OPERATION WRITE HOME...Featuring DRS BLOG CANDY!!!

I couldn't have said it any better. They are our BRAVE and I feel like we need to try and make the time away from their families easy, if we can at all. How do I do this as a stamper, you ask? Simple,with Operation Write Home. Click HERE to see what DRS is offering... and if you spread the word about this wonderful program on your blog and link it back to me in the comments section, you will have a chance to win even MORE blog candy! I will be offering a generous amount of unmounted stamps and other fun stuff to one lucky winner that I will draw randomly on October 5th... My daughter's birthday. So please, send the cards to DRS Designs to win that awesome prize... and then spread the word to win my fun prize! Thanks for popping in!

DRS DESIGNS NEW CHRISTMAS RELEASE!!!

OK... I know that when I say new release everyone wants to see pictures right? Well I will have to tell you about all of the AWESOME projects that I made because... for some reason MY COMPUTER HATES ME!!! My Hubby hooked up a new one and I can't get my pictures on this one like I could the last computer and I am about to cry...I made a Christmas memory holder, tons of new cards and I am covered in glitter... but you will have to believe me because of my technology mess! i hope to have this resolved... so in the meantime... Pleas got to DRSDESIGNS.COM and the DRS Desings blog to see (really SEE) what everone else that has a computer that loves them has created.

Tomorrow will be better... (happy place happy place happy place)

YUMMMMM... Latte!

I am never happy with the weather. I live in the south... and for the last 847 days in a row.... it was over 90. With like 1000% humidity. Well, then it cooled off to like the 80's... and yeah... I am really in the mood for a latte... a HOT one. I keep my home COLD... and when it is hot outside... no problem. Well, when is cools off... I freeze! But don't tell  my family that because they will probably turn the air off! I came across this card that is made with all DRS Designs stamps! It really put me in the mood for one of these delicious HOT latte's now... and to share it with a friend WOULD be espresso-ly wonderful! I colored this image with copic markers and used a glitter pen in the steam. I made the card a fun shape... but it will still fit an A2 envie! Thanks for stopping in...and don't complain about the weather like I do sometimes... just adjust your Latte... they are yummy iced too! 

AWWWW... How Could You NOT Feel Better?

So... My precious little boy is sleeping and my precious little girl is at preschool...AND the dishes are done.

What's a mommy to do? STAMP, of course! I got out my cutie pie gardner stamp from DRS Designs and got busy creating! I love the whole cutie pie collection, but this little gal went with this GET WELL sentiment perfectly! This sentiment has the words "Get Well Soon" on the bottom of this sentiment... but I trimmed it off so that it would fit my nestie and I used it on the inside of the card! Another reason to love unmounted rubber... easy to alter to fit your need!!! (And did I mention CHEAPER???) I colored her with copics and some glitter pens, added the flowers from Petaloo and here is my creation!  Thanks for popping by! Have a wonderful, HEALTHY day!

Things are POPPING up all over!!!

I was having my snack tonight and I thought of my DRS Designs stamps!!! I am ALWAYS thinking about stamping!!!(LOL) anyway... I made this super cute wiper card complete with embossing,ribbon and a fun surprise of a pop up bowl of well... POP corn! I embossed the popcorn background on yellow paper and then I layered the sentiment onto red paper and added some spunky white dots to set off the embossed popcorn. on the next picture you can see that when you pull the opposite sides of the card... a bowl of popcorn pops up. With all of the popping going on... I simply HAD to used these cute popcorn stamps! For the small yellow strip, I embossed the paper for texture. For the white paper, I scalloped the edge, tied a ribbon and added red dots to carry through the color! It is great to be back to stamping ans sharing and I sincerely hope that you all enjoyed my post today! Happy Saturday!!!

