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last day to win some blog candy! :)

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Hi friends! No crafty post today and I apologize for none yesterday - it's been a helluva week! I'm going to try and pop in tomorrow, but I can't guarantee anything! I'll be visiting your blogs soon and we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming shortly!

I haven't had a chance to play in my craft room for a while (It's much needed, lemme tell ya!) so I haven't created anything in a few days to share with you all.

I do have a off-topic You Tube video to share:

Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block posted this video to his You Tube channel a few weeks ago. He recorded it himself. See the girl in it? Clare? Yeah, she's my friend from Hawaii. She flies all over the country to go to the NKOTB concerts and meet & greets. She's been a fan for 20+ years! So this video shows how, if you follow your dreams, and if you're persistent, your dreams will come true.

Jordan Knight follows her on Twitter now. :)

She's my hero and she SO deserves her moment to shine. :)

Happy Wednesday, y'all!

hooked on magnolia + swap idea

Hi everyone! Happy Monday!

Is anyone out there a fan of Magnolia images like me? I have about 3 Tildas in my rubber stamp arsenal but I want MORE! They're just so darn expensive! :(

supplies: CS: red, green, yellow (Bazzill); DP: Cosmo Cricket; stamp: Tilda with Hawaii Flower (Magnolia); ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Modern Label Punch (SU!); oval & scalloped oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders); mini brads (SU!); sentiment rub-on (SU!); Copic Markers, ribbon

I made this card the other day using my brand new Tilda with Hawaii Flower stamp - I really do love any stamp that has the word "Hawaii" in it, so I knew I had to have it! *lol*

I used an old kit from Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients - I'm STILL working my way through my old kits! I'm about halfway there! I'm wondering if I should break them up now or leave them in their boxes. Those boxes take up A LOT of space on my shelf! Any ideas what I should do with the boxes???

Anyway, so I was thinking of hosting a Magnolia image swap on my blog. Magnolia is (thankfully!) an Angel Company: "We allow our images to be used on items for resale as long as everything is hand stamped and colored. Please do not reproduce any of our images electronically or mechanically, by means of computers or copy machines."

Is anyone out there interested in doing a Magnolia (Tilda or Edwin, no accessories) image swap? Just comment here on this blog post! If I get enough interest (like at least 10 or so people), I'll post details on THURSDAY here on my blog! (I'll even make a cute little button for you to share on your blogs too - the more people who play, the more of a variety of images we'll swap out!)

Thanks everyone! Have a wonderful day!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #24: Inspiration Photo!

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Happy Sunday and welcome to another Birthday Sundaes Challenge!

This week's challenge is the last of our fabulous Kristie's Favorite Things! She chose a very awesome photo for inspiration for you today! Here it is:

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And here's my take on the challenge this week:

supplies: CS: white, blue (Bazzill), lime (DeNami Design), Chocolate Chip (SU!); DP: My Mind's Eye, Stampin' Up; stamp: Stampin' Up!; ink: Basic Black (SU!); other: Big Bold Cupcakes Sizzlit dies (SU! for Sizzix), designer label punch (SU!); twine: We R Memory Keepers; pennant border die (Taylored Expressions); mini brads, dimensional adhesive

So I wanted to be a little different this week and step out of my Copic-coloring comfort zone (say THAT five times fast! *lol*). I was inspired by the photo by the colors - I tried to match. My Virgo tendencies like matchy-matchy *lol*. I loved the little flags on top of the cupcakes, but instead for my card I wanted to create a banner of flags. And finally I was inspired by the cupcakes themselves (y'all know my affinity for cupcakes!) so I made the cupcake take center stage. The sentiment is from an old Stampin' Up! set I've had.

Hope you like my little project this week! Please be sure to visit the rest of the Birthday Sundaes DT to see what they've created for you. And while you're at it, be sure to stop by our guest designer Theresa's blog as well! I hope you get to play with us for this week's challenge!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful Sunday! :)

super quick haul vid!

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Hi all,

I made quick little haul video the other day using my iPad.

 

Sucks because we got a new camcorder, but I still haven't figured out how to hook it up to the computer and edit videos... Then again, I haven't had the time to try! But for now, using my iPad works...

You gotta do what you gotta do, right?

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday!

See ya tomorrow!:)

she's at it again!

The fabulous Amy is  giving away some MAJOR (I'm talking about EPIC!) blog candy!

Wanna see?

Click on the image above to find out how you can win too! :)

Have a fabulous day!

my b-day wishlist...

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Hi everyone!

I thought I'd try something different today and share with you what's on my birthday wishlist!

