Hello Yellow!

     Today was another fun day in my craft room and I am happy to be here to share some new cards with you.  My first card was actually one I finished up last night for three different challenges.   My original inspiration came from the latest Copic Coloring Challenge over at the Color Me Creative Classroom.  The theme for Janaury was to color up a card based on some Wintery Color Photos that Suzanne shared.    Think - Frosty, Cold and Winter!!

   I started by picking out a cute little image to color and went with sweet little Hattie, who is from DigiStamp Boutique and is dressed in a perfect little winter outfit.    I colored her up in lots of shades of blues and blue greens along with lots of wonderful glitter for sparkle and shine.  My border is another wonderful die from Memory Box, which was one of the first I bought for Christmas Cards.  Oh and speaking of Christmas Cards, we are having a fun year-round inspiration challenge each week over at Crafting by Designs that is called "Getting Ready for Christmas".    The goal is to create at least one new card each week and inspires us all to make a head start for the following year.   It's a perfect way to stock up and also is great for those of us, who create cards for Operation Write Home.

    This is the card that I created for both challenges and I'm also submitting it to the Monthly Customer Challenge over at DigiStamp Boutique, which you'll find on their blog HERE!!

    My next card was created for today's new Color Combo Challenge being hosted over at The Outlawz Group.  This week Rox has come up with a pretty color combination and twist and I am sharing it with you here, to inspire you to join us. 

   There was a time a rarely, if ever colored or used my yellow in my cards, but the more I use it, the more I'm finding it like it and I had so much fun with this color combo, that I actually created three cards with it today.   The card that I am submitting to the challenge is this first one, as it's the one that also has the required "Twist" which is to include Fabric.   Fabric is not something I have much of, as I can not sew for beans, but I did have a few scraps of ruffled yellow trim in my stash and I hope that will work!   T 

   While in my yellow mode, and using up more of the papers I had pulled for the first card, I came up with a second card to share.   For this one, I found some yellow tulle in my stash and added that under my flowers as another layer and for some more dimension and texture

  And as the very end, I colored up another little Marcie image that was left over from one of yesterday's cards.  I colored her in the combo colors and quickly put together this very sweet little notecard.  The sentiment is also from Lori Boyd and part of a collection I bought some time back.  It's also the song I used to sing to my boys when they were little and every time I hear it, I think back of those fond memories...it makes me smile and feel very happy!!!

   I think she's simply adorable and after having so many sweet comments on the card I created with Marcie yesterday, I thought it would be fun to try again!     It a very simple card, but is still one I think is cute!

   I'm off now to clean my Copics and try to work on another page in my Smash Book.   Did you know we also have a new Smash Book/Journal group over at Color Me Creative?   Yes, we do and it's been a fun way to find inspiration and ideas for my book.   I have not accomplished too much in mine, but I really enjoy the group and you are welcome to join us too!   You'll find us HERE in the main classroom and this too is a FREE group and like the Copic Challenge Group, it's open to ALL!!

   See you all tomorrow!  I'll be off in the morning as I am heading out to have my nails done, but will be back and working on my Surprise!!   Stay tuned!!!

As sweet as can be!!

   I am such a "Girlie Girl" and I think it's because of fact that I raised two sons and spent most of the last twenty years living in a home with three males!   Goodness knows I LOVE them all to pieces, but there is nothing cute or fun and frilly about the way they dress or the type of decor they like in their rooms.   I had a peach bathroom for a few year, but they kept calling it PINK...nope it's was peach, but men, don't seem to get colors like we do.   I'm actually really to re-paint that bathroom again, and wait until they see my new color, because guess what hue it's going to be in.....!  If you guessed purple, you are RIGHT!  Although it's more of a light lavender and I've narrowed it down to three shades- French Lavender, Meghan (which ironically is my future daughter-in-law's name), and Spring Violet.   All the trim will be a bright white. as is the toilet, tub/shower and vanity.   The entire color scheme, actually came from a really cute little trash bucket I found at Michael's!  Go Figure!  I also already added a little lavender hamper and matching shower curtain.   I wish I had done my craft room in these colors and in time, I do plan to change that room too, but with so much furniture and 'stuff', it's way too much work for now.

