Hand Stamped Sentiments – Memorial Day

 Good Morning Ladies!  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I spent it with Zoie!  She is such a delight.  She is entering the stage where she tries to talk to you.  She is smiling as she is talking to you.  Such fun!  Our challenge this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a Memorial Day theme. I got the new flag stamp in the Summer mini and thought it would be perfect for this challenge. …

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Late Night Stampers – Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning Stampers! We have a great challenge at Late Night Stampers this week. This week we have a Scrapbooking challenge.  We are to share our scrapbooking ideas – traditional or MDS.  I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Since this month is National Scrapbooking Month, a few Saturday’s ago there were a few ladies who shared a day long scrapbooking event on UStream.  I wasn’t able to watch that day but with UStream…

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Scrapbook Sunday – Checkbook cover scrapbook

Good Morning Ladies! I had several ladies ask me how I made my checkbook cover scrapbook that I shared a few weeks ago.  I told them I would make a tutorial and today is the day you get to see it. You need to decide what patterned paper you are going to use for your scrapbook and pick out a coordinating solid cardstock.  I will be using Crumb Cake to go with my paper. Step…

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Chalked Flower Fest

Hi Stampers!  Are you doing anything fun today?  I am having a great time with Zoie and her mom.  Today we are going to do some crafting as Jess wants to make a mobile for one of her friends at work.  It will be fun! I recently saw a card on a blog using chalk and I realized I had not used them in a while so I wanted to revisit them.  This set is…

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Sketch Frenzy Friday – Friends Never Fade

Happy Friday Everyone! Do you have some fun plans for the weekend?  I will be spending lots of time with Zoie as well as spending some time stamping. Are you ready for our sketch for the week?  Our sketch this week was created by Tammy Fite I thought this would be a great sketch to use some of my patterned paper.  I pulled out some of my Greenhouse Gala paper and combined it with the…

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Masculine Hope and Strength

Another quick post as I have a ton to get done before I head out to see Zoie! I looked at my color and sketch challenges last night to see what “spoke” to me.  I found a sketch challenge I liked at Picture Perfect Creations    I also found a color challenge that looked like fun at The Paper Players   For some reason the Hope and Strength set  scream at me to use it.  I decided…

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