Just Give Me Stamps...

French Kiss...

Hi there!  I'm writing this from sunny foggy California!  I arrived yesterday, and am having a BLAST with Tosh!  Before heading out again, I wanted to pop in here and share one of the projects I made for Glitz's CHA booth using the brand new French Kiss collection!  I ADORE this line with all of it's burlap, vintage, creamy goodness!  Happy sigh....

I chose several of the more creamy patterned papers for my stacking boxes. 

I adorened them with some of the new Layered Stickers (do you SEE the gorgeous glitter that come on them??), trims, & buttons.

From this top view, you can better see one of the Layered Stickers and Giant Rhinestone I added to the top box. 

I really cannot wait to see Glitz Design's booth!  I will make sure to take lots of pictures and share them here with you all!  :-)

You can see more projects featuring the new French Kiss Collection over at the Glitz Blog! 

I'll be back tomorrow to share another project with you!

Hugs,
Laurie

 

January Paper Smooches DT blog hop!

It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the Paper Smooches February stamp release with you! The three NEW clear stamp sets will be available to purchase on February 1st. You will find them HERE. Follow the Paper Smooches blog for more sneak peeks.

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! Just leave a comment on any of the five design team blogs listed below for your chance to win one of the three new February stamp sets! (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify) You have until midnight MT on Friday, January 27th to leave a comment. Please check all five blogs on Saturday, January 28th to see if you are one of the five lucky winners.

 

Emily Leiphart

Heidi Van Laar

Kryssi Ng

Laurie Schmidlin

Teri Anderson

 

To increase your chances of winning:

1. Leave a comment on this blog post

2. Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop

3. Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop

4. Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop

(which means that you have up to four chances to win on each blog)

 

For my card, I used the soon to be released Good Gab with the previously released Falling For You!  I SO {heart} that sweet little monster!  Speaking of hearts, that cute brad heart is from Paper Smooches also!  SO fun!

Thanks so much for visiting!!  Hugs, Laurie

 

They say it's your Baa-thday...

na na na na na.  It's my baa-thday too now, na na na na na. 

Sorry, I couldn't resist!  LOL! 

I'm popping in here to share with you a fun Paper Smooches card with you!  I used the super adorable Party Posse set!  Kim's sets are so fun, don'tcha think?  Speaking of Kim, have you heard that she is going to have a Paper Smooches booth at CHA?  Yaayy!!  :-)

Well, I'm off to do laundry (not so fun).  Then pack (a little more fun).  And then, stamp some more (definitely more fun). 

Hugs, Laurie

Inspired...

Good morning!  Things have been pretty busy around here lately.  I'm finishing up some CHA projects (speaking of have you SEEN the new Glitz collections Pretty in Pink, French Kiss, & Happy Travels??), as well as other design team projects that I need finished before I leave.  Oh, have I mentioned that I'm going to CHA??  No?  Well, I can hardly believe it myself!!  I am so excited!  I'm leaving a bit early and flying down to see my friend Tosh...and then we are heading to CHA together!  Yaaaayyyy!  I will definitely be posting lots of photos so stay tuned!  :-)

Want to see something stampy?  How about something a little more clean & simple (CAS) today?

I absolutely love this stamp from Unity!  In fact, I loved it so much that it convinced me to sign up for the Unity Stamp of the Week program!   A fun new stamp or two that will be delivered to me every week!  Woohooo!

Ok, back to work for me!  I can't wait to show you what I'm working on!!  ((grin))

Hugs,
Laurie

Purge Blog Hop (aka Blog Candy)...

 

Hi there!  A few blogging friends of mine are having a hard time letting go of our much loved papers and embellishments. We decided to share them with all of you in a week long Purge Hop!

I could not (even if I tried) fit all of my stuff in one box.  Yep, there is THAT much stuff!  So, I will divide all of these goodies up (mixing the paper and embellishments together) into several boxes.  I'm thinking three or four boxes...

First, before I show you my goodies, I wanted to share a card I created for the latest Verve release!

I used Verve's new Lucky You stamp set, some felt, a star Nestabilities die, buttons, and some patterned paper to create this card.  Actually, everything from this card (aside from the cool new stamps), was taken from my misc. stash collection.  What's that. you ask?  A HUGE container of "stuff" that is either left over from other collections, or doesn't seem to have a home.  I was quite pleased with myself for actually using some of it!  Teeheheee!

Ok, want to see what I'm giving away?  Drumrolllllll.....

(Click on Photo for a Larger View)

Yes, there is a TON of stuff!  LOL!  Actually, there was just too much to count.  Included, there are all sorts of embellishments (brads, felt, flowers, epoxy), rub-ons, stickers, alphabets, and SO much more!!  Almost everything in this photo is brand new.

As for the paper, well there are over 45 paper pads here!  Brands include, Authentique, Basic Grey, K & Co., My Mind's Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Making Memories, Prima, Fancy Pants, Lilly Bee, Echo Park, Sassafrass Lass, and much MORE!  Most of these pads have only a couple of sheets (or partial sheets) missing and several are brand new!

Leave ONE comment below, and let me know what tickles your fancy the most (which items you are most excited about)!  All the winners will be posted Monday, January 30th.

1. Tosh          6. Julee

2. Andrea      7.Janelle

3. Maureen    8. Betty

4. Sonja         9. Jen

5. Laurie      10. Teresa

 

Remember, you have all week to leave a comment below to be entered in this giveaway! 

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a GREAT weekend!  ~Laurie

 

Stamps: Lucky You
Paper: Misc. Patterned Paper, Kraft c.s.
Ink: Pear Pizzaz (SU!), Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Accessories: Nestabilities, Buttons, Sewing machine, Corner rounder punch, String, Mini Safety Pin (Tim Holtz), Green felt