August Hostess Club Projects

Hi everyone!

 

Hope you all are having a Fabulous Thursday!

Our 2 year old Caiden figured out which button is the play button on our DVD player today… It amazes me how much he has picked up over the past few months since turning 2! Such a blessing he is!!

Today I’d like to share with you all the projects that my local hostess club made! I know January is a little ways away, but if you’re interested in joining one of my hostess clubs whether you’re near or far, we would LOVE to have you!!

Hostess Club Membership Includes:

• A local class each month OR for out of town members you will receive a project kit with your order for the projects we complete in class. You will also receive step by step directions and photos in PDF format via email.
• Hostess benefits for 1 of the 6 months, this is a MINIMUM of $25 in FREE product during your month.
• Exclusive access to my Club Members ONLY inspiration blog featuring new projects everyday! Be the first to see NEW product samples before you can by them!

All you have to do to receive these exclusive benefits is commit to spending $25 (before shipping & tax) a month for 6 months. The club duration will be January – June 2012.

Interested? Have questions? Email me at Stampinmama86@gmail.com!

Now, onto the projects!

Stamps: Easy Events

Ink: Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, Soft Suede, Pool Party, StazOn Black

Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder

Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Chocolate Chip Polka Dot Ribbon, Sponge, Dimensionals

 

Stamps: Easy Events

Ink: Concord Crush

Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Brights Collection DSP

Accessories: In Color Glimmer Brads, Decorative Label Punch, Modern Label Punch

 

Ink: Melon Mambo

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Basic Black

Accessories: Fancy Favor Die Cut, Big Shot, Triple Layer Blossom Bouquet Punch

 

Thanks for Stopping by!!

 

GAB #25 - Rock n' Roll!

Happy Saturday!!

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend! Today is a very special yet difficult day for my family. My grandmother, Joanne, passed away 2 years ago (08/28) after a 2 year battle against Ovarian Cancer.

Today marks her 70th Birthday.

She was a very special person in my life and I'll never forget everything she was and did! She was such a kind and strong woman.

So... I made my card for the GAB Technique Challenge - Rock n' Roll, in honor of my Grandmother!

Come join us at Gimme a Break Challenges this week! We'd love to see what you come up with!


Stampin' Hugs!

Courtney

Caiden's 2!

Caiden turned 2 on June 6th!!

I can't believe he's already 2! Or maybe it's the fact that I'm a mother to a 2 year old? LOL

We held his birthday party at a park near us, don't ask what we were thinking having a party at a park in Phoenix's 100 degree weather in mid June... because we weren't!

No... it actually wasn't too bad since we did it in the evening. Everyone had a really good time and Caiden had a smile on his face 99.9% of the time!

We spent Saturday afternoon filling 400 water ballons, and my parents filled 225 (thanks Mom, Dad & Caitlyn!). I knew they would go fast... but I didn't think they'd go through 625 water balloons in 10 minutes! In addition to the water balloons we had pizza delivered to the park and had cupcakes (that's where the Lightning McQueen and Mater came from). The kids enjoyed playing on the playground with their party favors (sand bucket, shovel, beach ball, squirt gun & sand molds) once all the eating was out of the way.

Caiden had TONS of fun opening all his gifts too! He lucked out this year! He got a few new movies, puzzles, books, cars, a Mr. Potato Head, his own texting toy (VTech Text n' Go), a Cars couch that folds out for him to sleep on and a whole new wardrobe! I think there was more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head...

ANYWAYS... I am hoping to have pictures developed soon and I'll be sharing more of the party over the next month or so... I'm a little slow with scrapbooking... I LOVE it, but I'm much more focused on my card making... LOL

Thanks for listening to me ramble! Here's the page finally!

Stamps: Introducing, Look Who's Turning

Ink: StazOn Black, Real Red, Pacific Point, Pear Pizzazz, Bashful Blue

Paper: Celebrations DP, Pacific Point, Real Red, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Whisper White

Accessories: 1 1/4 Circle Punch, 2 1/2 Circle Punch, Top Note Die, Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch, Dimensionals, Fine Cosmo Glitter, Scallop Square Punch, Daubers

Double Embossing

Today's post brings a technique I've just recently tried out!

The technique is called double embossing. If you'd like to give it a try yourself, scroll down for directions!

Stamps: Occasional Quotes

Ink: StazOn Black, VersaMark

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Love Letter DP

Accessories: Glimmer Brads, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Black EP,

3/8" Pretty in Pink Taffeta Ribbon, 1/8" Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon

Double Embossing

• Ink rubber brayer with VersaMark ink.
• Cover one side of your EF with VersaMark. (The raised portion of what's covered is what you will emboss with powder. Also, works best with BOLD embossing folders.)
• Put your paper into embossing folder and emboss.
• Remove and pour embossing powder over paper, dump excess and emboss!

Color Time at GAB!

Hey everyone!

It's time for a color challenge over at GAB this week!

This week's color combination is Sahara Sand, Tangerine Tango and Baja Breeze. My son Caiden will be 2 on Monday so I thought I'd take this color combo and make him a birthday card using on of my favorite stamp sets on the Last Chance list, Greetings, Earthlings.

