My Pink Stamper New Release Blog Hop - Yankee-Doodles

It's time for another exciting new release from My Pink Stamper and I'm so glad you've joined us for the Blog Hop!  We have once again partnered with the wonderful ladies at Shop Pumpkin Spice to introduce a new set as part of a great kit.  The set that we are introducing this month is Yankee Doodles:

  The kit comes with everything you see pictured, and they sell out quickly, so act fast.  You can purchase the Yankee Doodles kit here.  Join us for My Pink Stamper live and you can have the chance to win your very own kit!  Also available for purchase is the new MPS Darkest Night Hybrid ink pad which is the perfect accessory to go with the kit.  You will love using this stamp pad with the ProMarkers.  Do you want to see what I made?

You can't make a 4th of July layout without adding some bling, right?  I have been having so much fun coloring, and I just love this color palette.

Stamps:  My Pink Stamper Yankee-Doodles
Cricut Cartridge:  George & Basic Shapes (circles and stars), Plantin Schoolbook (scallop border, welded with the Gypsy)
Paper:  DCWV, AC Cardstock (red, dark blue, medium blue cardstock, blue & white stars glitter paper), The Paper Studio (red glitter paper)
Accessories:  Stickles, misc. buttons, Copic markers, Promarkers

Thanks so much for stopping by!  The next step on the hop is Carissa from Sprinkled with Glitter.  I have also included the entire blog hop order below.  Happy Hopping!

Robyn

Andrea     << You are here >>

Carissa     << Go here next >>

Courtney

Edna

Angela

Chelle

Helen

June

Shelley

Renee

Julie

Roberta

Karlee

Missy

Maria

Tracy

Crafting Night at Andrea's

Hello all!  Life is slowly starting to return to normal after a wonderful, albeit hectic, Christmas holiday.  I had family staying with me for a week and a half (4 people, one dog! ;-) ) and it was so fun - lots of cousin play time, good food, late night movies (most of which I slept through), and JUST DANCE parties on the Wii.  This is going to sound really strange, but I'm just entering the world of Wii.  My MIL gave us one for Christmas, and although my children have used one before at friends' houses, I've never even touched one.  Well, I've got a few months before I'll see my sister again, and then we're having a Just Dance rematch baby!  ;-)

It was also nice to have their miniature poodle Jake here.  We have been promising the kids for years that we would get them a dog as soon as we got into our own home.  Now that we are, they're making follow through!  Waahhhh!  Honestly, I love dogs - other people's dogs.  The ones that I can cuddle with and enjoy and not be responsible for.  We will get a dog, but we've only been here a couple of months.  I'm going to give myself a little more time to settle in before I take on another project.

Speaking of projects, next week I am having some friends over for this month's Crafting Night.  We decided that we should do something for Valentine's Day.  I know, I know - it makes me crazy too that as soon as Christmas is over, there's Valentine's Day stuff everywhere.  It's the life of a crafter - always looking forward to the next holiday/season and reason to create!  I decided to make a nugget box/card ensemble.  Do you remember nugget boxes?  I made about a million of these 5-6 years ago and haven't done anything with them since.  Can you even still buy nugget boxes?  I guess I need to find out...

The box that I made holds 8 Hershey's Nuggets.  If you would like instructions on how to make nugget boxes of all sizes there's some great instructions here.  I'm assuming that most of the women that will be making these will want to give them to their hubby's, so I tried to make this slightly more masculine.  What can I say?  I like glitter, whimsy, buttons and bows - masculine is a bit of a stretch for me. 

Stamps:  My Pink Stamper Love-alicious
Cricut Cartridge:  Gypsy Wanderings
Paper:  Roberts Crafts, Core-dinations, AC Cardstock
Embossing:  Cuttlebug Victoria - topped with Diamond Glaze
Border Punch:  American Crafts Knock-Outs Scallop Heart
Embellishments:  Black Organdy, gold gem

Before I leave you today, I feel I should mention a retailer that is a Utah institution that will be closing its doors in a little over a week:  Roberts Crafts.  The website will go on, but the retail store is closing after I don't know how many years.  I first came here in 1994 and have been a frequent customer ever since.  Such a shame.

