Fabulous Day

Hi there! THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your congratulatory messages for Tony!!! (He was totally blushing...but don't tell him I told you that *wink*)! We both really appreciated your super sweet comments!!! You guys are THE BEST!

Today I'm sharing a card I created for the most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: Opposites Attract!

I had LOTS of FUN with this one!

Can you see the flower pattern on the card base? I created that by stamping this sweet little "7 Petal Flower" stamp (Autumn Leaves) in Versamark ink. I think it pairs up nicely with the patterned paper on the dress form.

Hope you like my creation for today! The challenge ends tonight so there's still a little bit of time to play along!!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Supplies:

Stamps: 7 Petal Flower (Autumn Leaves), sentiment from Signature Series: Dress Form (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: VersaMark (Tsukineko), Rich Cocoa Memento (Tsukineko)

Cardstock: Harvest Gold and Kraft (Papertrey Ink), Purple (The Paper Company)

Patterned Paper: Farmhouse Collection (October Afternoon), Picket Fence (Lily Bee Design)

Dies: Tag Sale #1 and Signature Series: Dress Form (Papertrey Ink)

Twine: Rustic Cream Button Twine (Papertrey Ink)

Baker's Twine: Lilac (The Twinery)

Rhinestone: (Mark Richards)



Thank You Note

Hi there! Playing along with CAS-ual Fridays Challenge 46! This was a super fun challenge because I frequently get songs in my head when I'm creating.

My husband asked me to make him a thank you card to give to his grader at school. So, here's what I came up with (to the tune of "Thank You" by Dido):

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Happy Trails (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko)

Cardstock: Kraft, Hibiscus Burst, and Harvest Gold (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: Basics White Paper Pad (Basic Grey)

Punch: Round Binding Edge (EK Success)

Twine: Rustic Cream Button Twine (Papertrey Ink)

Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)

Adhesive Foam

Just For The Halibut

Hey there! Today I'm sharing a card I made for the most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! Those gals over there are always coming up with the most clever challenge themes!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!

I've had this image and sentiment in my stash for AGES, and I'm just inking it up for the first time!!! (Remember that bit about having so much stuff you don't even know what you have any more??? I told ya...I'm so there!) But...better late than never, right?!?! Especially with this super duper cute stamp from Inky Antics!

And the inside says, "just for the halibut"----HA!!! I LOVE IT!

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

PS: HUGE release going on over at DeNami Design!!! Have you checked it out??? All of the new cling images and accessories will be available beginning on March 1st, but you can go to the blog RIGHT NOW to see the FULL REVEAL!!!! YAY!!!

Have a FABULOUS day!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Fish Chef and Halibut Hello (Inky Antics); Check Border (Art Impressions)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko); Tuxedo Black Memento (Tsukineko)

Copic Sketch Markers

Cardstock: Stampers' Select White (Papertrey Ink), Cherry Splash (Bazzill Basics), Golden Tangerine (DeNami Design)

Patterned Paper: Dots and Stripes (Echo Park)

Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)

Rectangle Dies: (Spellbinders)

Baker's Twine: Maraschino (The Twinery)

Tool: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Pop Dots: (Plaid Enterprises)

Sending A Flurry Of Love

I'm kinda sorta addicted to paper piecing, so I couldn't resist the most recent challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays!!!

Here's my creation:

I TOTALLY ADORE these little Pure Innocence images! They are all SO STINKIN' CA-UTE!!! Plus it's been snowing a bit here in the mountains recently, so I'm in a festive, wintery mood *wink*! (more on that at the end of this post) 

Here's a closer look at this cutie patootie:

So...what do you think?

Several of you have asked how much snow we ended up getting in our most recent snowstorm (February 3rd and 4th), so I thought I'd share some photos. 40 inches of snow total! WOOHOO!!!

(View from our doorway next to the garage. This was the very start of our first 3 hour shoveling marathon on Friday afternoon. Our driveway heads straight ahead into that lovely wall of snow and then curves to the left and up along those pine trees. HA!)

(Tony digging out his truck. You can see it's still snowing too.)

(Me and my half-shovel...HA! See...I was working so hard I broke my darn shovel! Unfortunately that did NOT get me off the hook from shoveling duty! HA!)

