Mystery Monday featuring Claudine!

Hello! It seems like every time I turnaround, I'm writing my MM post, lol!! The weeks are FLYING by! 

For this week's Mystery Monday, we're CASE'ing this beautiful card by Claudine!!

I love the fun layout and cute little ribbon embellishment on the side!

Here's my card using Cheeky Rockabilly!

The cardstock base is Berry Sorbet from PTI, my all time favorite color EVER I'm pretty sure:)

The designer papers are from Basic Gray's "Olivia" line! 

I colored her to match the papers, and since I really think she looks "Marilyn'ish" I colored her hair blonde;)

**Edited to add--I can't believe I forgot to mention who made the sentiment, I'm so sorry! It's an AWESOME new set from MFT, it's called More Essential Sentiments! I love this set because the sentiments are a nice big size:)

Check out my fabulous team mates to see what they've come up with!!

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• Barbara Sproat-Jan. Guest Designer
• Jessica Diedrich
• Anna Maria Nilsson
• Jen Shults
• Kristy Young

If you'd like a chance to win a FREE stamp, just for playing along with us, head on over to the CA&F blog for details!!! 

Also wanted to say a HUGE thank you and WE'LL MISS YOU to Barbara, our wonderful January Guest! She really inspired me and had an awesome tutorial (CHECK IT OUT HERE) and I know we'll all miss her!!! I got you in my reader though Barbara, I'll be seeing you;) *that sounded creepy, you know what I mean, lol!*

Thanks for stopping by:)

Viva la Verve! January Week 4-Be Mine

Good morning! A quick fly-by post from me, I'm deep in a book and had to poke my head out long enough to get my VLV card up! Sankari is our hostess this month and came up with a SUPER fabulous sketch!

I used papers from the Bittersweet collection by Basic Grey (OMG I am SO loving this paper pack!) and stamps from Swirling Hearts! 

Using my Vintage Oval die, I cut the frame and then stamped the coordinating frame stamp from Swirling Hearts in Onyx Black in (Versafine). 

I used lots of my favorite silver pearls, I think they add SO much to a card! I need more, lol!

Come play with us in the Verve forums HERE! Verve Stamps are NOT required to play so we welcome ANY and ALL! See you over there;)

Mojo 174-Love + a tutorial + storage tips!

Hiya ladies!! Today's post is PICTURE HEAVY so I'm going to skip the small talk, lol! Read on if you dare;)

I made a card for this week's super fun Mojo Monday sketch #174!

Here's my card using stamps from Love Notes and the Jotted Heart and Classy Label dies--

The card base is a piece of Bazzill dotted black cardstock, I have a whole stack of the dotty paper and hardly ever use it so I thought I'd break it out today.

Here's a close up of the fabulous Jotted Heart die and matching stamp from Love Notes! I think if I had to pick a SINGLE stamp as my favorite from this last release, it would be this "love" stamp! I love the elegant font and that "L" makes me swoon:) I thought it would be fun to add this little stick pin to the heart, kinda like an arrow:)

Notice those scallops? That's not an edge punch, that's my Classy Label die! Wanna know how I did it? Keep on reading!;)

First I wanted to show you the size of the Classy Label die in case you don't have it {yet}...

This is the back side of the die, so the cut lines are just a *tiny* bit smaller than what you see, I'm not sure why I took the picture this way, lol!

You want to cut a few labels with your die first. The scallops on my card sample took 2 1/2 full labels.

After you cut them all out, you're going to cut them in half, length-wise so they look like this...

This is just so you don't have to cut as many labels. Waste not, want not I always say;)

Next you're going to glue them to your cardstock. This is the back of the cardstock. As you can see, the straight edges give you a really nice way to make sure your scallops are even! Here's what it looks like from the front so far...

Keep adding scallops until you're finished!

Wa'la! It might not necessarily be faster than an edge punch, but if you don't have one, and you DO have a Classy Label die, you can still have perfect scallops!

In FACT, you can have TWO SIZES of scallops! Here's how to make smaller scallops...

Cut out more Classy Label dies and then cut them in half width-wise like so--

Then add the pieces to your cardstock like I did on the previous sample!

There you have it, two scallops from one Classy Labels die:)

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I thought since I was already boring you to tears with all these pictures, I'd show you how I store my Verve stamps and Verve dies!

I store all my dies in these plastic cases I can get at the 100Yen store for 100 Yen, ha! That's basically a dollar...

