I Actually WON a contest!!!!

This is a picture of my card that won a TAC card contest last month. The contest category was Easy for Easter. I saw a card that used brown paper and the scalloped circle punch in a magazine I was reading and loved it. So like any good stamper, I adapted the idea to fit the stamps and paper that I wanted and the result was this card. I used TAC's No bunny like you set. After I stamped the chick/bunny stamp in the circle, I colored in the chick, bunny and egg with TAC's glaze gelly pens and then I colored the grass with Prismacolor watercolor pencils and used a blender pen to soften the look. All the paper and ribbon I used featured TAC's Mimi collection. I just loved the look of all of it once it was done. You can't see it, but the card is actually folded at the top and bottom and has a seem in the middle of the card. So the top half opens UP and the bottom half opens DOWN. The brown strip is attached to the scalloped circle and it slides off the card so the recipient can open it. It's like a paper "band" to hold the card. I think this particular fold is called a gatefold or something like that. To be honest, I didn't think it had a chance of winning, but I was mailing in some entries for a couple other contests (I really thought I had a great chance of winning Terrific Trio--I'll have to post those cards another day) so I thought, hey, why not--and put the card in the package and mailed it off. I couldn't believe it when my friend Christina was on my answering machine hinting that I needed to go check out the website. My twelve year old daughter thought I had gone nuts when I started jumping up and down and screaming, "I won, I won, I REALLY won." LOL!!! Believe me, it took quite a few days to sink in that I actually won a contest. I've been trying for a while. I didn't always enter every month, but tried to enter quite regularly. Well, I hope you get inspired by the card. So head out to your stamp space and stamp a project today!

Fall inspiration!!!

Here are a couple fall cards I created the other day. This first one is a scarecrow card I created. I really love how this one came out. I just had to reach for the cha-cha paper to create the strip on the bottom, the tag, and the tab. I was able to set one of the awesome huge circle coordinating eyelets in the tab and I believe the card came out terrific. It made me smile--and that's how I judge the finished product. If it makes me smile, it's a good creation.

The next card I created, I went with the richer fall colors. I used the Forget Not set from TAC. I also used one of my Kaleidacolor ink pads for all the different color affects on the leaves. Again, I ripped some paper and this time mounted folded ribbon behind it and created a ribbon affect. I like this card as well--another one to make me smile!

I hope these inspire you to get your stamps out and create. I'm going to post some more project that we did at my last funshop. We had a terrific time, and I think the projects are inspiring!

Happy Stamping!

Cha Cha is HERE!!!

I have stamped again!!! That is an amazing thing. I just couldn't wait any longer to play with my new Cha Cha paper collection. I created this card in just a few minutes. I used the new Cha Cha paper, Cha Cha cardstock, Cha Cha hardware (which by the way contains awesome new designed eyelets), and the Cha Cha ribbon. Plus I stamped using the coordinating stamp set called Salsa Flowers. This was a fun project to make and I enjoyed employing my creativity skills once again. Sure beats the "insulating" skills I have been employing while working dilligently on the new addition on our house.

I hope you are inspired to check out our new products. I've been very impressed with

the new paper lines. TAC is running a special for the month of September. They have 2 FULL paper collections (paper, cardstock, ribbon, hardware) along with a limited edition stamp set all for $24.95. One of the special features the FULL mimi line with one limited edition stamp set, and the other one contains the Lilly Anna line with another limited edition stamp set. Want to see more info, drop me an email.

Thanks for sharing a inspirational moment. Have a great day!