(And finally...there's just somethin' special about snowy pine branches...And on a very happy note our good friends/neighbors invited us over for dinner/drinks/hot tubbin' that evening. Now THAT'S the way to enjoy the beauty of this AMAZING winter wonderland we live in!!!)

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you're having a FABULOUS week!

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Supplies:
Stamps: Pure Innocence "Flurry of Love" (My Favorite Things)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (Tsukineko), Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko), Cherry (American Crafts)
Cardstock: Kraft and Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink)
Patterned Paper: Love Me Collection (My Mind's Eye)
Rustic Twine: (Papertrey Ink)
Button: Aqua Boutique Buttons (DeNami Design)
White Uni-Ball Signo Pen
Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)
Glue Dots
Scor-Tape: (Scor-Pal)
Adhesive Tape Runner: (Elmer's)

Patterned Hearts

Hi there! The most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is to create a CAS card using scallops!!! SUPER FUN! Here's my little creation:

I absolutely ADORE these patterned papers from the "Love Me" collection by My Mind's Eye and couldn't wait to paper piece bunches of hearts with them! The Small Heart Outline from DeNami Design works PERFECTLY for this! It's the ideal size and simple to cut out!

Hope you like my card for today!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Small Heart Outline E132, Mini Heart A94, With All My Heart F189 (DeNami Design)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko), Satin Red Versafine (Tsukineko)

Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Cardstock: Cream (DeNami Design)

Patterned Paper: Love Me (My Mind's Eye), Mischievous (My Mind's Eye)

Punch: Apron Lace Border Punch (Fiskars)

Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper: (We R Memory Keepers)

Adhesive Tape Runner: (Tombow)

Pop Dots: (Plaid Enterprises)

NO peeking!

Hi there! Popping in really quickly today to share a tag I made for the current CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!!!

My local Starbucks has a bunch of boxes lined up against their back wall that have "NO PEEKING!" stickers all over them! AND...I've been anxious to ink up the Making Frosty Friends stamp set from Lawn Fawn! Put those two things together, and the above tag is what you get!

I'm thinking I definitely need to make some more of these for the holiday season!

Hope you like my little creation for today! Thanks for stopping by!

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Supplies:
Stamps: Making Frosty Friends and Smitty's ABCs (Lawn Fawn)
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko)
Copic Sketch Marker: (Chrome Orange)
Black Fine Tip Marker
Cardstock: Rattan (The Paper Cut), Stampers' Select White (Papertrey Ink)
Patterned Paper: 12 Days of Christmas (My Mind's Eye)
Die:  Tag Sale #1 (Papertrey Ink)
Twine: Caramel (American Crafts)
Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)
Adhesive Tape Runner: (Therm-o-web)

Warm Wishes

Hey there! Just popping in for a quick post to share a card I created for the most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! I always LOVE Laura's sketches!!! Check this one out:

And here's my take on it:

I couldn't resist paper piecing the sweet little cup of cocoa from "Hot Concoctions" by Paper Smooches! And I found that adorable flower button in my bag of Harvest Boutique Buttons from DeNami Design! How lucky was that?!?! YAY!

The inside of the card says "Warm Wishes." CUTE! I'm going to send this to one of my Pittsburgh friends for her birthday! Hope she likes it!

***THANK YOU to all of you for your congratulatory comments and e-mails about my card being chosen as one of Paper Crafts Magazine's WCMD winners!!! You are SOOOO super sweet! I still can't believe the news! I keep going back and checking the Paper Crafts blog post to make sure it's for real! HA!

I am a bit behind in blogland because my computer died on Saturday morning. Lovely...right?!?! So, I'm in limbo right now working from a borrowed computer. I promise to get back into the swing of things and catch up with you all as soon as possible!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a FABULOUS day!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Hot Concoctions (Paper Smooches)

Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (Tsukineko)

Cardstock: Brown Kraft (DeNami Design), Fudge Cover (The Paper Company), Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink), Embossed Dots (Bazzill Basics)

Patterned Paper: Apple Cheddar Soup: Apple Cider, Apple Cheddar Soup: Milk (Jillibean Soup)

Twine: (Jillibean Soup)

Buttons: Espresso Boutique Buttons and Harvest Boutique Buttons (DeNami Design)

Copic Sketch Marker Y21

White Uni-Ball Signo Gel Pen

Clear "At You" Spica Pen

Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)

Adhesive Tape Runner and Zots: (Therm-o-web)

Pop Dots: (All Night Media)

MOOchas Gracias

***This is my second post for today. For the winners of my blog candy giveaway, please scroll down to my earlier post. Thanks!

