Happy Fall, Y'all!

Well, it's finally starting to feel like fall where I live, and I am truly enjoying the cooler weather!I really wish there were more fall colors here this year, but it has been so dry for the last few months!Flag football has ended for my little guy, now it's cheerleading for the twins and basketball for my son! Busy, busy, busy! But, in between all of the hectic hustle and bustle, I was able to eke out a card...I love the uptown houndstooth digi paper from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, and I was able to use Lindsay's Leaf Prints digistamps in a way to satisfy my longing for pretty fall colors. I coated the leaves with Glossy Accents and let them curl a bit for a realistic look, and mounted them on some pretty textured chocolate colored cardstock that reminds me of a warm sweater, and some yummy ribbon and shabby seam binding.I based the card on a sketch from 2Sketches4You, and followed several challenges for this card:

• 2Sketches4You-sketch


• Baby Bud Designs-Fall/Halloween


• Challenge Up Your Life-Autumn


• Crazy 4 Challenges- Fall/Autumn


• Pixie Dust Studios-Fall into fall


• Stampin For The Weekend-Fall/Halloween


• Tiffany Doodles-Fall Theme


• Tuesday Throwdown-anything goes

And guess what?!If you loved the sets I used for my card, EVERYTHING at MyGraphico is on sale for 40% off, today only!! Don't miss it! And, while you're there, check out the Halloween contest/giveaway-there are awesome prizes (including a Cuttlebug) to be won!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick (ME!)

Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey

Blog Candy Alert!

Over at the Stamping Boutique, they are giving all of this away!Go folllow their site, leave a comment and let them know I sent you! Good luck!

I Vant To Drink Your Blood...

Cackle,cackle! And, guess what...it's another way to use my favorite stamp set! I promise, I'll try to move on to another set next week, but I just wanted to show one more way to use this awesome set! I used a black shimmer cardstock for the background, cut a scalloped square with my Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge on Fit to Page, using GCD Studios Paris Nights flocked cardstock. Then, a smaller square of GCD Studios Paris Nights cardstock, a shimmer this time, inked the edges with red ink, and dripped Candy Apple Red Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist to look like blood, then mounted a photo of my son drinking "blood punch" from a skull cup on Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock. I used the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Vintage Halloween Labels as a banner, dripping the Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist on the banners (I made a bunch more of them for a swap, as well), and I inked the edges with silver ink, punched holes and threaded black satin ribbon through them. To finish the page, I took a red lollipop flower that I received from another swap, a white paper "doily" that I cut with my Cricut and an svg file, dripped Glimmer mist on the doily, inked the edges of everything with silver ink, then twisted and hot glued black tulle to the back, then added the embellishment to the page.I added a bit of black tulle under the mini-banner to ground it, as well.
Challenges that I am entering this week are:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge- Halloween
• Bee Crafty-Halloween, using a digital image
• Crafty Ann's-use at least one digital image and your favorite coloring medium (shimmer ink spray)
• Crafts and Me Challenges-Halloween
• Create 4 Fun-use a digi
• Creative Cottage Challenge Blog-halloween
• Double Dutch Challenges- halloween
• Everybody Art Challenges-Halloween
• Easy Craft Projects-Halloween
• Fussy And Fancy Challenges-Halloween
• Inky impressions-Anything Goes
• Karber's Challenges-halloween using a digi
• The Stamping Boutique-fall/ halloween
• Mel Jen's-halloweeny
• Paper Pretties-black, white, and one other color
• Stamp Scrap And Doodle Saturdays-Halloween or Fall project
• Stamp N Doodle-Halloween
• Suchins-Halloween

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share with you today!Head by Lindsay and the other designers' blogs Thursday at 10 am (ET) for inspiration and a freebie!And, Thursday through Saturday, Lindsay's Stamp Stuff is having a 30% off sale-everything in the store!
Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen

Halloween Treats...

Today, I am sharing an easy peasy Halloween goody bag and sprinkle set using Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Vintage Halloween Labels (my current favorite set-I keep finding tons of different ways to use it!!). I started with a plain kraft paper gift bag. I spritzed it with Truffle Shimmerz, then dabbed it with a paper towels. I printed a label from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Vintage Halloween Labels at about 6-7 inches (they blow up nicely, by the way). I just printed on a pumpkin colored cardstock, and cut it out. After that, I put double stick tape on the back of the label and attached black tulle, twisting and ruffling as I went. I then put quick-dry Tacky glue all over the back, with Glue Dots in the corners for extra hold. A bow on the handle, and then I am ready to start stuffing it with goodies and treats!
After I made the bag, I found these awesome sprinkles in test tubes, so I had to make a label to match (also from Lindsay's Vintage Halloween Labels). I printed on cream cardstock, used pumpkin chalk ink to color the label,colored the witch with my copics, and coated the crystal ball with Glossy Accents and Martha Stewart marble glitter for a fabulous sparkle. The challenges I am entering this into are:

