Welcome to Geek Week!

Just for fun, I've decided this week has been declared GEEK WEEK on my blog! Mostly because whenever I see any geeky, chemistry-themed stamp sets I absolutely cannot resist buying them, and I want to force myself to actually USE them. But also simply because... well... GEEKS RULE! First up is a chem nerd card with Paper Smooches stamps!

Isn't he cute?? The set is called Great Chemistry. I colored and popped up my little chemist. The background panel is die-cut with Lawn Fawn's Stitched Journaling Card - I love this die so much!! I stamped the various flasks (*more on flasks below!), drew my own little hearts and then colored the entire thing with Copics. The background paper is Lawn Fawn too, from the Into the Woods 6x6 pad. I added Stickles for fun, because that's what I do. :-)

All of the products I've linked above are found at i {heart} papers, and as luck would have it they are ALL ON SALE!! IHP is celebrating their 5th birthday. There are huge sales going on throughout the store, giveaways happening on Facebook & Twitter, and best of all Kate is giving back 10% of her sales to dog rescues, because she's awesome like that!

The sketch I used for my card is the latest retro sketches:

Now a bit more about the geekiness of my card! I told my brother about my plans for Geek Week. My brother's online handle is jonthegeek - with a name like that, of course he was excited by the prospect of geekiness on my blog! I showed him the stamp set I was using for this card and he was absolutely giddy about the fact that this set includes both a volumetric (round-bottomed) flask AND an Erlenmeyer (flat-bottomed) flask. Need I say more about his geekiness? He helped come up with the nerdy sentiment I used on this card. I had to have the chemist holding a volumetric flask, because Erlenmeyers are neither precise nor accurate. As my brother put it, "Erlenmeyers are for suckers!" Yes, my brother is a mega-geek. And that's part of why my love for him is both precise and accurate!

Thanks for stopping by today! And DFTBA! If you want to know what that means, tune back in tomorrow... ;-)

Congratulations Kate + John!

Hello! Today the i {heart} papers design team & guests are doing a little hop to wish our fearless leader and owner of IHP, Kate, a huge congratulations on her recent wedding to her guy John!! Yay!! We're all so very happy for you, Kate! I wish you a lifetime of love and happiness.

You should have made your way here by way of Gretchen's blog. If not, head back to Amy's blog and start at the very beginning!

I made a card for Kate featuring Into the Woods from Lawn Fawn. I just love this sweet little deer! I wanted to have two deer in love, and I realized one way to make that work easily would be to stick a stamped image on my lightbox and do the no-line coloring technique!

I did a video tutorial for Hero Arts a while back, here it is if you're curious how to do it! For my deer card today I used my Copics, and in the video I used water-based markers. Both alcohol & water-based work great! I think the alcohol markers are a little easier, though, since they are so wonderfully blendy.

Now head on over to my sweet friend Linda's blog and see what she's sharing for Kate and John! And here's the entire blog list in case you get lost along the way.

Amy
Deb
Gretchen
Libby
Linda
Lindsay
Lori
Sarah
Stacey
Tracy
Vera
Wida

Thanks for stopping by, and congratulations again Kate and John!!

May All Your Dreams Come True!

Today I have a card featuring some sweet little Lawn Fawn stamps and a whole bunch of challenges!


First of all, I'm playing along with Linda's current Catered Crop Recipe Swap! This week we're playing with brads. I don't dig into my old stash of gold brads very often, so I loved having the excuse! I had fun adding brads around the stars from the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After set!

I chose to play with Lawn Fawn this week because I also wanted to join the Lawnscaping Challenge! The challenge over there is to color. Yes, to color. As if that's a challenge for me! I love coloring. So I did. :-) Head on over and check it out - Laurel also put together a fabby tutorial!


And finally, my sketch comes from the latest Mojo Monday. They always have the best sketches!


Thanks for stopping by!

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Cruising Through Life...

Hello and Happy Monday! Did everyone have a nice WCMD? I did! I was a stamping fool!! I made more cards than I've made in ages. Woohoo!! Here's the first of them, playing with some Lawn Fawn goodness...


You *know* I *needed* this Cruising Through Life set as soon as I saw it!! It has an adorable BIKE! Thank you Kelly Marie for being so awesome! ;-) I made this card for a couple challenges - first, it's the WCMD challenge on the Lawn Fawn blog. We were to make a "thank you" card - although this doesn't exactly say "thank you" - to me it's a "thank you for spending your life with me" card, so hopefully it counts. :-)

I also played with Lori Craig's challenge over in the Hope You Can Cling To forum on Splitcoaststampers. She asked us to use BLING! Um, ok! Not a problem! :-) Check out the challenges if you haven't already. They are posting a new one every single day this month, and the cards will benefit the MD Anderson Cancer Center. I'm going to play along with as many as I can!! AND!!! I will be HOSTING ONE soon... SQUEAL! So be sure to check it out!! Oh, and by the way, there are prizes!!!! :-)

Thanks for stopping by,

• Stamps: Cruising Through Life from Lawn Fawn
• Paper: white & pink cardstock
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copie markers, white gel pen
• Other: Crafter's Workshop cloud template, Hero Arts gems, Star Dust Stickles

i pine for you.

Here's a simple little card.


I pine for you. Heee! I just love that. As soon as I saw that greeting, along with the pine tree, in the Critters in the Forest set from Lawn Fawn, I had to have it. Nevermind that the critters themselves are ADORABLE too. It was this greeting that put me over the edge. So cute!

Tomorrow is Play Date Cafe day, see you then!

A Lawn Fawn Easter card...

Hi everyone! Well I promised that I'd be back with a card, and here it is! Woohoo!! I love stamping. Did you know that? :-)


I played with some cutie patootie stamps from a brand new company called Lawn Fawn - started by my friend Kelly Marie, who is just as sweet as can be! I decided the little bunny in Critters in the 'Burbs would make a cute Easter card. But then I didn't feel like using "traditional" Easter colors - so - this is what happened. My mojo has been nonexistent lately, and what I do in those situations is turn to challenges for inspiration, so this card is chock-full of them! I used Jen's latest SFYTT for the layout of the card. I also played a couple new (or at least new-to-me) challenges too - Lisa Johnson's Poppy Seed Challenge #2 (to use polka dots, buttons and light moss) and also the Oh, Alice "Chapter 6" challenge, to use printed text. (This challenge may not actually be live until tomorrow - see it in Reader but not on the actual blog! Will update this tomorrow with the correct link.) I am in love with this Oh, Alice challenge blog by the way - a different Alice in Wonderland-inspired theme each week! Too fun!!

I was going to add more details & a card recipe, but Miss Courtney is pulling on my leg so I better post this and go! Thanks for stopping by today!