Hello!

Hello friends! Wow, can someone please tell me how to make time slow down just a bit?! I can't believe it's already Thursday!! I had a great fun day yesterday, we had another round of "Just for Girls" and had a great class! We had a couple of new facesa and the girls all had a great time!! I'll work on getting the fun treats we made posted...it was great fun.

Today I want to share a card that was published in the November Issue of Cards Magazine...it made me happy to get the mail the day that magazine came in the mail!!
I hope you have a great day!! Take care and I'll be back tomorrow with more fun!! Make it a great one! Thanks for stopping by!

Deck the Halls

Happy Monday morning friends! I hope you had a good weekend. We had a great one...a couple of highlights were seeing "This is it" and my husband took the kids to the club to go swimming for a few hours saturday and they were just in heaven (and yes, it was great to have a few quiet hours on a saturday!). I had a bit of time to work on my stash of Holiday cards and wanted to share one of them with you today.

I used the Holiday Button Bits stamp set from PTI for the hanging ornaments. I have fallen hook line and sinker, in love with this set...so many great images to work with! I also used some great vintage buttons...I love that they have a little shimmer to them and look like fancy ornaments!
To start my card, I used a Spring Moss cardbase. I ran a strip of Ocean Tides cardstock through my fiskars border punch for a nice classy border. Next, I stamped Giga Guidelines with Ripe Avacado Ink onto Ripe Avacado paper. I attached that just above the Ocean Tides border and then tied a nice bow with some Ocean Tides ribbon. I am 100% the biggest fan of the Ocean Tides color...one of my all time favroite shades of blue/green!! I stamped my sentiment with Ripe Avacado and then moved onto the ornaments. I stamped my ornaments onto white cardstock with Ripe Avacado ink and then added Ocean Tides vintage buttons with mini glue dots.

I love the clean and simple classy look of this one...a good one to reproduce! Thanks a bunch for stopping by today! Make it a great one!!

Merry Christmas

Good morning firends! Happy Friday to ya'll! I hope you've had a good week. My week was a bit "more" than normal, but was good. I had a fun morning this morning...I was the sub for the Turbo Kick class that I attend...oh it was fun! Thanks to all my class members who helped me have a great time, even though I'm not a pro...by any means! But it was great fun!

Today I'd like to share another card, in the same family as the from yesterday's post. I LOVE this paper from Cosco Cricket and think it rocks with the style of the fun Deck the Halls Stamp set from LAD. I think this set will make up a larger portion of my Holiday card mix!! I love the fresh and hip style!! And paired with these great colors...so much fun!
I started with a Ripe Avacado card base. Next I put some chocolate chip cardstock through my wide scallop border punch and then added it to my card. I added a layer of polka dot paper from Cosmo Cricket and then added my Ripe Avacado ribbon. I stamped my gifts in Ripe Avacado, Ruby Red and Aqua Mist ink, then mounted that vanilla cardstock onto a ripe avacado piece. I used a little dew drop to add a fun little "somethin'" to each of the gifts. I love that dew drops take on the color they are placed upon, so you don't need to have every color...just a few will do!
My sentiment was stamped on vanilla cardstock and then punched out with my word window punch and mounted on a chocolate chip modern label. I attached my sentiment to the card with dimensionals.

Hope you have a great weekend! I'm so excited...we're going to see "This is It!" tonight....yea!! Thanks for stopping by!!

Deck the Halls!

Good afternoon friends! I hope you are doing well today. We've had a fast moving day, and with it getting dark so early, here in the northwest....well, I feel like we should be getting into pjs and it's only 3:57! So, here's to a few more productive hours!!

This card I'm sharing today, was the card I made for the LAD sketch challenge last week, and thought I'd posted it already, but nope, it wasn't even photographed yet. So, here is my take on the sketch you can see here,in the LAD forum. I think this might be a card I make a few more of...it makes me smile!
I started off by making my card base. I used some Chocolate Chip cardstock, then a layer of Aqua Mist, and lastly a layer of a great polka dot paper from Cosmo Cricket. I stamped my ornaments from the Deck the Halls stamp set, onto Very Vanilla paper with some Ruby Red, Aqua Mist and Ripe Avacado ink. I stamped the ornaments twice, one onto the rectangle of paper, and then again on a scrap piece. I stamped my ornament hanger--or ribbon, with Chocolate Chip ink, and then added the second ornament that I had cut out, with dimensionals.
A little vintage button on each ornament with mini glue dot finihsed the ornaments up just right!

I stamped my sentiment with Chocolate Chip ink onto Vanilla paper. I used my word window punch to punch the 'Deck the Halls' out, then attached it to a Ruby Red modern label punch.

This went so fast and would be a great card to mass produce....so I think I'll bust out a few more!! Have a great evening friends!! Thanks for stopping by today!!

Flower Soft

Good morning friends! Today is a fun day for the Splitcoast Product Review Team, we've had the chance to play with some fun products by Flowersoft! We were reviewing the CD with images that they sent, and while I'm more of stamps and paper person, I did have fun working with these images! If you'd like to take a peek at the review, you can check it out here.

For this first card, I printed out one of the "stacking" images and stacked it for a fun 3-d image. I stacked them with dimensionals and then added some polar white flowersoft, with a bit of glue. I added a bit of loose "snow" and then attached my globe to my image. I attached my snow globe to my card and then went to town on the front panel. I kept things simple, just added a nice New Leaf piece of cardstock and then added a few new leaf snowflakes, just to keep them more subtle. I added some dew drops to the center of the snowflakes with some zip glue. My last part was attaching my sentiment to the card. Because this was a printed image, I simply cut it out and then mounted it, with double layerd dimensionals for a bit more lift. My kids LOVE this card...the snowglobe is SO fun for them!!
For this next card, I printed another 3-d image. I had several pieces that were stacked again, but this time making a great little scene. Each layer of this main panel is also raised with dimensionals. I added some flower soft, and added the image to my card. My card is a black base with a New Leaf layer. I added a white strip of apron lace to the bottom of the card, and then a New Leaf ribbon and white button. My sentiment is another printed image, and was attached with dimensionals also.

This review was great. It stretched my ability and took me out of my comfort zone, but I'm happy with my products and that is exciting! If you'd like to read more of the reveiw, the team has some great things to say! There are some great samples in the gallery too!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! My family is all well today, everyone is going to school, ballet and such...YEA for that!! We'll do our best to stay that way now! Good luck to staying well! Make it a great one!!

Holly Jolly Christmas!

Good morning friends! Thank you so much for your well wishes for my little lucy...she IS finally on the up! I'm taking all three kids in to the dr. today for "well checks"(ha ha ha) and flu shots, so hopefully the dr. will give her a clean bill of health! It sure is hard to be productive and the one in charge when you've got sick peeps! I'm so happy she is finally feeling better! So, thanks for your wishes!

Today I wanted to share a little holiday cheer. I LOVE this little sentiment stamp from the November Monthly Mix, from LAD. I love the fun whimsical look of the holly and think it pairs perfectly with the sentiment.Today I'm just going to leave you the ingredients I used for this card. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or leave your question in the comments.

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White
Patterned Paper: American Crafts
Stamps: November Monthly Mix
Ink: Black Palette
Border punch: Apron Lace
Ribbon: Red Striped Grosgrain
Markers: Copics
Punches: Squares and Circles

Have a great day! Thanks so much for stopping by!! Take your Vit. C and don't froget to wash your hands!;) See you tomorrow!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Monday morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We sure did...but my daughter is still sick with a fever...thank goodness for Ibuprofen and Tylenol! I'm hoping to get her into the dr. today...she just has a fever and nothing else...I hope!

I made this card a few weeks ago and wanted to share it before it goes it's merry way! It was a fun one to create. I've been enjoying the fun of making my own flowers...die cuts and punches are such great tools! Anyway, onto the jist!
I started my card with some whisper white cardstock. I mounted a piece of pumpkin pie and then a piece of pink passion cardstock onto the card. I ran my pink passion piece through the Big Shot with my swiss dots embossing folder before attaching it to my card. Next I took a strip of black cardstock and it took a turn through my large scallop and was then attached to my card. I stamped my sentiment, which is from PTI's Papertrey stamp set..the very 1st set released! I stamped each word seperately...with black palette ink. I tied some ribbon, from SEI around the seam and then moved onto my flowers.

For my flowers, I had an old book that I tore a page out of and used with my Blossom Nestabilities dies! My daughter had a hard time seeing me tear a page out of a book, I assured here, she isn't allowed to tear pages out of books! I nested the blossoms and then added a little center detail, from heidi swapp.

I hope that you all have a wonderful Monday! I'm hoping today proves to help my daughter feel better...no more fever!! Thanks so much for stopping by!! Make it a great one!