One More Halloween Project

Yes it's after Halloween but I have one more Halloween card to share.  I used the same tags that I printed for this project to make a fun card. I love the stitching the best on this card but there's lots of fun elements on this card.  I love the torn Pumpkin Pie cardstock and the chevron embossed Elegant Eggplant.  But the stitching is what really makes this card stand out. 

The stitching is super easy to do too.  I used my paper piercer and made the holes then took a large needle and threaded my twine through.  With the holes already made it's easy and FAST!  A quick bow at the bottom and it's done!  I love it!!!  Whooo Hooo!!!  Sorry for another short post but life is busy and I'm just trying to keep up!!!! 

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Busy Week

Happy Halloween!  I'm so very sorry but I have nothing today.  It's been a jampacked week of 'chores', plus I'm gone all day today with Logan on a special Halloween Field Trip to a pumpkin patch!  I've been so busy I haven't even had time to download all my new MDS downloads!  I'll be back tomorrow with something I PROMISE! 
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Hootiful Gifts!!

I have some amazingly cute little gifts to share with you today.  These are the gifts I'm giving to Logan's teachers.  I JUST LOVE THEM!!!  LOVE LOVE LOVE them to pieces!!!  These little candy bar wrappers are making their way through blogland.  I've only seen them in bat form, which is cute, but I really wanted to make an owl.  I'm difficult like that :)  The head was the hardest part.  I ended up free hand drawing and cutting it out.  The little tag is adorable and says: "Have a Hootiful Halloween!"-more on the tag later :)

The candy bar is actually in a box that the wings wrap around.  Yes it's a full size candy bar!  Logan's in first grade I think his teach deserves a full size candy bar!  The chocolate will slide out the bottom.  I did consider leaving the box out but I love all his colorful feather inside!  It's so cute!!!!!  I may add feet to the owl though :)

Ok the fantastic tag!  This tag was created in MDS by the ever talented Kimberly Van Diepen!  She has it on her blog, you too can print yourself a page of the Hootiful tags!!!!!  She's done all the work here.  I just added it to my little owl candy holder.  For my east coast visitors, I'm thinking and praying for you!  Be safe!!!!! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Simple Thank You

Oh my goodness, what an exciting day today will be!!!!!  Today's project is simple but oh so cute!!!  I made these quick and easy Thank You cards in My Digital Studio.  I'll have a bunch printed to have on hand.  Isn't it a fun card.  The idea for this card was inspired by one of the templates from MDS.  This card was done is just minutes!  If you're a MDS fan you'll want to check out the My Digital Studio site today.  There are HUGE things planned!!!!!  Free downloads, downloads at 50% off and MORE!!!!  Head over there to check it out! 

 

Don't forgot that today and TODAY ONLY is the HUGE stamp sale. 

Here are the details:

Stampin' Up! is hoping to break a few records by selling the most stamps in a single day! They need your help though!! For ONE DAY ONLY, Monday October 29, starting at 12:00 AM (MT) and ending at 11:50 PM (MT), almost every stamp we sell will be 15 percent off.

This means all stamps in the current catalogs including:

• Cookie press stamps
• Single stamps
• Personalized name stamps
• Background stamps 

This DOES NOT include

• Hostess sets
• Bundled stamp sets
• Digital stamp brush sets

There is no minimum purchase, and no limit to the number of stamps you can order!! Whooo Hooo!!!!

Email me your stamp orders today!!!  Or head to my website and order online.

Don't forget in addition to the HUGE sale!  SU is also celebrating National Scrapbooking Day for a whole week!!!!  That means this week is a week of FREE downloads and 50 percent off ALL digital kits!  I couldn't be more excited!!!!  PLUS if 18,000 people download the free downloads we'll get a fourth free too!!!!  Get out threre and spread the word!  Whooo Hooo!!!!  You can get your free downloads here. 


Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

HUGE NEWS!!!!

