Happy Halloween!

Good morning friends! I hope that you're having a great day! Happy Friday! I can't belive the crazy day we've got today...LOTS of fun, that's for sure! We've got to get costumes ready, one child wears hers to preschool, then home for a few hours to make a chocolate sheet cake for a later party, then off to pick up the brother from school and his party, off to dad's office (Microsoft throws GREAT parties!) to trick or treat and enjoy the fun party there, then off to a party with our church friends and eat the chocolate cake made earlier today....then off to bed on a sugar high and hopefully not too sore tummy's! Well, we'll see how it all goes! But we're excited for a great day today!!

I thought I'd share a fun little treat we made for Ms. Kari, the music teacher. I've seen these little cute "frankie" boxes all over, and thought it would be a perfect not too spooky but fun way to present a little "yummy in your tummy" treat! When I saw the pink M&Ms at the store--PINK for Breast Cancer Awareness, I was happy to purchase a few bags and donate more to the cause of looking for a cure...and then let's be honest, who can pass up PINK (two delightful shades I might add) M&Ms?!
So, I started with my Fancy Favor Die. It is a SU exlusive die and is awesome. I cut it out with my Big Shot in Old Olive cardstock. I cut two top note dies, also a SU exclusive die, and also in Old Olive. I cut the bottom off the top note, so she would sit flat on the surface place upon.

For her dainty face, I used my 1" circle punch to make the two whites of her eyes, and Olive eye lids, which I just cut one punch in half for. I used my 3/4" circle punch for the two blacks of her eyes. I used my round tab punch and then cut it in half for her cute nose. I just drew her mouth with a fine tip black marker. For this great pink head of hair, I just cut another Top Note out of Pink Passion cardstock and then cut it in a crazy way to give her a fun fringe! I added a little bow, black 1/4" grosgrain and black/white gingham with a fun little pink button for some fun texture!I added her hair bow with a mini glue dot.

After I made her all up, I attached her face top note to one side of the fancy favor box. I added another olive top note to the back side of the box, so she is super cute!! We added a bit of black paper "mix" and then put the cello bag of M&Ms into the box. I added a quick little tag to the gingham ribbon bow. I just stamped the "yummy" stamp from the retired Yummy stamp set, with Pink Passion ink onto Whisper White cardstock and then used my large oval punch to punch it out. I layered it onto a black scalloped oval and then onto a Pink Passion wide oval.

This little friend came together quick and is so cute! Ms. Kari really enjoyed her...and that is what our aim was! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day, make it great and have SO much fun this weekend!!:) We'll be sporting a nice tiny Piglet, a beautiful Garden Fairy and a very serious Commander Cody(from Star Wars Clone Wars) this weekend...fun, fun, fun!!

Hey There, Chickadee!

Good morning friends! I hope you're having a great week! I can't believe it's already Thursday again! For some reason, Thursdays sneak up on me...and then BAM the weekend is upon us all! We've got a lot of fun scheduled in the next few days, so here's to hoping everyone stays healthy!

I made this card to play along with the Mojo Monday Sketch 110. I thought I'd stay with the Rapberry Fizz and New Leaf...a delicious combination of colors, if you ask me! I have just loved this Everyday Button Bits stamp set, since it's release, and am happy to have it join my collection of fun!
I started my stamping my little birdies with New Leaf ink, onto PTI's white cardstock...yum. I used my oval nestabilites and a fun party with the Big Shot to cut the oval, and then a scalloped oval nestability and some Raspberry Fizz cardstock. I quickly added my sentiment, stamped with New Leaf ink and then moved onto the bodies for my birds! I used some Raspberry Fizz patterned paper and my 1" and 3/4" circle punches for the bodies of the birds. I attached the bodies with dimensionals and then added a little pink tulle as a fun detail to the tail feathers!

