Welcome to the 2012 Hero Arts Catalog Blog Hop. I can already tell this great new set, "This is BIG" CL570, is gonna be a frequently used favorite! It's got the perfect sentiments and greetings for encouraging and for celebrating big news and accomplishments! I mean, seriously, I've ...

Welcome to my stop on the 2012 Hero Arts Catalog Blog Hop! As always, I'm so honored to be part of the Hero Arts Blog Hop. I can't help but continue to gush over how much I love Hero and their products and people. They're the tops, for sure. I was sent some really awesome stamps to use and...

Welcome to our Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hops! Hop along with the Divas all week long as we share our first looks at a few of the new products releasing from Verve on Friday night! One lucky commenter from each day's hop will win the sets and dies featured that day, so be sure and leave a litt...

Hello, Dearies. Today just happens to be my birthday....my 36th, to be exact and it seems that I have a bit of a birthday tradition around here.....one that involves being grateful for the blessings in my life and one that involves birthday gifts -- for one of YOU. To read past birthday po...

It's the 25th of June already, and that means the Papertrey Blog Hop. This month's challenges was a color inspiration challenge. All these beautiful colors inspired me to create a card with the new Mehndi Medallion stamps that arrived this week. I was also inspired by the design of the littl...

I've been having a ball playing with my new May Papertrey Ink goodies for the past few days! Tonight I thought I'd better stop and pull out an older set so that I could get a blog post up. I chose Dawn's Signature Series: Dress Form set and paired it with some vintage papers (Melissa Frances ...

Hello, dear friends. It is with a heavy heart that I type this blog post. I'm not even sure exactly how or what to say except that we had to have Riley, our sweet doggie boy, put down this evening. He was fine when he first got up (I even tweeted about the sloppy kiss he left on my cheek th...

Isn't this fun? I made a video for A Muse Studio, and thought I'd share it here, too! Enjoy! •••••••••• All Supplies & Materials by/from A Muse Studio: Stamp Sets: Graphic Sunflower, Mad for Plaids Ink: Cherry, Sage, Sky; Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black Paper: Slate, Sugar, Onyx, Cherry G...

Welcome! Tonight I get to share some pieces made with Papertrey Ink's new March release--there are many different styles in this release, something for everyone. First up tonight is a card made with several sets: Sending You, Background Basics: Twinkle, Background Basics: Gingham...

Welcome! I'm in the middle of my next batch of Papertrey Ink release pieces and have a couple of other projects to do too, so tonight I'm sharing an odd card for this time of year--a Valentine or anniversary card. I had made this card for a publication call a few months back and was tickled pi...

Last night I got to have a little play time. Of course I reached for my Mint Motif Cake Shoppe stamps. The sets do come with some wicked cute "icing" trim stamps but I decided to embellish my cake layers with this Daisy Lace trim. So Cute!! I stamped the cake layers on vanilla cardstock so...

Yep, I'm a little late to the party. My stamps were a teeny tiny bit tardy to arrive in Canada so I'm posting my sneak peek card for you now. This sneak-a-peek is to share with you the news that Kimberly Crawford ~Stamper Extraordinaire is releasing 2 new stamp sets next week. **************...

Hello! Today I have a jar of daisies to share in an over-sized (5" x 7") card. I started with two Papertrey Ink stamp sets, Friendship Jar and Friendship Jar Fillers, stamping the images in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloring with the Copic markers shown below. In anticipation of someone...

Hi PTI Blog Hoppers!! Ok, Ok, Ok.......I admit it! I am just a little bit FELT OBSESSED these days. So you know that I am loving this months Hop challenge! The other day I made some cutie little framed felt decorations for a friends little girl and my baby nieces using PTI's Hawaiian Shor...

I'm all rested up from a fun a crazy week last week... and ready to get some sharing into the mix again! May Bouquet... isn't that a fun name for a product line! I have a fun card using Pebble's new line by that name. I just LOVE this line! Look at the brilliant mix of colors. *sigh* Love it! ...

Today I have a pink dahlia card to share with you. I reached back for the stamping roots on this one--no patterned papers--just stamps. :-) I started with Papertrey Ink's Delightful Dahlia set, as well as Background Basics: Text Style 2 and Background Basics: Petal Power. I chose Hibiscus Bur...

**I've been posting a LOT over the weekend (a LOT for me anyway!!) - make sure to scroll down and check out all the recent posts!** It's that time of the month again - All That Scraps' CC Designs stamp release time that is! I'm releasing TWO sets this month - more about those in a minute. There ...

Welcome to day 3 of the official Papertrey Ink countdown. If you read my blog regularly, you knew this project was coming - my easter tags for 2010! I had so much fun using elements that I made from my Egg Hunt inspiration station (on the previous post) to put together my tags for this year. The...

Today I get to feature Melissa's newest Papertrey Ink stamp set , Asian Fusion! (Available Feb. 15th) It's an elegant and sweet set featuring several flower sprigs, vases, border strips and sentiments. Melissa chose perfect fonts too... as you will see in today's projects. The first thing I thoug...

I have a quick post for you tonight; I'm leaving for CHA in less than two hours, and I'm still packing. . . I stamped the flower image from Baby Button Bits in Black Brilliance ink and heat set it before carefully coloring the image with my Copic markers. (I prewashed the shirt.) You have t...

So is anyone else FREAKED OUT that it's January 15th???????? Seriously. Our colour challenge today was picked by moi. Do you not love those colours together?? Yummy. I will admit that I technically didn't use any Ripe Avocado product but that's the great thing about a colour challenge. ...

This week's CPS 150 Sketch card is a baby card. October Afternoon was this week's CPS sponsor, and I just happened to have a pad of their Farm Fresh paper on hand to use with this layout. The stamp images are from PaperTrey Ink's Baby Button Bits, and buttons are New Leaf Vintage Buttons. I c...