Happy Wednesday!

Hope everyone is having a great week! Today I thought I would share one of the cards that I made with my July Firecracker Designs design team set. This month I am playing with Pamela's set "Phrases set 1". For this card I paired it up with one of my favorite sets ever..."She Dreams". I absolute LOVE this dragon. I colored the dragon with Copic markers and then painted areas with Shimmerz Marigold paint. I love the shiny look it gives the dragon.
Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!

Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday Challenge!

Welcome to the Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday Challenge. We have been doing sketch challenges all month long and today we have a fabulous one for you. We would love for you to play along with us. If you do, please be sure to let us know. Either leave a comment on the JB blog or use keyword JBE060 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

Here is this week's sketch:Here is my card. Once again, I flipped the sketch. I used this adorable Archaic designer paper from Basic Grey and matching Basic Grey brads. The stamps are from Paper Makeup Stamps.

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars. It is the last week for a few of our dt members so be sure to leave them some love, they will definitely be missed!
AJ Otto
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Lindsey Botkin
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Shannan Teubner
Kimberly O'Rosky

Thanks for stopping by today!

Twinkling Tuesday Challenge - Summe Slice

Hey everyone! Hope you had a great start to your week. It is time for another Twinkling Tuesday challenge. Even though I didn't have enough time to play along this week, I wanted to share the fabulous challenge with you! This week we have a inspiration challenge for you! Here is the inspiration piece (isn't this just mouthwatering!):

Be sure to check out the blogs of my fabulous fellow TT design team members for some fun summer slice inspiration!
Cassie

Christi

Darla

Debbie

Heather S.
Jacquie

Janna
Jessica
Kim
Kimmie

Rebecca

Sandra
Lisa Slusser

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check back later this morning for the Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge!

This is my second post for the day. Please scroll down to see the DRS Designs Monday challenge.

It's time for another wonderful Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! We have another great challenge this week....a sketch with a twist! The challenge is to use Julia's wonderful sketch but also incorporate a cupcake or cupcakes into it. We would love for you to play along! If you play along remember to leave a comment on the LPS blog and also use keyword LPSC22 if you're uploading to SCS or PCP.
There is a prize being given away with this week's challenge on the LPS blog. Since we are all about the cupcakes this week at LPS, you can win Katie Cupcake! One random winner will be selected from the entries of this week's challenge....good luck!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you all have a great day!

DRS Designs Monday Blog Challenge!

Can you believe this is our 24th DRS Designs challenge! Wow! We hope you have been enjoying them! We sure have. The DT's challenge this time was to use the dazzling diamond dust technique. This is such a cool technique and really takes no time at all. We would love for you to participate in the challenge. Just post a direct link to your creation in the comment section on the DRS Designs blog and if you upload to a public gallery, please use the keyword DRSC24.

Be sure to check out the DRS Designs blog for more inspiration from the DT !

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One last thing!!! Be sure to stop by The Pink Elephant Challenge blog starting today thru Sunday, DRS Designs will be sponsoring the current challenge - check out the details at The Pink Elephant on how you might be able to win some DRS Designs stamps!!

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Here is my card for this week's challenge. Even though the technique is fairly simple, I struggled with the challenge this week. After several attempts, this was my best Diamond Dust sample:

This technique is really hard to photograph well. I did my best to try and show the diamond dust without totally blinding all of you.

I hope you all had a great weekend. Stop by later this morning for my Monday Little Paper Shop Challenge card and check back tomorrow for a fabulous Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday challenge as well as the newest Twinkling Tuesday challenge.

Blog Hop time! FCD Goes Outdoors!

It's time for the June Firecracker Designs blog hop! The theme this month is: FCD Goes Outdoors. Pamela released 4 really cool outdoorsy sets this month that you can check out HERE.
For my card, I used the new set "A Little Bird Told Me..." This set is absolutely GORGEOUS!

Thanks for stopping by today! This is a “circular blog hop” where the beginning is wherever you start!! You will know you are at the end of the blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from! (It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started.)

