Sparkle Creations Final Preview and June Release Day!!!

Good morning, friends! 

Thanks so much for your sweet comments, I'm so happy to be up and running again :) 

Today is Sparkle Creations last preview day AND release day!!! 

All new stamps are available NOW in the Sparkle Creations Store! 

Our last preview is here! 

Meet... Watermelon Rin!!! 

Isn't she adorable! I love everything about her :) 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the DT for more peeks of Rin! 

Oh, and be sure to leave your comments too! 

Sparkle will be giving away a Watermelon Rin rubber stamp to a lucky hopper! 

Giveaway ends tonight, EST... 

Alice Wertz
Amber Hight
Danielle Lounds
Kerri Michaud
Kim Yu
Margie Cortina (You are here!)
Savannah O'Gwynn
Shaela Odd
Simonne Clay
Sparkle Smith
Stephanie Kraft
Yvonne Yam - June Guest Designer
SCRS Blog

Thanks for stopping by today :)

Enjoy!!! 

"Fun in the Sun!" - Sparkle Creations Preview Day One

Hello everyone!!! 

I'm SO thrilled to be back with Sparkle Creations and the DT again :) 

Today is the first day of previews! 

Here's "Beach Chloe"... 

 It's time for some fun in the sun!!!

All new stamps will be available on Saturday, June 9th! 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the team for more sneak peeks :)

And be sure to leave your comments along the way! Sparkle will be giving away a 'Beach Chloe' rubber stamp to one lucky person :) You have until midnight EST to hop around!!!  

Alice Wertz
Amber Hight
Danielle Lounds
Kerri Michaud
Kim Yu
Margie Cortina (You are here!)
Savannah O'Gwynn
Shaela Odd
Simonne Clay
Sparkle Smith
Stephanie Kraft
Yvonne Yam - June Guest Designer
SCRS Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy! 

xoxo

Mahalo!

Good morning :) 

I'm so happy to have a card to share with you today! 

Today starts week 2 of the latest Sparkle Creations Challenge... 

And here is the card that I made using... 

Karber "Hawaii" Clear Stamp Set

I really do love coloring her hair! She's such a cutie :) 

Please be sure to stop by the Sparkle Creations Blog for more details! 

and don't forget to say HI to these lovely ladies too :) 

Kerri Michaud 

Savannah O'Gwynn 

Simonne Clay 

Sparkle Smith 

Stephanie Kraft

Thanks for stopping by, Happy Tuesday!!! 

I Dare You 2 Glimmer!!!

Good morning and happy M-day to you :) 

It's a new week! and we're looking forward to lots of good things!!! 

I'm starting off the week right with The Greeting Farm's 

ANYTHING GOES Fun Day Monday Challenge! 

Even though it's a bittersweet challenge for me, 

this is our last week as DT on the challenge blog :( 

I am going to miss working with these girlies so very much, sniff!!!

So for this challenge, I decided to use another newbie stamp - 

Glimmer Bean 

Here's a close-up... 

I added a bit of sparkle to her :) 

Hope you like my Glimmer Bean! 

Be sure to stop by TGF's Challenge Blog for all the deets! 

and then hop along to see what the DT created for the day too :) 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a fab day!!! xoxo 

Enjoy This Day :)

HELLO everyone :) 

Long... time... no... see! 

hee, hee!!! 

Hope you are all well!

I have a card to show you today, yippeee! 

There is another Friday Spy Day Challenge on 

The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Challenge Blog today! 

This week, we are "case-ing" Lou Mac's card... 

I tried to go with the same layout she used, 

and I also tried to be as decorative as I could with embellishments too - 

but, I am not as bold as she is :) 

Here is my card using the most cutest ckear stamp evaaa... 

"Shimmer Bean" 

I told you she was a cutie!!! 

Hope you'll play along with us this week! 

Be sure to hop along and visit the rest of the DT too :) 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Happy TGIF!!! 

Naturally Sweet, Strawberry!

Hi again :) 

Hold on to your seats - I have THREE posts for today! 

Woo hoo!!! 

I'm starting off with another sneak peek from 

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! 

And she is SO SWEET!!! 

Here is the latest Karber Clear Stamp Set... 

"Strawberry" 

Isn't she the cutest sweet lil' strawberry you've ever seen???
This stamp set comes with one main image, one sentiment and 5 accessory images! 

Be sure to visit all rest of the SCRS designers for more peeks of Karber Strawberry Set. Sparkle will be giving away Karber Strawberry Set to one lucky person! For a chance to win, you need to comment on all of the designer's blogs (list below). Then head on over to the SCRS blog and comment on the Karber post. You have until midnight EST each day to comment. The lucky winner will be announced the following day! 

