Thursday, June 7, 2007

Secret Squares Round 2 answer...

Was two fold! You guessed correctly if you guessed either Emily or Heidi you were right!! Know what that means? That means you get to move on to round 3! Holy smokes you are a good guesser too! I was out in round one. Sad Hurry over to the AMPA blog to check out the awesome stash of prizes that were added to the pile for the Secret Squares grand prize. Fab..totally Fab!




Amuseapalooza tee shirts!

Ooooh..wanna' Amuseapalooza tee shirt? Now you can buy one, and relive the AMPA experience everytime you wear it! Whooo hooo! Just check out this post on the AMPA blog and it will direct you where to go online to purchase your very own AMPA shirt!

Do you live in BC??

If so, you are in for a real treat!! Head over to the AMPA blog and check this out...you have a chance to meet and stamp with Her Royal Rubberness, Julie!

OMG how exciting is this? I sure wish I could go, but..well BC is a little jaunt from Arizona, lol. If you do live in BC, or close enough to drive, click----------->HERE and it will take you to the Amuseapalooza blog where you can read all the deets!

I'm a tad behind

In my Amuseapalooza postings. One little bacteria is messing with my ambassador contest attempt. GGRRR!

Anyhow, here is a doozy of an announcement. Did you know that the Amuseapalooza challenge 6 is up? This time they are challenging you/us to use heat embossing in our card creations, and the prize is AMAZING. An entire acrylic set of stamps and more. To check out the prizes and enter your creation, just click HERE.

My self diagnosis

Was unfortunately quite an accurate one. I do indeed have strep throat. OUCH! Quite a diet this is...so far all I can swallow without wanting to cry is that pathetic dehydrated noodle soup that you make from a packet. Even the canned Chicken noodle is a little much to swallow. Guess the noodles are too big. How pathetic is that?

Anyhow, I don't know how much of a stamping mood I'll be in, but hopefully I'll be back.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

I'm sick...AGAIN!

Sickly Woke up this morning and can hardly swallow. My throat is red with white spots...I think I have strep...I'm going to drag myself to urgent care, only cuz it's closer than my doctor's office. I feel like dog doo...maybe I'll be back later...thank goodness it's not contagious through the computer, lol.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Did I mention


That I got the giga scalloped oval too? lol. Yup, sure did! Funny that the oval look so much smaller than the circle. Guess it's just your eyes.

Anyhow, for this card I used the birdcage stamp (which I adore) and one of the tiny birds from the bird line. I colored him and the bottom of the birdcage with my Prismacolor markers. (From which I will never stray and buy Copics...did you know they are almost 600 dollars for a set of 144? RIDICULOUS in my opinion)...
Back on topic, lol. This card is pretty self explanatory from there. The ribbon is from Cindy at Starlit Studio, and the BG is from Stampin' Up. Oh, and don't forget the white signo gel pen *tee hee hee*

Secret Squares Round Two

Is up and ready for anyone who guessed correctly (Jenn) in round one. If that's you, then head on over to the AMPA blog and put in your new guess. The prize allready includes 2 awesome stamps, and is only going to grow until the last stamper is standing, hehe.

I'll make it really easy for you. Just click-------->HERE and it will take you right to the post! Good luck and happy stampin'!

Giga circle...


Really is Humongous! I had been pestering my LSS to get these in for at least a year. Guess what they had in stock yesterday? Guess who had a filled Super Scrapper card too?? YUP, me! Got a great deal.
This card is 4x4 square. The surf shop image is stamped in hybrid noir ink and colored in with Prismacolor markers. Then I punched it out with my mega scalloped circle punch and mounted it onto the giga scalloped circle that I punched out of some MOD patterned paper from Autumn Leaves. I think this paper is procreating at night. I only had a 12x12 sheet, and I've used it on 3 cards....it still doesn't look like I've used even 1/2 of it, lol. You can see the other cards I made with this paper HERE and HERE.

To finish, I doodles the edge of the smaller circle with my black Stampin' Write marker, and added some yellow stitched ribbon from Mike's.

Secret Squares Round One answer revealed !

The secret squares round one answer was revealed on the AMPA blog today! In the first round, Jenn was the one holding the "bag" so to speak...wanna know what the round one prize was?
Just click ------->Here and it will take you to the post on AMPA so you can gander at the yummy round one prize.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Limited supply swap "Group 3"

Didn't think I was going to leave you out did you? Not! Here is the card I made for the group 3 swap...





This group will be getting similar supplies. You will receive





* Two 6x6 sheets of Creative Imaginations Anthology Paper
* One yard of May Arts stitched blue ribbon
* Image of the grass hut and small bird stamped on Whisper White cardstock.


In addition to these supplies, you are also allowed to use...

*Any pens or markers
*Any punch(es)
* 1 background stamp
*Cardstock



Everything else is basically the same as group 2, so please read their post instructions and email me if you have any questions. Below is a list of who I have down for group 3...



1. Me!!
2. Chris Hauck
3. Ally Blankenship
4. Chris Mott
5. Rachel Shirk
6. Lisa Rogers
7. Karen Bannis

Limited Supply Swap-Group "two"

Ok, the swaps are closed. Here is who I have down for group #2, or the first limited supply group. Wanna' see what I made with them??







Now you want to know what supplies you will be getting??? Here they are...you will be getting


*2 6x6 pieces of Stacy Claire Boyd "Funky Fresh" double sided paper
* 18 inches of May Arts brown polka dotted ribbon
* 18 inches of May Arts slim orange polka dotted ribbon.
* Image of sniffer the dog walking on a pumpkin pie colored small skinny oval.




That's it! In addition to this, you may use any


* Any Pens or Markers
* Any Punches

* 1 background stamp
* Cardstock

It is going to be so fun to see what you ladies all come up with! I am so excited!! Below is a list of who I have in this group of the swap. Keep your eyes peeled, I will be mailing your supplies on Thursday, and your swaps will be due back to me by July 5th. Please be sure to enclose a return envelope and postage. Slip an extra stamp in as well, just in case the return swaps are slightly heavier. I will return the stamp if it's not needed. Thanks again for joining I am so excited to see what all of you talented ladies come up with.



1. ME!!
2. Tamara Harder
3. Tisha Welsh
4. Kathleen Gisbert
5. Sherri Riley
6. Candy Heathman
7. Sue Jensen

Prizes galore!

OMGosh they drew a winner for the week 5 "Scenes" challenge. There were 131 cards posted for this challenge, and they are all sooo cute! If you want to see who won, what she won, and all of the AMAZING entries, just click ------>HERE!

Did I mention the ambassador contest?

Bwahahahaha! Ok, so you all know I'm completely obsessed with winning, right? Well did ya know that besides the top 3 prizes at the end of Amuseapalooza, that the ladies over at the AMPA blog are also drawing a random winner from the ambassador entries every week for more weekly prizes?

Wowza! This week's random ambassador winner was posted this morning. You can see who won, and the awesome goodies that she won ------------------->HERE

Cool deal huh?

Sunday, June 3, 2007

A*Muse swap update!

The swaps are full! Thank you to all who signed up!

If you joined, please send me an email at coribravo1014@aol.com and I will get you all of the details.

Ok, now how about another group? This one will be different and oooh so fun! For this swap you will again need to create 4x4 cards. The tricky part though is this...

I will mail out the images, patterned paper, and embellishments to each participant. The only thing you will have to (be allowed to) provide is the cardstock for the card's base. Kind of a limited supply swap. I think it will be uber neat to see what 7 different stampers can do with the same basic supplies.

You up for it? Please email me at coribravo1014@aol.com if you would like to join. This one will definitely be limited to the 7 swappers so that I can afford to mail everyone their materials.

Group 2
1. ME!!
2. Tamara Harder
3. Tisha Welsh
4. Kathleen Gisbert
5. Sherri Riley
6. Candy Heathman
7. Sue Jensen

Group 3
1. Me!!
2. Chris Hauck
3. Ally Blankenship
4. Chris Mott
5. Rachel Shirk
6. Lisa Rogers
7. Karen Bannis