I was so excited when Amy had this set with her last weekend - it’s the My Favorite Things Pretty Poppies set. I tried Laurie’s Fresh Ink in tomato red, an awesome color, and stamped these on to some Basic Grey patterned paper. Some black glitter finished off the card…

…and now I think I need these stamps.

xoxo,
Suzanne

It’s the 9th, which has been the day of the month when the Cloud9 Blog Hop has started for the last year, and I write this post with a heavy heart. You may have seen the earlier post on the Cloud9 blog letting everyone know that this will be our last hop. It hasn’t taken off as well as I would have liked, and I’d really love to see more folks playing along in Dawn’s Monday Mood Board challenges, so this is not a goodbye…it’s more like a hope-to-see-you-on-the-other-side-of-town.

Because I am currently away with possibly unreliable internet access (I wrote this post several days ago before we left), I wanted you all to know that the hop will be delayed until the 13th, but it will run for a full week this time.

This month’s theme is ANYTHING GOES - I used my Blanket Stitched Blooms to make this cute flower pot for the challenge this month. I hope you will join us!

xoxo,
Suzanne

Here’s another Kansas Kreation…using Hero Arts this time!

The set is called Love Jar, and I also used the coordinating jar die. The white cardstock has a woodgrain texture to it, but it doesn’t appear well in the photo…

Have a fun weekend,
Suzanne

Yay for Friday! Let’s finish the week with one more Avery Elle card, okay? (You can see how much fun I had with this set on my trip, right?)

The bokeh effect on this Glitz patterned paper is so fun, and goes with sequins so well! Many thanks to Laurie for giving me the flower and the doily!

Have a great weekend, everyone!
Suzanne

Hey there! Here’s another card that I made at Laurie’s house last weekend, using Avery Elle’s Simply Tags: Everyday stamp set.

I positioned the plastic buttons on white cardstock and stamped the sentiment in A Muse bubblegum ink and then layered that onto some Bazzill cardstock, which has a nice orange peel texture to it.

Hugs!
Suzanne

Happy Wednesday! I’ve made another project using Avery Elle’s Simply Tags: Everyday stamps and dies, designed by the one and only Nina Yang! These tags are the perfect size - not too small, not too big at 2.75×1.5 inches in size. I embellished this project using some Glitz patterned paper and Simon Says Stamp wooden hearts and dotted kraft envelope.

So cute, just like Nina! Thanks for stopping by!

Suzanne

Hello! I am back from my trip to visit Laurie, Amy and Jen, with lots of Kansas Kreations! I will share them here throughout the next week or so. I had so much fun and am so thankful for the chance to hang out with these beautiful ladies - extra special thanks to Laurie for opening her home to me! xoxo

I packed light for my trip; I brought a few Simon Says Stamp card kits and Nina Yang’s new sets from Avery Elle - these are what I am featuring this week. Today’s card uses Simply Tags: Everyday along with the coordinating dies:

Didn’t Nina do such a fantastic job designing these sets and dies? I am so proud of her! I think this makes for such a sweet wedding card.

Have an awesome day…my vacation continues for a few weeks here, so I am off to do some cleaning, shopping and more packing!

Suzanne

Just made a card for fun using some girly and sweet Pink Paislee supplies. There’s something therapeutic about layering all these ephemera pieces, and I love not having an inky stampy mess to clean up when I am done.

I will be going on vacation within the next couple of weeks (more on that later, because one of my trips is to KANSAS to visit crafty friends - any guesses on who I will be seeing there?!?!) I am really looking forward to it!

Hope your week is going great! I’ve been so busy at work that I haven’t had much time to visit all of you to say hi - my reader contains over 1000 posts at this point, not to mention…I need to find a replacement for Reader, don’t I?

Suzanne

Hi there! I’ve got a fun little post today on the Neat and Tangled blog - I made some super simple nautical cupcake toppers! Head on over to take a peek and have a great day!

I also wanted to share this photo of one of the nests in our yard this year. It’s just outside our back door, right at eye level. There were four baby robins in the nest, but they’ve grown so quickly that two of them have already flown away. I hope they return to build a nest again next year. xo

Suzanne

Welcome to the Lil’ Inker Designs Sunny Days blog hop! If you’re hopping along, you should have arrived here from Sarah Jay’s blog. We’ve got some fun planned for you this week, inspired by this graphic:

I used the Lil’ Inker Designs Flip Flops dies for this project - everything came together so easily once I had the nail polish colors picked out!

We would LOVE for you to play along for a chance to win some awesome prizes! All you have to do is make a project inspired by the graphic above. Here’s how:

• Use Lil’ Inker Designs goodies as a focal point in your project but LID goodies do NOT have to be used exclusively.

• Upload your project to your blog along with the inspiration photo above and tell us how you were inspired to create your project.

• Upload your project using a direct link to your post and the Linky Tool found here on the store blog.

To be eligible to win our Grand Prize you must follow the critera above. You have until Sunday, June 2nd at 11:30 p.m., EST to enter.

Here is the prize that is up for grabs:

• Two lucky honorable mentions will receive $10 gift certificates to Lil’ Inker Designs. Our Grand Prize Winner will receive a $50 Gift Certificate to Lil’ Inker Designs - our BIGGEST PRIZE EVER!! The Grand Prize winner will also receive a cutie badge for their blog

• Also, for every 10 challenge entries we will be giving away a stamp set to randomly chosen participants!

• Beginning today and for the rest of May we’re offering 15% off your entire order! Just enter the code SUNNYDAYS at checkout to receive your discount.

We’re also using this occasion to welcome our newest design team member, Taheerah Atchia! And we are super excited that Isha Gupta and Alyssa Scritchfield will be joining the core team as well!

Hope that you can play along! I am the last stop on the hop, but you can always head back to the store blog for more info and ideas…

Thanks so much!
Suzanne