Baby Bear

Whew! What a weekend......great weather and we were running all around....

We got the neatest package from my husband....he sent my daughter a children's book. In the back of the book is a DVD of him reading the book to her so that she could read the book along with him. It was the greatest thing and she LOVES it. This is a service of the USO and it is just an amazing gift. The other two kids cannot wait to get theirs.

Ok......I finally finished this card that I alluded to on Friday. This card was completed 10 minutes at a time (literally!)
The idea for this card popped into my head when I was working on the card in the post below. This design works for a new baby--boy OR girl!

I thought this sweet bear from First Christmas (Gina K Designs by Asela Hopkins) would look so cute sitting in the moon with some sparkly stars all around:

See....the Santa hat looks like a cute little baby hat when you use it in this way. This stamp will get a lot of mileage from me that is for sure!

I paired it with a sentiment from Tag Lines! (Gina K Designs).

More details: The little adhesive stitching is from Cloud 9, something I have had in my stash for awhile and have never used. I covered the sticky stars (I got from Jody Morrow HERE) with doodlebug glitter so the stars really sparkle. I created the moon by cutting a circle with a Nestability die (Spellbinders) and then cutting it into a crescent. I just added some sponging around the edges.

Materials used: Stamps-First Christmas, Tag Lines (Gina K Designs); cardstock-white (Gina K Designs); blue (SU!); designer paper- Lime Green Linen (The Paper Studio); Memento black ink; ink- barely banana, bashful blue (SU!); sponge; Copic markers; redline star shapes; doodlebug glitter-yellow; 3D Gel stickers, Travel (Cloud9 Design); brads (SU!).

Hope you all had a great weekend! I did!

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JustRite Christmas Treasures

HI everyone! Another soggy/stormy day here---sigh! (I am contemplating building an ark!)
It is, however, a great day to create...

Here is a card I made with the beautiful JustRite Christmas Treasures set:

Here is a view from the side so you can see that the front panel is cut to frame the sentiment:

I colored the image with Copic markers and sponged some bashful blue ink around the perimeter of the circle. (Still haven't bought an airbrush system because I am not convinced that I need one!)

The front design was created by using my Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies.

I added some more of the Prism Nautical blue cardstock that I used on the front on the inside. Designer paper is from my scrap bin.

You can find a great selection of JustRite stamps and PRISM cardstock at Stamper's Dream!

Materials used: Stamps-Christmas Treasures (JustRite Stampers); Memento black ink, bashful blue ink (SU!); sponge; Copic markers; cardstock-white (Gina K Designs), Nautical blue light (Prism); designer paper-scrapbin-Ghostly Greetings (SU!), unknown (SU!); Anna Griffin die cut shapes (Peyton Collection); hemp; Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies; Cuttlebug (Provocraft);

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You melt MY heart

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for all your emails and comments--I feel very blessed to have such a supportive network of stamping friends as well as an AMAZING family. Last week my two girls got the flu and then I had some bad asthmatic nights from all the sickness going around and the very wet conditions here. Thankfully we were all well enough in time to enjoy some time with my husband before he left.

I know we will get through the next 7 months (or so!) and I KNOW that all of your prayers and well wishes are helping. Please continue to keep my kids in your prayers as the reality slowly sets in for them.

Over the past week, I chose not to spend any time blogging but I did make a few cards while my husband was out and about and the kids were in school.

Here is a card I created for the Moxie Fab Gradient is Radiant challenge. I wanted to represent gradient color in a different way than using cardstock or ink....so the gradient part of my card is the fun sun I created with ribbons. I selected ribbons in white, yellows (3) and orange to create the sunbeams.

I used Warm Winter Wishes set from Gina K Designs on this card.....and I played off the snowman and "You melt my heart" stamps by creating a fun sun to go with them.

I chose to stamp the snowman from the set without his hat and so I just rubbed the ink off the hat after I inked the stamp up and then drew in the top of his head after I stamped. EASY. I used a piece of ribbon for his scarf (just adhering it right over the stamped scarf!)

