Sneak Peek and Raspberry Suite Color Challenge 20

Hi there! Happy Thursday! Tonight, not only am I sharing a card I created for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Challenge 20, but I am also giving you a sneak peek of some goodies from the upcoming Occasions Mini and Sale-a-Bration catalog!!! Don't those butterflies look fun? It's a brand new exclusive Stampin'Up! Sizzix Embosslit called Beautiful wings. There are 5 various butterflies in different sizes and textures. You'll love it - the butterflies are gorgeous! And how about that border? It has a matching corner punch, too! This is the Scallop Trim border punch available in the Sale-a-Bration catalog and Scallop Corner punch that's in the Occasions Mini. Lots of fun stuff coming up starting January 5th! More info coming soon...Now, let's take a look at fun colors: The colors I used are SU!'s Chocoloate Chip, Kraft, Very Vanilla, Dusty Durango and one of my favorite retired colors, Baja Breeze. Wanna see the full card?
Here you go. The ribbon is also a new offering in Stampin'Up!'s Occasions mini - 5/8" Satin Ribbon which is soo lovely and beautiful to tie. Pretty much all the supplies are Stampin'Up! on this card, except for the pearl stickers. Here's the recipe for you:

{Hello Beautiful Wings Card}
*Cardstock: Textured Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze {retired}, Dusty Durango, Kraft, Very Vanilla
*Ink: Dusty Durango
*Stamp Set: Hello Again
*Accessories: Scallop Trim Border {in the Sale-a-Bration catalog} and Scallop Trim Corner {in the Occasions Mini}, Beautiful Wings Embosslit {in the Occasions Mini}, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon {Occasions Mini}, half pearl stickers (craft store)

Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping in :)

My 2010 calendar project

Hey there! Just thought I'd share a few pages from the first calendar I made in the MDS program. It's a 12x12 size, and I created the calendar with the intention of giving them as Christmas gifts for some friends and family. Calendars are pretty fun to make because they're quick! I used one picture per month, since this is a scenic calendar, but you have the flexibility to choose your picture layouts and color schemes, so it really is up to you! I went with simple and clean lines, because I thought the scenes were gorgeous on their own. Here's a look:

Stampin'Up! offers professional printing services for the MDS program, so the calendars will be printed on heavy weight quality cardstock and wire bound at the top. I just placed my first order, so I'll keep you posted on how the finished product looks. I'm excited! Can't wait to see how they come out :)

Animal Crackers Winner announcement!

Hi blog friends! Hope you all had a great weekend. I think I got some much needed R&R this weekend, so I'm ready to start the work week all bright eyed and bushy tailed (at least for now!). Looks like I got a great response to the Animal Crackers giveaway! I am so glad that a bunch of you played and left me fun comments! You guys ready to find out the winner? This week's lucky winner is... Lucky number 6...who happens to be Robyn W.! Congrats to you Robyn W. and thank you to all of you that played :) Just 3 more weeks left til the end of the year and the last one happens to be on Christmas! That'll be a great present for someone :)

Well, as far as holiday decorating goes, we were able to get the lights up outside the house and I got to put out the wreath on the front door, but our inside of the house has yet to be decorated. I'm hoping to do a little bit each day during the week and finish off by Saturday. On the Christmas card front, I am now officially TOTALLY behind. Let's just say I'm going to have to recruit my helper (dear hubby) to help do some assembling this week.

Have a great day and I'll catch up with you guys later. Toodles!

Wine Tag

I love it when I come across different ways to use the Big Shot dies I have! Today's project is a wine tag I created using the Stampin'Up! exclusive Two Tags Sizzix Bigz Die. Just in time for Holiday gift giving! These tags are perfect to have on hand to throw on a bottle to bring to the many holiday parties of the season. Here's a look at it in full view around the bottle. Not sure if you can tell in these pictures, but my little birdie is all covered up in Dazzling Diamonds glitter to give him some holiday bling! What do you think? Here's another closer view of the tag on the bottle. This is such an easy-peasy project, too! All I need to do now is write who this wine is for and we're good to go! Here's the recipe:

{Two Tags Wine Tag}
All supplies Stampin'Up!
*Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Merry Moments DSP
*Accessories: Stampin'Up exclusive Two Tags Sizzix Bigz Die, Bird and Blooms Sizzlits, Silver brad, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 1 3/8" Circle punch, Scallop Circle punch, Snowflake punch.

It's getting late for me, so off to bed I go! See you guys tomorrow for the Freebie Friday Winner announcement. Bye now :)

Oliver's Christmas Card

I was just playing around with SU!'s My Digital Studio and thought I would try and make a Christmas card for my kitty, Oliver. Since I haven't quite gotten to decorating my house yet this year, this is a picture of Oliver from last Christmas. As you can see - he's a good little helper with the decorations :) I was happily surprised to be able to put this card together so quickly! This is one of the pre-set designer templates in the program, so all I had to do was literally drop the picture in!

I also spent some time creating a calendar this afternoon and that was fun too! I made a scenic one vs. a family picture one. This has scenes from our trip to Croatia last year. Maybe I'll even share a sneak peek of a few pages sometime later this week. Looking at those pictures definitely got me all nostalgic about our trip! If I had only "virtually" met my blogging friends Jane and Nina before we went on our trip last year, I would have made a point to meet them when we were out there! :) One of these days, I'm sure our paths will cross...{right, ladies?}

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend so far. By for now.

Anyone up for Freebie Friday Animal Crackers?

Happy Friday all! It’s a chilly morning here in Southern CA, so it’s beginning to feel like winter at 50 degrees. And, believe it or not, it’s forcasted to be 38 degrees on Sunday! BRRRR!!! Hope you guys had a great week. Big plans for the weekend? I know I need to get going on my Christmas cards so I can send them out next week!

Are you ready for today’s Freebie Friday? If you were wondering what I meant in my blog post title, I was referring to this week’s freebie, which is the Animal Crackers stamp set! It is just too cute! And what yummy animal crackers they are!
All you need to do is leave me a comment on this post by Sunday, December 6th at 12 NOON Pacific time (if you’re viewing this post on Facebook, you need to actually leave the comment on my blog). Please be sure to either leave your email address in the comment or a blog URL so I can contact you :) You can comment on anything or tell me about what you and your family do to decorate/get ready for the holidays. Look forward to reading your comments! Have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by today :)

In the Spotlight for Raspberry Suite #19!

Hi peeps! Happy Thursday! As you guys can probably tell from my lack of postings, I haven't quite figured out a routine yet with the work schedule. So far, work's going well, now it's just trying to juggle the precious free time ( about an hr or 2) each day to do everything I want and need to do!

Anyway, I digress...I'm actually posting about something I'm super excited and honored about! I was so happy to discover I made it in Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Challenge #19! Woohoo! That made my week! Here's a look at all her picks for this round: My card is letter H! You can check out my original post here.

Thanks for stopping by to visit! Have a great night. Yay...tomorrow's Friday! Another Freebie's coming up :)

Bye for now.