~Fun With Stamps! *Avocado Arts*~

Good morning my deliciously awesome crafty friends, 

I am here today to share my second Avocado Arts project today! :) 

This is a card using the fun July 2012 Bold Celebrations Stamp set

and a SNEAK peek of the August 2012 set. FUN stuff.

 Now the jar stamp is not from either set it is the Sweet Treat Sweetie set

from a previous month but I lOVE IT anyways. 

 The dragonfly and trail are from the August set and the rest is all stamped with

the Bold Celebrations. I never thought I would have so much fun stamping!

I used the July 2012 Nostalgic Summer Scraptastic Kit for the papers and embellishments. 

Now the ENTIRE Pit Crew has their own projects, go check em out!

I have not worked with nicer more talented ladies, you will love them as much as I do.

• THE PIT CREW (DT)
• Teri Anderson
• Emily Branch
• Kelley Eubanks
• Ashley Harris
• Cristal Hobbs
• Emily Leiphart
• Julie Masse
• Becky Oehlers
• AJ Otto
• Vera Yates
• Latisha Yoast

~Christmas In July?!~

Good morning my crafty friends,

Seems like a contradiction to be watching Big Brother, catching frogs, and

scrapbooking Christmas cards! LOL But it's true, Christmas in July is happening

in my house. Thanks heavens for the rain and clouds, I can almost feel it that way.

I was excited to see BB back on this week! It's one show both hubby and I watch.

This is a cute frog Bradley caught right before we BBQ'd hamburgers this week. 

And now to the fun stuff!

One f the fun new designs from Clear Scraps....

don't forget they are having a giveaway this week, so check in!

This card is the "Bell" design, I decided to go with Christmas

but you could go with wedding or anniversary too. 

I embossed the bell part, then used my Liquid Pearls to pop it up.

I added a sentiment in the middle of the bell. 

I left the card clear on purpose, just because I wanted it to show

through to the back patterned paper. 

Ok I am off to create some more today, I have several new projects on my table

ready for photographing and some of them are even drying LOL!

Have a wonderful Friday my friends~

~Pinky's Art GIVEAWAY~

Good morning my crafty friends, 

I have a special giveaway today, I haven't done one of these in a while.

I have this Faber Castell canvas set that retails at like 19.99. 

It was a "prize" from one of my publications. 

Unfortunately I already have one so you win! :) 

I am going to give it away to one of my blog friends this week!

Just leave enter and comment and on Tuesday I will post a winner. :) 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

~Blog Hop W/ FREE SVG!~

Welcome to the Samantha Walker Creative Team Blog Hop.

Today SW is giving away a FREE SVG...the fun little 

Ribbon Rossette cut file, which I used to make this card. 

I love it! :) 

I used REAL wood paper from Creative Imaginations and paired

it with the Samantha Walker Nautical paper line.

I used my Silhouette to cut the Ribbon Rossette she designed. 

And added some accent liquid pearls. :) 

I also wanted to share this fun little layout using the Cottontail Digital line 

from Samantha Walker. It's the little munchkins from spring ball. 

Be sure to comment by Sunday, 7/15 at 11:59pm MDT in order to be eligible for the free SVG/Silhouette file as well as the prize...which will be a $10.00 Gift Certificate to Samantha's JessicaSpraque.com's store.

If you are a SVG cut gal, or a digital scrapper this is the hop for you!

YOU ARE HERE↓↓↓↓

Cristal Hobbs 

Now on to↓↓↓

AJ Otto 

Happy hump day my friends~

~Angel Card + GIVEAWAY Time!~

Good morning my friends, 

What a week this week is! Today I wanted to share a BIG

giveaway from Clear Scraps, an tomorrow is the SW Creative Team Blog Hop.

I love the 5 new designs from Clear Scraps, the new Send It Clear

card designs. And today you can win them ALL! :) All 5 cards.

This Angel card is just one of the designs. 

For this card I coated the angel in micro beads...love it! :) 

 I always see the super fancy amazing designs and feel mine

are lacking but these micro beads really jazzed it up.

Don't you think these would leave a big splash on Christmas.

Ok here is how you win!

