Sample Queen.

Today I finally finished another huge box of samples that I'll be sending off to Crafty Secrets for scrapbook store samples! These are based on a card I made a while ago when the Crafty Secrets Glamour Girl set first came out. I used a yellow rose-patterned paper from Crafty's Radiant Paper pad, to make the card summery and bright!

It was beautiful here in Minnesota again, so I spent a lot of time outside today, enjoying the warm weather! I feel the spring cleaning urge coming on; I want to clean my house from top to bottom! WHY does that happen? It's been a crazy busy winter and I feel like I want to take a breather, re-group, and go into the spring with a fresh start!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

L.

Treat Yourself - Life is Sweet!

Oh man, I cannot WAIT for summer! It's been so so nice here, I can't help but think that it's a big joke and we're going to get 72 inches of snow soon. I have SPRING fever in a BIG way! I went out walking again tonite and then came home and got a craving for ice cream. It may be because I colored 10 of these Our Craft Lounge ice cream sundaes! I headed to Aldi because they have a great selection of low-calorie ice cream bars called "fit and active". I got 110 calorie orange dreamcicles and some 50 calorie fudge bars & dove into one tonite. Craving averted!

I paired the ice cream sundaes up with some new Die Cuts with a View patterned paper from a "kitchen" paper pack that I got on my last paper binge from girls scrapbooking weekend. These papers are glittery too! If you click on the close ups you can see the shimmer!

The cute stamp is from a OCL set called "Life is Sweet". I cranked out shimmery birthday cards for my stash and just finished them last night.

Hope you're having a SWEET week!

Lisa

Hats off to you, Father!

Well, we made it through another Monday, and here in Minnesota it was 67 degrees! It feels like SUMMER here! I had to get outside and do a 3-mile walk because it was so beautiful out! Here's another project I worked on this weekend; I made 25 sample cards for Father's day using the Crafty Secrets "Favorite Fella's" stamp set. These samples will probably go out to stores that sell Crafty Secrets products, for display with Crafty's stamps. I paper-pieced some funky ties from patterned paper from Crafty's paper pads. I also fun-flocked the hat in brown so it looks like felt and has a great texture!

Also, Crafty Secrets has teamed up with Tattered Angels this month and the design team is pairing up products from both companies to create shimmery eye candy! Check out these blogs for the latest projects posted for this fun March challenge!

Happy Monday, all!

L.

Marisa Grosson Crafty Secrets Design Team member
Anna Wight Crafty Secrets Design Team member
Elizabeth Hicks Tattered Angels Design Team Member
Cheryl McAdam Tattered Angels Design Team Member
Michelle Jackson Tattered Angels Design Team Member

You rock!

I just have to thank you guys for sticking with me the last 6 months, while I've been uploading everything to the Dirty Dozen gallery and neglecting my blog here! I'm happy (and sad) to say that my 6 month gig with the DD is finally over at the end of this month! It was so much fun; but all good things must eventually end. I feel a big pressure off my shoulders; it's hard to try to keep up with the talented girls over there! So my focus now is going to be back on my blog, and replenishing my neglected card stash.

I have been dying to play with this Inkadinkado Rock Star stamp set that I bought at Michaels um, approximately 6 months ago? I used it in a dirty dozen gallery but wanted to make a ton of rockstar cards to have in my stash. FINALLY I got to crank some out this weekend. I got into trouble at Archivers with the girls a few weeks ago and bought this funky My Mind's Eye Penny Lane "Feeling Groovy" patterned paper that felt perfect for this guitar. I added an orange gemstone in the "O" to add some rockstar bling to the card.

Hope everyone had a great weekend; spring is on it's way! YIPPIE!

L.

My brain is on overload!

I'm back from Indianapolis and FINALLY blogging again. My brain has been on overload for the last 2 weeks; I guess that's what happens when you work 12 days in a row without a day off! I have been stamping this week, but all of my energy went into finishing up my Dirty Dozen projects and I am finally DONE!






In between my Dirty Dozen projects, I putzed on these simple "thinking of you" and birthday cards, done with Our Craft Lounge's "Flowers for You" stamp set. The layout is nothing fancy or elaborate, but the simple background papers draw your eye to the big vase of flowers. I finally got to use my large rectangle nestabilities dies, because the flower arrangement fit just perfectly on it!











I pulled out some old favorite sentiment stamps from Hero Arts and Papertrey (faux ribbon set) for the sentiments to coordinate with this vase. The papers are my new favorite DCWV Citrus stack again.

Hope you all are having a great week...let's celebrate, it's the WEEKEND!

Lisa

Feeling Yucky?

I *know* I've been a slacker blogger lately but I'm having a major crunch time again right now, so I don't have a lot to show you! Last weekend we had a girls get-together at Archivers, and I spent most of the evening chatting with the girlies and cranking out these Crafty Secrets "Feeling Yucky" cards. I cranked out 25 of them, which will eventually be sent to Crafty Secrets to use as store samples for the new Feeling Yucky stamp set that was just released at CHA. The little ducky on the front carrying the flowers is cut out by hand! AYE CARAMBA!

I also cut out tiny bandaids to paste on the edge of the image for an accent. I used the chenille paper from Crafty's Pastel paper pad to make the card look cozy and snuggly, to comfort our poor sick ducky! The inside reads "Hope you're soon feeling just ducky"!

I am heading out to Indianapolis for work this weekend, so I probably won't be able to post again until next week. Hope you have a great week and are feeling just 'ducky'!

L.

Just helping the economy.

I've been so GOOD lately. I know the economy is in rough shape and my 401K is in the toilet. I've cut back unnecessary purchases, put money in savings, eaten lunch at home every day and skipped the girls trip to Puerto Vallarta. And this weekend I fell off the wagon; foiled by the Citrus Stack by Die Cuts with a View. I couldn't help it; we were in JoAnn Fabric and it was a girls stamping weekend, and all the paper pads were 50 percent off! You can't blame me, right? I guess I just needed something fun and bright to cheer me up. I fell in complete love with these bright, glitterfied papers!
I came home and paired the papers up with the new "Just Bugz" spring set by Our Craft Lounge. I stamped off a bunch of flowers on different patterned papers from the paper pad, and cut them out for little embellishments for my cards. The paper is glittery, so I took the opportunity to bling up the flower centers with orange rhinestones, lest they be left out of the glitter celebration! I used Pinefeather Press's (Papertrey) Around and About sentiments to circle the bee and ran a Happy Birthday sentiment across the bottom.

So my 401K is still tanking and Puerto Vallarta is a distant memory, but at least it's sunny in my stamp room!

Happy Tuesday!

L.