Come Say Hi! 61

***Hi there! I apologize in advance! I have multiple posts today ~ so if you are looking for my FTTC post, please click HERE, if you are looking for my WMS Blog Party post, please click HERE***

Hi there, again! Today I am being introduced on the Pink Paislee Blog and I would be delighted if you would come say Hi to me click HERE :) I'm very excited, needless to say, to be designing for Pink Paislee and to be part of such a talented Creative Team!

As many of you know, CHA is less than two weeks away and that is when NEW product is unveiled! SQUEAL! Samples need to be made, so I will be quite busy creating so if it's a little quiet around here, you will know that is what I am up to! If you are attending the show, you know where I will be so lets meet :)

I made a card to share with you today using beautiful papers from the new digital Pink Paislee Spellbound Paper Pack along with "old" stamps that debuted in 2009 from the Cupid collection! Still lovin' them!

I stamped the gorgeous Vintage Cupid image, did some fussy cutting, as my sweet friend Stephanie would say, added some glittery goodness then, adhered Cupid to a note card. See the sweet XOXO ~ that is from a teensy weensy stamp as well as the S.W.A.K. sentiment on the tag!

Thanks so much for visiting and thanks for your support! Hope you find a second to visit not only me but the rest of the Pink Paislee Creative Team! Be Sweet :)

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Pink Paislee retired Cupid collection

Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee Digital Spellbound Paper Pack
Dies: PTI Envelope and Tiny Tag

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Grand Gerber Daisies...FTTC149 61

Happy Tuesday! It's time again for a new Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge! Thanks to all who joined in last week's fun! This week Beate is our wonderful hostess and she is challenging us all to create using the Telescoping Image technique. It's rather quite simple, merely stamp your image of choice two or three times, cutting it smaller each time for a layered look. NOTE: This will be the last FTTC of 2011, we will resume, Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012. If you are in need of a visual tutorial, please be sure to see the Flourishes Blog.

 Shown below is my sample using the Telescoping Image technique. This card is quite Grand! :) LOL The finished card measures approximately 6.25" x 6.25". This baby will definitely be hand delivered to my sweet sister Tina :)

To create my card, I inked up the larger image from Flourishes Gerber Daisies set then using various sized Spellbinders circle die templates to cut the image, colored using Copic Markers listed below. For a little added dimension, I paper pieced the very center Daisy and added glitter to each of the centers.

Here's a photo of the various sized increments of die templates and the coordinating image:

Many thanks for visiting ~ hope you are able to join in the fun! Please be sure to visit the Flourishes blog for complete details and for some incredible inspiration the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday DT: Tammy, Heather, Silke, Makiko, Cindy, Beate, Mona (that's me), Theresa Pollack (December Guest Designer). 

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Flourishes Gerber Daisies
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee Digital Family Matters Paper Pack
Dies & Machine: Spellbinders Standard Circles LG, Standard Circles SM, Grand Circles, Grand Labels One, Grand Big Scalloped Circles, Grand Calibur
Markers: Copic Y11, Y21, G21, G28, BG11, BG13

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a snow day mini 46

Hi there! Hope you are all having an amazing weekend! It's been a bit hectic in my household, celebrating my honey's 50th and preparing for the holidays. What do you give a guy for Christmas who has all he wants already? hmmmm.... You make him a mini album capturing the moments spent with family :) I really wanted to make this for Scott's birthday but I just couldn't get it done. To make this mini album of our ski trip to Aspen '05, I combined MANY of my favorite products starting with the digital Pink Paislee Snow Day Paper Pack, lots of doo dads from the Pink Paislee Ephemera pack, various die cuts, and PTI stamped images.
On the cover: Scott, Meredith, Connor and I taking a break to capture a shot of all of us together:

Little PTI snowflakes captured in a jar:

Connor and Meredith all bundled up ready to hit the slopes:

A PTI Frosty in a jar:

Connor and Meredith at ski school:

A PTI button snowflake :)

Snow angels Meredith and Connor catching a ride on the gondola:

Another sweet little PTI snow peep in a jar:

Connor and Meredith snow happy ;)

Hope you liked my mini! I will be back tomorrow to share a project that wraps up the Pink Paislee Winter Wonderland Blog Event! Have a great day! Be Sweet :)

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Joy...FTTC147 59

Hi there! Hope you are off to a great start of a new week! I spent nearly ALL day Monday enduring the juror selection process for a 3 week open ended trial and was thankfully dismissed! It has been 18 months since I last had to serve on a 3 day trial so I was skipping out the door, feeling quite lucky to have not been chosen! Just being honest... Just curious, does anyone ENJOY jury duty??? I LOVE my job and would rather go to work ANY day over attending jury duty!

On to crafty matters ~  it's Tuesday and that means it's time for an all new Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge and time to welcome Theresa Pollack who will be sharing her awesome creativity with us as December's Guest Designer! This week, Silke is our wonderful hostess and she is challenging us all to create a project based on the sketch shown below:

 My card features the darling scene from Joy Is In The Air as the focal point framed using a circle die cut then layered on top of a doily. I stamped the Joy sentiment from A Gift For You then stamped the cluster of snowflakes from Joy Is In The Air. I colored the sweet image to coordinate with pretty patterned paper from the digital Pink Paislee digital Holiday Magic paper pack:

I adhered a layer a glitter to give it a winter wonderland look ;)

 Thanks so much for visiting!  I hope you take on the challenge and for some awesome inspiration, please be sure to see what the following designers have created: Tammy, Heather, Silke, Makiko, Cindy, Beate, Mona (that's me), Theresa Pollack (December Guest Designer). Please be sure to visit the Flourishes site for COMPLETE details on how to join in on the fun!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Flourishes Joy Is In The Air, A Gift For You
Die Templates & Machine: Spellbinders Labels Eleven, Eyelet Circles, Grand Calibur
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee digital Holiday Magic
Markers: Copic

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