HO HO HO!!!!!!!!

Hey there blogland! Time to wake up!:) It's Monday and we have another challenge from AJ, Jennifer Buck (henceforth called "Buckie"), Maren, Brooke, and Jeanne! The challenge this week is SANTA!!!!!!!!! That's right, bust out the Santa stamps, I know they're sitting on your desks waiting for the 26th so they can be put away for a year, lol! I know mine are! I chose to work with the cute little santa from Bitty Christmas Tags! I'm really getting some mileage out of this set I'll tell you what! I love sets that can be used for tons of different projects, money well spent:)

I *adore* old, country Christmas themed decorations and such and it's what all my stuff is *although it's still in boxes somewhere, lol!* so I wanted to make this card with a country feel, makes me feel right at home! The dp is from MME, loooove the distressed, winteriness of this paper! I masked the santa and stamped a tree from the same set behind him!

Head on over to the girls' blogs to see some more of our jolly fat man!

Monday is also Unity Sketch Day over in the Forums! This weeks sketch was alot of fun, we hope you'll play along! You don't *have* to use Unity for the sketch, we'd still love to see your cards!

If you play along and add this card to SCS, use keywords UNITY and USCSC7!

Here's my card for the sketch:

The stamps are all from the December KOM, it's got PERFECT stamps to go for the next big holiday, VALENTINE'S DAY! Every girls FAVORITE:)

Maren and Brooke made samples for the sketch also! Here's {Brooke's} card, isn't it cute? Love that santa!!!!!!!! She even used her gel pen to make his beard whiter, love it:)

Maren is such an over-achiever, she already posted her card on her blog! Check it out {HERE}, it's SO Maren, and SO adorable:) Thanks for the samples ladies!

Okay, I'm off to get ready for bed (it's Monday night here, YEAH!) Did I forget to brag? I only have to work tomorrow and wednesday, and then I'm OFF FOR 11 DAYS STRAIGHT! That's right, I love my job:)

Have a fantastic Monday!

Challenged...

Yep, that's me! I was ALL ABOUT challenges today:) I made two FUN cards that I LOVE and hope YOU'LL like them too! The first one is for Taylor's Cupcake Challenge, TECC47-
Isn't that a fun sketch? It really called out to me, so I answered (OMG that was SO cheesy!)

Here's my card:

I really have been neglecting my sassy little Bella's so I just had to pull out my cupcakeabella! Isn't she so cute and sweet sittin on that cupcake? The paper is by MME. My favorite thing on this card (aside from Ms. Bella herself) is that RIBBON! It's Martha Stewart and that COLOR just matched PERfecTLY! I *LOVE* when that happens:)

Okay, my next card is for todays Inspiration Challenge (IC159) over on SCS! I was inspired by the colors in this photo:

As soon as I saw this photo I IMMEDIATELY thought of my poor, lonely Bali Breeze dp! OH YES! It's PERFECT and it's been awhile since I broke it out. I think I've been on a "lonely and neglected supplies" kick this weekend, I have been GRAVITATING towards them! That's good though, right? I hope it lasts, I have TONS of crap to use up, lol! Here's my card!

I just *LOVE* the bright, cheeriness of this card! I'm not sure who to send it too though, because a few of my friends here at home completely pissed me off this week! *sorry for the language, but DUDE!*

**Hijacking my own blog post, skip ahead to ignore me, it won't hurt my feelings cause I won't know:)**

Okay, wanna here the story? So we all know that my husband is deployed so I'm alone for Christmas? Well, my friends TOTALLY frickin left me out of the Christmas party they're having on Christmas Eve because there is ONE couple there I don't really feel comfortable around. It's not that I don't like them, just feel awkward and weird around them. You know that couple, the really LOUD guy who just thinks he's the funniest dude on earth and doesn't let you get a word in edge-wise so you just kinda sit there and can't wait to go home? Yeah, so I told my friend, "You know, just because I don't really like that couple, doesn't mean I wouldn't have appreciated being invited to someone's house on CHRISTMAS EVE so I DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE! I mean, SERIOUSLY! So she was like, "Oh I didn't think you'd come" and STILL never invited me! Not that I would have gone after that, but damn. I mean really. So I don't have any IRL friends I feel like sending a sweet card to lately, lol!

