It's a Date Night

This card is going to be an invitation to my husband to go on a date night. We have date night every Wednesday night so it's nothing new, but I think it would be fun to send him an invitation that he gets at work for the date night one time.  :) So this idea was born! I tried to make it somewhat masculine but while keeping the date night idea - so the two person bike seemed appropriate. I hope you like it! 

I LOVE this stamp set. I helped Robyn come up with this idea of having a stamp set that did all invitations so I am thrilled to see one of my stamping dreams come to life! Thanks Robyn for creating it! :) Check it out HERE. There are SO many different invitation options on it! 

This card was based off this sketch from Artful Delight. Leeanne had 14 sketches for 14 days and if you participate you can win this month's kit! How fun is that! So play along and you can get up to 14 chances to win but they have to be linked by the 23rd. 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle: Twig (From Artful Delight's March Kit) and Bo Bunny Double Dot™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Invitation Only™
• Cartridge: Sweethearts™
• Cardstock: Bazzill Basics™
• White Gel Pen
• Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink - Chocolate Satin
• Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro™

Have a great week everyone! 

Pure Joy

Good Monday morning to all of you! You might have gotten here from Betty Bee's Buzz or you may have gotten here from Artful Delight! Either way, welcome! 

This week I am doing the tutorial on Betty Bee's Buzz! And in honor or her new grandbaby Paisley being born, we are having a baby week. So play along in the baby challenge and you never know what could be up for grabs! :) 

This card was inspired by my good friend June Houck! I was on the phone with her brainstorming and she brought up "onesie" which produced my a-ha moment! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!!! :)

Instructions:

(If you have a Gypsy, weld the two together at the top and ignore step 1)

1. Using Wall Decor and More™ cut two onesies out at 4" out of Butter cardstock. 
2. Next cut one onesie with the swirl detail out of Summer Fun at 4". Adhere to card base.
3. Ink around edges of card.
4. Stamp Pure Joy and the little foot from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby™ set in Momento ink.
5. Cut 2 one inch butterflies from Cake Basics™ (or any butterfly blackout or shadow cut - or punch for that matter!).
6. Add white stones using your i-rock™ to the center of the butterflies. 
7. Ink edges.
8. Bend edges up around the i-rock™ stones making the wings upright.
9. Adhere one of the butterflies to the mini clothespin and the other one to the onesie.
10. Take two buttons and use twine to thread through the holes from the back and tie a bow in the front. Trim extra length off. 
11. Using Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™, attach one to each button back and adhere to card.
12. Send the card to a friend!

Recipe:

• Gypsy
• Cartridges: Wall Decor and More™, Cake Basics™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Cardstock: American Crafts "Butter"™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee: Hometown Summer "Summer Fun"™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™
• mini clothespins from Canvas Corp™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Buttons from October Afternoon: Modern Homemaker Collection™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Twine from the Twinery in Lemondrop™
• Ink is Momento™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™

Now pop on over to Betty Bee's Buzz to join in all of the fun of the challenge and pop over to Artful Delight to pick up this month's kit while you still can! They usually sell out quickly and I am SO excited about the kits coming up! They are going to be fabulous!


Now, my one year blog-aversary was last month and I totally missed it, so I am going to be having a blog-aversary party very soon! Stay tuned as I am ordering things to give out as prizes and I think everyone will be excited! :) 

Snowflake Gift Bag

I made a gift bag for our godson's present that I will show you sometime soon. :) This is all made for Artful Delight! 

Here is a close up of the embossing and the Stickles and rhinestone.

Recipe:
Artful Delight December Kit
Stickles from Artful Delight November Kit (there is one left!!! Just click "November" in the drop down - and if you just like the color of the Stickles you can get that by itself HERE.
Embossing: Swiss Dots
Cardstock base: Paper Trey Ink (only because I already used up the card stock in the kit! :)

Here is a picture of the December Kit. There is so much stuff it didn't all fit in the picture!

This kit will include:

Echo Park Wintertime 12x12 Double Sided Paper

1 sheet Flurry
1 sheet Snow
1 sheet Berries
1 sheet Stripes
1 sheet Snowman
1 sheet Falling Snowflakes
1 sheet Red Swirls
1 sheet Blizzard
1 sheet Damask
1 sheet Frost
1 sheet Borders
1 sheet Journaling Cards
1 sheet Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate Die Cut - Flower

Additional Cardstock - Solid

1 sheet 12x12 Chocolate Cardstock from American Crafts
1 sheet 12x12 White Cardstock from American Crafts
1 sheet 8 1/2x11 Real Red Cardstock from Stampin' UP!

