You Light Up My Life

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I have been busy organizing, stamping, re-organizing, stamping and and re-organizing again. Oh and throw in a snotty teenager, several loads of laundry, some yard work and a big fat head ache and then you have a view of my real life. Fun.

I am still playing around with my Photo Studio in a Box. Today I tried it with the black background. Not sure if I like it....kind of makes my card look like it's floating in mid-air.

**Stampin Stuff** The card base is SU Vanilla and the sentiment is one that I made myself {yes I made the sentiment stamp with my JustRite Imagebox Professional System <--------click here to watch a step by step tutorial}. Anyway, I made the sentiment to go with this chandelier Sizzix die that I have had but don't use enough because I didn't have a coordinating sentiment... but I do now. The black organdy ribbon is from SU and the beautiful charm is from a broken Pottery Barn candle holder. I salvaged the crystals as I thought they would make great card charms and they are perfect with my die cut and sentiment.

**Random Blogging** I got my very first Paper Trey Ink order this week. I got the entire circle Nestabilities set....including scallops. Now I just have to figure out how to make them work in my Big Shot. I also bought the new release Pond Life..I am in love with that cute turtle.

Oh geeeshhh....I hate animal stamps...I forgot. LOL Well actually let me clarify that statement, I hate animal stamps that have animals doing human behaviors...such as riding a bike, drinking coffee, watching TV and etc...you get the idea.

I also got Out on a Limb and Wedding Favors. I adore the cards I have seen with Out on a Limb and the Wedding Favors set I need for JustRite card samples I am making for the Stationary Show next month. We have a wedding theme going and I thought these little sentiment would work well with the monogram stampers.

Ok...off to visit Jen's mom. She is recovering well and is finally off the ventilator. Yeah! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers...it has been very scarey the last three weeks.

See ya on the blog!

Fabulous

This card is totally inspired by Amy at Tsuruta Designs. She has a chandelier stamp and I happen to have a Sizzlet die of a chandelier. It was only a matter of time before I found the perfect sentiment to go with it.

**Stampin Stuff** The ingredients are obvious but I'll post it anyway so I have some verbiage on this post. The card base is black and with a layer of white. The chandelier is a Sizzlet die with black paper and the sentiment is from Bubble Queen and it is stamped in versafine black...I use nothing else for my black ink. Love it.

Oh and this is a 4x4 card. I love that size and the simplicity and elegance of this card. I think I am giong to make it into a birthday card and inside it will read...and 29 again! LOL....I am so funny I crack myself up. Ha!

Sarah and I spent the day stampin and hanging out. Love days like this....nothing to do but get creative oh and do some laundry.....yeah how could I ever forget that fun part of my life.

I went shopping way toooooo much this weekend. I totally have a dose of Spring Fever coming on and Spring is no where near the Chicago area. More snow is called for tomorrow but the malls are full of spring colors and the most awesome SHOES!!! I can't wait to get some new shoes and a pedicure too.

Ok see ya on the blog!

Hey Cupcake

Taylor at Taylored Expressions is having a cupcake contest to celebrate eP's one year birthday. So I thought I would participate for the fun of it and if I win some sweet treats all the better.

**Stampin Stuff** Really not a lot of stampin other than the sentiment...another scrappy card. The base is sky blue with a layer of stripe paper that I have had forever...using up scraps today. I added a strip of mauve mist paper that was stamped with the Print Patttern background stamp. Marvy punch for the large scalloped black circle. Sky blue circle holds the cupcake image that was made with a Sizzix die. I used aluminum foil for the cupcake wrapper and added some stickles to the icing for some added bling. The tag was stamped with a sweet sentiment from SU.