Courtney's Birthday Party

Hi everyone! I'm over on the Hero Arts blog today, sharing a Project Life layout I did of my daughter's 6th birthday party. She had a spa day - pretty fancy, no? I found an amazing deal on Groupon for this local company called Jola's Joyful Events, they come into your home and set up the spa party. They do EVERYTHING!! It was so cute! Courtney had a blast with her friends, being pampered. Although I usually do my Project Life layouts weekly, for events like this (aka times when I take way too many photos!) I go ahead and dedicate it's own special two page spread to the event. Afterall, it's not everyday that my baby turns six! True story - when I was making this layout, I put "5" everywhere, including that big cutout "6" in the title block!! I had to pull it apart and fix it. This mama is in denial that her baby is six!! LOL!

Over on the Hero Arts blog, I shared a tutorial on how I made the journaling cards using ink daubers and a sheet of wax paper. Check it out!

I had lots of fun creating this layout. I definitely have the scrapbooking bug again, which is what got me into paper crafting in the first place. Yay!

Thanks for stopping by,

Texana Designs Blog Hop!!

Today is an exciting day!! The Texana Designs team is hosting our very first blog hop! Yay!!

I wanted to make something that really screamed "Texas"! Texana Designs carries many stamps that are not specifically Texas-themed, but since a piece of my heart is still in central Texas, those are the stamps I love most of all! This card features TX018 Boot and TX014 Somebody in Texas Loves Ya!. I colored the boot with my Copics, and the patterned paper is from a great Texas-themed 6x6 pad - Giddy Up! from Carta Bella. The little stars are Studio Calico wood veneers.

My card is based on this sketch, created by teammate Karen Lambert for our hop! Thanks Karen!

You're going to want to hop along and visit all of the blogs - if you comment on them all, you'll have a chance at winning all of the cards featured during the hop. Fun!! Here's the hop list:

Texana Designs Blog - JimmyeSue Mitchell, Texana Designs Owner
Texana Designs Blog - Joyce Meyer Stamp Artist
Texana Designs Facebook - Jilda Bolton DTM
Janet's Gems - Janet Bradshaw DTM
Made by Design - Megan Bickers DTM
Libby's Little Addiction - Libby Hickson DTM ← You are here
Who I Am - Karen Lambert DTM

And before I go, I just want to share a couple photos. Back in January I was able to take a little solo trip back to Austin. If you don't know, I moved to Georgia from Austin about 2.5 years ago. Family, friends and Austin itself - I miss them all lots. And also in the Austin area is my wonderful Texana Designs family!! I had done a couple playdates via Google Hangout with them, but I had never been able to be in the same room with the entire team! It was so much fun!! I'm so thankful I was able to do see them, they are the nicest and most supportive group of ladies. We even posed for a photo.

And this is me with the owner of Texana Designs, my friend Jimmye Sue Mitchell. She is one of the sweetest ladies in the stamp industry!! I am so very fortunate to be a small part of her team.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Elephant Birthday

Hello! It's me! Making a card! Crazy, I know. I'm a little rusty, so bare with me... but I do hope to make this cardmaking thing a regular event in my stamp room once again...! Today I was brought back to the world of stamping because the Hambo Hoedown theme is to use an animal stamp. And I loooooove Hambo animal stamps! Especially my all-time favorite dancing elephant...

I paired the Elephant-5213 stamp with one of Hambo's great sentiments (Forgot to Remember - 1120). They have THE BEST sentiments if you like funny. The inside of this card says "I just forgot to tell you I remembered!". Yup, that's totally me! I wanted to put a little balloon in his hand so I drew that myself and colored. The Hemptique cord and the fun Simple Stories patterned paper both came from i {heart} papers. And the sketch is the current retro sketches.

This particular Hambo Hoedown challenge ends in just a few hours as I type this - but they post a new challenge on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month!

Thanks for stopping by,

Seasons Givings Blog Hop - WINNER

A huge thank you to everyone who visited my blog over the last several days and left your sweet comments - it was absolutely wonderful getting to have so many visitors and so much blog love!! You all made my day! And to those of you who subscribed while you were here - my sincere thanks! I am not the most regular of bloggers, but I do plan to spend more time creating this year than I have in years past. The kids return to school tomorrow, and I will return to my stamp room! Yay!

So without further ado... I've used random.org to choose a winner! Comment #179 - Chark, who said...
Love Hero Arts! Thanks for the chance and I like it without the sequins too...but Stickles were a good choice!

Please email me at stampinlibby@gmail.com and I'll get your goodies out to you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Seasons Givings Blog Hop

Welcome to the Seasons Givings Blog Hop! You should have arrived here by way of Darsie Bruno! If you didn't, head back to the very beginning at the Lawn Fawn blog! I was invited to join a wonderful blog hop organized by Latisha Yoast. She started this tradition of kicking off the new year with a hop thanking everyone who stops by our blogs! Well first of all, I can't tell you how much I appreciate anyone who stops by this old, neglected blog! It means so much to me when I have visitors and comments! Yay! Scroll down to check out my giveaway - there are giveaways on EVERY SINGLE BLOG taking part in this hop! Wowsa! But first, here's the card I created for the event:

I wanted to share a festive card to ring in the new year. I used lots of Hero Arts stamps - Retro Frame, Skyline, a greeting from Banners & Messages, and the fun Paint Spots to act as a firework! Of course I had to add sequins. Love my sequins! But... the more I looked at the card, the more those sequins bugged me. So I tore them off. What do you think, do you like the "fireworks" better with or without sequins??

I added a bit more Stickles after I took the sequins off - I still wanted my fireworks to sparkle!

Anyway... here is what I'm giving away today! Over the years I've gotten a lot of freebies from Hero Arts. These four sets I have up for grabs today are actually the sets Hero Arts made to be used during classes - they are a combination of different stamp sets in one 8" x 6" sheet. I have four of them that are extras!

Leave me a comment here by midnight EST on Sunday the 5th, and I'll announce the winner on Monday!

Next on the hop is Dana Joy!! Hop on over and see what she's sharing! And be sure to visit the entire list of hoppers, to check out their fab blogs and also to enter their giveaways!

Lawn Fawn
Reverse Confetti
My Favorite Things Stamps
CAS-ual Fridays Stamps
Fresh Squeezed Stamps
Julee Tillman: Verve Stamps
Avocado Arts Stamps
A Jillian Vance Design
Latisha Yoast
Amber Hight
Amber Kemp-Gerstel
Alice Wertz
Debbie Corbari
Vera Wirianta Yates
Lori McAree
Carolyn King
Sharon Harnist
Amy Tsuruta
Beth Pingry
Angie Blom
Julia Stainton
Sharon Johnson
Michelle Woerner
Cindy Lawrence
Lori Tecler
Daniela Dobson
Savitri Wilder
Theresa Momber
Giovana Smith
Kimberly Crawford
Maria Levine
Colleen Schaan
Lydia Fiedler
Kelly Klapstein
Kim Kesti
Laura Williams
Shanna Vineyard
Jennifer Gallacher
Heather Pulvirenti
Stacey Schafer
Leigh Penner
AJ Otto
Teri Anderson
Julie Overby
Margie Higuchi
Jimmi Mayo
Tenia Nelson
Iwona Palamountain
Kim Jackson
Linda Lucas
Sarah Gough
Dina Kowal
Elena Roussakis
Lisa Henke
Jodi Collins
Joanne Basile
Melanie Muenchinger
Darsie Bruno
Libby Hickson  (you are here!)
Dana Joy
Jody Morrow
Heather Campbell
Savannah O'Gwynn
Lee Murphy
Lisa Arana
Jocelyn Olson
Isha Gupta
Piali Biswas
Ashley Harris
Bunny Vance
Anabelle O'Malley
Andrea Murdock
Stephanie Muzzulin
Alyssa Bennett
Christiana Reuling
Laurel Seabrook
Melody Rupple
Emily Branch

Wishing you all the best in 2014!

2013 in Cards

I didn't stamp nearly as much as I'd like in 2013, but I did make a few cards I actually liked! I went through and picked my favorite from each month. For some months it was pretty slim pickins. Example - April. I don't completely love the card I'm sharing but it's the ONLY one I made that month!! Boo me! Then there's July, where I made so many bike cards I love it was impossible to choose a favorite. At any rate, here are my picks...

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Happy Stamping in 2014!!

New Years Inspiration Blog Hop

Welcome to the New Years Celebration Event brought to you by "The Inspiration Crew".  We’re just a group of crafty friends who love being creative. This time we're doing a one day event to provide you with tons of inspiration to ring in the New Year!

Here's my card... it's MASSIVELY SPARKLY, as I believe New Years cards should be! (In fact, so sparkly that it's difficult to photograph... you know how that goes!)

I used the Hero Arts Paint Print stamp in Soft Purple shadow ink. Then I pretty much went over the ENTIRE THING with Diamond Stickles. Sequins had to be added because it wasn't quite blingy enough.

Those funky silver ones were from a Studio Calico kit a while back - aren't they fun?? The Happy New Year message is from Hero's Banners & Messages.

Now hop on over and see what my stampy friends are up to!!

Rachel Kleinman
Ceal Pritchett
Jennifer Cuthbertson
Darnell Knauss
Ardyth Percy-Robb

Thanks for stopping by!

Painted Trees

This was a card that was incredibly difficult to make, difficult to send and frankly difficult to blog. Do you blog sympathy cards you send? Something feels wrong about it. But I also love how it turned out, so... here it is on my blog.

I used Three Winter Trees from Hero Arts, stamped in Archival ink on Sticky Back Canvas. Then I added color using my old watercolor crayons - still love those things after all these years.

I was inspired by the tree on this website. And that's really all I can say about that.

Take care,

Happy Hanukkah!

Today at sunset several of my friends will begin their Hanukkah festivities. I made a little card for the Hero Arts blog today to celebrate.

Sadly when I made this card, I completely had a brain malfunction and SPELLED IT WRONG! Ugh. I had to redo the lettering with the alphabet stamps a couple times, which can be... um... "fun"... so I guess it all of that I ended up spelling it wrong. Ah well, what can I say - Happy Hanukkah, however you spell it!

Head on over the Hero Arts blog for the card details. :-)

Tutorial for Hero Arts - using gesso with stencils!

I'm over on the Hero Arts blog today, sharing this card that was inspired by Candy Canes!

I had fun using gesso with my Tweed Pattern stencil. I put together a little video to show how it's done!

Thanks for stopping by!