There will be blog candy given away to 1 lucky blog hop participant. The winner will be chosen from the comments left on the blog of one of the FCD design team members...but which one? The blog candy hostess is a mystery! We don't even know who the blog candy hostess will be until the hop is over…so make sure you leave a comment on EVERY blog, so you don’t miss out on a chance at the blog candy!

**If you are the blog candy winner, you will be contacted by Pamela via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on Pamela’s blog after the blog hop ends on Tues, June 30th at 8:00 PM (EST).**

Now, to continue the circle, hop on over the the blog of the incredibly talented KARYN,
and keep going until you’ve come back to where you’ve started! Thanks so much for playing along with us and we hope you have a great time!

Life Happens

I hope everyone is having a great week. Unfortunately it definitely hasn't been the greatest week for me. Actually it has been a really stressful week. I apologize to all of you yet again for not getting around to visit your blogs this week. Sadly, I will probably need to just clear out my google reader as I currently have over 400 unread posts in there. I promise to try and stop by your blogs soon! I should have a little more time to try and keep up with things, because starting next week I will once again be a full time stay at home mom. Sometimes life doesn't exactly turn out exactly the way you expect and you have to make decisions that are best for you instead of worrying about everyone else. Yesterday I resigned from my job. It just was not the right fit for me at this point in my life. I am now going to spend the rest of the summer enjoying my precious time with the kids before Annabelle heads off to kindergarten in the fall. No more 4 am wake up calls for me! YAY!!!
Because of all of the chaos in my life this past week I haven't had any stamping time. Luckily I still have a few stash cards to share!
Today I thought I would share another card that I made with the DRS Designs Dustin Pike images. I just LOVE these stamps. They are adorable and a dream to color!
Thanks for stopping by today. Just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday is the June Firecracker Designs blog hop. You won't want to miss it!
Have a great day!

Guess What!!!

I got published!!!! This is my very first publication so I am totally thrilled. This is such an awesome moment in a really really really stressful week!
You can see my card on page 93 of the newest issue of Just Cards!
I also wanted to congratulate a few of my fellow DRS Designs design team members who also have cards in this issue: Vicki, Jennifer and Sue! Congrats ladies!

Check out Shimmerz at Craft Critique

Hello all! This week Craft Critique is reviewing Shimmerz, Blingz and Spritz! Check out their reviews HERE.



Hope you are all having a wonderful week!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

As promised, the sketchy fun continues...
We would love to have you play along with us this week. If you do, please use keyword JBE059 when uploading to PCP and SCS.

Here is this week's sketch:

Here is my card:

For my card I used another one of the adorable Stampavie Sarah Kay images. I also some Basic Grey designer paper from Jacksonbelle.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars for more sketchy inspiration:
for more sketchy inspriation!
AJ Otto
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Lindsey Botkin
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Shannan Teubner
Kimberly O'Rosky

Thanks for stopping by today!

Bling-a-ling-ling...

Welcome to this week's Twinkling Tuesday challenge! This week the challenge is to use rhinestones on your project. We'd love to have you play along. If you decide to play, please use keyword MTTSC28 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

I have a couple cards for this week's challenge. All stamps used are from DRS Designs.

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Twinkling Tuesday design team for more blingy inspiration:
Cassie

Christi

Darla

Debbie

Heather S.
Jacquie

Janna
Jessica
Kim
Kimmie

Rebecca

Sandra
Lisa Slusser

Thanks for stopping by today!

It's Monday...

which isn't always a good thing (I'm not a huge fan of Mondays)....BUT there is something fun going on today! Monday means it is time for a Little Paper Shop blog challenge! The Little Paper Shop blog has a challenge every Monday and this week one lucky participant will win 2 free digital stamps from {Little Paper Shop}! Challenges are great but challenges with prizes are even better, right! The challenge this week is a fun sketch! If you decide to play along make sure you add a link to your project in the comments section on the Little Paper Shop blog. Also, if you upload to SCS or PCP please use keyword LPSC22.

