Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day everyone! I'm celebrating today with my mom and my hubby's family. We are going to our cabin for the day to relax. I made cards for my mom and MIL. Since the Just Us Girls challenge was to make a pocket card, I decided to make another. Only this time I made a flower pot pocket card. The dp is from the Quite Contrary line from My Mind's Eye. The flowers are cut files from My Time Made Easy called Rambling Rose. (ETA: I wish I would have watched Lauren's tutorial on how to make these REALLY look like a rose! You can see that video here). I cut them with my Cricut using the SCAL software in pretty in pink and regal rose cardstock. Then I layered them, alternating the colors, with a crystal brad in the middle to hold it together. The sentiment is from SU.I stamped the sentiment on the side in regal rose ink. I don't remember where I got it, but it's from a company called Paper Parachute. I'm going to put a gift card on the back side of this insert. The ribbon is the only thing holding the card together, no adhesive.

I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping in today!

Just Us Girls #32 - Technique Challenge

Happy Saturday! Busy weekend with Mother's Day and all, but Just Us Girls is making time to bring you a technique challenge. The fabulous Mona challenged us to make a pocket card. There's a tutorial on SCS for one, but there are all different ones as well. I chose to do a criss-cross pocket card because, frankly, I know how to do them without directions, and I was running late, so it was just easier. And I love these type of cards. Here's mine. I picked up this umbrella dp from my LSS last weekend. It's from the Quite Contrary line by My Mind's Eye. The polka dots are actually the reverse side. Love this! So I pulled out PTI's Scattered Showers and the Scattered Showers Additions sets. The umbrella is paper pieced using the dp. The cardstock is SU's Bermuda Bay and the ribbon is Crushed Curry. Love this combo! I added some star dust stickles to the polka dots on the umbrella and on the raindrops.

Here's the inside pulled out. How about trying a pocket card? We'd love to see what you do! Stop by the JUGs blog and use what the girls have done as inspiration. We have Teresa Kline and LeAnne Pugliese as guests this week, too!

Have you thought about becoming a JUGs girl? See this post for more information.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Mother's Day!

Paper Makeup Stamps Blog Hop and Release Day!

I cannot believe it's the 7th and time for another Paper Makeup Stamps release! Have you been with us the last three days? Some fun stuff going on at PMS!

Today we are hopping and sneaking the Moodys and Monsters! If you've come from Christi Thorsen's blog, you're on the right track. If not, head on over to the PMS blog and start there to get information on a 15% discount on this fab release!

I have Moody for Hiking to sneak today. I really wanted to do this Moody because this is how my hubby and I travel a lot. I wish I could say I look this good when I backpack, but alas I don't! LOL!!!

Isn't she fabulous? I knew I wanted lots of color, so I went with this Offbeat paper from Basic Grey. She looks good in these colors, don't you think? And look at that sentiment...are you lovin' the font or what? I think it's so fun!

OK, so I have to admit that I didn't know if I liked the green background, so I took another picture with a red background. No one was around to give me advice on which one they liked better, so I couldn't decide. Which do you like better...the green or the red?I know, I'm crazy, right? I'm just very indecisive about things! I like them both equally!

Now it's time for me to send you hopping to your next destination. But before I do, I want to remind you about the PMS party tonight. It starts at 8:00 pm CST in the PMS forum. We are going to have some fun and we are bringing back the Release Party Challenges! So many of you missed them, so Katie decided to bring them back! So please stop by and say hello!

So now you should hop over to Dawn Knight's blog to see what wonderful creation she has to offer. And please take with you the letter"P" on your journey. You are going to need it!

Thanks for stopping in today, and I hope to see you tonight at the Release Party!
Recipe
Stamps: Hiking Moody and sentiment (PMS)
Paper: PTI white, kiwi kiss, riding hood red, chocolate chip, Offbeat dp (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, chocolate chip, sahara sand, copic markers
Accessories: Nesties, tag die, twill ribbon, star dust stickles

Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek- Day 2

Today is day 2 of the Paper Makeup Stamps May release. Today we are previewing the artistry of Diem, whom we always know as the "fairy designer". But if you go to the PMS blog, you'll see something else from her! A new line of images that are too cute!

I have Andi and Aaron fairies today and they are so cute! What a cute image with that little guy in the wagon, huh? The sentiment is new as well and so true! The image is colored with copics to match the Graphic 45 paper. Love this paper! I kept this pretty simple because the image is quite large.

Want to see more? Head on over to the PMS blog to see what the DT has done! Tomorrow the DT has another new set that they will be sneaking that is so beautiful! I won't be sneaking it, so you have to go to the PMS blog to see it! And Friday is our blog hop with Monsters and Moodys! Then in the evening, we have our PMS release party in the PMS forum, so make sure you stop by for all the fun! See you then!
Recipe
Stamps: Andi and Aaron fairies and sentiment (PMS)
Paper: Vintage cream, Graphic 45 dp
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copic markers
Accessories: Nesties, MS border punch, star dust stickles, pearls, dimensionals

Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek Day 1 - Word Art

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping in today to see the new Word Art from Paper Makeup Stamps being released this month (on Friday). The theme is babies and children. So many wonderful quotes about those wonderful children! And with Mother's Day and Father's Day coming, we are all thinking about the kiddos!

