A little something from Inque Boutique

My LSS is carrying these great little stamps by Inque Boutique (See D's). I was playing around with an idea that I'd entered into their weekly contest (crossing my fingers) and this is what I came up with. I used a set called Make-A-Tag to create the cross-hatch design on the top of the card. It wasn't easy, as you can see, my lines didn't go on exactly straight. Of course I've got the scallop thing going. Then I used another set that I call Circle of Friends which is so sweet. I love the different fonts used for Friends. The bottom needed something and I thought only half the image of the little flower finished it nicely!

March Monthly Card Swap

Has anyone else just gone head over heels for Hannah? This is the second time I've received images for the monthly card swap that are Hannah stamp images. She's so darn cute! This image I received along with the beautiful decorative paper and just couldn't come up with the sentiment, so I filled the whole space... the sentiment will have to be on the part of the sender who uses my card.

I wasn't completely pleased with my coloring job... don't know if it was me or the cardstock. This particular cardstock that was used wanted to drink up the ink. Of course that might have been due to all this drywall dust that's been overtaking my house the last several weeks!!

Back to the card... I have totally fallen in love with Almost Amethyst again. It's my new old favorite. And I love love love the new Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder! And of course we know that lately Melissa has had a thing for scallops. You also cannot imagine how excited I was when I dove into my bag 'o ribbon and came up with this GORGEOUS satin ribbon that matches perfectly. I squealed! Literally. (haha! my daughter's new favorite word)

I hope you likey! I have some other cards just waiting to be published on here, so maybe I can update more often!!!

Happy Easter everyone.

Easter Blessing Stamp Camp

Hi Everyone,

What a crazy Saturday I had yesterday!! My youngest son's school had their annual Basket Bingo yesterday so I promised baked goods, door prizes and of course I wanted a basket. I didn't win one though, which was no surprise. Then I also had a stamp camp. I was late to my own camp!! The bingo ran way over, my guests were a little early, so hubby had to play host for the five minutes that it takes to get from the school to the house.

Anyway, I wanted to share the projects we made at the camp. I believe everyone enjoyed themselves and the projects came out lovely.

I wanted to do an Easter theme, since the holiday is fast approaching. I love the coffee bags that are offered by PaperTrey, they are inexpensive and so much fun to decorate. I went with a very simple design, but the results were truly nice.

I also was quite inspired by Nichole Heady's design on a tag card and just had to do it! Isn't it lovely? I chose Almost Amethyst and dug into my stash of ribbon and found I had a gorgeous satin ribbon to match! How happy was I! I also used a stamp from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set So Many Scallops, but used "Easter Blessings" sentiment from PTI.

This next photo is what we made to go inside the bag. I made a treat holder for two Fun Size candy bars. I stamped a larger white label to wrap around the candy. Again, this is another inspiration from Nichole's blog. I just modified it for the Fun Size, instead of Nuggets candy. The results were great!

The next items are real colored eggs. The pink egg, we stamped Easter Blessings with Staz-On ink. The green egg was decorated with a belly band. The blue egg, we embossed a white flower on it. Embossing on eggs was actually quite easy, but I think I would recommend using an oven mit if you want to emboss all over the egg. We started with Whisper White craft ink and then finished with white embossing powder. The egg was cold, so I did notice that it took a little to heat set the powder. The results were fun!

I hope you enjoyed my presentation of my stamp camp.

Got Tagged by Toni!

1. I am a choco-holic!
2. My favorite coffee in the morning is Hazelnut.
3. I love reading friend's blogs.
4. I am named from a favorite character of my Mom's favorite Soap Opera.
5. My favorite movie of ever and all time (very hard to name) is Jane Eyre with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. I can watch it over and over.
6. Love Johnny Depp movies, all of them but one!
7. I would like to jump out of an airplane - but only with a guarantee that the parachute will work!!!

Visit Toni's blog - Moved to the Mountains (in my favs list on the side) - she's a super talented stamper and on a few Design Teams, so you know she's good!

I'm a girl who loves to have fun!

My original monthly swap is about the wrap up, but this was an image and paper recently shared by one of the swappers and this is what I came up with. I love this image!!

The paper is great, too, but this image is sooo cute. I hope you can see it well, my photos have definitely improved. I'm using my husband's camera and learned how to set up my pictures in front of my living room so that the light is coming in on the subject. I think it looks so good.

I hope you enjoy my card.

Verve Visual Update

Sadly, I didn't win. How fun that would have been, but I guess there's always a next time. Thanks for crossing your fingers for me.

I'm working on some other projects that I'll get pictures of and post soon.

Verve Visual Sketch Challenge

I'm biting my nails! I am posting this card to enter the Verve Visual sketch challenge. The prize is being a guest stamper. I think that would be sooo cool!! Tell me what you think!

I thought the most gracious part of this contest/challenge is that using Verve Visual stamps weren't a requirement. I don't own any of these stamps, in fact, I'd only heard of the company a couple of days ago when I stumbled onto the sketch. To be honest, I was really in search of my challenge to present in August for the new group I just joined. I found this very cool sketch and decided to give it a go (with much encouragement from my sister).

I used Very Vanilla as my base, decorative paper by Tres Jolie, stamps are Michaels $1 stamps and the ink is Palette. Oh, the sentiment is Papertrey.

Cross your fingers for me!