Create Release Smile

Thanks for the Memories....

2010-09-08T07:24:00.000-07:00

Today I wanted to let you know that I have stepped down from being a Stampin Up Demonstrator. It was a VERY VERY VERY hard decision and I had been going back and forth with it but I know it is the right thing to do for me right now.

I have lots of other things going on and right I feel like I am not being far to myself nor what Stampin Up has meant to me. So instead of waiting it out and just being dropped I said I would leave myself. Who knows when things have settled down I just might return.

I have so many amazing friends and Sistahs (you guys are the BEST EVER and I love you dearly) who I have meet because of Stampin Up how could I not love SU.

I have learned so much as well I never even dreamed of stamping 3 1/2 years ago now I can't even image not stamping each day. I learned to love the sound of that Brown truck coming down my block to bring me new goodies.

The fun of opening boxes and sitting there and mounting new stamps and sharing my list of goodies w/my sistahs and seeing all the inspiration we have shared. This is just a small part of why I have loved Stampin Up.

I want to thank you for all the support you have given me it means more then I could ever share. I have loved sharing my little creations and hearing back from you.

Now I am going to New Adventures and hope you will join me I have been posting on my other blog & if you like you can join me there. If you were only interested in the Stampin Up part of this blog well I thank you and send you the biggest HUGS! :)

Again thank you so much for making me learn how much it ROCKS to be Demo! :) SQQQUEALLLL...

Now if you want to keep up with me just come over At : scrapbookmamaof4kidz.blogspot.com and I'll catch you on the other side!

Greenhouse Gala Class

2010-08-12T16:24:00.000-07:00

Bright colors, bold patterns & a vintage texture create an eye-catching combination that is sure to elicit a wow from everyone who sees it. In this class you'll use the Greenhouse Gala DP, Friends Never Fade stamp set and Vintage Wallpaper textured impressions folder to create these four gorgeous cards along with a coordinating window card box to gift them in.

Date: August 29th, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm
Cost: $20.00
Location: My Home

Please email me to sign up for this class. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at this upcoming class.

Please Register before the 22nd of August to reserve your place as space is limited.

Still ROCKS to be a Demo

2010-08-11T07:27:00.001-07:00

Its been a bit since I have posted here. So much has been going on w/my personal life that has made me basically put my Stampin Up business to the side. So much so I was afraid I would not be able to be part of this amazing and wonderful family company. Yet each time I thought that I was upheld by the most amazing support that I could ever ask for. I am forever thankful and humbled by the love I am given each day.

As I have expressed so many time before being part of Stampin Up is something so unique and amazing and full of so many experiences I know I wouldn't have been able to have if it wasn't for being a demo.

As of today I am back. Slowly but surely I am back. I will be posting again and showing love to my Stampin Up business and would love if you would come along and join me as I step into my 2nd phase as a "re-newed" Demo. Yes that is what I am going to call myself.

Starting fresh. I want you to experience the excitement and fun with me. As I am taking baby steps but as the motto of Stampin Up I want to Share what I love.

So as I do please bear w/me as I update you with all Stampin Up and its time to get inky! SQQQQUEAL It ROCKS TO BE A DEMO! :)

2010-07-14T08:38:00.000-07:00

Hola everyone!

Hope you are enjoying your week. NY has its humidity going again my hair is SO not appreciating that right now ha.

So I just wanted to come w/ a quick little post as I was asked will I be doing any Stampin Up ribbon/Designer Paper Shares this year... So I said well what if we start first w/the Ribbon share and then if I do get enough interest for the Designer Paper then I'll give it a go as well.

So here is the details for the New In Color ribbon share. Gonna need 5 people :)

You will receive 3 yards of 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon in the five BRAND NEW In Colors for only $13.00 The price includes the shipping to your door, five people needed per share.

Colors included will be :

Poppy Parade

Blushing Bride

Peach Parfait

Concord Crush

Pear Pizzazz

The price will be $13.00 (United States only) which includes shipping to you. If you are interested Just click here :

well that is from me for now its another cleaning day around here! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

On Your Mark, Get Set, SHOOOPPP :)

2010-07-01T10:35:00.001-07:00

(2nd post of the Day)

Hello again! Just wanted to let you know I have the new catalog link on my side bar . Isn't she pretty? So go ahead and start your wish list and by 2 pm you should have at least a starter list to email me right? Remember 1st person to email me their order of $25.00 or more will get the free Pinking Hearts Border Punch.

Now can I hear some SQQQQUUUEALLLS :)

HAPPY NEW CATALOG DAY!!

2010-07-01T08:08:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Summer. I know I am. So is everyone excited? I bet you are! Its the day that everyone has been waiting. The release of the New Stampin Up Catalog.
So who wants to be my first awesome customer to place an order?

The catalog should go live by 2pm Eastern Time. To celebrate the first person to contact me to place an order will get a free "Pinking Hearts Border Punch" $25.00 order is required to win the price.

I am trying to slowly start back into the swing of things and have many ideas that I would like to get your opinion in. As I want to be able to provide you with what you would like.

I am thinking of doing My Card Kits again. Is that something that you might be interested in?
Also Tutorial Classes online was another I was thinking about.
How about A Hostess Club would anyone want to join?

Just throwing ideas out there. If you could just leave me a comment that would be wonderful.

As always thank you for stopping by and checking on me! BIG Hugs to everyone!

I will be back w/another post once we get the link to the new catty for those of you who don't have a copy yet can check it out online. Sound good? So check you guys later!

Grab it While you Can!

2010-06-03T05:50:00.000-07:00

Hello All!

Just wanted to let you know that I have added the retiring list on my side bar so if your wondering what we will be saying Bye-Bye to from the current catty well take a peek and grab your favs. before they are sold out and gone for good!

In the Demo Word I keep hearing squeals and ohh and ahhh about the upcoming catty. I even heard it might be the BEST Yet! OH MY.. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. That is one perk being a demo we get to drool SUPER early. Right now their is an amazing chance for you to join the amazing family of Stampin Up. You can get a kit for only $99.00!!

For that price not only will you get your starter kit you get to go behind the scenes and learn about everything that will be upcoming before the general public! Also be able to purchase early. No matter if you just do it for you or want to start a business for yourself Stampin Up is an amazing community of amazing people. I truly love being part of it.

There is nothing like a group of people loving the same thing...LOVE IT! If you would like more information please feel free to contact me and I will be more then happy to help!

I am working on new projects and ideas for the upcoming Catalog. Its the most wonderful Time of the year! :)

Its Almost the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

2010-05-28T07:30:00.000-07:00

Well HELLO there! Remember me? How have you all been. Hopefully some of you have been keeping up w/my crazy busy life over at my other blog. If not please know yes I am still a demo, yes I still squeal for SU and yes I am coming back with new projects and fun VERY SOON..

I wanted to post because well its that time of the year that us demos start to get very excited because its just around the corner to get a new and wonderful Catalog! Shhh I've already seen the cover of it and can NOT WAIT to see the inside of it.. I've also heard of goodies inside and wish it was time to order already... I will actually get a change Next week as one of those amazing perks being a demo is ordering early.

So I wanted to come and see who would want to pre-order a New Catalog? All you have to do is pay for the shipping which will be $5.95 (To cover Paypal charges & shipping)

Here is a Paypal Button to make things easy. I will be mailing out the catalogs I believe by 3rd week of June to make sure you have your catty right on time.

I can not thank you all of you that have gone to my other blog and have left awesome comments it means more then I could ever say. HUGS and Love to all!

Thank You!!

2010-04-24T13:39:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to come and post and say THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH for all the love you have been sending me. I can not even begin to tell you what it means to me. I have been actually stamping and posting.. Although not everything is Stampin Up but its actually been wonderful because I returned to crafting for fun which I actually had been missing. So now I am doing it w/out pressure and all my mojo is back!

So if you don't mind not seeing all Stampin Up then come visit me at my other blog where I am having a blast! I hope to get back in the swing of things here by the end of the summer as that is when the YUMO new catty will be out and I am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to control myself and will HAVE to get back to the swings of things!

So if you like stop by scrapbookmamaof4kidz.blogspot.com and say hi!

Sending you all HUGE Hugs and thank you's to all!!!

With Pain Comes Growth and Knowledge

2010-03-09T09:58:00.001-08:00

Certain things in life make us grow and learn and for me being a Demostrator has helped me so much. I have learned that there are so many amazing and talented woman who I love dearly whom I would have never meet would it have not been for being part of the Stampin Up family.

I have learned that teaching is something I love to do. I love to be able to help someone come into my class and being so excited to share what they learned w/someone else.

I've learned that a handmade card is worth so much more and is so special and to give one is sharing a piece of yourself.

For anyone that knows me they know how much I have loved being a Stampin Up demo I love to image all I can create... Those sleepless excited nights because I know my SA Sistahs and I would be waiting for that awesome surprise Stampin Up has for us Demos... or waiting to sign up for an event.. there is nothing like it....

Although I love what I do So very much I love my Family even more... and thus this brings me to having to do something that might hurt a bit now but I know its our Lord's will because I have learned from what I have gone through in my life that everything happens for a reason...

I have decided to become a hobby demo. I will try to keep up with my qtr. sales but if not I will let it go...

My Stampin Up online store will be open until March 15th and then it will close. For my current customers I can not say what you mean to me! Of course you can email me and I will be more then happy to place your order for you and again can not say Thank you enough for not only your business but your friendships.

I also want to thank the few of you that stop by here and peek at what I might have been up to...

Like my title of my post says W/pain comes growth and knowledge and my faith will help my family and myself through what we have to because our Lord is with us. I know just as before he will walk us into where we need to be.

God Bless you and as always thank you for stopping by....

Monday Daily (Share) Challenge

2010-03-01T14:52:00.000-08:00

Hello All. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I thought I would stop by and share one of the cards we made Friday night in my Vintage Just Because and Thank you class.

Everyone loved this card because some learned how to do faux-tearing technique which is really fun to do.

Isn't this card so much fun! The gals had the giggles when I showed them how easy and fun it is. I am busy getting ready for my Free Library class I will be teaching this Wednesday. It's sure to be a blast!

Also I am working on getting things ready for my Downline appreciation lunch for the 13th. I would love for you to join us. Maybe some of you liveout of state and are saying but Ellie how could I be there! Well guess what you still can! Just ask me how and you'll be part of our Downline appreciation lunch fun. I can even have a cupcake delivered to you from my fav. place!!! (that's our Group Mascot LOL). I am really looking forward to a wonderful afternoon with the Conga Gals.. :)

Well I think I did enough rambling for today! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Yes I am Still Here!

2010-02-24T18:53:00.000-08:00

This has to be one of my latest post I've ever put up! lol... I just wanted to let you all know that I am around but suppppppppppppppppppppperrrrr busy.

This week I have been getting my boys after school and so my time has been limited as well working on special projects plus as getting ready for my free class at the library next week!! The cherry on top is getting a Downline Appreciation Lunch together for my amazing gals in my team. Would you like to join us? Just email me on how you can!

I actually got a little downtime tonight while I was watching American Idol I made this little page on My Digital Studio. I am the Queen of Multi tasking I tell you ha..

Yes another Page of Ms. Sassy! lol These Pictures are actually from last Halloween but in my house you would never know that since she is ALWAYS dressed up in something! Its so much fun seeing her have fun and enjoy herself. I was a real tomboy when I was little so I never really liked playing dress up or cooking or nothing that she loves to do so not only is she getting to enjoy it I am for the first time as well! I LOOOVEE IT :)

Well as always I thank you so much for visiting my little world.

Scrapbook Club Share

2010-02-20T05:51:00.000-08:00

Happy Saturday all! Coming to the home stretch with the kiddies all being at home this week! Monday they go back and then I can go back to my "regular" routine (I hope hehehe).

Today I wanted to share w/you actually the sketch I used for my Scrapbook Club. We are having a blast and I must say these ladies are super creative!

This is one of the sketches this month I decided to share it using My Digital Studio . I hadn't had a chance to play w/it and I really missed it! Its so much fun all the creating and NONE of the mess! lol

I actually changed the page size from our 12x12 in our club into a 8 1/2x11 I like this size.. HMMM I think I will actually see if I can make an album in this size. This is Ms. Sassy in one of her Birthday pictures and I just went in and edited the picture w/My Digital Studio and was able to use the same picture 3 different ways! LOVE IT!!

If you would like to order your very own My Digital Studio you still can! Just contact me and I will be more then happy to help you with that! Well its time to break out my Semi Chef hat and make some Saturday AM breakfast for the family! Hope you enjoy your weekend!

As always thank you for stopping by!

Join Me For a Fun Free Class

2010-02-16T11:43:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone I am so excited to be able to share this amazing news. Starting Next Month I will be teaching Free Fun Classes available to you at my Local Library.

For my first class I will teach everyone how to create their very own Fabric Flower Pins. Which I know myself I have seen all over the stores. Why spend money on them when you can make your own and customize them as you would need them.

Here is a preview of what one of these Flower Pins look like :

Everyone that attends will create their one of a kind Fabric Flower Pin. If you would like to attend all you need to do is :

Call : 516-536-3071 to RSVP Before March 1st, 2010

The class will be on Wednesday March 3rd,2010 at 6:45 pm

Address to the Library is : 1120 Woodfield Road
Rockville Centre, NY 11570

Hope to see you there!

Want a Peek?

2010-02-15T16:47:00.000-08:00

Evening Everyone! Happy Monday. Today starts a week w/my babies so its gonna be super busy here everyday keeping them entertained!

I wanted to share w/you a peek at my next upcoming class where its about Baby Love.

I will be doing this class twice so if you are not able to attend this upcoming Friday Evening or join me Saturday afternoon. So I did say something about a peek right so here it is.

This is a peek of the top of the box we will create and inside are stored 4 very sweet Baby Note cards. I hope I get to see you at one of the dates this class will be given.

I know I have to make extra little Baby Love Sets because I have to mail out a couple of these to some friends who either have had a sweet arrival or soon to be blessed with one. I bet you do too!

Well its time to read a story to my kids so as always thank you so much for stopping by!

A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That!

2010-02-11T16:40:00.001-08:00

Evening everyone!

Have you missed me? I hope so! hehehe This week has been a blast. A winter Blast that is! New York got hit with a snow blizzard. So big that my kids have had off the past 2 days from school!

Also this week I had to go out to the boys school for pick up so I've been a busy mama. I finally was able to post today and in good timing because tomorrow is a very special day.

It will be my 2nd Anniversary as part of an amazing Family which is Stampin Up! I love what I do and as I said before I wish I could share it w/everyone. Speaking of which I would like to welcome my newest gal to join my Conga Party Crew Laura S.

To celebrate I made a special Package for anyone that joins me either today or tomorrow and comes along for this amazing ride that is being a demonstrator.

So I thought well lets see Why not make another Celebration Package and see if anyone else wants to celebrate w/me! Right now is an AMAZING time to join as you get to get your starter kit AND an extra set of your choice!

Beside the full packed Starter kit you will receive you will also get to choice any retail stamp set (valued up to $47.95) from the current catalogs when signing up during the promotion. Plus, get 15 percent off your Starter Kit (Standard or Digital+)!

Starter Kit	Regular Price	Sale-A-Bration Price (15% off)
Standard Starter Kit	$199	$169
Digital+ Starter Kit	$185	$157

Ok so I did as a little bit of this and a little bit of that right? Well I wanted to share w/you my class that I will be offering this coming Saturday. This is my Cupcake Blast Class.

