Sites of the week

Happy Saturday SFYTT Friends! Anyone else wishing they were in Chicago? I love the pics I have been seeing, but it makes me miss not being there. I noted yesterday that I was obsessing over a Cricut Expression, too. Well the obsession is over and its on its way to my happy lil’ home…yippeeee skipppeee! I am so excited to work with it using SVG files that have already been created and ones that I plan on creating…fun fun fun!! More on that to come!

THE WINNER & PARTICIPANT OF LAST WEEK’S SKETCH SPONSORED BY AMBER INK IS…

#49 MARGO S.

Congrats Margo! You win a $25 gift certificate to Amber Ink. Just email me {link under my pic} and I will get that to you.

This week’s sketch is sponsored by TOTALLY STAMPALICIOUS {that’s just so fun to say!}. If you aren’t familiar with this company be sure to check ‘em out! They have lots of fun and witty stamps that will make anyone laugh. If you do follow them, then you know they just release some really great stamps including the ones that I am using on my sample.

This week’s sketch…

How’s this for a sentiment? Hahaha! It’s from TOTALLY STAMPALICIOUS’ new set, Bently from their Bugaboo line {pssst…totally forgot a panel on my card! OOOPS!!}…

A huge THANK YOU to this month’s Designer of the Month, Sandra MacLean, for playing along with us this month! Here is another FANTABULOUS sample from her…

Want more great samples? Check out what the SFYTT Sisters have for you to peek at…you’ll be seeing some more of those funny TOTALLY STAMPALICIOUS stamps, too!!

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer {Taking this week off.} Just kidding!
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock {Feeling a bit under the weather after having Emma Grace last week. Be sure to give her some well wishes and new mommy love.}
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks
Carole Burrage{said something about being at CHA and not playing along this week. Whhhaaaa!}

I hope you will play along this week! I’ll be editing the post for prize info soon.
Just link your creation to the link system below FOR A CHANCE TO WIN AN AWESOME $25 TOTALLY STAMPALICIOUS GIFT CERTIFICATE and I will announce a winner next Saturday. Have fun and good luck!

Pardon me as I dig myself out of my sorrow of not being at CHA and my current obsession with getting a Cricut Expression so that I can make and create with SVG files. I could go on and on and on and on, but let’s get on with it…

A *few* of you commented and hunted me down {wink} via email to ask me for more details on the ice cream cone card on Julee’s blog hop. Here’s a few “how to” pics to help explain…

Cut 3 small scallop circles {these are much bigger than I used on the card, just for this tutorial}…

Cut off an equal amount from one side {”the bottom”}…

Score down the center of each of the circles…

Adhere circles together to create the “scoop” of ice cream…

Put glue over area you would like to have glitter/sprinkles and dip into glitter {so you don’t get glitter everywhere!}…

Ta-dah!…

So, I still didn’t have a lot of BLAH BLAH BLAH to go along with this post, but I hope it helped! See you tomorrow for another great sponsored SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY!

I’ve mentioned it a couple of times here and on Facebook {where you can become a fan of SFYTT **wink**} that I have experimented with sugar cookies and royal/corn syrup icing. I’ve done a few awfully ugly batches, but the cookie gods were with me for the ones I made for Ellie’s party.

I packaged these in cello bags with a purple satin bow. They turned out real cute!

These are cupcake toppers that were on her cupcakes. The purple is cut from sparkly American Crafts paper on the Cricut, the green from Nesties, yellow was punched out. The “4″ was stamped with my favorite alpha set of all time…Coolvetica from TCP.

Alright gals, gotta run. Have a good day!!

Happy Birthday to Julee, creative mastermind of Verve Stamps! It is an honor to be part of a blog hop celebrating such a wonderful person! Hope your birthday is all that you wish for and more Julee!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!…

The cone on this card was created from a flower pot in the Miracles Blossom set and the sentiment is from the Big Wish set. Of course, both are from Verve!

I’m not going to bore you with a lot of blah blah blah since this is Julee’s hop to wish her a very happy day!! Now hop along Julee, and friends, to Kathy’s blog where she is sure to delight you with more Verve-y birthday wishes!

Congrats to the winner of last week’s Wild Flower Patch sponsored sketch…

Noelle McAdams of Paper and Ice

Noelle, you win your choice of 5 digi stamps from Wild Flower Patch. Please email me {link under my pic} and we will get that ball rolling. Thank you again to WFP for sponsoring us!

This week we have another wonderful sponsor! AMBER INK is a new kid on the block and they have some FAB-U-LOUS-LY CUTE designs that you are sure to love! All participants in this week’s sketch will be eligible to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Amber Ink store! Everyone participating in this week’s sketch is also welcome to use the code SFYTT&AmberInkC3P1GA for a 10% discount at amberink.com. Stamps, digis and fabby ipaper…oh my!

Here’s this week’s sketch…

My take on it, with a little tweak, using AI’s Love Bunnies Proposal digi stamp…

Detail shot…

Designer of the Month, Sandra MacLean, has created another FAB-O sketch sample…

Want more great samples? Check out what the SFYTT Sisters have for you to peek at…you’ll be seeing some more of those darling AMBER INK stamps, too!!

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer {Taking this week off.}
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock {Just welcomed baby Emma Grace on the 20th. Please go give her some new mama love!}
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks
and…
the one and only CAROLE BURRAGE is back in the sisterhood!

Won’t you come play with us? Just link your project to the link system below by Friday, July 30th, at 5pm CST and you will be entered to win the Amber Ink $25 gift certificate. Happy Stamping and GOOD LUCK! And…don’t forget when you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword SFYTT.