Pre-View Order...I CAN'T WAIT!!!

I will be placing my 2007 Fall/Winter Collection Preview order BRIGHT & EARLY tomorrow morning. I WANT new stuff to play with. Hopefully if will be here by Tuesday so that I can start playing right away...but until then you will just have to be satisfied with more Unfrogettable cards. Here is another one that doesn't have frogs on it...I was trying to use of some of my DS Paper that I think will be retiring...I didn't use as much as I started out to...I think that the little snail needed simplicity...But she also needed sparkle...So I added some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter...So CUTE!

I am also starting to send out monthly newsletters...you can sign up to receive these...somewhere over on the right...under the About Me section. So go and do that...NOW!!! Anyway...keep checking your e-mail...as it will be going out this weekend...

Question and Answer Time...

Sandy sent me some great questions...and I had a hard time answering some of them...Here are a few...

What has been your “ALL TIME FAVORITE” set that SU has had – even if retired?

Stella Stamper…I LOVE this set. I didn’t buy it when it was originally in the catalog and I always regretted it, so when SU! Had their 15th anniversary and they brought back one retired set every month for a year…and she showed up…I BOUGHT HER!!! I don’t think that I have EVER used it…well, maybe once or twice…but I love looking at it! I think that I should get her out and put her on the shelf beside my Monogram Alphabet name…I will post photos soon...

What is your absolutely favorite set that isn’t retiring and current in the catty?

Stamp of Authenticity! I really like this set…although I seem to have a hard time using it sometimes, as I feel it is a set that has to “GO” with other sets…but I HAD to have it when it came out last year!

What is you favorite SU color or the color that you seem drawn to use the most?

My favorite color is REAL RED…I LOVE RED…my kitchen is red…my stamp room is red…I think that almost every room in the house has a bit of red in it somewhere…but I don’t use it that often in my crafting. There are so many other SU! colors to choose from. I tend to change what colors are my favorite depending on the season, my mood and what stamp set I am using. In Jan / Feb my favorite color to use was Apricot Appeal, then in March / April it was Rose Red…now I seem to be on a Certainly Celery kick…next month…WHO KNOWS???

That's all the questions for today...I will have more tomorrow...Keep 'em coming. It really gives me something to talk about.

Also...here is another card made with that Unfrogettable stamp set...I chose not to use the frogs on this one...and also to use some really bright colors...this one was the favorite of my family out of all the ones I made this last weekend...they LOVED the colors. Hope you do too!!

You're Unfrogettable...

Another Unfrogettable card...I think this is my new favorite set...Although that will probably change next week when I get some of the stamps from the Preview Brochure. I had so much fun yesterday stamping with this stamp set. I made 4 or 5 differnt cards. I will upload them throughout the week...This one is a long card 4"x 9 3/8". It is made to fit oSU!s Large Open End Envelopes. It is such a fun size. The only problem that I have with making these is that it takes almost a whole sheet of cardstock, so I can't really demo these at workshops. Oh well...It is cute!!

Check out my new watermark...I made it all by myself...I think it turned out pretty darn good...For my first one...Also did you see my new banner at the top. I made that also...I thnk I am getting the hang of that Adobe program...

As some of ya'll know I have a hard time remembering to post...I am getting better though...so to help me out with what to say...How about some questions...Does anyone have a question that they would like to ask? If so...Just leave it in a comment. It would help me out tremendously with what to talk about...now enough rambling...More tomorrow...

I did stamp a bit today...

...BUT I haven't gotten that much done. I did make one card that I really like. I got a new stamp set last week. Unfrogettable...I have been wanting it for a while, but I had just never purchased it...so when I had a workshop order last week I finally wrote down the number and ordered it. It is so cute. This is what I did with it today.

I used some Glossy paper and the Crayon Resist technique. I colored the frog and heart with markers then colored over that with the white crayon. Then took my Cool Caribbean ink pad and used it directly onto the Glossy Cardstock. Then you buff off the excess ink that doesn't get absorbed by the white crayon and waaalaaa...

I also added Crystal Effect onto the eyes of the frog to make him a bit more frog like, but you can't tell that very well (if at all) from the scan. Well...that's all for today, hopefully I will have more cards for you tomorrow.

