Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas!!! May you and your families have a wonderful Christmas filled with love and happiness!!! May all your dreams come true in 2011!!!



Thank you for all for your friendship!
Love,

STMC35 - Fun Flock Challenge

Hi Friends! I'm back!!! So happy to bring you another fun Stampendous Saturday Challenge and what could be more fun than FUN FLOCK!!! I have been wanting to use some Pixie Pink Fun Flock and the Cling Cutie Bundles Set was so perfect. Isn't she so cute? I used the both Pixie Pink and Cotton Ball White Fun Flock for her hat, gloves, and jacket. Click on the photo to see the picture close up. Fun flock gives this image the perfect touch. I can't wait to send out this card. It's cold outside, so cozy up this weekend with some Fun Flock and play along with us. Be sure to check out the Stampendous Blog for the complete challenge details. You have a chance to win a wonderful Stampendous prize. Have Fun!!!


Thanks for visiting and Have a Stampendous Saturday!!!

TESC134 - Sweetest Holiday Wishes

Hi Friends & Happy Friday!!! Can you believe Christmas is just around the corner? I thought this week's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge would be the perfect opportunity to make another Christmas card for my holiday stash. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this Gingerbread Man Sizzix die. Isn't he so cute? I paired up this cutie with some more wonderful Echo Park patterned paper. I love all the different colors. So festive! I also added a strip of some Bo Bunny double dot paper too. I am thinking of making something similar to this for this year's Christmas card. It's hard to resist this adorable gingerbread man. Are you ready to play along with us? Taylor will be looking for her Top Crops and it could be you. So play along and have some fun!

Be sure to visit my fabulous TESC Sketch Crew buddies for some great inspiration:
Alice Wertz
Jami Sibley
Lisa Hjulberg
Lori Craig
Melissa Sauls
Monika Davis
Sherrie Siemens
and Taylor!!!!

Thanks for visiting and Have a Happy Day!

Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled

Hi Friends! Happy Friday! I am back today to share will you a card I made using one of my favorite Stampendous products ... Class A' Peel Stickers. They have a variety of different textures and I love all of them! I used the gorgeous Jumbo Snowflakes and Jumbo Snowman in Velvet White for this card. I added some cute mini snowmen in the centers of each snowflake using the Little Snow Scarf and Little Snow Hat cling stamps. I love how the bright white snowflakes pop against the red paper. I used a small velvet snowflake for the same pop against the green and to bring out the Heavenly Snowmen sentiment. Hope you enjoyed today's card!

Thanks for visiting and Have a great day!


Rachie's Recipe:
Stamps: Little Snow Scarf, Little Snow Hat & Heavenly Snowmen (Stampendous)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Copic Markers
Paper: Red Dot & White CS (Bazzill) and Patterned Paper (Bo Bunny)
Accessories: Jumbo Snowflake & Jumbo Snowman Class A' Peel Stickers (Stampendous), Paper Piercing Tools (Making Memories), White Gel Pen and 3D Foam Tape (Best Creation)

Gingerbread Sightings 2010

Hello Gingy Lovers! It's that time of year again! Welcome to Day 1 of Gingerbread Sightings 2010. I have searched the globe (ok, the internet) to find you as much gingerbread wonder as possible. LOL! This year is just filled with sugar and spice and everything nice. Here we go.....

1. Stampendous - Cling Cookie Memories Set
Who could resist these adorable cookies?
2. Peachy Keen Stamps - Lots of Gingerbread Lovin' here
There is a new release tomorrow and I know I spotted some new gingerbread friends :)
3. Two Scoops Rice - Super Kawaii Gingerbread here
4. Waltzing Mouse - Bountiful Baskets Additions
A basket full of gingerbread men! What a perfect gift!
5. Flourishes - Sweets of the Season
Love the vintage look of these sweet gingerbread!
6. EK Success - Gingerbread Man Large Punch
I squealed with delight over this one!!! So cute and the perfect gingerbread shape!
7. Paper Source - I {heart} Paper Source and these wonderful goodies!

I had to order the gift wrap above online, since one lady bought out the whole store of this wrapping paper. Can you imagine that? Too bad it wasn't me! LOL!

Hope you like these goodies and I will be back on the weekend to share some more with ya!

Have a fabulous day and thanks for visiting!!!

STMC30 - Happy Halloween!

Hi Friends! It's time for another fabulous Stampendous Saturday Sketch Challenge. This week I am your host and I had the perfect stamp set in mind when creating this sketch. This little vampire is too cute and very popular. I have seen him everywhere! He belongs to the spooky and sweet - Costume Kids set. I colored him up with Copics and cut him out to give him some dimension. I love that he is surrounded by bats. This wonderful Echo Park patterned paper went perfectly with this image. I added some Jolee's All That Bling star stickers for sparkle. I really hope you love this week's challenge and can play along with us for a chance to win a sweet prize from Stampendous. You can find the challenge rules here and there is even more exciting Stampendous news! Win... Without Warning!!! Stampendous is looking for blog posts featuring their amazing products and selecting a winner to award with free stamps! How cool is that? You can find all the details here along with the first winner. Stampendous is just the best! Have fun and ink up those Stampendous stamps! I can't wait to see who the next winner will be!