   And speaking of sweet and adorable, some of my favorite digi images have been created by Lori and Hannah  Boyd of By Lori Designs and today's card shares one of my new favorites.  All their little images are always a joy to create with and I find it very hard to pass up a new release.  Today's card features Marcie, who is one of the newest little Bug & Roo images, created by Hannah (Lori's daughter).   You can find them along with a huge collection of wonderful images at Lori's store HERE!

    My card today features little Marcie and was created for a variety of fun new challenges.  It was originally inspired by the new Challenge over at Lori's site, which you can find HERE!  I have copied over the wonderful inspiration image that Lori shared as our inspiration.  As soon as I saw the picture I knew I wanted to play and knew I had some adorable digi papers that would work perfect.
 
.... The challenge this week is a Photo Inspiration Challenge...let it inspire you to create whatever you like, any way you like:

                                                            Photo is from and can be found at Cozy Canadian Cottage..

  

   I also knew that I wanted to paper-piece on a cute little outfit and submit my card to a new Paper Piecing Challenge, being hosted at Crafting by Designs.   I buy almost ALL of my wonderful digi papers from Shery K Designs and really LOVE them.  If you hop on over to Shery's store now, you can even sign up for a chance to win a Brand New Silhouette Cameo!!    You'll find all the details on her site, but hurry, the contest is almost over!!   Good Luck to ALL!!

   Once I had my papers picked out, I simply printed everything out onto my favorite Cryogen Cardstock.  I then cute out the little outfit I wanted for Marcie and a did the same for her little Hair Bow.  I colored the rest with my Copics and layered then used a nestie die to cute her out and layered that onto a second scalloped circle, of pink and white paper.  I then added that to a green checkered layer and put it all onto some pink polka-dotted cardstock from Memory Box.  I add a sweet little 'I Love You' Sentiment and tied on a little heart with Pink Twine.  I punched some more hearts with my mini Heart Punch and put it all together to make this sweet little card.  

     Don't you just love her?   I think she's simply adorable and these are the types of wonderful images that I adore.  They always make me SMILE and are fun and Happy.    I  had a lot of fun picking up papers to use to paper-piece her cute little overall and matching hair bow!     

      I'm submitting her to each of these fun new challenges and I invite you ALL to join in and play along:

• By Lori Designs - Photo Inspiration - Challenge # 23
• Crafting by Designs - January Technique Challenge - Paper Piecing
• The Outlawz Group - Monday Greeting Cards - Use Hearts

    And now I am off to work on some new cards and to continue on my special projects.....Sshhh...it's a surprise, but stay tuned!!   Wishing everyone a wonderful week!!

I feel awesome...and have lots to share!!

   After a week of dealing with a stomach bug on top of my daily life with Fibro, I am THRILLED to be feeling good today!!  Yippee!!   I can never say enough about how wonderful it is to feel good!   It's also been a super weekend for me and I have lots of new cards to share.
 
     I missed crafting so much and was so excited to make up some of my lost time.   I started by heading off to my LSS, (Absolutely Everything),  for two card-making classes yesterday.  When I left in the morning, I thought I would simply stay for the first class and then take the afternoon set home.    I really did not think I would make it through two classes, so imagine my surprise when I did.  I think having all that extra rest this week, paid off!  Yippee!!

      The first class was my favorite, because we used Copics for most of the coloring, and also made some really pretty Valentine Cards.   All of the stamps were from Northwoods and this is the first time, I've taken one of their classes.   Below is a copy of the board we had as our inspiration for the class and we created all six of the cards shown.   I changed up a few things on some of my cards, as you'll see below.

