Where does the time go?

WOW. Where does the time go? One blink and the summer is over and school has started back. My kidos have been back in school for 3 weeks now and I gone back to work. So I apologize for neglecting my site. I need to work on making time for my blog. I have been so busy with the kids activities and my own that I have not had time to sit down and write. Ally has started back with all of her after school activities including soccer and Girl Scouts in the evenings. Andrew is still just doing soccer and Cub Scouts right now. Next year he gets to take advantage of the after school fun.
I have been able to get some stamping done here and there. I have taken on the task with our school in making Birthday cards for all the teachers and staff this year. So that is one way to make me stamp. :-). Baking has kept me busy especially last week. I was baking cupcakes 3 out of the 5 days and then a Birthday cake for my niece on this past Saturday. Man did my kitchen smell good all week long. I love baking and I am so happy that I am doing more of it. I got another order for a cake for next Friday.
But what I love the most is when I can combine my love of baking and stamping together. And that is exactly what I have coming up. I am making First Birthday invitations for a little cutie and her Birthday cake in October. What else could I ask for, I get to stamp and create on paper and then to bake and create on cake.
I do have pictures of the cake for my niece Cortni, but I did not take pics of the cupcakes. I will post pics of the cards that I have done too, but I still have to take them.
Until then.

Happy Stampin

Jeannette Dailey

Sail Away Canvas

WOW. Summer is half way over. It has been a great one so far. Vacation with the honey and the kids got their own vacation (away from us.. lol ). We will be taking another little weekend vaca to Disney in a couple of weeks. We are taking the kids this time. Our traveling partners Chris and Stacey (the ones we went to Key West with) along with their daughter Maggie will be joining our crew to a weekend of camping at Disney Fort Wilderness Campground. We are all looking so forward to it. We all love camping and there is no better spot to "rough" it than a Disney resort right?

Now on to the topic for today. I was looking at the card that I recently did with the sail boat and the ocean sunset. Then an idea hit me. I had to have a brayer about 3 years ago, just because I thought it was a cool item, but I never used it. OK. I didn't really know how to use it until recently. I found some videos on line and watched and watched, and re-watched. So after practicing on a bunch of scrap paper I had the hang of it. That is when I decided to put it to use. I had some canvases stored away that I bought some time ago for another idea that I had and never did anything with so they just got stored in that place where all the ideas go. You know what I am talking about, everyone has that drawer or box that we just put all those items that we had to have for some project and then never got to them. I do at least. So, I dug those canvases out and wiped the dust off the package and got started. I took the card that I recently did and laid it out for me to look at. Got out all the ink colors that I needed and my new friend the brayer and I just went for it. I began layering colors on the canvas and it felt great to see an image come to life. I had so much fun creating this wonderful piece of art that can be hung up on a wall somewhere for all to see. I do not know what took me so long to pull that brayer out and to learn how to use it. So, with that said I guess I need to pull some of those other wonderful little gadgets that I just had to have and learn how to use those as well. There is no telling what I could create.
So my canvas is done and ready to hang up somewhere. So until next time.

Happy Stampin

Jeannette Dailey
 
Stamp Set: Sail Away from the Summer Mini Catalog
Canvas board 8x10
Ink: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, So Saffron, Peach Parfait, and Basic Gray
Accessories: So Saffron ribbon (some that I had stashed away), brayer, and white gel pen.