One Year Older Birthday Card

Good morning, Stampin' Friends! I'm just back from a few days at the beach with some of my favorite crafty crew, and it felt wonderful to laugh, snack, and craft with those fabulous ladies. One of the projects I completed was a little sneak peek of the March Stamp of the Month for this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! I'm also linking up to this week's Seize the Birthday Challenge.

March's Stamp of the Month is a cheerful mix of birthday themed sentiments...but I wanted to contract those images with the super gorgeous florals from Chelsea Gardens. This kit has been my favorite of the current Expression idea book. It's been so uber popular that the coordinating embellies are only available in the KIT now, so if you've been waiting on this line, now's the time!  CTMH has a pretty great deal going this month (while supplies lat) if you love PINK as much as I do!

It's hard to see here but I stamped the background of the white square with second generation Sweet Leaf ink using the YAY! image. This stamp set is mostly sentiments, and I needed a festive IMAGE, so I flipped the zero stamp (it comes with these adorable outline number images to customize it for birthday ages) and stamped the back of that image to create my balloons. Both the balloons and the dots on the "1" are painted with Gold shimmer pen, so there's a nice sparkle in real life, too. I added a little hand drawn border around the main card element with a journaling pen to help it pop against that lovely floral background.

MY giveaway to celebrate the 250th sketch over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is finally over (sorry for my technical difficulties!) and the winner is SUE D! I've already emailed her so she can claim her very own adorable February Stamp of the Month. Thanks for stopping by!

I'm in the top 20 - please vote!

Hi, ladies! My polka dotty birthday card is in the Top 20 over at Practical Scrappers, and now the voting is open. Please go check out all the fun cards - all polka dots and birthday, but a LOT of variety! Vote for me or vote for any of the other amazing cards...but please vote!

A big congrats to Michele J. who won the Friday Favorite Things giveaway this week! She'll be choosing her favorite new paper pack from the new Spring catalog. My favorite is For Always, the elegant new Black and White pack with bold pops of color! I can't wait to get started on next month's pages using this stunning collection of papers!

Gotta dash - getting dinner ready for my club gals who'll start arriving soon. I love club night!

Friday Favorite Things!

Good morning, Stamping Friends! Welcome to our second Friday Favorite Things giveaway! This weeks winner of the Convention Layout Kit with the beautiful Autumn Lane Accessories pack is

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Congrats, Candra! Your fab prize package should hit the PO this weekend!

Today my Favorite Thing is the National Stamping Month It's Your Day Stamp Set!  I can't put it down. I want to add those bold stripes and polka dots to everything I'm stamping lately. And it's only $5 - that's crazy! I think one of my favorite images is a silly little sentiment that reads [TEE-HEE]. Just typing it here makes me giggle - who says Tee Hee out loud? It's like a fresher LOL, which if you know me on FB I use waaaaay to much, almost as much as I say "Dude!" in real life. You can take the girl out of California... 

But seriously, this set is sweet, sassy, and pure positivity! 

Did you check out the fab BLOG HOP we did with this enormous Double D set? I've got another card made with this set (and a super cool Shimmer tape alteration!!) but not photographed yet. For now I've got to buzz out to the farm for some green bean picking.  I just knew that y'all would want to know who won this week's Friday Favorite Thing! So check back later for a fab sparkly card done with this set and  I'll post the next giveaway this weekend. 

Thanks for all the comments and follows this week. My email has been a LOT more fun to read.  
I think y'all are my real Friday Favorite Thing! [Tee-Hee]

Amazing Pam Klassen

I saw the CUTEST card the other morning by the super talented Pam Klassen made with my beloved Dotty for You papers... so I had to run upstairs and make it! I still can't believe that all this paper is just $5!!

I was out of the green stitched ribbon (gasp...must order more stat!!) so I went with the also awesome  Dark Chocolate striped ribbon. I hit my stash of clear buttons and gave up just one of my hoard of tiny chocolate paper flowers...

I am a die hard fussy cutter - love my Cricut but I can't help it. A B&T (Background & Texture) paper like this is on my table, I'm practically itching to trim out the images! So it was fun to make a card actually using the butterfly paper as a whole piece. Thanks for the inspiration, Pam!


Ooh - and my Moxie Fab Life is Tweet card got chosen as the RetroSketch Rockstar of the week - sa-weet! They have an adorable new sketch up that I'm working on right now - come on over and play too! Now if I can figure out how to add my awesome new RockStar blinkie.... you know I can't resist a bit 'o bling...

Thanks for stopping by - you are amazing!