The quote I'm sharing with you today is perfect for a new baby card. I'm sending this one off to the family of one of my students. His mom just had a baby girl on Thursday...perfect timing on my part, huh? Here's a closeup of the sentiment. Such a sweet quote, don't you think? I used this paper from October Afternoon that I just purchased at my LSS over the weekend. I am just loving their paper lately! The sketch is from Sweet Sunday Sketch. I love Karen Giron's sketches and try to play whenever I can.

So are you anxious or curious to see more? Then stop by the PMS blog. Katie has all of our sneaks there with links to the girls' blogs. You don't want to miss what they have for you! And stop by tomorrow...we'll be sneaking the fairies and something NEW from PMS! You won't be disappointed!

Hope to see you then and thanks for popping in today!

Recipe

Stamps: Word Art by PMS

Paper: Vintage cream (PTI), barely banana, October Afternoon (The Thrift Shop and Fly a Kite dp)

Ink: Regal rose

Accessories: Nesties, ribbon, flower ribbon, Primas, button, crochet thread, MS punch, stardust gel pen, dimensionals

WNY SCS Spring Fest

Hi everyone! Well, it's Monday and I've had a very busy weekend! Saturday was our 3rd annual Western NY SCS Spring Fest. Tracy Harp and her crew of "green shirt" helpers did a fabulous job of organizing this stamping event for 100 stampers! There were two sessions of shoebox stamping, all sorts of swaps, prizes galore, and a fabulous lunch! I've been to all three events, and they just keep getting better! I've made so many friends from this event from NY, PA, and Canada! Stampers are just the greatest people, I tell ya!

So for my card, I used a Paper Makeup stamp set called Friendly Flowers.I needed to use something that was fairly easy to do because we had a 15 minute time limit on completing our cards. This image was colored with SU markers and stamped onto PTI vintage cream cardstock. I pre-embossed the celery cardstock and precut the cream and pink cardstock with nesties. The buttons are PTI and after I took this picture, I strung them with crochet thread....they looked too naked! The ribbon is SU's pretty in pink. The sentiment was stamped in chocolate chip. The dp is from The Girls' Paperie which I got from my LSS.

I was in a 3-D swap and used a My Time Made Easy template, but I'm saving that for another post. You'll have to keep checking back to see what I did (sorry for the tease)!

On another note, I had to get up really early yesterday to stand in line at my LSS. Why, you ask? Because Tim Holtz is coming to our little LSS to do 4 classes in June! Sharon, the super nice owner of Buffalo Stamps & Stuff, opened the store at 9:00 am to start taking registrations! So I arrived at around 8:40 to find about 50 women waiting at the door, with Sharon's wonderful husband, Mark, handing out tickets, registration forms, and donut holes! I found this so funny because I don't think I've done something like that since I was 15 waiting for Rolling Stones tickets (minus the donut holes)! LOL!!! So I am now registered to take a class with the famous man! How fun is that?

So yesterday, I spent the day cat-napping and looking at my loot from the stamping event! So many great cards and 3-D swaps and free stuff from so many generous stamp companies! It was a great weekend with friends!

Thanks for stopping by today and I want to remind you that sneaks for Paper Makeup Stamps begins tomorrow so please stop by again!

Just Us Girls - Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone! I'm going to make this short and sweet. I'm typing this at 11:30 pm Friday, and tomorrow (Saturday) is the Western NY SCS Stamping Event and I have to get my stuff packed and ready to go! It's going to be a long day and I need my rest!

Here is the sketch for today's JUGS challenge that our very talented Maria came up with. I LOVE it!

This was such an easy sketch to work with...not fussy at all and yet there's a lot you can do with it! Here's my take on it.I had this Inkadinkadoo $1 stamp on my table and decided to work with it. I stamped it in Baja Breeze. The dp is Parisian Breeze from SU (retired) and I paired it with Kraft paper. I stamped this woodgrain image (from Cornish Heritage Farms) on it in Sahara Sand. I'm seeing a lot of this image lately! I thought to use it because there is woodgrain in the birdhouse. The sentiment is from PTI's Bird Watching and is stamped in Chocolate Chip on Kraft.

Did you know that JUGs is looking for a new designer? You can read all about it here. We are looking for one more person to join our team. It could be you!

That's all I have time for today. Stop by the JUGs blog to see what's cooking over there! We have Teresa Kline as our special guest designer for May and LeAnne Pugliese as our May Featured Designer. Lovely ladies and so talented, too!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!