Some Favorite Valentine's

Happy Thursday to everyone! At least I think it is Thursday. With the kids not having school the last couple of days it is totally throughing me off as to what day of the week it is. But with it being the 3rd of February (can you believe it's February already) Valentine's Day is just around the corner. So to get us in the spirit & give you some ideas for your Valentine's card, here are a few more cards that I received from Leadership swaps. This first one was designed by my new friend & Demonstrator Denise Ometzberger. She is in Houston Texas. If you are in that area & need a demonstrator she is your gal. The funny thing about Denise is that her whole family lives less that 30 minutes from me. She is orginally from Pekin, Illinois. Small world.

To make this adorable card Denise used the Valentine Defined Stamp Set with real red and basic grey stampin' write markers to color it. The two pieces of designer paper are from the Love Impressions. Both the Designer paper & the stamp set can be found in the occasions mini catalog.  Thanks Denise for sharing your awesome card & talents.

The next card was designed by my other new friend & Demonstrator Isis Pinero. She is a very talented Demonstrator from Miami Florida. Don't I wish I was visiting with her right now.

The nice thing about this card is that it isn't too girly. My son Jeffrey is always complaining when he needs are card that I have too many girl cards. Now that being said he more often needs a card for a girl than he does another guy. Don't you just love the daffodil delight pom pom trim. Talk about retro. Just love it. It also comes in melon mambo & tangerine tango.

The last card was designed by fellow Demonstrator Lisa Shepherd. Unfortunetly I can't tell you where she is from because the card only had her name & # on the back. But thanks Lisa for the swap.

A couple of things about this card are hard to see from this picture. The whisper white piece was run through the Big Shot machine using the polka dot embossing folder. The banner that says "Be My Valentine" is popped up on deminsionals and to the right of the striped designer paper is a piece of the awesome real red glitter paper. Have I mentioned that I just love that stuff? I know I have : )

Thanks for stopping by on this snowy Thursday.

Kristy

My Customer Appreciation Event!

Oh my Goodness...Did I have the best time! Yesterday at my 1st Annual Customer Appreciation Event, I had 10 ladies, 1 of which had never stamped a minutes in her life. It was SO Much Fun. We did 3 make n takes (that I will be sharing with you), gave away a lots of goodies, including big Hershey's kisses & even a copy of My Digital Studio. Yes I said I gave away a copy of My Digital Studio. Joyce is also going to get a one on one lesson with me on how to use it. Thank you Ladies for the super great time yesterday. To Lisa our newbie, I am so glad you enjoyed yourself. Your excitement was so contagious.

OK now onto the stamping. This first card makes me hungry just looking at it. Don't you think?

This great card was designed by Jo Rauch Demonstrator from Oregon. It is made with pink pirouette, early espresso & soft suede cardstock. Then the stamp set is "Eat Chocolate". Yum from the new occasions mini. The punches that are used are 1 3/4" scallop, both tag punches, word window & modern label punches. Then to giv it a bit more texture the early espresso piece is run through the big shot with the Polka dots embossing folders. Just Love embossing folders.

The next card includes the one item in the new occasions mini that I am hoping they continue to have & in more colors. GLITTER PAPER.

This glitter paper is so great. It cuts & punches easy. But best of all the glitter does not come off. Just Love it. This awesome card was designed by Kathy Hilden a demonstrator from Michigan. The great color combination is concord crush, real red & whisper white. One of my favs. The stamp sets are the new Create a Cupcake & the Occasional Quotes (a level 2 hostess set out of the Big catalog - contact me to earn this today). 3 different punches were used, Build a Cupcake (so great that you don't have to cut these shapes out), scallop trim corner & border. Then 2 embossing folders helped give the card some texture, square lattice & polka dots. Then some of the awesome 1/2" Concord Crush Stitched ribbon was added. Just love it.

The last card is one of my own designs & was one of my swaps at Leadership (plus will probably be one at regional too). It is so simple but so pretty. Just don't asked me what happened to this picture. My camera & computer both decided not to like me at the same moment.

The base of the card & the ink used are marina mist (I know it doesn't look like it by the picture). Then I just ran the whisper white piece through the wonderful Big Shot with the elegant lines embossing folder (do you see a theme to yesterday's event). Then I stamped the words & that cute butterfly from the So Happy for You stamp set that you can get free out of the Sale-A-Brations catalog. Just love it. Cute card & something free.

