Another Fabulous Year of Being AWESOME!

Just a reminder... I need your votes for the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking World Card Making Day Contest Honorable Mention! My card is the floral birthday card! Thank you so much to those who have already voted! You guys ROCK!!!

Today I am sharing a simple, but totally fun card. Date stamps. Somehow I feel like many of us end up with them somehow and then we tend to forget to use them. Or not have any clue HOW to effectively use them. I was definitely in this group, anyway. I received this super cute date stamp from the Shimelle Collection. It's adorable. Seriously. BUT, seeing as I don't scrapbook very often, AND, even when I did, I generally didn't use date stamps, I wasn't sure what to do with it. So, naturally, I took it out of the package and stared at it. Because that always works. HA!

And then I remembered THIS awesome sentiment from Altenew. Yup. Combined with my date stamp, we had LIFT OFF! I changed the dates, including the year, on the date stamp with each use to get all kinds of dates on my card. They go backwards, they go forwards, they basically go all over the place! And that works SO AWESOMELY WELL with the sentiment and I LOVE that. (And yes, awesomely is a word... spell check told me so. No...for reals, though..I was kind of surprised by that, so I thought I should share. Awesomely. It's a word.)

So, in conclusion...

• Date stamps are actually kind of awesome.
• Awesomely is totally a word.
• You actually CAN, awesomely, get ideas by staring at supplies you have no clue how to use.

Don't forget to vote. Awesomely. For reals, though.

The end.

Have a Happy!

I Need Your Votes!

Friends, this card won one of five Honorable Mention spots in the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking World Card Making Day contest, but I need your votes to win the prize! One of the five gets the prize package! Please go HERE to vote! I'd love your vote if you love my card! Thanks for being AWESOME!!!!

Have a Happy!

Pinkfresh Studio Guest (Challenge w/ Giveaway)

I am SUPER excited to be guest designing for Pinkfresh Studio! Pinkfresh has some super unique and really on trend embellishments, great stamps, and some super fun kits, too! Here is one of the cards I created for my guest spot. Be sure to head on over to their blog to see the rest of the cards I created using awesome Pinkfresh goodies!



Also... in celebration of World Card Making Day, Pinkfresh has a fun challenge up! If you create a card inspired by one of my cards (on their blog) and link it up you could win a $25 Gift Certificate! WHAT?! That's AWESOME! I can't WAIT to see what you guys create and link up!!!

Have a Happy!

I am a Leading Lady!

Happy World Card Making Day, folks!!! I have some VERY exciting news to share with you today! I am the Leading Lady over at Winnie & Walter for the month of October!!! I could not be more thrilled! I absolutely LOVE Winnie & Walter stamps, cut files, and, well, just about everything they make! LOVE! And Julie and Shay are pretty spectacular, too, so it's just a total package kind of deal, folks. Total. Package.

For my first week I wanted to have some fun with some of my FAVORITE Winnie & Walter stamps, so I decided on WORD UP! theme for this week. Yup. It's all about the words for this one, folks!



For my first card, I used words as my absolute focal point. This one is ALL about the words. I stamped Happy from The Big, The Bold, and The Happy three times in different colors and then added the Hello, taking it off to the other edge to draw the eye to it. I love how words are the star of the show for this fun card!



Another great thing about the word stamps from Winnie & Walter is that you can totally use them in the background, as well. For this fall card I stamped the word 'autumn' in the background repeatedly in a very pale ink to add visual interest and texture to the design. I then stamped my tree and the sentiment right on top! I love how the background adds so much to this card.



For my final card, I actually didn't use any stamps at all?! WHAT?! I know, right? I cut the 'thanks' using the The Big, The Bold, and You cut files and used the negative as a stencil to trace my sentiment onto the card. I then used one of the BRAND NEW stencils from Winnie & Walter to add some bold, black embossing paste stripes across my card panel. I am LOVING these stencils!!! This card shows how words can be used in, perhaps the most traditional method, as a fabulous, standout sentiment!

And there you go, my friends! I hope you have enjoyed our little Word Play today! Go grab some of your The Big, The Bold stamp sets and make some magic happen!!!