      The first card I will share is actually my absolute favorite and the one that I chose to submit to this week's Twisted Thursday Challenge at The Outlawz.   The challenge this week is 'Anything Goes' with a twist of RED - you can find all the details on the site.

  I loved this card so much that I bought both Stamps and will be making this again.  It was colored with a combination of Copics, Distress Inks and even some Red Glitter.  The heart image was first stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed in black.  I colored the red little hearts and roses with Copics and Stamped a second heart, which we cut out only the roses, colored and popped them up on the card.  The backgrounds of the heart, tag and little I love you tag were colored with Distress Ink in Tea Dye and Aged Mahogany.

   The next card is my second favorite and is was also very quick and easy to color.   I love the basket full of tiny hearts think this card could be used year round as a love type card too!   I think I may end up buying this stamp, the next time I'm back at the store.   This is the card that I created to submit to the Copic/Prismacolor Challenge this week (Anything Goes), also being hosted over at 'The Outlawz'.

   
    The next four cards were the remaining cards we made in class.  Most of the gals in class liked this next card best.  Usually pinks and purples are may favorite too, but in this class I really loved the deep reds...Go Figure??

This card is really pretty and has lots

of Sparkle and Shine!!

   The last card does not feature the stamps we used in class.  I actually did not like how that card turned out, so I took it apart today and keep the pink background and the dies cut borders and put that together will all new elements today, to make this card for the new CAS Challenge over at The Outlawz.  Our challenge this week is a 'Melting Pot Challenge' and the idea is to use (4) different elements on our card.    Mine are:  Die Cut Border, Patterned Paper, Die Cut Hearts, which I popped and Distressed in Spun Sugar.  My last element was adding a little Stick pin, which I made today with white and pink beads and finished off with a little Baker's Twine bow.  I like this card so much more than the one I had done yesterday and I'm very happy I started over!! :)

     My next set of cards were all created in the second class and these cards and stamps are all from Inky Antics and are very whimsical and cute.   In this set they are all cute little bears and we colored them all with the new Marvy Le Plume Alcohol Markers which have recently hit the market.   They are very much a lower cost version of a Copic, but in my humble opinion, they are nothing like a Copic and not a marker I would buy.  They only have one tip (brush), are not refillable and the colors are very washed out looking, as you'll see in the cards.  They almost have a chalk-like look, which could appeal to some.    I LOVE the vibrant colors of Copic's ink much more, and I admit I am spoiled, because I already own my Copics.  Had I never tried Copics, I might like these more, which is why I can understand that for some crafters this might be a much more affordable marker.   The retail price is $2.99 and there are currently 144 colors.    These are all six of the cards and I'm starting with my favorite first, which is also the featured card on the Ink Antic site.

       They are kind of cute, but I not really my favorite styles or colors.   I did not end up buying any of the stamps or the contrasting papers.    Even so, it was still nice to get out and spend time with others, who love to create as much as I do.   It was a fun afternoon, but I really LOVED the morning class and cards much more.

        Today, I have two more cards done and ready to share and the first was created for today's new Sketch Challenge over at OWH's Stars and Stamps Blog.  We are now working on Sketch # 106 and this is a copy I copied over to share!    I really enjoyed this sketch and know it's one I'll use again!!

Sketch # 106

My Card

Note:  Special thanks to Paula for creating me new OWH Watermarks for my cards!  I love them both and will put them to good use!!  THANK YOU!!!

   And last, but not least, I have one more card to share and this one was also based on a CAS Sketch and is also for a new challenge over at Crafting By Designs.    I have also copied over Gwen's Sketch to share and inspire you to join.

CBD Sketch

My Card

  This card, although very Clean and Simple is also one of my favorite cards today.  It was created with a brand new stamp set that I just LOVE from Hero Arts.   Both the Sentiment and sweet little floral image are part of the set (Merci Bouquet), along with even more adorable images.  This stamp I bought after seeing Jennifer McGuire used it in the CAS Class.   I love it and colored my little flowers with Copics and Spica Pens!!!

