Simple Sunday...on a Saturday!

EDIT: Apparently I am tired. I was scheduling this for tomorrow and I obviously am clueless about the date. Woopsie:) Happy Saturday (almost Sunday!)

Happy Sunday (.....as in 4 days till turkey day........akkkk!)
My daughter and I went to see New Moon yesterday....and we loved it. Definitely can see why so many "switched teams" with this movie. As for me---I remain on Team Edward (but it is JUST because of the books!)

I created this awhile ago and never posted it.....

The balloon is from Eclectic Summer and the sentiment is from A Year of Leaves (both Gina K Designs). I thought it would be cute to create a "Missing you" card with this image so I, of course, had to trail a few punched hearts....easy and cute.

Blog Awards: I KNOW I am bad about mentioning these but I am trying to improve (smile!) Thanks so much to Rhonda and Christi who gave me this award. (Because I already did this a few posts below, I didn't fill out the survey again!) Just wanted to say thanks!!! Rhonda also gave me this award:

Thanks so much! Now I am passing them along to all of you! Have a GREAT day!
Thanks for stopping by!

True *GIFTS* of the Season...

Since I am getting ready for my kiddos class Christmas parties, my son's actual birthday (Thursday!) and trying to get some last minute things done before we travel for the holidays...this will be my last post until I return.

Before I go, I wanted to share a story with you that just touched my heart. A fellow blogger, Andrea, contacted me today to see if I could post a link to some blog candy she is having in honor of her friend who just had a baby who is very sick and needs lots of prayers. I clicked on her post and saw a baby looking very similar to the one below.....needless to say, it struck a cord....

This is not baby Francesca---this is my son a few hours after he was born - getting baptized.

Similar tubes....similar stories. (Although my son Joey's condition was dire from the start and he only lived 9 hours). I had to share this picture so you could understand why this story touched my heart so deeply...

Andrea is asking for prayers for sweet baby Francesca...she is also entering anyone who sends a card to her friends into a drawing to win some great blog candy. You can check it out HERE!

So in this hectic season, if you can take a few minutes to send out a card---I know it will mean so much to them knowing that so many are praying for them.

And I am adding a few things to the blog candy so when Andrea selects a winner, I will be sending the following to him/her as well:
Papertrey Ink - Holiday Treats stamp set
A Signed Whimsical Autumn stamp set
Tinkering Ink- Haberdasher Petite Patterned paper pad

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year....

(Stamps-Snowflake Serenade (Papertrey); red embossing powder (Ranger); dp-Basic Grey, DCVW)

Woohooo---It's a SALE: All of the holiday stamps, Christmas cuttlebug folders and fall and Christmas Fancy Pants paper at Stamper's Dream are discounted! No coupon needed!

Special Thanks...to Sara for giving me the "Your Blog is Fabulous" award! Thanks girl--you made my day!

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Gina K PREVIEW day 3

Today I am previewing the newest set by Melanie for Gina K Designs called Hand in Hand.

This set includes many sets of hands and sentiments that you can use for TONS of occasions--new baby, wedding, friendship, love, etc.

I chose my favorite image/sentiment for my preview:


I LOVE this quote "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."


Although this card is pretty self-explanatory, I will mention that I stamped the image and colored it with Copic markers and then stamped the sentiment on translucent paper and created an overlay. It looks very pretty irl...kind of lost a bit of the softness in the photo (oh well!)

Materials used: Stamps-Hand in Hand (Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs); Memento tuxedo black; cardstock- Gina K Pure Luxury-80 lb; gold, black (SU!); Designer paper-Rhonda, Faith (Melissa Frances); ribbon- organza (Offray); ribbon (May Arts); gold brads (SU!); Copic markers; Rectangle and scalloped rectangle Nestability dies (Spellbinders); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); dimensional (SU!).

Wanna win this set??? Check out Melanie's contest on PaperCraft Planet!

You can see more peeks of this set on these amazing blogs:
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Melanie Muenchinger
Theresa Momber
Carolina Buchting - December In The Spotlight Designer
and, of course, Gina K.

Be sure to stop by the Gina K release party on Thursday, December 11 from 7-10 p.m. CST! There will be more peeks, contests, challenges and chatting!!! Hope to see you there!

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Special Thanks to KellyRae for giving me the PROXIMIDADIE! award. This is a particularly poignant award in that it defines the impetus of the awarded blog as relationships rather than self-promotion. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.
Although it asks you to pass this along---there are WAY too may people out there who are wonderful stampers AND people. So, I pass it along to all of you---take a minute to find a blog on my blogroll that you haven't visited before and ENJOY! It really touched my heart that you thought of me for this KellyRae! THANK YOU!

See you tomorrow with the last Preview!
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Remember Paper Dolls??

My Favorite Things is releasing three new stamp sets tomorrow (Wednesday) and the team is creating some fabulous things to share with you on a blog hop that will begin tomorrow morning. Just start at Kim's blog on Wednesday and hop along to see lots of awesome teasers.

