This is just getting silly!

I had this one all set up for you, and it vanished! ::::sigh:::

ANYWAY. :) This is a baby shower invitation I made for my friend from church, Katherine. She and her husband are expecting their first baby (a girl!) in August. They've registered for two kinds of ladybugs, but she liked the pink-and-brown ones best.

AHA! :D

Yes, the background designer series paper was from the Occasions Mini - Sending Love Specialty - but I had JUST enough to do the invitations, so I used it. :D

Card stock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink

Ink: Pretty in Pink Craft

Stamp set: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Accessories: regular hole punch, 3/4", 1-3/4", and 1" Circle punches, modern label punch, clear embossing powder, Sending Love Specialty DSP, dimensionals, 2-way glue pen

This is a LOT of punch work, but they really are adorable. :D

OK, I'm off. I'm going to get another post up for you today! :) So, while you wait, why not take the time to STAMP something???? :D

Sale-a-bration is winding down!

Good morning! How are you today? It's already been one of THOSE mornings; I had to go delete about 25 of those stupid ad comments from this blog. It really irks me, and takes a lot of time. I just don't get WHY people think someone's gonna click a link in my already-small comment section that is nonsense language except for the word SEX. Hello?!?! :D

ANYWAY. Today's share is a birthday card that we did for two workshops earlier this month..


Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Marker

Stamp sets: Well Scripted, Crazy for Cupcakes and Things I Love (inside)

Accessories: Sending Love Specialty DSP, Wide oval punch, Scallop trim corner punch, Scallop trim edge punch, dimensionals
Edited to add: Well, slap me nekkid & hide my clothes (from a dear professor who was from OK!)! I forgot to put my FAVORITE accessory down - the BIG SHOT! I also used the scallop square die. Sorry for any inconvenience! :D

Now, then. That scallop trim EDGE punch will be available in the next Idea Book & Catalog, but you can earn it FREE through the end of THIS month with a $50 purchase. After that, it's unavailable (I think!) until July, when you can purchase it for $15.95. Good deal to get it NOW!!!

The corner punch, Well Scripted stamp set, and the DSP are in the Occasions Mini, and are only available through the end of April (although I'm willing to bet the corner punch will be in the IB&C with the edge punch!). It would be SO easy to put together a great $50 order from the Occasions mini and get your Sale-a-bration item for FREE by the end of this month!! You can email me, call me, or shop 24/7 on my business site - just click the SHOP NOW button!

OK, I'm off to work on designs for Saturday's Easter Stamp Camp! I hope you have a WONDERFUL day - and please, take the time to STAMP something! :)

Welcome Back to the Valentine's Card Challenge! :D

Good morning! Did you have a good weekend? Mine was BUSY, but good - and I didn't do ANY work yesterday. I needed a day off - not that I was LAZY, by any stretch of the imagination.... :D

So, anyway. My brain took a rest :D, and here's what it came up with when I asked it for a Valentine for today!


Card stock: Pink Passion, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate Chip craft, Whisper White craft (inside, see below), Pink Passion, Green Galore, and Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Markers

Stamp sets: Love Ya Much, Celebrate Everything (inside)

Accessories: embossing buddy, heat tool, clear embossing powder, white embossing powder, Heart to Heart punch, Sending Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, dimensionals

It's a little busier than I usually do, but I got carried away stamping the big flowered heart! LOL! It was fun!

The DSP is on dimensionals, as is the Whisper White card stock. I didn't want it to look like it was just a punch on the Whisper White; I looked at doing it that way, but then the heart overpowered the flower - and I didn't want that! :D

Here's a look at the inside of the card:

So, what do you think? What are YOU stamping? Talk to me! :D There are only four more Valentine's card days left from me - what would you like to see????

I'm off - I've got some errands to run, and a party this evening! :) Have a WONDERFUL day - and take the time to STAMP something, would ya???? :D

Valentine Challenge Day 5!

Wow, the end of the first week! I think you'll be amazed at how much time I actually took to do today's! :D


Isn't she FUN? It uses paper piecing to do her pants and shirt - the pants and the background DSP are from the SENDING LOVE SPECIALTY DSP.

Card stock: Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Chocolate Chip

Stamp sets: Tote-ally Tess, Well Scripted (inside)

Accessories: Sending Love Specialty DSP, Ticket corner punch, Heart to Heart punch, SU! Beary Lovely Sizzlits, Big Shot, 2 way glue pen

Actually, Tess herself is a clear-mount stamp. They are REALLY impressive!! SO easy to use, easy to clean, easy to care for. This was a fun card to do - and here's the INSIDE of the card....

OK! I'm off to teach our class! :) Have a WONDERFUL weekend - I hope I get to see you soon! LMK if I can be of ANY help to you! Be SURE to take the time to STAMP something - you'll be SO glad you did! :)

Happy February!

Can you believe it?? One month already GONE from 2010! I hope you're living your life to its fullest, living IN every moment. Life is short! I'm living for eternity, myself, but that's another subject.... :D

We've had lots of snow and ice here in middle Tennessee, so things have been closed down from Friday on - many schools are closed again, to give the roads a chance to de-ice and be safe again. SO, the Fancy Folds III class has been RESCHEDULED for February 13. If you'd like to come, call or email me! I'd LOVE to stamp with you!

SO. I've decided I want to try and show you a VALENTINE each day (that I post!) until Valentine's Day, as another way I can thank you for reading my blog! :) You have no clue how much I enjoy knowing you're out there, and that you get a little inspiration from what I show you. (OF course, I'd LOVE to hear from you more often, but I take what I can get!!! :D)

Here is the FIRST Valentine, just for you! These are NOT going to be done in any class or party; these are ideas I'm coming up with JUST to share with you!


