Butterfly birthday wish

Hi everyone!  I have a card to share that uses the new and fabulous Spellbinders LF-006 Wonderful Wings die templates (available 8/31).  Sigh...  these butterflies are just stunning!  My card uses the second to the smallest sized butterfly.  The pattern papers are from the new Webster's Pages, Spring Market 6x6 pad and the sentiment is from Unity's, All Smiles stamp set.

This is short and sweet today, I am off to do some more yard work.

Before I go, I wanted to let you know today Splitcoast begins its annual Dare To Get Dirty week long challenges especially for Fan Club members!  I love these challenges.  I remember playing along when I first started stamping.  It made my day to play along with the Dirty Girl's challenges and have them comment on my card!

These challenges are a special perk for Fan Club members.  It's never too late to join in and participate - Fan Club membership details are right HERE!  I host a challenge on Tuesday, so be sure to check it out on Challenge Master Thread!!

Thanks for stopping by and here is a close up picture.

Beautiful birthday card

Hi everyone!  I have a quick card to share then I resume packing for my trip to Phoenix for my Spellbinders Retreat!  I leave tomorrow morning and am super excited!!  My youngest SOOO wants to come with me -he has never been on a plane and it didn't help that he saw me pack Red Vines, lol!

This card uses the new StampTV kit, Springtime Silhouettes.  LOVE this set!  I used a marker for the flower portion and inked the stems with Old Olive.  Then I "stamped off" the image a second time and used it as a soft background for the sentiment.  The paper is from the Webster's Pages Garden Gala triple pack.  I just love using the delicate 1/4" silk ribbon this color is champagne and it is my FAVIE!!   The rhinestones and tiny flower are from Pizzazz Aplenty. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  See you when I get back next week.  I'll leave you with a close up picture.

Card Deets:
Stamps - Springtime Silhouettes (GKD)
Ink - Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Brocade blue marker
Paper - PL Cream cardstock (GKD), Webster's Pages PP
Accessories - 1/4" silk ribbon, 2mm and 3mm clear rhinestones, 10mm open rose in 2-Tone Copper/cream, scallop trim edge punch

Some VERY exciting news!!

Hi everyone!  I am so so so excited - I MADE THE SPELLBINDERS design team!  Seriously, someone PINCH me!!  If you follow my blog, you know that I LOVE Spellbinder dies and use them on almost every card I make.  To be on this team is such an honor and a dream come true!!

2011 Spellbinders™ Design Team!

Kimberly Crawford
Tonya Dirk
Christine Emberson
Judy Hayes
Lesley Langdon
Tina McDonald
AJ Otto
Windy Robinson
Gloria Stengel
Shanna Vineyard
Michelle Woerner -this is me!!!!!
Latisha Yoast

So, in honor of Spellbinders, I have a card to share using the Gina K Designs stamp set Lovely Labels 2.  This set is designed to coordinate with the Nestabilities Labels 14, 15 and 16.   The pattern paper and trims are from Webster's Pages, Sweet Season collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing in my news.  I will leave you with a close up picture.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Lovely Labels 2 (GKD)
Ink - Cherry Cobbler, black
Paper - White and Sweet Blush cardstock, Sweet Season 6x6 pad (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 14 (S4-290), Prima and mulberry flowers, trims, stickles, frond punch, 2mm and 3mm green rhinestones (Pizzazz Aplenty), corner rounder

Happy birthday Charlene!

Hi everyone!  Today is my BFF Charlene Austin's birthday!! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLIE!

My birthday card uses a Miss Anya image from Miss Anya Dressy, isn't she a cutie?  The papers are from Webster's Pages, Seaside Retreat (part of a triple pack) and I embellished with a couple prima flowers, some lovely lace trim, 1/4" silk ribbon and some punched branches and memory thread.  I colored the image with Copic markers and added stickles around the edges. 

Char, you have been a great friend and support to me and for that I say thank you and I love you!  Hugs to you on your special day!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Miss Anya Dressy (TGF), Birthday Bash (Verve Stamps)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white cs, Seaside Retreat PP (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - Prima flowers, silk ribbon, lace trim, rhinestones, Circle nesties (all from The Stamp Simply Ribbon store), Copic markers, memory thread in brown (DMC), frond punch (MS)

I feel pretty, oh so pretty!

