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I can't wait!

For these new embossing folders from Tim Holtz! I wonder if anyone will be selling them as a entire collection for a discount? Do you think they will be available everywhere? I see they are sold in pairs. (click on image to enlarge). I can't choose a favorite, I want them all!

PRICKLEY PEAR!

Time to show off some of the Prickley Pear DT cards that I have been working on, I hope you enjoy them.

King of Hearts—

Find the King of Hearts stamp here.

Size: A2
Cut 3 concentric circles out of card and the 2 colored papers (1.25" out of the white, 1"; out of the red, .75" out of the yellow). Glue those to inside of card. Print saying on computer, trim and glue to front of card. Stamp King on white paper color and trim. Cut red paper slightly larger than king stamped image. Print saying on computer, trim and glue on top of King. Mount with pop dots for dimension. Cover the colored paper inside of card with white paper.

Supplies:
Paper} Solid: (Red and Yellow) Archivers, White-Neenah
Ink} Memories, Copics
Tools} PPRS-King, Computer font courier, pop dots, Marvy circle punches


Love Cat—

Find the cat stamp here. It also uses one of my ALL TIME favorite stamps Linoleum Background. I use this stamp all the time. It is a great stamp to add just a little pattern over a solid, or even over another pattern (like I did here, you can kinda see it over the PP, I clear embossed it)

Size: A2
Cut size of card out of the green paper. Mount red panel on front with the edge punched. Cut another piece of green slightly smaller than the red. Stamp the linoleum stamp on the patterned paper with Versamark and clear embossing powder. Mount that on the smaller green panel. Stamp the cat on white paper and color with Copics. Mount him on a piece of red paper. Put a loop of ribbon behind the panel with the cat on it. Now attach that panel to the card with pop dots. Add a bow. Cut one of the patterned paper flowers out, and attach it to the front of the cat in the cats mouth with the leaf ribbon.

Supplies:
Paper} Solid: (Red and Green) Archivers, White-Neenah Patterned: Memory Box
Ink} Adirondack, Copics
Tools} PPRS-Scribble Cat and Linoleum stamps, SU Clear Embossing powder, EK Success Border Punch, Papertrey Ink red ribbon, May Arts Leaf Ribbon

Copic Storage Before and After

Before:

(I had to improvise on my Copic storage using an old VCR tape holder with a cardboard wedge under them to keep them from falling out.

But as you can see not all my stamp pads fit in it anymore. And who doesn't ever buy more stamp pads? Not me! I need room for expansion.)

After!

Love it!

I was on a blog that I frequent and I came upon this great storage made specially for Copics! I don't have that many yet, but now I have room for when my collection grows. But as you can see you can store other things besides the Copics in them. The great things is that the shelves are slightly tilted back so the markers stay in the cubbie.

Please give Tami a visit at Studio 3 Solutions (her husband's the one who's making them, right here in the USA!). And they are really affordable. If you visit, please tell Tami "Hi" for me.

Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge #50

When you play along with us, please remember to post your sample to your blog or gallery, and then include a link in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of the post so we can all easily find each other. There is no time limit on our challenge, so please play along whenever you are able!! If you upload to SCS, please include “stampsandsmiles” in the keywords.

Here's mine!

More rubber!

Prickley Pear sneak peek

Brand new rubber stamps from Prickley Pear! They are being sold right now on their website, go and take a look! I just got them in the mail Monday and I already trimmed them out and am in the process of mounting them to the cling pad. If you want to know how I mount my cling stamps please see this post. I am working on samples right now with them. So Fun!

We have lift off!

Hello everyone!

I was so excited that Heidi and Sammye Jo asked me to be part of the 2 Cute design team. And after taking a peek at what Heidi has created, there was no way that I could say no. Her illustrations are so cute. I hope that you'll love them as much as I do. They are so versatile. For boys, girls, babies, grandmas... the possibilities are endless. Here's the first card that I made with one of the awesome illustrations.

Recipe-

2 Cute Up Up and Away Rocket Ship

Solid paper: Archivers

Pattern Paper: Cosmo Cricket

Ribbon: May Arts

Stickers: We R Memory Keepers

Other: Piggy Tales (spring), EK Success (edge punch), ColorBok (saying)and mylar for the "flames"

Please visit the 2Cute blog here, and don't forget to become a follower!

(I hear if you do you could win FREE stamps!)

A New Stamp Company!

Announcing.... there is a new stamp company that will be launching on Monday, January 25th, and it has some of the cutest images that I've seen in a long time! I'm so excited to announce that I was personally chosen to be on their brand new design team to help launch the stamps! Along with myself the team is made up of six other talented gals—

• 62Cards-Creative & Crafty Chit Chat :)

  Crafty Paper Girl

  Heather's Heavinly Stampations
• Raindrop Echo Designs

  Stampin Twilight Mom

  The Quite Moments

Feel free to check out Heidi's blog (she's the awesome illustrator of the images, you can buy her stamps there as well)!

Our official launch on Monday - so if you want to be in the know, follow the blog and you'll be the first to see new projects from the DT! Until Monday, check the 2Cute Rubber Stamps DT blog for a preview.

It's Pile It On week!

The theme this week at Pile it on! is Warm wishes. We were to translate that any way we wanted. So I decide to do a "best wishes" card. This one was fun, I knew I wanted to do a "get well" "wish" card, because I have a girl friend who had gall bladder surgery on Friday.
And I know she'll need a pick-me-up.

Challenges that I am accomplishing:

• Pile It On-Warm Wishes
  
• DCRU-Sketch
• Quixotic Challenge-Ink up an old stamp
• Creative Card Crew - Punch It
• Simon Says Stamp -Punch It
• Ooh La La - Create a Scene
• Tuesday Taggers-Leftovers
• A Spoon Full of Sugar-Lots of Layering
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday-Create a Scene
• Incy Wincy-Color me wonderful (use favorite coloring medium)
• Charisma Cardz-Fruity Colors

Isn't she cute?

I started this card by stamping the background flowers with Versamark and then going over them with chalks. I just swirled the chalks over the image and they magically appear. I like the soft look they have. Then I stamped the girl on Neenah paper and colored her with Copics. I trimmed her out and placed her over the flowers using pop-dots. I then cut that whole piece out using a scallop Nestability. I cut another scallop out slightly larger and punched holes in each of the scallops and edged it with white ink. I found some pretty purple paper (PTI) and layered it with purple ribbon (May Arts). I added a sentiment from PTI on a "tag" to the left of the scallop. To finish it all off I added 3 pearls that I colored purple with my Copics, to the bottom right corner.

Recipe:

Stamps: The Angel Company (girl and flowers), Papertrey Ink {PTI}(Sentiment)

Paper: Solid (Core d'nations), Patterned (PTI)

Ink: Memories, Versamark, PTI (fresh snow)

Other: Copics, EK Success (1/16" hole punch)(chalks)(tag punch), Hero Arts (Pearls)

Blog Hop Winner of the Valentine Bunny Digi Stamp

Congrats Gloria! Jennifer (from Stamps and Smiles) will send you the image!

Thanks for a wonderful Blog Hop everyone!

Stamps and Smiles Blog Hop Time!

Hello & welcome to the Stamps and Smiles Be My Valentine Blog Hop!! Our Blog Hop will begin at 8 pm - 9 pm CST. Before we start, we would like to thank all those that stopped by and participated in our release!! We would also like to thank the Stamps and Smiles Designers, what an amazing week of samples!!

The NEW Stamps and Smiles Valentine release will be available for purchase at 9 pm CST. Please visit the Stamps and Smiles store to shop. Save an extra 15% Now - February 15th.
Now it’s time to start our Blog Hop/Release party. Play along and you could win the entire Digi release, plus Stamps and Smiles is letting me give away a digi stamp of the valentine bunny shown at the bottom of this post!! (please leave a comment, so I can choose a winner)

You should have arrived from Jennifer Meyer 's blog. Next blog you need to visit is Kim Gruetzmacher her project is so cute, you're going to love it!

