Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday Challenge!

Welcome to week 3 of the Jacksonbelle September challenges contest! Up for grabs are a $50 Jacksonbelle gift certificate, a $30 Jacksonbelle gift certificate and a $15 Jacksonbelle gift certificate. The rules are easy...play along with the Jacksonbelle Embellishments September Tuesday challenges and use stamps from either Inkadinkado, Stampavie, Prima or Basic Grey. For the full contest details, click HERE.

This weeks challenge is a fun one...make a fall or Halloween card! Jacksonbelle has a ton of new fall and Halloween products in stock that would work perfect for all of your fall and Halloween projects...Inkadinkado stamps, Basic Grey designer paper, Prima flowers....Tons of fun stuff! We would love for you to play along! If you do, make sure to let use know and use keyword JBE071 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

I made a couple cards for this week's challenge. Both of my cards use the new Basic Grey Indian Summer designer paper. I am absolutely in love with this paper. It is absolutely beautiful! All of the stamps that I used are from Inkadinkado. I also used some Basic Grey brads and May Arts ribbon.

For more Fall/Halloween inspiration be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars:

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff

Mitzi Koons ~ Stamps Jubilee

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

Jennifer Buck: The Buck Stamps Here

Jill Dunn: Ink Genious

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

Also wanted to let you know that GORGEOUS new PRIMA flowers are in stock at JB! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Little Paper Shop Preview Day 2: {Boo}

I hope you all had a great weekend. Today is day 2 of the September Little Paper Shop release. Today we are previewing and AWESOME Halloween set: {Boo}.
This set is super fun and would work great for Halloween cards and scrapbook pages. It also works great with yesterday's preview set {Jena Witch}.

Along with today being preview day, it is also Monday which means it is challenge day too. The challenge this week is easy...just make a Halloween card!
There are 2 ways to win this awesome set...The 1st way: play along with this week's challenge and leave a link to your project on the LPS blog...The 2nd way: Just leave a comment on today's Little Paper Shop blog post telling what your favorite Halloween treats are. Easy!

Here is my card:

Thanks for stopping by today! Both {Jena Witch} and {Boo} will be available to purchase tomorrow from the Little Paper Shop web site!

Little Paper Shop September Preview #1: {Jena Witch}

Let the previews begin...
It's time for the September Little Paper Shop Previews. On Tuesday, Little Paper Shop will be releasing 2 awesome Halloween sets. Both of these sets are super cute and would be terrific for all of your Halloween cards and scrapbook pages. Today we are giving you a peak at one of the sets: {Jena Witch}. To make today's preview even better, if you leave a comment on the {Jena Witch} preview post on the LPS blog you will have a chance the win the set!

Here is my card:

Isn't she just the cutest witch EVER!

For more fun {Jena Witch} previews, check out the blogs of the rest of the LPS design team!

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Ann

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another LPS preview!

Paper Makeup Release Challenge + MTTI06

Paper Makeup Stamps had their September release last week and as part of their release they posted a couple challenges. One of the challenges was "I've got a CASE of PMS". The challenge was to pick a card from the Paper Makeup Stamps gallery on SCS and CASE it.
I chose a GORGEOUS card by Lisa Kind to CASE. The first time I saw her card a few weeks ago on the PMS blog I was in awe. It is seriously beautiful! Sadly, my card doesn't even begin to come close the beauty of hers but I gave it a try. To see her card, click HERE.

Here is my card:

I CASED Lisa's card's layout and used this week's My Time To Create Inspiration challenge for my colors.

Thanks for stopping by today! Check back tomorrow for a peak at one of this month's Little Paper Shop releases! You won't want to miss it!

TGIF!

We have had a crazy week. School, swimming lessons, housework...yikes! I didn't stamp at all this week but thanks to my crazy stamping marathon from last weekend I have a card to share today (and a bunch more to share in upcoming days).
This is another one of the cards that I made for one of the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash challenges.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Isn't this the cutest Christmas Elf EVER!!!! This adorable fellow is one of the newly released stamps from DRS Designs. I have forever been in love with every single Cutie Pie image at DRS and these new Christmas release Cutie Pies are AWESOME. To see the entire DRS new release, click HERE. There are a total of 3 Cutie Pies in this release and they are all adorable.