I stamped the sentiment in two colors---easily done by inking the whole stamp in pumpkin ink and then taking a black marker and going over the "You" and "my heart" part.

Finally, I stitched the little hills for some more fun texture and added some orange stickles to his carrot nose.

Materials used: Stamps-Warm Winter Wishes (Gina K Designs); ink-memento black, black stampin write marker (SU!), pumpkin ink (SU!); cardstock-white (Gina K Designs), iced cobalt (Prism); various ribbons (SU, May Arts!, Offray); sewing machine; circle punch (SU!); Spellbinders scalloped rectangle die; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); Copic markers; orange stickles (Ranger); stapler.

Hope it makes you smile!

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Gina K Holiday Cheer StampTV Kit Preview

Hello! Today the Gina K Design team is previewing the new Stamp TV kit- Holiday Cheer!

This kit is full of awesome supplies to help make your holiday gift giving a breeze!
Contents include-Holiday Cheer stamp set; Holiday Greetings stamp set; Brad assortment- red, gold, silver; Card stock amounts: 2 white heavy,2 ivory heavy, 2 all spruced up, 2 cranberry tart, 2 rocket red, 2 good as gold, 2 black, 3 layering white, 3 layering ivory; 1 large clear box; 1 large clear pillow box; 1 medium clear pillow box; 1 small clear pillow box; 1 yard of each of the holiday assortment ribbons; 4 yards of additional organdy ribbon including All spruced up, ivory, rocket red and white with gold threading.

Here is a project I created with this kit:

I used a little black wooden box I got at Hobby Lobby and painted it with black acryllic paint. I covered portions of the box with some gorgeous digital paper Emily created for this month's release--called Vintage Holly.... LOVE it!

I stamped the reindeer from the Holiday Cheer stamp set on pure luxury white cardstock and cut it with Nestability ovals. I used All Spruced Up cardstock (in the kit) to mat the deer and some ribbon to thread behind it. The black cardstock is onyx, also from GinaK Designs.

I added the little circular sentiment from Holiday Greetings and adhered a button in the center part. This month, Gina K is also releasing Autumn Assortment packs and Holiday Assortment packs filled with cardstock and matching ribbon and buttons. I used the a button from the Holiday Assortment pack on this project.

And here is a gift created with the large pill box that comes in the kit:

This box is plenty large enough to house a gift card (but I just tucked it in behind the tag so you could see for yourself!) I filled the clear box with red and green m&ms too--cause it is always fun to add a little treat with the gift card gift.

The fruit wreath image (from Holiday Cheer stamp set) was stamped twice. I colored one wreath in with Copic markers. I only colored the bow from the second image so I could color it out and place it on top of the first for some dimension. Once assembled, I attached it to the tag. The sentiment is from Holiday Greetings set (in kit!) and the gold cardstock is new to Gina K designs too---it is LOVELY! I attached the tag to the box with some eyelets and some of the gorgeous holiday ribbon that comes in the kit!

***Everything in RED in this post can be found at Gina K Designs Thursday night at 10 p.m. central time!***

Head over to GinaK's blog to add your comment to her blog entry for a chance to win the new StampTV kit being previewed tonight our blogs! Then, check into StampTV for a new video on creating shimmering background paper with an image from the new StampTV kit!

Here's the links to the Design Team Members participating in the hop tonight:
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Cindy Lawrence
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Melanie Muenchinger
Tami Mayberry
Theresa Momber

Thanks for stopping by! Tomorrow---I get to show you more from my new set! Yipee!!!

Do You Believe in Magic???

...you might after you see this new set by Alicia for Gina K Designs-- Feel the Magic!
When I first saw these images I was immediately drawn to the adorable witch...she is so cute and I knew I wanted to make a little treat bag featuring her.


