12 Days of Christmas - Day 5

Good Morning!  Happy Saturday.  Today's 12 Days of Christmas share incorporates my regular Saturday Scrapbook with Deedee's Digis.  My page today features a sweet baby Deedee. I lifted these photos off her Facebook page so I could create something special just for her.

My page features the beautiful papers and labels in Blue Christmas kit.  The word art and embellishments are ones I added from the My Memories Suite software.

The review is already in, Deedee love the page!  My work is done.

Have a great Saturday!

Snowman Week - Day 1

Hello!  Welcome to my blog.  I am so excited about this week.  For a couple of years now, I have done a special week dedicated to the snowman.  I love them!  Mine are dressed up for the Christmas holiday, but change their look and they're perfect for the winter season.

Day 1 Project is Snowman Soup.

Who doesn't love a hot, steamy mug of hot chocolate when it's a bit chilly outside.  Even those of us in Florida get a few chilly days to enjoy hot chocolate.

The mug is a fun cut file by Lori Whitlock:  3D Hot Cocoa Coffee Mug and digi stamps by Deedee's Digis Snowman Soup.  And if you hurry, you can grab Snowman Soup at 50% off and today is the last day for Deedee's Digis Customer Appreciation sale.  But if you miss it, it's a bargain at full price.

Where is the snowman?  I'm so glad you asked!  I couldn't get a photo that was good enough, but if you look closely at the hot chocolate packet, you see the snowman soup poem.  The snowman is a "watermark image" behind the poem.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you'll come back.  Snowman week will run through Friday and I'm getting ready for my 12 days of Christmas, too!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend and joyful Easter.  Our day was spent taking it easy and enjoying family and friends, the Wii and the swimming pool.

It's time for the Happy Monday challenge and this week's theme is Fellowship:  Reach out to the elderly.  So I created this card that I was hoping to achieve vintage but with a modern twist.

I used Tea-riffic with this fun new matstack that I treated myself to.  40% off at JoAnn's, how could I say no?  LOL  I also used a great new punch that I treated myself, to, this is a lattice border punch from EK Success, so pretty!

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Card, Sea Blue (Recollections)
Paper:  Cafe Mediterrean (DCWV)
Copics: 
Tools: Lattice border punch (EK Success)
Embellishments:  Flowers (Prima), Glitter Glue (JoAnn's), white embroidery floss (DMC)

The layout is this week's sketch from The Sweet Stop.  Now head on over to the Happy Monday Challenge blog to join us.  Have a great week!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to start a new week.  Weeks are a little easier to start when there's a fun challenge to play along with.  This week's challenge at Happy Monday is a sketch and we are also being sponsored by a very sweet young lady, the owner of K n K Designs.  She was so sweet to send us images to play along with.

Here's my card....

I did have to turn the sketch to accomodate the image, but this just the sweetest image.  So Spring-y!  I had a lot of fun creating this card.  I can't wait to see what you do the sketch, now head on over to the Happy Monday challenge blog to play along.  Have a great day!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  Quick post today.  Let me just say that you need to head on over to Happy Monday Challenge to join in the fun.  This week's challenge is an Easter card.

Here's my card featuring Deedee's beautiful Easter Egg image.  I couldn't get the image to print out and then work with my Cricut cut, so it's missing the pretty Happy Easter! sentiment.  I'm really pleased with how the egg turned out.  There is iridescence and glaze...

Does this picture help you see it?

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Perfect Plum
Paper:  purple gingham (JoAnn's)
Copics:  B00, B000, B95, B97, C8, C10, V91, V93, V95, Y06, Y11
Tools:  Cricut, SCAL
Sketch:  Clean and Simple Stamping

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope you had a great weekend.  I had a really good weekend.   Friday nights are becoming my nights to get my grocery shopping done after Hollyanne gets out of dance class.  Its really nice to get it out of the way because that's one less thing to do on Saturday.  Saturday turned out to be an absolutely glorious and very impromptu.  Levi had a friend over for little while and then our evening ended up at the Seminole County Fair which was so much fun!

And now what better way to end the weekend with a fun challenge to start the week?  Happy Monday Challenge is here and this week's challenge is a super fun one - any combination of stripes, checks and polka dots.  So here's my card....

Isn't this image just darling?!  I love this sweet little mouse although his little feet kinda gave me the heebie jeebies.  But after getting over coloring those toes, who couldn't love a little mouse blowing bubbles  This image is called Greatest Joy is a very sweet $1 digi.  I also used a super sweet sketch created by Jerusha Borden, who of course, you know as one of Crafting with Deedee's Digis DT members, but she's also a DT member for Let's Capture These Sketches - I loved this sketch!

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana, Lavender Lace
Paper:  Sky Blue checks (Lasting Impressions)
Copics:  B00, B000, B95, B97, R00, R11, Y06, Y11
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder, circle cutter (CM)
Stamps/Ink:  Polka Dot Basics (PTI), Lavender Lace (SU!)

I hope you join us this week at Happy Monday.  Enjoy your day!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Hello everyone!  It's the beginning of another week and what better way to start the week off than a Happy Monday - Happy Monday Challenge that is.  This week's challenge is Kids Need Love, Too.  Every month, Deedee challenges us to create a friendship card and actually mail it to that friend.  This week we're challenged to create a kid's card and mail it to a child.

So here's my card, featuring Smooth Sailing....

Choosing primary colors made this a kid's card for me.  What do you think?  I did use a great sketch by Lisa Sommerville on her blog Splendiferous Creations.

Supplies:
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue, Barely Banana
Copics: B00, B000, B02, B05, R27, R29, Y06
Tools: Circle cutter (CM), Corner Rounder (CM), Cuttlebug, D'Vine Swirls emb folder

Embellishments: Rhinestone squares (unk), blue satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you join us this week over at Happy Monday.  You'll have a great time and you'll make a child smile.

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I can't complain about mine, it was rather nice.  I didn't accomplish near as much as I had wanted to, but that's usually how it goes.  Did you all join us for the Deedee's Digis Time to Bloom bloghop?  I hope so - it was a great hop!!  My winner is BlueInk - I would love for you to email me at stampedbym@gmail.com so I can send you the voucher code for your prize.  Thank you.

Now on to this week's challenge at Happy Monday.  This week we have a fun sketch for you to try.  My card features this fabulous Bee-lieve set.  I love this image.

I am really pleased with my card, the image was perfect for a more earthy base of Kraft card stock.  Now I had flipped the sketch and changed the scale a bit, but I'm hoping it will inspire you to play along.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Kraft, Lavender Lace, Mellow Moss
Paper:  Latte Matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  BV00, BV02, BV04, C10, E29, E30, E33, E34, E53, E57, Y11, Y17, YG03, YG63
Tools:  Tag punch (SU)
Embellishments:  Natural Hemp (SU)

Well, enjoy a Happy Monday and head on over to the challenge blog and play along with us!!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  My weekend was pretty good - over way too quickly especially since we lost an hour.  I really hate losing that hour, I never seem to accomplish what I need to and I am not tired when I need to be.

This week at Happy Monday Challenge Blog we have our very first sponsor.  We are joined by one of the sweetest people I know.  Stef of Glitterbabe Designs is sponsoring Deedee's Digis Happy Monday Challenge and the challenge is the It's the Inside that Counts.  This means you need to decorate the inside of your card as well as the front.  So here's my card featuring Lily Fairy.

So here's the front - you saw this very same paper on my card for Tuesday Morning Sketches last week, this is just the other side.

And here's the inside of the card featuring one of the sentiments that comes with the fairy.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana, Old Olive
Paper:  Daisy paper (JoAnns)
Copics:  B00, B000, E00, E02, E29, E30, Y15, YG00, YG03
Tools:  Oval cutters (CM), Cuttlebug, Labels 1 Nesties (Spellbinders)
Embellishments:  ivory satin ribbon (Offray)

Now head on over to Happy Monday to see the wonderful designs from the rest of the team.  Have a great day!!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I had a pretty good one - enjoyable, productive and pretty fun.  And I think I am finally over my illness, the coughing is all gone now.  Yippee!