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

Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash Challenge

I hope everyone is having a great week! Today I wanted to share another one of the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash challenge cards that I made. There were 13 challenges posted over the weekend and as crazy as this sounds...I managed to do every single one of them. 13 cards over a 4 day period. Talk about stamping marathon (considering I average about 2 hours per card). The good thing about all of this is, I have a nice size stash of cards to share over the next few weeks!
There were a couple sketch challenges in the bunch and I thought I would share one of them today.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

I probably should have waited for better natural light to take this photo but I was so happy with the card I wanted to share it right away. This adorable image is from SCACD. Isn't he just the cutest! Totally reminds me of Beckett. I got a lot of Copic practice in this weekend. I think 10 of the 13 cards that I made had images to color. I was thrilled with how this one turned out. I'm still very new at coloring with Copics so my coloring attempts are not always at successful as this one ...BUT....next week I am taking the Copic certification class so hopefully I will learn tons of tips! To make the class even better (actually this is better than the class entirely)...my dear dear friend Kisa is flying in and taking it too! I get to spend the day playing with Copics and hanging out with Kisa...it doesn't get better than this...SERIOUSLY!!!

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

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

It's that time again...time for the Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge! We have a fabulous sketch challenge for you this week. We would love for you to play along with us. If you do make srure to use keyword JBE070 when up loading to an online gallery. Also, don't forget Jacksonbelle has an awesome contest running all month long for those of you who play along with our challenges. To see all of the contest details, click HERE.

Here is this week's sketch:

Here is my card:

All of the stamps I used are Inkadinkado and can be found in the Jacksonbelle store. I also used some Shimmerz paint and the Martha Stewart Halloween fence punch!

For more sketchy inspiration be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars:

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff

Mitzi Koons ~ Stamps Jubilee

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

Jennifer Buck: The Buck Stamps Here

Jill Dunn: Ink Genious

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden

Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

Also wanted to let you know that the new Basic Grey is in stock at JB! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day to all of my U.S. readers! Happy Monday to the rest of you! I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!

It's time for another fun Monday Little Paper Shop callenge. This week we have an AWESOME sketch for you! We would love for you to play along! If you do, be sure to leave a link to your project on the LPS blog so we can check out your creations!

I also wanted to mention that if you haven't check out the new Little Paper Shop FORUM, you definitely should! In addition to chatting amongst friends, you can hang on, check out some samples, chat with the DT, and there are even groups for Challenges, photography, and more! We hope to see you over there soon!

Here is my card:

For more sketchy inspiration, make sure you check out the blogs of the rest of the LPS design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Sarah
Ann - guest designer

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Check back tomorrow for another great Jacksonbelle challenge!

Stamping the day away!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Labor Day weekend. We have been hanging out relaxing most of the weekend. As crazy as this may seem, I actually got to spend 8 hours in my stamp room today. I got up this morning, grabbed a Diet Dr. Pepper and hurried off to stamp in my PJ's....next thing I knew it was 3:30. Yikes. Where did the day go? I did manage to get 4 cards made during the 8 hours. I'm a slow crafter. I typically average about 2 hours per card.

For one of my cards today I played along with one of the Taylored Expressions Birthday Bash challenges. The challenge was a color challenge: Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo & Crushed Curry
For my card I used an Elisabeth Bell stamp from SCACD. I absolutely love this image. The sentiment is from Verve Stamps.
Supplies used: Elisabeth Bell stamp from SCACD, Sentiment stamp from Verve Stamps, SU DP, SU CS, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Copic markers, EK Success border punch, Amuse ribbon, foam dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are all having a great day! Be sure to check back in tomorrow for another fun Little Paper Shop Monday challenge!

Trying to find my mojo...

Paper Pretties has a sketch challenge posted on their blog this week so in an effort to reclaim my mojo I decided to try it out.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card (I flipped the sketch to work with my image):Isn't Cuddle Me Sophia just adorable. My heart melts every time I see this image. I just ordered a couple more Sophia stamps yesterday and I can't wait for them to get here! Paper Pretties is having an awesome sale, check it out HERE.

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

Mojo on vacation!

You may have noticed that I haven't posted much lately. With the stress of Annabelle starting kindergarten and trying to get everything ready for that, my mojo seems to have jumped ship. I've tried stamping a couple times in the past few weeks and I just haven't been able to put anything together. I'll be leaving a trail of glitter in hopes that my mojo finds it and follows the way home ASAP. While we're waiting I have a card I made a while ago for one of the Paper Makeup Stamps Monday challenges.

Hope you all had a great day!

WooHoo!

Have you seen the new Just Cards! Holidays! issue? I just got mine in the mail yesterday.
Recognize that bottom card? It's mine!!!! I can't tell you how excited I was to see my card on the cover of the magazine.

Here is the card: all stamps are from DRS Designs

I also have another card in this issue made with stamps from Firecracker Designs.

I hope you all have a fabulous day! Thanks for stopping by!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge + a contest!!!

Are you ready for a contest!!!??? Jacksonbelle Embellishments is having a contest all month long and you definitely won't want to miss this one! The grand prize winner will receive a $50.00 Gift Certificate to the store! 2nd Place, $30.00 and 3rd place $15.00! There will be a goodie package going out to ALL winners!! If you decide to play each week, you will need to email your card to jacksonbelle.embellishments@gmail.com. Make SURE to link your card on the Jacksonbelle blog Tuesday challenge posts. That way we can ALL see the cards and your name will be entered into a random drawing. THAT person will also win a goodie bag!

Here are the contest DEETS:

*You have to follow 1 or more of the September Tuesday Jacksonbelle Challenges

* You have to use Inkadinkado, Stampavie, Prima or Basic Grey stamps. (Any stamps that can be purchased at the store)

* You can enter as many times as you’d like! As always, we will post coordinating Keywords for the challenges if you are posting on Splitcoaststampers.com, so we will all be able to see your card(s)!

*Following the last September challenge (Sept. 28th), you will have until Thursday, Oct. 1st at midnight (EST) to get your cards to us! After that, the design team will need a few days to decide on the winners!! Make sure to check out the design team’s blogs and store blog each week for LOTS of inspiration using the weekly challenges! We hope you will have time to play with us and if you have ANY questions, please feel free to ask!

SO, to start things out.. this weeks challenge is to do a ONE layer card! Talk about a challenge. A folded piece of cardstock....with no other paper layers...YIKES!

All of the stamps on my card are from Imaginisce. I added some self adhesive rhinestones and some Sparkly Fluff...and that's it.

For more "One Layer" inspiration, be sure to check out the blog's of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars!

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

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

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

Thanks so much for stopping by!

In case you didn’t know, There is NEW Making Memories in at Jacksonbelle! WAHOO!! Also the 2 newest lines of Pink Paislee, Cosmo Cricket AND Basic Grey should be here within 1 short week! Have a great day!

Little Paper Shop Monday!

Welcome back! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! It's time for another fun Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! This week we have an awesome sketch for you. We'd love for you to play along with us. If you do, be sure to leave a link to your creation on the LPS blog and use keyword LPSC31 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

I used one of the newly released Little Paper Shop digi stamps {Jena Fairy}. Isn't she just adorable! The sentiment is from the LPS set {Fairytale Adventures}.

For more sketchy inspiration, make sure you check out the blogs of the rest of the LPS design team:

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Sarah
Ann - guest designer

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful week!

The 2008/09 Design Team Says Goodbye!

It's time for the August Firecracker Designs blog hop! The theme this month is: The 2008/09 Design Team Says Goodbye! This is the final blog hop of the current design team so we thought it only fitting that we went with a "goodbye/missing you" theme. To make this blog hop even more fun, Pamela has decided to have a Scavenger hunt for a 25% off coupon code that will be good on your entire order (excluding magazine orders please)! Each design team member will have a secret letter/symbol that you need to find. Once you've gone all the way around, you'll have all the letters for the code. To unscramble them, put them in order, starting with Pamela's blog. (Follow the links from there, to get the correct order for the letters.). Have Fun!
(If you haven't figured out my secret letter yet, I'll give you one more hint at the end of my post).

