spring palooza 2010...

for the past three years, a group of stamping friends have gotten together in angola, indiana at this cute little place, the potawatomi inn, for an extended weekend of stamping and hanging out. we all met online, through a few different message boards, first from paper craft magazine, then the stamp shack. it's amazing what friendships have grown through a group of stangers! i kinda forgot to take a lot of pictures this year at palooza but here are a few. it was such a fun weekend!

row 1: kristi, chelsea
row 2: traci, kim
row 3: kathy, jennifer
row 4: angie, chris
row 5: mary
row 6: robin, robin

my crafting area for the weekend. believe it or not, i knew exactly where everything was!


how many will fit in the smallest elevator ever?


cheers!


the view from my room


i found a few more that my cute mom took...

i'll pull you through...

i made a couple of different versions of this card, at palooza. the first one i made for the unity blog hop, then fiddled with it a little. this version i used a different color scheme. i also added the inside sentiment that reads "i'll pull you through". i'm so digging these unity stamps (if you didn't notice!)

i'll pull you through
stamps: unity, basic grey, purple onion
cardstock: hot fudge-mft; fancy pants design pp
ink: onyx black, baja breeze, soft sky, certainly celery
embellishments: prismacolor markers
tools: tim holtz on the edge scallops die

tomorrow is a new day...

a BIG shout out to my niece, sydney, who is having a sweet 16 birthday today!! happy birthday, squid!!

yep, you guessed it. more unity. and another friends with flair friday!! and just you wait...i've got a ton of new {ippity} stamps to play with, so be on the look out for those projects! i just love this fancy pants paper!! if you missed the beginning of this weeks blog hop, start over here.

tomorrow is a new day...
stamps: unity
cardstock: fancy pants pp
ink: onyx black, certainly celery
embellishments: prismacolor markers

what's up...

sometimes you just don't need to say much. that's how i feel about this cute digi stamp from hambo stamps. c-u-t-e! this set of atcs is for my piggy swap.

what's up?
stamps: my favorite things
digi stamps: hambo stamps
cardstock: kraft-su; cloud nine pp
ink: onyx black, baja breeze, certainly celery
embellishments: prismacolor markers
tools: nestabilities, word window punch

blue flair...

i had a little run of cardmaking during my palooza weekend with the stamp shack girls. i think i made more cards in one day than i have in the past year. this is one of them. it is completely out of my box of thinking and character. not doodlie or cutesy, but one i love just the same. i love the paper that i used and i am now on a search to find more, since it was in a paper stack.

blue flair
stamps: stampin up
cardstock: kraft-su; hot fudge-mft; fancy pants pp
ink: blue bayou-su; walnut stain distress ink-tim holtz
embellishments: old olive ribbon-su
tools: corner rounder, nestabilities

clouds go by...

you know those big fluffy white clouds? the ones that look like giant balls of cotton? sometimes don't you just love sitting and watching those go by? that's what inspired this atc. it's for traci's cloud swap.

clouds go by
stamps: purple onion, unity, kim huges, unity
cardstock baja breeze, fancy pants pp
ink: pink pirouette, certainly celery, baja breeze-su; onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers

just saying hello...

howdy! that's what i feel like this little guy is saying. i love this little digi stamp. this is for my "what's up with ewe?" atc swap. another set i finished at palooza!

just saying hello
stamps: basic grey, purple onion
digi stamp: whimsie doodles
cardstock: kraft, we r memory keepers pp
ink: onyx black, certainly celery, baja breeze
embellishments: prismacolor markers
tools: nestabilities

roar...

in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight that song will forever remind me of the movie lion king! this atc set is for a wild animal swap that chris is hosting. this little collection was a giant pain to come up with as i struggled with what to do...even slept then came back this morning and finally had an epiphany!!

roar
stamps: stampin up, recollections, my favorite things
cardstock hot fudge-mft; crushed curry, kiwi kiss, close to cocoa-su
ink: vintage sepiea; chocolate chip-su; tim holtz walnut stain
embellishments: brads
tools: circle punch, cricut

happy butterflies...

today i didn't have quite the mojo working with my stamps. i only got a few sets done and it took all day long!! this one is made from more unity goodness. can't get enough right now!

happy butterflies
stamps: unity
cardstock kraft, certainly celery, we r memory keepers pp
ink: onyx black, certainly celery, chocolate chip
embellishments: prismacolor markers, stickles

by a thread...

it's time for another friends with flair friday! what is that? unity stamp co does this every friday and it's blog hop where you have a chance to win a bunch of fab stamps! so pull up a chair, grab a drink and start hopping through the blogs and check out the fun creations that everyone has made!! here is my creation. i love this little clothesline! and i was looking through my friend, chris, latest kit of the month and found this sentiment and knew it would be a good fit with my stamp! don't forget to check out all the other blogs and look for the special blinkie so you can enter to win some stamps!! you can start {here} if you didn't in the first place. happy hopping!

by a thread
stamps: unity, basic grey, purple onion
cardstock: purely pomegranate, pink pirouette, my mind's eye pp
ink: onyx black, purely pomegranate, baja breeze, soft sky, certainly celery
embellishments: prismacolor markers
tools: tim holtz on the edge scallops die

seeing spots...

oh my. i've discovered basic grey stamps in the hot spot at archiver's. they are so cute! i bought about 5 of them the other day. and giraffes are so cute! and i probably have about 4-5 giraffe swaps already, but i figured i could join the one suzi was hosting anyway! so here's my creation. the colors are a little off, the button is really a light yellow.

seeing spots
stamps: basic grey, stampendous
cardstock: hot fudge-mft; very vanilla, stampin up pp
ink: chocolate chip, certainly celery
embellishments: prismacolor markers, buttons

aye matey...

aaargh!!! be on the lookout for pirates. obviously the theme for this set is pirates! i used a few techniques on this set. i distressed the edges and then curled them while the paper was a little damp. i learned a new trick with distress ink the other day at archiver's so i tried that, too. then i sprayed on some perfect pearls to give it a little sand feel. and i embossed the pirate. i really like who it looks weathered.

aye matey
stamps: stampendous
cardstock: river rock-su; hot fudge-mft
ink: tim holtz distress ink: pumice stone, walnut stain, old paper; onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers, clear embossing powder, perfect pearls

beware...

hello from sunny angola, indiana!! today started the beginning of the girl's trip/get together of a bunch of friends from over at the stamp shack, palooza 2010! and i was pretty creative this afternoon. i ended the first day of crafting with three sets of atcs and a card done. here is one of the sets of atcs i made. it's for chris's flamingo swap. and i'll apologize now for the dark pictures. i took it at night in a dimly lit room, without my usual camera!

beware
stamps: viva las vegas stamps
cardstock: hot fudge-mft; pink pirouette, purely pomegranate-su; my mind's eye pp
ink: melon mambo
embellishments: uni ball singo gel pen
tools: corner chomper, ek success punch, cricut