Only Ovals Wedding Card

We are getting ready to go to Chicago for a wedding. One of my husband's former coworkers is getting married. The wedding isn't until tomorrow, but we thought we'd leave a day early and enjoy some time together. The kids are all going to stay with friends or family because they all had plans or birthday parties planned already. It should be a nice break for us both.

DH asked me to make a card for his friend, so here is what I made for the happy couple real quick this morning. Everything I used is from Stampin' UP!
Bella Rose DSP, Pretties Kit, Only Ovals stamp set, large oval punch, old olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Rose Red CS, Silver detail embossing powder, versamark pad, white mulberry paper and wide silver organdy ribbon(this ribbon and the mulberry paper are retired from SU)

It is really hard to read the words in the picture from the only oval image. It is much clearer in real person. It says "You tied the knot", and around the edges it says "To Live & Love Happily Ever After". I love the new large Oval punch, t is awesome! This card was extremely Quick and Easy to make.

Cupcakes!!!

Well, I am going to start posting regularly to my blog again. Here is a card I made for a friend, actually I made 40 of them. It was her daughter's 1st birthday and she had a cupcake theme party for her. So I made these for her as a gift. I used the Simple Birthday Thanks set #111546 from Stampin' Up! that is on sale until the end of October for only $14.36.

I stamped the image on Whisper White cardstock and sponged it with Chocolate Chip ink. Then I embossed the whole thing with clear embossing powder. I added little pink crystal as the confetti on the cupcake. I used my 2 way glue from SU and added the chunky glitter.
I crimped the patterned paper so it would look like a cupcake/muffin paper. I tied the 1/4" grosgrain chocolate chip ribbon. The "thank you" is from the Short and Sweet stamp set. I also used the little cupcake from Short and Sweet as a background on the pretty in pink cardstock. I stamped the envelope with the cupcake from Stampin' Up's Crazy for Cupcakes set #111618, and colored it with Stampin' Up markers.

Valentine for my mom

Well time for my quarterly post to my blog, I don't even try to make excuses anymore as to why I don't ever post here like I should.
Today I am posting a Valentine for my mom.

My mom is the sweetest most loving woman I know. Now I know I'm suppose think that because she is my mom, but my friends all tell me that too, so I know it must true.

Well, she lives 1,000 miles away from me and she misses my children terribly. So the kids and I made her this Valentine. The and the kids picked out the ribbons and the papers they wanted.

Front:

Opened up:

Individual shots:

My New Stamp Room

I won't even try to give an excuse about why I haven't posted in SOOO LONG. But my stamp room is mostly completed. So, I've been able to start stamping again. Yeah!!!! I was able to get my lunch box tin made for my virtual stamp this month, and even scrapped a little this week, so I'll post some more pictures tomorrow.

So here are a few pictures of my new room:

This room use to be dingy concrete walls because it is in our basement. My dear husband custom built the desk and cabinets, put in the floor, walls, & lightning. We still have some more shelves to make for the center/corner desk and the end shelf on the left. I just have a shelf there that I bought at yard sale. Dh has been spending all of his spare moments working at our church, we just bought a new building and we have alot of rennovation to do before we move in Jan. 1st. So he'll be busy working there and once that is done he can finish my room, but at least I can stamp again!

The door here leads to my husbands office, so we are able to open the door, work in our own space and talk to each other. I think that is nice.

Wow! I Didn't realize...

...it had been that long ago that I posted. I could never catch everything up that has happened, so I'll give you a few highlights. We had a wonderful Christmas, my mother and brother were both able to come up from Florida for Christmas. I know, why would anyone want to leave sunny Florida and travel over 11oo miles North in the winter? The answer is easy, my cute adorable kids make Christmas so much fun. The Lord answered our prayer and while they were here the weather was beautiful, it stayed about freezing and even got into the 50's. This was great since the cold aggravates my moms arthritus. My mom was able to stay about two and half weeks, and my brother stayed ten days. They were both able to see the kids in our Christmas play at church. Our second youngest was one of the little lambs, I'm posting a picture of her in the cute costume my dear friend Cathie helped me make. We made one for all the little lambs at church. She has her hat on a little crooked, but I think it makes her even cuter.

Our Christmas play this year focused on the shepherds at the birth of Christ and tried to portray that Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd. Showing how we are all lost sheep, and he has come "to seek and save to save that which was lost". So many times Jesus is left in the manger as a little babe, but that was just the beginning, he grew, and lived a sinless life and sacrificed himself for to pay for sins. And that is something we try to get across at all our church programs.



