Lifestyle Crafts Love Release

Have you seen the new dies for the Love release yet?! Check out this awesome treat bag. It's so cool I can't even tell you. The finished bag measures a little bigger than 4x6. The strawberry is also from the Love release, 2x2 die size.

I used patterned vellum for the bag (I've had it in my stash for literally years!!!). For the gift card, which fits inside the bag when it's time to give the gift, I used a scalloped circle from the previous release, and a nesting heart.

I liked the vellum for this so the card can be seen through the bag! (Ignore the clip- it's only there so the card would stay near to top while I took the picture. LOL)

The message on the card is done in the Santa's Workshop font and the heart from the Build-a-Cupcake die by Buggy Designs.

I'll have more projects from this release coming soon, so keep a lookout! Super cute stuff. :) And check the store at Scrapbuggy for these dies and more. This week, take advantage of the free exclusive die offer - your choice! - with every order $100 or more!!

It's beautiful fairy Monday again!

For today's card I used my favorite of the Amy Brown fairy stamps by Queen Kat Designs, called Beautiful Dancer. She's so delicate and graceful, I love coloring her in dainty looking colors and adding sparkle and bling. I used papers from Basic Grey's Sugared collection (for you Nikki!) adding Prima flowers, pearls, rhinestones and antique lace.


I stamped the image in Rich Cocoa Memento ink and colored her wings with Atyou Spica clear pen. The teeny weeny bling on her antennae are i-rock gems by Imaginisce.

Have a sparkly week and do something crafty! Thanks for coming by the studio blog today.

Goodbye dear friend

Yesterday our sweet doggie, Miss Joey, went to heaven. We had gone to run errands and discovered when we got home that she had had a real bad stroke while we were away. I knew when she left with hubs that she would likely not be coming home. She did not. I cried and cried. I could tell by his eyes that hubs had cried too, but not so I could see.


Joey was sort of a 'rescue' dog, though we didn't get her from a rescue shelter. Lucky for her and for us too, we found each other before it came to that. Joey had been abandonded by a farmer who sold his place and left town, leaving her tied to the door at the vet's office. I had called about lab puppies for sale but they had all been spoken for already. But Joey, or Jo-Jo as they called her, who was about a year old, needed a home, and did we want to come see her. We decided to go check her out and took Jet with us, our black lab. They took to each other immediately and Joey came home with us that night.

Grace and Joey, 2005



Our first hunting dog, Jet, a black lab we got as a puppy, was getting ready to retire as hubs' hunting dog as he was getting up in years. Randy wanted to train another dog before Jet couldn't go with him anymore, which is why we had called about the puppies when we found Joey. His last hunting season Jet taught Joey so much that training her was a piece of cake. She loved hunting as much as he did. He was 13 when he said goodbye. Joey was almost 12.

Grace and Joey, 2008

Randy and Joey, 2008

Olivia and Joey, 2010

Mila and Joey, 2010

Grace told me today that she drew a picture of Joey as an angel dog, fishing. I had not even told her yet that Joey is laid to rest near her favorite fishing spot. :)

Heart locket shaker

Hey peeps! More Valentine projects coming at you using the new Cottage Cutz Valentine release by the Scrapping Cottage. For today's project I've used the heart locket die to make my sweet Valentine shaker box. I love making shakers and this was a fun one! In addition to the heart locket die, I also used the cupcake2 die for filler along with the seed beads. The bitsy hearts with the beads inside the shaker are the sprinkles for the cupcake. :) Use on a layout or card, or give to your sweetie with a box of candy.

The key charm has been in my stash for eons and I thought it was the perfect touch with the scalloped heart. To make the lacy look, I used my push pad and a large sewing needle, punching holes all around the outside in each of the scallops.

Thanks for checking out the studio today!

Mustache...wha?

Seriously. I don't get the mustache thing. At all. But obviously it's popular!!

Mila, Olivia, Feliciano - Olivia had to have the fuzzy mustache she saw in the vending machine. Mila and Feliciano made their own from paper scraps. Love that! LOL

Feliciano gets his own mustache.

Grace got hers from a vending machine in the Fun Place at Walmart.