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****Changito****

I love him! He is so adorable grilling some burgers. I am a Changito addict! What am I saying.. I am addicted to all stamps. I think I need therapy.

Here is my May Homepage entry for A Muse Addicts. The tree was inspired by Kittie at SCS.
She does some beautiful work. I used the Stampin' Up Set Watercolor Mini & Elzybells. I sketched the tree trunk. I am ready for the summer!

My friend's Birthday was today! Happy Birthday Kellie! This is a little pack of cards I made her using Amuse's adorable cupcake stamp. The large cupcake stamp on the card is from Hero Arts. Paper is all DCWAV (Die Cuts With a View) This was fun to make!! Of course I LOVE cupcakes!!
He He!

I created this card for my friend Pam!! She and I stamp cards once a week and swap. We have a lot of fun getting cards in the mail. I created this card with My Favorite Things stamp set. I used Stampin Up cardstock, large brads, glitter glaze in the pond and Liquid Pearls for raindrops.

I just got this Thomas Kinkade Rubber Stamp today and I just had to stamp a couple of cards.
I did not color them in. I will attack that at another time. But I just love this stamp with the
flowers and the cottage. This is a simply Beautiful stamps.
I got this stamp at http://www.cornishheritagefarms.com/intro.php . They have some nice stamp sets there. I will probably be back to buy more TK stamps. You can even get free shipping if you spend $30.00. I love that too!

I used Stampin' Up cardstock and Ink

Pale Plum & Perfect Plum
Night of Navy & Brocade Blue
Old Olive & Dark Green (impostor) lol
Hardware Stampin' Up
Sentiments Papertrey Ink

VSN FASHIONISTA was this past weekend. My daughter and I love participating In Splitcoast's Virtual Stamp Nights. The theme this time was fashion. We had so much fun with this theme. We only wish we had more time to submit more cards and such. My daughter Kayley 11 did the bottom three. She did them without much help from me. I am so impressed with her abilities. Most important we had fun working together on our projects and spending some "fun" time together.

Here are my daughter Kayley's cards for the VSN.

Here is my version of Crayon Resist!
I used the Stampin Up set "A Touch of
Nature" and the Sale-a-bration set.
I used Old Olive and Perftect Plum
Card Stock! I demo'd this at my stamp
club.

Here is the invitation I made for my "now" 3 year olds' Princess Birthday Party! Yes, I did a Princess Party! It was actually a lot of fun! I wasn't crazy about doing the Princess thing. Isn't that what all little girls are into right now? Well, I wanted to do something else. But my sweet little girl adores dressing up, make up, dolls, jewelry and the whole nine yards. She had a blast! So it was well worth it!! Anyway, back to stamping. I of course used the Ellzybells Princess Stamp, Your Invited was PaperTreyInk. The paper was Princess Paper from Target.

Since Taylor Vanbruggen always has cupcake Friday I thought I would join in the fun! Taylor got me hooked on cupcakes. lol So here is my cupcake card. I used paper from a large paper pack from Costco and the cupcakes are Hero Arts. This card was fun to make. Okay off to start my day. Happy Friday!!!

Here is a card made with the cute Hero Arts owl. I know owls seem to be a bit popular right now. And I must say some of the owl images that I have seen are just so cute. The Hello stamp is a Papertrey Ink stamp.

Here is a quick card I made with Pink and Brown again. I love those colors. I think I have used those a bit tooo much! The stamp set used was Stampin' Up's So Many Scallops. The printed paper is SU's Berry Bliss.

Does this look like a cute stamp? I wish... this was actually done with an embossing template. The template is by Lasting Impressions. The technique used is called Pasty Razzle Dazzle. I saw this technique on Splitcoast and thought ...I must give this a try. It is actually easy to do. Just a few steps involved. You also need Translucent Embossing Paste. Here is the link to this technique:
Pasty Razzle Dazzle

Here is my Snowbunnybella! She looks so cozy. I wanted to hurry and use this stamp before spring gets here. I used Wild Wasabi and Bashful Blue cardstock and Rob & Bob Studio printed paper. Of course I also used liquid applique for the trim of her coat and boots.

Just a Papertrey Ink Birthday card! I love Papertrey. They are my favorite! Next to all of my other favs. I used Close to Cocoa Paper and Pretty in Pink. If you purchase 12 PT sets within one year you will get one Anniversary set for free. Pretty good deal.

I stamped these for my stamp club gals! I wanted everyone to get excited about Sale-a-bration. I used two sets So Many Scallops and Birthday Whimsy.I think the club members like receiving their catty's this way. I may do this every time.
The clips were a nice touch.

Here is a Bella card I did a while ago. I have just not posted. I am going to make up for lost time now. The stamp is called sweetybella.. ! The Friends forever is another Michaels dollar stamp.
As for the paper oh I don't know. Probably from a slab pack. I love the bit of bling on her necklace. This card was alot of fun to make.