Be sure to post your creation on the GAB site by Midnight on Thursday June 9th! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!! ALSO, we are currently looking for some new Design Team members to start in August, so if you'd like to be on our DT check out the post HERE!

Mom...

It's time to celebrate MOM over at Stampin' Royalty this week!  I made this card with the flip flop stamp from the NEW Sunny Fun set from the Mini Catalog. Since mother's day has come and gone, this is going to be my Mom's Birthday card! = )

Hope you like it!

Supply List:
Stamps: Sunny Fun
Ink: Basic Black, Blushing Bride, Perfect Plum
Paper: Whisper White, Pale Plum, Basic Grey, Lap of Luxury DP
Accessories: Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Pearls, Concord Crush Ribbon, Pastels, Blender Pen, Vintage Wallpaper EF

Diva Coffee Break meets Color Throwdown Challenge

I had to pull out my Sweet Summer SAB set for the Diva Coffee Break Sketch and the Color Throwdown color challenges this week! I just LOVE this set! I WISH it wasn't SAB because I'd love to use it ALL year long in classes!!

Anyways... here's what I've come up with! ENJOY!



 Supply List:
Stamps: Sweet Summer, So Happy for You
Ink: StazOn Black, Rose Red, So Saffron, Old Olive
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Very Vanillla, Watercolor Paper,
Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots EF, Square Lattice EF, Rose Red Seam Binding, Medium Rhinestones, Aqua  Painter, Dimensional,  3" Circle Die Cut



Happy Mother's Day!! - PPA92

Happy Mother's Day to all of you fantabulous mother's out there!!!

This post is going to be short and sweet because we've got to go get ready to head to my Mom's today! = )

I woke up this morning and had to make a card to get my stamping fix for the day... SO I looked around and decided to make a card for the Pals Paper Arts color challenge! I have fallen in LOVE with the In Colors the more and more I've used them so I was SUPER excited to see the color combo!

Here's what I came up with... my sister is turning 15 next Friday! SCARY!!! The older she gets the older I get... I can't believe she is a Freshman in high school and only a year away from being able to drive... That's when all the madness begins!

I know the picture is kind of hard to tell... BUT there is Dazzling Diamonds on each pair of flip flops and I watercolored them with my handy dandy blender pens and ink pads! I also popped the flip flops up of the card with dimensionals. I'll be back later with more details! Thanks for stopping by!!



Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays is celebrating one year!!! Amazing how fast time goes! The challenge this week is Anything Goes so I decided to make a Birthday card to celebrate! Take a moment and go see the wonderful samples the DT has created and celebrate!

Tess is one of my new favorite stamps! I thought she'd be just perfect holding a cupcake in her hand so I stamped and colored a tiny cupcake from the Short & Sweet and made it pop with a dimensional. I added a Marina Mist grossgrain knot and finished it off with the "Happy Birthday (Call me when it's time for cake.)" sentiment from the Afterthoughts hostess set.

Happy 1st Birthday Sentimental Sundays!!

Stamps: Tote-ally Tess, Short & Sweet, Afterthoughts

Ink: Basic Black, Regal Rose, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, So Saffron,

       Cherry Cobbler, Blush Blossom

Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Marina Mist Grossgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals

Birthday Card Buffet

Today I'm sharing some cards that we made in my Birthday Card Buffet class.

ENJOY!

Stamps - Birthday Bliss
Paper - Tempting Turquoise, Newsprint DP, Pumpkin Pie,
Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Ink - Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories - 2 1/2 Circle Punch, 1 3/4 Circle Punch, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grossgrain Ribbon

Stamps - Birthday Bliss
Paper - Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Pear Pizzazz, Bashful Blue,
Celebrations DP, Whisper White
Ink - Real Red
Accessories - Square Scallop Punch, Real Red 1/4" Grossgrain,
2 1/2 Circle Punch, 1 3/4 Cirlce Punch, Dimensionals

Stamps - Birthday Bliss, Something to Celebrate
Ink - Poppy Parade, Concord Crush
Paper - Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories - Tag Punch, Square Lattice EF, Hemp Twine, Silver Brads

Stamps - Bring on the Cake
Paper - Marina Mist, Whisper White, Basic Black, Sahara Sand
Ink - Basic Black, Marina Mist
Accessories - 1/8" Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon, Daubers, Dimensionals



Stamps - Four Frames, Short & Sweet
Paper - Peach Parfait, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Paisley Petals DP, Whisper White
Ink - Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler, Peach Parfait
Accessories - Decorative Label Punch, Whisper White 1/4" Grossgrain,
 Vintage Wallpaper EF, Modern Label Punch



Birthday Fun!

Stampin' Up! Grab Bags - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

I'm doing a Birthday Class this evening and thought I'd share a card I made recently. This isn't one of the class cards, as I don't want to spoil the class for my stampers BUT I don't think they'll be disappointed with the cards they'll be making! I'll share those with you all tomorrow!

Inspired at GAB

Pam (dsp245 on SCS) inspired me during our embossing challenge last week with her beautiful card! I ordered the Elegant Bouquet EF and put this card together today based off of hers! I just love the colored rhinestones for the flower centers!!