• By the Cute And Girly- spooky
• Catch The Bug- anything goes
• City Crafter-holiday project
• Clearly I Stamp-Shades of back and orange
• Cowgirls Sunday Stampen Challenge-anything goes
• Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog-anything but a card
• The Crafty Pad-spooky
• Ellephantastic Challenges- black and orange
• Fab N' Funky Challenges- use a digi
• If The Shoe Fits Scrap It-orange
• I Did It Creations-spooky
• Karber's Challenges-go digital
• Lexi's Creations-spooky
• One Stitch At A Time-spooky halloween
• Order of the Opus Gluei-halloween
• Paper Romance Challenges- black, pumpkin orange, cream
• Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog-halloween treat bags
• The Shabby Tea Room-vintage halloween
• Simon Says Stamp-halloween
• Whimsie Doodles-Trick-or-Treats

Lots of Halloween Challenges this week, wow!! Thanks for visiting with me today,have a "spooktacacular" day! And if you have a minute, stop by Lindsay's blog for her weekly freebie, and the rest of the LSS dt for more inspiration!
Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Tracy Vinson
Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey

Love To Read...

This week, I am sharing a couple of pages that I made for my kids' elementary school scrapbook. I used the Stack of Books digistamp from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff School Rules! digistamp set I used papers from Sassafrass Lass Bungle Jungle, a sketch from 4x6 Sketch Blog, my Cricut and Plantain Schoolbook cartridge for the star and circle shapes, and a Tim Holtz ticket.

Thanks for stopping by today, now head on over to the other designers' blogs for more inspiration and a freebie!
Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick
Melissa Craig
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Tracy Vinson

A Recipe Card and a Sale

I am really loving the versatility of the Vintage Halloween Labels digistamp set! I joined a bunch of recipe swaps this fall, and these stamps have been that "perfect finishing touch" to my cards! For today ONLY, Lindsay's Stamp Stuff at Mygraphico is on sale for 40% off-so go grab some stamps!On this card, I used the Vintage jack-o-lantern round digistamp, used a round punch to punch it out, colored my pumpkins quickly with my Copics, and then inked the edges with chalk inks. The background cardstock is from GCD Studios Paris Nights (my most used Stack of all time), and I decorated it with dew drops.

The challenges that I am entering are:

• The Crazy Challenge- Let's Cook It(kitchen)


• Creative Craft Challenges- black, white, and one other color (orange)


• GingerLoft Challenge- Happy Haunting (Halloween)


• A Spoonful Of Sugar Challenge- Anything Goes


• Stamp Something Stamp Challenges- use a digi


• Stampin' B's Design Team-Food


• Stampin' With The Dragon- Black, White, and one other color (orange)


• Stamps R Us Challenges- Halloween

Thanks for stopping by! Now, check out Lindsay and the other DT members' blogs for more fab projects and a freebie!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick
Melissa Craig
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Tracy Vinson

Sale!

This weekend, MyGrafico is having a customer appreciation sale. 25% off everything in the
store. Grab some graphics for your fall and winter projects!

Sale ends Sunday at Midnight. HAPPY SHOPPING!

CSN Product Review

I was contacted by CSN Stores a few months ago to do a product review for them. I happily agreed, and easy as pie, I posted about their stores, and I was sent a code. I ordered ballet slippers for my twin daughters, and was extremely impressed with their fantastic customer service! So, of course i was extremely excited when I was contacted by them again!! I get to review their products once again, and I have such a huge selection to choose from, from dutch ovens to shoes!
So, do yourself a favor and check out what CSN has to offer today!!

Something "Spooky" For You...

For today's post, I am sharing a recipe card that I made for a swap on 2peas, using the Vintage Halloween Labels Digistamp set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, and the Skull and Crossbones diecut from the Cricut Indie Art Cartridge. The skull and crossbones were cut from Black Magic Co'ordinations Cardstock, embossed with a Fiskars Texture plate, a Spellbinders rubber embossing mat, and my Cuttlebug, using the "A" and "C" plates. The digistamp, I misted with homemade purple shimmer spray, and cut out by hand, then used a purple Hampton Arts ink pad to ink the edges of the digistamp and recipe card.

The challenges that I am entering this card into are:

• Aly's Sunday challenge: Sparkle and Glitter (homemade shimmer spray and silver paper)
• Crafty Sentiments: Use a Digi (the Vintage Halloween Label)
• Prairie Fairy Designs: Embossing (the skull and crossbones are embossed)
• Our Daily Bread Designs: sparkle
• Tellens Place: Anything Goes

I want to let you know that everything at Lindsay’s stamp stuff is 30% off now through Friday so stock up on cute Stamps and fun SVGs while they are on sale!I am posting my Lindsay's Stamp Stuff today to let you know about the sale...tomorrow(Thurs), after 10 am ET,Lindsay and my other DT members will have more projects for you, and a freebie! Here are the links:

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick
Melissa Craig
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Tracy Vinson




Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey