Let's try this again!

Hi All! Due to the fact I could never get my blog off the "blocked status", I am now starting over again. I have now lost all my previous entries including my cruise photos of all my new stamping pals I met...sorry!

So someday soon I will try to put some photos back on.

Anyway, here I am at the end of another weekend trying to get motivated to go back to work tomorrow. Last week I fought a stomach bug most of the week, but am now starting to feel better.

I had the luxury of spending some time in my "Stampin Studio" yesterday and created a few cards.

This one I took the bleaching idea we learned in Gina K's class and bleached part of my flower dress. I used SU stamp and an Inkainkado sentiment. The paper is SU retired Marvelous Magenta, Basic Black, and the new Pink Pirouette. I used the swirl folder of cuttlebug for the background and embellished with flowers and silver brads.

The next card I created was a "quickie." I had bought some new prima polka dot flowers at Michael's on Friday and was just itching to use them somewhere...so I came up with this idea!

This card is using standard white cardstock and then Pink Passion from SU. I also used the Swiss Dots of cuttlebug for the background. The sentiment is one of Stamping Bella which we got in our goodie bag on the cruise (Mwah! to Em). I embellished with white ribbon and rhinestone brad and small rhinestone. The sentiment is on a oval punch and layered on 2 more white oval punches...Hope you like...This one was quick and turned out cute!!!

I have a few more cards to post, but I will have to do them later as I have other stuff to do!

I hope my "new" blog works better this time... :)