Snow Buddies

Good Morning! This card shows what it COULD look like at my house right not, but it was much warmer making these little guys inside instead of outside :)

The funny news is that my parents who live in southern Louisiana woke up yesterday to SNOW!! My Mom called me because in southern Louisiana you only get snow about every 7 ish years or so. She was so excited and my Dad only likes to come see us in the warm months, although he has come when it was cold. They both grew up in West Virginia so they have both seen their share of snow. They got 1 - 1 1/2" and Mom said everything was white :) It was gone by 11:00 am!

These little guys are made with the Sugarplum Snowmen set from CC Designs. I focused on just the snowmen cause I think they are so cute! the paper I used is Swell Noel from K&Co. This time I colored with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and added glitter :) I punched snowflakes with an old snowflake punch and added dew drops to the centers. The word window punch I used is from McGill.

I love these colors and you can tell from my last couple posts :) Christmas cards still haven't been mailed, maybe today.

OOooo, another fun thing I get to do today. My daughter has asked me to come to school for a Role Model Appreciation time. She is a freshman in high school, so it kind of surprised me that they are doing this, but it really made me feel good that she chose me as her Role Model....WOW! She is going to read part of a letter that she wrote to me, so I'm going to bring tissues with me :)

Our quote for the day: "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. " — Anne Frank

Have a wonderful day and stay warm!! Thanks for stopping by!

Got Snow?

We sure do. It snowed again yesterday. Cliff took Sara to school early and about 2 hours later you couldn't see the tire tracks where he pulled out of the driveway! It's sunny today, but cold, brrrrr. A good day to stay in and stamp :)

These little guys are from the new Sugarplum Snowmen set by CC Designs. Christine is so good at drawing these little guys!! I colored in Copics and did some fun little things with my colorless blender like polka dots on the snowman's scarf and faded the little boy's jeans. I also used Cuttlebug Tree Top set which cuts the trees and then lets you emboss them, very fun. You can find it here. Lots of glitter, lots of dew drops :) It's a great set!!!

Our quote for the day: "Love is like a mountain, Hard to climb, But once you get to the top The view is beautiful." -Daniel Monroe Tuttle

I hope you have a fabulously warm day, unless you like the cold :) Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gift Card Holder

Good Morning! Snow is still on the ground here today, but the sun is shining, how about for you?
This morning's card was actually made for one of the SCS Challenges, but I didn't get it finished for a while so it hasn't been uploaded to the gallery over there yet, but it will :) Better late than never right???

I love how all these CC Designs sets work together. They are so much fun!! For this card I used the elf from Sugarplum North Pole, the tree and the gifts from Sugarplum Christmas Scenery Set and the "Merry & Bright" from AmyR Stamps - Christmas Sentiments set. I colored everything with Copics and added my essentials white highlights and liquid applique to the puff on the elf's hat, gems to the gree and glitter pen various places. I also used my EK Success corner punch.

On the inside I used again a gift from the Sugarplum Christmas Scenery Set and the circle stamps are from an Art Warehouse clear set. Another fun part about this card is that the middle section folds and there is a slit in it where the gift card fits right in so it doesn't fall all over inside the card, it has it's very own place :)

Another fun one to make and I hope to make some more because I am giving some gift cards this year. :)

Our quote of the day: "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

- Thomas Carlyle

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

More Sneak Peeks for tomorrow night's release :)

Good Morning! I have two more sneak peeks to show you of the stamp sets that will be released at All That Scraps, tomorrow at 10pm est. We will have a release party so come have some fun!
This first set is called Winter Bear. He's just adorable! All I did was color him with Copics and added some highlighting and some liquid applique to his hat, oh and glitter to the snowman, what snowman can be without glitter :)

It's a FUN set!!
The next card uses Sadie. This set is called Wintertime Sadie and Pepper by Jen at Stampin Spot Studio. The sentiment comes in the set too :) I love the Sadies, she's just so adorable!
I paired Sadie with some snowflake paper and some Bazzill cardstock. I used my nestabilities to cut the salmon frame. I colored everything with Copics and added the highlighting. Then I added the embellishments from Sandylion and the ribbon. The card is a little brighter IRL. I couldn't quite get the colors right on my computer, sorry :( Another fun Sadie set!!!


