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Good morning Stampers! So much going on here at my home. Good things and a few sad things. First, the sad news. My grandmother has been very sick the last few weeks. She really took a turn for the worst the past few days. I am headed to Florida on Friday to be with my family. The kids and I are flying down for a week. My grandmother is a great lady, has lived a fabulous life and I know she is ready to be with the Lord. It’s so hard to let go though.

In the meantime, I’ve been trying to keep my mind busy. What better way to keep it busy than STAMP! It is my therapy!! I love it. This frame uses Baroque Motifs and the chipboard Lots of Letters. This frame is actually serving a purpose for my Decor Elements board that I have put together. I will show this very soon. I have the FAMILY Decor Elements on the board and the picture frame hangs right under it. It looks great. It’s actually a faux wall. For the stamping portion, I used the new In Color Baha Breeze. Looks great with Chocolate Chip! What doesn’t look great with Chocolate Chip?

Well, time to start the packing process for me and the kids. Looks like it will be a busy day!

Stampin’ love!

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Posted on : Jul 16 2008
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A Little Home Decor

Kimberly Chipboard

Well here is a mixture of Decor Elements, new designer paper, new In Color inks, and new stamps.

I had purchased a few of the Alphabet Decor Elements and wasn’t quite sure what to do with them. Last night I had this idea. I had a large piece of chipboard laying around so I decided to cover it with the Bella Rose Designer Series Paper. Using my 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches I punched tons of Bella Rose paper and Pink Pirouette cardstock for all those circles around the chipboard. The "K" is from the Decor Elements line. Lastly, I used the Dreams de Jour stamp set and cut out a few butterflies to pop up. Overall, I like the way it turned out. Now to figure out where to hang it.

Have a fabulous day!

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Posted on : Jul 15 2008
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A Few Little Nuggets!

So I have been stamping a little. Thought I would share a few inspirational things! Most of my stamping lately has been pretty random, however I am trying to make samples using the retired stamp sets. I am always sad to see some of these stamps go away! I’m trying to use up some of my pretty paper I have been hoarding too. Oh me!

The Baby card uses the Year after Year stamp set. This is a great stamp set for any new stamper. Great to use a blender pen with and color to your hearts content using any type of medium such as a stamp pad or even chalk. This set is retiring. So sad! My FAVORITE background stamp set Print Pattern is retiring as well as the In Colors I used. Shameful! The sentiment New Baby is from Fundamental Phrases. Do you have that? If not, great stamp set.

Now, the little pen holder uses the Notebook Designer paper. I love that paper. Not sure yet if this one will retire, we’ll see very soon. I wondered into my 3-d alter stash and found
one of these large Bandaid boxes and decided it would be perfect to hold my favorite Stampin’ Write markers. I love using those to journal with. I wanted them in a tidy place. I used Stamp of Authenticity, another retiring set. I have loved this set. Gosh, is there anything I don’t love???

Lastly, I bought some of Starbucks new Chocolate bars and decided to cover one using the Berry Bliss designer paper. I used the One of a Kind stamp set on this little nugget.

Well, that’s all for today!!!

I have to add a big thank you for all the fun comments on my first video tutorial. I know it’s a little dark, and I will work on that for the next one.

Thank you for all your support. I’m working on a new one. whoo hoo!

Oh, and to answer someones question, I used Photoshop Elements 5.0 to make my watermark. NOT an easy program to use. Believe me, it took 3 hours to figure it out. Remember, I am blonde. LOL!

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Posted on : Jul 13 2008
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Jul 10 2008 – Cute Litte Box!

I hope you enjoy my first video tutorial! It’s a cute little box! Remember, to make this cute little box you only need 1 sheet of 8.5 x 11 cardstock and then 4 x 4.5 coordinating piece of cardstock for your flap. I hope you enjoy!

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Posted on : Jul 10 2008
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Playing with new stuffs!

Oh how I love playing with new rubbah! I am in love with the new Sock Monkey stamp set. I am sure this set isn’t for everyone, however I love it. Both my kids have sock monkeys that my mom made for them. They sleep right with the kids. I used the new Pink ink and it is so soft and true. I never want it to go away. I thought I would cry to see these current in colors go away, but honestly, I think the new ones are GORGEOUS! Especially the pink. So I colored the monkey in the new pink and Chocoloate Chip. I used the new Bella Rose designer paper. I had a hard time cutting it because it was such beautiful eye candy. I did stamp the monkey onto the Bella Rose paper and then paper pieced some of the monkey parts. So cute.

Enjoy Mrs. Monkey! She is a keeper!