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!

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!!!!!!!!!!