say it with pretties in pink

Congrats to #2- Tiffany Bauer who won the blog candy, my son who's birthday is 8/31, drew the winning number. Tiffany send me your home address and I will send the package of Washington Apple to you.

thanks to all who left comments!!!

We had a busy holiday weekend, so no time to post. I do have some thank you cards I made for customers that placed an order at my open house. I was playing around with so many scallops set and also some of the pretties. I recently did an embellishment share, and these customers were still unsure about how to use them all.

I honestly can say, I am not a pink girl. The only pink I have in my wardrobe is my pink red sox hat.

However, I am really loving this new pirouette pink in the new in colors. And what does not go with chocolate chip??? This one I just took the prettie (silk flower) and smooshed it in my pirouette pink ink pad with my bone folder. I let dry over night (but you can use your heat gun if you are impatient). Pretties can be a little tricky to adhere, so I just used a rhinestone brad that comes with the kit and pierced it through the ribbon.

This is one I stepped it up a little and used the hat pin and some more beads!

Blog Candy Alert !!!!

I just realized I hit over 10,000 hits on my blog!!! To thank all who come and visit, I am giving away one package of Stampin Up designer paper. Located on page 168-172 in our new Idea book and catalog. And many thanks to Jana who helped me link it on my blog sidebar. The nice thing about it in PDF is that you can click on search function and look up anything you want. So, if you don't have one yet, take a peek :}

I love designer series paper, trouble is can't decide which ones I need first! Yes, I want them all. So, to win blog candy, leave me a post of your favorite new designer series paper and how you like to use it. And for bonus if you like, I need some help staying organized in my craft room. You can tell me your favorite organizational item you use.

winner will be picked on September 1st. make sure you leave name and number post you are! Good luck !!!

pop up fun

Here are a few cards I demonstrated at our demo meeting last night.

I can't take credit for the idea, at convention there was a class called demonstrator theater. I need to look at my notes to see which demo presented this idea .

a few more, cased layout from new cattie, just changed color scheme.

remake of one I showed earlier.

To make all you do is punch out a circle about 1 3/4 - 2 inch. Then just cut it in spiral fashion to make a spring. The only tip here is to attach them on opposite opening sides to each other so the card will close. As for adhesive tomboy mulipurpose works the best!

Summer Scrapbooking

My son got a note from his teacher before school started that they were to bring something in from the summer to share with the class for first week of school. "Mom, make me a scrapbook page", he said. I said we should do one together. Thankfully, I still have tons of leftover simply scrappin kits, this one was a hostess one called creative license. My favorite for boys!

He picked photos and his favorite things and wrote out his top 10 summer memories in his own handwriting. I helped with stamping and cutting. But he does love to use the snail, it is my kids choice to use for all their school projects.

gifts for guests

I gave my open house guest little gifts for attending. I got this idea from Librarygirl on SCS. She post 3-D projects on the demo challenges section. So does my blogroll friend Jana. I keep saying I am going to try to do some of these great demo challenges- demonstrable cards, WOW technique, 3-D. My boys go back to school tomorrow, so hoping to have more time to stamp and do challenges. If you notice inside there is a piece of Ghiradelli chocolate tucked inside using word window punch. I used the diecut blooms and rhinestone brads to decorate the front.

And of course a little post-it note holder. You can get tutorial on how to do these on Angie's blog.

another 3-D project

This is another project we got at UStamp. This uses ginormous pieces chipboard. I bought these almost a year ago and have only done one project so far. You may remember my chipboard memo board that I did back in May.

I used the cardboard piece that comes in the designer series paper to reinforce the back.

I got my first order out of new catalog, so hope to play with my new bigshot and stamp sets to post some fun new stuff!

Off to Water Wizz today (a local water park), to get the last of summer in with the boys as we start school next week.

U Stamp fun

Marilyn beat me to doing this project first, but got around to trying some things yesterday.

We are both enrolled in UStamp, you can also link it from my sidebar just hit on blinkie. Wow, can I tell you it is the best $ I spent. Great projects for whole month of September, with bonus projects. The templates, photos, directions are all done for you and then you can use it to show your customers or just show off for yourself!

This is a bag made out of 2 pieces of designer paper and gift tag. I am going to use for my bags and tags class I will be offering in September.