2Sketches 4 you - #39 - You're so sweet!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Its Monday and that means its time for another lovely sketch challenge from 2 Sketches 4 You! Today, Kazan brings us this awesome sketch #39 for the challenge - I love these sketches because there are so many different possibilities that you can do with this :)

Our sponsor this week is DRS designs - which has a ton of products for rubber stamping and more! For my card this week, I got to play with this beautiful circle Lily. I stamped it twice in Memento Tuxedo and then colored both stamps in with copics and then popped it on dimensionals and then cut the whole circle out. The ribbon is folded accordian style with tacky tape and then I added a little Zip dry for it to stay in place :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Basic Grey

Ink: Rose Bud Memento and Tuxedo Black

Stamps: DRS designs (circle lily) and Verve stamps: Delightful and Delicious

Accessories: butterfly punch (martha), circle punches, spellbinders, tacky tape, corner rounder, liquid peals, pearl bling, sponger

Check out the amazing cards by the Winter design team over at 2 Sketches 4 You!!! They are simply exquisite!!! And play along with us if you have a chance, and there is some yummy blog candy for one lucky person - check out all the details over here!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you have a wonderful week!!!

Hugs!!!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #57 - My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Good Morning Everyone!! Today over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge are so excited to feature the totally fun and sweet Oscar nominated movie from 2002: My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!!! This movie was the sleeper hit of the year and it was nominated for best original screenplay. This love story is all about family, love, culture and coming into your own.

I absolutely LOVED this movie from the very first moment that I saw it!!! You could replace the word "Indian" with "Greek" and it would fit perfectly! I related to so many things in this movie - like her desire to want to fit in when she was younger (I remember my mom packed me curry sandwiches to school - when everyone around me had PBnJ sandwiches but the real fun started when my DH and I got married - it was definitely a "cultural experience" for his family to meet my loud, huge family :) I love each character in this movie, from the way the mother and father interact with each other, to her aunt, to all the cousins, to the main characters as they fell in love with each other. I love how they would celebrate the moment in the movie with the greek word: "Opa!" which can be understood as an exclamation of joy!

So for my card today, I used Julee's awesome sketch from Julee's awesome Mojo Monday Sketch #111 and I created a little wedding card with the colors from the Greek flag - with two lovebirds from Verve and the sentiment Opa! on the side ( this was printed on the shimmery paper at a 1" size and then punched out with my 1" circle punch):

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Imagience

Ink: Memento Navy blue

Stamps: Anniversary birds from Verve

Accessories: Charms, ribbon, liquid pearls, pearls from Kaiser, dimensionals, spellbinders, corner chomper, circle punches (1" thru 1 and 3/4")

It was so much fun to watch this movie as I made this card! Made me want to call my whole family and tell them how much I LOVE them!!!

Please check out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog for more details and to see some awesome inspiration cards from Brooke and Samara!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Sweet n' Sassy Digi Stamp blog hop :)

Good Morning Everyone,

I couldn't be more excited to bring you a wonderful challenge from Sweet n' Sassy stamps who have wonderful Digi images that makes it super easy to create a card! Today the Paper Craft Planet SuperNovas are showing you their sweet n sassy digital creations! I used the Merry Christmas Candle DIGI stamp to create this card:

I love the poinsettia around the candle and printed it twice on Choice Buttercream cardstock from Taylored Expressions and then colored it with Copics. I like the fact that you can resize the digi stamps and make it bigger or smaller to fit the project that you have in mind :)

So what is the challenge??! Well, create a card with this sketch (I actually forgot to use this sketch for my card today because my brain is holes for cheese right now - but I can't wait to play along with this awesome sketch!!)

and then upload your card to the Paper Craft Planet photo gallery, and use the tag "SNSS1" -- all caps, please. (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) Sweet n' Sassy Stamps has generously offered a chance to win this adorable stamp for one of our lucky challenge players (you have to use the above sketch to be eligible for the stamp:)

I had a lot of fun playing with this sweet digi stamp - every Thursday Sweet n' Sassy releases new digi stamps and they even have a freebie on Thursdays!! Check out all of their Sweet n' Sassy yumminess here and also hop on over to see what all of the SuperNovas came up with:

Adela Rossol

Lynn Mercurio

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Lori Tecler

Susanna Boyd

Thanks so much for visiting me today!!!

I hope you have a chance to play along with us!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Big hugs!!

Sankari :)

RELEASE DAY -at Taylored Expressions!!!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

It's release day over at Taylored Expressions and the Baker's Dozen and I will be showing sneak peeks from the stamp set called Celebrate Life which is one of three sets that are being released today! Also, today I am excited to be the featured designer for the Taylored Expressions newsletter !!! YAY!!! (you can subscribe by going over to the store link and join the mailing list which will give you the inside scoop and deals over at Taylored Expressions) And so for today's newsletter project, I created a gratitude journal using the elegant Celebrate Life stamp set. I ADORE this stamps set and love all the stamps and the variety of possibilities of what you can make have my head spinning :) I wanted to start a journal that we can use as a family to write down through the year all of the things that we are grateful for - from big things to little things - and then create another journal the next year. It would be fun for the kids to see what they had written down when they were small.

and here is a close up of the beautiful silhouette that I sparkled up with chunky glitter and stickles and bling and buttons .

I loved creating this journal and can't wait to sit down as a family and make this our family gratitude journal. Here is a peek at the inside of the card and I created a little folder inside the card for holding little pictures, notes, etc.:

Can't wait to get started journaling as a family! The dandelion image reminded me of the papers in the October Key Ingredients kits and so I used the dandelion paper in the kit to create a 6x6 layout using the same stamp set with the sentiment: "Thankful for You." I love this picture of my daughter - I love the way her nose crinkles as she smiles her "sunshine" smile as we call it :)

This readily slips into the calendar stand over at Taylored Expressions and is perfect to display around the house - my kids love the fact that its all about them! I love that the pages can be displayed and not covered in a book and the kids always love looking at them and then demand more scrapbook pages about themselves!!! :)

I love the pumpkin image in this stamp set and created a card with the paper piecing technique using some My Mind's Eye paper: I wanted to create a card to give to our hostess for Thanksgiving - and love this sentiment: "Thankful for You".

The other reason that I love this stamp set is for its versatility. It has stamps that can be autumnal but also has so many sentiments and images that are all year round. I created a bright spring-ish card using the fun mini circle stamps (that can also be easily punch out with a mini circle punch) and created a ONE LAYER 8 MINUTE CARD!!! (I put that in capitals because I have never made a one layer card before) I wanted to keep this very very very simple - so not dots, ribbon, or layers - just a teeny bit of bling, inks and sponging :) I love the versatility of this stamp set!!!

I hope you have enjoyed all the yummy peeks so far and you won't want to miss all the amazing creations that the Baker's Dozen has created today - so make sure to hop on over and check out the yumminess:

Charmaine Ikach

Denise Marzec

Dawn Easton

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Laura Fredrickson

Jodi Collins

Jami Sibley

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Laurie Schmidlin

Sharon Harnist

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you so much for visiting me today!!!!

I am off to the Taylored Expressions store to get shopping!!! See you there (and join the newsletter mailing list while you are there - for all of the news and scoops!!!)

Hugs!

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 2

Good Morning Everyone,

Its another day of sneak peeks over at Taylored Expressions and today the Baker's Dozen and I are featuring the stamp set: Sweet Indulgence that Taylor will be releasing tomorrow!!! I LOVE the name of this stamp set and every single image is all about indulging and pampering - and who doesn't need that!!! Taylor is also releasing Spa Ingredients to coordinate with this set - which has 5 different Prism cardstock colors (Intense Mint, Intense Pink, Frosted Kiwi, Razzleberry Light, Frosted Teal) with coordinating Designer Paper, ribbon and the cutest brads and embellishments!!! These stamps coordinate perfectly with the stamp set that we peeked yesterday's stamp set called Luxurious Labels.

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Cuppie goes to the Beauty Salon:

For my first card - I had to make this one of Cuppie at the Beauty Salon!!! I started out using Mercy's sketch #46 - but it kinda started to become a whole other kind of sketch card :) LOVE this image and these fun colors and ribbon and hair dryer embellishments that come with the Spa Key Ingredients kit are beyond cute!

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Spa Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Rose Bud Memento

Stamps: Sweet Indulgence from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Martha Lattice punch, spellbinders, liquid pearls, glitter, circle punches, dimensionals

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Cuppie's Pep Talk:

The second card that I made had me giggling the whole time I was making it because it is just the cutest sentiment!!! Do you remember Stewart Smalley from SNL?? And his pep talks to the mirror for increasing his self-esteem??!! Well, look at Cuppie giving himself a pep talk in the mirror!!!! LOL!!! I adore this stamp and sentiment!!!!

After paper piecing cuppie - I colored that portion over with B00 andC3 copic markers for a blue- gray mirror look - I had fun adorning Cuppie's mirror with bling and the sentiment: "I;m good enough, I'm sweet enough and doggone it, people love me!" is just still giving me the giggles :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Spa Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Rose Bud Memento

Stamps: Sweet Indulgence from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: spellbinders, stickles, bling, liquid pearls, glitter, corner rounder, dimensionals

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Cuppie's Bath Time Soak:

The last project that I made is a little mini gift set for pampering and the gable box contains some dead sea salts to add to the bath: (isn't Cuppie adorable soaking in the bath :) !!!)

Here is a closer look at the card using Taylor's sketch #89: I love these flowers that come with the Spa Ingredients kit - it adds just the perfect finishing touch:

and here is a closer look at another stamp from this set that can be punched out with a 1 and 3/4 circle punch: there are other smaller stamps that can then fit inside the circle!!! LOVE the versatility that this provides!!

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Spa Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Aquamarine from Memento

Stamps: Luxurious Labels stamp set and Sweet Indulgence from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: spellbinders, stickles, dew drops, liquid pearls, glitter, corner rounder, dimensionals

I had sooo much fun making all these fun cards and can't wait to give them to my friends and family!!! Its so nice to be able to make some pampering gifts and cards for them to let them know how much they mean to me :) AND speaking of pampering -- CHECK OUT what all is in this yummy bundle that Taylor is releasing tomorrow!!!

That's right - a Chenille Gel Neck Wrap - that you can keep for yourself while you craft away or of course can give as a gift set combo!!! LOVE it!!! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog - and make sure to check out all the indulgent and yummy cardmaking genius from the lovely ladies on the Baker's Dozen :)

Charmaine Ikach

Denise Marzec

Dawn Easton

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Laura Fredrickson

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Laurie Schmidlin

Sharon Harnist

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you so much for visiting me today!!!! Have a pampered day!!!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 1

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Its release week over at Taylored Expressions!!! And I guarantee that you are going to love these awesome sets that Taylor is releasing with this Thursday November 5th!!!!!! I am simply SO excited about all the things that Taylor is coming out with!!!! Today the Baker's Dozen and I are sneaking peeks from the set called Luxurious Labels Stamp set from Taylored Expressions along with these awesome Spa Bottles that Taylor has which makes it easy to create your own homemade lotions and potions to give this holiday season, birthday's, etc. (or keep a few for yourself ;). This is just the best set of stamps for me because my whole family is potions and lotions CRAZY so I can't wait to make some homemade gifts for this holiday season with these awesome sets, papers, labels, sentiments and ribbon and more ;) in this release!!! One of the things that Taylor will be releasing is the awesome Spa Key Ingredients which feature the yummiest groupings of paper, embellies and ribbon (but more about that tomorrow) - I used the paper in the Spa Key Ingredients for today's projects:

I created a little gift set caddy for today's sneak peek and had so much fun creating it as well as filling it up:

Here is a card that I made to go along with my gift set - I love this particular label in the stamp set which is made up of lovely bubbles - how wonderful is that?!!! I cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals and then featured the cutest tub and bubbles and stamped the leaves and the sentiment "Pamper Yourself" and the dew dropped it up :)

And a closer peek at the label: don't you love the bubble label!!!! Isn't that tub just the cutest - I paper pieced it and shaded it a bit:

Here is another angle of the card - and of course some liquid pearl :)

This treat box is made from the tutorial over at SCS by Beate and was really simple to make - you can check out all the details here - This "caddy" allows for 4 compartments to fill so how did I fill them (that is the fun part too!)

The first compartment I filled with these yummy potion bottles that Taylor has - one has bath salts and the other lotion: NOTE that this stamp set has a mini circle stamp that can go right over the bottle cork too!!!!!! I stamped the sentiment: Relax for the compartment for the bottles - I love the font of these sentiments - so gor-ge-ous!

Here is another angle of the potions and lotions - bath salts and lotion customized with the stamp set and this awesome label!!! A little bling, a little ribbon a little liquid pearls - and voila:

Another compartment was used with this sentiment Soothing and a facial cream and washcloth. I know that for me there is nothing more soothing than taking off the make up at night with a warm washcloth and then applying my night moisturizing face cream - somehow it feels like the day is done and washed away! :) I love this sentiment Soothing

Another compartment was filled with the sentiment: Pamper Yourself and a facial mask and pedicure foot scrubby thing - I totally love face masks at the end of the day - and part of me wonders if I didn't secretly make this gift set for myself :) hee!!! :)

And the last compartment was filled with the sentiment Luxurious Lathering and was filled with a loooooofa for shower lathering fun (isn't loofa a fun word :)

Project Ingredients:

Paper: Spa Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions and one pink 12x12 cardstock

Ink: Memento New Sprout, Tuxedo Black ink, Lilac ink, and Brilliance Platinum ink

Stamps: Luxurious Labels from Taylored Expressions (releasing on Thursday!!)

Accessories: metal ring, dimensionals, dew drops, liquid pearls, cuttlebug wave embossing folder, spellbinders, mini circle punch, corner rounder, ribbon from the Spa Key Ingredients set and also from stash, bling and Sakura Pens (silver metallic)

Hope you enjoyed peeking at my sneek peeks!!! I had a blast making these projects and you won't believe all the things that Taylor is coming out with this week - so make sure to stop in tomorrow and Thursday!!!!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! Please make sure you hop on over and check out the beautiful Spa Creations and works of art from the Baker's Dozen!!!

Charmaine Ikach

Denise Marzec

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Laura Fredrickson

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Laurie Schmidlin

Sharon Harnist

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

And stop by tomorrow for Day 2 of sneak peeks!!! I can't wait!!!!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

2 Sketches 4 You - Laura's sketch #38 - Friends 4 Ever

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Happy Monday!! Phew! Its been a wee bit since I blogged! I was over at the East Coast to attend the wedding of an old and dear friend of mine and visit my family! I took some craft stuff to do while there - but never had a chance. My mother is the type of person who organizes and structures everything - so as soon as I came home - she already had a packed calendar of all the things that we were going to and see and have fun doing :) I totally enjoyed being at home and having a bit of a vacation

from blogging - but it is nice to be back and get some mojo flowing :)

What better way to start of the week then a YUMM-a-licious sketch from the fabulous Laura from 2 Sketches 4 You!!! I adored this sketch and for my card - I actually turned the sketch 90 degrees counterclockwise to create this friendship card - which is being sent to one of my friends back east who I have known since highschool and had a chance to meet up with while we were there. I wanted to make something special for them - so here is a forever friendship card to one of my forever friends and her 5 amazing children (that's why I had to put 5 cute owlies :).

This week the sponsor over at 2 Sketches 4 You is the awesome Sakura of America who really have to coolest pens ever!!! I colored me owlies with the metallic, glaze and sparkly pens and it made all the Owls just pop out more. I also used the pens for some faux stitching across the top of the different layers. I love how easily these pens glide - nice and smooooth :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket (Kitchen Spice) and Prism cardstock and the owls are from American Crafts paper

Ink: Potter's Clay Memento Ink

Stamps: Branching Out stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Sakrua Gel pens: Metallic, Glaze pens, Sparkle pens, Marvy Heart punch, buttons from stash, bling, dimensionals, corner rounder, Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder, cosmic wave stencil, chalk

I had a lot of fun making this card and love playing around with this lovely sketch!!! And you have to check out all the lovely cards for this sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You because..... drim roll....... there are 4 NEW DESIGNERS joining Cheryl and myself for the 2 Sketches 4 You Winter Design Team so hope on over to the 2S4U blog and check out our 4 awesome new designers and the awesome sketch and play along with us!

Thanks for visiting me this monday!!! hope you have a lovely Monday!!

Happy November!!! (isn't that crazy!)

Hugs!

Sankari :)

2 Sketches 4 You - #38 - Happy Halloween!

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope that you had a lovely weekend! Ours was wonderful, celebrating the wedding of one of my dear friends and wishing them the best in the new adventure of marriage :) This morning over at 2 Sketches 4 You, is a sad one, as team members Lori, Kim, Anja, Latisha are departing today :( waaaaaaahhh! I feel so lucky to be part of this amazing team and to have a chance to have worked with them :)

This week's sponsor over at 2S4U is the Cutting Cafe by Regina - who has all sorts of wonderfully delicious cutting stamps. The DT got to work with some spooktacular Halloween stamps and I love the fact that you can just print them out and adjust the size (or even flip it the other way) and then assemble your card in a snap! Here is my card for this week's awesome sketch challenge:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Sweet Shoppe Design for the pink background paper, rest are scraps

Stamps: Cutting Cafe by Regina

Accessories: spellbinders, circle punches, dimensionals, liquid pearls, ribbon

I had a lot of fun making this card - and love this fantabulous sketch!!! THank you so much Regina for sponsoring 2S4U!!! And big hugs to the ladies who are leaving the 2S4UDT :( Please hop on over to their blogs and leave them some love!! They are simply FABULOUS!!!

Lori,

Kim,

Anja,

Latisha

Love you ladies - wishing you all love and happiness in all that you do!!! Please hop on over to 2 Sketches 4 You where you can read more about these wonderful ladies and check out all the projects together!

Thanks for stopping by here today!!

Sending you all lots of happy hugs!

Sankari :)

Verve Believe Blog Hop!

Good Morning Everyone and Welcome to the Believe Blog Hop by Verve Stamps!

If you’ve just happened across my blog, you’ll want to start back at the beginning over at Julee's Blog (http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com) and hop your way along.

Today we’re hopping for the Cure, sharing projects from a new set Verve just released called Believe. This set was designed in honor of breast cancer awareness and Verve is donating $10 from the sale of every Believe set to the Susan G Komen For the Cure foundation. We believe that we can make a difference. We believe that each day should be celebrated, each moment cherished and that every little thing we can do in the fight to find a cure matters.

Project Title: Believe Gift Set:

I made two projects today. One is a little notebook and notepaper holder. The Notepaper holder has the sentiment: "Believe in Miracles" and "Survivor" on the side and the Notebook has the sentiment: "Never Give Up" on the front.

Here is a closer look at the notebook. A little something for daily affirmations, etc.:

Project Details:

Paper: Digital: All are from the Sweet Shoppe Designs store and from the kit: This One's For the Girls by Heather Roseli, Krystal Hartley and Mandabean. Ink: Memento Lilac, Stamps: Believe by Verve, Accessories: Notepaper holder and Notebook, pen, ribbon from stash, Kaiser bling, dimnesionals, sticky tape.

Project Title: Only

I love each and every single sentiment in this set - It is seriously full of inspiration and beauty and hope. I made a card using one of my FAVE new sentiments: " Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." - (Karen Ravn) This is such an inspiring sentiment and I LOVE the swirls and this font! I created a mostly monochromatic card going pinkish red:

Here is a closer peek at the flower: I stamped the three flowers in this set, colored them with copics, glittered them with spica glitter and then adhered them with dimensionals, curling the petals in:

Project Details:

Paper: from stash. Ink: Memento Ladybug red and Lilac, Stamps: Believe by Verve, Accessories: liquid pearls, corner chomper, spellbinders, ribbon from stash, copics, glitter, dimensionals.

Thanks for hopping by! Next up on the hop is the fabulous Susan!!! Oh, and we’ve got a special gift hidden along our hop for one lucky commenter, so if you see something you really love, give a little shout out and you just might win a $30 gift certificate to Verve!

. Julee
2. Charmaine
3. Jackie
4. Tosh
5. Mercy
6. Jen T.
7. Lynda
8. Teresa
9. Laurie
10. Amber
11. Sankari (THAT"S ME :)
12. Susan
13. Jen d.
14. Betty
15. Jessie

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Hope your weekend is fantastic!!!

Hugs!!!! Sankari :)

Verve Sneak Peeks are here!: Christmas in the Air

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Guess what!?! Its release week over at Verve Stamps and this month's release is absolutely amazing!!! Seriously, awesome! Julee has created sentiments and images for all kinds of holiday card making and beyond!!! If you haven't yet seen the sneak peeks over at the Verve stamps blog that have already gone up on Tuesday and Wednesday - make sure you check each mouth watering sample out here! And today, Jackie Pedro, Jen Tapler, Jen del Muro, Jessie Rone and I are sneaking some peeks from two stamp sets that we are peeking today: Christmas in the Air and Holly Jolly.

For today's card, I used Julee's awesome sketch: VSOCT09D (check out all 5 Verve sketches that Julee has created and how you could win some of these stamp sets by playing along!) I made today's card from the stamp set: Christmas in the Air. I love every single sentiment in this set - but I think this is my most favorite one: Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies - I love the font in this set and the snowflakes are divine. Since the sentiment was about butterflies and snowflakes, I decided to make a winter snowflake flower with butterflies that were emerging out of the designer paper...

Card Ingredients:

Paper: K&Company

Ink: Memento Aquamarine

Stamps: Christmas in the Air

Accessories: Inkessentials gel pen, candy dots, flower from BoBunny, Martha Stewart punch, rhinestones from Kaiser, ribbon from stash.

I stamped the four snowflakes and then colored them with copics and then glittered them and cut them out, adding dimensionals when layering them. I kept the colors monochromatic and simple so that the focus would be on the center of winter's snowflake flower :). I absolutely LOVE each and every single image in this set!

I am so not a winter girl (can't handle the cold) but I can't wait for some winter wonderland after using this stamp set!!! Hot cocoa anyone?? :) LOL! See you at the release party Friday night (9PM EST) for more details of the par-taay and how to win some of these AMAZING stamps - check out more details here!!!

Thanks for stopping by here and hop on over to the Verve Stamps blog for a whole lot of sneak peeks from the Divas!!!

Big Hugs!

Sankari :)

Happy Birthday dearest Susanna!!!

Good Morning Everyone,

Today - October 22nd is a special birthday! It's Susanna Boyd's birthday!!!! woo-hooo!!! As you might know, Susanna is the creator of the website Card of the Week and the founder/creator of Paper Craft Planet - an online community for crafters. Susanna is one of the sweetest people I know - she is AMAZING!!! Seriously - I don't know how she does all the things that she does and not only that - but she does it so beautifully!! She works, she is a mom, she coordinates sooo many different projects and always has such a positive attitude and awesome sense of humor!!! I am so blessed to have gotten to know her and chat with her - she is one sweet cookies!!! (SB, if you are reading this - I ADORE you and want to be you when I grow up!!!)

So to celebrate her birthday, the Super Nova Design Team decided to throw her a party - blogstyle! We are all creating her a special card album (you can view here) and would love for you to create a card for her as well!!! And what is a party without some yummy party favors??!!??? Right?! Well, all you have to do is:
1. create a birthday card (yup, that's it!!)
2. upload it to the photo album gallery at Paper Craft Planet with the tag SB2009.
3. All uploads must be completed by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, Oct. 25th, from which random numbers will be selected to be eligvile for some awesome prizes: Check out these awesome prize packages that you could win just by making a birthday card and uploading to PCP!!!

7kidscollegefund : a High Hopes stamp and a Memory Box 8 pack of cards and envelopes

Hope Stamps Eternal : a Basic Grey "June Bug" prize package

Gina K Designs : Sweetest Blessings stamp set

Clear & Simple Stamps : $25 gift certificate

i{heart}papers : 3 Chicken Girl Design stamp sets

Kitchen Sink Stamps : a Mystery Prize

How YUMMY is that party favor box!!?! Well, I wanted to make SB something special and that's where Tom Selleck comes in (Jen Tapler if you are reading this, your Tom Sellect Valentine is still coming but you might only get it for 2010's Vday, lol! :). Susanna loves Tom Selleck! and so I wanted to create a little birthday something with Tom in it :) So I created a little scrapbook page for her using this week's Scrappy Sunday sketch challenge by Jen for the layout and used the awesome digital kit from the Sweet Shoppe Designs called: Cinemania by Lauren Grier and MandaBean. I have to say that these digital kits are awesome - there are so many and I just get lost looking at each yummy one!!!

This is my first full digi set and I can't wait to print it out and add some final embellishments (yes, liquid pearls, lol!) Be sure to stop by Paper Craft Planet and check out this discussion in the forum for all the details regarding Susanna's birthday celebration! You could win all of the yummy products by making a bday card - so join in the fun!

Happy Birthday dearest Susanna!!! Hope you have the best day ever!!! You seriously are beyond AWESOME!!!! Sending you big bday hugs!
And big hugs and thanks to all of you for stopping in!
THank you!!!
See you soon :) Sankari :)

October 20th Key Ingredients are Here!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!

Today is the 20th of October and that means its time for another Key Ingredient's Challenge from Taylored Expressions. For those of you who are not familliar with these kits, every month, Taylor creates an awesome kit - full of Designer paper, coordinating cardstock, ribbon and embellishments - its such a great way to make cards - because everything you need is in one kit and now Taylored Expressions is now offering a monthly charge prgram - so that menas that instead of paying for all 3 or 6 month upfront, now their will be a charge every month on the 15th of each month of their subscription - so for example the 6 month program is $14.95 a month plus shipping! Now that is total YUMMINESS!

For the October 20, Key Ingredients challenge, we are so excited to work with some maya mist, chipboard and yummy papers!!! The DP is from the Cosmo Cricket line: Earth love and comes with coordinating Prism cardstock, coordinating ribbon, a ton of maya chipboard birdies and yummy Maya Mist (one tip is to make sure you tap the mister on your palm before spritzing the mist onto your project).

The challenge that Taylor has given us is to decorate our creations to give it a dimensional pop! So that could mean, liquid pearls (you know me - I LOVE dem liquid pearls :) lol!), real pearls, bling, chipboard etc. Anything that adds dimension to your creations! Today half of the Baker's Dozen is going to be feautring the elements from the October Key Ingredients - with some different projects from cards, to scrapbook ayouts to 3D items. I created a little 6x6 scrapbook layout of my daughter for this challenge:

Scrapbook page layout:

Paper: Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions

Stamps: Downtown Diva from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento Lilac

Accessories: dimensionals, liquid glaze pens from Sakura, Martha heart punches, Corner chomper, buttons from stash, EK success punch, bling from stash, Frame your Imagination Vertical Stand.

This kit comes with an awesome package of Maya Road birdies chipboard - and I loved using the chipboard that I misted with the Maya road mist (Avocado Metallic mist) which just made it glimmer and shimmer. I then covered it the wing with some of the DP and added some buttons and liquid pearls, faux stitching and ribbon. Here is a closer peek at the little chipboard birdie covered in glorious mist :)

My most favorite thing to do is to display these pages in the Frame Your Imagination vertical stand after I am done - (this is a 6 x 6 layout) - I love being able to display the pages out for everyone to see and not stick it inside a scrapbook (right away at least :) and most of all my children are SO happy to see themselves on the counter (and they show it to everyone who comes in :)

I absolutely love this month's Key Ingredients (of course, I say that every month!!! :) I think one of the reasons that I love Taylor's Key Ingredients is that its so much fun trying out new papers, embellishements etc, and everything is already laid out to coordinate - so it saves so much time and helps to create projects faster! To see more of this yummy Kit- Please check out what the rest of the DT created with this lovely kit!! I can't wait to go surfing:

Dawn Easton

Karen Motz

Denise Marzec

Laurie Schmidlin

Jackie Pedro

and of course - Taylor VanBruggen!!!!

Thanks for visiting my blog!!! Hope you are having a fabu Tuesday!!!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

2 Sketches 4 You -Laura's Sketch #37 - Eat Drink and be Scary!

Good Monday Morning Everyone,

Monday brings us another awesome sketch from the lovely Laura at 2 Sketches 4 You, where this week the sponsor is Creative Cuts and More. They have premade templates and die cut cards already to go - so its a simple piece of cake to put together a project.

This week for the sketch, I used one of their coffin templates to create this little favor box full of yummy Halloween treats :). I had fun adapting the sketch to a 3D element :) Before I adhered the sides of the coffin together, I traced around a DP and then cut the image to fit ontop of the cofffin favor box. And then I used adhered the sentiments finished it off with some fibrous ribbon for a little extra effect. And the last touch was adding the blueberry candycorn - its true -they do make blueberry candy corn - and they are yummy!

Card Details:

Paper: My Mind's Eye

Ink: Stazon Black with blue Sakura pens over them

Stamps: Spooky Expressions from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon threader - everything else from the Halloween Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions (and ps. it was so hard not to snack on those candy corn while making this project!)

I had a lot of fun with this sketch and hope that you will give it a whirl this week! A big thanks to Creative Cuts for sponsoring this week - you have to check out 2 Sketches 4 You to see all the yummies that you could win and also to see the wonderful projects by the Design Team!!!

Thanks for stopping in today!

Hope your monday starts a fabulous week!

Big hugs :)

Sankari :)

Tag, You are it!!!

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Monday! Another monday - another holiday challenge from the Christmas Stamping All Year Long blog, where today I am the hostess, yay!! As we get closer to Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do something a little different this week and create some tags for our gifts, presents, etc. :) So the challenge is to create at least 3 tags (they can be the same or different) :).

Card Details:

Paper: MME and stas

Ink: Memento

Stamps: Snow WOnderful from Verve

Accessories: Tag punch from CM, glitter ribbon, dimensionals

Every year I have wanted to make tags for our xmas presents - so I am happy to get a good start. So here is the challenge for you = create 3 tags (they don't have to be the same) and f you would still like to create a card instead of a tag - you could always create a card with a tag in it :) Check out the awesome cards the DT made for this challenge here! We would love it if you would play along so - hop on because - Tag, you are it!!! lol!

Can't wait to see your tagged creations!!! Have fun!!!

Happy Monday!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #54 - Finding Nemo and Yummy Blog Candy :)

Good Morning Everyone!!!

This week over at Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, we have a special guest designer: Taylor VanBruggen!!! And her pick for this week's movie is: Finding Nemo! Taylor is offering AWESOME blog candy this week: YOUR choice of any of the new stamp sets for the holidays that were just released!!! Thank you Taylor!

Taylor has also given us a color challenge - here are the colors for this movie:

I am so excited to play along for this challenge - I love this movie but I was really stumped for what to make and then I thought about the different themes of the movie: father/son, friendship, finding courage, letting go etc. and the one theme that I loved was just the essence of the father and son relationship that through everything their love was for "always". Marlin's adventure to find his son Nemo is so amazing and inspirational - that no matter what the odds, you will do anything and overcome anything for love! I was inspired by the journey and so I created a card with little fishes jumping out of the ocean with the words "me and you - always" for the sentiment.

ALL the papers for this card are DIGITAL!!! woot!!! I absolutely LOVE the Sweet Shoppe Designs store and the AMAZing variety of their digital kits - love it!!! I made this card using the Under the Sea kit from Krystal Hartley and the blue frame is from Ocean Side by Melissa Bennett. I created the elements in photoshop and then printed it out and cut out and doubled up the images:

here is a closer peek of the fishes :) aren't those fishes just the cutest :)

Card Details:

Digital Items are from the Sweet Shoppe Designs: Frame is from Ocean Side by Melissa Bennett and all the papers, fishes, waves, background are from the Under the Sea kit from Krystal Hartley

NonDigital items: EK success punch, Kaiser offshore rubon, circle punch, bling, liquid pearls, stickles, ribbon from stash and dimensionals

I had so much fun playing along. A huge thank you to Taylor for the yummy blog candy and for being our guest designer! Please check out the Cinema Saturday blog for more details on how to score some delicious holiday boooooty!!! Woot!

Big hugs!

See you at the movies!

Sankari :)