Happy New Years !!

How this year has flown by! I just wanted to come and post my blessing for each and everyone of you and wish we all have an amazing and beautiful new year full of happiness... and stamps! lol.. Just had to throw that in there!

Talking about stamps here is another preview as to what is to come in the new catalog

For these 2 cards I used this weeks Mojo Monday's sketch for my cards.

Here is the Sketch :

Here are the 2 cards I came up with :

As always thank you for stopping by and I wish you a Very Happy and Blessed New Year!

Stamps: Sweet Stems(in Spring/Summer 2009 Catalog)

Cardstock: Red Rose,Kiwi Kiss,Whisper White

Designer Paper: Raspberry Tart (in Spring/Summer 2009 Catalog)

Ribbon: Rose Red Stitched Ribbon

Acess. Brads, Prettiest Kit Pearl

Sign Up for Congo Line Crafters Club

It's that time again to sign up for another exciting 6 mths of fun. This time around I have new plans and can wait to share it with my New Hostess groups. If you are signed up for my newsletter then you received all the information about joining my New Groups.

Included will be a free Brand New Stampin' Up! 2009 Spring-Summer Idea Book and Catalogue and SAB catalog as well as EXCLUSIVE CLUB MEMBER ONLY Benefits including Exclusive Member Classes.

If you are interested in more information feel free to contact me at ellie.augustin@hotmail.com

DON'T BE DISSAPOINTED RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW!

Last day for sign ups will be Janurary 15th, 2009

Playing with Taylor!

Good evening everyone!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Saturday as for me it has been a quiet day..My 2 youngest have been playing in my craft room with some of the toys they rec'd while I played with my stamps what could be better! (my oldest is staying at my mom for the week)

I got a chance to play with Taylor this week which made me very happy. Her sketches are always so much fun.

This time around I decided to ink one of my new Stampin Up sets that will be coming out in the new 2009 Spring/Summer Catalog which is called "Just Buzzing by"

This is the sketch for the week over at Taylor's



Here is my card I came up with :




Well I hope you had a wonderful Saturday I am going to see what I make for dinner for myself I've been making me dinner since earlier but you know when you get in the "zone" you just have to finish your project!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!



Materials Used:
Stamps: Buzzing By
Cardstock: Kraft, Choc.Chip, Summer Sun,Whisper White
Designer Paper:Junior Varisty
Ink: Choc. Choc Chip,Baja Breeze,Sumer Sun,Close to Cocoa,Bashful Blue
Acess.: Ribbon-Bashful Blue,Rub-ons-Chit-Chat,Punch-scalloped Sq.White Gel Pen

Merry Valentine

Are you saying HUH to my title of my post! lol..First off I want to wish everyone a wonderful and blessed Christmas/Hanukkah. Today is Christmas Eve and I hope everyone is having a wonderful time w/their family. As for myself my fun doesn't start till almost 11 pm as we head to my MIL to start to celebrate Christmas so in the mean while I thought I would stamp and use my Love you Much Bundle to share a couple of samples with you so that is where my title of my post came from!

Stampin Up is offering this amazing bundle which includes a Stamp set,Designer paper and a new punch! all for just $41.48*before shipping and handling which is 20% off right NOW!




Click here to see Flyer.

So you want to see what a couple of samples with this bundle?












Once you start playing with this bundle trust me you wouldn't want to stop. I have a little mini album I am going to share with you probably in the weekend in the meanwhile make sure you contact me so you can place your order for your bundle. I am offering a FREE project with each purchase of a bundle from me until the 10th of Janurary.

I am also starting my 2nd round of Congo Crafters Hostess group. Their are 2 spots left! If your interested in joining the fun just Email me @ ellie.augustin@gmail.com
I have lots of fun planned for the next 6 mths so don't miss out!


Have a beautiful Holiday and as always thank you for stopping by! (((HUGS)) to all!

So happy to be able to Share!

