Try Stampin' on Tuesday Blog Hippity Hop for 295!

Good morning!!

It's feeling a little more like winter up here in Alaska! Not much snow yet, but hopefully soon? The masses are worried about the lack of ground insulation for buried pipes and whatnot, and I'm over here like "But I like not using a coat and snow boots"

Sigh...

So for this blog hop, we have a TON of talent in store! We had a great layout to use and it's the last of our Christmas showcase.

 Fun, right?

Here I go again with the Simply Scrappin' kits! I'm kind of in the mood to use all my old retired stuff. It's kind of a personal goal to get a lot of it all used up. Baby steps. Because I am a hoarder. Don't judge, we're all in the same boat. ;)

I used some old and a touch of new with the Thankful Banners stamp paired with the Sparkly Seasons sentiment.

NEXT on the hop, Vicki's Blog!
PREVIOUS on the hop, Lori's Blog!

Want to play along with the hop? Submit your project to the Try Stampin' on Tuesday blog or the Facebook page! Did you know you could win a prize? All you have to do is follow along and make a comment on ALL of the Design Team's cards! A winner will be picked next Tuesday!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with and what you think about our hop! It's a great time to play along because it'll get you ahead on those pesky Holiday cards! (wink wink!)

Supplies: (because most are LONG retired to use TAMS)
Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit (Retired)
Thoughtful Banners Stamp and Punch
Sparkly Seasons Stamp
Chocolate Chip & Cherry Cobbler Inks
$1 bakers twine from Target
Metallic Gold Thread
Dimensionals
Stampin' Trimmer
Fast Fuse
Mini Glue Dots
Sponge
Wink of Stella Pen

Thanks for stopping in today!!! I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop and have a stamptastic day!!

Favorite Christmas Card....

Hey everyone!

I apologize for the lack of blogging. Winter is on its way up here in Alaska. While its been cold, we haven't had any real snowfall as of yet.

Which is fine by me.

I'm really enjoying our extended fall that we are having.

Onto this weeks Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch! This was a great sketch and I had so much fun putting it together!

We're also having a Christmas Extravaganza! Nothing like getting some holiday inspiration (and working on those holiday cards!)

Here's my take! Isn't this so fun?! I just love everything about it. I had fun coloring it and stamping with my MISTI. Then it assembled just as I imagined. (And that doesn't happen often, haha)

Thanks for stopping in today! Hope you have a stamptastic day and I hope to see you playing along with us!!

Remember, follow me on my Facebook page to keep up to date with all the action! 

Product List

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

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$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

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$9.00

Warmth & Cheer Designer Series Paper Stack

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$10.00

Delightful Dijon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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$8.00

Cherry Cobbler & Garden Green Stampin' Write Markers

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$7.00

2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

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$15.00

Baker's Twine Trio Pack

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$9.00

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

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$5.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

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$8.00

Stampin' Trimmer

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$30.00

Apothecary Accents Framelits Die

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$24.95

Big Shot

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$110.00

Big Shot Magnetic Platform

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$40.00

Standard Cutting Pads

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$11.00

Back to school!

Time is flying by here!

We are getting back into the school routine and making sure we are starting off strong! My son started 7th (!!!!) grade and my daughter is still home with me, and she is equally as busy!

I've been crafting, just again, doing a terrible job at keeping up with my blog. Sigh... wonder if there is a better way? I'll think on it!

In the meantime, we have a new challenge at Try Stampin' on Tuesday! It's a great layout featuring embossing as the optional technique. I love the texture or the elegance that embossing (either heat or dry) brings to a card.

Here is what I came up with:

I actually did zero stamping for this card. A while ago, when I got the "Thoughtful Branches" bundle I played with the set, then set the few images aside. When I put this card together, I thought, I'll just use that! Trimmed it up and plopped her right on there! Simple! So, remember that when you are playing with images, is to save them! You never know when you might actually be able to use them!

Supplies: (All SU unless otherwise noted)

Crumb Cake Cardstock, Red striped cardstock (a non SU scrap that I held onto), Always Artichoke CS, Thoughtful Branches bundle, Argyle Embossing Folder, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Early Espresso CS. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed today's card!! Have a stamptastic day!

Peace of mind for mashups!

I just love when I can mash up challenges.

Does it work for Friday Mashup as well as it does random challenge blogs? Usually not, lol!

But, in this case (for the past couple actually) Sunday Stamps and Retro Rubber have gone well together and that makes my heart happy!

Here's what I came up with:

Stamps: Dasher (ret)
Inks: Baked Brown Sugar, Costal Cabana, Strawberry Slush (all ret)
Paper: Coastal Cabana, whisper white,
Sweet sorbet DSP (ret)
Accessories: Crisp Cantalope and Coastal Cabana bakers twine, white tinsel twins from target, button, rhinestones, and snowflake embossing folder (ret), Christmas greetings thinlit.

