Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Twinkling Tuesday Time with a Twist - Literally a Twist of Citrus that is!!!

A Tasty Bit of Fruit for You!!!!
O.K. so Janna and Jess if they make it out to my blog will recognize this card, but everyone else who sees it will probably see something new!!!!
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Our challenge this week for sweet 9 year old Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday's was this picture below.
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Well my Hubby has worked about 6 million hours the last few weeks and I just ran out of time to make a new card for these images, but I had posted this card I am showing you today back in the Beginning of January for Richard's Birthday and Twinkling Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I made this card for the challenge before I was on the Twinkling Tuesday DT though so I thought maybe I could get away with showing it again!!!!
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Believe me I had this idea for this amazing Citrus Card and I really wanted to try my idea out on paper to see if I could make it work, but there was just not enough time. I had my monthly Stampin Up Stampers Club this weekend and spent my weekend crafty time Designing and making the 3 projects for that which by the way will be posted on Thursday this week. We made a 4th of July 3-D Purse, and a 4th of July Card, and a Summer Water Melon themed card as well.
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Saturday was Tuckers Birthday June 27th. My Baby is 2 years old!!!! How did that Happen????
We had a good weekend how about you??? I threw together very quickly a last minute Birthday Party for Tucker very small but fun I think, and then on Sunday I had Stampers Club but as Hubby was once again at work doing his Wheat Harvest Duties then I had the neighbor boy Henry come over and Baby Sit the kiddo's. As we rarely rarely have a Baby sitter come I think this is the first time I have left Tucker with a sitter other then before he was a year old and I still worked some and he went to Day Care 2 days a week.
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So anyway on to my Twinkling post. Below are the links to my lovely team mates and I hope you find time to stop by and see their lovely creations as well!!!!
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The "Twinkle Team"
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So here is my Card it is using the SU! Set Tart and Tangy and SU Card Stocks in Green Galore, Real Red, Only Orange and Yo Yo Yellow.
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I used the Cuttle Bug Folder Spots and Dots (I think????) to emboss the background of the card, and I distressed the edges of the layers using my trusty Kitchen Knife!!! LOL!!!!

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The layers going across the card are not ribbon??? What are they you ask??? They are actually Glitter. Bright and pretty, and sparkly Yellow and Orange Glitter. In person they sure do sparkle though!!!!!

Above are the 3 Fruit images I made Stamped using SU Markers.
Here is my Sentiment for the card. I used my SU Markers inked up the image and then hand wrote my Sentiment as well. I hope you enjoy the card this one was a fun one to make!!!!
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Well I am off I have a Hair appointment this afternoon for Tucker and Myself not sure how that is going to go taking 3 kids with me to the Hair Salon while I sit in the Chair for an hour and half or 2 hours!!! Can not be helped though as we have no family in town to help with the kiddo's and Hubby is busy in Harvest!!! Last time it worked well, but I went and did my appointment and then Marvin came as my appointment was ending and brought Tucker so we could get his hair trimmed then!!! LOL!!!!
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Ah the Crazy things we do as Mommy's right??? LOL!!!!!
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Have a Stampendous Tuesday and see you tomorrow for Flutter By Wednesday, then Thursday to share my 4th of July and Summer Stampers Club Projects, and then Friday is Featured Friday for the Character Cafe Team, and Saturday is Etsy Inspired Saturday!!!! Busy Week again this week!!! LOL!!!!
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Heather

Monday, June 29, 2009

Finally the Winners Are: Winners of my Prizes for Particpating in the Pink Cat Studio Fundraiser for Make a Wish in Ethan Weimans Honor

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Well I finally had the chance to make it out to all the blogs of the wonderful stampers that helped Spread the word about the Fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan Weiman's Honor - hosted by Pink Cat Studio.
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Thank you so much to everyone who played along and helped spread the word!!! I met so many great new bloggers/stampers out there!!!
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The Fundraiser is still going on so if you have not picked up the great images yet (all proceeds go to The Make a Wish Foundation) in 4 year old Ethan's Honor please hop on over to pick them up!!!!
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I have a Picture above of the images you can either pick up Cowgirl Ava and sentiments or Cowboy Ethan and Sentiments for $4 each, or both images and the sentiments for $6 for all over at Pink Cat Studio!!!!
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Now my prizes were for:
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1st Prize 1 set of any PCS stamp set of your choice paid for and shipped to you from Pink Cat Studio. Prize if you helped spread the word about the images and purchased the images from Pink Cat Studio to help raise money for The Make a Wish Foundation!!!!
2nd Prize was for RAK images of any of my PCS images stamped up and mailed out to you if you also made a card with the images and posted about the Fundraiser again.
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The numbers picked on Random.Org were as follows:
Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers:12 31 Timestamp: 2009-06-29 21:18:48 UTC
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I had to add a couple entries in from other posts who entered the contest in different posts, but after I wrote them all down in order of posting their entry this is what I had.
#12 Winner of the Pink Cat Studio set of her choice is Lori Ames.
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#31 Winner of a bunch of RAK images stamped and mailed from me to you is Julie from The Last Minute Crafter Blog.
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What do you have to do if you won???
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Well Lori head on over to Pink Cat Studio and let Melissa know which stamp set you want and then she will invoice me for them. Make sure to let Melissa know you won Heathers Contest so she knows what you are talking about.
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Julie send me an e-mail to hwblondbom@aol.com and then I will e-mail you the sets from Pink Cat Studio I have and then you can tell me which RAK images you are wanting me to stamp and mail out to you!!!!
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Thank you so so so much for helping Spread the word about this wonderful Fundraiser Pink Cat Studio is hosting, and helping us to raise even more money for the cause!!! Remember the Fundraiser is still going so it is not to late to spread the word even more or pick up your very own Weiman Wrangler Digi's from Pink Cat Studio all proceeds go to the Fundraiser!!!
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Etsy Inspired Challenge DT Sample - Last day to participate in Make a Wish Foundation and win a $20 plus prize from me.

Etsy Inspired Photo Prints
Happy Saturday everyone!!!!!
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Well good morning and Welcome to Etsy Inspired Saturdays here on my Blog!!!
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This weeks Etsy Shop has many different photographed prints to choose from for inspiration!!!
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Once you are done here remember to go check out my wonderful team mates totally creative creations too!!!!
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The Etsy Inspired Design Team:
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So this weeks shop was Tony Carlisle's Photo Gallery He has some great prints to sell. The winner of this weeks Etsy Challenge will win their choice of any of his 8 x 10 prints of their choice so if you have not played in a while this would be a great week to play again???
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If you are new and wonder how to play in the Etsy Challenge all you have to do is go to the shop pick out a inspiration piece or two, then make some kind of Card Scrap Book Page, or project and then link it up to Ashley's Blog by Friday at Noon PST. Kerry and De will pick a winner at the end of the week and that person can pick out their very own print from this weeks Etsy Shop.
So Here is my card for this week. When I saw this shop it immediately made me think of a Card I made for Flutter By Wednesday several months ago. So I got out the same stamps and made a card pretty similar to that card with some tweaks here and there.
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I can not tell you where the Butter Fly images came from as Danni from Danni's dreams sent me both stamps the Card Stocks are SU Only Orange and Yo Yo Yellow and Summer Sun.
The Butter Fly in the Background is from SU Flight of the Butterfly stamped up in Versa Mark Dazzle ink. I colored my image using my Copics the Butterfly is stamped in Memento ink, and I used my Scallop Square Nesties on the Whisper White and Only Orange layers.
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Today is the last day to participate in the Pink Cat Studio Fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation in 4 year old Ethan Weimans honor and still be entered into the drawing her on my blog to win the FREE Pink Cat Studio set of your choice. I will be drawing on Sunday evening. I also have a 2nd Bonus Prize for those who purchase the Stamps for the Fundraiser and make a card using them by tonight and post about the Fundraiser on their Blogs or Galleries. You can read more about Ethan and this fundraiser here on This Post and This Post on my Gallery
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Hope to see you play in the challenge, and participate in the Fundraiser this weekend!
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Have a very Stampendous Saturday!!!!
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Heather

Friday, June 26, 2009

Character Cafe Featured Friday DT Samples - Don't forget to enter into $20 Prize for Drawing tomorrow!!

Welcome to The Character Cafe First Ever Feature Friday!!
Good Morning Everyone!!!!
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How is your week going so far??? It is busy here and many things have not gone as planned with a few glitches in the system, but everyone is Healthy and Happy and that is all that matters right???
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Well I had planned to post this last night but as some things came up I am going to share my very first Feature Friday creation with you???
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What is Feature Friday you may ask??? Well The Character Cafe team are going to be sharing new creations with the AMAZING Digi images they have each Friday. All of the DT members will have a new card up with the great images every on Friday!!!!! But wait there is more!!!
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We will also be having Work it Wednesdays where we will each be hosting a week and sharing a tutorial with you for that week!! You will love some of the topics for Work it Wednesday coming up!!!!! The very first Work it Wednesday will be on this coming Wednesday July 1st (which is the Canadian July 4th) and Kendra and Kelly The Character Cafe Creators and Owners will be hosting the first topic with you to help Celebrate this Canadian Holiday!!!!
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Now onto my Card for this week. Ever since I saw this cute car images I had to color it up. I loved the feel of this image. So this Week I used the Just Married Car, and two images from The Wedding Bling image set that you can pick up at The Character Cafe Store!!!!!
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So I used SU Card Stocks in Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, Old Olive, Ruby Red, and Certainly Celery too. I embossed up a couple of the layers with the Textile, and D'vine Swirls CB folders. I added on some Kiwi Kiss DSP and used my SU ticket corner punch and some bling in the edges!!! I colored up all the images using my copics.
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Car: G20, G24, G29, YG 67, C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, B100, B21, YR68
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Cake and Flowers in Sentiment: R20, R83, R85, R89
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So I hope you like this image and remember if you want to use this lovely image to to head on over to The Character Cafe to pick up their new releases!!!! Also Head on out to My great Character Cafe Team Mates to see what they have for us today!!!
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The Character Cafe Design Team:
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Also don't forget that tomorrow evening I will be drawing to see who wins the Free Stamp Set plus Shipping Prize I am giving away to help raise Money for the Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan Weimans Honor!!!! If you want to know more about the way you can earn a spot in the drawing for one of 2 prizes then go to this post here, and if you want to know more about little Ethan Weiman the 4 year old boy who lost his 2 year battle with Cancer on June 12th go to this post here.
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See you tomorrow for Etsy Inspired Challenge!!!
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Have a Stampendous Feature Friday!!!!

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Heather

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

3 Posts today - in this order - Scroll Down for Digital Delights Sneak Peaks, and Flutter By Wednesday, also for Fundraiser Prizes I am giving away!!!

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I am a busy Stampin Beaver today!!!! I have 3 Stamping posts today so make sure to scroll down to see the Digital Delights Sneak Peaks the release for "The American Collection" and my Flutter By Wednesday Post along with information on how to earn a $20 plus prize for joining in on our Fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan Weimans name!!!
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Post #1 on top - New Release Sneak Peak and Digital Delights Sketches Premier Card
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Post #2 in middle - My Flutter By Wednesday Post - With Fundraiser info and images!!
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Post #3 at bottom - More Sneak Peaks for the release today from Digital Delights (this is also my Twinkling Tuesday Post from yesterday I had to take down until today because of DT reasons.)
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#4 - Below that are the two posts explaining all about the Fundraiser and Prizes I am giving away if you can participate in the Fundraiser and spread the word for Make a Wish!!!! That post has all the links you need to get to everything!!!!
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Have a Wonderful Wednesday Everyone!!!!
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Heather

Digital Delights Release Day!!! Yea!!!!! Presenting "The American Collection" and a sketch Challenge too!!!!!

Announcing "The American Collection"
It is finally here Digital Delights First Release with a DT is today!!!!!
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Wendy AKA Louby Loo has designed this great new set of Digi Stamps called
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"The American Collection"

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We are also announcing the beginning of our New Bi Weekly sketch challenge with lots of prizes including a Guest DT spot up for grabs every Month!!! Read below for more info on the Sketch Challenge!!!

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So I bet you are like enough enough already show us the releases right??? Ha Ha here is my first card.

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Below is the first sketch for the new Digital Sketches bi weekly challenges.

For my card I used one of the New Release images Private Peter. I made dog tags using my SU Key Tag punch. I used my SU ticket rounder punch on many of the other corners. My Card Stocks are using SU Card Stocks in Kraft, Garden Green, Kiwi Kiss, Close to Co Co, and Chocolate Chip. I also used some of the Kiwi Kiss DSP pack. The Sentiment is actually from the New releases too!!! You will love all the American and Patriotic themed Sentiments in this release!!!! How I colored Private Peter: ....... Hair: Y11, Y13, Y38 Skin: R00, E00, E95, RV21 Camo's: G24, YG67, YG95, C5, C2, E31, E33, E35, E37 ....... So I hope you enjoyed my project for the sketch and New Release!!! Now you can head on over to the other DT to see what they have to offer with the other images and for the Sketch and New Releases!!!! Read Below for all the info on the Sketch's and Prizes coming up!!!! ....... Digital Delights Design Team Members:
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Want to Celebrate with us???
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Announcing for Digital Delights!!!!!!
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Our New Bi-weekly Delightful Sketch challenge which will take place every other Thursday with the exception of this first one which is on a Wed!!
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Sketch challenge #1 will be open until July 1st @ midnight and USING DIGI’S IS NOT A REQUIREMENT, YOU CAN USE WHATEVER YOU WISH!! THE PRIZE FOR THIS WILL BE TWO PRIZES OF 3 IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM THE DIGI STORE!!
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Here’s how this will work, all entries from the first week will be randomly drawn for the first prize. At the end of the second week the DT will vote on all entries, and will give a prize to the best entry!!
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It does not stop there!! At the end of every two challenges (4 weeks) the DT will choose from the two best entries and that winner will be given their very own SPOT as GUEST DESIGNER for one day on Digital Delights and take with them their own Guest Designer Spotlight Badge for their blog!!
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Well Have a Stampendous Wednesday and don't forget to go to Digital Delights and Pick up "The American Collection" images!!!!
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Heather

A Fluttering By Farm - in Honor of Ethan Weiman - Let's raise Money for Make a Wish Foundation!!!!

Fluttering for Ethan
Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!
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If you have been to my blog in the last few days you know that I am giving away a $20 plus prize at the end of the week to one lucky person who participates in the Make a Wish Foundation Fundraiser in Honor of Ethan Weiman.
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Ethan was a 4 year old little boy who lost his 2 year battle with cancer on June 12th. Many of you in Stamp land may know of Ethan's Stamping Mommy Alicia Weiman who is also on Lauren Meaders Stamping DT. Alicia and I met several months ago and had several great e-mail chats. I had been following their story for almost a year by then through her blog. I just have a special place in my heart for Alicia and Ethan and their family that when I found out Melissa over at Pink Cat Studio was having a fundraiser to raise money for The Make a Wish Foundation over at Pink Cat Studio I just could not - not join in.
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I contacted Melissa and I am going to be putting every ones names in a drawing who go to Pink Cat Studio and purchase the Digi images that all proceeds go to the Make a Wish Foundation, and then post on their blog about the fundraiser to help us raise more money for this great organization, in Ethan's Honor!!! I will also be giving away a Bonus prize to another lucky person who does the above and makes a card using the images and post again about the Fundraiser by Saturday March 28th. Read more about how you can win these prizes and how to help with the fundraiser in my 2 posts about the Fundraiser down below today's posts!!!
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This week our Featured Member is Kimmie. The new Featured Member challenge we have is that member will be the one to issue each new weeks challenge. So our challenge this week that Kimmie issued to us and to you to you, if you choose to play along with us was to use a Outdoorsy theme on our cards. Remember if you participate with us go to Danni's Blog and Link up your creation in Mr. Linky and upload with Key words FBW!!!
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Now I had a totally different idea on what I wanted to do before this fundraiser came about, but once I saw the images over at Pink Cat studio I knew they would have to be for my Outdoorsy Flutter By Card!!!! These great images are only $6 for Cowboy Ethan, Cowgirl Ava, and 2 great sentiments!!! or for $4 you can pick up either Cowboy Ethan or Cowgirl Ava and the sentiments go with either one too!!!! All proceeds minus only the pay-pal fee and the shopping cart minimal charge go to Make a Wish in Ethan's name!!!!
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Please when you are done stop by and visit my TOTALLY Talented Team Mates creations and tell them I sent you cause I would love to let them know how much I love all their work even though I am soooooooooooo behind on letting them know through my comments on their amazing work!!!!
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Flutter By Wednesday Featured Stamper Team:
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Now for my Outdoorsy Flutter By Card using the new Pink Cat Studio Digi Images for a Cause!!!!
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Above we have Cowboy Ethan, and Cow Girl Ava printed off using Micro Soft Word onto Whisper White SU card stock. I colored them with my copics and the Barn is Also a Stamped Pink Cat Studio image as well.
The Card back is on SU Bashful Blue Card Stock and then I made the clouds using SU Whisper White Craft Ink, and a Baby Wipe to swipe the white and make the clouds!!!
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I took SU Card Stocks in Chocolate Chip, Close To Co Coa, and Garden Green to make the torn and layer grass and dirt. Each layer is popped up using SU stampin deminsionals. Ava and Ethan are popped up even further using excess foam and rubber from my stamps.
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The Flutter By's are SU Flight of the Butterfly Stamp colored up in Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Pretty in Pink, and Pixie Pink and stamped and cut out.
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Well we are off this morning to head out to the Summer Movie Series with my good friend Emily and her son and niece and Nephew then we are heading off to the Pool we belong to and eating a pick nick lunch there and swimming for a while before it is time to head back home for Nap time.

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Aaaa Nap time, which I am going to use today to catch back up on Laundry, and my Commenting on my Flutter By Teams creations both from last week and this week!!!!

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If you have not seen my other two sneak peaks today then you need to check them out they are show casing the new "American Collection" Digi Stamps from Digital Delights available today!!!

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See you Soon, and Happy Flutter By Day!!!!

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Have a Stampendous Wednesday!!!!

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Heather

A Twinkling Patriotic - Sneaky Peaky

Give me Some American ....... Bling!!!!

Happy Twinkling Tuesday Everyone,!!!

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(Don't Forget about the Fundraiser for Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan Weiman's Honor (sweet four year old boy who lost his 2 year battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer on June 12th), I am giving away a Pink Cat Studio Stamp Set of your choice if you play along with our Fundraiser, see post below for Details!!!)

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Well this Tuesday Madelynn's Challenge for us was to use Bling (or rhinestones in our DT Card for the week!!!) If you want to play along with us just make a card or project using Rhinestones and link it up to the Twinkling Tuesday Blog, or to Jessica's Blog (Madelynn's Mommy). If you upload to Paper Craft Planet or SCS please use Key Words MTTSC28

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So Today I have the Honor of Sharing two things with you. 1 is my Twinkling Tuesday Post, and the other one is My very first Sneak Peak of the Digital Delights new release being revealed tomorrow over at Digital Delights Blog.

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This release is so so so Cool!!! There are so many great images and you are just going to love them all!!!! I simply can not wait for you to see all the images tomorrow!!!! I know you will love this release and want all the images being unveiled tomorrow!!!!

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When you are done here make sure you head on over to my Twinkling Tuesday Team mates and see their wonderful creations for this week to!!! We have some amazing artists on this team!!!

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The "Twinkle Team":

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Cassie Larson...Christi Thorsen...Debbie Lee...Jacquie Peifer...Janna Hull...Jessica Diedrich...Kim Ross...Kimmie Doktor...Rebecca Ednie...Sandra McLean...Darla...Lisa...Heather Schlatter...Heather Lee-Reppen

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Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge Blog

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So Here is my Card for Twinkling Tuesday, and Digi Delights first DT Release. The Image I used is Ridley Flying High. I also used a sentiment from the Releases set for tomorrow, but I only used part of the Sentiment. It is actually framed in a cute boarder that I cut down to use just the star and actual words in the Sentiment.

I took my Real Red SU Card Stock for the Card back, then I took some Whisper White SU Card Stock and tore it into strips to make the stripes on the Flag. Then I took some SU Card Stock in Night of Navy for the blue part of the flag. Last I took my SU small star punch and made the stars for the Flag!!!!!

I colored Ridley up with my Copics. The above picture is with no flash so if it looks dark that is why. I used B91, B95, and B99 for the Wings, I used R20, R29, and R35 for the red, and I used C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, and Black 100 for Ridley and the rest of the Plain. I also used Y11, Y13, and Y38 for the yellows.

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I added SU Rhinestone brads in Circles the Fire and Ice collection. The Yellow's are from the Fire collection. I actually used my Crop-a-Dile to punch the wholes and attach the brads.

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This sentiment is just one of many images being released tomorrow, and you just have to hop on over there because I can not contain my excitement about them when I saw them I just about fell off my chair they were so great!!!

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Well so much to do and so little time to do it!!! I also promised myself that today I would 1. Take the kiddo's to the pool we belong to. 2. Take some time to comment on my favorite blogs I never seem to get to visit any more, and 3. Get some much needed laundry and cleaning done, plus 4. Call my longest and bestest friend Lynn, we do not get to talk enough anymore!!!

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So I better head on out and get started on those things!!!

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Do NOT forget to come back tomorrow I have another Sneak Peak for you from Digital Delights by Louby Loo, and also my Flutter By Wednesday Post as well!!!!!

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Have a Great Tuesday I hope yours Twinkles and is very Stampendous!!!! Don't forget to stop by and donate to the Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan Weimen's Honor and pick up some free stamps from me, Lauren Meader, and Vicki Garret to boot while doing it!!!!

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Heather

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Win a $20 Plus Prize from Me - Pink Cat Studio Stamps!!! Make - a - Wish Fundraiser!! Please Read Post Below this post, as Well for Details!!!

Fundraiser in Ethan Weiman's Honor for Make a Wish Foundation:
Please read my post below this post (titled Exciting Announcement) for all the details but I have decided to offer up a Prize that will include your choice of any Pink Cat Studio set and the cost of Shipping to your house.
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What do you have to do to win???
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1.) Go to Pink Cat Studio's web site, and purchase these great Digi images the proceeds all go to the Make a Wish Foundation in Honor of a sweet 4 year old little boy named Ethan Weiman (who lost his 2 year battle with cancer on June 12th.
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2.) Post about this Fundraiser on your blog as soon as possible and leave a link to your post here so I can check it out.
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Bonus Prize For:
3.) Make a Card with these Digi Images by Saturday June 27th and a link to the Fundraiser again and you will win a bunch of Pink Cat Studio stamped RAK images (lots to choose from in my Pink Cat Studio Stash!!!) If you do this part too, please let me know in a comment on this post so I can enter you into the drawing I will hold on Sunday June 28th for both prizes.
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Heather

Exciting Announcement - The Weiman Wranglers Images

Many Months ago I met the sweetest Blogging Friend Alicia Weiman. Alicia and I communicated quite a few times, and I so enjoyed talking to her. If you have not heard of Alicia or her sweet son Ethan here is a short story about them.
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Alicia and her Hubby had a sweet 4 year old Son Ethan, and the cutest little girl Ava. On Friday June 12, Ethan went onto Heaven to join his Heavenly Father, and his beloved horse Sonador. Ethan battled Cancer for almost 2 years. If you would like to know more about Ethan's story you can visit the Weiman's Caring Bridge pages or Alicia's Blog.
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In honor of Ethan and to raise money for Make a Wish Foundation- Illinois Chapter (Where Ethan is From) Melissa over at Pink Cat Studio has released these Wonderful Weiman Wranglers Images. Ethan and his family are a Cowboy/Cowgirl family and Ethan's make a wish last year was a Barn, and a Horse. Ethan got his wish and now we can help other young kiddo's get their wishes too!!!!
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If you would like to purchase these awesome images and help the Make a Wish Foundation in Ethan's honor head on over to Pink Cat Studio and purchase these wonderful images!!!!
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If you are a regular on my blog you know Pink Cat Studio images are some of my very favorite and I am so Proud of Melissa and Lauren for putting this together!!!
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Heather

Scroll Down for Twinkling Tuesday and other Posts for Tuseday June 23rd and before.

