MME-April Sketch Challenge-Happy Mother's Day

Hello! I wanted to participate in the My Mind's Eye April Sketch Challenge so I am squeezing this one in!

I still LOVE the Stella and Rose line and mixed with a little Bright Side, my grandmother will love this card for Mother's Day! 

I got all of my My Mind's Eye supplies at Shop Pumpkin Spice and the links are listed below if you want to click on a specific product! 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "So Sweet" Herringbone Paper™ (both sides: chevron and orange)
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side One 6x6 Paper Pad™
• Lace: MME: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Little Lady" Trims™
• Brads: My Mind's Eye: Lush2 Rhinestone Brads Fuchsia™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• ATG Tape
• Vellum
• Glitter
• Cricut Cartridges:
• Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Sentimentals™(on sale for $28.99!)

My Pink Designer Showcase

Today My Pink Stamper asked her designers to show off teacher gift ideas! Not having any kids (that will change in July!) this one was tough for me, but that's what I love about a challenge - it's supposed to be a challenge! :)

I thought sometimes a teacher will want to send a note home with the student for the parent and sometimes it's not bad at all, so the smiley faces will help with the perception of the card before it is even opened. So I made this little card set for my co-mom to use! She helps students prep for the SAT's, etc. So hopefully she will put them to good use! :)

Recipe:

• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™
• Patterned Paper:
• Shop Pumpkin Spice: March Kit (sold out) - Echo Park Paper: A Boy's Life™
• Imaginisce: Geek is Chic "Geeks Rule"™ (ruler)
• Imaginisce: Geek is Chic "Chalk Talk"™ (grey)
• Solid colors: white, black, grey, red, beige
• Cartridge: Simply Charmed™
• Twine: The Twinery in Maraschino™ 
• Stickles:
• Christmas Red™
• Black Diamond™
• Glossy Accents
• Black fine tip pen
• ATG Tape

Make sure to check out My Pink Stamper's blog for more inspirational ideas on what you can make for teacher gifts! Also, there is always a stamp gallery for your inspiration! :) 

Artful Delight Sketch Challenge

Hello! I decided to make a layout... yes.... a layout.... using Artful Delight's sketch challenge! 

I bought the April kit (now sold out) from Artful Delight and it is just packed with Pink Paislee goodness with a little Lily Bee Designs! 

I just got a new cartridge (to me - it's an oldie) called Country Life so I was anxious to use it! 

The picture that was taken here was actually taken near an old barn down by Big Sur. So it makes sense to me. :) 

I hope you enjoy my layout! 

Canvas Corp Bunny - Thank You!

Canvas Corp recently sent me SO much of their product!!! THANK YOU!!! So you will see some cards for them coming up! 

They also purchased 7 Gypsies recently and Tattered Angels so whatever they have planned must be super exciting!

If you are not familiar with Canvas Corp, I HIGHLY encourage you to check them out. I use their canvas shapes, cork board card stock, burlap shapes, clothespins and many other non- paper (as well as their paper) supplies. 

Here is a picture of the products that I used for this card. 

If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you should be able to read what each of the papers is on the top of the label.


Click HERE for the Canvas Corp website.
Click HERE for the Canvas Corp blog.

Mother's Day with SPS's April Kit

Well, Mothers Day is fast approaching and I wanted to make a special Mother's Day card for my mom.

I made this whole thing using SPS's April Kit (going fast! Make sure to pick yours up! It is PACKED with goodies!)

Don't forget to play in the April challenge for SPS where you could win May's kit! It will be BRAND new stuff! :)

I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day! The sun is shining here (finally) and the flowers are blooming! 

I am entering this in the challenge for Burlap and Buttercups: work in quilting squares into your project.

Items not in the kit that were used:

• My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™
• Twine
• Buttons (other buttons are included)
• 4 3/4" square card base from Canvas Corp

Wyatt's banner

**If you are looking for the My Pink Stamper Blog Hop, then please scroll down! :)**

 Do you remember Kylie and Alyssa's banners HERE.?. Their younger brother Wyatt was just born and Anina asked me to make another banner for him! What an honor! They were waiting until he was born to find out if it was a boy or a girl, so I had to wait a little bit, but I was so excited to make another one for them. 

Last time she got to see the girls' banners on my blog before they got to her so this time I wanted to wait until she received them to post this. I really hope she likes it! :)

The Glossy Accents made it a little hard to photograph so I took pictures from different angles. 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridge: Birthday Bash™(on sale for $39.99)
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Boxer Stripe"™ (striped background)
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Sailboats"™ (blue polka dot)
• Echo Park Paper: Little Boy "Buttons"™ (orange houndstooth background)
• Ink: Colorbox in Chestnut™
• Corkboard adhesive-backed cardstock: Canvas Corp™ (LOVE this stuff!!!)
• Canvas triangle pennants: Canvas Corp™ (LOVE these shapes too!)
• Glossy Accents
• Bazzill Basics in Java™(brown behind letters)
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Foam dimensionals
• Eyelets: American Crafts™ (thanks to Lori for helping me open the package! LOL!)
• Linen rope from Canvas Corp™

My Pink-alicious Blog Hop - Mother's Day!