Hello! Dropping by to share a card I made for the most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! Their challenges always have a SUPER FUN twist to them and this one was no exception! In honor of International Literacy Day the challenge was to create a card using a BOOK as your inspiration and the color combo: black, white and red! CLEVER,right?!?!

I'm a licensed elementary school teacher and one of my favorite children's books is Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type! It's a HILARIOUS story, the illustrations are AWESOME, and kids LOVE IT!!

And here's my creation:

That DARLING cow is from the set, For All It's Worth, by Market Street Stamps!! I JUST LOVE HER!!! I created the "note" using Smitty's ABCs (Lawn Fawn) and then tacked it up to the woodgrain embossed (Tim Holtz) panel with a little thumbtack image from Just My Type (Lawn Fawn)! The patterned papers are from Echo Park!

SIDE NOTE: My husband turned in his application for tenure at the university. Now we just have to wait until April for the committee to announce their decision. Keep your fingers (and toes) crossed for us! He's been working REALLY hard, so I wanted to do something special for him to celebrate this first hurdle. I made him his favorite dinner, chicken marsala with mashed potatoes and peas. And we opened a bottle of almond champagne that our sweet friends from San Diego had given to us in anticipation of this occasion.

Thanks for stopping by!

BOO!

I have A BUNCH of stickers in my craft studio that have been neglected for WAAYYYYY TOO LONG! So, the most recent challenge at CAS-ual Fridays was the perfect opportunity to bust into the stash and put some of those stickers to work!

The temperatures are starting to cool off here in the mountains (especially in the evenings) and the aspen leaves are just beginning to turn. So, I've got Halloween on the brain (not to mention some serious cravings for Reese cups...mmmmmm!)

The spider web is a sticker that I believe was part of some blog candy that I won from my sweet friend, Paulina, well over a year ago!!! SOOOOO happy that this challenge forced me to give stickers another try!!!

So...what do you think?

There's still time to play along in CAS-ual Fridays Challenge 17! The challenge ends tonight (Aug 31st) at 11:59PM EST! Click HERE for all of the details and for LOTS of inspiration from their DT and the other participants!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

****REMINDER****

Don't forget to enter for a chance to win my BLOG CANDY! Click HERE for the deets!!!

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Supplies:

Stamps: spider and BOO! from Halloween Stamp Set PF36 (DeNami Design), paperclip from Just My Type (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko), Habanero Versafine (Tsukineko), Chamomile (Papertrey Ink)

Cardstock: Stampers' Select White and Fine Linen (Papertrey Ink), Gray (from my scraps stash)

Patterned Paper: Text-Style Halloween Prints (Papertrey Ink), Basics White Paper Pad (Basic Grey)

Sticker: web from "Spellbound" Line Art Stickers (Making Memories)

Punch: Round Binding Edge Edger Punch (EK Success)

Embroidery Floss: Black (Janlynn)

Black Copic Multiliner

Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)

Adhesiver Tape Runner: (Therm-o-web)

Pop Dots: (All Night Media)

Glue Dots

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge 16

*This is my second post for today. Please scroll down to see my DeNami Design Product Spotlight post.

Hello there! Just wanted to pop in really quickly and share a card I made for the most recent CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!

This time around the challenge is all about embossing! Here's what I came up with:

I've had this "Floral Screen" embossing folder for a LOOONNNGGG time, and I LOVE it---but I think this is the very first time I've ever used it! Here's a closer look:

I hope you like my creation!

Thanks for stopping by!

Remember to check out my BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY post! Click HERE for all of the details!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Background Basics: Woodgrain (Papertrey Ink), "Thinking of You" from Through the Trees (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Dune Color Box (Clearsnap), Timber Brown StazOn (Tsukineko)

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Kraft, and Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Floral Screen (Provo Craft)

Patterned Paper: Seaside Retreat (Webster's Pages)

Punch: Birds (McGill)

Rustic Twine: (Papertrey Ink)

Permanent Adhesive Tape: (Recollections)

Quickie Glue Pen: (Sakura)

Pop Dots: (All Night Media)