Amber Hight 

Danielle Lounds 

Kerri Michaud 

Margie Cortina 

Savannah O'Gwynn

Happy Hopping!!! 

See you in a few with post #2!!! 

Congrats, you're engaged!

Hello there!!! It's March, and 'oh my', don't even get me started, lol! 

Just poppin' on to share a quick sneak peek with you! 

Yup, it's that time again! Sneak peeks from
Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps
and she's a beauty!!!

Here's "Engaged Lucy"... 

Be sure to visit all rest of the SCRS designers for more peeks of Engaged Lucy. Sparkle will be giving away Engaged Lucy  to one lucky person! For a chance to win, you need to comment on all of the designer's blogs (listed below). Then head on over to the SCRS blog and comment on the Lucy post. You have until midnight EST each day to comment. The lucky winner will be announced the following day!

Alice Wertz 

Amber Hight 

Danielle Lounds 

Kerri Michaud 

  Kim Yu 

Margie Cortina 

Savannah O'Gwynn 

Shaela Odd 

Simonne Clay 

Sparkle Smith 

Stephanie Kraft 

Thanh Vo - March Guest Designer

Happy Hopping :)
xoxo 

Tea-rrific!

Good morning friends :) 

Did this week feel like the longest one ever to exist? lol, it really did to me! 

I am so happy to be able to post something today!!! 

Real life has been keep me so very busy, doesn't it understand that this girl need's to get her bumble-y going on as much as possible! lol! 

The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenges 

has another Spy Day to play along with today!

It's all about 'case-ing' Lori Craig's beautiful Kraft-y card! 

I just had to use the same stamp set that she used, Tea-rrific! 

I also tried to stay true to the layout and elements she used too; 

krafty cardstock, scalloped circle, button/twine :) 

All good happy stuff to play with!!! 

Please be sure to check out what the rest of my teammates came up with too! 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Have a fab TGIF!!! 

xoxo 

Easter Bunny Ruby

It's SATURDAY!!! 

What are you doing this weekend??? 

We're expecting some snow today and I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to keep my scrappy plans or if I will be spending the weekend locked up with my boys, snug on the couch with our favorite movies... either way, they're both my favorite things to do, so it will be a win/win situation ;) hee hee!!! 

Also, to start the weekend right - today is release day at 

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps!!! 

 And we have a sweet Easter stamp to share with you... 

"Easter Bunny Ruby" 

I colored sweet Ruby with my Copics and then had some fun with some matchy scraps that I found in my bin, all from My Mind's Eye... and I went a bit overboard with my pearls again! I just love this liquid pen thingy so much! Fun :) 

Sparkle is also sponsoring this week's Card Patterns Sketch Challenge!!! 

Be sure to visit our fabulous SCRS designers for more peeks of Easter Bunny Ruby. 

Sparkle will be giving away an Easter Bunny Ruby stamp to one lucky person! 

For a chance to WIN, you need to visit and comment on all of the designers' Easter Bunny Ruby blog posts (listed below) and then leave a comment on the SCRS blog. 

You have until midnight EST tonight to comment.

Alice Wertz
Amber Hight
Danielle Lounds
Kerri Michaud
Kim Yu
Margie Cortina (you are here!)
Pam Varnell {February Guest Designer}
Savannah O'Gwynn
Shaela Odd
Simonne Clay
Sparkle Smith
Stephanie Kraft

Happy "hopping"!!! 

and enjoy your weekend!!! 

xoxo 

Leprechaun Oliver

Good day!!! 

Today is day ONE of Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps February previews! 

Sparkle will be releasing 2 new SCRS stamps with matching sentiments 

and 1 new Karber Clear Stamp Set on 

Saturday, February 11th :)

I'm so happy to finally show you "Leprechaun Oliver"...  

Oliver looks so jolly :) 

I colored Oliver with my Copics and used some more of my new Crate Paper DP... 

I found these old Doodlebug Design brads at the bottom of my jar, lol, thought that they would make a cute match with the theme of the card! 

Be sure to visit the awesome SCRS DT for more Oliver peeks today! 

Sparkle will be giving away one Leprechaun Oliver rubber stamp, so be sure to visit everyone and leave your comments on their blogs! 

You have until midnight EST tonight to hop along :)  to one lucky commenter! 

Alice Wertz

Amber Hight
Danielle Lounds
Kerri Michaud
Kim Yu
Margie Cortina
Pam Varnell {February Guest Designer}
Savannah O'Gwynn
Shaela Odd
Simonne Clay
Sparkle Smith
Stephanie Kraft

Enjoy the new release :) 

xoxo 

A Retro-Fresh Book Keeper!

Happy Day to You!!! 

It's Wednesday and although I feel a bit crummy, more on that later, and blogger had been misbehaving in the worse kinds of way this week - I'm in a good mood! hee hee! It must be all the chocolate I've been eating... sigh... yes, it must be since I've gained about 7lbs since Christmas, lol! 

Moving on to the fun stuff for today :) 

There's another Retro-Fresh Challenge up on 

The Greeting Farm Challenge Blog today!!! 

This month, Jess is challenging us to think 'paper dimensions'!!! 

Pop up those TGF stamps by using pop dots, silicone glues, etc. Whatever gives you that extra pop! 

I wanted something to help me keep track of all the books that I own, whether it be on my bookshelf or e-reader, and also, a wishlist of books that I want to read this year! So, I decided to alter a black/white notebook... 

I used The Greeting Farm's Blush Society Stamps, Bonnie and Heart, 

I also used Splotchy and some clear stamps from Lucky Bunnies and Made By: 

I colored Bonnie with Copics and paper pieced part of her dress with My Mind's Eye Portobello Road DP and used a white pen to highlight her a bit to make her 'pop' since everything looked so dark against her white-ish dress... 

On the inside, I added some alpha stickers to create a directory and have started penning in what I have so far :)  This has been one of the best things I've ever created for myself - I no longer have to run to the computer to add stuff in before I forget! Yes, I'm ol' fashion, I like the pen to paper technique too! AND it helps to keep me off the computer too, lol! 

You have all month to play along with the challenge! 

Be sure to stop by and check out what the DT has created too :)

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Enjoy your Wednesday!!! 

xoxo 

TOUCHDOWN!!! {SCRSC72}

Good afternoon crafty friends :) 

Is it really Tuesday?! It feels like a Thursday already, lol ;) 

One can hope, right?! 

Not that I want time to fly by, 

but I really do look forward to our weekends that are schedule free and full of family time fun! 

Don't we all :) 

I have a really fun card to share with you today! 

I am, by no means, a sports fanatic at all! So, if the colors I used by any chance support any team out there, my bad, lmao! I wasn't going for that ;) hee, hee! 

However, I was boo-ed by all the boys in my family that I should have gone with the Giants colors... I'm thinking that if I would have, they wouldn't have won ;) So there! ha! 

Any-hoo! Here is the second half of 

Sparkle Creations Challenge {SCRSC72}:

Create a card using any of your team colors, or anything football related! 

I, of course, used "Football Josh" for my card :)  

Please forgive any smudges you may see, it seems that a certain lil guy around here was quite interested in the sparkly stuff on today's card ;) 

I colored Josh with my Copics and then found some scraps of My Mind's Eye to put the card together, easy-peasy! Love how it turned out!!! 

Please be sure to check out what the rest of the DT came up with for today too!

Kerri Michaud

Margie Cortina 

Savannah O'Gwynn 

Simonne Clay 

Sparkle Smith

Thanks! and enjoy the rest of you day :) 

xoxo 

My Sweet Angel Card...

Good Friday everyone!!! 

Wow, another week just blew away and it's February!!! 

I have to be honest, I was actually a bit afraid to post for today, lol! 

It's been so long since I've posted anything here, I'm thinking that people have either forgotten about me or are mad or both! ha! Sorry! 

I had to step back for a bit and figure out why my mojo has been lacking so much lately. It's never been this bad before and I have felt so overwhelmed and sad by it. I've been blogging and doing my thing here for 3 1/2 years now, and I have never stayed away for more than 3 days at a time. 

It's time to make some changes! and have some fun! 

So for now, I want to share with you the card I made for today's

Spy Day Challenge at The Greeting Farm!!! 

This week, we are 'case-ing' Jas' card!!! 

and this is what I came up with: 

This is my first time using my sweet Angel Anya rubber stamp!!! 

Isn't she gorgeous!?

I used a scrap of Echo Park DP, found a paper silver doily and colored her up with my Copics... even did a bit of distressing there, lol! Quick simple card... wondering what occasion I could use this one for...??? 

Here's a close up at her sparkly halo and wings :) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

I truly do love my visitors and comment-ers :) 

Please be sure to check out the rest of the DT and see what they've been up to!!! 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Don't forget that tomorrow TGF will have another 

sketch challenge posted on their SCS forum!!!

Happy weekend!!! 

xoxo 

JOY!!! A NEW Saturday Sketch Challenge at TGF!!!

Good Saturday afternoon :) 

Let's start the weekend off with a fun NEW sketch challenge!!! 

The Greeting Farm is now hosting a NEW sketch challenge exclusively on their SCS Forum!

Very cool :) hee hee! 

You can go HERE to see the challenge rules! 

and HERE to see our very first sketch!!! 

For the first sketch, I decided to finally ink up my new 

Miss Anya Garland Rubber Stamp Set! 

All 3 Miss Anya's in the set are so pretty! I couldn't decide who to color up first, and then finally decided to use this one since I love daisies and those braids in her hair! She's so pretty :) 

I also used my Flutter Heart Clear Stamp Set for the sentiment! There are SO many possibilites with this set, one of my faves! With all those pendant stamps, eeek! So much fun :) 

Here's a peek at the sketch for this week: 

Hee hee! Yes, I created the sketch! With Jessica and Marie's help :)

I am so happy to have this opportunity to expand my creativity with TGF!!! 

I hope you all will play along with us!!! 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend :)

xoxo 

You Warm My Heart! {TESC151}

Happy TGIF to you!!!
Let's celebrate!!! Woo Hoo!!!
It's a rainy cold day out here on Long Island, but I'm not going to let it get to me since I'm in such a good mood this morning! It seems that my mojo has decided to stop by for a visit, so I'm going to take advantage of it and try to crossing off as many things as I can off my to-do list today!!!

Let's start the TGIF celebrations with a NEW
Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge!!! 
The first challenge for 2012 is here!!! Yippeee!!!
I'm SO happy to be back with the Sketch Crew this year :)

There have been some changes to the Sketch Challenges,
please be sure to visit Taylor's blog for all the updates, thanks!!!

I decided to finally ink up my newest stamp from TE,
"Polar Pete" 

Doesn't Pete make a sweet Valentine!?
I'm going to give this one to my 5yo, he'll adore it!
I used my Copics to color him in and the water - I was trying to test my blues out, lol!
and I used one of my fave Valentine paper pads,
We R Memory Keepers "Love Struck".

I better crack out some of my TE penguins for my 8yo's card today, I don't want them to sneak peek and not find one for himself, lol! Yes, I'm running out of hiding spots!  

Here is Taylor's sketch:

Please take a few minutes to visit the rest of the Crew to see their sweet creations too :) 
Cassie Trask 
Jami Sibley 
Lisa Hjulberg 
Lori Craig 
Margie Cortina 
Monika Davis 
Rachel Sztonyk 
Tracy Clemente 
Taylor VanBruggen 


Have a wonderful Friday!!! xo

Sewing for Baby Riley... Riley and Company Release and Blog Hop!!!

Good Evening Friends :) 

It's Riley and Company Release and Blog Hop Time!!! 

Woo Hoo!!! 

and this is one of the cutest releases ever!!! 

To start the hop from the beginning, please to to the 

Riley and Company Blog :)

Remember to leave comments on everyone's blogs, at every stop you can win a Riley stamp!!! AND, if you place your order within the first 24hours, you will receive a FREE Travel Sticker Stamp!!! 

AND, there is also FREE shipping until Sunday, January 29th!!! 

SO cool!!!  

Before you hop along to your next stop, here are my cards :) 

"Sewing Sophie" 

It seems that Sophie is a lot better at sewing/embroidering than I am! 

She doesn't have any band aids on ;) hee hee! 

and

"Baby Blocks Riley"  

Aw, doesn't Baby Riley bring the baby talk out of you?! 

I just want to pinch his cheeks and cuddle with him :) 

That's it from me!!!
Your next stop is Michele!!! 

Enjoy hopping around!!! xo

Dessert Chef!

Hello everyone!!! 

Just a quick post to let you all know about 

Riley and Company's Release and Blog Hop tonight!!! 

It all starts at 10pm EST!!! 

Here's a little tease of what you'll be seeing tonight ;) 

"Mixing Bowl Riley" 

When I was little, I used to tell my parents that I was going to marry a Chef,
hee hee... if only I knew about Dessert Chefs then - I probably would have worked a bit harder on finding one, lol! 

I can't complain, my hubs is an excellent cook! and he can bake a good cake too!!! 

but I'm the best at cookies and brownies ;) hee, hee!!! 

Hope to see you all tonight!!! 

Don't forget, you can take a quick peek at the Moosemate's blogs too!!! 

Cindy Haffner

Frances Byrne

Silke Kittman

Laurie Clout

Michelle L

Kelly Santi

Jovita Torres

Margie Cortina

Joy Stagg

Guest Designer: Jamie Rogers Moore  

Enjoy!!! 

xoxo