I used all kinds of new products on this little guy.  I used the Papaya Collage stamp set with Pool Party ink.  You can see I added a small piece of Vellum across the front of the box too.  I also used our new Apothecary Accents Framelits with a Glass button.  Super pretty and delicate looking. 

On the inside there are three cards.  All 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in size. 

Each card is just slightly different than the other.  I used Vellum on all three cards and then embossed the vellum on each using the Fancy Fan Folder.  I used the stamp set World Treasures for the greeting on each.  There is a little sewing on two of the cards but it's not over the top.  Just a wee bit.   I love these colors together… Soft Suede, Pool Party, Crumb Cake and a tad of Whisper White. 

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When this die cut arrived at my house the first person to SQUEAL with delight was the one and only American Girl Doll Lover…. Alexis.  You could hear that child scream for miles.  She was so excited that she could make ANY kind of Purse for her American Girl Dolls.  Stampin' Up! had no idea they made a little 9 year old so stinkin' happy.  This die cut is just too cute.  It's great for any party favor.  When I was in Michigan a few weeks ago one of our team members, Dawn showed us her darling purses that she had made and she used our Stampin' Up! fabric.  I thought she was a genius.  I loved how the fabric made the purse look more "real" so to speak.  My stamp club made these darling purses and loved how quick and easy they are to put together.  We took the Sizzix Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets and adhered the fabric to them before placing it on the Big Shot.   I used a piece of cardstock on the front flap to make the purse a little stronger and I wanted to stamp on the front just a wee bit.  We then just added a few ribbon embellishments to make this purse a little fluffy and girlie. We used the Styled Beautiful stamp on the front flap as it was just enough to add a little stamping touch to it.  Lastly, a little Antique Brad topped it off. You will be able to order this new die on June 1st.  It's SUPER exciting. 

Now Alexis has her first American Girl Doll purse.  I'm sure this won't be the last. 

Here is another layout for my Disney Album as well:

I used the downloads listed below for this layout:

Check this out Punch-129921
Circle Punches
Vintage Overlays-121061
Grad Party Digital Kit-129877
Font-Worstveld

Have a FANTASTIC day!!

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First I want to say a big thanks to all the Mama's and the love and support you always show.  Your advice is always welcomed in my home.  It's also good to read that I'm not alone in my struggles and that many of you are experiencing the same.  I loved hearing your solutions and experiences and I shared them with Russ.  I have confidence that our *stage* will get better but in the mean time I will do as many of you said and keep my hair dresser wealthy with my color appointments.  <sigh>

I have a quick share for you today.  I love the Mouthwatering stamp set in the Occasions Mini.  I love every image and the images are great for cards or scrapbooking.

The best part about using this stamp set is pairing it with our Scented Embossing Powder.  I hope you've tried a few of them.  They smell fantastic and the kids just love the idea of smelly good stamped pretties. 

This first card uses the Sweet Shop DSP and the fun Edgelits.  For this card I stamped the Popsicle in Lucky Limeaid and then used VersaMark over the image so I could use my Melon Embossing Powder.  Once I had the image embossed I cut out the Popsicle and placed it onto a small Popsicle stick using a Mini Glue Dot.  I love all of these colors together as I think they are very spring and fun. 

For this card (really the same card) I decided to take a bite out of it. Ha Ha! Okay, I took a bite with my Scallop Circle punch.  How fun is that.  Want to know the best part? On the inside of this card I used the Sweet Shop Designer Stickers.  LOVE THESE. 

Here is a peek at them:

Of course I used the Fudge Pop sticker and it matched the one I made.  I love this card because it smells yummy and all the bright colors. 

With my extra hour I was able to make TWO Digital Studio layouts too.  I KNOW! Crazy!!

Here are my layouts to share:

The downloads I used on this Digital Page are below.

Jandra Snickerdoodle font
Springtime Vintage DSP
Tempting Turquoise Small Polka Dot
Circle Punch
Tasteful Trim punch Shape 3
Eggceptional Easter Doily
Happy Birthday Large White Flower
Spring Fever Flower 12
Spring Fever Flower 27
Kraft background
Downtown Grunge Frames

Below are the downloads I used for this layout.