Doesn't this look good enough to eat! I hope you will be able to join me to create this cupcake class and of course I think I just might make cupcakes so we enjoy as we work!

As always thank you for stopping by!

Playing Along

2010-02-07T09:51:00.001-08:00

Happy Sunday or shall I say Happy Superbowl Sunday everyone!
Its a mini mad house here as my hubby is having his friends over for the game and well I will be hiding in my stamp cave and bedroom not a football gal really but happy to see the boys so excited today!

Well as for me I decided to play with CPS this week because I really liked this sketch its simple enough that it can be used in lots of ways I added it to my little sketch book so I can refer to it on a latter day here is CPS# 153

Isn't sweet? Talking about sweet this coming weekend it shall be Valentine's Day so my card's colors were inspired by that. This is my little card :

I wanted to keep it clean and simple. I really love how the flower(flower layers Die) came out. I used my crimper and then crunched it more for a softer effect. The Velum I ran only the bottom part so I could use my Dots folder. To hold it since you can see adhesive when you use it I decided to hold it w/some brads was going to do all 4 corners but liked this look better. What do you think? Of course I had to use some Real Red being its a Love card and all. Well I hope you enjoyed and thank you as always for stopping by!

Funny Valentine

2010-02-05T11:19:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday my dear friends!

Well as I wait for my lunch to arrive (having Chinese takeout) I decided to get Inky w/Nicole who challenged everyone to do one of my fav. technique- Emboss Resist and since I was feeling under the weather on Tuesday to share then what a perfect way to make it up!

This card will actually be for my oldest son for Valentine's Day. He's my little artist. He actually love this technique as well so I think he will like it.

I used some bold colors don't you think but I really like how they work. I used Rich Razzleberry mixed w/Not Quite so Navy. The base stamp is the Jumbo Wheel-Very Vintage and the embossed image was the Medallion Background and the sentiment is a rub-on from Chat room and a half pearl from the Prettiest kit to finish it off. See its a Funny Valentine!

Well I hear my door bell and that means time for lunch. So hope you enjoy your day and as always thank you for stopping by!

Birthday Valentine

2010-02-04T10:15:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

For today's Daily Challenge I wanted to share a card I made for a dear friend who's Bday is coming up its really close to Valentine's Day so I came up with a card to fit her perfectly.

This card actually has some fun elements. I used the Satin ribbon to make the ribbon rose as well as some of the half pearls from the prettiest kit. Now lets talk about that background. Do you love it. I DO! I can hear you say it now "Ellie but you love all things SU YES " this is true but this is really fun. That background actually came on our Clear Printed Window Sheets. The collection I used was from the Seasonal Pieces which you get (2) 12x12 sheets of some amazing images to play with.

Well I have to work on some Valentine goodies for my youngest son's class. I have an idea of what do now I have do the test run for it!

As always thank you for stopping by. I am also working on setting up some fun set up for next week because on 2/12 it will be my 2nd year Anniversary being a Demo! So of course we have to celebrate.

Living the Vida Loca!

2010-02-03T12:51:00.000-08:00

OH WOW I finally made it!!! Yes as you can see as my title of this post its been a bit crazy around here.. Started w/me getting sick Sunday but thank goodness I am doing better and now I am playing catch up!

Thank you to those of you who were purchased my Class Kit :) I am busy w/that as well. Today I thought I would share another of the cards you will be able to create when you receive your kit.

Once again if you are interested in this Kit which will include enought to create 10 4x4 Cupid Cards (2 of each card) w/a PDF instructions just please contact me and I will be more then happy to help you with your purchase.

Wouldn't this be a sweet card to make to give to someone? I am planning to give this one to our School nurse she is one AMAZING woman and love my boys (and the rest of the kids I guess LOL) so much and I appreciate everything she does :)

I am busy working on 3D projects which I will be able to share after Valentine's Day because they are actually for a secret Cupid Swap I am in and don't want to spoil the surprise just in case my Cupid stops by and then will guess I am her cupid!

OH almost forgot to mention do you know what Feb. 12th is??? I can not believe it myself. It's my 2nd Anniversary being a Demo!!! SQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQUUEALLL so I am working on some blog candy stay tuned for that as well!

Well as always thank you so much for stopping by. I am off as its time to figure out dinner here so time to takemy stamping apron off and put my cooking one on!

How about a Class By Mail?

2010-01-30T09:59:00.000-08:00

Happy Saturday Everyone!

For the last couple of months when I have run a couple of my classes I have had emails asking if I would do a kit for it because either some live to far to attend or some can't make it when I am doing the class. For this reason I have decided to give it a try and start up myMonthly Class Kits once more. I will do 2 kits a month depending on how this month goes.

For these kits I will include all the material that are needed to complete the class (minus the stamped images) . For my first Kit I will be sharing my Cupid Class that will be taught on February 3rd and 6th.
In the class we will make 10 (4x4 cards). You will have 5 different designs and will make 2 of each. This class is $12.00.

For those of you that could not attend but would like a kit it would be $18.00 which includes materials,PDF of class and priority shipping to you. (I will be mailing in the Unites States just to make things easier & fastest shipping)

So would you like to see a peek of 2 of the cards in this class?

If you are interested in this class all you have to do click here

Less then 10 Min. Card and Winners!

2010-01-29T13:36:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday everyone!

Hope everyone is enjoying their day. I have had a busy day. I sent out the last of my past orders. Placed new orders. Worked on samples for my February classes. Plus included my domestic/mama duties.

So after having a full day I had to reward myself w/a little stamping right? Well one of the comments suggested I do some 10 mins. or less cards. So I took the challenge. This card I like so much (and the set) that I feel I will be making a few more because it was so easy it took me WAY less then 10 minutes to complete it. I used Happy Moments which is FREE when you place a $50.00 (before s/h) I also used a go to of mine. Teeny Tiny Wishes. Anything you want to say that set has it. So I guess you want to see what I am rambling about huh?

See short and sweet and to the point. All I did was mat my stamped image on Very Vanilla. (for the score line border I just used my bone folder to go around w/my paper cutter) Are you wondering how I got the birdie colored well w/my Stampin Up Markers. Seriously for me purchasing them has been a wonderful investment because I have all 48 stampin Up colors. This has helped me especially if I don't have the color ink pad I need I have it in marker and I can use it to stamp my image this has also made it easier for me to decide which pads I need ASAP . Also for coloring details is wonderful and makes everything so easy.

So I bet you came today to see if you were one of the lucky winners.. So now the winners of their very own copy of Stamp It are :

Dee Tollasken and Lisa808 so if you ladies would please email me : ellie.augustin@gmail.com w/ your information I will be more then happy to mail you out your copy!

As always I thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful evening. I just received Cloudy w/a Chance of Meatball for the kids from Netflix and so we shall be watching that tonight! Stay warm :)

What a Hoot!

2010-01-28T13:47:00.000-08:00

Hey all! I had all intention of posting yesterday but the day and chores got a hold of me and before I knew it I missed my chance at taking a picture of my card.

This card I want to share w/you is to attempt to start a little collection of cards for the men in my life. Yes Men related cards although I have made them it always seems I make and give them the day that it is needed! So this first card is actually one I would give to my oldest son.. He would get a giggle out of it cause of what the sentiment says.

Yes I used Fox & Friends YET again.. I couldn't help it Ha. Promise my next card share will not involve this set ha. Like I've mentioned before this is such a fun set and can be for any occasion.

Sorry I have to cut this short but I have to go frost some cupcakes I baked for the kids. Do come back tomorrow as I will announce the winners of my Giveaway

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Look Who is Back!

2010-01-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

Technique Tuesday that's who! I was sitting and thinking what could I do today when I said WELL I did have Tech. Tues. up for a reason right?

Since I am working on posting almost everyday why not use what I have right? Now this is gonna make you laugh. When I started stamping I had NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clue what I was doing I still giggle because I still am learning something new everyday.

I went into the book store by the clearance section and said well there has to be something here to show me the ropes.. This is what I found :

I giggled because the samples well they look kind of old but the info was very good and this book is HUGE! So I decided to buy it and it really had helped me out. I'll use it every week when I do Tech. Tues from now on. Since there are techniques in there that I have yet to try we can do it together sound good?

So this week I start w/one of my fav techniques : Masking

This is my little card I made today it was left over stuff I had out and the size of this card is 4 1/4 x 4 1/2.

The colors of the balloons were picked by my little girl who told me "Good Color choice Mama"so that's what went with on this card! lol

I will prob. do another masking card before the week is over. After I finished this card I got another idea BUT Mama duty calls and I have to start making dinner soon. So for now I hope you like this little card and thank you so much for stopping by!

OH BABY!

2010-01-25T13:22:00.000-08:00

Hey all! Happy Monday well what's left it! Here in NY it was raining ALLLLLLLL DAY and today is my turn to go pick up the boys from school and guess what my Sassy started to sing Rain,Rain go away and shortly after it stopped raining and I even saw some rays of sun! At first I say HUH? It truly made me giggle because she kept telling everyone that would listen that she made it stop raining :) Ok that is my funny of the day...

Before I post my card for the day I must say WOW... YOU guys ROCK thank you so much for the awesome comments! THANK YOU... and I love all the stuff you guys have been saying.. SO look out for some FUN stuff coming in the weeks ahead because I LOVE all the ideas you want to see and well I have to do it all! :) Don't forget to leave me a comment HERE so you could get a chance to win!

Now for my Monday Card share of the day : This is a cute little baby card I created... Can you guess what stamp set I used? I couldn't help it.. Fox & Friends was sitting there HOW could I not use it...

I LOVE our embossing folder because the impression is so deep and well you all know how I feel about dots and anything round... blllissss.... So have I convinced you yet that you NEED this stamp set in your life yet? lol.

As always thank you so much for stopping by! Its Monday so that means "House" Night at my house.. NOBODY talk to me between 8-9 pm! lol... See you tomorrow for another daily challenge.

Did You See It!!

2010-01-24T05:54:00.000-08:00

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today's Share involves a celebration and a giveaway! YEAHHH!! First off Have you seen this?

Well if you have... Did you check out Page 71???? DID YOU SEE what it said? (so cool! lol) Designer:Ellie Augustin

Oh my gosh I just about FLIPPED OUT when I saw my card in the magazine.. I've been waiting patiently for it to come (Ok maybe not so patiently can you blame me!!)

So yesterday after my Stamp A Stack Class I got my mail and just about dropped everything I was carrying to tear open that package but managed to control myself till I got inside.

I can not say how happy I am. Now my giveaway because they sent me extra copies! SO I have to share right??!! SOOOO here is it (sorry only can mail here in the U.S.)

Leave me a comment letting me know what you would like to see on my blog.

I know most of you are shy and stop by but don't say Hey Ellie :( sniff,sniff... lol..) but I would love if you could help me so maybe that way I could make it more fun to stop by and you wouldn't be so shy in leaving a comment! lol..

I will pick 2 winners on Friday so that I could mail out your copy over next weekend! Well enjoy your day and I shall be back tomorrow w/my Daily Challenge card!

Bits and Pieces

2010-01-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

Happy Thursday Everyone.

Sorry I didn't' post yesterday but we had to run about as one of the errands was to get Ram's cast off YEAHHH... He does have to do physical therapy for a couple of weeks but with God first he'll be to his speed (but more careful) self in no time!

For today I decided to use some of my left over goodies I have laying about (thus my post title) also play along w/this week's Cardpatterns Sketch#47

Which looks like this :

So since I have been busy cutting for my Stamp A Stamp for this coming weekend where we will be making 15 different cards I have lots of little bits and pieces and so this is what I came up. These are (2) little 3 x 41/4 cards.

Here is the first little card. These are actually pieces from my Scrapbook club that I had left over. Aren't you proud of me look I used one of the new brads! YEAH me no hoarding.. You know its actually liberating Ha..

I also used some of the new Satin ribbon available in the new Mini. TRUST me once you open a roll you want ALL the colors! (gulity as charged! lol)

Random Thought: hey would any of you want to do a ribbon share w/me for all the Satin colors?? If I get enough interest I would be happy to do so. Just leave me a comment/email saying you'd want to do a share.

Now for my 2nd card. For this card I actually used something I've had for while but hadn't used. Did you know Stampin Up has Stencils? YEAH WE DO! lol.. Look :

This stencil is HUGE!! its the size of a 8 1/2x 11 sheet so as you can see I just used the tippy top of it but I love how it looks! I plan to make some more cards w/this stencil. As my previous card I used some more ribbon but instead of a stamp for the end I used some eyelets.

These sized cards would be perfect just to tuck into someones lunch or a little thank you, don't you think? OH and before I forget do you know what today is? Its National Hug Day!! So go out there and Hug a friend or a loved one and make their day! Sending everyone hugs and thank you for stopping by!

Thinking of you

2010-01-19T08:36:00.000-08:00

Today is a day that I would like to take the time to say I am thinking of a special little boy who 1 year ago returned to our Lord. Many of you might have had read about Garrett whom I was blessed to be his Chemo Angel.

He was such a bright star and I learned so much from him and his family. I love his family dearly because they welcomed me into their family even w/all that they were dealing with.

It first started out to make a little boy feel better and take a bit of the load of what he was going through but in the end it was me who gained SO SO MUCH more.

Garrett's mom is an AMAZING woman she has done so much to get the word out on Childhood Cancer

We both have had days of sorrow because afer all are human and mothers but she is one amazing woman who keep going and she inspires me to do the same.

So this card is for her. Sheila please know you are in my thoughts and that Garrett is looking down and so proud of you I know he shall send kisses in the wind for.

I thank you so much for allowing me to enter into your life and blessing me w/knowing our Super Hero!

If you can please take the time to think about all the children whom have been lost to Cancer and if you would like join me in saying a prayer so that Garrett's family is comforted today knowing that we all have them in our thoughts.

As always thank you for stopping by.

Happy Monday

2010-01-18T06:25:00.000-08:00

What a wonderful weekend I had. How about you? I was able to have baby time this weekend my cutie nephew is getting so big(he's 3 1/2 mths now) and my other nephew(2yrs old) I could eat them to pieces.

Yesterday out of the blue I told my oldest son to get dressed and lets go out he looked at me w/a puzzled look and said where are we going? I said Let just go! So we took the bus to the movies to see Avatar! We didn't get to see it in 3D but it still ROCKED! If you haven't GO see it !

Well Its Monday so time for a little card.

This is a 3x6 card I made using Vintage Vogue which is "THE" stamp set to run over and purchase from the mini. I embossed and cut out the flower and added one of our YUMO new brads to it. I REALLY had to force myself to use it the hoarder in me asked WHAT are you doing Ellie we are only going to have 15 left if you use it! Somehow I managed to win and used it on my little flower I think its perfect don't you? (forgot to mention that the Designer paper is from the Sweet Pea collection YUMMMOO!)

I have a full house today and I hear things in my living room crashing THAT can NOT be good! I'll be back tomorrow w/another Share!

Enjoy your day and thank you as always for stopping by!

Love What you Do... That is an understatement for me!

2010-01-16T06:26:00.000-08:00

One of my goals this year is to spread my love of being a Stampin Demo. Next mth it will be 2 years since I started out.

