Oh, Alice!!!

Hey everyone!! Hope you are having a wonderful day!! Today is my Friday, and I am THRILLED!! I got off work at two, and don't have to be back until Saturday.....yaaaaay me!!! For those of you that are friends with me on Facebook, you will know that my Dad had surgery this past Friday. His surgery was pretty major, but everything went AMAZING and he is recovering slowly but surely!! The best part, he has now quit smoking...well, it has been a week since he has smoked, but that is the longest he has went without smoking in 46yrs. I am SO PROUD!!

Enough of my babble!! Today's card is one I made for the Oh Alice! Blog Challenge posted last Saturday. This week's challenge is being sponsored by My Favorite Things!! I wanted to stamp then, but I was too stressed about his surgery!! The good part is, if you didn't know about the challenge yet, you still have until the 18th to enter(follow the links to the challenge blog for more details). I also decided to use the CPS sketch from this past week, also sponsored by MFT. To create my scallops, I used my YUMMY Jumbo Scalloped Scallops Die-namic from MFT......LOVE IT!!
Well, that is it for me for now!! Hope this post finds you all well, and you have a great day!!
stamps: Costumes of Wonderland
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Close To Cocoa, Parisian Breeze, Gina K. White, and MFT Perfect Panel
accessories:Su ribbons, SU brads, spiral clips, Copics, Jumbo Scalloped Scallops Die-namic

Who's That Gardening Girl? VIP Hop!!!

Hey everyone, and welcome to this month's Who's That Girl VIP Hop!! This month's VIP package is TO DIE FOR!! I mean, really, if I didn't already own the set, I would TOTALLY get the package....so should YOU!! Here are all the details!!

June 15th (at 10 PM EST), the MFT VIP will be released. It is a ONE DAY ONLY product (will be available through June 16th at 11:59 PM EST), that gives you, the customer, the opportunity to purchase the WTG set THREE WEEKS early. Here are the details about the VIP Kit:

*July VIP* (June 15th 10 PM EST through June 16th)

Who's That Gardening Girl? VIP $36.75

Who's That Gardening Girl? $15.95

Ruffled Ribbon Garden Collection (2 yards each of 3/4" ruffled ribbon in Tomato, Celery, & Sunshine) $7.95

Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety $5.95

Garden Button Collection $1.95

Set of 10 White Scalloped A2 Note cards $4.95

Green Thumb mini stamp set (FREE, $9 value)

Not tempted yet?? Well, here is a look at what you will be getting....just to get your mouth watering!!

Click on it, you know you want to!! LOL!!

Okay, back to business!! Today's hop started at Kim's blog, as always!! If you are here now, you should have come from the awesomely talented, Melody's Blog!!

For my card today, I used the new Who's That Gardening Girl? set, of course. I decided to make an outdoor scene with my girl, so I drew in her stone patio, and the siding on her house using my Copic multi liner pen. I can only remember living in one house that DIDN'T have siding, so it just seemed appropriate. I also used a Sweet Sunday Sketch from a last Sunday...it worked PERFECTLY with this image.

For the inside, I stamped a row of plants, and used a sentiment from the Green Thumb freebie set being sent along with your VIP package...cause I KNOW you are going to buy it!!
Well, that is enough of my blabbering...onto the next stop, which is the FABULOUS Joanne!!!! Prepare to be WOWed!!
stamps: Who's That Gardening Girl? and Green Thumb
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Gina K. White, Hawaiian Papaya DSP, and MFT Perfect Panel
accessories: SU white grosgrain, Copics, SU ribbons, Chocolate Kiss button, spiral clip, Copic Multiliner.

MFT Greatest Hits- Flopsey!!

This month, the girls and I over at My Favorite Things are showing off our FAVORITE Flopsey's as part of our monthly, Greatest Hits, challenge!! The challenge is just that, to get out some of your older stamps and play along!!! This month, Flopsey is taking center stage!!

For my card, I decided to use the Basket Full o'Flopsey. He is one of my favorites!! I, as I am sure you are, am guilty of getting new stamps, and letting the other's sit idly by and watch as all my new stamps get all the love. That is why I LOVE this challenge!! I get to play with my older stamps that I still LOVE.
Hope you liked what you see here today, and if you wanna see more, head to Kim's blog where a complete list of all the designer's playing along today will be posted at 11amEST. Enjoy and have a great day!!