Sorry, that came out of nowhere but I'm really upset about it and don't have my honey hear to lean on so I just have to unload on you poor, unsuspecting cyber friends:D

**Back to the card, lol!**

I used, obviously, Bali Breeze dp on my card and the cardstock I used is Pumpkin Pie, Purely Pomegranate, and Tempting Turqouise! I used three SU! stamps *that's right, I pulled out my neglected SU! stamps!* I used Stitched Exotics, Stitched bg, and Full of Life!! I added some stickles to the cut out flowers cause you know me and my obsession with Stickles:D Greatest stuff EVAH invented, EVAH!!!!!

Mmmkay, now that I've probably lost some loyal subscribers due to my ranting, I'll let you get back to your day, lmbo! Thanks for listening though, I feel better:)

Have a fantastic SATURDAY, Ya'll!

Blog Candy WINNER!!

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Lynn said...
WOW! This card is beautiful Amber! LOVE all the bling! Lynn :)
December 19, 2008 4:55 AM

CONGRATS LYNN! Email me so I can give you your gift code! Thanks everyone for playing with us for HIP HOP! Sorry I'm announcing this late, had a Christmas Party and JUST got home! Have a great Friday folks!!!

It's a HIP HOP Christmas PaRTaY!!!!!!!!

Heya crazy Unity PEEPS! You know I mean "crazy" with utmost love and respect, right? Cause I do love ya'll:)

Today we're celebrating Christmas with Unity for HIP HOP! Just so you remember, we're NOT Hip Hopping next week or New Year's week, but willl be back with more fun on January 8th, 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you're new to HIP HOP and just happened upon my blog (thank you!) please start at the Unity Blog and work your way through all the DT blogs for some blog candy!!!

The card I'm sharing with you today uses the Unity Sketch for this weeks challenge! See THIS thread for details and the sketch!
I used the Christmas List single which I ADORE! It's got the cutest little lines! I stamped the background with Tea Time Pattern in Versamark and then heat embossed. I love how that really jazzed the card up! The sparkly snowflakes were punched with my Martha Stewart punch and then I covered them with Silver Ice Stickles!

Okay peeps, what kind of Christmas party would this be with NO PRESENTS? Well, I think most of us DT gals are going to be giving out some BLOG CANDY! I'll choose a random winner who posts to this entry by 5:00 pm CST and the winner will receive a $5 gift card to the Unity Store! I know that with all the deals Angela has this week, you can find SOMETHING to spend $5 on!

I hope you all have an AWESOME Christmas! Now go check out what the fabulous Brooke has in store for you!

Snowflakes...

I'm so glad I don't live where some of you live! I'm hearing from all over the place where people are having FREEZING temps (below zero for many of you!) and SNOW! My short time in Montana was quite enough to make me appreciate our 60 degree winters here in Oki!

I do have a purpose for this post, I promise! I made a card yesterday using one of Verve's latest releases, Snowflake Splendor!
I don't know why but I was really wanting to make a card with these colors! PTI Sweet Blush and SU! Rose Red. I stitched around all the panels and added some K&Co rhinestones, you know, cause every card needs bling:)

Don't forget to check out the Verve sale this month! Select sets are from 10-20% off. See details {HERE}.

Short post today, just wanted to share this lil card with you! Hope your week is going SWIMMINGLY!

Monday FUN!

Those two words SOOOO do not look right together!! At least it's Monday night for me, that's kinda fun:D Know what else is fun? ONLY 3 MORE WEEKS TILL DH GETS HOME!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, but really, I'll get back to the point of this post;)
It's Monday so the girls (AJ, Maren, Jennifer B, Jeanne, and Brooke) got our heads together and decided to go with WINTERY Thank You cards! I know I've already gotten a few Christmas gifts that I'll be sending Thank You's out for so this challenge was perfect! I used the Sketch for this weeks Unity Sketch Challenge {{{DETAILS HERE}}} for the two cards I'm sharing today! The first one is my wintery thank you card!

The cute little snowman is from Bitty Christmas Tags and the sentiment is from Fall Festival. The paper is by Remininsce and is really sparkly and pretty IRL. I also used Spring Moss (PTI) and Bashful Blue (SU!) cardstock.

Don't forget to check out what the other challenge chicks came up with this week!

AJ
Maren
Jennifer B
Jeanne
Brooke

My next card is another sample for the Unity Sketch this week:
I used Giggle Grove and the July KOM for this card. I just loe the combination of the Berry Sorbet (PTI), Vintage Cream, and Black! Totally fun:)
So, come on over to the Unity forums to join in the sketchy fun!
Have a GRRRREAT week:)

Featured Stamper Sunday!

