Love This Kid

A cute digital layout of my little guy!

The pictures are from 2010 - getting so excited....I am "almost" caught up with their scrapbooks!

Anyway, here is the layout:

He has always been such a little ham!  

He was so excited to get a new pair of boats, or "swampies" as we call them!  He just loves splashing in the puddles...both mud and water!  As well as walking through the woods!

Have a great day!

Birthday with SS

Happy Tuesday Stamping Friends!

There's another wonderful challenge on the Sweet Stamps Blog for you to join in! We'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind!!

You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some 
"sweet" things of your own!!


SweetStamps.com has so many wonderful stamps and other products to choose from!!

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This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is:

Birthday

Ready for something sweet?

I have a sweet Birthday card to share with you today using the new 

Sweet Treats Clear Cling set from Sweet Stamps!!

What a YUMMY new set!! 

I love the sweet sentiments in this set as well!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

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Looking ahead, next week's challenge is:
#133 Butterflies

And you can find our current Monthly Technique Challenge
"Masking" here!

Be sure to check out the SS Blog, to see all the lovely inspiration from the designers!

Have a wonderful day!

Biking In the Rain LO

Good morning!  Hope you're having a wonderful weekend so far!

Last year, in May one day you would have found my son biking outside in the rain!!....in his UNDERWEAR!

After he just got out of the bath!

We had played outside all day and rain was coming, so we went in the house and gave the kids baths and were just going to play games!  Well my little guy didn't believe us that is was raining so he wanted to check it out for himself!

Well next thing we knew he had his bike out and was riding around in the rain! lol

I asked him what he was doing he told me "riding my bike in the rain and taking a shower!"

The things kids come up with!

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Precious Daughter

A digital layout for my little girl's album!

Here she was about a month old!

I really do miss this little stage, but sure love the cute little girl she has turned into!  Although she sure can be a diva at times!!

Have a beautiful day!

Anything Goes with SS

Happy Tuesday Stamping Friends!

There's another wonderful challenge on the Sweet Stamps Blog for you to join in! We'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind!!

You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some 
"sweet" things of your own!!


SweetStamps.com has so many wonderful stamps and other products to choose from!!

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This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is:

Anything Goes

The DT "Sweeties" also used some of the new ArtsyfArtsy Clear Cling Stamps!!  

Have you had a chance to check all the new sets out?!?  

You can see them all here!

I personally think they are so fun and amazing! 

For my card today I used the new Elegant Wedding set!!

Just LOVE the images in this set!!  Make for a lovely wedding card!!

Close-up:

I added some silver rhinestones to the flourishes on the dress, which I thought made a perfect added touch!!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

I also created this wedding card:

What a lovely set!!
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Looking ahead, next week's challenge is:
#132 Birthdays

And you can find our current Monthly Technique Challenge
"Masking" here!

Be sure to check out the SS Blog, to see all the lovely inspiration from the designers!

Have a wonderful day!

Smiley

Going through some photos the other day, I found these adorable photos of my little girl from 2010!

I just had to sit down and quickly create a digital layout with them!!

They grow way too fast!

Hope you've had a wonderful weekend!

Light on the Ink Please?!

Happy Wednesday Inspired By Stamping friends!!

It's my turn to share a  Whoo Hoo Wednesday tutorial on the Inspired by Stamping Blog!!

Whoo Hoo!!

I don't know about you, but I tend to try and be a perfectionist at times!

So I find myself stamping images multiple times to get them stamped just "right"!

Well I decided to go out of the "norm" and not be a perfectionist!  

Light On the Ink Please??!!

You can see my tutorial on the Inspired By Stamping Blog!!

Here is the card I created:

I used the new Guitars and Background Basics Lines!!

The birthday sentiment is from the Creative Tags set!

What fun!!

Have a beautiful day!!

Bling with SS

Happy Tuesday Stamping Friends!

There's another wonderful challenge on the Sweet Stamps Blog for you to join in! We'd love to see what you create with our challenge in mind!!

You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some 
"sweet" things of your own!!


SweetStamps.com has so many wonderful stamps and other products to choose from!!

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This week's Sweet Stamps Challenge is:

Bling

What a fun challenge!

Who doesn't like a little bling?!

Not only was I super excited to use a ton of BLING, but I also used a new clear stamp set from SweetStamps.com!! 

Yep, you read right....SS just released some new clear stamp sets, check them all out here!!   They are amazing!!

I used the new Deco Frames & Silhouettes clear stamp set!

I used both a frame and the tulips in the set!!

When I seen the one frame in the set, it yelled bling to me!  I thought it would be fun to add a bunch of bling around the frame!! 

Here's a look at the entire new Deco Frames & Silhouettes clear stamp set:

8 Fun stamps!!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

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Looking ahead, next week's challenge is:
#131 Anything Goes

And you can find our current Monthly Technique Challenge
"Dryer Sheet Technique" here!

Have a wonderful day!

Hey Sugar

Happy Sunday Crafty Friends!!

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!  

Today is my day to post on the Joy's Life DT Blog!

This week we are featuring Sweets!!

One of the sweet ladies that works for me loves chocolate cookies and the kids recently found a recipe for some chocolate M&M cookies that they have been wanting to make, so I thought I would finally make them!

With the theme in mind we had a fun time making our delicious cookies!

I then created this fun little packaging to give my employee, so she could enjoy some as well!

Yummy!!

I just love making packaging like this!  Especially with Joy's fun sentiment stamps!

A look at the entire That Tastes Punny set:

Check out all of Joy's Life Stamps here!
I just LOVE all the sentiments!!

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Here's the recipe if you would like to make some for yourself!!

We loved them!!

My adorable little helpers!!

They just love baking with me!

Have a wonderful day!

IBS August Release

It's release day at Inspired By Stamping!!

This month's release was so much fun to work with!!  It was all about the guys in our lives!!

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Check out all these lovely masculine sets:

Guy Sentiments

Background Basics IV

Background Basics Lines

Guitars

Masculine Tags

Masculine Tags II

What some great sets!!

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We are offering Free Shipping for the next 48 hours at the store. Please use code “AUGFREE”!

Please remember that this is good for only 48 hours and will expire at 7pm August 13th. Minimum purchase of $20 is required. All orders that do not meet this minimum will be put on hold until shipping requirements are met. Only 1 coupon allowed per purchase.

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Have a lovely day!

IBS August Online Catalog

This month we are introducing our FREE 3rd Edition Online Catalog at Inspired By Stamping filled with our latest August 2013 stamp sets! Each page provides details of our stamp sets! Plus, inspiration from the designers! This month’s catalog was designed to give you even more inspiration and interaction than ever before with Inspired by Stamping products!

Cool Features:

- Browse the catalog with ease on your tablet or computer.

- Get the entire release in one spot! Plus, zoom in on your favorite products, projects and cards.

- SHOP ONLINE! Order products by clicking on the stamp set which takes you directly to our online store.

Here’s a peek at what is inside:

View the design team cards and projects that they used with each stamp set!

Where can you find our Online Catalog?

You can download it here, today.

All past catalogs are available for download at the Inspired By Stamping Store. Click Here!

Have a lovely day!

IBS Masculine Tags II

Good morning!!

Today is our final day sharing inspiration from Inspired By Stamping's August release!!
What an amazing masculine release!!

I have really enjoyed using all of these amazing masculine stamps!!

Today we are showcasing the new Masculine Tags II!! 

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I just LOVE how my project turned out!!

Many of the guys in my life are very much into the outdoors, which is why I am so in love with this release!  Plus the Masculine Tags II set has so many great outdoor tags!

I decided to use the fishing one for this fun box:

The guys are sometimes so hard to shop for, so I find myself buying gift cards a lot!  I hate just giving an envelope with a gift card in, so I found this fun box svg and thought for now on it would be fun to give gift cards in these!  That way I can dress them up a little bit!

I found the perfect matching gift card for this one!!  Hubby can buy some new lures! ;)

I also used the Background Basics IV to stamp patterned paper for the sides and top!

I also added a birthday sentiment and fun fish tag from the Masculine Tags II set to the back!

So fun!!

So in love with these sets!!

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Make sure to check out each of the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies using the new sets:

Calypso Bastian
Colleen Dietrich

Deb Hickman
Grace Tolman

Irit Shalom

Joanna Munster - Owner

Kendra Sand - Myself

Leah Cornelius
Shani Thomas

Shea Marshall
Tina Hale
Vicki Dutcher

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Be sure to leave a comment on today's Inspired By Stamping Blog post for your chance at winning today's featured stamps!!

Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Store, there are so many wonderful stamps to choose from!  As well as ribbon, crochet trim and flowers!

So excited, tomorrow I get to share all the lovely new sets with you, so you can see all the stamps for yourself!  They are awesome!!

Have a lovely day!

IBS Masculine Tags

Good morning Inspired By Stamping friends!

We have another lovely day full of inspiration, using the new August release stamps!!

Today we are showcasing the new Masculine Tags!!
As well as using one of the new background sets!!

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I had so much fun creating this card for today!!

I used the new Masculine Tags set to stamp the lovely frame for the main image of the card! As well as using the Fancy Labels 2 Die to cut the tag out!!

The "Happy Birthday Grandpa" is also included in the Masculine Tags set!  I was so excited to be able to create this sentiment, as I have never owned a personal sentiment like this!  

Close-up of tag and sentiment:

My Grandpa will be 80 on Saturday, so I thought it would be fun to stamp two of the banners from the Creative Tags set and the numbers from the Fancy Alphabet set!

I used the lovely Background Basics Lines to create this lovely plaid background!

What some fun masculine stamps!!

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Make sure to check out each of the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies using the new sets:

Deb Hickman

Irit Shalom

Joanna Munster - Owner

Kendra Sand - Myself

Leah Cornelius
Pam Bray
Rose Miller

Shea Marshall
Vicki Dutcher

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Be sure to leave a comment on today's Inspired By Stamping Blog post for your chance at winning today's featured stamps!!

Be sure to check out the Inspired By Stamping Store, there are so many wonderful stamps to choose from!  As well as ribbon, crochet trim and flowers!

Tomorrow is our final day of inspiration, before the release!!

Have a lovely day!