Our quote for the day: "Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. " — Sir William Van Horne

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderfully warm day (it's snowing here and we have about 1 1/2 on the table on our deck!)

ATSDTC28 - Christmas Ornaments

Good Morning! I love these challenge mornings, it makes me get my blog post done in the morning! This week's was a bit of a challenge for me........thus why it's called a challenge :) I love to alter things, but making something completely from paper isn't something I usually do. I was blog hopping the other day and saw these on Taylor Van Bruggen's blog and I couldn't wait to try them.

So, this is what I came up with. I LOVE them and I'm planning on using some as name tags for Christmas gifts too!! Mine are double sided, I cut two of the backgrounds and punched them at the same time so the punching would match and then used my Xyron to put the adhesive on so they would be completely attached at all points. You have to play around with the size of the squares you use based on the punch you use. I used a Fiskars punch and my outside squares were 3" and the inside ones were 2 5/8"

I colored Monkey with Copics and added liquid applique and glitter to his hat. (I add the glitter while the liquid applique is wet, before I heat it). I added the white highlights with my essentials white pen (I think I like this one even better than my souffle pen if you can believe that :) I pop-dotted Monkey up so he sticks out a bit. Dew drops were added to the points of both squares and then I added the ribbon. These were fun! I will be making some more!

We'd love for you to play along with the challenge. Be sure to check out the ATS blog a little bit later to see other projects.

Our quote for the day: "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

ATS Wednesday Challenge

Good Morning! It's ATS Wednesday Challenge morning! As you can see below our challenge this week was to use acetate!


You can't see the acetate on my card very well and I took some pics at different angles to see if I could make it more obvious, but that didn't work, so I'll just tell you about it :)

I stamped and colored my Glam Girl first and then used her to determine how big I wanted the window in my card. I cut the window then covered the whole card front with my Basic Grey paper and cut the window out of that too. Then I put the acetate over the window from the inside of the card. I stamped the background of the red background paper and attached Glam Girl to it and then pop-dotted the background to the back side of the front of the card to make a sort of shadow box. The I embellished the front of the card. It was fun!!

You can go to the gallery of All That Scraps or later on today to the blog and see more examples of using acetate. Then you can participate too, by going to the Challenges section of the Message Board at All That Scraps. We'd love to see your creations!

Our quote of the day: "I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." - Gilda Radner

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

I wanna be a Rock Star

Good Morning! I know I missed Halloween this year, but next year I think I'll dress up like Miss Rock Star below :) How fun is this??? As I was making this card, I just kept singing rock songs. :)

She is part of the new Glam Girls III set from All That Scraps. The background paper is from DCWV and all the other pieces are scraps, including Bazzill Bling scraps. The silver paper is a thin metallic paper that I got at Hobby Lobby a LONG time ago. I colored with Copics, twinklettes and stardust pens. You can't tell from the picture, but EVERYTHING sparkles on this card :)

On the agenda for today.....laundry. What are you doing today? Something fun I hope, I did get a Christmas present finished last night and hope to do another one tonight. Hope to have some stamping time too :)

Our quote for the day: "In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend." - Solon

Have a fabulously productive day :)

Wednesday's ATS Challenge

Good Wednesday morning! It's time for another ATS Challenge. This week's challenge was to make a Christmas card that would be easy to mass produce for those of us who make LOTS of Christmas cards. :)


This is my take on the challenge. I just took strips of Bo Bunny's Christmas line and created a background for my focal image. Wow, what is that focal angel you might be saying :)
Well, Christine has released a Digi Line of images. For $4 you can download a sheet full of angels to color and use on your cards or scrapbooks. They are adorable. The one I used, I printed the full sheet of all of them and this is the size it came out, perfect for my card. You can also use them individually and re-size them.

I am definitely NOT a digi scrapper, but using these as the focal image and still getting to use my papers, ribbon and dew drops etc. worked out really well for me. In fact, it was FUN!! The sentiment I used on the one is from Amy R's Christmas Sentiments set.

You can play too! Make your card and upload it to the ATS Gallery and be sure to use the keyword ATSDTC26. We would love to see your creations!

Our quote of the day: "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. " -Dale Carnegie

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

A Sugarplum Preview :)

Good Morning! It's cold here, no snow, but it looks very cold outside!

Today's card is a preview for more Sugarplum images. This one is Sugarplum North Pole. There are so many cute images, Santa, Rudolph, elves, toys, just fun stuff! You can go to the ATS blog to see more samples made with this set. Remember that they will be released Monday evening at 10:00pm eastern time.

For this card, I stamped the images in Memento black ink and colored them with Copics with some glitter pen touches and some white souffle pen highlights. I used Imaginisce papers and glitter brads and Offray ribbon. I just LOVE these stamps. They are so much fun to play with!!

Our quote for the day: "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. " — Albert Camus

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a warm and wonderful day!!

the Glam Girls Return!!!

Good Morning! We're going to take pictures of all the kids and Tyler tomorrow so I can show you who I've been talking about for so long! Although Tyler keeps saying that he doesn't want to take pictures.......hmmmmmmm! Bribing usually works though ......... :)

This card is made with the NEW Glam Girls - woo hoo!! They are so much fun! You can go to the ATS blog to see more samples of the set. The set will be released Monday, November 10th.

For this card, I used the birthday glam girl and SEI papers with some ribbon and some prima flowers. The background red-ish paper is from a package of paper from Target, the infamous dollar spot :)




Our quote for the day: "Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti


Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Introducing Forest Friends by Stampin' Spot Studio

Good Morning! It was so much fun this morning, when I woke up and heard our grandson, Tyler, talking in his bed, but his Mom wasn't quite ready to get up yet, so I went and got him and took him down with me to get Ben and Sara's breakfast ready for them. Tyler was so warm and snuggly :) He helped me get Ben and Sara ready for school and we watched them drive away and waved to them. I'm already enjoying him sooooooo much. Last night, Cliff and I took him to Target with us to get some groceries and of course a little toy for Tyler. He got Maracas that sing and count and tell colors. I'm sure the people on the plane with them when they are going home will 'love' me :)

My card today, is using a soon to be released set by Jen Ofiana - Stampin' Spot Studio. It's called Forest Friends and is filled with LOTS of little animals and sayings and such. It's adorable!! You can go to the ATS blog to see some fabulous samples using this set. I colored my image with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits. I can see myself using this set for many many occasions!

Remember the sketch from Amy Westerman from a few days ago. I used it again today :)

Our quote for the day: "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." - Anonymous

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Introducing Cupcake Occasions

Good Morning! Our girls and grandson are coming today - Woo Hoo!!!!!! :)
This morning's card is to introduce you to yet another set that will be released Monday, November 10th. This one is called Cupcake Occasions and is illustrated by Diane Zechman.

It's is so much fun to play with. There are two cupcake bases and LOTS of cupcake toppings to add. My sentiment on this card is from the set as well. This is going to be such a great release....LOTS of new sets available and they are all fabulous!!!

For my card, I started with Bazzill cardbase and added Heidi Grace We are family/ medium trees dp (I love this paper). The back side of this paper is the brown with white polka dots that is matting the turkey cupcake. The photo corners and scalloped circle were cut with Cosmo Cricket dp (some scraps I had left :) I inked pretty much everything, added some ricrac, some doodling, some dew drops :) and some bling. That's it! This is a great set! You can go to the ATS blog to see some more samples made with this set. You can also go to the dt's blogs listed on the right of my blog for more :)

Another new set will be previewing tomorrow so check back :)

Our quote for the day: "You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day :)

Wednesday's ATS Challenge and November Release Preview (whew...)

