Another display stample

Hi stampers!  I thought I'd share another one of my display samples today.  How about a fun and cheery card since it's FRIDAY!!!!!  I have to admit I'm a little sad not to be working a football game tonight as I miss my kids and think they have a chance of winning some games this year but I'm happy to not have to be out in the horrible heat and work until who knows when tonight (or into the morning and then work again when the sun comes up!).  I wish my kids good luck and if their first game wasn't out of town I'd be going!

Anyway, here is one of the first cards I made for the displays.  I got the cycle celebrations suite in my box of goodies and it's probably not something I would have gotten on my own so it was kind of fun to try to come up with ideas for it!

Stampin' Supplies:

Stamps:  Cycle celebrations

Paper:  Whisper white, bermuda bay, raspberry ripple, birthday basics DSP

Ink:  Bermuda bay, raspberry ripple

Accessories:  Stitched summer starfruit ribbon, basic rhinestones, labels collection frameits, stripes embossing folder

Bicycle images are kind of all the rage right now so this card and set are right on trend.  I love the vintage look of the stamp and the bikes on the paper! 

Don't ask me how many times I had to tie that bow to get it to look right:-)

And don't forget to sign up for My Paper Pumpkin by tomorrow to get two months for HALF price.  They also make great gifts....hint hint ;-)

Happy stamping!

Pumpkins & Butterflies

Hi stampers!  So you're asking what pumpkins and butterflies have to do with each other?  Well we have a couple of GREAT specials going on right now!

First, there is only a few days left to get two months of My Paper Pumpkin for just $10 each!  Thats half off AND includes shipping!    Make sure you choose me as your demonstrator when you sign up using the link above and don't forget to use the promo code: PUMPKINDEAL.  Hurry and sign up before the special ends!  You have until Saturday!

And now for the butterflies!  Until September 30th you can get a 15% savings on the papillion potpourri stamp set and the bitty butterfly punch!  Click on the picture to enlarge it!

I recently combined the July Paper Pumpkin kit with some butterflies after seeing a similar idea on teh SU blog and it turned out fantastic (aside from my crooked picture taking skills)!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Various My Paper Pumpkin kits, gorgeous grunge
Paper:  Whisper white, crumb cake, crisp cantaloupe, subway soho DSP
Ink:  Crumb cake, white craft, coastal cabana
Accessories:  Butterfly and bitty butterfly punch, vintage faceted buttons

It's actually much more stunning in real life and I just love that little honeycomb background!  It's so fun to get the pumpkin kits each month (who doesn't love a surprise in the mail...and one that's not a bill, lol) and you can use the kits in SO many other ways than what they are made for!  The butterfly stamps and punches SU have are also so fun and great for layering!

Contact me if you have any questions and don't forget to get your pumpkins and butterflies!

Happy stamping!

Washi Wednesday

Hi stampers!  Happy Wednesday!  How can the week be half over yet?  And how did I ever have time for my job?  LOL!  Seriously, I was worried about the days dragging after quitting my job (and I'm sure that some of them will) but the past few days have been busy busy!  Of course it helps that Monday I had to get the grocery shopping done and kind of clean up around here and get things in order after the wedding and being out of town and then yesterday was all sorts of crazy with my mom being in town on a whim (if you call getting a filling that fell out at my friends wedding a whim, lol) and Jon having a flat tire in the morning!  Geesh!  So by the time I ran around with my mom which was totally nice to be able to do that on the fly and got Jon's tire fixed I ran out of time and energy to stamp :-)

Geesh!  Good thing I'm not working now...Jon said the same thing last night, hahaha!  I will be glad when this week is over though because for my first two evenings of being a "housewife" I've had to eat dinner alone! :(  There is a big farm show here this week so Jon's been working a TON!!!  We've kind of traded places, haha!

Anyway let's have some fun with washi tape today!!  I wasn't as super excited about the tape as some people I know when SU came out with it but I have to say it's pretty fun stuff!  Did you know that it's repositionable?????  To me, that's pretty cool since I can't seem to get things to line up straight all the time.  Don't like what you did?  You can carefully unstick it and try again!  You can also make super simple but super cute cards like these two which were inspired by my friend and convention roomie, Marla!

I did this one first for Christmas (and I totally love it):

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Wishing you
Paper:  Whisper white, crumb cake, real red
Ink:  Real red, old olive
Accessories:  Decorative label and extra-large oval punches, linen thread, season of style wash tape

I love the layering of those two punches.  I did clip off the top and bottom little points otherwise they stick out a bit funky.  And it's so cute you don't notice I used real red instead of cherry cobbler which is the actual color of the washi tape :-)

And then I thought a Halloween one would be cute too!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Halloween hello
Paper:  Very vanilla, basic gray, pumpkin pie
Ink:  Basic gray
Accessories:  Decorative label and extra-large oval punches, linen thread, brights candy dots, witches brew washi tape

This one looked a little naked so I added the candy dots!  Done!

These cards would look great with any combination of punches used that would fit your sentiment!  To order some of this fabulous washi tape just click the shop 24/7 button over to the right!!!!!  And you too can have a Washi Wednesday!

Happy stamping!

HSS 167

Hi stampers!  Quick post today....being a housewife is a lot of work, lol!  Actually I'm still recovering from my BFF's beautiful wedding this weekend as well as trying to get the house/my life in order!  But more on all that later!

So, it's Tuesday which means it's time for a new challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments!  This week we have a fun sketch!

And you'll see I used MDS....again.   Well, it's just too easy and since I was busy, busy, busy this weekend it was easy to pull it out while we were traveling and come up with this super cute Halloween card for the sketch!

Spooky huh? :-)  Now head on over and see all the other great inspiration and play along!  We'd love to have you!

Happy stamping!

Merry Little Kit

Hi stampers!  It's Christmas in August today!  With the heat we've been having the past few days I'm dreaming of December :-)  Well maybe not but after having a mild summer and a few weeks recently of fall-like temps I'm not really digging the heat and humidity!

So, I whipped up this card with one of our new kits.  There are a lot of new kits in the holiday catalog and they are great! They make creating your own cards or projects super easy!  All the designing is already done for you or should you want to do your own thing, you can do that to!  They are also great for those short on time.  Most of them can be put together in an hour or under!  AND what's also great is that most of them come in bundles so you can save some $$$!

I especially love the Merry Little Christmas Simply Created Card Kit!  I love everything about it!  Love the colors and the cute little stamp that coordinates!  It's probably one of my top faves in the catalog!  And who would have thought coastal cabana would be such a fabulous Christmas color?????

This one comes with all your card bases, the DSP panels, the pre-cut tags (which are super cute), the red buttons, and the exclusive gumball green baker's twine.  All you need to do is add the ink and the adhesive!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Merry little Christmas
Ink:  Real red, gumball green, coastal cabana
Accessories:  Merry little Christmas simply sent card kit

I just LOVE the stamp!  All those different fonts just make me happy!

Today is my last day of work!  It's definitely time to go as I had a dream about work last night that was not so good and woke up sobbing!  Eek!  Haven't had one of those in a while.  Although, there will be some tears I'm sure at the school portion of my job as I'll miss the kids and coaches.  I'll be sure to go visit and see them play though! So, after all the wedding weekend fun I'm going to come home and hit the ground running with my stamping business (as soon as I clean the house and my stamp room up, ha)! I'm thinking of putting together a class with this kit!  So, be on the lookout for that!

I can't wait to do more with this kit and this stamp!

Happy stamping!

Wedding Wednesday

Hi stampers!  Since my BFF is getting married on Saturday (I'm so excited although I just realized I need to get my act together and make her a card AND work on my speech, eek!) so I thought I'd share the card I made for her shower as I don't think I have yet.

I had originally made the dress portion a long time ago figuring I would use it on an Artisan entry (I know, I know...I still have to show you those....) but I never ended up doing anything with it.  Well fast forward to the week of her shower and I went, crap, I haven't made a card yet, lol!  So, I did my favorite background technique for wedding cards with the simply scored diagonal plate.

 Sadly, the flower trim is retired...it was so pretty!  Her wedding color is silver so I used the new smoky slate color.  I better go get busy on my card and speech!

Happy stamping!

August 2013 Control Freaks Blog Hop!

Hi stampers!!!  I.  Cannot.  Believe.  I.  Am.  A. Freak.  Seriously excited to be hopping for the first time with so many of my stampy idols!  If you've just come from Mary Brown's awesome blog, welcome!  If not don't worry...we make an endless circle :-)  And don't fret if all the links aren't working.  The hop officially takes place on the 20th so if it's not quite up and running make sure to come back on the 20th!

The theme this month is the Holiday Mini or seasonal catalog.  PERFECT since I think I own 80%+ of the thing, lol!

I chose to focus on "all things fall" since I'm kind of excited for fall!  I love the cooler weather and when the leaves change.  I'm also excited to break out my big sweaters, leggings, boots, and scarves!  Fall is just comfy, ha!

Of course Halloween is one of my favorite things about fall so I couldn't not do a couple H-week projects.  I did a little card and coordinating treat bag.  I just love those goofy looking little bats (I did NOT love the bat we had on our kitchen floor one night last spring!!!!!).

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Halloween Hello, tags 4 you
Paper:  Very vanilla, basic black, pumpkin pie, summer starfruit, witch's brew DSP
Ink:  Basic black, summer starfruit
Accessories:  Artisan label punch

And once I made the card I knew I needed a matching treat bag and how cute do these bats look on the chevron bags????  This may or may not be filled with some candy corn....  ;-)

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Halloween hello
Paper:  Whisper white
Ink:  Basic black, pumpkin pie, summer starfruit
Accessories:  Tag a bag gift bags, whisper white baker's twine, chalk talk framelits

And after all the candy comes the turkey....Thanksgiving!  I love thanksgiving too...I mean what's not to love?  Food and family...and shopping the day after!!!  I'm quite excited to be able to enjoy turkey day and the days after this year since I won't be working a mega basketball tourney for the first time in like 8 years!  Yay!   I just kept piling stuff on this one and I kind of love it!  I made my own background my stamping the large background stamp (which I love) on the paper in different directions a few times until it was covered.  Looks way cooler in person!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Truly grateful
Paper:  Very vanilla, chocolate chip, soft sky, sweater weather DSP
Ink:  Chocolate chip, crumb cake, tangerine tango, crushed curry
Accessories:  7/8" natural trim ribbon, naturals designer buttons, linen thread, apothecary accents framelits, deco labels framelits

I hope you enjoyed my projects as much as I did making them and doing my first ever control freaks blog hop!

Now it's time to hop on over to the wonderful and super sweet Patty Bennett's blog!

Happy hopping!