TOO CUTE To SPOOK with my Mini-Guests :)

Happy Halloween!!! 
and good Monday to you all :) 
It's Halloween :) Lots of fun things going on today!!! 
My kiddos have been sick the last few days, crossing fingers that they will be going to school and will be able to enjoy the trick-or-treats today :) 


There is also a Monday Funday Challenge at 
The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenge blog today!!! 
This week's challenge is to create a Halloween themed card/project... 


Here's the card that I originally created for today :) 
I used "Hallo Pumpkin" Digi and some scraps of 
Bella Blvd's Too Cute to Spook... 

And then yesterday, my boys wanted to get a bit crafty for Halloween :)
So we dusted off my "Spooktacular" Stamp Set and got inky!!! 


Here's a card by my Nicky... 

... and a card created by my Matthew :)

And of course, I just had to play along too ;)

Super Halloween fun :) 

To play along, please see all of our deets HERE!!! 
and be sure to visit the DT's spooktacular designs too :) 

Jessica Diedrich

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Happy Trick-or-Treating!!! 
Be safe :) :) :) 

Sparkle Creations HALLOWEEN SALE!

Trick-OR-Treat!!! 

It's definitely TREAT-time at Sparkle Creations!!! 

Don't ya just loooove sales :) 

Visit the Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Store

to save this weekend only!!! 

Enjoy!!! xo 

It's Your Birthday!!!

TGIF everyone!!! 
I had scheduled my post to be up this morning, and I come home to find that not only did it not post, but it completely disappeared! tsk, tsk... I am typing with frozen fingers! Oh how they ache! 
This morning there was a Pumpkin Festival of sorts at my kiddos school today,
and everything was outside in this 50-something degree windy weather we are having!
Eeeek! They had to cut it short a few minutes, these poor Kindergartens were really starting to feel the cold too, poor wee ones... 
and yes, I am feeling so much better now! Have had a lingering cold for over a week, and just started to feel like myself again yesterday! I hope that I didn't overdo it with today already, lol! Oh well, that's why we have weekends for, right?! ;)


Now that I'm thawing out and can somewhat feel my fingers a bit ;) 

I want to share my card for today's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge!!! 


For today's sketch, I used Taylor Expressions a la carte stamp, 
"It's Your Birthday"... 

The last time that I used this stamp, the colors were dark, you can see it here! 
So for this time, I was really in the mood to play with some bright colors 
and decided to pull some scraps from my Echo Park pad 
and have some fun with the sketch...


I created a second card too! 
but left off the 2 side panels, lol! 
Just goes to show that maybe I shouldn't be creating when I'm not feeling so good ;) 
Oh, and instead of using ribbon, I used Taylored Expressions die, 
"Basic Bow" 

Here's the awesome sketch: 

... and here are the stamps and dies I used: 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the Sketch Crew's designs too :) 
Cassie Trask
Lori Craig
Margie Cortina
Monika Davis
Rachel Sztonyk
Taylor VanBruggen 
Tracy Clemente

Thanks for stopping by today!
Happy Friday :) :) :) 

Taylored Expressions Holiday Hoopla Blog Hop!!!

Taylored Expressions is hosting a Holiday Hoopla today and I'm excited to be a part of it. You should have arrived here from Taylor's blog!!!  

Which is also the beginning of the Holday Hooplay Hop!!! Be sure to go to 

Taylor's blog first for the full list of participants :)

There are 22 designers showcasing Christmas/Winter/Holiday stamps sets from TE with samples that include all sorts of projects from cards to gifts and beyond!  We want to inspire you to get your holiday crafting and card making into high gear!  

Be sure to stick with me all the way to the end of the post to get a 

coupon code for 25% off holiday stamp sets at Taylored Expressions! 

The sets I'm showcasing today is the "Banner Holidays" Stamp Set and 

the Banner Day 1 Die... along with Moka Angel... 

I love the Banner Stamp Sets SO much!!! 
It is such a fancy way to add your sentiments and give your card/project that extra 'something-something' to it :)  

Here's my trio of cards...
I stamped Angel and my Banner sentiments onto Choice Buttercream Cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink... I did a bit of coloring on my Angels with Copic Markers...