Twine:

 

*sigh* Look at all this beautiful twine from The Twinery! I've got BIG ideas for its use. Gorgeous, isn't it? I want ALL of the colors! Yep, ALL of them. :) I'm slowly buiding my collection supply and I've recently purchased some from local Whisker Graphics. They were the (k)nots (batches of, for whatever reason, imperfect twine) but that's ok. Twine is twine and all of it is DIVINE! *lol*

 New Mac Book Pro:

I have a Mac Book Pro from 2007, but with years of use/abuse by me and my kids, I think it's time to upgrade and get a new one. I have big dreams of editing my blog, my You Tube videos, pictures... *sigh* totally would love a new one. Our old one can't even hold a battery charge - I took it to the Apple Store to get looked at a few months ago and they said they'd have to send it out and pay $250+ to just get it diagnosed! Might as well get a new one, right?

Then again, we don't really NEED it. DH got me an iPad2 for Mother's Day this year and I'm super happy and content with that. :)

AND...I don't think I have the space, but I'd LOVE one of these!

Accucut GrandeMark:

I swear, when it comes to crafting, I think I'm like a guy - I love TOOLS! And this is one BIG MAMMA-JAMMA of a TOOL! *lol* I've seen videos on You Tube about this and it's something I really want, but I know I shouldn't. Because 1) I don't have room in my craftroom. 2) The dies are pricey. Will I really get use of this machine? and 3) I'm not sure if I really NEED it...

But I still want it.

Another option is...

The Big Shot Pro:

It's my cheaper option rather than getting the Grande Mark. However, when I ran this by the hubs, he asked why I would cheap out on a tool I plan to use a lot. He said go for quality, not value.

True... But Sizzix DOES makes some really sturdy tools.

And in addition to these die cutting machines, a girl needs to wish for some dies right?

and a bunch of others, but these are 2 that I think are cute! :)

And then I think to myself, do I REALLY need more scrapbooking stuff?

 Maybe I'll take a Louis Vuitton instead! :)

Anyway, despite what you see here, I'm not really picky. I actually don't want a lot  of presents for my birthday. I'm working all weekend of it (Labor Day weekend!) - and I actually don't mind (it's time-and-a-half pay on my actual birthday night! What could be a better birthday present!). And I get to spend the day after my birthday with a bunch of my closest friends.

I'm one lucky and blessed girl.

And that's all I really need for my birthday. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs! Have a great weekend! :)

flirty Anya

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Good morning!

It's already Thursday and I can hardly believe it! :)

 supplies: CS: green, pink (Bazzill), Solar White (Neenah); DP: Making Memories; image stamp: Flirty Anya (The Greeting Farm); sentiment stamp: Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches); ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); other: scallop trim border punch (SU!), bling (Kaiser Scrapbook), Copic Markers, dimensional adhesive

It's been one busy week and it's just going to get busier! I've got to clean the house from top to bottom by the weekend, run a bunch of errands, get my haircut and highlighted (it's been too long! *lol*)... And the hubs and I have a date to see John Legend and Sade in concert... PLUS we're hosting my SIL & BIL's baby shower on Sunday! Whew! I'm already tired just thinking about it!

Anyway, here's a new card I made the other day. FINALLY I decided to use Flirty Anya on a card! Again, she's one of the stamps I've had in my collection for a while. I wanted to make her super sassy so I decided to color her dress green... I've always wondered if the myth about the green M&Ms was true. haha!

And I made another pink & green card. This time a more punchy pink and a more vibrant green. Me likey. :) And I think adding the black gives it more oomph. And we all can use a little more oomph in our lives, #know-what-i'm-sayin'?

Ok, and to vent... my beautiful, precious blog has been getting hit with some serious SPAM!!! Ugh! I'm so annoyed it's not even funny anymore. It's always the same post (from a few weeks ago) and it's always during the same timeframe at night - between midnight and 1am local time. I get hit about 20 times a night! It's so frustrating for me to go back and delete all the nonsense posts every morning. Ugh.

I'm wondering why it's that particular post that's getting hit. I don't swear in it. I don't have anything inappropriate posted. I don't understand why spambots choose that one post to hit, every single night.

And no, I'm not planning on adding word verification to derail the spammers. I've thought about it but I, personally, hate word verification (almost as much as I hate when people add music to their blogs! Sorry people out there, but I really get freaked out when I'm blog surfing in the nice, quiet, peace of my house and I get blasted by Taylor Swift or Evanescence. I literally JUMP out of my seat and get so frazzled to find the mute button on my computer for fear of waking up my kids! *lol*). Anyway, back to word verification. Being on DTs, I have to visit A LOT of blogs. And it takes quite a bit of time doing so... And with that time adds word verifying at the end of posting a comment and that takes more time. I understand it's to deter spammers, but after a long day of already visiting a million and ten blogs, the last thing I want to do is type "splod" or "qquicrz" - especially when I'm visiting from my iPad or iPhone. So I try and save the trouble for people who visit my blog.

I know I'm already the weirdo in the stamping world who uses Typepad instead of Blogger and my peeps already have to type in their info (name, email, website optional) - I didn't want people to add another verifying field...

*sigh* But that's just my humble opinion.

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Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

I'm hoping to have some crafty posts everyday this weekend, but I'm not sure if I can get any crafty time in - with my long to-do list a mile and a half long!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! :)

 

 

halloween in August?

Hi there!

I thought I'd change it up and make a Halloween card! :)

supplies: CS: black (Bazzill), green (DeNami Design), Solar White (Neenah); DP: K&Company; stamps: Trick or Sweet (Taylored Expressions), Halloween Stamp Set (DeNami Design), Square Word Bubble (DeNami Design); ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); other: ribbon, dimensional adhesive, Copic Markers

So I found this little image all colored in my drawer without a place to go. Seems like that's been happening lately, hasn't it? I have a tendency to color images and then they'll sit on my desk or in my drawer for months before using them!

Actually, this little "Elphaba" (get it? She's the witch from "Wicked!" *lol*) was actually colored a year ago when I intended for her to be on this card.

Geez, can you believe it's been a year since that post??? This little witch even survived our BIG MOVE into our new house! Whoa.

Anyway, I had the urge to make a Halloween card. I was getting in a birthday/thank you/thinking of you rut and I wanted to change it up and give myself a change of scenery. :) Hope you like the card. I think it turned out so cute!

Thanks for visiting today! Hope you have a great Wednesday!

a new favorite...

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Hi there!

Don't you just love it when a card/project just comes together???

 
supplies: CS: blue, red (Bazzill), white (Neenah); DP: My Mind's Eye; image stamp: WS Dee Dee (The Greeting Farm); sentiment: Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches); ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); rectangle & scalloped rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), bling (Kaiser Scrapbook), Copic Markers, dimensional adhesive

So I've had this adorable image in my stash for a while... I made a card with it about a year ago. And I just love her! So I decided to ink her up again and color her while I was watching TV with the hubs the other day... I colored her in red, blue & yellow and didn't even think about what patterned paper to pair her with... And then I remembered I had some MME paper that would go PERFECTLY! And you know what? It did. :)

I just love love love this card... and guess what I made it for another DT call!

I'm a sucker for punishment, aren't I? *lol*

But you know, even if I don't make it for the DT, I'm ok. I'm having fun enjoying the journey and pushing my creativity to the limit. I really like developing my craft. And I really LOVE "meeting" new people along the way. :)

'Til next time! :)

p.s. Be sure to join me and a few of my online crafty pals for my BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP on Monday, September 5th at 5am EST! There will be prizes to win and I'll be giving away MORE BLOG CANDY! :)

Hope to see you then!!!

oldie but goodie: fleur anya!

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Hi everyone!

So last year when I was a part of The Greeting Farm's Digital Creative Team & Scrapbooking Guest Design Team, I stocked up on a lot of stamps. I pretty much had all of them, if not most of them, up until my term ended - they're quite pricey and I have a hard time buying them now (thankfully they offer 10% off once a month for a day - I always forget to use the discount code though! *lol*)

One of the stamps I picked up was this cute little Fleur Anya.

supplies: CS: Whisper White (SU!), Solar White (Neenah); DP: SU!, My Mind's Eye; stamp: Fleur Anya; sentiment stamp: Verve; ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); ribbon trim: Webster's Pages; bling: Kaiser Scrapbook; dimensional adhesive; Copic Markers

Can you believe I haven't used Fleur Anya until now? *hangs head in shame* And can you believe I have a ton of stamps I haven't even trimmed and used yet?

*sigh*

Like I said in this post, I'm really going to try an give some of my old stamps some love in my ol' bloggity blog. And I used some scraps from yesterday's card- and reused the same layout of it too. I was kind of in a creativity slump when I made them. *lol*

And another project I'm working on? An inventory binder. Yup, I really need to buckle down and inventory all of my non-consumables - stamps (both rubber & digi), inks (they're consumable, but not that often!), punches, Sizzix Dies, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug folders, etc. I'm tired of buying duplicates. I really need to have a reference for myself to know what I truly have.

I know this project is going to take me a while - maybe a LONG while, but it will definitely be worth it in the end!

Wish me luck!

Happy Monday! :)