I think Santa stole my mojo. I've sat down in my "studio" a bunch of times since Christmas and nothing has come to me. I even tried to do a few challenges where I didn't have to think that much (it's never a good idea making me think too much..) and that didn't work out either. BUT!! Today I sat down and actually got something accomplished. Yay! I played along with today's sketch challenge at SCS, and this is what I came up with.

Thanks for looking!

The tubes from SRM have been a real "blessing" this holiday season. It's been my go-to gift for people in my life, young and old!

I changed up how I did my Christmas tubes a little by die-cutting some words with the MM Slice and adding an SRM sticker to complete the sentiment, like this:


Take care, and I'll talk to you one more time before the big day!

Paper: BoBunny, Bazzill

Accessories: PTI ribbon, BoBunny Pearl, Bazzill Just the Edge, sewing machine, SRM sticker, Prima Bling

Out with the old and in with the new! That's what the folks at Tech. Tuesday are doing pretty soon! Sign up for the newsletter to see the list of stamps retiring.. In the meantime, we've cooked up some designs using retiring sets here the SCS Technique Tuesday forum. 

Here's a peek of my project that's featured on the SRM blog today. Susan asked me to think of an idea centred around New Years, so I came up with the idea of a "Resolution Tube." It has about 15 resolutions written down on little strips of paper that will serve as a reminder of what my goals are throughout 2011. They are realistic and tangible goals like "be more active with Phoenix" and "walk to school on all sunny days." Totally do-able!  Here's a sneak:

Well, we've only seen a little bit of winter around here, but here's hoping for some more! This is another card I made for my son's OTHER teacher so, again, it's super-huge: 6x6! I used a really great Whipper Snapper stamp (main "winter" image) then stamped some Technique Tuesday snowflakes (Good Cheer and Flurry) in brown in the background. It's really adds something to the image I think...

I had a chance to play along with today's Technique Challenge over at SCS today, and I used some gorgeous Webster's Pages paper and my Mint Motif What a Card and I've Got Your Number stamp sets to create the card (and sentiment).

Stamps: Mint Motif - What a Card and I've got your number.

Paper: webster's pages, pti

Ink: memento, versamagic - jumbo java

Accessories: prima flourish, tim holtz rose ribbon

I offered to make Christmas cards for my son's class to give to their teachers (they have two teachers that job-share the position) so I decided to GO BIG and make the cards super-sized so everyone in the class can sign it. This card measures 4x8.5!! It's a biggie!





I used the woodgrain stamp from this set available at i {heart} papers:


I played along with this week's Ways To Use it challenge at SCS and the challenge was a doozy: pick three past challenges, and make sure one of the challenges was something you've never done before. I stamped the 3 different coloured squares in a row; then I stamped them again. I cut out a star from one of each colour, glittered the edges and adhered them with dimensionals on top of their corresponding colours. The sentiment is SRM (of course) and the patterned paper is The Girl's Paperie.

I had a chance to play along with Kimberly Crawford's 12 days challenge, and today it is "Trims." I had to think about it for a while, look at my stash, and finally settled on using some Tim Holtz ribbon that 's very expensive but very pretty! It comes stark white so you can alter/dye it any colour you want, and today I airbrushed it with a green Copic marker to coordinate perfectly with my papers.. Check it out:


In the centre of each rose I placed a red pearl (BoBunny) to match the paper. I used a funny Whipper Snapper image with an SRM sticker sentiment to finish it off! The papers are from "The Girl's Paperie" that were punched with a scalloped edge punch and curled slightly around a pencil!

Thanks for looking, and make sure you head over to Kimberly's blog to see what she cooked up!

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It's true. My year on the SRM design team is nearing an end, but that means a great opportunity for all of you! SRM Stickers, a leading scrapbook and card making sticker manufacturer, is hosting a Design Team Call! Our current group of amazing Designers is leaving after their year term. We're looking for fresh faces and talent to embark on a 12 month term. If you love working with stickers, keep reading because we may love working with you! We're looking for card makers as well as layout team members and altered artists to join our Design Team as we head into 2011 on a mission to dazzle, inspire and create. Go to THIS BLOG POST if you are interested in applying. They are an amazing company to work for, and so insanely generous!! I've been spoiled, that's for sure. 

If you've come here randomly, we, the SRM design team were spoiled again by Cosmo Cricket and we were all gifted with the new Circa 1934 paper crafting kit. The design team was challenged with making projects that focus on family so I chose to make a layout featuring an awesome picture of my brother and my son, who are two peas in a pod. They are SO alike in so many ways it's actually scary... I love it when they spend time together, but their reckless, crazy, crude personalities feed off each other and sometimes it gets a little ridiculous. Like the day this picture was taken:

What a yummy inspiration! I haven't played along with the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge for a while, but this one just caught my eye. I am *so* loving the whole kraft/white/red thing right now and had to create something along those lines.

I used a bunch of random snowflakes stamped in white, then created my main sentiment with a Mint Motif set called, I've Got Your Number from i {heart} papers and a brown pen! Do you ever get nervous writing on a card-front? I do, and luckily I wasn't shaking when I wrote this: