Winner of SU Blog Candy!

Hello! Random.Cara picked number 76 as the winner of the SU Blog Candy sets! Congratulations to Susan G who said... "What a wonderful collection of sets to offer. Thanks so much for your generosity. We live so close to each other that we could meet to hand them off and save postage--come on Cara, pick me! LOL I've been an admirer of your work for a long time, but I rarely leave comments. I need to be better about that, but I truly do appreciate the time and effort you take in sharing your talents with others."

lol! I chuckled when I read this---How funny! Susan---WHERE do you live??

Please email me your mailing address so I can ship this BIG box out to you! And as for the rest of you-- Don't worry---there is more SUBSCRIBER ONLY blog candy coming! I have lots more sets I need to clear out!

KNIGHT not NIGHT and a COLOR challenge

Hello everyone! It's Monday again and time for another CCEE challenge. This week is the Catchy Name Featured Stamper challenge--where we select a person who has a "catchy" sign-on name on Splitcoaststampers and make cards for him and her based on that name.

This week Frances chose Jessie Rone (Knightrone). So, we had to make a card with a "KNIGHT" not a "Night" (as I was told many many times)! Giggle. No problem!

Here is my card:

Double points---because I have lots of "knight"s on my card and it is at night! (Just covering all the bases here!) Nanner, nanner, nanner girls---they were all waiting for me to mess this one up!

I used Kim Hughes' adorable Twinks the Owl for the main image and set him on a die cut flourish with the moon behind him. I typed out the bottom of the card on my computer interchanging "Night" and "Knight". I used the fabulous Harmony Rectangular Stamper Set from JustRite and the Brayton Font for the sentiment. I love how I can customize any card with this thing. Cannot wait to get my hands on the new vertical stamper so I can make sentiments along the side! You can find lots of JustRite products at Stamper's Dream (and at great prices too!)

You can see all the other fabulous KNIGHT cards on the CCEE BLOG!
Materials used: Stamps-Twinks the Owl (Kim Hughes); Brayton Font and Harmony Rectangular Stamper (JustRite); cardstock-black, white (Gina K Pure Luxury); Designer paper-Homespun (Memory Box); Cuttlebug and dots embossing folder (Provocraft); ribbon (Gina K Designs); Circle die (Spellbinders); computer; Copic markers; star punch (SU!); small star punch; QuicKutz flourish die; dimensionals (SU!).


Wanna Win a Stamp Set??
This week starts the previews of the newest Gina K Designs stamps sets. The "official" previews will begin tomorrow, but for today...here is a peek at some new digital paper that will be released. It is designed by Emily Giovanni! Isn't it beautiful?

Wanna will a stamp set worth $19.95 or less? Come on over to Stamp TV and play in my color challenge today. A random winner will be selected from all the participants next Monday! What have you got to lose?

The color challenge is to use black and any combination of pinks and reds that you would like. That is it! Easy!

You can find the challenge information HERE! Hope you will play along!

Materials used: Elegant Flowers, Botanical Dreams (Gina K Designs); Cardstock-black (pure luxury-Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; Digital paper-Rich & Shabby (designed by Emily Giovanni for Gina K Designs): ribbon (Gina K Designs); brads (Gina K Designs); Frame die (QuicKutz); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

Thanks for stopping by!

Transported

Hi everyone! Happy Saturday!

Here is a cute "Thinking of You" card I created with the adorable Penny Black Transported bear . In the original stamp, the bear is holding onto a group of balloons. I thought it would be cute to make the sentiment the balloon so I changed it up a bit and added a sentiment from Expressions Clear stamp set by Inkadinkado.
Materials used: Stamps-Transported (Penny Black), Expressions Clear Sentiment set (Inkadinkado); Memento black ink; Pure Luxury white (Gina K Designs); designer paper-Homespun Collection (Memory Box); Copic markers; adhesive pearls (Kaiser Craft); paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!), scalloped circle punch (SU!); oval/ scalloped oval dies (Spellbinders); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); dimensionals (SU!); hemp (SU!).

This is one way you can get a lot more mileage from your stamps. Stamp just part of the image for a whole different look! I colored the bear with Copic markers.

I pierced the edges of the blue designer paper and added some Kaiser Craft pearls at the corners. The ribbon is May Arts.

You can find all the stamps and embellishments on this card at Stamper's Dream. Check it out! Michelle is now carrying stamps from Flourishes, JustRite, Our Craft Lounge as well as fun embellishments from May Arts, Kaiser Crafts, Pebbles, and Chatterbox, to name a few!

Don't forget to enter to win the SU Blog Candy on the post below!

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Hangin' with my Peeps and BLOG CANDY

Blog candy drawing is over:
Random.Cara picked number 76 as the winner of the SU Blog Candy sets! Congratulations to Susan G !

Today I wanted to share with you another card I created with a new release from My Favorite Things. This set is called Hangin' with my Peeps. It has the greatest sentiments to go along with the image. You can find it HERE.