To tell you the truth when I signed up I had NO clue what Stampin Up was as you can remember(if you are read my rambling blog) I had just started to dabble into the crafting world trying out this and that. Also if you have noticed I've changed to basically 95% Stampin Up(well this blog is 100% Stampin Up)... Its not that I don't like other products its the quality of the products Stampin Up offers always seem to be the best for me and in turn slowly but surely I have turned to use Stampin Up for everything.

When I signed up I did it because the deal that I was offered at the time was UNREAL and more bang for my buck you could say. I thought well I'll get this deal and that will be the end of that. Then I got my box and put in my DVD that was included and as I listened to everything it made me thing and really say hmmm.. could I do this... and what I love about Stampin Up is there is no pressure you make what you want of your demoship. If you just want the starter kit so you could get an unbelievable amount of product then you may do so. If you say hmm you know what I'll keep going and just use my demoship so I will be able to get discounts. You may do so all you would have to do is keep a min. every 3 mths to continue your demoship.

Especially now would be amazing to keep your demoship because of the new Mini-Catalogs that are going to be available every 3-4 mths so image not only will you be able to get a discount BUT you will be able to pre-order before regular customers(LOVE IT!!) and always get new information first events and Exclusive Stampin Success Magazine that is a true favorite of all demos. Also this week they just introduced an exclusive online site for demos where you can interact with other demos for ideas,chatting,and most of all new sisterhoods!

Or if you would like to try to make something out of your demoship you could have a stamping party only once a mth and get your friends together and make your own club which help give you a way to reach mins.

Or if you are like me and are ready to build a business... WHICH I am stepping forward to TRULY give it my all. Then we can do it together.. All the faces of a demoship I described I have done.

I love that because I share something that I love and I can actually have an income to help my family. I love that the work I put into this is for me as its my business, something that will grow because of what I put in it. Does this sound like something you are willing to try?

I would love to have you join my team! Now is a wonderful time to do so :

Promotion
Promotion Dates: January 5-March 31, 2010

Promotion Details
During Sale-A-Bration, new recruits will get 15 percent off the price of the Starter Kit (Standard or Digital+), plus, a FREE stamp set (valued up to $47.95) from the current catalogs!

Starter Kit Regular Price Sale-A-Bration Price (15% off)
Standard Starter Kit $199 /$169

Are you ready to step out and join an amazing family and come aboard you can sign up online!

All you need is the password to join is : CongaParty

and go HERE and we will start on our way! (Click on start your own business) If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be more then happy to answer any question you might have!

Well if you are actually still here I think you deserve a little card from me don't you think? Here is a little card that makes me smile. Yes I am using Fox & Friends again. I can't help it LOVE that set!

Wishing you a wonderful Saturday and thank you as always for stopping by.

Roaring Bday!

2010-01-15T06:11:00.000-08:00

WOW TGIF everyone!

So we made it to Friday YEAH.. Today's share is w/my FAV. set right now I am in LOVE w/Fox & Friends (ava. in the mini) its just so much fun and it makes me so happy to ink it up.

Today I am going to showcase a Birthday card because I am sure you guys need those kind of cards every now and again right?

Isn't that lion not the freaking CUTEST oh my gosh.. Love him!! Do you see my the DOTS background.. do you know that stamp is not even 10 bucks??!..

You all know how I love my circles and the ribbon.. Go ahead I'll give you a minute. Every time I got to use some of the new Satin colors WELL MAN OH MAN.. I just melt. :)

Well I have a busy day as today is the first day of my Scrapbook Virtual Club and I have emails and supplies to cut so I can mail it to the girls! Have a wonderful day everyone!

OH What a Happy Heart

2010-01-14T07:47:00.001-08:00

Today I will share with you a sneek peak of my upcoming class that will be perfect for Valentine's Day.

I will run it twice this month so you will be able have the oppurinity to join us!

We will create 4 unique Valentine Day cards and a Gable box. I actually am working on these for myself as I will be making some for my boys teachers. Of course I have to add some chocolate for them as well.

The Dates The classes will run will be :

Jan 22nd -7:30-9pm

Jan 24th 1:30-3pm

Cost of the class will be $15.00

Hope to see you there! Enjoy your day and as always thank you for stopping by!

Lilac Loving

2010-01-13T05:05:00.000-08:00

Today's card I have for you to share is really out of the norm for me but I wanted to give it a try. I really do love how this came about and will be doing more color on color cards. I did add a bit of another color on the leaves. Another thing that I do love is the new Rub-on: Chat Room I have actually almost used up both sheets!

YES I've been busy but I love that that collection of rub-ons because I can just grab a sentiment and put it on a card (since I usually don't stamp a sentiment on my cards)

I hope you enjoyed this card. As well as your day. Today I will be working on taking pictures of my Stamp-A-Stack cards that I will be creating on Janurary 23rd, 2010 :

An All Occasions Stamp-A-Stack

JAN 23 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Would you like to send your family and friends a more personal card this year? Looking for a unique way to spend a fun afternoon with friends? If so I would like to invite you to a Wonderful card making Event! Everyone will make 15 all occasions cards.

Event is $25.00 and includes Lunch and refreshments!

Pre-registration (including payment) is required due to the popularity of this class.

RSVP must be received by Jan.15th.

Sweet Pea Love

2010-01-12T05:00:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure I've expressed in more then one occasion to my Stampin Sistahs how much I am LOVING the "Sweet Pea" Collection in the New Mini Catalog Catalog. I don't know (well I know its so yumo) but it has made my mojo go through the roof! I Love the felt and well as I mention in my previous little video that Designer Paper Pad is AMAZING!

Here is a little card I created :

I love this card because its simple but sweet (ha no pun intended) and see the little leaves that is from the New Bird Punch available as well SO MUCH FUN. Don't you love that design of DP? and of course I couldn't make this card w/out my fav. Kraft! OH so yumo! Then I added some rub-on to apply the sentiment.

Talking about Sweet Pea I have 1 amazing gift for the next person to place an order of $50.00 (before shipping and handling) which entitles you to a free Sale-A-Bration Item as well!

One lucky customer already snagged one of these bags as I had posted about it on Facebook so now are you gonna be next to win this bag?

(These are exclusive bags that were available to demonstrators who went to Leadership)

I hope you enjoy your day and Can't wait to see who will win this prize!

So not Really a Card

2010-01-11T05:04:00.000-08:00

Good AM!

Today for my Daily Challenge I actually don't have a card but a scrapbook page. I thought I would share as this page really made me smile when I made it.

Did you know that now via MDS you are able to print single sheets?!? That is AWESOME because I actually have a couple of pages I want to print out and some I will frame and put them in my stamp room and each one is a totally different topic and I was holding them because if I would have put them into an album it would have looked silly BUT NOW I can print them and share then and when I look at them smile.

I hope you enjoy your day and a little reminder that Sale-A-Bration is in full effect and remember if you place an order w/me of $50.00 (before shipping/handling) I also will add a free gift so far in my treasure chest I have stamps,buttons,ribbon,punches,and other goodies... SO what are you waiting for get your order in for your double reward!

You could either Email me or just click my little shopping cart and it will take you right to my online store! :)

With this I am off to start my day as I am working on my last bits for my Scrapbook Online Club! If you are interested in joining feel free to contact me as the last day of signup is the 15th of Jan! I can't wait to get started.

No Place Like Home

2010-01-10T10:57:00.000-08:00

Happy Sunday to you!

Well I am happy to say that this weekend has been a blast for me not only did I enjoy stamping my heart out this weekend but I got to relax which with all the craziness going in my life I needed it.

Also this weekend I had a Stamping Challenge weekend over at Stampin Addicts which was a true blast! I really am looking forward to doing it again!

Well I did promise I would post a card a day right? Well here is today's card. This card I made using the Designer Series Pack from Sale-A-Bration which you could have for free with an order of $50.00 (before shipping and handling) it is one fun stack I tell you!

This is a sweet little card measuring at 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 these are fun sizes because you can make them so fast and easy. Well hope you enjoy afternoon as I am going to try to clean up the storm I created yesterday while I was stamping in my jammies!

Start of a New Challenge

2010-01-09T08:03:00.000-08:00

Happy Saturday!

Have you made any goals that you want to accomplish this year? For myself I said one of these goals is to try to post a card a day on my blog. THIS will be a true challenge but I'm gonna give it a go!

So with this I welcome to my Daily Challenge. If you like you could play along! For today I am working on a Bday Card so the Challenge for the day is a make a Bday card.

This card was inspired from a card I saw in this month's Stampin Success (Mag. for Demos) which I LOVE.. talking about being a demonstrator right now is an AWESOME time to sign up.

Promotion
Promotion Dates: January 5-March 31, 2010

Promotion Details
During Sale-A-Bration, new recruits will get 15 percent off the price of the Starter Kit (Standard or Digital+), plus, a FREE stamp set (valued up to $47.95) from the current catalogs!

Starter Kit Regular / Price Sale-A-Bration Price (15% off)

Standard Starter Kit $199/ $169

Digital+ Starter Kit $185/ $157

Plus you get me! Ha... ;) You can even sign up online and its SUPER Easy that is how I signed up!

All you need is my password to sign up which is : CongaParty to join my team! Go HERE and click sign up and you'll be on your way to becoming part of an amazing Family as that is what Stampin Up truly is. OK sorry about my little ramble I just truly Love what I do and wish everyone would be able to feel like I do! :)

Back to my Challenge right?? -Here is my card for the for the day.

This little flower stamp is from one of the Sale-A-Bration sets its called Happy Moments and I love the font of the sentiment as well. For the background I stamped using Friends 24-7.
Also another item from the Sale-A-Bration that you could get for FREE is the border punch I used! LOVE that punch!

Well I hope you enjoyed today's card and hope you'll be back tomorrow!

Think Happy Thoughts

2010-01-07T08:19:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week. I have been busy working to get ready to start my Scrapbooking Club. I am going to record my first video for this month today as a matter of fact.
If you are interested in joining us in our group please go to HERE for more information.

As well as my Scrapbook Club I am also working on samples for my upcoming classes. All is not work and no play so here is a little card I made In the middle of working :

As you can see I pulled out my Woodgrain Background stamp although I have made cards using this stamp I never was able to remember to take a picture w/it. I do love this stamp along w/Fox & Friends because they are so easy to make the cutest cards.

Remember if you place an order($ 50.00 or more) during Sale-A-Bration not only will you be able to receive a free item from the SAB Catty but you will also get a gift from me I have a box of goodies ready to be mailed to you!

Well off to continue working I go hope to hear from you soon!

Upcoming Class Preview

2010-01-05T05:26:00.000-08:00

Today is the start date of when we can order from the New YUMO Mini and Sale-A-Bration ! I love everything and can't wait to share what I have in store w/you with all the fun new merchandise!

I thought I would share some samples of my upcoming classes :

This coming weekend we will be making an amazing 21 layout scrapbook. This album is so much fun and is full of surprises. You still have a chance to sign up and I will be running this class twice this month.

Once this Friday Evening and then on Saturday Afternoon :

I thought it would be fun to make an album just to put all those fun pictures in. I will be adding my pictures during the class and I can't wait to see what everyone puts in their album!

Another of my classes I will be sharing this month will me Happy Heart Class. Valentine's Day is right around the corner so of course I had to have a Love class!

For more information about my classes you can either check my Newsletter Blog or go to my Stampin Up Website to see more of the upcoming months events.

As always thank you so much for stopping by and can't wait to hear from you!

Starting Off With a Blast- Stampin Up Style!

2010-01-01T07:38:00.000-08:00

Good AM Everyone!

Happy New Year. I am sitting here in a very nice quiet house as the boys in the house all stayed up until 4:30 am playing games while my Sassy and I went to bed shortly after midnight! Ha... So I am taking this time to come and post that Stampin' Up! has just released the new Sale-A-Bration Catalog, Occasions Mini Catalog on-line.

Due to possible (slight) mailing delays of the Occasions Mini Catalog, Stampin' Up! has opted to share the catalogs with customers early. SQQQUUEALLL !!

So grab your pads and start your wish list! Sale-A-Bration catalogs went out separately and should arrive by Jan. 5.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CUSTOMER SALES PERIOD DOES NOT GO LIVE UNTIL JAN. 5.

Click Here to View Occasions Mini Catalog

Click Here to View the Sale-A-Bration

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I can't hear what you think of the new Mini and help you with your wish list!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy New Year!-(Sneek Peak)

2009-12-31T12:25:00.001-08:00

Hello Everyone!

Happy New Year's Eve. Well here we are on the last day of 2009 and so I said let me do something special how about a little sneak peek of what is about to be available starting January 5th.

Today I got a box of Stampin Up goodies and I just had to show you. I AM IN LOVE with the new Designer Paper Pack-Sweet Pea : of 48 Double Sided 12x12 Pages. LOOOOVEE IT! So much so I had to do a little video!

So as you can see this video is not even 2 minutes tells you how pressed for time I am. All my babies have me busy for sure.

I did manage to take pictures of the little milk carton so you can see the little details. LOVE It.. I know for myself this is going to help me with my little Valentine Day Goodies for my Isaac's class this year. All I will need is my Big Shot and this Die and I will not have to pull my hair out this year!

Isn't it the cutest EVER. I have to tell you that the new Mini is full of amazing new products and I can't wait to share w/you my ideas I have. Especially w/my upcoming classes. Please make sure to check - CLASSES to see what I have in store in the coming months.

As always thank you so much for stopping by. Here is to an amazing New Wonderful 2010!

ARE U READY FOR SABBBB!!!!!

2009-12-28T07:36:00.000-08:00

Ok so really its suppose to be are you ready for some Football cause that's what it is all about here for the boys! Ha.. but for me its ALL ABOUT Sale-A-Bration!! I can Not WAAAITTT.. If you are one of my awesome customers you should be getting or received the New Mini and SAB catty jewels this week! SQUUUEEALLL....

So I thought I would make SAB a little more fun! So this is what I will mailing out this week to my amazing customers!

Ok so you really can't read what it says cause of the watermarks (don't worry if you get one you wouldn't have that on yours! lol)

What this is my friends is a Special SAB punch card for every punch you get (which is for every $50.00 order or more) you get a punch and not only will you get to choice a free goodie from the SAB catty BUT you get a BONUS gift from me!!!! What was that were YOU squealing??

Also for my Hostesses who have a workshop during Sale-A-Bration and reach 300 (trust me I alone I could order that w/the new Mini and all its yummies! Shhh don't tell my hubby) YOU will get a REALLY amazing Gift WHICH I will let you know what it is at your workshop!

So are you guys ready to have some Sale-A-Bration Fun after all isn't it the best way to start a New Year but with a BIG BANG!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-24T13:31:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

Hope all is well this amazing Christmas Eve as for us my babies are restless (well Sassy is napping!) and they are waiting to go to Grandma's house later tonight...

Its been quiet around here as last Thursday believe it or not my oldest the one who had broken his left toe.. well managed to break his right foot! YES you read right... hmmm My son is something special I tell you! He will have a cast for a mth.. SO to all of you make sure to tell your kids that walking down the stairs on your Tippy toes IS NOT A GOOD IDEA...

But I did receive his report card and I am proud to say he received 7 A's and 3B's.. so even though he can't seem to stay still he is running through 6th grade as well... and that was an amazing Christmas gift for me..

As well as my amazing SA Sistahs I love them dearly they have been there for me so much and feel so lucky to have them in my life...

