Tomorrow is the big day!

I’m so excited, I can barely type! Tomorrow is the big kick off for the Lizzie Anne Designs Anniversary Celebration – and I love a good celebration!! Who doesn’t?? If you aren’t subscribed to the newsletter, be sure to go to their homepage and do that, quick! You don’t want to miss a single detail [...]

Harvested, two ways

A few days ago my friend V was genius enough to come up with a quick mini challenge for us to do while we chatted. She dreamed up the color scheme, and picked this fabulous Basic Grey dp called Harvested.  V threw out several stamp sets to use, and I own two of the four [...]

Earthy Lotus Flower

Here is a super quick one I made using the Lizzie Anne Designs set Far East. The chipboard frame is by Cosmo Cricket, and I covered it with Cosmo Cricket paper from the Wanted Line.
I stamped the Really Rust panel tone-on-tone with the leaf stamp from the set, and then lightly stamped it with Sanded by [...]

Blushing Gus, and GOODIES in the Mail!

***Countdown to the Lizzie Anne Designs Anniversary Celebration: 5 days!***
This is Gus the ladybug. He is part of the Doodle Factory Animals set. Cute, huh? I made him for the sketch challenge last week on SCS. My sentiment is from the Lizzie Anne Designs set called Sketched Sentiments. My background stamp is Dots and Daisies [...]

More Fun to be Floral — Invitations

***Countdown to the Lizzie Anne Designs Anniversary Celebration: 6 days!***
 
My husband and I are hosting a his-and-her shower for my little brother and his soon-to-be-wife in late July. I wanted to make their invitations but still keep it simple. So I went to Michael’s and bought a huge box of blank white invitations that I could [...]

Peaceful Poppies

***Countdown to the Lizzie Anne Designs Anniversary Celebration: 7 more days!!***
A friend of my husband’s lost her mother late last week, and I made this card for her. You may have heard me say before how hard I find sympathy cards. I always struggle with these because I just cannot ever seem to find the images [...]

I Can’t Do One Layer Cards

**Countdown to the Lizzie Anne Designs Anniversary Celebration: 8 more days!!**
While lamenting my decision to handstitch a card this weekend, a friend recommended that I do something simple, like a one layer card. I always love a challenge, so to the stamp table I went.
I quickly realized that I am just incapable of one layer cards. [...]

Fun Floral Hello

I have been thinking about the color combo challenge over at SCS since Tuesday, when it was posted. Wowza, what a stunning set of colors. It took me all week to figure out just what I wanted to do with it, though.
I used Beate’s weekend sketch as a jumping off point for this card. As [...]

Some Shopping News, and a RAK :)

I got this sweet card in the mail, all the way from Texas. According to my dear friend who sent it to me, everything is better in Texas, lol. I wouldn’t know because I have never been there. But i do know that this card is absolutely darling! I love the colors she chose, and [...]

Changes to the blog :)

I changed the blog color scheme, again! I like this one – it is fresh and clean. Also, the Stampin’ Up sets for sale are now listed at the top of the page, on a tab of their own.
I’m doing some rearranging in my stamp room, and hope to have a sample for today posted [...]

Couldn’t Be Any Simpler!

Usually on one weekend day, DD gets to pick a movie to watch. And she watches it over and over and over again, lol. So Saturday evening, DD asked me if I would please make her a blue fairy like the one in “Nokio” — which would be Pinocchio, her movie of the day. I [...]

Beautiful RAK!!

My friend Laura (laurakj) sent me this GORGEOUS card – it came in Monday’s mail. And how jaw-dropping is it??? She has been doing some really cool scrapbook pages and featuring them on her blog, Inky Dinky Doo, plus she is showing off a fab new haircut. Check her out! And she has a horrifying [...]

Pumpkin Friends

I’ve been drooling over this paper for quite some time, moving it from place to place in my stamp room, wondering what to do with it. Saturday, inspiration struck! I did not clean up my mess after the other Far East (by Lizzie Anne Designs) card I made earlier, and it just sort of clicked [...]

For Daddy on Father’s Day

My daughter and I spent some quality time together Sunday morning, while we let her dad get some extra sleep. She wanted to make his card (she is a procrastinator, like her mom!!) so we ventured into the super messy craft room. I let her have free reign – she spent ten minutes looking through [...]

Copic advice, please!

I’ve decided to take the plunge and get some Copic markers. I’m going to go with the Sketch ones, I think. My dilemma is this: if I’m ordering them over the internet (which I have to do because I live in the middle of nowhere!), I’m worried about colors. It has happened before that the [...]