Better Late Than Never

Hi stampers!  Two days in a row, can you believe it?  LOL!  Although I'm a bit late today.  We had some BIG things going on this morning so please send us some thoughts and prayers for the next few weeks, ok? :-)  Anyway, I figured since pretty much all I've done this afternoon is sit on the couch I could blog, duh!  So, while the hubby watches the Blues game and I feel like it's midnight or something already (dang time change) here we go!

I really love fall!  I love the cooler weather, the return on pumpkin spice lattes and the red cups at Starbucks!  Why does a peppermint mocha taste better/more pepperminty out of a red cup? LOL!  And who doesn't love leggings (which are probably the reason I keep eating badly...I mean leggings are all stretchy!), sweaters, hoodies, boots, and scarves!!!!!???  I also love the look of fall.  And who doesn't love leggings (which are probably the reason I keep eating badly...I mean leggings are all stretchy!), sweaters, hoodies, boots, and scarves!!!!!???  Then there's something about the sun in the afternoon that I just love as well!  And the leaves!  With the drought last year the trees weren't all that pretty but they are beyond brilliant this year!  I can't remember them being this gorgeous in years if ever!  If only we had a trip to my mom's farm to see them there!  Anyway, since I LOVE fall so much I probably need to get busy stamping some fall cards!  So here's one I whipped up the other day!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, fabulous phrases, my paper pumpkin kit
Paper:  Very vanilla, crumb cake
Ink:  Crumb cake, early espresso, baked grown sugar
Accessories:  Linen thread, witches brew and epic day washi tape, regals candy dots, wonderfall bigz die

It's pretty simple.  The hello is from a My Paper Pumpkin kit and I wanted to use the Halloween washi tape for more than just Halloween.  There is a third piece of tape from the epic day collection but it's hard to see in the photo as it's crumb cake in color.  The leaves are stamped once in full strength and once stamped off.

Happy stamping!

HSS 168

Hi stampers and happy Tuesday!  It's time for another fun challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments...and time for me to go to the dentist, ack.  But, at least one of my BFF's cleans my teeth so it's not ALL bad.  I think sometimes we do more talking than anything or she talks and I nod and say "uh-huh", hehe!  I think I might need a longer time slot, lol!

Anyway, sometimes a color combo comes along that you just LOVE.  Well that happens to be this week's colors!  They are so yummy!!!!!!

I had already used cherry cobbler with gumball and baked brown sugar for Christmas colors and I was shocked to see how pretty raspberry ripple was with them!  BUT, since I'm trying to focus on fall projects I went that way and made this pretty little card:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, truly grateful
Paper:  Very vanilla, gumball green, raspberry ripple, baked brown sugar
Ink:  Gumball green, raspberry ripple, baked brown sugar
Accessories:  Autumn accents bigz die, woodgrain embossing folder, raspberry ripple satin stitched ribbon, baked brown sugar ruffled stretch trim, linen thread, naturals buttons

I just LOVE it!  I took my embossed panel and sponged it with baked brown sugar.  Kind of reminds me of birch wood!  And I just had a question emailed to me about how to line up the stamps with this particular die and I made a video about it last year so I'll share it again now!

Now, don't forget to check out the other design team's creations and play along with us using this great color combo!

Happy stamping!

Gobble gobble

Hi stampers!  It's almost turkey day!  And I'm busy with work and holiday preparations!  I have to work Friday and Saturday...boo!!!  And I'm going to try to get my Christmas decorations out Friday and Saturday too!  I doubt I'll have a post for you tomorrow so I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving now!  I'm going to TRY not to eat too much tomorrow....but we'll see how THAT goes:-)

So, here's a happy Thanksgiving card from me to you!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, teeny tiny wishes
Paper:  Very vanilla, soft suede, summer starfruit, comfort cafe
Ink:  Soft suede, midnight muse
Accessories:  Autumn accents bigz die, linen thread, square punch, corner rounder punch

I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday this week.

It is super cute and I'll probably use it again!

Hope everyone has a great holiday!  And thanks for visiting!  I'm so thankful for my readers, customers, and friends!  I have made SO MANY GREAT friends through this crazy hobby and I love you all!

Happy stamping!

It's about time!

Hi stampers!  Sorry for not posting yesterday!  I went to Ikea with my mom and stepdad and FINALLY got some bookshelves for my "new" studio.  Maybe I can finally get it finished and share  photos or a video!  I wasn't able to get them every other time we went because they were literally an inch or two too long to fit in my SUV.  So, we took a big truck today:-)  Now, if I can get hubby to put them together for me!!!


So, here's a card I made by mistake.  Somehow I got a couple of color challenges mixed for a Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge and ended up with this...which I didn't realize was wrong until the night I had to send it in, ha!

I didn't think the colors went very well at first but I'll be darned if it didn't turn out all right in the end!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, teeny tiny wishes
Paper:  Very vanilla, early espresso, more mustard, island indigo, howlstooth & scaringbone DSP
Ink:  Early espresso, more mustard, island indigo
Accessories:  Linen thread, natural buttons

I do wish I'd thought to use the core'dinations paper as the espresso background embossed with the woodgrain folder but oh well.....

Hoping I can get some stamping done tonight and tomorrow since I took the day off tomorrow!  But my parents are here.....and I have a lot of design team stuff to work on...so we'll see.  And now I need to run before it rains!  If I don't blow away!!!!  It's sure windy!!!!

Happy stamping!

HSS 140

Hi stampers!   It's Tuesday and time for a new challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments!  This week is inked embossing folders...at little messy but a lot of fun!

I really love the gingham paper in the orchard harvest DSP and I'm going to be sad when I run out...BUT, I realized I can make my own!  Yippie!  All it takes is some ink and the stripes embossing folder!

Super easy and super pretty!  Right?  Now head on over to the HSS blog and check out all the other awesome projects!  And don't forget to play along!

Happy stamping!

Fall Frenzy

Hi stampers!  Quick post today before I head off to work because I finally have a fall card to share!  The frenzy part is because this is my busiest weeks of football season so I won't get much stamping done in the next few days.  I've got a game waaaay out of town tonight and not only football tomorrow morning but an all day volleyball tourney too.  Annnnnd guess who woke up with a back strain yesterday?  THIS girl, ugh!  Perfect timing right?  It happens once or twice a year and I never know how it happens I just wake up with it.  It didn't fee too bad yesterday and I'm a mission to lose a few pounds that I've gained do I went ahead and lifted weights and had to teach Turbokick too....well that wasn't the smartest idea I've ever had....

Anyway, here's my card.  This uses one of the backgrounds I made with crayon rubbed embossing because I thought the woodgrain folder would look cool with it.  I think I want to play around some more with different card stock and ink color combinations with this folder and technique!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, Woodgrain background, retired wheel (name escapes me)
Paper:  Very vanilla, crumb cake, raspberry ripple, champaign glimmer
Ink:  Crumb cake, early espresso, more mustard, lucky limeade, raspberry ripple
Accessories:  Window labels framelits, autumn accents die, naturals buttons, linen thread

My colors were inspired by a color challenge over at Create with Connie & Mary.  My sentiment is from a retired wheel that I cut up.  I can't remember the name and I'm not in my office....and I'm not about to get up and penguin waddle in there to look with my back pain, ha!  I'll have to get up to go to work in minutes so I'm sitting here as long as I can:-)

Hopefully I'll get some stamping in on Sunday and have more stuff to share!

Happy stamping!

Wonderful wonderfall

Hi stampers!  I'm back today with another card using stuff from the new Holiday Seasonal catalog and a video!  I wanted to make a video on the easiest way to use the wonderfall stamp set and autumn accents bigz die together.  Now, don't get confused and think this die is framelits....it's not...but I have an easy trick to make it simple to cut and stamp!  I can't take credit for this idea though as it was shared on the main stage at convention.  YOU can go to convention next year if you join my team this month and get the SPOOKY and cute Halloween printer's tray!  And then we can hang in SLC next July and have so much fun and learn all kinds of tips and tricks!  :-)

So, here is the video showing you how to cut the leaves out first and then stamp using your stamp rubber side up.  It's much easier explained on the video than in words:-)



And here is the card I made.  This is another one using Pintrest for inspiration and taking a card that uses non-SU supplies and re-working it to use what I have! 

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, sweet essentials, distressed dots background
Paper:  Very vanilla, crumb cake, cajun craze
Ink:  Early espresso, more mustard, always artichoke
Accessories: Autumn accents bigz die, regals designer buttons, linen thread, corner rounder punch

I LOVE the combo of the distressed dots and the wonderfall set!  I sponged all the leaves to soften them up just a bit and I think the rounded corners make it a bit softer as well.  I hope you enjoyed the video.  If you don't already have the wonderfall set and matching die just click on the shop now button and get them!  They are so awesome!

Happy stamping!

Masculine Monday...I think

Hi stampers!  And so begins another week!  It's the last week of "summer" for me as football starts next Wednesday and I see that as the end of summer:-)  I don't know where the summer went and I'm not ready for my busy season to begin!  Well...I guess I do know where summer went...it was in Vegas and St. Louis and Salt Lake!  It still feels like summer out though!  Glad we got a break from the high temps last week and I hope that trend continues for football! 

I didn't have any mailable Monday cards ready so I thought I'd go with a masculine one...at least I think it's masculine...or could pass if it had to:-)  I got the idea for this card out of our demonstrator magazine called Stampin' Success.  The magazine has TONS of great project ideas in it along with fantastic business information!  It's just one of the MANY perks you get as a demo!  Don't forget you can sign up for only $99 now and get $125 of merchandise!!!  If you have a wish list greater than $99 you might as well sign up!  You don't have to buy a penny more (although you're totally going to want to, teehee) but if you do you get 20% off!  And should you chose you can actually make money off stamping:-)  The kit is totally customizable now as well so you can order anything you want for your starter kit!!! 

And speaking of signing up there is a WICKED COOL promo during August!  If you sign up with me during August we BOTH get this totally  KA-YOOT printer's tray kit!  It comes with everything you need to make it!

Who doesn't want a great value on stamping supplies AND a cute kit like that?  Contact me today if you're interested or have more questions!  I'd be happy to talk with you!  I'll have more detailed pictures of the tray later this week too!

Ok, onto today's project (even though I can't stop thinking about that tray, ha).  Like I said, this card was inspired by a card in the demo magazine and uses the new wonderfall stamp set and die in the Holiday catalog which you can get on August 1!  If you need a holiday catalog please let me know!  And you totally need one so you can get your hands on yummy stuff like this:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfall, perfectly penned
Paper:  Very vanilla, early espresso, cajun craze, orchard harvest DSP, first edition DSP
Ink:  Early espresso, cajun craze, more mustard
Accessories:  Scalloped border punch, bronze buttons, linen thread, autumn accents bigz die

Isn't it pretty?  I didn't have the stamp set they used for the sentiment but I have to say I like perfectly penned better!!!  I also took my early espresso marker and a ruler to make the dashes all around the base.  Now, since the die isn't framelits there is a little trick to stamping them.  Basically you cut first and then lay the paper on the stamp.  I'll have a video up later this week to show you exactly how it's done...with another cute project of course:-)

Again, please let me know if you think you'd be interested in joining my team and getting a great value and the CUTE printer's tray!

Happy stamping!