I started the card with a white card base. I used some New Leaf cardstock for my base layer, then a fun Raspberry Fizz layer next. I took some white cardstock through the scallop border punch to give some fun detail to the white strip. Another New Leaf layer can be found along side a few ruffles of New Leaf polka dot ribbon. After adding my birds to the card, I added a New Leaf vintage button as the finishing touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate so much your visit!! I'm off to make some fun treats to take to our neighbors this evening...we'll see if we can get a photo or two before the delivery! Make it a great one!!

Birthday Wishes

Good Morning friends! I hope you are all doing well! I have to say that today is already better than yesterday! My baby had a bad cough night before last and couldn't sleep well...which means that I didn't sleep well either! We took her to the dr. and learned that she has croup and an ear infection! So, she is now on some medicine that will make her feel better...and hopefully we'll all start sleeping well again!

I wanted to share a fun card with you. I made this card for Savitri's daughter's sketch challenge. I missed getting it posed on time, but with a sick baby, everything got pushed back a bit! So, I'll share it with you anyway! I also made this tissue flower, thanks the great tutorial Mona did on the JUGS blog, this is for their 4th challenge, using a 3-d flower on your card! So, here goes the deets!
I told you the UPS man brought me some PTI products right? Well, the Giga Guidelines are to die for!! I love them...oh, yum! I used them to stamp the background paper on the card--New Leaf ink onto New Leaf cardstock. I mounted that layer onto an Aqua Mist card. I used my eyelet border punch on a strip of Aqua Mist cardstock and then attached it to my card. My Aqua Mist grosgrain ribbon came to the party next. I used a strip of sticky strip to make the ribbon lay perfectly flat and straight...no coming off on the edges allowed!

My sentiment is from Giga Guidelines as well. Isn't it so lovely!? This whole set is just the most delightful eye candy ever! I stamped it in New Leaf ink onto Aqua Mist cardstock. I then mounted it on New Leaf cardstock and added it to my card.

I made my flower by using my brayer, Aqua Mist ink, a sheet of tissue paper, and my Blossom Nestabilies. Love these flowers...sorry, you will be seeing many more of them...they are just so dainty and soft looking...so pretty! I used a New Leaf vintage button and a clear rhinestone for the center of my flower and used some Zip glue to attach it to my card. Have you used Zip glue yet? I purchased mine from Scor-Pal, and love it! It is a liquid glue, dies FAST, doesn't wrinkle thee paper and is an awesome adhesive choice! Just an FYI!

Hope you have a great one today!! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Fall Leaves

Good morning friends! Happy Tuesday to you! I'm excited to share some fun new products with you today! I think you know how I love nestabilites? Well, today I'm going to show a couple of cards that I made with my new Leaves Nestabilites! They are a bundle of fun!

This first card was a very simple quick card. I cut the leaves out of Chocolate Chip, Really Rust and Very Vanilla cardstock with my nestabilities and my Spellbinders Wizard. Next I ran the leaves through my Big Shot with my Swiss Dots Embossing folder. I mounted the leaves on my Very Vanilla card and then stamped my sentiment. This sweet sentiment is from the October Monthly Mix from Lizzie Anne Designs. I tied a bow with my Chocolate Chip ribbon, then tied a button to it and mounted it on a Really Rust circle and then I mounted it on my card.
This second card is also featuring my new nestabilites...and a few more new products too!! I just a big box from the UPS man today...a new PTI order...YUM-O! I have had a great time working today!

I started my card with a Spring Moss card base. I used some Chocolate Chip paper and my apron lace fiskars border punch to make my lovely chocoalte chip lace. I added some Raspberry Fizz patterned paper over top of the chocolate chip cardstock and then tied it up with some 5/8" chocolate chip ribbon. I used the tequnique found here on the JUGS challenge blog. I made both the flowers and a layered leaf, I'll show you my flower cards tomorrow! To make the leaves, I used my brayer and chocolate chip ink and covered some tissue paper with ink. Then I cut the tissue into squares and layered about 10 layers and cut my leaves out of that...a trip through the Big Shot with Leaf nestabilites. I love the look of the tissue paper leaf!!