Enabler Alert! Kim at MFT has a special running Thursday June 10 and Friday June 11 only you can use the code FLOPSEY for $3.00 off any Flopsey set! Happy Shopping!

stamps: Basket Full o' Flopsey
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Pacific Point, Old Olive, Muirfield, Gina K White, MFT Perfect Panel
accessories: Cuttlebug, Copics, Circle Nesties, SU ribbons, spiral clips, brads, modern label punch

TSG58 I Didn't Forget...

This week's There She Goes challenge is being hosted by my AWESOME-TASTIC friend, Jodi!! She is one of the first people I met through stamping, and she has been an amazing friend ever since. This week, she chose to do a sketch challenge, and it is a GOOD one!! Here are the details!!

To be eligible for the giveaway, you are to create a card using the provided sketch, then come back to the TSG Blog to add your name and a link to your project in the Mr. Linky that is located at the bottom of this challenge post. This challenge is open until the winner has been announced on the following Monday (June 14th). The winner will get a $5 gift certificate to use in the TSG Web store!

By participating in this challenge, you may also find yourself in the Trendsetting Spotlight that shines on the TSG Blog every Thursday. We will be on the look out to find challenge cards that stand out and show Trendsetting qualities. TSG stamps are not required to participate in the challenges but are appreciated :)

You do not need to have a blog to be able to participate in the TSG Challenges! You can simply add the URL link from your project after it has been uploaded to your online craft gallery. If you upload your card to an online craft gallery, please use the keyword TSG58 so we can check out your beautiful work!

For my card, I decided to use an older There She Goes set, Slow and Steady. I am a card maker, and I love to give people what I create, I just never seem to do it on time!! This set is PERFECT for someone like me....who just can't seem to get it together!!
Well, that is it for me for now! Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to go to the There She Goes blog for the complete list of designer's participating in this week's challenge.
stamps: Slow and Steady paper: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Old Olive, Gina K. White, MFT Perfect Panel, and Basic Grey Lemonade ink: Memento Tuxedo Black accessories: SU ribbons, SU punch, Cuttlebug, Copics, Circle Nesties, Spiral Clips, Brads

TESC113 Sweet Wishes

Hey everyone!! The last few days have been hectic and exhausting...I didn't even have time to blog!! I have had this card made for a week or two, and am just now getting to share it!! I made it for my Dad for his birthday...I know, it's not very masculine, but he forgives me!! Just ask me...

I used Taylor's sketch from a few weeks ago, and my SUPER CUTE Fred Bear Has a Birthday set from My Favorite Things. I just love him!!
Well, that is it for me for now!! Off to work I go!! Have a great day and I will see you around blogland again soon!!
stamps:Fred Bear Has a Birthday
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Gina K. White, Muirfield DSP, and MFT Perfect Panel
tools: Cuttlebug, Copics, Circle Nesties, American Crafts white brads, SU ribbon, Spiral clips, Modern Label punch.

MTSC74- A Little Late

I love sketch challenges, so when I see a sketch I love, I save the picture to my computer, then print it out to use later. I NEVER get to use all of them when I want, so sometimes I get behind....like this one!! This sketch is one of Mercy's from WEEK'S ago, but I LOVE it!!

I used it to make one of my sample card's for my Wednesday Trends post on the There She Goes blog. My trend, was cork. I am seeing cork EVERYWHERE, and LOVING it!! I used it to create my background panel....kind of gives it a wood feel, don't ya think? My sentiment, and cute little hammer, are from the new Dadisms set. The sentiment that goes with this one is LOL hilarious.....you REALLY need to check it out!!
Well, that is it for me for now!! Thanks for stopping by!!
stamps: There She Goes Dadisms
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Gina K. White, MFT Perfect Panel, Black Licorice, Fossil, SU DP
accessories: Cuttlebug, Copics, Circle Nesties, SU ribbon, spiral clip,

Crazy 4 Challenges- Pleating

Hey everyone and welcome to this week's Crazy 4 Challenges challenge!! This week's challenge is being hosted by Mercy, and is fabulous and trendy!! Her challenge to us, and all of you, was to use pleating on your card. Paper Pleating, or Ribbon Pleating, either one would work!! And to start this month out with a bang, our sponsor, Stamp N Plus Scrap N, will be giving away a prize to one of the lucky participants of this week's challenge! The winner will be randomly selected then announced on next week's post on the C4C blog! If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C40. Don't forget to go to the C4C blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too!!

