Our Craft Lounge - Boy Cards

Our Craft Lounge is releasing *28*, count 'em *28* new stamp sets today! In honor of their new release, they are giving away one of each stamp set on 28 different blogs! I'll be giving away this sweet little boy set called 'Boys Toys'! I made these 3 samples for the CHA booth last month. A friend from work gave me the cute little scrabble letters, so I thought they would be cute on this card! I used a studio G dollar alphabet stamp set to stamp the phrase "Boy: A noise with dirt on it".

This set makes FUN boy birthday cards! And how about sending a card to set up a PLAY DATE?

I'll be drawing a name for this set on Sunday, Feb 15th at 2pm central time! To enter, leave a comment here with your favorite new stamp set from the OCL new release sets HERE!

Make sure to check out these blogs to enter their drawings too! You have 28 chances to win!

Cambria Turnbow

Laurie Schmidlin

Kisa Peters

Sharon Harnist

Dianna Gibbs

Beate Johns

Lila Holgate

Heather McNally

Charmaine Ikach

Shannan Teubner

Vicki Garrett

Joy Kennedy

Marianne Walker

Nancy Morgan

Kendra Wietstock

Cindy Haffner

Carole Burrage

Jeanne Streiff

Jane Bosi

Pam Hooten

Broni Holcombe

Amber Hillman

Libby Hickman

Holly McMillen

Our Craft Lounge, Baked with Love

Ok, I am RARING to go now with samples; I uploaded a bunch of my pre-CHA samples from Our Craft Lounge and will have Our Craft Lounge posts next week, plus an OCL BLOG CANDY drawing on Friday! This set is called "Baked with Love", and has tons of fun little accessories INCLUDING A BAG OF CHOCOLATE CHIPS! The spilled flour on this set closely resembles my baking style. Just sayin.

You can see all the new release OCL sets on the Eclectic Paperie website HERE; they are not up on the OCL website yet, but EP has them! I was pressed for time when I was making these, so I thought a fun little quickie tag would be easy to crank out for show samples.

The set also has a birthday cake, so it works for both recipe cards, tags AND a birthday cards! Hey, does anyone have a favorite PINK copic marker color? I need a pink that is not so PINK and in your face! What's your favorite PINK COPIC color?

L.

Cherish.

I am STILL alive and kicking guys; so sorry for the houdini disappearing act this week! I needed a little break from stamping, and spent some much-needed time this weekend with friends and family. I can tell I haven't stamped in a few weeks; I am RUSTY with a capital R! Tonite I finally sat down and started with a Valentine-themed bingo card for the 'Show us your love' challenge over at the Splitcoast Stampers Crafty Secrets forum. Darlene has posted a fun challenge.... if you have some time this week and want to play along, you can read all about the challenge HERE. I've had it in my head that I wanted to do a Valentine-themed bingo card hanging with Crafty's Cherish stamp set, and finally sat down tonite to do it. Although my buttons are nekkid...I ran out of linen thread and decided to just glue the suckers on. I have more on order though, so not to worry, my buttons will be g-rated again once I get my Stampin Up order! L.

Flying felt hearts!

I've been trying to finish these Valentine cards for about a MONTH; I started them sometime in January and then craziness hit and I just never went back to them! So this week I settled in after I finished my taxes and FINISHED THE SUCKERS! I have been eyeing the felt embellishments in Archivers for a while now, but refused to pay the price for them; I mean, it's FELT, people! So I created my own heart embellishments with a cuttlebug heart die and a .29 cent piece of red felt that I bought at Joanne Fabrics.

I added my little Making Memories chipboard swirls, which I colored in with a pink copic marker (RV19 Red Violet) and then glittered up with Martha Stewart hot pink glitter. The wing stamp is from an Autumn Leaves valentine stamp set that I bought on clearance last fall called "Love with a Flourish". I stamped the wings, then added the felt heart on top, and then added a pin and embellishments (tickets!) on the card front.

It is FRIDAY, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

L.

Our Craft Lounge - Slumber Party

It's a quick morning post here today; I'm knee deep in taxes right now so my nights are filled with receipts and paperwork! UGH! I have a ton of samples to show you from the new sets from Our Craft Lounge that were released at CHA. This set is called "Star's Slumber Party", and she's the same cute boinky-haired chicky that was rockin' on in the last samples I showed you! This set is slumber-party themed. LOOK AT HER CUTE LITTLE SUITCASE & matching PILLOW!

I love how Starr can hold up lots of different little items in her hands! Here I did a best friend card; wouldn't it be cute for invites or birthday cards?

Papers: My Mind's Eye & Making Memories.

Stamps: Our Craft Lounge Star's Slumber Party

The last of the CHA photos.

So I think I'm done with the CHA photos now; today's post will be a mixture of all the remaining good photos I was able to snag. The line of papers above are by Imaginice, from their Twitterpated line. You can see close-ups of these cute little bird stamps and the *GASP* red polka dot paper on the imaginice site HERE. The little birdie stamp in this line sucked me RIGHT in!






Stampendous is ROCKIN the Changitos again! Oh man, they have such cute themes for the new wood stamps!











They are also going to be selling cling stamps; I'm guessing these will be at a cheaper price point. I want to say they said they'd retail at around $2.99 each? Someone correct me if I'm wrong! Look at Changito in his cute little car!










More clingy Changitos!

I was on a sugar high after visiting Doodlebug!!! Look at the yummy, sugary glittered display!

I WANTED this pink cake stand/table! I'll hunt around for one this summer & find PINK paint! Wouldn't it be cute in a stamp room, holding...say, STAMPS?

Someone forgot to use her flash on the Doodlebug papers. BAD LISA, BAD! But I wanted to show them to you anyway, because these paper lines are a MUST HAVE! Strawberries and cherries and yummy sweets!

Okay, whew. All photos have been edited and posted. Aren't you glad I didn't get around to more booths? You'd be looking at CHA photos for WEEKS!

Enjoy!

L.

Can I just lay down and die right here?

So I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes I can be a bit ...errr....dramatic. I walked into the Webster's pages booth and let out a huge gasp when I saw this sweet garden arbor set up with the Webster's pages papers as the backdrop.



I dragged Vicki Chrisman over to see it and as we were standing there sighing, I asked one of the Webster's pages reps if I could just lay down on the floor and die right there.



I believe Vicki agreed with me...I'm not sure, because the room went fuzzy and I must have passed out from the sheer beauty of these papers!

And check out the Clip-it-up booth! They have wall-mounted paper hangers now, ribbon holders, and SHELVES!