Next, I stamped my sentiment which is from the Everyday Button Bits stamp set, with Chocolte Chip ink onto Spring Moss cardstock. I used my large oval punch to punch it out, then layered it on a Chocolate Chip scalloped oval, and then mounted those onto a wide Raspberry Fizz oval. I used some more Raspberry Fizz patterned paper and my smallest leaf nestie to create a perfect little leaf embellishment!

I'm excited to show you the other projects I finished up today, I comepleted some challenges and had a great relaxing day, so be sure to come back tomorrow! Thanks so much for stopping by and make it a great one!!

Sweet Pea

Good Monday morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We were a bit more relaxed, kind of, we are trying to kick the cold/etc. that is wafting through our family right now! We are almost all on the up, Ruby started coughing pretty hard last night...dang! But, the kids are at school today, so that is impovement!

I thought I'd take a quick break from holiday cards and I went with a new baby card...a Sweet Pea card! I took the colors from the card from the Sweet Pea rub-on that I wanted to use, it is from an American Crafts rub-on set. So for the color palette today, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip...yum!!
I stared with a Crushed Curry card base and then a layer of the Crushed Curry dsp. I used my fiskars apron lace border punch on a strip of Chocolate Chip cardstock and then added a strip of Old Olive just under the chocolate. I laid down a single strip of sticky strip so I could lay my ribbon (upside down) down and have it cover the seam of the two papers. I also added another curry pattern of dsp lower on the card base.

I used white cardstock for my rub-on and then cut it out with my circle nestabilites and a trip through the big shot. I also cut out a Chocolate Chip circle and an Olive scallop circle with my nesties. I made a little bow out of my Curry ribbon and then added a large Chocolate Chip brad to the center. I added it to the card with dimensionals.

I think I don't make enough new baby cards...so I'm hoping to get a few more made in the coming days! Thanks so much for stopping by today! I appreicate hearing what you think of what I'm creating....so feel free!!:) Make it a great one!

Belive in the Magic!

Morning peeps! Hope you you've had a great week...TGIF! This morning we're heading to the pumpkin patch with my daughter's preschool class...fun times will be had by one and all! I'm excited to see what pumpkins come home with us..they are so much fun to pick out!

So, my card today is highlighting one of my favorite things for the holidays...Nutcrackers! We found several in Germany that made my heart sing...and I can't wait to get them out again! I was excited to see the beautiful nutcrackers stamp...isn't he great!? He is part of the November Monthly Mix...avaliable soon! I used the LAD sketch challenge for my layout, and it's sketch #100, now that is a ton of inspiration just sitting around, isn't it!? It's fun to see people use sketches, because they inspire people in different ways, for example, my take on the sketch was to turn it a bit....so it looks different than the original sketch, but still has the same bones...super duper.
I started out with a vanilla card base. A layer of old olive cardstock came next. Then, I used my fiskars apron lace border punch on a strip of very vanilla cardstock. My beautiful red paper is a pattern from the paper set in the Holiday Mini. It's delicious! My ribbon is 5/8" vanilla grosgrain.

I stamped my nutcracker with burnt umber palette hybrid ink onto vanilla cardstock. I colored him in with copic markers and then mounted him on a swatch of real red cardstock. I set him aside and stamped my sentiment--I used my chocolate chip marker to ink the stamp so I could omit the swirly on the right side of the sentiment-this one is from the Christmas Magic stamp set. I punched it out with my key tag punch and added it to my card. Placing my nutcracker with dimensionals was the last piece of the puzzle today!

I hope you have a great weekend! Enjoy college game day tomorrow! I'm excited, ESPN is broadcasting from Provo, Utah at BYU...that is where I went to school...so I'm pretty excited! Go Cougars! I love college football....YEA! Have a great one friends!!

Love You!