Our LOVE Birds have a note for you. Figure it out and one lucky winner will win the entire Digi Release. Have fun on the Hop! The Stamps and Smiles DT!!
Visit the Design Team in the order below and then email us your answer by 9 pm CST tonight. The Winner will be announced at 9:01pm. Have fun!

Please enjoy the last batch of samples. We hope to see you during our weekly challenges over at Project Tuesday & our weekly sketch challenge on The Fresh Batch page.

Here's a little project I made with one of the new digi stamp sets.

(little lunchbox notes they are small 2" X 2")

This set is called "Be My Valentine-Cuppy"

Stamps and Smiles Valentines Release Day 4

Blog Hop Tonight from 8 - 9 pm CST!! Hello SAS Friends!! Thanks for joining us yesterday for our third day of sneak peek’s along with the fun Blog game!! Before we show you the last set of samples, we would like to announce the winner from yesterday’s game. Drum roll please... There were 38 flowers in all and the winner is Calie. Congratulations Calie, please email us and you can start playing with your NEW digi image today!!

Sadly we are on our last day of samples, however, we have our Blog Hop tonight from 8 – 9 pm CST. Play along and you could win the entire digi release. Some of the girls will share some extra samples that were not revealed during the release. Plus, each of the girls have a fun giveaway. The winners from the Blog Hop will be announced tonight at 9 pm CST. This NEW digi release will be available to purchase tonight at 9 pm CST.

Hope to see you at the Blog Hop, enjoy the samples and the last set to be previewed called Love Birds. This NEW Digi has 9 images and 7 sentiments. Stop by the Stamps and Smiles store for a FREE Digi now - January 24th.

Here are mine:

This one has a little pocket on the front for a special note



It was hard to choose a favorite from this new release, but I think this is my favorite set. I'm partial for birds. I love them. And these are some of the cutest I've seen.

Don't forget to stop back tonight at 8:00 CST for our blog hop!

We have a winner!

Here it is... the winner! I imported all of the comments into Word and gave them each a number.
And then did a Random.org number generator.... and it came up with #60!

And #60 is.....

The Paper Princess!

Congratulations Ramona!

Please email me your address and I will get your candy out to you ASAP.


Thank you all for entering the Random Vintage Finds blogcandy giveaway. Until next time.

Today is the day

I can't believe it, 1 year ago today I decided to jump into this thing called a blog. A BLOG? I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I knew I wanted to show people the things that I create, ways to organize and other tutorials/tips. I had no idea that people would actually "follow" me and would WANT to see the things I created. I truly read every comment that is left, and look at all of your blogs. I hope you get as much inspiration from me as I do from all of you.

I wanted to celebrate my blogoversary with some sort of giveaway. I also wanted others to find me that have never visited. I had NO IDEA that when I asked for you to follow me and link my blog to yours that I'd DOUBLE my followers. I knew that there were a lot of creative people out there.

Please check back at NOON CST for the reveal of the winner.

Be My Valentine - Carl

Hello SAS Friends!! We want to thank all those that are stopping by during our release week!!

We are on day 3 of Stamps and Smiles Valentine Digi Release. These sneak peeks will continue until Saturday, January 23rd. Later Saturday night from 8 pm - 9 pm CST we will have our Blog Hop. Grab the banner on the side bar and place it on your blog, one lucky winner will win a FREE stamp set of their choice from the Fall/Winter release or the FULL Valentine Digi Release. Don't forget to sign your name with Mr. Linky HERE so we can easily find you.

Want to win this set? Visit the DT Blog's and collect the flowers in Carl's bouquet (see image below). Once you know how many flowers Carl picked for Cuppy, email us your answer. Don'f forget to sign your name here and add challenge after your name. The winner will be announced on Saturday, January 23rd.

If you get lost, please stop by the Design Team Blogs:
Cindy Burgess
Jennifer Stricker
Kim Gruetzmacher
Lisa Cook
Lisa Foster
Rose Frydrych
Rose Miller

Here is the third digi set being sampled called Be My Valentine - Carl. It has 3 images and 6 sentiments.

Here are my samples: