Friday, May 27, 2011

Memorial Day Sale, masculine card, and Adoree's 4th birthday

I truly appreciation everything our military troops have done and continue to do for us.  I can not even begin to image what they have been through.  In honor of all brave men and woman everywhere I am having a sale.  All my designs are 30% off now through 5/30/2011 midnight EST.  My membership club isn't included in the sale since it has a built in discount already.  Click here to go shopping.  

I host a sketch challenge each month on the Paperthreads forum.  I have a wonderful helping hand in this endeavor.  Aussie Caz creates these amazing sketches and provides participants with the cutter file and layered PSD to go along with the sketch.  This makes it super easy to make up a quick card.  So my Dad's birthday was coming up and I decided to use Caz's wonderful sketch as my guideline.

Please don't look at the tires!  I was coloring the wheels black and was having a hard time seeing where my stamped line was.  The more I messed with it the sadder looking the tires got.  I tried making them better with puff paint but they are still very sad looking.  Ahhh well it's an old truck right!  LOL!  Next time I will emboss the image before coloring and that should help the tires hold their shape!  I have a very hard time making masculine cards so I was very pleased with the way this one turned out!  I used my birthday tickets file  (only available through my membership) and stamped the sentiments. The sentiment stamps are called Paper Tray from Paper Trey Ink.    I added the brads to cover up a boo boo!  Silver puff paint and red were added to the car for more dimension.  A type of liquid paper glaze (similar to Diamond Glaze) was added to the window and head light to make them more realistic.  I colored the truck with Copic markers.  The truck is from Loads of Love by Stampin' Up.   I wish I owned the SU accessories set as my Dad would have loved the dogs sitting in the bed of the truck. Alas I  do not and didn't see any other stamps of mine that would work so I left the bed empty.  I used the Tim Holtz paper distresser to rough up the edges. 

Above you can see the file I used for my ticket.  Currently, this is only available through purchasing my membership club.  It's not too late but you'd better hurry.  The files will no longer be in the membership as of June 1st.  Click here to purchase my membership.  Oh and you can see in the slideshow to the left of my blog all the files that you will get when you buy my membership. 

We had Adoree's 4th birthday party last weekend.  She had a blast and guess what it didn't rain!  Yay!  The yard was a little muddy but at least people could sit outside instead of huddling on the porch.  I thought I'd share a few photos of the event with you.

I was going to share with you a picture of the cake but that was kinda boring. I like this photo better of Adoree enjoying her ice cream and Tyler inhaling the cake!  LOL! 

As you might have seen in one of my previous posts Adoree got a foam crown for Easter but um....it fell in the toilet.  So Adoree was thrilled to get a new one along with a wand, necklace and mirror too.

The ladies of the church make these amazing quilts and sometimes Adoree and I go and help them.  So we had decided to have a quilt made for Adoree's bed.  She was all into this strawberry fabric she wanted.  So I ordered this great fabric from My Mind's Eye through the Sisters and Quilters store.   They shipped extra fast!   My Mom brought me the white fabric and I cut all the squares out and handed it over the experts.  I am not a sewer!  Adoree just loved it!



Above there is Adoree with her boyfriend and some of her loot!  LOL!  This is a neighbor of ours that Adoree loves to play with. 

Okay it is lunch time!  So I've gotta run!  Have a great holiday weekend!
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Membership Club reveal!

Money is tight these days for all of us.  So when you buy something you want to know it's the best deal.  Trust me my membership club is a great value!   Well you don't have to take my word for it.  Check out the slideshow below and you will see every single file that you will get if you purchase my membership.  No more suprises!


So do you like what you see?  There are 22 files total.  You can purchase my membership and get all 22 files for just $10.00.  That's less than 50 cents a file!    An awesome deal!    Please purchase my membership here.     Before you leave though please check out what Aussie Caz has created.

Caz is simply a digital Whiz!  She took my strawberry digital stamp, strawberry delight digital papers, and card base 7 cutting file (only available through membership) to make this wonderful digital card.  I think it looks fab!  Oh and keep in mind the digital papers can be printed from your home computer and the digi stamp can also be printed and colored by hand for a hybrid card if you are more comfortable working with physical products.

Okay I've gotta go!  Adoree's birthday party is tomorrow and this house is a wreck!  Can you believe it Adoree is 4!  She looks soo grown up now...where has my baby gone!

Have a wonderful weekend...think sunny thoughts!
Shelly
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Friday, May 06, 2011

Happy Mom's Day, NSD and sale time!

