Flower Soft & CPS

Happy Wednesday! I'm back with another Flower Soft project. This week feels more like summer than spring. We are actually supposed to be in the 80's by Friday! I'm so excited to be 'shaking off' winter! I was so in the mood for all things spring and with Easter being this weekend I was inspired. Take a peek at my card for this week.....

The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup and Core'dinations....LOVE this card stock! The ribbon is from Michaels. The bunny is a super cute die-cut from the Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge. I cut the base out and then cut the face and leg twice so that I could pop them both up. Next up I applied a little Flower Soft, Polar White of course, all over the bunny adding a little Ultra Fine Flower Soft to his little nose and ear.

Here's a close up....
The layout for this card is from this weeks Card Positioning Systems...CPS160. I'm sooooo excited to be part of the CPS team now! OMHeck! Truly honored! I LOVE Tammi's sketches and am over the moon to be working with her now! :) I'll be back with another CPS card tomorrow evening.

Now be sure and check out the rest of the Flower Soft design team to see what they have in store for you.....

p>1.) Deb Saaranen

2.) Jacque Beddingfield

3.) Jeanne Streiff

4.) Jennifer Buck {that's me}

5.) Linda Beeson

6.) Rose Ann Reynolds

7.) Vicki Garret {our newest team member! :) }

Hope you all have a wonderful day! I will be back soon with more! :) For now it's time to head outside and enjoy the beautiful day! You have to do that here! ;) We could be cold, snowy, rainy....who knows!...at any moment! Spring time in Indiana is CRAZY time! lol ;)

Stamp Simply Time

It's time for another Stamp Simply challenge. This weeks challenge is to create an Easter card. I have a little something different than my usual for this one. One of my friends {Lisa} is a photographer and she always takes the cutest pictures of her dogs for the holidays. They are always dressed up so cute! Here's the shot she took of one of her dogs, Nola.
How cute is she! I decided to 'borrow' Lisa's photo of Nola and print it off on a transparency so that I could add it to a card. Here is the final product.....

The photo doesn't do this one justice. I love the subtle coloring from the photo. It's really beautiful when you see it IRL. Here's a close up.....

The sentiment is from one of my favorite Papertrey Ink sets. You can always find the perfect sentiment in the perfect card size with their stamps. The paper is also PTI as well as the ribbon.

Be sure and check out Sharon's beautiful sample as well as all of this weeks challenge deets at Sharon's blog. You can also view the rest of the samples here.....

Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps

Marlene Bender: the March guest designer

Barb Anders: Paper Pursuits;

Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat;

Tammy Hershberger: Stamp Happy;

Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty;

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden;

Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color; and

Barb Schram: Explore. Dream. Discover.

Be sure and load your samples to SCS using the keyword ssnotime132. Hope you all get the chance to play!

Have a good one! I will post you soon! :)

Unity Thursday

Hey Everyone! It's time for some more Unity goodness. This week I am sharing a little card I made using the current Unity Store Kit. You can view the whole kit here. Take a peek....

The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup. The ribbon is May Arts. Be sure and check out the rest of the Unity 'this and that' over at the Unity site. I will be back in a bit with you.

Have a good one! :)

New Flower Soft

Time for new Flower Soft! I'm so excited to share the new Flower Soft toppers with you. The FS blog has been sharing images this week. You can view the samples and the entire line here at the FS blog.

Here's my first sample.....

I used some new Cosmo Cricket for this one. The ribbon is from Sharon's ribbon store. I also used Delphinium Blue, Bright Orange Flower Soft along with Sage Ultra Fine FS. Here's a close up.....

Thanks for stopping by! Back in a bit for more. Hope you all have a good one! :)

Another Thank You Card

Back again with a little more from The Stamps of Life. One more thank you card using this months Thanks 2 You. Take a peek....

The paper for this one is from American Crafts. The chipboard pieces are from Chips. The ribbon is PTI.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a great one!

So Excited!

I'm so very excited! I got some wonderful news yesterday! You know I've been on Jillibean Soup overload for the last couple of months. I LOVE everything that is Jillibean Soup! The papers, embelli's...everything is BEAUTIFUL! Well, how excited was I to learn that they were having a design team call and how excited am I that I was chosen as one of the guest designers! :) Getting the email yesterday was such a happy day! :) I am so excited to have the opportunity to work with this wonderful company and look forward to my upcoming spot. :)

Here is one of my projects that I submitted for consideration. This is actually one of my favorite paper lines. The paper is from Egg Drop Soup. EVERYTHING in this line is BEAUTIFUL! I seriously fell in love with all of it.




The chipboard pieces are random that I have combined in my big box of chipboard so I am not positive on the manufacturer but I covered it with the Jillibean Soup Paper. I also then added some of the fabulous buttons that are in the Jillibean Soup line. The sticker sentiment is from the Egg Drop Soup sticker sheet.


Head on over to the Jillibean blog to see all of the new design team additions and the rest of the guest designers. I'm so very excited and so honored to be working with such a talented group of people.

***Also, this post has all of this weeks deets for the current Stamp Simply challenge. You don't want to miss this fun one. :)

Hope you all have a wonderful day! I will post you soon! :)

Stamp Simply

It's time for another fun Stamp Simply challenge. I so love this challenge. This weeks challenge is to create a Clean & Simple card using texture. I really enjoyed this challenge. I love adding dimension and texture to projects especially anything CAS. I like the contrast and the challenge to keep a project truly CAS while adding to it. Here's what I came up with.....

I used the new Unity KOTM for this one. I also added some Jillibean Soup patterned paper. I popped up the gumball machine and then paper pieced the bottom portion while adding a bit of Crystal Effects. Here's a close up....

That's it for me. Be sure and check out our fabulous leader, Sharon's sample at her blog and then take a peek at the rest of the Stamp Simply team.....

Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps

Marlene Bender: the March guest designer

Barb Anders: Paper Pursuits;

Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat;

Tammy Hershberger: Stamp Happy;

Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty;

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden;

Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color; and

Barb Schram: Explore. Dream. Discover.

Hope you all get a chance to play with this one. Be sure and upload your creations to SCS using the keyword ssnotime131 if you do.

Have a wonderful day! I will post you soon! :)

You Said, He Said

Happy Thursday! I really love this time of the week....time for more Unity goodness. This week I have another layout using the new Scrapbook Kit, Favorite Things. This kit is amazing with so many possibilities.

This is one of my favorite pictures. My middle son LOVES our dog Truman. He will sit with him in the 'big chair' and just talk and talk. It's really so cute. Since the chair is right behind my desk I often catch a bit of the conversation here and there. That's really hard to do as most of the time he's actually whispering in Truman's ear! CUTEness!

Here's a closeup...

This particular 'conversation' was after dinner that wasn't Cary's favorite. What else would a boy do but feed it to the dog. No wonder Truman will sit with him and let him whisper in his ear! He knows who has his back!

Be sure and head over to the Unity site for all of today's 'this and that'. I will be back in a bit with more.

Have a good one! :)

Supplies used: Unity Stamp Co stamps Favorite Things, Jillibean Soup paper, Quick Kutz cork paper, Tim Holtz metal, Jillibean Soup alpha, Cricut machine.

From the Bottom of My Heart

Hey Peeps! Back again with a bit more from The Stamps of Life. I'm using another couple of sentiments from this months new release Thanks 2 You. Take a peek....


The paper for this one is from Jillibean Soup. I colored the heart with a little Smooch....LOVE that stuff.

Thanks for stopping by! Back with more later! Have a good one!

The Unity Store Kit

Happy Saturday! Today is a busy one at our house, my youngest is turning three today. I cannot believe how quickly time is flying by with him. He's such a sweetie. He actually came into my room singing 'Happy Birthday' this morning. Of course he adds 'eat more chicken' after each verse. *shaking my head....have NO clue where he gets some of the things he says.

Ok...off to a card. Today I have an EPLS (easy peasy lemon squeezy) something with Unity's new store kit. You can view the whole kit here. Here's my little card for today....

The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup. The ribbon is PTI.

Hope you all have a wonderful day and weekend! I will post you soon! I'm off to pick up the candles I forgot and one more little somethin', somethin'.

:)

Stamp Simply

It's Stamp Simply time! I so love this challenge. This weeks is one of my favorite types of challenges.....a color challenge. LOVE color challenges! This week create a project using pink, green and a bit of brown. You can find all of the deets over at Sharon's blog along with her AMAZING sample. I pulled out some of my favorite Jillibean Soup for this one. The patterned papers from the new Egg Drop Soup collection. CUTE stuff! Take a peek....

The sentiment also comes from Jillibean Soup. It's from the stamp set Birthday Party. Be sure and check out the rest of the Stamp Simply team...

Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps

Marlene Bender: the March guest designer

Barb Anders: Paper Pursuits;

Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat;

Tammy Hershberger: Stamp Happy;

Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty;

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden;

Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color; and

Barb Schram: Explore. Dream. Discover.

