DRS Designs Day

Hi all... im still feeling under the weather here. Thank goodness for laptops so I can get some things done. At least im well enough today to do this. Thanks to my dear Kim for posting the winners yesterday.

Today is my day on the DRS Designs blog, can you please go peak and leave some love. And be sure to have a peak around the DRS Designs website and blog to see all the inspiration and new stamps. Lots of new releases just in time to get your holiday cards started. I love this time of year for making cards and goodies.

Thanks for peekin' in. I promise to get around to visit as soon as im all better which I pray is soon cause if not im going to cut off my nose. Thank goodness for Puffs with lotion.
Have a great week! :) :)

The beginning of the holidays

I just love the holidays, im so looking forward to them. I love the smells, colors, warmth and closeness of family during the holidays. My favorite time of year is the Fall. I love Halloween and Thanksgiving. I thought I would share some cards I did with the upcoming holidays in mind. Never too early to get started on your holiday cards.

Heres a card I designed for DRS Designs. Here I used the 4 in 1 snowflakes stamp paired up with the Christmas Greeting. I embossed the snowflakes in white on kraft cardstock. Stamped the sentiment with Hero Hues and finished it off with ribbon from Papertrey Ink.

My next card highlights this months theme on Hero Arts - Everything Autumn. I hope you get time to play, you have a chance to win $50 shopping spree to heroarts.com. You can get lots of stamps and accessories for that! Check it out on the Hero Arts blog HERE.

I also got my new stamps in from Two Peas, I was so happy to see the mail lady. I love getting goodies in the mail. Im sure you do too, its thrilling except when I get my cc bill. LOL. I just love these stamps from Hero Arts and this color card stock from Papertrey Ink paired together.

We are also having a HOP over at Hero Arts Flickr group, be sure to check it out and come hop with us. You will get to see some AMAZINGLY talented ladies! Not to mention, have some fun!! Check it out HERE.

Hope you enjoyed all I had to share today. Oh did you see my new blog banner? What do you think? I love it! I just love Halloween just for the decorations lol ok well the candy too. 

DRS Designs Day!!

Hi all... its my day on the DRS Designs blog ... please come and leave me some love over there and check out all the wonderful new released stamps along with the previous ones. Just in time to get your Christmas cards done for the holidays!! On the website HERE you can see all the new releases and previous stamps, you will love them and you can choose how you like them mounted or just plain unmounted too!


Have a blessed day!!

DRS Designs Day!

Morning all!! Today is my day on the DRS Designs Blog... please come check it out HERE and leave me some love. Also check out all the new releases DRS has to offer HERE. Lots of awesome Christmas stamps just in time to get your Christmas cards started ahead of time. :) :) :) 


Have a blessed day!!

DRS Designs Blog Hop Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to the DRS Designs Blog Hop - Scavenger Hunt Edition!!


If you started at my blog, please go back and start at the company blog HERE so you can find all the clues. And you can check out all the new releases HERE. If you came from Joni's blog your on the right track!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simple :)


Mission details include~


• "hopping" from blog to blog of our very talented designers - seeing 10 fabulous cards along the way!!
• picking up clues at 5 different blogs
• ending at the DRS Designs website where you'll start hunting
• use the clues you picked up to find the 5 selected new stamps we've added
• emailing us at [email protected] with the stock numbers of the 5 stamps
• crossing you fingers that you're one of our 2 winners!

For my card today, I have used 2 of the new release stamps: Bells and Bows and Jingle all the Way.

I ran some tape down the cardstock and looped the ribbon, then added the rhinestones to the top. And I colored the Bells and Bows with Copics and added silver Stickles to the bells.

Im also sharing a second card showcasing some new release stamps!

Here I used Wintertime Buddies and Christmas Music Bg. I made the card into Santas suit. This card is a little hard to see, the red really went bright with the flash.

Your final clues for the blog hop are:

• Just say YES to backgrounds

• SIlence is Golden

• Holly Makes it Jolly

Im your last stop so now that you have all the clues, head on back to the DRS Designs Blog and use your clues to find the 5 selected new stamps we added.

You can click on the hunt link at the DRS Designs blog to see all 12 new stamps!!

Hope you are a winner!! Good luck!! :) :) :)

Super Exciting News to Share!

HAPPY FRIDAY!! TGIF!! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!






I have a wonderful announcement to make, I will be on the Design Team for Your Next Stamp starting in September. Im so thrilled and excited to work with YNS and im glad I can finally get it out lol. Im so excited to be working with Karen, Semsee and the team. Its going to be such great fun! You can see the announcement on the blog HERE. And please be sure to check out YNS, their stamps are so adorable. So exciting!!!


I would also like to share that I am also on the Design Team for my dear friend, and crafty bff Kim's DT over at her site, Off the Wall Craftiness. Im so THRILLED!!! I love her so much and her sweet baby girl. As some of you know, we get together in real life too. We found out awhile back we live close to each other, and we have LOTS in common. So im thrilled to be on her team and shes also on mine. Her baby girl is having a birthday soon and I cant wait to go, Happy Birthday sweetie! Shes soooooo adorable! Be sure to check out the announcement on her blog HERE and also the new challenge this week HERE. 


Now onto a card... I did this card because I was in the mood for butterflies and the challenge theme this week is butterflies. You have until 11:59pm TONIGHT to get your entry in! You know you want to make a butterfly card or project... they are so pretty!!!!!

I love this butterfly stamp from Hero Arts, its so pretty!! I also have some great cards I designed for DRS Designs but I cant show those yet, be on the watch for the new releases they are so Merry! And be sure to check out the Scavenger Hunt HERE coming soon, its going to be lots of fun!

I will be back later with some pictures of our trip, I didnt realize how many I have to edit we took allot of pictures LOL.

Have a wonderful weekend :) :) :)

Thanks for peekin' in!

Golf is

Happy Tuesday!

Today is my day on the DRS Designs blog, so I hope you will hop on over there and check it out. Leave some love too while your there ;)


I will be back later with more catching up, pictures of our trip, etc. Right now im going to go catch some shut eye, it was a long ride in the car and im beat. I will also be working on catching up on my emails for those that emailed me while I was away, thanks for being patient. :)


Thanks for peekin' in!

Sending You a Smile or Two

Happy Thursday! Hope you have a wonderful day! Thank you to everyone who sent me cards, emails and everything for my birthday. It was an awesome day besides the fact of getting older lol.


Have a couple of cards to share with you today... first a cute stamp that was fun to color. The otters we will be seeing them this weekend at the beach. But these 2 are much cuter dont you think? I love his goofy eyes, that would put a smile on someones face :) Be sure to check out all the DRS Designs stamps HERE, they have a HUGE variety of stamps!!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Otters, Sending you a smile

Paper: PTI kraft, white, Bo Bunny dots

Ink: Copics, Memento

Other: Hero Hues, Google eyes, PTI ribbon

Next up is a card I did highlighting this months theme for the Hero Arts Contest Back to School & Keep in Touch. I love being 'punny' and heres my Back to Skool fish :) You can see all the contest details HERE.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: PTI

Ink: Memento

Other: Stickles, Silver dots

Tomorrow will be a hard day... especially for Jason, he was so close to his Dad. So please forgive me this week if I dont make it around to comment on all your lovely creations. Im trying but I have so much to do before tomorrow and before our trip. I will miss everyone for the four days we will be gone, Sat - Tues. The challenge will be posted on Saturday as usual. And I will be trying to check around on my phone, love the convenience of it.

Also I sent up the wrong shipping cost profile on my Etsy shop, so I have fixed that now. LOL. Too much going on, yikes.

Be sure to get in your entries by TONIGHT at 11:59pm!! Who wouldn't want to win some Cosmo Cricket!!! They rock!! :) 

Have a blessed day! :) :) :)

Christmas in July

Happy Hump Day! :) Its mid week thank goodness the weekend will be here soon. I cant wait to go on my birthday trip, im counting the days but I will miss my craft room so much LOL. 


DRS Designs is sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches this week. The theme is 'Christmas in July'. Here I used some Christmas stamps followed by a sketch I picked out from TMS. Please see my post on DRS Designs blog for more details including stamps I used on this card... visit the blog HERE!!

I would also love to share with you a card I designed for DRS. I just love this flower stamp and the flyaway butterfly stamp, they are awesome.

Card Details:

Stamps: DRS Designs Flyaway Butterfly, 2 Line Flowers, Just Because

Paper: PTI kraft

Ink: Memento

Other: Pearls, Leaf pins

Thanks for peekin' in!

Have a wonderful Wednesday and rest of your week!

Im so excited for this weekend... cant wait to announce the design team. Still time left to get your application in to me! :) :) :)

Frogs, Grads, and a Butterfly Oh My!

Hi all... back with a post for some cards I designed for DRS. Have you checked out DRS Designs yet? If not I encourage you to check out their stamps HERE and also you should play the sketch challenge for your chance to WIN some DRS Stamps!! See the challenge HERE. 


Heres a cute frog stamp from DRS Designs, hes toadally cool wishing you a wonderful day!! Click on the links under the recipe to see the stamps online. For the ribbon treatment, I ran some tape across the cardstock then just looped the ribbon side to side all the way across to the end to give it this look.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Singing Frog, "Toad"ally, Toadstools

Paper: Gina K Pure Lux White

Ink: Memento, Copics

Other: PTI new leaf ribbon

Next is a card I didnt get to do awhile back so I got it done and I thought I would share with you. I know Graduations are all over but im sure theres some out there lol. To do the diploma I just rolled a piece of cream cardstock and tied it with red floss.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Brush Mortarboard, Graduation Background, ConGRADulations

Paper: PTI ocean tides, cream, black

Ink: Memento

Other: Floss Thread, PTI cream ribbon

So I hope you will hop on over to DRS Designs and check out their stamps! They have new releases out too!

Click HERE to visit their website!

And lastly I would like to share a card I did for my dearest friend Kims challenge #16. Click HERE to check it out. I love the colors in the challenge... Gray, Pink and White or Cream, especially PINK!! Here I made my butterfly a kite! :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts Artist Butterfly, Clouds K5400, Simple Things, Cuckoo

Paper: Gina K pure lux white, Stampin up Pink

Ink: Memento

Other: Rhinestones

Tech: Heat embossing

Thanks for peekin' in, its so nice to start getting caught up and on a regular schedule. Feels allot better.

Have a wonderful week!!

Blessings to you,

:) :) :) :)

DRS Designs news

Hi everyone. Finally getting around to get caught up on stuff for my DT's and other projects im working on. Heres a little card I would like to share with you from the new line of DRS Designs stamps. Hope you had a chance to check them out, if not go HERE. You can get them in 3 styles, Mounted, Cling mounted or Unmounted. If you get Unmounted you can use a product DRS Designs sells called EZ MOUNT. Its great.

Here I did a modified version of the sketch so I could incorporate the Cat Paw background from DRS.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Cat Angel, Loss of Pet Greeting and Cat Paw background

Paper: PTI cream, hawaiian shores, white, lemon tart

Ink: Memento, Copic Markers, PTI hawaiian shores

Other: PTI cream ribbon, Pop Dots

Please check out my post on the DRS Designs blog HERE and leave some love :)

If you play the Sketch challenge you will have a chance to win these awesome prize packages:

Be sure to check it out HERE and play along for your chance to win!!

Thanks for visiting. Thank you all for your prayers, you are the sweetest, kindest friends. Now that im getting caught up I cant wait to come around to visit and send out some Thank You cards. I appreciate you so much.

Many blessings to you and Have a wonderful week,

With Heartfelt Condolences - DRS Designs

Happy Saturday!! Hope you are enjoying the start to your weekend!! We had a lovely day yesterday, sad but lovely as we have come to terms with the loss of my FIL. His condition has deteriorated as we expected and he will pass soon. We appreciate all your prayers during this difficult time. But we tried to make the best of our trip to see him and went and drove around LA and then had a lovely dinner at Buca di Beppo Italian restaurant, if you have never ate at one... omgoodness you dont know what your missing. And we highly recommend the Tiramisu... YUMMMMY! It was just a nice and peaceful family day ... it was lovely to see my FIL and get to hug him and tell him how much we love him.


With that said I would love to share with you a card I made, it was hard to make this card but I think it came out lovely. I made it then I thought it just needed something else. Tell me which version you like. 

Version one - without branches

Version two - with branches on the background

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Flyaway Butterfly, Four Flower Background, Lily Sympathy Cross and Heartfelt Condolences

Paper: PTI kraft, new leaf, vellum

Ink: Versamark

Other: Bo Bunny rhinestones, MS border punch

And today is RELEASE DAY at DRS Designs!!

Be sure to check out all the new stamps HERE - I included two of them in my card above (Lily Sympathy Cross and Heartfelt Condolences)

Be sure to check out my full post on the blog HERE.

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Blessings to you,

Poor little frogs ... lol

TGIF!! Im so glad its Friday! Woohoo!! I love Fridays as most of us do. Today I would like to share with you this cute little stamp and sentiment. I had my 3 yr old nephew over today to visit and this reminds me so much of him, always something in his pockets LOL! Those of you that have boys im sure you can relate. If you want to see the stamps just click on the name of each one and it will take you to the stamps page on DRS Designs website. My picture didnt come out the greatest but its night so my lighting is always worse at night. I will try to get a better picture later when the suns up.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Frog Boy, Frog in Your Pants, Easy Grass

Paper: PTI kraft, white, lemon tart, new leaf

Ink: Memento, Copic Markers

Other: PTI cloud die, Spellbinder Nestibilities

Be sure to pop on over to the DRS Designs blog to see all the new release peeks this week. And check back to see my post on Saturday on the DRS blog and its also release day!!

Also wanted to give you a little update on my FIL. Hes doing much better now that we moved him back to the VA home in LA. They take so much better care up there. We are happy. And hes much happier even though his spirit is dying, hes lost all his fight and is tired. Its very sad. Please keep him in your prayers. We appreciate them so much! And he LOVED all the cards, thank you to everyone who sent one!! 

Have a wonderful weekend! :) :) :) Cant wait to get around and visit everyone!

Many blessings,

Thinking of You!

Hi all... this is my second post today, please scroll down below for my Whimsy Haven blog hop post.


I would like to share with you a card I did for the Stamp-a-Day giveaway at DRS Designs. Isn't this butterfly so pretty!?

Im a tease, I know LOL

To see the whole card, visit my post HERE

Even better, leave a comment on my post for your chance to win a stamp!!

Good luck! Thanks for peekin' :) :) :)

Stamps, Stamps and more stamps...

Hi again... this is my second post today please scroll down to see my first PLEASE! Check out the cute card I did with some EAD!


Im back to share with you some designs I did for DRS Designs. Have you checked out the Stamp-a-Day giveaway? They are giving away a stamp each day... hurry over the giveaway is almost over, it ends soon! Click HERE to get to the blog.

Heres a sort of miniature version of a card I will be showcasing later this week. But I wanted to give you a little taste lol of this cute open silhouette butterfly stamp. Isn't she a beautiful butterfly?

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Med Open Silhouette Butterfly, Just a Note

Paper: PTI white, hawaiian shores

Ink: Memento, PTI hawaiian shores

Other: PTI ribbon, Rhinestones

And one other card I designed using the Birthday Candle Burst stamp. I did some ink splatter to give it the confetti effect... I like it :) And to make the bottom background, I used the Large Original Plaid Stamp.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: DRS Designs Birthday Candle Burst, Large Original Plaid

Paper: PTI white

Ink: Memento, Copics, PTI hibiscus burst

Other: PTI ribbon

Dont forget to check out the blog HERE for your chance to win some free stamps! :) :) All you have to do is leave a comment each day. 

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,

Beautiful Butterflies - DRS Giveaway

Hi All!!

Wanted to share with you my DRS Designs creation using the Butterfly Postage Frame. Be sure to head over to the DRS Designs blog to see my post, my creation and for your chance to win a DRS Designs stamp!!

And they are also giving away a stamp EVERYDAY! All you have to do for your chance to win is leave a comment!! So easy peasy! :) :) :)

So head over HERE and good luck!

Have a wonderful day!

DRS Stamp a Day giveaway!!

Be sure to check out the DRS Designs blog HERE for the stamp a day give away!!! For the entire month of June you have a chance to win free stamps just by commenting! How easy is that? So head on over and leave a comment, each day if you can, and have a chance to win!! :) :)


Thanks for visiting! :)

This, that and the other

Hope you all had a great weekend. My darling came home yesterday so I was barely even on here at all yesterday and today. We went to see Shrek - Happily Ever After. It was so funny and cute, we loved it. We needed a good laugh.


Today I have a few things to share with you. Just trying to get caught up around here. First I want to share with you a card I did for the Hero Arts June contest - Summer Fun + 4th of July. Love doing the HA contests.

Stamps: Hero Arts Clouds, Be Happy

Paper: PTI new leaf, hawaiian shores, white, bitty dot basics, lemon tart

Other: PTI twine

Another card I would like to share with you is for the Caardvarks challenge sponsored by DRS stamps and will be running all month long. They are giving away 2 prize packages of 15 stamps each!! Here I used the Two Peas in a Pod stamp from DRS! Its too cute!! Hope you get a chance to play!! And check out the DRS designs blog, they are giving a stamp a day away!!

Stamps: DRS stamps 'Two Peas in a Pod'

Cardstock: PTI new leaf, white

Ribbon: PTI white, Twine

Ink: Memento, Copics

Tech: Dry Embossing using Cuttlebug swiss dots

Also I want to share with you my wedding card that was published in Scrapstreet Magazine this month. You can see it HERE, I did this card awhile back. And my window card from the other day was featured on the CARDS magazine blog... loved all the cute cards, you can see it HERE. 

And now onto our winner from the last challenge...

#11 - Diana (1Card Creator)

Congrats - email me to claim your prize: [email protected]

Thanks for stopping by and Peekin' ... I appreciate all you sweet friends! - xo