Happy Halloween & Pink Cat Studio Challenge

I just want to wish everyone a safe and happy halloween! I hope you eat lots of yummy candy!

Pink Cat Studio's challenge today was to make a Christmas card using non-traditional Christmas colors. As most of you know what I would pick...I ran to my scrap room and made a pink card haha! The set is with an older Christmas set that Pink Cat Studio has and is still available for purchase in the store.

Mojo Monday Challenges

YAY! I'm alive and well. Last week was a rough one. I was really sick with a cold but feeling A LOT better now.

I was up late last night visiting blogs. I was behind on Mojo Monday Sketch challenges so I did two of them today! I just love Julee's sketches they are so much fun. The first card was for Mojo Monday week #57 http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/mojo-monday-week-57.html . Julee also inspired me by the card that she did here http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/long-time-no-stamp.html the colors and her card is just SO beautiful. I'm loving the colors together which were Pixie Pink, Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango. The stamp set is a VERY old one from Stampin Up that I borrowed from my Stampin Up demo Kathy...she was so sweet and lent it to me. I thought it was perfect for breast cancer month...which I finally got a chance to do a card before the month is over.

Here is my second card that I did was for Mojo Monday week #58 http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/10/mojo-monday-week-58.html . The stamp set is an older one from Pink Cat Studio that you can still purchase here http://www.pinkcatstudio.com/Stamps/Christmas/CHP3.htm

I Got an Award!!!

Angie from Creative Inkspirations http://www.creativeinkspirations.com/2008/10/award.html passed on an award to me!!! YAY! Thank you Angie your a sweetheart! Angie is also An Angel Co. demonstrator that met on the Angel Wings message board.

I have rules to pass this Award to my other inspiring blog friends but, all of the blogs I visit are all an inspiration to me so it's hard to just pick 5. So I'm going to pass this award on to ALL OF YOU on my list. Thank you for all of you for sharing your wonderful projects and for inspiring me everyday to run to my scrap room and CREATE!!!

I'm sick but still kicking!

So I have a REALLY bad cold but, I still managed to get some crafting done yesterday. I sat in front of the TV all day and finished making all my little spiders and also made some cute little Frankie's to give to my parents, brother, niece and nephew for Halloween. I got inspired to make these when I was blog surfing and found them on Cambria's blog here http://cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/2008/09/mr-mrs-frankie-treat-boxes.html and as easy as she said they are to make...I totally agree with her...they are not only SUPER easy but fun too! Thank you Cambria for the directions and inspiration!

On a side note I haven't put the candies in them or tied the ribbon at the top.

Stress-Free Thrusday!

WOW it's been since the 7th that I have posted on blogger! I didn't think it had been that long. Things have been kind of crazy around here but, it's calming down (i hope). Me and Trish got together yesterday here at my house and sometime last week at her house so that means I've got LOTS to show you!

I'll first start off with the cards that we made last week. I recently purchased 2 of the newest stamps from Clear Dollar Stamp so we played with those first! I just LOVE these 2 new stamp sets! Trish will be posting the cards she made on her blog soon so be sure to visit!

Here are the projects we worked on yesterday. The little spider idea I got from http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2008/10/am-i-norwegian.html who then got it from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1067897?si=patties aren't these the cutest little spiders? And really simple to make. I bought a little Halloween tree that I want to put spiders on sometime before Halloween. For now I'm going to use them at my Pampered chef party this weekend for my guests to take.

These little tins I found at Targets dollar spot and new I had to alter some. The one with the ghost is mind and the other Trish altered.

These were some wooden plaques I purchases at the Dollar Tree a while back and thought we could decorate them for Halloween . The first one is mine and the 2nd is Trish's..I just LOVE the purple on hers it really makes it pop!

My Cali girl Jen Jen gave me these BIG ol' clothes pins a couple years ago and I never did anything with them so when Trish was here yesterday I decided to pull them out so we could alter them. Tink matches my room so you guessed it the tink is mine (Jen had just also sent me these tink embelisments a couple weeks ago so I had to use them.) Trish altered the other clothes pin.

Have a WONDERFUL weekend and thanks for visiting my blog!

Birthday Goodies

My cousin Kelly's birthday was last week and so I made her a few things. She loves frogs so first I made this card. The froggy stamp that I used was from the set Fun Times from Close to my Heart.