I just ADORE Dasher! From 2008, this little guy is just an adorable way to add that perfect wintery touch to any Christmas-y card! I thought pairing the embossing folder with the banners would be too much, but once assembled I really like it! I know we're all partial to cards we make, but let me tell you, I've had quite a few duds. Sometimes they're salvageable, sometimes there is absolutely no place they belong better than in the trash :)

Not this one! Phew! Keeping with the winter, and not so much Christmas theme, I opted for more non-traditional colors, which have been ALL the rage this past year. Christmas is going glam!

Thanks for stopping by and have a stamptastic day!

What the Heck, Jayme!

.....That is the thought I had the other day when I realized that I hadn't blogged in probably a week!

ugh. "Thats how you keep your following!" Yikes!

The last 2 weeks have been a whirlwind blur. I was doing great until we had an out-of-town bout, then that was it! My card streak came to a screeching halt, no blogging, minimal facebooking. Heck, just yesterday I thought "surely I have design team cards that are due... probably today!" 

Not to bore you with all the details, but you all know I play roller derby, and a few weeks ago we ended our lease agreement with the landlord of our BIG beautifully dusty practice space. Since then we've had games, moved out and have been seeking new space. We've been graciously invited to a neighboring league practice (THANK YOU!). Also, life and wrestling season is in full swing as well. 

Enough of the sob story. (Move on, lady! haha) Now I'll catch you up! 

Starting with Tis The Season Stamping's color challenge! 

Yikes! We are dark!

We do have a few challenge guidelines* we'd like to ask you to follow:

• Your project must be a new Christmas project created for this challenge.
• You may use any brand of product that you have in your stash. 
• If you combine challenges please limit it to no more then 4 including ours.
• Please provide a link back to our challenge or use the challenge graphic within your post.
• Have fun!!! 

The Challenge is open until Feb.16th @ 12pm EST. 

Next up is this Just for You card:

Supplies: Very Vanilla and watercolor papers. Primrose Petals, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron, white craft inks. Clear and white embossing powder, versa mark, aqua painter, enamel dots. Botanicals for You SAB stamp set. 

This card was a watercolor technique gone ALL wrong. I still like the outcome though! I found inspiration on Pinterest for a technique where the original poster used distress inks watercolored onto paper then once dried, lifted the color with a baby wipe. SU inks don't lift all that well and left me with a wear mark on the paper. So, I just grabbed some white ink and dabbed dots with a stencil. You can see all the dots if you look at the card in light and move it so they shimmer a bit. All in all, I still think it's pretty, just not what I was trying to do. 

Keeping with the watercolor theme, here's a watercolor wash card!

Supplies: Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp. Basic Black and whisper white paper. Basic black embossing power, versa mark, Melon Mambo, Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry Inks. Rhinestones. Done. :)

This card was inspired by the lovely Tami White and was SO easy. Literally 10 minutes (including drying time). I'll be making a BUNCH more of these. 

And last but not least, this adorable monkey waterfall card for Friday Mashup! 

A whole bunch of retired products were used to make this. Let me know if you want a supply list and I'll dredge on up :)

I love this card! It's so fun and you can play with it for hours! I made one a LONG time ago, then when this challenge came up for the Friday Mashup crew, I knew just what to do! (sorry, watching a lot of kids shows lately, haha) 

Alright, I think that about wraps things up. Phew! That'll teach me not to blog again. 

If you're not following me on Facebook and Pinterest, be sure to check me out! I love having new visitors! 

Thanks for stopping by and until next time (tomorrow), have a stamptastic day!!

Tis the Season 58!

Good morning!!

Today over at Tis The Season we have a really great sketch! My first thought was to go with christmas papers, but then... why not skip a step and use stamps??

(It may have helped that this stamp set from the February 2015 Paper Pumpkin was sitting on my desk from another project)

So I quickly decided on using the current SU! in colors, the cute squiggle squares and went to town. Keeping in my clean and simple fashion, I added some glitter stars and the sentiment and called it a day!

Stamps: Feb 2015 PP kit, Inks: 2015-17 In Colors by Stampin' Up
Paper: Linen paper (haven't made a dent yet), silver glitter paper.
Accessories: Seasonal Frame thinlits. 

Head on over to Tis the Season and see what the rest of the design team has in store, then play along with us! Just think of how easy it would be to break up your Christmas Cards all throughout the year? When all of your friends are scrambling to make theirs, you can breathe easy. And spend more time with your family! I can't wait to see what you make!

Thanks for stopping by and have a stamptastic day! I have packing to do for a weekend full of roller derby! But first, laundry and chores and my son's wrestling meet tonight! Wahoo!

Tis The Season is Back and an Oops!

Good morning! Tis the Season DT is back after our holiday break!

:::The Oops is that this was supposed to go live Jan 7th..... and I just realized it never did! Gah! Technology somehow always has a hand up on me.

Moving on! It's going to be a long one now, to play catchup!

This week, errr...well,  we're starting back with a color challenge and it's a good one! Since I've recently done some Valentine's swap cards, I was already in a pink-y mood when I saw our inspiration.