Strength & Hope-Love
Strength & Hope DSP
Everyday Enchantment DSP
Scallop Circle Punch
Flag Punch
CK Script
Downtown Grunge Frame
Scallop Border Trim

Well, I think that is a lot to take in on a Monday. I hope your day continues to be fantastic and enjoy the sunshine if you have it.  The East Coast is beautiful right now and the Cherry Blossoms are getting ready to bloom.  Hopefully in between the nice weather you are able to craft up something good.  If you need products to browse, check out my Online Goodie Store and see what's SPRINGING up in there. 

XOXOXO

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I took a day off yesterday from stamping and literally spent 6 hours cleaning and laundry.  It had to be done.  This made for a creative Monday.  I like when that happens.  I've been working on all kinds of projects.  I was lucky to have my bestie in the stamp room this morning helping me with some stamping projects too.  I love when Denise can come visit because we can make LOTS happen in my stamp room.  While we were stamping today we listened to the Piano Man tune the ole' Player Piano.  It was pretty unbearable until the very end when he finally played a song!  It sounded beautiful.  Now if someone in our house could learn to play the piano I will be very happy. We played a few piano rolls tonight and Russ and I danced in the piano room.  We smooched and the kids just giggled.  They are so funny.  Sigh!

I have another Blossom Builder card to share tonight. 

I was inspired by a card in the Occasions Mini on page 18.  I followed the same design almost and tweaked it a little for my class because we used the Hat Pins.  I love these colors and I'm not one to typically use bright colors.  I'm finding myself drawn to them more and more.  You can see that bright colors are very trendy in the fashion world too.  Again, I highly recommend the Blossom Builders Kit because it's a fast and fun way to make lots of cards. 

I've still been going strong with My Digital Studio too. I have a layout to share.  I'm working on a 3-D project using the program as well.  I am super excited about it and can't wait to share.  Here is the layout:

I couldn't wait to scrap this moment.  Since I was nursing my girl back to health I didn't want to leave her side and work in my stamp room.  I brought my stamp room next to her bedside with my laptop.  WHOO HOO! Now that is awesome.  *giggle*  I can't help it. I have to share one more….

I'm going to work harder to describe which downloads I am using in my next posts.  I've been paying more attention to learning than what product/downloads I'm using and I realize this is not helping you at all.  I will pay closer attention. 

Hope you had a FABULOUS Monday. 

XOXOXO

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Let me share a few fun cards first.  These are from my Card Buffet I've held this week. 

This first card uses the You're My Type stamp set.  WHAT a CUTE set.  This is a super easy card that you can sit down and make tons of.

My next card uses the Elegant Bird Die cut along with the Sale-a-Bration set Fresh Vintage and Everyday Enchantment DSP.  You can receive the Fresh Vintage stamp set and Everyday Enchantment DSP FREE with each $50 purchase.  GREAT GREAT DSP.  I love it.  Again, this is a fast card and easy to duplicate LOTS and LOTS of times.  The "Happiest Birthday" sentiment comes from the Apothecary Art stamp set. I love the font of this sentiment. 

Again, I'm diving into My Digital Studio so that I feel comfortable teaching my first basic class next week to my local customers.  I am really excited about this class because it will be my first Digital Class.  Tonight I want to share a layout that I made after seeing a layout on Pinterest. 

I love these pictures of the kids and it was a fun day that we had with Russ when he popped into the states from Iraq during his deployment.  I'm not sure if I ever told you about the scrapbook I made for Russ at Christmas time.  I made a book for him before he came home that took about 3 weeks for me to finish.  It was completely done using My Digital Studio.  My book was 100 pages and it's my most prized gift I've ever given to him.  I love it so much because the digital book told the story of Myself and the kids over the 7 month deployment.  It was filled with the good, the bad and the ugly. I left nothing out of this book and the reason I love it so is because of the journaling that is written in the book.  I've been a scrapbooker since 1996.  I cannot tell you how many traditional pages I have that do not have a stitch of journaling on them.  Why, you ask? Because I'm a procrastinator and I told myself I would go back and journal.  Guess what? I haven't gone back to journal.  I think this is one of the reasons why I'm enjoying My Digital Studio.  I journal right away because I know I'm going to send the page or book to print soon. 

Again, I encourage you to take a minute and download the FREE trial.  Give it a whirl.  It's a GREAT program. Go to my Online Store and you will find lots of fun things. Oh and GUESS WHAT???? Exciting news!!! There is a new product that you can purchase today. 