   Oh, and speaking of Jennifer, I was absolutely thrilled to hear that she is expecting a new Baby this Spring.  For those of you who had not heard the news, she shared it on her blog on Friday.  You can see it here, along with an adorable picture of her and her sweet little son, Colin.  I am so happy for the entire family!!   She's glowing!!   Congratulations again Jennifer, I'm beyond thrilled for you all!!   Enjoy your time at CHA and have a safe and happy trip back home!!   

    And now I am off to work on a special project!!  Sshhh....it's a secret, but it's going to be fun and I can't wait to share it all with you, later this week.   Be sure to stop by each day, so you don't miss out, there may even be some Blog Candy involved???    In the meantime, I want to thank everyone for all the Well Wishes and for the sweet comments you all left for me when I was sick last week.   I'm looking forward to doing a lot more crafting this week and I am off to a nice start!!

My thanks to Operation Write Home!

  Today is a very special day for and and I wanted to take a minute to share it with all my craft friends.   I am very excited to be this week's Featured Cardmaker over at OWH's Stars and Stamps Blog.   My special thanks to Paula for contacting me about this wonderful honor.   I'm very happy and truly feel very proud to be a member of Operation Write Home and love doing my little part to let our heroes know how much we value and appreciate their service.  

 As many of you know I have been creating cards for Operation Write Home for the past two years and find it a wonderful way to say THANK YOU to those who proudly protect and serve our country.     I also love to take part in their challenges and my two favorites have always been the Midweek Throwdown, which is hosted every Wednesday, as well as the weekly Sketch Challenge, hosted each Sunday.

  I would also like to invite and encourage all of my card-maker friends to consider being a member of this fabulous group.   Even if you only have a time to make a few cards each week or month, they will all be greatly appreciated.  You can even send me your cards and I'll be happy to Stamp and Tuck them and include them in my next shipment!!    If you think this is something you'd like to do or if you want more details about being a card-maker for OWH, please go here!!    If you are not a card-maker, but would like to help out, donations are also greatly appreciated and you can donate directly from the main site, simply go HERE!!

  I hope you'll consider joining us and know you won't be disappointed!  If you need more inspiration, you can find it here!    I think you'll be very happy you joined this group!   You also find us on Facebook and we welcome you to stop by and visit!

Sick day....Yuk!

....Well more like a couple of days of not feeling so hot!!   Needless to say I have not been doing much in my craft room, but did manage to make it to a fun Card Class yesterday at my LSS!   I had felt better yesterday, but now feel kind of queasy again!

      I think I need a nice day of extra rest and that's my plan for today!  I am HOPING tomorrow will be a  better day and I can find lots of time to create!   I miss being in my craft room and would much rather be crafting than feeling so Yuk.....

   Hoping you are all feeling well and that you all have a wonderful week!    See you in another day or so and praying this 'Bug' leaves me alone!!

Sad Day...Happy Day...Very HAPPY DAY!!

   One of those days that is full of happy and sad.  The sad part actually started late yesterday when I started feeling really lousy.   I am not sure if I had a touch of a stomach bug or even possible a gall bladder attack, but boy did it come on fast and did I ever feel awful.  I ended up going to bed halfway through the Football game and fell asleep, only to wake up at the end to find out my team had won!!  Go PATS!!!    As much as I was happy about that, my stomach was still feeling awful and I could not get back to sleep or even feel comfy.  I ended up getting up and took some Pepto and went back to bed.  Needless to say, I did not sleep well and even woke up still feeling pretty lousy.  On a happy note, as the day has moved along I am feeling better, the pain is now gone and the nausea is much improved!   I had some crackers and tea and that seemed to help!   Phew!!

    Today is also a bittersweet day over at the CAS Class as this is our final day and I know I'll miss it.  I've had withdrawal from each of the classes and know that this week will be no different.   I am, however, very excited to about the new class which will be in March.  It's going to a HUGE hit and if you happen to like Tim Holtz, you'll want to be join in, as he will be teaching in March!  Woohoo!!  I was also thrilled to find out that I was one of the very lucky winners in this class and I won $30 worth of Stamps from Purple Onion Designs!   Can you say HAPPY!!   Yippee!!

    Imagine my happiness when I read this news on the class site this morning --

 
   Finally, we have Lisa Haines who wins $30 worth of stamps from Purple Onion Designs. Purple Onionhas some fabulous unmounted rubber stamps – all high quality and unique. We LOVE their alphabets!  Be sure to check out their blog HERE.   They have a great design team.

  I want to say THANK YOU again to Jennifer, Kristina and Julie for a fantastic class.  My thanks also goes out to Simon Says Stamp and Ellen Hutson for being class sponsors and for the great discounts they gave to all the students!!

  And now, I'd like to thank Purple Onion Designs for their prize too!   I'm very excited and have already been over to the blog to check out the adorable stamps!!   I have a feeling it's a store I'll visit often, as they have a wonderful variety of great stamps!!

  And back to more HAPPY things I have two new cards to share today and the first one, was actually once I had started yesterday.  It's based on this week's Sketch over at Operation Write Home's Stars and Stamps Blog.

   And I also have one more which was created for this week's CAS Challenge over at The Outlawz.  Our challenge this week was to create a CAS Style card to to use something NEW!  I decided to create my card with the awesome Card Kit I bought last week from Simon Says Stamp.  It's one of the new monthly card kits that are now being designed by Kristina Werner and offered by subscription at SSS!!   

      I am so happy that I'm now feeling better and that my day keeps getting happier and happier.  My mail lady was here while I was working on this post and I had three wonderful HAPPY Mail packages today.  The first was a pretty Hero Arts Stamp that I had been wishing for last week, after it was used one day in Class.   I lucked out and found it (brand new) on eBay for only $8.25!!  

     
And in the second package was my wonderful new Copics!   Woohoo!  I am very excited to be adding the newest release to my collection and LOVE that it has two new Purple shades!!!   Special thanks to Ashley at iCopic for shipping them out so fast!   You ROCK!!

   And my last wonderful goodie package is my most recent order from Simon Say Stamps!  I've had such great service from their have totally loved shopping at the store, during our CAS Class.   I bought the newest Corner Chomper to add to my collection, along with a cute little date stamp and I'm planning to use my Smash Book. 

  What a FUN and HAPPY day this has turned out to be and tomorrow should also be really awesome, as I'm heading to my LSS (Absolutely Everything) for the Monthly Card Club, which is a new card-making class I enrolled in for the Winter Months!!    Happiness is such a nice feeling!!

A snowy Saturday!

...Today is a very typical January day here in New England and it's also another snowy day, but luckily the snow is very light and we should not have more than a few inches.  We have had such a mild winter and the snowfall has been very low and I truly hope it stays that way.  This will probably be one of the first times that we will actually need to shovel, and that's wonderful, to me.

  It's also another day that I can spend working on craft projects, and that too makes it a great day for me.  I have two new cards to share today and both were created and inspired by new challenges.

   My first card was created for the brand new challenge over at Lily Pad Cards.  This challenge is Virginia's Challenge #1 and it's a photo inspiration challenge.  I copied over a picture of the inspiration photo hoping it will inspire you to join along!

   For all the details, please hop on over the the Lily Pad blog HERE!!

   I also want to once again say Congratulations to the newest members of the Design Team and was very excited to see some familiar faces!   I'm very happy for everyone and hope you all have a great time.  I've been a big Fan of Vicky and Lily Pad for some time and really enjoy the blog!!  :)

   I had a few ideas right away for my card, but my first card ended up being a bust.  I had used an old stamp, but the design simply did not work out as I hoped.  Needless to stay that card need was finished and is now in my recycle bin.   I am also not loving this card, but I do think it came out better than my first attempt and that's why I decided to submit it.

     After I finished that card, I head over to The Outlawz Group to see what new challenge they had today and as it turned today's Paper a la Mode Challenge, was to created a CAS Style Valentine.  Perfect for me, after having been in the CAS Class for the past two week.   I found that this card was actually much easier and in the end, I actually like this one much better!   I'll bet you will too.

   As you can see I made another beaded stick pin for this card and can't wait to see what I end up receiving from the swap.  I sent off my pins last week and most of the participants also have theirs in.   I also made a couple more, to have on hand and have them in my little Pink Cushion.

  And now I am off to see what other fun challenge I can find today!  I am already missing CAS Class and not having their daily email in my in-box.  I do want to say special thanks to Kristina, Jennifer and Julie for another awesome class.  I'll be looking forward to your next class and know it'll be wonderful.   Good Luck to everyone who is in the class, I can't wait to find out who wins all the wonderful prizes that will be given out.  I would love to see some of my friends win !   Good Luck!!

 

.....Wonderful week...!!

  This week has been one of the best weeks that I've had in awhile.  I've felt pretty good all week and had a fabulous time participating the CAS Class.  The downside is that the class wraps up on Monday and will be over and that's always the sad part.   Not only, has it been a fun and very inspirational class, it's also been the perfect way to to get through the cold days of January.

   I did not have a chance to start working on the new inspiration from class today, but I really did love the ideas and hope to work on them this weekend.   I totally LOVED the wonderful set of cards that Julie Ebersole shared in her Video today and you can bet it's a design that I want to try.  She used a really pretty embossing folder and it's one I had never seen before.  Luckily, the girls share links to all the supplies they use and I found it in stock at Ellen Hutson's store and ordered it for my collection.  I love that Ellen is one of the sponsors and truly think it's a bonus to have the discount codes.   It's also been an added plus to have Julie as one of the teacher's in this class.   She is such a joy and I've really found I love her style and her wonderful sense of humor.  All of her videos are fun and they always make me smile.

    After catching up on paperwork, paying bills and filing our taxes, I didn't have too much time to create, but I am very happy those tasks are done and I can now have the whole weekend to create.  We are expecting more snow, so it's the perfect time to stay home and spend time in my craft room.  As long as we don't lose the power, I'll be very happy.   I also really want to spend some more time in the CAS Classroom and maybe even do a bit more shopping to take advantage of the awesome discount codes, we have from class.

    My first card today is for new Copic Coloring Challenge over at The Outlawz and this week's challenges is called "Girls Only" and theme is to create a call that is definitely feminine in some way.   I started with a cute floral image from Bugaboo that I colored with my Copics.  I also wanted to use it in a clean and simple card, so I did not add a lot of extra detail.  I simply rounder the corners of the colored image and then created a card base that matched with Bazzill Swiss Dot Cardstock.  I added a small contrast element and then simply tied on a matching bow.

   I also finished up another small card and this once is for the new CAS Challenge that is being hosted at Crafting by Designs.   This week we were challenge to create a CAS style card and it had to include either four circles or four squares.  At first, I thought about making another Valentine type card and was going to incorporate some hearts, but after seeing I was not the only one with that idea, I decided to use scalloped square and to also start with a square card base.   It came out to be a cute little Thank You card!

  And now I am off to see what else is sitting on my desk.  Whenever I find a challenge that I want to join, I always print out a page with all the details and keep it on my craft desk.  Right now, I am caught up with the ones I had hoped to do, so it's time to start on some brand new ideas.   I think I'm going to heard over to the Hero Arts blog for some inspiration!

  Have a great night, and as always --- Happy Crafting!

Another LOVE filled day!!