Isn't it adorable?!

Naturally, since it was pink and had a snow globe, I had to follow suit! 

Here's mine: 

It was so fun to make this card because I used a similar layout recently and it just was a CASE of my own card! No need to re-invent the wheel around here!

Card Streak is still in full swing! Here are my cards from Day 6-10th! 

Day 6 I decided to use the Faux stained glass technique. It's so easy if you've never done it before. All you do is emboss with white on one side of the vellum, then sponge the center in a circle, or covering the whole image if you'd like. Then flip over and embellish. It creates a wonderful subdued look! 

If you follow me on Facebook, you'll see the streak as it goes live!

Peaceful Petals stamp set

Day 7 is this nice grunge-looking card. I used the rock n' roll technique with this, and doubled the embossing with gold then black on top to achieve that antique-y look. (pure mistake as I didn't like the gold I originally put on!) Just keep embellishing...

Botanicals for you stamp set

Day 8 is a simple CASE using Circle Circus (ret) and the circles thinlet dies. 

Day 9 is using the emboss resist technique and sponged in different colors!

Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set

Day 10 is the fab Circle Circus again playing along with the ColorQ Challenge 323! 

CASED from Pinterest 

Sorry for the quick and dirty post! Feel free to comment below if you have questions about anything pictured above. 

Thanks for stopping by and have the MOST spectacular stamptastic day!!

Happy New Year!!!

Holy cats, friends! 

Can you believe it's 2016!!

I feel like my blogging dropped off a cliff the month of December! Wow!

I had EVERY intention of catching up, but it just slid down the priority (maybe Festivus) pole.

I'd say the new year brings peace and relaxation, but it will be exactly the opposite. We have back to back birthdays (Jan, Feb, and 2 March) with sprinklings of holidays in-between. My son's middle school wrestling season is kicking off with 2 matches a week until February! I have derby games scattered between Fairbanks and Anchorage and back, and I feel like we just won't be home in January.

See you guys in Feb! Haha, just kidding!

To keep with the madness, I've committed to some health and crafting goals to kick off the new year!

--I'm going to do a 365-day run streak of at least a mile per day.

--I'm going to make a card or other small and quick project a day (quick is KEY here folks!)

Also continue to workout, be a better derby player yada yada.......
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Since I haven't blogged since early December, here's a quick round up of what I've been doing:

Card a day, Day 1!

Quick NYE Celebratory card!

January Swap group card

December Paper Pumpkin

November Paper Pumpkin

Outside of gift card holder for an adopted family by our roller derby league

Inside of GC holder

Gorgeous ornament made for a friend, inspired by Billie Moan of Rambling Rose Studios

October Paper Pumpkin

Stash of cards that I cleaned out for Christmas cards this year

Adorable little girl's birthday card

Are you still with me? Phew! I'm glad you made it!!

If you have ANY questions about any of my cards, feel free to comment and I'll post the information. Right now it's too much to dig up for ALL of them, ha!

Thanks for stopping by and have a stamptastic NEW YEAR!!

TS56 O Christmas Tree

Good morning!!

Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday and are surviving the week after! We had a great time here at my house. We did the typical watch football, Macy's day parade, ate a feast, then binge watched the Back to the Future trilogy.

I'm about to drop a bomb on you.

Ready?

I've never seen any of the Back to the Futures before this past weekend. I know, I know!! I know lots of references, because they are frankly everywhere. But still. My 11-year old knew more about the movie than I did.

But, now that we are past that, ITS THE HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!! With that, on Dec 1, I received my first Christmas card! I actually looked at the envelope and thought, whats the occasion. Dur........


I need to make my christmas cards. Sure, I could send out the ones I've been making all year for Tis The Season, but where's the fun in that ;) I also like to have all of mine match. (It killed me to send out mis-matching Thanksgiving cards that were from the swap group I was a part of.)

But, because you are on it, you could use yours.

On to the goodness!

Tis the Season brought a great inspiration this week, and we hope you play along!

Here's my take:

Sorry about my CRAZY background. Well, kinda. The other side was more subtle with small snowflakes and light blue, but Felicity drew all over it. Soo...... It was too much. 

When I saw the sketch, this was the first set I could think of to use for it. It's been retired a while now, but it's still stunning. The layout is from a swap card that I received and thought, oh perfect! 

Here's the sketch: 

Stunning, right? Brings back Christmas memories from years before! The challenge is open until Dec 12, so come play along!! We'd love to have you!!

Supplies: All SU unless otherwise noted: 
Stamps: Bells and Boughs (ret).
Ink: Garden Green, Real Red, More Mustard (ret). 
Paper: Garden Green, Whisper White, Nordic Noel (ret), Calypso Coral. 
Accessories: Bashful Blue ribbon (ret), Pearls, scallop border punch (ret), Poinsettia Embossing folder (ret), White Smooch Spritz. 

Have a stamptastic day and thanks for stopping by!