Now & Forever

Hi friends.  I made this card for my most recent Trend's Article at StampNation - Ampersands!  I am entering this at MUSE challenge and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge.  I absolutely LOVE this week's MUSE: Laurie Willison.  Here is her card.

My card uses the stripes embossing folder and of course, an ampersand negative.  I also CASEd the card on page 134 of the current SU! catalog.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Thanks

Hi friends.  When I saw the cue word for CASology I knew I wanted to use this twiggy tree die from Memory box.  These trees are exactly what I see when I look out our windows.  All the leaves have fallen and they are bare and brown.  :(

 Another card just for fun.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

***I have updated my Stamps for Sale page.***

Cardstock:  Kraft, Chocolate chip, real red, whisper white

Ink:  Crumb cake

Stamps:  Thanks (SU!)

Accessories:  Stitched rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Twiggy tree die and resting birds (memory box)

Merry Monday & Dynamic Duos

 

Hi friends.  I love the colors for this weeks Merry Monday challenge - red, aqua, white and circles & Dynamic Duos Challenge.  These colors are great for Christmas.  I was stumped all day yesterday, nothing I tried worked but finally came up with a few cards using the sets from Wplus9 and Simon Says.

Here are a couple more that I made.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!  One of these days I will get my photos right.  Ugh!  I am asking Santa for a new camera this year, hopefully that will help.  Any recommendations on a good one?

***I have also updated my Stamps for Sale page.***

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Real Red, Bermuda Bay
Ink:  Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White
Stamps:  Borders & Builders 2 (Wplus9), Merry Trees (SSS)
Accessories:  Rhinestones, Merry Trees dies (SSS)

Happy Birthday, Tracey!!!

 

Hi friends!  My card today is for Tracey from In My Creative Opinion.  Today is her birthday and Joyce from Cards by the Sea organized a Linky party for her.

I love Tracey's cards and when I was browsing her blog I noticed she uses the Stitched rectangles quite a bit so I wanted to use them too.  ;)  I also thought this sentiment, originally designed to use with Christmas cards works well when paired with Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Tracey!!!  May you have a wonderful day, week, month & year!!!  XOXO

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Cardstock:  Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate, Whisper white

Ink:  Smoky Slate, Cherry Cobbler, Lucky Limeade, Versafine black

Stamps:  Holiday Home, Birthday Sentiments (PTI)

Accessoires:  Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Hearts die (SSS)

Santa Claus is coming to town

Hi friends.  I saw the sketch over at Retro sketches this week and just had to play along.  I am in love with these houses from PTI.  So fun! 

I am also going to enter this at Merry Monday.  They want us to use Santa on our project and I realized this is the only Santa I have.  I think I need to remedy that by next Christmas. 

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

CASology Guest Designer!

 

Hi friends!  I am honored to be guest designer this week at CASology.  My card was chosen in last week's challenge.  

This week the cue word is - Black.  I am on a Christmas card making roll lately so I went with a black Christmas card.

I used the inlaid die cutting technique on my card.  Love this technique.  The sentiment is embossed with white embossing powder.

How are you inspired by Black?  Hope you join in on the fun.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Cardstock:  Basic Black, Whisper white
Ink:  Versamark, Versafine black
Stamps:  Starry Christmas (MFT), Greetings of the Season (SU!)
Accessories:  Starry Christmas dies, Lil' Inker stitched rectangles, rhinestone, white embossing powder

StampNation Design Team Call & Winners

Happy Monday friends.  I joined StampNation the first day it opened.  I have watched the site grow by leaps and bounds and started on the Design Team in Sept. 2012.  I am also Trends Editor for StampNation, bringing the latest trends in papercrafting to the site.  I love StampNation and know you would too!

Read on to see if this is the Design Team for you.

StampNation Design Team Call - (Term December 1st - February 28th)

StampNation is a premier paper crafting community, a place to share inspiration and knowledge with members from around the world.

For the first time ever, we are looking outside of the community for 2 new Design Team Members. DT responsibilities include: Weekly Challenges, Weekly Blog Posts & commenting and participating in conversations around StampNation as well as welcoming our new Sistahs.

New DT members will receive free membership for the length of their term.

Applicants must have an active blog (4 or more posts per week) and be passionate about papercrafting!!!

If you’d like to join the StampNation Design Team, please send us 3 samples of your best work, as well as a little bit about yourself and why you think you’d be a great fit for our team. Also include current/past design team work and recognitions or publications (these are not requirements to be on the DT).

Please send applications to maureenlmerritt@mac.com with the Subject line “SN Design Team Applicant” by Monday, November 11th. Chosen applicants will be contacted by November 15th.

We are constantly looking at ways to improve StampNation to make it the very best site on the internet for education, fun and sisterhood. We are looking forward to bringing fresh and fun ideas and designs to StampNation and we are looking forward to hearing from you!

*Before applying please click here to learn more about StampNation and to see if this is the place for you!

 Please let me know if you have any questions!

I want to thank everyone who left comments for a chance to win a spot in A Very Trendy Holiday online class.

The two winners are:

Congratulations ladies!  You can email Catherine with your details and she will get you set up.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!