Did some paper piecing :)

and added a touch of sparkle on their halos and wings :)
using my Spica Glitter Pen!

Here are all the stamp sets and dies that I used: 

While creating for this hop I decided to keep myself to using only a small amount of designer papers and cardstock; I knew that I was going to have to do something with my scraps and decided to keep going with another Christmas card using the Trim the Trees Die... a sentiment from the Banner Holiday Stamp Set, some Kraft Cardstock and the Medium Scallop Border Die too :) 

Are you getting in the mood to stamp?  

Be sure to check out Taylor 's 12 Days of A Handmade Christmas Video Series for lots of easy gift ideas. I especially love Day TWO of the series!!! 
I really do hope that I can create a fabulous calendar like Taylor's found HERE!!! 
I'm thinking of creating TWO calendar's, one for each of my boys! LOL! 
They have SO much going on, it would be a fun way to document all their fun-ness on their own personalized calendars :) 

Now, who loves a SALE ?  

Use Coupon Code HOOPLA2011 to get 25% off the following holiday stamp sets (released in 2009 and 2010) at Taylored Expressions now through November 2!!!

 Here are those sets: 

Christmas Blessings, Enjoy!, From the Heart, Hangin' Out -  At the North Pole, Holiday Wonder, Home Sweet Home, Keeping Tabs, Merry Little Cocktail, Penguin Pals, Season's Sweetings, Sparkle & Cheer, Tag Treats , Tag You're It, Take Note - Holidays , Wings of Joy, Winter Wonderland.

The coupon code is case sensitive. 

Follow these instructions to apply the discount to your order:

1. Add the desired stamp sets from the above list to your shopping cart.

2. Insert the coupon code into the Promotional Code box.

3. Click the Update Cart button.  Your discount should now be applied.

4. Proceed to checkout to finalize and submit your order.

Thank you SO much for stopping by today!!! 
Your next stop is Jami!!! 

Happy Hopping :) 

No Coloring Books!

SERIOUSLY?!?! 

Um, yes, GOOOD MOOORNING!!! 

It's a bit too early to process this, but there is to be NO coloring going on this week!

Eeeek!!! 

Today at Sparkle Creations, 

they are challenge us to do NO coloring!

Zip! Zilch! None! Zero!!!  {gulp!}

I was able to work through my withdrawls, lol, and created this card using

"Bookworm Ruby" 

As you can see, I did have to add a little something ;) 

and thought that if I stamped on Kraft CS it would keep me from wanting to color in more... sigh... it was very very very hard to resist! Especially since this was my first time using this Ruby stamp! 

I should have paper pieced, maybe that would have helped with my withdrawls ;) 

Either way, I definitely will have to use the Ruby stamps again very soon! 

Hope you all play along! 

Be sure to visit the rest of the DT for some more non-coloring inspiration!

I have to admit, when I got a peek of everyone's creations, 

I was completely amazed on everyone's creativity on this! 

Such a talented team to be a part of :) :) :) 

I'm inspired to try again!!! 

Alice Wertz 

Corinne Reyes

Kadie Ensley 

Kim Yu

Mary Johnson

Peggy Toole 

Shaela Odd

Simonne Clay

Sparkle Smith 

Stephanie Kraft 

Happy Tuesday my friends!!! xoxo 

Christmas Embossing???

Good morning! A brand new day to play :) 

Still feeling ookie and tired, but making the best of it!!! 

Just wanted to stop real quick and post my card for today's 

TGF Farm Fresh Monday Funday Challenge!

This week we challenge you to add some embossing to your card/project... 

Someone asked me to create a very simple sample Christmas card 

using Kraft Cardstock :) and this is what I came up with... 

I used TGF's Clearly Christmas Stamp Set, 

I embossed the edges all around to create a border... 

Simple enough??? :) 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! 

Be sure to visit the DT and see their amazing embossed cards too :) 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis 

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea 

Sharette Smith 

Happy Monday :) :) :) 

On the 6th Day of HALLOWEEN!!!

On the SIXTH day of HALLOWEEN... 

my true love gave to me

SIX GOBLINS GOBBLING!!!