The first one holds cuttlebug folders, the second one hold Verve/MFT dies, the third one hold my PTI Impression plates, the fourth one holds my PTI dies, and the fifth one holds my Spellbinders dies!

I used my SU! tab punch to create the file tabs and then just wrote the names of the dies on the tab:)

Whenever I cut extra labels/shapes out with my dies, I just keep them and store them in with the dies in case I can use them some day! Remember...waste not, want not;)

Here's how I store my clear stamps--

The first four are PTI stamps, the next three are Verve, and the far bottom right is MFT!

Here's the inside:

It's kinda hard to read, but the I have them labeled "Verve" then the release month/year, then the stamp set name.

I buy these CD cases at the 100 Yen store also. I get 4 CD cases for a dollar, w00t! I'm going to miss that place when we leave, lol!

Okay, I think that's it from me today, sorry to yap your ears off;) Hopefully you picked up a tip or two on making your own scallops or stamp/die storage! 

Thanks for dropping by today!!

Cafe Lucy-SCRSC26 and SSSC100

Good morning! We made it to hump day, w00t! I was TOTALLY in the mood to color today and I have some FUN new stamps from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, so I got to work on the SCRS weekly challenge too! These stamps are SOOO FUN to color, and DETAILED! I LOVE that, I can't wait to color Lucy again, she's just a doll:)

This is Cafe Lucy, isn't she ADORABLE??? She's stamped on Neenah smooth cardstock and colored in with Copics! This weeks SCRS challenge is an inspiration challenge, this is the inspiration piece:

If you go to Sparkles blog, you can see the picture bigger! I pulled the colors from these sweet bags and used my Sugared Basic Gray papers!

It's a little hard to tell, but did the "out of the box" technique with Lucy, so her legs and the steam would stick out, I love it:)

The sentiment is from Delightful and Delicious by Verve and the sketch layout uses Karen's AWESOME Sweet Sunday Sketch this week!

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I also wanted to mention that myself and some friends have started a book club blog! We're a Chick-lit book club, reading mostly romance/paranormal romance/and other chick-lit! SO we named ourselves "The Chicklits"! I'd love it if you come visit us and join in on the fun! We already have our first book lined up, it's our FEBRUARY book so there is plenty time if you want to read it and join in our discussions towards the middle of the month! 

Thanks for stopping by today!! Hope you can get inky:)

Mystery Monday featuring Tasha!

Hello!!!!!!! Happy Monday! Hopefully everybody is enjoying a THREE day weekend:)

Today is Monday, and as we all know by now, it's MYSTERY MONDAY at Club Anya & Friends.

This week we're featuring Tasha! I found this card of hers in the Galleria and KNEW I wanted to CASE it..

Here's my sample using my favorite in the Creeper Crew, Friday...

I just love her sassy curly hair and she's just one of my favorite images to color:) I stamped her on Neenah Smooth cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored her with Copics to match these beautiful papers from the Sultry line by Basic Gray. The sentiment is from PTI's Say it with Style. The ribbon is also from PTI and I tied the bow with my bow easy. If you look to the right, under my picture, I have a couple tutorials and one of them is how I tie my bows. My bow easy tutorial is there! 

In FACT, I happen to have an EXTRA BRAND NEW BOW EASY and I'll give it away to one commenter! Leave a comment on *this* post by midnight EST on Wednesday the 19th of January for your chance to win the Bow Easy.

Thanks for stopping by today, head on over to the CA&F Blog for challenge details and then stop by all the lovely DT ladies blogs to see their cards too!

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• Barbara Sproat-Jan. Guest Designer
• Jessica Diedrich
• Anna Maria Nilsson
• Jen Shults
• Kristy Young

It takes a LOOOOOONG time to grow young!

Haha, I love this sentiment that came with my SneakSNEAKYBella! I need a birthday card for a sweet friend of mine, and she happens to like Stamping Bella (wink!) so I thought it was the perfect time to ink up one of my new Bellas! I kind of struggled for a layout using her, and then remembered this month's SFYTT! This month's sketch is SO fun and cards just fly together using it!

Here's my card!

I used Pixi-licious paper by Cosmo Cricket and broke out a FLOWER! I have like four big Iris cart drawers FULL of flowers and never use them! Well that's gonna change, they're too pretty to just take up valuable storage space *snort!*

If you want to play along with our monthly SFYTT sketch challenge or want more details, see THIS POST! Our sponsor this month is the fabulous company The Cat's Pajamas but their stamps are NOT required to play along or be in the running for the grand prize!

