Sites of the week

YIPPPEEEE…I can finally tell ya that I am one the Guest Designers over at Market Street Stamps this month!

I first saw MSS stuff popping up on Facebook and it really piqued my interest. Upon going to their site the first time, I called up a friend and asked her if she had seen their stuff. We ended up browsing their site together and ooohing and aaaawing at all the cutie patootie sets they had. Since then, they have added a bunch more and my wish list keeps growing! Thank you to Market Street Stamps for having me as a guest this month!

The first card I created uses the set BLAST OFF! This set totally appealed to the mama of a boy side of me…

The image was super fun and easy to paper piece. I have a 6 x 6 pad of “To the Moon” from Fancy Pants that had been waiting for this image to complement! I paper pieced the rocket ship with a one of the papers that has rockets all over it {tone on tone} and then added more “boy” hues around it. I really like the way it came out…I have to say that half way through, I was a little skeptical.

This second card uses the set GONE CAMPIN which is the first set that I fell in love with from MSS. I noted on my post on the Market Street blog that I am just waiting for someone to have a bad day so I can make a card with the mosquito and “Sometimes Life Just Sucks” sentiment…LOL!!

Thank you again to Market Street Stamps for letting me play along with them this month!! Have a great weekend and keep a smile on through all those crowds of Christmas shoppers!

Well, we survived the Halloween playdate yesterday. It was a lot of fun and the kids were darling! I’m really happy that Tony home from work in time to see all the kids in action. I haven’t even checked out the pics on the camera, but as soon as I do I will be sharing some here…promise {I’m thinking Monday, k?}.

This is the last Saturday of the month…the 5th Saturday of October in which the calendar also holds 5 Fridays and Sundays. Did you see the rumor that this only happens once every 823 years? Who says that stuff? Whomever you are, please stop because I may have believed for minute and now realize that was kinda dumb. I looked it up and here’s the mathematical breakdown on how this does NOT occur every 8 and a {almost} quarter centuries… {source}

For a 31-day month to have 5 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the first day needs to be a Friday. Each nonleap year has 365 days, which is 52 weeks plus one day [52*7=364; 364+1=365.] So every passing year will ‘push’ the first day of the month forward by one day, defining ‘forward’ as Friday -> Saturday, Saturday -> Sunday, etc. However, if it’s a leap year, the first day of the month will be pushed forward by two days. Since any six-year cycle will contain at least one leap year, this means that the same October calendar should reappear every six years [five one-day pushes forward and one two-day push = one full week covered] unless there are two leap years that fall in that space, in which case the whole cycle will be shifted forward by one day.)

So enough of the geekery, and back to the craftiness on hand here. It’s the last Saturday of the month {as noted above}. On the first Saturday of this month I introduced the October SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY, which is sponsored by the super awesome WALTZING MOUSE STAMPS this month. Here’s the sketch once more…

I seriously LOVE this sketch. Now, you are probably thinking, “Of course you do, you came up with it.” Yes, I did come up with it. I come up with all of the sketches for the entire year in November/December. I do it in word/Photoshop and not with paper. Most of the time it all works out and other times I think, “Oh man, I really should have tried this out with paper panels” because it just does not seem to work out. Fortunately, this time it did work out and this one is a keep in my book! For my second card using the sketch, I created a mini card with the super fun and spooky MIDNIGHT FEAST set from Waltzing Mouse…

Detail shots…

I love how crisp WMS images stamp…

You still have a couple days to play along! You can check out all the details and link your card on THE ORIGINAL OCTOBER SFYTT POST. Happy Stamping!!

My Favorite Things, The Cat’s Pajamas and Verve Stamps have all come together to offer you 10% off and donate a portion of their sales to my friend, Susan and her family.

Every bit helps! Thank you!!

**on the MFT site, use the code SUSIEQ at checkout**

Wednesday greetings! Thanks to everyone for your great music suggestions yesterday! I love the stuff that you all came up with!

I’m back with another Skipping Stones Design sketch and this is your second stop along the SSD blog hop. Be sure you start out on the SSD blog and when you are done here, you will hop on over to the talented Erin Grotegut’s blog…

Here’s my take on the sketch using the new set, Home of the Brave. I wanted to make a more masculine card, so it’s a little plainer than my usual style, but it works for a “guy card.”…

The winner of the Funny Bras Vol. #2 from last week’s comments is…

MICHELE

Michele, just shoot me over an email {link under pic on the left} and I will get that super fun set off to you!!

Now hop on over to Erin’s blog to see the goodness she has for you to take a peek at!

Today is the first day of DARE TO GET DIRTY ‘09 on Splitcoast. You can read more about it in the DTGD ‘09 Forum, which is also where all the challenges will be posted. For the next three days there will be several challenges posted each day. The first 3 of the day are challenges celebrating previous Dirty Dozen galleries. Since I am kicking off this event, I could think of a better gallery to chose but the very first one…TAG ART.

Since this is a project made for the Stamp A Sweet Impression blog {Taylored Expressions}, I only have a sneak peek for you here, but you can see the full project and details on the SASI blog and on the DTGD Challenge Thread…

I hope that you {SCS Fan Club Member} will play along with the Dare To Get Dirty challenges! Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!