Hello! And welcome to another edition of the My Pink-alicious Blog Hop!

You should have gotten here from Chelle's blog! If not, start HERE at My Pink Stamper's blog!

Recipe:

• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• Cricut Cartridge: Sentimentals™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Floral Vine"™ (background paper)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Quilt"™ (red damask)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Flower Box"™ (wood)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Red/Cream Solid"™
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Brown/Lt. Pink Solid"™
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Dk. Pink/Mint Solid"™
• Brad: Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Decorative Brads"™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Rose™
• Foam Dimensionals
• Ink:
• Colorbox Cat's Eye Inks:
• Toffee™
• Chestnut™
• Momento in Rich Cocoa™

In case you get lost along the way:

Robyn

Alex

Andrea

Angela

Carissa

Chelle

Courtney<-- You Are Here

Cristi

Edna

Helen

Michelle

Missy

Renee

Roberta

Shelley

Tracy

This week I am going to have a stash giveaway! Leave a comment if you would like to win and I will pull a winner in about a week! I'll try to get a picture up of the goodies before the hop starts! :) If you are international, you will have to pay part of the shipping, but I am happy to have you enter! :)

Make sure you head back to My Pink Stamper's blog to join in the challenge when you are done with the hop! Now you are off to my good friend Cristi's blog! 

Bundle of Joy!

I made this for a friend who is having a baby boy. I just got this Country Life cartridge and just LOVED the pea image! I have seen other people use it and I have been totally enraptured. So I was really excited to rip open the box and try it! :) I think you'll be seeing it again for sure. :)

These papers are all from the My Mind's Eye "Bright Side" paper pads! You can find them at Shop Pumpkin Spice at the links below! :)

Come back tomorrow evening for the My Pink-alicious blog hop! :) 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side  6x6 paper pads: 1 and 2™
• Cricut Cartridge: Country Life™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Dark Pumpkin™
• Stickles in Diamond™
• Liquid Pearls™

SPS Blog Hop!!! :) And CAMEO deal!!

****If you are looking for the My Pink Stamper Blog Hop, scroll down! :) ***

Hello everyone!!! 

You should have gotten here from Diana's blog. If not, start HERE at Shop Pumpkin Spice's blog to read about the challenge, rules, and giveaway and to see if you were last month's giveaway winner of this awesome kit! :) 

I am SO thrilled today to be hopping along with these LOVELY ladies AND to be showing off Shop Pumpkin Spice's new April Kit!!! 

The color palate is lovely and so perfect for Spring, picnics, Mother's Day, birthdays, just a notes, housewarmings, and so many other things! 

The challenge is to think happy, use green, a stamp, and ribbon. Flowers make me happy so I wanted to incorporate them into my project! 

The challenge will run for the whole month. Participants must comment on all of our blogs during the hop AND participate in the challenge if they want to win the prize: May's KIT!!! The winner will be announced on the SPS blog during the hop the following month. Using the April kit is not necessary to enter the challenge, but if you do use it you will get a double entry into the drawing!

Here is what I made:

Recipe:

• Shop Pumpkin Spice April Kit: Picnics and Poetry™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Flowers and Friendship™
• Orange Cardstock: Core'dinations Vintage Collection "Emberglow"™
• Crinkled ribbon: HERE.

Carissa is our featured designer this month so hop along to the end to get her FABULOUS inspiration using the kit!!!

April Card Kit

36 - Webster’s Pages petite papers - 2 each of 18 unique designs (Sunday Picnic & Everyday Poetry)

8 - Sheets of 8 ½ x 11 -Bazzill Cardstock in 4 coordinating colors 

2 – Sheet of 6 x 12 – Coredinations cardstock in coordinating colors

1 – 8 ½ x 11 sheet of vellum

1 – Package of Trims - Webster’s Pages - Sunday Picnic Collection. This package contains six Ribbon Trims in a variety of designs. Each measures 1 yard in length; widths range from 1/2 inch to 1-1/2 

1 – My Mind’s Eye Stella & Rose Labels Cards

4 – Webster’s Pages – Double sided Journaling Cards

1 – Set Bo Bunny “Country Garden” Dimensional Stickers

1 – Set of Bo Bunny “Country Garden” Tiny Type stickers

1 – 6 piece Button collection (Mixture of Stella & Rose and Lush 2 Collections)

1 – 5 piece Charm collection (Mixture of Stella & Rose or similar)

RETAIL $30.69 

SPS $16.95

Now... for the CAMEO deal!!! 

