Flower Soft Ultra Fine .... Post nO.2

Back again with some NEW Flower Soft! Well, a bit more of the new! I've shared a few samples of the new Ultra Fine Flower Soft and today the design team has created more samples for you. I'm using Wishing Well. You can find this beautiful stamp here. The Flower Soft stamps are perfect for watercoloring but they work well with any other medium as well. Don't want to color? You can find this image finished for you by picking up the toppers. They are here.



So what's different with the new Ultra Fine FS? Both the regular and the Ultra Fine are great for adding dimension to your projects but the Ultra Fine will allow you to do so to much smaller images. You can get even great detail with this product. It's truly stunning! The new Ultra Fine is available on February 1.



Here's my sample for today.....


I really love this stuff! It is beautiful on anything! Some of the other design team members have created some samples for you today. Be sure and check them out.....

Jeanne Streiff
Deb Saaranen
AJ Otto

Hope you all enjoy your day! Hugs! :)

Monday Gals ..... Post #1

Happy Monday....or soon to be....I'm going live just a bit early since I've got another post coming as well! I'm so excited to be participating with the Monday Challenge! What a perfect week to jump back in! This weeks challenge is to create a Clean & Simple card. Well, you know that CAS is one of my favorite styles so this week was so much fun for me! I used this weeks Card Positioning Systems sketch for this one. You can view the sketch over at the CPS blog. Here's my little card......


I used the digital kit Daisies 4 You from The Stamps of Life for this one. This is such a fun kit! The patterned paper, ribbon, and buttons are from PTI. I added some of the NEW....ok....soon to be released....Ultra Fine Flower Soft for the inside of the buttons. I LOVE the new Ultra Fine FS! It's so delicate. This will be available on Feb 1.

Be sure and check out the rest of the gals.....(Of course, if you are getting this prior to midnight you may need to check back in a bit).....

Brooke Lien

Maren Benedict

AJ Otto

Jimmi Mayo

Jeanne Streiff

I'll be back in a bit with a bit more Flower Soft. We are sneaking some peeks of the upcoming release. Be sure and check out the Flower Soft blog for more.


Post you soon!

All Digi

It's a first for me! I'm getting pretty accustomed to combining both digital and 'true' elements in my work. I actually really love working with digital images but have yet to actually create something completely digital. Well, today marks a first! An all digital layout! Wowzers, jump back! ;) While playing with some of my Stamps of Life images I just sort of let go and the next thing, it's an all digital layout! Take a peek....

I really had so much fun creating this! It was really easy! Hope you enjoy! I'm off! I will be back for more tomorrow! Hope you all enjoy your day!

Big hugs!

Fun * Gi

It's time for a little more Unity. Today a sneak from the new store kit. You can get all of the deets over at the Unity site. This is such a cute kit! I really love it! One of my favorite sentiments from this kit is the 'fun.gi'. CUTE! Perfect for your Valentine! Here's what I came up with this one.....

LOVE that little 'shroom and the sentiment is a hoot! The paper is from Whate of a Tale from Sassafras. I colored the muchroom with my copics.

Sorry for the quickie post. At the time of writing this we are heading out to a basketball game and then to the sledding hill. Ok....well, all of the men in my house are. I'm curled up in bed...hopefully they let me sleep in.....I'm a bit under the weather.

Hope you all enjoy your day! Big hugs!

A New Love!

Hey Everyone! Back again. It's snowing here. Can I tell you how excited my kiddos were when they finally heard they would have a two hour delay in the morning? Can you remember the days of waiting to have school cancel or start late? They are so cute! It really makes me giggle! ;)
Ok....time for another Stamp Simply challenge and I am soooo excited to be using some NEW Flower Soft and Unity for this one! New Kit of the month and New super FINE Flower Soft! You can find the new Unity kit now over at the Unity site but the new Flower Soft will be introduced at CHA in just a couple of weeks with product ready for purchase Feb 1. You will not believe how AMAZING this is! I LOVE the new colors and just love how tiny each little 'flake' is. You can really create some amazing detailed creations with this!

Soooo....with this weeks Stamp Simply challenge:

Deets: ssnotime121 -- Love is in the Air - With Valentine's Day as our next major card-giving day on the horizon, let's get something ready to add to our stash. How about a card using a heart, Valentine or lovey-type theme -- no other rules -- let's just add to our stash with some hearts and/or lovey type cards -- and if you need a wedding card, this would be the perfect challenge for that too -- let's just love it up this week!!! No other rules - just run with it and have some fun!!! (Thank you, thank you, Sharon for typing that up for me! ;)) ....Sounds like fun, right?!