You can start ordering the Diagonal Plate for your Simply Scored today.  I'm super excited about this.  Visit my Online Store to order your own.  You will love it. 

I hope you have a FANTASTIC day!

XOXOXO

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You can find the Blossom Builders on page 18 of the Mini Occasions Catalog.  These beautiful die cut flowers have great texture to them and are easy for you to create many beautiful cards and 3-D projects.  One of my favorite things included with this kit is the pink Rhinestones.  They are just the perfect touch.  They are self adhesive and fun to add to any project. The class participants each received a set of Hat Pins and the Blossom Builders kit to work with during the class. 

Since I have my Stampin' hat on I want to remind you about the My Digital Studio Free Trial that you can download for 30 days.  This is a fantastic digital program.  I played around with the trial version a few weeks ago (I have the full digital program) so I could see what exactly you were getting and create with it.  Here is a layout I created just from the trial version. I will be teaching how to create this layout and more at my MDS class on March 8th.  If you are local and want to learn how to create digital fun join me for this  Get Started with My Digital Studio Class.  This will be a very basic class.  Bring your laptop and download the MDS Trial Version.  Check out my website for the times and details. 

If you loved that Blossom Builders you can also download the digital version! How exciting is that?  Here it is and look at all the pretty color rhinestones. 
Whooo Hoooo!! You can see more like this in my Online Store. 

Okay, I think I've filled your eyes enough today. I hope this inspires you to create today.

XOXOXO

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The good news is I've worked the last month on getting affairs in order to get back to teaching classes, workshops and adding more events to my schedule.  It's only when I started adding more events that our lives seemed to get busier.  It's natural and I expected it.  Whenever I make new goals for my business I always expect to jump LARGE obstacles to get to that goal.  I didn't realize these would be HUGE logs I would be jumping over. Ha. Let the jumping begin.  *grin*

Before I share many projects with you I have to tell you about a funny and a good deal the Prince and I landed recently.  One of our goals when he came home was to do something with our dining room.  It was bare bones.  Not a stitch of anything in it.  We didn't want to use it as a dining room but rather a sitting room or piano room.  Russ started the renovation of the room with putting new wood floors in. Then I asked for new paint on the walls.  He said this was starting to sound like a new outfit. First the dress, then the shoes… and then the accessories.  The accessories are the BEST part, right?   This is when the REAL fun has begun.  We started looking for piano's on Craigslist and estate sales. I wasn't looking for anything fancy, just a used piano.  We were so excited when we found a Player Piano on Craigslist. We were excited until the whole thing became a disaster.  The story is forever long so I won't bore you with it.  Let's just say it took 4 weeks to get it after the owner hijacked it. It took  a very large truck, $500 more than we planned, and a car was side swiped as Russ was backing the truck into our driveway. Uh huh. All that trouble and we have a 1929 really OLD working Player Piano.  Russ said I was lucky it was not on fire in our front yard.  <giggle>  It has become a great conversation piece and was 100% worth all the pain after we put the first Piano Roll on.  The kids faces were priceless.  We still need to get it tuned and then we are going to start a few lessons.  Yes, NO ONE in this house knows how to play. Kinda funny, eh?

I was also on the hunt for a Fainting Couch for the room and I am happy to say I found one.  I'll share soon.  I better share some creative fun before I really start to bore  you.  I've been excited to share this with you.  I'll share the entire creative process of the room once it's all complete. 

I've been a STAMPING fool late at night.  I have so many fun things to share.  Bare with me as I share a few Valentine pieces with you.  That holiday just whipped right by me.  Dang!  My first card is a case from Shelli at Leadership.  I didn't put all her bells and whistles on the inside because this was a card my great club ladies completed.  I just love the color combo and the sweet hearts. 

I love this sweet box because it uses the Fancy Favor Box and the inside box is hand made.  This is a great box to put a few goodies inside for a special someone.

This last project uses the little note cards.  Just a sweet little note with a few buttons and do-dads! 

Phew! That was a mouthful of news.  I hope you had a GREAT Presidents weekend.  This week is BIG for our family.  Brandon crosses over to Boy Scouts tomorrow.  We are super excited for him.  We also have a big Girl Scout and Boy Scout event this coming weekend.  I'm hoping everything comes together.  I'm a little stressed.  Once this week is through I'll be able to catch my breath. 

