Grocery Store shelves in a college town

Think it would be nice to have a college in your town?  The best months are June-August.  The worst week is the week before school starts!  Here is a photo of what the shelves look like:

This was published for one of my daughters who took the pic at the Walmart near her house!

Papertrey Ink August Blog Hop

Today Papertrey Ink's monthly challenge is about autumn textiles.  Here is one of Nicole's inspirational pictures.  You can go to her blog here and see all her photos.

Here is my card:

 

I used some Core'dnations Kraft Core paper and Papertrey Ink paper called Autumn Abundance and the stamps are from Pretty Peonies and Mat Stack 1.  The die cut burlap is a Mat Stack die - I used the material technique that Melissa taught us on the Make It Monday this week.

Thanks for looking at y card -- Have a HAPPY stamping day.

Stamp TV Blog Hop for August

If you have come from Geri's blog you are right on target.  If not, you might want to start here at Stamp TV Blog Hop, in order not to miss any of the projects that the Alumni Design Team have prepared.  For this hop Gina K is offering a Grab Bag of Gina K stamps!  All you have to do is comment on each one of the Designer's projects.  Then on Tuesday Gina will pick a random winner from the comments!

This month Carolina has asked Geri to give us a little inspiration.  Here is the photo that Geri provided for us:

Does this put you in the fall mood or what?! 

Here is my card:

I used the stamp set, "Hello Sunshine" and the sentiment is from "So Grateful".  I stamped the larger flower in Memento Cantaloupe, the middle size in Memento Potter's Clay and the tiny center is actually a snowflake from "The Magic of Christmas" stamped in a green ink.  I then added a few little dots with a Copic marker.  For cardstock I used the colors, Ivory and Crandberry Tart.

Now hop along to Kay's blog's and you will just adore her card.

Thank you for looking at my card - and don't forget to leave your comments - so your name can be entered into the drawing for the fabulous collection of GKD stamps.

Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge

Each Monday Papertrey Ink has a "Make It Monday" challenge.  This week Melissa Phillips showed us how to use our dies on material.  Take a look at her video here.

Here is my card:

I used the dies from Beautiful Blooms#3 and the "thank you" sentiment is from "Think Big Favorites #15".

Thank you for looking at my card. Have a HAPPY stamping day

Sketch Day at Repeat Impressions

It's Monday and sketch day at Repeat Impressions.  I am so ready for fall!  I hung a fall wreath on my door already, hoping the weather would take a hint and get a little cooler!  HA - FAT CHANCE  in Texas.

Today Wendy gave us this sketch to follow:

I love this stamp set  and in my anticipation of fall wanted to use it.  The stamp set is called Autumn and is one of Wendy's Flip Sets.  Which consist of 4 different images and a sentiment.  For my card I use only one of the images and the sentiment.  Here is my card:

The small leaves were punched out of glitter paper and I used a few copic markers to color the trees.  Here is the list of Design Team members who made cards to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 

Now it's your turn, make a project following Wendy's sketch  and link it on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built and you could be the randomly chosen winner of a nice gift certificate from Repeat Impressions. 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Stamps of Life #1

I have a "pre" New Year's Resolution! I want to post a card made from Stephanie Bernard's The Stamps of Life, once a week -- eeekkkk maybe I should have done once a month -- Let's see how long I can keep it up!  Here are two cards:

I needed 3 birthday cards this month and this will be the first one.  It uses Happy2beCircles and .  This set is a big one with more than 25 images and sentiments.  This was one of the first sets I bought because it is not specific to any certain day.  The "Happy Birthday" came from the set Birthday2Celebrate.

My next card is a masculine birthday:

 

 It uses the set called Birthday2celebrate.

Thanks for looking at my cards -- I'll see you next week with another card from Stamps of Life.

Repeat Impressions Designers Choice Challenge

Today Karen, one of the Design Team members from Repeat Impressions challenged us to make a card using scoring!  I used my Scor-pal and came up with this card:

I used some Core-dinations paper and a felt flower with a couple of tissue flowers.  The sentiment is "May all your dreams...." from the Summer series. 

You can join us -- we would like to see what you can create using scoring.  Go to Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built and link your card.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you have any, we would love to see them!  You could be the randomly chosen winner of a nice gift certificate.

