HSS 105

Hi stampers!  It's Tuesday and time for another challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments and it's also Valentine's day!  So first off, happy Valentine's day!!!!  I'm excited to have a date night with my hubby tonight!  I've been saving a cute new dress for tonight!  Oh, wait...we're supposed to be talking about stamping aren't we?  Not clothes and shoes....my other obsession, lol!  Ok, so how fitting this week that our theme is LOVE:

And here's my card as I needed to squeeze in at least one more Valentine (I actually need many more, ha):

 Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I love you
Paper:  Whisper white, pool party, blushing bride, calypso coral, sweet shop DSP
Ink:  Blushing bride, calypso coral
Accessories:  Polka dot and linen embossing folders, hearts collection framelits, blushing bride satin pleated ribbon, pool party ruffled ribbon, in color polka dot brads

I just love this card!  It is exactly what love is to me...simple and sweet!  Lots of embossing on this card as the DSP is embossed as well.  I wish I could buy a whole pack of that one sheet!  I won't tell you how long this card took to put together as it was the first one that I made between my old studio and my new one...lots of back and forth, haha!

Now go check out what love means to the rest of the design team, leave them some love, and link up your own loveable project!

Happy stamping!

HSS 103

Hi stampers!  I can't believe it's Tuesday already!  Where did the weekend go???  Oh yeah, I was sickly so it passed me by why I was napping.  Oh well.  At least my WONDERFUL hubby got my new room painted...even if he DID share his cold with me:)  Maybe one day I'll get all my stuff moved in there, ha!

So, it's that time of week to hop on over to Hand Stamped Sentiments and check out the challenge!  This week is gift items!

Now, I know that I've done a similar project and as far as gifts go this is kind of puny BUT I just love the pillowbox die and I'm always in need of small and cute gifts for my co-workers and hubby!  HE LOVES chocolate and these are the perfect little boxes for tiny candy bars!  So, I whipped these little gems up for Valentine's Day!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I Love You
Paper:  Whisper white, crumb cake, pool party, lucky limeade
Ink:  Crumb cake, calypso coral
Accessories:  Pillow box die, full heart punch, fashionable hearts sizzlit, large pearls, everyday enchantment ribbon & brad pack (SAB)

I stamped a few cute little cupids in crumb cake and then added some organdy ribbon.  I then embellished it with the hearts!  Super quick and super easy!  I hope everyone enjoys them!

Now head on over to HSS and link up your own gift item!

Happy stamping!

Something different...finally

Hi stampers!  Sorry for the lack of posting lately...I just haven't stamped much lately.  Well, until tonight....I got my Sale-A-Bration order today!!!  Don't forget you can click on the shop 24/7 link over there and place your own order!  For every $50 you spend (before tax and shipping) you get to pick a FREE sale-a-bration item!  There are so many fun things and no limit!!!  We won't talk about how much free stuff I got;-)

I got three cards done tonight and hopefully more to come this week/weekend!  I am planning a big cleaning day on Saturday (which will probably run into Sunday) around here.  I still need to take the tree down (ugh) and need to go through the closets around here AND hopefully get working on moving into my new and bigger office.  Hubby said he'd paint it for me!  I've only had paint since August, lol!

Anyway, you'll be happy to see a card today that doesn't use the SAB DSP...shocking, I know;-)

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I Love You
Paper:  Whisper white, poppy parade, daffodil delight, brights DSP stack, hostess DSP (retired)
Ink:  Poppy parade
Accessories:  Old olive satin ribbon, blossom triple layer punch, circle & scallop circle punches, small heart punch, adorning accents edgelits, adorning accents embossing folders, basic pearls, calypso coral baker's twine

I CASED this card from our demonstrator magazine.  I changed up the DSP to use what I had and needed to pull some retired DSP out.  I love the little medallion, I think it's just so cute!  I also like how the magazine had the embossed hearts "reversed" where they were actually de-bossed.  Just turn the paper over and viola:-)

So, there you have it.  I CAN make something in other colors:-)

Happy stamping and don't forget about SAB!!!!

Edited to add:  I know my background is wonky...the little banner says create.  I'll try to tweak it if I get a chance!  I can't seem to figure out exactly where things are going to end up when I create one:-)

A SWEET Sketch

Hi stampers!  I LOVED the Sweet Sunday Sketch this week!

Isn't it cute?  I need to file it away as a go to sketch!  And yes, I used the SAB DSP again!  Sorry....good thing it's pretty:-)  I used it to whip up this sweet little Valentine:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I Love You
Paper:  Very vanilla, blushing bride, pool party, calypso coral, poppy parade textured, everyday enchantment DSP (SAB)
Ink:  Blushing bride, calypso coral
Accessories:  1-3/4" circle punch, 2-3/8" scallop circle punch, calypso coral ruffled ribbon, adoring accents embossing folders, large basic pearls

I just love that little cupid and I've used him on a lot of backgrounds but wanted to make him the star of the show on this one.  I love the font of the sentiment too!  I also used lots of sponging to make it all pretty and soft!

Happy stamping!

Monday Mojo on MONDAY!

Hi stampers!  Ok, so I KNOW it's Wednesday but I did something on Monday that I never do!  I created a card using the Mojo Monday sketch on MONDAY!  WOW and yay me, lol!!!!  It normally takes me a day or two to get to the challenges I want to do but I was able to sit right down tonight and crank this one out...well after a fair amount of time wasting (i.e. watching TV, eating some snacks, staring lovingly at all my under-used stamping supplies, internet surfing, more snacking,  playing with the dog, cuddling with the dog, more internet surfing....you get the idea).  Anyway, inspiration struck all of the sudden so I went with it!

At first, this sketch did throw me.

When I looked at it this morning it seemed awful complicated but upon looking at it again tonight it was clear what I wanted to do!  Now, I'm giving a disclaimer right now...you are going to be seeing a LOT of the SAB everyday enchantment DSP for the next few months!  I am so in lurve with that stuff...I want to marry it!  I am going to CRY when it goes away!  So, I hope you like it since I can't seem to make a card without it:-)  At least now you know:-)

I saw a card this morning that used the scalloped heart of hearts embosslit as a layer behind a heart and I had TOTALLY forgotten about that particular embosslit and how cute it looks as a layer!  So, out it came and this is what I got:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I Love You
Paper:  Very vanilla, blushing bride textured, pool party, poppy parade, calypso coral, everyday enchantment (SAB)
Ink:  Calypso coral, poppy parade
Accessories:  Hearts collection framelits, scalloped heart of hearts embosslit, decorative label punch, calypso coral ruffled ribbon

Ohhhhh!  It turned out so pretty!  I think it's impossible to make an ugly card with the SAB paper!  I sponged the hearts from the PS I Love You set before I layered them onto the scalloped hearts as they looked a bit to stark.  I also cut them out with the new heart framelits!  I did take a break from the satin pleated ribbon:-)  My poor ruffled ribbons have been neglected since the pleats came on the scene so I used some of the calypso coral ruffled ribbon here!  The sentiment is from the super cute Friendly Phrases set which I love and it's stamped in poppy.  This will make a great Valentine or just a great friend card!

Anywho, that about does it for now!  I wish all my cards came together this quickly:-)

Happy stamping!

Drumroll please....

Hi stampers!  I have exciting news!  I've been asked by the fabulously talented Connie Babbert and Mary Brown to be a guest designer for their awesome site,  Create With Connie & Mary!  They had asked me previously this fall but with football in full swing I didn't feel that I could give it my all (and still manage to do things like laundry and dishes and all that jazz, hehe) so I was ecstatic when they asked me to be a part of their 2012 Occasions Mini edition!  There are offering so many awesome projects!

Right now you can get early bird pricing!  For just $29.95 you get access to all the amazing projects including mine!  You know you want to see it!  Click on over to Create With Connie & Mary and get yours today at the early bird price and save $5!

