Need A Friend!?

Happy Wednesday to you all!  How are you all doing?  Can you remind me of my name again?  I think I may have forgotten LOL....that's caused from too much stress and too much to do this week oy!  And it doesn't get any better goin' into the weekend either.  Alexa's birthday is tomorrow (the big 17) and we are headed to Baltimore to celebrate.  Then Friday she's having a sleepover AND I have to have Riley at mall by 7 pm to meet the Washington Capitals hockey players.  Then Saturday we head to FedEx field for the Redskins Spring-Draft Event and then he's having friends over Saturday night.  And Sunday we will finish it up with a Nationals baseball game in DC LOL.  For those that say they would love to hang out with me...well you change your mind yet?? hee hee

Soooooo no down time for this girl....hubby asked wanted I wanted for my birthday next week and I said PEACE & QUIET LOL.  Well and the Tiffany silver earrings I really want...hee hee...every girl should get a Tiffany blue box once in their lifetime right?  I figure my 39th is a good time for one since its my last birthday.....I shall stay 39 for the next 6 years AT LEAST ;)  So there ya go....so if you email and it takes me awhile to email you back OR I email you blibbery-bloo that makes NO sense...well I warned ya ahahahahaha!

DON'T FORGET!!

Starting Friday we will kick off the 4 days of festivities and specials on classes and more!

Come join the Birthday Group HERE to keep up with the festivities....schedule of events will be up tomorrow night so you can prepare ;)

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Need A Friend?

Today is Wee Wednesday at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog and I got a cutie to share with you all!  I have to say that this Wee Stamp "Goldie" by Whimsey Stamps/Sylvia Zet is my FAVE of them all....I love mermaids and her and her lil' friend are so CUTE I CAN'T STAND IT!!  I created a fun Circle Easel card for this one (see an easy tutorial for it here)...I wanted to mix it up a bit (that's code for I was bored with the square cards LOL).  And I pulled some oldie but goodie papers by Basic Grey out...its Ambrosia...one of my faves from years ago.  This pic shows pretty well the shimmer mist by Maya Roads on the white doily accent...its copper colored and makes a nice shimmery accent me thinks :)  You can see the other DT gals Wee Wednesday projects at the Challenge Blog HERE and join in on our current Tuesday Challenge too. 

**Come see the 49 NEW Memory Box Dies that Magnolia-licious got in...they are on SALE thru Thursday so come load up...I love them all...sighhhhh LOL **

AND

NEW DEAL OF THE DAY....every day Magnolia-licious will have a DEAL on the HOME Page of the store...for 24 hours you will get a certain product or stamp for a HUGE discount...so make sure to check those out!

This card has a TON of layers...I ain't gonna lie LOL...I loaded it up.  The large circles I cut out on my Silhouette Cameo then started using my SB nesties for the smaller circles & scalloped circles.  The white doily was done on my Cameo as well.  The gray swirls are a new Memory Box die "Val Flourish" and then I also accented with some tulle.  The flowers are by Prima that I layered and mixed up a bit.  The orange cs I inked with white Palette Ink to soften the brightness a bit.  The glass accents are Bella Baubles.

Entering this into the following fab challenges:

Make It Monday

Forever Friends (flowers)

Melonheadz Friends (fancy folds)

Ooh La La Creations Challenges (easel cards)

Paper Playtime (more than 1 fold)

Pause.Dream.EnjoyChallenges (friendship)

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge (circles)

Goldie was colored with Copics: YR18,YR16,YR01,Y15,YR20 / E11,E00,R11/ C9,C7,C5,C3,C1 / BG01,B000.  I added Diamond Glaze to the bubbles and then sprinkled in Glamour Dust to give it a suspended sparkle!

The sentiment is from Verve Stamps and it says "The only way to have a friend, is to be one"...I love that and its so true.  I love my BFFs and friends so much for always being there for me, listen to me whine on occasion, yell on occasion, laughs and giggles and so much more...my friends mean a lot to me and I hope they all know I'm here for them too!!

Ok, I'm off and running today....lots to get done and do before tomorrow...my baby girl is gonna be 17 sniff sniff!  Have a goody!

Blurfin' Fun!!

Happy Weekend Everyone! It is brrrrr cold here in VA and I'm NOT liking it one bit--blech! What happened to the 70 degrees---wahhhhh! I feel that winter chill in the air which means winter is soon to come--and you know I'm NOT a fan, lol! Today I'm off to the mall for the promised "homecoming dress" shopping trip I promised Alexa and she's bringing a friend. I hope she's able to find something quickly or we will progress into the pouting/whining stage "I can't find ANYTHING" or "it makes me look fat" (as if, lol)! Not to mention that my shopping patience only lasts so long, lol especially if my blood sugar is low and there isn't any Coke in site :)  And then once the dress is found we have to get shoes and jewelry and then we can leave, lol!  Ah to be a teenage girl again--NOT, I wouldn't go back if you paid me big $$$$, lmbo!  Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

NewsBitz:

-SCACD has some great new products in including the NEW Gold & Silver Flower Soft (AWESOME STUFF--looks like tinsel), NEW Petaloo velvet hydrangeas, blooms and poinsettias (beautiful) and NEW Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pads!

-Monday is the October Magnolia-licious Blog Hop!!  The theme is "We're Cookin'" and all the details will be up on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog on Monday morning starting at 4 am EST!

-The Holiday Special Edition of Through the Craftroom Door has been mailed and emailed out so you should be receiving it soon if you subscribe!  (Don't Subscribe?  See HERE) We need some fabulous entries for some projects/cards using the sketch below---get them in by Oct.22nd and send entries to craftdoor@yahoo.com --come on we want to see your awesome work!!

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Blurfin' Fun!!

Today I have a fun project for you that I had "created" in my mind a bit ago but never got around to making it!  It's also for this week's "Try It Out Challenge" and it was to create a fall gift--well mine isn't fall themed but it does make a great gift :)  Check out the store blog HERE to see more fun creations by the DT!!  I'm using a fabulous image by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD called "You Have Mail"--this image reminds me so much of my daughter and her ever attached laptop, lol! (or if you ask my friends they say this is a younger version of me with my laptop & coke, hee hee)!  I created a fun birthday card and laptop gift card holder which was fun!  **And just so you know blurfin' is blog-hopping, not throwing up, hee hee ***

I kept the color scheme to royal blue, yellow and white and made it fun for a tween or teenager to receive.  The yellow paper with small stars is from PTI, the other dp is from DCWV and then I embossed the blue cs with a NEW Cuttlebug Folder (large dots--isn't it cool)!  The sentiment is from PTI as well and then rhinestones bling it up a bit!

Yep this cutie is colored with Copics and then I've added diamond glaze to the laptop screen and stickles to the Coke can and moons on her fun pajamas.  Isn't she just a cutie?  This "You Have Mail" image is perfect for tween/teen girls in your life!

To create the laptop gift card holder I basically created a smaller version of an easel card (if you want dimensions, email me and I will measure it up for you this weekend)!  Need directions for the Easel Cards--I created a picture tutorial HERE if you'd like to have a looksy!  I tried drawing out the keyboard on silver cs but it looked odd to me, lol so I got a free clipart image from Google and resized it and printed it out.  The screen is silver cardstock with the corners rounded and then some cardstock and a fun sentiment from PTI--rhinestones finish it off.  To create the back pocket for the gift card---I just lined the sides and bottom with scor-tape to make a pocket and then the whole thing folds flat so you can easily mail it.

Hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you back here on Monday for the October Magnolia-licious Blog Hop--theme is "We're Cookin'"!!!  You won't want to miss it!!

News Girl!

Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday to ya!  We're halfway thru the week and I still have ALOT of work to finish up before Sunday night---eek, I'm getting nervous, lol!  I've been typing up TONS of pdf files to go along with all the video instruction WHILE watching tivoed episodes of "Chuck", LOL.  So hope I don't get any weird spy stuff typed into the pdf files, hee hee--hubby and I just love that show!  Chuck, Castle and Modern Family are the three shows we always make time to watch--we all need the comedic relief these days you know.  I hope to be in bed tonight BEFORE 4 am---that seems to be my bedtime these days and my old bones are feeling it for sure!

**So excited I made my own blinkie and you can have it too!!**

Once the site goes live this button will click to it!!

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NewsBitz:

-Remember to stop by Susana's Store Blog to enter for the Yummy Victoria Case Blog Candy HERE--the new release is this Friday!

-What's New at Magnolia-licious?   Have you seen the NEW Bridal, Magic and Pirate Collections yet?  They are CUTE-a-LICIOUS I tell ya!  You can see them all HERE!

-Winner of the NEW Zutter Distrezz Tool for emailing me about the new magazine subscription will be posted tomorrow!  I have to pull those emails off my other laptop to get a winner!!

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News Girl!

I haven't done an easel card in awhile and I wanted to use these fabulous New Magnolia stamps from Magnolia-licious (from the Raising the Ceiling Collection)---aren't they sweet?  I used "Love News Tilda" and "Post Bag with Love Letters" for my project!  You can find the directions on how to make an Easel Card HERE.  My papers are from K&Co's "Life's Journey"!

If you're taking my Copic On-Line Classes (see HERE) you will see how and learn how I colored this Tilda from start to finish in a Distress Inks style--very vintage!  All the glittered accents were created by die-cutting my Scor-Tape Sheets (see HERE), peeling off a layer and then adding glitter!  Fun huh?  And yep those Scor-Tape Sheets you can die-cut and punch thru them and then add glitter or micro-beads to.  I added some stickles to my image as well and the double bow was made with my handy-dandy Bow Easy (if you're reading closely and leave a comment on this post only you will win this Tilda AND a Bow-Easy--you have until Friday to comment)--I love hidden BLOG CANDY, hee hee!  The lil round sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up!  All my papers were distressed with my Tonic Distress Tool--waiting for my Zutter Distrezz tool very impatiently, lol!

I just love this image of Tilda in her cute lil' cargo pants--too fun! 

(I used BG93,BG96,R22,R20,W3) 

Remember you can find all these cute stamps at Magnolia-licious!

Side View of the Easel Card--these are so fun to make!

And here is a close up of the "Post Bag of Love Letters"--lots of stickles to dress it up a bit.  And I stacked lots of cream flowers with my mini Prima Roses--the border was done with a MS punch.  Just to let you know I have a bucket filled with just cream/white flowers (so I can color them, paint them however I want) and a bucket full of different sizes roses, LOL--I'm a total flower addict I tell ya!

Hope you enjoyed this post--see ya tomorrow with some NEW Pink Cat Digi stamps!!

Plummy Perfect!!

Happy, Happy Friday to ya friends!! Aren't ya happy it's the weekend--I know I am, and for alot of us it's a 3-Day weekend for Columbus Day (LOL--didn't realize this until yesterday after my kids informed me they had no school on Monday--see how out of it I am lately, hee hee)! I tell ya, if I didn't keep sticky-note lists for every event & to-do in my life, I wouldn't make it--LOL! I have stickies everywhere--it drives my hubby CRAZY and he knows better than to move them or throw any away (I even stick them in my books that I'm reading if I have an idea). I draw little boxes next to my to-do's so I can cleanly check them off (yes, I'm anal that way, hee hee) so it's not messy looking. And my project to-do list is a mile long--tutorials, spreadsheets, Etsy orders, DT deadlines, etc. all listed on separate stickies in my office :o) I love it when I've marked off an entire sticky & can throw it away--and then a new one will appear magically it seems, LOL! My head swims with so much stuff on any given day (& thru the night) that lists keep it manageable for me ya know. Are you a list maker like me or is your brain an automatic spreadsheet that can hold billions of information, hee hee?

NewsBitz:

-Stop by 7 Kids College Fund HERE to see what's new!! Tab has some really cool mini stamp sets by Inkadinkado that are just fabulous & only $1.52 a set (Halloween, Fall, & Everyday)--really fun ones too!

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Plummy Sweet Easel Card

So today I have two monochromatic Magnolia projects for ya! I just love using Monochromatic colors on my projects--I think using different tones of color looks fab & kind of calming too. For this Easel Card I made I used the new Stampin' Up Razzleberry papers & cs--I really love this color combo although it was hard to match it with copics (I used RV69,R85,R83,R81,RV34). This fabulous stamp is from the Yummy for Your Tummy Collection by Magnolia and you can see all the cute, cute stamps HERE at Magnolia-licious! This lil' gal is "Peachey Tilda" but I made her into Plummy Tilda, hee hee cuz' I wanted her to hold plums and dontcha' love my lil' plum border (see below)! This card will be going to my grandmother who sent me homemade plum jellies that she made using plums from her yard this fall--I know she'll love it especially since it's her favorite colors (and made by meeee)!! This card is being entered into the Moxy Fab World Challenge--what is it, well you have to make something that's Plum Fabulous, hee hee!

I love, love making these Easel Cards--they easy to do & so pretty to sit up! You can find directions & a picture tutorial over on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog HERE & join in on the fun as well!
Here's a close-up of my Plummy Tilda--colored with copics, diamond glaze on the plums and some diamond stickles on the leaves & her lace trim!
I had to show you the little plums I made for the trim using pearls (Kaiser Pearls in Plum HERE) and then for the leaves, I punched green circles with my paper hole punch & cut them in half & glued them---aren't they cute! Sometimes I have small flashes of brilliance, LOL! The border was done with my Fiskars Border Punch.

A close up of the flowers--these are Prima Hydrangeas that I layered & then added a Prima rose in white. I painted the Prima cream roses with my Inspiration Paints (in Tutu Pink & Light Purple) so they would match & have a pretty shimmer (I buy lots in white so I can change their color to match whatever I'm working on). The leaves are made w/ my Martha Stewart leaf punch. I hope you love this card as much as I do--it makes me smile :o)

Second project is a Christmas Ornament I had made for World Cardmaking Day last weekend for the SCS challenge that Magnolia-licious hosted! I used a Winter Tilda from an older collection (I didn't see it in the Magnolia-licious gallery, but perhaps I'm blind, hee hee) that I really love. I colored her in blues to match this shimmery navy & white cs from Paper Trey Ink that I just love. I used my Spellbinders Pendant "Kaleidoscope" to create the layers for this ornament. The circle behind her was coated with some of my favorite Martha Stewart Snow Glitter and her lantern has diamond glaze on it for shine!

This is the back side of the ornament--I just die cut out the pendants and then scored them down the middle, folded them & layered them--attaching with Scor-Tape so it stays strong. Finished it off with a nice white bow to hang. Easy & fun to make!

Alrighty, I'm outta here for the day but will be back tomorrow with another project for ya, possibly a Mo's Digital Pencil or a fun new Penny Johnson image (lovee these)!! Have a fabulous weekend!!

hugz,

Suzanne