OHHH I am so excited.. There has been an announcement over at Stampin Up Headquarters saying we are able to give little peeks to our amazing customers! HOW happy am I ??? TOO Happy... I have a busy day ahead but I wanted to share w/you a card I made with a new Hostess set that will be available with the new catty. This is called Echo of Kindess




I stamped the image on watercolor paper.. OH SO MUCH FUN.. also see the Designer Paper,thats from the Love you Much Bundle that will be available for you guys to order on the 23rd!!!

The bundle will include a NEW punch,stamps and this yummmmmmmy Designer paper. If you are signed up to my newsletter you will get a sneek peak at my upcoming class next month with that set.AND if you order the bundle I will send you the class for free!


Well I am off as I have to finish up around here so I can work on my last minute projects I am working on!

Have a wonderful day and as always thank you for stopping by!

I know How The Elves feel!

Hello everyone!

How is everyone doing? How are your Christmas shopping,decorating and everything else going? Me.. well I have been hard at work to get gifts and goodies for the boys school so I haven't had a chance to work on my own stuff but that is OK because although its been allot of work I am loving it.

I am making stamped silk scarfs as gifts this year. I really am loving how they came out. I can only put up a couple because I stamped some of them with the new goodies that are coming out in the new catty. I plan on doing a class doing this in the coming year. Wouldn't this be a wonderful Valentine's,Mother's Day gift?



This one is for Isaac's teacher he picked the stamp and I went to work.




This one is for Ramzees' teacher.


Here is another project I am doing for both boys. I sent Isaac with his batch today, I need to finish Ram's batch by Monday but at least I have everything packed and cut just need to put it together.


Snowman Soup!




Well I am off to clean up my poor craft room.. I have to start to make the boxes for the scarfs before that I have to iron the scarf so they look prefect!

As always thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful day.

Taylor's Cupcake Challenge

Good Friday to all. Wow can you believe how time is flying by sooner then later it shall be 2009! So how are your holiday shopping going.. don't ask me.. I haven't even started! lol. I know their are only 13 days left but I know what to get everyone and I know where to get it.. so this coming week I will be doing that. I have been working on gifts to add to what I will be getting for everyone, so I needed a break and I always go to Taylor's Blog I love her blog and on Friday's she has Taylor's Cupcake Challenge but I've never played along until today and the good thing about her challenge is you don't have to use a cupcake! So that explains why there is no cupcake on my card! lol


This is the sketch she has up this week:





I took out my Eastern Influences set and stamped away. This is what I put together :



I water colored the image and added some ribbon that is available in the Mini Catalog. I hope you had a wonderful day. I am off to clean & finish up some cards that I have been working on that I am DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDYING to show you BUT have been sworn to the Stampin Up silence! lol.. If you don't know what I am talking about lol Let Jan tell you.. lol

As always thank you so much for stopping by !

Retired List is Up

Have you been waiting to see what is on that list well its up and you can click HERE to check what is.

Also did you see they are 10% off on any of the stamps on the list AND if that wasn't enough for any order $70.00 or more you get free shipping! Also don't forget that w/any $20.00 you spend you get to get any of the stamps that are in the sampler for 20% off!

So what are you waiting tell Santa that you want to get some Stampin Up! and all you have to do is click on my shopping cart and ENJOY!

Sketch of the Day

Hello everyone,

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday (and if you get this by sub. had a wonderful Sunday! lol) Any hoot I've decided that Sunday will be my day that I look for a sketch and create a card, this week I decided to play along with the Utah Divas

This is the sketch they have this week to play with :




Here is the card I made using one of my fav. sets :Flores Suaves




I embossed the butterfly and used my dabbers to give it a soft effect. I wanted to make an elegant card so I made my card in Very Vanilla &Black.(although w/my camera it looks white/black! lol) I also used my crimper for the black strips.. (again my camera.. sniff,sniff.. or is it the photographer! lol)

As always thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful afternoon.

