Busy, busy, busy!

Sorry for my absence these past couple of days. Grace and I are FINALLY working on my bedroom re-do and we are nearly finished. I'm so excited to finally change the color and get new bedding. It's looking awesome so far. Can't wait to finish!!!

Thanks for your patience. Will post pics soon. :)

Tropical Staycation

We couldn't go to the beach so we brought the beach to us! :) Grace wears a lei made from the tropical splash release, adorns her straw with the drink umbrella and wears a hibiscus flower in her hair.

As well as a shell bra we found at the dollar store. HAHAHA! Isn't is super cute!

We made the hair clip using the hibiscus border die. Cut two flowers, two leaves, two centers and two pistils and adhere them all together to make a sturdy flower. Using hot glue, adhere to a hair clip and you're good to go!

Product list:
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, hibiscus border
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, paper lei
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, drink umbrella
Bazzill cardstock
hair clip, hot glue, straws

Thanks for coming by. I hope you're enjoying the tropical splash release as much as I am!

BLOG HOP WINNER

Chosen by random.org, the winner is #44, Surfnfroggie!!!! Who said...... 


Just became a follower of your blog! Your Halloween card is awesome. I love the details like the flowers, just great!


Congratulations, surfnfroggie! Your prize is in the mail. :) Thank you for hopping with us. Hope to see you again soon. 

Hello chickie!

This is my card for the Scrapbuggy coral and aqua challenge. I love the colors together!

The bird/branch is a tag I just outlined with faux stitching and inked. I added the cute little sentiment from My Creative Time, Color Me Happy, stamp set. Seemed to go perfectly with this happy little bluebird!

Satin ribbon embellished with a button and one my handmade stick pins. I love making them!

Product list:
October Afternoon, Fly a Kite (pattern paper and bird tag)
Offray ribbon
Button, unk
Handmade stick pin {I make these. Email me if interested.}
Kite string
Lifestyle Crafts photo corner die
Doily heart punch by Martha Stewart

Grace's buggy challenge #4

This is my card for the Scrapbuggy coral/aqua card challenge. I used the scottie dog die and made water drips for sweat. 

My Creative Time 8th Edition Release BLOG HOP!!!

***GIVEAWAY ALERT***

Today I am giving away the scallop and circle dies that coordinate with this stamp release! All you have to do is follow my blog {if you don't already} and leave a comment here along with a way for me to contact you. You have 11 chances to win, simply by commenting on each of the blogs in the hop. Good luck, everyone!

For my project today, I was assigned the All Around Halloween set. This set is so adorable and works equally well on scrapbook pages {see my layout for Tuesday's sneak peek} as it does for cards and other projects. 

I used the curly label die and the coordinating border stamp from the Inspiring Words {Accents} set for my sentiment. 

For the crescent moon, I used a die to cut a circle then lay the die partway over the circle to cut the crescent shape for the moon. I cut the bats from black card stock that I heat embossed with clear embossing powder, and attached them with foam tape. 

My handmade roses and stick pin embellish the sheer purple bow. 

If you are starting here for the hop, you'll want to hop on over to Emma's blog to start at the beginning. Be sure to check out her Friday video too! Thanks for joining us for the new release. Good luck to everyone in the drawing! Remember, you have ELEVEN chances to win! 

Emma ~ http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Nikki ~ http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/

Katie ~ http://www.craftingwithkatie.com/

Glora ~ http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/

Leann ~ http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/

Cathryn ~ http://www.inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com/

Jen ~ http://jennyscards.blogspot.com/

Kate ~ http://www.scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Ruthie ~ http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/

YOU ARE HERE --------->  http://scrapendipity.blogspot.com/

Cindy ~ http://cindylee77.blogspot.com/

Product list:
My Creative Time, All Around Halloween stamp set
My Creative Time, Curly Label Die 
My Creative Time, Inspiring Words {Accents} label frame stamp
Quickutz circle, bats, stars dies
Cottage Cutz tropical orchid die {leaves}
Basic Grey Eerie collection
Bazzill cardstock
Martha Stewart layered arches border punch

My Creative Time Sneak Peek Giveaway Day 4!!