Here are some of the Design Team members who have made projects to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day

Creative Belli Challenge

Darsie owner of the Creative Belli Challenge asked us to make a project with wings this week.  Wow -- great challenge with so many possibilities!  Here is my card:

I love the butterflies in Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterfly set.  I used a Cuttlebug folder and some of Graphic 45's new paper called "Birdsong" which is an Oriental Themed collection.  While at CHA, I noticed lots of new collections with Oriental Themes.

We would love for you to join us in the challenge.  Just make a project with "wings" and link it on the Creative Belli Challenge blog.  Here are some Designers who have made projects to inspire you.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko 

Thank you for looking at my card and I look forward to see why you make!

Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Curiosity Cat

Good Morning!  Thanks for stopping by to see my card!  Today Wendy from Repeat Impressions is offering this stamp for 50% off.  The stamp is being offered at this special price for one week only. 

To get this stamp 50%, just go to Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built, get the code there and put it in the special instruction blank when you order from Repeat Impressions.

Here is the list of Design Team members that have made cards to inspire you:


Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Kecia 

Thanks for looking at my card - Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Core Cards Creative Frenzy

Core'dinations is having a Design Team call and I made the following projects to submit.

Let me tell you about my experience with Co'ordinations - my sweet sister gave me some of their paper and I thought "That's nice, but I'm not interested in sanding my paper."  Well, she challenged me to do some tearing and gave me this website to check out other techniques to use.  They have some great videos!  I OH MY GOODNESS - I LOVE THIS PAPER!!

There are so many things to do with this besides sand!  Check out their videos and look at all the different kinds of paper they have.  You will love it just as much as I do.  I just recently discover their "Kraft-Core" -- Eeeeekkk, it's wonderful!

Here are my projects:

Mini Album of my Grandchildren.

tags & flowers are from Kraft-core

doily, leaves & flowers are a die cut using the Kraft-core

I'm not going to bore you with all the pages, because I have 7 grandchildren.  Next are two cards I made.

used some of the texture Core'dinations cardstock and the tree & grass are made with the Kraft-core.  The clouds are made from their Glitter cardstock.

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The two cards use my scraps of Core'dinations cardstock from my Mini-album, using Nestabilities, Tim Holtz and My Favorite Things dies.  I'm not throwing out any of my scraps of Core'dinations paper!!!

One last card I made a few months ago for Repeat Impressions using an embossing folder:

Thanks for looking at my projects!  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge

Sketch time!!! Today Wendy from Repeat Impressions is giving you an opportunity to win a gift certificate! -- You can use it to for stamps or supplies from Repeat Impressions.  Check it out all the stamps on their website here.  All you have to do is follow the sketch and post your project on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built.

So now for the sketch.  Here it is:

I did a very simple card, with a sentiment called "Where we love...." that I like!  It's so true and I love the font.

The paper is from Pink Paisley and I used a little rub on flourish.  The following is the list of the Design Team Members who made cards to inspire you.  Check them out!

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day! 

Creative Belli Challenge

This week Darsie, owner of Creative Belli Challenge has a great challenge for you!  The challenge is to make a Travel/Vacation themed card.  This is a perfect timing for this challenge.  Here is my card:

The stamp is from Repeat Impressions, paper is from Basic Grey and the little metal embellis are from Tim Holtz.

Darsie's team would like to see what you would do with the challenge.  Make a card, and link it there.

Here are the other team members who have made cards to inspire you.  Take a look at their cards and leave a little comment for them.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day.

Repeat Impressions Designers Choice Challenge

Today at Repeat Impressions, Patti one of the Design Team members challenged us to make a card using Black & White and one other color.

This was a great challenge -- it was a challenge to limit it to 3 colors - but I had fun going thru my HUGE stash of paper - and putting combinations together.  --- Thanks Patti for a wonderful challenge.

Here is my card:

Stamps:  Swan Love, and May all...

Here is the list of Designers who would like to see what you can do with Patti's challenge.  Make a project and then link it on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built.  At the end of the week, she will draw a random name for a gift certificate from Repeat Impressions.


Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Thank you -- I look forward to seeing what you create!  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week

It's Monday and time for a new Stamp of the Week from Repeat Impressions.  Remember that Wendy - owner of Repeat Impressions offers a 50% discount on this stamp for one week.  Just go to her blog, The House That Stamps Built and get the special code there and put it in the special instructions blank at Repeat Impressions.

Here is the card I made:

And here is the list of the Designers who made cards to inspire you:

Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Karen 
Kecia 

Thank you for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day!

