Monday, March 1, 2010

Bundle of Joy . . . and NEW Nesties In Da House!!

Happy Happy Monday!

I had such a great weekend . . . super relaxing, but lots of fun crafting took place, so that's always a bonus at my house.  I hope you had a great weekend, too!

This is the card that I made when I was stamping with my chickies the other day.  I've been in love with these sweet baby shoes ever since I saw them on Debbie Olson's blog.  I have a friend whose first granddaughter was born this weekend, so this will be making its way to her house.  I hope she likes it.  I stamped the baby shoes and sentiment in Versamark on Kraft CS and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I then colored in the shoes with my Lyras and Gamsol.  The patterned paper is some that I picked up at Hobby Lobby many moons ago and knew it would make the perfect baby girl card.  I also picked up the same patterns in baby blue . . . yummmm.  The scalloped border was created using my new Papertrey Ink Medium Scallop Border Die and my Cuttlebug - I LOVE this die!!  I really like the scale.  The only thing I don't like . . . and it's a really small thing that I'll get over, I'm sure . . . is that when I run it through my Cuttlebug, it leaves an impression of the outside edge of the die.  Guess I'm going to have to mess with it a bit to see if I can fix that.  Added some stitching with my Janome Sew Mini, and some cute self-adhesive pearls.  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!!

STAMPS:  Baby Stamp Ensemble (JustRite Stamps)
INK:  Versamark (Tsukineko)
PAPER:  Kraft CS (PTI), White CS (Neenah), Patterned Paper (Hobby Lobby)
ACCESSORIES:  3-D Dots (EK Success), White Satin Ribbon (PTI), Medium Scallop Die (PTI), Cuttlebug, Oval Classic Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Janome Sew Mini, Self-Adhesive Pearls (Hero Arts)


******* NEWS BITS ***********

  • Many of the brand new Nestabilities are IN DA HOUSE at ABC Toys & Crafts.  If you've been waiting for them to arrive, they're finally here!  Julie also got a shipment of a lot of the new Slice products that were released at CHA - the Pink Bag, and several of the new design cards are now in stock!!  See my next bit of news for a HUGE discount.
  • The ABC Toys & Crafts Design Team are engaging in a bit of a friendly little competition with each other.  Each of us has been assigned a specific discount code that we are to pass along to our friends and neighbors so that when you purchase any and all goodies at ABC Toys & Crafts, what you buy will be attributed to which ever designer code you use.  This very generous discount code entitles you to 20% off your entire order!!  You can use the discount code as often as you like from March 1 - 31, 2010.  My code is KL20, and just in case you forget it, I've created a sweet little blinkie on my right hand side-bar.  All you have to do is click on that blinkie and it'll take you right to the ABC Toys & Crafts store.  Just sign in and enter the discount code upon checkout.  I'm counting on you all to make me the winner of this competition!!  I don't want to have to get the voodoo dolls out and start sticking pins in my fellow designers!  LOL
  • A little toot, toot - the flower basket card that I made last week for the Waltzing Mouse Stamps Customer Blog Hop was chosen as one of Paige Evans' favorites for last week's CARDS Magazine Gallery Challenge.  I just love her challenges - this week's is to use eyelets - now THAT'S a challenge!
That's it for me today, friends.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'll be back tomorrow with a sweet Sarah Kay birthday card for you, so I hope you'll stop by to see!  Hugs!



3 comments:

maddy hill said...

Beautiful card karolyn x
maddy x

Terri said...

Your card turned out darling (no surprise there), I did not get to see the finished result the other day. You are right, this is a super cute stamp, love it!

Congrats on your "shout out" for the Cards Gallery challenge...that card was amazing as well! You definitely deserve it!

Michelle L. said...

So, so cute! And now I want that scallop die!