I also made her this little altered altoid tin.

And for a while now she has been wanting a picture board. So I decided to make her one and she really loved it!

Win some Stamps from Pink Cat Studio!

Melissa (Pink Cat Studio) won't be releasing any stamps this month but, she put together a little contest together because she LOVES to give away stamps!

Put your thinking cap on and leave a comment here at this link http://pinkcatstudio.blogspot.com/2008/10/win-free-stamps.html and tell Melissa what theme of stamps you would like to see her do next. Be as detailed or a general as you like and feel free to make several suggestions. Think of this as a brain storming session with a prize at the end. She will randomly pick two winners and they will each receive a grab bag of stamps. The contest will end on Wed. Oct. 8th at 5 pm EST and She will post the winners on her blog on Thursday Oct. 9th.

GOOD LUCK!!!

The Angel Company Appreciation Party

This last Sunday I had an appreciation party for my circle of angels to thank them for joining the club. Last month was the last month for the club. I had food, games, prizes & gifts for all of them and we had LOTS of fun!!!

These are the little goodies that I made for them. The first picture...I made sunflower pens, second picture are mini comp journals and the third picture are sunflower pins. As you can tell I tried my best to go with a sunflower theme since it is fall and all the pretty sunflowers are out EVERYWHERE!

Here are the make n' takes that they all got to do. The first picture is the coaster boxes they made and the two others are cards.

Oh and I almost forgot to share with you all the cards the circle girls made. At the end of the party I had a contest for them to make a card with all the supplies that were on the table (from all the other projects). They freaked thinking ok...I come here to learn how to make cards now I'm on the spot to make one all by myself and no help??? HAHA! I wanted to show them that they can really do it on their own and they did!!! Check them out...they all did a WONDERFUL job don't ya think?

A Productive Day!

Today I got 3 cards done! I'm only going to post 2 for the sketch challenges that I did. The reason why is because today is my cousin Kelly's Birthday and I'm making her a few other things and will post them all together in one post.

The first sketch challenge I did is for Little C's weekly challenge #11 that is posted here on Jen's blog http://expressivelyme.blogspot.com/2008/09/little-cs-weekly-challenge-11.html . I used the stamp "Hug for Ike" that I got from Little C's store a couple weeks ago because I won one of her challenges and got to use $10 in her store! Isn't that awesome? and the stamp is JUST TO ADORABLE for words!

The next sketch challenge is from Poetic Artistry here http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/09/mojo-monday-week-55.html . Here sketches and all of her cards inspire me so much they are beautiful so go visit her blog.

Pink Cat Studio Sketch Challenge

Melissa challenged us to use this sketch to make a card using only Pink Cat Studio stamps. I decided to use the Halloween set. I'm so glad halloween is around the corner because I LOVE it and I love using this set it's so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!

Hello "echo" "echo" haha!

Well hello everyone! Sorry I've been missing in action for the last few days. Last weekend I was gone on a family vacation in Las Vegas. We all had so much fun! I was even lucky enough to go see Cher in concert at Ceasers Palace and she was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! Her dancers and her costumes and her stages were awesome!

Trish and I finally got together to stamp last Thursday...which we hadn't done for the last few weeks and BOY did I miss it!!! She got here at around 12ish and we ate some lunch and we were laughing so hard because we couldn't get with it and stamp after all that time (long time 3 weeks??? LOL!). It's like we needed to grease up our gears haha! This is a picture that we took after the LONG day of stamping together.

We used some challenges from Poetic Artistry's ( http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/ )

This is the card that I made for Mojo Monday week #54. You can find the sketch here http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/09/mojo-monday-week-54.html

The second sketch from Poetic Artistry we used was Mojo Monday week #51 http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/09/mojo-monday-week-51-mojo-madness.html and here is the card that I made for that sketch challenge.

On this next card I used was Mojo Monday week #53 sketch that's here http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/09/mojo-monday-week-53.html A few weeks back I had bought this cute "little tees" stamp set from Gina K's Designs http://shop.ginakdesigns.com/product.sc?categoryId=11&productId=193 . I just HAD to have it because I was seeing SO many cute cards using this set. Here is the card that I made using my set...I can't wait till I get some more time to use this set again VERY SOON!