I love Featured Stamper Sunday! It's been awhile since I've been around to play in one! Cards_By_America is the featured stamper this week and she has a super fun gallery:) I cased THIS card of hers. I loved all the white space, but when I was finished with mine, I didn't have much, lol! Here's my card:

I wanted to play with my new Verve set "Snow Wonderful" and the layout I chose to case was a perfect fit! I love snowmen because they aren't too hard to color, lol! All I had to do was color his hat and add some fun flock onto the brim of the hat. The Baja Breeze polka dot base is from the print pack of Baja Breeze and the snowflake panel is stamped with the snowflake background stamp from the Snow Wonderful set. Pretty self explanatory:)

My next card is for Jen Del Muro's Sketch For You to Try this week! As soon as I saw this sketch, I knew I wanted to use this stamp by Unity! I hadn't inked it up yet and thought this was the perfect sketch for it:)

I colored the row of houses, called Neighborhood of Simplicity, with Copics and then covered all the trees with Gold Ice Stickles because I can't seem to make a card with no BLING! The paper is from SU! and is called Holiday Treasures. I love this paper and will miss it dearly when the Holiday Mini is over! The sentiment is from the September KOM.

So right now I'm in the middle of uploading my rediculous collection of CD's onto my iPod! I am SO happy I bought the full size iPod finally! I've owned the Shuffle and Nano but this Classic iPod is a dream! Mom and Dad bought me the iHome for Christmas and I have it at work, it's so nice to just pop the iPod in and let it go! Okay, I'm done selling you on the iPod, bwahahaha! If only I got paid to do it:)

Have a terriffic SUNDAY!

hiP HoP!!!!

Hello HIP HOPPERS! How is Hip Hop Thursday treating you? Just starting, so you have LOTS of the day left to enjoy! I know I'M enjoying because I get to play this week! I've been gone for the past 5 Hip Hop's! It's so great to be back home and celebrating with ya'll! I have a HUGE surprise for you. Are you ready for it?
If you're looking outside your window, NO, pigs are not flying! I actually scrapped, lol! I'm supposed to be making this album for my friends little guy (Rojo, in the picture to the left. He's the human, not the bear). It's his one year album, and yeah, he's like one and a half now, lol! Time to get rollin on this album! I used the "merry christmas" sentiment from Bitty Christmas Tags and My Biggest Wishes single for the jounal block. The dp is by American Crafts!

This next card is for this weeks Sketch Challenge on SCS. I used the butterflies from the December KOM and the sentiment from the November KOM!

I added some Star Dust Stickles to the butterflies and they turned out really sparkly, love it:D

Okay, last card! This is another sample for the Unity Sketch Challenge #5 this week in the Unity Forums. I used the sentiment from the December KOM and paper by Sassafrass. Now this paper is so bright and busy that I didn't want to overdo the card, lol! So it's nothing fancy but I love how fun it is:)

Well there you have it! I'm gonna keep this post nice and short so you can hop on over to Heather B's blog! She's got some FANTASTIC projects she's dying to share with you! So happy HIP HOP! See you in the FORUM!!!!

Busy day!

Well today was a busy and productive day in the stamp room! I got to play with my new Verve stamps and made a couple cards for some SCS challenges. First up are two cards I made with the new Verve sets Snow Wonderful, Ornamental Christmas, and Snowflake Splendor (by the way, have you noticed that these sets and tons more are on sale this month? Check it out!)

First up is this card using Snow Wonderful and the Mojo Monday 61 sketch:

I can't remember who made this dp and I am too lazy to crutch my way back upstairs to find out, lol! If I remember to, I'll update this post when I find out. The green cardstock base is Ripe Avacado by PTI. This color is soooo beautiful! A little greener shade of Old Olive by SU. The ribbon is also by PTI. I stamped a snowflake from Snowflake Splendor in Riding Hood Red on the red panel. Pretty simple card, but I loved the layout and thought it was perfect for this snowman image and the tree dp!

My next card is one I made using the fab Ornamental Christmas set!

I love the pinks and reds in this dp and thought how cool would a Christmas ornament look with those trees on it? Well, now I know! I stamped the ornament onto the dp with versamark and embossed it with silver ep. I poked a small hole in the top of the ornament and threaded some silver cording through it, but it looks kinda funny in this picture! I also embossed the sentiment with silver ep.

