It's Talk Like A Pirate Day

Ahoy!, ye mateys! I thought that you all might like to know that today is Talk Like A Pirate Day. See HERE for all the official lingo! It's a little late to make cards now but SU! has some super fun pirate products for your favorite shipmate. Be it party invitations or just a fun "love you" card we've got ya covered. Click HERE to order!




Now go...find yourself some grog and have a wonderful Saturday!

Mocha Club

Morning! Some of you may have noticed the new badge I have on my left side bar. It says "I gave up 2 mocha's for Africa." What am I talking about now? Well, Mocha Club members are helping to rehabilitate women in Uganda and Ethiopia so they can be healthy and live in safety, freedom, and hope.

Are you asking why? Often, the women and children of Africa are the most exposed and abused, especially in areas where there is war. The young women in Gulu, Uganda are called “child mothers” because they were only children themselves when they were abducted, trained as fighters, and given as sex slaves to rebel soldiers in the “Lord’s Resistance Army,” a rebel paramilitary group in Northern Uganda. Now that they have escaped or been excused as expendable, the community at large rejects them and their children.

The Village of Hope provides homes, a school, clinic, job training, counseling and support for these women. Several of the Child Mothers from Village of Hope who are being rehabilitated are now helping serve and lead clubs for other Child Mothers at local Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps in and around Gulu...In Ethiopia, the face of prostitution is often linked with deep poverty. “Women at Risk” is a group we have partnered with to rehabilitate former sex workers in Nazaret, Ethiopia. Women think prostitution is their only hope and enter that world because of a lack of family support and a lack of income. From our experience, the women are desperate to leave this occupation, but are trapped by the lack of opportunities and rehabilitative support.

How can you help? Well, for the cost of two mocha's a month you can completely change the life of women and children in Africa. That's right...for a pledge of just $7 a month you can help child mother's and women at risk. I have formed a team called Stamping Sisters For MC. As crafters our talents allow us to be able to make some money through the sales of our products. I challenge you to sell just one or two extra items a month to support Mocha Club. Don't want to go about it that way but would still like to help? GREAT! I'd love for you to be on my team. All you need to do is click HERE or on the photo to the left in my sidebar to find out more about Mocha Club.

How am I going to motivate you? Well, I'll be sending a card to each person that joins my team and I'll be holding monthly Stamping Sisters for MC challenges each month. It will be fun...I promise! Even if you don't stamp...please join us...it is a great cause to give your $7 to!

Please let me know if you have any questions at all...I'd be happy to answer them!

Happy AND Sad...

Morning all! Today is a happy day and sad day all at one time. Happy...today is limeLIGHT Papercrafts sketch and product challenge day! Yay! Guess what today's challenge is? Patterned paper...who doesn't love patterned paper and just use it all the time? You must play along because if you do...you could win the Hauntingly Sweet stamp set from Unity Stamps! Wow, huh?

So, onto my card. I had so much fun making this card! I got to use the Jolly By Golly paper by Cosmo Cricket again. LOVE it! You have got to see this paper...it is SO cute! All of the patterns you see here are from that Mini Deck! I also used the Pink Cat Studios set called QT Hooty Owl. If you like owls this is the perfect set for you as it has an owl stamp for every occasion. Finally you will see the beautiful Island Lagoon Rhinestones. They are the perfect final touch to this layout!

So, I'm thinking you'd like to know how to win the Unity Stamp Set right? Okay...here you go...

The Details:
**Use the sketch HERE and dress it up with your favorite PATTERNED PAPER!!
**Key word for SCS upload is LLPC030
**Post a comment with a link to your card right HERE on this post by Sunday, September 20, at midnight (or before winner is drawn Monday a.m.).

I know you all love to see the limeLIGHT DT inspiration so I'll link y'all up! Ann (guest designer), Amy, JenMarie, Lee, Lisa, Ryann, and Mandy. And, while you are hoping along be looking for some EXTRA blog candy! You will have TWO chances to win this time! One of the design team members blogs has a second chance to win candy so be on the look out!!!

Now, for the sad part of my post. Due to the fact that I'm going to sign the new IDA that Stampin' Up! has I have had to step down from the limeLIGHT Papercraft design team. I just can hardly believe it when I type that. Mandy has just been amazing to work with...she is sweet, has an amazing online store, and really gave me a wonderful chance to use my creativity. Thank you Mandy! You and your store are the bomb! To the other design team gals... you guys have all been so wonderful...visiting my blog, leaving comments, and working together to make limeLIGHT a great success. I will be visiting you all often and, hopefully, playing along with the LLPC challenges!

So...go...make a card with the sketch Mandy has provided and win that Unity set! See ya soon!

A Sneak Peek

Morning all! Just stopping in to give a sneak peak to my stamp club members. We meet for the first time of our stamp club year tonight and well...these peppermint patties are just too cute not to share!

I'm sure you've seen the peppermint patty spiders before but I decided that I wanted to turn them into something not so "Halloweeny" so I thought maybe a pumpkin. I just used the large oval punch for the body of the pumpkin and the small oval punch for the stem. Then I just sponged Dusty Durango on the pumpkins and Old Olive on the stem for some depth. Aren't they cute? I think the spiders are pretty self-explanatory too but if you have any questions just let me know! You can purchase everything you need to make these cute peppermint patty pumpkins and spiders on my demonstrator website. You'll find the link in the right column over there ----->

So, stamp club members...you'll be making one of each of these this evening! I'm excited to see you tonight!

Have a great day everyone!

More Build A Bear

Morning everyone! For at least a year now I've been following the fabulous Dawn Griffith's blog. She is a Stampin' Up! demo with talent galore! Anyway, I was over there checking things out when I saw her make a Peek Through Window Card (her name for this card) and I just had to make one. Sooo...

Here it is! I used two of the super Build A Bear sets, Seal of Pawthenticity and Beary Nice Wishes. The patterned paper is the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper that is perfect for boys or girls cards. This is very clean, simple and perfect card for a quick thank you note for a child's gift/baby shower thank yous or the like. I don't think I need to type out the deets but if you have any questions let me know!

Tomorrow night is stamp club and guess what? Yep, I have everything planned out and almost ready to go...woohoo! I'll share with you soon. Now, to get my swap cards done...yikes!

Anyway, have a super Tuesday everyone! See you soon!

Gnome for the Holidays

Morning everyone! It's supposed to be another hot one here today...89 degrees and today is our all church picnic. Good thing there are wonderful big trees with lots of shade, huh?

To cool things off a bit in my stamping area I just had to get this gnome stamp from limeLIGHT out. When I saw it and the sentiment as the perfect addition...I knew they would be so cute! I also had to use the super cute Cosmo Cricket paper called Jolly By Golly again...I love how happy and fun it is! To top it off I added some yummy Kaisercraft Pearls in red and green. And the sketch is from Techno Stampers Lunchtime Sketch for this week.

You have got to get over to limeLIGHT to check out all the great, NEW products in the store. Mandy even has the new Unity Stamps Store Set....which you can only get at select stores and LLPC is one of them! Woot!

Well, that's all I've got for you today. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday! See you soon!