I cropped the original image of the witch (she is sitting on a mushroom in the actual stamp) and I had her sitting on a cauldron (that I just cut from designer paper) instead. Since I wanted to use these little eyeball chocolate crisp candies inside---I thought having her sit on a cauldron working up a spell would work well. (Who knows what she is planning on turning a bunch of eyeballs into anyway??!!) The set comes with a cute little star wand so I took that idea and just made it larger (so it wouldn't get lost in the busy design) and used a punched star covered in glitter for her wand.

I used my treat tote tutorial to make this pouch. I just made this a bit wider to accommodate the large window. I put the eyeballs into a clear envelope before securing them inside and then I re-used the mesh bag the candies originally came into to add to the inside of the window. (I cut the mesh bag open and then adhered it to the backside of the front opening.)

Materials used: Stamps-Feel the Magic (Gina K Designs); cardstock-white Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs); Copic markers; stickles-purple and gold (Ranger); designer paper--Stampin' Up, Halloween paper pack (Recollections); circle punches (Stampin' UP); star punch (SU!); slit punch (SU!); scalloped circle punch (SU!); Spellbinders Nestabilities dies; crystal stickers (Mark Richards); hemp; orange ribbon (May Arts); (candy).

Boy, my kids are gonna be so happy to see this posted---- they have been patiently waiting to eat those eyeballs!!!

Wanna see some more MAGIC??? Joining us tonight with special projects made with Alicia K's Feel the Magic Stamp set are these amazing designers:

Gina, Asela, Donna, Emily, Jessica, Melanie, Theresa and Erika.

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NSR (Non stamping Related): My baby, Lauren, started preschool today. My other two kids started school already but she didn't start until today. She marched right out the door---totally happy....no worries at all! Gotta love THAT!

Hope your day is MAGICAL! Thanks for stopping by!

JustRite THANKS

Hello everyone! Thanks again for the prayers----So far....so good! Lauren quickly recovered from her bout with the stomach bug and now Cara and I are just staring at each other to see who will succumb next. Oh...and there is lots of cleaning going on round here! lol!

Despite all that fun.....I did manage to eek out a card yesterday. (I have been itching to get into a great BIG pile of new stamps but the bellies in my family have not been cooperating!)

This card features a new release from JustRite called Autumn Blessings Borders & Centers Oval . You can find this new JustRite release and many others at Stamper's Dream. Look for the new Christmas releases SOON! This apple stamp is formatted to be oval....so I just stamped the apples and cut them out to use them on the circle. The "Thanks" is from another stamp in the set...I just love the sentiments and fonts in this set.

The paper on this card is from Cosmo Cricket Everafter line. You can find the new Cosmo Cricket releases at Stamper's Dream store too!

Materials used: Stamps: Autumn (JustRite Stampers); designer paper-Everafter (Cosmo Cricket); white cardstock (Gina K Designs); button (Papertrey Ink); sewing machine; choc chip marker (SU!); Copic markers; memento tuxedo black ink; corner punch (Fiskars); ribbon (May Arts); Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle Nestabilities; Wizard (Spellbinders); Creative memories cutting template; hemp (Hobby Lobby); foam mounting tape.

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Charming New Home

*Note: I am away on vacation. This is an auto-post!

I love this circle script sentiment from My Favorite Things- Congrats all Around!

I created this new home card coupling the sentiment with some fun designer paper! Materials used: Stamps-Congrats All Around (My Favorite Things); Memento tuxedo black ink; slit punch (SU!); corner rounder punch (SU!); Metal key charm -Blue Moon Beads (Creativity Inc.); ribbon (May Arts); hemp (Hobby Lobby); designer paper-Homegrown-Home (Three Bugs in a Rug), Cozy Home (October Afternoon); Scalloped circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders).


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Vacation: All I ever wanted

My two littlest and I are heading to PA today to collect my oldest daughter (who has been visiting her father), visit my family---head to the beach (NJ!) and then go to Corolla, NC for a trip with ALL of my brothers and sisters (yep....all 8 of us AND our kids) and my parents! My husband will be joining us when we get to North Carolina.