For my card I used the FCD set "Elephants on Parade". I absolutely love this set. It is full of fun elephant images and sentiments that coordinate perfectly!
I want to thank Pamela for giving me the opportunity to be on her design team for the past year. It has been a great year and I'm sad to see it come to an end! It has been a true blessing to work for such a great company!

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 the winner on Pamela’s blog after the blog hop ends on Monday, August 31st at 8:00 PM (EST).****

Now, to continue the circle, hop on over the the blog of the incredibly talented Ursula,
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!

Have A great day!

Missin You

Today is Annabelle's first full day of kindergarten. This card definitely represents how I feel. I miss her already and she just left for school 5 minutes ago.

The stamps I used for this card are from Firecracker Designs.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop by Saturday for the August Firecracker Designs blog hop. This will be the last blog hop for the current design team. I'm sad that our term is ending but it has been an awesome year!

Life

I don't have a project to share today but I did want to share a picture of my baby girl who started kindergarten on Tuesday. It breaks my heart that she has grown up so fast. Seems like she was born yesterday and now here she is a big kid starting kindergarten. The first 2 days were only half days but tomorrow starts the full day schedule. I feel lost with her not here all day. We spent so many days hanging out in my stamp room together. A few days ago we were sitting in my stamp room and she was coloring images with my Prismacolor markers and singing away to Hannah Montana... and tomorrow she will be off to full day kindergarten. It's not fair. I want my little girl to stay a little girl forever. The one thing that makes me happy is that she is SO excited about her new school and all of the new things she is going to learn.

Isn't she adorable!

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

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

We have a fun inspiration challenge today! Unfortunately summer is almost over...as a tribute to the lazy days of summer our inspiration challenge this week is : YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE!!!!! We're talking colors like orange, yellow, red or how about some shine with Shimmerz or Stickles. Maybe a project with bugs or flowers or beach stamps...anything inspired by summer sunshine! We would love for you to play along with us this week. If you do, please leave a link on this post to your project or use keyword JBE068 when uploading to SCS or PCP!

Here is my "You Are My Sunshine" card:

I used some super fun Basic Grey Lemonade designer paper and a matching brad (I absolutely LOVE the matching Basic Grey embellishments!). I added some shine to my Prima flower with some Shimmerz paint and finished it off with a fun Martha Stewart punched border. The sentiment is from DRS Designs.

For more "You Are My Sunshine" inspiration, check out the rest of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars:

Kristine Breach ~ Ink Something

Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place

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

Trudee Sauer: Follow Your Bliss

I also wanted to mention that Lindsey just posted some AWESOME Jenni Bowlin products in the Jacksonbelle store! Check them all out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a terrific day!

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge!

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! We have been going non-stop for the past week. Our weekend was filled with a trip to the Wisconsin Deer Park and mini golf. Annabelle starts kindergarten tomorrow so today is going to be a low-key day trying to prepare for that (mainly trying to prepare myself).

Have you checked out the brand spanking new Little Paper Shop site? It's AWESOME, and to celebrate, Little Paper Shop is offering 15% off throughout the ENTIRE month of August! So be sure to head on over there take advantage of this incredible sale Julia is offering!

Have you visited the brand new Little Paper Shop forum yet? If you do, make sure you add me as your friend! I hope to see you guys there! There's even a FREEBIE section w/ some cute new digis, so be sure to check it out!

This week we have a COLOR challenge:

Of COURSE, there's a PRIZE this week, too! ONE random winner will be chosen out of this week's submissions and will win {Katie Carousel} (be sure to leave a link to your project on the LPS blog to be in the drawing and also be sure to use keyword LPSC30 if you upload to SCS or PCP. )! BUT, there's more! IF the winner just so happens to go over to the new LPS Forum and become a group member, that said winner will not only win Katie Carousel, but ALL 5 new digis, too! SO be sure to head on over to the forum and join us, 'cuz that winner just might be you!

Here is my card for this week's challenge:

For more inspiration, be sure to check out the gorgeous creations made by the rest of the Little Paper Shop design team!

Julia
Jessica
Bonnie
Cindy
Mel
Jen
Julie
Silvia
Allison
Sarah
Ann - guest designer

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful week!