Fab Friday 09

Hi stampers!  TGIF!  I can NOT say that enough....having Tuesday off has kind of thrown me off and even though it was a "short" week it feels looooong and work has been rough this week.  Thank goodness I'm back to my "normal" (as IF my schedule is ever normal, ha) schedule next week!  And I hope everyone's new year is off to a great start!  My NYE was fantastic because I got to spend it with my BFF dancing and having a blast AND she got engaged on NYE eve!  So, you can expect an engagement card soon, hehe!

Anyway, it's time for the first Fab Friday challenge of 2013!  We'd like to thank everyone who played along with us in 2012 and look forward to another year of fun challenges and fabulous entries!  We're starting off the near year with a fun and easy sketch!  I know I've been in kind of a slump from the holidays and what not so this was a great way to get my creativity flowing and it felt good to create again!

I had a lot of ideas for this card but I decided to keep it simple since I was just getting back into the swing of things after all the holiday hoopla!  I did use a retired stamp set...please forgive me:-)  AND in other exciting news you can still order the sentiment stamp I used because it's one of the carry overs into the Spring Catalog! You can find those items in the back of the spring catalog WHICH you can now order from as well!

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Mixed medley (retired hostess), seasonal sayings (carry over stamp set)
Paper:  Crumb cake, real red
Ink:  Whisper white craft, real red
Accessories:  Pool party baker's twine, bitty buttons, small heart punch, pool party embossing powder

Notice the peek of the new embossing powder?  It's so pretty!  And I'm still on a sponging with white kick I guess....and it works as well for V-day as it does for Christmas!  Yay!

Now, go check out the Fab Friday site and see what the other designers came up with!  They did some fabulous things with this sketch!  And don't forget to play along!

Happy stamping!

Sweet Surprise!

Hi stampers (and sorry for the lateness of this post....I had autopost all set to go....but the best laid plans....of course I'm out of town so it took a bit of time to get interwebz) I have a big surprise today!  I'm the guest stamper at The Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!  I was so surprised and excited when Karen emailed me, ohmygoodness!  I always love her sketches!

And this week's is fabulous!  Just look!

And I had so many ideas for it!  I had a hard time deciding what to do.  I will be using this one again for sure.

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Snowflake soiree, mixed medley (hostess)
Paper:  Very vanilla, early espresso, cherry cobbler, island indigo, festival of prints DSP stack
Ink:  Early espresso, cherry cobbler, island indigo
Accessories:  1-1/4" scalloped circle punch, circle punches, argyle embossing folder, basic rhinestones

As I'm in a rush to get this posted I'll come back and edit the supplies later.  But I had to use the little hostess set we got at convention!  It worked perfectly for this card!  And of course I flipped the sketch because I like to mix it up:-)

Now make sure to play along with the challenge!  And you could be a guest stamper!  Squeeee!  So exciting!

Happy stamping!

Spooky kitteh

Hi stampers!  Quick post again today and then I'm off to hopefully get some good stamping time in.  I have some really fun stuff coming up in the next few weeks and I have got to get to work!  I did manage to get a card made last night before I fell asleep though, yay me!  :-)

I just love this little kitteh!  He's so cute!  And yellow/orange cats are my favorite! I've been wanting a cat lately but sadly I'm HIGHLY allergic so that's not gonna happen.  Did I mention my convention cat story yet?  I can't remember if I did or not but long story short there was a cat on the PLANE on the way home from convention in the seat behind me!  OMG!  I was freaking out when I found out and then imeediately knew why my eye started itching when I sat down!  Most times I break out in horrible hives so I was a bit concerned to be in such close quarters with the little guy!  Luckily I was able to move to the back row (although the flight attendent said I wouldn't want to sit there because the seats didn't recline...um I sat in one on the way to SLC and really who cares if it kept me from having an in-flight emergency, lol) and even better....I had it all to myself..so really I guess I should thank Mr. Kitteh:-)  Anyway that's the story and I know I keep saying I'll share more from convention and I promise I will.   I've just been pulled in a million directions lately and I haven't got through all my pictures and stuff.  Maybe I'll have them shared by next year's convention, hehe!  But seriously....stay tuned, ok?

So onto the orange kitty cat:

Stampin' Supplies:
Stamps:  Frightening feline, mixed medley (Holiday hostess set)
Ink:  Basic black, basic gray, tangerine tango
Paper:  Very vanilla, basic black, tangerine tango, howlstooth & scaringbone
Accessories:   3" circle die, 1-1/4" scallop circle punch, circle punch, spider web embossing folder, color spritzer, basic rhinestones

I finally remembered to use my spritzer!  I love the spritzed look and keep forgetting about it so I stuck it on my desk last week so I'd remember to use it:-)  The cute little spider web is from the new hostess set in the holiday seasonal catalog.  It's another freebie from convention!  I was hoping we'd get it and it was the last give away! It's totally cute and matches the new smaller scallop circle punch which is also crazy cute! 

Ok, off to stamp....and do laundry:p

Happy stamping!