Please Scroll Down for New Posts I will be leaving the Posts about the Make a Wish Foundation Fundraiser in honor of 4 year old Ethan Weiman who lost his 2 year battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer on June 12th.
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Myself and 3 others are giving away Free Pink Cat Studio Stamps and Gift Certificates for Participating in this Fund Raiser for a GREAT Cause!!!
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Read my TWO posts below for details and how to WIN the Stamps!!! Or visit Pink Cat Studio for more info and links too!!!
Heather

It's a Digital Delights Sneaky Peaky!!!

(Scroll down for the Make a Wish Fundraiser I am giving away a $20 prize for participation in the Fundraiser and spreading the word)
Digital Delights June 24th
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Release Sneak Peak!!!!

Have you heard of Digital Delights by Louby Loo??? Well Wendy AKA Louby Loo is a very talented Digi Artist and she is releasing some of the cutest most amazing Images Tomorrow!!!! I will be back later today with even more info on the release!!!!!

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Today I have the extreme pleasure of sharing a small Peak a Boo Sneak Peak with you of one of my cards for the new release tomorrow over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo!!!!

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Are you Ready??? Really Ready??? Well here it is, can you wait until tomorrow to see the rest of it??? I know I can not wait for you to see all the totally amazing images you can purchase tomorrow over at Digital Delights!!!!

Bet you can not wait to see the rest of this Hungh??? You are going to be running over to pick up these great images!!!!

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See you Then!!!!!

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Have a Stampendous Tuesday!!!! My Twinkling Tuesday Post will be up a day late tomorrow with my Full Sneaky Peaky of this wonderful image by Digital Delights!!!

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Heather

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Scroll Down for Etsy Inspired Card and Character Cafe Blog Hop and Code

Sticky Post - If you are looking for the Character Cafe Blog Hop and my part of the Code please Scroll down to Thursday Nights Post!!!

If you are coming by to participate in the Character Cafe Blog Hop and to get my part of the code which gives you a 50% off discount on your first Character Cafe Order then please scroll down to Thursday Nights Post.

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The Blog Hop will be good until Tuesday June 23rd and you can still pick up the Blog Hop Freebie, and win the prizes for doing the hop until then.
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Heather

Etsy Inspired #41 DT Sample

We Love You Daddy!!
Well it is now Saturday Afternoon instead of Saturday morning, but as promised I have my Etsy Inspired Challenge DT post for you.

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I am not sure what is wrong today, but I am feeling very shaky and light headed so I am not getting much done very fast today!!!!

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Well Hubby has started Harvest the Farmers started cutting Wheat on Tuesday on Wednesday they had about 50 loads of wheat brought in, then on Thursday they got about 300 loads in, and Yesterday it was up to about 1000 loads, but today it rained and rained so that put a stop to Harvest for a day or two. Makes me wonder if he will get to be home for Fathers day. He has never been off on Fathers day the entire 10 years we have been together so that would be nice for the kiddo's!!! Harvest seems to always be different times in June and July, but it is always during Fathers Day!!!!!

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So this weeks Etsy Shop was so cool it is called the Potato Patch Shop. The make stamps with carved Potatoes and then stamp on kids shirts and onesies with the Potato's!!! Perfect for our Stamping DT right???

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So when you are done here if you have not already please go visit my team mates and see all their great creations this week too!!!

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This shop had some really cute pieces to gain inspiration from and here are a few of them.

The particular piece I decided to use is this cute potato stamped Owl below. I knew he would be perfect for some of my images I just received from Louby Lou over at Digital Delights. I was asked this week to be on their new Design Team and these images are so so so super cute!!!

So this is the card my girls are going to give Daddy for Fathers Day tomorrow and they actually helped me make it!!!

I printed Hooty the owl in his great race car off and colored him with my copic. The car is R20, R29, and R35, the Wheels are c1, c2, c3, c5, c7, and B100, The Scarf is G20, G24, and G28, Hooty is also using all the Cool Grays and has B21 for his eyes. The headlights are Y02, and I used a Silver Metallic Shaker pen for the Metal parts of the car.

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I used SU Card Stocks in Real Red, Garden Green, and KiWi Kiss DSP. I used my Mega Nesties, and my Ribbon Holder Nesties and cut out the shapes and the Ribbon Slider.

I had wrote the Sentiment on Real Red Card stock and then cut it out jagged like and used glue dots to adhere it to the Silver Shimmery Metallic Ribbon.

Above is a close up of Hootie. He was so much fun to color up and my girls loved him!!!! Yes Accckkkkk (I am crazy but I did let my 7 year old experiment just a tiny bit with me holding her hand and controlling the pressure she was using with my Copics) Yep I need to be committed!!!!

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I gotta go lay down now as I am just not feeling very well, but I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday and I really hope you play in our Challenge this week. We are enjoying seeing more and more people playing every week, and all you have to do is go to the shop, and then Head on over to Ashley's Blog (Click on my Etsy Button Link in my Side bar to get there) and leave a link in her Etsy post to your project. If you do this by next Friday at noon PST you will be entered into the drawing for this weeks prize from the Etsy Shop which is your choice of one of the potato stamped T-Shirts or Onesies in the store!!!!!

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Have a Stampendous Fathers Day Everyone!!!!

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Heather

Etsy Inspired #41

Hi Everyone,
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Well my Etsy inspired project will be up later today it is 3/4 done, but life got away from me last night!!!
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I will be back later though and this weeks shop was a great one!!! Wish I had saved my Onsie cards from last week for this week!!!!
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See you soon, and if you can not wait check out my Etsy team mates in my side bar they have some really great projects already up on some of their blogs!!!
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Heather

Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Character Cafe Grand Opening 1st Ever Blog Hop!!!! Waaaa Hooooo!!!!!

Character Cafe Grand Opening

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Blog Hop!!!

Hello Friends, Readers, and Fans of The Character Cafe Digital Stamps!!!
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If you are new to my Blog My Name is Heather Schlatter and I am so super excited to be sharing this new Company and their WONDERFUL images with you today!!!
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(if you are not viewing the Blog hop on day one Thursday the 18th do not worry all the freebee's discounts, and prizes are still good until Tuesday the 23rd as long as you follow the blog hop rules!!!) Have Fun!!!!!
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Now for a few little rules for our Super Fun Blog Hop.
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1. If you came to my blog 1st then you should start here at The Character Cafe DT Page.
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2. There will be Prizes and Giveaways along the Blog Hop, Plus each of us will be giving you a code that in the end will give you a discount on your very first Character Cafe Digi Stamp order. The Code must be entered in the correct order to get your HUGE discount, so you do not want to miss or skip one of your stops along the way!!!
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3. How do you win the Prizes???As you Hop along with us write down on each stop the Code we give you, Leave a comment on each of our Blogs including the first and last stop, and finally become a follower of the Character Cafe Store at the end of the Hop. When all is said and done there will be 1 Grand Prize Winner, 1 Runner up Winner, and 1 winner of the Give Away hidden somewhere in the Blog Hop!!!! There will be Random Drawings and if you have met all the above criteria to win you will be notified and given your Super Cool Prize!!!!
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So Start your Blog Hop Here on our Character Cafe DT Page. There will be a full list of the entire Blog Hop and addresses there if you happen to get lost along the way and need to get back on track.
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O.K. Are you ready now??? So if you are back here now you should have already been to the DT Page, Tessa, Billie, Shelley, Elaine, and Mary's Blogs, Now you are at Heathers Blog and my Piece of the Code for you is the number 9.
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Now onto my very First Character Cafe Project.
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Here is my card. I had so much fun playing around with my new favorite image Fairy Belle from The Character Cafe!!!!
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My First idea was to print off these Mini Fairy Belles above and create a Home Made Designer Patterned Paper with them in the background, but as I was coloring them up I ended up morphing my idea into this Fairy Land Scene.

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I created the Background by starting off with a solid White piece of Card stock. I sponged on the Sky by using sponges and 4 Ink colors SU! Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Brocade Blue, and Whisper White Craft Ink to make the clouds. I added the Whisper White Clouds with a Baby wipe swiped across the blue sky.

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I created the Grass using my Copic in G03, G04, and G06 greens by shading and blending.

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First of all I used her Head 2 times one on the main image is colored and then again I colored her head up then cut it out, and popped her head up above the other head to give her more dimension too.

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Next to color up Sweet Fairy Belle, I used my Copics for coloring, shading, and blending. For some reason all my shading and blending are not showing up as good as they look on the card.
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Her Wings are colored up in RV00, RV02, RV04, and RV09, each section of the wing is then shaded and blended with the next color up on the list to give it dimension. I lastly painted on some Angel Wings Shimmerz and Some Bubble Gum Shimmerz to add some real Sparkle and Bling.
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Her Hair is colored in Y11, Yo8, and Y38 Copics. Her skin is colored with R00, E00. E95, and RV21 for the cheeks. Her Dress is colored up in G06, and G04, and her tights are colored in G00, and G02.
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So what I did to get the Popped up Framed Nestie shape was I adhered all my elements of the card popped up or not and then I put my Nestie (Labels 4) over the part of the Card with big Fairy Belle then I cut out my Nestie shape which cut out the background, Belle, and parts of the flowers. I then took excess rubber and foam from my stamps and popped that up from the rest of the card to Frame it out. I also sponged a new piece of background under the nestie so you still could see the sky behind the popped out Frame.

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The little Fairy's and the Flower heads are popped up using Stampin Dimensionals and the popped up nestie frame is using excess foam and rubber so it is popped out even higher than the rest of the card.

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To get the stems and leaves of the flowers popped up I took 1 glue dot and put it at the bottom of the stem up a tiny bit from where it would normally go and that popped out the rounded stem too.

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Well I hope you enjoyed my part of The Character Cafe Blog Hop and now you want to Hop on over to my lovely team mate Colleen's Blog. Don't forget once you have made it through the whole hop you will have all the code pieces we have given you in order so you can head on over to The Character Cafe Store and order those stamps at 50% off!!!!

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Have a wonderful evening and I hope your Thursday was very Stampendous!!!!

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Heather

Just about 1 Hour to go until the Character Cafe 1st Ever Blog Hop!!!!

Hi All,

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I just wanted to remind you that you only have 1 hour and 10 minutes to go until our First Every Character Cafe Blog Hop!!! Look forward to Prizes, and Free Bee's and Discounts at the end of the Hop!!!!
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You Will NOT want to miss it!!! Just to tickle your taste buds here is a little Sneaky Peaky!!!

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Heather

The Big News and a Glitch in the System

Hi Everyone,
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Well you probably read the picture and know what my BIG news is now.
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I found out on Monday that I was one of the 8 girls who was selected to be on the Very First Design Team for Digital Delights - by Louby Lou!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am very very excited because her images are so so so super cute!!! Wendy (aka. Louby Lou) was one of the first blogs I found after joining this great Blogging/Stamping World!!! I have been following her for many months and I am just so excited to get to share these WONDERFUL images with you each week!!!!!
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My only regret is that for some reason I am having trouble downloading the images Wendy Sent me and so I planned to have a Digital Delights Card for you today, but I could not do it without my images!!!
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I hope to figure out what the problem is and still have a card to share with you later this morning so check back then!!!!
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Here is the list of my Great New Team Mates:
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Digital Delights Design Team Members
Cindy – Senior DT – Royal Things....Alysabeth – Layin Rubber Ink....Heather – Heather’s Heavinly Stampations....Jen – Expressively me....Kelly – Kreative Korner by Kelly....Lisa – Stampin for Sanity....Martha – Creating is Fun....Stephanie – Stephanie’s Stampin Spot
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So I have been given the AMAZING Honor of two New Design Teams in one week and I am so so so floating on Cloud Nine this week!!!! I can not wait to start sharing all the images with you both companies have simply wonderful images and they are all different and unique and Super Fun to work with!!!
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Speaking of which do not forget to come back tonight at 9pm EST (8pm CST), (7pm MT), (6pm PST). We will be having our First Ever Character Counts Blog Hop and there will be Prizes so do not miss out on the Fun!!!!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fluttering By with a Lovely Lady - Pictures of the Kiddo's, and Willow's 5th Birthday Party

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Happy Wednesday!!!!!
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It is once again Wednesday which is Flutter By Wednesday here at Heavinly Stampations!!!! But first a bit of news. I posted my Twinkling card late yesterday so you can scroll down to see it if you are wondering about it!!! Also I have some more big news to share tomorrow along with a card so don't forget to come back by for the Card and the News too!!! Also I will post 2 times on Thursday in the Morning with my Card and News, and at 9pm EST for the first ever Character Cafe Blog Hop!!!!!
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This week Danni gave us an Open Challenge again which are my favorites because I can create anything my little heart desires!!! However it is fun to throw in the challenges sometimes too!!! If you want to play along with us this week just make a Card or Project with a Flutter By on them (Butter Fly or Fairy) then link up your project to Danni's Flutter By Post Mr. Linky so we can check out all the great creations!!!! Don't Forget to stop by the Flutter By Wednesday's Creator and my friend Danni's Blog to see our Guest DT girl this week. I am so sorry I lost my link for her!!!! Also this weeks Featured Member of the Flutter By team is Christine so be sure to send some love her way!!!!!
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Once you are done here make sure to head on over to the rest of the Flutter By team to see what they have created for your Eye Candy this week too!!!
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So this week I wanted to do a Scrap Book Page as I have not been doing any of them lately and am years behind on my Scrapping. I think I am going to make it a new goal to post one scrap book page every week. That is a start at least right???
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I had these pictures of Willow before she ever even turned 1 year old and she was dressed up in this really cute Lady Bug outfit. So I decided to make a Lady Bug themed page with some Flutterings to accent the lovely lady and her lovely outfit. I can not believe this sweet sweet baby girl is now a sweet sweet 5 year old, and I only have 1 more year with her home before Kindergarten starts!!!! Wow where do the years go???
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So Above is my Scrap Book Page of my Lovely Lady in red and white. Willow has always always been the most Happy Confident little girl she is so much fun to be around and man is this girl smart. I am sure if we had her tested she would have a Hi IQ the things she comes up with are amazing. I hope that is not hard on her siblings later in life though!!! Willow has the right brain, and personality to really get about anything in life she wants if she just keeps going the way she has the last 5 years (FIVE YEARS??????)

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For the Card I used 3 different SU! sets with Lady Bugs in them and then some SU! Whisper White, Real Red, and Ruby Red and White DSP. I used my computer fonts to make the sentiment, and my Martha Stewart punch for the Flutter By's.

Above is the Shimmerz view if you can see it. I painted Butter Cream Shimmerz on all my Flutter By's I punched out with my MS butter fly punch. I punched it out on SU! Ruby Red DSP that had red and white flowers in the pattern.
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Here is Willow lounging in the pool at her Pool Party Birthday on Sunday. I told Marvin I think this was the easiest Birthday Party we have ever done just go to the pool and when you leave everything is cleaned up and done!!!! The kids all had a great time too!!! I think Willow is the youngest of the group and the last one to turn 5 of her little friends. Several of them are already close to 6!

You might have noticed in the past Willow is my Photography Model she always always is posing for pictures and she makes it fun to take her picture!!!! LOL!!!!

Here she is a close up of her posing with her Birthday Balloons. She tans so easily she has hardly been in the sun and look how dark she is!!! I can spend the whole summer in the sun and stay as white as a Sheet!!! LOL!!!!

Willow posing once again while eating her Pizza. Can you tell how happy this little girl always is??? LOL!!!!

Here is Willow blowing out her Candles.

Above are all 3 kiddo's and the Puppy we still have Snickers (or Porkers as he gets called more frequently.) Not sure why Willow named him that and his sister was Skittles so we are trying to start calling him Snickers instead of Porkers, but Porkers just seems to fit him more!!! LOL!!!!

The kids are standing with Marvin's Parents Jim and Marianne Schlatter

Here is Tucker after he put his shirt back on playing in the inner tube on the Pool Deck.

I just love this picture above!!! It was taken last year right when Willow was turning 4!!!

And last but not least here is Tucker playing in the Sand Box last week.

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Well I better get cracking Tomorrow night is the Character Cafe Blog Hop don't forget to come and play with us!!!! I so so so so so wanted to use the image I am showcasing for the Blog Hop on today's Card you will see why soon, but she is so so so so perfect for Flutter By Wednesdays!!!

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Have a Stampendous Wednesday everyone, and don't forget to Flutter By with a smile on your face!!!! Happiness is contagious!!!!

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Heather

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Twinkling Tuesday Time - with some Sugar!!! - A very interesting kind of scary night last night!!!

Sweet Summer Days
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Last night we had quite the night. For quite a few hours in the afternoon you could tell a storm was brewing. It hit about 7:30 pm last night I was in Wal-Greens drive through picking up a RX (there goes the nurse in me abbreviating sorry) anyway I was in the drive through when the Tornado sirens started going off. I am pretty sure I sped home all the way but I figured what police man was going to stop me when the sirens were going off!!!
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The interesting part came when I walked in the door and the phone was ringing. Some close family friends who do not have a basement were on the phone saying they were heading their way with their grand kids I said Come on over. Not 1 minute after that call one of Marvin's life long friends who lives about 1/2 an hour away called and said he was in town with a friend and his mom who is here in Kansas visiting and so I said Yea hurry up and get here. So at one point we had 13 people, 3 cats, and 2 dogs in our basement!!!!
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It was quite interesting and the whole time I was going up and down the stairs grabbing important things like purses wallets, Cell phones, camera's, pictures on the walls and all the precious things you do not want to loose.
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Thankfully our area of town just got the rain and lightning and wind, but other parts of town lost roofs and one car in the middle of town had a power pole fall on them while driving but no one was hurt so that is a good thing. I had a hair appointment today and found out the girl who I have started having do my hair is still without electricity so she is having to cancel appointments today, I hope they get their electricity back soon. We went 10 days without electricity when Tucker was 5 months old right before Christmas and that was a horrible experience!!!
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So now onto why you probably came to see me today. Tuesday is Twinkling Tuesday Time around here, and this week even though she is off on the rode visiting her Grandparents, and my good friend Janna (I am so jealous!!!) young Miss Madelynn had a great sketch for us this week.
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Several months ago Janna had stamped up several Sugar Nellie Stamps for me and I have not used them near enough I mean these images are just the cutest!!! Gotta love Elizabeth Bell!!!
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Don't forget after you leave here to go check out my team mates great creations!!!
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The "Twinkle Team"

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Cassie Larson...Christi Thorsen...Debbie Lee...Jacquie Peifer...Janna Hull...Jessica Diedrich...Kim Ross...Kimmie Doktor...Rebecca Ednie...Sandra McLean...Darla...Heather Schlatter...Heather Lee-Reppen...Lisa... Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge Blog

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Here is 9 year old Madelynn's sketch for this week.

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Below is my take on the sketch. I turned it around and added a few more dew drops on each end instead of just on end of the card but this is what I came up with.

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I used some of my new Favorite Paper. I have never wanted to buy it before, but I will be buying a lot of it now. This is the New SU! Textured and Printed Cardstock DSP packs. It is heavy textured Card Stock printed on both sides with a different pattern you can see a picture of the inside pattern below.

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I colored up this Sugar Nellie with my copics so many colors on this one I can not list them all, but if you have any questions let me know and I will tell you what colors I used. I used my large Ovals and my Small Petite Scalloped Ovals to cut the Nestie layers. While coloring it I accidentally brought a slight amount of red into the Sky so that is the smudges you see. I used Copic B21 to color the sky with.

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Here is a close up of this little cutie my 1 year old son loved the "Dogie" "Dogie" "Doggies" part of the card!!!

Above you can see the inside of the card and it is all on Heavy Printed Textured Card Stock.

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Well I better get going I promised the girls I would play a game with them while Tucker is napping. I tried 4 different times this morning to post this but every time I had my back turned to post Mr. Tucker decided to do things like dump entire containers of SU! metal embellishment on the floor for me to pick up like a container of four different types of metal brads and a container of four different types of metal mini library clips that was lots and lots of fun, so that is the reason for the late post today!!! I tried to get to you sooner but alas no luck!!!

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Oh and our Big Blog Hop for Character Cafe will start at 9pm Est on Thursday Night. Be there or be left out!!! LOL I hope you come Hop with us!!!!

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See you tomorrow for Flutter By Wednesday and I have some more BIG News to share with you tomorrow and it does not have anything to do with anything else I have already told you!!!!

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Have a very very Stampendous Day!!!!

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Heather

Monday, June 15, 2009

I have the Bestest News!!! LOL!!! - The Character Cafe Waaa Hoooo!!!!

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Happy Monday to you!!!
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Well from my Giddy Title you can probably tell I am excited to share some news with you!!!
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Friday night I got asked to be on the Design Team for a new Digital Stamp Company called The Character Cafe. They have some really really cute Animal and People images and more cute things in the works you will love them!!!
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This news is especially exciting for me because I happened upon their store and blog on Friday while searching for Cute People and Animal images and while browsing I saw that they had a DT Call that had ended the day before. I thought - Oh to bad I love these images they are so spunky and cute and would be a ton of fun to color up!!!
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I left the Owners of the company Kelly and Kendra a message telling them how cute their images were ect.... I planned to go back and do some purchasing as soon as the store was up and running as I love the images so much.
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Well Friday night I got an e-mail telling me I had made the team and I was so ecstatic because I never even got the chance to apply since I found them after their call was over already.
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This news was even more exciting and special, because they liked me for me and my work and that meant the most to me. Making this team was something I really am so excited about and the way it happened has just really been so much fun for me and it was something that I really needed right now so Thank You So So So Much Kendra and Kelly for picking me and for having faith in my work!!!!
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We will be having our first Blog Hop on Thursday only 3 more days to wait!!! Yea, Ye, Yea, so be checking back for more info and excitement as we prepare to Hop with all of you wonderful stampers out there!!!!
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I will be back tomorrow with my Twinkling Tuesday Card you all have to play this week the sketch is a fun one!!!
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Heather

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Etsy Inspired Challenge - DT Sample - Creations this week in Honor of Ashley Newell our Etsy Inspired Challenge Creator

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Some Baby Onsies for You!!!! Happy Saturday Everyone!!!!,
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How are you all doing today??? I am wonderful!!! I got the very best news last night and as I can not share it just yet I can not wait to share it with you in just a few days!!!
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Tomorrow we are going to do Willow's Birthday party at the Private Pool we belong to. It is a nice pool that is only 1 neighborhood away from ours and there are just 80 families that are members so many times when we go in the evenings as a family, we are the only family there and have the entire Pool/Baby Pool/Covered Patio/Wood Deck/Children's Park all to ourselves it is really nice!!!! Willow invited her Cousins, and 3 little girls and 3 little boys and their families to come and swim then eat Cake and Ice Cream and Pizza with us. She is really looking forward to that!!!
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Today is Etsy Inspiration Challenge DT sample day and I think you will like this weeks shop!!!! It is called Naturally Felt - Handmade Slippers and Bags.
I decided to make my creations this week in Honor of our
Etsy Challenge Creator Ashley Newell. Last weekend we had a Virtual Baby Shower for Ashley and it was a lot of fun!!! I am so proud of Ashley she is almost at her Due Date and yet she is hanging in there like a real trouper!!! As a Mother of 3 young kiddo's myself and a Labor and Delivery RN I know how rough that can be so I am just really proud of her!!!!
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About 1 year ago I found the original design for these Ultra Cute Baby Onsie Cards on Lauren Meaders Blog. I got in contact with her and asked if I could make my own tutorial on them and change them up a bit and teach them to my Stampers Club?? Lauren said that was great so I did do some tweaking and then made a tutorial for them. If you want to see it let me know and I can e-mail it to you as I have it saved in picture and e-mail form.
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So I went to this weeks shop and found some inspiration pieces I liked and made 4 different Baby Onsie cards off those inspiration pieces and they are all in Honor of our Great leader Ashley!!!!
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Now when you are done here today be sure to head on over to all my team mates blogs and check out their great creations too!!!! They always have wonderful creations to share on Saturday mornings!!!
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Here are a few of the Inspiration pieces I picked out and then below you will see the two inspiration pieces I choose before I made each Baby Onsie.
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Below are the 4 Baby Onsies I made side by side. I added a Denim Overall set to make one a boys outfit since Ashley is having a Boy soon to be Baby Parker Newell. I also changed one outfit up to make it a cute little baby girls dress.
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There were several Zoo Animal themed lunch bags so I copied the two above and then made this Orange and black and White little girl outfit Onsie. You could easily use the Alligators from this set and make a really great boys outfit as well. The set is SU Wild About You Stamp set which sadly retires in just a couple weeks so if you want it order it soon. (By the way I give a 10% discount on all retiring SU sets in the month of June!!!) :0

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Next I wanted to make a simple outfit that could be done up in Pink, Blue, Lavender, Yellow or Green so I found these bags with Pink in them for my Inspiration. This stamp set was one of Last years Sale -a- Bration SU! sets you could earn for free the whole set was made to go with the Scallop Circle punch.
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Now onto the little Baby Boys outfit just for Parker!!!
I free handed the Denim Overalls and then cut them out and glued them on top of the Onsie.
The Stamp Set is SU Welcome Little One, I love this set too, but it is already retired.