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons, 

Three black cats, 

Two trick-or-treaters, 

and an owl in a rotten oak tree!!! 

'morning friends!!! 

It's starting to get spooky around here!

Have you all seen what's been going on at 

Simply Betty Stamps!?!? 

I am super excited to have been invited to play along with their 12 Days of Halloween this year!!! 

Be sure to stop by the Simple Betty Stamps Blog for more details!!!... 

Everyone their, especially Betty, just loooves Halloween! 

and there are prizes every day! 

Take a peek and play along :) 

For my "goblin", I decided to use "Franken Jude"... 

I have to admit, I had a hard time picking a "goblin" for this, lol! 

Cindy aka The Scrappy Chick helped me out with choosing my goblin 

and sent me this from Wikipedia... 

"A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature, 

described as a grotesquely evil-like phantom." 

hmmm...

We decided that a 'Frankenstein-ish' guy would fit this description... 

even though Jude is definitely waaay too cute to be considered 'grotesquely', LOL! 

My SIX things are the buttons!!! 

This idea has been brewing in my head for quite a while now!

and I am so happy to finally be able to use it on this card today :)

I am LOVING my twine!!! hee hee

I colored Jude in with my Copics, used some Bella Blvd 'To cute To spook" scraps 

and the 'boo' sentiment is a Making Memories sticker from 2 years ago, lol! 

It's time to dig out some goblins and get your spook on!!! 

You have until October 31st to play along :) 

Thanks for stopping by today!!! 

Happy Weekend to you all :*) 

my Princess :)

GOOD Morning peeps!!! 

I have been feeling a bit under the weather for the last few days, 

a small cold and no energy at all :p 

My mojo is still playing games with me and has been very temperamental, lol! 

We're going to have to have a talk soon, 

these late night craft times are definitely not helping me get rid of this lingering cold! ha!

It's FRIDAY!!! Yay!!! What are you up to today??? 

First things first! For me, it's all about The Greeting Farm's 

Farm Fresh - Spy Day Challenge :) :) :) 

And this time, we "spied"... Sheri Gilson's card over HERE!!! 

Ian is SO handsome with his cap and gown surrounded by green! 

Very inspiring layout too! 

I thought that "Babette" from TGF's Blush Society Collection 

would be fun to color up! I just looove all that hair!!! 

and used a senti from the new "Build a Onsie - Girl" clear stamp set... 

Except for the card's base and the twine, I used all scraps again!!! 

I will be posting pics soon of my new scrappy area and how I keep track of all my scraps; 

My crafty area is small and I don't have a lot of room, 

nor do I have a lot of product! and since I'm right in the living room, I have to be sure not to leave much of a mess and that it all can fit nicely in my one spot :) 

My happy place ;) hee, hee 

Ohhhh!!!... and for some extra fun!!! 

Since last week, the TGFC DT got to play along with the Bugaboo-ers, 

THIS WEEK Bugaboo Stamps gets to play along with us!!! Woo hoo!!! 

Waving HI!!! 

So please be sure to stop by both TGFFFC's Blog and Bugaboo's Blog 

for all the wonderful inspiration this week :) :) :) 

Have an awesome TGIF everyone!!! 

{hugs!!!} 

Happy Birthday and True Love for A Thousand Years...

Happy Thursday!!! Woo hoo!!!
I'm a happy girl :) :) :)
Today I'm sharing my card from Pixie Dust Studio!!!

This week, Pixie Dust Studio's challenge is to create a
Birthday themed card/project!!!

I have to admit, I was stumped as to what to do for this challenge, lol!
It's a birthday theme, it's suppose to be simple, right?!
Well, when you have your mojo playing peek-a-boo lately, you'd be stumped too ;)

I decided that I needed to use this lil half of the "Mun-kins" digital image from
the latest Pixie of Oz Collection :)

I used up the rest of my red with white polka-dots Jillibean Soup DP scraps!
and just went on picking out other scraps to go along with it!
Everything was a piece of scrap that was sitting in my bin - even the Kraft ;)
Don't ya just looove when a card finally comes together all on its own!!!

