Unity & Cosmo!

What a wonderful combo....Unity & Cosmo Cricket. I'm so excited about the new line of stamps that Unity has released for Cosmo Cricket. They are absolutely adorable and you know I LOVE that they match everything in their corresponding lines! LOVE it! I've got a few projects to share with you today.

First up a layout using the 'Get Scrappy With' Material Girl kit. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this one! I actually used some of the Garden Variety paper for my layout but it was just what this one needed. Take a peek.....

Here's a close up.....

I stamped the journaling block and then paper pieced the tip of it and added a little stitching. I ended up trimming it and adding it as an embellishment once it was all said and done.

Next up a card with the Material Girl kit. I LOVE the little sewing machine in this kit. The paper for this one is from the Material Girl line....


The buttons are also Cosmo Cricket and from the Garden Variety line.

The next card is an EPLS {easy peasy lemon squeezy} card using the Garden Variety kit. I added a bit of recycled kraft card stock to this one.....


I colored the tomato with my Copics and added a simple ribbon.

That's it for me today. Now it's time to head over to my sweet friend Natalie's blog.

Enjoy the rest of the hop! :) I will post you soon! :)

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! :)

Post #1 .... Jacksonbelle

It's going to be a whirl-wind day of posting for me today. I have so many things to share with you! Fun, fun, FUN! :) Lot's of new stuff....lot's of fun stuff....lot's of kraft....kraft? Well, yeah, I got a wee bit crazy with it last night. You'll see. Anyhoo, let's get this party started!

Jacksonbelle!

Woohoo! It's time for another fun challenge. Well, this month in fact will be filled with so many fun challenges! :) You can get all the fun deets over at the Jacksonbelle blog.


Todays challenge is a one layer card. I so love making these! Of course, like everything, I sometimes interpret the rules a bit 'loosely'. ;) Here's what I came up with....



I pulled out a little Cosmo Cricket for this one by applying a little rub-on to the card front. EPLS! Love that!


Be sure and check out what the rest of the designers have in store for you....


AJ Otto
Bethany Paull
Carly Robertson
Dawn Easton
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Jimmi Mayo
Kristine Breach
Loretta Lock
Lynda Benden
Melissa Bove
Michelle Philippi
Mitzi Koons
Shemaine Smith
Stephanie Hargis
Tobi Crawford


I will be back in a bit with more for you! :)

Cherry Monday!

Happy Monday! :)

For this quick post a quick challenge. This weeks challenge is to create a quickie 10 minute card. LOVE this, especially since this is such a crazy busy time of year! Here's my little quick one....

The paper is from Cosmo Cricket. The stamp is all Unity. It's from this months KOTM.

Be sure and check out the rest of the Monday gals....AJ Otto, Amber Height, Maren Benedict, Brooke Lien, Jeanne Streiff, and Jimmi Mayo.

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

Jacksonbelle!

Happy Tuesday to you! :) ...and are you ready for summer yet? ;) The end of school has been CRAZY for us! There are so many functions and so much to do! What better break from all the chaos than a Jacksonbelle challenge! :) I needed something super quick for this one so I pulled out some Cosmo Cricket dsp and rub ons. Take a peek....

I LOVE this paper line. It's all from the Lil' Man line....which is perfecto for this household! :) You can find it all here at Lindsey's store.

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

AJ Otto
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Rachel Baird
Shannan Teubner

Hope you are all doing well! I will be back to post more tomorrow...with some fun news on the horizon! I cannot wait to share! :)

Are You Ready?

Are you ready for summer and cookouts? Can you believe that time is almost here? This weeks Jacksonbelle challenge is to make a card or project inspired by a cookout. What goes better with cookouts than bees, flowers, and butterflies! I pulled out my Girl Friday rub ons for this one. Take a peek....

How fun! Be sure and check out the rest of the Jacksonbelle team to see what they have for you.

AJ Otto
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Rachel Baird
Shannan Teubner

If you get the chance to play with this one be sure and upload your cards to SCS using the keyword JBE054.

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

My Sweet Boy

Here's my sample for this weeks Clean & Simple scrapbook challenge.

A little bit about the layout: The dsp and embellishments are from Cosmo Cricket's Lil Man line. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Co. The picture is one of my favorite of Evan. I snapped this one on one of those first sunny days of spring. We were all out playing in the yard. I love this moment. I love how free and fun he is and his expression says is all. Such a fun time.

Hope you all have a wonderful day! It's supposed to be another beautiful one here.