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You know what else I did today? I started a major overhaul on my stampin' room! I tell you it just got TOO crowded and cluttered so it's time to move stuff around, throw stuff out, and find some stuff for blog candy perhaps?;)

I started on my ribbon. It took about three hours, EEEK!!! I unrolled all my PTI ribbon and hung them by color families on hangars which are now hanging in the closet right by my work table! Here are a few GLORIOUS pictures that I can't stop staring at!!

Is it just me? Or do those ribbons and beautiful rainbow colors make you want to go STAMP SOMETHING???? 

Like I said, I'm just getting started and plan to spend all day in there tomorrow so I'll post pics of my room when I'm done! I plan on doing a few blog posts on what kind of storage ideas I use for dies, stamps, ribbon, buttons, etc...stay tuned!

Viva la Verve! January Week 3-Be My Valentine

Hey there! Quickie post from me tonite, it's FRIDAY night which is movie and wine night for me and Billy:)We're gonna watch Avatar, the Next Air Bender! Oh, and we're drinking Mondavi Merlot;) YUMM!

Okay, Tosh is our fabulous hostess this week in the Verve forums and has come up with this fantastic sketch for this week!

Lots of room for interpretation but I kept mine pretty close to the sketch!

I used the fun Jotted Heart "A Cut Above" die and the sentiment and frame stamp are from Love Notes!

I hope you can come play with us in the Verve Forums! We always have fun:) Remember, Verve stamps are NOT required! Play with whatever your heart desires:)

Moxie Fab Pastels

G'morning! I'm here today with a quick post, I'm engrossed in tonight's episode of NCIS, loooove my Deeks!! LOL!!

I was blog surfing today and came across these fun color combo's on the Moxie Fab blog and thought I'd play along! 

This is my card for the pretty pastels challenge...

These are all Bazzill colors but I'm not sure if they're the exact same as what's listed on the challenge (though I'm sure the intent of the challenge is just to stay close to the colors, not have the EXACT colors). I bought one of those 1 pound Bazzill stacks and this is my first time using anything from the stack!

The stamps are all from PTI's Love Birds!

Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back tomorrow with more Moxie Fab challenge cards:)

Verve After Party-January Release

Hello my girls!! This is my second post today so if you're here to see my Club Anya & Friends Mystery Monday post, please click HERE or scroll down! Thank you ever so much;)

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Today, we're having an AFTER party on the Verve blog! As you know (or maybe you didn't?), Verve had an AWESOME new release this past Friday night! Four new sets, two Plain Janes, & three A Cut Above Dies made their debut last Friday at the Verve Release Party!  You will freak OUT when you see them, there's something for your honey, and something for your babies! PLUS three fabulous new dies, which I love very much;) Now through the end of the month you can save on the bundle! Check it out here:


January Stamp Collection Sale

Each of the Diva's were asked to select their favorite project from the release for the after party. We saved the best for last because you're SO SPECIAL to us:) Make sure you stop by the Verve blog to see all the other Diva's favorite cards!! Here's mine:

I used my absolute favorite set of the release, Love Notes, and the super fun and sweet new Jotted Heart die! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today:) I'll be back tomorrow with something...I'm not sure what, but it'll be something, lol! Enjoy your week!!

Mystery Monday featuring Kim the Paperbabe!!

Hello! It's MONDAY!! I love Monday's because on the CA&F blog we feature wonderful ladies whose cards JUMP OUT at us from The Galleria!! Kristy is our hostess with the mostest today and has chosen this WONDERFUL card from Kim! Check it out!

Don't you love that cutie pie couple? They're so adorable:) 

Here's my card using Naughty/Nice!

I stamped the sweet angel off center on this 3x3 square and colored her with Copics. I was kind of at a loss for what papers to use because I colored her first, without thinking of what I'd use her with! I hate it when I do that, ha! So I decided on these lovely papers from the Curio pad by BG!

Make sure you check out the rest of the lovely ladies and what they did with this CASE!

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• Barbara Sproat-Jan. Guest Designer
• Jessica Diedrich
• Anna Maria Nilsson
• Amber Hight
• Jen Shults
• Kristy Young

Thanks so much for stopping by! Didja notice I got a little make-over? It's a fun blog template I found on-line, LOVE it:) See ya tomorrow, have a great week friends:)