Happy Thursday Everyone!

I finally got around to finishing my copic box.

My DH built this for me over the summer he is a

very handy man.

I just love this DP from SU so I was thinking

I love it I'm going to keep it!

Hope you like it I sure do.

Enjoy!

Amanda

Fall Coaster Books

Fall is in the air.

Ok I think I'm over my Halloween kick now onto fall!

I went to a stamp event over the weekend and we all

needed to come up with a project to share with others

this was my project. Several of the ladies

had never used a Bind It All I think I was

able to get them hooked! lol I really do love mine

and use it all the time. This is a really great stamp set

this time of year is called Lovely as a Tree

the friend stamp is also from SU the set name is

Teeny Tiny Wishes and this is the best SU set ever

and no I'm not a SU demo just a good customer.....but not

for long if they keep jerking the demo's around.

Happy Fall y'all!

Amanda

Cancer has touched so many.

Think Pink!

This is for a challenge over on SCS Maryland anyone thread. Kimmie was the last challenge winner and she came up with this weeks challenge of Pink Ribbon. I decided to go ahead and get started on my Oct Breast Cancer Awareness cards. So this is what I came up with. Hope you like it!

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With sadness in my heart I want to share this with you.

I just found out yesterday that my favorite High School Teacher lost his battle with cancer on Aug 26th. He was a really great teacher and the world lost a really good person. I'm sorry he is gone but hope he has now found peace. He was a gay man in small town middle America he never had an easy life. It's to bad that so many people missed out on knowing a really great person because of there own ignorance. Rest in peace Mr. W and know that I'm thankful that I got to know you. I hope your eternity is made up of what you enjoyed so much about life. I hope it's forever summer and you are soaking up some rays on the beautiful beaches of heaven.

More Halloween!

Yes more HALLOWEEN! I wanted to say THANK YOU to my Friend Jane who had me over for some stamp time a couple weeks back and we made these really cool tag books. She is one creative lady! We made Christmas tags at her house but of course I've been on this Halloween kick lately and just had to make some of these for Halloween gifts.

So again THANK YOU Jane for the inspiration! She doesn't have a blog or I would direct you all to her. Hope everyone is enjoying there long Holiday weekend. It was much needed around here. This was DS first full week of school and we are NOT morning people....yeah.

Supplies used

Black base is from M's fine arts section it come in nice big sheets it's called Strathmore Artist Paper Textured Black. Nice paper. PP is Recollections Halloween pack letters cut with my cricut. SU black CS, SU scallop punch, ribbon from everywhere, fibers that are to old for me to remember where they are from, Prima flowers, Halloween brads, google eyes, white gel pen, stardust pen.

Amanda

Just a little something.

I needed some gifties for this weekend festivities this is what I came up with. These are really quick and simple gifties but I hope they are liked.

Supplies

The DP is from CTMH, cello bag from SU, Ribbon from Offray Ribbon Outlet, Thank you Stamp is from Anita's, Nestabilities Labels 4, SU ink Pumpkin Pie & Old olive, Dimensional Boosters.

Candy Covers Supplies,

Chocolate Bars, CTMH DP. Ribbon from Offray, Hemp from Wal-Mart, SU ink in Pumpkin Pie & Old Olive, SU stamp from Teeny Tiny Wishes set, MM eyelets.

Ok I that's it for me today. Now I must make myself clean my house......

Amanda

Boo Bucket filler Day 1

I just love this stamp set Batty for You. I keep buying Halloween stamps but this set is and will always be one of my very fav's for making altered gifties. I made these Bookmarks for some easy Boo Bucket filler for Friends, Family, and Teacher gifts this year. I know it's only Aug but I'm telling ya' I've been bit by the Halloween bug it's all I want to do! I would normally use the Jumbo Huge clips but I didn't have any on hand and I'm trying to use up some of the mass amounts of supplies I have on hand. It's doing good things for my pocket book to! I may still add some tiny google eyes if I can remember to pick some up when I'm out and about.

Supplies

Large Paper Clips, SU CS and Ink in Perfect Plum, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black. Ribbon from the Offray Ribbon outlet (love this place), Stazon Black ink, Red liner tape and round dimensional boosters from http://confessionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com/2008/10/october-sticky-sale.html She really has great prices on her sticky stuff it's really good quality to just love my sticky stuff.

Hope all of you are stampin' the day away!
Amanda

Haunted Castle Book

Front of book Pic will go in front window.Love this ghost brad he looks like he is bustin' a move!

This is a Haunted House story found on the net, printed and cut to size.

Back page another pic will go here.

Short Halloween poem from the net. More spaces for pics.

Should have stamped off twice but I'm to lazy to redo it. It's readable in person.

Story

Second half of story.

Hello Everyone!