I cannot wait!

I have scheduled some posts....but I will mostly be away from my computer for the next three weeks! I will have email access so if you email me, I will return your message.

[YES...I will be posting the blog candy winner tomorrow morning too!]

But mostly......I am taking the time to just ENJOY.....REST.....and be with family!

Have a great few weeks!

Thought I should have a nice beachy card to accompany this post!

Materials used: Stamps-Inkadinkado; Memento tuxedo black ink; Cardstock-white (Gina K Designs), Island Mist Medium (Prism); Copic markers; designer paper-Everafter (Cosmo Cricket), Black and Cream Script (The Paper Studio); Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies; Charm-(K& Company); Tulle.

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Mixing and Matching Stamps with JustRite and Blog Candy

Hello! Today is the last day of Stamper's Dream JustRite week. It is always fun playing around with these stamps and I am sure you will be getting a lot more glimpses of these sets in the coming weeks.

Today I have a simple card using the JustRite Friendship Borders & Centers Round. (This set is currently sold out at Stamper's Dream but should be back in stock soon!)
I wanted to show you how you can combine portions of the stamps in any of these sets to create a whole new look (making them even more versatile!)

I stamped just the tree two times, inking up the tree with markers so I could leave out the sentiment next to it. Then, I cut out and popped up the top part of the tree over the first image (which was cut out using a circle Spellbinders die).
I used half of the sentiment ring from the set "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." I thought this went so well with the tree (cause you know they take a LONG time to grow too!) I added a tiny heart into the tree as a finishing touch.

The "Friend" sentiment at the top is from a stamp in the set that has a pot and says "Friends"...I just inked up the part I wanted to use, stamped it and then punched it out.

I went with minimal for this design and chose to just add a few squares of designer paper by Kaiser Craft along the side.

Materials used: Stamps-Friendship Centers & Borders (JustRite); Olive, chocolate chip markers (SU!); cardstock-olive, vanilla, red (SU!); ribbon (SU!); designer paper-Kaiser Craft; oval punch (SU!); Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle nestabilities; Wizard (Spellbinders); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

Hope you like it!

Blog Candy (is now closed!): It has been awhile since I gave away some blog candy. Want to win of my favorite JustRite sets---Girl Time Borders & Centers? *Click link to see set* Just leave a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite JustRite set is! (Subscribers can post twice!) Random.Cara will select a winner on Sunday night at 8 p.m. central time. I will post the winner Monday morning. The winner will have 3 days to email me to claim their prize before another entry is drawn. Special thanks to JustRite for this set donation.

Now head on over to these Dream Team-ers for some more JustRite inspiration: Kimberly, Charmaine and Michelle.

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JustRite Week Continues with Stamper's Dream

Hello! Happy Tuesday and Happy Day Two of JustRite Week with Stamper's Dream.

Today I wanted to focus on one of my favorite things about JustRite: I love circle sentiments and JustRite enables you to use the adorable ones they make OR create your own, making personalization a snap! For this card, I coupled a border from the Friendship set with a Sarah Kay image.

REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION

As you can see, I inked only half of the circle sentiment using markers and then, using my Spellbinders circle dies, cut the sentiment out to perfectly frame it. I clipped the ends with some scissors. This is the PERFECT sentiment for this image!!!

I colored the Best Friends Forever Sarah Kay image with Copic markers and framed her on a piece of designer paper cut with the Labels Four die (Spellbinders). The designer paper is from Cosmo Cricket-Early Bird Collection. I added a strip of the felt ribbon from the Snorkel line to add some texture and then topped it with a crocheted flower (which was made by Chris Kirkpatrick, Just email me if you want the details!)

Materials used: Stamps-Friendship Set (JustRite Stampers), Best Friends Forever (Sarah Kay/Stampavie); ink-Memento tuxedo black; markers-red, black (SU!); Copic markers; designer paper-EarlyBird: Brunch, Farmers Market (Cosmo Cricket), Homegrown: Big Polka (Three Bugs in a Rug); Spellbinders Labels Four dies and circle Nestabilities; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); ribbon-Snorkel (Cosmo Cricket); crochet flower (Chris Kirkpatrick); button; sewing machine.

You can find all the new JustRite release in the Stamper's Dream Store.

To see some more JustRite goodness, check out these Stamper's Dream team blogs:
Charmaine, Tosh, Laurie and Michelle.

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JustRite Week at Stamper's Dream

Hello! Happy Monday!
This week Stamper's Dream is featuring the newest JustRite stamps on their blogs. Today, I am showing you a card I created with Thinking of You Borders & Centers Oval, a set filled with beautiful, heartfelt sentiments.
I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock (Prism) and then instead of using an oval shape to cut it out...I used a scalloped circle die (Spellbinders) to punch out the sentiment.
I layered it over one of the new Spellbinders pendant die--Fleur de Lis. The top design was created with the Arch Lattice Edge Punch by Martha Stewart.

The designer paper is from Kaiser Craft and the blue cardstock is from Island Mist from Prism.

If you would to see some more JustRite goodness....head on over to these blogs: Amy, Michelle.

And then head on over to Stamper's Dream to check out all the new JustRite products in the store.

Have a great day!!
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Forever Friends...

Ahhh!!! Here are those kiddos again. (I cannot help using them as they remind me of my kids!)

For this card I combined the children The Journey with the background from Happy Camper ,both from Gina K Designs. This card reminds me of the trip we took with our kids to the Grand Canyon and Utah this past spring break.
I stamped the background and colored the mountains and trees with Copics on Pure Luxury white cardstock and sponged the sky. I used the sentiment from The Journey. I stamped the children and colored them with Copics and then raised them a bit over the scene to help create some dimension. The card is created on rocket red cardstock and I added some chocolate kiss to offset the image on one side.

The ribbon is from Gina K Pure Luxury holiday collection. I added some new self-adhesive nail heads on the sides of the sentiment.

These sets really work well with each other.

Materials used: Stamps-The Journey, Happy Camper (Gina K Designs); Memento tuxedo black ink; Copic markers; sponge; mustard, bashful blue stamp pads (SU!); Cardstock-rocket red, white, chocolate kiss Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs); ribbon - Gina K designs; Spellbinders circle/scalloped circle dies; metal nail heads (Gina K Designs; oval punch (Stampin' Up!); dimensionals.

Stay tuned: Something FUN is coming to Gina K Designs on FRIDAY!

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Gina K Preview Day 2

Hello again! Today is the second day of the Gina K Designs stamp previews. Today the design team is working with Melanie's newest set called Arranged with Love and a new set from Nina called Bug Me Anytime.

Here is a little journal I created with Arranged with Love. This set comes with a gorgeous HUGE background stamp that has a little journal box built in. There are many scripted sentiments to add in-- so it is easier than ever to create simple but stunning creations. For this journal, I chose to layer the sentiment from Say it with Flowers over the background. The background is also trimmed a bit on top and bottom to fit the journal front.

To make it look like it was uncropped, I simply cut the stamped image to the size I wanted and then took a black marker and a ruler and re-drew the border along the edge. I then colored the background with Copic markers, and then added the sentiment and matted it on more Pure Luxury white and black onyx cardstock.

All of the ribbons used on this project are from Gina K Designs Stamp TV kits. As a final touch, I stamped the background in red ink on white cardstock and rolled it up to fit inside a R.S.V.P. pen.

Materials used: Stamps-Arranged with Love, Say it with Flowers (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; copic markers; cardstock-white, black onyx (Gina K Designs); Pink (Prism); ribbons (Gina K Designs, from Stamp TV kits); journal (Michael's $1 spot); red ink (SU!); R.S.V.P. pen (Pentel); brads (Gina K Designs); Spellbinders Labels 4 and Long scalloped rectangles; Cuttlebug (Provocraft).

Next, Nina is back with a simply adorable set called Bug Me Anytime. She also has some coordinating digital paper that will be released too. I LOVE it. I used a piece on this card along with the flower image and sentiment:

Aren't the colors fun? I went with the colors in the digital paper for the design of the card. I printed it on Pure Luxury white cardstock and it looks beautiful. I also used some of the new Pure Luxury Soft Sand cardstock to mat the main image and some white Pure Luxury behind it.

I layered the flower and added the little leaf sentiment.

Materials used: Stamps-Bug Me Anytime (Gina K Designs); cardstock-white, soft sand (Gina K Designs); digital paper-Bug Me Anytime (Gina K Designs); polka dotted dp (SEI); paper piercing tool; Spellbinders blossom die cut; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); chocolate marker (SU!); flower punch (SU!); felt flower (SU!); brad; corner rounder punch (CM).

You can see more creations with these two sets on the design team blogs:
Gina, Cathy, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Jessica, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa
and, be sure to check out our CenterStage Spotlight girls joining us in Previews today: Carla Suto and Melisa Waldorf .

Melanie also has some guest designers working with her set today: Selma, Denise and Dawn.

Release Party Details: Join us here in our forum on this thread-Thursday, June 25th from 7-10 PM Central Time for all the fun! Then at 10 PM central time, we will release 6 new stamp sets, new Pure Luxury card stock and some great new accessories! Gina will be giving away lots of freebies too, including templates and digital paper! We hope you'll come and party with us!

Thanks for stopping by! Another preview coming tomorrow!

Gina K Preview Day 1

Well, it's the BEST time of the month again---time for another Gina K Designs release. This month there are six fabulous stamp sets being released, a new color of Pure Luxury paper--Soft Sand, nail head adhesive nail heads/rhinestones, another Vivid ink pad called "Tuscan Sand" and more.....all being added to the store on THURSDAY.

Today the design team is previewing Theresa's new set called Happy Camper and Rupa's new set called 100% Sweet.

Here is a masculine card I created for the fisherman in your life....

All images are from Happy Camper. I used the new Soft Sand Pure Luxury cardstock and stamped the background on it in Memento ink. I stamped and colored the images (and clear embossed the sign) before adhering them to the scene with dimensional tape.

The clouds are freehand cut from watercolor paper (because I liked the texture) and I sponged around the edges to get some depth.

I used some of the new self-adhesive nail heads that Gina will be carrying in the store on the top tabs. Finally, I added some faux stitching around the edges.
Materials used: Stamps-Happy Camper (Gina K Designs); Memento tuxedo black ink; Ranger distress tea dye ink; soft sky ink (SU!); Copic markers; Gina K Pure Luxury cardstock-white, soft sand; watercolor paper; clear embossing powder; heat tool; versamark; paper piercing tool; brown marker; oval punch (SU!); adhesive nail heads (Gina K Designs); mounting tape; hemp.

Next, I created a mini cupcake/muffin holder and used the images from 100% Sweet to decorate the box:
I created this template so that you could see out of the front of the box and into the top of the box....that whole section is lined with acetate (so it doesn't photograph well, sorry!)

I added the little cupcake and candies to the front of the box and then created a little toothpick that goes into the cupcake/muffin with a sentiment from the set.

There are tons of images in this set---and I think all the little candies would also look adorable stamped for a background. (Hmm....will have to work on that one!)

Materials used: Stamps-100% Sweet (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; Copic markers; designer paper-American Crafts ; Gina K white pure luxury cardstock; ribbon (SU!); Fiskars Threading Water punch; Scor-Pal; acetate; Spellbinders long scalloped rectangles; Cuttlebug (Provocraft). (Additional--cupcake/muffin, toothpick).