So today is Monday, which means there is a new challenge over at Happy Monday Challenge with Deedee's Digis.  I have to tell you something... I have actually worked a little ahead for the challenges so that I can be better organized.... I CANNOT WAIT to show you what's coming up!  *Squeal*  But for this week's challenge, it's all about Pretty Pastels.  This is the perfect time of year for it, too, we're nearing Springtime.  So here's my take on the challenge.

So I think I this is an adorable Easter image from Deedee, this one is called Gifts of Spring and is so sweet.  I did also get some other inspiration for this card from Truly Scrumptious (sketch) and Cute Card Thursday (Signs of Spring).

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette (SU!)
Paper:  Nana's Kitchen Matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  B00, BV00, G00, E53, E57, RV000, RV10, V93, Y11, Y17, YG03, YR61, YR68
Embellishments:  flower brads

I hope that my card inspires you to join us this week at Happy Monday.

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  It was glorious here in FL - 80s all weekend, a nice breeze blowing and the windows were open.  I am hoping between all the fresh air and the Clorox cleaning spray that all the sick germs will be totally iradicated and I can finally get rid of this cough.

Well, it's Monday and the beginning of another week, but I don't want that to sound like drudgery because over at Deedee's Digis Happy Monday Challenge there's a lot of fun!  This week the challenge is to create a funny card to send to a friend.  Well, I don't know how funny my card is, but I think it's fun and cheery.  I hope you do too.

This card features one of the newest Dollar Digis, Lifted Up, which I couldn't think of a more perfect digi to send to a friend.  I picked a simple layout so that if you needed to create a quick card for several friends.

Here's the inside that shows off the sentiment.  Here's a great thing about digis - you can resize them!  This sentiment can be made smaller for the front or bigger to create the inside message.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Whisper White
Paper:  Citrus Matstack (DCWV)
Stamps/Ink:  Sentiment (TGF), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics: B000, B23, B95, G02, G05, R27, R29, Y15, Y17
Embellishments:  button (my stash), satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you join us this week - come on..... it'll be fun!  Happy Monday!

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  It's the beginning of a new week although many have the day off today - me included.  I'm looking forward to getting some stamping done today.  Speaking of stamping, be sure to join us for this week's Happy Monday Challenge.  We have a great sketch for you this week.  Here's what I did with it...

This is a great sketch with easy elements and so much possibility.  I had fun with this... I recently sold a bunch of my cards so I used that money to get some new matstacks and this was is called Hippie Chic - isn't it just.... groovy!  Haha!  I love these colors!  I used the super sweet dollar digi called In His Time.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise
Paper:  Hippie Chic matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  100, B95, B97, B99, BG05, G02, YG00, YG03, YR16, YR68

Anyway, I hope you join us!  Have a super great week.

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  Deedee Digis has gone through some reconfiguration and now I am exclusively part of the Deedee's Digis Happy Monday Challenge and I am soooo excited.  There are new and seasoned DT members on this team and I am so thrilled with the direction that Deedee has taken.  There's a new store, the Craft blog and the very own challenge blog.  This is so much fun!!  So are you ready for this week's Happy Monday Challenge?  It's a really easy and super fun one - All Buttoned Up.  This means you need to have buttons, real or faux, featured on your cards or projects.  I have both to share with you.

First... since its Valentines Day, this is what I made for Hollyanne to give to two of her friends.

This was so much fun and so easy to make - this is an envelope gift bag.  Inside is a lip gloss and 3 chocolate bars, just a pre-teen girl loves!

This is a close-up of the front of the giftie - I am featuring Valentine Tweet, a sweet little $1 digi set.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Neenah Classic envelope
Paper:  Love paper (Me & My Big Ideas), Dots paper (Chatterbox)
Copics:  E04, E29, E30, E34, E57, R00, R11, Y17
Tools:  Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, Square Scallops Nesties (Spellbinders)
Embellishments:  white satin ribbon (Offray), button (my stash), brads (Bazzill)

And now for my card - this features a brand new $1 digi called Pocketful of Joy.  Now this is a cat I could actually like!

This card features soft sweet colors in shade of green, blue and lavender.  The brads didn't photograph well, they are actually really bold purple.  The layout came from a great sketch over at Sketch Saturday.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, Brocade Blue (SU!)
Paper:  Lavender Rosebuds (Paper Pizzazz)
Copics:  100, B95, B97, B99, R11, V93, V95, Y06, Y17
Tools:  Oval cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  flower (unknown), button (my stash), brown embroidery thread

I hope you join us over at the new Happy Monday Challenge and be sure to visit the new store.  There is a sale going on.  The coupon code is NEWSTORE for 50% off your entire order at checkout!!  Have a Happy Monday.

Happy Birthday Deedee Blog Hop!

SURPRISE Deedee!!

Good Morning everyone!!  If you're here because this is a favorite Friday stop for Stamp Fairy, please scroll down, but you're more than welcome to join us in wishing Deedee of Deedee's Digis a very happy birthday.

My personal message to you, sweetie.... My birthday wishes for you are... health, happiness, prosperity, devotion, love and friendship.  May these blessings be in abundance for you.  I am so thankful that you are my friend.  Happy Birthday!!

 I created this card to celebrate Deedee's birthday with her sweet set called Happy Bird-day. This sweet set features the sweet bird and cupcake as a single image, but I cut them apart and it also has 3 very sweet sentiments.  I did make this a fun, festive card by making a shaker card.  I did put too many micro-beads, but still it shake, shake, shakes.

Here's a close up to see all the little beads and the pretty glitter paper.  I hope you like it.
Thank you so much for stopping to by to celebrate Deedee.  Your next stop on the hop is Kelly's blog.  Now, if you've visited and commented each blog, your last stop is the Crafting with Deedee's Digis blog.  Leave a comment there and you have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate!!  Have fun!!

I'm ALL EARS

Good Morning!  It's Thursday and I am so happy we are closer to the weekend.  My card today is featuring a cute digi from Deedee's Digis called All Ears.  The set does come with some sweet sentiments although I left my card sentiment free.  I did use a time friendly sketch for this card from Card and Things Challenges.

I liked the sketch because it enabled me to show off the adorable bunnies against some equally adorable paper.  The lines are simple and the colors are so fresh and hinting towards spring.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana
Paper:  Glitter Mat Stack (DCWV)
Copics:  B00, BG05, E30, RV02, RV10, YR61
Embellishments:  lavender grosgrain ribbon (Offray)

I do hope you like my card and that you'll head on over to Deedee's Digis for a little shopping.  Have a super day!

What's Poppin'!?

Good Morning!  Happy Thursday.  The week is almost over - whoo-hoo!!  I have a card to share with you today that features a super fun image.

The card is really clean and simple and who doesn't love popcorn?!  This is What's Poppin?! one of the newer digis at Deedee's Digis.  It comes with 5 fun sentiments.  I did print the sentiment directly onto the base of my card and then finished it with some fun papers and the adorable popcorn box image.  The sketch is from Unscripted Sketches.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Whisper White, Real Red
Paper:  Red Stripes and Polka Dots (Recollections)
Copics:  E30, R27, R29
Embellishments:  ribbon (Offray)

I hope you have a super day and thank you so much for stopping by!

A gift for a friend...

Good Morning!  I hope you're week is off to a great start.  Mine is rather busy - I'm working overtime this week, well, perhaps this whole month and it's really throwing me off my game.  For the first time in TMS history, I didn't make my card!  And I love my sketch, too.  Oh well, maybe later.

But I didn't miss the opportunity to create something to share with you for Deedee's Digis!  I received a gift in a secret sister swap sometime ago that is this altered file folder made into a desk set of sorts.  It holds a note pad, a pen and some sticky notes.  I thought this was such a fabulous idea that I wanted to do it, too.  Here's what I did with it....

So here's the front of the folder.  I found these great file folders on clearance at Office Max.  I printed a sentiment from Deedee's Digis set Words of Encouragement.  The metal label holder I found at Michaels or perhaps JoAnn's - I stamped out the word "ideas."

Here's a close up of the sentiment... I just love this quote.

Now, when you open up the folder here's what's inside.  I created this for a scrapbooker friend of mine.  The notepad is for journaling thoughts or idea for pages.  Then with another file, I cut it down, added another hand-stamped label and prongs - it flips up to reveal some page layout sketches for her to use as inspiration.  I didn't take a picture of the those - but you get the idea.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Rust (Recollections)
File Folders:  Office Max
Stamps/Ink:  Alpha set (Hero Arts), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Labels 2 Nesties
Embellishments:  Metal Label Holders (Making Memories)

I hope you try out these altered file folders, let me know if you do - I'd love to see them.  Be sure to visit Deedee's Digis, too, she has many new releases just for Valentine's Day and beyond!  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Pretty Stitched Hearts

Hello everyone!  Deedee has created some really lovely Valentine images and I have a card to share with you that I am pretty proud of.  This is called Stitched with Love.

This set comes with these great hearts and sentiments, you can even grab one as a freebie - but really you want the whole set.  Here I wanted the sentiment to be the focal image with the hearts embellishing the card.  I think it turned out really nice and I hope you like it, too.  I did use a great sketch from Crafts 4 Eternity and the other part of the challenge was shades of green.  Be sure to head on over to the Deedee's Digis store to check out the other new images that Deedee created just for you.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette (SU)
Paper:  SEI
Copics:  RV000, RV02, RV10, YG00, YG03
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Textile embossing folder, Circle cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  Wild Wasabi stitched ribbon (SU)

Don't forget all Christmas and New Year's digis are on sale for just $1!!

This is what happens when...

....I decide to have a play-date with the companies I design for.

Hello!  I hope you're all doing well and your Christmas plans are well in hand.  The presents are wrapped, the tree is up and I think we're actually ready for Christmas here.

I have a new friend that I met the day I interviewed for my job.  She and I were destined to meet because it turns out she lives 7 minutes from my apartment and we got put on the same schedule so we carpool.  She is such a great friend, that I felt I needed to do something for her.  We talk about a lot of things on the way to work and one of the frequent topics is recipes.

With that said, I created E a paperbag cookbook and I incorporated some adorable digis from the companies I design for.  My plan was to share page by page everyday this week - but it didn't quite work out that way.

So up first is Deedee's Digis....

Here's the cover - these digis are from the very sweet set Lovin' from my Oven.  Doesn't she remind you of Aunt Bee?

The inside two pages also featuring an image from Lovin' from my Oven.

Up next is Cocoa Loves Football from Sweet n Sassy....

I decided it would probably be a good idea to include a couple of football recipes to include her husband who was a professional football player.

Here's a close-up of Cocoa.  Isn't he awesome?!

And finally, StampFairy had to join the fun, too.  This sweet image is part of the Ginger Babies collection.

This little guy is actually the pull tab, because this recipe slips inside one of the pockets that is naturally created when using paper bags to create a book.

Such a sweet face!

Well, I probably won't be posting the rest of the week so let me wish you a very Merry Christmas!  I do hope that among all the wrappings, ribbons and cookies that the true meaning of Christmas touches your hearts and homes.

Beauty of the Season

Good Morning!  I hope everyone's week is going well.  I have another card to share with you featuring another set from Deedee's Digis.  I love this beautiful poinsettia set, it's called Beauty of the Season.

This card was a bit of challenge to make but I believe the final results are great.  The first layer was the trickiest to get the corner poinsettia elements to fit the way I did, but with a bit of patience, trial and error and tweaking, I got it to work.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Real Red (SU!)
Copics:  R27, R29, Y17, YG63, YG67
Tools:  Circle cutter (CM), Scallop Nesties (Spellbinders)
Embellishments:  green satin ribbon (Offray)

There is still time to join us for the Happy Monday challenge over at Crafting with Deedee's Digis - this week's challenge is to create a something using Burgundy and Gold - my card doesn't fit the challenge, but I just thought you'd like to know and here's another piece of news.... all Christmas and New Year's digis are on sale for just $1.  Now that's a great gift to give yourself and be nice and friendly to your wallet.

Thank you for stopping by!