:D Isn't it FUN? The background is just Real Red card stock I decided to use for a backdrop. :D

Card stock: Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Ink: Versamark, Creamy Caramel, Basic Brown, Real Red (inside)

Stamp sets: I {Heart} Hearts (Don't forget! $2 from EVERY stamp set purchase for this one goes to the Haiti Relief Fund!), Animal Crackers, Teeny Tiny Wishes (inside)

Accessories: Embossing Buddy, Heat & Stick Powder, Heat Tool, Fine Cosmo Glitter (rose pink, I THINK...!), Heart to Heart Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, Sending Love Specialty DSP (I LOVE THIS DSP!!!!!!!!!!), dimensionals

Isn't it FUN!?!??! I love this stamp set - I love puns, and it's SO cute.

Here's what the inside of the card looks like.... (Don't forget that you can click on any photo and see it at the size I uploaded it!)

So, I stamped the woodgrain hearts with Creamy Caramel, then inked just the small solid heart on the stamp that has three hearts on it with Versamark. Next, I swiped the whole card front with my embossing buddy - trust me, it will STILL stick, but not nearly as badly! :D - and then stamped several times with that small heart, re-inking each time. Then I sprinkled the hearts with Heat & Stick, and got rid of the excess - and then heated until the Heat & Stick melted to clear. Next came the glitter! :D I re-heat the Heat & Stick after putting on the glitter, just to set it and make sure nothing else would get stuck down. :D

I also used a Swiffer-type cloth to take off any extra glitter I didn't want on the card front. Those things are awesome! :D

Next, I stamped the image and inked around the Whisper White, just to set it off a bit. Matted it up the way you see it, and put it on with dimensionals.

Inside, I stamped the "Happy Valentine's Day" from Teeny Tiny Wishes, and punched the corners with the ticket corner punch FIRST, so I could see where the heart COULD be punched - if you got the new heart punch from the Occasions Mini, it would make those hearts MUCH easier to set in there, but I wanted to do this card NOW! :D Then I just matted that on Chocolate Chip, and adhered it inside the card.

SO fun, simple, and who wouldn't love to get that fun Valentine? :D

I'll see you tomorrow! GO STAMP SOMETHING!! :D

SO sorry we missed Monday!

UGH, what a day! A NASTY stomach virus attached itself to our household last weekend, and yesterday was my turn. I won't gross you out with the details - suffice it to say, yesterday was totally LOST. :D

THEN, I logged on yesterday, only to find out I got hit by a bot in almost ALL comments on this blog - over 500 times! That's why I had to enable the "type in the word" safety thing, so it wouldn't continue happening. I'm sorry, but it's for YOU as well as ME. :)

Don't forget: Only ONE MORE DAY to enter for my blog candy! GO HERE TO ENTER!

OK. Today's card share is one I made JUST FOR YOU. :D

Card stock: Blush Blossom, Very Vanilla

Ink: Real Red, Blush Blossom (cartidge ink color)

Stamp set: Well Scripted (OCCASIONS MINI, page 19)

Accessories: Sending Love Specialty DSP (OCCASIONS MINI, page 13), Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-a-Brations Mini, page 9), red rhinestone brad from ROUND FIRE RHINESTONE BRADS, dimensionals, Very Vintage SA Jumbo Wheel (OCCASIONS MINI, page 27), jumbo handle

I love the new DSP, I think I said it last week. :D The big flower is cut from a sheet of it!

OK, I'm gonna go now - I'm trying to do a million things at one time. :D And I can't laugh or cough, cuz it hurts waaay too much! :D SO. You have a WONDERFUL day, and don't forget to take the time to STAMP SOMETHING! Sale-a-Bration is a GREAT time to stock up on things, too!!!! Call or email me to schedule your party, or your lunch-at-work party, or your book party! GET THE GREAT FREEBIES WHILE THEY'RE AVAILABLE!!! :D

Occasions Mini

Good morning! Goodness, creating something for you today has been difficult! :D I'm sure you don't want to see anything Christmas - although you haven't come CLOSE to seeing everything we created last year! :D And every time I tried to start a card, I'd think, "This is a great design for an upcoming class!"

SO! :D You're getting this mini treat: it's the new mini milk carton die from the Occasions Mini!


Isn't it cute?!?!? The way the photo's showing up on my screen, it's the EXACT size of the milk carton! :) I put 8 Hershey's Kisses in it, but you could do more. So, I guess, it's more of a milk CHOCOLATE carton! :D

The card stock is Melon Mambo, because I happened to have a sheet of it out. :D The DSP is also from the Occasions Mini, SENDING LOVE (item #117153). It's got glitter embossed on one side of each two-sided design! Glitter is SO hard to see on scans and pictures - it's FRUSTRATING! On this strip, it's on the top partial flowers, every other one. Can you see it? I LOVE this paper! And for those of you who don't like glitter (you KNOW who you are!:D), it doesn't come off, no matter how hard you rub your hand across it. There's some really fun, girlie paper here, moms!!!

The clip on top is to hold the box closed; I didn't seal it like a normal carton, because then you couldn't get the treats out! :) Those clips are from the Idea Book & Catalog, and are absolutely PERFECT for this use!!! (Overlooked them? They're on page 179!

OK, I'm off - I have a Hostess Club party tomorrow night, and I can't WAIT to show them what we're going to do - but I also have to clean up the studio, and put the new plastic covering on the table. :D I don't wanna! I want to PLAY - but playing sure makes messes.... :D

Have a wonderful day! Be sure to take the time to STAMP something!!!!! And don't forget to leave me a comment on yesterday's post to enter to win BLOG CANDY!!!