More Holiday Cards

Good Evening Everyone,

Hope everyone had a good day. Today as I was blog hopping I came about a blogger who used Beautiful Borders and I was in awe of her card as I thought wow that is such a pretty stamp then I said OH WAIT I have that set! I just never used it! How many of you out there in blogger land have some stamps that you have not shown any love?

I challenge to go through your unloved stamps and show them some love! Any hoot Since I am working on my Holiday cards I looked at this set and said WHY don't I try to make a Holiday card with it and Here are 3 cards that I created just testing it out. The sentiment I used is from the Country Holiday Kit. I {{HEART}} that set!

(sorry for the lighting on the pictures my camera is acting up)





The first 2 cards I made I embossed them with Silver and really like the clean simple elegant look it gave it.




For this card I also embossed it but used Clear embossing powder to go over Red Riding Hood Red. Tomorrow I am going to try some gold embossing powder these look so beautiful IRL! :)


Hope you'll feel inspired to take out those stamps you've put to the side and give them a good workout.


As always thank you for stopping by OH and don't forget about my Blog Candy!

Holiday Cheer

Good Evening everyone!

Today was my turn to have lunch duty at my sons' school and as I was cleaning up the tables which I swear are the color- Pacific Point and it made me have a light bulb moment and an idea was born of what my Christmas card should be this year. I know strange isn't it.. BUT this is what I came up with :



The sentiment I used is from the Country Holiday Kit (isn't perfect! lol)
Then I used some vellum and used my scallop border punch. For the ornament I had seen these around the blog world and they are so easy to do! And so I made them and added a special little bow with gold cord from the Holiday Mini.

I am really happy how it turned out.




This is my first batch I also will be making others in different colors which I will share once I finish them all. So now off to stamp I go! Oh and don't forget about my Blog Candy

Have a wonderful evening everyone. As always thank you so much for stopping by!

I was suppose to be Cleaning Right?

OK I'm back yet again.. why well because I had to go see what the new Color Inspiration over at Kris' blog was.

Here is what we got to play with this week :



So what happened of course I had to stop drop and stamp! lol..

Here is my card I made :



OK NOW I mean it I'm going to clean my scrap room! lol

Teacher's Gift

I wanted to create something nice for my sons' teachers as well as the School nurse and I came across this awesome project that Andrea had available I had to just try it I did a couple of things different as using different stamps,but over all I LOVED this project.

This is what the cover looked like :




Here are all 3 together this AM before I packed them off with the boys to school



This is what the inside looked like. I hope they will be useful for them during the Holidays so they can keep their lists and To Do's together in one place. I know teachers are so busy and they give so much to our children I just wanted to do a little something to say thank you.





Hope you have a wonderful day. I am off to clean up my scrap room as I have been working on swaps and have a whole mess of beautiful paper all over the place and its time for them to go back to their places so I can play again!


Thank you as always for stopping by!

Winner of the Holiday Extravaganza Sales & New Blog Candy!

First off I want to thank all of you who did a little shopping for this amazing sale that went on from the 26th-Dec.1st! I hope you all enjoy your bundles and goodies that soon will be heading to your house!

So are you ready for the Winner of ANY Stamp set she wishes from the Mini Holiday Catalog


Rhonda James!!!!!


Thank you sooo much Rhonda! I will be emailing you to find out which set you would like!


Now don't fret if you didn't win this time around because I have some Blog Candy to offer for everyone!!!!

I will be giving away a Hostess Level 1 Set-(my Fav) Organic Grace

So what do you have to do in order to be entered :

Just spread the word about my Blog!
If you have a blog post about this candy and come back and let me know you've Spread the Love!

As a matter of fact I think I will be adding a couple of other goodies to this Blog Candy but that will be for the winner to find out when they open their box!


I will pick a winner via Random Org. Next Friday Dec.12th


I shall be back as I am preparing another post (have to finish taking the pics) So stay tuned!


As always thank youf or stopping by!