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Friday greetings! Yesterday was Ellie’s 4th birthday and it was WONDERFUL! She is a very spoiled special little girl! We are having a party with all the fixin’s tomorrow, but last night she chose this as her birthday dessert…

When asked what she wanted for dessert she told us chocolate ice cream and she is on a total Toy Story 3 kick, so this was perfect!

It was a secret, but I was the secret blog candy hopper yesterday. What does that mean? One of the ladies that commented on my blog hop post wins a $15 gift voucher to MFT! Congrats to lucky…

#11 AMY {stamp-n-paradise)

Amy, shoot me over an email {link under my pic} and I will get all that info to you

Today I have a Verve card to share with you…YAY! Verve is one of the sponsors of a HUGE GIVEAWAY from the Color Throwdown blog. You can find all that info HERE. These are the colors to work with…

Here’s my card using the new Blue Skies set…

This is such a simple and dynamic layout that highlights both the large butterfly image {clear embossed on the squares on the right}, as well as sentiment which acts as the main image. I paper pierced around the sentiment panel, something that I chose to do after the card was “done.” It just seemed to be crying out for something a little more.

You can find more new Verve stamps HERE and don’t forget to check out the Color Throwdown challenge HERE!

Have a fun Friday! I will back tomorrow with another fun {AND SPONSORED} SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY!

Welcome to the My Favorite Things July Release Blog Hop and Shop! I hope you had fun at the Release Party. My in-laws are in town for Ellie’s birthday {Thursday}, so my appearance was very brief.
If you happened upon my blog randomly, you will want to go back to the beginning of the hop at Kim’s blog. You should have come here via Sherrie’s blog and when you hop on from here, you will be off to Lisa’s blog {I’ll be linking her later in the post, too}.

What has been your favorite so far? Do you love the new Die-Namics? The new Pure Innocences? All the other stamps? It’s hard to choose just one, I suppose!

My card features the new PI set, Tea Party, as well as the new Banner Day Alpha and Banner Day Die-Namic {and Fresh Cut Grass Die-Namic} …

I paper pieced the tablecloth and the Nesties Large Scallop Rectangle panel with October Afternoon paper. This set is perfect for paper piecing! I didn’t use the lil’ PI girl on this card, but you could play matchy-matchy with paper piecing her dress, too.

I did an inside AGAIN!…

Before you leave here and hop on over to LISA’S BLOG for more MFT goodness, but sure to leave a comment. A random commenter along the blog hop will be chosen for a sweet MFT Gift Certificate! Good luck, happy hopping and have fun shopping!!

I have more new goodness to show you today. This time from THE CAT’S PAJAMAS. Oh me, oh my are you going to love this release! It’s TCP’s BIGGEST RELEASE YET! New stamps and products are coming your way, so make room! This week’s TCP Tuesday challenge is brought to you by Hipster Hostess with the Mostess, Joanne {be sure to click to her to find out all the challenge deets}…

Aren’t these colors YUM-O for summer? Mmm, mmm good I say! Here’s my card using the upcoming release Birthday Bunny, along with a peek at some awesome flowers and that oh-so DIVINE twine…

Detail shots…

Did you see that THE CAT’S PAJAMAS is now a MEMBER COMPANY on SCS? You can find details about the release, as well as general TCP information and chatter amongst fans. See you there!

What a wonderful 3 day weekend we had here! Very busy and very relaxing…not too often you can fit both of those into a weekend!! Tomorrow is the day that new stamps are coming your way from My Favorite Things! I’ve loved hopping around and looking at all the creations the DT has come up with! You’ll find lots more MFT peeks today, too. Kim has all the sneak peek links, release information and peeks at the new sets on HER BLOG.

Today I am showing you the newest Jolinne, Just for You…

You’ll notice I used the same green patterned paper from My Mind’s Eye that I did on my card from yesterday. Today I paired it with some striped paper that I picked up at Michael’s a while ago. To a close look at those stockings…fish net! I had to! I used one of my Prismacolor Markers {.005, I think} to create the cross hatch pattern.

I went ahead and did the inside, again. Sweet and simple…

See you tomorrow during the Release Party and Hop!

Greetings! It’s release week for My Favorite Things and all of the wonderful sneak peeks have begun. Be sure to check out Kim’s blog for some great peeks at the sets, release details, as well as links to all of the DT members that have peeks going on their blogs.

Today I get to show you one of the newest stamp sets from the Pure Innocence line, Cheerleader {and a itty bitty peek at the Boy & His Dog Football Player}…

I did the green and gold because I will be displaying this card at my LSS and one of the local school colors around there is green and gold. I wanted to do something fun with these girls, so a colored ‘em in, cut ‘em out and stacked ‘em up just like real cheerleaders. These would be fun to do on a scrapbook page and you could do it on a larger scale {more cheerleaders}. As for the paper, the cloud pattern paper is from My Little Shoebox and the green pattern paper is from My Mind’s Eye. I used some of my {beloved} Prism Intense Kiwi for the grass, which is cut with the MFT Fresh Cut Grass Die-Namic.

I even did the inside of the card. I’m new at insides, so bear with me as I stick to the basics for now…

That’s all for me for today. See you tomorrow for another peek at some new MFT stamps that will be released on Wednesday.