I colored this image with a combination of Prismacolor pencils and Copic markers. I used a lot of scraps from my scrap bin to create it. (Trying to be better about that!)

SU Subscribers only Blog Candy!

I am going to send the following Stampin' Up! (gently used) sets to one of my subscribers. I had to make the blog candy 14 sets instead of 15 because it is the maximum I could fit in this box (and it is heavy!) No worries---I will be sure to have another one soon!
The winner will receive:
So Very
Seeing Spots
Small Sayings
Happy Harmony
Flaky Friends
Loads of Love
Loads of Love Accessories
Country set (name unknown)
Close as a Memory (missing one stamp)
Cute Converse (a few missing)
Big Blooms
All Year Cheer I
All Year Cheer II

So how do you win? All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post. This is a subscribers only blog candy to thank all of you who read this blog. Please do not enter if you do not subscribe. You have until Monday morning at 8 a.m. Central time to post a comment. Random.Cara will pick a winner after school. You will have two days to get back to me if you are the winner. If the winner doesn't contact me, I will select a new winner.

Coming next week: The NEW Gina K release!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hooga Booga

Hello everyone! Between my dd's softball (I am one of the coaches) AND various service men stopping by---It has been a crazy house.

We just had direct TV installed yesterday. Yeah! My husband is happy BUT the downside is that the installer fell through my daughter's bedroom (from the attic) so now there is a hole in her room that has to be fixed. Thankfully, he was not hurt. And, to tell you the truth....since the mess is in my 12 y/0's room (aka "The dark hole")---the gaping hole and chunks of insulation just blend right in (AKKKK!!)

Here is a look at the new Hooga Booga set that is NOW available at My Favorite Things!

Materials used: Stamps-Hooga Booga (My Favorite Things); ink-Memento, blue, pink (Chatter box); flower punch (SU!); hemp (SU!); paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!); Choc chip marker (SU!); designer paper (SEI); white cardstock (Gina K Pure Luxury); Threading water punch (Fiskars!); dimensionals (SU!)

The little hooga booga, sentiment, clouds and tiny hearts (along bottom) are all images in this set! C*U*T*E
I paper pieced the hugga bugga and then added the sentiment and draped it through his hands.

This Month's Special Deals:

One-Click Collection is $65.85, and if you purchase it BEFORE Friday night at midnight (EST) you will receive:***One FREE stamp set (Our Stock Manager will choose the set)
***AND....as an additional PERK, if you SUPERSIZE your order (by adding additional items to your order so that the total exceeds $100 or more) you'll receive TWO free stamp sets (our Stock Manager will choose the sets).

Thanks for stopping by!

MFT Blog Hop

Hello! Welcome to the My Favorite Things blog hop! If you didn't start at the beginning and want to see all the awesome new MFTeasers, head over to Kim's blog!

For my MFTeaser, I created a little journal with the Nite Nite Ellie set. I love this set, not only because of the adorable images, but also because $2 from every set sold for the first six months will be donated to St. Jude's Hospital for Children! Too cool!

I used my Bind-it-All to create this chipboard book. I cut inside pages the same size as the covers and added some dividers created with the label punch.

I paper pieced the little girl's pajamas and colored the rest of her with Copic markers. The felt pieces are by Martha Stewart and I had some pink star ribbon that I just cut apart to layer on top of some of the felt stars.

As a final touch, I added some white Flower Soft to the bunny slippers and the collar of her pajamas to make them fuzzy!

Materials used: Nite Nite Ellie (My Favorite Things); Memento black ink; Copic markers; Flower Soft (white); adhesive pearls (K & Company); designer paper-Cosmo Cricket and Stampin' Up! ; cardstock-white (Gina K Pure Luxury); Bind-It-All and black binding wire (Zutter); chipboard (Zutter); label punch (SU!); Martha Stewart felt shapes; star ribbon; ribbons (SU! and MFT); slit punch (SU!); paper piecing tool and mat pack (SU!); dimensionals (SU!).

******Now head on over to Susie's fantabulous blog to continue the journey....

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, March 4th from 9-10 PM EASTERN. This month there are 5 new sets being released including a Who's that Girl who is hanging with her peeps! Head over to the MFT forum on Splitcoaststampers to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. We hope to see you there on Wednesday night.

Thanks for stopping by!

HOPPY Spring

I had to get in at least one MFTeaser before the big MFT blog hop Wednesday! So, here is a card that uses the newest Flopsey set called Tea with Flopsey. This guy is actually sitting under a tree with a tea cup in his hands in the actual set. But, because of his shape, I thought he would be perfect holding an Easter egg (the egg being the "o"!). I used Bling 'Bet for the sentiment and the Easter egg and "Easter" are from an older set called Hoppy Easter.

I love the happy colors!