Stamps Used:H1124...popcorn background G1131 Bowl of popcorn H924 Sentiment

DRS DESIGNS Flap Card Challenge

So I made this card for the challenge over at DRS. The Challenge was to make a card with a flap. I LOVE a good challenge... so I was READY! I made a card like this with my monthly stamp club and I thought it was too good not to share it! I used a die cut and cut it leaving the fold so the card would have a flap. I stamped the piggies in the mud on the background in versamark and then I colored the first part of the hogwash sentiment with a marker and stamped it and mounted it on the blue paper and put it on the front. Then for the inside, i cut another shape, but only half of it and glued around the edges to make a pocket. Then I added the gift card...(so noted by the way I wrote GIFT CARD on the paper I used for it) and inserted it into the "pocket" inside the flap. Then I colored the other part of the hogwash sentiment and added it to the inside above the pocket. For the ribbon, I sis the "Faux Bow" technique at the top, near the fold and here is my card! I hope that you will enjoy it and that you will play along with the challenge!Check out the blog with all of the details here! thanks for stopping by!

A Quick Tutorial on DIMENSION

I wanted to show you all how I love to add dimension to a card and this awesome image from DRS worked perfectly! Here are the steps.

Stamp 2 of the same images

Color them the same way... in this case I will be popping up the candles... so I only colored them! You will see why...

Next I cut out the candles that I was going to pop up and I am getting them ready for the next step which is...

Add some double stick foam adhesive to the back of the candles you cut out. You may have to trim the foam to fit... but that is easy to do with some sharp scissors.when the candles are adhered... you can see how they are lifted away from the card ... adding a lot of dimension to the card.


And here is the final result! This is so easy and really adds a great little bit of pop (literally) to your cards...
Please check out all of the wonderful stamps that DRS has to offer here... and if you have not done so, check out the Challenge we have for this week making a single layer card! there is a chance to win some blog candy... Thanks for stopping by!

SHHHHHH!!!!! It's A SECRET!!!

OK Gals!!! I have no photos for you today... you have to wait till March 6th when DRS releases some of the MOST darling stamps i have ever seen! They are so fun to color and I know that if you are like me... you will want every one of them! So when my designer package came in the mail... I stamped, colored and made a card out of almost all of the ones that they sent me!!!

BUT!!! (there is always a big BUT!)

I can't show them until they are released... March 6th!

I have been busy... that is for SURE... but... no cards til then!

I hope that you stay tuned and get your self ready to order!

I am going to get going on some other fun stuff... but... for real... stay tuned...

YOU WILL LOVE THESE!!!

Cheers...

Some Fun Halloween Treats!

I made these fun treats for the DRS Designs Challenge blog a while ago and I never posted it to my blog... I would just HATE for y'all to miss out on anything I have done!(LOL)

I used the pumpkin ribbon slide from DRS Designs and colored with with copic markers. I punched holes in the middle of the ribbon slide stamp where indicated (you could also use a craft knife and cut the slits out as well.) I added the ribbon and tied it into a knot. I used the SU scallop circle punch for the black part and then I used another SU circle punch to punch out the pumpkin. I layered them together and then adhered them to the lolly pop. I put foam oasis in the terra cotta pot and arranged the lollies in there. I added some ribbon on the pot and there it is! these were fun to make and SUPER easy... just in case you need to make a bunch for the trick or treaters or all the little goblins at preschool! I hope you enjoyed this simple project and will make some of these fun treats yourself!

Warm Wollen Mittens and Warm Wishes too!

Another fun card with all of the stamped images from DRS Designs! I stamped the mittens, added crystal effects and fun flock flocking powder! I let that dry over night and then the next morning(because I HATE not finishing something I have started...) I used my trusty and SUPER FUN liquid applique to make the mitten cuffs fluffy! This liquid applique is a blast to play with and a must have for Christmas...Santa beards, hot cocoa foam, mitten cuffs,stocking cuffs and SNOW!!! So easy to use... just apply a THIN layer of it onto the area that you want to look puffy and then heat it with the heat gun. Be careful not to get to close... It can singe.

For the edge of this card, I used the Martha Stewart snowflake embossing and punching edger.The I used the gel pens and glitter pens for the zing around the edge. I used my scallop oval punches for the sentiment and spiced them up with gel and glitter pens as well.Thanks for looking... AND...keep your hands warm (all the better to stamps with!)