Monday Cupcake Delivery

Hi Friends and Fellow Stampers,

Well it's Monday and back to the grindstone, but here is a little Cupcake Delivery to help brighten your day and the beginning of your week, made by our Design Team member Olivia.



                                                    Whimsy Stamp-Cinnamon Sugar
                                                  Simple Stories-Fabulous Paper Pad
                                                                     Copics

This is so adorable, I love how Olivia has colored her up and the fabulous card design and designer paper.  She is too cute! 

If you have a minute or two, don't forget that you can hop along with our Sunday Blog hop all week long!  And we are posting a new Challenge tomorrow and you do not want to miss out on this one, we know you are going to LOVE our sponsor and the prizes. 

Have a fabulous day!

Holly

Sunday Inspiration Blog Hop and Candy!

Happy Sunday to you and Welcome to another Sunday Inspiration Blog Hop.  I hope you enjoy hopping along to see all the beautiful things the design team has made for you today.  If you have some time and haven't gotten into our Challenge this week, it's May Flowers over at The Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog!  And there are some awesome prizes up for grabs! 

This week the Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot was on Marcy's Blog.
The Random.Org numbers are 5. That's you Vicki!!!
Who Said, "so cute, tfs". 

Congrat's Vicki, Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com by May 4th and I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store!


Now Let's go to the hop!!!

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $10 Loves Rubberstamps

Just in case you get lost along the way...
Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog
Dangina
Athina
Shanna
Lydia
Marcy
Ivonne

Have a great time!

Holly

Teacher Appreciation week.....

Hello Friends and Fellow Stampers!

Happy Holly-Day Friday and TGIF to me, (Holly) because I am off this weekend!  What's even sweeter is my guys are headed to L.A. for the weekend to go visit a guy friend, making it an "all guys" weekend and they are headed to see the new Star Trek movie at the IMAX.  You know what that means?  Whoo Hoo, stampy time for me!  lol.  What are your weekend plans?  Have you had a chance to play in our current Loves Rubberstamps Challenge yet?  May flowers!  So easy.  And there is a prize (actually two) involved! 

Today I pulled out a few of My Favorite Things and made a LATE teacher appreciation card.  We also got Mrs. Chavez a couple of Apple shaped treats from See's Candy that she is going to love!  And we are presenting her with this card and Candy on, "Open House" night, lol.  Smart huh? lol.

MFT - ALM - An Apple for Teacher

Die-namic Rounded Banner Trio

Die-namic Fishtail Flag Stax

Die-namic Fishtail Flags Layers Stax

Die-namic Open Scallop Doily Duo

Copic X-press paper

Copic Sketch Markers

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Designer Paper

Remember, if you see something in the store that is sold, just drop Laura an email and ask her to get it for you, or if she carries a line that you are looking for a particular item from and don't see it, email her.  It's just that easy.  That is how I started with Laura.  I was hoping she would carry a particular Flourishes Stamps set and she ordered it for me....okay, she ordered all three of them for me, lol.

I hope you have a fabulous Friday and an even better weekend! 

Holly

Just Sitting Here....

Hello Stampers and Loves Rubberstamps Friends,

Holly here to share with you an amazing card made by my co-designer, Ceal.

Magnolia

Copic Sketch Markers

 

Isn't this adorable?  I love the bench die she is sitting on too and must ask Ceal where she got that little goody! lol.  But by now you must know I am a die-a-holic and must own them all!  Have you seen all the dies in the Loves Rubberstamps Store?   I love this fabulous collection and am working on getting them all, lol.  I love the sentiment Ceal  used as well and the fabulous designer paper and colors.  Be sure to check out all the Magnolia's Laura carries in her store. 

 

You also want to be on the look-out for NEW ITEMS being post soon!  I've heard there are literally boxes and boxes of new stuff waiting til poor Laura gets a chance to get them uploaded into her store.  So be sure to keep checking.  Also if you are waiting on an email or an order, they will be answered and shipped very soon. 

 

Do you want an Archie Update? 

 

 

 

He stands about 12 inches tall and is about 12 inches long, and he is the new Alpha. lol.  He rules the roost, or so he thinks.  Everything was going fabulous until I had to put him in his cage at night.  At my house, all dogs in at night and each one has their own cage in our room.  Once I closed the door he went all Grimlin on me.  Snarling and biting at the cage and growling at me.  Of course I had to bark and growl back at him, lol, he did not know what to make of that at all.  However the next couple nights I have lured him in with a treat and now he happily bounces into the cage and makes himself comfortable for the night.  In fact, when the alarm goes off, he can be found laying on his back all stretched out, sleeping like a baby.  The second event happened when my husband carried him outside at dinner time.  He actually snapped at him and bit him, but not hard.  He does not like not being invited to dinner at all, lol.  But the last couple nights I have again lured him out with a treat and he is just fine with that.  So as long as it's Archies idea and he can freely walk into the situation, he is fine, lol.  Otherwise, he is cute, adorable and loves me as much as I love him now.  So we are a work in progress on some rules and boundaries, but he is catching on quickly.  The other two dogs just don't know what to think of him and they keep looking at me as if to say, "Isn't it time for him to go now?"  lol.  I'm sure in time they will all work it out. 

 

Thanks for checking in and I hope you get a chance to play in our May flowers Challenge this week! 

 

Holly



 

Have a Charm...

Hi Stampers!

I feel like it has been ages since I have been on here! I wanted to say that I am so sorry to be out of touch so much, we have 3 different family crisis things going on right now and it has been just one thing literally after another! I feel like I am living in a soap opera. I am hoping that things start to settle down soon for me - I want to get back to normal life - because I am more than ready for it :)

Holly has been such an amazing help with keeping you inspired by sharing and writing up the inspiration posts for me! I would be so lost without her help - so THANK YOU SO MUCH HOLLY! Also a huge thanks to all my AMAZING Design Team ladies for keeping everyone inspired with their gorgeous creations! You all have been rocking some gorgeous stuff while I have been MIA! Holly will be filling in for a few more posts because I desperately need to get some orders out and get my emails gone through.

So - if you are waiting on an email response, or an order, or a prize from our challenges or blog hop...I will be getting caught back up - I am hoping totally in the next few days! Thank you SO MUCH for your patience and understanding as we are dealing with some very tough things right now.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day! We spent it at the hospital with Grandma. My Mom and both of her brother's were there and we had a great visit. After getting home my husband and kids surprised me with these super adorable flowers...

I totally loved them! I grilled some steaks for supper and made myself some shrimp scampi since I can't eat beef. The kids gave me the most awesome gift of doing the dishes for me because I really dislike doing them - LOL!

Now...I want to share with you my Design Team project for this week's Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge... Have a Charm!

One of my favorite things to do is scrap recipes and this is one that I made for Black 'N' White Cheesecake Bars. I used to participate in recipe swaps and I had received this recipe in a swap years ago. I loved the design and the recipe was so yummy and after much begging from my Mom, I created her this similar one so she could have her own recipe page. The charm is a Karen Foster Mini Baking Charm that I will be getting added to the store after getting caught up on emails and shipping. In fact, I have TONS TONS TONS of new stuff that has been arriving since mid April that I haven't had a chance to get on yet with everything happening!

I used the super gorgeous stamp from Crafty Sentiments Designs called Innocences. I will be taking a better picture and replacing this one later today because when I went to take it, my camera batteries were completely dead,  PLUS my internet went down for about 2 hours (one thing after another...literally...like I said) so I had to take a picture with my cell phone, upload it to facebook so when I got to work tonight I save it and then upload it to the blog! GRRR - LOL!

Here is what the recipe says because I know you can't read it from the picture...

Black 'N' White Cheesecake Bars

2 cups (12 oz.) - Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

1/2 cup butter or margarine

2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese, softened

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

In a double boiler or microwave, melt chocolate chips and the butter, stirring occasionally. Stir in the graham cracker crumbs. Set aside 1/4 cup for the topping. Press the remaining crumbs into an ungreased 9x13 baking pan. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in milk, egg and vanilla . Pour over crust. Sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Bake at 325 for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. refrigerate 3 hours or until completely chilled. Cut into bars. Store in the refrigerator.

These are super yummy...just ask my hips! I am also using this as my inspiration piece for this week's Loves Rubberstamps challenge also of May Flowers because I haven't had hardly any time to get crafty. I am hoping once I get caught up on business things... I can spend some much needed stamp time and just de-stress awhile!

So...if you get some crafty time...be sure to add some flowers, or just use a stamp that has a flower in the design... add a charm and you can then enter it in BOTH of these fun challenges!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and thanks so much for hanging in there with us! It means a lot!

Happy Stampin!

Laura

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

will be updated shortly :)



Monday Inspiration

Hello Stampers,

Holly here filling in for Laura today.  Welcome to the Monday Inspiration Post.  Today Olivia is sharing a ON WALK Little Winged Friends Collection from Bildmalarna and she colored them so fabulous with her Copic Markers.  I love the bottle cap with matching paper she used and a small tag.  The colors are so great. 

I plan on buying some of these little Bildmalarna stamps myself, and I know Laura is going to get more in stock soon.   In fact, I know she told me she has oodles of new things to put in the store and she is going to work on shipping orders in the next couple days as well. 

How was your Mother's Day?  Mine was fabulous.  A friend of  mine found me a dog in an L.A. Shelter and this gal drove all the way to Bakersfield to drop him off today.  Would you like to see the new Love of my Life? 

OMGosh he is so FLUFFY and CUTE!!!  I think he might be a mixed breed with Westie and Yorkie.  He has the Westie personality and I love him so already.  I cannot believe how fortunate I was to find one and a rescue dog makes it even sweeter.  They named him Archie, so I call him Archie Bunker!  He is fiercely independent, loves scratchy's, and has already established himself among the pack.  We have two other dogs.  He is no bigger than a minute and yep, he is the new Alpha, lol.   I have been waiting over 10 years to find a Westie and this was the perfect Mother's Day gift to me.   

I hope you all have a great day and will swing by our Challenge Blog to see what we all have made for the new challenge tomorrow. 

Holly

Happy Mother's Day and Sensational Sunday Inspirations Blog Hop and Candy

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Another Beautiful Sunday Morning to you and all the Mother's out there celebrating their day!  This is Holly with a catch up blog and our Sunday Inspirations Blog Hop and candy.

This week the Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot was on Dangina's Blog.
The Random.Org numbers are 3. That's you Kathya!!!
Who Said, "What a sweet idea for a gift card holder, Dangina! Great coloring of your image, and perfect selection of papers and flowers.
Hugs,
Kathya"

Congrat's Kathya, Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com by May 4th and I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store!

Before we get started on the hop, I wanted to share a couple cards with you today.


Ceal

Supplies:

Stamp: Stamping Bella Uptown Girls
Sentiment: Flourishes
Copic Sketch markers

I love these uptown girls and how Ceal paper pieced the little dresses, so fabulous. 

Holly

I am using the following products:
Wedding Day Marci -La La Land
Heart Tree - La La Land Die
Filigree corner - La La Land Die
Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black
Copic Markers
Copic X-press paper

Remember if you do not see the one you are looking for in the store, be sure to drop Laura an email (lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com) so she can let you know when she can get the one you are looking for. Same goes with any of the companies she carries. 


Now Let's go to the hop!!!

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $10 Loves Rubberstamps

Just in case you get lost along the way...
Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog
Dangina
Athina
Shanna
Lydia
Marcy
Ivonne
Holly


Have a great day all! Don't forget to leave comments for your chance to win!!

Holly