Here are couple of cards I made in minutes from the mini acrylic stamp sets from Michaels. They are only $1.00 . I buy a couple each time I go. The other day I was looking through them when my 11 year old daughter brought it to my attention that I have never used them once. Feeling guilty (LOL) I decided right then to stamp a couple of cards. So here you have it! These cards are very simple. But sometimes simple is good. I have more cards to post so hang on. I am making up for lost time. I am also going to have a tutorial soon. Check back. Thanks Jenna

NEW A MUSE FORUM

Okay all A Muse Artstamps Fans you will be happy to hear that A Muse has a wonderful Forum. It is a great place to chat, share ideas, and find out all kinds of information concerning these stamps. I am so excited to have it! It will be so much fun!! Come over and check it out. Just click on the button on the right of my Blog. YAY!!!

Here is my first Challenge on the Amuse Addicts Challenges. I am always busy so I never participate. Well, today I MADE time. The challenge was to create a card with squares. I think I did it. There are definitely squares.

Stamps: AMuse Paper: Regal Rose and Basic Black Stampin' Up. It was fun to play.

WOO HOO!! I am just playing with my new A Muse Valentines stamps. They are soo super cute. I love the new images that were released a few weeks ago. This card maybe going to my dh.
Not sure though he already had a sneak peek. Oh well, what can you do. He He!!

Look at my new Scrapbook/Stamping Room. This was my Christmas present from my awesome husband. He asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told him I wanted my Scrapbook room and homeschool room redone. I was shooting high not really expecting it. Then on December 18th he and my brother in law came in the room and said ok can we unload this room. I was of course surprised and willing. We unloaded the room and by the weekend my room was complete. New carpet, paint, new shelves, computer desk, new scrapbook/ stamp area with cabinets and drawers, and new pink baskets. My room was a cluttered disaster before and then when it was complete it was clean and organized. I am totally inspired now. I love it! It was the best gift ever!! I told my husband that it was the gift that keeps on giving.

I made these for my nieces for Christmas. They were a lot of fun to make. Inside is a notebook, a pen, and a little box with candy.

My New Elzybells YAY!! I finaly created a couple of cards with my stamps.

The red paper and printed paper is of course Stampin Up. The blue paper is paper from Die Cuts with a View Paper Pack. I don't think you can see the glitter, but it is there!!

Here are a few items I made for my Secret Sister! The items are a Nugget Box, Gift card Holder, and a Trifold card. They were fun to make. I actually pulled out my Lovely as a Tree stamp set. I haven't used this set in a LOOONG time.

Cardstock: Stampin Up Always Artichoke and Mellow Moss
Ink: Always Artichoke, Gold Encore Pad
Sets: Lovely as a Tree, Happy Everything, Season of Joy, and Punch Pals

DISNEY WORLD HERE WE
COME !!!!!

We are going to Disney!! YAY! These are some autograph tag books I made to bring with us. I figure when I scrapbook my Disney pictures I can just put the tag on the page with the picture of the Disney character. And this tag book is very easy to bring with us to the park.

I was playing with my Papertrey stamp sets and I came up with these three cards. I did not realize however that I made the three cards in Holiday order, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I had a lot of fun making these. All of the cardstock and paper used is Stampin Up ! They have great paper!

I just love Fall. I love all of the autumn colors and the crisp air. I could go on and on. Which then leads me to Halloween. Halloween is a lot of fun too. I am not much for the costumes and trick or treating or even the gruesome part of Halloween. I just love making Halloween treats, cards, and paper crafts. Here is the first Halloween card that I have posted. I have made a lot of other cards and such. I just never have any time to post them. Happy Fall everyone!!

Stamps: Batty for you Stampin Up
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black SU
Printed Paper: Stampin Up
Punches: Circles

THANKS TO MY SS

These Five Beautiful cards are from my Secret Sister. Aren't they the best? I was so excited to receive these in the mail. What great ideas for the upcoming Holidays. Thank you, Thank you, Secret Sister. I love these. When my Secret Sister reveals herself I will post her name here. This way she can receive the credit that is due to her.

VSN is HERE!!! What is VSN?? It is Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoaststampers. It began last night Sept 7th @ 7pm and it began today at noon. I have only participated in two challenges so far. The top card is a texture challenge. You were supposed to create a card with texture. It could be raffia, embossing, dry embossing, corrugated, anything. I used my brand new Big Kick
I got from my close friend Angela for my Birthday. I love that thing. It is soo great and it will cut anything I need. The second challenge is a card that involves the theme "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." This is the card I came up with. It is simple but it does fall under the theme. I like to participate in the VSN's because it allows me to stamp for me or just for fun. If you would like to join in any future VSN's just go to SCS's forum section and in the forum there is a thread for VSN. They have one like every 2 or 3 months. They are a lot of fun. This is my second one. Well, I am off to see if there are any other challenges I want to get in on.

Here is my latest Changito!! I just sent this to one of my favorite stamping buds.
I just found out that there is a REALLY cute Changito set that I do not have. YIKES!!!
I feel very strongly that I must have it in my collection. I am off to find it. Shhhhh!!!

I created this simple Birthday card for kids. I used all Stampin Up products. I am going to stamp up a couple of these cards to have on hand.

Stamp Sets: Zoofarii, Eat Cake
Cardstock: Real Red, Yo Yo Yellow
Ribbon: Black grosgrain
Treat: Fruit Stripe GUm
Cello Bag