I know, I am OBSESSED with this color combo right now, but it is so awesome!! I wish I had ordered more Bermuda Bay before I gave SU the boot!! BOOOO!!! I still love their products, hate their policies. Anywho, I used the There She Goes, Sweet Pea set. It is one of my favorites from there, and I can't get enough of it. Do you see my pleated ribbon? Don't expect a lot of that out of me!! I still haven't set up my Janome, and it is a PAIN to do without it!! Love the look though, it is VERY YUMMY!!
Well, that is it for me for now!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!! See you here tomorrow...who knows what I will have for you!! Be sure to blurf around and see what the other Crazies have made for you to oogle!!

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Frances Byrne
• Joanne Grzelak
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
  

• Silke Kittman
• Vicki Garrett

stamps: Sweet Pea
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Bermuda Bay, Pink Pirouette, Pumpkin Pie, Gina K. White, MFT Perfect Panel, and Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday
accessories: SU ribbons, Copics, Cuttlebug, Oval Nesties, Paper Studio buttons, floss

Guess What!!!

Guess what...I was this month's Blog Candy Hopper for the My Favorite Things Hop on Wednesday!! I have used Random.org to pick my winner.....and the winner is!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

9

Timestamp: 2010-06-05 00:59:21 UTC

Lucky number 9 was Chris!!

Chris said...

love your cards. that PI is soooo adorable.

June 2, 2010 10:34 PM

Congrats Chris!!
Have a great night, be back later with my Crazy 4 Challenges post!!

Dollar Find Friday

Hey everyone!! I'm here with this week's Dollar Find Friday post, also featured on the There She Goes Blog. My dollar find was in the $1 bins at my "not so" local, Joann's. It was this cute little address book, that I decided to make cuter.

I started by removing both the front and back cover. I then covered them with black card stock, then layered that with red and some Rockabilly DP from SU.

I then stamped the sentiment from the Dance set, and layered it with red. My flowers and leaves were stamped separately, then colored with Copics, cut out, and added on. I did add brads to the center of my flowers....for some reason, they just needed them

And there you have it, my altered address book!! Here is a tip for all of you out there....when adding your card stock layer to the front, be sure to use a strong adhesive. JUST DON'T put it where you are going to have to punch holes...what a mess!! Don't ask me how I know....

Thanks for stopping by!! Hope you enjoyed!!

Hop! Hop! HOP!!

It's time for this month's My Favorite Things blog hop, and I am SUPER excited!! Tonight's hop started at Kim's Blog, as always, so head there to get started!!! If you are here now, you should have come from Julie's Blog!!

This month, I am actually responsible for showing you TWO different sets....yaaaay me!! The first one is the new Pure Innocence- Cart Full of Friends. It is so FUN!! I stamped my animals separately, and cut them out to add them to my wagon. So FUN!! This set sells for $9, and I can't wait to see what all you creative minds add to your wagon!!

The next set I am responsible for showing you is LAST month's Triple Scoop set, Thanks a Bunch. I paired it with this month's Emma Blowing Kisses....mainly because I hadn't had a chance to play with her, and she is so darn cute!!! I used a thanks sentiment from the Thanks a Bunch set on the outside.

On the inside, I used another sentiment from that set. This set sells for $15.95, and is the PERFECT thank you set, if you ask me!!
Well, that is it for me now!! You've got lots more hopping to do, so you better be on your way!! Have fun, and be sure to show the girl's how much you love their work by leaving a comment along the way!! Next stop- Cindy's Blog!!!
card #1
stamps: Pure Innocence- Cart Full of Friends
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper: Red Hot, Regal Rose, MFT Perfect Panel, Summer Picnic, Georgia Peach, and Gina K. White
accessories:Copics, Baby Braddies, MFT ribbon, spiral clips

card#2
stamps: Emma Blowing Kisses and Thanks a Bunch
paper: Bermuda Bay, Pink Pirouette, Pumpkin Pie, Gina K. White, Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday, MFT Perfect Panel
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
accessories: Copics, SU ribbons, Michael's Brads, spiral clip, SU buttons, MFT Summer Buttons, oval punches