Melanie's Blog Hop

Melanie Muenchinger is celebrating two years of blogging and illustrating for Gina K Designs, and today she has invited 25 designers and YOU to join the party!

I still remember the email from Melanie in July asking me to be her Guest Designer for Inspiration Mosaic (and yes, I still have it saved in my email files...) I am so excited to participate with this creative group and MADE time to get crafty with this fabulous set Inspiration Mosaic! With all of the holiday cardmaking, I hadn't used it in several weeks and went overboard...I made THREE cards (can you tell Linda is rubbing off on me??? LOL!)

This one just uses Inspiration Mosaic to show how all alone it is a GREAT set with so many possibilities! I simply stamped the grid on Fancy Pants Designs patterned paper and using my SAMJ stamped the sentiments, easy-peasy!

With this one I combined it with My Cuppa' Joe and some fun patterned paper.

And for this final one, I used some rub-on stiches to create a stitched background on my Mosaic and combined it with Melanie's Wee Tees stamp set.

So how does this involve you and some prizes????
First hop through the following designers' blogs using every set she has created since January 2008, from the first to the 25th! Then go to Melanie's' blog to leave a comment for a chance to win a number of different prizes! So let's get hopping!

Here we go!
Just So Hippy-Charmaine
Just So Hoppy-Donna
What’s in Your Tin 1 & 2-Donna
Hip Hop Accessories-Bee
Jumping for Joy-Barb
Cuddles and Hugs-Jessie
Little Tees-Cat
Just So Sporty-Pam
A Year of Flowers-Theresa
Say it with Flowers-Selma
Have a Cookie-Carolina
Tee Talk-Gabby
Hand in Hand-Ally
The Best Things in Life-Shannon, Sankari
A Charmed Life-Cathy
Wee Tees-Libby, Laura Jean
Arranged with Love-Selma
Sporty Accessories-Tina
Inspiration Mosaic-Jennie
School Sports Spirit-Melissa
A Year of Leaves-Geri
Hip to Be Square-Karen
Festive Frame-Linda
Tech Talk- Lee

Finally, Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too! You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here. Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year!

Blessings,

Big Brother Scrapbook page

Today I have a scrapbook page to share that I made for a challenge over on Stamp TV. I used various baseball images from Melanie's stamp sets: Just So Sporty and Sporty Accessories along the borders.  Remember the background I created for the Brown Butterfly card a couple of posts ago...I used that technique for the first time on this scrapbook page.  I just love the texture it gives to the background and I sponged over it with So Saffron ink to really make it pop!  I love these pictures from my son's All Star games...I took these after his last game and love watching my youngest looking up to his older brother.  It is just so precious...Jeb will follow Dean anywhere!!!

I have a couple of things to share today...a dear stamping friend of mine, Linda is having some great blog candy on her blog so be sure and stop by and say hello and get in on this fun deal! Knowing Linda it will be well worth getting your name in the drawing :o)  She is one talented stamper and has only had a blog going since June and she is already at 1,000 hits. (Go~Linda!!!)

The really exciting thing for me is she and some friends are driving down to visit and we will be going to the Stamp & Scrap Art show in Winston-Salem, NC as well as The Enchanted Cottage!!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it!!! :o)

The last little thing I have to share is.......we have a new puppy!!!  

He is just adorable and as of now unnamed...  Originally we thought we would call him Copper, but now we are not so sure.  My kids are thinking that Jasper would be a good name...

I hope you have a great day...I think I am taking the kiddos to the pool!! :o)  I need to relax for my busy day tomorrow, LOL!

Uh-Oh!

There is a new blog having challenges each Saturday called Scrap and Stamp.   This week the challenge was a scrapbook sketch and I wanted to give it a try as soon as time allowed. While our other two kids were off fishing one afternoon, I came upon this scene in my kitchen...our youngest son had gotten into my cabinet and somehow removed the lid off of my Tupperware container of All Purpose Flour. He was having just a grand time playing!  Instead of getting upset...I realized for one so little it did look like fun, so quickly ran to fetch the camera.