Kim gave the regular team the month of December off but I HAD to make a little project with one of the new sets called Isabelle Paperdolls.

When I was little, I can remember spending hours playing with little paper dolls, dressing them up and then redressing them.

This set is adorable---you can use it to make cards, scrapbook pages, gifts etc. You can back the doll with a magnetic strip and then embed magnets in the outfits to make them stick OR you can do it the old fashioned way as I did below:

Meet Belle----with a nice wardrobe. I added some little tabs on the sides of the outfits so that you could fold the outfit onto the paper doll. The next pictures show you how the outfits attach to the paper doll (you cannot even see the tabs and they stay put!)
I stamped the main image and then colored her with Copic markers and cut her out. I embossed her with a layer of clear embossing powder. (The embossing powder strengthens the doll and also enables you to use a sticky adhesive on the back of the hair bows and then they will peel off with ease!)

Here is Belle all dressed up like a Mermaid. I stuck the little starfish in her hair (because I thought it was cute!) and I used stickles and Shimmerz to color her fin/tail. This is really sparkly in real life.

Here is Belle dressed up in her bear costume. Isn't she cute?

Here is Belle the ballerina. Every girl dreams of being a ballerina and any little girl would love to play with this doll. I added the little flower to her hair and the dress is covered with crystal stickles for extra sparkle!

This set has so many possibilities and I am sure you will see lots more fun ideas from the rest of the team. Don't forget to hop on the blog tour tomorrow! There just might be a prize at the end *giggle*.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, December 3rd from 9-10 p.m. Eastern time. This month there are THREE new sets being released including a TOTE-ally awesome Who's that Girl set! 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.

Special Thanks:

Thanks so much to Michelle and Sara for honoring me with this award. I want to pass it along to all of my readers---how could I possibly chose just 10? Thanks for all of YOUR inspiration and for taking time to visit my blog. (((HUGS)))



Thanks so much for stopping by!

JustRite ATC Box and Card

Edited to Add: Oopsie! I completely forgot to add my card to this post so here it is! I used the same "With Love" JustRite stamp as I did yesterday but this time created a card using it!

It is Just Rite week at Stamper's Dream. All week the fabulous designers from the Dream Team are showcasing cards and projects. You can find the line up HERE....and you can also enter to WIN a JustRite Christmas Stamp Ensemble and the Classic Circle Stamper III just by answering a question on Michelle's blog! Today, Cindy and I are showing our JustRite Creations so be sure to check out her blog too!

For my project today, I created an ATC (Artist Trading Card) box. I have lots of ATCs lying around from different swaps I joined and I wanted a nice place to keep these little treasures created by my stamping friends. I used a wooden box that I found at Hobby Lobby and painted it an off white (Vanilla) color. NOTE: Be sure to remove hinges before painting!

After painting it, I added some designer paper from My Mind's Eye (Out & About collection) and some rubons. I added some dew drops to the flower centers and then on the top I added the monogram flower. For this project, I used the Monogram Self Inking Stamper in Deluxe Storage Box.

Here is a close up shot of the monogram on the top of the box.

When you open the box, there are different dividers that I created using some red cardstock and matching dp. I used the same border and lettering as I did on the front to tie it together. The separators divide the cards into sections according to theme "Birthday" "Baby" and "Love" so that the cards are easy to find.

Materials used: Stamps-Monogram Self-Inking Stamper in Deluxe Storage Box (JustRite Stampers); real red classic stamp pad (SU!); box (Hobby Lobby); Vanilla paint (Anna's); Chipboard circle (SU!); ribbon (SU!); flowers; Robin's Nest dew drops; cardstock-red, white(SU!); Designer paper-Out & About Collection (My Mind's Eye); Modge Podge; Rub-Ons (SU!); glue dots; dimensionals (SU!); scalloped circle punch (SU!).

Variations on this box are endless---you can use it for special cards you receive and want to keep forever, you can create a recipe box or even a birthday box with month dividers.

I hope you enjoyed this project. You can find lots of JustRite products at Stamper's Dream Store.

***NEXT WEEK--I am celebrating my ONE YEAR BLOGAVERSARY AND 200,000 HITS all at once....so you KNOW what that means--LOTS of giveaways. They will be happening OFTEN so be sure to keep checking back for your chance to win! Also, stay tuned for a Heart to Heart Blog Candy update--pictures of the hundreds of cards sent to the Artman home.

Thank You to Julie Crossley, who gave me the Kreativ Blogger award on her blog. Thanks Julie--your words really made my day! And thanks to Deb Wood, who gave me the "I Love Your Blog" Award. Thanks so much Deb!

Thanks for stopping by!

MFTeaser #1

My Favorite Things and Gina K Designs both have their releases scheduled for this week so there is going to be a lot of new stamps being shown here! woohoo! That is always fun!

My Favorite Things has their release on Wednesday, September 3...so I am going to give you a MFTeaser of one (of the seven!!!) new sets being released. This card uses a new image from MFT Presents by Annie LaPoint called "Chill Out."
I chose this image first because I coupled this teaser with my weekly CCEE Challenge. My friend Tosh sent us supplies to work with and we all have to create a card using them. The supplies are the patterned paper by My Mind's Eye and the beautiful pink pearl adhesive stickers. You can see what the other girls made here (on Monday morning!)

Here is a close up of the image!

Materials used: Stamps-Chill Out (My Favorite Things); Brilliance black ink; white gel pen (Ranger); Copic markers; cardstock-white, black (Stampin' Up!); Designer paper-"Love" Damask/Light Rose (My Mind's Eye); corner punch (Stampin' Up!); adhesive pearls (KaiserCraft); ribbon (May Arts); oval nestabilities (Spellbinders); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); dimensionals (SU!).

MFT releases seven new sets, two new paper packs and five rolls of ribbon on Wednesday night. Join the MFT team on the forum for sneak peeks, special offers and your chance to win some free stamps.

***AWARDS--Special thanks to Lynette for giving me the "I Love Your Blog" award and to Rita for the "You Inspire Me" award! Thank you both so much---and right back at ya!

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Share the Love - Blog Candy

Winner!!! Random.Cara picked number 61--Stephanie Hargis who wrote "Ooo! What a great incentive to visit other blogs! I may just have to check out a lot of the blogs on your blog roll! :D Thanks so much for the chance to win!"
Congrats Stephanie---email me your contact information and I will get those goodies right out to you.

As promised, I have some blog candy to share with you! Here is what the blog candy includes:




Here is the MFT set because it doesn't show up well in the picture above:

Blog Candy Contents:

The Craft Collections Metal Liquid Glue

Friend Furever Clear stamp set from My Favorite Things

Haunted clear stamp set from Cosmo Cricket

Cloud9 Design Outdoors Chipboard Accent Stickers

Me & My Big Ideas Soft Spoken Harvest Thanksgiving Embellishments

Scenic Route Chipboard Man/Woman Shapes

The Papercut Harvest Variety Large Scallop Circles

Halloween Ribbon Assortment from My Favorite Things

To win this blog candy, just post a comment on this post by Monday, August 25 at noon CENTRAL time zone. In order to be entered into the drawing, you must go to my blog roll and pick some one's whose blog is NEW TO YOU and post a comment. This is a great way to spread the love AND find some great new blogs! As always, subscribers can be entered twice, but you also must visit two new blogs!

Random.Cara will pick the winner on Monday night. Good luck!

Special thanks to Suzanne Dean who gave me two awards (the other one was having problems when I tried to load it into blogger.)

Thanks Suzanne--I am glad I found your blog--your work is amazing!!! I would like to pass this on to my entire blogroll cause you all rock!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Gift Card

First, I want to thank Nichole Anderson and Denise (Peanutbee) for giving me this award. I am truly honored to make any one's day!

Now a card---I just LOVE this American Crafts paper. I created a card just so I could showcase it---because it makes me happy just looking at it!

This card houses a slide out card. I added the fun Papertrey ribbon and some rub-ons. Wouldn't this be a cute way to present a gift card?

Here is a peek at the card inside:

Materials used:Cardstock-White (Stampin' Up!);Play Pillow Fight (American Crafts), Stickball (American Crafts), Play-Ping Pong (American Crafts); Rub-ons-Ginger Sidekicks Mini Marks (American Crafts); Spring Moss Fine Ribbon Classic Grosgrain (Papertrey Ink); 1/2 inch Scor Tape (Scor-Pal).

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More awards!

I received a few more awards from my AWESOME stamping friends--

Jennifer nominated me for this award. Thank you so much Jennifer. You know how much I love your work--you are a sweetheart!

The Arte Y Pico (Art & More) Award is given to bloggers who share their art and creativity making their contribution to the blogging world.

Carla gave me this award and wrote this on her blog (which pretty much brought me to tears):

"Cammie, of My Blog. Carolyn King, (Cammie), is a stamp designer and designs for other companies as well. She's making a pretty big splash in the stamping world right now, and is just going to get bigger (her splash, not her literally!). I pick her not just for her artistic ability, which is obvious, but because she still makes time for the people making little splashes, like me!"

(The really hysterical thing was when I read this I was eating an oreo---I immediately dropped it!)

Thanks so much Carla!!!!

And Bee gave me this award as well! Check out her blog--she has some very cool projects on there! Thank you, Bee, for making me feel so special.

Arte Y Pico Award

GULP! I received this award, called the Arte Y Pico Award (Who thinks up these things?!) from THE Kittie Caracciolo a few days ago.

Here is how it works:
You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone. Click on her name above to visit her blog.

There is no way I can just pick 5 people for this--so I am whimping out on this part! I know I would be leaving out tons of people who add so much to the blogisphere so I am choosing to be a conscientious objector.....

But THANK YOU Kittie....I am truly honored.