You can view Sharon's beautiful sample over at her blog and be sure and link up your beautiful creation there as well.


My sample......with a bit of Jillibean Soup......

I used the fine Flower Soft to outline the love sentiment. I really love how detailed this product is. You can find more information about Flower Soft at there website (specific product details on the fine Flower Soft coming Feb 1). You can find the new Unity KOTM at the Unity site.



Be sure and check out the rest of Sharon's team:


Michelle Woerner, December Guest Designer
Janine Orchard
Julie Koerber
AJ Otto
Tammy Hershberger
Deb Saaranen
Barbara Anders
Jenny Gropp
Barb Schram

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

Unity!

Happy Thursday! Hope you are all having a wonderful day! We woke up to snow! Woohoo! We missed the big storm over Christmas break so the boys were so excited to wake up to lots of snow falling! They were bummed that they still had to go to school. ;) Maybe tomorrow they will get a snow day.

I've got a quick little something for you from Unity today using this months new Kit. Have you seen it? It's ADORABLE! I LOVE it! You can check it out as well as all of this weeks special over at the Unity site.

Here's what I created....


Hope you all have a wonderful day! I'm off to pull the sleds out. Hopefully we will actually get to use them today!

Post you soon!

Hedgehogs!

It's Monday and our first day back to school after this fun filled Christmas break. While we have had a great time, I must confess to being just a bit excited to have a little more 'me' time...ok....as much as you can have with a {nearly} three year old! ;) This morning I'm taking my youngest for donuts that he won't have to share and then we are going to spend some quality time doing whatever he wants....and hopefully somewhere in there I will find a quiet moment to breathe! ;) lol.

Today I'm happy to share some new Flower Soft with all of you. You know how much I LOVE Flower Soft. It's such a great embellishment to any project. This months challenge for the design team included using the new Hedgerow Friends toppers. While these toppers are perfect to use alone as a notecard I opted to cut them down slightly and add some of the super cute patterned paper that Flower Soft sells to create a notecard set. Take a peek......

The ribbon is from the our very own Sharon's store....she has such a HUGE supply! I used pink, orange, yellow, shamrock green and nut brown Flower Soft on my little toppers.

Be sure and check out the rest of the team....

• AJ Otto
• Barb Schram

Deb Saaranen

• Jeanne Streiff
• Sharon Johnson

I will be back to post more tomorrow. A new year and hopefully a bit more time for blogging! ;) Things have been so crazy lately! I really miss sharing with all of you!

Also, be sure and check out the Flower Soft blog. You need to sign up to follow the blog and leave a comment to be entered in a drawing for your very own hedgehog toppers and a pot of Flower Soft.

Have a wonderful day! I will post you soon!

Big hugs!

Happy New Year! :)

2010! Wowzers! Can you believe it!? So what did you do to ring in the New Year? We've had a really low-key night here. It's been a fun night of games, popcorn, movies, and trying to see who could stay up the latest. I'm pretty sure I am going to lose! ;) I hope whatever your evening had in store it was it was a fun and safe time for you!

I've got a quick post for this weeks Stamp Simply challenge. This weeks challenge is to use anything 'new'. This could be something you've had for a while but just haven't used or something brand-spaken' new! I'm opting for the 'brand-spaken' new' category! ;) I have my hot little hands on one of the new stamp sets that The Stamps of Life is releasing this month. Take a peek....

You can get all of the deets on this weeks challenge on Sharon's blog and see her fabulous sample! Be sure to also check out the rest of the Stamp Simply team....

• Michelle Woerner, December Guest Designer
• Janine Orchard
• Julie Koerber
• AJ Otto
• Tammy Hershberger
• Deb Saaranen
• Barbara Anders
• Jenny Gropp
• Barb Schram

...if you are uploading to SCS be sure and use the keyword ssnotime120 so that we can keep all of our projects together.

You can see all about this months The Stamps of Life release at the blog. Soooo many stamps coming for you this month!

I'm off!

Happy New Year!

Unity Thursday

Happy New Years! I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season! I'm so sorry for the quick post but I am on 'gaming' duty with the kiddos today. I really love this time of year but with them off from school for so long I feel like my days are all about Mario, Madden '10, Monopoly....the list goes on and on! I did take a bit of a break yesterday to squeeze in some creating time. :) Here's what I have for you today....

This little layout of my youngest. I used the scrapbook KOTM for this one....

I posted this little card on the Unity blog Tuesday so you may have already seen this.

That's it for me. Be sure to check out the Unity blog to see all of todays fun goodies! :)

...and Happy New Year! I hope you all have a wonderful and safe one!

Big hugs!

A Simple Gift

It's time to Stamp Simply and what perfect timing here! I am trying to finish up all my last minute Christmas gift giving so this weeks challenge is perfect! The one catch with this weeks challenge is to use 'snow' in our projects. Here's what I came up with....

I've spent the entire day baking. I have a huge plate ready to go for my hubby to take to work tomorrow, lots of plates for friends and about a dozen little boxes (as pictured above) for my children to take to school tomorrow for their teachers and the school staff. Phew! What a day!

These little goodie boxes are holding my homemade turtles. These are sooooo EPLS to make. All you need are caramel, milk chocolate, and pecans. Layer a baking sheet with pecans, cover with caramel. Bake in an oven pre-set to 200 degrees for around 5 minutes and then dip in melted chocolate. So easy but boy do they taste so GOOD!

The little boxes are from Michaels. I used the snowflake Martha Stewart punch for the border of the red card stock. The patterned paper also had glittery snowflakes but the picture doesn't quite show that off. The stamp is from Papertrey Inc.

Be sure and check out the rest of the team.....

Michelle Woerner, December Guest Designer
Janine Orchard
Julie Koerber
AJ Otto - will post mid-day on Friday
Tammy Hershberger
Deb Saaranen
Barbara Anders
Jenny Gropp
Barb Schram

And don't forget our fearless leader, Sharon Johnson.

Hope you get a chance to play. If you do, be sure and upload your creations to SCS using the keyword ssnotime118.

Post you all soon. I'm off to watch the rest of the Colts game and then off to bed! ....if I can actually stay awake long enough to see the whole game! ;)

Have a good one! :)

Unity Thursday

Hey Peeps! It's time for more Unity Stamps! :) Don't you love them! I've got a quickie card today using one of my favs from this months Kit of the Month. Take a peek.....

I really love this stamp! It's one of my favs! This is such a great set. You can view the whole thing at the Unity site.

Sorry this one is so quick. I'm off to start Christmas cookies. Post you all soon! :)

Love Bug

It's Unity Thursday time again. I love this time of week! :) I'm using the new Kit of the Month add on this week. I fell in love the minute I saw it! Take a peek....

The paper for this is Cosmo Cricket and the alpha is from Jillibean Soup. I colored the cute little bug with my Copic markers.

That's it for me. Be sure and check out all of this weeks specials over at the Unity blog and you can find more information about this add on kit at the Unity store.

Have a wonderful day! :)

Stamp Simply

It's time for this weeks Stamp Simply challenge. This weeks challenge is to make a 'tag'. All of the specifics can be found at Sharon's blog. This one is ssnotime116 for uploads to Splitcoast. When you get there and read the specific instructions you will see that I have sort of strayed off task just a wee bit. Here's the deal. I pulled out some new BoBunny for this project. Everything is from the A Gift Of Love line. It's ADORABLE! I LOVE this line! Well, one of the stickers said 'Dear Santa, I can explain everything'. Instantly I knew I had to use this sticker. We've had a bit of a rough morning. Everyone is home today and the older two were having a 'moment'. (that sounds much better than fighting...denial...I live there) Anyhoo, I figured I would make a tag to include with our cookies for Santa. We are gonna need it this year. So on my way to a tag I ended up with a mini 'tag' book.

Here's the cover:

While I was trying to decide how to put everything together. You know, the cookies and such, I remembered a little glitter incident that took place here just a couple of days ago. Actually, I remembered it because I still havent' gotten all of the glitter out of the carpet down here. Then I remembered walking downstairs only to find the fish tank full of toys and cookies. Holy smoke I know a little boy that really needs to make his own explanation book! So here you go.....

The glitter. I have a couple of small drawers that are filled with glitter containers of various sizes. Hey, I'm a glitter nut! I guess he decided it was really fun to play with and he said when I caught him...'Mommy, it's just like sand'. Honestly! Lost are about a dozen bottles of glitter. Some of those were the really big Martha Stewart containers.

