SCIC#08 & CS97

I used this great sketch from Clean and Simple to make a card that also was inspired by this week’s Stampin Celebration Inspiration Challenge. And, I just love this color combo! Blushing Bride, Rose Red and Pear Pizzaz! Yummy! Stamp Set used: Petal Pizazz

PPA #48 & cQc #38

Love the sketch (thank you Margret Moody!!) and love the color combo! And I LOVE this new hostess set called For All You Do.

Mojo Monday #144

Hi everybody! My family and I will be traveling this week, so my blog posts will be light. I have some thing splanned, but wanted you to know there won’t be lots of explination. If you have any questions about products, please email me! For this week’s Mojo Monday, I used Artistic Etching again. Love …

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Playing with Paper Challenge

Stamps: Well ScriptedThis card is based on a sketch from a new challenge blog called Playing with Paper.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #74 and Curtain Call Color Challenge #35

These have become my favorite challenges of the week and they both happen to come out on Sunday. I combined them this week with a new Level 2 Hostess Set to make a fun little card. Stamps: Longfellows, Smarty Pants Paper and ink: Birds of a Feather DSP, Island Oasis DSP, Camo Coral, Temting Turquoise, …

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Chocolate, Eggplant and Pumpkin!

This color combo is making me hungry! What a fun combo to play with from Inkspiration this week. And I was really drawn in by this sketch from Card Patterns. Very different than anything I have done lately! I used 3 stamp sets here: Artistic Etchings (Our July 1), Favorite Thoughts (Summer Mini,) and Circle …

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Father’s Day… a little late!

This card was created as a Father’s Day Card, but could easily be a Birthday card. I based my card on two challenges, Stampin Celebration #7 and the OCC sketch #20. I love this Motorcycle stamp. It goes well with the Travel DSP and the Cog punch. All of these are available in the Summer …

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Color Throwdown # 97

Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Flight of the Butterfly Ink and Paper: FLock Together DSP, Presto Patterns DSP, Night of Navy, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Cameo Coral Other: Big Shot, Top Note Die, Elementaty Ribbon, Scallop Rectangle Clearlit, Modern Label Punch

Icey Daisy!

Two great challenges today. I am not a purple lover, but I did really like this combo! The ink is Melon Mambo, but once embossed, it turned purple. So, I added in the Rich Razzleberry CS too. STamps: Upsey Daisey, Because I Care, Woodgrain Ink and Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Temting turquoise, Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo …

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Mojo Monday #143

I made this card based on this week’s Mojo Monday sketch, but for some reason, Blogger won’t upload it! Oh well… Click on the link to see it! I used two stamp sets to make the Hot Air Baloons. The round parts are the pumpkin stamps from Pumpkin Patch and the basket is from Playful …

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Greenhouse Gala- I’m in love!

I am in LOVE with this new Design Studio Paper! It will be available on July 1 in the new Stampin Up Catalog. Its so bold and beautiful! And, it wen’t perfectly with the challenge at Stamp Away With Me. I also used this fun sketch from Inkspiration. Stamps: Eastern Blooms Ink and Paper: Greenhouse …

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Black and White…with a splash!

I used this great sketch from Clean and Simple to create this fun card. I adore this paper! Its from the same set I used here. I can tell I am going to through a ton of this stuff! Stamps: Artistic Etchings, Ink and Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Melon Mambo Other: Large Scallop Punch, …

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Pedaling Past…

I love this set. I think it’s great for vintage cards. I will miss it when it retires at the end of the summer. I combined this cool sketch from Card Patterns and the always beautiful colors from Color Q for this card. In the new Stampin Up catalog that comes out on July 1, …

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Patriotic Pieces

I love these colors at Inkspirations! I chose to try out my Playful Pieces set. this set is a level 3 hostess set in the new catalog. Its an interesting set of lots of random pieces and shapes. The posibilities are endless! Stamps: Playful Pieces, In a Word Ink and Paper: Kraft, Real Red, Whisper …

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Something old, something new…

Nothing borrowed or blue though! One of my favorite retiring colors is Cameo Coral. I love this color lately and will be sad to see it go. So, I was excited to see this challenge at Embelish Magazine. I can use it one more time!And, I broke in another sneak preview set called Artistic Etchings. …

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Preview #3…

It’s a combo challenge this morning. I used this beautiful inspiration from Stampin Celebration and this fab sketch from Clean and Simple. I also used a NEW stamp set form the upcomming SU catalog! When I first saw this stamp set I though, Nah, not for me. But, when I saw that I could get …

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PPA #46- Goodbye to a few In Colors

Bermuda Bay has been a favorite color this year for me. I will be sad to see it retire at the end of the month. The other two colors in this week’s Paper Pal Arts Challenge are just…I don’t know, eh! But, together, I think the go pretty well together! I got the idea for …

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A Preview….

This week’s Curtain Call Color Challenge are my mom’s colors. As long as I can remember blue and white were her theme. So pretty with the green thrown in! This card features a preview of a new stamp set that will be available July 1 in the new SU catalog. It will only be available …

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Stamp Club- June!

Tonight is my monthly Stamp Club and I thought I would show you the fun things we will be making. Everything tonight revolves around page 5-6 in the Summer Mini Catalog. I love everything on these pages! We will use the stamp set called Tropical Party, the beautiful paper called Island oasis, the Bigz Die …

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PPA45 and DCBD179

Just in the nick of time! I can’t lett a Paper Pal Arts Challenge go by with out doing it! I love their challenges, and this weeks was ni excetion. It’s an inspiratio challenge including greens and orange with black. Not something I would have sat down and pulled out on my own, but I …

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I’ve got a Scrappin’ Hangover!

I spent this weekend at Rockin R Scrapbook Retreat with some old girlsfriends. We had sooooo much fun! I got 31 pages done! I went to bed at 8:30 last night and slept 12 hours!! We stayed up very late and scrapped all day. We ate very good food and laughed so hard we had …

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By the glow of the laptop….

So last night, as I was supposed to be blogging, a MAJOR storm blew in. We think we had some straightline winds/possible funnel cloud even! And of course, the electricity went out and we spent the rest of the night functioning with the light from the laptop and iphone! LOL! Thank God they were charged! …

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More Pink and Kraft!

Again, I drew inspiration from the Stampin Celebration challenge for today’s card. I just love pink and Kraft! I am also loving this shape from the sizzlet called Loads of Tags. Its a great shape! My card is also based on the above sketch from the OCC Sketch Blog. Woodgrain is so much fun! I …

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