Fly away Tag

My time on the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen ended in June (shortly before I left for vacation). I am still shocked and honored to have been asked to be on that team. Thank you, Jenn, for the wonderful experience! You rock! Remember to check out the AMAZING DD Gallery this month. (You have to be a fan club member to see it!) The designers all did a fantastic job!

Here is one of the first Dirty Dozen projects I ever created....

Materials-Stamps: Bird-Inkadinkado; Birds in Vines-Flourishes; Weathered bg-SU! ; Paper: Tag (Paper Reflections); cs- white, riding hood red, choc chip ; Ink: Memento tuxedo black; Ranger- Fired Brick, Tea Dye; SU!- banana, more mustard ; Accessories: Flower Soft, Sponge, Copic markers, Embossing powder-black, clear; Versamark, heat tool, May Arts ribbon; hemp, oval punch (SU!), Round tab punch (SU!), Gelly Gems (Gel-a-tins), Jumbo eyelet (SU!), Cropadile (We R Memory Keepers); dimensionals (SU!).

To create this I took a plain white tag (Creative Tags by Paper Reflections) and sponged the entire thing with banana ink (SU!). Then I sponged the outer edges with more mustard ink (SU!). I took my SU! Weathered background and inked it in Ranger Tea Dye ink and stamped over the tag. I used Flourishes, LLC set Bird in Vines for the background flowers. I embossed them in Ranger black embossing powder and then colored the leaves with Copic markers.I used some white Flower Soft on the petals to give them some texture. I stamped the bird on some white cardstock with Memento ink and colored it in with Copic markers. I cut it out, embossed it with clear embossing powder and popped it up on the vine with a dimensional. I stamped the sentiment in Ranger Fired Brick ink. Next, I sponged Ranger Tea Dye ink all over the edges of the tag to create more depth around the edges.The top detail is created by punching the round tab punch (SU!) and layering a red oval punch on top of it and then attaching the jumbo eyelet. I added some Gel-a-tins Gelly gems along the edge of the tab punch. Finally, I added a piece of hemp and some May Arts Ribbon and done!

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Did you see???

Did you see?????? The June Fan Club Gallery on Splitcoaststampers is up! Check out the newest dirty girls and all the amazing creations they designed this month.

<-----here is a peek at one of my creations in the gallery.

Our summer has gotten off to a great start. My sister and niece visited last week and another sister and my nephews come tomorrow night!!! We have lots of fun stuff planned!!! Today we are taking a break and playing a little Wii!

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Want some DIRT??

**Here is a peek at one of my dd creations this month.

IT IS THE 15th---and you know what that means--a new Dirty Gallery on Splitcoaststampers. This month you will be seeing a lot of GREEN! Come check out the newest dirty girls---they are awesome! (Note: you have to be a Fan Club member to view this gallery!)
Want some DIRT? As a special perk---The Dirty Girls have each volunteered to send one of their gallery projects to a Fan Club Member! Each Dirty girl has chosen one specific project to give away.
**** All you have to do is leave a comment on that project to be randomly chosen! Since you won't know which project it is, make sure you comment on all the projects you would like to win!!!! ****

Good Luck! Hope its YOUR mailbox filled with Dirt! You have two weeks to comment from the day the gallery is revealed.

Stay tuned----I am celebrating 300,000 hits SOON so you know what that means!!!!

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A Dirty little Secret.....

Well......it is about time. I can finally tell you about a DIRTY little secret I have been keeping for the past two months. I was asked to become a member of the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen design team! The January gallery ---MAKING A HOUSE A HOME......is now open....you can check it out HERE!

If you are not a FAN CLUB member....what are you waiting for? It is a great way to support the #1 Stamping site on the Internet and you will get to see all the amazing dirty dozen galleries.

This month's theme is Making House a Home--We created projects, cards and scrapbook pages that are inspired by the rooms or things in our own homes. So, not only did we have to create lovely things---we had to clean our homes this month! Whew--I am tired!

I can share a tiny piece of one of my projects with you---but to see the whole thing and all the details---you have to check out the gallery!


This project was inspired by the colors of my living room/kitchen nook (below) and


my dining room (below)

Here is a little peek at what I came up with:

Thanks for letting me share my exciting news!!!!

Go check out the Dirty Dozen gallery---you won't believe all of the awesome creations all those dirty girls created.

Finally, I want to give a special shout out to the ultra-talented Becca, who joins me this month in the pile! I am so thrilled to be on this journey with her. She is an AMAZING stamper and a great person (as are all the dirties!!)

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