As well as all of you who take the time to stop by it means allot that you would come and stop by and see what I may be up to. I love Stampin Up and all I wish is that in the coming year you will come along with me as I continue having fun and learning.

So from my family to yours I send you my Love and Wish you a Blessed Christmas!

WINNING CUSTOMERS!!!

2009-12-15T14:53:00.000-08:00

Have I kept you on my toes! Do you want to know who the winners of my Patterned Pines Stamp Set and Roll of Yumo Ribbon are????

DRUM ROOOOOOLLLLLL PLEASE....

My winner of my Patterned Pines Set is ...... Marie Cassano!!! YEAHHHHH MARIE :) See and you say you never win NOW YOU DID!! :)

The Winner of the Roll of Yumo Satin Ribbon is...... Jody Rogers!! YEAHHHHHHH JODY...

I can not thank enough my wonderful customers you all know I love you all and thank you for such an amazing year! I can not wait to bring you all I have for you this coming year INCLUDING FREE CLASSES!!! More info to come about that in January!

As always thank you so much for stopping by and if you would like to win for my next months raffle of goodies all you need to do is order for the month Dec/Jan and I will pick a winner on January 25th,2010.

Preview Scrapbook Page

2009-12-14T11:52:00.000-08:00

Hello All!

I image everyone is super busy now for the Holidays and enjoying every moment of it. I wanted to quickly post a sneak peek at one of the pages that will be made with my upcoming scrapbooking club.

The first theme that we will be doing is Love. Confession time I still hadn't worked on pages for my Little Sassy 1st Valentine so I thought what a wonderful time to finally try to catch up!

With this page I used the upcoming new Designer Paper that will be available starting Jan.4th in the Mini.

I must say in this picture you can not really catch all the sparkle that these pages has I LOVE IT!!! can you image making this page but with Black and White Pictures how amazing will it be.

All the details for this page will be shared with my Scrapbook club. Their are LOADS of new goodies in this layout and I can't wait to share it.

Remember if you are interested and are on the fence please feel free to contact me and I will be more then happy to answer your questions.

Well as always thank you so much for stopping by! You don't have to be shy I do get emails saying people are stopping by so if your really out there let me know and say HEY!

12 Days Of Stampin Up Holiday Sales!

2009-12-11T05:57:00.001-08:00

Wow can you say Stampin Up knows how to end the year with a BANG! Not so long ago we had such an amazing sale that I said Ok well that was fun and was happy to wait for the new year to start up again but Stampin Up said OH NO Ellie we have one more surprise for you and everyone else!

So for the next 12 days are you ready THEY ARE HAVING ONE OH MY GOSH you better sit down to see this kind of sale!

Ok, raise your hand who loves their Big Shot?(because everyone has a Big Shot right! ) EVERYONE is raising their hand RIGHT and how many of you want all the dies? Your still raising your hands right? Now last question how many of you would go crazy for a sale for Big Shot Dies?

Well guess what these next 12 days are MADE for you! Because guess what is on sale!! SQQQQQUUUEAL... Ok calm down hold yourself and let me show you what is on sale!

All you have to do is go HERE to see this sale! I know AMAZING isn't it.

Also I wanted to see if you could help me. I have a poll up and if you could please assist me by letting me know what kind of club might you be interested in.

I currently am working on a Scrapbooking Club which we will start on the 15th of January. It will include a private blog which I started to work on already. It is open currently so you could find out the info about it. If you would like to check it out Check here to preview it!

Also for my customers if you received this months newsletter I will be announcing the winners of the Pattern Pines Stamp Set and the roll of Satin Ribbon on Tuesday the 15th.

Well as always Thank you so much for stopping by.

Even if you don't leave a comment please do help me by taking that poll as it will help me decide if I will only run the Scrapbooking club only or if I will be adding more clubs for the new year.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and thank you again.

Kraft Makes Everything Better

2009-12-06T06:19:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful week we are still fighting the germs here I really am beginning to wonder when are they gonna leave our house already!

Well in the middle of taking care of my babies I did get a nice visit from the Brown Truck which brought me my pre-order goodies that will be available in the OH MY GOSH GONNA KNOCK your socks off New Mini that will be available Jan.4th,2010! (if you are a customer of mine you should be getting your copy of the Mini soon)

Of course I had to tear open that box and get to work and I am IN LOVE with this one set that is called Fox and Friends.. IT IS THE CUTEST EVER!!! Do you want a sneak peek?

First are you wondering about the title of my post well if you know me you know I have a what shall I call it.. ok just MAYBE a little addiction to Kraft cardstock.. lol.. that's how this title post came to be.. and well these 2 cards as well.

This is my first card I created... There are other new goodies used here as well can you see what they are? I'll be just talking about the stamp set for now everything else you'll have to guess! Are you squealing did you figure it out yet???

Now look at this card isn't this owl soooo cute!? hmm Do you like my Background? OH yeah I know I said I wasn't going share too much but I can't help it and check out my edge of my card.. OH yeah that is one of the NEW AMAZING punches!!

I actually have a couple of other cards so you'll have to stop by later on in the week to check them out :) I am off to go give out the meds to my kids.. Its seem that Pink Antibiotic is the drink of choice this week here :(

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

So Many Reasons to be Thankful

2009-11-28T15:23:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I really enjoyed my family time together and it was yet another year to remember.

I had to share a fast little page I made of my Little Sassy for this year's Thanksgiving. I can not tell you how easy and wonderful it is that I can make a scrapbook page done w/no worries send it out and print it and put it in my album!

I am working on another page of my boys but wanted share this one with you. I keep thinking HOW easy these Holidays are going to be for me because I get to just upload my pictures and just get to work w/my MDS while watching TV like I did for this page!

As you can see my Sassy is a real little Ham and doesn't mind mama snapping away! lol.. So thats what I did. I was just lucky enough to get 2 pics of boys as they were busy playing w/cousins!

I also wanted to update on my blog Candy as I have so much to give away that I am going to extend the deadline for 2 more weeks ! This week I will take a better pic so all can see what is inside! :)

As always I thank you so much for stopping by! Also if you haven't had a chance to do a little shopping make sure you do so before Monday as Stampin Up has one amazing sale going on right now!

HURRY SUPER SALE

2009-11-23T02:03:00.000-08:00

Happy Monday Everyone :

Starting today did you know that Stampin Up is having an amazing online Sale! There will be products up to 50% off! This is a wonderful opportunity to get a couple of stocking stuffers for your friends/family or even yourself. They even have bundles ready for you!

These are just a few of what you could expect to find in this sale :

One of my favorite Bundles availiable right now:

Want to stamp but don't know where to start?

We've got the Ultimate Stampers' Starter Bundle

•Best Wishes & More stamp set
•Eight Great Greetings stamp set
•On a Pedestal stamp set
•Earth Elements Stampin' Spots
•Earth Elements assorted card stock (8-1/2" x 11")
•Whisper White card stock (8-1/2" x 11")
•Old Olive 1/2" striped grosgrain ribbon
•Flower Designer brads

ALL FOR :$76.62 (Item #120289)

Make sure you go check out these amazing deals on my online store and enjoy all these bargins are gone. Don't wait as they while supplies last!

As always thank you for stopping by!

Dreaming of a White Christmas

2009-11-19T05:34:00.000-08:00

Hello All!

I had true intentions of posting this yesterday but there was a little run about because my oldest son managed to fracture his Big Left Toe! He's doing good this AM and even went to school as I learned there is really nothing you could do about it. just tape it up! Needless to say I was taking care of my baby.

So here I am sharing w/you what I was up too before all the excitement started. This is actually a first for me not only because I am the earliest I EVER have been doing anything for decorations for the Holidays but because I actually don't end up doing anything till the week of!

We visit my MIL every weekend and she has all the decorations the kids could ever dream about its a Winter Christmas wonderland I tell you! :)

So for me to actually get in the mood of the Holidays so early even shocked me but here I was going to the craft store and picked myself a little 3ft tree for my stamp room.

I actually added some paper ornaments that really were so easy and fun to make I found how to make them on Splitcoaststampers. I used some Designer Paper from the Christmas Cocoa Speciality Collection available in the Holiday Mini.

Here is a closer look at the ornament:

Well I am off as I am working on my classes for Jan and working on plans to start Stamp/Scrap Monthly Meetings. Don't forget about my giveaway I am having and as always thank you for stopping by!

OHHH Look What I Made Plus a Giveaway!

2009-11-17T16:05:00.001-08:00

HELLLLOOO everyone!

First off I wanted to thank everyone who wished me a Happy Bday this past Saturday and placed an order as well. I ordered all the Ink Pads(free gift for each order) and once they get here I will be mailing them out!

Another WHOOP WHOOP to the winner of the little basket of goodies Julian. Hope you enjoy!

So now I wanted to share with you something I made today. I've been working at my Stamp room and am happy to say that my room is all in order EVERYTHING is in order!

Usually I just clear my desk and put stuff away but of course you know how that goes you put this away and put more away then when you go looking for what you really need you have so much stuff and you can't find what you really needed!

Or if you are like me (cause I know I am NOT the only one) you hoard stuff because its just too cute to use and forget you even had it!!!

WELL NO MORE.. I cleared every drawer in my stamp room and for my Bday I got a new stamp cabinet plus new storage cubes and replaced the old ones, so what does that mean? I have goodies to giveaway!! OHHH BOY DO I!!!

But first let me show you what I made to celebrate my SUPER clean Stamp room! LOL.. I just got this Big Shot Die for my Bday.. and let me tell you I AM IN LOVE!!! I know I say that for allot of stuff well I can't help it I'm in Love with Stampin Up! lol..

Which Big Shot Die did I get? The Flower Folds Die. I've been wanting this Die since I saw what Shelli (may she live forever! LOL -founder of Stampin Up!) at Convention with it. I KNEW I had to try my hand at it too!

Even though I do not sew and do not do fabric guess what it is way true NEVER say NEVER cause look what I did:

This is a Pin!!! I AM IN Love.. Oh man I am having too much fun looking at fabric!... Ha who knew.. then of course I looked at another creation and I had to try as I am gonna make it for my Little girl! I made her a hair pin.

This I made using my Big Shot's Circle Die #2:

Oh and the BEST thing about these is NO sewing just some a few drops from the Hot Glue Gun! I love it : (since I am sooooooooooooo not the sewer)

So now I am so excited about this you know what I think I need to make a class so we can do this together what do you think?? OH YEAH...This will be perfect to make a couple for teachers or for the ladies at church or anyone special they will love it and be even more impressed YOU made it! OH I see us making 2 of each w/ little gift boxes!! SQUUUUUUUUUUUEALL so who wants to join me?? I am going to check my calendar and see when we will be doing this because this is gonna be some FUN!!!

Ok so I did say giveway so you want to see what I am going to give away??

so what is in this Propriety Box well as of what I remember 3 different punches,LOADS of different stamps,different goodies for accessories and a BIG PACK of Designer Paper there is a brand new DCWV Halloween Stack that I actually won but didn't use! Plus way to much for me to pull out and list! So what do you have to do to win?? Well just post about my Blog Candy on your Blog and come back and let me know!

This Contest is Open to U.S. and Canada. So If you want a box of goodies that need a good home Well join the fun! I will pick the winner Next Tuesday the 24th!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Survived the Weekend!

2009-11-10T08:15:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

Have you missed me I sure have missed you. I must say this weekend was so amazing! Hi to all the new gals I met and can't wait to see a couple of you for my upcoming Holiday Bonanza class (today is the last day to register for it so hurry and email me if you are interested in attending!)

So for the rest of you that didn't get to see me and my inky fingers this weekend. I thought I would share a couple of cards I had with me.

First off this is one of the cards I had selling for in a set. I had seen this over at the Heroarts blog and they of course had a stamp to create it so I said hmmm WHERE have I seen that before then I remember and said OH I am gonna make that card and its gonna be even cooler! LOL...

So I took out my Petal -A- Plenty Embossing folder. Ok can we talk about that for a minute. When I saw it in the mini I said hmmm that looks kind of funky to be honest but then I started seeing cards with it and still I kept saying hmm but I finally broke down and got it and I was so mad at myself because I WAITED so long!

It has such a deep impression when you emboss it.. WOW.. I LOVE IT!!!! Ok back to this card :)

So I embossed it and took my Big Shot and used the Circles #2 Die and the biggest circle was PERFECT to use. Then I looked at the sentiment of the original card I was inspired from and I said WHERE have I seen that before... then it clicked! Our Country Holiday Kit from last year!

Were you one of the lucky ones who ordered a kit when they had an INSANE blowout a couple of mths ago??? If so you have this sentiment you can use it as well!! :)

I know you guys are saying Ellie WHERE IS THIS CARD Ha..I wouldn't keep you waiting anymore:

You see the little bling in the middle of the flowers?? That's some shimmer paint in Champagne Mist. This is a wonderful card to mass produce and is very simple but elegant. So much so guess what my Holiday card this year is gonna be! lol... Also if you wanted to (which I did) you could make the base Whisper White and that makes a beautiful card as well. I would show you but someone bought that set! (this one I remembered to take before it was sold! ha)

Also here is a card from a note set I made :

These note cards were 4 x3 and I made 4 of them w/their envelopes. I like to give thank you notes for everything so these are perfect for that. I used the Level 2 Set-Asian Artistry and I embossed it and used my trusty dabber w/ Pretty in Pink Classic ink and sponged around the image.

I have much to share with you and will the rest of the week. Also I wanted to let you know about my 24 hr. Bday Special that will start on Saturday at 12:24 am (time I was born) !

The only way that you will know what it is, is if I you receive my monthly Newsletter.

So if you would like to be added to my list just send me an email and I will be more then happy to let you know What it is I have in store.

As always thank you so much for stopping by. I am off to continue putting my stamp room together so I can make it a mess this Friday as I will be holding my Bday Party class.

Crop Class Fun!

2009-11-05T08:04:00.000-08:00

Happy Thursday everyone!

Is it me, or is this week is going super fast or maybe its that I've been even busier then I usually am. I know how is that possible?? Once this week is over I hope things will slow down a bit more as I have some projects to share w/you. Also I have been thinking about what should I give for my Birthday Blog Candy... hmm I'll see this weekend what I give. Anyway I wanted to share w/you the project the gals are going to do w/me this coming Saturday!

I am really looking forward to all the fun and crafting we will be doing!

Here is a peek at the mini album we will be creating using my fav.Stampin Up goodies as of late!

If you haven't ordered Autumn Splendor stamp set THEN LET ME TELL YOU its AMAZING and so much fun and you can do sooo much with it! I love Fall and I knew I had to get it! Next week I will share w/all you could do w/this set. Also the YUMO Designer paper -Autumn Meadows each page is like an piece of art work I love it...

This is such a fun album to make . I also will have another sample for the girls to see how easy it is to make this album for any occasion. PLUS the gals are gonna get spoiled cause I am bringing a nice Juicy giveaway.

I am hoping to make this a mini early bday party! No worries if you can't attend this crop. If you want to celebrate my Bday with me I will be having a Bday party/class on the 13th at my home.

So just email me and let me know you want to join the fun! I also will be having a giveaway at that class.

OH almost forgot to remind you guys that my November Classes are up!

So go take a look and as I've told the gals attending my classes if one of the days doesn't work for you just let me know and I will work w/you so you could still get a chance at taking the class.