   I was up bright and early this morning even though I had planned to sleep in.  But...when you forget to shut off your alarm, chances are you're going to wake up.  And it's even worse when you remember that your phone (which I use for my alarm clock), is in your pocketbook and not on your night stand.  Yup, that was the start to my day and since I had to actually get up to shut it off....I was up!  Grrrrr!!   I guess in some ways it was good to get up early as I had all my chores done early, giving me lots of time to make these new cards.
    My first card was created for a Sketch Challenge over at Creating by Designs.  We have a special Guest Designer for this month and Heide inspired me to create a Sympathy Card, something we all find a  bit of a challenge to make.  I find that they are often the one card I will still buy.  This one, however I will be using and sadly I have to send it out today.   My thanks to Heide for sharing the sketch and her inspiration.

  My next card was also created for a Sketch Challenge and this one is being hosted over at The Outlawz Group.   I knew right away that I wanted to make another Valentine Card and the sketch seemed to be perfect.  I also wanted to practice making a CAS Card and really have learned so many wonderful tips for the CAS Class.   Here is my card which was very easy and fun to make!

   After I had these cards done I was very excited to break out my brand new Card Kit which I had ordered from Simon Say Stamp.  They are now working with Kristina Werner to put out a month card kit and I was one of the very lucky crafters who bought the February Kit before it sold out.   Mine arrived yesterday and I was so excited to see everything it contained.  Yippee!   I'm also very excited to have subscribed to the next kit and will look forward to these awesome kits arriving in my mailbox every month.

   If you are a fan of Kristina and would love to get in on these kits, I highly suggest you head over to SSS and buy in for the next kit.   If I remember correctly the February kits sold out on the very first day!!  Oh and for anyone who was not able to buy the February Kit, those crafters will receive the wonderful set of Tim's Seasonal Distress Inks as a BONUS in their March Kit.  For all the details on subscribing to future kits, you'll find a Q & A, HERE!!

    All three of these card were created with products in the kit.  Other than a few scraps, everything on each card came from the February Kit.  It even has it's own little Heart Punch, a cute little Stamp set, and all the ribbons, bling and embellishments.   There is also a inspiration sheet included with ideas for six cards and I used that for each of these.   I totally LOVE this and I'm so happy I signed up and subscribed.  Speical thanks to Heidi (Simon Says Stamps) and Kristina, for working together to bring these kits tp the market!   They ROCK!!

    These are the first of my kit cards and these three were all inspired by Kristina --

  If you like these cards and if you are a fan of Kristina, as I am, I think you'll be very happy to subscribe to the kits.  I know I am and I'm very excited to share some of my cards in the Gallery today over at the CAS Class.   My next project today is to work on a card based on today's new ideas.   It'll be fun and in a totally different theme, as I try to color up some gorgeous Spring inspired images.   I loved the new new Hero Arts Stamp that both Kristina and Jennifer used today, it's this awesome image (NOTE:  This image was copied over from the Hero Arts Blog).

    I also thought for sure I had it, but I don't, which is a bummer, as I wanted to color it right up after seeing their cards.  For now, I'll work with another floral image and will buy this from my LSS, when I go to class on Tuesday.    It's gorgeous and the cards they made use it were ALL awesome.   I love to colors these types of stamps with my Copics and that's exactly what I plan to do!

  Oh, and speaking of Copics, I was thrilled to find out last night that the brand new set is now in and shipping out from iCopic.  My set has already shipped and I can hardly wait to color with them. The new colors are some of my favorites and I know they'll be awesome for Spring!!  Yippee!!    Here is a copy fo the chart that I shared from iCopic's website and this is a link if you want to add them to your collection!

   I'm off now to search one more time and make sure I do not have this stamp, hidden away.  The last thing I need to do is buy another duplicate!   I did that again this past weekend and already have one stamp to return on Tuesday.   This is what happens when you do not have a good catalog system, something I am slowly working on putting together.  My first step was to sort out my stamps by type and company and I do have that done.  I now have ALL my Hero Arts Clings and Clear Stamps all combined in two large bins.  All my larger background and wood stamps are in my hanging organizers.  It's a big project, but is helping me to easily find what I need and know exactly where to look.    If you have any wonderful ideas on how you catalog your stamps -- Please share!!