Have a FANTASTIC week. 

XOXOXO

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Good morning Stamping friends! It feels like a Monday to me.  It was great to have that long weekend.  Now I'm sitting at an airport waiting on my NEW flight.  Yes, had a little flight change because I missed my original flight this morning due to the GREAT traffic on 95 this morning.  I just love the traffic here.  

Now I'm sitting in the USO at the airport and must say this is a GREAT place for military members.  I have a comfy seat, free wifi, all kinds of great food and drinks as well as a nice big TV!  No wonder Russ always likes to visit these when he fly's.  

I'm trying to head to San Antonio for the week for the big Leadership Conference.  I am really excited to see all my friends.  I hope to keep you informed of some of the fun things we are doing.  I even brought cards to work on in my hotel room.  I haven't done that in YEARS.   

Let me share this Valentine I made.  

I'm still enjoying the P.S. I Love You stamp set.  I love all the sentiments so much that I decided to use more than one on this card.  I decided to make a mini banner by stamping each of the sentiments onto a 1/2 strip of Naturals Ivory CS.  I used the cute mini clothes pins and connected the mini banners onto the Linen Thread so they would hang across.  I used the Heart Framelits to cut the large heart and placed the First Edition DSP onto the inside piece of the card base.  I feel like I cannot make a card without using that DSP.  It's so fun to use.  I also stamped the Netting Background stamp onto the Real Red cardstock.  You can barely see it but I like that it's lightly seen.  I think he will enjoy this card.  I'm getting them all stacked up and  ready to swarm him with love. 

You can find all these fun products on my website HERE.  Go browse awhile and look at the pretties in there.  Lots and Lots of fun stuff.  

Have a GREAT week.  

XOXOXO

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Who said Valentines had to be red and pink? Why not PURPLE? Seriously this is WAY WAY outside of my comfort zone.  I'm not super into the color purple. I hardly use it on any of my cards.  However, I thought that these two colors looked pretty good together.  I used Wisteria Wonder and Pool Party  and away I went.  I used the same set as yesterday, P.S. I love you.  The sentiments that you see on the little banners is actually ONE stamp.  I just used my Black Marker and pieced the sentiment onto three pieces of cardstock.  The Heart was die cut using the Sweet Shop DSP and Heart Framelits.  So easy and fun to use.  

I'm off to work on a few swaps for Leadership.  I'm getting excited to see so many of my friends.  I love Stampin' Up! events.  

Have a GREAT Friday the 13th.  

P.S. I love Ya! 

XOXOXO

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Over the next few days I'm going to share the start of my blitz.  I'm going to try and start working on a few kid Valentine projects this weekend, too.  It's always best to come up with these things early.  Not that I am one to talk about being on time.  I am just now getting my Christmas cards out.  I like to spread the Christmas cheer a little longer than others.  

This card uses a fun stamp set called P.S. I love You.  Love the name, Love the set.  This set has 15 stamps in it.  You can get the clear set for just  $27.95! Heck of a deal if you ask me.  Besides, who can put a price tag on something when you are making it for your lover? Check it out:

Anyways, I started this card with a Very Vanilla card base.  I then adhered the First Edition DSP to the front of the card and used my snazzy Edgelits Die and cut the bottom.  Then I added a piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock to the backside of the front panel and embossed with the Adorning Accents Embossing Folder.  WOW! Just a little snazzy texture embossing packs a HARD punch on this card.  I love it.  

I cut my cool hearts using the Hearts Collection Framelits Die.  LOVE it.  I did a little sewing down the middle on two of the hearts.  I liked how that turned out.  Lastly I added my Cherry Cobbler buttons and a little Blushing Bride Smooch Spray. WOW, love that spray.  It's beautiful.  

Even though it had a little sewing machine action on the card it was still pretty simple.  Wanna know my FAVORITE thing about this stamp set? The fonts! You will love the fonts of the sentiments.  No worries, I pushed the limits on this set last night.  More ideas coming your way with this set.  

If you want this set for yourself, click HERE!  I think it's a must have this Love Season! If you want to check out more of the Occasions Mini, Click HERE!

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