Please Vote for Me! :D

Hi friends! I just wanted to pop in with a little request. Paper Makeup Stamps is having a contest on their Facebook page. I have entered a card and I need votes to be able to win.

Here is the card I have entered. I made this a while ago but it's my VERY favorite PMS card so that's what I decided to enter.

How to vote:

~Become a fan of the Paper Makeup Facebook page

~Like my picture CLICK HERE for that

~You have one week to vote

Thanks so much for anyone who votes for me! It would be really cool to win!

Maniac Monday!

I'm blogging on the Paper Maniac blog today. Please stop by and leave me some love. I would REALLY appreciate it!!

Paper Maniac Sale Ends MONDAY!!!

Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and tell you about the AWESOME sale at Paper Maniac right now. The clearance items are already reduced 50% off. If you spend $25 or more, you get another 10% off your clearance items if you use coupon code FINAL_PUSH. The savings are AMAZING!

Here's a list of a few things I know off the top of my head that are on sale:

Spellbinders

Unity Stamps

SRM Stickers

Our Craft Lounge Stamps

Jillibean Soup

EtsyInspired #128 ~ The Hidden Alphabet

Hi there! Bare bones EtsyInspired Challenge post this week since I have the flu.

Shop: The Hidden Alphabet

~They have fabulous art photography pieces!

Shop Prize: 8x10 Personalized LOVE Print

~Example: CLICK HERE

Sponsor: Paper and Roses

~Gorgeous vintage inspired embellishments and digi elements

Sponsor Prize:

~Fun prize pack of items from the shop

To enter: Check out the EtsyInspired blog

Here's my card inspired by the color and general feel of the framed art work above. I used Jen's SFYTT from Feb for this card. I'm also entering this in Moxie Fab World's Stamping With Markers challenge.

Please check out the DT:

Angi
Ann (Feb Guest)

Carole

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

Card Details:

Cardstock: red, black

Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934

Stamp: The Greeting Farm Flirty Anya

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Coloring Medium: Copics

Misc: hand dyed seam binding

Mother's Love

Hi friends! I hope you're having a great day! I'm still sick however a couple of hubby's sisters are coming over to take care for the kids for me so I can rest up. I'm hoping that whatever I have is just a cold and goes away soon. There's lots of yucky illnesses going around our town so I'm hoping it's nothing like that!

I have a card today for the Flutter By Wednesday challenge. This week's challenge is an open challenge so you can make any project with a butterfly, angel or fairy on it. I made a vintage-y one layer card. Is that even possible? I have grand visions of this in my head and it didn't turn out how I had planned but I do like the pearls on the butterfly so I thought I'd still share it.

Have a great day everyone!

Card Details:

Cardstock: grey

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co (A Mother's Love), Maya Road (doily border)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, CTMH white

Misc: Kaisercraft pearls

TCP and Stamping With Markers

Hi friends! I hope you are having a great day! I'm sick. Again. I don't know how this happens! If anyone knows of a effective and readily available multi-vitamin, please let me know! I clearly need it!

I am finally getting around to sharing a card I made SOOO long ago! I get so tired, I just don't blog as much as I usually do anymore. Here's a card I made using The Cat's Pajamas Tuesday challenge 144 which was a sketch. I love these images! I'm also entering this card in Moxie Fab World's Stamping With Markers challenge. So, this isn't an inventive way to use markers but I took a lot of care when coloring my image so maybe that counts for something.

Have a wonderful day friends! And STAY HEALTHY!!

Maniac Monday Card

Here's the card I posted on the Paper Manic blog yesterday.

Here's a fun card I made with all elements from Echo Park's Little Boy collection pack. I love collection packs! I've said it before and I'll say it again, they just have everything you need in them!

Lawnscaping Challenge 4

Hi friends! I hope had a wonderful weekend! We had a busy Saturday and then just had a lazy Sunday. However, hubby has today off too and I hope you all have it off for President's Day! Woohoo for a 3 Day weekend! (We actually always have them but it's nice when our friends have them too!)