I don't have a project for you today but I have something equally if not MORE exciting.  There's HUGE news from SU, make sure you read it all below.  But first I wanted to show you my new favorite tool!!!  The brand new paper cutter.  It's been unavailable since the release of the catalog in June, but the wait is over.  Demonstrators can get it now, it will be available for customers to purchase sometime in November.  It's a fantastic cutter.  Here's just some of the things that I LOVE about it!!!!  Perhaps I'm just used to my dull old paper cutter but the cuts it makes are amazing, they're clean, sharp and no rough edges, even when I tried it with 2 pieces of CS!!! I love the lines on it and that they're under a plastic cover, that means your numbers will NEVER rub off!!!!!  I love that the lines measure every quarter inch. I love that you don't have to open the extender just to cut to 5 1/2, my most used cut!  The extender though, when you do open it is sturdy and just as perfect as the rest of the cutter.  I love how sturdy it feels and the size and color. The blades are smaller than I thought but I love that too.  The dark grey one cuts and the light grey one scores your cardstock.  I LOVE that you don't have to remove a blade to cut 12x12 CS!!!  There's room for both blade and 12x12 cardstock in there!!!!  There's a storage compartment on the bottom that's great for storing extra blades, bone folders, chocolate!  It's a great cutter!!!!  When final dates are announced for the cutter I'll make sure to let you know.  You'll want to get it as soon as possible!!!

 

Now for the really exciting news.  I hope you're sitting down! 

HUGE things are happening at the Stampin' Up! office. They're planning big things for next week. Here's what's going one. YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THE FIRST ONE!!!!!

Would you like 15% off stamp sets!!!??!!! ME TOO!

Here are the details:

• Stampin' Up! is hoping to break a few records by selling the most stamps in a single day! They need your help though!! For ONE DAY ONLY, Monday October 29, starting at 12:00 AM (MT) and ending at 11:50 PM (MT), almost every stamp we sell will be 15 percent off.

This means all stamps in the current catalogs including

• Background stamps
• Personalized name stamps
• Cookie press stamps
• Single stamps

This DOES NOT include

• Hostess sets
• Bundled stamp sets
• Digital stamp brush sets

There is no minimum purchase, and no limit to the number of stamps you can order!! Whooo Hooo!!!!

What if I make the deal a little sweeter and tell you that if you call or email me your order on Monday, (calls and email orders must be into me NO LATER than 8PM Monday night) YOU'LL GET FREE SHIPPING TOO!!!!! Free shipping, 15% off all stamp sets-this is a deal you can't afford to pass up!!!!
Also next week, if you're a My Digital Studio user you'll LOVE this offer!!! Starting Monday and lasting the entire week. You'll get three FREE downloads, plus 50% off ALL digital kits, plus mega blogging on MyDigitalStudio.net all week!

Finally, Stampin' Up! is running a test program to see how well individual stamps sell. So now you can just buy one stamp from a set, instead of the whole set. Some things to know about this special is:

• You can only buy single stamps from select sets.
• They come in clear mount only!
• They'll also be 15% off on Monday!!!!!
• To see all the single stamps you can buy visit my website

Of course if you have questions on any of this please call or email me. 
Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!!

An Owloween Treat!

Did you happen to see the winner of last weeks MDS challenge?  It was the fantastic Heather Summers!!  Congratulations Heather.  I do LOVE all her work and she is an MDS genius-I've learned so much from her.  Which is where today's project comes from.  If you check out Heather's winning page you'll see the most adorable little Halloween Owls.  I just loved them and HAD to make them right away!!!!  Logan had given me very strict instructions for his class Halloween gifts:  "I just a piece of paper with the sucker stuck in it."  So I created these little tags, they're about 2 1/4 x 4.  You get 6 per sheet, you probably could get 8 per sheet, but I'm always terrified that if I design too close to the edge it will get cut off in printing.  So, often, to be safe, I generally leave big borders.  Since I needed them right away I sent them to Staples to print.

