Introducing Caren Blankenship

I am sooooo excited to introduce my friend Caren Blankenship as my guest stamper today!!! Caren is a nurse and works at Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. She and I worked together for several years, we became friends instantly when we met. We have so much in common you would think we were related. Caren loves anything crafty and she sews, stamps, paints, and designs jewelry (all in her spare time of course). She and her husband Mike(who is a physician) have 4 grown children and 2 grandchildren. I haven't seen her is several years but we stay in touch and she usually buys my Kit of the Month and participates in my Technique Class To Go each month. I was totally surprised to get a package from her in the mail with this card, a package of soup mix from a our favorite restaurant in Birmingham, and a whole bunch of other goodies.



Okay on to the details of this lovely card, the stamp set is Happy Moments which is a Sale-a-bration set and the paper piecing on the flowers is from the Welcome Neighbor paper pad also from SAB. The card stock is Melon Mambo and Barely Banana. I was so impressed, she even did the inside of the card as well as the envelope, something I need to do more often. I'm not sure which set the sentiment came from on the inside, forgot to look that up before I sat down here to post. Again, thanks you so much Caren for the help and hope to see more of your stuff here!


Caren doesn't have a blog so I can't link you to her but you can leave her comments here, I know she would appreciate it.

It's a Boy

Getting a good photo is very hard with all the cloudy days we are having, the colors aren't exactly true but this was as close as I was able to get them with my limited editing capabilities. The main thing I want to share is the way I made the tag, this is the Medium Jewelry Tag from the Occasions mini and if you have seen it you know how tiny it is which is good for all the sentiments that come with the coordinating stamp set. I wanted to use a different sentiment so I needed to make it bigger, so I stamped my image and punched it out first with the word window punch and then punched out a tag and it fit nicely and extended the tag. I have had questions about if SU is coming out with a small or large Jewelry Tag punch and I don't know for sure but I think the medium description refers to the size of the punch in comparison to the Large Bird Punch and the Small Heart punch and not to a size of the tag. Hope you have a wonderful evening!

L is for Love

Hope you are having a good Monday! I am trying to recover from a very busy weekend, 4 basketball games and then another one tonight. I have a Valentine for you today using the Movers and Shapers heart die with a kind of gate fold. You fold your card stock and place the fold on top of the Heart with the fold in the center of the heart and run it through the Big Shot but only enough so that half of the heart is cut. Hope this makes sense, if not send me an email and I will try to explain it better. I also use the Pinking Hearts punch and Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon.





Here is a photo with the card opened. Thanks for stopping by.

The Pink Event

Good morning. Ladies, mark your calendars now for March 13...this is the date for a Cancer Awareness Brunch/Styleshow also known as THE PINK EVENT. It is being held at the SIC Foundation building on 540 N. Commercial St., Harrisburg, Illinois from 9:30-12:00. Mama T will provide entertainment as well as a fashion show by Kathleen's Bridal, Maurices, and Pee Wee shop. Local vendors will be there as well. I will have tons of Easter, Spring, and PINK items for sale. The ticket cost is $10.00 which goes to American Cancer Society. A portion of my sales will be donated as well.

OK, on to my project for today, I have a cute little basket from the Basket and Blooms die. I haven't used this die lately and since one of my New Year resolutions was to use what I have before buying more I thought I had better get with it. You have two options for the bottom of this basket, you can design it like a Dixie cup or make it flat on the bottom. I made a flat bottom on this one. I also pulled out my Daisy #2 die since I am dreaming of Spring. And then of course I had to make something PINK for today and I also used a piece of Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon. If you haven't seen this ribbon in person it is beautiful, I'll be using it a lot in the next few weeks. Thanks for stopping by!

Together Forever/Guest Stamper Needed

First off, let me apologize for this photo!!! I could not get a good photograph today probably because of the time of day I tried but I decided to go ahead and put it on here. The color should be Cameo Coral although it looks like some funky orange color. My cousin's daughter is getting married and she wanted some Favor boxes to give as a little Thank You gift to her wedding party. Her colors are coral and white so I made her 30 of the Fancy Favor bags and the card is what I sent from me. The Fancy Favor box/bag and the card uses the Bride Specialty paper.

