Birthday {thank you}

Remember George's birthday invite a few posts down? Ok, it was more than a few posts ago, so here it is again. We had a great party last weekend: George had his first taste of cake, was showered with wonderful gifts and attention, and a good time was had by all! Now it's time to send out thank you notes, and George asked me if I'd make them for him--ha ha! Of course I'll make your thank you notes, dear!

I wanted something simple that coordinated with the birthday invites, and really wanted to break in my new Just Rite monogram stamper, so I put the two ideas into action. George's initial is stamped in Tangerine Tango, punched out with my 1 1/4" circle punch and then matted with a 1 3/8" Kiwi Kiss circle. The rest is pretty self-explanatory--a 3 1/2"x5" TT base with a 1" wide strip of Brocade Blue from which to anchor the monogram. Now to whip out another 15 of these and George can get busy writing, he he!

Walkin' the dog...

I had a wonderful surprise in the mail yesterday--new rubber from American Art Stamp! As you probably know, I'm fortunate to be a member of the AAS design team. I began my stint with AAS as a guest design team member and am now a full-fledged design team member.

AAS has started packaging cling mounted sets that come all ready to slap on a block and start stamping, isn't that the cats meow?! The set I'm using for today's card is called Dog Set, along with my new Parisian Summer DSP from SU!. The image is colored with a blender pen and reinkers in Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, Sahara Sand and Pirouette Pink. A piece of pink twill is secured with a jumbo brad from my stash of no-name stuff, so I'm not able to give you a brand for either. The sentiment on the inside of the card reads: Enjoy life's simple pleasures. Ü

Have a great day!

Clipboard for a Cause!

I made this clipboard and matching card for a friend's blog giveaway, happening next week. The great thing about this giveaway is that it's for a great cause. Tune in for all the deets later this week! The clipboard and card both use SU!'s Holiday Treasures DSP which features the colors Ruby Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze--what a yummy color combo! I just checked the colors in the SU! catty and realized that it's Ruby Red, not Riding Hood Red (which I used), but guess what?! RHR looks great too...whew! That cute little snowgirl is none other than Kim Hughes' Snowy Sophie, and the sentiment is also Kim's from her Mocha Chica set. Kim's collection is available from Cornish Heritage Farms. Buttons are a combo of Basic Grey and SU!, and the chocolate snowflake is punched from the same designer paper using SU!'s snowflake punch. Finally, the clipboard sentiment is from Mona Lisa Moment's Motivational Centers set, available from...you guessed--CHF!

Here are a couple other single shots of the clipboard and card:

Ghouls...

...just wanna have fu-un, oh girls just wanna have FUN! Ain't that the truth? Whether it's stamping, sipping cocktails or just chattin' it up, we girls DO know how to have fun! Check out some other FUN ghouls and what they've done with Jen's Saturday Sketch For You To Try. Before I link you to their blogs, I just want to give a shout out to our main girl Bella featured here in her Halloween costume and all the fixin's! Here's some more fun info for you Bella lovers, lifted from Jen's blog:

"This week there is yet another prize up for grabs. YAY!! You will notice that all of us have done our creations with upcoming holiday themed Bellas {Halloween, Turkey Day, Christmas}. Emily has offered a $15 gift certificate to the Bella site for those who participate in the sketch using their Bellas. You don’t have to use holiday images; you just have to have fun!"

Now, get going, have some fu-un and don't forget to use the keyword SFYTT if you upload to SCS!

Jen & Suzanne
Carole
Amy S.
Shannan
Susan

veggie thanks!

For my sweet 4 year old neighbor, Shelby. She and her grandma Mary picked AND delivered a big pail of Roma tomatoes to our house this week, and what a welcome surprise! Our garden has been anything BUT prolific this year; more weeds than produce.

Card base is Kiwi Kiss with a strip of hounds tooth paper from SU!'s Holiday Treasures DSP. Below that is scalloped edge in Riding Hood Red tied together with a length of Chocolate grosgrain. The main image panel is the tomato stamp from the retired SU! Vegetable Garden set, and the sentiment is one I use over and over. It's from Kim Hughes' Making the Grade set available through Cornish Heritage Farms. If you've never checked out Kim Hughes' collection or Cornish Heritage Farms--do it! Seriously, they offer high quality stamps in many different styles--something for everyone!

Blessings

For Cindy's Teapot Tuesday Challenge #11, I created this card with the intent to make it look *vintage* yet clean and simple. Most edges are sponged with Ranger Walnut Ink and my Carved and Candlelit pumpkin is stamped in Really Rust with a Versamagic Oasis Green stem. Below the central image panel is an acorn scroll from SU!'s Country Blessings set, stamped in Palette Burnt Umber as is the "Blessings" sentiment. Card base is Really Rust with a layer of K&Co. designer paper from their Classic K Margo series. Buttons are SU! and Basic Grey tied with linen thread and Chocolate taffeta.

Be sure to check out Cindy's Teapot Challenge by clicking right here!

Oh by g*OWL*y...

...have a h*OWL*y, j*OWL*y Christmas this year! Ok, so after stamping the sentiment from Kim Hughes' URA Hoot set, I sat for the longest time, staring at it, wondering what in the *hay* it meant. I was reading it as "owl owl Christmas", but after closer inspection I realized that it actually reads, "hOWLy jOWLy" Christmas...duh! So, to save you some *duh* time (not that you'd be as lame-brained as me), I took a closeup shot of the sentiment, whoot whoot!

Below is a full shot of my card for today's SCS Color Challenge #183: Going Gray, Riding Hood Red and Green Galore--what a crazy combo! I pulled out the fun owl set because of the Santa hat and holly included--perfect for these Christmas colors, right?! The strip of RHR is repeatedly stamped with the holly in Versamark and then overstamped with that goofy sentiment. Maybe I'm just in a goofy mood? The scalloped strip was created with my handy-dandy scallop edge punch and the ribbon is new RHR taffeta from Stampin' Up!. Almost forgot--I added a bit of sparkle to Mr. Owl's hat trim with Dazzling Diamonds, adhering it with my 2 way glue pen.

Have a *hoot*iful evening and stop back this week as I hope to be a bit more prolific with my blogging!