Now how about some more inspiration? Head on over to the design team blogs for some eye candy:
Gina, Cathy, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa .
We are also thrilled to have a couple of our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team join us in our previews this morning: Carolina Buchting and Jennie Harper.

Release Party Details: Join us here in our forum on this thread-Thursday, June 25th from 7-10 PM Central Time for all the fun! Then at 10 PM central time, we will release 6 new stamp sets, new Pure Luxury card stock and some great new accessories! Gina will be giving away lots of freebies too, including templates and digital paper! We hope you'll come and party with us!

Stay tuned: More previews tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!

Impression Obsession Week at Stamper's Dream

It's Impression Obsession week at Stamper's Dream. All this week the Dream Team is showing off their favorite of the new IO stamps.

Here is one of the first ones I chose---Surf--I just love the design of this stamp---This card is created with Prismatics paper (also from Stamper's Dream!). The circle was cut with my Creative Memories circle template and the inner circles were cut using Spellbinders dies.

What a fun image! You can see all the new Impression Obsession releases HERE. And be sure to check out all the fun stuff the design team is revealing this week:
Monday - Charmaine , Laurie , Kimberly and Michelle
Tuesday - Denise , Michelle and I
Wednesday - Laurie , Tosha , and Michelle
Thursday - Becca , Denise , Kimberly and Michelle
Friday - Kimberly , Tosha , and Michelle


In other news----I am having a GREAT time with my sister and niece. It is so much fun to have a little baby in the house again....and Lauren (now 4~!) loves being a BIG, helping cousin! Today is our wedding anniversary so we might try to get out for a bit tonight to celebrate!!!

I will be posting the blog candy winner later today!!!

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Picture of Love

Last night I had some time to play around with this adorable Picnic Time Sarah Kay (Stampavie)image. I just love these highly detailed stamps---so much fun to color! I colored this image with Copic markers and cut it out and then framed it using the Spellbinders Labels four set. (BTW--I have been getting LOTS of questions about Copic markers recently ? and just wanted to let you know that I have responded individually if you provided your email address---however, if you post anonymously, I have no way to get back to you to answer a question. I do plan to do another Copic coloring tutorial in another week or two...stay tuned! Hopefully I will be able to address a lot of the questions then!)

The designer paper on this card is by Making Memories. I sponged a bit of Tea Dye Ink (Ranger) on the edges to age it a bit. For the sentiment, I inked only part of a stamp from the Tiny Words & Centers set (JustRite). I framed the sentiment with a Chatterbox Brad -Easy Bradmaker Kit (LOVE this kit!). The final touch is a piece of olive ric rac under the main image.

Check out Stamper's Dream for most of the supplies used to make this card!

Materials used: Stamps-Picnic Time (Sarah Kay for Stampavie), Tiny Words & Centers set (JustRite Stampers); Memento black ink; Ranger Distress Tea Dye Ink; sponge; SU black marker; white cardstock (PRISM); Designer paper--Just Chillin' Girl 6 x 6 paper pack (Making Memories); Copic Markers; Spellbinders Labels Four Nestabilities; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); olive ric rac (May Arts); Easy BradMaker Kit (Chatterbox).

My baby sister is flying in tomorrow with my niece (1) for a week----we are all soo excited! Hope you have a great weekend!!!

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MFTeaser--U ROCK!

Hey Hey ....we're the Poppies!!! (couldn't resist!)
Here is a glimpse of a new set called The Poppies from My Favorite Things that will be released tonight!!!

I paired this adorable set with Bling Bet from MFT to create this jammin' card. (I figured it was a nice compliment to the U Stink card I made last week!!)

You can check out lots MFTeasers with the new set on the MFT Blog hop, starting on Kim's blog! Fun stuff!!!!

