MFT Teasers Day 2 - à La Mode

Hi everyone and welcome to day 2 of 2 of MFT Teasers for the new à La Modes!  The à La Mode sets will be available for purchase on the MFT Boutique tonight, along with this month's MFT VIP kit. So be ready to run on over! Today we are featuring Grad Girl à La Mode.

Just in case you didn't catch the scoop on MFT's line of à La Mode stamps:

• Each set is produced in the USA using the highest quality rubber, with the deepest etch possible.
• Each image and sentiment is backed on cling foam and scroll cut, making it ready for stamping right out of the bag!
• Packaged in a clear hang bag, we've also provided the ideal storage solution by including a thick laminated header card in each set that can be used to store the stamp set, in its entirety, after purchase.

Grad Girl à La Mode is the perfect stamp set for those graduating friends and family members. I created a card using October Afternoon's School House papers. I colored up my image with my Copic markers and cut it out using my Long Rectangle Nesties. I then tucked a piece of the Textile Rectangle Die-namics stamped with a sentiment along the side. I used my Notebook Edge Die-namics to create a notepaper effect on the layer under my image. Then I tucked along side a Simply Scallops die cut in Black Licorice cardstock. I crinkled some turquoise seam binding and centered on a Rolled Rose cut out with MFT felt.

I kept the inside pretty simple by laying down some Black Licorice cardstock with design paper and centering the sentiment onto a Sweet Stack of layers, adorned with some Recollections pearls.

I'll be back later on tonight for MFT's VIP Blog Hop & Shop. Don't forget, beginning at 7pm PT on Tuesday, April 19th, both featured à La Modes Dream Big and Grad Girl as well as MFT's VIP kit will be available for purchase on the MFT Boutique. 

Be sure to check Kim's blog for more stunning projects from the design team using the new Grad Girl à La Mode!

hugs!

Here are the Die-namics I used:

MFT Teaser Day 1 - à La Mode

Hi everyone and welcome to day 1 of 2 MFT Teasers for the new à La Modes! In the next 2 days, the MFT design team will be featuring this month's 2 new à La Mode stamp sets: Dream Big and Grad Girl. These sets will be available for purchase on the MFT Boutique on April 19th along with this month's MFT VIP kit. So mark your calendars! Today, we are featuring Dream Big à La Mode.

First, let me give you the skinny on MFT's line of à La Mode stamps:

• Each set is produced in the USA using the highest quality rubber, with the deepest etch possible.
• Each image and sentiment is backed on cling foam and scroll cut, making it ready for stamping right out of the bag!
• Packaged in a clear hang bag, we've also provided the ideal storage solution by including a thick laminated header card in each set that can be used to store the stamp set, in its entirety, after purchase.

Now onto my card...

I started off with a card base using MFT's Sweet Tooth cardstock. Then I layered on designer paper by My Minds Eye, topped with a piece of vellum dry embossed with stars. I colored up the à La Mode gal with my Copic markers and cut her out with my circle Nesties. I then layered her on top of a Dizzy Doily. The turquoise lace rosette is from my stash, but I adhered a Rolled Rose cut MFT's felt in the center of the rosette. I really like how that came out! The sentiment is cut out using the Flat Bottom Clouds Die-namics.

Inside the card, I layered more of the design paper. Then I took the Dizzy Border and weaved some turquoise seam binding through it. The sentiment is cut out using the Framed Greetings Die-namics.

Check out the creations by the other MFT designers back on Kim's blog HERE.


I'll be here tomorrow with another day of MFT Teasers. Thanks for stopping by today


hugs!!

Here are the Die-namics that I used:

Puzzle Mini Album

Here is a fun mini album I want to share with all of you! This is the BoBunny puzzle mini album, which came with the Gabrielle papers already adhered down. All I had to do was start embellishing, I love it!! I purchased this puzzle mini album at my local scrapbook store. But guess what?! I have similar puzzle pieces now available for purchase on my new Butterfly Kisses Boutique! Please contact me if you have any questions by clicking About Me above. 

Thanks for dropping by today! Have an awesome, crafty weekend!

hugs!

Accordion Photo Stand

Hi everyone -- TGIF!! Wow, what a week it's been and finally the weekend is here. One word ------ aaaaaaaaaaaah! ** Big sigh of relief. ** LOL!

I'm here today with a fun, FUN project for Stampers Dream. A week or so ago I picked up the new Donna Salazar Creative Book Pages Grand Dies over at Stampers Dream. And oh my!! I've been dying to create something with these dies. My Dad's birthday is coming up on Sunday and we're getting together to take him out to a nice dinner. Instead of a birthday card, I thought I'd create him an accordion photo stand of his 3 grandsons! The creative book pages dies were PERFECT! I used the larger (ticket shaped) die to cut out thin chipboard & design paper. Then I used the smaller page die to create a matting for the boys' pictures, which I fussy cut. The papers are from the Prima Reflections paper collection available at Stampers Dream. The embellishments are random metal & wood findings from my stash by Tim Holtz, Making Memories and Maya Road (notice how I used the Maya Road Bingo chips to call out each son's age?) I used the banner die cut from the Regal Crest Alterations Die to adhere alpha stickers to spell out each of my sons' names. I then used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes on the pages and affix large eyelets. The pages are joined together using Tim Holtz Ideology bead & chain.

