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!

A couple challenges...

This card has taken me 5 days to get done...pathetic I know. I've sorta been working on it a few minutes here and there all week long. I started it on Monday by picking out my cardstock and stamping my sentiment....then it sat until Wed when I picked the sketch...then I tinkered with it a few minutes on Thursday and Friday and finally put it together tonight. It is a combination of the Paper Makeup weekly challenge (this week the challenge was to use black, green and blue) and the Mojo Turns 100- Day 3 sketch. Not sure I'm totally thrilled with the end product but at least I finally got it done.

Here is the sketch:

I just finished this and took the photo in my stamp room at 9pm so you'll have to forgive the poor photo quality.



Some of you may be wondering why it took me a week to make 1 card....WELL...we spent the week meeting teachers, registering for school, going to the doctor, getting hair cuts, going to the Milwaukee zoo, seeing the movie "Ponyo", swimming the day away at the Kalahari , going to the WI Deer Park, going to Chuck E Cheese.....COMPLETELY EXHAUSTING. I'm lucky I found time for 1 card in there.

Thanks for stopping by today! We are taking the kids mini golfing tomorrow so you probably won't hear from me again until Monday for the Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! Have a great weekend!

A Little Bird Told Me...

Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday! Today I wanted to share a card I made as one of my Firecracker Designs design team cards a couple months ago. For this card I used the set "A Little Bird Told Me" The full set looks like this:

The images in this set are beautiful and you can get the whole sheet of unmounted rubber for only $8.99!


I also wanted to send out a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY wish to my fellow FCD design team member Libby! Libby, I hope you have a great day!
I hope the rest of you all have a great day too! Thanks for stopping by today!

TGIF!

I hope you all had a great week! It has been a busy, exhausting, chaotic week around here and I'm looking forward to some major relaxing this weekend!
Today I have another "Elephants on Parade" card to share with you. "Elephants on Parade" is one of the newly released sets from Firecracker Designs and the good news is...it is now back in stock!

I just absolutely love this image. Isn't that elephant just absolutely gorgeous! Pamela really did an AWESOME job with this set. I love everything about it! The entire set is full of fun elephants and coordinating sentiments!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by today!

A quick post...

This week has been totally crazy for us...doctor appointments, school registrations, hair cuts, a trip to the zoo, etc. etc. All of this chaotic end of summer stuff before school starts next week. I haven't really had much time to myself at all which means I don't have anything new to share but I do have an old project that I haven't shown on my blog yet. So...

I made this card a few months ago and unfortunately I made it because I needed it. Sympathy are the absolute hardest cards for me to make when I need them. If I don't need one I have no problem making them.

I used PTI's "Out on a Limb" set along with some Stampin Up prints designer paper.

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

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

This week we have a super fun sketch for you! We would love it if you played along with us. If you do, be sure to let us know....leave a comment on the challenge post on the JB blog with a link to your creation and/or use keyword JBE067 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

Here is this week's sketch:

For my card I used Basic Grey designer paper, Basic Grey pearls and GORGEOUS reversible May Arts ribbon from Jacksonbelle Embellishments. The sentiment is from DRS Designs.

For more sketchy 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 got a TON of awesome new holiday themed Inkadinkado stamps in. These new designs are AWESOME. If I wasn't so poor right now my cart would definitely be full of these gorgeous new designs!

There is also a pre-order going on for a ton of adorable Stampavie Christmas stamps! Check them out HERE.

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

Little Paper Shop Monday Challenge (and August Preview!)

Where did the weekend go? Can't believe it is already Monday. We have a busy week of doctor appointments, hair cuts, meet the teachers and school registration. Yikes! Good thing I got my stamping for this week done early!

It is time for another fun Little Paper Shop Monday challenge! Today we have another fantastic LPS Sketch Challenge for you:We also have a fun August preview to show you: {KATIE CAROUSEL}, our newest 3x4 stamp set that will be released TOMORROW along with the new digis that you saw yesterday!

