Just for Shoe!!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Well it snowed and we got about 6 inches and now I'm hoping it all melts away soon :o) We were lucky, my mom who lives 2 hours south of us in Maryland got a whopping 15 inches (still laughin---sorry mom)! She always teases me about getting snow & this time it was her that got pounded--hee, hee! Its supposed to be 60 degrees here this weekend--that's more my style! And in 5 days we spring the clocks foward---whoooohoooo---my favorite time of year. I love it staying light later, makes me feel like my day isn't over so soon---how 'bout you?

Welcome to "Try It Out Tuesday Challenge 8" for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design! This week's challenge was to use charms on our card & to use stamps by Susana herself. I used the Rubber Romance stamp "Melanie"--she's my favorite image of them all cuz' you just know she loves shopping as much as me, lol! I decorated her shopping bags & glittered up her shoes--such a diva. The sentiment is from Gina K's "Retro Boutique" set---perfect w/ this image! And isn't that dp stunning, its by Glitz Designs--I love the drama of it--matches PTI's "berry sorbet" ribbon & cs perfectly!


I inked up Susana's shoe stamps on Matte Shrinky Dink paper & shrunk them w/ my heat gun into small charms---I love to watch it shrink (the lil' kid in me still, hee hee)! I punched holes in them before I shrunk them and used my paper piercer to hold them in place and then strung them with black Scrapper's Floss! And of course they needed some Glitz Stickles to bling 'em up!

Make sure and stop by Susana's store blog "Follow Your Heart" to see the rest of the DT's fun projects today!


I also wanted to show you this great product I found at CHA that was recommended to me by some very nice Clearsnap demo's! It's called the Joy of Stamping cleaner and its made w/ all non-toxic products which I love! It takes off even the strongest of Staz-On Ink--cleaned my stamps up nicely and my dirty acrylic blocks too. You can get this cleaner & the hands cleaner at Susana's store HERE.

I inked up my cute lil' Smirk stamp with Staz-On black ink for this quick demo for you. The stamp cleaner has a sponge on the end and you just dab it on your stamp or block. It smells really nice, not like that Staz-On cleaner that is actually toxic & smells so horribly!

After sponging on the cleaner, I rubbed it on my SU scrub pad and ta-da---all clean! I love this stuff--non-toxic, smells good & a great value! There is a hand cleaner too that cleans ink off of your hands & moisturizes them too---works like a dream for all those smudgey fingers! If you don't have an SU scrub pad, you can get a Rubit-Scrubit pad right here that works wonderfully for all of your stamps--woodmounted, unmounted & acrylic!

Have a great day & see ya tomorrow!

hugz,

Suzanne

A Girl & Her Dog!

Happy Saturday friends!! Yay its the weekend! I have a busy day today for sure---I'm off to do a friend's daughter's 7th birthday party today. She wanted a Valentine's Day Craft party so we're making VDay cards of course :o) Then tonight we have a dinner at another friend's house with my Lunch Bunch crew & hubby's---fun, fun! So that means on Sunday I will be sleeping in & resting---hee hee! Have any fun plans this weekend?

Just a quick post for you today since I've got ALOT going on today, lol! Love, love this Rubber Romance stamp called "Ally"--you can get her and others right HERE. Little doggie reminds me of my two cairns--so cute. Had to use my 2 favorite colors again---nothing like red & black to make it elegant. I heat curled my sheer ribbon again---gosh, I love that effect! The pearls are from KaiserCraft---one of my favorite embellies!! I layered a ton of black stickles on her top too--nice & sparkly!

Susana's Custom Art & Card Design has lots of new goodies in stock right now, including NEW Smirk stamps & Eat Cake Graphics Stamps (too cute, you must check them out!!).

Susana also has a NEW ILLUSTRATOR with new stamps coming--to kick off the big reveal (on Feb.13th) we are having a huge WebCandy giveaway over on the PaperCraft Planet store site. You can enter to win a $25 gift card to the store AND a hand colored/signed stamp by the new illustrator. You can see all the details and enter right HERE!! Hop on over there and check it out!

Have a great weekend & see ya on Monday!!

hugz,
Suzanne

Pink Girl Power!!