Accessories: (sizes of embellishments may vary per kit)

2 - American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Tradion Details (holly embellishment)
10 - American Crafts Silver Glitter Buttons
6 - American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Winter Blooms (Poinsettia embellishment)
1 package Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Mini Banners
1 package Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Jewel Stickers (120 pieces)
1 yard American Crafts Chocolate Ribbon
3 - Fancy Pants Tradition Journal Cards
1 bottle Stickles in Xmas Red
1 Chipboard Snowman
1 Chipboard Christmas Tree
3 Chipboard Snowflakes
1 package American Crafts Thickers - Sparkling in Cherry
7 - My Minds Eye Holly Jolly Brads

1 sheet Echo Park Wintertime collection Element Stickers

1 sheet Echo Park Wintertime collection Alpha Stickers

Plus there is a small add on kit - It will cost an additional $10

The add on kit will include:

1 Wilson Designs Snowy Wishes stamp set
1 sheet American Crafts 12x12 Chocolate Cardstock
1 sheet American Crafts 12x12 White Cardstock
1 sheet Stampin' UP! 8 1/2x11 Real Red Cardstock
1 sheet Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate Die Cut - Flower

Come over and play in the sketch challenge and win the January kit! 

Artful Delight November Sketch, kit, and first DT post!

YAY for November - time to start getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas and hot chocolate and apple cider. The weather has only recently turned chilly here in San Francisco and I am thrilled to start baking and roasting more.

You see, when you live in a 450 Sq. Ft. place, and you roast something on a hot day - it turns out you are roasting yourselves! So on cold days I like to bake or roast as an eco-friendly way to heat up the house and get us fed! :)

Anywho, I did this LO right after we got back from London and Paris, so that romantic trip was on my mind. Here is what I did with one such memory:

This is my first post as a member of the Artful Delight Design Team and I am SO excited to show you this AWESOME kit that Leeanne and senior DT member Jamie have put together! 

Let's see... how many lay-outs have you seen me do.... EEK! I was so nervous about this, but I am pretty happy with the way it turned out! Thanks to fellow DT member Debbie who created the sketch! Good goin', girl! 

I moved the elements around, but they are all in there. :)

Here is the Sketch:

Here is my take on it:

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge: Storybook™ (background for picture and swirly thing at the bottom)

Embossing: Cuttlebug Victoria Emboss Folder™

Everything else came from the November Kit! 

My opinion on the kit:

Okay, seriously... who includes both Stickles and Tattered Angels as bonus items in a kit?!? I just LOVE that. She hit all the major elements. 

I couldn't believe how much stuff just kept coming out of my box. It was really incredible. I have supplies for months! 

These patterns are sweet and whimsical and incredibly romantic. I loved them. 

The flocked transparencies are SO cool. I will be using them very soon... In fact... one of them made it onto my spiderweb card I did a few days ago... :)

There are rub-ons, thickers, alpha sets, stickers, glittered transparencies, prima flowers, ribbon, twine, chipboard, and so so much more. I was in embellishment overload and therefore embellishment heaven!

One disclaimer: She meant to throw in some solids, but filled the spot with embellishments. Next month you can guess there will be solids. :) 

I have never seen a kit like this and am SO thrilled to be on the DT sharing such a great product that Leeanne has put together.

Here is a small picture of November's kit and what is included (the pic doesn't do it justice!):

Pattern Paper

Fancy Pants - Lilac House Collection - 12x12 Double Sided Paper

1 sheet Heirloom

1 sheet Tapestry

1 sheet Chamomile

1 sheet Weeping Willow

1 sheet Garden Gate

1 sheet English Garden

1 sheet Rose Damask

1 sheet Lavender Leaves

1 sheet Photo Board

1 sheet Needlepoint

1 sheet LH Strips

1 sheet LH Cards

1 sheet Printed Transparency

1 sheet Flocked Transparency

Embellishments

1 sheet Lilac House Glitter Cuts

1 sheet Lilac House Rub-ons

1 sheet Lilac House Sticker Elements

1 sheet Lilac House Sticker Alphas

1 sheet Bo Bunny Jazmyne 12x12 Adhesive Chipboard Stickers

1 package American Crafts Thickers - Stroll in Chestnut

5- 5 inch Doilies

10 - Prima Essentials Flowers - So Cute

10 - Prima Sprites no. 3 Flowers

12 - Tim Holtz Idea-ology- Adage Tickets

3 - Prima Flowers - Lilliput Roses in Iris

1 1/2 feet - Bean Stalks Ribbon - Jillibean Soup

1 1/2 yards - Been Stalks Twine - Jillibean Soup

5 - Maya Road Trinket Pins - Brown and Turquoise Leaf

BONUS Misc (included)

