A Fabulous NEW STORE!!!!!!!!

My friend Karen, aka jusgottastamp, just opened a BRAND NEW STORE!!! It’s through eBay, and is called Paper Manor. Here’s what she has to say about the store:
 

Welcome to my eBay Store! At Paper Manor, I carry the full line of BasicGrey scrapbooking supplies. I’m working to expand my lines all the time, so if [...]

Combining Challenges

I’m pressed for time this week — my sweet little DD turns 2 today *sniff sniff* and I’m having a tough time believing it! We are having a small family dinner to celebrate Friday night, but nothing big — we’ve had some other not-so-good family things come up this week. DD is sad that not all [...]

Squares, Circles, and Flowers!

This is my second CASE from starofmay’s gallery – that is one super talented lady!! She was a terrific choice for this week’s Featured Stamper. Check out her blog, also – very fun!
I cased this card from her gallery — another serious cutie! I used different dp (mine is from a slab from Hobby Lobby), [...]

A Stunning Simple Sunday CASE!

This week’s Featured Stamper was Kristina, better known as starofmay. She is an AMAZING artist – check out her supergreat blog, kwernerdesignblog! She photographs her work beautifully, and everything in her gallery is stunning. I had a really hard time picking a card to CASE today, so I narrowed it down to my *Fab Five* [...]

A Quick Sympathy Card

I needed to make a sympathy card today, for a friend who lost her father to cancer this morning. I have a hard time with sympathy cards, which I think I’ve mentioned before. As I am sure she will be inundated with cards in the coming days, my goal was for this one to be [...]

Using Some Old Favorites

I found the time to complete this week’s sketch challenge (SC142 – details here) the other night – what fun! Rox71 posts the best sketches every week (see master thread here)- they really help me gets some ideas going! I knew this week I was super busy, so I had hoped for a sketch that I [...]

Roses in Fall

I was feeling all inspired, so I thought I’d try to find another fun sketch challenge to do. BadSherry is hosting the “Just Because We Wanna” challenge this week, and it is a sketch! What luck!
I’m loving fall colors, and cannot wait for fall to officially arrive. So I rock ‘n rolled (here’s a tutorial [...]

A Little Something French

I think that the little 4.25″ square cards are so darn cute! I love square cards, but never make them because I a) don’t have the envies for them at home and b) am too cheap to pay the extra postage required to mail them! But these little cuties fit right on into the envies [...]

Mmmmm…Chocolate!!

I squeezed in some stamping today! Yay! While the little one napped, I brought my stash into the living room and watched football with DH. The windows were all open – it was a glorious day. Really!
The Sunday Featured Stamper is Zindorf, who has an outstanding gallery. I have been an admirer for quite some [...]

Stamping on Candles!!

Who knew this was so stinkin’ easy??? Why didn’t anyone clue me in sooner???? I love it!!!! I am totally doing the happy dance —> about this fun and easy gift to make! So if you know me, be prepared to get one of these as a gift in the near future! This whole [...]

Farewell Thyme & Beate’s sketch!

This soothing little card came from Michelle’s (eliotstamps) genius idea for a VSN challenge – to make a card that indicated leaving or departure. I just think this is one of the coolest, out-of-the-box ideas for a challenge ever!! She has a cool blog – The Crafty Cat – you should check it out! The [...]

Saffron Pines

This is the card I did for Melinda’s (WonkaIsMyCat) 1:00 pm EST VSN challenge today. Details are here, in her chat thread. And if you didn’t know – it’s VSN weekend!!! The Master Thread has links to all of the challenges as they are posted – please join us!
Basically her challenge was to include as many textures [...]