Hi everyone!  I finally have the SU Pretties Kit!  Yep, I have had my eye on this kit since it debuted a couple years ago, but it was just too expensive for me.  Well, no more -it's now on the SU Clearance rack for just $12!  I snagged this beauty for myself last week -and it IS so pretty!  I get my SU goodies from my demo friend, Kari Linder.

Here's my first card I made using the kit.  Ironically, I really struggled with this card!!  Like 4 hours struggle!  The large flower is bigger than I thought and for some reason I had trouble with a layout.  Anyway, here is my card.  I used a wedding sentiment from Verve's Love Story, and some pattern papers from Webster's Pages, Garden Gala.  The prima in the center is from the Athena flowers collection in Aurora Pink.

Next up I have a card using the adorable Harvest Birds Plain Jane set and sentiment from Autumn Splendor.  Aren't these little guys the cutest??  I added some bling to the tails and for the eyes.  My layout is from Julee's World Card Making Sketch #2. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets (wedding):

Stamps - Love Story
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Paper - White, blush blossom, Garden Gala PP
Accessories - Swiss dots EF, Kaiser pearls and Jute String (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), scallop trim border punch (EK Success), SU pretties kit, Prima flower, large oval punch

Card Deets (birds):

Stamps - Harvest Birds Plain Jane
Ink - Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie (SU!)
Paper - Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Dotty Biscotti PP (PTI)
Accessories - Chocolate twill ribbon, orange zest button (both PTI), oval nesties, brown striped baker's twine (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), Tiny Twinkles (Taylored Expressions)

Stamp Simply blog hop winner and another circle card

Hi everyone!  The Stamp Simply Ribbon store blog hop winner comes from comments left on my blog this month!  Woohoo!  Random.org chose:

Sabrina aka okimom2girlz said...

Michelle, this gift set is beyond words!!! So elegant....love it!! Hugs, Sabrina

September 14, 2010 7:03 AM

Congrats Sabrina!!  You win this FABULOUS Kaisercraft Utopia Kit:

Please contact Sharon at ssj@up.net and be sure to put "Blog Hop Winner" in the subject line.

I also have a card to share, yep another circle card!  Have you seen enough of these from me lately?  Well today's Fall To Layout sketch was A CIRCLE card.  So how could I not play along?  heehee! 

My card uses the lovely papers from Webster's Pages, Garden Gala Triple pack.  Can't get enough of these lovely prints.  The ribbon is the Wrinkled ribbon in cream, the thinness of this ribbon makes it perfect to make double bows with!  The perfectly matched Kaiser Pearls are in Blush, Latte and Bliss.

See the stamped border on both sides of the sentiment?  I used a rectangle frame stamp from the JustRite Stampers set, Victorian Nested Frames & Occasions.  Here's what I did with the stamp to get the borders that close together.  I cut the frame at all 4 corners and placed them closer together on the stamping block.  I've cut my stamps before, don't be afraid to do this!!

Because of the nature of JustRite stamps and their stamping blocks, putting the cut pieces back together in the original rectangle is EASY!  See?  Just snap them on and good as new:

That's it for tonight!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Victorian Nested Frames and Occasions (JustRite Stampers)
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - Cream cardstock, Garden Gala triple pack (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - ribbons, circle nestabilities, and pearls (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)
 

Cupcake Inspiration challenge sponsor

Hi everyone!  I have some fun news to share today -

I am sponsoring this week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge!  

Remember way back when, when Rachel had her store Hope Stamps Eternal, and I did a CIC challenge each Sunday?  Well, Rachel has continued with the CIC challenges and has set up a fabulous challenge blog.

So for this week's challenge, I have offered up the fabulous Ippity stamp set, Music of my Heart as a prize!  Being an Ippity Chick is FUN!!

 Click here to play along for your chance to win: Cupcake Inspiration Challenge blog.  Here is this week's cutie cuppie:

Here is my card - NO do not adjust the color your screen!  Turned out my card didn't really match the cupcake -LOL! 