I didn't play along with the sketch this week but I do have a Katie Carousel card to share:
Be sure you check out the blogs of the entire LPS design team for more fabulous {Katie Carousel} fun!

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

Would you like to win {Katie Carousel}? There are TWO ways to WIN! LEAVE A COMMENT today on the Little Paper Shop blog and Julia will pick a random winner who will be announced tomorrow on the LPS blog.

Another random winner will be chosen from anyone who participates in this week's challenge, so be sure to leave a comment on the LPS blog telling us you've played along with the sketch! This week's keyword is LPSC29 :) This winner will be announced next Monday on the LPS blog.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop by tomorrow for another fun Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!

Little Paper Shop Preview Time!!!

Hello everyone! I can't believe it is already time for another fabulous Little Paper Shop release! Where does the time go? I can't believe we are already in the middle of August!
This month Julia is releasing some super cute digi stamps as well as an adorable stamp set. These will all be available to purchase on Tuesday. Today you can see sneak peaks of all of the digi stamps on the LPS design team members blogs. The design team was also challenged to use the "Spotlighting" technique. To see a tutorial on "Spotlighting" click HERE.

Here is my "In the Spotlight" challenge card using the new digi "Jena and Hank".

Make sure you check out the blogs of the entire LPS design team for more fabulous sneak peeks!

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

You will also want to make sure that you check out the LPS blog. LEAVE A COMMENT on the Little Paper Shop blog letting us know you think about these new digis and Julia will choose THREE RANDOM WINNERS tomorrow-they will each receive TWO FREE DIGIS from the new collection!

Thanks for stopping by today! Check back tomorrow for another fun sneak peek!!

It's the weekend!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. I was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend and instead I got hit with another bit of vertigo. I had a really bad episode of vertigo that lasted 3 weeks last November and then had it again a few weeks ago but it only lasted a few days. Unfortunately I woke up this morning with my world spinning around and around. I've been relaxing all day and I'm hoping this goes away ASAP. In the meantime I have a couple cards to share that I managed to finish before I got too dizzy.
I decided to play along with the Taylored Expression sketch challenge this week. I actually made 2 different cards for this week's sketch.

Here is the sketch:

My first card uses this adorable "There never was a child" sentiment stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps. A friend of mine recently adopted a baby and I needed a card to send along with the gift. This sketch worked great with this sentiment.
My second card uses the "Fairy Tales are True" sentiment from Paper Makeup Stamps and this AWESOME dragon from the "She Dreams" set from Firecracker Designs. I couldn't wait to pair up the 2 stamps.


Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check back tomorrow for the first of the August sneak peaks from Little Paper Shop!

Jacksonbelle Dollar Days Sale!!!

There are a couple days left in the Jacksonbelle DOLLAR DAYS SALE and there are still some fabulous products left. You should definitely check it out. Lindsey has been adding new things everyday. There are still a bunch of cute Inkadinkado and Memory Box wood mounted stamps for only $0.99. There are also some Lizzie Anne cling sets marked down to $6.99 (these are normally$19.99). Supplies are limited so you will want to shop early!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Paper Makeup Challenge

The Paper Makeup Monday Blog challenge this week was to use stickers on your project. Some may say I'm a big fat cheater but I'm just going to say that I stretched the meaning of stickers....LMBO! I like to play along with the challenges every week and since I was making this card for something else, I tried to make it fall into the challenge theme since I wasn't sure if I would have time to make another card this week. SO....my stickers are actually little tiny black self adhesive rhinestones (they stick so they are stickers). They are actually really really hard to see in the picture but I put them on the centers of the brads in the 2 yellow flowers. Stickers...right?

A friend of mine sent me a tutorial on how to make this flower pot card and wanted me to make one to make sure anyone could follow the tutorial. Picking me as her subject was probably a good move because if I can follow something and have it turn out ok, anyone can...LOL.

So what do you think of my first ever flower pot card?

The flowers are white Primas that I painted with Shimmerz paint. The sentiment is one of the new digi stamps from Paper Makeup Stamps.

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