DoubleMates Circle Card

Have you worked with DoubleMates cardstock yet? I love it! It is a different shade of the same color on each side. This color is Belgium Blue, and it has a light side and a dark side. Doublemates are just one of the many cardstock choices available at Creative Cuts and More, which is where I got this circle card. After I received my card from CC&M, I did three things:

1. Applied Making Memories rub on to the front.
2. Cut and embossed the scalloped circle with my nesties.
3. Added fabric tag from MM.

How easy is that? When I order from CC&M, I like to add a piece of the same cardstock I've ordered the die cut out of. That way I can layer to my heart's content. When I ordered the circle card, I didn't have a specific plan, but I'm glad I had the extra piece of Belgium Blue DoubleMates, becuase this card would not have turned out as well without the perfect match!

Grandpa & Me

I made this page for a challenge over at GinaK's StampTV. I would like to do at least one page a week this year. I am about 20 pages behind. Oh well. This is a picture of my grandpa and I in his Jackson Heights apartment. I had probably been out to Bloomingdales with Grandma in my snappy navy and white outfit. Maybe we had Italian ices on the corner. I still remember how excited Grandma would get when we flew over the Statue of Liberty. She lived in New York City for probably 45 years, and she never tired of it.


Here I used an old My Mind's Eye kit for the image and paper. I stamped images from Picture Frames and Polka Dots and Flourishes from Creative Play Stamps to add a little zing to the bottom layer. Blues Whale Art Glitter surrounds the mother daughter image. Why it has the angled stripes, I do not know. I have never seen glitter do this before. I use QUITE a bit of glitter, and this is a new one for me. Static, maybe?

BTW, don't forget the OUTRAGEOUS contest CPS is holding now! Click on the link about for more deets!! Can you say HUGE BAG OF PRIMAS?

Wham, Bam...

Thank you, Ma' am. It's chaos here. Sick cat. Many messes. Much laundry. Bad smells. Very bad smells. Gagging teenage boys. You can see I don't have much time here! I did want to tell you that the bird card was made using a digi image from my good friend Lindsay! Isn't it cool? I also used a GinaK sentiment from Take Flight.

The bottom card is a Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl-love them!

Crafty Secrets, Arabelle & CONTEST

Lots of Crafty Secrets here, including Sweet Chips Chipboard, and a Birds & Botanicals Image. I pared the CS stuff with some old SU! designer paper. The mother of pearl buttons are vintage. I added touches of Aqua Stickles throughout. I get my Stickles at Creative Play Stamps. CPS is having an AMAZING CONTEST right now. In addition to gift certificates, you can win a bag of Primas the size of a CHILD'S PILLOW and weighs HALF A POUND!! I covet this bag of Primas so much, I have considered quitting the DT so I would be eligible for the contest! You must go see it in all its enormous glory, then get stamping!!!

Win a bag of Prima Flowers (and a CreativePlayStamps.com gift
certificate) in our April Showers Bring May Flowers contest!

Just go to our Contest Forum here:
http://www.creativeplaystamps.com/forum_threads/forum/5

log in, and upload a picture of your flower or garden themed card.
That's it!

The winner will be chosen by a vote of our customers. Voting starts May
9th, and ends May 22nd. There are three prizes available:
1st Prize: Big Bag of Prima Flowers and a $30 Gift Certificate
2nd Prize: $15 Gift Certificate
3rd Prize: $10 Gift Certificate

The bag of flowers is about the size of a child's pillow - 13" tall, and
9" wide - and weighs 1/2 a pound!

The contest starts Friday, April 17th. You have until Midnight on May
8th to submit your entry.

The details on entering:
- No purchase is required to enter the contest.
- You must log in before submitting your contest entry - anonymous
entries won't count
- You must upload your contest entry by Midnight, May 8th.
- Your entry must be a card
- Your entry must have a flower or garden theme
- You may enter as many times as you like (but you may only want to do
one or two so you don't split your own vote)
- Do not mail us your cards - you must scan or photograph them yourself
(or have someone do it for you)
- Pictures must have a file size of 2MB or smaller
- A description of how you made it would be nice, and may get you more
votes, but is not required
- The CreativePlayStamps.com design team is not eligible to enter

The details on voting:
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- One vote per person
- You may change your vote at any time prior to the end of voting
- To prevent ballot stuffing (this is Chicago after all!), a prior
purchase is required to vote
- The CreativePlayStamps.com design team can vote
- The polls close at Midnight, May 22nd.

We will post the winners on the site by May 26th, and we'll also
announce them in the newsletter. As always, don't hesitate to contact
us if you're having trouble logging in, or participating.

Celebrate Spring! Upload your cards, cheer on your friends, and come see
the beauty that's been created!

Laura and Art


My friend Pat designs for Shirley's 2 Girls. I love the work she does with S2G stamps, and was finally unable to resist any longer! I love my stamps, and the service was supersonic!!

I *heart* Creative Cuts and More felt hearts!

Isn't this cake stamp sweet? It's from GinaK's Sweetest Blessings set, as is the sentiment. The flower base is from Best Fishes. It's actually a starfish! This cake is fun to color, and I love the font in this set, and the fact that this sentiment fits in one of my favorite punches!! I made this for the glitter challenge over on SampTV. It was so hard for me to put glitter on this card! (NOT!)

Terry over at CC&M cut me a bunch of these felt hearts a couple of months ago, and I find myself reaching for them over and over! The link here is for the page with all the dies you can have cut out of felt. There are lots of choices in shapes and colors of felt. I also got a bunch of butterfly dies last week in gorgeous spring colored cardstocks and I can't wait to put them to good use.

This little cutie is one of Sugar Nellie's Gorjuss Girls. The Girls are some of the most fun stamps to color of any stamp I've ever used. They really make everyone look good!!

Crafty Secrets Cherub

Have I told you that my very favorite stamp store, Creative Play Stamps, sells Crafty Secrets? This is from the Cherubs set. I also get all my Spellbinders & Stickles there. It's pretty much one stop shopping!! I used the Hearts of Love Embossabilities and Cotton Candy Stickles on this card. This die has been discontinued, so if you like it, get it now, CPS will not be able to restock it. I have used it to death, and will continue to do so even after it is no longer available.

My blog has been really touch and go this month! We have been super busy, I hope next week is a little slower! I appreciate those of you who stop by very much! Please know that I will be around to see you before long-it's all of you who inspire me!!

I'm confused too.

Anyone who has ever visited my blog more than twice knows that I'm not afraid to post my, ahem, odder creations. I don't know what happened here. Cute stamp, sophisticated paper? I DID follow the sketch from over at GinaK's Stamp TV, so I got that part. You can't win them all, right? The sheep is from GinaK's Down on the Farm set. I colored it with Angel Wings Shimmerz, which I find impossible to photograph, but it's there, I promise!!