Little Paper Shop Preview: {Angelic Jena}

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. I had a great time stamping with my friend Jen last night. Pizza, snacks, a few beverages, good conversation and 6 hours of child-free stamping...bliss!

Can you blieve it is time for the July Little Paper Shop previews? It seems like we were just doing the June previews. I can't believe how fast the summer is flying by!

Today's preview is an absolutely ADORABLE set called {Angelic Jena}.

{Angelic Jena} sits atop a beautiful crescent moon! She is sweet, innocent and a super-versatile image for birthdays, babies or "just because".

Want to WIN this set? Leave a comment on today's post on the Little Paper Shop blog and they will announce a radom winner tomorrow! Have a great Sunday everyone!

Enjoy the weekend!

It looks like it is going to be a great weekend around here! The house is clean and I finally get some time tonight (without the kids) to stamp! I haven't had much stamping time in days and I am so excited about tonight. My friend Jen is coming over and we are going to stamp the night away!

Today I have another simple but elegant card to share. I made this card with a wedding in mind but I guess it could be used for other occasions too. The sentiment stamp is from DRS Designs.
For wedding cards I tend to try and only use black and white for some reason, personal preference I guess. I just think these colors make a card look so elegant. I also love to add some bling or shimmer...for this card I used both. I added some self adhesive rhinestones to the corners and to finish it off I painted a white Prima flower with Angel Wings Shimmerz. Angel Wings is my absolute favorite color of Shimmerz because you can use it on any color flower or cardstock and it looks just beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Firecracker Designs is having a DT call!

I can't believe my year on the Firecracker Designs DT is almost up. It has been a great year! With that being said, Pamela will be looking for a new design team. If you are interested, check out all of the details HERE on Pamela's blog! Good luck!

Christmas in July at Firecracker Designs by Pamela!

Pamela is offering a Christmas in July sale starting NOW-through Sunday, July 12, 2009!! !

ALL Christmas Stamp sets are on sale, buy 2, get a 3rd one (of equal or lesser value) FREE!! Just type in the comment box which set you want free. (buy 4, get 2 free, etc…) Sale applies to Christmas/winter sets ONLY! (all the rubber /clear stamps on the Christmas Pages)

Happy Shopping!

Busy busy busy

Sorry for the short posts lately, but things are just crazy busy around here. I'm stealing one of the last cards from my stash to share today. I made this card a month or so ago for one of the Paper Makeup Stamps challenges. I absolutely love the Dustin Pike dinos that are sold at Paper Makeup Stamps. I thought the EK Success dino punch coordinated great with this image.Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are all having a great week!

Golf birthday

Hope everyone is having a great week! Life has been crazy busy for us lately. I'm still behind in visiting your blogs and once again I apologize. I promise, one of these days I will get caught up!

Today I wanted to share a fun birthday card I made a while back. DRS Designs has a ton of really fun golf stamps great for all of those golf lovers in our lives.

Thanks for stopping by today! I'm pretty sure there was more info that I was planning on posting today but I can't seem to remember it now. Maybe I'll be back later with another post, LOL.

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

Hi everyone! It is time for another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday blog challenge. To start the month off, we have a super fun sketch challenge! We would LOVE for you to play along with us! This week if you play along with us, you will have a chance to win some fabulous goodies from Jacksonbelle embellishments! All you need to do is make a card using this week's sketch and post a link to your creation on the Tuesday challenge post on the Jacksonbelle blog. You have until 3 PM EST on Friday July 10th to post your link. A random winner will be chosen from all participants. The lucky winner will receive a prize package that includes a package of Prima silver Galaxy Stars, a GORGEOUS Inkadinkado Summers Parade wood mounted stamp, and a Cosmo Cricket blackboard album!

Here is this week's sketch:

As crazy as this is for me to say....I made a NO STAMPING card for this week's challenge! There is absolutely zero stamping on this card. The sentiment panel comes from a piece from the Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste designer paper pack. Even though there were no stamps used, I did use a ton of fabulous products from Jacksonbelle Embellishments...Cosmo Cricket designer paper (ALL Cosmo Cricket is 25% off this week at JB), Prima flowers, Prima Say it in Crystals, Cuttlebug embossing folder , May Arts ribbon and Shimmerz paint!

For more sketchy inspiration, check out the blogs of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars!!!

Kristine Breach ~ Ink Something

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

Dawn Easton ~ Treasure Oiler Designz

Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff

Mitzi Koons ~ Stamps Jubilee

Loretta Lock ~ Love to Create

Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping

Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White

Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho

Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom

Shemaine Smith ~ Scraptastic

Lynda Benden: Stamp Act

Melissa Bove: Keepsakes By Melissa

Jennifer Buck: The Buck Stamps Here

Jill Dunn: Ink Genious

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Don't forget that ALL COSMO CRICKET is on sale 25% off this week! Shimmerz paint is also on sale right now too (you will definitely want to stock up when you see the price)! Be sure to check out the Jacksonbelle blog all week long for fabulous Cosmo Cricket inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by. We hope you all have a wonderful day!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge!

It's time for another wonderful Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! We have another great sketch challenge for you this week courtesy of one of our fabulous design team members...Allison! 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 LPSC23 if you're uploading to SCS or PCP.
There is a prize being given away with this week's challenge on the LPS blog. One random winner will be selected from the entries of this week's challenge and they will get 2 free digis of their choice from the LPS store....good luck!

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

I used the newly released Garden Gate.

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

Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a great week. Today I wanted to share a simple sympathy card. Sympathy cards are always the hardest cards for me to make. I don't like to make them too plain but at the same time fancy and complicated isn't always the best choice either. For my card today I decided to go with a fairly simple layout and then add a beautiful Blingz flower. I painted 2 Prima flowers, 1 with Spiced Cider Blingz and the other with Under the Sea. I layered them and added a brad. Nothing too fancy but enough to give the sympathy card a beautiful, elegant look.
The sentiment stamp is from DRS Designs. I paired it up with my favorite Gretel Cosmo Cricket designer paper.

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

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!