Well I am off because I have lots to do. As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Holiday Gift-Giving Let it Begin!

2009-11-01T08:44:00.000-08:00

(click on picture for Guide)

Dates: November 1, 2009-January 4, 2010

Details: You'll love the convenience of our Holiday Gift-Giving Guide! With gift ideas for kids, teens, neighbors, and more, it's your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs.

Plus, when you spend $50 on products in the guide, you'll get a Décor Elements for FREE (up to a $16.95 value)!

This coming week I will be showcasing project you will be able to create with the goodies in this guide to help you with your holiday planning!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Working Hard!!

2009-10-30T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Happy Friday...

I wanted to come and post and say didn't forget about you all... Just been super busy. Next week is gonna be a BIG one for me that I am very much looking forward to! Next Saturday I will be having a blast at a Crop where I will be teaching and having fun. Then Sunday I will be at a Harvest Craft Fair at my Parish! HOW MUCH fun is next week gonna be. Before the fun is the hard work and here is just a picture of a little bit of what I have been working on!

This is the 2nd stash of stuff that I was moving I promise I will take pics of everything and make a little movie for you to see them all! My Bday is coming up soon!! So remember that means Blog Candy is coming.

On Monday I will post what you have to do to get a chance at winning what I will have in store!

As always thank you so much for stopping by and TRICK OR TREAT!!!!! Have a safe and Happy Halloween tomorrow!

OH MY DEAL OF THE WEEK!

2009-10-27T07:43:00.000-07:00

Crashing in!! Hey everyone :) How was your weekend? My boys said it was the Perfect Football weekend! lol They played so much you would think they were practicing to go play w/the NFL!

I enjoyed time with my very yumo Nephew as I wasn't able to last week since I was sick. Oh he is so yummy.. Oh I came to post about something else that is yummy! The new Deal of the Week!

This Deal of the week would be Perfect if you might be having a Birthday coming up for a special little boy or girl...What is it? Let me show you!

You get all of this for ONLY $9.99 this week!!! Enough to make a Princess Party for 8! Includes The invitations and so much more!! Item #- 116214

But of Course we have to think of our Little Men...

They get to Have their own Treasure Hunt with this Pirate Party! As well ONLY $9.99 for this week! Item # 116213. How much fun would these kits be? Even if you didn't have a Bday coming up you could get it and use it for a play date How awesome would that be! I am going to get both kits to do just that!

Remember if you would like to place an order you could either click on my little shopping cart at the upper right had corner or send me an email and I will be more then happy to to help w/your order! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Deal of the Week.... SQQQQQUUUEALLLL...

2009-10-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

Happy Monday everyone!

Ok if you know me then you know I am a squealer.. lol when I am super excited.. ok so my friends say I'm always excited maybe but hello but I can't help it Stampin Up makes me squeal! lol Look for example this weeks DEAL OF THE WEEK... INSANE.. its ALL my fav. embellishment's!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

Item Description Special Price

114348 Basic Jumbo grommets $4.49

109857 Mini Library clips $8.99

112571 Circle Designer brads $3.99

112581 1/2" Library clips $3.99

So hurry and grab yourself some before I take them all! Remember you could either place an order by clicking my little shopping cart on the upper right hand corner or send me an email and I would be more then happy to help you place your order!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Beginning To Look Allot Like

2009-10-16T15:34:00.000-07:00

A Natural Disaster in my stamp room! Happy Friday everyone. Hope you enjoyed your day. I have been resting today but am feeling better after doing so and having some nice hot tea. I am in my stamp room feeling like a mad scientist I tell you!

I wanted to share with you a card that I actually am taking w/me to my Craft Fair next Month. This is gonna be one of the cards sets I will be selling. I have a confession. Never was it my intention to buy this stamp set NEVER but after seeing an EXPLOSION of oh my gosh dropping to the floor creations with it.. Well I FINALLY had to break down and get it.. what set am I talking about? Well Holiday Lineup! I know you must be saying WHAT Ellie but that's kind of old no? YEAH I know but hasn't that happened to you? You see a set forever and say nope not for me, no what would I do with it...and then all of a sudden YOU HAVE TO HAVE IT! lol..

Ok here is what I did with the snowmen stamp from this set.. They were too much fun to color. When I finished coloring them I said well snowman need snow right.. so I grabbed my Fav. Branch Out and said Let it snow.. you would have thought I would use the little snowflakes then right? NOPE I used what is supposed to be the leaves to make those big chunky snowflakes after all you need those in order to make snowmen right?? So I just stamped the image again and cut it out and mask covered my colored stamped image so I could just have the snow around them.

OK you want to see right...

The picture is bit darker then I would have liked as its about to be 7 pm here but I had to share and look at card base.. I bet you sorry now you didn't add this to your last order the Petal-A-Plenty Impression Folder HUH? I love how DEEP the impression it leaves. If you wanted you could even make a card JUST with it. YUMO! Can you see the shimmer on the card base? of course I had to add some shimmer paint, what is a card without a little bling? Almost forgot the sentiment is from Hostess Set-The More the Merrier

Well I have many other cards to share but have to take those pictures of them. I am off to go get a bit more rest. As alway thank you so much for stopping by!

New Uploads!

2009-10-15T13:37:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh! As if My Digital Studio wasn't awesome enough today they released new downloads for it!

So what is available now you might ask?

118114 Cast A Spell Designer Series paper - digital download $4.95

118115 Night & Day Designer Series paper - digital download $4.95

118124 Medallion stamp brush set - digital download $1.95

118126 Circle Circus stamp brush set - digital download $5.95

118116 School Days II stamp brush set - digital download $9.95

118121 Great Moments II stamp brush set - digital download $9.95

118122 Pumpkin Patch stamp brush set - digital download $5.95

HOW amazing is that! I am so excited... Can you image the amazing Scrapbook pages you could create with the Night and Day!! OH I am going to work on an album this weekend know just what subject I am going to do!

Just wanted to post very quickly as I am in the middle of so many projects right but I promise I will share with you. Hopefully I will be able to post tomorrow!

Remember if you are local and would like to join me for my Holiday Bonanza event send me an email to sign up!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

UpComing Event-Holiday Bonanza

2009-10-13T17:25:00.000-07:00

Did you know that sooner then later the Holidays will be right upon us. Here is the perfect event to attend that will help you on your way with your Holiday cards.

November 21st,2009 I will be holding my Holiday Bonanza Event where we will create 16 cards and a bonus mini album with the beautiful Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin Kit.

Each attendee will receive their very own kit and embellishments needed to create these projects PLUS still have plenty to take home to continue the fun!

Space is limited so if you want to attend please let me know ASAP to secure your spot.

Price for this Event will be $30.00. Payment must be received by November 10th to ensure that all the materials needed will be delivered in time for the event.

Would you like to see a sneak peek as to what we will be creating?

If you are on my mailing list then you will be receiving a flyer with all the details and color picture of the event. If you would like me to mail you one as well please feel free to contact me (my info is on the upper right hand corner) and I will be more then happy to do so.

As always thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful evening!

Deal of the WEEK!!!!

2009-10-12T09:36:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.. Well as for me I experienced my first Back spasm OHH NOT SO FUN @ all let me tell you I'm still hurting but I managed to take some meds(ok allot! LOL) and get some pillows and here I am in my craft room. I had fun during my Thriller Night on Saturday! (HEY GIRLS!!!) we used yumo shimmer paint! Man if I could I would use that for everything! lol... as well as Pumpkin Picking yesterday (can you say MDS pages coming soon! lol)

Any hoot I wanted to share with you the DEAL OF THE WEEK!!! Are you ready everyone.. So if you have been eyeing these dies this is the week to order it. Remember you could just go ahead and order it yourself by clicking on my little shopping cart right there in the upper right hand corner and it will bring you to my online store :) (all first online orders get a little gift from me) or go under and you'll see where to email me your order and I will be more then happy to help you.

OK enough of my rambling bet you want to see the deals huh?

Item Description Special Price

115961 Perfect Setting Bigz XL die $25.99

114515 Flower Burst Embosslits die $5.99
116760 Pop-Up Three Tier Cake Bigz XL die $25.49

Well as always thank you SO much for stopping by I think I need to get some blog Candy ready.. cause I just noticed I've hit 10,000 hits on my little blog here! YEAHHH so even if you don't leave me a comment your still coming over to see what I am up to and that means allot to me! SOOOO I will have to get it ready. I will combine it as Blog Candy to celebrate Bday as well.

I am off as I am working on my stuff for my Crop and Craft Fair coming up VERY shortly I only have 3 weeks to go.. GULP! so I better go get inky!

I'll be back tomorrow to share with you a sneak peek of 2 upcoming classes!

Thriller Night.....

2009-10-07T12:59:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Did you miss me?? I hope so cause I've miss you! Happy Wednesday and WOW how is it Wednesday already.. Thought I would sneak in and take a little break as I am busy in the "lab" working up a storm... Today exactly is a month till the Crop I am happy to say I will be a part of.

I have been going back and forth with Denise and I am happy to say that I know just what I have up my ink sleeve including a treat for the gals that take my class that day!

So if you want to come crop w/me on Nov.7th HURRY up as I know there were only like 10 spots left! ANDDD for 35 bucks you get lunch AND Dinner and you get to stamp and have fun for the whole day!! (from 10-10) OH I personally think its a steal!....OH ANDDDDD did I mention Door Prizes...

So I will be working on projects for that crop as well as my busy month of classes I have for October.. I had a couple of you email me that were interested in some of the classes I had but couldn't make it the day of.. WELL who am I not to help you get inky!! All you have to do is contact me and tell me Ellie I REAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLY would love to take that class and we can work something out... SO don't be shy all you have to do is ask!

Talking about Classes .. I am soo exicted about Friday because I am gonna have my Thriller Night Class! Ha... Its gonna be a HOWLLLLLLLLLLLLL ok that was corny I know I had to do it! lol...

Want a sneak peek at what we will be doing?? Well we will be doing a Spooktacular album and bonus goodie bag... here a little something,something to get you howling!

So aren't you curious for this Awesome project.. you can join me all you have to do is contact me not late at all and your in for Friday! :) Well as always thank you so much for stopping by!

MDS Blog Party!

2009-10-02T18:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my little part of this Stampin Addict MDS Blog Party! Say that 3x fast! lol..

So are you ready to see what I have been up to?? Can I say I LOVE this program so much it is so easy and so wonderful and fun to play with!

Of course my focus of my pages would have to be my Family. So lets begin shall we??

I love how you can just add a couple of touches and you have your prefect page. Trust me I played around adding stuff but in the end I said NO.. Ram's facial expression said it all! LOL..

Next we have my Sweets....

Isn't he the cutest 6 year old you ever seen! hehehehehe... Now my last page I really had fun doing because WELL I've had these pictures for a LONG time (see little how Sassy has grown in some of the pics! lol) I've been meaning to scrapbook them but never got a chance now with My Digital Studio I can't have any excuses because well it takes NO time at all to create pages and complete an album. All I have to do is download my pictures and get to work!

How fun is this book gonna be when I finish it! I thought I would include this little video to let you really see what you can do with My Digital Studio can do.

I hope you enjoy this little stop here and remember to visit the rest of the gals and check out their creatiions :

Visit them HERE and remember I will keep up the link to visit them on my upper left hand corner until November 2nd! Enjoy the fun and as always thank you so much for stopping by!

My Digital Studio is Available to Order!

2009-10-01T04:49:00.000-07:00

Had to come bright and early and announce this because I AM JUST TOO Excited! My Digital Studio is now available to all customers!

This is the prefect software for those of you who wish they want to try and scrapbook their memories,want to make cards, or a special gift. Just upload into your computer (you are allowed to upload the program to two computers in your home ( both must be in your home) so you could do as I have upload in my laptop as well as the house computer.

I love how I can just take 1/2 hr. and create 2 pages. Right now I am working on so many projects that I plan to give away as gifts and I know they are safe just waiting on me to come and open up the program and keep working.

Starting at noon EST on Saturday, October 3, I will be participating in a Blog Hop that will be done carnival style. The links will be posted in the sidebar here on my blog. The hop will run through November 1st.

It will feature projects made using My Digital Studio. Again it is a great way to get those photos into scrap pages that you can design in a snap. I will showcasing a special project I am working on and hope you will be back on Saturday to enjoy it!

Here is a just another simple and very quick page I made :

As always thank you so much for stopping by! Also please remember that from today until the 15th any orders that are placed a portion of it will be donated to FirstCandle.org in honor of my Anjie.

In Honor of my Anjelique

2009-09-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I am working hard and took a break to come and share something very near and dear to my heart. For those of you that also follow me on my "rambling" blog and even here most of you know I have a little girl in Heaven who passed of SIDS in 2006.

Since she passed I have tried to get the world out about SIDS and also each year have donated to an amazing and WONDERFUL Organization which really and truly helped me and so w/anything that I needed especially during the first couple of mths and they always make sure that they make it aware even now that they have me present and that means more then any words I could express.

So this year I have decided that from October 1st through October 15th any sales I make through Stampin Up I will donate 10% of it to First Candle . I chose October 15th because that it is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day.

This page is very special and it was VERY hard to work on & share but I wanted to share for those of you who have not "meet" our Anjie before :

Thank you to my friends who love and give some much support to me. I will never be able to express what you all mean to me! Now let me shake off those few little tears that I just shed.. lol.. and on to some inky Fun! Make sure to stop by tomorrow as I am going to be doing something REALLY FUN!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Who Doesn't Love a Sale???

2009-09-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

I know I love me a sale and there is nothing as magical as seeing those words : Clearence and spotting that special item you had been eyeing on but couldn't get it then and JUST like magic there it is! READY to be taken home w/you!! Well Guess what I think Stampin Up knows how we feel because LOOK!

So hmm could I ask you why are you still on my blog click HERE and Get yourself some goodies that will get you squealing :) These clearance goodies are only availble online and while supplies last.. OK on your Mark get set ..... SHOP!

National Card Making Day!! Who's gonna Celebrate w/me?

2009-09-28T10:47:00.000-07:00

Happy Monday everyone! I am looking forward to next weekend as its National Card Making Day on Saturday and to celebrate I already called for some special cupcakes and other sweet treats for the gals that attention my class!

Do you want a sneak peek at what we will be making?

So if you want to join me next Saturday here are the details :

11:00 am-12:30 am
To celebrate National Card Making come and join me by having a stamping party! I will have Giveaway and fun while we stamp 8 cards for the upcoming holidays! (2 of each card) Bring a guest and get a small thank you gift from me. Class: $15.00

So what are you waiting for send me an email so I can save you a cupcake! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Thank You.......

2009-09-24T07:58:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking and saying to myself wow how time has flown and how much fun and all I've learned and have been blessed to be able to do this past year. In my blessings I count being a Stampin Up Demonstrator as one of them. I think of all the people I have come across this year that I have meet or have been able to teach them something they never though would think they would enjoy.

As I sit here with my table full of fun projects I had to come and post and say Thank you. Yes to all of you because even if you just pop by and see what I am up to or are one of my amazing customers I know I wouldn't be a demo w/out any of you. I think of my amazing Demo Sisters who help encourage me everyday and make me think that this beautiful dream that I have of making my business grow will and is coming true.

I think of those of you that might be on the fence about truly finding out about what Stampin Up is really about in the business sense well in one word I could sum it up : Family.

