keep showing you the lovely Christmas cards my SBS9 sistahs, who by the way are all really very talented, that they sent me. Love the cards and love my sistahs!!

Lookie at my Prize from My Sistah!!

So I won a prize on my Sistah Wendy's blog by guessing the closest amount of Christmas Trees she puts up in her house for the holiday....and look at what I got!! Wendy - it is YUMMY!!! AND - add a kick-butt card - and my whole month was made!! YIPPEE! I love pressies!! (like who doesn't!!! LOL)

check this card out...love the bling on the bottom 'specially!!!! woo hoo!!

Two more Christmas cards...

Here are two more of my cards from my wonderful SBS9 sistahs...again...greatly appreciated!

This is from Alex...

And this is from Manna...

Two holiday cards from my SBS9 sistahs...

Wanted to share with you some of the lovely cards my sisters as well as some friends sent me for Christmas...and I will be adding them over the next several days for your enjoyment as well...Thank you all...they were wonderfully appreciated!

Edited to add: the above card made by sistah Natalie and the card below made by Lizzy!!

More Non Su Front & Center!!!

Thank goodness this is my blog and I can make exceptions when I want!! TEE HEE! AND since I am still celebrating....here are four more birthday cards I received from my SBS9 sistahs!! Are they not gorgeous and ain't I lucky!!??!! Yes I know I am lucky...So - share with me my happiness...Many Thanks Sistahs!!! ENJOY!

From Katie (L) and Manna (R) ...and this IS SU!

From Gina (L) and Louise as in LuLu (R)

Not SU - but I want this front & center!

Lookie how lucky I am!! My birthday is in 3 days and my SBS9 sistahs, Sue and Natalie have both sent me a card!! From across the seas!! WOO HOO!!! As my students would say, 'totally bangin!!!" So even though I usually only post SU on my front page...my dear sistahs get front page today regardless!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You SO made my day!

This one above is from Sue (love those Sarah Kay!!)

This one is from Natalie! And I LOVE purple!!

Thanks again, girls! You ROCK!!

ooohhhhh - while you wait....

While you are waiting for MY blog candy (as we hit the marathon mark of 5K) - you can do my SBS9's sistah Gina's blog candy - just go to her site by the link in this post or go to the side bar under my SBS9 sistah listing and click that link....either way....check it out...some cute Christmas stuff...and her DOGGIE will pick the winner (I just LOVE that!)

Gina's candy

I found my SBS9 sistah!! YIPPEE!!

OK - so there are like 7,000 demo's at convention and I needed to find my SBS9 sister Alex. Thank God Alex isn't the "miss-ish" type, cuz I was blatantly and shamelessly looking for her at convention....because you KNOW I forgot to get her contact information to bring with me to Salt Lake! Ugh! Anyway - Stephanie was pretty much mortified the whole day - "MOTHERRRRRR!!!" and "you're so weird" - she even hated me talking to strangers, just making everyday pleasantries....do you do that, or am I really weird? Anyway - back to the story at hand! I carried this sign all day long on Saturday, knowing it was our last day....and for the last 4 days I had been eye-ing EVERYONE!!!! I found four other people that I was looking for from pictures from the web - and I got to meet them , like the new advisory board member Patty Bennett, but no Alex anywhere for my sore eyes. Hence - "the sign". SO - now its mid afternoon and right before our last General Session at convention - so I knew this would be it....so I held that darn sign as high over my head as I could and walked the whole dang floor!!! Someone suggested that I go up front by the stage for the cameraman - and off I went....did I ever mention how shy I am.....NOT!!! LOL SO - I get myself in front of the cameraman and wallah!! I am on the big screen with my sign!! For like 15-20 seconds!! (ah fame!) People were coming up to me - "I saw her" "She was just on line at xyz with me" etc etc...but I didn't see her....So I was walking - with sign - in the middle section going towards the back - when I see a small, wee cyclone a'coming through the crowd!!!! YES IT WAS MY SBS9 SISTER ALEX!!!!! We hugged and hugged and laughed and laughed....I got to meet her!!!! I was so dang excited! She even wanted "the Sign"....my poor excuse for a sign...but a sister's gotta do what a sister's gotta do.....with what ya got on hand....and that poor sign was it! Found her, didn't I?!?!?! I just knew that I couldn't be out from PA and her out from CA in SLC without meeting because who KNOWS when we may have the chance again!!! She must think I'm nuts! There is actually more to the story (like me sneaking into the SU survey computer room and emailing her - and going on our yahoo database and getting her home # and calling her DH!!!) but you don't want to hear about that! Anyway - here are two happy sistahs!!!!