My Pink Design Team - May

Welcome to my blog for this month's My Pink Stamper design team project!  This month's theme was the ever elusive, ever challenging, MAN project.  LOL!  Is it just me, or is it really hard to create projects for the men in our lives?  Well, I can think of lots of projects for my husband:  cutting the grass, re grouting the the tub...

Seriously though, my work definitely tends to err on the side of whimsical and sparkly, with bright colors and ribbon.  Definitely not man material.  But I happen to have the best husband and best father on the planet, so Father's Day is something that is definitely worth celebrating.  It's good to stretch our creativity - just one of the many reasons I like "challenges", and especially love being a My Pink Designer!  Robyn's stamps are the best!  And I am especially loving the sets from her recent release.  For more information on where to purchase My Pink Stamper stamps, click here.  The stamp for today's project comes from the set Spectacular Sayings:

Do you like to shop in the dollar section at Target?  My girls LOVE to go to Target for that reason alone.  I love it when things are on sale for 75% off.  My project today comes from one of my Target Dollar Spot finds - a little Red Hots lunch box, that I embellished and made a coordinating card for.  My husband does a lot of traveling, so it was only natural to adopt a travel theme for my project:

I thought that the little "suitcase" would be a perfect gift card holder!  And what do you need when you travel?  A passport of coarse!  Now I admit that a gift card to Mimi's may not be the most manly of gifts, but this is what I had on hand to show you.  I'll have to replace it with a gift card for Cabela's or something like that.

You will notice from previous posts that my relationship with my Gypsy had a bit of a rocky start.  But I can honestly say now that I rarely make a project without it!  I used the Gypsy with this project to weld both "Dad" and "Passport", and for the cart Gypsy Wanderings for the star emblem on the passport and the tag on the card and suitcase.  I also used the hide contour feature to remove elements on the tag.

Stamp:  My Pink Stamper Spectacular Sayings
Cricut Cartridges:  Cricut Classic Font, Gypsy Wanderings (star on passport, and tag), Gypsy
Embossing:  Cuttlebug Winter Wonderland set (plaid)
Paper:  Honestly, most of this paper was SO OLD that I'm not even sure anymore where it came from.  But the plain brown cardstock is from Roberts Crafts, and the tweed is from Making Memories
Embellishments:  Hemp twine

If you haven't already, be sure to go to My Pink Stamper to be inspired by all the creations from my fellow designers!

Face the music

Phew!  It has been a really busy week.  I am working on a project right now that is taking a lot of my time.  Add that to the fact that I have had almost a month of illness going through the family (myself excluded thankfully), and I'm sure you can understand how crazy it has been around here.

Some of you may have participated in the Pinkalicious Blog Hop this past Friday.  Well the card that I am showing you today was round I (if you will).  I love music, so I have been loving playing with Robyn's new stamps set Music Speaks.

 

Cricut Cartridge:  Gypsy Wanderings

Stamps:  My Pink Stamper Music Speaks

Paper:  AC Cardstock, Roberts Crafts, 7 Gypsies, Georgia Pacific

Embossing:  Cuttlebug Allegro

Embellishments:  black organdy, musical note eyelet

My Pink Stamper Pink-alicious Blog Hop!

Welcome to the 2nd My Pink Stamper Pink-alicious Blog Hop!  Whether you have arrived here from Kassidy's blog, or you stopped by on your own, I'm glad you're here.  If you would like to begin at the beginning, hop on over to My Pink Stamper and then you'll be sure to see all the wonderful projects made by Robyn and my fellow designers.

The theme for this month's blog hop is to make a project that is black, combined with our favorite color.  My favorite color is red.  To a pianist, I don't know that there is anything more beautiful to the eyes than a shiny black grand piano.  I play and teach piano, so I knew that with the colors black and red I would have to make a project that incorporated music - especially since Robyn just released a new stamp set called Music Speaks.