That is what Stampin Up for me. I remember almost 2 years ago (Feb. I will be a demo 2 years) I had NOT ONE clue what so ever what Stampin Up was. Did you know the first time I actually got to handle Stampin Up cardstock was when I got my starter kit! YES.. I remember opening that package and saying WOW... this feels soo amazing... I still giggle when I grab a piece of Whisper White Cardstock! I never thought that I could make anything of being a demo when I did get my starter kit it was more because I wanted to give stamping a try and thought getting the kit was the most economical way to do it. WELL little did I know it was going to be the start of a true love affair!

So as I sit here taking pictures of all my samples for my upcoming classes as well as projects for the Blog (October is gonna be so much fun!) I wanted to share w/you my Top Ten Reasons I love to be a Demonstrator

10. Always Able to Learn something new Everyday

9. Being my own Boss.

8. Attending Exclusive Regional and Convention for SU Demos!

7. Meeting New People that share what I love.

6. Working the hours I want.

5. Being able to have Parties/Classes and fun as part of my job.

4. Being able to teach someone or introduce them to something they never thought they could do

3. Earn cash (BIG SMILE on my hubby's face! lol)

2. Feeling the Support of a Wonderful Company and gaining amazing friendships.

1. Loving EVERY moment of what I do! Nothing makes me more happy and proud then to always say IT ROCKS TO BE A DEMO!!

Maybe my list could help you and say Ellie maybe this is something that I would be interested in. I am always available so if you might have any questions just send me an email and I'll be more then happy to help answer your questions.

So I think with all my rambling you guys deserve a little peek of one of my upcoming classes in December (taking pictures backwards lol)

Well as always thank you so much for stopping by and one more thing Yesterday I was blessed to become an auntie again to a beautiful baby boy and today is another amazing day as its my oldest son's 11th bday. I'll tell you can't get this Happy grin off my face! Have a wonderful day everyone!

Peaceful Delight

2009-09-20T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Sorry I hadn't posted for a couple of days but I've had my inky hands full. Working on swaps which I am so happy to say should be arriving at their destination tomorrow!

As well as designing my Shoe Box Swap card for this coming Saturday which I am SUPER excited about because its an all Demo swap being hosted by the Dawn R. who happens to be the Stampin Up Demo of the year! HOW FUN is that gonna be. I also get to hangout w/ my downline so it should be so much fun!!! I CAN NOT WAIT!

So in between my full plate I got to sit down and watercolor a bit which always helps me calm down and relax a bit. For my cards I used the Hostess Level 1 set-Country Morning. To tell you truth when I saw this set I said really now what the heck am I gonna do w/that ? Quickly my stamping brain said hmm hello watercolor and so that's just what I did!

Here is my first of 2 cards I made :

So do you see the background on the cardstock.. I AM IN LOVE with it.. That is actually a jumbo wheel stamp-Textured love how it makes the cardstock look. I used Versa Mark to stamp with.

That was one of the techniques I taught at my class last Wednesday (I have to share those pics w/you. What a blast that was!)

For the frame around the stamped image I just took my ruler and a marker and made my frame and then added a couple of doodles w/my gel pen and there you go! A simple but sweet card don't you think?

Here is my 2nd card I made:

This card I used the Textured Jumbo Wheel stamp as well but to make the card itself I used my Scallop Square Bigz Clear Die to make the card. I love it soo much I see loads of cards this shape in my near future! lol Also see that bow on my card isn't it beautiful it actually was on one of my goodies I won at the meet and greet for the Stampin Addicts! lol it was so pretty I had to reuse it and isn't this the perfect place to put it!

As always I thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful evening I am off to see if I could finish a couple of things before heading off America's Best Dance Crew .

Lunch Time a La MDS Style

2009-09-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

Hello All!

This is a quick post because I am a working crazed woman today getting the last ends ready for my class tomorrow which is sure to be a blast. As well as a Swap that is like 3 in one as there are a sets of Halloween,Thanksgiving cards and Christmas yeah I could have only signed up for one of them but NO its the Swap Addict in me and NOW I am working my tail off cause they have to go in the mail TOMORROW!.. So not too much chatting from me.

Just wanted to come and share a page I did while I took a little lunch break . Yes I eat and Scrap at the same time. Ha but no fear of messing up my materials since they are safe in my computer. Did I tell you I am loving My Digital Studio?

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday and I am off as I have a goal to make before I have to stop and make Mac & Cheese and bake some cookies for my boys for when they come home.

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

(FYI: Don't forget about my MDS Giveaway)

Meet Halle Beary

2009-09-14T19:23:00.000-07:00

Yes you read right.. Your about to meet Halle Beary.. I know what your thinking hmmm Ellie How do you know Halle Beary and that's not even how you spell her name...
Ha... Well guess what I REALLY DO... being I created her...Ha.. No Not like a Weird Science kind of way! (such an 80's kid was me! LOL)

BUT this is Halle Beary created with the Build a Bear Stampin Up Dies available in the Holiday Mini. I was having so much fun doing this card that my husband came into my stamp room and said who are you having a party with...and that's when I said Halle Beary! hehehehe....

OK Blogging Friends Meet Halle Beary :

Ha.. isn't she the FREAKING CUTEST EVER!! See why I was giggling away... and wait till I tell you all I did with her....

Here is a close up so you can see the details :

(click the pic to view bigger)

So can you see her skirt its all shimmery because I used our new Shimmer paint in Champagne to give her some bling!

. Gel Pen was used to give her some pearls and the stitching around her jacket. Her Sapphire earring are with a Rich Razzleberry marker.

Then as you can see her jacket it got textured with the Perfect Details Texturz Plates. Her Shoes were actually embossed to give them a shine! (that's why there is reflection). For her little hair ornament I had to add some bling since she already has "pearls" and her Sapphire earring

The Background Designer Paper I used for this card was Bella Bieu I thnk it was perfect for her since she is dressed so cute and ready to hit the stores to shop for more outfits!

So as I leave you with Halle sending you some love (punched them out with heart to heart punch) I hope you enjoyed her and wait till I show you what else I have been up too. Don't be shy leave a comment and tell me what do you think of Ms. Beary. Also if you would be intersted in a Holiday Mini Catalog just email me and I will be more then happy to send you one.

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Back to School Teacher Gifts

2009-09-13T08:23:00.000-07:00

Hello again everyone

Well as I said I am back today to share one of the projects I was working on yesterday I tagged it for my Squeeze it Saturday because well I did finish it yesterday just didn't have enough light to take pictures for it!

So while I was at Convention this summer we had a Meet & Greet for Stampinaddicts. It was such an amazing and fun event I can NOT wait and hope I am blessed enough to go again next year because it was so much fun.

There was swapping and eating and laughing and prizes and too much fun! I won (well I think everyone won something!) You got to go to the goodie table and pick from all these amazing goodies... can you image standing in front of a table full of goodies and YOU have to pick 1 thing? Well it was hard but for me since I have a thing for pens and pads (I know I'm such a geek! lol) I choose this :

It also included a matching pen and let me tell you I love it to pieces and when I got home I said OH I have to make this as inside is a pad (its 4x6) then I said OH my gosh who made this for me! So I went on a mission to find out who it was! Finally one of my SA Sistahs -Kim came through and told me who it was! lol

Then I was another mission to find those pads I went to every store you could think of but nobody had them as these are blank pads with no lines which is really what made me love it since I am forever doodling and this is perfect.

Well finally another of my SA Sistahs-Paula said OH Ellie I have some of those in my stash.. DO MY SA SISTAHS Rock or what???

THAT is how I was able to create these gifts for the boys teachers.. Did I lose you already with my long story for this little project!

OK well I think I've rambled enough you want to see what I made?? lol

*the reflection you see is that I put the cards and pads inside a clear box*

As you can see that not only did I make the pads for them but I am also including a set of cards for them to use. For the stamping I used 2 techniques to color the flowers on the cards.

I took out my Stampin Up Water color pencils and as I sat there coloring away (I also used my blender pen) I said WHY have I not used these pencils again in such a long time??? For the pads I decided for the main images to use watercolor paper and use my Stampin Up markers to color along with my aqua pen & then after I did that I decided to use my Versa Pen and emboss it.

As far as the stamps I used I went for Flores Suaves which is so beautiful I used it to stamp a background on the covers and did so with Versamark. For the cards I used Fifth Avenue Floral. The sentiment is from Dream Du Jour .

Actually you know what I am going to see if I make a video hopefully this week which I think will get easier for me to start to do again as my boys will be in school and the house will be quiet and will have a window to do so when my little Sassy takes a nap!

I think I have over extended this post but just had to share all the details with you!

Also I wanted to let my local customers know that I will be attending a Crop in November 7th and have been asked to me the Guest Stampin Up demonstrator at the event. I will be sharing an awesome project that I hope everyone will love. I am working on the sample and will share sneak peeks on what it is so you can say Ellie I am coming!

There are only 30 spots open and as I have heard 13 already are filled! Its gonna be a 12 hr. crop for ONLY $35.00 if you can't wait till I post more info just email me and I'll let you know about the rest of the info so you could register before all the spots are taken!

If you go you'll get to see me in my Bday Tiara cause the 14th is my Bday and I will start my celebrating with that crop. Well as always thank you so much for stopping by enjoy your Sunday!

Don't forget about my MDS Giveaway!

Lovin it So Much Gonna Make Someone Squeal Too

2009-09-12T20:41:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I've been a bit under the weather but never the less I have been super duper busy but happy to be so. In between working I have been playing again with My Digital Studio.

Can I tell you this is so addicting because its so fun and so easy and I am LOVING all the features. I can sew on my pictures people!!! I DO NOT SEW but in My Digital Studio guess what I DO! Ha..

Want to see what I have been up to now? Here is a page I did today again another 15 minute pages and I have this beautiful scrapbook page :

This very handsome little cutie is my nephew. Don't you just want to eat him up. Isn't this page so cute?? LOOK I added stitching to the page! HA.. OK so as I was doing this and working I said you know what I need to make one lucky person be as excited as I am with My Digital Studio so guess what I am gonna give one away.

You read right.. Gonna give one away cause I love it so much and I know you will too! For this giveaway just order $75.00 or more (before shipping and handling) and you are entered to win!

The deadline will be on Oct.1st and I will announce the winner on October 2nd,2009

Remember you have two ways of placing an order either by email or you can go online and place your order . Both ways of reaching me are at the upper right hand corner!

Tomorrow I will share some teacher gifts that I made that I will be sending with the boys Monday morning as well as some news for my local customers! So make sure you come back tomorrow! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Scrapbookmama LIVES!!!!

2009-09-11T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I am over the moon right now because I have been playing with "My Digtal Studio" which is SO AMAZING and so awesome... So whats up with my Title post.. well before I even knew there was Stampin Up for that matter Stamps I started out in the paper craft world as a scrapbooker and well I did it for my kids and since all my albums were about them that is how that name came along and I became Scrapbookmama.... THEN 2 years ago something happen I fell in love.. with Stampin Up which made me turn to stamping something I NEVER EVER thought was me nor was I interested in.. The though of making a card made me shake.... well time passed and the tables were turned I left behind the scrapbooking for the most part and would only do a page or 2 ever 3-4 mths!

ENTER My Digital Studio and I hear a chorus sing a beautiful song for me!! As I know this is my way to come back to something that I loved so much and make it way easier. When I would scrapbook oh I would take over the whole room displaying all the "materials" I would need and it would HAVE to stay as is for weeks until I would finish an album !

NOT ANYMORE.. because I will be creating my own "room" right in my computer while I create beautiful pages that I will be able to send to print or print right here at home! YEAHHHHH SCORE!!

So with no further delay Here is my first scrapbook page in my new Adventures into the Digital World :

Now tell me How bad do you want to get this??? I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEEE THIS!!! I am off to make a couple of cards creating MDS.. yes you can do that too and everything you will use including the stamped image will be true to size including the embellishments.

Image the fun of adding "real" embellishments on top of what ever you created on your printed pages. TOO MUCH FUN I TELL YOU!

Also don't forget to take a look at my Newsletter Blog as I've posted all my classes for the rest of the year and can't wait to see you there! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Wreath of Treats

2009-09-10T16:17:00.000-07:00

OK I'm the first to admit that title for this post was so corny! Ha.. but hey its a wreath and if you knock on my door on Halloween you'll get some Treats.. ok enough for me trying to explain that title!

Wanted to share one of the cards we will be creating in one of my Halloween classes. I have my list all ready for my new October classes and will be posting by tomorrow as I know you will want to come and get inky with me when you see what I have in store!

Ok here is one of the cards we will be creating on the 18th :

Who said that Autumn Days was only for use of Thanksgiving cards? It is Autumn right so Halloween fits right in don't you think?

Here is a view of the card laying down so you can see the cool effect that was created with the cardstock.

Hope you enjoyed this card and will see you during my Halloween class on the 18th of this Month. Also don't forget that is the day I pick my winner for that cutie Stampin Up Build a Bear

MojoMonday ok more like Tuesday...

2009-09-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

Wanted to post this earlier today but have been busy getting the last bits for the boys tomorrow. They are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to go back to school OH MY.. lol

In between doing for them I managed to squeeze a little MojoMonday sketch. Remember I told you I was loving that combo-red,white, and black well here it is again!

First let me share with you the sketch this week :

Here is what I came up with :

Yes I have a think with dots and this cards.. did you know circles are my fav. shape! lol..

I think I will prob. use this sketch again I did like it. I used that yumo Designer Paper - Night&Day It has some amazing patterns in it.

Well this one quick post as I have get the kids to bed. Hope you all have a wonderful evening and don't forget about the Bear Giveaway!

Materials:

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black
Designer Paper: Night& Day
Accessories:Black Brads,Jumbo Brads,Perfect Details Texturz Plate
Ribbon: 3/4Real red Polka Dot Grosgrain, 1/4 Basic Black Grosgrain

Last Challenge of the Day!

2009-09-07T17:11:00.000-07:00

Hello once more! See I made it back wow that has to be some kind of record for me huh! lol 3 cards in one day WHOOP WHOOP lol..

This last card I wanted to make it simple but classic.

I really had fun creating with my Bday friend Brenda today but now I must go put this day to bed. Boys have one more sleep after tonight to start school and they are extra wired so I need to help them along to bed!

As always thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my card challenges I did today and hope you were inspired to challenge yourself to create some cards too!

Don't forget about my Stampin Bear Giveaway!

Materials:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral
Cardstock: Basic Black,Blush Blossom,Vellum
Accessories: Twine Hemp,Black Brads,Prettiest Kit/brad

Challenge # 2 Coming Up!

2009-09-07T13:04:00.000-07:00

Me again wanted to come and post this little card. Took me a little longer then I wanted as I hadMama duties to take care of :)

So yesterday one of my SA Sistahs brought to our attention the cute card that AWESOME Dawn made and then of course ALL of use wanted one.

She did one with cute snowmen me I have Halloween on the brain so this is what I came up with!

I love that peek a boo part of the card with our Window Sheets. I stamped and cut out the little Witch and added her on. I also am really loving Hemp Twine right now.. give it that spooky cute look! lol Since I used Black cardstock I added a mat inside the card with Whisper White to add the sentiment :)

I have 1 more card coming up but first have to finish some House Wife duties before I can post that card! ...