I've got one more card to share with you ;)

Now, where are all my Twi-peeps hiding?!?!
The latest movie is almost here!!! Woo Hoo!!!
Have you seen the latest movie-pics and trailer that were officially released!?
I have to admit, the wolf is looking good, lol! but myyyyy Edward looks pretty good too ;)
I cannot wait to see this wedding!!!

In anticipation of Breaking Dawn,
Pixie's Bookshelf has TWO a challenges going on :)
The first, leave a comment with your fave Twi-Quote!!!
and the second...
Create a card/project inspired by the Twilight Saga and add something sparkle-y to it!

I decided to you use this digital image from Pixie Dust Studio called
"Marry Me... Bella"

Lots of sparkly things going on here, unfortunately you can't see it all so well in my pic...
the paper is The Mariposa Stack from DCWV - lots of sparkle on the swirls and butterflies...

... and I also dug up this 6x6 layout that I made a while ago!
But I love it so much that I just had to share it again :)

Here I used "Love Sparkles" and "True Love"...  

Did you hear this song yet????
It sums up the entire Twilight Saga perfectly... I'm so in love with it!
I can't wait to get myself the Breaking Dawn soundtrack :) 

Have a wonderful Thursday friends!!! xoxo

Spooky and Sweet!!! {Taylored Expressions October Blast from the Past Blog Hop!}

Happy Wednesday!!! 

I loooove Wednesdays :)  It's right in the middle of the week, Hubs is always off and there is usually something fun going on somewhere !!! 

For today's fun, I'm hopping along with the 

Taylored Expressions October Blast from the Past Blog Hop!!! 

There is a double-theme going on for this month: 

"Trick or Sweet" 

Create a Halloween themed card 

or a sweet treat to celebrate an occasion. 

I decided to play around with both theme's and pulled out my 

"Sweet Celebration" stamp set again and used a scrap of Bella Blvd Too Cute to Spook DP and came up with this card... 

I thought that this lil cuppie would look cute as a ghost cuppie!!! 

and why not give him a yummy candy corn birthday cake to eat :) 

I had so much fun breaking away from the typical birthday color combos 

for a Halloween birthday themed card!!! 

Meow, Happy Halloween!

Hi again!!! It's just about lunchtime, yummm... 

and I also have another card to share with you :) 

Please scroll down to see my latest card for Sparkle Creations Challenge Card for today too, thank you :) 

It is my turn today to host a challenge at Riley and Company!!! 

For this challenge, we would like to see you use a Riley stamp, 

and the color combo, Orange and Black, as your main colors for your card/project! 

I also created my card for the following challenges: 

- Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #132: Halloween Theme Cupcakes 

I decided to create a girl-y Halloween card and used 

"Catmoose" from the Riley goes to the Movies Collection... 

Hope you can play along with these challenges too!!! 

Thanks for stopping by again! 

Enjoy your Tuesday! 

I'm off to finish my laundry and finally take pics of my blog candy 

and other cards for the rest of the week ;)  xoxo 

BOOKS create the PERFECT MOMENTS!!!

It's Tuesday already! and the week will continue to just fly on by! 

I have a lot of stuff to mail! and my blog candy is still just waiting to be photographed and posted, sigh... my 5yo offered to help, but then I'd have to spell-check it all anyways ;) LOL! 

It's time for another Sparkle Creations Challenge!!! 

This week, there is a beautiful Fall-ish pic to be inspired from... 

I decided to also the following challenges for my card today too :) 

- Karber Challenge #43: Use your scraps and a Karber Clear, Rubber or Digital Stamp

- Card Patterns Sketch Challenge #137  

- DYSU Challenge #41: Use your scraps

I decided to use Karber's "Reading Millie" Rubber Stamp and 

scraps of My Mind's Eye Darling Dear DP and Kraft CS for my card :) 

Even the ribbon is a leftover scrap from a book I made last year ;) 

Hmmm... I wonder what Millie is reading... sparkling vamps? hee, hee... 

Be sure to grab your Lucy Stamps this month ;) 

Enjoy your Tuesday!!! 

Will be back in a short while with a Moose that MEOWS!!! 

LOL! Stay tuned ;) 

xoxo