Happy, happy Friday everyone! I'm looking forward to the weekend and I'm feeling more myself now thank goodness (thanks for all the well wishes). Our club here in our neighborhood has a huge Gingerbread House Decorating event every year and we're going on Sunday. My daughter and I are making one (and they're huge) and my son & hubby are doing one--I'll share pics with you all on Monday, should be tons of fun! I'm sure my kiddos will be on a sugar high, lucky me--LOL!!

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Remember you have until Sunday evening at 11 pm to enter for my Rubber Romance Blog Candy on THIS POST!!!
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My two cards today feature Pink ladies, lol! This card features another Rubber Romance stamp, but this one is super special!! Her name is "Jane" and everytime someone purchases her a $1 is donated to Breast Cancer Research & Education by the gals at Rubber Romance. Even better, when you buy this stamp from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design, Susana will donate another $1 to the cause--so $2 will go to this most worthy cause. I'm sure we all know someone who has suffered from this horrible disease and what a great way to support and honor them!

I paired my Jane with this yummy dp from Dovecraft called "A Hint of Pink" (oh my how I love this dp). The sentiment (which I love too) is from Verve Stamp's "Fairy Tales". Another set Verve has that is great for supporting your loved ones w/ just the right sentiment is "Here for You" & its 20% off right now--I'm ordering one for sure. So if you love this gal and you want to donate to this great cause that really helps all of us women, be sure and visit Susana's store & purchase one. The DT for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design (on my sidebar) all used this stamp today for a project, so make sure and blog hop around to see their versions :0)

My second card is pink too--do you feel a theme goin' on, lol! This is one of the very first stamp sets I bought from Pink Cat Studio (Lily & Tweet) and I instantly fell in love with them all! I was lucky to be chosen by the fabulous Melissa (owner & illustrator) to guest design for her in the New Year and I'm sooo honored! I've been neglecting my Pink Cat stamps so I've pulled them out & been inkin' them up, so look out for more of these cuties here on my blog! I colored w/ Copics and the snowflakes were punched and then I added my favorite Martha Stewart snow glitter to them. I love using these non-traditional colors for the holidays--so much fun!

I hope you all have a fun weekend ahead of you and remember only 13 DAYS until Christmas---are you excited or stressed, lol?? I'm happy to say my shopping is DONE and all I have to do is wrap. My biggest stress is getting out all my Xmas cards---I need to sign & address them all--eekkk!

see ya back here tomorrow,

Suzanne

Breakfast With Tiffaney!!

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Ours was restful and relaxing thankfully. We got most of our Christmas shopping done and now I gotta wrap 'em all up! Hubby and I always have a marathon movie night w/ snacks and wrap up all the presents--we've done that since both of our kids were born, always fun! Speaking of gifts.....

Well I've got a gift for you today! This is my last BLOG CANDY of 2008 for ya and it's YUMMY! These Rubber Romance stamps that Susana of Susana's Custom Art & Card Design got for me to give away are awesome & they're signed by the illustrator/owner Robin Ireland to boot! Check out Susana's store for more Rubber Romance goodies!

You can enter for my BLOG CANDY until Sunday (12/14) at 11 pm (EST) by leaving an answer to this question on THIS POST ONLY--"What was your favorite Christmas gift & why?". You will recieve these 2 stamps and a card made by Robin Ireland herself and maybe I'll wrap it in my FAVORITE zebra print tissue paper for ya, lol!

Susana also has some yummy Rubber Romance WEB CANDY over on her store site too so make sure to check it out and enter for hers too!

In honor of my yummy blog candy I decided to use one of my most favorite Rubber Romance stamps with Audrey Hepburn on it called "Colazionne da-Tiffaney". Rubber Romance makes a great selection of Paris themed movie poster stamps & I lovee them!! Not too difficult of a card to put together, just lotsa layers! The image was stamped on Vintage Cream cs from Paper Trey Ink and I lightly colored some areas with my Copics. On her dress I used black stickles for both shine & sparkle. The dp is from Imaginisce and cs is SU. I also used white opal liquid pearls on her pearl necklace for dimension. Do you likee?

I also wanted to introduce the new Design Team members who are joining me for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design store--Congratulations ladies! Make sure and visit them to see their lovely creations too today!

-Lynn Put of The Queen's Scene
-Susan Dube (guest designer) of Stamping Tink
-Danni Bindel (guest designer) of Danni's Dreams
-Christine Riley (guest designer) Stampyn Wife's Space
-Anki Bargman of Kortfralst

And if you're not in the Christmas spirit yet, you will be when you watch this video!! I first saw it on Cindy Lawrence's blog and had to put it up--make sure and watch to the end! Enjoy!

Have a great day everyone & I'll see ya back here tomorrow!

Hugz~Suzanne

Blog Candy Winners & Pretty In Pink!!

Hello & Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had a great weekend--I know it snowed where some of you are, but thankfully the weather here was pleasant! Alexa did wonderfully at her chorus concert and she even had a solo-at her age I would have been so nervous in front of all those people, but she was fine, lol!

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Alrighty, I'm sure you've been waiting anxiously to see who won the blog candies, so here we go:
Winner of the Biggest Blog Candy 'Evah is.....................................
Here are your random numbers:
18
Timestamp: 2008-11-10 05:03:48 UTC

My great stampin' friend Susan Dube!!! She was lucky number 18!! Congrats Susan & thanks for all the sweet comments!

Winner of the Recipe Gift Set & Images is...................................
Here are your random numbers:
227
Timestamp: 2008-11-10 05:21:01 UTC

Teresa Curtis
Congrats Teresa & hope this helps you with your recipe card & apron gifts!

Please email(on sidebar) me with your addresses so I can get these goodies out to you ASAP you lucky gals!

Thanks to everyone who entered and answered my "random" question--I really enjoyed reading everyone's answers! Isn't it funny how many memories we connect with a certain song or time of year--music is such an important part of life, which is why my IPOD has like 10,000 songs on it! I love listening to all kinds of music, but holiday music is the best! I'll give you my top 5 Holiday songs tomorrow! Don't worry if you didn't win this time, cuz I have some supah' blog candy to giveaway next month too!!
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Today I have a Pink Blitz for ya! I adore the new Magnolia's from the Pink Collection--you can get them at Magnolia-licious now! I think this girl is so sweet with her lil' head of curls and dress. The yummo-licious dp is from K&Co's "Smitten" line paired up w/ PTI cs. The flowers are some new ones that I got from Petaloo--aren't they fun! She's colored w/ Copics with a few stickles thrown in for sparkle! The sentiment is from Verve Stamps "Birthday Surprise" set.

The second card uses another fabby Rubber Romance gal named "Babs" relaxing in her bubblebath. Ahh, how I could use some time in the tub like this, lol! I have a huge, jacuzzi tub and I've only used it twice in 2 years---never enough time in the day, ya know! I colored w/ Copics and then took my liquid pearls (in opal & lt. pink) and painted over the tub & some of the bubbles for a nice shimmer. I also added diamond stickles and some clear dew drops to some of the bubbles for dimension & lotsa sparkle! The perfume bottle on the left is a stamp from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design that I colored, cut out and popped up w/ dimensionals--isn't it fabby? The sentiment is from Paper Salon and the dp is my favorite "Laundry Line" by My Mind's Eye.

Ok, I'm outta here but I'll be back tomorrow with some more projects. I'm hopin' my new Whiff of Joy stamps will come today so I can play--if you haven't checked them out yet it's a MUST SEE, so fabulous all of them! And Verve Stamps released all of their new holiday stamps last night so check them out--I love their sentiment sets!

hugz,

Suzanne

Diva-licious!!

Hello everyone! I'm pooped--so I'll keep it short today. I'm taking the day off from crafting & I'm gonna be lazy & watch the football games :) I need to recharge my MOJO--hee hee! We had a great time at the Halloween party & was fun catching up with our friends. Sometimes it feels like we're doing the daily grind so much we don't connect with our friends as much as we should. Ahhh, if we could always be on vacation-wouldn't that be great!!!

My card today uses the same SCS sketch #199 that I've pretty much used all week, lol--told ya I love it! I wanted to ink up this gorgeous Rubber Romance stamp "Melanie" that I got from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design and this sketch worked perfectly. These stamps always remind me of Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly for some reason--2 of my favorite actresses (love Sabrina,Breakfast at Tiffany's & Rear View Window--I lovee my old movies). I love me my Bellas but I love these too--larger w/ more drama I think!

