My Pink Stamper Pink-alicious Blog Hop!

Robyn's challenge to us for this week was to make anything we felt like that reminded us of summertime! 

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

I give myself a little more "leave" when it comes to ice cream in the summer. You all pretty much know that I am in a condo, but I am also on the top floor and get sun from about 1pm on. So while it's FAB in the winter and we literally turn on our heaters maybe once a year, in the summer it can get a little hot--- and stays hot as there is almost no one with AC in San Francisco. So ice cream or my particular favorite - Frozen Yogurt (adoringly called "FroYo") is my new thing. BUT there aren't any Cricut Cartridges with FroYo on them (Provo Craft are you listening!?! :) :) :)) So ice cream is the next best thing. :) 

I made this card using Artful Delight's June Kit and of course My Pink Stamper stamps!  

Design notes: I welded these two images on my Gypsy. BUT with Cricut Craft Room coming out, everyone will be able to do it!!! :) 

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Sweetest Cupcakes™
• Gyspy™
• Cricut Expression™
• Cartridge: Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™
• Embossing: D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Cardstock: 
• Bazzill Basics Blush Red Medium (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Paper Trey Ink Vintage Cream
• Patterned Paper: 
• Crate Paper: Portrait "Bouquet" (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Crate Paper: Portrait "Something Blue" (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Glossy Accents
• Stickles in Diamond
• i-rock by Imaginisce
• Button and Twine: Paper Trey Ink

Now head on over to my good friend Cristi's blog! 

Oh, and it's my birthday today. :) Tomorrow I have a pot-luck scheduled with a bunch of friends! :) Hope you all have something fun planned for the weekend!

You're My Favorite - Circle Challenge!

Hey all! 

Welcome to new followers and friends! :) 

Today I made this card up super quickly to get into the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge which was "Sweet Summertime" and they wanted us to use a stamp too. 

I don't have a whole lot of stamps - seriously nearly all of them are My Pink Stamper so I just used a stamp for my sentiment. I felt bad about realizing that they probably meant a background stamp so I pulled apart the card (as I was writing this) and added a background stamp (which doesn't show up in the photo as well as it shows up in person) and re-shot it and here is the before and after! :) The background stamp is in the upper left and bottom right.

You can get EVERYTHING I used on this card apart from the solid cardstock, cartridges, and Cuttlebug folder from my AWESOME sponsor PUMPKIN SPICE! They have the best shipping rates and the best prices on product! They also have the best customer service! Check it out! I love enabling! :) 

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Birthday Bash™ (card shape) and Straight from the Nest™ (ice cream cone)
• Embossing: Paper Lace II Companion Folders (not on Cricut.com yet)
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "You & Me" Ornamental Paper™(green polka dots and "ice cream" (both sides of paper))
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Friends Forever" Tapestry Paper™ (yellow check)
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hazel "Mother" Meadow Paper™ (pink cherry)
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hazel "Lovely Bouquet" Paper™ (pink polka dots) 
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Friend-tastic™
• Doily stamp: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Girly" Stamps™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in "Tickle me Pink" (Please let her know I sent you in the comments of the check out if you decide to go buy! :) Thanks!)

Imaginisce, Echo Park and Spellbinders HOP!!!

What a fun combination!!! We on the Imaginisce team have been SOOOOO blessed to receive goodies from both Echo Park and Spellbinders! Now, you all know my love for Echo Park (and the Imaginisce girls were even making fun of me!!! I must really be obvious or something! ;) ... I have never owned anything by Spellbinders and I had a hoot playing with it! So now I officially own one set - the scalloped squares. Thank you Spellbinders and Echo Park!!!

If you got here from the ridiculously talented Rhonda's blog then you are on the right track! If not, start HERE at the beginning at the Imaginisce blog! 

For Echo Park we were given one of the two Dots and Stripes collections and I received Metropolitan. I love the manly colors in this set and as always Echo Park produces high quality wonderful paper. 

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Sentimentals (tag shape) and Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Camper
• Echo Park: Spots and Dots Metropolitan Line™
• i-top tool by Imaginisce
• i-rock by Imaginisce
• Glam Rocks in Pearl
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Friend-tastic™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Sunflower (please tell her I sent you in the comments section)
• Embossing powder: A la Mode in White
• Heat Embossing Tool: Colorizer by EK Success
• Crop-a-dile and eyelets
• Googgly Eyes
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Sentimentals (tag shape) and Sweethearts™
• Cuttlebug Folder: Swiss Dots™ and D'vine Swirl™
• Spellbinders Scalloped Squares™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Enchanted™
• Echo Park: Spots and Dots Metropolitan Line™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Mirror™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Pewter™ (please tell her I sent you in the comments section) 
• Twine from The Twinery in Pink Sorbet™
• Embossing powder: Filligree from Paper Trey Ink
• Heat Embossing Tool: Colorizer by EK Success
• Crop-a-dile and eyelets
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Sentimentals (tag shape) and Birthday Bash™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Camper
• Echo Park: Spots and Dots Metropolitan Line™
• i-rock by Imaginisce
• Hot Rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fancy Phrases™
• Twine: The Twinery in Caribbean™
• Part of a Peachy Keen Stamp from Critter Faces in Large™
• Embossing powder: A la Mode in White
• Heat Embossing Tool: Colorizer by EK Success
• Crop-a-dile and eyelets
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares

Now head on over to the super sweet Marielle's blog. She has had a really hard and super sad week so if you could leave her a nice comment and say you're thinking about her and praying for her, then that would be really nice. 

