Release Time!!

It's "that" time of the month again - time for new stamps!! I'm ready, how about you? :) Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stamping In Your Jammies party on Wednesday, April 1st!! The party starts at 8 pm EST and will last until 11 pm. There will be a challenge issued every hour so be sure to come and play along!! Besides the challenges, chatter, and all around fun, we will also be releasing Sophia Ballerina, Sweets for the Sweet in rubber, Bunny Slippers in rubber, and a brand new set that I know you will love!!

Have you seen the peeks on the other Prettie Girls' blogs?? Great stuff out there! This set is perfect for all your masculine cards - brothers, fathers, husbands, bosses, etc. - perfect! It's called Right on Par and here's my sneak peek for you . . . I couldn't resist paper piecing with this set - doesn't it just scream for plaid pants?!! This is Luke, remember him from Sealed With a Kiss?

Now I forgot to take a picture of the inside - that's where I put my sentiment (along with a little strip of the plaid paper to tie it all together). The sentiment I chose says, "To a Dad who's right on par" - isn't that fun?! I love it!!

Remember, a release means a contest - a CUTIE PIE CONTEST!!! All you have to do to enter is upload a card you have made using Paper Pretties stamps to the Cutie Pie Contest gallery over at the Paper Pretties website. Entries must be in by no later than 9 pm EST on March 31st to be considered for the prize. Besides getting to call yourself a CutiePie, you will also receive all the new stamps that are released on the 1st!! Go ahead and enter!!

Cardstock: Brown (Bazzill), Bashful Blue, Naturals Ivory (SU!), Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink), Patterned Paper: Chatterbox, Stamps: Right On Par (Paper Pretties), Ink: Memento, Accessories: Brown Twill (Papertrey Ink), Buckle (We R Memory Keepers), Dimensionals, Copic Markers, Paper piercer

Thankful Lilies

Good morning!! Hope you all had a great weekend! It's KSS Monday - Yeah!! I love seeing what everyone did with their Kitchen Sink Stamps today!

Oh, and there's still time for you to play along with Tammy's challenge from last week - to make an ATC and then add it to a card. Link your cards HERE and you could WIN - either $50 worth of KSS stamps, a large KSS set or small KSS set - 3 winners!! Get going! :)

I finally got a chance to play with this beautiful Multi-Step Lily set. These lilies come out sooooo realistic and just gorgeous! And they are so easy to line up!

I decided to play along with the FSS challenge on SCS yesterday. Michelle (aka JustPaintingAround) has a beautiful gallery - such talent!! I picked out this card and obviously changed the flowers, the color and tweaked the layout just a bit around the sentiment. Besides the Multi-Step Lily set, I also used the grass stamp from 3 Step Honey Bunny to add below my lilies. The sentiment is from one of my favorite word sets, Vintage Words.

Please visit the other KSS Crew members and be inspired! Have a great KSS Monday!

Maria, Lynn, Nicole, Tammy, Lori, Angela, Dee

Cardstock: Tangerine (SU!), Spring Moss, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), White (GP), Stamps: Multi-Step Lilies, 3 Step Honey Bunny, Vintage Words (Kitchen Sink Stamps), Ink: Apricot Appeal (SU!), Cantelope, Tangelo (Memento), Real Red, Chocolate Chip (SU!), Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink), New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy (Memento), Accessories: Brads (Queen & Co.), Nestabilities, Spring Moss ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Green Gingham (Kitchen Sink Store)

Unity's HUGE Blog Hop!!

Welcome to my blog and the "World Record Inspirational Unity Blog Hop!!" Remember the Blog Hop starts HERE and you should be arriving from the sweet and ultra-talented Keri Lee Sereika's blog.

What a fun day! My card today uses my brand new set Eco Chic - I won it last weekend at Stamp New England - Wooo Hooo!!

Angela asked us to share a favorite quote. This is from a song I was listening to a few days ago (sorry I don't have the credits). It's pointing out what is really important in life ". . . it's not who you knew and it's not what you did, it's how you lived."

Wow! I'm honored to send you to the next stop on the hop - Daniela Dobson!! You won't want to miss this - she is fabulous!!! Have a Hip Hoppin' Day!!

Cardstock: Kraft (Papertrey Ink), Tango Tangerine, Watercolor paper (SU!), Patterned Paper: Bloom & Grow (My Mind's Eye), Stamps: Eco Chic (Unity), Ink: Stazon, Accessories: Rub-on (Making Memories), Buttons (Foo Fa La), Corner Rounder Punch, sewing machine, Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Water pen, Linen thread

Spring Fling!