I'm so happy to say too, that these were all cut out with the brand new paper cutter!!!!  It's fantastic, but I'll have more on the cutter another day :)  I followed Logan's rules-paper and sucker---very simple.  Sorry the picture isn't great.  You know procrastinating is becoming a real problem.  I hate taking pictures without natural light but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do :)  I hope you get the idea.  These were so simple to make.  I just glued the tags to some black cardstock, punched a couple holes, add the candy--DONE!!!  25 of them in just minutes!!!!!

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

A Little More Time...

Yesterday I felt like making a card that was a little detailed, well maybe a lot detailed.  A card that took more than 3 minutes to put together.  A card that was simply stunning.  And a card almost too pretty to mail....almost.  Here's the card I came up with.  I used the Stippled Blossoms set.  I love this set.  It's so pretty, I love love love this color combo!!!  Thanks amazing color coach I {heart} you!!!!  I looked at my color coach and I knew I wanted pink flowers, I had some extra Primrose Petal ribbon :) so I looked up Primrose Petals.  Coordinating colors were Baja Breeze and So Saffron.  The green was added because, well, leaves are green :)

 

The flowers and leaves are all cut out, that's what took so long :)  Almost everything is up on dimensionals.  I counted and I think I used about 30 dimensionals on just this card alone.  Don't judge me.  Dimensionals are awesome and I keep thousands of them in stock (no joke).  So 30 is really not that many :)  The edges are sponged with Sahara Sand just to give some more texture.  There's no greeting on it.  I think once I know who the lucky recipient of this card will be I'll add an appropriate greeting.  I hope you like my card that took a little more time than usual :)

 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

Neon Notes!

How stinkin' sweet is this page!!!!  These are some pictures I took of Megan yesterday.  Every time I get out my camera to take pictures of cards she always jumps up on the chair and insists that I take some of her too.  Normally she has her eyes closed or they're blurry from her moving.  Not yesterday though, she was ready to be photographed!!!  I love the picture on the left for sure!!  My friend Kim said "That's the look we ALL get when we are in our stamping space!"  Very true, especially when there's new stuff!!!!  This page is this weeks submission to the MDS contest.  The theme this week Neon!  I love the super bright bold colors on this page and the soft black and white photos.  If you like this page, head over the MDS site and like and comment on my page.  It's BIG day here!!!  I'm expecting UPS and he has my new paper cutter!!!!  Whoooo Hooo!!!  I'm off to sit *inpatiently* by the door :)

 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Trick or Treat

We had a really fun weekend.  Saturday Megan had a small birthday 'party'.  We just had the grandparents over, not sure you can call that a party.  But she got gifts and has played with them ever since!  She got a really fun princess castle and all the accessories to go with it, she's a happy girl.  Luckily she had some new toys to play with since on Sunday Dan, Logan and I were off to see the Lion King.  It's the traveling Broadway show, the Lion King is in Albuquerque for almost a month.  It was really great.  Logan loved it!  His eyes were glued to the stage the whole time (except for the times where certain animals came walking right by our seats).  We made sure to get seats on the floor right on the aisle for that very reason :)  So because of our busy weekend you'll understand why this post is kind of quick.  This first card is a quick and easy Halloween card that is so fast to put together you could make a stack in just minutes.  I won't go into too many details on it.  There's no mind blowing technique on it after all:)

 

The next card is the card that Logan made for Megan for her birthday.  He really wanted to make her a card, but I was in the middle of cooking dinner so I handed him a left over envelope filled with the supplies to make this card (scroll down to the 3rd card) from my stamp a stack.  I told him he could use any stamps and supplies that were already out on my desk.  So here's what he created.  Isn't it great!!?!!  He even dug through my box of recycled paper to find the right colors to punch the cherries and candles!  Sorry the picture isn't great.  I had to take it on Friday night in my poorly lit stamp room.  He said he did 2 cupcakes because one is for Megan the other is for him :)  This post ended up being longer than I thought, have a great Monday, I just got a shipment of FUN in so I'll be playing with that this week!!!

