Happy Birthday TSB!!!

The Stamping Boutique is CELEBRATING

our TWO YEAR BIRTHDAY!!

Pop over to the Stamping Boutique Blog 

to see all the celebrations!!

Join in on one of the games or challenges for a chance to WIN!!

How easy is this??
Post this button on your blog and
add your name to the list!
Every month, you could WIN!!! TSB images!

The Monthly Contest is simple too:
just enter ANY project you've made using TSB images!

If you don't have any TSB images
you can enter our
Bi-Weekly Challenge
The Theme is "Back to School"
I colored the School House with my
Prismacolor Pencils
The background paper is:
Back to School Paper
and the ruler is:
Mrs. Czapor's Ruler
All three images are in the TSB Shop!

The Apple and Star are MTC shapes.

The Seam Binding is from 

JLJ Designs!

And, there's MORE!! When they throw a Party at TSB, they sure do go ALL OUT!!

Another chance for you to WIN!! more TSB images!!

Just make a Birthday card to help us celebrate!

Enter it in 

the Birthday Celebration

and you could win!!

And this card is PERFECT

for the Brand New

Month Long Progressive Challenge

at The Crafter's Cafe!

The challenge gets a "Progressively"

more challenging every week.

This week, we're starting simple

with a "Celebration" card!

I am celebrating a very special birthday

and hope you'll join me in wishing Tracey the best as her store turns two!

Here is the outside of my pop up stage card:

Here's to the past two years of Smashing Success 

and to many more!!

We love you Tracey!!

Happy Birthday with Kaboodle Doodles and Paper Pretties

The newest challenge this week at Kaboodle Doodles

is brought to you by

Paper Pretties

Our Kaboodlers were provided with

a variety of super cute images to

work with this week!

Our project is themed:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I chose this cute “Birthday Balloons for You”

The blue plaid paper is from Floppy Latte Designs.

You can’t see it very well in this picture, but the top white panel

is embossed with a Fiskars “Party” plate.

Nice and simple!

Cute and cheerful!

Just right!

The prize provided by Paper Pretties this week

is THREE digis from their store!

So, I hope you can come over to the 
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog

and play with us this week!

Happy Birthday Mom!

I am having a BALL this week!
I have broke out the Cricut more this week than I've had a chance to do in months!!!


I found a "Survivor" logo online and used it to trace out my "modified" version in Inkscape. I broke out the torch the guy is usually holding and replaced it with a little cake...Then I imported it into MTC to cut it out. 


Wrapped around a little band of twine for that rough, exotic island feel, layered it all together and printed the sentiment inside! Long set up, but easy assembly, now that the file is made!


There is a FREE font I found online called "Survivor font" that I used for all the words... anyone who watches Survivor will probably recognize my "alteration" of the Survivor tagline ("Out Play, Out Wit, Out Last") Well, since my mom is turning 62 and always makes a point of sending cards about how "old" I'm getting, I made all the words past tense! 


She'll get it! And I think she'll find it amusing! She's a Survivor junkie like me and we're just waiting for Redemption Island to get started!

Here is the inside.

If you want the "Survivor Modified Logo" file, let me know and I'll zip it up and share it!


Have a great weekend!