WINNER!!!

And, the winner is Peggy S. WOOHOO!


She guessed it at 72 items!
Peggy, email me pdhooten@sbcglobal.net your snail mail address and I'll get your blog blooms right out to you!

My Clip It Up will hold a whole lot more than 72 items, I haven't filled it up yet. There is a total of 120 clips for the top and bottom tier's, as some of you found out *grin* and you can order extra clips!!

Thank you everyone for playing it was fun, I'll being doing more blog blooms soon!!

Have a good night!

halloween door hanger candy pouch

REMINDER - Don't forget to go to my blog blooms and make a guess, I'm announcing the winner tomorrow evening!!


I got my Crafty Secrets goodies and I was in heaven going through it. I love love love those vintage stamps. The detail is amazing and the stamps are true vintage, I LOVE this company!!

I saw the directions for a door hanger similar to this in the book Braditude by Karen Foster Designs. I thought it would make cute gifts for friends, coworkers and the special little ones for Halloween!

I used the Earthy Paper Pad & Halloween Time Cuts from Crafty Secrets. You can get these from Crafty Secrets or Anna's store. I used some of Martha Stewart's yummy Carnelian Glitter on the kitten's hat, vintage buttons, black & white gingham ribbon colored with a Copic, thanks for the tip Trudee, and rick rack.


Look at what I have it hanging on. It's an OLD oven door off of my grandmother's wood cook stove that she used back in the day, neat, huh?

I thought the pleat in the pouch was really cute and it does make room for more candy, mmmmmmmmm!


Have a great day!

blog blooms aka candy & clip it up

I've been meaning to give away some blog candy but I haven't taken the time to do it. Well, now is the time! I was trying to come up with a name for my candy give aways. I came up with blog blooms from Iris Garden, catchy, huh? OK - I'm a dork . Anyway, below is a pic of the blog blooms.

There are 3 mini acrylic stamp sets by Stampendous. 1 Spooky stamp set from Michaels. Baby Cakes Anchorettes & Sprinkles by Queen & Co. 1 Keepsake Wallet Album by EK Success. 1 bag of Mini Me flowers by Prima.

OK, this is all you have to do, see the picture of my Clip It Up I got from Joy and Daisy at Eclectic Paperie?
Just guess how many packages I have clipped up! That's it, just respond to this post with your name, where you are from and number of packages (if there are more than 1 of the same number guessed, I will use the first person who choose that number, if no one guesses the right number, I will use the one who comes closest). I will name the winner Wednesday evening, WOOHOO!!!

I had so much fun digging out all my stuff and clipping it up. Now I can see and use my goodies more! As you can see it holds a ton of stuff from stamps to bellies to ribbon, anything that you can put a clip on. I think I need another one, how sad is that? grin

I've been playing with some Crafty Secrets goodies this weekend YIPPEEEEEE, I'll upload those soon!

Genevieve & a give away!

While I'm waiting on my Crafty Secrets goods, I thought I'd share the card I made for my friend Bethie and baby Genevieve. I thought the paper by Making Memories was perfect for a new baby, it has the cutest words on it. I used the SU! set Priceless and matching Classy Brass template for the embossed flowers on the peach cardstock and the butterfly trail paper piercing.

Oh! You need to go check out Vicki Chrisman's blog, she's having a SUPER give away.....it's a ScrapMuse kit full of yummy goodies to play with!! You never know, you may just win, how FUN would that be?!!

I've been wanting to do the blog candy thing, I just need to take the time to do it!

Stay tuned Ü

I'm bouncin'!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!
I have been asked to join the Crafty Secrets Design Team!
Ohhhhh, I LOVE Crafty Secrets products and their GORGEOUS
vintage stamp sets! It will be so fun working with the ladies on the Design Team, they ROCK!

I'm itchin' to get started :)

make a wish

My friend Lana had a couple of challenges going for us
last weekend. I did the layout & bright colors.

Isn't that little chick cute? She's one of the Stampendous Calendar chicks, I got her in an image swap at the retreat. Joy and Daisy carry Stampendous stamps at Eclectic Paperie . I got a chick in my order yesterday, I hope to make a card with it soon!

The flower in the top left corner is a velvet flower by Maya Road, the center is a flat marble type thing I got in the bead dept. at Wal-Mart. They come several to a bag. I just glued it on. The yummy ribbon is by May Arts from StarLit Studio, it's bright pink organdy with black dots.

Supplies:
SU! Only Orange, Pixie Pink, Whisper White & Basic Black cardstock, Only Orange & Pixie Pink Classic ink, Paisley, sentiment from the Big Bold Birthday set, Dimensionals, Corner punch with the guide removed for the scalloped edges. Ranger Archival black ink and Copic markers. I can't remember the name of the paper, I'm sure some of you know what it is.

Oh, oh, oh, speaking of my order I got yesterday from Electic Paperie, I got 4 bottles of Glimmer Mist too! Mmmmm, the bottles are so pretty lined up with the pretty colors of glimmer inside,
I almost hate to use it, I said almost :)

Kewpie's & Take Ten

Aren't these Kewpie's just the sweetest?! I had so
much fun coloring them. Notice my Kewpie's have hair, I just couldn't leave them bald. On the butterfly Kewpie card I divided the sentiment because it was to long to fit where I wanted it. The outside says "Dear to me near to me all the way thru..." inside it says "special original wonderful you".

