Busy Little Barnyard

It's been a fun few months of stamping because there have been so many wonderful new images to develop and play with lots of new sets by Our Craft Lounge.

Today I am showing you two different sets ~ The Barnyard & Barnyard Banter. The sweet little piggy, the cute cow and the Moo-chas Gracias sentiment are all from The Barnyard set, but the Tickled Pink sentiment is from the Barnyard Banter set. That set is filled with all kinds of funny little greetings. Now the Barnyard Banter set had a slight delay at the manufacturer, but it will be available very soon.



By the way, did you see the cute little piggy covered in Cotton Candy Sparkly Fluff? So fun! Are you still wondering what in the world Sparkly Fluff is? Well very soon I'll have a Sparkly Fluff tutorial. I'll cover the basics on how to use it, how it looks on your projects & I'll show you all the colors.


Supplies from i{heart}papers: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (The Barnyard, Barnyard Banter); Pattern Paper ~ My Minds Eye; Ink ~ Palette, Copics; Sparkly Fluff ~ Coffee Bean Brown, Cotton Candy Pink; Nesties.

Hitch Your Heart to Mine...

Just wanted to mosey on over and share a sweet little Valentine with you today. This cute little set is from Our Craft Lounge and it's called Wanted. Super fun images in this little western themed set.

Supplies from i{heart}papers : Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Wanted); Ink ~ Palette Noir; Nestabilities ~ Nested Blossom, Circle; Sparkly Fluff ~ Rockstar Red (Our Craft Lounge).

Copic Colors: E31, E33, E25, G94, G99, R29

Treasured Memories

Just popping in today with a quick card to show you. This beautiful sentiment called Treasured Memories from Lizzie Anne Designs makes for a very fast sympathy card with very little stamping.

Congrats to the Saints! I would have been cheering for them if my Colts hadn't been playing in the big game. After all, Drew is a Purdue grad. Great year for the Colts ~ we'll just wait for next season.

Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Lizzie Anne Designs (Treasured Memory); Ink ~ Palette; Cardstock ~ Bazzill; Pattern Paper ~ Cosmo Cricket; Nesties; Ribbon ~ Papertrey.

Valentine Treat Bags

It's SUPERBOWL Sunday ~ woohooo! GO COLTS!!!

But first ~ today's project. For my Valentine treat bags, I used the cute little set by Lizzie Anne Designs called A Little Love. In fact, it's on sale this weekend! These fun little bags are from GT Bag Company & come in lots of 100, so they are perfect for sharing with friends. I first saw them filled with M& M's, but I wanted to see if candy hearts fit inside & they did. I'm sure lots of other things fit as well. Wouldn't these be perfect for your kids school Valentines?

Enjoy the game tonight!

XOXO...

Ahhhh....TGIS ~ that's right! Thank Goodness it's Saturday! I'm particularly glad because this weekend we don't have tons going on & tomorrow is the SUPER BOWL ~ GO COLTS!!!!

My project today is using a sweet set from Lizzie Anne Designs called Card Quotations. I decided to make a sweet little lovey dovey card out of it.

Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Lizzie Anne Designs (Card Quotation); Cardstock ~ Bazzill; Pattern Paper & Heart Punch ~ Martha Stewart; Ink ~ Palette.

Lizzie Anne is running weekend special today through Monday ~ 30% off Valentine's Day sets ~ Here are all the details.

Hope your weekend is a blast!

Friday Fun!

Just wanted to share one more look at this fun little set called Hippity Hoppity! I just love this sweet bunny! This fun little box was one of the make and take projects we did at CHA.

There are 4 more new sets being previewed on the OCL Blog today ~ so go take a look.

ETA: This fabulous set is now available at i{heart}papers ~ WOOHOOO!

Supplies from i{heart}papers: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Hippity Hoppity); Palette Ink; Sparkly Fluff (Cotton Candy) by Our Craft Lounge; Scallop Circle Nesties & Circle Nesties.

Thursday's Peek!

Wow this week is flying by! But here we are on Thursday and I have another fun project to show you using another new set from Our Craft Lounge. This sweet set is called Sunshine Cheer and man was it a huge hit at CHA last week. Everyone just fell head over heals in LOVE with it.

ETA: Thanks Michelle for helping me with all the wonderful layouts (including this one), for the store display boards.

Don't worry, you're not going to have to wait much longer. All of the new sets will all be available from our retailers next week & i{heart}papers will carry this set!

Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Sunshine Cheer); Cardstock ~ Bazzill; Pattern Paper ~ Imaginsce (Lucy Bird); Ink ~ Palette, Copics; Sparkly Fluff (Sugar); Crafty Sparkles (Lemon Drop) ; Nestabilities.

More Sweet Stuff from OCL!

Welcome back! It's day #3 of the OCL peeks! This set is called Ei Ei Hello and it is being highlighted on the Our Craft Lounge Blog today, so I wanted to show a card with it as well.

This is a super simple Joy-Fold card & it's a great way to use the coordinating sentiments for the set. In fact, all three of the new farm sets in this release use the same font so they can be mixed and matched ~ that girl Cami is BRILLIANT!

ETA: The Joy-Fold card is basically just a folded card within a card.

And the sentiment below is from the coordinating Barnyard Banter set.

Enjoy all the peeks today!

Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Ei Ei Hello, Barnyard Banter); Cardstock ~ Bazzill; Pattern Paper ~ Imaginsce (Lucy Bird); Ink ~ Palette, Copics; Sparkly Fluff (Eyeliner Black); Nestabilities.

Lounging Around...

Today I have another FUN card sample using my new stamps by Our Craft Lounge. This sample uses the stamps from the Live, Laugh, Lounge set and the sentiment from The Spin Cycle set. Two very fun and coordinating sets. For a full pictures of the images and more samples, head on over to the OCL Blog & see what's going on!

Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Live, Laugh, Lounge & Spin Cycle); Ink ~ Palette, Copics; Embossing folder ~ Quickuts; Gems ~ Kaiser; Ribbon ~ May Arts; Nestabilities.

It's time for some OCL Sneak Peeks!

The sneak peek set I'm showing today is called Big Birthday Wishes from Our Craft Lounge! It's a wonderful sentiment set with a few fantastic images included as well ~ like this adorable stack of cupcakes.

Check out the OCL Blog starting today & all this week for more great new sets AND images from the entire set. These sets will be available later this week from our wonderful retailers (we'll post a listing on the blog).


Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Our Craft Lounge (Big Birthday Wishes); Pattern Paper ~ Imaginisce (Lucy Bird); Ink ~ Palette, Copics, Spica glitter pens; Sparkly Fluff ~ Cotton Candy; Nestabilities.

On my honor...

Here is a fun and super easy card using the Lizzie Anne Boy Scout single for this month. It's a busy, crazy weekend, so that's it for me until tomorrow when I have NEW sneak peeks to show you for Our Craft Lounge!

A bit from my Sixlet set...

Just a simple little card to show you today from the new Sixlet set called Spring Rain by Lizzie Anne Designs. The photo looks kind of washed out, but it really isn't in real life. (Oops ~ earlier I had it down as the Monthly Mix).

Hope your weekend is FABULOUS!

More from CHA - Post #2

Ahhhh...where do I start with CHA info??? It's snowing like crazy here while I type this ~ so I need these warm and fuzzy thoughts!

So on with the CHA Show ~ To me, the show seemed bigger than last year & the booths all looked amazing. I think a lot of companies have trimmed down the number of new lines, but the quality is great. Michelle & I spent a few hours walking the floor both mornings with our good friends Daisy {from eP}, Bethie & Debbie.

Some of my favorite product lines and booths were:

Hero Arts - always fun for some new stamps & their catalog is fabulous for project ideas.

Imaginisce - love the Lucy Bird and Scooter's Vacation lines.


Doodlebug - Bright and fun (loved Feeling Groovy)!




American Crafts - Dear Lizzy Line with the fabric paper ~ YUMMY!


Karen Foster has a new drawer unit that will retail for $29.99


Little Yellow Bicycle - one that is super bright with lots of flowers and peace signs (fun, fun, fun)


Nikki Swivils - fun burlap covered buttons

October Afternoon - I don't recall any new (to CHA) lines. But the samples & booth were fabulous! I took like 40 pictures of them.

Bazzill - MY FAVORITE PAPER! It's their 10th year in business and they have a wonderful catalog with plenty of project ideas and color swatches to make matching pattern paper really easy. I didn't get a good picture of their booth, but I did get a catalog & some project ideas.

The OCL Booth!
After we toured the floor for a while, it was time to put on our aprons and work in the Our Craft Lounge (OCL) Booth with Joy, Cami & Kimberly. We had a fantastic location and you could see the pink from across the exhibit hall! The girls had a wonderful theme to the booth & the design team did an amazing job on all the samples ~ everything turned out gorgeous.