Good Morning! It's getting colder here. Tomorrow the high is supposed to be in the 50's and we've been in the high 70's and 80's lately! We also have a chance of snow Friday, they say just flurries........ But our girls and grandson will be here tomorrow so I really don't care what the weather does....they don't get to see much snow so that is the upside of it :)

Okay, on to today's ATS Challenge, it's a sketch challenge as you can see below :) Another tip of mine....I have a sketch journal (it's actually just a spiral bound medium sized notebook that my husband got on one of his business trips and I haven't even altered it yet........someday :) I put all the sketch challenges in this journal whether I use them at the time or not and I always put the "key words" by them so when I do use them eventually I can give credit to the proper person. For instance the "key words" for this one is ATSDTC25. When you go to Jen's post about this sketch challenge she tells you that. Anyway, by having them all in one place (and I put sketches from many different places in the same journal) I can flip through them and find one that will work for me anytime I need to. Okay off my soapbox again :)


Here is my take on this sketch challenge. As you can see I flipped it so I could use it for my preview of CC Designs "Christmas Around the World" set that will be released on Monday, October 10th! This set features Birdie from Olivia's birdies set and Monkey is also featured in this set along with Merry Christmas sentiment in many languages (I stamped mine on the perimeter of my card :)

I used Bo Bunny's Christmas line for this one and colored with Copics, with some white souffle highlights. I also used white flocking for Birdie's hat (I love flocking :) Around the 'Merry Christmas circle I punched holes with my paper piercer and used DMC embroidery floss to backstitch around the circle then when I cut out my extra ornaments I cut a slit in the hanger so they could hang from the floss. This was a fun sketch to use. You should try it and upload to our gallery :) You can find the details here.


Our quote for the day: "We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. " - Virginia Satir

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

ATS Wednesday Challenge

Good Morning! It's Wednesday and that means All That Scraps Challenge. As you can see below our challenge is a technique challenge, making a pizza box. You can go here for the tutorial.

This was so much fun to make. I used CC Designs "LuLu's Sweet Delights" stamp set, red cardstock and some Christmas dp, my nestabilities, Copics, a white souffle pen, some ric rac, some gems and some spica glitter pens. I'm pretty sure that's it!

I decorated all the sides of mine as well as the inside :) Ooops, I did use the McGill window punch for the sentiment.

I will be using mine for a gift card this Christmas and I'm pretty sure I will be making some more to use for gift cards. What a fun way to 'wrap' a gift card! I just used my paper shredder from our office to make the red shredded paper on the inside.

This was an easy project and you could decorate them anyway you wanted.

Oh, I did use my Scor-Pal and once again I will tell you how much I LOVE it!!!! It made scoring these lines so easy without having to move my paper. Definitely a MUST-HAVE product in my book :)

Okay, I have to go get dressed now. I will leave you with a quote. And a public service annoucement: try the challenge, it's fun! Be sure to post it to the All That Scraps Gallery so we can see what you came up with too :)

Our quote: "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." — Thornton Wilder

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!!

I'm back again :)

I told you I would be back with another post today......okay, I'm really glad I was able to come through with it :) Not that I lie, I despise lying, but I had Mount Laundry that had to be started and I didn't really feel great this morning, so I took a little nap in between making this card and working on the laundry. I feel a little bit better now, just still tired :( Oh well.



This is from the soon to be released "Eric and Chrissy - Go Prehistoric" set from CC Designs! It's so cute!! I knew I had to make a fairly simple card so I only used a few of the stamps from the set. You will have to go to the ATS blog to see Eric and Chrissy. Cute, cute, cute!!

