I will be leaving for the Cincinnati Stampaway Show in the morning ...

Its not until Saturday but I am going up a few days early to spend a day with my aunt and uncle in Fairfield and a day with my friend Missy. Saturday I will be meeting up with 5 other stampers from Ohio, Michigan and NC so that will be fun. I will report back when I get back on how much fun we did have!!!

4 posts in 1 day .. what the heck????

I wanted to show off the latest monkey ATC swap I hosted. I think they all did such a cute job and I never knew there were so many cute monkey stamps out there.

Today is my Uncle Jimmy's birthday ...

My Uncle Jimmy lives in Cincinnati, OH and I am going to the Cincinnati Stampaway Convention this weekend so I will get to see them while I am there. This is the card I made him. When "The Gods Must be Crazy" movie first came out, I must've been a teenager (I do not remember when it came out, I do remember it was a LONG time ago and I thought the movie was the most boring movie ever). My dad and my uncle (they are brothers) just laughed and laughed during that movie so I decided to make him this funny b-day card. I used this tutorial to make it and it was so easy making it how she did.

Here is Josh surprised ... 85 people (not sure the exact amount) showed up ..

and Emily with Brittany and Amber

As some of you may or may not know, I do not scrapbook

so when I am asked to make a scrapbook page, I FREEZE up. LOL I made these 2 scrapbook pages for Josh. He is Charlie's grandson who is going off to college. He is going to University of NC, Chapel Hill in just 10 days. I kept them simple, we were asked to write a little note to Josh and provide a photo if we had one. So I stamped 2 pages and then asked Charlie's mom and brother to put their photo too. This is what I came up with. What do you think?

Another cute stamping project that is EASY ...

I found this paper wallet tutorial here and it will hold cash AND 4 gift cards if you wanted to stuff it full. Of course, I had to try it and this is what i came up with. I think this is what all the "men" will be getting for Christmas this year ... tell me what you think.

These are the measurements you need to know:

Outside piece (with the rounded corners) 9" x 3 1/2" scored at 4 7/16" and 4 9/16"
Inside piece 8 1/2" x 3 1/4" scored at 4 1/4"
Larger pocket 4 3/16" x 2" Cut 2
Smaller pocket 4 3/16" x 1" Cut 2
Basic Black 1 7/8" x 2 1/8"

I used my TAC "crackle" background for the backgrounds that I used. I also paper pierced the inside of the large paper and it would've been better if I had turned the paper over and pierced the outside. That way when you connect the dots with your black marker, it would look better. I will do that on the next one.

I didn't get much stamping done last week

while Grandma Thacker was here. But I did find a really neat tutorial here of how to make a circle purse. Its so easy so I made one today. I am going to make some 3x3 cards with matching envelopes for someone with an "A" initial - hmmmm, I wonder who this could be for. I'm not tellin!! But here is how mine came out. Isn't it cute? (You can click on each individual photo to see them bigger if you want).