Thanks for visiting and Have a Happy Halloween!


Rachie's Recipe:
Stamps: Costume Kids (Stampendous)
Paper: White CS (Neenah), Black & Kraft CS (Bazzill) and Patterned Paper (Echo Park)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Copic Markers
Accessories: Ribbon (Bo Bunny), Star Stickers (Jolee's), Border Punch (EK Success), Pinking Circle and Circle Nestabilities and 3D Foam Tape (Best Creation)

TESC132 - Fa la la la la

Happy Friday! Are you prepared for the Halloween weekend? I am looking forward to passing out candy and seeing all the cute kids. So no tricks today, just a Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge treat. Our very own super sweet and very talented, Jami, designed this week's sketch and it's just fabulous! I am using the adorable Home Sweet Home set again this week because I don't get to use this cute Caroling Cuppie enough. I paired up the image with some pretty Very Merry - October Afternoon patterned paper. I hope you enjoyed today's card and will find some time to play along with us this week. If you haven't already seen the TE 12 days of a Handcrafted Christmas, then you will have to visit Taylor's blog to see all the great creations. There are so many fabulous gift ideas and the videos make it so easy to follow along and create something amazing with Taylored Expressions.


The TE Sketch crew is looking forward to your visit. You are sure to finds lots of inspiration and be sure to leave them some love.
Alice Wertz
Jami Sibley
Lisa Hjulberg
Lori Craig
Melissa Sauls
Monika Davis
Sherrie Siemens
Rosie Hughes
and Taylor!!!!

Thanks for visiting and Happy Stamping!

TE Blast from the Past Blog Hop!

Hola Amigas! Happy Friday! Looking forward to the weekend and so happy to get it started with the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop! The challenge for today's hop was to create Christmas / Holiday card, so I had to use my favorite Snowman Cuppie. This cutie is from the wonderful Home Sweet Home set. So you know I am a big Cuppie fan, but did you know I am also a big Bakerella fan too. She also loves Cuppie, so I took him along with me to her book signing event. I was so thrilled to see our pic here. Cuppie looks great! Cuppie is so fun and just the perfect sweet image for your Christmas / Holiday cards. I used some colorful Echo Paper patterned paper and added some sparkle with snowflakes covered with Stardust Stickles and glitter buttons! Bling! Bling! I know you can't wait to see the rest of the amazing hoppers. Be sure to leave them some love.

Thanks for visiting and have a splendid day!

Here are the entries from the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop! Stay tuned for details on how you can sign up for the customer blog hop next month!

1.	Taylor VanBruggen	19.	Jennifer Cuthbertson
2.	LeAnn Jolliff	20.	Jessica Willison
3.	Pattie Goldman	21.	Lea Lawson
4.	Regina Mangum	22.	Jennifer Meyer
5.	Julia Aston	23.	Michelle Single
6.	Tracy Clemente	24.	Chris Loritsch
7.	Sankari Wegman	25.	Joan Ervin
8.	Tori Wild	26.	Lynn Put
9.	Carole Chesser	27.	Carolina Buchting
10.	Monika Davis	28.	Melody Rupple
11.	Natalie Houston	29.	Jodi Collins
12.	Banu Honnavara	30.	Rosie Hughes
13.	Cassie Trask	31.	Tangii Crain
14.	Rachel Sztonyk	32.	Melissa Sauls
15.	Lisa Hjulberg	33.	Bronwyn Velazquez
16.	Karen Motz	34.	Charmaine Ikach
17.	Amanda Kowalker	35.	Lesa Smaligo
18.	Laura Jean Nygaard

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TESC131 - Let's "Hang Out"

Hi Friends! Sorry I am playing along with this week's Taylored Expressions Challenge 131 so late. I caught a cold and it's honestly taken me 3 days to finish this card. I couldn't work on it more than a few minutes at a time, so I kept working on it bit by bit. I am so happy I got to finish it. I used the spooky and sweet Cling Hang Out Spider set by Stampendous along with some of my favorite Halloween patterned paper by Bo Bunny. I started off by paper piecing the background of the spider image by stamping the image onto some green patterned paper. I stamped the image 2 more times on white cardstock. The first stamped image was used to color the spider and candy corn. The second stamped image was used as my main image layer. I layered the green cut out of patterned paper and then added the colored/ cut spider and candy corn with 3D foam tape. I hope you like it and can play along with this week's sketch. Just a reminder there is another fabulous Blast from the Past blog hop coming up on October 22nd. If you would like to join in on the fun just click on the badge on my sidebar for all the details.