How about starting off the week right with a new Lawnscaping challenge? Doesn't that sounds awesome? Not only that but it's one of my very favorite things to do, Paper Piecing! Woohoo! I love this challenge and Lawn Fawn stamps are really fun to paper piece! I can't wait to see what you all make!!

There are TWO awesome prizes for this next challenge!! The first is Lawn Fawn's Fly Free set and the other is to be our guest designer for the next challenge! How cool is that? I love it!

Here's my take on this challenge. I had yet to ink up my Judy's Blooms so I decided to take this as a chance to do so. I love this big flower! Paper piecing flowers is actually my favorite since I get a little lost coloring them. I used this week's GetSketchy sketch for this card or at least I tried. ;)

Please check out the DT:

Check out the DT:

Laurel

Lynnette

Britta

Christiana
And our special guest: Karen

Card Details:

Cardstock: white

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Hopscotch

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Judy's Blooms, Lawn Fawn Hats off to You

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Misc: seam binding, doily, Stickles

All Things Unity: Alter It!

Hi friends! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! We are doing really well over here! YAY! I love it!

Today, I have a new All Things Unity challenge for you! It's a super fun one too! It's "Alter It." You can alter anything you want ie frames, journals, etc... All you have to do is alter an item using Unity or Ippity stamps.

There's a huge prize this month! It's a 2011 February KOTM! Woohoo! I wish I could win! That's a fabulous prize! So, be sure to link up your creations on the All Things Unity blog!!

Here's my project for this week. I actually already bought this frame before I knew about this challenge because I was gonna alter it for the Unity Co-Brand challenge but I didn't get around to it. I think I might want to make it a little more decorative but I'm not sure. I had a vision of making a frame for my boys with some Echo Park Little Boy. How perfect are these stamps and this paper?! Seriously, even the colors matched the kids's shirts.

Be sure to check out the DT to see what they made too!

Carole

Cathy

Lynn

Savannah

Project Details:

Frame: Target $1 Spot

Patterned Paper/Sticker: Echo Park Little Boy

Stamps: Unity/Echo Park Little Boy (Boys Will be Boys)

Misc: May Arts orange ribbon, red polka dot ribbon, Marvy Markers

EtsyInspired #127 ~ Claylicious

This week's EtsyInspired shop is Claylicious. This darling shop offers functional and decorative pottery. There are so many items to choose from in this shop! They have everything from decorative owls to functional ceramic trays. My personal favorites are the fun cups and plates with little aminated characters on them. There are monsters (big in my house right now!), birds, trees and more. And there's a variety of different style items to suit anyone on your list. This week, Claylicious is giving a super cute Ceramic Owl Desk Buddy to a lucky winner. And they were kind enough to offer a 10% off discount for all our readers using discount code "Inspired".

We also have a fun sponsor this week, Your Next Stamp! I love this Canadian based stamp company! They have the cutest stamps in such darling designs! I got to see their new releases at CHA and they are SO super cute! I actually got my order of their new releases earlier this week! Your Next Stamp is offering up a $10 gift voucher for a lucky player this week!

Here's my card for this week inspired by the cups above. Like I said, mosters are HUGE in my house right now! The kids LOVE them! I made this card using this week's Card Position Systems sketch.

Please check out the DT:

Angi
Ann (Feb Guest)

Carole

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

Card Details:
Cardstock: white, orange
Patterned Paper: Sassafrass Monstrosity
Stamps: Hero Arts
Misc: CTMH Liquid Glass

Smile!

Hi friends! Hope you are all having a great day! My week is getting off to a rocky start but I'm hoping things will get better soon.

Here's a card I made a while ago but haven't gotten around to posting. It was for a Paper Craft sketch call but wasn't accepted. This is a pretty fast card, I made it using Echo Park paper and a Unity's Everyday Adorable.

Have a great day everyone!

Kids Valentines

Here's my post from the Paper Maniac Blog yesterday!