My card uses plain cardstock for the base and Basic Grey Archaic for the dp. I cut the one with dinosaurs on it in the shape of a big diamond and then cut that in half and put the inside half toward the outside of the card....clear as mud??? Next, I wrapped the ribbon around the middle and tied a square knot. The rusty colored paper is from a DCWV card stack and I cut it with my quickutz diamond die and then embossed it with the swiss dots from cuttlebug, then I took chestnut roan ink and rubbed it along the outside of the diamond as well as lightly on the top of all the little dots. I stamped the dinosaur and bones in versafine black and colored them with Copics. I stamped the sentiment in versafine sepia and punched it out with my McGill window punch. Oh, I almost forgot that I added dew drops....but then again I'm sure you're surprised at that. :)

Our quote for the day: "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

Thanks so much for stopping by again. Have a fabulous day!

Christmas is on it's way :)

and no, I have not started counting down the days :)

Good Morning! Another sneak peek at the CC Designs sets that will be released on Tuesday, October 7th at 10:00 et, party begins at 8:00 :)

Olivia and Christopher are back - YEAH!!!!! They are just adorable in their little footie pajamas! Olivia and Christopher will be sold individually and the scenery set which you can see has lots of fun things included will be just that, a Sugarplum scenery set! Christopher and Olivia's name do NOT come on the stockings, I wrote them in. I couldn't fit Christopher so he had to be Chris for this card. The tags on the presents just say "To " so you can make them to whomever you would like to. Okay, onto the deets:

I actually made this card backwards because I wasn't sure how big I was going to need the card base to be, so I started with the pieces and stamped everything is versafine black. I colored the fireplace and fire with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits, everything else was colored with Copics and Christopher and Olivia's pajamas were paper pieced with some fun Christmas paper from a DCWV stack. I glittered the toes and heels of the stockings and added them to the mantle with tiny brads, I used glitter pens on the bows of the presents and used orange stickles on the fire, so there is lots of bling on this one :) The background paper is from Making Memories and it's poinsettias that are flocked so it's really soft looking. I pop-dotted Christopher and Olivia so they could stand in front of the fireplace and just look darling!

This is an incredibly fun set to play with and as usual Olivia and Christopher are adorable!!
Go to the All That Scraps blog to see more samples made with this set.

Our quote for the day: "Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - James Allen

Thanks so much for stopping by - have a fabulous fall day!!!

Sugarplum Halloween Review Preview

Good Morning! It's Review Preview day today at All That Scraps. My little projects are featured on the blog :) I used the Black Magic technique on these and they were just perfect for it!!

The Sugarplums Halloween stamp set from C.C. Designs is adorable with a capital A!!! Don't you think Olivia and Christopher make the cutest little trick or treaters? There are so many stamps in this set, you will always have a perfect image to add to your creation. Not only that, you have lots of fun sentiments too! So many possibilities and I only used a few of them for these!

Since these are Halloween stamps, I thought it would be fun to use the Black Magic technique with them. Olivia and Christopher were perfect for it!I started with black cardstock and stamped my images with white ink. Then comes the fun part. I took my prismacolor pencil, dipped it into mineral spirits and then colored directly on the black cardstock. The mineral spirits soften the pencil a bit and make it color smoothly on the black cardstock and it just brightens right before your eyes. It's very cool to watch. I was careful not to color over the white stamped lines because the color will cover them. After I finished coloring, I used a glitter pen to outline everything.

For Olivia's card, I used some dp from K&Co, pop-dotted the little owl that's riding on her broom, and attached dew drops to the corners and a ribbon to the front. I kept it simple because I love the image on the black with such fun bright colors.

Christopher is holding onto a hershey bar. When you pull the ribbon up it pulls the candy bar out of the holder. After I colored Christopher and friends, I cut them out and adhered Christopher to the Making Memories dp, then pop-dotted his pitchfork and the cat. I also pop-dotted the sentiment and then added some red gems, just a little extra bling :)

These are just a couple more fun things to do with these great stamps! I hope you get a chance to try this technique. If you do, upload it to the gallery and let us see your creations.

