Blake & Troy

Yesterday was a very exciting day for me! My BFF Dani delivered her beautiful twin boys at 35 wks. via C-section. Thankfully both of the boys were born strong and healthy at just under 5 lbs. I never thought it was possible to love another child as much as my own but the moment I laid eyes on these boys- it was love at first sight! I am so proud of Dani and her husband Zach and I can't wait to be part of these boys' lives and watch them grow :)

I know I'm a little biased but aren't they absolutely beautiful??

Blake & Troy

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Side By Side

Little bit of a late post because Kylie and I are at Seattle Children's Hospital for what is hopefully her second to last infusion as part of her two year treatment plan. Wahoo!! She is healthier and stronger everyday and we're keeping our fingers crossed that this trend will continue :)

This card was made awhile ago using the stamp set Side By Side. I love these colors together and I think the simplicity is nice to keep focus on the sentiment.

Stamps: Side By Side
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pear Pizazz
Paper: Black, White, Pear Pizazz
Accessories: Scallop corner punch
Recipe:
* Create card base from black cardstock, punch corners
* Create panel out of Pear Pizazz cardstock, punch corners and stamp flower image in same color ink, stamp sentiment in Momento ink, adhere to card base.
* Create a black mat and white panel, stamp flower image, adhere to card base.

Side By Side

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TSG88: Odd Couples

It's the first week of the new year and I'm starting it off with this fun challenge hosted by Jessie! She has challenged us to combine different stamp sets that weren't necessarily made to go together. I love the idea of this challenge and it gave me the chance to create a project that I have had floating around in my head for months! In fact, the lady used on this project is one that I colored during the stamping retreat I went to in Victoria, BC back in October lol!
Make sure you stop by the TSG blog this week for all of the details about this challenge and to find out how you can win a TSG gift certificate simply by playing along!

The project I made isn't really a card, it's more like a picture :) Read below to see what stamp sets I combined.

Stamps: Domestic Goddess, Home Sweet Home, HSH Halloween Additions
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Stonehenge cardstock (for colored pencils)
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, OMS, Dimensionals

Recipe:
* I started off by printing off Vlad's Lair TSG Tip Sheet (designed by Holly) and using the larger of the two images. Colored, blended with OMS and cut out.

* All images were stamped onto Stonehenge paper with Momento Tuxedo Black ink (sometimes more than once), colored with Prismacolor pencils, blended with OMS, cut out and adhered to 'the lair' with dimensionals.

TSG88: Odd Couples

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Flourish / In Stitches

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that all of you are enjoying the first weekend of 2011! It's been a very busy week for me and I'm still playing catch up but I wanted to pop in and share this card that I made a couple of weeks ago :)

 

Stamps: Flourish ($7), In Stitches ($7)
Ink: Poppy Parade, Pear Pizazz, Peach Parfait, Marina Mist, Concord Crush
Paper: Black, White
Accessories: Scallop Corner Punch, Ribbon, Buttons

Recipe
* Made card base out of black cardstock, punched corners
* Created the designer paper by stamping images from Flourish in the different sections using different colors on white cardstock, punched corners
* Adhered different ribbons in between different sections of the designer paper
* Threaded (yes that is totally a word ;) buttons with embroidery thread before adhering to card.
* Stamped sentiment from In Stitches

Flourish / In Stitches

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It's party time!!!!

Join us tonight right HERE in the TSG forum for our release party chat! The chat will officially begin at 6 PM Pacific time but feel free to stop in any time during the day to say hello :)

It's party time!!!!

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Kylie's Kards

I know it's a little bit late but it has been a busy day and I am just now getting to post Kylie's card for the week. She loves this cute new image from Torico (included in the set Buckets Of Love which will be released Saturday evening) and the card she made is pretty darn sweet too ;)

Two of the papers she used are Poison Ivory (card base) and Nero Incandescent (dark wavy strip at the bottom). Both of these gorgeous paper are from Paper Temptress.

I hope you will join us tomorrow at the release party chat where this brand new set (and 3 others!) will be released :) Come back here for all of the details tomorrow!

Kylie's Kards

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Love Birds / Sentimental Blog Hop

Hopefully you made your way here from the talented Iwona's Blog but if not, you may want to head over to the TSG Blog for all of the details about these sneak peeks and how you could win the set being shown today!!!

We have four brand new stamp sets that will be released Saturday night after the release party chat that you are going to fall in love with! All week long, the Trendsetters will be giving you some peeks of different ways they used awesome new stamp sets!

This amazing set is fast becoming one of my favorites! It is jam packed with images that can be combined in an endless amount of ways to create fun and whimsical cards/projects.

Love Birds is a 4x8 stamp set that includes a total of 18 stamps and will sell for $18 (Illustrated by Torico)

Stamps: Love Birds

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, DP unknown

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, Dimensionals, SU border punch, Stardust Gelly Roll pen

This mini set includes many different sentiments to use on cards for any occasion as well as features the handwriting of our very own Julie Lacey! This will be one set that you will leave out on your stampin' desk because you use it so much :)

Sentimental is a 2x6 mini set that includes a total of 6 stamps and will sell for $7

Stamps: Sentimental

Ink: Momento Tuxedo black, Sahara Sand

Paper: White, DP scraps from my stash

Accessories: Sponge, sewing machine, dimensionals, nestabilities, embossing folder

Next on the hop is Jessie!

Love Birds / Sentimental Blog Hop

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