I have been doing alot of family posts in the past few days, so now we will get back to some creative stamping. After the Kids and Dogs left on Wednesday, I spent the afternoon cleaning….gee does that surprise anyone?

That evening as I was trying to catch up on all my recorded shows, I decided to try and make a Pin from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set. (Item 113734). I used the leaves from the Central Park set (Item 113732). I do alot of stamping while watching T.V. with a lap tray. First I did the small flower, then I attemped to make a pin from the large Rose. I was so jazzed that they turned out so nice. These pictures were taken before I sprayed them with the Krylon Triple Thick Spray, so imagine how gorgeous they will be with the finishing spray.

I used the following cardstocks: Pretty-in-Pin, Rose Red, Certainly Celery. I used the Basic Black Stamp Pad.

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It is going to rain here for the next few days, so I hope to get alot of creative artwork done. So be sure to subscribe and enter you e-mail address so you will be notified when I add new posts to my blog.

I will be working on projects for my next classes Friday February 27th and Saturday February 28th. so be looking for the projects to be posted. Talk to you soon. Kelli

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I woke up this morning early (Tuesday Feb 10th). The rain is over for at least a few days, and last night it got really cold. When I looked out the window there was frost on the lawn. This only happens maybe  five or six times a year at my house, but it reminds me that we do have some visible season changes here. This is one of the reasons I love living in Fallbrook .

Of course I normally would not see the frost, as I am a late to bed, late to rise person.  I do most of my creative stamping late at night…..except when my Grandson’s are here. They are early risers (6:30 a.m. ugh…), and all the dogs were anxious to go out a play with no rain.

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It was a cold but sunny day. We played outside much of the day, and you will see the dogs after a great day of playing. Talk about couch potatoes.

I have spent the last few day watching my Grandson’s Trent and Kyle, and their 2 dogs Peta and Leisha. The one dog is part wolf and the other a Great Dane. Both are still in their "baby years". It has pretty much been raining for the past 2 days so this means we have 4 dogs and my Grandsons and I pretty much in the house.. yikes.

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You will notice I said watching instead of babysitting, Both of my Grandsons are teens now, so we don’t babysit anymore. Trent and Kyle are homeschooled so this allows for a fun break in the middle of the week, My daughter had a chance to go on a date away for a few days with her husband, so I got to enjoy this time with my Grandsons.

Trent had an Art Class in town on Tuesday, so Kyle and I went into the stamp room and he made the Candy Heart Box I pictured in a previous post, for his Mom for Valentines Day. Kyle loves to work with me in the Stamp Room, including checking in orders. hummmmm a future helper?

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Several of you had  asked how this cute box is made, so I will attempt to describe the process. I have seen this box in several places so don’t know who to credit for it.

1.  Cut 2 each of the Big Shot Petal Box Die using solid colored cardstock. (I used Riding Hood Redcard stock)

2.  Cut 1 each of the Big Shot Petal Box Die using designer paper (I used Bella Rose Designer Paper)  Trim the 2 bottom petals off to form a heart. Cut the heart down the center to create 2 heart halves. Adhere 1/2 heart to each solid colored Petal Box.

3. Stamp the heart and scallop stamp from the Love You Much Stamp set, on Ultra-smooth White Cardstock  (item 113756 $25.95 page 27 of current catalog) Cut the heart out and adhere to the front side of the heart box. Punch the Scallop out with Scallop Punch and adhere to the back side of the box. Punch heart using our new large Heart punch (Item 113694 $15.95 Page 184 current catalog) from Real Red cardstock and adhere to the front of the box.

4. Cut a 1 1/2 X 5 1/2 strip of Riding Hood Red Cardstock and fold in half.

5. Fold the the bottom 2 petals from the Front Die Cut and adhere to the strip. Adhere the Back Die cut the same way.

6. Add your ribbon handles using the wonderful Riding Hood Red Taffeta ribbon (item 111365 $6.95 page 179) and 4 gold brads.

7. Fill with the candy of your choice…or fill it with stamps for a friend…or yourself.

Since I am in a "learning" mode in my blogging I will be doing some personal posting along with my Art Work. This will hopefully expedite the process, and help me to figure out just how to properly post pictures. As you might note from my last post I am still struggling with the process. I ended up posting 2 of my rooster pins, because I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the 2nd one.

I would like to say I posted it twice because it is one of my favorite pins (being one of my favorite pins is true), but the truth is always better….right?

The pictures I am posting tonight are of my Roomies. Their names are Lexie and L.T. (lethal tail). If you haven’t guessed they are my 2 yellow labs. (Both girlie girls) They have kept me going thru hard times and keep me laughing the rest of the time. Lexie has eaten more stamps than I want to admit, and a few wheels also. I found the wheels could be salvaged by removing the remainder of the rubber from the wheel, and mounting it on wood, thus making it a border stamp.

Today in class we made these adorable heart pockets from the Petal Card Big Shot Die, filled them with a bag of chocolate hearts.

I had my samples sitting on my worktable and while I was putting away all the stamps and accessories like the organized demonstrator that I am, sweet Lexie did a table surfing trip and grabbed the bag of hearts. She was so fast, she raced out of the stamp room and out into the yard. I don’t think I have moved quite so fast in a long time, but I managed to get the bag from her with only 1 heart missing. Since she is about 90 lbs. I don’t think it will hurt her. P.S. the heart pocket was unscathed, unlike so many other projects that have been destroyed.

If you have  read the book "Marley and Me" or seen the movie, you can get a pretty good idea of my life with my dogs. Just double the excitement with two of them.