Hey there friends! How in the world is today Thursday, and where has this week gone!? It's been a quick one for me! We're trying to stay healthy....the cough and sniffles have started to move through the kids and I'm doing my best to keep them at bay! The change in the weather always brings a few of these things to my family. But, the leaves are falling off the trees, and on the walk to school this morning, my son informed me that it really was fall, "look at all the leaves on the ground!"

So, onto today's card! I have a girlfriend that is need of a little extra love this week...she's having a rough time right now and I wanted to make something fun to send her in the mail. So, my card for today was started!
I started with my vanilla card basee. I used my fiskars apron border punch on a layer of chocolate chip cardstock and then mounted it on my card. I used a piece of an oldie but GOODIE, stampin' up's retired Au Chocolate dsp. I love this paper...it is so beautiful! It is so fun to get intot that stash of things that have taken a back seat for a while!! I used sticky strip to attach my dusty durango ribbon and then ruffled it a bit...which makes it a good contestant in the current Moxie Fab Challenge.

I used my blossom nestabilities to cut three flowers out of dusty durango and chocolate chip cardstock. I did a number on them, distressing them, then put them together with a chocolate chip brad. I attached it to my card and then moved to my sentiment.

I wanted to say "love you" but didn't really have the right stamp to use...so I chose to go with some alphabet stickers. These are from American Crafts. They were origionally white, but I went over them with my dusty durango stampin' write marker to make them match just perfect! I went over them a couple of times--to get a nice solid look.

I hope it will bring a smile to her face and help her know how much I love her and am thinking about her!! Thanks for stopping by today...have a great one!!

Happy Holidays

Happy Tuesday friends. I've been home with a sick son and then my two girlies needing extra attention because my son needs it too...day of full time "Momma"! So, I'm just popping in quickly to say hey.

I got the NEW Lizzie Anne Designs November Monthly Mix stamps in the mail! I've had a fun time playing around with a couple of them already! They will be avaliable to purchase soon! I had a good time with this fun Frosty image! I also used Beate's Sketch Challenge #102 for my layout and card design.
My starting point today was this patterned paper--I love it! It is from My Minds Eye, from the All Boy Collection. I thought that Frosty would work nicely with the paper, so I stamped frosty with Black Noir palette hybrid ink and then colored him in with copic markers. I used my pinking circle nestabilites to cut him and a chocolate chip circle out.

I used a white card base, layered my patterned paper, then a strip of white cardstock. I used a strip of sticky strip and then added my chocoalte ribbon. I attached my frosty image with dimensionals and then added my sentiment. I stamped it and then used my 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches to make a home for it! I used pumpkin pie paper to mount the sentiment on. My button is from the SU button latte set.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you had a great day! I think that being home for a day has helped my son feel much better...no fun, for him, that's for sure!;) See you tomorrow!

A Little Pear Note

Good Morning and Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend! We had a fun/crazy/family filled weekend. It was great! I'm home doing laundry, finishing up the weekend "fun" that is all over our house...just a typical Monday!

Today I want to share a little "pear" note with you! This cute little pear image as well as the sentiment are from the October Monthly Mix from LAD. I love it! I wanted to "pear" it with this little note sentiment, for a little card to send, just because.
My card layout was inspired by Taylor V's TES86. I thought that my pear was a great focal image for this layout. I stamped it with burnt umber palette hybrid ink and colored it in with copic markers. I mounted it on some chocolate chip cardstock and then a patterned paper from my DCWV Recycled stack. I love that stack!!

My card base is whisper white. I added a layer of patterned paper from the same Recycled stack and added my pear. My scalloped border was made with my punch and yet another pattern from the said stack. My embellishment was made with a ribbon, button and a couple of circles, 1" and 1 1/4". My sentiment was stamped in chocolate chip ink and then mounted on more circles. The the 1/4" circles are just "faux brads" punched out of cardstock and attached with mini glue dots.

I'm so happy, I've got a large stack of cards for the mail man today...that is such a happy feeling! Don't you love getting something other than bills and junk mail in your mail box!? I'm really pumped to have gotten so many notes written the is weekend! YEA!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Take care and make it a great one!!