Pam (dsp245 on SCS)

Stamps: Bring on the Cake
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron
Accessories: Elegant Bouquet EF, Rhinestones
Non-SU: Pink Permanent Marker

Happy New Year!!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you all had a very Happy New Year celebration! It's 12:44 here in AZ right now... I rang in the New Year with my two boys (they were and are asleep of course!) as my boyfriend took an extra shift this evening...

I just want to take a moment to share a few of my New Years "goals" with everyone...

1. Lose 20 pounds.. (baby weight)
2. Make and post AT LEAST one card a day
3. Take part in more challenges! I follow TONS of them but hardly do them...
4. Make the GAB Challenges site a success! We are set to start our challenges on Feb. 5th. If you like to play along in challenges please follow us! We would LOVE for you to play along!
5. Find a part time job.. I love being a SAHM but it's nice to have a little extra spending money. My hobby is getting EXPENSIVE! LOL

SO.. Here I am working on two of my goals already! (So much for the first one! LOL) I've been sitting here playing around with some more challenges... I've made this card with the ColorQ 65 challenge and the Sweet Shop 89 sketch challenge. This one actually proved to be a challenge for me as I went to gather my supplies I realized I was out of Basic Grey CS! I was sooo disappointed but I made do without it by stamping with grey instead. And the sketch wasn't exactly easy to me either! I LOVE the layout it just took me a while to figure out how I wanted it!

Enjoy!

Stamps: Afterthoughts, Bold Blossom
Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Old Olive, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Victoria Lace Ribbon, Polka Dot EF, Dimensionals, Large Pearl

Courtney

My first MDS creation!

Ok so for today's birthday share I have a card I made using MDS last night! It's nothing spectacular as I'm still trying to figure out how to use everything! If anyone out there has some pointers or would like to share their fave things to do with MDS feel free to let me know!

Courtney

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Todays the day! I'm officially 24!

I'm so lucky! I get to spend the day with my boys! And my weekend with my amazing boyfriend cause the boys are off to visit their grandparents! Yay! 2 whole days baby free! I'm so excited for this break! I'm definitely going to miss them! Being a SAHM is the most rewarding job in the world and a true blessing! I wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world! Every now and then it's nice to have a break though! = )

Oh! Before I forget again... The other day I made a comment about how I actually remembered my age... So earlier this year I was at a get together with my uncles family and his sister and I were talking. I hadn't seen her since I was about 13 or so. In the midst of our conversation about how crazy it was that she felt like it was just yesterday that I was a child and now here I was a mother to a 10 month old she asked how old I was... I seriously just stood there are froze. I COULDN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER MY AGE! Talk about embarrassing! After a minute or so I said 22 then I spit out 24 because I did the math in my head but then I remembered I hadn't had my birthday yet so then I yelled out 23! FINALLY I had my age right! It was so sad but so funny at the same time! I couldn't believe I had to stop and think about it as long as I did let alone think about it period! I think that's what kids do to you!

Good times! Good times!

So back to todays birthday share, I thought I'd put some butterflys in the air! hehe! I actually made this card last week but I absolutely LOVE it and wanted it to be my birthday post so I delayed posting it! It's pretty simple and easy but it's one of my favorites!

Birthday Squared

Welcome back for you guessed it! Another birthday card in celebration of my birthday week! Yay!

This was actually created for a sketch swap on a yahoo group I belong to. I posted a Christmas version a week or so ago and decided I needed a birthday one too because I like the sketch so much. At first I had a hard time deciding what paper to use but then I remember a post I saw the other day over at Anne Maries blog. She made a beautiful Christmas card with some DSP she had hoarded from last year so I decided to use up some old paper for this quick and simple card!

Thanks for inspiring me Anne! It's definitely time for me to stop being such a paper hoarder otherwise everything I have is going to be old and retired!

MM#2 Birthday Upgrade!

As promised, here is my birthday card for today! It's actually my card from the MM#2 sketch at GAB Challenges with an extra addition! I decided it simply needed a little more! It's so amazing how something so small can change the entire look of a card! I've posted the orginal first and the upgrade below!

Which one do you like best? Leave a comment telling me which one you like better and you may just be the lucky winner to a surprise blog candy!

MM#2 - GAB Challenges

Hey everyone!

It's another Manic Monday sketch challenge! Go check it out at GAB Challenges! Here's one of my creations for the challenge!

Birthday Bliss

Yay!!

That's right! It's my birthday week! I'll be 24 on Thursday! I actually remembered my age! Ha! I'll explain that one in a later post for those of you who are wondering...

Anyhow, in honor of my birthday I'm going to be posting at least one birthday card everyday this week! For some reason I find birthday cards to be challenging. I'm not sure why. I have tons of older SU! birthday sets but I'm not too crazy about many of the new ones... That may be my problem!

Anyhow here is my post for today! I'll try to get info up soon!

As always thank you for coming by and checking out my blog! Don't forget tomorrow is Manic Monday at GAB Challenges so be sure to stop by for a new sketch challenge!