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! :) 

My Pink Designer Showcase - a layout???

Welp, I am continuing down my road of attempting to scrapbook... I chose to do a layout for this My Pink Designer Showcase - use more than one stamp! Here it is! 

This is from when my husband and I went to Paris. Before we went into Notre Dame, we just sat outside of it and marveled at all of the detail and the people and the gorgeous day. Then we went inside and took a lot more pictures, lit a camera for a few people and prayed for them (even though I'm just plain Christian and not Catholic but I think it is still okay!)

I based this layout on this month's sketch from Artful Delight! 

I used four My Pink Stamper Stamps for the journaling from three different sets.

Love-alicious™

Music Speaks™

Itty Bitty-licious™

Recipe:

• Sentiment Stamps:
• My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™
• My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™
• My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™
• Cricut Cartridges: 
• Elegant Edges™
• Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Beautiful Girl" Lovely Paper™ (background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Beautiful Girl" Labels Paper™ (biggest rosette)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Dotted Paper™ (hot pink polka dot rosette)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Sweet" Eiffel Paper™ (green and beige stripe rosette)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Blossom Paper™ (border on the bottom)
• Solid Cardstock: Core'dinations Nostalgia Line 
• Alphas: Jillibean Soup Chipboard Alphabeans in Newsprint™
• Twine: Paper Trey Ink
• Buttons: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Buttons™
• Ribbon: From Stampin' Up and my friend June! :) Thanks June-bug! 
• Ink: Momento in Tuxedo Black™
• Foam Dimensional Dots
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™

Now hop on over to My Pink Stamper's blog to see what the rest of the girls created for your viewing pleasure! 

Don't forget I have a big giveaway later this week! Tomorrow I will be back with a clean and simple card for my Shop Pumpkin Spice post! 

New Design Team Position - Pumpkin Spice!!!

I am SOOOO thrilled to announce that I am part of Pumpkin Spice's new Design Team!!!!! Go check out my other DT sisters HERE! Thank you SO much Denine for choosing me!!!

I got everything on this page from Pumpkin Spice except for the silver embossing powder. 

Pumpkin Spice is the best place I have found for service, shipping, AND prices! So I am thrilled to represent them! Go check them out HERE!

I thought this would make a good manly card. 

Recipe:

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Lush2: Navy Flower Paper™, My Mind's Eye: Lush2: Orange Houndstooth Paper™

Ribbon: My Mind's Eye: Lush2 Navy Trims™

Brads: MME: Lush2 Orange Decorative Brads™

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™

Cartridges: Creative Memories Reminisce Accents™
Glossy Accents


Have a "GRAND" Day! 

Father's Day - You've Got the Beat!

This is the card I made for my dad for Father's Day. I got super lucky when it comes to dads and have been a "daddy's girl" for most of my life. 

One time when I was 14 he was at a conference in San Francisco. He flew me up there for the evening and took me to listen to jazz and to go swing dancing. That was the most extravagant thing that he ever did, but he did take me on regular dates. Apparently he got some advice from someone that said when I got to be a teenager, that he should start to "date me" so that I knew what it should be like to be treated kindly and correctly and with propriety. He opened doors for me and brought me home on time (whenever mom wanted him to). It worked. I never let a man push me around or disobey my parents or put me in compromising circumstances. So I wanted to pass that on to you! My dad taught me the start of how I should be loved. And now I have an amazing husband who loves me more than I could imagine. It all started with my dad treating me the way that he wanted me to be treated when I was older. So thank you daddy-o!

He also taught swing dancing for a while so this card was perfect for him! 

You've Got the Beat

I embossed the background with music notes, but you can't really see it.

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Nifty Fifties™ (both the record and the dancin' man)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink: Stamper's Select White and True Black
• Patterned Paper: 
• Pink Paislee: Hometown Summer "Summer Fun"™ (yellow shirt) (Artful Delight's April Kit)
• Pink Paislee: Hometown Summer "Neighborhood Pool"™ (blue shadow) (Artful Delight's April Kit)
• October Afternoon: Modern Homemaker "Cherry Pie"™ (red polka dots) (Artful Delight's April Kit)
• October Afternoon: Modern Homemaker "Clothespins"™ (plaid) (Artful Delight's April Kit)
• Glossy Accents
• A la Mode Embossing Powder
• EK Success Colorizer Embossing Tool
• White Gel Pen
• Black sharpie
• Pop-dots
• Martha Stewart Gel All Purpose Adhesive 

Just a Note

This is one of those cards that did not photograph well. Honestly, I think it is one of my favorite cards I've ever made and the sad photo does not show it. The colors are off and I tried to fix them, but it didn't work all the way :( Oh well, you will just have to take my word on it! 

The damask is flocking and is a gorgeous navy blue. 

The polka dotted paper is an olive green. 

I got everything on this page from Pumpkin Spice except for the silver embossing powder. 

Pumpkin Spice is the best place I have found for service, shipping, AND prices! So I am thrilled to represent them! Go check them out HERE! 

