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I worked on swaps all day and after I did all the designing of the cards they seemed to get a few face lifts along the way.

You may remember this card the other day:

I gave it a little face lift tonight:

Not much difference, however the butterfly now has Iridescent Ice all over it.  Very pretty.  I’ve had a few people ask me about making the banners on the cards so I thought I would show you in a few pics how to make them.  Hopefully this will give you more of a visual and help you when making your own.  They are soooooo addicting. 

Here ya go:

 Here is the close up on a card:

Okay, and now one last card for tonight.  I really do not want to see the stamp set Season of Friendship go.  It’s currently in the Holiday Mini and I adore this set.  I love it because you can use it for sooooooo many holidays.  Here is my take on Valentines with it!

Thankfully the Love You Much stamp set coordinates VERY WELL with the Heart punch.  It made this card much easier. 

Here you can see how dimensional this card really is. 

Have a Super Fabulous Sunday!

I spent the better part of my day today packing up all the Christmas decorations and pulling out my Valentines decorations.  Once again I have successfully confused my children as I was pulling out the Valentines items out of the closet.  Alexis told me at least 5 times that it wasn’t for another month and was this really necessary?  Jeesh!  I think she was so concerned because her birthday is just a week away.  My little girl will turn six very soon and she seems to think I will forget.  Tonight I proved her wrong.  We sat down and made the invitations to her party.  She was giddy with excitement. 

I used the Large Scallop Die Cut to make the base and then the Scallop #2 for the Kraft Cardstock and my main image.  I stamped Crazy for Cupcakes on the Kraft cardstock using Basic Black ink and then used markers, dazzling diamonds and that puffy stuff for the tops of the cupcakes.  This is when Alexis started dancing around my stamp room.  She thought this was "COOL"!  The Designer Paper comes from the Level 3 Hostess Simply Scrappin’ Kit as well as the Flower that is stamped at the top.  I also added a Button on top of the flower to give it a little more dimension.

Here is a closer look:

Once again, lots of dimensionals.  Most important, she loved them. 

I also made a quick Valentine card tonight using A Happy Heart.  This set is in the Holiday Mini so it won’t be available too much longer.  Super set and fun to stamp! 

I used an eraser to make the polka dots with Whisper White Craft Ink on the bottom of the card. 

Have a super weekend. I will be working on swaps for Leadership this weekend.  Lots of stampin’ is in my future.  Whoo Hoo!

We made it home yesterday from Florida and it was bittersweet.  I always hate leaving Florida and as you can imagine I was just a MESS coming home.  I despise the goodbyes.  Being a Navy wife, I seem to do them more than I would like.  While I hated to say goodbye it’s always nice to sleep in your own bed again.  It’s also nice to be back in my stamp room.  I was able to sneek away for a couple hours today to work on a few swaps and fun things in between the unpacking.  Once I started to create I had a terrible block of what to stamp.  I quickly turned on my iTunes and the groove of music seemed to get me back in the spirit of stamping.  Not sure why Beyonce or Brittney get my stampin’ juices flowin’, but it does!

I have tons of new fun product in my stamp room and honestly wasn’t sure which I should pick up first.  My friend Lisa reminded me of a VERY fun stamp set we received at Founders that I had locked away. This set will be in the New Catalog and really is GORGEOUS!  It’s called Simple Friendship.  Here is a sample I made with it tonight.  I’m thinking this will be one of my swaps for Leadership. 

Here is a closer look and you can see all the layers it has.  It uses a few dimensionals. 

I used Baja Breeze and Kraft cardstock with a little Whisper White mixed in.  Yes, you see glitter.  I used Iridescent Ice.  I really tried to stay away from that stuff since my family thinks I wear it now, but I couldn’t help it.  *wink*

One of my New Years Resolutions -that I never keep- is to scrapbook more.  I had this awesome new scrapbooking kit laying on my desk that I really wanted to play with.  Check this out! 

This kit is a new Level 3 Hostess Simply Scrappin’ kit.  Of course I don’t have the name of it in front of me, however as you can see it’s a beauty.  The cupcake and stripe paper come from this kit as well as the rub ons and cupcake stamp.  This really got my groove going when I pulled out all that fun stuff.  This page is 8.5 x 11 and the photo size is 5 x 7.  I also used new Designer Hardware called Hooray.  I am crossing my fingers there will be many more of these in the new catalog for us to play with.  Won’t this make scrapbooking even more enjoyable???? 

My little girl turns six in just a few short days.  I will be at Leadership on her actual birthday so we had a surprise party while down in Florida and now I am planning one here for her little girlfriends to attend.  She is super excited like any six year old should be. 

Time for me to work on my swaps.  My time is ticking FAST!

It has been a busy couple of days!  I have been at my kids school the last two days doing little hands on tiles to the tune of 190 hands.  I did the entire Kindergarten class on Monday and today the entire First Grade class.  I wanted to stuff some of those kids in my pockets and take them home with me as they were so stinkin’ cute.  They were amazed with my "magic" ink on their little hands.  They did so great!  I hope there are many moms and dads that enjoy the hand print on the tiles.  They really are a keepsake.  Of course I forgot to shoot a pic of the one I did for Lexi, but I will upload it tomorrow. 

Anyways, I thought I would share a fast Christmas card with you tonight as I sit here addressing all my Christmas Cards.  My stamp room will look very bare in the next couple of days as I steal every Christmas card I have made to send out.  I think I will be making more tomorrow.  ugh!

This card was inspired by Sweet Miss Daisy who I admire.  I had seen a card recently that she had made and I wanted to recreate using Stampin’ Up! stuff.  I used Rub On’s again and the little Sizzlet Snowflakes in Kraft and Chocolate Chip cardstock.  Really fast card.  Again, if you are looking for fast and simple… pull out your rub ons.  You will have a ton of cards done in no time. 

I hope you are having a great week and not stressing to much with the holidays fast approaching.  Oh jeez… who am I foolin?  I am TOTALLY stressed.  We leave in a few short days for Florida.  I am NOT even ready for that trip.  I am looking forward to WARM weather.  I am absolutely FREEZING here.  My body does not do the MINUS temps.  The last couple days the temps are hanging around the ZERO mark.   Zero Temps + Freezing Kimberly = Cranky Kimberly!    Yep!

Be back tomorrow!!

WOW!  Lots to show you here!  I’ve had a few busy stampin’ mail days and a few things I have made I wanted to share! So here it goes!  The last card will CRACK you up!

This card uses Havest Home Stamp Set using Poppin’ Pastels techniuqes!  See my sun in the background.  That makes me get excited.  So silly!

These two cards are really the same design just a different stamp set is used. 

Okay, here is all my happy mail!!! 

This was made by my GREAT friend Beate!

This was made by my GREAT friend Lisa!

This was made by my GREAT friend Mary!

This was made by my GREAT friend Sam!

This card was made by my GREAT Denise!

This was made by my GREAT friend Sharon!

This was made by my GREAT friend Alex!

And Last, but NOT least…. this was made by my sweet husband Russ! (Don’t laugh! Alexis worked REALLY hard with him and I am just grateful he knows where to pull the cardstock and stamps from!)