Love You Sew Much too...

Hey friends! Happy Friday! My husband is home from his trip to East Lansing, Michigan(Go GREEN!) and we're excited for a slightly-well, not really but we're trying-relaxing weekend! We've just finihsed reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with my kids and tomorrow is our "Chocolate Factory" movie night! Jonny Dep...love it!! I've got a Just for Girls class this afternoon, and it is for my daughter's friends...she is SO excited! I'll share some of the projects next week! So, it looks to be a great weekend, yea!!

I used CPS 137 sketch for the starting point of this card...and yes, I have another "Love you SEW much card" I need to share. I have a couple of people in mind that I need to send them too...so I thought I'd share before it goes postal! I've come to the conclusion that I've got to get back into the habit of sending cards. I was really good, then being in Germany distracted me a bit...I did send some, but not as many as I was used to sending. And since I've been home...NOT happening! So, I'd making a resolution to share what I've made...not to stock pile it!:) So, I've got a pile to take to the post office tomorrow!:) This sewing machine is from the LAD October Mix. I love it. As one having a slight fear of my machine...did I just say that out loud!?...I'm hoping to defeat that fear and use that fun thing for more than just a couple of quilts...there is too much great fabric out there!!

My patterened paper is from DCWV-Retro Mod Collection. The yellow is summer sun. The scallop was made with the EK wide scallop border punch. The ribbon is crushed curry from SU. and I used a couple of circle punches too...fun, fun, fun! Oh, and I used copics to color in the sewing machine.

Hope you have a great weekend planed! See you Monday!! Make it a good one!

My Fabulous Friend!

Good morning, and happy Thursday to you! This week has proven that Fall really is here, we had rain yesterday...it's just started...and I think our play outside weather is on hold for a few months! So, I'm happy I have a bunch of things to keep me busy while we have to be indoors!

This fine feathered friend on today's card can still enjoy the outdoors, except the only feathered friends we've been seeing much of are black crows...not cute ruby red ones!

This is a card that we made in my class last friday that was "Just for Girls". The girls were from 8-12 years old and had a great time. I had an even better time watching them be so satisfied with creating something fun! It was a great class. So, onto the deets...
This is an all SU supply list today. My card started with me stamping the Bird from Good Friend in Ruby Red ink and then her legs and beak in Pumpkin Pie ink onto whisper white card stock. I mounted her on a square of pumpkin pie ink and set her aside.

My card base is Ruby Red followed closely with a Chocolate Chip strip of cardstock that was scalloped with the scallop edge punch. My dsp, is from the Sunny Day Simply Scrappin' Kit. I used the scallop border punch on that too. I added the scalloped pieces to my Ruby Red card and then adhered my bird to the card.

The embellishment was made with a chocolate chip ribbon, some linen thread, and a Ruby Red button. We mounted it on a Ruby Red 5 star punch and then on a Chocoalte Chip 1 3/8" circle.

The sentiment is from the Really Retro stamp set. It was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink, then punched out with the word window punch and mounted on a pumpkin pie modern label punch and attached to the card.

Hope you have a fabulous day...my fabulous friends!! Make it a great one!

Love You Sew Much!

Good morning peeps! Happy Wednesday! I hope you've been having a great week! My time has continuted to fly by...and I'm trying to make the best of what time we do have! I'm trying to remember what it was like to be 5 or 7 years old...and remind myself to just really enjoy this time...these are thoughts I've been having today..."just live in the moment"...I'm working on it!!

Anyway, I have the new October Monthly Mix from LAD, and have been wanting to use the cute little sewing machine stamp...let's just say I'm loving it! I know just who the cards I've made with this stamp will be going to...she'll love them!

