How TOTALLY cool is this!!??!!

Have you ever had a complete product line

named after YOU?

Well, it's official, I can now say that I HAVE!!

Look at these AWESOME digi papers

from JLJ Designs!

I am so pleased and honored to present to you:

The "Stacie Digital Paper Pack"

Jen and I have developed a great friendship 

that started at The Latte Lounge

and has grown so much from there!

She is so talented and if you don't believe me,

just take a look at her blog! 

And...she makes the most awesome digi papers!

 Her shop is like a candy store to me!

Digi papers, digi images, seam binding, craft pins...

you name it, she's got it!

One day, I asked if she could do some

coordinated stripes and dots papers!

Not only did she create them!

She named them after me!

Not only are they special to me

but YOU can grab them for 25% off 

just by entering the coupon code 

STACIE25 

at the shop!

And just a little FYI between you and me...

SHHH!!!

Tomorrow is Jen's Birthday!!!

So make sure you stop over

and send her some love!! 

Digi's with Attitude! Challenge #30

We are starting Challenge #30 at the Digi's with Attitude! Challenge Blog today!

Happy Father's Day:

show us your Dad's Day Cards!

You can use any masculine image and do not have to make a card for just Dad. We would love to see any Manly Project!

It is not required you use a Digi's With Attitude! image however, there's always a FREEBIE at the DWA shop!

Our sponsors this week are Digi's with Attitude! and Stitchy Bear Stamps. Winners (one for every 25 entries) will receive A $10 Digi's With Attitude Gift Certificate* and one randomly selected winner will receive a $10 Gift Certificate for the Stitchy Bear Stamps Shop.

For my card, I used Napoleon, which you can get at the Digi's with Attitude! Store by clicking HERE! The papers are from JLJ Designs Dad's Day Digi Paper Pack. Where else can you get 12 sheets of color-coordinated papers that you can print as many times as you would like for only $4.00? The more I play with Digi Papers, the more I LOVE them!!

I actually sewed on this card, too! Can  you believe it? I have a sewing machine and I DO know how to use it, but it's not something I do on a regular basis... I have a counted cross stitch project I was planning to give my parents for their 25th anniversary. Last October was their 40th!! So, I guess I'm not much of a "stitcher"! Every once in a while, I'll pull it out and blow the dust off the box, but at this point, I'm wondering if it's a little hopeless!

SO! If you're a regular follower of my blog, you might remember that I mentioned a special project I had made for Heather, at Fresh Brewed Designs, using her newest release "Daisy's Recital". You can read all about it here if you missed it!

Well, I told you that I was holding off posting pictures of my "other" project until I was sure the Mail-person had delivered it.

I am happy to announce that it has arrived safely into the hands of it's new owner!

So now I can show you!

It is impossibly difficult to take a good picture of etched glass.

I tried different background colors, different lighting set-ups, different things inside and behind the glass... no matter what I tried, this is the best shot I could get of the curved glass vase!

I made this for Heather's DD, who is having her first dance recital this weekend! She has been working really hard and I can't wait to see the pictures!

ABC with FBD

Now, that was a fun title to come up with!
It's Wednesday! That means it's Fresh Brewed Designs Day on my blog!

A few Fresh Brewed Reminders:

Our Monthly Challenge is ending soon. You can enter all your Summer and Beach projects HERE!

We also have a Month-long challenge at the Latte Lounge with a terrific sketch!

You can enter to win more Fresh Brewed Goodies at Altered Alice all this month

And we are sponsoring a challenge from the Latte Lounge Digi Day that ends TONIGHT! It's a F-U-N challenge called You're a Special Lady too!make a card you'd like to receive!

And you can always enter your projects HERE for a chance to be a Guest Designer!

And... our Fresh Brewed Crew has been very busy making some terrific projects for this week's NEW challenge!

The theme is:

Anything But a Card

and the team's creations

are anything but ordinary!

Make sure you pop over and show them a little love!

I used the new "Daisy with Flowers" digi for my project.

It is "supposed" to be a "Treat" holder, but my boys ate all the Reese's cups before I could get any for the picture!
This project was inspired by the YUMMIEST project, posted by Rhonda for our Latte Lounge Digi Day 'You're Special Too' Challenge. 

Here's a little close-up of Daisy and her flowers! I colored her with Paint.NET then printed her twice. I cut each of the flowers and separated and bent the petals so they would pop up. I also cut out her skirt, embossed it with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots. In the close-up you can see the pretty shimmer! I achieved that by using "Creative Inspirations" paint: Fairy Dust. You can get the Marvelous Paint at the Fresh Brewed Shop! For only $2.15 a jar, this stuff is awesome!! In the centers of the flowers, I used Glossy Accents. The pretty polka dotted paper: that is from JLJ Designs!! In the "Pretty Tough Pack"

Stamping Boutique Blog Hop

We're doing something a little different this time!
Because the Stamping Boutique Design Team is such a large group, we have divided the team into two groups for this Hop. Feel free to hop through both groups to increase your chances of winning TSB Goodies!


You should have started at The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog. If you just happened to pop in today, you'll want to make a quick stop over there to check out the details of the Hop this weekend!


We were all given the "Maypole" image to work with and you should see some the terrific projects created by my TSB Teamies! 

Your next stop in the Hop 

is the uber-talented Christy at Inklings and Yarns! 

I'm sure you're in for a real treat!

And guess what!! This Tuesday, you can grab the image in this hop for only $1.00!! For the first time ever, The Stamping Boutique is having a Dollar Days sale and Tracey has decided to offer ALL of the images in the "What's New" Section for ONLY ONE DOLLAR each... so make sure you RUN to the TSB Store on Tuesday and grab all the images you can at this great price!

For my card, I chose to use the Sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp (which TSB is sponsoring this week)!
I used printable digi papers from JLJ Designs' Cynthia Set which is exclusively available at the Stamping Boutique Store!

Jen is having a challenge over at the Latte Lounge and the only requirement is to use ANY JLJ Designs product!!


She has a brand new store at Artfire and it's chuck full of goodies!
I have almost every paper in her collection and use them all the time!


And if you love new and different papers but don't have the means to buy entire packs, you should join us at the May Swap Club at the Latte Lounge! This month, we're swapping 6" x 6" papers!! Everyone who signs up sends enough papers for each member of the group, then in return, we each receive one paper from each member in our packet! What a great way to try a new variety!


Last month, we swapped ribbons and I used a piece of my brand new ribbon in today's project! What a really neat ribbon it is, too... it's elastic and iridescent... so pretty and shimmery and just perfect for the Maypole!


And, last but not least: my sentiment! My friend Sara sent me a whole pack of Ippity images and sentiments to play with and the challenge at Get Hippity with Ippity is Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers! Well! let's see... umm... flowers? check! Got it covered with  my rolled roses and the flowers at the top of the Maypole! The sentiment "thinking of you" is from the "Just Wanted to Say" Ippity Set! I'm IN like Flynn! (-:


I thank you so much for visiting today and I hope you'll have time to take advantage of the TSB Dollar Days Sale on Tuesday! There are over 75 images in that section of the store and at $1 each, you really should head over and start your shopping list today!

Seeing Stars with Digi’s With Attitude!

Welcome to another week of Digi’s With Attitude! Challenges!

This week’s challenge is sponsored by:

Stitchy Bear Stamps and Digi’s With Attitude!

One lucky winner will receive a $10 Gift Certificate

to the Stitchy Bear Stamps store.

And for every 25 entries, we will be giving out a $10 Gift Certificate to the new and improved Digi’s With Attitdude! shop!

Our Challenge Theme this week is:

Who is the STAR in your life?

As long as there is a STAR on your project, you’re good to go!

We’d love to see creations with DWA images

and if you don’t have any, Clipper is free for the rest of this month!

There are a lot of really FUN images coming out in May

so keep checking back… you’ll be ROTFLYBO! (-:

For my project this week, I used one of the

newest ‘Tweens with ‘Tude

“Fortune Teller ‘Tween”

and digi papers from

JLJ Designs, Stars and Stripes Pack

The tent was cut out using “A Day at the Carnival” from SVGCuts.com and I used black satin ribbon for the curtains. 

Here’s the inside:

I used my Cri-Kits pens, and now that I’m writing this out, I can’t remember the name of the font…

Can’t wait to see all the awesome ways you use STARS in your projects this week!


This weeks' challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop, Anything Goes
Crafts4Eternity, Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion, Show Us Your Layers
AI Factory, Anything Goes

Happy World Card Making Day 2010

Wow! The blogs everywhere are buzzing!
There are blog hops and prizes and all sorts of things going on today!

I made this card for a special young lady named "Peanut"! She is only 2 1/2 and she makes cards with her mom (Jennifer from JLJ Designs). Every card that Peanut makes, she adds glitter and bling and is quite the up-and-coming artist!! I made this as sparkly as I could for her!

The image and all the papers are from Jennifer's store at Stitchy Bear Stamps!

I won the image in a recent blog candy that Jennifer was offering and I had the choice of any of her new release stamps. I asked her to have Peanut pick which image to send and this is the one she chose! I'm glad too, because it was definitely one of my favorites!

So! Let's see... how did I make it?
The Spring Up Card is from a tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers, the candies and pumpkin at the bottom are foam stickers from Dollar General, the broom is a toothpick with raffia bristles, the moon and bats are from MyScrapChick, the cuddly ghosts are from SVG cuts.com, the sentiment was written with my Cri-Kit pens, the image was colored with Prismacolor pencils, the papers are from JLJ Designs, the sparkle is glitter glue, and, well, I think that's it!

Here are the challenges I will enter with this card:
Crafty Ho's, Inspiration Photo, the photo looked so spooky, all I thought was Halloween
Order of the Opus Gluei, Feeling Kind of Sketchy
One Stitch At a Time, As You Like It, Anything Goes
Stamp Scrap and Doodle, Show us What You've Got Open Challenge

Audrey Sitting on a Swing: Autism Awareness

Link Alert!! 

This post is chock full of links to all over the web... got your travellin' shoes on?

I read a great post about a little man named Cameron.

He is Autistic. You can read his story here:

One Stitch at a Time

and 

I Did It Creations

and
JLJ Designs

Have all chipped in to make this a great fund-raiser for little Cameron.

The challenge is to Create anything with a Rainbow.

It can include actual rainbows or use every color of the rainbow.

I chose a Stamping Boutique image called "Audrey Sitting".

I put her on a swing that was a free SVG posted by

Creating in Carolina.

I also used Cely's "Trees with Hammock" set!

I cut the tree top in blue for the cloud!

Woo-hoo, a two-fer for Cely's Challenge!

And the apple tree on the right?

Well, it was a freebie, too!

From My Scrap Chick.

And the roses!

They are another beautiful creation 

of Penny Duncan.

I can't remember where I found the yellow background gingham.

I was a piece I found in my scrap drawer.

And the fine folks over at Operation Write Home
are having a "Monday Wondering" Challenge.
For OWH, I would probably take off the flowers
and add a flatter embellishment for mailing!

The Crafty Ho's are using the colors

Green, Blue and Yellow

for their challenge this week!
I like participating in their challenges because
I LOVE the name of their blog... makes me giggle every time!

The Stamping Boutique is sponsoring a Challenge at
City Crafter Challenge Blog
Create a card/project that include the image of a tree/trees  or a book/books. You could also make a bookmark, a book cover, a notebook, coffee table brag book etc.
This is my Stamping Boutique Design Team Submission
for that challenge.

I think that's it!
Whew... if I've forgotten to mention anyone,
"I'll be back"!