Materials used: Stamps: Tea with Flopsey, Bling 'Bet, Hoppy Easter (My Favorite Things); Memento black ink; Copic markers; designer paper-Homespun collection (Memory Box); cardstock-white (Gina K Pure Luxury), pink (SU!); oval punches (SU!); sheer ribbon (Offray); Threading water punch (Fiskars); dimensionals (SU!).

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, March 4th from 9-10 PM EASTERN. This month there are 5 new sets being released including a Who's that Girl who is hanging with her peeps! Head over to the MFT forum on Splitcoaststampers to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. We hope to see you there on Wednesday night.

Don't forget to enter the HUGE MFT Idol Contest---check out this thread for more details how you can be crowned a MFT Idol and win a $250 shopping spree!

Thanks for stopping by!

CCEE Challenge and Thanks Papertrey

Hello and Happy Monday! This is a busy week. Today, I wanted to start off by thanking another fabulous company that helped with the Heart to Heart Card fundraiser for Caregivers of Alzheimer's disease. *Yep! Still thanking all the fabulous companies who generously donated to the cause.

Today---I want to say thank you to Papertrey Ink.

I recently picked up Damask Designs which was designed by the awesome Dawn McVey for Papertrey, so I decided to use it for my Monday CCEE challenge. This week we had to use adhesive address labels on our cards. Easy enough! I stamped the damask pattern on each label and then peeled them and stuck them to the black matted cardstock. I stamped another damask design and then used the small circle punch (SU!) to punch the design and add it onto a brad:
I love how dramatic the black and white looks. Check out all the other label-ed creations on the CCEE blog! Hope you will play along.

And here is another card I created with the Damask Designs. When I first saw this large image, I immediately thought of a chandelier. So.....I created a simple one layer card with that large image as the main focus. After stamping the design, I added some darker parts with a black marker (kind of representing shadows that all chandeliers give off). Then I used some Mark Richards tiny black crystal stickers to add the chain and some interest to the chandelier itself.

I used a larger black crystal sticker in the center. Finally, I stamped the sentiment, added some more crystal stickers around it and then tied the ribbon (Berry Sorbet) to the top.

Think it looks like a chandelier?

THANK YOU so much Nichole and Papertrey Ink for generously donating to a very worthy cause. I will never forget your willingness to help. I am so grateful.

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Coming this week:

***TOMMORROW: I will begin showing MFTeasers of the new sets that will be released on Wednesday from My Favorite Things!

***Did you see? MFT is having an Idol Contest! Check out the IDOL thread HERE for all the details on how you can enter to win a $250 shopping spree!

***SU Blog Candy! New to you---15 sets need a new home. Stay tuned for this subscriber-only blog candy.

Thanks for stopping by!

Home is where the HEART is

Happy Sunday! I wanted to share a little project I created with some of the new paper from Paper Temptress!!!

I created the envelope with the heavy weight clear vellum. When you score this, it gives a nice crisp edge and it is sturdy enough to be used for a card base too!
The inside card was created using the Incandescent Russo cardstock. Can you see the shine? I embossed a heart on the bottom.

The inside is layered...I used Candido Incandescent over the Russo Incandescent.

The vellum overlay reads "Where we love is home, Home that the feet may leave but not our hearts."

There are tons of new papers that have just been added to the PaperTemptress website. If you love quality, beautiful cardstock, you might want to check it out!

Thanks for stopping by!

YOU Brighten my day!

Awww! I just fell in love with Ducky Days by Our Craft Lounge when I first laid eyes on it at CHA. I was so fortunate to meet Cambria and Joy in January--they are both the sweetest.
I am still so surprised that Cambria knew who I was---we had a good time joking about all the people who confuse us because of our common nicknames (Hers is Cami and mine is Cammie!)

I just love her---Cam, this one is for you!

Materials used: Ducky Days (Our Craft Lounge); cardstock-turquoise, orange (SU!), white (Gina K Pure Luxury); Dp-Stampin' Up!; Memento black ink; Copic markers; icicle stickles (Ranger); brads (The Paper Studio); slider die (Provocraft); ribbon (SU!); Spellbinders oval and scalloped oval Nestabilites; flowers embossing folder (Provocraft); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!); circle punch (SU!); dimensionals (SU!).

************Did you know that Stamper's Dream now carries Our Craft Lounge stamps? Yep, it be true. You can see the selection of stamps Michelle carries HERE!************

I {HEART} my subscribers

I always try to find little ways to thank all of you who take the time to read my little blog for you truly brighten my day. With over 20 new stamp sets coming into my house each month, I NEED to clear out some of my Stampin' Up! stamps I don't play with anymore---


<--------Coming soon---a subscribers ONLY blog candy---15 stamp sets (including Loads of Love, Loads of Love Accessories, Flaky Friends....and lots of other great sets...some stamps never even used!) need to find a new home.

Details on how you can win it........coming soon.......


Thank YOU for stopping by!