Shay and Julie have GENEROUSLY provided a $30 Gift Card to one of my readers! To enter, simply comment on my Leading Lady posts here on the blog throughout this month. I will be choosing a winner at the end of the month from ALL of my Leading Lady posts, so you have a few chances to enter!

Have a Happy!

P.S. Winnie and Walter are also having some FABULOUSLY fun things going on for World Card Making Day, so be sure to check them out today!!!

What Does The Fox Say?

So, Paper Crafts Magazine recently had it's World Card Making Day contest and the winners have been announced.  Unfortunately, none of them were me.  HA! (No, but seriously, I'm TOTALLY cool with that.)  BUT... I really loved the few cards that I had sent in for that super fun contest, so I am going to share my cards with you guys!  YAY!!!  Today I am showing you the card I submitted to the 'Love' category.  Admittedly, it doesn't SCREAM love, but I HAD to do it, so it happened.  LOL!



I used some great heart dies from WPlus9 to cut the white and orange pieces for the face.  SO FUN!!!  The alphabet stamps are from The Stamps of Life.  I punched simple circles with a hole punch for the eyes and then just cut a super thin strip with my paper trimmer for the whiskers and trimmed them to size.  I added just a touch of texture with an embossing folder and I SOOO HEART HIM!!!!!  For reals.  Love.



The inside of the card is finished, as well, with the answer to the question, of course!  I used a great speech bubble die from Simon Says Stamp and the Handwritten sentiments set from Avery Elle.  This card just makes me smile.  #thatisall

#thatsnotreallyall  First of all... one really shouldn't write with hashtags.  Seriously.  Who WRITES this blog, anyway?!  Secondly, I hope you like my little card.  Even if it did stick that song in your head for the rest of the day.  HA!

Have a Happy!

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World Card Making Day Giveaway! ***CLOSED***

***This is my second post of the day...be sure to check out the Stampendous!/May Arts blog hop below!***

Well, it's time to CELEBRATE!!!!  It's World Card Making Day and we are all over this!  I decided that WCMD is pretty much the PERFECT reason to have a giveaway, so...here you go!  Included are items from Stampendous!, May Arts, Eyelet Outlet, PSA Essentials, Skipping Stones Design, Inkadinkadoo, Making Memories, and Clearsnap!  CHECK IT!!!



To enter, leave a comment below telling me how YOU are celebrating World Card Making Day!  If you are a follower of my blog leave an ADDITIONAL comment for an extra entry!  If you 'LIKE' my Facebook Page, leave an ADDITIONAL comment for a third entry!  (You can like over in the sidebar if you don't already!  :))

Also, I'm working toward 900 'likes' on my Facebook page and once we hit that one new liker will win a set of stamps and some ribbon as will whomever referred them, so SEND YOUR FRIENDS!!!!

Happy World Card Making day, folks!

Jingle Out!

World Card Making Day Stampendous! and May Arts goodness!

Woot! Woot!!! It's World Card Making Day and that is AWESOMENESS!!!!! I love WCMD. Just sayin'. I plan to spend it making STUFF! How about you?

Well, Stampendous! and May Arts Blog Week just so happens to be coming to an end on this fabulous day, so I am excited to share with you a fun Halloween card using the super cute Halloween Magic image from Stampendous!  (Oh...and be sure to check the sponsor blogs for prizes!)


I created a textured background for this using the Aged Black and Aged Gold Embossing Enamels. The May Arts spider web ribbon and black burlap string add a wonderful, holiday feel to the card! I colored the image with PrismaColor pencils. The sentiment is an SRM sticker! LOVE THOSE!

I won't keep you long, as I know there is LOTS of hopping to do today with all of the WCMD festivities going on! Here are the links to the rest of the folks participating in today's Stampendous!/May Arts hop! Have fun!!!  There are PRIZES to be won!!!!!

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Jennifer Ingle (You are Here!)

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Pam Hornschu

Stephanie Lee

Suzanne Czosek

Taylor Usry

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

May Arts Blog

Happy World Card Making Day, folks!!!!

Jingle Out!