Supplies:
SU! cardstock - Whisper White & Basic Black.
Crafty Secrets Radiant paper pad from Sassy & Sweet Crafts, Crafty Secrets Kewpie's & Card Sentiments stamps, Cuttlebug Bow Frame embossing folder, Tape Writer Kit & Copic markers from Eclectic Paperie. May Arts ribbon, black brads & Quickie glue pen from StarLitStudio. Maya Road Velvet Blossoms. Martha Stewart White Gold Glitter. Giga scallop square & 2 1/2 square punches by Marvy Utica.

This is the inside of the Kewpie & bunny card. I used the Tape Writer Kit from Joy & Daisy at Eclectic Paperie. It's so cool, it comes with the pink tape and 2 wheels, one for upper case and one for lower case. You can get tape refills in pretty colors too. If you can't read it, it says "some bunny loves you".

When I got home from the retreat I was tickled to see my comp copy of the fall issue of Take Ten! There is a 3 page article on my big clip bookmarks. You can go to the Stampington website here, (click on Publications, click on Take Ten) and see the first 2 pages on there, just scroll down.

What a great day we had. We went to Conway to see the babies :) Jasmine got her little ears pierced, so cute! Crystal said she did real good through it. She has quite the temper now, it's really funny to watch, I couldn't help but laugh. Jayde got her long hair cut, she looks so cute with her new style. She started kindergarten this year, she's growing up on us!
I went to Hobby Lobby and got some boxes for my non-SU! stamps, some paper and a few stamps, of course!

This is the last who-rah for the summer, the lake is jam packed. I have been feeling fall in the air the last couple of mornings, cold weather is around the corner, ugh. I hope y'all have a great Labor Day weekend, be safe!

Retreat!!

I know I've been missing in action, seems I can't get caught up!

I have been to a FUN retreat with many of my best friends, I just wish all of them could have been there this year! It was last Thursday thru Sunday. Mine started a couple of days early because of travel time, but, I got to stay with Tex and I got meet Jessica Witty, Tex's daughter and Sharon Harnist, what a surprise that was! Sharon and I joined the DD together at the same time on SCS.

Then we went to stay with Zappy at the crack house and my Joyful one was with us too, what an amazing time!

When Pine posted the list of those of us going she put a winking smiley face in instead of my name. I was the secret winker. It was so much fun watching the girls guess who the winker was, most of them were really surprised! We all had a blast doing the classes, stamping, laughing, eating and crying. There are not words to express how I feel about this group of talented women, we all truly care for each other and we always will!

Thank you Piney for putting the retreat together and thanks to HB and Maria too for the yummy food! Oh, Stevie and Suze thank you too!

I miss y'all so much!

See ya tamarrah Lana, after I get my worshing done ;)

Big Bold Birthday in polkadots

This is the new Big Bold Birthday set by Stampin' Up! I love the big cupcake image. The circle tag is a new set too, Think Happy Thoughts, it's a level 1 hostess set. Oh, and the paper is new, it's the Designer Series Paper - Cerise, all red and vanilla designs.

I stamped the vanilla card base with the SU! Canvas stamp and Real Red classic ink. Then I stamped the little flower from Big Bold Birthday over that. I stamped the cupcake bottom on vanilla card stock, then I stamped icing on the back side of the patterned paper, cut it out and adhered it to the cupcake. I made some lines around the image with my Real Red marker. I snipped off a corner of a scalloped punched square, added red Stickles and adhered it to the corner. The side scallop was made with my corner punch with the guide removed. I stamped the circle tag with Think Happy Thoughts on vanilla, adhered it to a Real Red punched circle and added some red Stickles around the edge. There is a vanilla button in the center with a sliver of RR card stock through the button holes. I added the red and white polkadot ribbon from StarLitStudio and popped up the tag with Dimensionals.


I hope y'all have a super Sunday!
As for me, I'll be staying in the house most of the day, baby, IT'S HOT outside! It's supposed be around 103 again today, and no rain, we are so dry around here, ugh.

ATC clock

I got the clock at Target in the $1 spot, it was a $2.50 item. I thought I would alter it and use it in my stamp room for cards. I decided full size cards were to big and the ATC's would be perfect! I used my Creative Memories cutting system to cut the cardstock for the clock face. I stamped it, and then I punched a circle from scrap cardstock to fit around the clock center and used it as a template, I traced it on the flower center. Then, I cut a slit from the edge of the stamped clock face to the traced circle and cut it out. I slipped the stamped piece on the clock and adhered it with E6000. I adhered the pink crystals and that was it!





Supplies: SU! Stamps - Polka-Dot Posies, little flower from Big Bold Birthday, Classic Alpha Numbers, Linen. Cardstock - Confetti Cream. Ink - Close To Cocoa, Regal Rose, Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip. Acces. - pink crystals, E6000, 5/8" punch.


I hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by!