Post it note holder

I stopped at Office Depot today to pick up some bubble envelopes. While I was there, I came across these cute little pop up post it note holders. They are a really heavy acrylic holder and use the pop-up post it notes.

What was totally cool about them is that they came with an insert. A removable insert...and what do stampers do with removable inserts?

We remove 'em and make new ones!! lol

So, I bought one even though it was ridiculously priced I thought (12 dollars). I go through post its like they are going out of style. Mostly for masking pieces of my projects. If you didn't know, post its are the BOMB! for masking. They are thin enough that they lay flush with your project, and the removable adhesive is awesome. I always have 4 or 5 pads of post its laying around on my desk and in my studio, and thought what a cute way to store and display a much needed tool on my desk?

We all know that half the fun of being a stamper is organizing your tools, hehe. Anyhow, I know the picture isn't the best, but I thought I would give you a peek at my "bright idea" of the day. Now be careful driving in your rush to buy post it note holders! *wink*

Much better...

I like this card MUCH better than the last one I posted, lol. Something about this Patch stamp...I just love him to bits.

I found a piece of this designer paper in my stash that I had only used a tiny bit of. The paper is MOD from Autumn Leaves and the other card I used it on back in April is on THIS POST

Anyhow, this card was inspired by the paper and my love for little Patch. The background is Canvas from Stampin' Up, the gingham ribbon is from Michael's (5 yards for a dollar **Yippie**), the stitched ribbon is May Arts, and the doodles around the scalloped frame are mine, lol!

Only 2 more days

left to enter challenge #5 on the Amuseapalooza blog. What are you waiting for? This week's challenge was to create a "scene" with your A*Muse stamps. There are only 85 or so entries. That is WAY down from the previos weeks.

Know what that means?? Way better chances to win, tee hee hee! Just click-------->HERE and it will take 'ya right to the challenge 5 post. Go enter a card, or if you really don't want to enter, just go check out the ones that have allready been entered, they are Amazing!!!

Did I mention there are prizes???

Not quite sure...

if I like this card or not. I had a plan, and it didn't look quite like this. I think I may need to dismantle this one and try again.

The flower image is from A*Muse, and the sentiment on the ribbon and the slight scalloped edge below the ribbon are both from PaperTrey Ink (the Faux Ribbon set). The flower's bling center is from Mike's, and well, that's all I have to say...I don't think I like this card, lol.

Pretty Pastel Puppy #3

And the last puppy for the day is Blue Puppy...drats, my "P" theme was destroyed by the blue card, lol. Hmmm, maybe I can think of a shade of blue that starts with a "B"...any suggestions?

This one reminds me of a baby announcement lol. I guess it is the Flannel Plaid bg (from SU!). It always reminds me of baby cards for some reason. The ribbon I got from Cindy at Starlit Studio. Did you see the white doodles on the scallops of these 3 cards? Couldn't actually make a card without my Signo gel pen, now could I? LOL!

Have a great night!

Pretty Pastel Puppy #2

Meet "Pink Puppy." Isn't she sweet? I think this one of my series may be my pastel puppy favorite. She just looks sweet.

The background is Paisley from SU! and the ribbon is from Mike's. I'm not sure if you can tell in the pictures but I used my 20% cool grey marker under Sniffer's feet on each card to create some shadow to ground her. Stay tuned there is one more coming today, lol.

Pretty Pastel Puppy #1

I needed a set of quick thinking of you note cards to send to my Grandma. She love to send notes to family and friends, but will buy cards from 1950 at the thrift store if I don't keep her well stocked. **chuckle**

I made her a set of pretty pastel puppy cards. This is the first one... I call her "Purple Puppy" (real origional huh?) The puppy and sentiment are A*Muse, the background is Linen from SU!, the strip was created by using 3 images from the SU! set Little Pieces, and the ribbon is from Mike's.

Sniffer looks pretty diva in purple doesn't she?

Quick summer note card

I needed a quick note card to stick in with some stuff I am sending to a friend, so I whipped this little guy up. Funny how strawberries are such a summer image huh? I swear I can almost taste this card, lol.

The images are both A*Muse and I used the "poppin' pastels" technique to create the strawberry behind the sentiment. Super quick card. Seriously, it took me longer to type this than it did to make the card, lol!

Yuko's circle journal

I got my first circle journal in the mail yesterday. This one belongs to Yuko Yamamura, and she would like her book to showcase everyone's favorite techniques.

I was so excited to get it in the mail that I went right to work on it and finished up my layout last night. My favorite current technique is Faux Stitching. For my layout I used the Unfroggetable set to create a focal image that I faux stitched around.

Then on the right hand side, I gave the rundown on faux stitching, titled the page, and the faux stitched around the whole page. Even added a little stitched corner. I like it...hope Yuko does!

Quick birthday card

Another quick card for the scene challenge on AMPA. I hope this is considered "a scene." I'm not sure if it is, but it uses two stamps, so I'm hoping.

Both of these stamps are from an acrylic A Muse set that I got recently. I colored everything with prismacolor markers and created the frame with 2 giga scalloped squares.

Along the edge I made sort of a patterned paper with some different sized strips of cardstock. Looks perfect for a little kid birthday card doncha' think?

I'm sad, and so very jealous

My local stamp store "Stampin' Sanity" sent out a postcard yesterday letting us know that they are closing. Wahhhh! Back to online shopping I suppose. On to the jelous part now...

On the AMPA blog they are featuring a local scrapbook store every week from all over the country. They have allready showcased 2 absolutely adorable shops in the past couple of weeks, but I just wanted to give you a peek at the most recent one posted just click on --------> Artsy Tartsy and it will take you to the AMPA blog to check out this adorable store. They even have an "A*Muse Yourself Buffet" how jealous am I??

Talk about retro...

How about a pink and green living room, lol! Another "scene" card for AMPA. This chair and lamp is one of my favorite A*Muse stamps. For this card I colored the chair in with my prismacolor markers and colored the little hopper in with a Gable Green stampin' write marker. I also gave him some eucalyptus stickles on his wings.

The rug was created with the small skinny oval and then I drew some scallops with the stampin' write markers around the edges to make it look like a rug.

The background is Dotted from SU! and I added some small dots with a prisma marker. All the rest of the stamps are A*Muse, and the ribbon is from Mike's.

I really want to go to the beach, lol

And Jaden's pool just isn't cutting it. Here is another of my A*Muse beach cards. For this card I used my new lighthouse stamp. This card took quite a bit of masking. Once everything was stamped and masked, I created the background. The water, beach, and sky were all created with prismacolor markers. After they were colored I added the wave stamp in the water.

To finish it up I used my ticket corner punch, some gingham ribbon from Mike's, and a little charm that I picked up at Wal-mart I think.

Hide and Seek

Aren't these little puppies just the cutest? This card was inspired by the week 5 challenge from Amuseapalooza. I decided to make the scene with my dog house and Patch. The rest of this card kind of came together from there.

Everything is stamped with Hybrid ink and colored with Prismacolor markers. I also created the grass with a Prismacolor marker. It is handy that there are two sizes of tips on these markers. I drew long fat lines to create the grass and then used the fine point to color in the smaller places, like between the dogs' legs.

The ribbon is from Michael's and so are the little bling stickers in the bottom corner. Simple and sweet...

Circle Journal

I joined a circle journal swap on SCS a month or so ago. If you don't know what a circle journal is, you're in for a treat. A circle journal is a group of stampers (10 in this group) who all create a little book with a theme. You create your book, and do the fist layout yourself. Then you send the book on to the next person in the group. They complete a layout according to your book's theme and send it on to the next person.

Our group is 10 people and we are keeping each book for a month. We decided if we get them done earlier we may change the timeline in a month or so. As it stands now, we will each complete a layout in each of the 10 books, and then in 10 months we will get our finished book back. Sounds fun huh?

My book is going in the mail tomorrow. Before it heads out on it's long journey, I thought I would give you a peek. We each used the 5x5 book art book from Stampin' Up. I am not finished with the cover, I decided to finish it after I get it back in 10 months. I figure it has more chance of being messed up by the mail if the cover was all done up. But, on the other hand, I couldn't send it off to 9 other people's houses "naked" so I covered it with some designer paper and sanded the edges.

For the inside, I added a divider page for each of the 10 people's section. To create the dividers, I cute 5x5 pieces of cardstock, stamped them, and punched them with the spiral punch from the Spring mini. Then I cut a piece of designer paper to 5"x2", scored it down the middle, punched it with the spiral punch, and adhered it to the edge of the cardstock. I had to do it this way because the punch couldn't quite punch through the cardstock and 2 layers of designer paper. It lined up really easily though, and turned out pretty nice.


To finish them off, I punched the coordinating paper with the round tab punch, mounted it on matching cardstock and punched it out again. This gave me a cute and sturdy tab. I mounted these on the edges of the cardstock pages, lining them up along the sides so that they overlapped a bit and made their way down the side of the book. Five tabs fit down the side, so I ended up with 2 strips of 5 tabs down the side of my book.

I really like how it is turning out. Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of my layout before I put it in the mail. It's journey starts tomorrow, with a trip to the beautiful state of Washington. I am extremely jealous!