While you're there be SURE to scroll down on Marielle's blog and check out her Fun and Laughter layout. It's one of my favorites! 


The prize for the hop is Echo Park Paper, Imaginisce Paper, AND a set of Spellbinders dies!!! How crazy and generous is that! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

This is the card I made for my mom for her birthday. It's her birthday today!!! :) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! I'll love you forever. I'll like you always. As long as I live, your baby I'll be. 

If you all know that book, we put it in every birthday card to each other. :) I have the best mom and am so blessed! She is the reason I started making cards... and then she demanded that I make cards for her throughout the years - and then that turned into a true love of making cards and here I am today! So while this one was not made with scissors and construction paper, it is made from the heart. 

I made this card at the most recent Circle Crop last Friday - which was a blast! A huge thanks to Rita (the Circlet that put on the event), Monique and Wendy who helped out a ton, and of COURSE Provo Craft for putting it on!!! Thank you so much! 

My new friend Diana Larson inspired me with the idea of two patterned paper strips which when accordianed (new Court word!), turned out to be a great idea! Thanks for the idea Diana! 

I made this all using Artful Delight's June Kit! Make sure to grab yours before it's too late!!! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Cake Basics™(Comes with the Cricut Cake)
• Cuttlebug Folder: Paper Lace II Companion Folders™ (Not on the website yet)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweetest Cupcake™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink: Chocolate and Vintage Cream (card base), Bazzill Basics Frosted Teal (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Patterned Paper:
• Fancy Pants: It's the Little Things "Honeysuckle"(Artful Delight June Kit)
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Ticket and "stamp" cardstock embellishments: It's the Little Things Collection Design Embellishments (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Seam binding ribbon: PaperLovesGlue Etsy Shop in Peach Blossom (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Stickles in Waterfall (Artful Delight November Kit)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rocks Compact in Pink, Black and Clear™
• Foam Dimensionals
• Glue Glider Pro
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares

Pop on over to Artful Delight's blog where you can see a ton of inspiration using this month's kit! 

A little birdie told me... You're tweet.

I made this using Artful Delight's June Kit! 

This was based on this sketch by Jana Eubank. 

I made the birds my rectangles, my ribbon and branch the horizontal lines, and left the title and square layers where they were. It was a little much to fit all of the elements on the card so those are the ones I chose to keep. It's a FAB sketch though and if you're a scrap-booker, then here's another one to use! :) 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper: LillyBeeDesign: This and That "Milk Bottle", LillyBeeDesign: This and That "Brooch" (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Cardstock: Bazzill (Artful Delight June Kit)
• Cartridge: Straight from the Nest™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Biggie Punnies™
• Ink: Versamark in navy blue™
• Cardstock: Navy blue from my friend June because I was complaining one day that I didn't have any! Thanks June!
• White gel pen
• Ribbon: Offray "Nice & Narrow"
• Liquid Pearls (Artful Delight June Kit)

Card for June

This is the card I made for my friend June! She WON some Bella Blvd paper and just because I told her I was jealous, she SENT it to me! What kind of crazy is she on?!? But I felt SO special and so loved that I just had to make her a little card to tell her so. 

I made this using Bella Blvd. The background stamp is... hmm... I can't remember... probably My Mind's Eye and the "Bff's are the best!" is from My Pink Stamper: Friend-tastic. 

I am going to the Cricut Circle Crop today in Sacramento. I will see a few of you there! :) We had to make a layout - yes, a two page layout for the Crops for Love. I am actually excited about my layouts and will share them with you sometime! :) 

I'll be there all day before heading to Sonoma to meet my parents and husband for a little getaway. 

It was supposed to be sunny and gorgeous picnic with wine weather, but now it's supposed to rain - which, if you know me - is even better. I love the rain and how romantic is it to go wine tasting in the rain? I'm such a lucky girl. :)

Have a fabulous weekend everyone! :) 

It's the Little Things

***This is my third post for the day. Scroll down to see the Imaginisce June Challenge and the Betty Bee's Buzz post! :) ***

This month at Artful Delight I am in LOVE with this kit. It is SO much fun to play with and has so much personality. No matter what style you are, you will love working with this kit. I think it is going to go super quick so grab it while you can!

This is the card I sent to my cousin overseas that I posted about a few days ago! :) 

This was based on a sketch by DT member Debbie!

I turned the elements sideways and then piled them on top of each other. The circle is the button and the rose. Thanks Debbie! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Sentimentals™
• Patterned Paper:
• Fancy Pants: It's the Little Things "Spring Fever" (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Crate Paper: Portrait "Honeymoon" (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Crate Paper: Portrait "Bouquet" (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Cardstock: 
• Bazzil (Coral) (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Paper Trey Ink (True Black and Vintage Cream)
• Flower: Prima Mini Rose Mid Release Sunrise (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Seam Binding Ribbon: Etsy Store (button and twine came from the seam binding ribbon packaging) (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Sentiment: Fancy Pants: It's the Little Things "Design Embellishments" (From Artful Delight's June Kit) 
• Crop-a-dile and eyelets
• ATG 
• Foam dimensionals
• Ink: Colorbox in black (for inking around edges) 
• black fine tip pen

If you participate in this month's sketch challenge you will enter yourself to possibly win July's kit!!! It's such a generous giveaway and you'll love everything in the kit! :) 

***This is my third post for the day. Scroll down to see the Imaginisce June Challenge and the Betty Bee's Buzz post! :) ***