*** DAY FOUR ***
Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as 

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

 ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did!
A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize!
Emma will announce the winner in her video Friday morning during the release.

Today's sneak peek is called All Around Christmas. 

I used two stamps on the scalloped circle die....

...and another of my handmade stick pins on the sheer ribbon bow. I love making these {become a follower of my blog and stay tuned for another stick pin give-away coming soon!} and they are such a pretty addition to any card. 

I also used i-rock pearls, a snowflake charm and pretty red bling. I cut another tree from a leftover piece of the pattern paper and adhered with foam tape for dimension.

Product list:
My Creative Time, All Around Christmas
My Creative Time, Scallop Circle die
My Minds Eye, Wonderful Winter paper pad
Bazzill textured cardstock
Quickutz retro signs die
Imaginisce i-rock pearl gems
red bling, unk
Offray sheer ribbon
Cottage Cutz leaves
Handmade stick pin
Handmade roses


Thank you for stopping by today. Remember to come back tomorrow for the Blog Hop and the full release!!!! You're going to love it!! :)

My Creative Time Sneak Peek Giveaway Day 3!

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as 

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

 ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did!  A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize!  Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

Today's sneak comes from the All Around Halloween set. I used four stamps from this set for my layout. My little niece is, indeed, too cute to spook! What a little squishy face she is. She looks like she's saying, "boo!" doesn't she. LOL

I also used two stamps, the scallop circle and stitched circle for each of my embellishments.

My title is the Haunted font by Quickutz. I embossed a piece of plain black card stock with clear embossing powder before cutting my letters. 

I used the embossed card stock for my flourish embellishments as well.

To make my dimensional heart, I cut three shapes and adhered them with foam tape between each layer.

Product list:
My Creative Time, All Around Halloween
My Creative Time, Scallop Circle die
My Creative Time, Stitched Embossing Plate
Die Cuts With a View, Halloween Scary Sparkles pattern papers
Bazzill textured cardstock
Quickutz Haunted alphabet
Quickutz flourishes, Rev 0150-2-2
Quickutz heart frame, Rev 0186
Quickutz sugarplum bracket page die {Santa's Workshop gift set}
Martha Stewart drippy goo border punch
Offray ribbon
Ink, foam tape, embossing powder


Thanks for stopping by and checking out today's peek! Remember to leave comments on all the designer's blogs for a chance to win.  

My Creative Time Sneak Peek Giveaway Day 2!

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as 

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

 ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did!  A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize!  Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

Today's sneak comes from the Happy Mail set. I LOVE this adorable set. The scallop and stitched circle are also new from My Creative Time.

Isn't the snail a cutie patootie! Look....he's rushing to bring you a letter! 

And this heart is also in the set. It's the most perfect shape little heart, I had to use it. 

Product List:
My Creative Time, Happy Mail
My Creative Time, Scallop and Stitched Circle 
Bazzill textured cardstock
Scenic Route pattern paper
Quickutz nesting circle die; label die
Offray ribbon
Memento ink, Tim Holtz distress ink
Copic markers, Inkssentials white pen
Button 


Thanks for stopping by the studio. Be sure to check out the other design team member blogs as well and leave comments to be entered to win!

Have a ball!

I'm really loving the summery Tropical Splash release by Lifestyle Crafts this month. Super cute for summer activities and vacation pages and cards.

I love that you can customize the adorable "Gilligan's Island" style sign with the font, and in this case, I also used a stamp sentiment. Jump rings make it look like it's actually hanging so I ran twine through them to keep them in place. I added the arrow from the QK retro signs set and used red stickles to simulate blinking lights.

