First post from new house & Blog Candy winners!!

I have decided to give a stamp set away every Sunday for as long as I have them. This is my eighth giveaway. Perhaps you would like Festive Four from 2004 for yourself. Or perhaps you know a fledgling stamper who could use it. I used this set all the time back in 2004. It is well loved, but still in perfect stamping condition. All you have to do to enter is post here. I will announce the winner next Sunday when I post the next set. If I do not hear from the winner before I post the next set, it will join the following set, and that winner will get two. ONE entry per person, please. Thanks for taking the time to visit me. You are a blessing in my life!

The winner of Sunday Blessings # 6, Mostly Flowers, is:

bissecat said...

I love stamps too and I thangs for a chance to win.Greetings from Finland.Blessings.

June 8, 2009 11:07 AM

The winner of Sunday Blessings # 7, Birthday Best, is:

Annelies said...

I mainly make birthday cards, so I think this stamp set is great! Thanks for a chance to win! Greetings from Belgium, Annelies

June 14, 2009 2:26 PM

Girls, send me your addresses and I will get these stamps right out to you!!

Coffee & Friends!!!

Another scheduled post!! It's Tuesday. I'm assuming I survived the move and am now busily making our new house a home. As long as I have DH and three DS's, I'm happy anywhere! Boy, what I wouldn't give to sit down right now with one of my blog buddies and have a cup of coffee! Come on over, I'll put a pot on! This is my favorite MFT set, Hot Stuff. I found this stamped and partially colored image in my extras box the other day and decided to make something of it! I mixed Tempting turquoise, Bazzill, Basic Gray Perhaps, and some Pink Paislee Vintage Moon for this one. I hope you are all able to have coffee with a friend sometime soon! Wish me luck at making some friends here in my new community!

Moving Day!

Lots of the stuff for this card came from GinaK's newest StampTV kit, Eclectic Summer. The Basic Gray Lime Ricky paper and the stamps came in the kit. I added Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Mellow Moss and Brilliant blue. I stamped the image with VersaFine Onyx and embossed with SU!'s Crystal Clear. I sponged the water and sky with several SU! inks, added some M's Dollar Spot gems, and made lots of dots with my American Crafts white gel pen. I also used SU!'s Ticket Corner & Tab punches.
Well, the moving van is here today, this is another scheduled post. While you are reading this, I am running around, tearing my hair out and shouting at the people I love best in the world. Those people are likely dinging up all my antiques with their shoddy loading techniques and making merciless fun of me. If I know my people, and I do, they won't be taking this move nearly as seriously as they should. They will be laughing and smirking at me behind my back. There will be lots of, "Yes, dears," and "I love you, Moms!" And who knows what other subterfuge these experts I call my boys use to charm me every day. Of course, I'll take it all, just like I always do, as long as in the end, I have it my way. Which I will.


I used Flourishes DIY Topiary for this card. I colored the image with chalks and Chalk Enhancer I got from GKD. The ribbon here is from Basic Gray's Gypsy collection, plus I added some skittles and Orange Stickles. The base is Bazzill, and everything else is from Tinkering Ink. This card also works for Pink Persimmon's Orange & Pink challenge!

Sunday Blessings #7

I have A LOT of stamps I don't use anymore.  I have decided to give a stamp set away every Sunday for as long as I have them. This is my seventh giveaway. Perhaps you would like Birthday Best from 2004 for yourself. Or perhaps you know a fledgling stamper who could use it.  It is well loved, but still in perfect stamping condition. All you have to do to enter is post here. I will announce the winner next Sunday when I post the next set. If I do not hear from the winner before I post the next set, it will join the following set, and that winner will get two. ONE entry per person, please.  Thanks for taking the time to visit me. You are a blessing in my life!

**NOTE**

We are moving back home to Colorado this month. I don't know the exact dates yet, but I will schedule Sunday Blessings for next Sunday and the following Sunday. Don't worry, as soon as I am settled and we are hooked up to the internet, I will draw winners, and ship your set to you.