I was so excited to get a chance to use my new The Cat's Pajamas stamps yesterday! I think this newest clear set, Spring Fling is so cute - look at that carrot car!!?? Totally adorable! :)

Yesterday's TCP Tuesday challenge was a great sketch from Leigh O'Brien - go check it out! You have until Saturday night to submit a card for this month's Swanky Stamper contest!
Ok, now I know this card has a lot going on but I couldn't resist using this cute Twitterpated paper from Imaginisce on my card - the mushrooms are perfect with Spring Fling! I did a lot of stamping and a lot of coloring and even some paper piecing (love the polka dotted carrot!) here. The button wheels were just for fun! :)

Spring is making an appearance here in Maine and it's delightful!! Hope you all are having a great day!

Cardstock: Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink), White (Gina K), Orange, Soft Sky (SU!)
Patterned Paper: Twitterpated (Imaginisce)
Stamps: Spring Fling (The Cat's Pajamas)
Ink: Memento
Accessories: Nestabilities, Buttons, Gel Pen, Ribbon (SU!), Dimensionals, Copic markers

Prettie Bookish Wednesday

It's Wednesday already??!! Today's the Prettie Girl challenger was Christi - she asked us to make a bookmark! I could use a few of these so I kept it nice and simple.

I used my Nestabilities Tag die and used the largest die. I then layered it on some Spring Moss cardstock and trimmed around the edges. The back is lined with the same striped dp you see along the very bottom edge (it's My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow that I am in love with!!).

I used Hola Chica which is April's Stamp of the Month Club stamp. I thought it would be fun to open a book and have such a festive greeting before you! :) Remember, there are only a few more days (until March 31st) to sign up for the Stamp of the Month Club so that you can get your Hola Chica stamp before it's public release!

Now take a spin around and visit the other Prettie Girls - I can't wait to see their bookmarks! :) Have a great day!

Cardstock: Spring Moss, White (Papertrey Ink), Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stamps: Hola Chica (Paper Pretties), Ink: Memento, Accessories: Copic markers, Nestabilities, ribbon (Papertrey Ink)

ETA: Oops, I forgot, it's my turn to issue a challenge!! I'm going to make it easy on you girls this week and give you a sketch challenge. At Stamp New England last weekend, Karen Motz's class had us making a fabulous sketch book and we had a sketch swap to help start filling it! This is the sketch I contributed. I can't wait to see the cards my Pretties come up with - and please feel free to play along!! :)

Have A Hoot Frances!!

Hoot! It's a Birthday Blog Hop Prettie Girl style... with a dash of owl-y goodness tossed in for fun! The amazingly talented Frances is celebrating a birthday today and the Prettie Girls just had to throw another virtual party! The hop started at Jacque's so if you didn't start from there you might be missing out on some of the fun! :) When you reach the end of the hop make sure and leave a little love for Frances wishing her a Happy Birthday!

Instead of bringing different party elements this time we decided to try incorporating Frances' love of owls into our party! I decided to make some background paper using an owl design I created a while ago - I just scaled them down and made them colors for the paper. The image is of course Howdy Girlfriend from Paper Pretties and the sentiment is from Wise Owls (Papertrey Ink).

Happy Birthday Frances!! I hope this year brings much happiness, many joys and lots of love!! Thanks for visiting . . . now hop on over to Danielle's blog for more partying! :)

Cardstock: Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Sweet Blush (Papertrey Ink), White (GP), Patterned Paper: me :), Stamps: Howdy Girlfriend (Paper Pretties), sentiment from Wise Owls (Papertrey Ink), Ink: Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Tuxedo Black (Memento), Accessories: Nestabilities, Copic markers, Dimensionals, brads, Spica pen, Oval punch

Kitchen Sink Stamps & ATCs

Happy Kitchen Sink Stamps Monday!! I had a TERRIFIC weekend at Stamp New England and hope to be able to post some details and pics soon - even though my camera battery died Saturday morning!! :(

But let me get to today's business first! Today's challenge was brought to us by wonderful Tammy!! She asked us to create an ATC and then incorporate it into a card. I love making ATCs! They are quick and fun and do work nicely into cards!

Now, I should have done mine before this weekend but . . . I didn't! So this may look strangely familiar to any Stamp New England attendees! :) I basically took the tag from my project and just made it a bit bigger and changed a few tiny elements. I just love the colors - the bright tangerine color makes me smile!

And here is my ATC worked into a card. Again, very simple here but the colors just scream sun and fun to me! Plus it would be super quick and easy to whip up a bunch of these to have on hand!

The stamps used are all from 3 Step Hey Chick! from Kitchen Sink Stamps - isn't that egg shell just so cute?!

Take a few minutes and blurf around to the other Crew members' blogs - I cannot wait to see the ATC's they've created!!

Maria, Lynn, Nicole, Tammy, Lori, Angela, Dee

AND, we want YOU to play along. Once again, you will be playing for a chance for one of 3 prizes. 1st prize winner is $50 worth of Kitchen Sink Stamps. You can't win if you don't play. :D

For all the info, go HERE. You have 2 weeks to leave your link below in the Mr. Linky box on the Kitchen Sink Blog. Deadline to Tammy's challenge is April 6th. midnight EST. Please leave one link per challenge sample. You can enter as many samples as you like. :D

Have a wonderful week everyone and thanks for stopping by! :)

Cardstock: Bazzill, Papertrey Ink, Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stamps: 3 Step Hey Chick! (Kitchen Sink Stamps) Ink: Cantelope, Tangelo (Memento), Ocean Tides (Papertrey Ink), Accessories: Ocean Tides dotted ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Button, Corner Rounder punch, Crocheted flower, paper piercer

Ready, Set . . . GO!

It's time, it's time, it's time!!!! Today is the FIRST ever Stamp New England event!!! I had a great birthday yesterday - thank you SO MUCH to everyone who left me love yesterday, what a way to make a girl feel special! I really didn't do anything too special . . make that, I didn't really DO anything! I should have been packing, I should have been making things, but I didn't . . . I procrastinated and now I'm spending the morning packing like a crazy woman! :) Well, I am taking a break to blog about my busy morning - hee hee!

I'll try and pop in periodically over the weekend with some pics of our fun time and maybe a few projects - check back!!! Let's go Stamp New England!!

Salt Challenge: Serenity

Good morning!! Today is my first official Salt Challenge - these challenges come every two weeks on Thursdays and each time we are given a "theme" to follow by a different member of the design team.

Today's theme was given to us by Ruth, she gave us the verse Psalm 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God." As I was talking to my husband about this challenge he referred me to this sermon by Jonathan Edwards in which he used it as his main text in discussing the sovereignty of God.

". . . “Be still, and know that I am God.” The great works of God, wherein his sovereignty appeared, had been described in the foregoing verses. In the awful desolations that he made, and by delivering his people by terrible things, he showed his greatness and dominion. Herein he manifested his power and sovereignty, and so commands all to be still, and know that he is God. For, says he, “I will be exalted among the heathen; I will be exalted in the earth.”" (quote from the above-referenced sermon)

It was hard at first for me to think of a project, but as I looked through my stamps I came across this Papertrey Ink set that was given to us on the cruise. The nautical images and especially this ship's wheel made me think of God as the supreme Captain, the One steering our lives. There are many, many times when I've tried to take over and steer my own ship! But thankfully God, in His sovereignty always remains in control - whether I know it or not! I just need to "Be still" and submit to Him.

(All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted) Cardstock: Kraft, Ocean Tides, Dark Chocolate, White, Stamps: Ambassador Monogram Edition, Simple Alphabet, Out to Sea, Ink: Dark Chocolate, Accessories: Twill ribbon, Nestabilities, Swiss Dot embossing folder, button, Antique Brass brad (Pink Hedgehog Crafts)

Please go to the Salt blog and see all the wonderful creations by the design team - each is so different and beautiful! We'd also love to have you craft along with us using today's theme, leave a link in the comments if you do! Thank you so much for visiting - have a great day!

Prettie Happy Birthday

Welcome to Prettie Wednesday!! Thankfully Jessica took it easy on us this week! :) She challenged us to make birthday card for anyone - great!

I didn't really have a person in mind for this card but I think you could use it for almost anyone, friend, mom, sister, girlfriend, daughter, etc. I used half of the Love Bugs stamp from Paper Pretties (I just didn't ink up Wade) and colored her with Copics to match the pretty Twitterpated paper from Imaginisce.

Check out what the other Prettie Girls made today (the links are over there on the right). Have a great day!

Cardstock: White (Papertrey Ink), Patterned Paper: Twitterpated (Imaginisce), Stamps: Love Bugs (Paper Pretties), sentiment from Limitless Labels (Papertrey Ink), Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Real Red (SU!), Accessories: Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), rhinestones, Nestabilities, Copic markers, Dimensionals

3x3 for Easter

First of all I have to apologize for never getting another project posted yesterday . . . hanging my head in shame . . . I'll make up for it I promise!!

The last challenge for the Paper Pretties release at the beginning of the month was to make a set of 3x3 cards - great idea!! I actually need to make one more for this set to be complete - then I can use them for my children for Easter!

I ended up making this set of little shaker cards, using Hippity Hoppity Sophia, and the lamp from Adore Him and bird from Rainy Day Friends (which is sold out right now - sorry!). I added a bit of glitter and some little Doodebug flowers to the shakers to make them springy!

Have you heard the news?? Paper Pretties is now carrying Shimmerz! That's right - head over and check them out - GREAT price too!! :) Have a Prettie day everyone!

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Patterned Paper: Imaginesce, Stamps: Hippity Hoppity, Adore Him, Rainy Day Friend (Paper Pretties), Ink: Memento, Accessories: Ribbon (American Crafts), Nestabilities, Doodlebug Flowers, Glitter (MS), Copic Markers

KSS Monday!

Hello! I hope to be back later with another new project but since I didn't want to be late for Kitchen Sink Stamps Monday I found a couple of projects that I had not shared here yet.

First, (these were both for VSN Crush challenges on SCS) is a cute little treat holder bag made using 3 Step Hearts & Roses. I love how beautiful these roses stamp - so lifelike you can almost smell them! I had wanted to try one of these cute bags for a while. They work up very quickly and make a nice size for some chocolates!

Next is a cute little magnet made for a challenge to make a Save the Date card. I have a few Avery 8.5x11 sheets of magnets that can be run through a printer - very neat! I printed the information and then stamped using 3 Step Bitty Tulip Bouquet. I love these cute little tulips and the new Multi-Step Tulip Garden set is just as beautiful with larger scaled tulips - what a great combination!!

Please go check out what the other Crew members came up with today!

Maria, Lynn, Nicole, Tammy, Lori, Angela, Dee

Thanks so much for visiting - see you a little bit later today!

Friendship - Salt Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone!! I am very late posting this so I'll get right to it. A few weeks ago my friend Kim asked if I'd like to join the Salt Challenge Design Team. My husband actually encouraged me to accept since it is a great opportunity to combine my love for God with my love of stamping! Today is our first challenge and it is being sponsored by A Faith Perspective which is run by Anne House.

The theme for the challenge is Friendship based on Proverbs 18:24 "A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." I am so thankful for the true friends that God has brought into my life - the ones who have known me forever, the ones I made in my college years, those who I've made since moving here over 10 years ago and all of you wonderful friends I've met through blogging! It always amazes me how God brings people into your life and uses them each in unique ways to help you grow and learn!

My card uses a wonderful set from Rubber Soul/Wordsworth, called Emerson Collection. I love the sentiment and wish we had more of an opportunity to have friends frequent our house!! Wanna come to Maine? :) The patterned paper is also from Rubber Soul, the Garden Variety Collection.

Thanks for stopping in - please go visit the Salt blog to see the other beautiful projects for today's challenge!

Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink), Patterned Paper: Garden Variety (Rubber Soul), Stamps: Emerson Collection (Rubber Soul/Wordsworth), Ink: Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Accessories: Spring Moss Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Corner Rounder punch (SU!), Copic markers, Dimensionals

No Idols Here!

Good morning!! Just popping in quickly this morning . . busy day!! So how many of you out there submitted for the MFT Idol contest?? What a fun idea that was!! I wasn't sure I'd have time . . . but I was able to squeak out a card to enter. I have to say though, once I uploaded my card and checked out all the other entries, I knew I didn't have a prayer - WOWEE!! There was some out of this world work done for this contest - some amazingly talented stampers out there!! Go check out the gallery - seriously!!

Having said that, I still love my card - lol! I love the colors and the paper and I actually took a bit of time and watercolored the image (after reviewing Shannan's fab tips here!). I just love this e-Girl set, so appropriate!

Isn't that damask sofa just so chic?? hee hee! I added a little crocheted flower I made to a punch-out flower that coordinates with the paper line.

Cardstock: White, Ocean Tides (Papertrey Ink), Watercolor paper, Rose Red (SU!)
Patterned Paper: Bloom (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Stazon
Accessories: Scor-pal, Ocean Tides ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Flower (My Mind's Eye), Aquapainter, Corner Rounder, Dimensionals

Off to get some housework done and then some planning time with Kim for Stamp New England - it's getting sooooo close! :)

Prettie Breezey Wednesday

It's time for another Prettie Girl challenge and this week it was Jackie P's turn!! I think she decided to go easy on us and give us a prettie color challenge - thanks Jackie! :) So the colors were Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip and Kraft.

I decided to use this week's Mojo Monday sketch too - which I love!! It worked out pretty well because I wanted to use Look Who's Perky from , which is an awesome coffee-lover's set! I ran the chocolate cardstock through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dot folder and then swiped it with Fresh Snow (PTI) to make the dots white. The heart bling is from my buddy Jackie R - thanks girlie!

Take a spin around and visit the other Prettie Girls - I'm sure you'll be inspired!! :) Happy Wednesday!

Cardstock: White, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Baja Breeze, Kraft (SU!), Stamps: Look Who's Perky (Paper Pretties), Ink: Dark Chocolate, Fresh Snow (Papertrey Ink), Baja Breeze (SU!), Accessories: Nestabilities, Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, Ribbon (May Arts), Brads (Pink Hedgehog Crafts), Heart jewel

Challenge Card

Last week at Paper Pretties Stamping In Your Jammies Charmaine gave us a fun challenge - make a card using the colors of your favorite cartoon character. Can you guess what character I chose?

I used the newest Cooper set, Love You This Much. I love his sweet face and outstretched arms. Ok, so my character was . . . Snoopy! I've always been a fan of Charlie Brown & Snoopy - made my color choices quite easy! :)

Have you visited The Paper Clip lately? It's the place to go for all the latest Paper Pretties news! For instance, you can see what the latest Prettie Challenge is. Danielle does such a fabulous job coming up with fun and interesting challenges and there's a prize for one lucky participant!

You can also view the Prettie Card of the Week!! Every week a very deserving card is picked from the Paper Pretties Gallery and highlighted - it could be yours!! :)

Have a great day!

Cardstock: White (Gina K Designs), Patterned Paper: Scenic Route, Stamps: Love You This Much (Paper Pretties), Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Accessories: Ribbon (SU!), button, Scor-Pal, Copic markers

Crew Challenge Changes!

Good morning! It's Kitchen Sink Stamps Monday and we've got a few changes to in the Crew Challenge to tell you about! To read all the details, visit Maria's blog. The most exciting part for you is that if you participate in our Crew Challenges you now have the chance to WIN prizes - great prizes!! If you participate in the challenge, just link your entry here.

This week's challenge was from the very talented Nicole, to use a photo on your project - but it could not be a scrapbook page. I'll admit I had a hard time, not sure why because I love the challenge but my creative juices were not flowing I guess - lol!

I wanted to use this new Multi-Step Tulip Garden set - the tulips are just so pretty and there's such a nice variety of sizes and styles!! I'm looking forward to playing more with this set!! I mounted some photos of my children from last summer and then found the sentiment in the 3 Step Daisy set - perfect! I think it'd make a nice Mother's Day card for one of the grandmothers!

Please visit the other Crew members to see their challenge projects - I can't wait!!

Maria, Lynn, Nicole, Tammy, Lori, Angela, Dee

Cardstock: Spring Moss, Sweet Blush (Papertrey Ink), Black (SU!), Stamps: 3 Step Daisies, Multi Step Tulip Garden (Kitchen Sink Stamps), Ink: Tuxedo Black, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, Pixie Pink (Memento), Pretty In Pink, Rose Red, Regal Rose (SU!), Accessories: Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Dimentionals, Nestabilities

Final VSN Card

Good morning! I feel so bad I never got around to posting yesterday, busy day! I am feeling much better so hope to back in full stamping mode soon! :)

This is the last of my VSN cards to share today. This challenge was called A Few of My Favorite Things, and required you to use elements from The Sound of Music song, My Favorite Things (e.g., colors from the song, rose, chocolate, cream; images such as whiskers, cat, kettle, mittens; and tie it with "string" - add ribbon) . This was a children's (& adult) challenge and since Emma participated, I stamped along with her. It's quite a simple card really but that 45 minute time limit is hard for me - lol! :)

The image is from the Rubber Soul set, Animal Love - which incidentally can be yours for FREE this month!! Check out the details here of their March "In the Clear" special!! What a great time to pick up some new goodies! :)

I inked up the cat image and then used my SU! markers to add stripes and a brown tummy & eyes. I love the little heart shaped nose - which I colored in after stamping the image.

It was a fun challenge and a cute little card - the best part was stamping with Emma (we'll upload her card to her blog so you can see it if you're interested) - so great that VSN had challenges for the children! Have a great weekend!

Cardstock: Rose card (???), Vanilla, Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Stamps: Animal Love (Rubber Soul), Ink: Creamy Caramel (SU!), Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), SU! markers (Really Rust, Close to Cocoa), Acceesories: Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Brads, paper piercing, Nestabilities

Prettie Quilted Wednesday

Two weeks ago Jackie challenged us to make a quilted card. How fun! I'm not sure if I was supposed to quilt the whole card but I just used a small portion of a paper quilted piece I made with this pretty Imaginesce paper from last spring.

It was fun coming up with a little paper quilt and then add the satin ribbon on the sentiment slide (you know, like the satin edge of a blanket?) and the cute little buttons. I scored the cardbase with vertical lines every 1/2" to give it some interest and I pieced Sophia's dress. I think I can honestly say that this Cuddle Me Sophia is my favorite - she was the first one Paper Pretties released and I still think the cutest!

Be sure to see what the other Prettie Girls made for the challenge:

Charmaine, Jana, Jessica, Danielle, Jodi, Jackie,
Jackie P, Jessica, Frances, Christi

Have a great day!! Thanks again for the well wishes - I'm still feeling yucky but hopefully getting better every day! :)

Cardstock: White (Papertrey Ink), Patterned Paper: Imaginisce, Stamps: Cuddle Me (Paper Pretties), Ink: Memento, Accessories: Nestabilities, Ribbon (PTI), Buttons (Pink Hedgehog Crafts), Copic Markers, Dimensionals, sewing machine

Hola!!

Thanks everyone for the well wishes yesterday! I'm still feeling crummy, may have a sinus infection so a doctor visit could be in the future. Anyway, my Google Reader is about to explode I'm quite sure (anyone else get anxious when it goes over 200 posts or is that just me???)!! I even missed the Paper Pretties Stamping in Your Jammies party Sunday night - I hate missing parties!! But I know they had a wonderful time, lots of fun chatting, stamping and the new Cutie Pie was "crowned" - go check out the news!

I was able to get my challenge cards done so I have something to share today. One of the fun challenges that Charmaine gave us was to create a scrapbook page with you (me!) as the star! Phewww . . . I'm not sure if my picture completely qualifies as me being the star, but I really wanted to use the new Stamp of the Month Club Stamp, Hola Chica and this picture from the cruise was just perfect! There's definitely nothing special about this page - it's actually a page from my little scrapbook I made before the cruise (and still haven't filled out!!) - but now I have 1 page done!! LOL!

How FUN is Hola Chica??!! I LOVE her . . so much fun to color and I've seen some incredible work by the Prettie Girls with her - lots of fun colors and papers!! You have until the end of the month to sign up to get her first!!

Have a terrific Tuesday and thanks so much for coming to visit!!

New Stamps in the Sink!!

Happy Kitchen Sink Monday!! It's a special one today because tomorrow, March 3rd is RELEASE DAY at Kitchen Sink Stamps! There are 3 new sets being released and I'm so excited for you to see them!!! There's something completed different this month . . . line art images!!

The set I chose to show you today is called Nesting Dolls. We all know that folk art is hot right? I don't think it ever really goes out - but in the crafting world is definitely in! This set is so much fun and I only just started with it. I have to say I was pretty sick all weekend (the cold everyone else had 2 weeks ago finally caught up with me and knocked me out!!) so my stamping time was very minimal but I couldn't just have these fun new stamps and not use them - lol!

I'll admit though, that I had some trouble at the end and my sentiment is crooked. . . arrrggghhh!!! (Note to self: stamp sentiment before doing all the work!)

Be sure to visit the other Crew Members, I'm sure you'll get to see what the other sets are - you're going to LOVE them all!! Remember, tomorrow is the day you can start ordering!

Maria, Lynn, Nicole, Tammy, Lori, Angela, Dee

Have a great day!

Cardstock: Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs), Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye, Stamps: Nesting Dolls, 3 Step School Days (Kitchen Sink Stamps), Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), L'Amour Red (Palette), Accessories: Copic Markers