Classiques by Spectrum Noir with Leann

A little update ~

Not much crafting getting done around here as I've been busy with other things but that hasn't stopped me from  online retail therapy....a girl has to have some fun...right?!

My mom and dad's house sold in less than a week.  We have it all cleared out and are waiting to close (which hopefully will be next week).

Anxious to have the contractor start the addition on our house.  Refinancing should be complete by next week then we can give him the o.k. to begin.

We're adding one large room that will serve as their bedroom & living area with a 3/4 bath (that's a bathroom with no tub but a shower)  It's difficult for my mom and dad to get in and out of our claw foot tub so a walk in shower will be great for them.

Can't wait for another bathroom.....7 people and one bathroom make for some stressful situations...if you know what I mean!

That's all from "the hill".

PEACE,

Ellen

A COUPLE OF TAGS

TAG #1

On this tag I used:

~ STAMPS

                 Retro Lady - UNITY - Melody Ross -

                                      SHE SPOUTED WINGS

                 Flourish - TIM HOLTZ - PURELY RANDOM

Sentiment - I made using A YUMMY APOLOGY from dafont.com cut with Emma's - MY CREATIVE TIME - FANCY FRAME die

distress inks

TAG #2

On this one I used:

~ STAMPS

                 Emma's - MY CREATIVE TIME 

                    ANYDAY BINGO AND CROSSWORD and the "forever" is from POLKADOT SURPRISE

again I used her FANCY FRAME die

Various doily stamps and distress inks.

PEACE,

EllenM

           

GROWING IN UNITY - GIVEAWAY WINNER

I still don't know how to put the random.org pick on my blog ... sorry about that.  


The winner happens to live not far from me...it's Donna!!!  


Here's what she said:


Ellen, I am so sorry to hear about your uncle. I know you have been dealing with so much recently. I wish you and your family a Blessed Christmas. Your card is Lovely. Donna

By Donna on GROWING IN UNITY - DAY 5 on 12/23/11

Thank you all so much for taking the time to comment.  It's been a rough couple of months for me and crafting is a little escape (as I'm sure it is with others).  

Thank you also to UNITY STAMPS - you guys are GREAT!!

Wishing you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY, HEALTHY and CRAFTY 2012!!

EllenM

GROWING IN UNITY - DAY 5

Today is my final entry for the UNITY STAMP COMPANY.  It has been my pleasure to show you some of my creations and I thank them for allowing me to do so.

However,

It is with sadness in my heart as my wonderful uncle passed away on Wednesday night and he will be buried tomorrow - Christmas Eve day.

I can't imagine what my cousins are going through right now or my dad who lost his youngest brother two years ago at Thanksgiving. 

My dad is the oldest of three boys.  They all served our country during WWII.  My dad - MARINES; uncle Richard - NAVY and Uncle Rodger - ARMY.  It still amazes me that they all served overseas in three different branches of the military and they all made it back alive.

Well...here's my card for today.  I knew I had to use this wonderful stamp (Almighty God) for one of my projects this week....a reminder of what CHRISTMAS is really all about.

BLESSINGS to you and your family.

EllenM

Please leave a comment here on my blog and PLEASE include your e-mail address for a chance to win one of the following sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

Winner will be randomly picked on Saturday, December 24th

GROWING IN UNITY - DAY 4

My card for today includes the following UNITY stamps.  

Stars of Worn - on the scalloped edge which was created with a 1" circle punch

Better Not Pout {Nikki Sivils Itty Bitty} - ginger people

Nicest Place To Be - sentiment in detail white embossing powder

Short and sweet post today.  Things are a bit crazy around here to say the least and I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about.  HOLIDAY CRUNCH TIME!

Please leave a comment here on my blog and PLEASE include your e-mail address for a chance to win one of the following sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

Winner will be randomly picked on Saturday, December 24th.

EllenM

GROWING IN UNITY - DAY 3

taken from

http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

It's Wednesday and welcome to another week of Growing in Unity! This week Ellen Mandris is up sharing all her fabulous Unity creations with us!

Here is a little something about Ellen:

"I bought my first stamp 28 years ago ~ I still have it and I still use it!!
Three years ago I got back into scrap booking and it was then that I got hooked on the WONDERFUL hobby of card making.

I love everything about paper crafting. New toys, new techniques, new papers and embellishments…it’s all so addicting.

I’m a mom of three great children and I’ve been married to my best friend for 27 years. We live on a little plot of land with chickens and goats."

Now check out this adorable card Ellen made:

Please leave a comment here on my blog and PLEASE include your e-mail address for a chance to win one of the following sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

Winner will be randomly picked on Saturday, December 24th.

Thanks for visiting!!

GROWING IN UNITY - DAY 2

Today I paper pieced the stockings using the MATCHING SOCKS set to make a cute little Christmas card.

Sentiment is from the CHRISTMAS EVE CHOWDER - jullibean soup set. 

Paper is from DCWV - Homemade Christmas stack.

Please leave a comment here on my blog and PLEASE include your e-mail address for a chance to win one of the following sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

Winner will be randomly picked on Saturday, December 24th.

PEACE, 

EllenM

GROWING IN UNITY

I am so thrilled to be a part of the GROWING IN UNITY guest designer series. 

Love that red rubber UNITY goodness.  

