Happy Bee Day!

I just love these Stampendous bee's. They are so darling. I colored them up and added a little sparkle with Diamond Stickles. My hardware is a Stampin' Up! Flower Designer Brad. The "happy birthday" around the brad is from SU! Think Happy Thoughts set. I tell you, I couldn't live without my SU! Mat Pack. I used to paper pierce freehand and it was always uneven and just sloppy. This cute little handy pack is a lifesaver if you like to paper pierce. For under $10, it's a cool tool!

There are lots of birthdays in March, so I always need to have some bee-day cards on hand.

My weekend was a little busier and stressful than I would have liked it to be, but oh well. That's old news now, right? Right! This weekend I am planning a shopping trip with my BFF to the outlets. Hopefully nothing will get in the way. I need some "me" time.

Bee good and have a buzzing day! I'm silly, I know! :)

A Bouncing Baby Boy Is On The Way!

Did I trick you with my blog title today? It's not me that's expecting, but a friend of mine is having a boy by c-section next week, on my birthday! How cool is that?!

When I was pregnant with Brandon I bought more baby scrapbooking supplies than you could imagine! They are all masculine because I found out ahead of time I was having a boy. It wasn't hard to put together this card for her!

The lovely saying is a vellum sticker from AMM (All My Memories). I dressed it up with some soft color buttons and a shimmery cream ribbon to match the cardstock and patterned paper.

TGIF! Aren't you glad it's the weekend? I sure am. Too much to do, so little time. I'll be back again this weekend! Enjoy!!!!

Wedding Invitations

Hello friends! I have a cute story to share about my son and then I'll write about my creation today.

Last night we had Chinese for dinner. He grabbed the fortune cookie right away and I told him he could eat it after dinner. As I'm cleaning up the table after dinner, he breaks open the cookie. I ask him, "what does your fortune say?", thinking he either won't reply or ask what a fortune is (he's only 3). He responds, "it says I should eat this cookie!" How he came up with that is beyond me! He has such a personality. Too cute!

I am currently working on wedding invitations for a customer. This was the first draft. I used Stampin' Up! Very Vanilla for the base color and Ruby Red for the accent color. The embossing was created using the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. It's a little hard to see in the photo, but I aged the embossed cardstock with Creamy Caramel and stamped the heart in that color too. The heart is from the Sale-a-bration catalog, Polka Dot Punches, expiring the end of this month. The "You're Invited" is from the Sincere Salutations collection. She indicated her dress has quite a bit of lace, so I thought the lace ribbon would be the perfect touch.

I'll be back later with a baby card! It appears to be wedding and baby time - not for me though! :)

Have a wonderful day!

Thinking of you . . . with one hour less of sleep!

Good morning! I'm surprised at myself for saying "good". We turned the clocks forward yesterday which meant 1 hour less of sleep. Not good! My little one was flipping out this morning. He did not want to get up and everything was a bother! His finger hurt where he cut it yesterday, he didn't like the shirt I picked out, he ate his breakfast like a turtle making us late to leave the house. I can stop there! Too funny!

I used Stampin Up Rose Red & Chocolate Chip for my creation today! The patterned paper is SU! retired Designer Series Paper, Recollections. I made my own brad by punching out one of the flowers from the paper and using the Antique Brass Build-A-Brad kit. Does the tree look familiar? Yep, you guessed it - Thoughts & Prayers. The saying is from the Trendy Trees set I will be showing you later this week. I'm into trees lately. I hope you don't mind. I'll get over it. :)

With my coffee in hand, I have to sign off. Busy day at work today. Have a good Monday and early to bed for me tonight!

Supplies for today's creation all from Stampin' Up!
Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Trendy Trees
Cardstock: Rose Red, Chocolate Chip
Designer Series Paper: Recollections (retired)
Ink: Rose Red, Chocolate Chip
Build-A-Brad
Top Note Die

Who Needs Stamps - Emboss It!

Ok, so I did use a stamp on this but it's just one little word. The majority of this creation was created using the Stampin' Up! Sizzix Simple Flower Embosslit and a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. The layout was inspired by last weeks Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge (SC217). The color mix was from another challenge. I had to use Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise, and Chocolate Chip. Cameo Coral is probably one of my least favorite Stampin' Up! colors so it was a stretch for me to use this.

The photo to the right is a little darker because I wanted to capture how I chalked the edges in Chocolate Chip around the Cameo Coral. Hopefully you can see it in this picture. Chalking is difficult to photograph because it's so subtle.

So TGIF in a big way! The weather is going to be warm this weekend. I need hit Kohls for a few things this weekend. I am working with a bride-to-be on custom wedding invitations. I'm always busy with something! It's all good!

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Enjoy your day and happy stamping!

3 Little Chicks

Spring is in the air! Tomorrow it's supposed to get near 50 degrees here. Heat wave!!

I have an organizational unit in my craft room where I store all my holiday stamps. There are one or two drawers for each major holiday. I opened the Easter drawer to see what goodies were in there and came across these three little chicks that is a stamp from Magenta. Aren't they sweet?

I started this Easter card using Lovely Lilac SU! cardstock for the card base. The fun green polka dot paper is from DCWV Spring Collection. I stamped my image in black and colored in the chicks with SU! YoYo Yellow, Only Orange, Lovely Lilac, and Pretty in Pink. The background was lightly colored in green using watercolor pencils and a blender pen. I cut out each stamped image and layered it on top a piece of Basic Gray cardstock. I used Whisper White cardstock and the Scallop Edge punch to add another layer above my chicks. The finishing touch was adding Prima flowers.

I hope you are having a great week! My son & I are still recovering from our colds. They are just hanging on a little bit. Last night I was very excited to purchase tickets to see Joel Osteen in Columbus, OH in May! He is such an inspiration and I've wanted to catch one of his events for several years now. I'm very excited to be going!

Enjoy the rest of your day and stop back soon! Take care and happy stamping!

Praying for You . . .

Happy March! Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers while I was sick. I have some great friends out there. Your prayers inspired my creation for today!

I’ve said before how much I love the Stampin’ Up! set Thoughts & Prayers. I used it for today’s creation. I stamped the tree in white craft ink on Basic Gray cardstock and paper pierced around the edge. I dug out of my paper stash some very pretty pastel patterned paper from Melissa Frances. I just love her line of products. They are soft, pretty, and vintage looking. Anyways, the patterned paper matched up beautifully with SU! Pink Pirouette cardstock. Another perfect match is the SU! buttons. Just a little something to finish it off.

Here is a little Stampin’ Up! news flash. There is a really nice occasions mini catalog coming out April 1st. I have one in my hands & it’s awesome! The good news is there are a select number of stamps from the mini you can order now to get a head start on your Easter creations. Check it out below.

I’ve got my Vitamin Water and banana in hand this morning. After being so sick, I need to pump up the vitamins. My little one won’t take a Flintstones vitamin unless I take one with him. OMG! Come on, Flintstone vitamins are like candy!!! Children. :)

Have a wonderful Monday! Thank you for visiting my blog today!

Stampin' Up! items you can order today from upcoming April 1st Occasions Mini Catalog! To order, e-mail me at tiffanymiller1@verizon.net or order directly through my SU! website by clicking HERE.