Clean & Simple nO.5

It's that time again! Time for another Clean & Simple scrapbook challenge. The twist to this weeks sketch is to create the layout with a little designer paper. Here's this weeks sketch...

I thought it fitting to pull out one of my favorite baseball pictures for the sketch this week. I spent all day Saturday at the ballpark between my older two sons games. It's that time of year again. I truly love baseball and we live at the ballpark this time of year.

This one is from last year. Notice the name? lol....a misspell led to a new nickname. Brickhouse. My oldest tends to be really particular about things so I was quite surpised when we got the shirt that he didn't really mind the error. Then when his peeps started calling him 'brickhouse' I was sure he wouldn't like it. But I was wrong. How nice to be wrong about something like this. He loved the name. We had such a fun season last year. I'm really looking forward to this one. :)

The paper for this layout is from Cosmo Cricket's Lil Man collection. The stamp is from Papertrey Ink.

Hope you all get the chance to play. Be sure and check out the sweet and talented AJ for her fantabulous sample. I look forward to seeing all of yours!

Here's a peek at what you are playing for.

The dsp and stamp are from one of SU's level 3 hostess sets. The ribbon is So Saffron, also from SU. The buttons I picked up from my lss.

Be sure and link your cards up here and if you upload to SCS use the keyword CASSB05. Hope you all have a wonderful day! :)

A Jacksonbelle CASE

It's time for another Jacksonbelle challenge and this week we are CASEing Kisa. So much fun! I perused through Kisa's gallery at Splitcoast and decided on this card. I really love the layout. I pulled out some of my favorite Cosmo....and viola.....


This card totally makes me smile! I LOVE how bright and sunny it is! ....just like the day we had! I am so ready for warm weather! We had a beautiful day today and the boys enjoyed playing outside for a change! I think that is part of what inspired this one for me.

Be sure and check out the rest of the Jacksonbelle team....
AJ Otto
Beth Thomas
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Rachel Baird
Shannan Teubner
Taylor Usry

Be sure and check out Lindsey's blog for all of the current specials. I will be back in a bit....well...probably tomorrow! ;) Tuesday will be a busy day of cleaning and the post office....and kiddo stuff....and, well, you know...all the stuff of the day.

Post you all soon! HUGS! :)

Monday!

It's that time again! Time for another Monday challenge! This week.....glitter! I LOVE glitter! So this week let's us it in our cards. I pulled out my new Unity's new You + Me = Happy.

I love this new kit. I used some new adhesive shapes to adhere the glitter then I colored the image with copics. I covered the center of the circle with stickles and added some to the center of the flower. The paper is from Cosmo Cricket.

Now check out the rest of the Monday gals ....AJ Otto, Amber Height, Brooke Lien, Jeanne Streiff, Maren Benedict, and Jimmi Mayo.

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

Dog Soup

Hip Hop! :) Hope you are all enjoying the blog hop so far! I so love all of the fabulous eye candy! First up for me a little snippet about the Store More Stamps by Little Monkeys storage system. Wowzers! I LOVE this system! Although I haven't done anything fancy with my system...yet!....I have mine sitting on my desk and it's wonderful. I use this for all of my upcoming projects. I put my stamps that I am working with in the sleeves and they are right on my desk at the ready. This system ROCKS! :)

Next up...my project for today. I created a little mini book to share with you. I used a couple of last weeks releases from Unity for this one. I'm using Rain and Flowers and Numbers, etc. for this one.

I used an acrylic 6X6 Bind-it-All book kit for this but instead of using my machine and rings I opted to use my crop-a-dile and a couple of book rings.....

I paper pieced the umbrella and then went over the top with Crystal Effects. The paper is Cosmo Cricket. The ribbon is PTI. The little guy is my youngest picking flowers on the deck. It was a beautiful day and we were all just hanging out.

Here's a look at the first page with the book open....

Next up...Hayden adding the flowers to the dog bowl......

.....and of course a little milk...........

...then you have to mix it up....with your feet of course......

...look at Daisy...hmmm....she doesn't look convinced......

....so why not TASTE TEST! AH! Holy smokes!.......

Yeah, mother of the year! ...and look at his face when he realizes I was watching!.....

...the little stinker! ;)

So...April showers bring dog soup at the Buck house!......

I don't normally let my kid drink out of the dog bowl but I will share that during the summer....at least last summer....it was a constant battle to keep him out of it! He LOVES messing with it. I think I have a future chef on my hands! ;)

Now head on over to Patter Cross for the rest of the hop. I will see you all in the forum! :)

HIP HOP! :)

Hip Hop

Happy Hip Hop Thursday! :) Are you ready to Hop? :) OMHeck! ...there are some super CUTE new releases this week! You can see them all at the Unity site. Are you as much in love as I am!? I LOVE the new stuff! There is so much to choose from!