OK, so I really wanted to use some of my sadly neglected Webster's Pages, Life's Portrait papers and they just didn't match.  Oh well... I used them anyway!  The flower is from the fabulous Ippity set, Now and Always.  I just love piecing each part of the bloom with a different pattern paper.  It was a lot to cut out (I stamped each striped petal separately to keep the stripes oriented the same), but worth it in the end.  And the butterfly?  How adorable are the wings in the stripes???  The sentiment is from the Ippity set, Just Wanted to Say.

All of these Ippity sets and more are available for purchase on my Ippity Sales Blog.  AND, Ippity is getting ready for the Summer 2010 release!  The sneak peeks and prize giveaways start TODAY and go through Thursday when the sets will be available for purchase!!  You can check out the peeks over on the Ippity Blog -cute stuff!  I will share peek graphics on my blog as well.  You all will LOVE this release!  Here is a snippet of the fabulous set, House a Home:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Now and Always, Just Wanted to Say (Ippity Stamps)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black
Paper - Vintage cream, black and Life's Portraits (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - Sweet Pea and black velvet zig-zag and 1/4" champagne silk ribbon (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), black button, Sweet Pea rhinestone (KaiserCraft), tiny crystals (Zva Creative)

Verve Stamps release week

Hi everyone!  Welcome to Verve Release week!  Today starts the first day of Spotlighting over on the Verve Blog, and we are starting with the amazing set, Blue Skies.  This set is comprised of 16 images - an amazing notebook page, some flourishes, butterflies and great sentiment quotes!!  It's my favorite set of the release and I know you will love it too! 

I have 2 quick cards to share using this set.  This first card uses both of the butterflies and a GREAT universal sentiment.  I love that this sentiment can be used for many different occasions.  The pattern paper piece is from Lullaby Lane by Webster's Pages and I ruffled my favorite wrinkled ribbon.  

This next card uses one of my favorite quotes in the set.  Again, this one is pretty simple, just let the quote shine!  The pattern paper is Jubilee from Memory Box and the ribbon is white Faux ruffled suede.

As with every release, there are lots of fun stuff happening at Verve this week!!  The Release Week Challenges are going on now until Friday -if you play along you will be entered to win the entire release!!!  New Set Spotlights each day over at the Verve Blog and all of this leads up to the Release Party this Friday night (June 25th) at 9 pm Eastern Time over at the SCS Verve Forum!  Lots of prizes to be won, inspiring projects to be seen, and NEW STAMPS to be revealed!!

Kitchen remodel update:

I also wanted to mention that in a few days I will be leaving for a week for Bill's family reunion.  Then immediately upon return we will continue with our KITCHEN DEMO!  Yep, I said continue... cause over the weekend we began the demo by packing up and removing all the upper cabinets.  It all went without incident, if you don't count the SMALL KITCHEN FIRE!  Yeah, one of the upper cabinet pieces fell off and hit my stove.  Unbeknownst to us, it turned the back burner on to HIGH.  Well, we had the stovetop covered with cardboard and then with a thick blanket for protection.  About 45 minutes later, I see flames and a WHOLE LOTTA smoke billowing up from the stove.  It all ended well with minor damage to the floor -which will be replaced, so WHEW!  I won't forget to post pictures!!

Long story short, I will be absent from my blog with the exception of some pre-scheduled posts until the end of July.  Until then, thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Blue Skies
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - Kraft, Cream, light peach cardstock, Lullaby Lane PP (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - copic markers, Mango pearls (Kaisercraft), corner rounder (SU!), wrinkled cream ribbon (Stamply Ribbon Store)  

Card Deets:

Stamps - Blue Skies
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White cardstock, Jubilee PP (Memory Box)
Accessories - Lippy Red Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), corner rounder (SU!), White ruffled suede ribbon (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)

Verve Release Day and the last set Spotlight -One Person

Hi everyone!  Today is Verve's RELEASE DAY!  I hope you'll come by our Release Party tonight for a little chatting, set reveals, winner announcements and some more sneak peek eye candy from the Divas!  The party starts at 6PM Pacific, and at 8PM Pacific the sets will go live in the Verve store!

AND over on the Verve blog I have spotlighted the final set of the release, One Person.  Hop on over there to see what the Divas have created!  Plus, there is a chance to win one of these awesome new releases just for commenting on our spotlight posts.  The deadline for comments is 3PM Pacific tonight!