Ok....the next picture is not for the faint of heart. I didn't take the picture until after we got the toys out. My older two boys were really upset as they thought the fish were all crushed. The entire tank was filled with train tracks, cars, stuffed animals, and cookies. I think he may have sprinkled a little bit of glitter in there as well. All I know is that the cookies feel apart when I tried to get them out and the toys all went in the trash. YUCK!

***Remarkably, NO fish were killed in this incident. How that is possible I do NOT know! And that is what our fishtank looked like after all of the toys were removed. It's still not perfectly clear. I'm afraid I will kill the fish if I changed to much water at once but we are working on it.

Do you love this face? Holy smoke! This is the look that he gives everyone this year! Everywhere we go he is scrunching his entire face up. No matter what the situation or who he is looking at. And there I am, just shaking my head.

This is the epitome of Hayden. Crumbs on his lips, hat on backwards, sweaty....what more needs to be said.

Then you have those really sweet moments when you just want to squeeze his little cheeks. For as mischevous as he can be he is a zillion times sweeter. He's a sweetie. Yeah, I know, he really doesn't need this book to help him out with 'santa'. But she is really going to love looking back on it in the future!

Hope you all enjoy! Check out the rest of the team.....

Michelle Woerner, December Guest Designer
Jennifer Buck
Janine Orchard
Julie Koerber
AJ Otto
Tammy Hershberger
Deb Saaranen
Barbara Anders
Jenny Gropp
Barb Schram

I will post you all soon! :)

Unity Thursday

I'm so excited to share my first samples with this months Unity Kit of the Month. This months kit is AMAZING! I really love it. You can see the whole kit at the Unity store. Here are my samples....

Love this balloon. It's beautiful. The sentiments in the kit fit nicely over it as well.

Next up an EPLS one with an AMAZING sentiment. I used some Basic Grey for this one.....

That's it for me. Be sure to check out the Unity blog for all of the specials for today. Enjoy!

{Post #2} The Stamps Of Life

Back again. It's time for a new release from The Stamps of Life. This months release is WONDERFUL! You will love it! My first card of the month is all digi. I really love the flexibility of digital images. I also love to create a (somewhat in this instance) one layer card with them. Here's what I came up with this month.....

I did mat the main layer and add a ribbon but otherwise it's all one. I layered the images in Photoshop and changed the colors as well.

You can see the whole kit at the Stamps of Life site.

Post you all soon!

Another Flower Soft Challenge

Hello to you all! I'm so happy to be back home. We took a quick trip to Texas for Thanksgiving. What a fun time! It has been so long since I've been back home and can't believe how much things have changed! I actually got lost on my way home! That's how much things have grown. The boys had so much fun playing near the creek that I once spent time playing around. Of course now there is a huge park nearby so they had a great time playing there as well. They got to 'hunt' for arrowheads. Remarkably some were found....hmmmmm....thanks Grandaddy! ;) I was so happy to be able to meet some of my favorite stamping friends for lunch at my favorite (FAVORITE) restaurant, Chuy's. Have you ever heard of this place? Man is it GOOD! I'm dreaming of queso and this really yummy cake (thanks, Jenn! ;)...it's a new addiction and I so want to learn to make it!) Such a great time!

Now we are back home and putting up the Christmas decorations and I am ready to get to stamping. Perfect timing as I came home to a few 'Christmas' gifts waiting for me. Sometimes a girl has to do a little shopping for herself. ;) I can't wait to ink up all of that rubbah!

It's also just in time for this months Flower Soft challenge. This months challenge is to create a holiday something....card, gift...whatevah. I opted to make a little ornament using some of my favorite toppers. You can find the whole set here at the Flower Soft site. I love how EPLS (easy peasy lemon squeezy) this set is to use. Simply cut and glue and you are done! LOVE that!

There is also a new CD rom that will be available that will allow you to print the same images from your own computer along with other papers to use for anything you can imagine! LOVE that!

Here's my project along with a shot of the CD set....

A closeup of the actual ornament.....

My little one has been shaking this thing up! ;) He loves watching the 'snow' move around. It's not spending a whole lot of time on the tree!

Be sure and check out what the rest of the team has in store for you.....

AJ Otto
Barb Schram
Charmaine Ikach
Deb Saaranen
Jeanne Streiff
Sharon Johnson

And the Flower Soft blog for a project from Charmaine. This is her last month and we will all miss her beautiful Flower Soft projects. She is so talented!

Hope you are all doing well and that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! :)

Big hugs!