For today's card, I used the Homespun Christmas {Nikki Sivils Itty Bitty} 

http://www.unitystampco.com/product/1067-homespun-christmas-nikki-sivils-itty-bitty.aspx

Paper is from the Recollections ~ Warm Wishes stack and I topped off the roof and chimney with some liquid applique and threw in some snow piles for good measure. 

Please leave a comment here on my blog and PLEASE include your e-mail address for a chance to win one of the following sets:

Sending My Love

Bitty Backgrounds

Little Me

Bella Fiori

Homegrown

Hugs & Kittens

Handmade Holiday

Bella Trees

Imagine It

Winner will be randomly picked on Saturday, December 24th.

See you tomorrow!!

EllenM

MORE of me MIA

Just a little update....

My mom and dad are now living with us (something Harry and I have been trying to get them to do for 8 years). We've turned our living room into their room and we're trying to make them as comfortable as possible.

Next week I'm GD for UNITY STAMPS so make sure you check them out!!  LOVE their red rubber!!

PEACE,

Ellen

ME = MIA

Life has been just a bit crazy around here lately.  Taking my dad to the VA hospital filled my days until my mom fell on the basement stairs and broke her pelvic bone.  One week in the hospital then she was transfered to a rehab facility.  I've been spending most of my time with my dad - staying overnight and days are spent visiting my mom.

Not much crafting going on here at WALNUT HILL FARM but that's ok. 

FAMILY is the most important thing.

Blessings to you and your family and I wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Ellen

CREATIVE TIME FOR ME - THROWBACK THURSDAY CHALLENGE

Emma's challenge this week was to use a retired cartridge.

This was a really quick card to make.  It's for my brother and sister-in-laws anniversary.

I used the PAPER PUPS cartridge and my GYPSY and "flipped" one of the dogs. 

The "cloud" stamp is really the top of the cupcake from the Stampin' Up set CREATE A CUPCAKE and the sentiment stamp is from UNITY.

Glossy Accents added to their noses and eyes.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK EVERYONE.

PEACE

CHRISTMAS IN JULY BLOG HOP WINNER

Hi Everyone,

Picked a winner and it's #17

 

scraphappybette who said...

OK!! Now I want to make a shaker card!!  TFS

I'll be e-mailing you soon BETTE.

Thanks to all who left comments!!

 

CHRISTMAS IN JULY BLOG HOP

If you hopping along with us you arrived here from Jaimie's blog at http://glitterstampsandpaperohmy.com/

Hope you're staying cool!! 

I don't know what the weather is like in you neck of the woods, but in Western New York the heat and humidity has been horrible.  92 in the shade on Thursday ~ I'll take a snow storm over this kind of  heat anyday.  Maybe it's time to move further NORTH!!

BUT...as I'm typing this, I'm in Pensacola, FL visiting my in-laws  We got in very late Thursday night and with the time change, I'm out of wack......more coffee please.

For my project, I made a snow-filled shaker card.  These are really easy to make (just google shaker card videos - there's lots of tuts on how they're done) and I love the way the large Martha Stewart glitter looks inside.  Speaking of MS, I use her snowflake punches all the time for Christmas/Winter projects as I did on this card.

So if you've never made a shaker card go ahead and give it a try.  I try to learn/make something new every single day.

Leave a comment (become a follow if you'd like but it's not required) and make sure you leave your e-mail addess for a chance to win a small token of my appreciation for taking the time to let me know what you think of my card.  This will close at 12:00 midnight EST on Saturday, July 30, 2011 and random.org will pick a winner on Sunday, July 31st.

Thanks for stopping by and hopping along with us ~ and a big THANK YOU to Nicolette Simpson at http://www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com/ for coordinating this hop.

 

Now head on over to the last stop ~ Bette's blog www.believedreamcreate.blogspot.com and I'm getting ready to hit the beach!!

PKS GUEST DESIGNER GIVEAWAY WINNER!!

It was a great week with all the PEACHY-NESS going on in my craft area. 

Again I'd like to send a BIG THANK YOU to PEACHY KEEN STAMPS for allowing me to be a guest designer.

As a giveaway (compliments of PKS) I picked the BOY MATES FACE ASSORTMENT (PK-642) a $25.00 value - HOW AWESOME IS THAT??!!

Here were the rules (as stated in my day 1 post)

Please leave a comment here on my blog (you don't have to be a follower but I always like making new friends) AND on the PEACHY KEEN blog http://www.peachykeenstamps.blogspot.com each day this week.  I will have random.org pick a day (Monday being #1, Tuesday #2, etc...etc with Friday being #5) then random.org with pick the blog (PKS being #1 and lifeatwalnuthill being #2) then finally the post. SO ~ You never know what day or blog random.org will pick - increase your chances and leave a comment each and every day.

Winner will be picked on Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 6:00 AM (Eastern Time)

I have no idea how to post the actual picture of the actual picked number from random.org so you'll have to trust me on this.

Day of the week number picked was #5 so that makes it FRIDAY

Blog picked was #1 so that makes it the PEACHY KEEN STAMPS BLOG

There were 18 comments and random.org picked #13 so the winner is

~Saundra from Luv Scrapping Together who said...

Awesome week, Ellen! Love the project today. I do remember some of those facts.

CONGRATS Saundra!!

I'll be contacting you soon.