I started out with a sketch today, I used Beate's Weekend Sketch #101, found here, for my starting point. Whenever I need a little creative lift, Beate's blog is always a great source for that inspiration I'm needing..love those reliable blog buddies!
So, I used a whisper white card base. The yellow-or gold rather-patterned paper is from the DCWV Retro Mod pack--and I just noticed it's half price at Joann.com...just fyi!:) I attached my yellow paper to my card and then mounted a strip of chocolate chip that had been given a little love by my SU eyelet border punch. A little bermuda bay ribbon and a chocoalte chip button found a home in the center of my bow. A little linen thread helps to keep the button right in place.

I stamped my sewing machine and then colored it in. I used some Copic markers..I'm working on which of those I need...they make the coloring process SO MUCH better than I've known in the past!! The quality of the markers...I can't wait to add them to my collection! I mouned my sewing machine on some Bermuda Bay cardstock and then attached it to my card with dimensionals.

My sentiment was stamped with black ink ask well, and the punched out with my large oval punch. I used the scallop oval punch and some Bermuda Bay cardstock for a nice little home for my sentiment. I also used the copics to color in the little hearts in my sentiment.

I hope you have a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make it a great one!!

Happiness Is:

Good morning friends! Happy Tuesday to you and yours! I'd like to share a project that I made for one of my samples during the Product Focus Review of the Xyron Creatopia. What a fun review! If you'd like to read all about the Creatopia and hear what the Product Focus Team had to say about it, you can find the complete review here. I think my favorite part of the new Creatopia's function is the ability to add great very permanent adhesive to fabric! I've been buying fabric that I love...and the Creatopia fabric adhesive makes it SO easy to use that fabric in my crafting...love that!

So, I started off with a Cosmo Cricket Black album. I love the shape of this album and wanted to keep the project with in the nice curvy lines of the album. I used some floral fabric to cover the bottom about half of the front cover. I tried to get a fun "frayed" look, so I picked and peeled little strings off the edges to create the look I was aiming for! I added a little strip of a black pom-pom ribbon detail. I just used sticky strip to hold it in perfect place! Have I told you recently that I LOVE sticky strip--or scor-tape? They are the BEST!
I also used the fabric adhesive on my flowers. I put the fabric through the Creatopia, then put those pieces of fabric through my Big Shot with the Flower Layers Die. How fun to marry fabric into the world of die cuts...endless possibilities! I layered the flowers together and then added a cocoa latte flower button and a half pearl for a fun little something special and attached the flower to my album cover.

I used a rub-on, from SU, "Happiness Is:" for the title of this album. I wanted to have a fun and cute little place to record things that happen in a given day that are just pure happiness. I'm going to keep it near my bed so I can jot things down before they leave my brain! I'm using my white gel pen from SU for the writing inside the album.

Let me share a little happiness...tonight was my son's last soccer game(YEA!) of the season. He's had a great time playing and had a great time. Tonight it was FREEZING, it was only 45 degrees during the game! The opposing team had a really great kick and my son was watching the boy he was "guarding" and didn't see that freezing cold, hard as rock ball coming right for him. It hit him in the cheek and it hurt! So, he came out of the game and sat with me on the sidelines for a few. Here is where the happiness came...my baby Ruby, who is 20 months old, came to my son and started hugging him...sharing her special blanket with him..and just laid her little head on his chest for as long as she could hold still! It was SO sweet!! She has such a sweet spot in her...completely delicious. Yes, she helped Myles feel better, it took his mind off the pounding in his cheek and made him smile and feel wonderful that she wanted to lay on him...and not me. It made this momma very happy...and that is what I want to remember! Thus, my Happiness Is: album.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I love hearing what you have to say and I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to stop by and share a few with me...thanks!! See you tomorrow! Make it a great one!

Thanks So Much

Good morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We had a beautiful weather-filled weekend. We've had crisp blue sky with temperatures that require a jacket...and a lot of fun outside! Here in the PNW, we really enjoy the clear blue sky days...we know the gray sky is coming, it's supposed to be here tomorrow! But isn't a weekend made better by great weather!? It was great.

