Celebrate National Stamping Month

To CELEBRATE NATIONAL STAMPING MONTH in September, we are offering our first-ever double stamp set! You can get the exclusive My Acrylix^® Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set FREE when you place an order of $75 from August 15 through September 30, 2011. You’ll love this double set—two D-size sets in one envelope—which includes lots of clever phrases and coordinating images you’ll use in your handmade cards all year. And with a retail value of $35.90, this set drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase! Have double the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set!

Bragging Rights!

OK!  So at convention, I'm sitting in my room looking through my catalog, and I see this really cool Halloween layout.  I think to myself, this kid looks familiar.  I look at it some more and I think, this kid looks like Ryan (my son).  Then it hits me, like a cast iron frying pan upside the head!  This is my son!  And then they had to peel me off the walls because I was so excited to see my son published in our current Idea Book.  I called home to tell my husband.  The next day, my Idea book shipment arrives, and so my husband opens the box and goes to page 49 and he gets excited.  So when Ryan gets home from his sleep over, Mike shows the page to Ryan!  Ryan says, "Wow! I'm famous!  Mike said the look on his face was priceless!

Here is the Layout on page 49.

How cool is that?  I submitted the photos and they used them in the artwork they published in the book.


I'm still so excited!!

In celebration of our newly updated Stamp of the Month program, we're throwing in a little something extra: a FREE bonus stamp set! In August, when you  place an order of $50 US/$55 CAN or more in products and purchase the August Stamp of the Month set, Wicked, for just $5/$5.50, you’ll receive the My Acrylix^® A Typeface A-size set FREE (a retail value of $6.95/$7.75). Think of this as two promotions in one—qualify for and purchase the discounted August Stamp of the Month set and we'll throw in a second stamp set FREE! It's Extra! Extra!

Convention Card Swap - Card of choice!

Miracle!

Yep it was a MIRACLE I found enough time to make this card for the card swap.  Next week is the Close to My Heart Convention in Anaheim.  I can hardly wait to go. 

The paper pack used here is Miracle!  It has a nice combination of Bamboo, Heavenly Blue, Sweet Leaf and Crystal Blue.  The "Friend" was stamped in Desert Sand. The stamp set is the February Stamp of the Month "Wings". 

I hope they like it!

Convention Card Swap!

Hi Friends,

     I challenged myself with these cards.  The designs are both from Mojo Monday.  The flower was inspired by Connie Macfarlane.  She has a "How to" demo on her blog, and you can watch it by visiting http://paperpleatsandribbonroses.blogspot.com/.

     The challenge was taking a gray scale drawing of a pattern and adding color!  It's easy when someone tells us what colors to use.  So, I went through some scrap paper, and came up with convention card swap possible #1. 

I used the following to create the card above.  All items are Close to my Heart (CTMH) unless otherwise specified.

     White Daisy Card stock (CS) for the base card

     Amythist texture CS for the background, distressed with Gypsy 

     Topiary matte for the green side of a sheet from the "Miracle" paper pack

     Smokey Plum matte for the White Daisy CS that holds the sentiment

     The strip across the bottom is Blush, distressed with blush and stamped on with one of the Boutique Boarders (Retired - D1332)

     The flower is made up of Pink satin ribbon, Yellow and green grosgrain ribbon, not CTMH

     Possible Card Sawp card #2 below is not only a Mojo Monday design, but it is also a Heart 2 Heart (H2H) challenge.  The H2H challenge was to use Barn Read, Bamboo and any Blue.  My blue is Indian Corn Blue, one of CTMH's 60 awesome colors.



     The base card is Barn Red

     The pattern paper is from the "Bliss" paper pack

     Everything blue is Indiana Corn Blue

     The stamp set used here is the "Unity" (C1422) set

I now have to decide which of these two cards I want to make 10 of for our swap at convention.  It's going to be a tough decision to make!

You & Me: Stronger Together

Severe flooding, tornadoes and storms have affected the lives of thousands across the United States.

During the month of June, purchase the You & Me scrapbooking kit for only $15 (a retail value of $34.95) and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross spring 2011 Floods and Tornadoes relief operations.
With the You & Me kit, you’ll create two fully embellished two-page layouts using the included instructions,  papers, D-sized stamp set and accessories. At only $15, this kit is more than 50% off the retail price.
You’ll win by getting the kit at a phenomenal price, and those in the weather devastated regions will benefit from your charitable contribution.  Together we can make a difference, together we are stronger!

My Dad!

I missed posting last weekend for one of the saddest reasons a daughter could ever have to face, the loss of her Father. So, I pulled out of the archives a layout that I made in 2009 to honor My Dad!  This layout was extremely fun to put together.  The pictures show Dad as a boy, a teenager and a man.

George Edward Sarratt

9/19/1940 - 6/8/2011

I used The Close to My Heart Game On paper pack, and Bamboo card stock.  I used black and tan hemp the stitch the corners, and the "My Hero" tag is raised with pop-up tape.  I will miss him every day!

A friend told me that the birthday and the death date is not what we should remember about a person, it is the dash that separates the date that we should dwell upon.  Because that dash represents the life our loved ones lived. And that dash is where we obtained the memories we have of our loved one.