forgot to show you...

Good morning friends! I just realized the other day that I didn't show this card on my blog yet. You may have seen it on the SNSS new release in January or the limeLIGHT Papercrafts DT member reveal but since not everyone sees those I thought I'd go ahead and show it here. Sorry about the redundancy if you've already seen it.

This card was made with a CPS sketch (which you'll see another card with a new CPS sketch on Monday!). The patterned paper is Basic Grey's Urban Prairie. In fact, the only paper that isn't from the Urban Prairie line would be the black and white (PTI). The stamp set is Sweet N Sassy Stamps new release called Love of a Friend. And, finally the beautiful ribbon is some ribbon that the lovely Korin gave to me.

I have some very exciting stuff coming up this week! Tomorrow is Page Plans sketch day, Monday I will get to show off a CPS sketch, (Wednesday is stamp club too!) Thursday is my very first limeLIGHT sketch as a design team member and Friday...Friday is the day I get to show you the project that I've been working on for about a week for limeLIGHT. Thrown in there will be CBCC and Belli Challenge day. WHEW! If that isn't exciting enough to keep you coming back I don't know what is!

Alright...I'm off...in case you didn't catch it from the above blurb...I've got some stampin' to do! I'll be posting my Page Plans card early as tomorrow we have church and a Super Bowl party to go to! Oh, and I've finally landed on Face Book so if you want to add me as a friend just search for my name.

Alright...have a super day everyone!

easy valentine gift idea

Good morning! I have a super easy valentine gift idea for you today. You know those fun boxes of candy hearts that you can get this time of year (right now they are 4 for $1 at my store)? Well, why not just wrap it with some patterned paper add a fun little tag and tie it all up with some ribbon?

I used Cosmo Cricket's Hey Sugar: Heart Strings, the SU! set called Happy Heart Day for the tag (along with my tag punches), and some chocolate chip satin ribbon. While you can't see it in the picture I used some Angel Wings Shimmez in the hearts that I got from limeLIGHT Papercrafts. Oh, and the ink is Rouge Colorbox Chalk cat eye. I really like that ink for the soft effect it gives. While they don't have my Rouge color limeLIGHT does carry the cat eye size of Colorbox...go check it out!

So...quick post today. I hope you like this idea! Have a super Friday everyone!

blog hop day

Good morning stampers! Today is the first day of the Sweet N Sassy Stamps February Blog Hop! Even though SNSS is not releasing new sets this month we all have some fun artwork to show you with the existing, wonderful stamp sets! You should be coming to my blog from Korin's blog and should have started at the Sweet N Sassy Stamps blog so go there quick if you haven't seen them yet!

Now...onto the card. This card is made with the SNS stamp set called Chocoholic. I decided to pair this cute sentiment and chocolate stamp with the wonderful Bittersweet designer paper from Basic Grey. I also used some of the neato Bittersweet glazed brads for this card. Everything about this card says...yummy!

I hope you like this card and are excited to see what Deb has for you today and the rest of the girls for the next two days. Just check my sidebar for all the links you'll need!

Sooooo...ya wanna know who won the Glory from Lorie? Random.Todd chose #43 which is Kate! Congrats Kate! Be looking for an e-mail from me for your mailing information!

Alright everyone! Have a super day and enjoy the rest of the blog hop!

one year of belli challenges

Good morning stampers! Sorry this is up a little late but I hope you enjoy anyway!

For the week of January 28, Belli #52, we are hosting a VERY special Belli Challenge in celebration of our One Year Anniversary. Some of you may have played this game before with some other groups...

We will be BAKING A CAKE to celebrate our First Anniversary of Belli Challenges.

How do we play BAKE A CAKE? Listed below is a list of cake ingredients. You all must pick 5 ingredients, and reply here with your choices, you can list them on your upload too, but don't share what the ingredients stand for, link them up here! Tomorrow I will give you the list of what the ingredients are equal to in Embellishments! On this second list is the corresponding crafting ingredient for the items you picked. For example, flour = ribbon (just an example - the actual list is different). Your challenge is to create a card with those 5 ingredients that you chose. You could wind up having to create a card with ribbon, chipboard, designer paper, buttons, and paint. This is the fun part. You don't know what you are picking!! Are you ready for this fun challenge?? Be sure to reply what your 5 choices are. My five ingredients are: flour, sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs.

Here are the ingredients, be sure to choose 5!

Flour
Sugar
Butter
Vanilla
Eggs
Salt
Baking soda
Chocolate
Nutmeg
Milk
Cinnamon
Powdered sugar
Cream cheese
Cocoa powder
Coconut
Oil

This week to play here is what you need to do...
1. Anyone Can Play! Spread the Word! :)
2. Pick your 5 ingredients!!!
3. Find out what the ingredients equal to in Embellishments!
4. Make a completed project with your CAKE INGREDIENTS -
5. Share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC52. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or Paper Craft Planet or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC52 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge - with a link!
6. I will do a drawing and the person whose name I draw will be a BELLI GUEST DESIGNER the last week of February
7. Deadline for entry is Tuesday evening 7 p.m. Central time.

