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Monday morning greetings, my friends! Did ya hear? Verve released NEW STAMPS & DIES on Friday! Are you wondering why I didn’t do a whole bunch of sneak peeks leading up to the great event? I’m sure it’s been on your mind…hahahaha! The Verve Design Team is now actually 2 teams. I am on the Inspiration Team, which will be focusing on bringing new light to some older sets throughout the month. {You can read more about the teams HERE}. I’ll get to the older sets in a couple of days, but for now I HAD to play with LOVE NOTES, one of the new releases…

This may be my favorite Valentine’s set from Verve EVER! Great sentiments {duh, it’s Verve}, cute images and a TWO DIES to match! I used the Jotted Heart Die to cut the stamped image and felt heart. I’m thinking of making some heart garland using this die! It’s a great size for both embellishments and focal points. You can see all of the new releases HERE on the Verve site.

On another note…

BRRRRRR! It is COLD here! Definitely a drastic change from what we were spoiled with last week! Yesterday we got a few snowflakes and the kiddos enjoyed playing outside…before they realized just how cold it was {or maybe that was just Tony and I}! Here are a couple of pics from our {mini} snow day…

Ellie catching flakes on her tongue…

Nic {my big ONE YEAR OLD!} with a few flakes resting on his shoulders {and lashes!}…

We also had his first birthday party this weekend. Pics to come!

Stay warm and happy stamping!

I’m pretty sure that’s what Nic was thinking when I snapped this shot…

Hahaha! This picture cracks me up! I have to tell you, the first few months after Nic was born were ROUGH…to say the least. I think he’s turned a corner and life might be a little easier from here on out. I can dream, right? Nah, I really it’s gonna be easy breezy {as compared to the first few months} from here. He’s developing a very cute little personality and this picture just captures him being a little goofball.

As much as I could go on and on about my kiddos {as seen by the past 3 posts, too}, I will move on to the craftiness part of this post. TONIGHT is the big release for THE CAT’S PAJAMAS! There will be TWELVE new sets and FOUR new die/die sets available. I have been working my little {a relative term} hiney off getting all these samples done. Last week I showed my Dracula project, which at the time was my fave of this release. It’s fallen in the rankings to be a close second to my WITCHY card here…

A couple of detail shots…

I love playing with new Halloween images! These ones from TCP are fun and are great to color or paper piece. I chose to color this lil’ witch and then use my Sakura Stardust pen and rubbing alcohol filled aqua painter to create an all over glittery effect. I dove into my Halloween embellies and dusted off some that I fell in love with when I purchased them, but then they sat and sat until a card to perfectly marry them with was made. The calendar page is from Jenni Bowlin and the little spider is K&Co. The button is topped off with some of that great TCP Divine Twine that I can’t put down. That open pinked border is also from TCP and is one of the new CutUps that is part of this release.

As I noted earlier, TONIGHT is the big release. We’ll be having a release party on our forum on SCS from 9-11pm EST. There will be games and prizes, so I hope that you will join us!

I’ll leave you with one more picture of Nic from that same photo shoot…

Kinda cute, right? Check out that tooth!

It’s Day Two of sneak peeks for the new release from The Cat’s Pajamas and today Sprinkle is back in action, and as sassy as ever!

This is from the set Coffee, Tea or Meow…you better believe that’s one of the sentiments, too!! So, I’ve mentioned a few times that I love paper piecing over the last few days. As you can see from the tea pot, bow and table cloth, this set is super fun {and easy} to piece!

This was NOT the first attempt at this card! First I made it with all pastels, but that wasn’t working for me. I’m guessing the fact that it’s POURING rain outside, fall is right around the corner and whatever mood I was in made that a “no go.”

I won’t keep you much longer. Be sure to check out more fabby samples on the blogs of my fellow Cat Packers…

Amy
Ana
Toni

Yesterday was Ellie’s first day of preschool this year. Here’s a pic of the 2 of us outside our front door…

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Sorry I haven’t been posting as regularly as I have in the past. I plan to get into blogging more often soon. Nic has been quite a little fussy one, so {as I think I have noted before} my stamping time has been at a premium. I am hoping to get him more on a schedule, so I can schedule in some more cleaning AND STAMPING time! Wish me luck. In the meantime, I will continue to post what I have to post. Sometimes crafty stuff, sometimes some random tidbits. Today, of course, I have another SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY, but first a pic of my cry baby being a sweet happy baby…

I think this one will become a “go to” sketch for me!

Here’s my card using the soon to be released set {April 13}, Tutu Much, from The Cat’s Pajamas. No you aren’t seeing double, it’s matchy matchy to my TCP Tuesday post…

Detail shot of the flower/button combo with the new {soon to be released} oh-so-fine-twine {I could gush about it!} from TCP…

The wonderfully talented Designer of the Month, Makeesha Byl’s sample is coming soon.

Be sure to check out more super duper samples from my Sketch For You To Try sisters…
Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Kelly Lunceford
Megan Lock
Jenn Diercks
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph

It’s your turn to play along and be considered for a Designer of the Month gig. Just upload your fabby creation to the Slide Guestbook below. When uploading to other online galleries, please use the keyword “SFYTT”

This post is just going to be filled with this, that and the other thing…and some stamping, of course.

First, here is my class schedule at Scrapper’s Boutique…
March 30 6:30 pm- Copic II
April 3 Time TBA- Copic Refresher
April 6 6:30 pm- Copic III
May 4 6:30 pm- Copic I
May 15 10:30 am- Cardmaking 101
May 15 2:30 pm- Stamping 101

Yesterday I showed you a scrap page that I made of Ellie and her/Tony’s chocolate shake. I took a picture of my Thin Mint shake, too. I just like how the pictures came out, so I thought that I would go ahead and share them here.

Mmm, Thin Mint…

All gone…

Here are a few Ellie enjoying a bite. So cute!

Finally, I have a card to share. When I saw this image from Taylored Expressions I fell in love. I just think the 2 elephants and hearts are so cute together. The sentiment is a mounted rubber stamp from Hampton Arts that I have had in my stash for quite some time. I used more of the My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary line…some of my all time favorite paper!

Off to do some work around the house and hopefully get some stamping done!