So, with the cool weather, the trees are just a fanastic show of color right now. I decided to use the trees outside as my inspiration for this card! My trendy trees stamp set from Stampin' Up! is the perfect set for just such a card! I'm also posting this card to a challenge on the Moxie Fab World...gradient is radiant challenge.
This is an all SU card today. Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White Cardstocks made up the bones of the card. I used some retired Summer Sun print dsp for the polka dot layer. My trees were stamped using my Stamp-a-ma-jig. I used the same inks as cardstock. My ribbon is chocolate chip grosgrain...and my buttons are an array of an old bluk buy from SU, a pumpkin pie corduroy, and mustard button form the playground set. I also tied the ribbons with linen thread. The sentiment is from Trendy Trees and was stamped in chocolate chip ink. Oh, and I used my corner rounder on the opposite corners to make the shape of the card and the layers a bit different...fun detail, don't you think!?

Hope you have a great day today! Happy Monday to you all!! See you soon! Make it a great one!

So Thankful For You

Good morning friends! Happy Friday to you all! It's great to get to Friday each week, isn't it!? This morning I've got a class(school's out today) "Just for Girls" and we'll be having a great time...I'll post our projects this weekend.

So, here is a quickie from one of the samples using my Xyron Creatopia. The SCS Product Review Team just did a review of that fun new product! You can check out the review here, and learn all about it!
For this card, I used stamps from the October Monthly Mix, by LAD. I used Chocolate Chip ink and Stampin' Write Markers to add color to my leaves. My paper is from SU, and the fun decorative edges were cut with my Creatopia Cutz blades...fun, fun, fun! I also used the photo corner and modern label punches, both from SU.

I've got to bolt to finish getting ready for my class...hope you have a wonderful Friday! Make sure to enjoy this beautiful time of year...and make today great!

New Stamps Day 2!

Morning all! Hope you had a great day yesterday...today is Thursday, yea!! I'm happy to share with you all some of the new stamps that Lizzie Anne Designs will be releasing tomorrow! The sets are called Christmas Magic and Deck the Halls! They are both really fun to work with and will be making up a large portion of holiday cards for me!

I'm just going to give you the photos today...with the recipes of what's included to make the card. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask and I'll get right back! I'll edit and add it so everyone can know! Be sure to check out all the great samples on the other Design Team blogs...there is a listing on the right hand side!
Stamps: Christmas Magic-LAD
Ink: Soft Suede-SU, Black Hybrid Ink
Cardstock: Real Red, Whipser White, Soft Suede-SU
Patterned Paper: SU
Ribbon: SU
Dies: Oval and Scallop Oval Nestabilities


Stamps: Deck the Halls-LAD
Ink: Old Olive-SU, Black Hybrid Ink, Versamark
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Very Vanilla-SU
Patterened Paper: Senic Route
Buttons: SU
Markers: SU
Misc.: Clear Embossing Powder

I hope you have a great day...I'll be back tomorrow with more fun too!! Stay tuned! Make it a great one!!

Fun New Stamps!!

Good morning friends! Happy Wednesday! I'm excited today...NEW Lizzie Anne Stamps are being shown today...the release starts Friday...fun, fun, fun! There will be 4 new sets avaliable in this release, and they are all really fun stamps to play with!!

Today I'm showing you some of the Fancy Flourishes and some images from Way Up North. This first card is showing the Fancy Flourishes. There are some other sets at work on this card too, Oh, Christmas Tree and Holiday Script.
I stamped my white cardstock layer with one of the Fancy Flourishes. I used turquoise ink...I love that combo with olive and red...so festive! Next, used my EK success wide scallop border punch on some olive cardstock and then attached it to my red card base. I used some red grosgrain ribbon to covere the seam, and then added a turquoise button with an olive brad for the center.

I stamped my tree with turquoise ink as well, and then mouned it on turquoise and then red cardstock and added it to my card. My sentiment was stamped in turquoise ink, the punched out with my large oval punch, then layered on a turquoise scalloped oval punch and then an olive wide oval punch. I added my sentiment to the card with dimensionals.

This next card is featuring the Way Up North stamp set. I made a white card base, then layerd some red cardstock and a layer of dsp from the current SU hoiliday mini catalog. A strip of sticky strip to hold my 5/8" red grosgrain in place and a little bow with a button for some added detail. I added a layer of red dsp, mounted on white and then added 3 white punched snowflakes. I added some rhinestone brads for some glistening detail on my snow flakes.

I stampe the igloo image and then colored in the accents with makers. I mounted the igloo onto olive cardstock and added it to my card. I stamped the sentiment and used my large oval and scallop ovals to make a perfect home for it!

With all this working on my Christmas card stack...I feel a dose of hot chocolate coming on! Hope you're having a great day! Be sure to check out the other Design Team blogs to see more great samples for this release!! Thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Kindly

Good morning friends! Happy Tuesday to you all! Yesterday I got involved in a huge project...that took way longer than I anticipated. My "junk" drawers are no longer full of junk!! There are two drawers that had had several boxes just opened and dumped in...oh, it was driving me crazy!! So, Friday I opened the drawers and dumped the contents into a large laundry basket. Today I got some drawer organizers and went to town!! I feel so much better now! Isn't it funny what calms me down?!

This cute little pilgrim is sure calm...boy how life is diffent these days huh?! I love her clean and simple style! I stamped my pilgrim and colored her with my stampin' write makers. I cut her out with my labels 1 nestabilities. I paper pieced her apron-with night of navy dsp. I mounted her on a larger bordering blue label. And dressed the layer up with some night of navy grosgrain ribbon. Then added one more label, this time vanilla.

I used a scallop border on a strip of night of navy dsp, and made a little scallop to go across my card. Tied it all up with another night of navy grosgrain...and then stamped my Thank you Kindly from the LAD circle sentiments stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your October has been great!! Make it a good one!!

Fall Accordian Album

Good morning friends! I hope you are all having a great friday! I am having a great day already, I woke up to my 5:25 am alarm--which is HUGE for me--and went to a great workout! It is so fun to workout with friends, great music and work really hard, don't you think!? Great morning thus far!

I wanted to share a little project with you that I just finished up. I saw Val's Accordian File a few weeks ago and really wanted to make one. So, I made one for me to keep some of my "grateful" thoughts in for the upcoming season. You can check out all the details about it here, on the LAD project of the month page.

It was a fun and quick project and one that I'm sure will be used again and again! Hope you all have a great day today...and I'll see you back here tomorrow to celebrate World Card Making Day! See you soon!!

Give Thanks

Good morning friends! I hope you are all doing well. I have just one question for you, how in the world can it be Thursday all ready!? I can't believe how fast this week has gone! It's been productive and fun, but has gone very quickly!

Today is a fun day over at Lizzie Anne Designs! These cute pilgrim singles will be released today...aren't they cute!? They sure do make a great couple! You'll want to check out the other few singles too..don't forget to stop by the website and see what's new!
I used the Mojo Monday 106 sketch for this card. I love the colors of fall...haven't used rust in quite some time! So, I used some really rust dsp, and choclate chip cardstock with a splash of vanilla for my color choices today.

I stamped my pilgrims with chocoate chip ink, then colored them in with my stampin' write markers, really rust and chocolate chip with a tad of creamy caramel, almost artichoke and then a tiny outline of sahara sand. I mounted them on a chocolate chip piece of cardstock then again on some really rust cardstock.

I used my round tab punch to make a little rust tab for the left side of the pilgrim layer. I wrapped the tab with some linen tread and added a little chocolate chip button.

I stamped my sentiment--from the October Monthly Mix--with really rust ink and then used my 1 3/8" circle punch to make a perfect circle. I mounted my sentiment on a 1 3/4" chocolate chip circle. I added a rust button tied with some linen thread and then added the sentiment to my card with dimensionals.

Come back tomorrow to see more fun with the pilgrims! Have a great one!!