Ok so to end my Sunday post...I have to show you what my husband & I saw on the road on our way home from Nashville.

The official Oscar Meyer Hot Dogmobile. The lady driving it just smiled as I took pictures & laughed as we drove by. But I bet they get that a lot.

Happy Sunday.

Royal Blog Tour

Welcome to the Fall edition of the Royal Blog Tour! I hope you are enjoying your tour through the Kingdom.
The stamp set that is used in this Castle is "A Word for You." The great thing about stamp sets that are just words is that there are so many other stamps sets that you can use with them.
My 1st project is a scrapbook page made with one of the double sided die cut sheets out of the Nursery Suite Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The pictures of the baby are my youngest son, Robert (now 4), the day he left the hospital & when he was about 2 weeks old. The simply adorable words & the oval around it are quick accents from the coordinating Nursery Suite Quick Accent stickers. The words " Baby Welcome to the World" are from the A Word from you Stamp Set, stamped in Baja Breeze ink on whisper white cardstock & punched out with the wide oval punch. Then I took the 2 3/8" scallop circle & punch out another sheet from the Nursery Suite Specialty Designer Series Paper. The middle of the page is the Baby tees jumbo wheel in baja breeze ink on whisper white cardstock. Then colored with pear pizzazz, baja breeze & daffodil delight stampin' write markers. Then I glued it to a piece of pear pizzazz cardstock before gluing it to the page.

This Happy Anniversary card looks lovely & is super easy to make. The base of the card is basic black cardstock. The the whisper white cardstock I ran through the Big Shot machine with the paisley prints side of one of the texture plates in the Texture Plates #4 set. Then I stamped the words "Happy Anniversary and many more to come!" from the A Word for You stamp set at the bottom in basic black ink. Then I placed a bit of the 1/2" Ravel Lace trim around the whisper white piece & glued the whisper white to the basic black. Done...wasn't that simple.

For this birthday card I was trying to step out of my comfort zone with the colors. Normally I would not use this many bright colors together on 1 card. But I took some of my favorites, daffodil delight, mambo melon & rich razzelberry then added some whisper white to create this card. The base is daffodil delight, layer #2 is mambo melon, layer #3 is rich razzleberry, then on the 4th layer, whisper white, I stamped the words "Happy Birthday with a Cherry on Top" in rich razzelberry in the corner. On another piece of whisper white I stamped 4 different size of circles from the Circle Circus stamp set in each color plus a second one in melon mambo. I cut all 4 circles out. The 1st & 3rd circles I glued flat to the whisper white layer but the 2nd & 4th circles I put on with dimensionals just to give it a pop off the card.

My last card is an extremely easy card. I love items that are pretty & simple. Don't get me wrong I love elaborate items too but sometimes it is just nice to have something simple & pretty. This card would be great to send as a Thank You note or when a friend is feeling blue. The color (poppy parade) just make me smile. The base of the card is poppy parade. The top layer is whisper white that I ran through the Big Shot machine (just love it) with the square lattice embossing folder (just love them too) & a square wooden frame (found at any craft store). This gives the open space in the embossing. Then I stamped the words "For You from Me" in poppy parade ink, glued it onto the base & I was done. Under 5 minutes & that probably includes getting all of your supplies out.

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Thank You for stopping by my castle. Enjoy the rest of your visit through our Kingdom.

The next Christmas Card Design

Happy Tuesday Everybody! Yesterday was such a Monday in our house. The kids were home from school but had so much homework to do after our crazy weekend. Plus they still had activities to do plus household chores to catch up on. Now everything is back to it's regularly scheduled craziness. So I had a chance this morning to get my next Christmas Card Design uploaded.

It is an incredibly simple card. The base is confetti white which has been embossed with the snowflake embossing folder from the new holiday mini. Then stamped with the words Merry Christmas in Real Red ink. Be on the lookout starting Thursday (maybe tomorrow) with my top favorite cards from our event, A Card for Every Season, this past weekend. If you haven't checked out my classes for November click on the classes page to view what is coming up. Christmas cards & scrapbooks galore. Get your Holidays under way...they will be here before you know it.