Thank You Anne Ryan!!!

Oddly, I felt like working with Thanksgiving images in the middle of June. This image is from Crafty Secrets' Autumn Blessings Heartwarming Vintage Cuts. They are gorgeous, and I love them! Everything else, except for the Copper Stickles is from HOTP.

This is another scheduled post. I'm taking a break from cleaning and packing. It's actually the 11th as I write this post. Scheduled posts is such a wonderful feature of blogger. It still feels odd, like I'm not really talking to you. Here I am fiddleing with TIME! EEKS! I hope I don't mess anything up!

If you are a member over at SCS, I hope you have the pleasure of knowing Anne. She is a dear, sweet and very talented woman. Anne has been an incredible supporter of my work, her kind words truly give me a lift. She is the kind of stamping friend who makes you feel like a super talent. We all need one of those, don't we? I sent Anne a RAK a while back, and this fabulous beauty showed up on my doorstep a few days ago. Isn't it beautiful? It's so rich and luxurious, I just love it. She also sent the most wonderful BIG envelopes! They are made of sturdy kraft style paper and measure 6x6. She got them at Marco's Papers, and you can bet I will be ordering more! BTW, even her writing is perfect! I should have taken a picture of the inside of the card as well!~

Livestock and Ocean Breezes

I hadn't bought a new Hanna Stamps set in a year or so, so the other day I decided to have this new Hanna sent to my house. This stamp is detailed, yet not hard to color. Even cutting her out wasn't too bad. I use scissors for the large parts, and my craft knife for the smaller areas.

This is My Mind's Eye Kaleidoscope, I thought these colors worked well for a beach scene. The ribbon is American Crafts Brighton. I have quit buying patterned ribbon. Period. It's too hard to match, and I'll use this spool once a year or so. I really got sucked into these AC ribbon boxes. They are so visually appealing at the store, but when you get them home, you're in trouble! I suppose if I used ribbon instead of paper as my starting point, they would work better.

I added Aqua Stickles around the star and on other strategic locations. Did you know that if you have sponged your edges before you add your Stickles that it will pick up your ink color and match perfectly? Aqua is actually much less turquoise than it is here. It's picked up the Tempting Turquoise ink. It's really beautiful when you put Gold Stickles on top of red or pink ink. The glitter stays gold, but the glue turns the shade of your ink. Fun fun! All the red is atyou Spica, I love this pen!!

If you are interested in being a guest designer for Hanna Stamps, check here.

This is Down on the Farm from GinaK. This was last week's StampTV sketch challenge. This is a cute set. I've never trimmed these animals so close, but they look pretty cute this way, don't you think? The base is SU! Kraft, and the rest is HOTP.

I'm packing and miserable, and you're blurfing!!!???

This one's for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch. This is the only Verve set I have, it's called Abundant Blessings, and it's gorgeous! The paper is SU!'s Kraft, and Crafty Secrets' Earthy Pad. I stamped the images in VersaFine Onyx and embossed them in Crystal Clear. Then I did a little sponging and painted on a couple of shadows. The rubon is Basic Gray, and the jewels are Doodlebug Beetle Black. I colored the brad with a Sharpie. It was yellow. I don't use a lot of bright yellow, so Sharpies come in handy!

This one is for Sweet & Sassy Stamps' weekly challenge. They have a challenge blog called The Sweet Stop. Their sketches are always fun, and just look how cute this Gift Squirrel digi stamp is!

The base for this is Doodlebug Velveteen paper in Limeade. It's bright, let me tell you! Most everything else if rom Making Memories Noteworthy line, except for the felt Thickers. I added a little Aqua Stickles on the leaves and grass, just like always!!

This is a scheduled post. I'm writing this on the 10th, while I still have my computer unpacked. I dread packing my studio and computer the most. Who cares about the kitchen and the rest of the house?!

Don't forget to scroll down for Stampin' Up! blog candy!! This week it's Mostly Flowers from 2003!