Can you see what I used for my sun??? That's the center from one of the hibiscus border flowers! The beach umbrella and sand are from the April Showers die. Umbrellas aren't JUST for rain, you know. ;) The sand is the rain puddle, which I cut from .... SANDpaper. :) Cool huh.

Product List:
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, beach ball
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, Tiki alpha and signs set
Lifestyle Crafts Tropical Splash, hibiscus border
Buggy Designs, April showers umbrella and rain puddle
Bazzill textured cardstock
Little Yellow Bicycle pattern papers
Quickutz adhesive back cork paper
My Creative Time, Have Fun in the Sun stamp sentiment
The Twinery, mandarin
Tim Holtz jumprings and Distress ink
Ranger stickles
Sharpie fine point pen

Hope you enjoyed this week's project. I'm really HAVING A BALL with the Tropical Splash release, as if you couldn't tell! LOL Have a great week. :)

My Creative Time Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as 

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

 ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did!  A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize!  Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

For my sneak peek, I'm sharing this card using one of the stamps from the upcoming release,"wishing you a speedy recovery". 

You will notice I also used the curly label die and coordinating stamp from the Inspirational Accents set. 

And embellishing the bow is one of my handmade stick pins. I love making them and sometimes they are just the perfect touch to add spice to a bland card. ;)

Product list:
My Creative Time Many Greetings sentiment
My Creative Time Curly Label Die
My Creative Time Inspirational Accents, Curly Label Stamp
Quickutz nesting ornament die
Basic Grey Origins pattern papers
Bazzill textured cardstock
Sheer ribbon
Imaginisce i-rock bling

delicious watermelon

I can't think of summer without thinking of watermelon, and watermelon always screams summer to me. It's  just the epitome of summer, if you ask me. And I love it!

My page today features a watermelon theme because the photo is grandgirl, Mila enjoying a big hunk of it. YUM! I got these papers just for this photo. They are Sweet Summertime by Little Yellow Bicycle. Please pardon the funky weird color blotches.Those are merely a result of stitching the two lumpy scanned parts together.

Cute stickers from the coordinating sticker sheet embellished with buttons in watermelon colors and vine stamp.

Sunshine sticker also from the set; stamped watermelon is by Peachy Keen, "delicious" stamp is Cottage Cutz Impressions and black heart bling was a RAK from a friend - sorry I don't recall who makes them.

Product list:
Pattern papers and stickers from Sweet Summertime collection by Little Yellow Bicycle
Bazzill textured cardstock
Bazzill Swiss dot cardstock
Martha Stewart arches border punch
Quickutz ticket die, 0652
Peachy Keen Fruitless Faces watermelon stamp
Peachy Keen pumpkin trio die/stamp set, vine stamp
Cottage Cutz Cottage Impressions In The Kitchen 'delicious' stamp
Buttons, ribbon, heart bling, Sharpie fine pen, Memento inks

Happy weekend peeps! We still have one more day. Enjoy it to the max! :)

My card for PKS Challenge #56

I'm so glad to have some extra time lately to play with the Peachy Keen girls and their card challenges! This is the sketch to work with for this challenge. Are you playing too? :)

Here's my card for the challenge. I used the watermelon from PK239, Faceless Fruit.

and added teeny i-rock bling for seeds

For my sentiment, I used My Creative Time, Just a Little Note stamp set. Oh and the vine is also a Peachy Keen stamp, from the pumpkin trio die/stamp set.

Product list:
Peachy Keen stamps, PK239 Faceless Fruit
Peachy Keen stamps, pumpkin trio
My Creative Time stamps, Just a Little Note
Pattern papers by DCWV, October Afternoon, My Mind's Eye
Bazzill textured cardstock
Offray grosgrain ribbon
Imaginisce i-rock bling
Buttons, jute, sharpie pen,

Thank you for looking. Maybe I will see your card in the challenge entries on the Peachy Keen challenge blog too! :) Good luck in the drawing everyone!