Sites of the week

Congrats to CHERYL who wins all 10 mini Fhiona stamps and an Ellie of her choice from YOUR NEXT STAMP! CONGRATULATIONS and thank you to all that participated and to YNS!!
–>Cheryl, email me and we’ll get those to you!!<--

Hooray for Saturday! Today I’m teaching Copic class at Scrapper’s Boutique. I have a bunch more projects to work on when I get home. I’m all set and excited for a super crafty weekend!

This weekend we have a great sponsor…WILD FLOWER PATCH! They have great stamps, digi stamps and oh-so-cute templates! A HUGE THANK YOU to Wild Flower Patch for this week’s sponsorship!! This week’s winning participant will win 5 digi images of their choice! Yippeeeee!! I just have to publicly say THANKS to Jen at WFP for dealing with my mommy {ahem, super ditzy} brain, which was in FULL force during our communications!! How embarrassing!!

Here’s the sketch for this week…

Here’s my sample using the Pretty In Pink set. I love the look on this lil’ girls face…it is so ELLIE!! I even got Ellie to do the face when I showed her the card…hilarious. I’m thinking that I probably should have snapped a picture of it now!

Designer of the Month, Sandra MacLean, created this cutie patootie 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 cu-ute Wild Flower Patch stamps, too!!

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks

I hope you’ll play along with us, too!! Just upload your picture to the link system below and when you upload to online galleries, just use the keyword “SFYTT“.

Good luck to all the participants! I can’t wait to see what you all {or y’all, as they say around here!} come up with!

From all the comments that I have here and that I have seen on the other blogs, you all are loving the new stuff coming out from The Cat’s Pajamas. It’s with good reason, too! I have loved creating with all the cute new stamps, dies, felt and twine! Today I get to show you another peek at the Birthday Bunny set that will be released with all the other crafty goodness on July 20th.

I love the sentiment! Oh my, it just cracks me up!

Here’s a few detail shots…

I loved coloring all the gifties. I planned on paper piecing a couple of them, but just kept coloring and coloring!

Loveee the felt!..

All of the new sets and goodies {wink!} will be available for purchase on July 20th! Want to win all the new stamps? Just leave a comment of the sneak peekers each day {full list HERE} and one lucky ducky commenter will win all EIGHT sets!! Winner will be announced at the July 19th RELEASE PARTY ON SCS! Good luck!

a´ la modes is the newest line in an ever growing line of wonderful MY FAVORITE THINGS stamps. Tonight we are having a blog hop to celebrate the release of these great new designs from artist, Amanda Baird. I did mention that it’s a blog hop, so here’s the where and who run down before I get started on my creation…

The blog hop starts HERE on the MFT/Kim’s blog
If you have already been hopping along, then you will have arrived here from Kerry’s blog, and
when you leave here, you will hop on over to Susan’s blog {I’ll be linking her later, too}.

For my card, I am featuring the a´la modes Birthday Girl set…

I love the exaggerated size of the objects that she is holding in this line. It’s so fun…and a lot easier to color! Here’s a detail shot of my main image panel…

Again, I am giving doing the insides a shot. I really like this one with the rhinestones accenting the inside sentiment. Do you see that I used one of the new Die-namics, Framed Greetings, for the sentiment panel, too..

If you haven’t already read, these stamps are a little different than what you are used to from MFT. What you’ll want to know about these stamps…

* a la modes will be available only in rubber
* Each set is produced in the USA using the higest quality rubber, with the deepest etch possible.
* Each image and sentiment is backed on cling foam and scroll cut, making it ready for stamping right out of the bag!
* Packaged in a clear hang bag, we’ve also provided the ideal storage solution by including a thick laminated header card in each set that can be used to store the stamp set, in its entirety after purchase.
* $10.95 for the 3 x 4″ set.

Ok, now you are all ready to hop on over to Ms. SusSus‘ {as my sweet Ellie refers to her} blog for more a´ la mode greatness!

It’s SNEAKY PEEK WEEK at THE CAT’S PAJAMAS!

Be sure to check out the TCP/Alma’s blog for a complete list of where to find all the sneak peeks! In addition to it being the sneak peek day for WHALE OF A TIME, it’s also TCP TUESDAY and Hipster Hostess with the Mostess, AMY {click on her name to get all the deets on how to win Cat Cash for playing along!}, has issued a TWINE CHALLENGE!! In case you haven’t seen yet, TCP is now offering DIVINE TWINE is a slew of colors from which to choose. Here’s what I came up with…

This is a shadowbox from IKEA that I made into a sweet baby{ish} gifty. The navy is felt {hint hint of what’s to come at TCP} and the waves were created from something else special coming your way from TCP!! Each of the waves is embossed with an embossing folder do give it a little bit more dimension. I created the life preserver from Nestabilities and then attached my DIVINE TWINE to make it part of it. The twine is also on top of the ribbon that goes all the way around the box.

Although I love the idea of creating more of these shadowboxes, I got a taste of how hard they are to photograph! Here are a few more photos of the project {the 20+ I had to take!}…

Here’s another peek at this oh-so-fun-to-paper-piece whale on a simple, but fun, card I created…

All of the new sets and goodies {wink!} will be available for purchase on July 20th! Want to win all the new stamps? Just leave a comment of the sneak peekers each day {full list HERE} and one lucky ducky commenter will win all EIGHT sets!! Winner will be announced at the July 19th RELEASE PARTY ON SCS! Good luck!

Happy Saturday Everyone! Today is Ellie’s PURPLE PARTY AT THE PARK! It’s a purple themed birthday party at one of the coolest parks that I have been to. We are all pretty excited about it! I promise pictures of the fun, as well as my cookies and cupcakes are coming!

Today’s sketch is sponsored by the oh-so-cute stamp company YOUR NEXT STAMP! I love their Fhiona and Ellie {of course!} stamps! As a prize to one very lucky participant this week YNS is giving away all 10 mini Fhionas and an Ellie of the winner’s choice!…WOWZAS!

AND…SFYTT fans get 15% off their orders by using the code “SFYTT15″ THANK YOU YNS!!!

Here is this week’s sketch…

Here’s my birthday card to Ellie using, Ellie Loves to Bake {my Ellie really loves to help me in the kitchen…just don’t ask her to try anything new!!}.

I tweaked it a little…

A couple detail shots…

BTW, the word “Ellie” was stamped using my super favoritest alpha set, TCP’s Coolvetica!!

Sandra MacLean has a beautifully colored card using this sketch…

Want more fabby samples of the sketch? Check out what the SFYTT sisters have for in store…you might just cathc a glimpse at some more of those uber cute Your Next Stamp images…

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks

Post your creations to the link system below. If you do not have a blog, but would like to be eligible to win the fabby YNS prize package, simply {directly} link your creation in the comments section. When uploading to online galleries, please use the keyword SFYTT. Thanks and good luck!!!