My sneak peek card uses one of the amazing quotes in this set.  I used a piece of Webster's Pages, Postcards from Paris papers.  (Note, Stamp Simply Ribbon Store is out of this paper now, but has plenty of Graphic 45 papers that have the same vintage feel to them!).  I used a layout from Sherry's Zva Creative sketch challenge.  Like I often do, I got 1/2 the challenge right -it was also supposed to be a COLOR challenge, using light blue, yellow and light gray.  Seriously, I have to read thru these challenges better and WRITE them down!   Sigh... at least I got the sketch right!!  LOL!

The felt flowers are from Zva's Cool and Cozy mix and the flower is a Baby Blue Sweet Blossom. I used a piece of SU! felt ribbon tied with some silver cord. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you tonight at Verve's Release Party!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - One Person (Verve)
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Paper - White, Chocolate Chip and Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris
Accessories - Zva Creative felt flowers and sweet blossom, silver cord, swiss dots ef, sponge, silver pearls (Michael's Inc), felt ribbon

 

Some buttons, a prima and a glittered heart... happy sigh

Hi everyone!  While I was cruisin' around my Craft Warehouse the other day, I literally stopped in my tracks at the GORGEOUS Prima flowers (Camelot Roses Gwenlyn)!  Wha...?!?  SOOO pretty!

These inspired me to pull out my Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris, that I got from the Stamp Simply Store.  Sharon is out of this paper now, but she has some wonderful Graphic 45 papers that have the same vintage-y feel!

My card follows Jen's Sketch For You to Try.  I loved that 3rd panel on the sketch, I just HAD to use some of the fabulous chocolate Velvet ribbon that I have been hoarding.  It was almost painful to cut into that loveliness!!  Even MORE so because I messed up my first piece -  SOB!  The glittered chipboard heart is by Melissa Frances and the wonderful sentiment is from Verve's So Happy set - this set is an oldie, but goodie!!

Well, that's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - So Happy (Verve Stamps)
Ink - Old Photo Distress ink (Ranger)
Paper - Vintage Cream, Postcards from Paris (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - Circle Nesties, Prima flower, buttons (Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), 3/4" brown velvet ribbon and Jute string (Stamp Simply Ribbon store), Glittered chipboard heart (Melissa Frances), sponge, sewing machine

Webster's Pages Thank you note card set

Hi everyone! I am back from the Great Wolf Lodge. Thank you all for your well wishes! We had a great time, except Daniel (my 6yo) got sick and then before we checked out, I came down with it! Yuck! Isn't that the way tho?!?

Anyway, I did find some time today to finish my Webster's Pages 3x3 thank you note cards -this is for the Moxie Fab Olympics of Stamping Challenges, the Thank You category!

I just LOVE this paper from Webster's Pages. So rich and beautiful, you can even use it as the main image if you want! I used a variety of ribbons from the Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris kit -one uses the crocheted lace, one the velvet ric-rac and the other the cream twill. All so lovely -sigh!!! Keep in mind, you can buy Sharon's kit, or each item is available to buy individually!

Here are the cards individually:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

P.S. There is still time to leave comments on all the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Design Team blog hop posts to be entered for the amazing Blog Candy Prize -the ENTIRE WEBSTER'S PAGES POSTCARDS FROM PARIS KIT!! You have until 6pm Saturday the 27th!!

Tuesday Trigger card

Hi everyone! I have been eying Cath's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenges each week but never found time to play along until now. Check out this cutie trigger picture -
I immediately thought of my new 6x6 Webster's Pages from the Sweet as Cherry Pie line (I got mine from Sharon's Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris kit). I have been dying to use this red and white star piece of paper!! The shape of the background around the lamp reminded me of the Top Note die, so I used a favorite layout of mine. I really wanted to use some yellow gingham ribbon I have, but I couldn't get it to look right! So I went with using a strip of the pie and scalloped border each from a different piece from the kit. The sentiment is from Verve's Thankful Hearts.

I thought this would be a perfect card for my mom! She was always baking when I was young and taught me everything I know.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Thankful Hearts
Ink - black
Paper - white, night of navy, Sweet as Cherry Pie (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - Buttons, silver cord, top note die and scallop border punch (SU!), swiss dots EF