Ah...I have three samples to share with three of the new releases. I LOVE them all! First up a layout....and one of my favorites so far. I am really enjoying this scrapbooking thing! ;) It's so much fun to share some of my favorite moments with all of you. This one is of my youngest son whose turning 2! Wowzers! Where did it go! You know he's really the reason I started this blog in the first place! ...another story for another time! Anyhoo...take a look....

Next up a card........

......and another.........................

Now head on over to Heather's blog to see what she's created with this weeks releases.

Lots of stamping going on in my basement this week! ...and I better get back to it! I will catch you all at SCS in the Unity forum. Enjoy the rest of the hop! I will post you soon! :)

A Jacksonbelle Sketch

It's time for another Jacksonbelle challenge. This week challenge is a sketch challenge. You can check out the sketch and all of the deets over at Lindsey's blog. I was so excited to pull out some new Cosmo Cricket paper for this one and a new Lizzie Anne stamp. The supplies are all available at Jacksonbelle.

Here's my card.....

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

AJ Otto, Beth ThomasHeather Lee-Reppen, Jill Dunn, Kimberly O'Rosky, Kisa Peters, Lynda Benden, Maren Benedict, Melissa Bove, Michelle Woerner, Rachel Baird, Shannan Teubner, Taylor Usry.

Thanks for stopping by! ...and be sure and check out the Jacksonbelle sale! It will last until midnight Tuesday night.

Have a good one! :)

Jacksonbelle Time!

It's time for another Jacksonbelle challenge! What's up this week? This weeks challenge is to create a card using stitching...that can be faux or real. I LOVE stitching on cards. I opted to pull out one of my Cosmo Cricket paper packs and use everything for my card from the pack. The paper is the Fleurista line. This one is EPLS...sort of a theme around here! Take a look....

The ribbon is from May Arts. Be sure and check out the rest of the team.....

AJ Otto
Beth Thomas
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Michelle Woerner
Rachel Baird
Shannan Teubner
Taylor Usry

I hope you get a chance to play. Be sure and upload your cards at SCS and use the keyword JBE037. Post you soon! :)

Jacksonbelle New Years Challenge Number 2!

Time for the second Jacksonbelle challenge! :) Are you ready!? Did you upload your card from the first one? I can't wait to see them all! :) Keyword for your SCS uploads for this one is JBENYE2.

Second challenge.....New Year's....don't you think of sparkle with this one!? This is a New Year's challenge for sure! Create a card using black, white or vanilla and some SHINY accents or paper (metallic, glitter)....any theme.

How's that for fun! I so love black and white and adding a little sparkle is bliss! :)

Here's my card for this one....



I used Cosmo Crickets rub ons for this one. The ribbon is May Arts....and of course, lots of dew drops! LOVE the dew drops! :)

Don't forget...upload at SCS using keyword

Now off to the rest of the J'belle team playing this one.....off to find more goodies! :)
AJ Otto
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lynda Benden
Lyndsey
Maren Benedict
Shannan Teubner
Taylor Usry

Happy stamping! Hope you are all having a great day so far! I will be back again at 7 Eastern for the next challenge! See you then and good luck on the candy! :)

Stamp Simply Celebrates!

Isn't this just the most fun ever! :) Celebrating for sweet friend Sharon and her blogging milestone! Today I have the pleasure of participating in two challenges hosted by two of my favorite bloggers!


First...Dee Jackson with a challenge to package up somethig edible.


Second...Susan Roberts with a challenge to package up a gift card.


I sort of tied mine all together...with a little gift package for that little someone...who maybe enjoys a little vino and of course shopping at her favorite LSS.....hmmm....




A little closer look at an EPLS gift card holder......




and open......Archivers.....



The wine bottle.......




That's it for me. Be sure and check out the rest of today's sample makers....


For Dee:
Heather Telford
Darlene Pavlick


Cathy Tidwell

For Susan:
Janine Orchard
Darlene Pavlick

And the rest of todays events.....


More blog candy from our sweet Sharon.


Hope you enjoy todays events! We will all be back with more for you tomorrow! Don't forget that if you get a chance to play with any of the challenge you can upload them to either your blog and/or SCS under the keyword SSC08.

Post you all soon!


Cosmo Cricket dsp
Just Rite Stamper
Unity Stamp Co.
Making Memories flowers
gems from my LSS
ribbon SU