Recipe:

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Lush2: Navy Damask Flocked Paper™, My Mind's Eye: Lush: Olive

Ribbon: My Mind's Eye: Lush2 Navy Trims™

Brads: MME: Lush2 Orange Decorative Brads™

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™

Cartridges: Creative Memories Reminisce Accents™, Cake Basics (rectangles done on my Gypsy)™

This also qualifies for the Cricut Circle challenge: just because. :) 

I hope you all are having a good start to your week! I have a bunch of posts coming up and even some videos so I hope you enjoy them! :) 

My Pink Stamper - Layouts!

So this week, My Pink Designers are supposed to create layouts... Well I don't know how long you have been following my blog, but I have only done one layout and that was for a challenge. I am not a scrapbooker by nature. I LOVE to send my work in the mail to someone else. So this really was a challenge for me. 

Thankfully, someone who follows my blog had asked me to make a series of layouts for her since she liked my style. I agreed and she has been so much fun to work with! 

I feel such a great responsibility because they are the layouts surrounding her wedding. This one that I decided to do for this challenge was for her husband's bachelor party. I am trying to challenge myself to do more manly cards (and apparently layouts) so off I went and I am so thrilled that she loves it! :) The pictures are blurred for her privacy. 

I looked through my stamps and thought that "NOTE-ABLE" from Music Speaks™ was a perfect fit! So I put it right in the middle of the photos. 

Recipe:

Cartridge: Graphically Speaking™ (GREAT for all kinds of cards!) and Gypsy Wanderings™

Embossing Folder: Oh My Crafts Exclusive Everyday Shapes™(Apparently they are out of stock)

"Note-able" - My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™

Cardstock: Core'dinations Nostalgia pack™

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square™: "Beautiful Day" Paris Glittered Paper (left) and "Beautiful Day" Journey Glittered Paper (right), "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Glittered Paper (maroon on left page), "Moments" Charming Glittered Paper (red striped layer of hand), "Moments" Seamstress Glittered Paper (All "black" layers which are actually black damask), "Perfect" Happy Glittered Paper (stripes).  

Imaginisce d-stress tool for sanding the edges of the Core'dinations layer (LOVE this tool)

Crown stamp: Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™

Gem stone on crown: Union Square "Favorite" Brads™

Crown on right page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Dimensional Die Cut™

Crown tag on left page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™

Alphas: Jillibean Soup: newsprint chipboard alphabeans™ and American Crafts "Dear Lizzy" thickers (red glitter)

Ink: Colorbox in black

Whew! What a recipe list! :) 

Now for some close ups of different areas:

Page 1: 

 Page 2: 

Make sure to hop back to My Pink Stamper to see what she has done, what all of the other Pink Designers have done and also to play along in the challenge! :) 

Have a wonderful rest of your week! :) 

My Pink Stamper Pink-alicious Blog Hop!

Hello and thank you for joining us!!! Last hop, I went super cutesy, so this one I wanted to go super classy!
This month our challenge was to use black and our favorite color... hmm... easy! Green! After the hop, head back to Robyn's blog to participate in the challenge! 
I am SO thrilled to be showcasing one of Robyn's AWESOME new stamps sets: Music Speaks™. I just love this set!!! I am all about the music and FINALLY there is a stamp set out there dedicated to it! Way to go Robyn!

You should have gotten here from My Pink Stamper's blog. If not, hop back there to start in the fun! 

Recipe:Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™Cricut Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™Cuttlebug Folder: Allegro™ (my best friend Kourtni actually owns this one, but we were crafting together! :).. it's now on my wishlist!)Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink™Paper: Bo Bunny Double Dot™i-rock by Imaginisce™Mirror Glam Rocks by Imaginisce™Ink: Versamark™Embossing powder: a la Mode™Heat Embossing Tool: Coloriser by EK Success™Adhesive: Glue Arts™Pop Dots

Now you are off to the fabulously talented CarrieAnne's blog! I think her creations are just wonderful! 
Here is a list of participants if you get lost: 

Robyn

Courtney-Court’s Crafts --You are here

CarrieAnne

Sonia

Lori

Julie-readysetstamp

Agnes-Flowerdisco

Helen

Angela’s Simple Creations

Tracy-Craft Junkie Too

Pam

Cristi

Shelley

Shauna at Craftee She

Edna

Kassidy

Andrea

Raechel

Bling Queen Wendy

Michelle-Meesh’s Pieces

Karlee

Alex-You Had Me At Craft

Maria

If you made it ALL the way down here for the bottom of a post, you are in for a treat!
I had said that I wanted to give something away for breaking the 300, 400, 500, and now 600 mark of followers! It went really quickly and being on the My Pink Design Team has made a HUGE impact on that! So, in honor and thanks (Thank you Robyn for this opportunity!!!), I wanted to give away something. SO I picked up this Paisley Cartridge™ for one of you! Please only leave one comment (multiples will be deleted) and I will ship anywhere in the US. If you are outside the US and would still like to be in the drawing, I just ask that you pay for the shipping and you can be eligible as well! I will draw a winner on Sunday so come check back and see if you won!

Whew! There are a lot of us, but we are all showcasing some fabulous things! So enjoy the inspiration!!!