This is a wooden 4 x 6 picture frame that I painted black and embellished, that now sits proudly on top of the piano - hopefully it will provide a little inspiration to my students, and to you!

 

Cricut Cartridge:  Gypsy Wanderings

Stamps:  My Pink Stamper Music Speaks

Paper:  7 Gypsies (music paper), AC Cardstock, Georgia Pacific

Embossing:  Cuttlebug Allegro

Embellishments:  Crystal Effects, black tulle

Adhesive:  Mod Podge, Dimensionals, ATG Gun, Zig 2-Way glue pen

The next stop on the blog hop is Raechel's Cards!  Have fun, and here are the links to Robyn and all the designers for your convenience:

Robyn

Courtney-Court’s Crafts

CarrieAnne

Sonia

Lori

Julie-readysetstamp

Agnes-Flowerdisco

Helen

Angela’s Simple Creations

Tracy-Craft Junkie Too

Pam

Cristi

Shelley

Shauna at Craftee She

Edna

Kassidy

Andrea

Raechel

Bling Queen Wendy

Michelle-Meesh’s Pieces

Karlee

Alex-You Had Me At Craft

Maria

FCCB #45 - Support the Cause

The theme for the challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is Support the Cause.  We were encouraged to make a project based on a cause that is near and dear to our heart.  I thought long and hard about this because there are a number of causes that are important to me:  I have a brother in the military that I am very proud of, and I have lost a number of family members to cancer, just to name a couple.  I decided to focus on breast cancer because although I and my family have been spared so far, as a wife, mother, daughter, woman, and friend it is a disease that hits very close to home.  I will be 38 years old this year and I have had 4 lumps, starting at the age of 21.  Luckily they have all been benign, but there may come a time that that isn't the case, so I think it's important to emphasize that I have been the one to find each one of them.  One of the lumps, I had a number of doctors that couldn't find it unless I showed them where it was.  Self examination is extremely important, as are regular mammograms.  Get to know your boobies - and don't be afraid, be vigilent!

To all of the brave women out there battling breast cancer, I salute you and send all of my hopes and prayers to you.

Cricut Cartridges:  Walk in My Garden, Gypsy Font
Embossing:  Sizzix
Punch:  Fiskars
Paper:  Paper Pizzaz, Georgia Pacific, AC Cardstock
Embellishments:  Recollections (pearls), Stampin Up (eyelets), Stickles, Offray (ribbon)

PKS Sketch Challenge #43

I am very happy to report that I have decided that my Gypsy and I can be friends.  ;-)

I was so excited about getting my Gypsy, and then I had so much trouble getting all the updates installed that I couldn't stand looking at the thing for over a week!  But today I broke down and started watching some how-to videos at My Pink Stamper (she has an excellent Gypsy tutorial that was posted just today actually).  I really needed to learn how to use the thing because I wanted to use the Gypsy Wanderings digital cartridge for my project today.  And it worked!  It's kind of cool how you can plan out all of your cuts on the Gypsy, hook it up to your Cricut, and have it all cut out for you.

Not only did I take the first steps in learning to use my Gypsy, but I think I can also put to rest the debate as to what kind of glitter glue is better.  You know that cheap-o stuff that they have at Joann, and Michaels (I don't want to name any names...) and if you're in Utah, Roberts?  Well they have very nice colors, and it is definitely inexpensive, but I just don't like it.  I bought my first Stickles in December and it is just so much easier to use!  I like how easily it glides on, I like how quickly it dries - it just outperforms the other stuff.  Had I used Stickles for this project I could have had a more subtle line of glitter around the butterfly.  Oh well!

Cricut Cartridge:  Gypsy Wanderings
Paper:  Me & My Big Ideas (stripes), Stampin Up, AC Cardstock
Punch:  Martha Stewart, the scallop on the red cardstock was made with my Coluzzle (remember those?)
Embossing:  Cuttlebug
Stamp:  Stampin Up
Embellishments:  American Crafts (ribbon), DCWV (button), Recollections (pearls), Studio G (glitter glue - oops, I said I wasn't going to name names...)