I also wanted to say a huge Thank You to several ladies who sent me emails saying they had missed my posts lately, I haven't been ill just very busy. Basketball season is in full swing for my girls and in the month of February alone between the two of them we have 37 games(five games this Saturday and 1 on Sunday) and 28 practices not to mention Gymnastics, Girl Scouts, and church activities. My posts will be sporadic this month as time permits and for that reason I am asking that anyone interested to let me know if you would like to be a Guest stamper. I prefer that you use SU products, it doesn't have to be all SU but at least some. To get all the details and requirements, contact me at dls8383@gmail.com

Milk Carton Easter Basket

Is it spring yet? No, the snow is coming down and many inches of snow predicted for today. But I am in a Spring mood, Iam ready forwarm weather. Today I have a cute little basket which holds two milk cartons all decorated up for Easter. I love this Milk Carton Die, I will be getting a lot of use out of it for sure. The bunny nor chicks are SU but I will make another one all SU soon since I found my stamps, seems when I clean up my room I can't find anything. The fence is a MS punch and the grass is a strip of fringed Certainly Celery. The milk cartons are So Saffron and Rose Red.

Thanks for stopping by, don't to forget to leave a comment so I know you stopped by today!

Butterfly Birthday

Good evening, hope you have a good day! Today I am sharing a birthday card with butterflies made using the Beautiful Wings embosslit die from the Occasions mini catalog. The flower image is from the stamp set, Messages for Mom. The colors of the butterflies are Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, and So Saffron although the Rose Red looks like Real Red in the photo. I bought this set for the flower image, I just love it and enjoyed coloring it with Copics. The DP is from the Sweet Pea paper pad. Thanks for stopping by.

Easter Blessings

These are one of my favorite flowers, not just because of their beauty but I know when I see them start to bloom Spring is near. Our weather has been so crazy around here this season and I saw some of the daffodil stems peeping through the ground in my yard, I sure hope the weather doesn't mess them up so that they don't bloom when they are supposed to. The stamps for this card are from the set, Abundant Hope, available in Occasions mini.

I mailed round 1 & 2 0f the Ribbon Share today, also mailed out the kits that were ordered between Jan 20 & 25. The ribbon should be here for round 3 & 4 by Friday and hopefully I will get that mailed on Monday. Still have 3 spaces for round 4 if you are interested. Contact me at dls8383@gmail.com to order a kit or ribbon share.

Follow your Heart

Good Tuesday morning! I have a Valentine card for you today. Don't you just love this beautiful glittered paper from the Sending Love collection. It's hard to pick a favorite pattern from the pack, they are all pretty. I used a sentiment from the Whimsical Words stamp set which is a Sale-a-bration item, love the font in this set. Another favorite is the Heart of Hearts embosslit die. Gotta go, I have Baby Dalton and he is very "needy" today, he is teething and he thinks if I am holding him all is good.

Another Bird House

I love how this little bird house turned out, it is actually a little box and the roof comes off and has a lid attached inside it. I plan to use it as a little treat or gift box but it would also be cute to hold birdseed for a wedding. I found a very good video tutorial for this here. I have to admit it is time consuming but it is well worth it. Both my girls are getting room makeovers this Spring and they both want one of these in their room and Shelby has decided she wants a kind of outdoor theme with birds, butterflies, and dragonflies. I will share photos as we go. Thanks for stopping by!
If you got an email from saying that you was in Group 1 or 2 for the Ribbon Share, your ribbon will be mailed today. The ribbon should be here this week for Group 3 and I have started Group 4 so if you would like to get in on this one please let me know quickly since they tend to fill up fast. In case you missed that post $21 for 3 yards of each of the 10 colors of satin ribbon if you pick it up, $25 if I mail it.