And last but not least the little piggy card.

I will link Trish's cards here once she gets her cards up on her blog that she made on Thursday.

Hello "echo"

YAY! It's Friday!

I got another card for you all from yet another sketch challenge. I'm really loving all these sketch challenges they really inspire me! The one I have to share with you today is from Poetic Artistry. Julee posts a new sketch every Monday called "Mojo Monday". They are sure to give you your mojo back that's for sure haha!

The one I got done this week was for week #52 that you can find here on her blog
http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/09/mojo-monday-week-52.html . Thanks Julee for taking the time to post a sketch every Monday I love'em! And I'm REALLY gonna try to get them done every week and maybe catch up on some older ones that you have posted.

I just HAD to use this stamp on this sketch challenge. I just got it a few weeks back from Addicted to Rubber Stamps isn't it just the cutest little sheep. It's by Penny Black.

Jeff's Creation's ROCK!

A few months ago I was surfing blog land and came across this blog called Crafty Storage http://craftystorage.blogspot.com/ that posts different peoples craft rooms and their great organizing ideas. That's when I came across this post http://craftystorage.blogspot.com/2008/04/creations-by-jeff.html and then I read on and seen that he does it for a business and that's when I new I had to have one! So I visited his blog here http://creationsbyjeff.vox.com/ and emailed Jeff. We chit chatted back and forth and I thought ok..what do I really want to store my ribbon in and told Jeff what it was I was thinking and WALA he came up with this AMAZING ribbon holder for me! It was just like I had dreamed...it was PERFECT!!!

I got up my ribbon holder on the wall finally after a month or two (I just LOVE this thing) then there was an empty space next to it on the wall and I thought ok..what is it I need there??? I thought OHHHH I can have Jeff make me an ink holder to match. I did need a bigger ink holder since I'm out growing the little 72 ink holder that I have now haha! So I emailed Jeff right away and we talked about it and he said he could do it! Isn't this guy just AWESOME??? And the coolest thing is I get to pick it up from him in Las Vegas in a couple weekends and I get to meet him! How awesome is that? I will be posting my ink holder VERY soon.

Thank you Jeff you ROCK!

YIPPIE! I'm a Featured Stamper!!!

So you all remember the fairy card that I did yesterday for Stamping Links to Love's card sketch? Well I just got WONDERFUL news that I was chosen to be a FEATURED STAMPER YIPPIE!!! I'm so excited thanks so much!

If you click on this link here http://stampinglinkstolove.blogspot.com/2008/09/sctl5-featured-stamper.html you will see where I was announced.

WOWZERS! Two posts in ONE day!

I get sooo much inspiration from my blogging friends. This morning I spent sometime catching up on friends blogs and they have inspired me to RUN to my craft room and create! I didn't do ALL that I wanted to get done but, I did a couple of sketch challenges and a baby card for one of Anthony's cousin that just had a baby girl.

The first sketch challenge is from Stamping links to love's blog. I have been wanting to do their challenges and time always seems to get away so, finally I got sometime to join in the fun! You can find the sketch challenge here http://stampinglinkstolove.blogspot.com/2008/09/sctl5-sketch_04.html . I did forget the little circle on the bottom right hand but, I do love this card otherwise! I purchased the fairy stamp from JoAnn's this last weekend.

The second sketch challenge that I did is from Jen's (Pieces of Me) blog. She has weekly challenges and gives away some great prizes so join in! You can find the sketch that I did here http://expressivelyme.blogspot.com/2008/09/little-cs-weekly-challenge-8.html

I have been wanting to make one of them ADORABLE little onsie cards FOREVER! I finally got the chance to make one! You can find the tutorial for this cute card on Lauren's blog here http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/05/create-your-own-onesie-card-tutorial-and-important-note-please-read/ . Thanks Lauren for this awesome tutorial!!!

Pink Cat Studio "Christmas Kitty" Release Day!

Today is finally the day to release the NEW "Christmas Kitty" stamp set! If you love this stamp set and would like to purchase it visit this link here http://www.pinkcatstudio.com/ and purchase yours TODAY!

All the design team members have been working REALLY hard to get lots of fun samples using this set on their blogs so don't forget to visit them all...THEY ROCK!

I myself made 3 cards to share with you all here...