$60 off your purchase PLUS Free Shipping!!

Purchase the Silhouette Cameo along with $60 of products of your choice and receive and instant discount of $60 and FREE shipping. 

This offer is only good to the first 15 customers to redeem the code. 

So hurry, and take advantage of this amazing deal before its gone.

Coupon code: FunWCameo

* "Shopping Cart must contain Cameo ($269.99) plus at least $60 worth of product to qualify for the instant discount. Therefore the subtotal of the cart must be at least $329.99 to qualify for the discount"

** Silhouette Cameo Processing time will generally take 5 to 10 business days.

WHAT AN AMAZING DEAL!!!!

Now you are off to Saundra's blog! Happy hopping! 

Happy Birthday MPS Blog Hop!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Robyn's daughter!!! In her honor, a few of us wanted to share some birthday inspiration with you along a hop! 

You should have gotten here from Chelle's blog. If not, start HERE at My Pink Stamper's blog to join in on the fun! 

MAKE SURE to catch Robyn and Karlee during the MY PINK STAMPER LIVE tonight at 10:00pm CST! 

I made this for my co-mom's (mother-in-law) birthday! Her birthday was on the 22nd (of January). I am so glad she liked her card! 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridges:
• French Manor™ (dress form - Cricut Circle Exclusive)
• Birthday Bash™ (card base)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Spectacular Sayings™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Favorite" Party Paper™ (tone on tone beige)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Sweet" Bouquet Paper™ (pink gingham)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Dotted Paper™ (pink floral)
• Solid(ish) Paper:
• Bazzill Basics in Wheat™
• Bo Bunny Double Dot in Coffee Dot™
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Buttons™
• ATG Tape™
• Ink:
• Momento in Rich Cocoa™
• Versamark in Bamboo™
• Glue Arts Mini Adhesive Squares in Perma-Tac™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Rose and Leaf Green
• Corner Rounder
• Foam Dimensional Tape

Here is the line-up for the blog hop tonight in case you get lost:

Robyn 

Alex

Angela

Helen

Chelle

Courtney

Andrea

Missy

Renee

Cristi

Edna

Karlee

So next, head on over to ANDREA'S BLOG!!! 

Simple Note

Sometimes we need cards just to throw in packages or just to send that aren't committal to boy or girl, friend or acquaintance. 

I got the paper from Shop Pumpkin Spice - it's Core'dinations Vintage collection. 

The sentiment is My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™

The ribbon came from the January kit which is sold out. :( But the April Kit just went live! Check it out HERE! (hurry before it's gone! The last one sold out quickly!)

The ink is also from Shop Pumpkin Spice - it's Memento in Rich Cocoa (my favorite brown color $3.64).

... so ... my good friend June lets me know that I've misspelled "Memento" - typing it "Momento" in this post... I thought the brand WAS Momento!!!! Hilarious! I'm SO sorry for all of you out there who have been reading "Momento" for 2 years and was wondering what brand I meant! Too funny. Thanks June! :) 

I also used my d-stress by Imaginisce™ to sand the edges and bring out the color underneath. 

I hope you enjoyed my post for today and that you will be back on Saturday for the Shop Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop! 

3x3 Calling Cards

Hello!!! I am SO sorry I have been MIA for a couple of days! I went to a crop on Friday night - a Cricut Circle crop in San Jose and just had a BLAST! The ladies were lovely, it was low key, AND I even got something done! But I can't show it to you yet... :) 

At every Cricut Circle meet-up, we make old fashioned 3x3" calling cards. We can put whatever we want on the front and the back will have our information: name, email address, and blog site. It's like having business cards to trade with each other but super fun. 

I made three versions based on the amount of paper I had. All in all, we made 30 of these to pass around. 

If you ever have any questions about the Circle, I am ALWAYS happy to answer them as I LOVE the Circle! :) 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: Springtime "Spring Day"™ (yellow stripe)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Whimsy Scallops"™ (scallops)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Delightful Stripe"™ (yellow)
• Cartridge: 3 Birds on Parade™ (ON SALE FOR $14.99!!!)
• My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• Bo Bunny Double Dot™

Above: Diana L. (left) and Lezlye L. (right) - both Shop Pumpkin Spice DT sisters! :) Lezlye and I have gotten together to craft before and we have an awesome time together! 

Above: I was SOOOOO tickled pink to meet Lori (Got2BeCrafting). She is JUST as sweet in person as she is online and I hope to see LOTS more of her and to call her a long time crafting friend. 

 This is Shannon Learner from Provo Craft showing us how to do our make and take for the night! She is so super sweet. We really had a blast with her! A HUGE thanks to PC for sponsoring and coordinating the event! 

Somehow I avoided getting my picture taken but next time I want to take pics with everybody! :) 

Have a lovely day and I'll be back on Wednesday with my Shop Pumpkin Spice post for the week! :)