A Two-fer...

Back again! :) I'm really excited about my post for today. My project is not only for Sharon's Stamp Simply challenge but for the sweet Taylor Van Bruggen's store. Both challenges worked perfectly for me today. For Taylor's challenge it's to alter one of her fabulous Perfect Package Card Boxes. These are AMAZING! I really LOVE them and they have so many uses. Since Sharon's challenge is to create a 'quickie' Christmas card or one that can be mass produced I opted to use my Card Box for Christmas cards.

Here is a picture of the whole enchilada....and I say that because as I am typing we are just getting back from my favorite Mexican restaurant, Chuy's. YUM!....

Notice the little gems on the sentiments......

These little cuties are from Taylor's store as well. You can find them here. I really love these. They come with tons of different colors and are easy to apply to any project. I used some of my new Crate Paper for the package and cards. To keep the cards EPLS (easy, peasy, lemon squeezy) I used the stickers that came in the package.

Check out Taylor's blog for more ideas on the Perfect Package Card Boxes and lots of fun Black Friday deals.

Check out the rest of Sharon's team and Sharon's blog for more quick Christmas card ideas.

• Bethany, November Guest Designer
• Janine
• Julie
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny
• Barb Schram

Hope you are all doing well and that you have a great day! I will post you soon! :)

Unity Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the states!

I hope that everyone is enjoying this day. I feel so very blessed to be sharing this wonderful day with my family. There are truly so many things for us to be thankful for!

This weeks Unity project for me is a layout using the Scrapbook kit. This is such a beautiful kit! I really love the versatility and the size of the stamps. These stamps are perfect for layouts! I used a favorite snapshot of my oldest for this one.

I really love this shot. He looks so very serious as he 'studies' the ball prior to the kick. ;) Football was really fun this year and he had such great coaches that taught him so much about the game. He is really developing such a love for the game.

Be sure and check out the rest of the team and the Unity site for all of this weeks goodies. I'm off for a bit more dressing and another piece of pie. Yum!

Have a good one! :)

Wrap It Simply

Back again for this weeks Stamp Simply challenge. I popped back in just in time for some super fun holiday challenges. Sharon always has such great challenges that really help to get us ready for the holidays. I really love that! For more on the challenge and a super BEAUTIFUL sample from our fearless leader you can check out Sharon's blog.

This weeks challenge is 'All Wrapped Up'. Create a little 'somethin', somethin'' that's wrapped. Love it! To keep it simple I pulled out a window bag and filled it with some yummy brownies. Then I created a hand made ornament for the bag tap that can easily be removed and then hung on a Christmas tree. Take a peek.....

Here's a closeup of the tag on the ornament....

The stamp is from The Stamps of Life. This is the November release set. This set is one of my favorites. The glitter is from Martha Stewart. This is the tinsel glitter. I feel in love at first site. How fun is that sparkle!

Be sure and check out the rest of the Stamp Simply team:

Bethany, November Guest Designer
Janine
Julie
AJ
Tammy
Deb
Barbara
Jenny
Barb Schram

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

A Bit Rusty

Happy, happy Thursday! Remember me? It's been such a long time since I've posted I will totally understand if you don't! ;) First, I want to apologize for my abrupt and lengthy absence. Things have been so totally crazy here. Thank you so much for all of your kind words and well wishes. I'm so very sorry for not responding to everyone. I will confess to not actually checking my email until this week. I've been trying to wade through the thousands of emails...seriously, is that even possible? Most is junk mail. But, man, there is a TON!.... Thank you so much! You all do not have any idea just how special you are to me. This has been a really crazy time for us and it's been wonderful reading all of your uplifting words and messages. I really am so very lucky to have such wonderful, caring friends. :) Thank you!

On to a bit of Unity! It's been a really long time since I've stamped so I was really feeling rusty when I sat down at my desk to start working. I wasn't even sure where to start. So I pulled out one of my favorite pictures and decided to put together a quickie layout with this months KOTM. You can see the whole kit at Unity. Here's my layout.....



Sorry, this is just a wee bit crooked. It's been rainy and overcast the last few days here...it's that time of year in Indy! We may not see the sun for another six more months! Yikes! I have issues trying to photograph these in my light tent....but you get the idea. I really, really love the block stamps with the sentiments and so was inspired by them for this layout. 'Simply*be*who*you*are'. Perfect!


Thanks for stopping by! It's really good to be back to creating. I will catch up with you all soon!