I think I was bit by the Halloween bug.....All I've wanted to do lately is work on Halloween stuff. I wish I could take credit for this idea but it's not mine. I saw this Castle board book done up as a Halloween Castle at a Scrapbook store in Hagerstown MD. It was just the cutest thing. I didn't take any pics of it and I have been kicking my self in the rear over it. But alas I made my own it came out pretty good. I still have blank pages waiting for Halloween Pics this year. I wanted to go ahead and share before Halloween comes to pass. This was a time suck let me tell ya! Several hours has gone into this book. I do like it and it wasn't hard just lots of cutting.

To create this I used...

BoBunny Paper, Black CS, Kraft CS, Crushed Curry CS, Chipboard, Prima flowers, Around the block Halloween brads, Offray ribbon outlet ribbon, Black craft paint, Black Craft ink, Clear embossing powder, Nestabilities circles, Recollections Bat stamp, Inkadinkado Creepy Crawly stamp set, Red line sticky tape, Mod podge. Ok I think that's it....

Ok why are you still reading this go stamp something! lol

Amanda

Altered Fun!

Altered Fun!

This gift set is for a friend's little girl.

As a back to school gift.

This letter I found on the clearance isle at M's it said

.89 on it but when I got to the register it rang up at .01

not to bad at all! I do love finding good deals even if it

did take me a year to finally get around to doing something

with it. Oh well it was worth the wait. I used BG, DP to cover it and ribbon I found here and there at the ribbon outlet. It's now a personalized hair bow holder. I made a couple little hair bows to add to her collection. The tin was a RAK from Tracy. Thank you Tracy.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Amanda

Bulk Buy!

Light Green

Dark Green

Orange

Brown

Clear

Hello Ladies!

Look what I just got in!

I found a great deal on a bulk buy and I'm

going to share my great deal with you.

These are just like the older Dew Drops they are very

good quality. These are NOT Dew Drops they are

however very close to there older style.

They have flat bottoms and no tails.

The clear ones are larger just like the newer dew drops.

Ok here's the deal!

You get 2 bags of each color

10 bags for $10

That's just $1 a bag!

Local ladies you know where I live.

Everyone else Email me at

kawadw@yahoo.com

Again these are not the Name Brand Dew Drops.

These are very good quality I just love them!

Perfect fall colors!

Please add $1.50 for S&H in the US.

Stacy's SBS

This is my card for Stacy's upcoming

SBS at her house this Saturday.

I'm sure it's going to be lots of fun!

Road Trip

These are some really quick and easy Gifties for an upcoming

Meade Girls Road Trip! Yep the Meade Girls are invading Amish Country.

So watch the news on Sat you never know you may see us! lol

These are just altered 3X5 note books. I found the books at a

local Dollar Tree 5 for $1 doesn't get better than that for quick and

easy and easy on the pocket book.

Supplies

Old CTMH paper (loved it in the book)

CTMH stamp set

SU ink

Offray ribbon

Circle Of Friends

Thank you SO much Kathi for honoring me with The Circle of Friends Award!

Check out Kathi's very inspiring blog

http://goldenpaperdreams.typepad.com/golden_paper_dreams/

My instructions are to pass this award on to 5 other special bloggers who I consider friends. Here are my nominees in no special order:

Stacy http://emeraldscorner.blogspot.com/

Michelle http://thesillystamper.blogspot.com/

Meade Girls http://meadegirls.blogspot.com/

Kimmie http://kimme-thelifeofaprincess.blogspot.com/

Mary http://mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com/

Ladies, you are such inspiration to me! I truly enjoy visiting your wonderful blogs!
To pick up the Circle of Friends Blog Award: Cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog. Nominate at least 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends. Link to your nominees, within your blog post and include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post. To show your appreciation to the person who gave you the award, link back to their blog. Finally, comment on the recipient’s blogs, to let them know they've received the award.

Crack Card

Good afternoon!

Thank you Stacy for purchasing these adorable stamps

and letting me use them.

These stamps are by Hambo Stamps.

All CS and DP are SU, INK is SU and Brilliance Graphite Black.

Ribbon was found at the Offray Ribbon outlet in MD.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day

Amanda

July 14th

I finally broke down and cleaned my stamp

room so I could stamp!

These are just some simple easy cards. I need

to refill my card rack it was looking quiet picked over

so these are what I came up with I made 8 of these.

The DP is from Cloud9Designs (matches SU Baja Breeze)

Chocolate Chip CS and Ink (SU), Baja Breeze CS (SU), Shimmer CS (xpedx), Baja color ribbon from the Ribbon Outlet, Felt Flowers (SU), Flower stamps from SU Eastern Blooms, others from SU Great Greetings.

Hope all of you are doing well and are enjoying the beautiful sunshine that is killing my lawn. lol

Amanda

Finally after a very long Holiday weekend I had

the time to STAMP!

This stamp is by Stampendous Shoes just love

these stamps.

All CS and DP is Stampin Up the ribbon is from

Offray Ribbon Outlet. Colored with Copics.