Be sure to stop by and visit my Sketch Crew buddies and see their creative takes on this week's sketch:
Alice Wertz
Lisa Hjulberg
Monika Davis
Sherrie Siemens
Rosie Hughes
and Taylor!!!!

Thanks for visiting and Happy Stamping!

Just A Blog Hop!

Welcome to Just A Blog Hop! We were invited to put aside all of our stamping oriented obligations and deadlines and create something just for fun. The hop guidelines were simple: choose a challenge to play and choose either a new uninked stamp or an old favorite, create a card and mail it to someone. What could be better to celebrate World Card Making Day? If you arrived here from the blog of the fabulous Rosie Hughes then you are on the right track. I you would like to start from the beginning then hop on over to Jami Sibley's amazing blog. I chose to play with along with the fun ESS Sketchy Thursday 102 using this wonderful new stamp set from Waltzing Mouse called Bountiful Baskets Additions. I am so happy it's October. I love the Fall and I love shopping for pumpkins to decorate the house. I love the sentiment... Let us give thanks. I am so thankful I have been blessed with so many wonderful friends and this one is going out to one of them. I hope you spend your World Card Making Day just having some fun with all your favorite stamps. I know I will! The Just A Blog Hop fun continues onto the blog of the super talented Sankari Wegman. Be sure to get your stamps out and just have FUN!!!

Thanks for visiting and Happy World Cardmaking Day!!!!!!!!!!

TESC130 - HOPE

Happy October! Today's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge card was made in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. I have family and friends who have survived breast cancer. I am very grateful to have these amazing ladies in my life. They are truly inspiring. My card features the Stampendous - Ribbon Hope Perfectly Clear Stamp Set. I started by creating my fan fold flower following this SCS tutorial. I then stamped the ribbon image onto Bo Bunny Double Dot patterned paper, cut out the image and added it to the center of my flower. I created my layers using my favorite My Mind's Eye patterned paper and stamped the HOPE sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I hope you enjoy playing with this week's sketch. It was designed by our very own Rosie Hughes. We all hope you can take some time out to play along with us. We look forward to seeing your creations and Taylor will be looking for her Top Crops too. Be sure to visit Taylor on Monday as Taylored Expressions will begin their Sneak Peeks for their October release. I can't wait to see what will be coming out!


Please be sure to visit my TESC Sketch crew friends for their fabulous take on this week's sketch:
Alice Wertz
Jami Sibley
Lisa Hjulberg
Lori Craig
Melissa Sauls
Monika Davis
Sherrie Siemens
Rosie Hughes
and Taylor!!!!

Have a wonderful Friday and Thanks for visiting!

Happy Birthday Sweet Thing!

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? I had a fabulous Sunday with my hubby at Disneyland. It was a beautiful day, but so HOT! I think that's why the park wasn't too crowded. We stayed as long as we could take the heat and came home to relax. After my nice little nap I got to spend some time stamping a birthday card using the Sweet Thing stamp by Penny Black. I have had this stamp for awhile and was so happy I finally got to use it. Last weekend I got together with a group of friends for some stamping and dinner. Jami had the great idea for us to choose a stamp from the one of the ones we brought and all of us make a card using the same image. We all agreed this sweet image was the one. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic Markers. I paper pieced the cupcake wrapper with Kraft cardstock and the icing with Bo Bunny double dot paper. I used a white gel pen to add dots to her dress and added lots of Stardust Stickles for sparkle. Be sure to stop by and visit Jami, Lisa, and Jen and show them some love for their wonderful creations.

Thanks for visiting and Have a Sweet Monday!


Rachel's Recipe:
Stamps: Sweet Thing (Penny Black) and Essential Messages (Hero Arts)
Paper: White CS (Neenah), Kraft CS (Bazzill) and Patterned Paper (My Mind's Eye & Bo Bunny)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black and Copic Markers
Accessories: Circle & Scallop Circle Nesties (Spellbinders), Ribbon (American Crafts), Piercing Tool (Making Memories), Button (Autumn Leaves), Twine (Divine Twine), 3D Foam Tape (Best Creation) and Stardust Stickles

STMC25 - Bake up some special memories

Hi Friends! Welcome to the weekend and a Stampendous Saturday Sketch Challenge! It’s my turn this week to provide all you challenge seekers this week’s sketch. Check it out below… I got all fancy and added a bow. LOL! My sketch card stars the brand new Stampendous cling rubber set – Cookie Memories. The sweet girl image reminds me so much of my niece. I imagine one day soon when she is older we will be baking up a storm for the holidays. I must say it was those darling gingerbread cookies that truly captured my heart. I stamped out the image on white cardstock with Memento ink and colored it in with Copic Markers. I also stamped the image on top of the pink patterned paper and popped up the colored image over it at the very end. I hope you like it! I LOVE this set! We would love to see your creations using this sketch. So come on and play along with us and your entry could win you a fabulous prize from Stampendous. You can view the complete challenge details here. Just leave a comment on the Stampendous blog post for STMC25 along with a link to your creation. If you’re a Stampendous fan like me come on over and join the Stampendous Flickr Group. I hope to see you there!!!

