Top Ten Rubber Stamps/Sites

I LOVE LOVE LOVE rubber stamps. I have $100's and $100's of dollars in rubber stamps. Im obsessed with rubber stamps. If I could marry, ok not really, but you get the point. Here are my top ten favs...

1. The Greeting Farm
2. Papertrey Ink
3. Taylored Expressions
4. Kitchen Sink Stamps
5. Crafty Cling
6. Stamping Bella
7. Hanna Stamps
8. Gina K Designs
9. Verve Stamps
10. There She goes Stamps

I have also just recently found Peachy Keen Stamps, I can't yet say I love them, as I only have them on order, but Ill be sure to let yah know when they arrive...

Well maybe I should have made this tip 11, cause I forgot JustRiteStamps, can't stamp without them.

Superstar Awards

So the kids' school is having a fall festival this coming weekend, and at the festival they are doing basket auctions. Each class gets assigned a category, my daughters class got teacher supply basket. Tonight I spent a few hours stamping, coloring, and cutting to come up with these super star awards for teachers to give their star students!! I think they turned out cute. I only wish I had more time to make more. There are a dozen in the bunch, 6 of each gender.

Half Way there :Baby Shower Invitations

So Ive been working on some baby shower invites for a friend, her sister is having her first girl, after two boys. So per request they are all girly :D. After showing her a few samples she said "just make them all". So rather than making 10 carbon copies of one kind, I get to have fun playing around. Im half way there and thought I would share my progress, the first five...




Polka dot paper by papertrey ink, and colored paper brazzill, all cutouts done with the ciricut cartridge new arrival. Deckled nestabilities.




Polka dot paper by papertrey ink, and colored paper brazzill, all cutouts done with the ciricut cartridge new arrival.



Polka dot paper by papertrey ink, and colored paper brazzill, all cutouts done with the ciricut cartridge new arrival. Deckled nestabilities.



Simple little Onsie shaped invties, cut with template, embellished with pink buttons and the legs and neck opening decorated with a half circle made with the plain and scalloped nestabilities.

Anya Ink Challenge #2

So this weeks challenge over at anya ink was a simple one, use a printed paper and of course my favorite stamps and Anya from TGF

This stamp is from a Miss Anya set, love her.

So I chose to use some printed paper from the pink patterns set at papertrey ink, along with some coredinations pink paper.

The ovals were done with my scalloped and plain nestabilities. I think Ive gone insane with these, I have 29 sets at this point, eek!!!

I embelished with a flower cut from the cricut cartridge called stretch your imagaination, along with mini flowers topped with itty bitty rhinestoes, and a few paper strips made with a punch I borrow from my mom :), its the kind that the handle attaches magnetically and you can put it anywhere on the paper, very handy!!

And of course I colored my Miss Anya with copic ciao markers, RV21, RV19, and RV23 for her clothing, and E000(a sketch marker), E51 and E53 for her skin. And her hair, which I am always looking for new ways to improve, was done with E000, E51, E53, E31, and E53. Outline done in C1.

I had alot of fun with this one, though it took a long time due to two sick kids, one who had to go to ER due to breathing issues, and my midterms, and now of course Im sick as well. :D BUT, papercrafting is a must even when all of this is going on...

More Pink and Brown

So I guess this really doesn't qualify for the Anya Challenge since I didn't use an Anya stamp, though this is greeting farm paper ;). A birthday card I made for a friend today...



the bubble has heart confetti in it :)

A Hippie Anya Card

So there is new challenge blog, called Anya Ink. This is my creation for this weeks pink and brown challenge :D

Im not thrilled with how her hair came out, I have been busy with midterm studies and have neglected my copic's, I need to keep up on the practice, I had gotten better on the hair, its time for a refresher on that....