Below ~ Cami was at the Make & Take table while Joy, Debbie and Kimberly helped the retailers.

Our good friends Beate & Jenn stopped by to say hello and do a Make & Take.

eP Reception

On Sunday evening, Joy and Daisy held their annual party at Tortilla Joes in Downtown Disney. What a BLAST! I was so excited to see tons of old friends again and make some great new friends. Here are a few girls that I am so glad to have met and spent time talking with ~ Colleen (left) and Sankari (right). Boy did we all hit it off and it's so fun to have even more BFF's.

And here is my awesome gang! I love you girls so much ~ I just wish everyone from the group could have been there. What a night! We talked until the wee hours.

(back row: Daisy & Jenn)
(front row: left to right ~ HB, Beate, Cami, Bethie, MY, Joy, Piris {Pam}, Val, me)


Krispy Kreme Fieldtrip

Monday evening was our last night in California. Even though we were exhausted from the long hours on the show floor and the late night gigles, we were ready to head home on Tuesday morning. However, we did head out for dinner one more time and then hit Krispy Kremes (or Krusty Kreme as Cami calls it). When we arrived the donuts were being made and they were HOT ~ woohooo! The manager was great fun and invited us to try a new occupation.

left to right: MY, Cami, Kisa, me, Joy, Piris

Well that wraps up my Winter CHA 2010 post for this time. It was a wonderfully exhausting trip & I wouldn't have changed a thing. Stop back tomorrow to see a new project.

Back from CHA - Post #1

WOW ~ what a trip! I arrived home on Tuesday evening after a full day of coast-to-coast travel. I feel like it's been ages since I've talked to you even though I had posts scheduled each day. I really appreciate all the lovely comments you left me while I was gone. I read them all while I was in California & they put a smile on my tired face each day ~ thank you!

I already had a blog post scheduled for yesterday, so today I thought I'd share some photos and CHA stuff rather than a project. I didn't spend a ton of time walking the show floor because of the work schedule, but I did see some fun things and spent time with lots of friends (which was the best part). So here goes the details for the CHA Supershow... (I'll be back with details from the CHA Retail Show tomorrow).

My BFF, Michelle (MY) and I left on Thursday for a very long day of travel. We were due to arrive in Orange County at 5:30pm but didn't make it until 11:30pm. Thankfully, we met up with our other roommate (and fellow OCL DT member) at the airport, Cindy Lawrence. Cindy is a total sweetheart & our little trio was a perfect match ~ thanks BFF Roomie (I swipped this picture off Cindy's Facebook album!).


CHA SUPERSHOW ~ DAY #1:
Friday was the first day of the CHA Supershow & we started (and ended) our day at the Splitcoast Stampers booth with Eclectic Paperie & then Lizzie Anne Designs ~ Here's a look at what we were up to that morning and the make and take we helped with. The booth was adorable and we had a blast seeing old friends and making new ones.



Later that morning, we worked in the Scrapbook Heaven booth where we helped with another OCL make & take. In the afternoon, Michelle & I worked with the Lizzie Anne Designs team in their booth at the Supershow. We had fun helping with the Make & Take there and then again at the Splitcoast booth at the end of the day. Here's Tricia from LAD sharing a new product on YouTube. Photos of the Lizzie Anne booth & team are over on the Lizzie Anne Blog.

We finished day #1 at Red Robin for a late dinner with a huge group of friends! SO ~ THAT WAS JUST DAY ONE!!! I was tired already & still had several non-stop days to go.

CHA SUPERSHOW ~ DAY #2:
Day #2 of the CHA Supershow was another crazy one! We started out the day assembling furniture for the OCL booth & kits for a retail class later that evening. We had pieces of projects EVERYWHERE, but we managed to get everything together. With Cami's permission, I'm gonna give you a quick sneak peek at a project after all. This is one of the new OCL sets coming out next week. Just wait until you see the rest of the images ~ I predict it will be the best seller of this release.


We worked the rest of the day in Supershow booths & then I had a nice dinner at PF Changs with the i{heart}papers design team. I'll have to share that picture of the girls later too because it's on Kate's camera and she is still in California. So that wraped up the final day of the CHA Consumer Supershow ~ TONS OF FUN!

Tomorrow I'll share the fun we had at the CHA retail portion of the show, the gorgeous OCL Booth & some of my favorite new products coming out.