One of the projects will be mine using the P.S. I Love You stamp set.  I'll be first up on week one...that kind of makes me nervous, hehe!  This is probably my favorite set in the mini!  I just love all the images and the sentiments!  I think my fave is that little cupid!  Isn't he just the cutest????  I've made a little card using the set as a teaser:-)

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  PS I Love You
Paper:  Very vanilla, poppy parade, blushing bride (smooth & textured)
Ink:  Blushing bride, poppy parade
Accessories: Framelits hearts collection, circle punch, fashionable hearts embosslit, twitterpatted buttons, crochet thread, blushing bride satin pleated ribbon, dazzling details

As you can see I started by stamping that cupid on some blushing bride textured cardstock and then I sponged around all the edges as well.  I also cut out some hearts with the new framelits and the new heart embosslit.  The framelits are great because you can stamp your image and then see where you are cutting it out!  The last few details are fun!  I had to add a little bit of the pleated ribbon, it's so fun!  Then I added some dazzling details to the smallest embossed heart and tied a little bow in a twitterpatted button. I managed to use FOUR stamps from this set which I think is pretty good!

Now, hurry on over via that little link up there and get your Occasions Mini 2012 edition right now!  See you over there in a few weeks;-)

Happy stamping!

Stampin' Sunday

Hi stampers!  I'm back and my mojo is back!  I got to stamp some today so I have another card to share! 

I liked the color challenge this week over at Create With Connie & Mary. 

Pretty colors!  I thought about going with snowflakes like in the picture but I was looking at some of my stamps and saw the little heart pennant from Warmest of Wishes.  I know it's not current anymore (sad face here) but that little pennant did NOT get used enough!  So I pulled it out along with pennant parade and whipped up this cute card:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Pennant parade, PS I Love You, Warmest of Wishes
Paper:  Blushing bride textured, pool party, soft suede, whisper white
Ink:  Blushing bride, pool party, soft suede
Accessories:  Pennant builder punch, adorning accents embossing folders, basic pearls, early espresso baker's twine, hole punch

Squeeee, didn't it turn out cute!?!?  I used a layout I've used before with the pennants just because it makes sense.  I also ran the border folder along the bottom for some interest.  The pearls in each hart just help the little hearts stand out.  The baker's twine is early espresso but you'd never know it:-)  I also wanted to work in some of the polka dot chocolate chip ribbon but I couldn't make it happen, oh well....

Happy stamping!

A Valentine SMOOCH

Hi stampers!  I've got another sneak peek from the Occasions Mini Catalog and a big smooch for you!  Well, smooch spray anyway, lol!  We now have smooch in blushing bride and it's sooo pretty and sparkly and perfectly pink!  Remember though, to spray LIGHTLY.  This card looks pretty good but I was a bit heavy handed on it's mate....oopsy!  You can also get a better look at the new pleated satin ribbon (have I mentioned how cute it is????). 

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  P.S. I love you (occasions mini), Grateful greetings
Paper:  Crumb cake, whisper white, blushing bride (textured), Everyday enchantment (SAB)
Ink:  Crumb cake, calypso coral
Accessories:  Everyday enchantment ribbon & brad pack, blushing bride satin pleated ribbon, blushing bride smooch spritz (occasions min), full heart punch, Illuminate smooch accent ink

Isn't that paper scrumptious????  It's from this year's Sale-A-Bration offerings meaning you can get a pack of it FREE (along with other fab items) for every $50 spent between January 24 and March 31!  It's probably the prettiest DSP I've ever seen SU offer!  And FREE!  Squeeeeeee!  The little brad on the heart is also a SAB item and they are adorable too!  A bit hard to see but I highlighted a few of the hearts in the big heart with some of the illuminate smooch accent ink.  A super simple but super cute V-day card...and how cute is that little cupid image from the PS I love you set????

Hope you enjoyed the little sneak peek!

Happy stamping!