I used the DCWV "All Dressed Up" stack which in my personal & very humble opinion is the best dp they've ever come out with--love these colors together. I gussied up her shopping bags with a flourish from Verve Stamps & some polka-dots for fun. Her dress & black shoes have stickles on them becuz' she's a DIVA! My corner brackets I make with my Fiskars Border Punch-- I just punch a long edge and then trim into right angle triangles. The sentiment is another cool one from Amy R's "Boutique Sentiments". I have to say this card is so me--the colors, the image and of course the shopping (wish I was that thin, hee hee) :)

Hope ya like it! I'll see ya back here tomorrow with another busy week in store. There are sneak peeks coming at you from Storage Units, Ink and More and Clear Dollar Stamps---and so many more projects!! Oh, almost forgot--some friends of mine started a new Yahoo group for all of us stamping/crafting addicts where there are NO RULES! Well some within reason ya know, but you can talk about all products, all companies, promote yourself & give tips and let everyone know about steals and deals you've found. It's all good & we'd love to have you--so check it out here. See ya there!

hugz,

Suzanne

Shoe Diva!!

Happy Saturday everyone! Sorry I didn't post yesterday but I had to take a "holiday" to get all my other "stuff" done (errands and chores, yum)! I had to catch up on laundry and cleaning and run around trying to find a Halloween costume for my daughter. AHHHHHHHh--they do not make costumes for "young" teen girls that are appropriate anywhere, frustrating. We finally found her a cute woodland fairy costume that was appropriate and we "both" agreed on for her 7th/8th grade Halloween dance last night. And of course I had to chaperone which my daughter just loves (NOT) and it gave me a migraine--too loud (I'm gettin' old I guess, lol) !! Hey, I'm an involved parent and like to know what's going on ya know--this age is very scary!! The picture below is of her dressed for the dance--I had to do her makeup and hair of course because she says she can't, lol!


Ok, onto my news of the day. First and foremost Susana of Susana's Custom Art and Card Design asked me to be her designer to help get her business off and running and I was happy to accept her offer. I like that she carries a smaller line of stamps and is an artist herself so its a great match. She has some fabby things in her shop that you should go check out. She carries Rubber Romance and Karen Lockhart stamps too along with her own line of stamps and some other fun goodies too. Please go visit her shop and show her some love!! I'll share my other "news" with ya tomorrow--I don't want to overwhelm you with too much news, lol!!

My two cards today use stamps from Susana's own line of stamps. I lovee shoes (I have alot, I won't share how many cuz' I might be embarrassed or you might be shocked,lol)! Shoes and purses and stamps are my obssessions you could say, lol!! This first card uses a Rubber Romance stamp (it's really a picture of me, ha ha) named "Vivian" and some of Susana's shoe stamps. I used the Color Challenge #188 from SCS this week to use pink/black/white--which was easy cuz' I lovee those colors together. The dp is from DCWV "All Dressed Up" stack. The image was colored w/ Copics and I also used black stickles on her dress and some of the shoes. I also used silver liquid pearls to paint the red shoe accents and the bow on her hat--I like the shine and dimension of these liquid pearls alot. I fancied up the inside too--I don't always show the inside of my cards but today I felt like switchin' it up for ya :) The sentiments on the front and inside are from Amy R's "boutique sentiments" over at All That Scraps--fabulous sentiments in this set, for the shopper in all of us!!
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Second card uses just Susana's stamps--I love how you can dress up the shoes anyway you want (stamp 'em, color 'em, glitter 'em up)! I wanted the one pair to match my leopard print dp by DCWV(have I told you I{heart} animal prints) so I colored them to match. I think this "shoe-da" sentiment is too cute---there's lots of thing's I shoe'd do, but don't--ROFL!! I know just who to send this fabby card to :)

That's it for me today. Hope you liked my cards and you're off to having a great weekend. I'm working today on projects and then tomorrow we finally get to go the Pumpkin Patch as a family. The weather is supposed to be in the 60's so it should be really nice, I can't wait. See ya back here tomorrow w/ some Xmas projects.

Hugz,
Suzanne