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Lastly is my Altered Baby girls Dress. I used my Colluzel with the pretty wavy line to cut out the white rick rack type pattern you see on the Red Dress and the Sleeves of the Orange Black and White Penguin outfit above. I stamped the Red Polka Dots with SU set Seeing Spots (also retiring at the end of June get it while you can!!!!!)

Well I hope you enjoyed the Onsies, and be sure to check out this weeks shop too!!! I think I will be getting me some of those lunch bags for trips and such they look great!!!!

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If you want to play along this week just go to the shop and then choose a inspiration piece or two and make a project of any kind off the inspiration. Then link it up to Ashley's Blog who hopefully by next Friday at Noon when the Challenge for this week ends will already be a new Mommy to baby Parker!!!! Kerry and De will take care of choosing the winner, and then sending out your prize from the shop!!!! Good Luck hope to see you play this week!!!

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Well off to do Party Stuff!!!! Have a Stampendous Saturday!!!!

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Heather

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Fluttering By Finally!!! - It's Flutter By Wednesday Time on Thursday Afternoon :-)

Fluttering By With some
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Beautiful Roses and Pinks
Hello All,
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Well I know I am late with my Flutter By Card this week, but it just could not be helped and as our Twinkling Team keeps saying this week Better Late than never right??
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This week Danni issued us the challenge to use a sketch any sketch for our Flutter By Wednesday card. Well as I have never played in MoJo Monday Sketch challenge I choose to do that one this week. I know it is past Monday but the sketch is good until next Sunday night so I went ahead and played this week!!!! It was a Fun Sketch at that!!!
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So you know the Drill if you want to play along just make a card with a Flutter By (Butter Fly) or a Fairy on it and then after you upload it to your blog, SCS, or PCP leave a link to your creation in Danni's Mr. Linky under her Flutter By Post for this week. When you get done her be sure to go check out my Team Mates great creations I know you will love them this week!!!
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Above is this weeks MoJo Monday sketch for the week. I had already planned out my card colors before I saw the sketch so it is just a coincidence that they actually match the colors of the sketch!!! LOL!!!
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So Above is my take on the sketch. I Used SU DSP's and Card Stocks in Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Rose Red, and Purely Pomegranate. The DSP is the one color DSP pack Rose Red.
I decided to use Fairy Ava from The Greeting Farm for this weeks Flutter By card. I dotted her dots and outlined the edges of her wings with the colors of Copics I have that are closest to the Purely Pomegranate, and Regal Rose Colors. I also added Angel Wings Shimmerz to the center of the sections on the wings.
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I colored Ava up with my Copics mostly in R83 and R85, R00, E00, RV21, and E95.
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I used my Nesties in Small and Large Scalloped Circles and Small Circles along with my SU! Big Shot too.
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I hope you enjoy this creation this week I had fun making it and my girls loved helping too!!!! Have a great rest of your Thursday!!!! This weekend we are doing Willow's 5th Birthday Party at the Pool we belong to and she is excited but she still says she is 4 years old not 5 years old!!! That is O.K. my Brother was never 3 years old. He was 2 and 4 but never 3 years old!!! LOL!!!!
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Have a Stampendous Thursday!!!!
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Heather

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Flutter By Wednesday did it Flutter By??

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that I will not be able to post my Flutter By Wednesday Card until Thursday the last couple of days have just been quite hectic, and I just have not had time to finish my card and get it photo'd edited, and then posted, but I have nothing on the agenda for tomorrow other than cleaning and laundry, the normal hub bub so I am planning on posting it on Thursday!!!
See you soon!!! How is your summer going???
Heather

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Happy Birthday to my Good Friend, and Fellow Twinkle Team member Janna Hull - Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Sketch Challenge #26

Happy Birthday Janna
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Big Twinkling Splash Too
Happy Tuesday Morning Everyone!!!
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Well I come to you today with a double purpose card!!!! Yesterday was my good friend and fellow Twinkler Janna Hull's Birthday. Janna and I talk almost every day about stamping and it is so nice as Jess put it on the phone yesterday when we 3 way called Janna and sang Happy Birthday to her in our best (or in our cases worst) singing voices!!! Anyway as Jess put it it is so nice to have people who totally "Get" our stamping and where we are trying to go wit it!!!
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Happy Birthday Janna!!!! She has now joined the ranks of those of us in the Twenty - Ten Decade of our lives!!!! I know I was Twenty - Ten the whole year I was (30!!!) just a while back. I remember I was having a hard time getting used to the idea and Marvin took me to a Movie and Drew Barrymore was the main actress and Drew and I by the way are very close in real age and Drew said I am about to be Twenty - Ten and I do not even have a serious Boyfriend, and I thought Twenty - Ten!!! Wow I am Twenty Ten not 30 it made the whole year much more bearable!!!!
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So onto the task at hand now! I am also the Featured Twinkie this week so I get to post to the MTT Blog as well as my own!!!! Wooooo Hooooo!!!!!
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Madelynn gave us a great sketch this week and I really enjoyed doing it!!!! I already had an idea in my head on what I was doing for Janna's Birthday Card, but then I had to just tweak a couple of things to make it work for the Sketch!!!!
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So after you check out my take on the sketch do not forget to head on out to check out all the other girls DT cards for the week!!!
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Last week when I did not get to post since it was Willow's Birthday and I wanted to spend the whole day with her, and we did have a fun day at that!!!! We welcomed Lisa a new Blogger and SU! Demo to our Twinkling group. We also found out this weekend that we are saying Good Bye to two Tuesday Twinklers Bonnie, and Jen Greco. We will miss them dearly but Bonnie is now one of the Dirty Dozen Royalty on SCS and she is busy doing all her requirements for that, then Jenn is busy with several DT's too so she needed more precious stamping time we all know can come to few and far between!!!! So help me Welcome Lisa and say good bye to Bonnie and Jenn!!!!
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The "Twinkle Team"
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Here is Madelynn's Great Sketch for this week it looked like so much fun to do!!!!
You can also check out our Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge Blog that I am also posting to this AM!!!!
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Now for my take on the Sketch. Now Janna and her Hubby Jason have a pool in their back yard that looks to be almost the size of the private pool our family belongs to that 80 different families are members of!!! Janna swears for someone to put a pool that big into a house of their size then they must have been in the pool business!!!
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So I knew I wanted to make her Birthday card something to do with pools. Mostly because we have talked about pools a lot lately as they have been having issues getting their pool up and running this season!!!!
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So above is my take on the sketch. I had to leave off the two 3 section rectangles on the right hand side of the card because I used that part as my Diving Boards and while many pools have a High Dive and a Low Dive as I made I have never seen a pool with 4 diving boards two on each side!!! LOL!!!

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So anyway the waves on the card back of my card are the little round sections that Madelynn added to the left hand side of her sketch, or if you want to be creative they could be the tiles going down the sides of my pool.

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So like 5 1/2 to 6 years ago I used to get these Current (Check Company) Scrapbook magazines and I always loved to order embellishments from them. Sad to say many of them have yet to make it onto paper, but I ordered these ceramic tiles for Scrapbooking and I knew some day they would come in handy. Now little did I know it would be like 6 years later for a good friends card that I have never even met but talk to almost every day!!!LOL!!! Nor did I know that the project I picked to use them on would take up almost every one of my tiles!!!! LOL!!!

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So Janna I hope you know I love you or I would not have A.) taken this much time adhering on all these tiles to your card, and B.) Let you have all my precious tiles I have been hoarding for 6 years!!!!!! They were so neatly put away on the Custom Shelves Hubby has built in my Scrapbooking room!!! LOL!!!!!

