Open House

If you missed my Open House this past Monday night, you missed a fun night of stamping and giveaways! I wanted to show off the card that we made! We used a few new products from the Holiday Mini catalog that I will be highlighting in the next few days: Candy Cane Christmas DSP and the 2-1/2" Circle punch! I am loving these two new items and can't wait to tell you more about them!

Daddy's Girl

Well this past weekend I went to Archiver's to scrapbook with Jinny! They have fun $5 crops now! You pay $5 to reserve your spot and then you get $5 off the product that you purchase! YAY! It was pretty good and I only ended up spending $25 at the store! WOO HOO!

Anyway...here is one of the layouts that I completed (sorry the picture is a little dark on one side and light on the other). This layout is actually 2 sketches from Sketchy Thursdays that I put together into one 2 page layout!

I used my Echo Park Paper Company kit...Sweet Summertime! I LOVE it!!! I just loved using it to highlight the love that Brooke has for her Daddy and vice versa!

Here is the first sketch.

And here is my take on it. I pretty much copied this sketch exactly! I loved it! And check out that little Bingo circle chip. That was part of my purchase from Archiver's I wanted those and I made a deal that I could buy them but I had to use at least one that night! And I did!!

Here is a close up of my little scallop circles with some American Crafts flair and a clear button.

Here is the 2nd sketch.

And here is my take on it! Still using Echo Park and American Crafts flair with a few added jewels from Stampin Up!

Journaling Reads: "Watching Daddy play the guitar. You were so into the music. 1.19.2010" AND "Playing on the couch. 2.16.2010"

I faux stitched with a Basic Gray marker around the big circle. And finished the layout off with the saying, "Happy Days".

Hope you enjoyed my layout. Head on over to Sketchy Thursdays every Thursday to get a new scrapbook layout sketch. It's fun to play along!

Quick Post

Just a quick post as I'm running around the house...getting it clean, preparing food, need to hop in the shower while this one is still napping...

I'm getting ready for my Holiday Mini Open House tonight! Back to regularly scheduled blogging tomorrow! :) I have a lot of crafty things to show you!

But for now...isn't my little one so cute drinking part of Mommy's 1/2 price cream slush from Sonic??!!!

Softball

SCRAPBOOK Challenge #2: Create a layout based on this sketch...

And here is my layout...

As I was getting ready for my crop a few weeks ago, I threw all of these patterned papers together and wasn't very excited about it. But as I started to work with them and the sketch, I started to LOVE it!!!

I love Polka Dot paper! (Side Note: Brooke is into calling every circular object a ball. Dots on i's, the Pepsi logo, polka dot patterns, the center of flowers. It's kinda cute!)

I used the Varsity Alphabet and Numbers sets for this page. They are just perfect for sports themed projects!!

14 Months

SCRAPBOOK Challenge #1: Trade an item with another scrapper and create a layout with it.

Here is a layout I made to showcase Brooke at 14 months. I traded with my mom. She gave me that cute white flower border strip and I gave her a few chipboard pieces to play with.

At first I didn't know what I was going to do with this strip but I added a few felt flowers to it and I think it goes nicely with my page!

Journaling still needs to be added to this page. Do you ever feel like you need a WHOLE day to just journal on pages that you haven't yet?! I do! But I have to really be in the mood to journal, don't you?! Good think I have a blog and all of my journaling is already written down here for this page!

Button Share

With the start of the New Holiday Mini, I decided to start a featured product of the month. I will send out emails once a week with projects attached using the featured product, you will see samples featured on my blog, AND there will be a chance to get a discount on these products OR be part of a share where you can gain a lot of colors and styles without spending a ton of money!

This month we focusing on Stampin Up's buttons!! These fun and whimsical buttons are a sweet 3-D accent for tags, cards, and scrapbook pages. Available in many of Stampin' Up!'s exclusive colors. This month you will have the opportunity to be part of a "Button Share"! Where you can get a sampling of 112 buttons for only $18.00! If you were to purchase all 7 types of buttons I am offering, you would spend over $60! This is an awesome discount!

There are a few different options so read on to find out more about the shares and see the attached pictures to look at the buttons. You can also view these buttons on page 186 of your Idea Book & Catalog and page 17 of the Holiday Mini.

Option #1: Designer Color Collection Button Share
Stampin Up has 4 sets of buttons in the 4 color collections – Regals, Neutrals, Brights and Subtles (*see below to view all colors in each button collection) . Each package contains 72 buttons, 4 each of 3 styles in 6 different colors.

Button styles are: Large Marbled, Double Circle, and Small Flower.

I will order all four packages of buttons and divide them up in 4 sets. You will receive one button each of the 3 styles in all the colors. The cost is $12 for 72 buttons.

Option #2: Big Designer Holiday Mini Button Share
Stampin Up has 2 sets of BIG buttons in the Holiday Mini: Deck the Halls and Candy Cane (**See below to view all colors in each button set.) Each package contains 48 buttons, 4 each of 3 styles in 4 different colors.

Button styles are: Four-Hole 1" diam., Two-Hole 1" diam., and 3/4" diam.

I will order both packages of buttons and divide them up in 4 sets. You will receive one button each of the 3 styles in all the colors. The cost is $6 for 24 buttons.

ORDER BOTH SETS OF BUTTONS AND RECEIVE 16 BITTY BUTTONS FREE! (4 each of each of the 4 designs...FOR FREE!)***

Email (demokimsu@yahoo.com) me to place your button order by Friday, September 10th @ noon. I will then place the orde for the buttons and pass them out when they come in and are sorted!

Keep in mind that you can order more than one set of each button share if you would like. Every time you order both option #1 and #2, you will receive FREE Bitty Buttons! Example: Two of #1 and Two of #2 would equal $36 and 32 FREE Bitty Buttons!!

$3 for shipping the buttons to you.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

*Colors availabe in Option #1: Designer Color Collection Button Share:
Brights - Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Rich
Razzleberry.
Subtles - Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Marina Mist, Perfect
Plum.
Regals - Cherry Cobbler, Cajan Craze, More Mustard, Garden Green, Night of Navy,
Elegant Eggplant.
Neutrals - Early Espresso, Basic Black, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla,
Basic Gray.

**Colors available in Option #2: Big Designer Holiday Mini Button Share:
Deck the Halls - Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake
Candy Cane - Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Real Red

***Bitty Buttons are all Clear.

Patterned Paper

Card Challenge #2: Use at least 4 patterned papers on one card!

Natasha created this card. I love how she paired all of her patterns together! There are exactly 4, but it would have been easy to add more layers to her cute circle creation! And she again used one of my favorite buttons! Those Brights Collection buttons...I can't get enough of them!

Kathy created this card. She used patterned paper that she took from her 6x6 Sale-a-Bration stack! The leaves she stamped came from the Falling Leaves stamp set! I love this new set...it is perfect for fall and Thanksgiving themed projects!!

If you want to play along just add a link to your project in the comments section! I would love to see what you come up with!

Most posts to come! (And don't forget to read below...I'm posting a lot in these next few days which means multiple posts per day!)

CROP Challenges

3 Days without blogging...Eeeeeekkk! It must have been a holiday weekend!

Anyway, I'm back and I have a ton of posts lined up for you! So you might even get more than one per day!

My August crop was awesome and I did challenges just like last month so I wanted to share what I came up with as well as my customers! They are awesome too!

CARD Challenge #1: Find inspiration from a card on page 120-121 of the Idea Book & Catalog for a card of your own.

Kathy (my momma!) chose this card from page 121.

And here is her card! Isn't it super cute?! She used the new hostess stamp set: Birthday Bakery and the Priceless stamp set. The sentiment says, "If you are what you eat, eat something cute!" I love it!

Natasha used the middle card on this page as her inspiration.

She used the Falling Leaves stamp set and created a fall themed card! I just love it and it even included one of my very favorite buttons!

If you would like to play along just add the link to your card below. More posts below!

Baby Shower Game

A few weeks ago I hosted a baby shower. I was planning on playing the "You Can't Say 'Baby'" game using clothespins. I was also using clothespins as decoration around the house (mostly because Walmart had a pack of 100 for only $1! But also because they scream "BABY"!

So for the clothespins I was going to use for the game I thought I should decorate them. This way people couldn't just grab a clothespin from the bowl on the table when they lost theirs in the game. See, I was thinking ahead!

So I used hot glue and added brown, blue, and green ribbons to them. I LOVE them! I hope I get to host another baby shower for a baby boy soon!!

Creepy Crawly, Oh My Golly!

Card #5: Creepy Crawly, Oh My Golly!

I broke out the new In Colors for this card. Whenever they are new I kinda shy away from using them, but for a Halloween card I thought I should try a purple and orange combo and Concord Crush and Peach Parfait look so good together!

Batty for You (#116576 $23.95)
I love this stamp set too. I have had it for a few years but it's such a great Halloween set! I just love all of the options!!

Designer Jewels: Black Flourish (#120987 $4.95)
Of course I added some bling to this card too. And we have black bling for Halloween! I chose to cut apart my flourish and use all of the jewels seperately. It's so easy to cut them apart with scissors or an exacto knife.

And I just had to add some black satin ribbon to this card. What else would you expect??!