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A Sketch And A Welcome…

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:57:38 +0000

Hip Hip Hooray…it’s Saturday! Did you all have a fun fourth? We had a great time at our friend’s house, but getting back home was a nightmare. There was a 18 wheeler turned over on the freeway, so we were detoured through downtown where the police had half the streets closed off. What was normally about a 30 minute venture turned into over an hour. But, we got home safe and sound, so I can’t complain.
Well, it’s the first Saturday of the month, so I get to introduce a brand spankin’ new Guest Designer…YAY!! I got to meet Jessie at the Arlington Shoebox swap, and she is truly a sweetie! I am glad she has hopped on board this month with me and the rest of the SFYTT gang…Amy, Carole, Shannan and Susan. <-- Be sure to check out their samples, too!

Welcome Jessie Rone...

In her own words…
Holy Cow, would you look at me!! A year ago if you had told me that I would be a guest designer on one of my FAVORITE blogs, I would have looked at you dumbfounded and said, “What’s a blog?” LOL!! I started stamping 7yrs ago, but never really took it seriously. I became a demonstrator in 2001 for SU and have remained one(purely for the discount) ever since. I joined Splitcoast Stampers back in 2005, but never did anything but CASE other peoples cards up until October of last year. Since then, I have started my gallery on SCS, my blog, became design team coordinator for Paper Pretties, and been fortunate enough to have guest designer spots with My Favorite Things and for Melanie Muenchinger’s(illustrator for Gina K.) blog. When I got the email from Jen, I thought I would have a {heart} attack!! I look forward to working with her and her amazing team for the next month!!

Here’s the sketch for this week…

Here’s my sample using “Out Of This World” DP and the inque boutique Space Cadet set from The Purple Turtle Stamp Shoppe…

Jessie’s GORGEOUS sample…

Won’t you come play with us? Please be sure to link your project to this post and if uploading to SCS, please use the keyword SFYTT. Have fun and hope you have a great weekend. Tony will be here the SECOND Sunday of each month. If you expected him on the 6th, sorry, he’s got another week to come up with something!

Psssst…don’t forget to wish Kim (the MFT Lady) a happy 40th Birthday!!

Knock Your Socks Off Happy and a Wee Bit Sad…

Jen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:29:58 +0000

Have I ever told you that I absolutely adore the chichiboulie line at Stamping Bella {as well all the other stuff that she enables me with!!}? LOL! Yesterday I sat down to make a card using one of the new Verve Stamps sentiments and thought that this chichi {Ruby Ribbonlace} looked so happy. I think that you could use her for a “cause” card, but she also reminds me of a free spirited girl just jumping around and that is how I am using her here. So, I had the sentiment, image and layout…it’s Mojo Monday 44 from Julee’s blog, but no idea about the colors. I find myself reaching for DP more and more often, which in the past was just not me. I also find myself going for bright cheery colors. Obviously the Texas sun is getting to me. LOL! I got out a K & Co. paper pack that I picked up from my LSS not too long ago and found this fun print. I thought that it would look perfect with her dress. So off I went to color and put everything together. Here’s what I came up with, a knock your socks off happy card…

So, why does the title of this post also say “a wee bit sad?” Well a couple month’s ago I got an email letting me know that PaperCrafts had accepted a card of mine {now, that’s knock your socks off happy!!}, but then I got the issue yesterday and the card just didn’t photograph well and you can hardly see any of the details, hence a wee bit sad. I really am not all that upset about it, nor I am not faulting PC for anything. In fact, when I saw it {page 65, I am on 23, too-double YAY!} I said, “Ohhhh no, you can’t see anything on it,” then turned the page. I knew that I could post a pic of it here. So, here is what it REALLY looks like…

Much better, huh!?!?! I really do love this card, so sorry if it seems like I am tooting away at my own horn.

Speaking of pub stuff, I am taking tomorrow off to work on stuff for publication and to celebrate our country’s independence with an afternoon bbq. I hope that you all have fun and stay safe this weekend!! I will have a SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY on Saturday. See you then…along with a new friend and Guest Designer!!!

Happy Birthday MFT & Lots To Show…

Jen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:41 +0000

July marks My Favorite Things 2nd birthday and we are having a HUGE celebration! Here are some deets that you are gonna want to know about…

**$2.00 US shipping for under $40, and for Intl orders and US orders over $40, they’ll receive the same $2.75 discount until July 15th.

**FIRST 50 orders will receive a full sized Stickles.

**Are you “The Girl Who Wants It All?” If so, you can take home all SIX the July releases for $49.95.

I’ve done a sample for each of the releases. You can see many more from the rest of the Design Team HERE on Splitcoast.

Gardener Flopsey…

I’m Pullin’ For You…

Bunny Slippers {with a flocked robe}…

Call Me…

Peppermint from Annie LaPoint…

Be Calm from Annie LaPoint…

I hope to see you at the release party tonight in the MFT Forum from 9-11 EST.

Have You Seen?…

Jen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:14 +0000

Verve Visual is now Verve Stamps AND they are now a Member Company on Splitcoast. Click HERE to go to the Verve Stamps forums. To kick things off in a Verve-a-licious way, Julee is issuing YOU a challenge and a chance to win some Verve Bucks {money to spend on Verve stamps!}. HERE is the link to that challenge thread. I hope that you will play along and good luck if you do! The challenge is to use stars on your project. Since I love using fun shapes like stars, I jumped right into this! Here is my creation…

The sentiment is from the new Verve release, Feeling Groovy. I paired it up with my SU! star punches and some paper and ribbon from Papertrey Ink. The right side of the base of the card is embossed with my D’Vine Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder. This card came together rather quickly and the layout is great for a lot of different cards. I think I am going to try switching up the stars with flowers or maybe snowflakes. I can also change out the sentiment, colors and choice of embossing folder. Better keep an eye on me with this one!

Other things to check out today…

TCP Tuesday, being hosted by Katie. Check out all the fun stampin’ deets HERE.

The new MFT release is TOMORROW night. You can join us in the MFT forum from 9-11 EST {Wed.} for fun, friends and great samples to view. I will be showing off 6 samples here tomorrow. You can see some samples, a.k.a. MFTeasers, from the DT now HERE.

Friends Forever…

Jen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:52 +0000

From time to time, I like to make large tags rather than cards. I think that they are a fun addition to a gift package, or you can use them as a flat card and write on the back. Since the 20% off {and super cheap shipping} sale at The Purple Turtle is through today, I wanted to show off some more of the inque boutique stamps I’ve been using lately. This tag uses three sets: Jazzy Punctuation (cool, huh?!?), Retro Shapes and the sentiment is part of the Friends Word Search set. I am really big on stamps sets from companies being compatible with their other stamp sets, as well as jiving with anything else I own and these sets cover those bases easy peasy. Other cool stuff to check out on the PT site… Out Of This World Paper {this is on the top of my “gotta get time to use this SOON” pile} and the Spunky Alpha chipboard {I seriously {heart} this font!!}. Don’t forget to use the coupon code awesome at checkout to get your goods for a steal!
What do you think of this color combo? I’m digging it! I totally would not have thought of it, but my markers arranged themselves so that these colors were together and just screaming at me to use them together! As for my finishing touches, I used some ruby red emBELLAshments, Swarovski crystals and ribbon from May Arts {the fun guava and red one}.