Thank you for all of the well-wishes regarding Mint Motif! I am extremely excited to get started, and it's going to be a blast!!

**And in honor of our new team members, we are having a HUGE give away of stamps!!! From all the comments left on the new team member’s blogs, welcoming them to the team, we will be drawing names for the following stamp sets!!!

• 4 sets of Very Square Sentiments
• 2 sets of Cake Shoppe and Cake Shoppe, Too
• Beyond Borders
• Very Merry Sentiments

I had an amazing weekend. I had the pleasure of being invited to a stamping get-together on Vancouver Island with some amazing, wonderful people who happen to be amazing wonderful card makers! I wasn't very productive because I was yacking so much, but I made some cool make 'n takes in the morning.. You already saw one of the things I made yesterday, but I wanted to share the other things I made!!

1. Angela Thomas prepared this cute little card that reminded me how easy it is to make these little flowers with a small scalloped punch and some pretty patterned papers! 

So that's it! I actually did make a few other projects that I will share soon... Have a wonderful day, and thanks again ladies for sharing your gifts!

I am coming off of a high I got over the weekend where I got to spend some time with some amazing localish stampers. (More on that tomorrow).. One of the people I met was Jessica Knutsen, owner of There She Goes stamps. She offered a make-n-take at the event where I got to stamp and colour an image. I got home and checked out this week's TSG challenge and the image and the colours I used worked perfectly! The challenge was to use the colours Orange, Green and Black.

I used a combination of two stamp sets called Home Sweet Home, and HSH Halloween Additions. I didn't buy these sets and now I'm kicking myself because it was so fun to mix and match the images. So anyway, I spent a little time humming and hawing over the choices, then I stamped coloured it in with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.


I finished the card off by adding an SRM Sticker Sentiment that just happened to be the perfect size! Love that!

Thanx Jessica for a great make-and-take!!

I sat down one day to make cards just because. Isn't that weird? Weird for me, maybe. I always seem to have some deadline I'm chasing, or some challenge I'm doing, and it's rarely (lately) that I ever just sit down and create.

I made these cards with some brand-new My Mind's Eye papers.. I was hoarding my new papers (like I usually do) saying to myself that ONE DAY I'll use them for something really special... Well, that never really happens in my world so I bit the bullet and cut into my precious paper with good results!

Thanks to the generosity of the people at Pink Paislee and the wonderful people at SRM I had the pleasure of playing around with a couple of their paper collections. Yesterday and today all of the Design Team's creations are being featured on the SRM Blog, and I am thrilled that I can share a couple of my projects!

The first collection I cut into was their "Hocus Pocus" line:

Awww. It’s time for another Technique Tuesday style challenge and chance to win new stamps?
Are you ready for it? 
This time, let's have a Wordy Words challenge. (Click on the link that will bring you to SCS for more info! Free stamps!!) We’d like to challenge you to make a card with stamped words on it. 






I used a stamp from Thinking of You for the sentiment, and the frame around the sentiment is an old Amuse rubber stamp. I coloured around the frame with YG21 and YG25 Copic Markers. 
I just purchased some seam binding from Cathy at Steamtrunk Craft Works and within seconds of having it in my hands I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. I love this colour combination, so onto the card it went! 


So take a look in your stash for word stamps, and show us your stuff! 

Hello!! This weekend we will be challenging you, our readers, to “Hop” from designer blog to designer blog. You are required to ‘follow’ our blogs, comment on our posts, and return to SRM Stickers to leave a comment to say you’ve completed the Hop. You’ll have until the end of the weekend to complete the Hop (for all of you Canadians, keep in mind you'll have until Sunday, not Thanksgiving Monday). SRM will be choosing a random winner or two to receive a SRM Prize Package, and announce them the following Tuesday, October 12th.



For the blog hop I made some totally cute tags and a funny card with this set of sticker sentiments: 

(click to go to the SRM store)

• This was such an easy card to put together with the Silhouette digital cutter! Cut the shape, mount the sentiment on cardstock and cut out the sentiment, apply the bat stickers, and done! 

• Now for my super-cute tags.. I can't wait to give these away!!

On Saturday it wasn't just World Cardmaking Day, it was also Jenyfur's birthday! (You know Jenyfur, right?? Fearless leader of the SRM DT, super-cool BLOGGER, amazing stamper, great person???) Well, the SRM DT conspired to all make her a birthday card behind her back and surprise her with them on her birthday!! This is what I made:

Seriously..  Playing with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Glaze is fun. Sprayin' stuff and drippin' stuff brings out the artist in me.. My 8 year-old son, Phoenix LOVES Tattered Angels and he actually did the background of this first card:

1. Cut out a rectangle from the centre of some scrap cardstock and adhere it to the white cardstock with temporary adhesive. 
2. Spray to your hearts content. 
3. Let the mist dry and remove the template. 
4. Cut the butterfly out and adhere to the card with dimensional adhesive. I used Helmar Scrap-dots. 

1. Cut the kraft paper to size. 
2. Spray one half of the cardstock with purple and one half with orange. Set aside and let dry. 
3. Punch out sentiment and rim with webbed ribbon. 

1. Cut kraft cardstock to size. 
2. Drip green and purple glimmer glaze randomly on cardstock and allow it to dry. Once it's completely dry it will act as a resist to the glimmer mist. 
3. Mist purple and green glimmer mist all over the card and allow it to dry completely. 
4. Adhere ribbon and sentiment. 

I love that we have this day... A day to celebrate us weird crafty types that love to spend hours and hours and lots of $$$$ making pint-sized works of art! Today I am showcasing a couple of cards showcasing Penny Black stamps! We, the SRM design team, were gifted with some awesome stamps from the very generous people at PB, and we had to make some cards with them... oh if you insist... Check out not only the SRM Blog today, but the Penny Black blog as well for some WCMD celebrations!!

For Christmas, that is... I'm not! We have been a little strapped for cash lately because my husband is a substitute teacher and, go figure, doesn't work a lot in September... SO, we haven't started saving for December, but hopefully that will turn around soon. The one area I'm prepared for, however, is the card realm.. I have had Christmas on the brain for a few months now, being that I have been teaching Christmas card classes at Clipper Street in Langley since the beginning of September. Do you wanna see what I'm teaching in November/December???