Exciting News!

I have been chosen to be a Design Team Member for Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays!

My first challenge as a DT member will be posted this Saturday!

You can see all the rest of the DT crew listed on my left sidebar.

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WOYWW #69

I saw this WOYWW post on Danni's blog today and had to try it too (it's what every good blog stalker does, right? LOL - little inside joke that I am Danni's stalker and follow her all over yahoo groups & blogland! We are really very good friends!)

If you're not familiar with WOYWW, you may be thinking what the heck?? That's what I said too! Julia has this fun feature called "What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday". You snap a photo of your desk, blog it and link it up to Julia's blog. Then you can check out all the other players and see their desks too (and drool over all those yummy tools/stamps that they have and you want!)

Let's see - we have my left over mess from last night's masking card, a small stack of images that I want to use on cards, the plastic bag is the rest of my stamps from The Big E. It's really not as messy as it usually is since I cleaned it off a few days ago! I usually only give myself a 6 inch space to work with LOL

I'll be back in a bit with an announcement!

Corrosive Challenge #83

When I was at The Big E the other day, I had to go see if the Sarasota Stamps booth was there. Every year that I've gone since I started stamping, I always buy a few stamps from them. I was so happy to see they were still there!

I bought quite a few stamps, among them 2 very nice pumpkin stamps. I wanted some realistic looking images since most of my stamps are cute and whimsical. I've been wanting to try the masking technique and was pleased to find it as a challenge at the Corrosive Challenge blog this week. Just the motivation I needed to get these stamps inky!

At first I stamped the 2 smaller pumpkins with the bigger pumpkin behind them...it didn't quite look right. So next I stamped the smaller pumpkin and masked the bigger one behind it , and then stamped a smaller one next to the bigger one. Love how it turned out!!

I went 'old school' with the embellishments and pulled out some leaf eyelets to use...the brads went missing lol, but at least I found a nice alternative. The sentiment is from the CC Designs Amy R Autumn Sentiments set.

Card Supplies:
Stamps - pumpkins ~ Sarasota Stamps; sentiment ~ CC Designs Amy R Autumn Sentiments set
Paper - images stamped on Georgia Pacific paper; dp is DCWV Amber Autumn stack
Ink - Memento
Copics - YR16, YR68, E55, E57, G17
Other: leaf eyelets from stash


TFL! I'll be back tomorrow night with an announcement!

It's a Sparkly Lollipop Crafts!

It's the end of September already, how did that happen??

This is my last post as a GDT for Lollipop Crafts. I've so enjoyed playing along with them every week and hope to continue to do so as a regular player.

Today's challenge is all about the sparkles - Glitter, Sparkle & Gems. Bling out your cards/projects and enter them HERE. While you are there, check out what the rest of the team did with their sparkles :)

Soft Pencil Digital Stamps is this week's sponsor. Look at this little cutie that we were given to use. The lucky winner this week will win a $10 gift certificate to spend at the Soft Pencil store.

Her name is Little Witch and she is just the cutest lil witch I've seen in awhile! All of the paper and embellishments are from the TE Fright Night Project Pantry Kit. The layout is from a new to me challenge blog, City Crafter Challenge Blog.


Have a great day!!!

It's Another Lasting Memories Sunday Challenge!

Good morning!

Today's Lasting Memories Challenge is to use fall colors and chipboard. As you can see, I used a lot of chipboard, mostly in the form of Thickers, but I also used Scenic Route chipboard buttons in 3 of the corners. I inked them and then tied ribbon through them.

Fall is my favorite time of year and I'm so happy it's here! These pictures are from our first drive to Kent Falls shortly after we began dating 3 years ago. We go every year, hopefully this will be the year that we catch the leaves at their peak LOL!

Please enter your layout using this challenge on the Lasting Memories blog and while you are there, check out all the wonderful creations by the rest of the design team!

I'll be back tomorrow with my last post as a GDT for Lollipop Crafts.

Paper Cutz Challenge #60

TGIF!!

Woohoo the weekend is finally here! Lots of plans ~ tomorrow I am doing a 2 mile walk with the local Compassionate Friends organization and then on Sunday, my husband (so fun to say that!!) and I are going to the Big E.

Today's Paper Cutz Challenge is to make a card, LO or craft project using a digital, hand stamped or Cricut cut image of a critter. Use any colors or theme you'd like. Show us your critter love!

For my card, I am using a reindeer from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge. I received it for a challenge last month but ran out of time to make it then. It's perfect for today's challenge! I just {heart} reindeer and this one is the cutest!

I used one of my new Basic Grey Sizzix embossing folders for the background, have you seen those? So many fun different ones! The designer paper is from the American Crafts Jolly collection and the sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set.

Please be sure to link up your critter project to the Paper Cutz Challenge blog and while you are there, check out what the rest of the design team did! You'll be wowed!

Have a GREAT day!!!