Materials used: Stamps-Bling Bet, The Poppies (My Favorite Things); Designer paper-Frenzy, Whirl-White Out Collection (We R Memory Keepers); white cardstock-Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs); ribbon-American Crafts; Memento tuxedo black ink; Jewels decoration set (Greenbriar Int); Mark Richards gemstones; copic markers; corner rounder punch (CM); Spellbinders blossom and circle nestabilities; paper piercing tool; star punches (SU!).

Thanks for all your wonderful comments/emails yesterday. They meant more than you will ever know...
Hugs!

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A Birthday Hangover and a Color Challenge

Hi everyone! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Both parties went GREAT! Lauren (4) loved having her friends over for a princess/water party. Cara and her friend set up a temporary tattoo booth for the girls and a few of them left looking like lead singers in heavy metal bands.
Cara (13) then had her movie night/slumber party. The girls had a lot of fun (not a lot of sleep, but they were really good!) Mom is tired!!

Today, I am hosting the color challenge on StampTV. You can find all the details on the challenge HERE. You have all week to play along and be entered to win a stamp set of your choice from Gina K Designs!!

Here is my card:

I used the stamps from the new StampTV kit-Eclectic Summer on this card. I paired the image with some Lime Rickey (Basic Grey) paper. The card base is created using the Bright Summer Grunge Digital Paper (by Emily Giovanni). These papers go so well together.

I stamped the image and colored it with Copic markers. After popping out the flowers, I cut the circles using Spellbinders dies.

<--Here is the card as it is opening. You can see the design better this way. The top flap tucks behind the main image circle to keep the card shut.

Inside, I added a birthday sentiment from the kit and some designer paper.

Hope you will play along in the challenge.

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Hey There, Cowboy!

Just playing around with this amazingly illustrated set Out West by Theresa Momber for Gina K Designs today. Since Memorial Day is approaching, I wanted use the saddle with some patriotic colors:

The saddle is stamped and colored and cut out. I sponged the side of the Spellbinders die cut shape and added the sentiment as a little tab off the top.

What a fun set!

Have a great weekend. I am on my way out to lunch with my hubby and youngest daughter so I will edit this post with a supplies list when I return!
Materials used: Stamps-Out West (Gina K Designs); Memento tuxedo black ink; designer paper-Denim-Bandana Edge (Wright Designs) ; White Pure Luxury Cardstock (Gina K Designs); Copic markers; star punch (SU!); Spellbinders Nestabilities-labels ; ribbon (The Paper Studio); hemp (SU!); metal adhesive dots (Colorbok).

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MFT Blog Hop: We'll Change the Way you Gift

First, thank you for all the wonderful notes and messages. I am doing great...had an infection in my jaw but it is being treated with antibiotics and the pain is GONE. Hooray!!! I had a great trip with my sisters and am happy to be back home with my kiddos and hubby.

Welcome to the My Favorite Things Blog hop! Two wonderful new label sets are being released as well as these fabulous jars to help make gift giving....SIMPLE! To help kick off the release, the MFT design team has created some fun projects with the jars. If you would like to start at the beginning, just backtrack to Kim's blog and follow the links to see all the fabulous creations the team has to share.

For my jar...I wanted to create a different type of gift. Although I didn't use one of the new label sets (I DID use it in the dirty dozen gallery this month), I did use another MFT set, Congrats All Around, to help create this easy project.

I turned my jar into a piggy bank...a fun way of giving the gift of money for a baby shower, a new baby or a graduate!

Mine is created for a baby....a fun way to help "save" for the future.

Here is a picture of the card and the bank together:


Approximate cost of this gift: Priceless! Ok..fine. $4 (plus the money you put in the bank!)

IN addition to the two new label stamp sets, the following new products will be added to My Favorite Things on Wednesday night (May 20th) at midnight:
*Stephanie Fizer Papers - School Collection digi paper pack
*Jars sized to fit label stamp sets (will be sold in packs of four)
*Eclipse Masking Sheet packs
*Adornments Shimmer brads (8-10 each pink, 8-10 cream, and 16-20 white)

To continue hopping along, visit my talented friend Cindy's blog!

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