Okay...got the rules and your 5 ingredients? Check it out below to find out what your ingredients mean in stamping terms and then...have fun creating!

Flour = brads
Sugar = designer paper
Butter = vellum
Vanilla = ribbon
Eggs = scallop punch/nestabilities
Salt = watercoloring
Baking soda = beads
Chocolate = buttons
Nutmeg = markers
Milk = distressing
Cinnamon = sponging
Powdered sugar = embossing powder
Cream cheese = chipboard
Cocoa powder = hardware
Coconut = flowers
Oil = glitter or stickles

This post is already really long so I don't want to list all the Belli Challenge girls so go ahead and head to my side bar for a link to their blogs for some wonderful inspiration! See ya tomorrow for the beginning of the Sweet N Sassy Stamps blog hop!

Card deets:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy from SU!
Card stock/paper: PTI Vanilla, Basic Grey Granola, PTI Linen Vellum
Ink: Night of Navy - SU!
Embellishments: Ribbon from limeLIGHT Papercrafts, brads from K&Company, Scallop Border Punch from SU!
Sketch from: Taylored Expressions

created by courtney challenge #23

Good morning stampers! Boy do we have a challenge for you today with the Created by Courtney Challenge for this week . I was quite challenged with this color combo but I bet you guys will just rock it!

Anyway, we are being challenged to use Real Red, Pink Passion, and Chocolate Chip. I used my SU! set Love You Much and the January Unity Stamps set (for the sentiment) along with some Real Red Grosgrain and the new heart punch from SU! to make this card. It is clean, easy, and (I think) cute. Where is the Chocolate Chip you ask? The dots below the ribbon. I know it isn't much but I really think that row of dots completes the card!

So, this is what I created...what do you have for this challenge? Go ahead, make something with this color combo...upload it with the tag CBCC23 and then link it back to Courtney's blog HERE for a chance to win a little giftie.

When you are all done with that...link back HERE for a chance to win some Glory from Lorie in honor of my getting 100,000 hits. If you like Basic Grey you'll love this blog candy!

Tomorrow is Belli Challenge day and it is going to be fun! I have to admit that I haven't made my card for it yet but I AM looking forward to my creative process with it!

So...you all go...have a super Tuesday and I'll see ya tomorrow!

hearts, tilda, and friends...

Good morning everyone! I hope your day has been super already! You all know that my Monday's are usually quite busy and today is no exception even though the boys have the day off school for end of quarter.

There are a couple of fun challenges out there that I wanted to play in but just didn't have the time to get to all of them separately so I put three of them together! This card works for the Sweet N Sassy Stamps Design Team Challenge, the KL Stamping and Scrappin' Monthly challenge, and Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #51. The SNSS challenge and the KLSS challenge both involve hearts and the TECC challenge is the sketch that I used.

I used some of the wonderful Basic Grey Bittersweet Paper, the sentiment is from Sweet N Sassy Stamps set called A True Friend, and the very sweet Tilda image named Cross Stitch Tilda came from a fellow SNSS DT member Sandy...thank you so much! I am just learning how to color these super cute images but if you click on Cross Stitch Tilda above you will find a wonderful coloring tutorial.

Tomorrow is another Created by Courtney Challenge so I hope you'll check back to see what you get to work with. And don't forget...you can sign up to win some Basic Grey Glory from Lorie HERE.

Have a wonderful rest of your day!

page plans sketch day

Good Sunday morning friends! I hope your weekend has been wonderful!

As you know...today is Page Plans sketch day. We were asked to make an adult valentine this week and well, I think I did. I started out thinking that I would like to make a valentine for Todd but realized once I got started that this wasn't going to be for Todd. Don't get me wrong...I like the shabby feel of this card but it just isn't a Todd card.

This was a super easy card to put together. I have used Basic Black, PTI White, and Basic Grey Eva papers, the Sweet N Sassy Stamps set called Home Sweet Home for the sentiment, and the heart border is from a Verve Stamps Set called Hundred Thoughts. Oh, and the new heart punch from Stampin' Up! Tell me...what do you think of this card?

Oh, and did you see what I saw when I looked at my hit counter? That's right ladies...I've gone over 100,000 hits! I can hardly believe it! I would love to give away some Glory from Lorie in honor of this and you know what it is going to be? A Basic Grey Pack. It will have paper (6x6), ribbon, rub-ons and some Basic Grey magnet buckles. If you'd like it..I'd even throw in this card, too! What do you need to do? Just comment on this post and tell me what new things you'd like to see on my blog. Please post your comment (one per person please) by 5 p.m. (EST) January 28th. I will announce the winner on Thursday's blog post. You are more than welcome to share this candy with your friends! **Side Note...if I draw your comment and you haven't left me a way to get a hold of you I will re-draw. **

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll see you soon!