First up, we have Brady's Valentines. He specifically asked for a monster so I went ahead and made some lollipop covers for him to hand out. Here's a picture that shows the monster on the front and the sentiment on the back. I used a stamp set from Hero Arts to make this. The patterned paper is My Mind's Eye Love Me Do. I added a googly eye and colored his ears, hands and feet with the BG05 Copic marker. I pieced the hole for the lollipop with my Making Memories Paper Piercer.

Next up are Parker's Valentines. I'm gonna be honest, I ran out of steam on these! I wanted to make something cute but my mind just isn't working. I'm super tired today. So, I took some small regular mailing envelopes and decorated them. I put chocolate kisses in them and sealed them up. The stamps are Unity Stamp Co Wishes and Kisses and I just added a little Stickles to the roses. It was SO remarkably fast to make 20 of these!

Have a great day everyone!

EtsyInspired #126 ~ Glow Girl

I'm gonna go really short this week because I'm super tired.

EtsyInspired Challenge Shop: Glow Girl
(Super duper cute eco friendly bags, totes, coupon organizers, and lots of other fabulous items! There are fun patterns for everyone! From chic to cutesy!)

Shop Prize: Coupon Organizer
(I'm super jealous!)


Sponsor: The Stamping Boutique
(Adorable stamps in both rubber and digi)

Sponsor Prize: 5 digis of winner's choice

Here's my card for this week inspired by the coupon organizer above. All the elements except the white card stock are My Mind's Eye Love Me Do.

Please check out the DT:

Angi
Ann (Feb Guest)

Carole

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

FWF: Just Be You

Hi friends! I hope you are all having a good week! We are doing ok. I'm just really really tired! I have an appointment with the sleep clinic on Feb 24 so hopefully after that I'll be feeling better. Well, just more energy at least!

Here's a card I made for a call that was not picked up. I do love it though. I questioned it for a little bit but I've gone back to loving it. :) For this card, I used a Scrapbook Royalty kit called Just Be You. I love that part of the proceeds of these kits go to charity! That's really important to me! And they are designed by the lovely Melody Ross so you really can't go wrong there. When I saw the shape of this scalloped circle paper I just KNEW what the layout would look like! This might become a go-to sketch for me since I do have a few circular sheets of paper.

Have a great weekend everyone! Be sure to check out the Unity Blog for a list of everyone participating in today's blog hop. Also, be sure to check out the clearance section of Paper Maniac, there's some fabulous Unity on sale! Paper Maniac also got in some brand new Unity Stamps that just released as well!

Card Details:

Card Stock: white

Patterned Paper: Making Memories Flutter

Stamps: Unity and Scrapbook Royalty Just Be You

Misc: Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Stickles, Nesties Label 13

Did I Share This?

My friend Diane and I were talking about ATC trays and whatnot today and I mentioned to her that I had recently made one. Well, I guess I didn't blog it because she had no idea what I was talking about. But it's not too late! ;)

I made this tray for the Unity Co-Brand challenge from last month. I decided to use Unity and Bella Blvd. I made this tray featuring the house we just moved into and some pictures of our family that were taken here. It's my first tray but I'm pretty happy with it.

Project Details:

Card Stock: white

Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd Honey, I'm Home

Stamps: Unity/Bella Blvd Honey, I'm Home

Misc: Copics, tags, buttons, flowers, string, twine, ribbon, Stickles, die cuts

Huge Sale at Paper Maniac

Here's my card from the Paper Maniac blog on Monday.

This week, my card centers around the HUGE sale at Paper Maniac. The paper is Making Memories. The stamp is from Unity's Could I Be Any Cuter? And I added some polka dot ribbon to accent it.

Hurry on over to Paper Maniac! All clearance is an additional 40% off! WOWZA! And there are new things coming in ALL the time from all the new CHA releases!

Lawnscaping Challenge #3

Hi friends! I'm super excited to be here to tell you about Lawnscaping Challenge #3! We are getting a great amount of players and really want to thank you all for playing along with us! We really enjoy going this challenge so when people play along, it really lifts us us!

In honor of Valentine's Day, we are having an "All About Love" challenge. You can interpret love in however way you'd like. You can make a card, layout, altered item or any project you'd like that uses Lawn Fawn Stamps.

We have a fabulous prize for this challenge as well! The winner will be allowed to pick any Lawn Fawn set that they would like as the prize! Just get your project linked up on my Lawnscaping Blog by Wednesday Feb 16 for your chance to win!

Here's my love card. I actually have a funny story about this. I made it for a call for friendship cards and it's actually me and Savannah. I was on Skype with her when I made it. But friend love is a kind of love, so it will have to do. ;)

Check out the DT:

Laurel

Lynnette

Britta

Christiana
And our special guest: Karen

Card Details:
Card Stock: white
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Olivia
Stamps: Lawn Fawn My Silly Valentine
Misc: burlap string, Stickles, gel pen, punches

All Things Unity #24

Hi friends! I'm super excited to be back at All Things Unity for the month of February! How awesome is that? I'm really excited to be working with this DT!

The challenge for this time is to use your favorite Unity or Ippity Stamps to make a card or project. How fun is that?! I love all the stamps so it was hard to pick! I decided to use a super fun new (to me) set from Unity/Melody Ross called Domestic Bliss. I actually have tons of favorite stamps so I can't really say this is my only favorite! It would be like picking a favorite kid!

So, here's my card that I paired with some fun Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen papers. I added some hand dyed seam binding. I stamped the cake on a Nesties Label 8. I also used a corner rounder and a Martha Stewart border punch for this card.

Check out the DT:

Carole

Cathy

Lynn

Savannah

And stop by the ALL THINGS UNITY BLOG to link up your creation and see details about the fun prize!

PTI Fave From 2010

***Please scroll down for my EtsyInspired post for today.***

Just a quick post to enter in my card for PTI's customer favorites contest. I really like this unconventional baby card I made early last year. I hope you like it too!

Have a great day everyone!

Card Details:

Card Stock: kraft

Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Green Thumb

Misc: May Arts ribbon, dew drops, Fiskars punch

EtsyInspired #125 ~ Daisy Petals Designs

This week's EtsyInspired challenge shop is Daisy Petals Designs. This shop sells the loveliest jewelry and hair pieces. I pretty much want to just buy the whole store. Everything is so pretty and deliciously girlie! I love that! This week's Daisy Petals Designs is giving away a pair of Vintage Glamour Earrings to one lucky winner! ALSO, they gave us a discount code to pass on to you! Woohoo! (I just told my hubby about this one!) You can get 10% off by using the code "inspired10" at checkout.

Please visit the EtsyInspired challenge blog to view details on the challenge and to leave a link to your creation.

We also have a very special sponsor this week! One of our design team alumni Shannon Bracken Hawkins (she got married after leaving our team, BIG CONGRATS!) has opened a digi stamp shop! She has a wonderful variety of stamps! Check out Shannon's Sentiments! This week, they are offering up a set of the winner's choosing.

Here's my creation for this week inspired by the necklace above. I love the vintage feel of the pendant and all the lovely flowers.

Please check out the DT:

Angi
Ann (Feb Guest)

Carole

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

Card Details:
Card stock: white
Patterned Paper: Sassafrass Sweetness
Stamp: Flourishes Tag Lines
Misc: doilies, vintage lace, vintage buttons, stick pin, Webster's Pages bloomer

Fun News!

Super quick post to let you know that I'm BACK for the month of February as the guest designer for All Things Unity. I was a DT member last year but with all I had going on, I couldn't keep up. But I was lucky enough to get to come to for a month! YAY!!!

I'm BACK!!

Oh my goodness! CHA is awesome and I have a lot to share with you! What do you think about me doing a CHA week for the next week on my blog? Would that be boring? I would tell you about my favorite finds, my favorite moments, things that are new to me, etc... Leave a comment and let me know. I don't wanna bore people!

Here's one of my favorite pictures from CHA. It's actually from Susan Opel's camera, I kind of stole it off Facebook but I think it's ok since I'm in it. There's so much talent in this one photo that I'm surprised that the world didn't explode!