Here is this week's sketch:

Here is my card:For my card I used the adorable set {Birthday Surprise} from Little Paper Shop.

For some more sketchy inspiration check out the blogs of the rest of the Little Paper Shop Design Team:

• Julia
  
• Allison
  
• Bonnie
  
• Cindy
  
• Jessica
  
• Janna
  
• Jennifer
  
• Jessie
  
• Julie
  
• Mel
  
• Sarah
  
• Silvia
  

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a great start to your week. Stop by tomorrow for more fun with the Jacksonbelle Embellishments blog challenge and the Twinkling Tuesday challenge!

Happy Father's Day!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Just wanted to share a couple Father's Day cards that I made last week for the DRS blog.
Tom is out of town and I won't see my dad today so it is a bit of a strange Father's Day around here. The kids and I are going to hang out and maybe go to the zoo if the weather holds up.

Here are my easy Father's Day cards. All stamps used are from DRS Designs.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Simple Thank You

If you are looking for the Shimmerz birthday blog hop post, please scroll down 2 posts.


Hello all! Today I just have a simple Thank You card to share. I appreciate all of the wonderful comments you all leave on a daily basis. It really means a lot to me!

Both stamps used are from DRS Designs.

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Paper Makeup Monday Challenge (on Wednesday)

Hope everyone is having a great week. If you are looking for the Shimmerz Birthday Blog Hop post, please scroll down to the previous post.

Since I'm all caught up with my design team work for the month I thought I would take some time this week and do something totally crazy....stamp for fun! LOL. Don't get me wrong, I love all of the stamping time I get, but for the most part I usually spend my stamping time working on design team requirements. This week though, everything is just for fun.
Paper Makeup Stamps has a challenge on their blog every Monday. This week the challenge was to make a project using the colors yellow, aqua, chocolate and white/cream. It just so happens that my latest order from Paper Makeup was delivered on Monday so I had to get them inked up right away. At first I had a hard time trying to tie in the aqua but in the end I absolutely LOVED how my card turned out. I smile every time I look at this adorable guy!
Supplies used: Stamps from Paper Makeup Stamps, SU CS, SU DP, Copic markers, Basic Grey self adhesive pearls.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are all having a terrific week!

SHIMMERZ Birthday Blog Hop!!!

This is my 3rd blog post for today. Please scroll down to see my Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge and this week's Twinkling Tuesday sketch challenge.

Welcome to the Shimmerz birthday blog hop!!!! If you are just hopping in, be sure to go back and start the hop from the beginning - the Shimmerz blog - (you will need to start at the beginning and go in order if you are interested in the HUGE Shimmerz blog hop blog candy!). If you got here via Deanna Kroll's blog you came from the right place!

Here is my Shimmerz birthday project:
The present is painted with Sunny and Ultra Marine Shimmerz. The rest of the image is colored with Copic markers. The adorable image and sentiment are from DRS Designs.

Here is a side view TO show that the boy is popped up from the present with dimensionals:
Thanks for hopping along with us. Next stop is the blog of the incredibly talented Jami Bova!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

Our month of sketchy fun continues! This week we have another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments sketch challenge for you. We would love for you to play along. If you do, please use keyword JBE058 when uploading to PCP or SCS.

Here is this week's sketch:Here is my card:

For my card I flipped the sketch. I used an adorable Stampavie Sarah Kay stamp and some Basic Grey Wisteria designer paper from Jacksonbelle Embellishments. I think these images are just totally adorable! Jacksonbelle has 5 different Sarah Kay stamps in stock right now.

Be sure to check the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars for more sketchy inspriation!
AJ Otto
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Lindsey Botkin
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Shannan Teubner
Kimberly O'Rosky

Thanks for stopping by today! Check back later this morning for the huge Shimmerz birthday blog hop!

Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge #27

It's time for another fun Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday sketch challenge. Unfortunately I didn't have time to play along this week (actually I tried to play along but after spending 2 hours on a card it ended up in my recycling bin).
We would love for you to play along. If you decided to play, please use keyword MTTSC27 when uploading to SCS and PCP. Here is this week's skech:

Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Twinkling Tuesday design team:
Cassie

Christi

Darla

Debbie

Heather S.
Jacquie

Janna
Jessica
Kim
Kimmie

Rebecca

Sandra
Lisa Slusser

Thanks for stopping by today!

Blog Candy Winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered my blog candy giveaway!
The winner (chosen by random.org) is #10.....MONI

Moni, please send me an email (thlr2003@gmail.com) with your address and I will get your candy sent out right away!

Little Paper Shop Garden Gate Preview

This is my 2nd blog post for today. Please scroll down to see this week's fun DRS Designs challenge!

I am back to preview another set from The Little Paper Shop, and this time, we have an exciting challenge to go along with it!

Introducing: {Garden Gate}! This set is a gorgeous combination of sentiments, butterflies, flowers and more! Garden Gate is like nothing LPS has done before and is SUPER fun to color and embellish. The sentiments are perfect for all occasion so we know you will be getting plenty of use out of this brand new set!


What's more? For one week only, beginning with Tuesday's release, BOTH new releases are on sale for 10% off at The Little Paper Shop! (while supplies last)

Be sure to head over to the LPS Blog today to see what the DT has created for this challenge. It's also LPS Monday, and the 15th of the month (the day of our monthly DT challenge), which means we have QUITE the awesome challenge for you, and not only one, but TWO ways to WIN this set!

You can participate in our DT challenge, issued this month by the FABULOUS Jen, and also leave a comment to be randomly selected, so we'll meet you over at the LPS blog right now for all the fun!

Hope you all have a wonderful day! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a FABULOUS Shimmerz birthday blog hop as well as the Tuesday Jacksonbelle challenge and a Twinkling Tuesday Sketch!

DRS Blog Challenge #23!

Welcome to another DRS Designs Blog challenge...this week the DT was challenged to make a buckle card. You can find a tutorial on how to make these great looking and easy cards HERE on SCS.

We would love for you to play along with the challenge. Post a direct link to your creation in the comment section of the challenge post on the DRS blog so we can check it out! If you upload to a public gallery, please use the keyword, DRSC23.

Before this challenge, I had never made a buckle card...ever! The tutorial on SCS is really easy to follow. I was a little worried about my card being too simple, but in the end I actually LOVE how it turned out! The flower background is a small stamp that I stamped over and over. I colored the flowers with my Copic and Prismacolor markers and added SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the white flowers. The large red flower is a Prima flower that I folded in half and added a coordinating button. The card is actually really beautiful in real life (the photo just doesn't do it justice).
Supplies used: All stamps are from DRS Designs, SU cardstock, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, SU button, Prima flower, Copic and Prismacolor markers, SU word window punch.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out the DRS Designs blog for some more fabulous buckle cards made by the DRS design team.

Exciting News!!

Today I wanted to share some exciting news with all of you. A few weeks back, I got an email asking me if I would be interested in joining the Little Paper Shop design team. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was. I absolutely LOVE the stamps from Little Paper Shop. They have fabulous designs, wonderful quality clear stamps and tremendous customer service. It took me about 2 seconds to accept the invitation! I am thrilled and honored to be joining such a talented team of stampers!

Little Paper Shop is releasing two super-cute sets this month! Both sets will be released THIS Tuesday, June 16th and will be on sale for 10% off beginning on release day. This sale will last one week or while supplies last, so be sure to grab your new stamps while they're HOT!

Our first preview is one "sweet" set, {Katie Cupcake}. Isn't she just the cutest! For my card I colored the image twice. I cut out one Katie and one bow and popped them up on the other image with dimensionals. I glittered the cupcake with chunky glitter to give it the look of sugar.


Be sure to head on over to the LPS Blog to check out the rest of the DT's adorable previews!

Last but not least, want to WIN this set? All you have to do is leave a comment over on the LPS blog and one lucky winner will be chosen via Random.org...good luck and have a "Sweet" Day!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!