1 bottle Stickles - Waterfall

1 bottle Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Juneberry Wine

Isn't that kit beautiful? You will get the whole Lilac House Collection Pack which retails for $24.99. The best part is this kit is only $27.99 for a single month purchase. Which means you will get ALL those other great products for only $3.00. That is a FABULOUS DEAL!!

You can click HERE to buy the kit!

Come and use this month's sketch for a chance to WIN December's kit... I can't tell you what it is, but I AM SO EXCITED about it and I can tell you that it has (at least) one of my favorite-favorite products in it!

If you sign up to purchase the monthly kits on a regular basis and you win one of the challenges, Leeanne either extends your subscription by a month or refunds your money for the kit you won - I'm not sure which, but I will find out! So go ahead and sign up because she is working hard to make sure these kits are AWESOME.

Pumpkin Spice is my sponsor and a giveaway!

I am SO excited to finally announce that Pumpkin Spice is sponsoring my blog!!! This is the company that I was telling you about during the hop where I bought My Pink Stamper stamps from. 

I put the same My Pink Stamper stamps in my cart for 5 companies. Hallmark Scrapbook and Custom Crops were two of the bigger ones and they charged about $6 and $8 for shipping respectively. 

I chose Pumpkin Spice because of two reasons: 

1. The shipping price was $2.78 (I think or it was $2.87)
2. I called customer service because I needed them pronto to use for my projects and for the give away. I got a call back within 15 minutes! And she went to the post office and shipped them within an hour! 

THAT is amazing and I told her so. Now here we are - a friendship has been born and now a sponsorship!

Today I have a card for you that is for my grandfather's birthday. So Grammy, if you're reading this, don't show it to him! :)

Denine at Pumpkin Spice was SO generous and I am pleased to open this with the Union Square line from My Mind's Eye. While I doubt it's the same one they named the line after, we have a Union Square here in San Francisco and I just LOVED the red glitter paper. I thought it is so versatile from men's cards (like this one) to girls night out cards, polka dots, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even Halloween -- of course it's a shoe in for Valentine's day as well but that's a little bit far away.

Recipe:
From the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Union Square™ Line:
Union Square "Favorite" Decorative Brads™
Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™
Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™
Union Square "Favorite" Trims™ - the "ribbon" is linen! I love it! 
Union Square "Favorite" Union Station Paper™
Union Square "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Paper™
Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Collection - Acorn Paper™
Embossing: A2 Seeing Spots Emboss Folder™
Glossy Accents (on the crown)
Red Stickles by Studio G (on the crown)
Pop Dots
Corner Rounder

Denine (owner of Pumpkin Spice) has also generously put this all in a Court's Crafts Collection Kit! So you can everything you need to make it here! How cool is that! 

And if that wasn't great enough, she sent me some goodies to send to you! Leave a comment on this post telling me how many items for sale there are under the section listed "Blackbird" under "My Mind's Eye - Halloween Collections and what your favorite paper is from there. I will randomly choose a winner on Friday to win the Cosmo Cricket Matilda mini deck sponsored by Pumpkin Spice! 

You will have until Thursday at midnight PST to leave a comment. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me because I am leaving for Europe! So become a follower if you don't want to miss it and if you like my work! 

Big News! Part 1 of 2!

So I promised to have big news on Monday, but I had to wait until today, but now I have TWO pieces of big news! 

The first is that I am honored to announce that I have been asked to join Leeanne over at Artful Delight as part of her new DT! Thank you Leeanne! 

She is having a sketch challenge right now where you could win her November kit (which hasn't been released yet, but boy are you going to love it!) and a feature on her blog! So come on over and play!!! :) 

Here is the link to the sketch challenge.

I will be announcing the second this afternoon with a project and believe - you- me it's big as well! 

Have a wonderful morning!