Have you been to Gina K’s blog today???

Hmmmm? Well have you?

Heeeheehee!

What a MESSY desk!

Geez, I just cant find a THING on my messy desk! See?

I really think this catalog is in the way

Yep, cant find a thing under the catalog

How to make a gal happy…

1) Let her sleep in on a Saturday morning.

2) When checking your email, see one from Nichole about your submission for a guest star stamper on Papertrey about my spiral bouquet jewelry! 

Lets just say that I got a little misty eyed when I read about it! Im a dork, and it doesnt take a lot to make me misty! Congrats to all the other fabulous ladies honored by Nichole. It is amazing to be mentioned in the same post as you!

Hey Canada!

If you mosey on over to Treehouse stamps then you’ll see the free shipping over $40 is now available for YOU as well! Isnt that AWESOME?!?!? I’ve read a lot of threads on SCS about Canadians getting left out of free shipping and I just think it’s so cool that people are listening!

If you havent signed up for the blog candy yet, then make sure you do!

Come play at the Treehouse!

The Treehouse stamps will be releasing the first 2 stamp sets tomorrow (Wednesday, December 12th) at 8:00pm! Come join in the fun here: http://www.treehousestamps.com/

There are some super cute samples on SCS in the gallery, if you search THDT then you can see them! I am still awaiting my images in the mail *sniff* *sniff*! More than likely a neighbor has them in their mailbox, we have a substitute mail person who has been known to do that!

Anyway, take a peek and please join us for the release tomorrow! Ashley Bowen and Kristin Edwards have come up with some great winter sets. I know I cant wait to get my hands on them!

Exciting news…..

There’s a new stamp company coming to town and I’m on the design team! What a happy day to check my email!

Read all about the excitement here: http://ashleyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/

A limited supply challenge and the weekend!

Thank goodness it’s FRIDAY!!!!!! 

Today was indeed a super happy mail day! I received my Gina K, candles and my FREE SU! set!!! Woooo hooooo! I got the set AFTER I had already made my card for the LSC, so I will make something later with it for Beate’s sketch so you can all see it! It’s not a set that Im initally drawn to, but I see the potential and want to do it justice! And you can NEVER knock free goods, can you?

And I will briefly tell you that the S/S stampin up catalog went up online for demo’s today and the new paper is GORGEOUS!!!!!!! There will be rub-on’s in some of the most BEAUTIFUL designs I have ever seen! Plus the handful of stamps that they have shown are very cute and springy! Not everything is doodlie in the preview (although the new SU! set I got which is a new level 3 hostess set is on the doodlie side) and there are 2 pretty flower sets that I will definatley be getting.

Oh! And if you are a hostess in January or placing an order in January then you’ll get an extra treat!

Now onto the limited supply challenge card I made. You were to use 2-3 stamps, one with a heart or a sentiment and then either DSP or an embellishment (this is my goof, I thought it was both) and any coloring tools while limiting your layers. So I rummaged through my stamps and found my ‘Priceless’ set which has a heart in it that I have NEVER inked up! Sad, no?

I embossed the sentiment onto the DSP to keep the focus on the heart trio, and I also stamped the small flower onto the flowers in the DSP that matched the size. It worked out nicely and is a teeny tiny touch that looks swell IRL.

Instructions:

1. Starting with a piece of groovy guava CS cut and folded to standard size.
2. Then I cut a piece of rose red DSP to 4×5 and stamped the small flower from “Priceless” onto the medium flower on the DSP in rose red ink.
3. Using versamark ink, I stamped the sentiment on the bottom right hand corner and applied white EP to it.
4. Then I mounted the DSP onto the cardfront and placed 4 vintage brass (or maybe copper, I dont know they are making memories) in the 4 corners.
5. I then used my nesties to cut 3 white rectangles and 3 scalloped rectangles in Papertrey white and wild wasabi, then adhered them together.
6. Using rose red ink, I stamped the heart 3 times then cut it out and adhered them to the center of the rectangles.
7. Next I placed the rectangles onto the cardfront using dimensionals.
8. And finally I placed a smidgen of crystal stickles onto the small flower on the heart.

Now I need to go mount my new free stamps and get working on my sketch for Beate’s challenge! See you later and happy weekend everyone!

The DEETS:

Stamps: Priceless-SU
Ink: rose red, versamark-SU
CS: groovy guava, wild wasabi, rose red DSP-SU   white- Papertrey Ink
Accessories: rectangle straight and scalloped nesties, white EP, dimensionals, vintage brads from making memories

Gina K news!

If you havent read about all the great news on Gina’s website then go read it now! I LOVE Gina’s stamps, they are so cute and fun! And now Gina’s making things even better! New packaging, selling in sets with even LOWER prices! Gina’s a smart cookie, she see’s what the customers are buying and she delivers! Plus she’ll have new sets to earn every month!

And the winner is…..

The winner of a brand new unmounted “Love you to pieces” set by Gina K is……

#29

Kari

Thanks for the chance to win! What a great set. I would make cards and gifts to encourage others. Thanks again!

And to refresh your memory, here’s a look at what you’ll be receiving:

Kari please email me at ebethneu@gmail.com with your snail mail address and I’ll get these goodies out to you soon! 

Thank you all for participating in the giveaway, I hope it has inspired you to get this set for your collection and create something beautiful!

Drumroll please……..

Our painting adventure is finished!!!! We started yesterday afternoon around 1:00 and finished today right about 6:00 pm……..PHEW! I am having a party this weekend and I want to keep the room a surprise so I will just go into a little detail without showing pictures for now. I’ll post some pictures of the room and the food from our party next weekend.

When we moved into our home 4 years ago we painted our living room a rich cranberry red. It was beautiful, the paint was gorgeous and almost had a suede feel to it. But after 4 years it started to feel too dark to us. Our furniture is a light natural camel, the furniture black or espresso and the lighting is brushed silver with cream shades and cream curtains. All of the light colored fabrics did help lighten the room but we knew we wanted to paint.

We started out thinking we would paint a light camel color…………but we didnt! I’ll just tell you the name of the paint for now, “winter sky”. Pretty vague, but oh so pretty! We also built a new mantel! Hooray!!!!! I now have the most beautiful shelf for my new partylite votives and my nativity set. WE LOVE IT!!! And we added a large mirror above the mantel to reflect even more light.

All in all, were tired but in awe of how different our living room looks. It is stunning and the fireplace looks insanely beautiful. Hard work, but so well worth it.

The girls stayed the night at Grandma’s and had homemade gingersnap cookies, and newly polished nails! How fun. We could not have done this without my Mom and I owe her so much for helping out. Ava and Audrey had a lot of fun with her and were super excited to see the new living room.

This week continues the busy life, two cleaning appointments for our floors and house on Wed and Fri, a possible Dr. appt for Ava tomorrow, accupuncture Tues on top of my Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat personal trainer sessions at ProClub. Then Saturday evening our ‘Scary Movie Night’! I really have to hunker down and get my menu worked out and start preparing.

Tonight is the new MFT release and Im looking forward to it, so far I really like the chocolate and sisters set, in the jungle and the new boho blossoms! Only 16 minutes to release!!!!

Tomorrow I hope to knock out another card or two and get back to my SCS challenges and cards for bingo! Im only 4 numbers away from having a full card.

As usual, Im watching my TiVo’d ‘Golden Girls’ and after the MFT release hopefully Sean and I will watch a movie and then hit they hay! I hope everyone had a great weekend and I’ll be back with some more cards leading up to my candy this week!