PTI

I decided to do a quick card for this weeks Papertrey Ink Challenge.  I used the stamp sent called Natural Beauties and a simple thank you sentiment from Mat Stack1.  The challenge was to use these colors:

 

Thank you for looking at my card!

Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge

Good morning - can you believe July is almost over!  My local craft store has all their Christmas stuff out --- yikes! I feel like 4th of July was yesterday!!!

Wendy, the owner of Repeat Impressions Stamps challenged us with this sketch:

And this is the card I made:

I used some of the stamps from Wendy's new set called Big Boys Toys and an old favorite Clouds from Wendy's Silhouette series.

We would love to see what you do with this sketch --  you don't have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you have any, we would love to see what you create.

Here are the Designers who have made a card to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Make a project, link it on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built and you could be the randomly chosen name for a nice gift certificate for Repeat Impressions stamps.

Thank you for looking at my card -- have a happy stamping day!

Papertrey Ink Stamp-A-Faire Challenges

Wow was this a busy week for my sweet stamping sister and me! We went to Chicago for the Craft and Hobby Show for a week and then drove back in time for the Papertrey Ink's Stamp A Faire.  In North Texas Kristin was our host.  She has a lovely home with a very large stamp room.  We had a blast!  Then my sister, Deb and I went home to play some more and played until 4:00 AM!!!

Here are the challenges I met:

Morning Make-n-Take

Ribbon Techniques Challenge.  I took the challenges offered by Dawn and Betsy

Dawn's Challenge

Betsy's Challenge

Betsy's Challenge

Friendship Beaded Bracelets

 

 I added a string of pearls to my paper bead string

Homemade Embellishments:

My last one was the Mini-Book Challenge:

It is hard to say which one I enjoyed the most -- but I did like Jessica's because I had never stamped on clear cardstock -- and I love it.

Thank you for looking at my projects.  You can go to Nicole's blog and check all of the challenges out and learn a LOT of new things to do!

Creative Belli Christmas Card Challenge

Darsie owner of Creative Belli Challenge is challenge us to make a Christmas card!  This time last year, I had made lots of Christmas cards, so I'm running way behind on getting mine done.  Thanks to Darsie, I'll have a little start now.  It is only 22 weeks to Christmas!!!! So I'll have to make 3-4 cards a week!

Here is my card:

I used stamps from Stamps of Life --  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Stephanie's stamps and she is so much fun!  The flower is from her set called Daisies2Garden.  I do not own very many of her stamp sets - I'm slowly building my collection.  The Merry Christmas is from Paper Trey Ink.

Here are the other Design Team Members who have made projects.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko 

Now Darsie wants to see what you are doing for Christmas cards -- make one and post it on her blog here -- I NEED ideas!  Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day

Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge

Good morning!! Today Makiko, one of the Design Team members from Repeat Impressions challenged us to make a project that has an Outdoors and/or Wild Life theme.  So here is my card:

I used the stamp called Fawn - a stamp I just LOVE!  This time I decided not color it, but can be colored in with a few copics.  The sentiment is called In All Things..,

Now Makiko is challenging you - make a project with an Outdoors and/or Wild Life theme and post it on Wendy's (owner of Repeat Impressions) blog called The House That Stamps Built and she will chose a random name to win a really nice gift certificate for products from Repeat Impressions.  -- Check out her newest releases called Big Boys Toys and Beautiful Days!

Good luck -- and have a HAPPY stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Stamp of The Week - Beach Time

Oh - to be on the beach now!  It is so hot here in Texas!  Today Wendy from Repeat Impressions has a special stamp for Stamp of the Week -- it is called Beach Time.  She makes this stamp available to everyone for 50% for one week.  All you have to do is go to her blog called The House That Stamps Built and get the special code she has listed.  Then you put that code in the Special Instructions blank at Repeat Impressions Stamps.

Here is my card:

The sentiment (not on sale) is called Wishing you joys....  It is a Christmas stamp, but I masked the bottom line that says "Happy Holidays",

Here is the list of other Design Team Members who made projects to inspire you.


Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Karen 
Kecia 

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day!

Stamp TV July Blog Hop

Carolina at Stamp TV has organized a July Blog Hop! If you came from  Geri's  blog, you are right on target!  She had a beautiful card!  It's a good idea to start at the beginning at Stamp TV, so you won't miss any of the fantastic projects!  Be sure to  comment on each blog because on Tuesday morning, she will randomly chose a name and that person will win a fabulous collection of Gina K stamps.

 Melissa made this sketch for us to use.

And here is my card:

I used stamps from "Enjoy the Journey" and the sentiment came from "Fanciful Tags".  The paper is from Gina K's "Hello Sunshine" and Gina K's cardstock.

Thank you for looking at my card - and don't forget to leave your comments - so your name can be entered into the drawing for the fabulous collection of GKD stamps.

Now your next stop will be Kay's  blog.  You will love, love the colors she used.

Have a Happy Stamping day!

Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge.

I hope everyone is rested up from 4th of July activities -- to me this is a signal that the summer is coming to a close!  Auggggghhhh.. School starts soon in Texas!

Well, Wendy owner of Repeat Impressions Stamps has given the Design Team members a sketch challenge.  Here is her sketch

and here is my card:

I used the little bees from the Flip Set called "Bug Flip Set" and the sentiment is from Wendy's new line called Big Boys Toys - this is a set you need to check out -- it has so many possibilities!

Now Wendy would like to challenge you to this sketch -- we would like to see what you do - you don't have to use Repeat Impressions Stamps, but if you have any - show them off!!  You could be the winner of a nice gift certificate for Repeat Impressions stamps.  Just link your project on Wendy's blog, The House That Stamps Built.

Here is the list of Design Team Members who have made cards to inspire you.


Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia 

Thank you for looking at my card - have a HAPPY stamping day!

Creative Belli Challenge - Stars

HAPPY 4th of July!  I hope your day is full of family and fun -- and a few fireworks!

Today Darcie, owner of the Creative Belli Challenge has challenged us to make a project with STARS!  - Easy, since this is the fourth of July!

Here is my card:

I used stamps from Repeat Impressions - the Firecracker Burts and the Here's to you America, sentiment, the happy 4th of July is from Paper Trey Ink.  The paper is from Authentique.

Here are the Designers from Creative Belli Challenge who have made "Star" projects for you.

• Darsie Bruno
• Ceal Pritchett
• Joy Hadden
• Lynn Hayes
• Paige Grabau
• Robin Parker
• Steph Castro
• Pat Kuzenko

Now you can make a project and link it on The Creative Belli Challenge Blog - we would love to see what you create!

Thank you for looking at my card.

Repeat Impressions Designer Choice Challenge

Happy 4th of July!  Lynette - one of the Designers from Repeat Impressions has challenged us to make a card using the colors purple and green.  I love green and my sister's favorite color is purple, so I was thinking of her as I made this card:

I used the stamp "Lupine" - the Maine State flower -- I'm not sure there are purple ones - but, I love this flower so much!  The sentiment is from Wendy's new summer release called Big Boys Toys - check the series out - there are so many good sentiments and images.

Why not join in the challenge!  We would love to see what you can create with these two colors - Green and Purple -- I think we will see some wonderful projects!

Here is the list of Repeat Impressions Designers who made projects to inspire you.

Cheri
Dawn
Joy  - you are here
Karen
Lynette
Makiko
Patti 
Kecia  

Thank you for looking at my project - have a HAPPY stamping day.

Stamp of the Week - Here's To You

Can you believe 4th of July will soon be here?!  We usually have a big celebration at our house with grandkids and friends.  We pop firecrackers, have a big cookout, with homemade ice cream and  watermelon.  Before we begin, our family takes time to pray for the men and women who serve and protect our country and pray for their families.

  This is my card:

I used glitter for the stars, Fireworks  and for the lines above and below the sentiment, Here's to you America. 

Here is the list of Rock Star who used the sentiment "Here to you America" and made projects to inspire you.


Lynette 
Joy  - you are here
Dawn
Karen 
Kecia

Now remember Wendy will give you a 50% discount on Here to you America stamp for one week only.  Just go to her blog, The House That Stamps Built, get the special code and enter that code into the special instructions blank at the Repeat Impressions site.


P.S.  Here is a list of Patriotic Holidays -

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day - 3rd Monday of January
• Washington's Birthday - 3rd Monday of February
• Memorial Day - last Monday of May
• Flag Day - June 14th
• Independence Day - July 4th
• Constitution Day - September 17th
• Election Day - Tuesday following the first Monday in November
  
• Veterans Day - November 11th
• Bill of Rights Day - December 15th

Thanks for looking at my card.  Have a HAPPY stamping day!