Materials:

Stamps:Halloween Hoot

Cardstock:Whisper White,Basic Black

Designer Paper: Cast-A-Spell

Accessories: Metallic Brads,Hemp Twine, Gel Pen,Window Sheets

Challenge Day!

2009-09-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

For today I will be sharing a couple of projects that I set myself to do today to get into the week with a good Mojo Run. So lets get started shall we!

This little gift was inspired by Andrea as last week she had a simpler project posted. I went to make one but decided to change a couple of things. I decided I would make this a little project for a little girl so that she could have coloring.

Here is what I came up with :

As you can see instead of a gift card I made a little pad with stamped images to be colored. I didn't have the small open envelopes so I made my own pouch. I used cardstock and folded it followed her directions on how to make the little opening.

To complete the little gift I took a clear envelope and added some crayons and Gift ready to go! :)

Hope you enjoyed this little gift and will give it a try!

Materials :

Stamps : Beart Best Friends
Cardstock: Pink Passion,Crushed Curry,Whisper White,Pretty in Pink
Ink: Basic Black,Crushed Curry,Creamy Caramel,Rich Razzleberry,Old Olive
Designer Paper: Razzleberry Lemonade
Ribbon : Crushed Curry Polka Dot Ribbon

EASY PEASY 1-2-3 Card

2009-09-06T10:45:00.000-07:00

Hey all hope you are enjoying your weekend. We are having an amazing and beautiful weekend we have had 3 days of AHHHHHH weather! lol.. Guess this is the way to end the Summer huh!

Well I am working really hard on some class samples and other things that I am excited about but wanted to share w/you a VERY quick card that I made. I used this week's sketch over at SA-Weekly Sketch.

This is what it looked like :

Already EASY right!! Well that's when I said OH I have to play and I have 3 cards with this sketch but am sharing only 1 for NOW! Ha... to show you how you can just add that last little thing that makes you say OH YEAH that's what it needed!

Here is my card :

Now if you notice sure you can see what I added last??? hehehe Yes the sentiment around the card... yes I'm still feeling the after glow of my other card I made doing this! lol.. and ok sure its a little smudged but you know what this card make me smile and what is stamping about ....SMILING and feeling GOOOODDD so sure the word is smudged and one corner isn't prefect but guess what it is in my world cause I made it!

THAT is why I love stamping You will always create something original and unique BY you! That is what I tell the gals that come over to my class who say OH I am so nervous I don't know what I am doing WELL that is the fun in stamping getting inky fingers and see what you can make!

So come on and get your supplies out and make an easy peasy 1-2-3 card that's gonna make YOU smile As always thank you for stopping by!

FYI: Don't forget about my Bear Giveaway!

Materials :

Stamps:Eat,Drink&Be Scary(111764),Teeny,Tiny Wishes(

Cardstock: Basic Black(102851),Whisper White(100730),Pumpkin Pie(105117)

Designer Paper: Cast-A-Spell(115677)

Ink:Pumpkin Pie(105115),Old Olive(100079)Craft Whisper White(101731)

Ribbon:Striped Grosgrain Ribbon(115616)

Accessories: Signo Gel Pen(105021)

Stampin Bear Giveaway!!!

2009-09-05T06:25:00.000-07:00

Good Saturday AM to all....

I was clearing up my stamp table when I heard a slight sighing that came from my Stamp Cabinet and I said HUH what is that.. and guess what it was?!!! It was the Extra Stampin Build a Bear that I have.....

So then I asked whats wrong Little Stampin BAB?? and it told me.. sniff,sniff.. Nobody loves me.. I said well I love you... and you are right you shouldn't stay in there I think its time I get you a new loving home! SOOOO I decided that I will have Giveaway!!!

How do you get a chance to win the bear ? That is easy to celebrate that I have my online Stampin Up Link again I have decided to enter everyone who places an online order for the Giveaway. I will have my Sassy Little Girl pick out the winner and I will send their CUTIE bear to them. The Giveaway will be done : September 18th,2009

How does that sound? So all you have to do is click on my little cute shopping cart and get yourself some goodies!

Enjoy your day everyone and as always Thank you for stopping by!

FYI: The Stampin bear will come with the Exclusive stamp as well as its "birth certificate"

BOO.. TGIF!

2009-09-04T08:47:00.001-07:00

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

Wow did this week ever fly but I AM SOOO happy this week is done.. Maybe now all the craziness going on will die down and only beautiful and wonderful things are to come. Don't we all agree....

Any hoot I have a card for you to share that I hope you will like cause its using my FAV set of all Time! :) Since Halloween is right around the corner I know Sept. just started but you just blink and you'll see its here! lol

So here is what I made :

Are you loving this card as much as me??? GOOOJUS..OK so do you see that YUMO DP?? I'll give you a minute.. YOU should see the rest of Autumn Meadows.. The colors in that DP are BOOM BOOM POW! (hey I'm listening to Black Eyed Peas while I post hehehe)

Any hoot so as you can see this card is super duper easy to make how cool would this be to mail out.. YES this is gonna be my card for the Halloween this year! :)

SEEEEEE why you need to get Branch Out??!! WHAT you say its not in the Catty.. WELL its still available you know! YES IT IS- just on the dormant list..So WHAT are you waiting for check my list and get that # and go into my online store and ORDER IT.. along w/this DP.. you know you want to why are you fighting it ??? hehehehehe

For that "Spooky effect" all I did was use another fav. of mine Sponge Daubers I can never get enough of them! Oh did I mention that I embossed the tree and birds.. Stamped the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes(which is so cool because of the gillion sentiments it has!)around the imge and threw in some Jumbo eyelets and Hemp thread and BOO you have a cool Halloween card.

So there you have it.. my start of my Halloween cards. I shall be back later today with a trio of cards I made (yes I finally finished those from yesterday so I can post them later today.)

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Materials :

Stamps: Branch Out (113200) Teeny Tiny Wishes(115370)
Cardstock:Basic Black(102851),Whisper White(100730)
Ink: Basic Black,Crushed Curry(115659),Pumpkin Pie(105216),Going Grey(103274),Versa Mark(102283)
Designer Paper:Autumn Meadow(116769)
Accessories: Jumbo Eyelets(108431),Hemp Thread(100982),Sponge Daubers(102892)

Beary Sweet Girl

2009-09-03T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I am super happy as for reasons beyond me my computer is up and running! I am sooo happy because I will be able to share what I have been working on these past days! :)

Here is a cute little card I made using one of the new sets from the Mini Catalog- Beary Best Friends.

Since I had made a little project with the boy bear its only fair I used the cutie girl bear!

Here is what I made :

I decided that she also needed to have a paper pieced dress! Don't you love that dress? that is a pattern from the Pawsitively Prints DSP and then I used some of my very hoarded other DSP-Pink Flamingo(YUMO) to use as the background.

Here is a close up of her little self :

For my Little Hello I used my Big shot and my Naturally Serif Alphabet to set up the sweet Hello. Wouldn't this be a cute card to give to a sweet little girl? I prob. will make a couple more for the girls in my youngest class with a little treat as a welcome back to school gift?

What do you think? Well I have so much to catch up on here and so much stamping to do.. I am super giddy right now.. I hope to be back later today with something else! Feeling a Trio set of cards coming on so stay tuned!

As always thank you much for stopping by!

Materials:

Stamps: Beary Best Friends(118052)

Designer Paper : Pawsitively Prints(118060),Pink Flamingo(113976)

Cardstock: Kraft(102125), Old Olive(100702),Choc.Chip(102128),Whisper White(100730)

Ribbon: Choc.Chip Taffeta(109065)

Misc. Vintage Brads(109109), Sizzix Naturally Serif(113453),Perfect Details Texturz Plates(11592)

COMING REAL SOON!!!

2009-09-02T13:41:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Hope your having a wonderful week so far. Me very interesting to say the least. Well I wanted to say that starting next week I will have available once again my Link to be able to purchase online Stampin Up products!

Having some real computer issues yet again! lol... Thus is why I haven't been able to post but I hope by week's end I will be able to post some of what I have been creating which I think you will like.

Next Wednesday is the 1st day of school for my boys!!! WOW Summer just fleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew by and did we really have a Summer? I want a rewind! lol..

Also did you see the the NEW MINI CATALOG is OUT!! DRRRRRROOOOLLL is all I can say! make sure you click on the links to check the mini out and also for the wonderful Hostess benefits ava. at the moment!!!

If you would like a mini catty please just email me and I'll get it to you! Have a wonderful evening! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Color Throwdown #57

2009-08-27T12:18:00.000-07:00

Good Afternoon,

What to do when your having computer issues.. Stamp of course! So that's what I am doing while I figure out my issues with my laptop once more lol... I am on my husband's computer so it might take me a little longer to post but I WILL try my best to keep it going.

Now on to my little card I made. Since I was feeling in a quiet mood I thought these colors were prefect to play with over at Color Throwdown:

I'm always up to the challenge aren't you? so this is what I came up with!

I do love my textured plates and wanted to try something so I stamped the flower from Inspired by nature with the colors for this week's throwdown. I actually like the effect it gave. What do you think?

I matted the main image with Bashful Blue and then a piece of Vellum and then used my Pixie Pink Marker to color the edges and to finish it off added two little gomments and brads. I think this card would be prefect for any occasion.

As always thank you so much for stopping by.

I am still trying to learn how to work around w/my husband's computer. SHHH I had to download editing software so I work w/my cards! lol

Materials :

Stamp: Inspired by Nature (111656)
Ink : Basful Blue(105111), Pixie Pink(105112), Certainly Celery(105106)
Carstock : Kraft(102125),Vellum(101839), Bashful Blue(105111)
Accessories : brads(109109),small gomments(114349),Stampin Up! Backgrounds-textured plates (114512)

In the Eyes of the Beholder

2009-08-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Hope you are having a wonderful week so far. So this AM when I went to check out the Sketch of the week over at Mercy she had this to play with:

Then I got this idea what if I change that square into a circle? Then I thought well this would be prefect for my Technique Tuesday.

Also how I got the title of my post today I really think sketches are a wonderful source of showing what you see when you use one. As I did with my first card!

This is one of 2 of the cards that I made inspired by this sketch :

I had fun making this card as can you believe Halloween will soon be knocking at our door! Do you see those buttons.. Those are SU you know.. YES THEY REALLY ARE... actually I got the idea from Andrea.. She took some buttons and embossed them and that's just what I did! Those buttons actually were stashed because they were from our last IN Colors well NOW they became Halloween buttons! Ha...

See my Witch's little sign that's a little twig there I made for her sign I'm working on my samples for my class and one of my albums has twigs so I just use a tiny piece for this card. I really do love this Cast-A-Spell Designer Paper it has so many beautiful prints.

Now after looking at this card I said OK let me try to make a card to match that sketch and since with 1 piece of cardstock you can get 2 cards I thought I just MUST! lol

Here is my 2nd card :

So I had left over pieces from yesterday cards and came up with this. I decided to pull out another of my stamps that I really do love, can you ever make a wrong card with this set? I THINK NOT! I embossed the flower and on the top I decided to add some dazzling diamonds. If you haven't noticed by yet with my cards YES I love my Signo Pen I just love to doodle! lol..

For this sentiment I went for my Trendy Trees (which I am using for other cards right now.. I told you I could never just stamp 1 card at a time! lol) and thought it went perfect don't you think?

Well I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and as always thank you for stopping by!

Materials :

Stamps :Halloween Hoot(111582), Inspired By Nature111656), Trendy Trees(113258)
Cardstock : Basic Black(102851),Whisper White(100730),Basic Grey(108692),Real Red(102482)
Ink;Basic Black:(101779),Whisper White(101731),(10079),Rich Razzleberry(116329)
Designer Paper : Cast-A-Spell(115677), Day & Night(116768)
Ribbon :Basic Black(115615)
Accessories:Designer Buttons(116313), Rhinestone Brad(113144),Signo Gel Pen(105021),Circles#2(114526)

Chat Attack!

2009-08-24T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Today I wanted on my Showcase Monday to post about one of my fav. stampers :) I love going over to Chat's blog because I know she will have me saying HMMMM I got to try that! lol..

So I took a look at her birthday cards she had recently had and these cards are my take on them.

My First card :

I really had fun making these creations because as my cards from yesterday I used the same elements for all 3 cards. This really is a challenge for me as I always end up with 3 0r 4 projects by the time I finally complete 1 card. hehehehe....

I used as she did Crazy for Cupcakes one of those sets that was a MUST have and today I had to dust it off.. THE SHAME right! I am happy I took it out I had forgot how cute it was.

For the cupcake top portion don't know if you can tell but I used Shimmery White Cardstock for that fun effect. I did use another sentiment from another set Little Birthday Cheer

Here is my 2nd Inspired Card :

Here again I used the same elements and wanted to add minimal colors but enough to make an impact.

3rd Inspired Card :

For this card I used another Sentiment from the set : God's Blessing but keep the foundation the same as Chat's.

I hope you will be inspired by the many amazing stampers out there and give it a try and see what you get inspired to do!

As always thank you so much for dropping by! Don't be shy leave me a comment and let me know you stopped by.

Materials :

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes,(111618) God's Blessings(114972), A Little Birthday Cheer(115018)

Cardstock: Real Red(102482,)Whisper White (100730),Basic Black(102851), Shimmery White(101910),Kraft(102125)

Designer Paper (ava. 9/1 from the Mini) Night & Day(116768)

Ink: Real Red,(103133) Barely Banana(101170), Basic Black(101179)

Ribbon: 3/4 Polka Dot Ribbon- Real Red(115608)

Accessories : Silver eyelets(105319), Silver brads(104336) Textured Plate(114512)

The M Series

2009-08-23T15:57:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! Yesterday we went to my SIL's baby shower for she is expecting and soon to be bringing into our family my 2nd nephew YEAH.. so I wasn't able to post because of that and because well my Sassy decided that some cards I had made needed a "Sassy" touch and so she "kidnapped" them and to my shock I found them in their box (I have a yellow box I put those cards in) decorated with her Milk from her sippy cup! YES interesting day indeed!... BUT I dusted myself off and here I am about to share w/you my M series that I created today!

Ok here is the story of me and the "M series" I LOVEEEE BMW's and what is my fav.. of course the M series and since I can't have one (well I would need to learn how to drive first huh? LOL) I got the 2nd best thing.. My fav. stamp from our Catalog -Medallion Background Stamp(115223) or as I call it MY "M" stamp! lol...

These cards aren't really from a sketch just the focus point are the same that is why I added this to my Sunday Sketch post as I gave you 3 ways to use the Main ingredient. Ok enough of my rambling how about some cards huh?

Here is my first one :

With all 3 you will see I pretty much used the same base as well as Focal point. Kraft Cardstock (102125) makes this girl oh so happy! lol.. I used my Gel pen to add a special touch as well as the Small Grommets(114339) and inserted in the middle a half pearl from the Pretties Kit(109114) as well as some use of my Mat Pack (105826) for the design.

Here is my 2nd card:

For this card I wanted to have a sentiment and as you can see for my next card I used the other sentiment from this set-Fresh Cuts(111634) did you guys forget about that set?! I love the font on the words don't you? I also did some foe stiching with my Gel Pen (105021)

Now Last but not least my 3rd card I created :

Ok for this one I think I gave it that Bollywood feel don't you think? Another of my loves.. Bollywood movies! YES really ask my husband he'll peek in my stamp room and you'll sure to see me watching one while I stamp! lol...

For this I used our Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Ribbon(115613) the reverse side as well as Hemp Twine(100982) and creating this fun look! As you can see this is the other sentiment of the Set Fresh Cuts(111634) to finish off this card. As always I thank you so much for stopping by!

Materials:

Stamps: Mediallon,Fresh Cuts

Ink: Crushed Curry,Rich Razzleberry

Ribbon: Polka Dot-Rich Razzleberry,Hemp Twine

Acessories, Signo Gel Pen,Mat Pack,Small Grommets,Prettiest Kit,Vintage Brads

Mojo on a Roll!!

2009-08-20T09:41:00.000-07:00

I couldn't help but play again with Mojo Monday! I am having too much fun and it gave me a chance to use a new Big Shot Die that I had been DYING To get! I LOVE IT.. IF you don't have it.. WHY NOT!! GET IT NOW :)

Here is the Sketch they had for today :

Here is my take on this Sketch :

So now you see which Big Shot Die I'm drooling over? The beautiful Flower Daisies #2 (114520) OH how much fun is this !! I think I could sit here and just cut these out all day!

(here it is on it side to show the flower pop!)

On this card since I had out that same sheet of Flock Together from my last card I used it on this card as well. Then to pair it up I went into yet ANOTHER package of Designer Paper that I really think is my favorite so far.

This one is going to be available in the Mini Holiday Catalog on September 1st- which is Autumn Meadows(116769). That paper is knock your socks off GOOOOJUSS if I do say so myself! Instead of adding a sentiment I just added some bling as bling makes every card better!

I had so much fun making this card I am in the process of making a couple of more so I can give away.

As always thank you for stopping by and back to work for me!

Material :

Cardstock: Whisper White,Chocolate Chip,Crushed Curry,Kraft

Designer Paper: Flock Together

Ribbon : Choc. Chip Taffeta, Organza -Whisper White

Accessories: Prettiest Brads,Jumbo Brad

MojoTeresa Style

2009-08-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hello all!

I have been busy preparing samples for my upcoming classes and I hope to see you there as they will have loads of techniques and fun!

In the middle of me "working" I took time to play as there are some awesome sketches going on this week!

Again I went with Mojo Monday here is the Sketch they had yesterday:

This is my take on this sketch :

I am in love with this beautiful stamp set that will be available in the Holiday Mini starting September 1st called Gifts of the Earth (116501) it really is very striking and coloring it is even more fun.

I wanted to do a Fallish card because if you are anywhere near New York you will be feeling like me muggy and hot! lol So I did this card to think of my favorite season to come!

I hope you can see that I used a textured Plate to emboss the Kraft Cardstock(102125) which is really fun because it gives an extra embellishment. I am also proud of myself as I went into my stash of Designer Paper and actually cut into yet another package that I have been saving which is Flock Together(114018) and I used again Cast-A-Spell(115677) isn't that fun bet you would have never guess that one huh!

As always I thank you for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Materials:

Stamps: Coming soon in Mini 9/1 :Gifts of the Earth

Inks: Pumpkin Pie,Real Read,Crushed Curry,Basic Black,Close to Cocoa,Chocolate Chip,Old Olive,Mellow Moss,Certainly Celery,Boarding Blue,Dusty Durango

Cardstock: Crushed Curry,Whisper White, Chocolate Chip,Kraft,Dusty Durango

Designer Paper: Cast -A-Spell, Flock Together

Accessories: Ribbon-Double-Stitched Grosgrain: Choc. Chip,Organza Ribbon: Whisper White,Earth Elements Brads, Textured Plates-Perfect Details

MojoMaria-Trick or Treat!

2009-08-18T19:10:00.000-07:00

OHH look at me 2 posts in a day! ...

For this post I was looking for a sketch to do and what better place then Mojo Monday & this week shall be a blast as they will have a sketch a day to celebrate 100 sketches!

Well this is the sketch they had for today:

Now here is my little card I created I had to cut into my new Stampin Up Designer Paper- Cast -A-Spell (#115677) it really has some beautiful colors and I just had to cut into it...

I decided to make a card w/no stamping. I used Naturally Serif (#113455) Sizzlets Alpha for my "Trick or Treat". Threw in some Linen thread(#104199) and some of that YUMO Black Striped Grosgrain (#115615). Used a bit of doodling(Signo Gel Pen-#105021) and Dazzling Diamonds (#102023) as well as added texture to the cardstock by using one of my textured plates(#114512)

Well its late for me and tomorrow is another stamping day for me as well as some running around to do. I just wanted to post this card how you like it! As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Materials:

Cardstock: Old Olive,Whisper White, Bravo Burgundy, Basic Black

Designer Paper : Cast-A-Spell

Accessories : Linen Thread, Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Naturally Serif Sizzlets,Signo Gel Pen

Technique Tuesday- Beary Hello!

2009-08-18T12:52:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone...

Today's little project I wanted to share has a little technique which is created with our Color Spritzer(#1o7066) to make the "spattered look." Also included in this cute little project I decided to paper pierce as well. One of my fav. things to do!

In order to not have the little bear "spattered" in color I just stamped him and masked over and then did the spattering.

This is a little "hello gift" for a special little friend who I haven't had a chance to say hello in a while so I will be mailing it out to his mommy so she can give it to him.

Inside are sheets for him to color the bear anyway he wants! This is a super easy project to make all you need to do is cut a piece of cardstock (Ballet Blue-#100613) down to 3 1/2 x 10 and then score at 3 3/4 as well as 8 1/2 and then fold.

I then stapled on each side once I had stamped a couple of the image bear on reg. copy paper and added some Crushed Curry ribbon (#115614) used the non -polka dot side to hide where the staples are. There you have it a quick little something to make any kid smile!

As always thank you for stopping by! Don't be shy you can leave a comment I wouldn't bite promise! lol

Materials:

Cardstock: Ballet Blue.Barely Banana,Whisper White, Green Galore

Designer Paper -*coming soon from mini 9/1*-Pawsitively Prints

Stamp: * coming soon from mini 9/1-Beary Best Friends,Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Basic Black,Old Olive,Crushed Curry,Ballet Blue,Green Galore,Creamy Carmel,So Saffron

Ribbon: Crushed Curry Polka Dot Ribbon

Accessories: Color Spritzer Tool

Sketch it Sunday Plus Showcase Monday rolled into One!

2009-08-17T16:40:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone again!

So I wanted to wait till today so I could do one card that would fit into my Sunday Sketch as well as my Showcase Monday post! Lets start shall we... For my sketch I decided to play along w/CardPatterns which had this to play with this week :

Here is the card I created for this sketch. I had fun creating it as I used my JUST BROUGHT BY THE BROWN TRUCK-Medallion Background stamp.. OH YUMMOO is all I can say that is my Showcase Monday part!

I had been eyeing this stamp since I saw it and FINALLY have it here! I actually have loads of goodies I got today! I'm preparing for my Mini Catalog Club as well as my Classes

I embossed the image in Silver and the used Night of Navy Cardstock which I really love with Silver I can't wait to showcase them with one of my projects for my Mini Catalog Club!

Make sure to contact me- please note you don't have to live near me as I am doing everything ONLINE! I know everyone has a busy life and this way you can do the projects at your own time!

Also another reminder.. I have 1 little Stampin Build a Bear still looking for a loving Home! So just email me- ellie.augustin@gmail.com to join my Demo team!

As always thank you for stopping by!

Online Fall Mini Fun Club!

2009-08-15T22:19:00.000-07:00

So I was sitting here thinking of HOW AMAZING AND OH MY GOSH GONNA BLOW YOUR SOCKS off the New Mini is.. (WAIT UNTIL you see it if you haven't had peeks yet) and thought to myself HOW could I share this with my fabo customers.. GUESS WHAT I GOT IT!!!!

I am going to make an Exclusive Mini Catty Club! AHHHHHHHHHH are you ready to jump and down... This is what my Club members will get.

-A Mini and a 2009/2010 Catalog

-Monthly projects I will design which will include 1 3D project and 1 card (AHHHH)-all material (expect stamped images) will be included for you to complete your project at home!!!

-EXCLUSIVE Tutorial Videos for each project that only my club members will be allowed to see!

-You also to get a chance at being a Hostess with the Mostess which entitles you to at least $15.00 in free SU goodies of your choice a Level 1 (I'll inform you on how you could get more then a Level one and up the amount of SU free goodies you could get)

-All you have to do is Commit to ordering $25.00 (before shipping/handling) each mth starting from September through December 2009. (you can order from either the mini,reg. or both for your mthly orders)

-Orders will be due complete with pymnt by the 10th of each month.

-I will take Paypal (need to add $2.00 extra to total for fees if using) Credit Card or Check for pymnt (if sending check please make sure it gets to me early so it can be cleared by the 10th so our orders will not be held up)

-FUN FUN FUN... I already have a page full of stuff for us to have a blast.. AGAIN This MINI IS INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE and has my mojo running 100 miles an hr! I can not wait to share with my members.

Then hold on tight and GET READY TO ENJOY WITH ME!!

Please email me at ellie.augustin@gmail.com to join in the fun!

Once I have each group complete I will let my Sassy pick out your name and she will pick your month for you!

SIGN UP IS ONLY UNTIL AUGUST 26th! (that way I can have time to mail your catties to you and you can have it to go once Club starts :)

YEAH! Squeeze It Saturday

2009-08-15T06:30:00.000-07:00

OK don't stop me now! I am on a Roll.. lol.. I have my Squeeze it Saturday going on today.... (can I hear a little cheer! hehehehe)

For today what I have is actually samples of one of my upcoming classes! If you would be able to sneak a peek in my stamp room right now you would understand why this is Squeeze it Saturday because I have mojo over load(which I am loving!) so what does that mean well I have like 4 projects going on at the same time ! lol...

Here is my first samples for my up coming class : Brunch Stamp a Stack we will be making a couple of quick and very pretty (if I do say so myself! lol) to grab when you need that perfect card!

I didn't notice until after I finished making the cards that I actually had another theme going on can you see what it is??? LOL yes I was feeling the "tree love"!

So that is my Squeeze it Saturday make sure you check my Newsletter Blog as I will be adding some other samples of what we will be making Hope to see you there! Have a wonderful Saturday everyone! As always thank you for stopping by!

HEY what do YOU have???

2009-08-14T13:07:00.000-07:00

So how many of you have Boards where you keep cards that inspire you??? For me I have found that putting up cards on my little board helps me look up and get some Mojo :)

Also since I went a little SWAP happy I decided to start every week picking out a couple of cards and just post them on the board and use them to inspire me..

BUT This week I just put up on my board some cards that were made with the Upcoming Mini stamps as well as some of my swaps.. If you click on the pic I'm pretty sure you'll see how YUMO some of the stamps will be!! I SURE DO LOOOVEE THEM..

I can NOT WAIT I have an order coming Tuesday so if you hear a squeal that would have been me opening my box!

I would love for you to share with me if you have a place where you display your cards and how often do you change it? As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Yes STILL in Bliss!

2009-08-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

Thought I would share one of my fav. pictures from Convention this one is of my Stampin Addict Sistahs this is right before the doors were opened for our General Meet and Greet where we had SUCH A BLAST (thanks Angie for the pic!) You would think that all of us could NOT POSSIBLY get along and really have such connections.. BUT BELIEVE YOU ME we all love each other sooo much! They made my 1st Convention such a wonderful experience!!

So much so we are planning for next year.. So what about you? Do you want to join us at Convention next year?

Its super easy All you have to do is email me and let me know that you would love to become a demo.. for me there are so many reasons to be one.. You can make it what ever you wish it to be.. You can just be do it so you can have your very awesome discount and be able to pre-order to able to get to exclusive information before the public do, Exclusive Projects and another thing I love which is the Stampin Success Mag. it is FULLLLL of ideas (Sept. is AMAZING I am working on a project from there right now) Or give it a go for the gold and make it an amazing Business (which is where I am trying to go right now!)

Remember I am offering 1 more bear as the other bear is awaiting to be mailed to its new owner!! YEAHHH.. Also remember you can sign up even if you are in another state I am. If you know me I am ALWAYS available for you and I would love to be able to share my love and all I have learned with you!

As well as $25.00 in Stampin Goodies of your choice! You only have until August 31st to do so!

Now that I have talked up a storm how about I share another swap I made (told you I was a little crazy with all the swaps I made! lol)

Sorry for the picture I had taken this right before I left! lol but as you can see I used my fav. beloved stamp set . Even though it is in the Dormant list I had to use it in a swap. Which I am happy I did as this was another one people seemed to love :) To do the background I used our Pastels! yes that is all chalk I had the blue chalky fingers to prove it ! LOL

Well as always I thank you so much for stopping by.. Tomorrow I will share another card I made today using Branch Out- I was cleaning my stamp room and it was still out so I had to use it!

Will you Give Him a Home??

2009-08-12T06:12:00.000-07:00

Return of TechniqueTuesday!

2009-08-11T08:17:00.000-07:00

Hello again everyone! I thought it was time to get back into the swing of things don't you think? So I have decided to get on the ball and start posting my "special" postings again and I thought I would start w/today Technique Tuesday.

This card was actually one of my General Swaps I made for Convention. I was going crazy w/this little card because I wanted to make it so it would be Convention worthy! lol... I think I did because this was the one gals were grabbing for and it made me very happy :)

The Technique that I am focusing today is the "Spotlighting" Technique as you can see I choose a couple of the snowman from the Hostess Level 3 Set : The More the Merrier which I LOVEE!!! It is so much fun!

It may look a little time consuming especially when you say hmm I think I will make 30 of these! lol... But really what took the longest was punching out the "spotlights" and matching them up wasn't really that hard... and I colored them in while I watched movies on Netflix! lol...

So give it a try its really a cute and fun technique that makes your card pop!

As always thank you so much for stopping by!

Also don't forget if you have been thinking of becoming a demo NOW is the time and if you sign up with my team you will get The Exclusive Stampin Up Build a Bear which includes a stamp and $25.00 in free SU goodies of your choice from me! SO don't delay! Only have 1 bear left.

Sweet Delight Mini Preview!

2009-08-10T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hello again! I finally am getting a chance to start posting the fun I got to do at Convention w/my SA Sistahs.. We actually were able to stamp with the some of the stamps that will be available for everyone Starting on Sept.1st.

I am going to make a class using these stamps so lets take a look shall we : )

Aren't these sooo cute!

Here is a closer look at each sample : This is going to be so much fun... HOW Cool would this be for a cute Halloween treat?? AND YES those little cups are in the Mini! AHHHHHH you know you want them! :)

Here is the other sample How sweet would this a little thank you? Again ISN'T IT SOO CUTE!!

So that is a little preview of what I will be having for a class thanks to my SA Sistahs letting me and the others play with new goodies :)

Also did you notice my pics?? My VERY COOOLLL watermark! I LOVE IT!!! Ha.. if you were at Convention you could guess why I wanted that (besides my love of Chocolate) Ha.. (just click on the pic so you can see it! Veronica ROCKS and is always awesome when it comes to buttons, dressing your blogs and watermarks and goodness knows what else and ALWAYS takes her time and gives you JUST what you want or just the prefect ideas to get you what you would love. WAIT till you see my other watermark she made me OH MY GOSH!!!

Well thank you as always for stopping by! Tomorrow I will have some more samples of what I made! :)