Hello everyone,

Just popping in to let you know that I am having a sale this weekend in honor of all our beloved Mom's and also to honor a beloved hobby of mine.  Scrapbooking.  I have not scrapped as much as I used to since I became a Paperthreads Designer but I still love the hobby and hope to get back on track in June.  NSD I believe is Sat.  So my sale starts today and ends Sunday, midnight EST  May 8, 2011.  You get 40% off all my files in my store (sorry membership club not included) which includes cutter files, digital scrapbooking, and digital stamps.  I have have many items that would work as gifts for that special Mom in your life and also for scrapbookers too.  It would be great to combine both and make a layout as a unique gift for Mom.  Click here to go shopping.  

Have you joined my membership club yet?  Well...you mean I haven't convinced you yet!  LOL!  It really is a great value as you get at least 2o files for a mere $10.00.  I just added up 5 of the files included in membership at the 40% off price and they add up to about $10.00 alone!  So see I wasn't lying to you...it's a steal and a majority of the files you can't even purchase in the store yet individually.  You can see what has been uploaded to the membership thus far in a slide show to the right of my blog.  Click here to purchase the membership.    Check out the newest additions to the membership below.

I posted a poll and membership participants agreed they would like 2 digital stamps included in the membership.  So here is one of them used on a yummy card designed by Shelly M.  I just love her simply yet wonderful rendition.  The stamp comes with various sayings as you can see below.

I had a request for some more tickets like my Beach Tickets.  So I figured birthdays would be a good general topic to do tickets for.  These can be used on cards as well as scrapbook pages.  I even included a blank one that can be used with your personal rubber and clear stamps to make a customized ticket for any occasion.

How about using your cutter to create an actual award ribbon which when a pin is added to the back can be worn!  You could replace the star with the words "#1 Mom"  to make a great gift for that super gal of yours.  It could be attached to a skewer and stuck in a plant as  a decoration too.  You could easily change the colors to match your favorite sports team or even use pink and white for breast cancer survivors.  I could go on and on about the versatility of this file but I don't want to bore you!
I had a request for more photo corners similar to my Folded Photo Corners so I designed a set just for our Moms.  I think they would work great for Teens too!  They are unique in that they form a pocket to slide your photos into which allows them to be removed later. Elizabeth did these up for me and you can see in the photo below she used my fav..tulip corner for her photo of her adorable kids!   They are a little older now  but they are still adorable! 

Wow!  I gabbed more than any one person should!  LOL!  You can see the rest of the membership club files in my slide show to the right.  For now I will end this message by sharing a few photos.



Here is a photo of my Mom and Dad with the kids.  I'm not sure if I have one of these with MIL and FIL this year.  I always make an effort to take a few family photos but we used hubby camera too this year and I'm not sure what is on his camera.  UGH!   Anyway, being a Mom or even a parent for that matter isn't easy.  I sure gave my parents a hard time or two when I was a kid and I sure do appreciate them more now than before I had kids.  The baskets were almost too big to be in the photos so we had to put one on the floor.  I love how our cat Billy snuck into the photo!  Adroee looked soo pretty in her dress!  Handsome Tyler got to wear church sandals since his church shoes no longer fit him.  I love his "big" feet in this photo!


We are always telling Adoree she acts like a princess at times.  So now she has a crown.  (Well she did it fell in the toilet and had to be thrown away..YIKES!)  It was in the basket Grandma got for her and she just loved it!  The socks are from the Easter Bunny and have Princess Tiana on them.  She absolutely loves decorative socks!  I love how Daddy is looking up at his princess in this photo!  I do think Adoree's personality matches Charolette more so than Tiana though.  There are times when I tell her to do something and she says "Yes your highness or Yes your majesty!"  Oh well gotta love her spunk..it will take her far in life!

Okay...Adoree is a camera hog and I had a hard time finding any good Easter photos of just Tyler so I thought I'd share his missing tooth photo with you.  I honestly don't know how such a little tooth left such a big hole!  Tyler actually won't have a hole for long as his mouth doesn't like to give up teeth and they don't come loose until a new one pushes it out.  Tyler is a brave boy though as he pulls the tooth out himself with only his hand and a paper towel!


Oh and here is one more photo...I just love it too much not to share it!
This year instead of getting them baskets filled with cheap toys and candy they don't need we got them the Nick Wii Fit game.  It is great and they will exercise while playing it so I definitely think it's worth a lot more than a ton of chocolate!  Oh and the kids loved the Easter clues I mentioned in a previous post.  Tyler was able to read the clues but Adoree was the one who was the better detective as she was the one who found the clues first and ultimately saw the baskets before Tyler did!  So if we ever have to go on a scavenger hunt I want her on my team!  LOL!

Oh gosh it's definitely lunch time.  Rumble..rumble!  Happy Mother's Day for all the Mom's, Grandmothers and caregivers out there.  The world would be sooo horribly different without you and all you do for your children!  Bless all of you!  Go and treat yourself as you more than deserve it!

Thanks for stopping by!

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