Be sure to visit these amazing and creative ladies for their fabulous sketch creations:
Wendy
Pam
Cyndi

Thanks for visiting and Have a Stampendous Saturday!


Rachel's Recipe:
Stamps: Cling Cookie Memories and Hearts from Changito Valentines (Stampendous)
Paper: White CS (Neenah), Brown, Kraft and Dotted Red CS (Bazzill) and Patterned Paper (Bo Bunny)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers and VersaMagic - Red Magic
Accessories: Polka Dots Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Ribbon (Bo Bunny), Button (Autumn Leaves). Twine (Divine Twine), 3D Foam Tape (Best Creation), White Gel Pen and Oval & Scallop Oval Nesties (Spellbinders)

TESC129 - Thanks for always being by my side

It’s Friday! I LOVE Fridays! Fridays mean casual dress day at work, start of the weekend and the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge. All great things!!! For this week’s TE Sketch Challenge 129. I used the sweet Cuppie Love Scenes set by TE. I made this card for my darling hubby. He is ALWAYS by my side. He is my rock and he can always make me smile. We have so much fun together and just when I think he can get any sweeter… he does! God has truly blessed me with this wonderful man. Ok enough mushy stuff and onto what you really want to know… the deets on the card. LOL! Well I was so jealous of all the gorgeous Pixie-Licious patterned paper everyone was using during the TE Birthday bash. I just knew I had to have this paper and exactly which pattern would be perfect for the couch. I paper pieced the couch and added the Cuppies by coloring & cutting them out on a separate piece of white cardstock. I also popped them up with some 3D foam tape for dimension. I used my handy dandy Copics for all the coloring and some Stardust stickles to make the hearts sparkle. Hope you enjoyed today’s card and will play along with us. Taylored Expressions will also be having another Blast from the Past blog hop on October 22^nd. We would love to see all your TE creations. You can get the details by clicking on the Blog Hop badge on my sidebar.

Are you ready for more? Visit my amazing TESC Sketch Crew buddies for all of their marvelous creations:Alice Wertz
Jami Sibley
Lisa Hjulberg
Lori Craig
Melissa Sauls
Monika Davis
Sherrie Siemens
Rosie Hughes
and Taylor!!!!

Happy Friday and Thanks for visiting!!!

ESS100 - Worship the King

Mornin' Friends! I'm dropping in with a quick post today. I am playing along with Tracy's 100th ESS Sketch Challenge. Congrats Tracy! I am using one of the brand new Christmas sets from Stampendous called Nativity Cast. It's a wonderful set full of several darling images. This one is one of my favs. I added some multi ultra fine crystal glitter to make the star really shine. Hope you get to chance to play along with Tracy's sketch. Today is the last day to enter. Have a great day everyone and I will see you Friday!

Thanks for visiting!

Happy Birthday Sweet Friend!

Hi Friends! I am always running late on birthday cards, but today I got it right. I want to wish my sweet friend Patricia a very Happy Birthday today! She is an amazing friend with a big heart. She is simply wonderful and I am so proud to call her my friend. I made this card using some of my favorite Wild Rose stamps by A Muse. They are so pretty! I also love making tent topper cards. They come together so easily and are fun to make. I first stamped the Wild Rose Branch stamp with Tea Leaves ink (VersaMagic). I then inked up the Wild Rose stamped images with Spring Pansy ink (VersaMagic) and then rocked the edges with Purple Hydrangea ink (VersaMagic). Very easy and I love the soft look of chalk inks. I added some sparkle with Multi Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter. Hope you have a fabulous birthday, Patricia! I hope all of you have a fabulous Sunday!

Thanks for visiting and join me tomorrow for more from Stampendous!


Rachie's Recipe:
Stamps: Wild Rose, Wild Rose Branch and Happy Birthday Sentiment (A Muse)
Paper: White CS (Neenah), Ripe Avocado & Kraft CS (PTI) and Patterned Paper (Bo Bunny)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black and Versa Magic - Spring Peony, Purple Hydrangea and Tea Leaves
Accessories: Circle and Scallop Circle Nesties (Spellbinders), Multi Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter (Stampendous), Pearls (Kaiser), Punch (SU!) and 3D foam tape (Best Creation)