BLOG about the new designs, TWEET the new designs, and

FACEBOOK the new designs/post and you are entered to win.

Head to the Clear Scraps blog and leave your links, and you could win.

The more you blog about it and Facebook or Tweet, the more

chances to win big! :)

~Circling The Page~

Good morning friends, 

Do you ever have that layout that you like but you wish you had

done a little better job with it?

This is TOTALLY that layout LOL

I wanted to try a circle layout, so I dove in but I decided to

use my sewing machine...pretty much not reversible LOL

I like it-don't get me wrong but I can see 100 things I would change! 

The bonus?? It was an amazing kit I worked with!

The new Nostalgic Summer Kit from the Scraptastic Kit Club.

And hey it shows that even the veterans of scrapbooking have self doubt...

 

So don't feel bad if your next layout isn't exactly what you envisioned. 

It's still beautiful because it came from the heart! :) 

HAPPY MONDAY MY FRIENDS!!

LOVE YA!

~Celebrate W/ Nostalgic Summer~

Good morning my friends, 

With summer in full bloom and the 4th of July just gone

I am running slightly behind on my craftiness. 

But I did sit down this week and CREATE!

I wanted to share this card using the new Nostalgic Summer Kit 

from Scraptastic Kit Club- I love these kits! :) 

 I also used one of my other favorite companies

Avocado Arts Bold Celebrations Stamp Set. 

When I saw this kit I knew I needed to play with BOTH!

I kept layering and layering and finally ended up with this. 

It could be an anniversary card, a birthday card...pretty much any

special occasion card. Event he cake is layered :) 

You can find this Nostalgic Summer it here

http://www.scraptasticclub.com/collections/all-available

~Stamping On Acrylic With Ease~

Good morning my crafty friends, 

I hope you enjoyed your 4th of July.

We spent the day with no fireworks due to a ban but the neighbors

must have not gotten the memo, they laid them out! :) 

Anyways just wanted to share a couple goodies with you today. 

This Clear Scraps stamped acrylic card I created...

This is just ONE of the fun cards for my acrylic card class, I thought I would

share it with you because I don't normally share an extra card I save it

but I thought you might like to know we will be learning live on video how to

stamp on acrylic as well as create this card! :) 

You can still sign up! in fact 3 people did yesterday. 

This is the class link...

http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=606

Ok I know you are sick of hearing about it so this is the last time...

*I think* LOL

Now I have a digital layout to share too. 

This was for Wonderful Wednesday next week, but 

somehow wires got crossed and i's missed a dot so I am a day late. :) 

I used the Retro Roadtrip collection from Samantha Walker Designs.
If you digi scrap this is a fun one!!!

Ok I am off to create with my Bind-It-All today!! What are you creating today?

**NEW RELEASE** Sneak Peek!! Clear Scraps~

Good morning friends, 

I am very excited to share the BRAND NEW releases from Clear Scraps today!

I even have a sample card I made.  Brand New Send It Clear Card Designs!!

This is a wonderful Half Scallop Send It Clear Cards.

 I love how pretty it is and easy to create. 

 Really you just embellish and GO! :) 

 I used Kanban goodness for this card and my Viva Decor Peal Pen too.

 Here are the other designs as well.....

ANGEL

 BELL

 BUTTERFLY

 LOCK

They are so fun, if you have not tried the cards you are missing out! :) 

Ok off to take care of the boys in this miserable heat...

I believe they are going to ban all fireworks this morning, 

so this 4th of July will be a quiet one in the cool AC house. 

Happy Monday my friends~

My Very FIRST Avocado Arts Post! :)

 Good morning my crafty friends, 

It is my FIRST official Avocado Arts blog post and I was so nervous!

Yes, even I get very nervous. :) 

You know 1 year ago I didn't even make cards and now I am designing

for a fantastic stamp company!

The new JULY stamp collection is incredibly fun, it is called Bold Celebrations.

Here is my project....

Make sure to check out the rest of the teams projects today,

 and the AA blog/FB page/website.  

Plus head to the other AA projects!

Ashley Harris 

Vera Yates

Becky Oehlers

AJ OTTO

Latisha Yoast