One of my SBS9 sisters out in CA had a swap and this was the card that I made. Since it is quarter after ten of the p.m. and I am not even finished packing for our five am drive to Philly airport, I am just posting and running....This card was made with the Always set and I used Magic Snowflake (or polished stone) technique on it. Emboss first on glossy card stock, dab some shiny ink (I used silver) and then drop your colors on a cotton ball and a big dab of alcohol - smears the colors up pretty cool. Then I wiped off the bird, let it dry, touched it with a sealant, and stamped on it and put the card together. Easy, but you HAVE to use the sealant outside or in the garage - and ventilate - that stuff is STINKY!! But a rather nice effect, doncha think??

So...after tomorrow the stress will die down for me at school (hah!)...we have an open house (the first annual one AND expo) and unfortunately, I have become a "go to gal" as I always get things done in a pinch...but I am a bit miffed this time...I got NONE, NOTHING, NYET, NADA done on my presentations...while I fixed and helped with the main office's and expo central projects....{sigh} oh well - there are worse things...although it is 8:58pm, and I forgot to go to Staples to get the certificate paper for our group's handout...{another sigh}.... ahhhhh - as you say in north jersey.....fuhgettaboutit!!......ok - done! So on to what I did do last night! I knew it was Alex's birthday YESTERDAY and I missed sending well wishes but I did make your card yesterday Alex!! So here it is!


Next - I am slowly backing up to the two January babies I missed...so first one is Natty - don't worry Louise you're next! so here is Natty's card with another from this weekend to follow!

Hey look!

One of my SBS9 sisters, Suzanne, sent all of us an award! So here they are - how cool is that!

Here's another birthday card....plus a thank you!

Hey Natalie....Happy Birthday!



I must admit Natalie, that I made your card both for you and for my friends to make tomorrow at a lil Stamp a Stack...I think its colorful and bright...so I hope you (and my friends) enjoy it! I'll have to edit this post tomorrow and add the recipe for the card...





Now for the stamp a stack, I was trying to come up with a more masculine thank you, as I realized I almost always use flowers...not that men don't like flowers, but ....you know....so I thought I would give this a shot...gluing the lil box around the dragonfly was a bit of a challenge, as I used the glue stick - and it was sticking everywhere on me and not the card for the longest time!! But as you can see, I got it! I am nothing if not stubborn! So I was going to win over that dang glue! LOL So let me know what you think....I think maybe it needs something....hmmmmm

Here's a birthday card ...

So Stephanie came home and we played last night in the craft room...She made several valentine's 3X3 cards, several of the heart candy packages I have posted previously, and she made some sample's for her girlfriend's daughter's 1st birthday...not done yet, but can't wait to snap a picture! Hopefully, before she takes them with her, LOL! I missed the lil 3X3 cards, as Stef made them, wrote them out and sealed them....the "noive" (in brookynese - nerve)... Anywho - here is a card I made for one of my SBS9 sisters, Amber...it was her birthday yesterday...so this one is for her! "Amber, hope you had a great day!"

I've been added!! YIPPEE!!

I just checked back on the Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers 9 and saw that I am an official member!! Woo hoo! Although after going over my fellow SBS9'ers blogs - I feel a wee bit nervous...you guys are FABULOUS!

So a lil about me...totally crazy busy like many of you...I teach high school about 45 miles from where I live at a vocational high school. I am currently finishing my doctoral dissertation & this is my last semester unless they give me an extension through the summer! GULP! So unfortunately, I had to put my SU! business off to the side burner (NOT back burner LOL) to focus on my studies. But I CANNOT totally put away my SU! business - and why you ask? Its because I say it all the time....stamping is my therapy....and when my girlfriends come over and stamp I usually laugh until my stomach hurts! So - how can you live life without that?

I asked to join this group as I have had this blog for a bit, but I never really tell anyone about it and that has to change. And the thought that I will have a more global group of friends is great! I so look forward to learning more about you all. I can already tell that I am going to have to be on my toes...and I also know that I will be able to increase my stamping ability AND my blogging ability with the support of you all. I am also using y'all as a means to make SURE I post at least every week...which is also a 2008 resolution....And my daughter Stephanie, 22, may also post here...as we do like working together...She is a scrapbooker, and I am just starting that, whereas I am the card maker and she is just starting that!

OK - well I can also tell I have different things in common with all of you, which is (according to my students) "bangin" - which is very good... [SIGH]...so I have to get off this site and get back to my books.....ttyl!