I ♥ Chocolate

Hi Stampers -

Just a quick post from me this afternoon to share my Design Team Project for The Cutting Cafe. This week was all about ... KISSES! HERSHEY's KISSES that is! This week we could chose from an assortment of files that all had to do with those yummy chocolate treats :)

Now...when we were given this assignment I was torn between two of my favorite Mo Manning images that both would go perfectly with this theme. So what do you do when you can't decide? USE BOTH! 

So I decided to make a Criss Cross Card that way I could have one on the outside and one on the inside :)

I used the HERSHEY KISS SHAPED CARD TEMPLATE for the large Kiss on the front of my card. Instead of making the shaped card I used it as a layer on my card. I wanted the kiss to look like someone ripped some of the paper off and took a bite out of it - LOL....maybe the culprit is little Ms. Chocolate Face! My sentiment is from the Hershey Kiss Treat Box File.

Here is a look at the inside insert:

This cute image is another Mo Manning image that is available through her Penny Black line called Kisses. I wanted the inside to kind of look like an evelope so I cut up two different sentiments from the Hershey Shaped Card File and placed them around the image. My little postage style stamps are from a little Bo Bunny set called Prairie Chic Collection Clear Stamps. If you notice on the insert in the bottom right corner and also on the large Hershey Kiss on the front - those little circle punch images are from the Hershey Kisses Valentine Bottoms. 

And finally a look at the whole thing...

Thanks for stopping by today! I better get this posted :) Be sure to visit The Cutting Cafe Inspiration Blog to see how my Design Teamies used their files! 

Hugs!

Laura

I will be entering this in the following Challenges:

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Make It Cute or Sweet

Just Inspirational Challenges - Swirls

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps - Lace and Hearts

Crafting From The Heart - Fancy Folds Anything Goes

Glitter N Sparkle - Bling It Up

Summer Days!

Hi Stampers!

Holy Buckets! I can't believe that July is here already! Seems like yesterday the cold, Iowa Winter was in full force! And before you tell me to hush it... Christmas will be here before you know it! That is my reminder for myself that I really need to make Christmas cards now so I can send more than 2 handmade cards this year - LOL!

But before we think about Christmas...let us focus on the gorgeous Summer weather :) Olivia created a super cute (as always!) Summer Inspired Card that is packed full of sunshine, cuteness and one of the best reliefs on hot Summer Days.... ICE CREAM!

How cute is this?? Olivia used the adorable Mo Manning Lacie with Ice Cream from Stamping Bella! I love how she made the panel look like a polaroid! The papers, colors and ticket are perfect! I love the way she added the word Summer along the bottom also!

Such a cute way to start the week off! Be sure to hop along in our Sensational Sunday Blog hop if you didn't get the chance yesterday! You have until Saturday to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Sensational Sunday & Monday Inspirations, Catch Up + Candy!

Hi Stampers!

I apologize for being the world's most horrible blogger this week. It has been a little crazy here the last week and there is just not enough hours in the day sometimes! I think we all have those weeks at one point or another! This coming week is also going to be a busy one because my Grandma is having her breast cancer surgery Tuesday and I have to take her up to the hospital that morning. We have to be there at 5am because she is slated to be the first surgery of the day and they will need to do their prep and get her ready.  Here is hoping this go smoothly and well!!

This Sensational Sunday Inspirations Post (even though it is super late and posting early Monday Morning!) will have a few bonus cards...Ceal's from Thursday, and Jacqueline's from Saturday. I am also going to include our amazing project for our Monday Inspirations from Olivia in here too because I am not sure if I will have the chance to post later or not today! And it is now Monday anyway :)

AND...super exciting news!! Ivonne Hernandez will be joining our Design Team as a Regular Designer!! YAY!!! We are so excited to have her back on the team after her Guest Design spot!! She will also be showing her Inspiration projects on our Sunday posts as well!!

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Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Athina Emory

Whimsy Apple Blossom

Simple Stories Summer Fresh

          TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK PAD 
Copic Markers

I totally love this image it! It is one of my favorites and Athina always does such an amazing job coloring the images that she uses. I adore the little scene with the soft clouds and the grass! The grass looks so amazing! The colors are perfect with the Summer Fresh papers too! I love the sweet country feel of this card! Too cute!!