I used a retired scrapbook kit from SU as well as the stamp set Wee Tees designed by Melanie for Gina K. Designs.   "Uh-oh!" is pieces of chipboard I found at a Dollar Store in our area and matched up with the dp nicely.  I stamped the onesie with Wild Wasabi ink onto Soft Sky cardstock and trimmed the edges of the oneise with Copic G21.  Little Stinker was stamped on the onesie since I thought that was most appropriate sentiment! :o)

I now need to clean my table.  I have made quite a mess myself!

Have a great day!

So Very Busy

I made this for the sketch challenge on StampTV. I cheated a smidge and added two pictures instead of one..but these two go together so well and I just couldn't split them up. The fun designer paper I picked up at Hobby Lobby and knew it would go perfectly with the car stamp from the Wee Tees set. I used the Scor-Bug (that goes with the Scor-Pal) and created a bumpy road for the cars to ride along. That is one cool little tool, and I look forward to playing with it some more!
This was my little one when he was just starting to get mobile back...now I can't keep him in one place for very long and I am chasing him all around! He is fascinated with water and splashes wherever he can find any (which is NOT good if you know what I mean!) :o)

On that note, I hope you have a great day!

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Another Wee Tee and SS Reveal

I have a couple of things to share today...first is a card I made using the stamp set Wee Tees. I just can't get enough of this cute onesie... I am working on my stash of baby cards to have on hand whenever I find out what some friends are expecting, I just need to get some baby girl cards made (what a great excuse to buy some some baby girl paper next time I go to the craft store!)

I also wanted to share some photos of projects I received from a Secret Sister Swap... Angie had me and I was so amazed by her creative cards and little treats! I had said in a post on SCS how much I loved Pop Rocks (quite childlike I know...but I think that the popping sound in my mouth is so fun!) and she included two packs in a fun little treat holder.





She is just awesome and I so appreciate her creativity and talent...I am going to CASE these designs that is for sure! Thanks Angie, you're so sweet!

Have a great day!!

New Brother

I was one who always said I would never scrapbook...well, never say never.  I have so enjoyed scrapbooking lately.  I find I really think on the layout, color scheme and stamp set to create a page that brings back a ton of memories.  The pictures on this page are from a year ago and I am amazed with how the time has flown.  It seems like just yesterday we brought our youngest home.  His big sister just couldn't keep her hands off of him...and now of course, she is trying to keep his hands off of her stuff.  ;o)
I used a retired Simply Scrappin kit to create this page, as well as the stamp set Wee Tees.  It is so fun to incorporate stamping into my pages...  Now I just wish I would have started when my other two were babies...  I am doing books for them as well, just starting with present day and hopefully will work my way back.
Have a great day!

Little Man Birthday

I made another Wee Tees card....without using the onesie!  I colored the images with Copics and layered them into the tag punches.   I am tickled with how it turned out and plan on giving this card to my nephew in September.  I love adding to my stash in advance....then I am not scrambling to make a card at the last minute :o)

It is going to be a busy weekend.  My middle son has his first Little League game of the season tonight  and my youngest is running a fever again...Aahhh!  Why do my children always seem to get sick right before the weekend? :o)  The weekend will be interesting...

Have a great one!

****Blog Candy Alert****

Cat from Cat's Creations has some fabulous blog candy on her blog...and if you win and don't want it, you can always mail it to me :o) LOL!!!  You can find the link to the blog post-->HERE

Dino-Mite

Each week I try to participate in the scrapbook challenge on StampTV. This past week I created this page:


This is a favorite photo of my 9 year old son on a family hike we went on last year. Obviously the fog had set in and there wasn't much of a view, but the focus of the photo was on him anyways. He was recreating a pose from the movie Trek (a documentary about some young men who hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2001).

It turns out that my name was drawn for a free stamp set from Gina K. and I chose Melanie's new stamp set Wee Tees. This stamp set is just adorable and will be perfect for scrapbooking my youngest son's first year as well as for various cards. It is not a limited to just baby cards at all...I think it is a great kid set too! The set arrived in the mail yesterday and I just had to make a card when I got home from town...


The size of the onesie is perfect...it is nice and big and wonderful for paper piecing. I just adore my little one walking around the house in his onesie. With the recent heat down here in NC, it keeps him nice and cool!  Well, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!