You Bug Me!

Dragonfly ATC

I signed up for a swap over on the Stamp Shack entitled "You Bug Me". As most of you might know my favorite bug is the dragonfly. I commonly am picking up dragonfly stamps when I see them.

This dragonfly stamp is from Garden Joy in TAC's Serendipity. It's gotta be the smallest stamp in the set but it was the biggest draw to that set for me!

I randomly stamped the dragonfly all over the white cardstock and then colored the wings with a clear Stardust Glitter pen. It shimmers tremendously in real life.

I colored the dragonfly word with my copics and then mounted the entire thing on black cardstock. Love it ... as this ATC screams me! Not a lot to it, but simple and sweet.

Surprise Boxes are BACK and Better than Ever!


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Babies and Buttons

Cute as a Button

I am making a bunch of "baby" thank yous for a lady at work that is due in about 1 month.

This card uses the Special Delivery set from the Spring Magalogue. I just love this whimsy baby set. The other thing that I like doing with baby cards is using buttons ... not sure what it is but buttons are terrific on baby cards. They are "cute as a button". I colored this image with my Copics and then used my circle and scallop circle punches to punch them out.

New Product!


I was in Michael's the other day with a 50% off coupon not really needing anything but just looking around ... then I spotted the new Martha Stewart Around the Page Punches! OMG! These are awesome!


These will definitely add a little interest to your cards and/or scrapbook pages.


There are 4 designs : Loopy Loops, Spider Web, Leaves, and Snowflakes.


I bought the Spider Web and then went back today with my 40% off coupon and bought the Loopy Loops .... I love them both!!!


I am a little anal when it comes to punching things just right. With that, I made myself a cheat sheet on the sizes in which you can punch. Mine are all sized for cards but you can punch up to a 12" x 12" piece of paper.

Here are my cheat sheets ... feel free to print and use if you wind up getting these ... I did the all of the math for you!

Spider Web

Loopy Loops

Here is a YouTube video on how to use these punches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p1p5yV2NpI

Now that I have made these cheat sheets I'm anxious to do a project with them!!! Stay Tuned .............

This is the cover of the issue that I am in!

my card on page 22

my card on page 24

my card on page 27

August Stamp of the Month


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August Vintage Set


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Oh Nuts!

Nuts about You

I made this card for a contest over on Beth Norman's blog - Sunflowers and Dragonflies. We were supposed to create a card using her sketch.

These stamps are adorable and are from TAC's Stamp of the Month for August called So Squirrely. I stamped all of the images and senitments on a kraft cardstock, matting that on brown. I colored all of the images with my Copics. For the acorns in the bottom right, I cut those out and pop dotted them. I thought that the patterned paper that I used looked a lot like wood grain and went just perfectly on this project.

For more information on the August stamp of the month see below.

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I had a BIG birthday!!!

Handmade Birthday cards

Thought I'd share with you the handmade birthday cards that I mostly got from my Shackie firends! Got lots of others too (but these are the special and handmade ones!!)

To celebrate my big day I got together with my BFF Kim. we went to Madison and we laughed, we gabbed, we ate, and we shopped! It was the best! Thanks Kim!

Here is a pictorial of our day: Click Here

My big purchase for the day (with my Michaels 50% off coupon)... the i-top ... have you seen this thing yet??? ... oh the possibilities ... I can't wait to try it out!!! I'll post my review and creations soon!

See some videos on how to use it HERE!

Another Thank You

Thank Ewe!

Here is another Thank You that I made for co-worker.

This one utilizes the Hoppity Skippity set from the magalogue. I stamped the ewe and then masked him while drawing in a black line for the ground/sky separator. I then sponged the blue sky, green grass, and yellow sun. The sentiment is from the same set and was stamped in black. I then added 3 black rhinestones to the bottom. To finish it off I applied glue to the ewe and fun flocked him in white. Then it was matted on black.

This was one of my co-workers favorites only because she thought it was so neat that he was fuzzy. Isn't it fun to make the easiest card for someone and have them love it sooo much!

Still have a few more "Thank Yous" .... Stay Tuned!

Thank Yous

Thanks so much!

I recently made 12 thank you cards for a co-worker of mine. I made 6 sets of 2. This was one of the sets.

It uses the flowers from the Spring Flowers stamp set. They are colored with copics. The sentiment is from the new level C hostess set and then a stamped a pair of leaves on there with them. I used a nice floral paper by American Crafts and added some Grosgrain ribbon tags/flags. I matted the whole card with a matching green cardstock. I rounded the ends of the white strip with corner rounders.

More thank yous to come .... my co-worker loved them and I hope you do as well.

Baby ATC

Special Delivery

I made this ATC for a swap that I was in over at the Stamp Shack. It was for baby ATCs and how could I resist using the new Special Delivery set by Mabelle over at TAC. I colored it with colored pencils and OMS. I cut slits next to the storks body and threaded the ribbon through .. I love that look .. gives it lots of dimension!

4th of July Blog Hop

Happy 4th!
Today as a special treat, I invite you to hop around the Internet on Scrapbook News and Review's "Oh Say Can You See" blog hop.

I'm so glad you could join the SNR Card Universe Blog Hop! If you came from Shelly Skala's blog (http://jaspere-jaspereslittlecorner.blogspot.com/) you are on the right track! If you didn't you may want to hop to (link to the SNR Card Universe:http://snrcardiverse.ning.com/and start at the beginning.

Here is my entry:

Time for a Parade

Don't you love taking images and conforming them to the holiday by coloring them in the color for that holiday???

This stamp is from the BRAND NEW set from the Angel Company called Hear the Angels. It was just released last week! I got a sneak peek at this set at Seminar and they allowed us to stamp some images.

I colored her in red and blue with my copics for the 4th of July! She looks like she is ready for a parade! The sentiment is made up of 3 other stamp sets. Don't you love combining your stamps to make a masterpiece!!!

The images were matted on red and then placed on a blue cardstock base. I then added a touch of red with another strip on the bottom.

July Stamp of the Month

July Vintage Set