What a crazy way to start May!!!

I'm BACK!! Sorry I haven't posted anything for awhile, these past couple weeks have been so incredibly busy. It was the end of the month (April) and I was so behind at work that I was working 14 + hours a day and I think that it took me this long to finally recover and not just hop into bed as soon as I got home. The other thing is that on my free weekend, my husband graduated with his Associate and we were mostly travelling. It was great to see him graduate! Is it me, or does it seem that somehow they always manage to find the most incredibly boring person to speak? :)

SO...... I have to tell you all about my little "adventure" I had last week. Where I live, there was a warehouse that sold scrapbooking things online. The owner decided that she wanted to change her business to selling shoes, so she decided to get rid of her scrapbooking stuff. Only a handful of people were actually told about this sale, and luckily my boss was one of those people. Now this wasn't any ol' sale..... this was the deal..... $25 for anything you can fit in your car. Just in case you didn't get that....$25 FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN FIT IN YOUR CAR!!!! :) It was like a dream, too good to be true..... but it was true and I have a room full of paper and a hurt back to prove it ! :) IT WAS GREAT!!

I also was reading June's Creating Keepsakes and I was inspired to make this card. One of my favorite parts of Summer is picnic's and you can't have picnic's without watermelon. This was a simple card, but it turned out really cute. It was a good card to get back into the stamping groove.

Thank you for the comments of concern when I went MIA! I'm here and ready to do some major card making.

Happy Stamping!

A Note of Thanks

I've had this Note of Thanks SU Stamp for quite awhile and have wanted to use it. I loved it just for the fact that music is a huge part of my life. In my last post I was explaining one of my hobbies-rappelling and it got me thinking about piano. I've been playing the piano since I was four, so in May it will be 20 years! I decided to try something out, so here it is- piano keys. To be honest, the card looked a lot better in my head, but that's ok. I'm going to keep this post short since I've already posted today! I guess I better go to sleep so I can at least function tomorrow. Have a Great Night!

My Calendar

At work today I finally got my own desk! Finally after almost two weeks I don't have to computer/desk hop trying to use other peoples computers while they're gone anymore. And I realized I was in need of a calendar. I remembered these blank calendars I saw in a craft store, so I went and lucky for me they were on sale! Nothing beats $1.50! Now, I'm still busy so I wasn't able to get all months done, but I did get April done (even though we only have almost 1 week left). I think this calendar is way cuter than any store bought one I've seen, don't you? :) Plus it's a fun project to get away from cards for a minute.

On a different note, I had Deb ask me what rappelling was (it was in my comments on the side "about me") and if you don't have mountains around you probably have never heard of it. Lucky for me I live in Utah which means I'm surrounded by mountains. What rappelling is, is you have a harness that's attached to a rope and the rope is attached to something like a rock or tree at the top of the cliff and you basically go down the cliff with a contolled fall. Don't worry by controlled fall, I mean with the equipment you can actually make yourself stop on a dime, but its SO much fun! I absolutely LOVE it! Here's a picture of me rappelling last summer!

Also, it's my sister's birthday today, so if you have time, stop by Inkgenious and wish Jill a Happy Birthday!

Happy Stamping!

Friends

So this isn't my favorite card I've ever made, but's it's still somewhat cute I guess. This was a 15 minute put-togther-card. I've been so busy at work and everything else this weekend, but I wanted to make sure I posted at least 1 card today. So this is pretty much what I came up with. Sorry this is going to be a short but sweet posting, but hopefully I'll be less busy in the days to come so I can actually sit down and do some major card-making :)

Take Care!

WINNERS!!

Sorry it took me so long to post the winners to the blog candy.

The winners are....(drum roll please)....

Razzfamily - Blue Candy
Liz from Getting Crafty - Pink Candy

YAY Congrats you guys!! Email me your addresses at wendy.cassidy@hotmail.com

Thanks everyone for your participation! Don't worry there will be another soon! Keep an eye-out for it:)

Dead or Alive

If I could go back to a period of time, it would be the Old West. It could be having the last name Cassidy (Butch Cassidy) or it may be the excitement that was throughout the Old West towns with the robberies, the saloons and interesting facts of that time. I live in Cedar City, Utah which is close to where Butch Cassidy grew up and also where some say Butch Cassidy came back from Bolivia after the last shoot-out and "disappeared".

With that said, this paper I used for this card has been sitting in my drawer waiting to be used. I could not find quite the right layout and idea of a card. When I saw the paper in the store, I was so excited. It had some of the "people of the time" like Billy the Kid, and Buffalo Bill.

Now granted, this card is very different from any other card I have done thus far, but I'm very thrilled on how it turned out.

It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but I found a quote that an observer recorded speaking about the Pony Express that I thought was both interesting and perfect to put on a card. It says: "Away across the endless dead level of the prairie a black speck appears against the sky ... In a second or two it becomes a horse and rider ... and the flutter of the hooves comes faintly to the ear -- another instant ... a man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm." I love that quote!

Also some exciting news, I have been given the Arte Y Pico award by Jill Dunn of Inkgenious.
"Here are the rules for the award: You pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language. List the names of the people you chose to receive the award on your blog and link to their blogs. Then go comment on one of their posts to notify them that you have given them this award and link to the post on your blog. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name of the person who gave them the award and link to their blog. The Award-winner and the one who has given the award have to show the link to the Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award. "
There are so many great blogs out there and I'm still pretty new with this so I'm not great knowing who has and hasn't been given this award. Some of them I'm sure have got this before, but I just love their work. With that said here are the ones I'm nominating:

1. Jennifer from Glitter in my Hair

2. Nancy from Inkcicles

3. Beth from A Stampin' Good Time

4. Jessica from Quick 2 Blush

5.Leanne from Leanne all Natural

Congrats to you five and thanks for all the ink'spiration from all of you!

Anyway, tomorrow I will be having my husband help randomly draw winners for the blog candy and I will post the winners Sunday. So if you haven't posted a comment yet, you have until 7pm Mountain Time Saturday night to get that comment in. Have a wonderful weekend and good luck!!

VVRRROOOMMMMM!!

It's amazing... I know...I didn't use some sort of animal with my card:) The card took a very long time to do because of all the sewing I did with it, but all in all, it was a pretty easy card to do, and it turned out really cute. I was in Robert's tonight with my husband and I really like when he comes with me, because he knows what I'm looking for - even if I don't...:) It's also pretty handy to have him there, because he can see stamps on higher shelves better than me because I'm short. He showed me this stamp and I absolutely fell in love with it! It's so cute and I've been looking for a stamp that I can use for little boy cards- which I have a hard time doing.

I also took a close-up shot to show how I used eyelets for the tires and sewed the yellow lines in the road. I'm happy how it turned out!!

Also- Thanks to everyone who is reaching out and posting a link to mine. I really appreciate it and I'm excited to get a chance to get to know a little about you guys!! - If you haven't left a comment for the blog candy, remember you have until Saturday!

Have a wonderful day!