Amuse challenge #3 - your favorite flower

How is it that I do not have a single favorite AMUSE flower stamp???? In fact, I don't have alot of flower stamps period!!! So this is what I did, using flowers that I do have. ALL stamps by Amuse. I also used my MS grass punch too.

Amuse Challenge #2 - Repetition

Here is my card for challenge 2. We are to stamp an image 3 times so I stamped "Here's the scoop" 3 times at the top. ALL stamps by Amuse.

Amuse is having a pj stamping party tonight

and there will be challenges every 30 minutes starting at 9 pm EST. The first challenge is to make a card using this cupcake photo. This is my card ... ALL stamps by Amuse.

I don't think I have stamped a thing since getting home from FL

Its been a busy couple of weeks. I finally got my circle journal pages done and its for Chris. Her topic is Favorite things to do in the summer and these are my pages ...

Have you seen the new Martha Stewart sand dollar border punch? I think I "need" it!!

I love my new croppin' cutie

I took it with me to FL and it sure came in handy. Chelsea had one when she came here last year to visit and I finally got me one :). Isn't it cute????? It holds your trash or scraps when you need a teeny tiny trash can. You can find the croppin cuties here.

Back from FL on spring break ....

I took Emily and a friend to FL for Spring Break. They ran me "ragged" since we only had one car but we all had a good time. The weather was perfect. Not too hot yet and it stayed around 78-80 degrees most days. The girls went to the beach alot so are nice and tan now!! I planted a St. Joseph statue in the yard to help sell the house. We will see if that works!! We also got to see the space shuttle go off at 6:20 am one morning. Sydney woke up for it but Emily would not get up so Sydney saw her first space shuttle "live". This was the last time the space shuttle will ever take off in the dark so I was glad we could see it. (Look closely at the photo with the bird's nest. I "think" I see a pelican in it. I had no idea when I took it but I see it now) I got to meet up with Caryn for lunch at Harry and the Natives. I met Carol and Sherie for lunch at the thai restaurant and we had our favorite sweet and sour soup. Dawn and I met at the bagel restaurant for bagels one morning and Betsey and I met at Toojays for tilapia. While at Toojays the manager came over and gave us this HUGE piece of chocolate cake for free so if I can figure out how I can get the pic off my cell phone, I will do that later. Sherri and I went to Panera Bread for soup one night. I missed seeing Gerry, she was in the Keys for the week and I also missed seeing Jan - they were in on a cruise. I did see Leslie and we chatted for awhile and got "caught up". We were busy, busy, busy!!!

On the way back we stopped at UNCP for their open house. There were about 1,000 people there so it was very crowded. It is the PERFECT school for Emily. She just has to decide whether or not she wants to go there. The whole school is only 6,000 kids. 14:0 class ratio (PERFECT!). 2 hours from home. What more could a girl want? :) Here are some pics I took on vacation.

Ellie's birthday

I made this for Ellie's birthday. She and her sister Patty both love to knit so when I saw this free digital stamp, I knew right away it would be perfect for Ellie :). I used real cording on the card. I hope she likes it.