Hope my Dad enjoys this for years to come!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT weekend!

hugs ♡

Lindy Stamp Gang Linky Party!

Do you love Lindy’s Stamp Gang products? Join the party!

Enter your artwork using any LSG products in the Lovin’ Lindy’s Linky Party and you may win a Little Lindy’s Try-Me Kit! There’s a giveaway a day, drawn randomly, for seven days! Just follow these simple rules:

1. Projects must contain at least one Lindy’s Stamp Gang product.

2. Your email is required to qualify for prizes. (Don’t worry, it’s safe, LSG will never sell or give away your information).

3. Your entry photo must be posted somewhere public, like a blog or online photo album (picasa, google, photobucket). Please link to your blog post, not just your blog address.

4.  Enter as many times as you would like.

5. Giveaways will be drawn randomly every day from all entries posted. Last day to enter is April 22, 2011. Winners will be posted on the Lindy’s Stamp Gang blog and will be contacted by email. Prize winners have 7 days to claim their prize.

Are you ready? Just select the grey “Click Here to Enter” button below the thumbnails and follow the steps to join the party!

Can't wait to WIN?

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April 15 only

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MFT's Creative Challenge "For the Kids"

This month's MFT design team challenge was to create a children's gift item. I had this idea to create an altered chalkboard for my kids' room to keep track of soccer games, location and time. So not only can Mommy be organized... so can the kiddos! ☺ I instantly fell in love with the Pure Innocence: I Get a Kick Out of You stamp set from last month's MFT release. The set is perfect for my little soccer players.... even though they are boys, LOL!!! (the stamp set includes a little PI girl, pic below.) I featured her on my MFT Teaser Day 3 earlier this month HERE.

I have a list of MFT products used on this project included below. Click HERE to watch a vid detailing some of the items used.

Be sure to click on over to Kim's Blog to see what creative goodness the other MFT ladies have to share with you today. By the way, click HERE to check out the MFT DT -- I {♥ HEART ♥} these ladies!!! 

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek! Have a great rest of the week... I know for me, it's going to be a doozer of a week! ☹

hugsies!!

Recipe for this altered project:

• PI: I Get a Kick Out of You stamp set
• Pure Innocence stamp sets (for sentiments): PI Daffodil, PI Boy & His Dog, PI Box of Love
• Say What? Stamp set
• Typewriter Alphabet Stamp (currently out of stock, but check back!)
• MFT Die-namics: Say What?, Fresh Cut Grass, Sunshine, Cloud Trio, Fishtail Banner, Sweet Stack
• MFT Felt
• The Twinery in Charcoal

Stampers Dream & Friends Blog Hop!

✿❀ Click ☛ ☛ HERE  for the Lindy Stamp Gang Bunny Hop.  ❀✿


Hi everyone! I am so excited to be hopping along side some FABULOUSLY creative ladies today. The Dream Team is here with some of our sweet talented friends to share projects using products from the Stampers Dream store. There's lots of eye candy to go around and prizes to be won... so grab that cup of Java, get comfortable and be ready to HOP! :-)

Today, I'd like to share a card I created using the ADORABLE little Marci With Rose cling rubber stamp by Lala Land Crafts, now available at Stampers Dream. Is she NOT adorable?! I love her litte outfit, I had to paper piece her! I used the new Webster's Pages Petite Paper pack "Spring Market, Yacht Club & Country Estate" (currently out of stock.) I stamped the image twice, used my Copic markers to color up the rose she's holding, cut it out and popped it up with a dimensional. The mulberry rose in her hair is from my stash. I colored it up using the same Copic markers I used for the rose she's holding. I added pearl bling from my stash to her waist. I popped Marci up on dimensionals and layered her on top of Kraft paper and DP cut out with Spellbinders Labels 20. The Prima Flowers are from the Stampers Dream store as well as the sentiment, which is from the Heart to Heart Borders and Centers Oval stamp set.

Now to get you on your "hoppin'" way, I'd like to direct you over to Leslie Miller. I'm sure she has something breath-taking to share with you today. 

By the way, a full list of hoppers is included below, just in case you lost your way... PLUS,  details on the prizes that could be won on today's hop! ☺

Thanks for stopping by!

hugsies!

Here is the complete blog hop list. Be sure to leave a comment for each and every one of them when you visit their blog post today. TWO have hidden blog candy, so be sure to comment on their blog post for a chance to win!

Becca Feeken
Michelle Rodgers
Jerri Kay Jimenez
Amy Sheffer
Denise Marzec
Arlene Cuevas <---- You're HERE!
Leslie Miller
Cindy Lawrence
Kellie Fortin
Tosh Leyendekker
Jeanne Streiff
Mariana Grigsby
Joan Ervin
Lea Lawson
Frances Byrne
Christina Fischer
Carla Murphy
Teresa Kline
Carol Longacre
Gabriela Divine 

And here are the two prize packages from Stamper's Dream - one for each lucky winner!  Good Luck!!  Maybe today will be your lucky day!


Here is Blog Candy One:





Here is Mystery Blog Candy Two: