Sunday, February 20, 2011

FS211: Get your groove on!

This week's featured stamper is Stampgroover (aka Cookie). Here is her {card}. I created this card:




I loved the clean simple style of the card, so I "cased" it using different colors, a different stamp set, and added a few elements.

I started with a kraft base, added the blush layer, which I embossed with the birds and swirls folder. I distressed the edges with a bone folder and sponged the edges with walnut ink. I adhered the blush layer to the kraft base. I die cut the frame and stamped the sentiment, from Inside & Out Birthday, with walnut ink. I adhered it to the card with dimensionals. I added some stickles to the scalloped edges on the die cut frame. I added three pink gems under the frame, and then punched a butterfly with some designer paper scraps. I sponged the edge of the butterfly and added some stickles to the center of it.

It is a clean and simple card, which took about 7 minutes to create. Have a wonderful Sunday...I am enjoying some quiet time with the spectacular six. This is vacation week in NY. We have nothing planned but a little skiing and some swim practices!







stamps: Inside & Out birthday (Papertrey Ink)
ink: walnut stain (ranger)
paper: kraft, blush (PTI), designer paper
misc: frame die cut (PTI), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), crystal gems (PTI), stickles, dimensionals, birds & swirls folder
Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Hope & Love Ball, 2011

I took a break this weekend from my featured stamper hostess duties to co-chair a local charitable event for Hannah's Hope Fund. This was the second annual Hope & Love Ball. What a fun evening!

Here I am with my sister, Suzy!

Here I am with my BFF Debbie!



Here is the woman who made last year's "Hope for a Million" grant possible, Doris Buffett, aka The Sunshine Lady. Doris celebrated her 83rd birthday with Hannah and 400 of her newest friends. Thank you Doris, for coming to the event!


Here is my handsome little man, escorting Miss Hannah last night. They are in first grade together this year.


We had an amazing time - thank you to everyone who helped out!






Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Celebration! {Stamp Designers} and a FS card

Three years ago, I was sitting on pins and needles waiting for Nichole to announce my addition to her Papertrey Family. Somedays, I still have to pinch myself. I cannot believe that I am part of this amazing ride. I have learned so much about design over the past few years and find my style changing a little bit with each stamp set that I design. What is amazing to me, after all this time, is that I can create a stamp set...and once it goes to Nichole and the design team - they bring the stamps to life....that is what makes the customers gasp and squeal with delight!

I am so thankful to be a part of Papertrey. It is so awesome to go into craft stores, flip through a magazine and see my stamp sets in action!


Nichole has the Anniversary Celebration down to a science - and tonight's {spotlight} is on the Stamp Design Team. There were a few changes in the team this year! Maile Belles is the new member of the team, so be sure to stop by her blog {simply stamped} and give her a warm welcome!

The team was challenged to come up with a tag for customers to download. Guess what you could potentially win? {go on....guess} The winner will have the opportunity to be a Papertrey Ink Guest Stamp Designer and work hand-in-hand with Nichole to help conceptualize a set they have always wanted to see come to life. SHAZAM!

{Here} is a link to the download! FUN STUFF!

Here is my creation, which is also based on a card by {3bugs&me}. Lori's card {Tea Party} really caught my eye.

I changed the colors & the stamp (obviously).


White base with a layer of a aqua mist, embossed with the giga guidelines impression plate. I used a variety of punches to create the main image, one it was printed on sweet blush paper. There is a white layer punched with the martha lace edge punch and a sweet blush layer die cut with the papertrey eyelet lace die. The main image was punched with the 1.75 circle punch. That was mounted on a circle of aqua mist and then on a punched scallop circle of white cardstock. The main image is on dimensionals. I put a nice big aqua mist polka dot ribbon on the card! LOVE IT!

I created this image for the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebration because I {LOVE} the sentiment. I feel like I was living an ordinary life when I met Todd twenty five years ago. Now...we are in the midst of a fairytale. Just like in love, my job with Papertrey seems like a fairytale dream. Thank you for sharing the dream with me!

Here are the other incredible ladies that make up the stamp illustration team at Papertrey!











stamp: Free Papertrey Ink digistamp download (by Beth Silaika)
ink: printer
paper: sweet blush, aqua mist, white
misc: giga guidelines impression plate, scalloped edge die, circle punches, martha stewart edge punch, dew drops, dimensionals, ribbon

Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!

New Look!

I have a new look for the new year! What do you think?

The supplies link is a smaller version of the large blog banner!

I stayed with the blue and brown color scheme, but updated the colors to Papertrey (Spring Rain and Dark Chocolate).

Looking forward to what you think!









Enjoy every single moment of today!!!!!!







Papertrey Ink Favorites from the past year!



On of the first stamps released last year in the Freckledandfun line contained the amazing video from Nichole Heady during the Springtime Doodle release. You can see Nicole's post {here}. Watching her coloring bring the stamp to life really made me so happy!

I {loved} what Erin Lincoln did with my Been Boo'd set {here}. FUN!

I adored the elegant fun that Maile Belles had with the {Inside & Out: Birthday} set {here}.

Lisa started the holiday season early with her adorable creations using Tree with Trimmings {here}

The Get to the Point came to life with Heather (aka Pine's) colorful scrapbook page {here}


Here are a few of my favorite cards from the past year!














Those are some of my favorites from the past year! Stay tuned tomorrow for a fun new Anniversary PTI celebration!





Saturday, January 29, 2011

FS208: Tillymint




This week's featured stamper is Sue (Tillymint) and I cased her {Dots Everywhere} card. I used different colors and stamp set, changed the main image shape....

I used the PTI number background die to create this fun pink base, with a little fun edge on the side (using my 5 way cutter). I used the PTI die with white cardstock on the strip across the card. The sentiment (from Get to the Point Sentiments) is stamped in Hibiscus on kraft (also on a PTI die cut). The arrow is from Get to the Point (also with Hibiscus ink, but on white). I trimmed the arrow, added a button with some bakers twine and adhered it with dimensionals.



Finally, I added some stickles to the scalloped areas on the main die cut. NOW THAT IS SOME BIG BIRTHDAY FUN! WE had some Big Birthday Fun at Molly's fifth birthday party! Here is the birthday princess at the Pottery Place! Woohoo! We had fun!




stamps: Get to the point, Get to the point sentiments
ink: hibiscus
paper: white, kraft, hibiscus
misc: pti dies, embossing folders, stickles, button (pti), bakers twine

Sunday, January 23, 2011

FS207: Artsy_em

I love LOVE LOVE the {butterfly} card that Emily created. I decided to create my own version of this adorable card!


The changes from the original card: colors, butterflies are paper, not felt, used stickles, not buttons and bakers twine. Instead of stamping the dotted lines, I used some white rick rack and ran it through the hawaiian shores, avocado and summer sun ink. I used a white base, punched out the butterflies with the MS butterfly punch and adhered the rick rack and butteflies to the card. I used some stickles in the center of the butterflies. The main sentiment is stamped in white ink on hawaiian shores using my new stamp set "Inside & Out Birthday". Used a white gel pen to dot the image.

Stamps: PTI {Inside & Out birthday}
ink: summer sun, hawaiian shores, ripe avocado, white
paper: same
misc: rick rack, stickles, punches, nestabilities, white gel pen
 

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