So I wanted to play with the New Cookie Press stamps a week and a half ago so I made some sugar cookies and stamped away!  They looked really cute!  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the cookies!

But I did get a picture of the tags my soon to be 7 year old daughter created to go along with the tags!  She went through my stamp stash and found an old Sale A Bration set (Yummy) and then added a snowflake.  I cut the card stock and added a rhinestone.  I think we make a great team!

Don't you love that Cherry Cobbler ribbon?  It's almost as yummy as the cookies and candy included in the treat bag!

So today is my Help for Heather event.  I'm really excited for it and am proud to have raised a good deal of money for her with hopes of raising more at the event!

I thought I'd share just two of the 6 cards everyone will be making.  (They make 2 of each card for a total of 12.)  I'd show you all of them, but part of me feels like the participants paid for the event so I should keep some of it exclusive to them.  Hope you understand!

So I did see one like this somewhere (probably SCS).  I thought it was perfect for this event.  Very pretty, very girly, yet simple and not over the top.  It uses the Tulip embossing folder, the Butterflies die, some DSP from last year's Sale A Bration, antique brad, and the Elements of Style and With All My Heart stamp sets.  (Click on the card to see the instruction sheet.)

Here's another one they will be making.

Again, this one uses some SAB DSP from last year.  I promise all the rest of the cards used current supplies.   Again, another simple yet beautiful card. I watercolored the hydrangea with aquapainters and then once it was dry I added some touches of Champagne Mist shimmer paint here and there.  Hard to see in the picture… hmmm… let me see if this picture is any better.   Click the card for the instructions sheet.

Enjoy!  Wish you were stamping with us today!

Yes, it’s been 24 days since my last post!!  Life is crazy – but I love it and wouldn’t want it any other way (well, except for a little more stamping time thrown in each day of course!).

Here is a card we made a couple weeks ago…

I’ve been really trying to make some more boy birthday cards lately and find that apparently red and black are my ‘go to’ boy colors!   LOL  Not sure why that is but I think it works!

What I Used:
Card Stock: Real Red, Basic Gray (3 7/8" x 4 1/2"), Whisper White (1 3/4" squares)
Stamp Sets: Just Soccer, Starring You
Punches: 1 3/8" circle,  1 1/4" circle, star
Embellishments: Basic Black narrow grosgrain, Basic Black brad

How I Created it:
Stamp shoes and soccer balls on SCRAP white.  Punch soccer balls out with 1 ¼” circle punch.  Cut out shoes.  Adhere these onto the white squares with adhesive.
Stamp birthday star on scrap white and punch out with 1-3/8” circle.

Here are tonight’s club projects!  There was some definite CASE-ing going on with the baseball and flower cards (found them on splitcoast – I did change them both a bit) and then you saw the birthday cake one in my post from yesterday.  We put dark chocolate m&m’s in the treat cup.  Yum!
These were fun cards to create – hopefully now that the first card has been made with a hidden door for the treat cup that more of these will be created!  It’s always getting the concept for the first time that is tricky, then it gets easier, right?!?!

Stamp Sets Used: Pick a Petal, Just Baseball, Bitty Birthday
Designer Paper: Bride Specialty, Sweet Pea
RIbbons: Crushed Curry polka dot grosgrain, Old Olive wide grosgrain, Pretty in Pink satin

I love stamping!  I just can’t get to it as much as I’d like.  Can I get an amen to that?  LOL

Anyway… I got to create my own creation (versus some CASE-ing that I’ve done lately) last night and I kinda followed this week’s mojo sketch.   And this will be one of the cards for stamp club this week.  Hopefully they like it!

Supplies Used:

Stamp Set: Bitty Birthday (you can earn this free with Sale-A-Bration right now!)
Card Stock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Designer Paper: Sweet Pea (in the current Occasions mini – it’s awesome and a HUGE pack!!)
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Satin
Other: ticket corner punch, designer label punch, circle scissors plus, 1 3/4" circle punch

Okay, sorry to go MIA on ya for a week there!  And I was doing so well!!!  Aaah well… life goes on…

Here is another awesome card we made at my team shoebox swap.  This was created by Mandi.  Again a terrific display of the new Sweet Pea designer paper in the Occasions mini and the new Sale-A-Bration scallop trim punch.  It uses the With All My Heart stamp set that I’m totally adoring these days.  Cute, isn’t it?  You could whip up a bunch of these in no time, stamp any sentiment in the bottom, and have cards for all occasions!  Thanks Mandi!

As promised here is another shoebox card we made the other night.  This one features the new Sweet Pea Designer paper.  I didn’t own it at the time but it’s on its way to me now!  LOL  Isn’t this card sweet?

Other products used -
Stamp Set – Great Friend, Love Bandit (Occasions mini 2010)
Card Stock – Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Taken With Teal, Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand
Punch – scallop trim (SAB), 1 1/4", 1 3/8", and 1 3/4" circle punches
Ribbon – chocolate chip satin

Okay, are you sitting down??  Check out this amazing card Christy whipped up the SAME day she picked up her club order!!!  This is an awesome display of masking (getting Tess to hold the cake and the birthday bag and the balloons) and a VERY CLEVER way to use the Bitty Birthday stamp set.

In Christy’s words:
I’ve been very busy going through my loot…..what fun! As I was stamping all my stamps to catalogue them I realized that the Bitty Birthday set would work great with Tote-ally Tess…..I’ve attached a photo to show you what I made. I also used the Happy Birthday stamp from Vintage Labels.

Remember, Vintage Labels and Bitty Birthday are Sale-A-Bration stamp sets right now that you can earn for free like Christy did!

Thank you for sharing your talent with us Christy!!!

And if you’re wondering what awesome Designer Paper that is – it’s Thoroughly Modern.

First off, a little business to take care of… click HERE to see the latest update on the Product and Ribbon shares happening now.

This is so weird.  I KNOW I wrote this entire post on Monday of this week and had it set to publish for Tuesday.  However I have no idea where it went!  Anyway… here we go again…

The card below I CASED from Patsy Waggoner on the new Stampin’ Up! demonstrator only Stampin’ Connection web site.  She did it with a slightly different color scheme but when I saw it I immediately fell in love with it and knew I had to make one too.

So, thanks to Tracy on my team letting me borrow her new Extra Large Two Step Bird Punch and Welcome Neighbor designer series paper pad I was able to create this card.  Some fabulous girls on my team and I got together Tuesday night for a shoebox swap and this is the card I had prepped for all the girls to create.  You should see the cards the other girls brought that I got to make!  They are truly awesome and I promise I will post them on my blog over the next few days so you can see the talent on my team!

Other products used:

Stamp Sets: Upsy Daisy, Happy Moments (SAB 2010)
Punches: Spiral and Extra Large Two Step Bird
Embossing Folder: Petals a Plenty (did you know you can still order this?!  It was featured in the Holiday mini 2009 but is still available for purchase! (Item #116824 $7.95)
Embellishments: Ice Rhinestone circle brad (I took out the bling and used a glue dot to attach as an eye.), Bashful Blue grosgrain ribbon
Card Stock: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Always Artichoke 

Here’s what you missed by not coming to my SAB class yesterday!  I have to say I really had fun playing with the Happy Moments  stamp set and loved, loved, loved using the Good Neighbor Designer series paper.  If you think that paper is all about houses, don’t be fooled!  There’s a TON of great colors and patterns in there.  (Although the houses are super cute too!) You can’t go wrong.

It’s funny, while I was creating these cards (which were mostly CASEd from other cards I’ve seen recently) I noticed I’m a white fan these days.  I used to always lean toward Very Vanilla as I thought Whisper White was too harsh.  But I’m finding I really like the clean, crisp, fresh look of Whisper White these days.  Anyway… just a random thought I thought I’d share.  Change is good!