Check out the All That Scraps blog to do some blog-hopping to find the dt member giving away the gift certificate and to see some more fun examples using this incredible cute set!

Another fun thing going on at All That Scraps is the surprise release of My Rubber Ducky. It comes as just the stamps or as a kit with lots of fun things to use with the stamp set. This set is the one I used for yesterday's post, soooooo cute!!

Our quote for the day: "The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. " — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful Friday!

A Surprise Release :)

Good Morning! This is a little surprise release that Christine is having at All That Scraps. This is THE CUTEST stamp set! It features Monkey and Bear and what can be more fun than Cuties in the tub??? This set will be released at 10:00 et tonight! This is one of the sets that can be purchased as a kit too :) The kit has Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine Pattern Paper in it.

About my card. I started with a Bazzill Basics lemonade yellow cardstock base and then I stitched torn vellum to the bottom. I stamped the images in Memento Black Ink and colored them with Copics (have I told you that I'm going to the Copics Certified Instructor class in October :) - I'm so excited about it.) I flocked the rubber ducky and added souffle white highlights to monkey as well as stickles to the suds. I stamped the sentiment in Staz-On and stickled those suds too. I cute Monkey out with my nesties and then sponged bliss blue around the outside. The dp is from Pebbles Inc. and then I just tied a bow around it and attached everything. The rubber ducky is pop-dotted under the first row of 'water'. Last by not least I added dew drops :) So much fun, I tell you!

Be sure to check out the All That Scraps blog to see more fun examples of this set.

Our quote for the day: "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

It's Wednesday's ATS Challenge

Good Morning! As you can see above, the challenge for this week is Circle Inchies. The inchie craze has been using squares, but Jen challenged us to use circle for this fun trend. As usual, you are invited and encouraged to participate in this challenge with us. You can go to the ATS Gallery to see more examples and then upload your own creation. Be sure to use the key word ATSDTC17. My example is below:

For this one, I used the Sugarplum sets, Olivia's Birdies, Scenery Set, and Sentiment Set. They all work together so well. I used dp from Basic Grey's Mellow collection and Bazzill Basics cardstock. I stamped in versafine black and the background flowers in versamark. I colored with prismacolor pencils, Koh-i-noor pencils and mineral spirits and souffle pen for highlighting. I added green silk ribbon, dew drops, photo corners and corners punched with the EKSuccess corner punch. I also used the Marvy small scallop punch for the red circle under the inchies. Another fun challenge.

Today, hopefully is a stamping day for me. I have a few errands to run, but then I hope to come home and stamp, stamp, stamp. We'll see how it goes! :)

Our quote for the day: "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. "
— Hans Hofmann

Thanks so much for stopping in and have a fabulous day!

Two More Sneak Peeks :)

Good Morning!! Two more sneak peeks for today. These two are highlighting the soon to be released Sugarplum Halloween set. Aren't Olivia and Christopher cute as can be?? Once again this set works so well with the Spooky Scenes and the Spooky, Spooky, Spooky sets!
For Olivia's card, I used K&Co background paper, KI Memories paper for the small strips on the bottom, I stamped Olivia and the bat in versafine black and colored Olivia in Copics with some prismacolor pencil and white souffle pen highlights and the bat I colored with Twinklette silver marker to make him sparkle :) I added a glitter brad and some ribbon. Fun, fun, fun!!!

This is Christopher dressed up like a cute little devil!! These background papers are also from K&Co. I stamped everything in versafine black and colores with Copics and prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and Christopher's pokey thing is colored with Spica red glitter pen. I added some gems, photo corners and pop-dots. These stamps are definitely so much fun to play with!!!! Christine is rockin' with the designs!!!

Be sure to hop over to the All That Scraps gallery and also check out the blogs of the other design team members to see what they have come up with. Their blogs are listed on the right side of my blog.

Our quote for the day: "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!" - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Thanks so much for dropping by and remember the All That Scraps September stamp release is tomorrow night on the message board!!