Dangina Martinez

XERU Toread Collection

Copic Markers

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

MONO MULTI LIQUID GLUE from Tombow

Tim Holtz Distress Ink BLACK SOOT

PAPER BLOSSOMS TOOL KIT

INK BLENDING TOOL Inkssenntials

WOWZERS!! Dangina is the Queen of 3D images! This looks so awesome! She created this for her son's birthday and I think it turned out super cool! This  little character looks like he is a little on the ornery side - LOL! I love how Dangina did his outfit and the colors and details are so amazing - Totally Totally LOVE it!!

Ivonne Hernandez

Mo Manning Stamps - Skateboard Schoolboy

Copic Markers

X-Press It Blending Card

MFT - Die-Namics Banner Day Die

This is sooooo cute! It is so hard to find images and card styles that fit the older teen boys and this one is perfect! Ivonne did such a great job with her designer paper choices and I LOVE the banner with the age! Super cute idea! Ivonne's coloring is so beautiful! LOVE LOVE LOVE it! So excited to have you back on the team!!!

Lydia Walker

Magnolia 'Drip Drop Tilda'
Paper Smooches 'A Magical Spring'
Die-namics 'Decorative Doily'
Distress Ink 'Black Soot'
Distress Ink 'Spun Sugar'
Spectrum Noir
CC Ultra Smooth Card

How adorable is this card?!?! Lydia did such a cute job coloring her image to match her papers and the sweet roses that she used! This is such a fun layout and the heart cut out of the center of the doily is awesome!! Such a beautiful job!

Shanna Shands

Saturated Canary image Thank You

Distress Ink Walnut Stain

Copics

Xpress It Copic Paper

Echo Park Paper called Love Story

What a super cutie patootie! Shanna always does such a gorgeous job coloring her images! I love the simple layout that looks so dressed up and classy with the beautiful accents that she chose! This turned out so super cute!!

Marcy Dangcil

My Favorite Things - Pure Innocence Collection - 4 Leaf Clover

Memento ink-Black tuxedo

Simple Stories-Summer Fresh

Best Glue Ever

Tim Holtz Distress ink-Pumice Stone and Peeled Paint

Martha Stewart-Leaf punch

I think this is such a sweet card! I love this image and Marcy did such a great job paper piecing her little pants and then coloring her shirt to match! I love the color combo of Kraft and Green and that doily is so pretty! Such an adorable card!!

Ceal Pritchett

Lawn Fawn - Interlocking Backdrops

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

This is a fun card that would be perfect for the Men on your birthday list! Ceal always does such a great job coming up with Clean and Simple designs that are still interesting to look at and her accents are perfect for the design! Great job!

Jacqueline Smith 

Belles 'N Whistles - A Blossom For You

This is such a super cute, Summery card! I love the fresh, bright colors and that image is sooo cute and Jacqueline's coloring is awesome!! I love Jacqueline's accents with the lace and flower layers! Such a pretty design! 

Olivia Marmara

La La Land Papercrafts - Popsicle Marci

La La Land Papercrafts - Filigree Corner Die

How adorable! This makes me wish it were Summer! We are in a Winter Weather Advsiory again today! We had freezing rain for about 2 hours yesterday before it changed to snow and it has been snowing since! We are supposed to end up with about 8 inches or so. GAH! I am so ready for Summer! Olivia's did such a great job coloring this cutie up to match her papers! I love those flourish corners too! Olivoa also did a great job with her lay out - I really like the sunburst style circle behind the main panel, so pretty and adds a lot of interest! Such a cute card!

I think ALL of the ladies did such a great job! The projects get cuter and cuter every week! I apologoze again for this being late and for missing a few posts the last few days! I am hoping after this upcoming week things will start settling down a little bit!

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to leave a comment so you will be in this week's blog candy drawing!

Laura 

A Little Mo-an...

Do you ever have those days were you have SOOOO MUCH stuff to try and do and not enough time to do it? Where you have good intentions on creating a plan and sticking to it to get your stuff done and then you get totally distracted and before you know it...half your day is gone? LOL! Well I am having one of those days today!

Today's card share is designed by design team member Jacqueline Smith and it captures my mood right now...LOL....

Ahhhh....the good old days when your day wasn't going as planned and you could just lay down on the floor and throw a fit, kicking and screaming until you felt better...LOL! I could try it I guess but I don't think it would help...and my neighbors probably wouldn't appreciate it :)

This cute stamp is designed by Mo Manning for Stamping Bella and is called Toby is Two. Jacqueline did a beautiful job coloring her image using prismacolor pencils. I love that gorgeous background paper that Jacqueline used! So pretty! Visit Jacqueline's Blog to find out how she created this adorable card!

I am off to try and get my butt in gear and get some of my stuff done anyway...I hope :)

Happy Stampin!
Laura

Diva-Licious & Sunday Shares...On A Monday!

Hi Everyone!

Today's post will be FULL of some yummy eye candy! Today is Monday which means that we have a super cute Olivia Marmara project to share with you! AND because our internet has supposedly had it's LAST HICCUP for awhile (according to our phone company) I will also be sharing the Sunday Shares...today too!

First up... Design Team Member Olivia Marmara created this Diva-Licious card!

Isn't that adorable? I LOVE the colors and the bling that Olivia added! This is an image from the Mo Manning Collection from Stamping Bella called ... what else but DIVA! This image will be added to our store with our next order from Stamping Bella so look for that! She also colored her image using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink Markers.

And now for the Sunday Shares on this beautiful Monday afternoon! Because of our internet issues last week I am sharing the projects that our fabulous design team members created that should have posted on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday!

First up is Lisa Rasmussen whose our Wednesday artist.

She created this adorable card using the Twinkle Toes Huggabugg from Stamping Bella. We will be adding this collection to our store in the near future! I love the lace and the colors that Lisa chose for her card. This would be a great card for all types of occasions!

Next we have our Thursday artist... Ceal Pritchett

She created this SUPER CUTE card using the Pink Cat Studio stamp called Giraffe and Monkey. We will be adding this stamp to our next order with them so look for it soon! I love how Ceal paper pieced her giraffe to match the background paper. Very cute idea! This would be a great image for both boy and girl baby cards!

And last but not least... our Fabulous Friday artist.... Meredith Winston! I always love seeing what Meredith designs next because she is so versatile in her creations! Take a look at this cutie...

Meredith used the Lawn Fawn stamp set called Partly Cloudy. She did an awesome job with the layers and all the texture. I love her use of the corrugated cardboard and the colors are just beautiful together! This would definately be a cheerful pick me up on a rainy day!

I hope you enjoyed all of the cards today! Hopefully this week our internet will cooperate so we can resume our regular posting days! Be sure to visit Loves Rubberstamps later tonight... I will be adding lots of new goodies that arrived while the internet was down!

Also you still have time to play in this week's Loves Rubberstamps Blog Challenge - we are giving away a $25.00 shopping spree to one lucky player!

Have a wonderful day!
Laura

My Sunday Shares - June 17th

Happy Father's Day everyone!

Hope you had a chance to relax and spend time with family today! I spent the day with my husband and kids and we had a great lunch together. I am sorry for the late post today...my scheduler for some reason didn't post when I thought I had set it for. I didn't have a chance to check this morning before we left for the day!

Today I have some super adorable cards to share with you! I am so excited! The first one is by paper artist, Wendy Ramlakhan. Wendy is AMAZING with her copic coloring skills! I could literally spend hours looking at her beautiful cards! Here is one of my many favorites that she has created:

Wendy used the Patches 'N Braids stamp from Belles 'N Whistles. I absolutely adore the colors that Wendy used to color her image and it matches the pretty greens in her papers perfectly. I love her sky background too! I am super excited too because we are going to be adding the stamp company Your Next Stamp to our line-up as soon as order arrives and I saw that Wendy is one of their senior design team members and she also designs for The Greeting Farm which is another company we will soon be adding!! DOUBLE YAY! I will  get to see lots more of her gorgeous creations :) Check out Wendy's Blog - Sugar Pea Designs - to see more of her beautiful work! She also has some AWESOME tutorials on coloring with copics :)

This next card I found is just too cute for words! This cutie is created by Colleen Dietrich using the Love 'N Breakfast and the My Silly Valentine stamp sets from Lawn Fawn.

I LOVE this card!  Colleen's paper piecing and little scene she created is just adorable. I love how she kept the bacground simple and the accent of the vanilla background paper is perfect! This just makes you smile! Check out Colleen's Blog - Dietrich Designs and get all the details on this sweet card!

This next card is made with one of my super favorite Mo Manning stamps called What's Cookin'? from Stamping Bella. I love to do scrapbook recipe pages and this is a great stamp to use on them.

This adorable card was created by the super talented Deb Felts whose blog is called With a Stamp and a Song.  I really love the colors that Deb chose for her card and that sweet cupcake paper is perfect! I also love the green polka dot ribbon that she choose to use because it matches her apron! Very cute! Deb did an amazing job coloring this sweet little girl too!

Today's last card that I would like to share is the one created by our winner of last week's Loves Rubberstamps Blog Challenge - Laura of The Crafty Sister. She created the cutest card using the Flynn's Berry Happy Day stamp from Stamping Bella. This cute stamp is part of the Tiddly Inks Collection designed by Christy Croll. TOO CUTE!

I love the way Laura colored her image, leaving the dress white with the pink strawberry accents. This stamp is perfect to use with that cute strawberry designer paper because the strawberry shapes are pretty similiar to the stamp. Laura did an excellent job coloring her strawberries to match the paper too! Visit Laura's Blog to see the list of copic colors that she used to color this sweet little girl!

Speaking of our blog challenges - there is still time to enter this week's Love's Rubberstamps Blog Challenge of Masculine Cards! You could be this week's lucky winner :)

I really hope that you enjoyed today's shares and that you had a wonderful Father's Day!

Happy Stamping!
Laura

My Sunday Shares - May 20th

Good Morning Everyone!
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far! Before I show my gorgeous finds for this week I do want to remind you that you have until May 25th to get in your application for becoming a member of our very first Design Team! You do not need prior experience on a team so if you have been wanting to try out for one...we would love to have you :) You can read all about the requirements and the goodies you get for being a member on this blog post.
For today's first share I came across this super adorable card made by the very talented - Julia Aston while I was looking around Splitcoaststampers the other day and just loved it! This is a simple card that packs a big "wow" factor from her use of white embossing powder on her image and a beautiful white die cut tree.

This really catches your eye! Julia's card is created using a Mo Manning Stamp called Bye Bye Boy from Stamping Bella.
Now if you think THAT Julia's card is adorable... you need to check out her blog post about her inspiration for this card... then you will see why her card is so cute :)
If you have some time visit Julia's Blog, Create With Me. Like I said earlier, Julia is a very talented paper crafter and she serves on a few different design teams for some great companies. She has a lot of very beautiful and inspiring projects on her blog.
The second paper artist I came across is also extremely talented and even has her own business selling her amazing cards, called Arty Carty Handmade Cards. Her name is Stephanie Lee and she was kind enough to let me share TWO of her cards because they were both so adorable I would never have been able to decide which one to share!
This first one is a super cute idea for Father's Day, which will be here before you know it! I really love the newspaper print background and the way Stephanie colored her image. The image really "pops" with her use of color against the neutral background.

The image that Stephanie used is from one of my favorite lines from Crafter's Companion called Humphrey's Corner Collection. This particular image she used is called Father's Day and will be in our store, in the near future.
The second card of Stephanie's that I adored is an interactive card which are always a fun twist. This style is called a Hinge Card and there was a technique challenge on splitcoaststampers that was on this style card.

I love the way that Stephanie colored her image and the way she did the fur on the puppy. This image is from the Strawberry Kisses Collection from Crafter's Companion and is called Gorgeous. Which is fitting because that is what this card is... Gorgeous!
Here is the "hinge" part of the card open so you can see the greeting.

Isn't that cool? If you want to learn more about either one of Stephanie's cards you can read her blog posts on them. Here are the links for the Humphrey Card and the Gorgeous Strawberry Kisses card. Stephanie also has a lot of other amazing projects too so be sure to browse around her blog, The Arty Carty Blog with Stephanie Lee.
I hope you all enjoyed today's shares. These two ladies both are amazingly talented and I hope you will visit their sites! A huge thank you to both Julia and Stephanie for allowing me to share their adorable creations with you as well!
I am off to pack a few orders up, add some new goodies that arrived into the store and then will hopefully have a chance to ink up some stamps and play around for a bit! Enjoy the rest of your day - Laura