 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

MDS Punches

How great is MDS, I know I've praised it before but when you can create something out of punches that's just as amazing as with paper well then whats not to love!!!  This fun Halloween card is made with yes PUNCHES in MDS!  I'll give you a little tip, it's the drop shadows that do the real magic.  If the punches were all just layered without the drop shadows it wouldn't look nearly as amazing!  I love this adorable little card.  The witch is fun, not scary :)  It's my submission for this weeks MDS contest.  Head over there and check it out.  You still have time to enter your own Halloween creation! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

Happy Birthday Megan!!!

Today is Megan's 2nd birthday.  She's a crazy, energetic, lovable, sweet little girl who often can drive me crazy and then make me smile all at the same time.  She loves pink and anything and everything that glitters and sparkles.  She's all girl!!!  I created this fun card for her.  The base of the card is a window sheet, how fun is that!!!!  I love the bright yellow tag and the glittery 2.  Don't forget all those rhinestones!!!

The 2 is from the silver glimmer paper.  I found a chipboard 2-how perfect!!!  I traced it onto the back of the silver paper, cut it out then dyed it Melon Mambo with a sponge and some Melon Mambo reinker!  How cool custom glitter paper!!!!  Whoooo Hooo!!!!  That was a fun tip from our Stampin' Success this month-a demonstrator only magazine. 

I lined the inside of the card with some Melon Mambo cardstock and stamped a birthday greeting for Megan.  There's still room for us to write something though if we get too wordy I may have to just use a separate sheet of paper :)  I should have lined it with another card inside so that you could open the inside into another card.  Oh well nice thinking for next time! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

Vintage Penguin

I love the vintage look to this card.  The cardstock is crumpled and ruffled, the safety pin is fun and the splatter makes it look aged!  So fun!!!!  Also the newsprint DSP is fantastic.  I can't believe it's taken me so long to get it!!!!  Am I crazy!!!!?!  This card was inspired by this card made my Kimberly Van Diepen.  She's amazing and I love her style, her cards always have a fun feel to them and the layers she adds are incredible!!!!  I just love all her work!!! 

Looking at the pictures of this card the tags seem to be a little off.  They just look so huge!  I used the stamp from Teeny Tiny Wishes but I think it's too much.  I think I may trim off the Christmas part of the tags so they just say 'merry'.  I didn't notice that on the card in person so I'll have to go back and take another look at it.  I love the rest of the card though, it's so fun!!!! 

I love all the colors on this card, the color inspiration came from a hot air balloon I saw at the Balloon Fiesta that is held in Albuquerque every year.  I jotted down the colors of the balloon and came home and had to create with those colors.  They are Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit, Baja Breeze and Certainly Celery.  I wish I had a good picture of the balloon to show you.  The only picture I have isn't great, it was a little overcast the day we went to the Balloon Fiesta.    

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Stack of Christmas Cards!

Over the weekend I had my Christmas card stamp a stack.  This class is always popular!  I had a great time, I hope everyone else did as well.  The Christmas cards this year were simple, fun and easy to reproduce-good thing too because everyone made 20 cards 5 each of the four designs.  The first one is fun! We used Dazzling Details to add the ornaments on the tree!  So fun!!!! 

The next one I just love, the cute little reindeer is so cute!!!  I love the banner on this card!  The chevron folder adds a subtle but fun background!

Who doesn't love glitter!!!?!  This card might be my favorite, the glitter paper is just AMAZING!!!!!!  The greeting and flowers are embossed in gold embossing powder to add to the sparkle and shine!!!!

Finally, this card was inspired by my friend Michelle C.  She made a card like this at our shoebox swap.  I love the door and couldn't wait to make one.  With the Core'dations cardstock it really brings out the woodgrain texture. 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!!