I am so excited about how my counter is going...up...up...up!!! Soon I will have to do some blog candy. How about when we hit 2000...lets see how long that will take...one week...maybe...I don't really know, but we'll see...the numbers are clicking by really fast these days...so it may be way less than that...So keep checking back...

Something Old...

Ya'll said that showing OLD would be okay so here is something OLD.

This CD case is something that I made last year, for my daughter, when my husband deployed...AGAIN. I took photos of him the morning he left and she wanted one in her room. So I made this from a slim CD case that was laying around. She LOVED it, and still has it hanging up over a year later. I used the Spring Flowers DS Paper and the Looks Like Spring Stamp set. I know that it is a photo of my husband, but I used a lot of Chocolate Chip and Mellow Moss to offset the Pretty In Pink. I even used some manly HodgePodge Hardware...and a bit of ribbon. The DS Paper and the Photo are on the inside of the case and the HH and the Flower are on the outside...so it is a bit 3-D. I even used some Microbeads. I love those things. I just wish they wouldn't bounce around so much. They get EVERYWHERE even if you are using the Powder Pals. So...they bounce everywhere, but I really like the look of them so I keep using them up and having to order more. I am hoping to have them in different colors in the new catalog...

Putting a face to a name...

Well...I have gotten so many hits since yesterday...almost 300. Thanks Sandy...I really apprecaite you getting the word out about my blog. So I thought that ya'll might want to put a face to a name. I know I like to do that...So here is a current photo of me...It was taken a few weeks ago. Keep checking back I will post more cards tomorrow...

I am a Stamp-A-Holic...It's been 12 days since my last post.

I am sooo sorry...I seem to have fallen off the posting wagon. Where does the time go...I'm tellin' ya'll...I need reminders...so E-mail me everyday if you want to see new stuff...Cause if I don't hear from ya'll then I think that no one is lookin' and I can skip a day or two or twelve...So...Today I got an e-mail from Sandy...thanks...I am now updating...

Here are some of the cards that I have been working on. I lost so many sets on the retiring list that I don't have that many left. Heartfelt Thanks is one of only a VERY few that I have left that I can use by itself...Most of what I have left is mainly stamps that need to be used with other sets...Accessory Sets like A to Z Accents, Word Sets, Backgrounds and Alphabets. So I am very limited in what stamps I have to use...it's very frustrating. BUT...I am entering all the SU! Contests that I can...hoping for FREE rubber. I need some more FREE stamps!!! I love FREE...who doesn't.

I can't wait to order from the NEW Preview Catalog...I even get $100.00 of stamps for FREE. I am finally going to use my $100.00 Product bonus that I received in December when I promoted to Senior Supervisor. I have saved it all this time so I could use it on NEW STUFF!!! So that will be NEXT WEEK!!! If you haven't seen the new Preview Brochure for the Fall/Winter Collection, drop me a e-mail and I will send you the link. I haven't figured out how to post it here yet...

So now after all my rambling...are you ready to see cards? I'm sure you are so here they are...Three of them using Heartfelt Thanks...Hope you like them...If you have any question about how they were made...Just send me an e-mail and ask...I will gladly answer...Enjoy!

Next Creation...

Here is a card that I made from an ATC that I had designed for the Splitcoast Gathering that was at my house a few weeks ago. I brayered the Au Chocolate paper with So Saffron on the ATC and then left the paper alone on the Card base. I used the Spiral Punch and tied the ribbon around and through the Punches. I even masked the Label Classics stamp and stamped inside with the flowers from Just Because. I then outlined the flowers with Markers and watercolored inside them...

I think it turned out really cute...Hope you like it...

Okay...Here it is...

I haven't posted in a while, 'cause I've been busy working on stuff to post here. I was working on things for so long for Convention, that I didn't have time to stamp anything else. So now that that is over and everything has been sent off, I have time to stamp for myself...well for ya'll really. So here are the first of many cards that I have been making. There are more to come, so keep checking back.


This card turned out so cute! I used the Craft Stampin' Spots to stamp on the Choc. Chip cardstock. I wanted the flowers to be Cameo Coral, like the card base...then I used the White Craft pad to stamp the highlights over the flowers. I used two different punches to make the market tag. I am sending this in to the May contest...Hopefully I will win this one...I could REALLY use some new rubber. I lost 80 stamps sets out of my collection of 132. So I NEED that NEW Rubber...so let's hope I have a WINNER for at least one of the contests that I'm entering this month...