Well, what else has happened since my last post? I became an aunt again. One of my dear SIL's had her first child on New Years Day, after 23 hours of hard labor, (baby was 9lbs 8oz) they ended up doing a csection. Mom and baby are recovering well. I haven't been able to see him in about 2 weeks because I've been sick with a nasty cold, and I don't want to share that with the little guy.
My dear husband has been working on getting my stamping/craft room finished. We now have a floor, a ceiling and all the recessed lights are in. We still to add the track lighting. The walls have already primed and I've bought the paint to paint the walls. Now if we just had time to finish. I'm still working on how I want him to build my desk layout. I can't decide if I want to keep my paper in the vertical fililng system I am currently using or if I want to buy some of those racks like they store paper in at the scrapbooking stores. If anyone has suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.
Well, I'd better get going, Hope you all have a Blessed day.

Long Weekend

Sorry it has taken me so long to post these pictures of the centerpieces and party favors from the baby shower. We had a busy weekend, starting with the babyshower on Saturday for my sister in law. Then all of the out of town family came to our house, which we really enjoy having them, the probelm was though we already had 6 out of town guests staying at our house. Now my family is 7 people, out of town guest is 6 people, and my inlaws were 8 people; this gave us a grand total of 21 people (13 of them children, the oldest being 12 yr old and the youngest 3 weeks old). The inlaws didn't stay the night and left after a couple hours so we then ate a late dinner. Alot more happened all weekend but I won't bore you with the all details. Here are the pictures from the shower. The little box holds 3 hershey nuggets, we decorated the nuggets too.


There are little ribbons tied to the sides of the clothesline, they kind of got cut off in the picture. I took the picture after the shower and this is the
best one.

Baby shower scrapbook layout

Good afternoon,
I've been getting stuff ready for a baby shower this weekend at church. My sister in law is having her first child in Dec. And the ladies at church along with her family are throwing her a shower Saturday afternoon. The theme is "loads of love" My DH helped me make these cute little clotheslines that I am hanging little socks, bibs, baby washcloths, hats, etc.. on to use as our centerpieces. A dear friend, Cathie had a pattern for the little matchbox boxes and opened her home so the ladies at church could work on the party favors. We used the Stampin Up! wheel, wash day to make the boxes, wrapped them with silver cord and hung a little tag that says "loads of love" with a tiny clothespin. Inside the boxes we put three little nugget candies. Each one with a decorated "wrapper", one said thank you, another said welcome little one, and the third was just using decorative paper. I'll post a pic of these after the shower so you can see them.


Now to the title of this blog:

Here is the scrapbook layout I made as a gift for her to remember, the shower. She just has to add the pictures.
There is a pocket on the second page to hold bookmark that goes along with the devotional that one of the ladies will be giving.
The devotional is titled "Don't just be a 'good mom', be a 'godly mom'." I can't wait to hear it! I think the best way to be a good mom is to try to be godly mom, and I'm sure I'll learn alot.

First Blog

Hi ladies,
I am a born again Christian who loves to stamp. I consider stamping one of the blessings in my life. It has been a foundation of some wonderful friendships, and it has been a tool for opportunities in ministering to others. I have named my blog saved stamper because as much as I love stamping, I want to make sure I give the Lord first place, and let others know He is my first love. I have many other blessings in my life, including my wonderful husband. and 5 darling children.

A little bit about me, I am in my mid-thirties, I homeschool my children, and I am a Pastor's wife. I was transplanted from the south, Gulf Coast area, to the chilling north when my husband and I got married 13 1/2 years ago. We lived in the Chicago area for the first eight years while my husband was a youth pastor. We then moved further north into Wisconsin where my husband started an independent Baptist church. I had never even heard of rubber stamping until our move to Wisconsin. Some of ladies who began attending our church were rubberstampers. I went to one lady's home for a ladies fellowship and we rubberstamped. I thought this is nice, but I'll never get into it. WRONG! After a few more times I was hooked. My husband encourages me in my hobby and is in the process of finishing off a room in the basement for my office. He's a little over 50% done. I'm hoping by Christmas it will be done.

The majority of my stamps are from Stampin Up!. I absolutely love their stamps, so much so that I became a hobby demo just for the discount. I plan to post some of projects here to share what I've been working on with you. These projects will be a variety of cards, scrapbook pages, and gift ideas.