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I just got my Sophia from The Paper Pretty's Stamp company in my Sophia of the month kit on Friday. So I had to ink her up and color her with my copics to use on this card. Now Janna she is colored much better than the pictures show and my blending is Janna esque but as I took the picture late at night when I got my card done I had to use my flash which washed some of the coloring out!!!!

Here is a Side View of the Card. The Light blue layer and the card back wave layer are popped up from each other so that is why the diving board stairs I drew look like there is a break in the design but up front and flat you do not see that only in the side view. I thought it turned out pretty much like a real pool what do you think???

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The DSP is actually water on Paper so it worked perfectly for the water in the pool!!!!

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Well I must be off to type to the Twinkling Blog now but I wanted you to see it first here!!! LOL!!!!

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Have a Stampendous Tuesday everyone, and Madelynn who has her last day of school today has another great sketch for us next week too!!! Wooo HOooo!!!! Have fun on your trip to Tenn. Jess and Madelynn, and I am so so so jealous that you are going to get to swim in Janna's pool next week!!!!!!! It seems wierd to me that they are just getting out of school for the summer and we have already been out 2 1/2 weeks here!!! Wow how time fly's!!!!

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See you tomorrow for Flutter By Wednesday!!!!

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Heather

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Etsy Inspired Challenge #39 DT Sample - SU Workshop Day, and a Wild Sprout to boot!!!!

Bows, and Ribbon, and
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Flowers Oh My!!!!
Hey There Everyone!!!
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Good Morning and Happy Saturday!!!!
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Well as you all know by now I am sure - Saturdays here are Etsy Inspired Challenge DT Sample days!!!
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This week we had the best shop. If you know me you know I like to have my girls hair looking cute and in bows whenever possible. I have about 20 colors of bows and of course I need 4 of each color because if both Piper and Willow are wearing the same color and both have Piggy Tales in I need 4 bows for that!!!! LOL
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Anyway did you get your Hint there??? Our Etsy Shop this week has the cutest Hair Bows and Hair Accessories, Head Bands, and even personalized Tu Tu's so your little cuties can play dress up or do dance!!! This weeks shop is called Chicy Creations, and I will be sending some of my money there way!!!!
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So are you as excited to see what all the other Etsy DT came up with for their Inspiration Challenge projects this week??? I know I am their projects last week totally rocked!!!!
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We also Welcome two new Guest Designers for June this week so be sure to throw a little love their way on their blogs!!!! Ashley our Creator is now taking Maternity Leave not long now and she will be bringing baby Parker home to start their family of 4!!! I remember when I was pregnant with Willow I kept thinking how in the world can I possibly love another child as much as I love Piper??? Then she was born and it is like your heart doubles in size and then when Tucker was born it doubled in size again!!! Babies and Kids are just so wonderful and amazing I so wish I could keep them small forever!!!
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The Etsy Inspired Challenge DT:
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So are you ready for the wonderful Inspiration pieces I took away from this store???
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And for the specific pieces I choose as my Inspiration here they are. I thought these bows below went perfect with the bow on my Wild Sprout from The Greeting Farm!!!!
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Here is my close Up. I was so excited how her hair turned out!!! I colored her up with my Copics. The Papers I used are all from Two Scoops DSP by Basic Gray. The Card Back is on SU retired in color Purely Pomegranate.
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So what are you up to today??? My friend/SU Down line/fellow Nurse Emily and I are going to teach a bunch or brand new stampers how to stamp!!!! It should be a ton of fun!!!! I am looking forward to getting to spend time with Emily too!!!!!
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So we have the SU! workshop at 2pm but we have to drive a bit so we are leaving at 1pm. Then it is home to go visit my fellow team mates on their blogs and leave comments, and then to put like 800 loads of Laundry away!!! Uuuugggghhh!!! LOL
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Have a very Stampendous Saturday!!!
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Remember if you want to play along with us for this weeks prize then you can go to the Store for the week pick an inspiration, make a project with it, and then go to Ashley's Blog and link up your project by next Friday at Noon PST. Even though Ashley is away or not around much for a while Kerry is running her blog on all things Etsy!!!!
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I hope to see you play along this week!!!!!
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Heather

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Fluttering By (On a Box????) - Flutter By Wednesday Time

Boxes that Flutter???
Good Morning and Happy Wednesday/ Flutter By Everyone,
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Yesterday was Willow's 5th Birthday so we spent the whole day doing fun things and I never got to do my Twinkling Tuesday card, but I have a Flutter By Wednesday Project for you!!! I hope you will enjoy it. I had a scheduled post yesterday sharing all my Stampers Club projects I designed for my Club girls to do last Sunday, but then I realized I wanted to use one of the projects for my Flutter By so I changed the post with the other two projects for tomorrow instead.
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Stampin Up and Big Shot have so many great exclusive SU! Die Cuts and one of the newest ones from the Mini makes a cute Match Box. It is a little bigger and deeper then a real match box but just as great cause you can embellish it up and actually put something in it!!!
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This week on Flutter By Wednesdays we are welcoming back DT member Kimmie who I have missed!!! Our Featured Stamper is Chris who I love dearly her creations are amazing and she is such a kind sweet person!!!! We also have a guest designer this week I am sure about all of you know - Cindy Haffner.
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If you want to play along in the Flutter By Challenge then you can create a card or project with a Fluttering item ie... (Butter Fly or Fairy) on the project and then link it up to Danni our great Flutter By Wednesday Creator's blog in Mr. Linky. Some weeks we have additional challenges that need to be on the Flutter By project, but this week we have a free week and could create anything we wanted. I chose to Flutterize these cute boxes!!!
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When you are done here make sure to head on over to all my team mates blogs and leave them some love I know they will create wonderful projects.
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To my sweet wonderful Team Mates!!! I am so sorry I never got around last week to leave comments I just have not had much blog time, but today I do so I will be by today to see and rave about your amazing projects!!!!
Flutter By Wednesday Team:
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Ann... Cassie... Cathy ... Chris ... Christine ... Harriet ... Heather ... Jodi ... Kim ... Kimmie ... Lelia ... Michelle ... Nancy ... Nicola ... Stef ...
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So above you can see the two Boxes I created. The first one I made for the club girls to do, and the second one is the actual one I made for Flutter By Wednesday. The die which I have a picture of later in the post cuts out both pieces of the box, and also it cuts out the label stamp for this stamp set I used.
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The Flutter By's are very sparkly and pretty as I first stamped the Flutterby in Versa Mark then put SU! Heat and Stick powder on the wet versa mark, and then I heat set it and then added the SU! Fine Cosmo Glitter, and then I heat set it again. Heat and Stick powder is a must have in my book!!!!
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Above is the Yellow and Purple box notice the pretty pattern the stamp has in it. Even with Glitter on it you can still see the pattern this is due to the Heat and Stick powder!!! It leaves all the detail you loose some times with glue or liquid glue.
Above is a picture of the SU Bigz Die cut. I love this die it is so versatile!!! Here is a picture of a finished box and then one die cut out and ready to put together!!! The wonderful thing about this box is that it is scored and perforated in so many places that all you need to add is one little piece of Sticky strip to the top piece of the box wrap around.

Above is the Box in Black, White and Bright Pink!!!

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Well I guess that is all for today tomorrow will be my other two stampers club projects, and Friday is a card with a Wild Sprout on it!!! Wooo Hooo!!!!

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Have a Stampendous Day!!!!

Heather

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Twinkling Tuesday - and It is Willow's Birthday today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everybody,
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This is just a quick post to let you all know that I have not had any time to do my Twinkling Tuesday card yet for the week. We had a great inspiration challenge this week from one of our DT members (Rebbecca)'s son, and I had a totally cool idea for my inspiration, but a lot of things happened today and I just did not have a chance to work on it. In a few hours I have a post coming on to share the 3 projects I designed for my Stampers Club to do this last weekend.
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I am going to try to do my Twinkling Tuesday card later today and post it, but today is my Willow's 5th Birthday sniffle sniffle!!! So today may be reserved for just doing fun stuff with the Birthday girl!!!! So anyway if I do not get back today with it I will just double post it with my Flutter By Wednesday Post tomorrow!!!!
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Have a Great Tuesday see you later today!!!
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Heather
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