Be sure and upload your own creations to SCS using the keyword ssnotime128.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I will post you soon! :)

Unity Thursday

Time for a little more Unity. Today I'm using the new Unity scrapbooking kit. This one is soooo much fun! You can see the whole kit here at the Unity site. This is one of my favs! Here's my layout....

The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup. LOVE this paper! Be sure and check out the Unity site for all of todays important to-do's. I will be back with more in a bit!

Have a good one! :)

Flower Soft Blog Hop

It's time for another Flower Soft challenge and blog hop. This weeks challenge is to create a border with Flower Soft. I'm using a Unity image for this weeks card from this months KOTM. The border is created with a square scallop chipboard piece that I covered with red Flower Soft. Take a peek....

LOVE that Flower Soft! The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup. Now it's time to head on over to the talented.......

Jeanne Streiff

Enjoy the rest of the hop and be sure and leave a comment at the last blog to be entered in this months blog candy drawing.

Have a good one! :)

Thanks

Back again with a bit more from The Stamps of Life. One more using this months release Thanks 2 You. Such a cute kit! I LOVE it!

The paper for this one is from American Crafts. The ribbon is Yours Truly. I picked both up at a recent Archivers outing. The ribbon came in a spool of 10 yards! Holy heck! That's a LOT of ribbon!

Hope you all have a wonderful day! That's it for me! I will post you soon!

Stamp Simply

It's time to Stamp Simply. This weeks challenge.....Punched Borders! I LOVE using border punches but I will confess to being in a bit of a rut with my scallop border punch. I LOVE this one but tend to neglect all the other punches in my drawer. I decided to pull out one that really never gets used. Take a peek.....

This is a Martha Stewart punch that I picked up at Michaels. I have the corner punch as well. LOVE this one! The paper for this is Jillibean Soup. The stamp is Unity's new Stampin' Store Kit. It's adorable! You can see the whole kit here.

You can find more information about this weeks challenge as well as see Sharon's beautiful sample here.

Be sure and check out the rest of the Stamp Simply team.....
Deb Neerman: Paper, Ink, Scissors & Stamps

Marlene Bender: the March guest designer

Barb Anders: Paper Pursuits;

Jenny Gropp: One Krafty Kat;

Tammy Hershberger: Stamp Happy;

Janine Orchard: 2bKrafty;

AJ Otto: The Willow Garden;

Deb Saaranen: Dream In Color; and

Barb Schram: Explore. Dream. Discover.

Be sure and upload your creations to SCS using the keyword ssnotime127.

If you get the chance to play be sure and load your cards to SCS using the keyword ssnotime129. Have a good one! :)

I Miss You

Hey Everyone! Ok...showing my age here.....I totally have the Klymaxx song playing in my head while I am typing this. Do you remember that one? I Miss You? I LOVED that song! Anyhoo....that sort of leads up to my card for today.


NEW Unity KOTM! :) Woohoo! Here's my card.....



I really LOVE this kit....love the sentiments....LOVE everything! :) I never say that! ;) The paper for this one is Jillibean Soup. I used my Copic markers to color the image. The ribbon is from Target....you get can get some crazy big spools of satin ribbon in their 'wedding' section. LOVE that!


Hope you enjoy! Be sure and check out the Unity site to see the rest of this months kit....you will LOVE it! :)


Thanks for stopping by! I will be back in a bit for more! ;)

You Rock!

Hey Peeps! Back again with a quickie using The Stamps of Life. This one uses the new release Thanks 2 You. This is such a cute set! I LOVE the sentiments and the flowers....ADORABLE! I made my card this week using the current CPS sketch. You can view it over at the CPS blog.



The paper for this one is from Crate Paper. I LOVE this paper! It's one of my favorite lines. I'm sorry but I don't remember where I got the brad. It's one of those things that wound up in a drawer and I have NO clue from where it came. :(

Hope you enjoy. Be sure and check out The Stamps of Life website to see the entire set. It's a cutie!

I will post you soon!

Let The Sunshine In!

This post is going to be a course in multi-tasking. I've got a card for the Ippity .... Hippity Hop ... and for the Monday gals challenge .... one I have missed for many, many weeks! Check out the rest of the Monday gals: Jimmi Mayo, Maren Benedict, AJ Otto, Jeanne Streiff.


I used one of my favorite new Ippity sets for this week and combined it with the ribbon that is our Monday challenge. Take a peek.....



This set is called Sweet Thoughts of Spring. It's CA-UTE! The paper is Jillilbean Soup. The ribbon is PTI.


Hope you enjoy the rest of the hop! To find the list of blogs go to the Ippity blog.