The next project I made is for this weeks Technique Lover's Challenge. The challenge was to make vellum wine glass shades. I absolutely love how this turned out and I plan to make one for everyone in my office as a Christmas gift!

I stamped the snowflake with Heat and Stick powder and then sprinkled some turqouise glitter on and heated it up. The sparkle doesn't show up at all in this picture but IRL it is SO sparkly! I added some ribbon to finish it off and then put my little party lite tea lite in a WA-LA! It's such a cute little idea, I'm so glad I tried it!

Okay, now, my last card is for today's color challenge on SCS. I was talking to Christy on the phone earlier and we were talking about the cute Whiff of Joy stamps I bought a few months ago. I stamped some off for her and she's already used them, and I still hadn't used ONE for myself! So I told her I'd use one on today's color challenge! I also used last weeks sketch challenge.

Isn't she so cute blowing her little hearts? I thought this sentiment from the Unity December KOM fit perfectly! The colors for the challenge are Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, and Taken with Teal. I colored her in with Copics and then added that big ole' Prima (from one of Christy and my MANY trips to Michaels while we were in WA!)

So there you have it! My busy day! And I even managed to go to lunch and the BX, lol!

I'm watching "Run, Fat Boy, Run" right now and laughin my butt off, FUNNY movie! Peace out cub scouts!

Back in the saddle!

...or should I say Stamp Room! It feels SO good to be back home! Don't get me wrong, I had a blast and mom and dad's and miss them dreadfully already, but there is something about your own stuff, and my dogs! I'll get to them after the cards, just in case you don't really care about my dogs (but how couldn't you? They're so cute!)

This first card is for the Monday Challenge I play in along with AJ, Maren, Jennifer, Brooke, and Jeanne! Check out their awesome cards too. Our challenge was to create a card with Red, Cream, and SNOWMEN! Well, I just happened to get a few new Verve sets and this Snowman stamp came in the "Snow Wonderful" set, SO CUTE. So here's my card:

I painted Angel Wings Shimmerz on the snowman so he sparkles, it's really pretty IRL:) That dp is by MME, Wild Asparagus line that I got while I was in Seattle with AJ, Linsey, and Maren! They took me to a RIGHTEOUS craft store called Ben Franklin, WOW they had SO MUCH STUFF!

Verve is having a sale on select stamp sets for the whole month of December! You can get anywhere from 10-20% off, so go check it out HERE!

My next card is my sample for this weeks Unity Scetch Challenge. You can click HERE to go to the forum thread for all submissions.

This is the sketch I created for this challenge:

It's a pretty simple sketch this week because I've got a killer cold and couldn't come up with anything else, lol! But the good thing with SIMPLE is that you can make it fit your needs:) Here's my card for this sketch:

I used the Unity December KOM, "Little Reminders" for this card. The "us" sentiment is from Sentiments O' Simple. I like how the mittens kinda form a heart so I'm gonna send it to my honey:) The paper is the same that I used for my first card, by MME. I'm all about using scraps now, I want to try to use as much of each piece of paper as I can! Please feel free to play along in the challenge with us! Upload to SCS and use the keyword USCSC5 so we can see them all in one place! Also, don't forget to post a link to your card in the Sketch Challenge Thread in the Unity Forum for some much deserved praise of your creations!

Okay, now that I got that out of the way, I just wanted to talk about my dogs cause they're my babies and they're not doing very well! I had a guy from work doggie sit them while I was gone. Well he got a stray cat and the cat turned out to have ringworm and mange, which he successfully passed on to my two beautiful labs. Yeah, I was furious to say the least! But really, I can't blame him because I love that he tried to take care of the kitten. Anyways, I was worried sick because the vet wouldn't give them medicine since I wasn't there so they've been really suffering for the past 3 weeks, VERY itchy. Breaks my heart. And they're losing hair too, it's not too bad yet, but I guess if we wait too much longer they'll lose more. I was quite upset when I found out I wouldn't get an appt for them until the 23rd, that's just too long to watch my babies suffer. But the nice tech found out that someone cancelled an appt for this wednesday so I'll be able to get them checked out and get the medicine started so they stop itching! My poor guys! Luke lost quite a bit of weight while I was gone (which wasn't a horrible thing, he could stand it, just as long as it wasn't because he was sick:( Here are my babies, looking cute and angelic:)

Awwww...ain't they cute? Love them!

Okay, I'm off to finish watching Harry Potter and drink something HOT so it'll break this congestion up! Blog ya later!