Hey there, everyone!!  Welcome to day one of the April WPlus9 release week!  We have A LOT of new stamp sets, dies, and more for you in the next 5 days...you are going to love it!!  We have so much packed into each night, and you are going to just love all the inspiration.  First up- here is a little bit of information on each item that you will see tonight:

Damask Doilies

• is a 4x6 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 10 stamps; 4 images and 6 sentiments
• will be available for purchase April 5th

Onesie Twosie

• is a 6x8 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 44 stamps; 4 onesie images, 14 sentiments and accent images, and the numbers 0-9 in two styles
• will be available for purchase April 5th

Onesie Twosie Companion Die

• coordinates with the Onesie Twosie stamp set
• two separate dies wired together that can be easily snipped and separated
• will be available for purchase April 5th

Background Builders: Knit

• is a 6x8 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 7 stamps; 5 background building strips and 2 smaller scaled builders
• will be available for purchase April 5th

 I used the Background Builders: Knit and Damask Doilies for my card tonight, but never fear!  I am sure that I will use Onsie Two-sie & its matching dies before the week's end!! :)  I stuck with a very clean and simple design for my card tonight....almost a one layer card.  Here is what I created:

Happy Saturday, everyone!!  I hope this posts find you having a glorious spring day!  The early part of our day was full of sunshine, but now it seems the clouds have decided to move on in.  Such is spring in Montana!!

I wanted to just write up a quick post today and share my CPS card, where we were sponsored by The Stamps of Life this week.  I have been envisioning a card using hearts in this manner, and it finally came together!  Here is what I created:

Hey there, everyone!!  Well, my post is super late...but late is better than never! Tee hee!  Tonight I am featuring the new stamp set called "Grand Greetings" by Lawn Fawn, which includes some really fabulous super-sized sentiments!  The fonts are really fun as well....so if you love sentiments, then this is a Lawn Fawn set that will be a must have!!

My card is fairly simple, but I wanted to make sure that the gorgeous flowers and sentiment took center stage!  Can I just say...I LOVE the feathers being used as the leaves on the red flower!!!  They make me just happy for some reason!! :)  Here is my card:

Happy Monday, everyone!  Considering the afternoon is almost over here, I certainly hope that you had a great day!  I just wanted to pop in really quick, and share a card using the March Key Ingredients kit.  The kit features Echo Park's "This & That" Graceful 6x6 paper pad and matching brads...along with the usual matching cardstock, and ribbon.  This collection is full of gorgeous colors and has a vintage feel, but still plenty of options to keep it clean and simple!

My favorite sheet of paper in this collection is called "Yardsticks".  It is full of multi-color rulers and measuring tapes....and I just love it!  You will see that I used it at the top of my card, and diecut the larger butterfly from it.  Here is what I created!

**If you are looking for my Lawn Fawn "Critters Ever After" post, please CLICK HERE or just scroll down to the next post!  Thanks!**

Happy Sunday, everyone!!  I hope that you have had a good weekend so far!  Ours has been pretty quiet, which is nice.  We went to a place called the Burger Shack for lunch yesterday...and it was pretty good.  The burgers are ginormous, and they had tons of interesting options!  I went plain jane with a bacon cheeseburger, but my hubby a portobello mushroom burger with blue cheese sauce...he said it was awesome!!  We have been trying to go on lunch dates each Saturday to a place we've never eaten at...and it is really fun!  It doesn't happen every weekend, but at least we try!  After running to Costco to get some much needed groceries, we picked up "The Three Muskateers" from Redbox, and had a nice evening at home.

Today is my last Sunday as the Flourishes Limelight Designer, and I created a sweet little spring card to round my month out.  I have really enjoyed using the Flourishes stamps- they are great quality, and the images & sentiments are just so pretty!!  I did a little write up on white balance on my Flourish's blog post today, so go check that out if you are interested.  Here is the card I created!

Hey there, everyone!  Welcome to the March Lawn Fawn inspiration week!!  We have a fun week in store for you, showcasing projects using some of the newly released stamps and the "Bright Side" paper line.  You should see all of the new items in your favorite store that carries Lawn Fawn, and of course, you can purchase what you like from the Lawn Fawn website as well!

Tonight we are sharing projects using "Critters Ever After", the latest in the Critters series by Lawn Fawn.  The critters are such a popular stamp collection, and it seemed fitting to carry a stamp set of magical critters, don't you think?  This stamp set, particularly the unicorn, makes me think back on my days in elementary school when I was obsessed with Lisa Frank.  I had stickers upon stickers upon stickers, not to mention school folders & notebooks, stationary...who knows what else!  My favorite folder ever had a purple and pink unicorn on it, which you will see I used on my card as well!  Such great memories of being a kid!

Before I share my card, I wanted to also share that Bazzill Basics has done a Lawn Fawn color match for the Bright Side paper and Bazzill Basics cardstock.  This is such a great tool, and really makes sure that you get perfectly matched cardstock.  We have the matching Bazzill cardstock, and let me tell you....it really does match perfectly.  Bazzill definitely knows what they are doing!  And as Lawn Fawn adds new collections to their arsenal, it will get updated on this color match page!  So, with all that said...here is the card that I created for tonight!

Hey there, everyone!!  I hope you have had a wonderful start of your week so far!  Our puppies went to the groomer yesterday, and while our yorkie doesn't look very different....our cocker spaniel sure does!  She is a bit of a nervous nelly, so we go to the groomer as little as possible and let her grow out until we just can't stand it anymore.  Then she gets shaved down at the groomer, and looks SO tiny!!  Her fur gets really fluffy when it is really long, so she looks SO different, but SO cute!

Today is the Key Ingredients Blog Hop, and also a challenge for our subscribers to use their March kits as well!!  The theme for March is "Spring into Organization", and I can admit...I racked my brain thinking of something to do for this.  Then I thought...."how perfect would it be to create little tags that go into my card storage bins to let me know where each theme begins?  It will be so much easier to find cards that I am looking for!"  And this is what I came up with:

 

Hey there, everyone!  Did you have a good weekend?  Ours was fun, and pretty busy!  It felt like we were constantly on the run somewhere, or I was baking something.  I made the coolest rainbow cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day...I loved how they turned out!  We dropped off a baby gift to some friends and chatted with them for awhile.  Then we hung out with some other friends and ate corned beef & cabbage, drank green beer (or green Muscato for me...not much of a beer drinker), and watched Boondock Saints.  Then after church last night we watched The Walking Dead season finale....it was AWESOME!  And I cannot believe we have to wait until FALL for more episodes.

Today I have my third post as the Flourishes Limelight Designer to share with you!  My card is inspired by an image of a decorated room that I found while searching in google images.  If you want to see the inpsiration photo, please go to my Inspired by a Room post on the Flourishes blog.  The photo is fabulous, and is very close to what I want our room to look like when I am done decorating it!  Here is my card!

Welcome to the first ever Nina B Designs Dream Team Blog Hop! We are so thrilled to have you join us on this very special day. My friends and I have some projects to show you that feature the Nina B Designs' Spellbinders™ Paper Arts (Home Sweet Home and Sewing Elements), The Craft's Meow Stamps, and Want2Scrap bling.

I decided to go a little shabby chic, and paired Nina's dies & stamps with a beautiful vintage image and soft, mostly neutral papers.  Here is my project:

Now we can't have a hop without giveaways, can we? I added a fun twist to the giveaways. There is a prize hidden in each of the designers' blogs, so, I encourage you to comment on each of them to be entered in all the drawings. Now the rules:

• The prizes are hidden in the blogs and winners will be drawn randomly.
• One comment per blog please.
• The giveaways are open to everybody in the world!
• The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 21.
• This is not required, but if you have projects using NinaB Designs stamps, dies and/or bling (see tabs above), please upload it to the NinaB Designs Flickr gallery, so we can all see your beautiful work. And who knows, I may have a Flickr fan giveaway someday :).
• This is not required, but please consider liking the following Facebook pages: NinaB Designs, Spellbinders Paper Arts, The Craft's Meow and Want2Scrap. These companies provided some of the prizes today. Join me in thanking them and tell them NinaB Designs sent you. Thank you, friends. :)

Here are the prizes that are being given away - 11 prizes and 11 stops in the hop:

Happy Friday, everyone!  I said in my post yesterday that I have some fun news to share, and I am here today to share it with you!!  My crafting friend, Nina Brackett, has asked me to be part of her Dream Team!  Nina designs stamps for The Craft's Meow, diecut sets for Spellbinders, and bling stickers for Want 2 Scrap.  Nina decided that she needed a group of crafters to showcase her product each month, and thus- the Dream Team was born!  I am super excited to be part of her team, and use all of her fabulous product!!

In celebration of the announcement, I have created a card using one of Nina's stamp sets designed for The Craft's Meow.  Here is what I created!

Happy Thursday, everyone!  How has your week been so far?  Mine has been a good one!  My brother and I went to see Tim Tebow speak (well, more like get interviewed) yesterday!  I adore him, so I was very excited to go to the event!  Plus the ticket proceeds benefited a great organization in our city, so it was worth it.  Tim Tebow was surprisingly soft spoken....not quiet, but not in your face like most NFL players.  He seemed so genuine and truthfully....still very innocent and not jaded.  He was funny and witty and charming....just as would be expected.  Casey and I had a great time...it would have only been better if we could have met him! Tee hee! :)

Well, I have three cards to share with you today!  I was the guest designer this week at the JustRite Stampers blog, and I can now reveal the three projects I created on my blog.  So, this post might get a little lengthy...but hopefully you will still be inspired!  Here is my first card:

Hey there, everyone!!  I am being featured as a guest designer at the JustRite Stampers inspiration blog this week, and I thought I would share a couple of sneak peeks with you!!

This card is currently up at the blog:
And this one should be up shortly!!
I will be sharing all of my cards on my blog later this week, but until then...please go check them out on the JustRite Stampers blog!!

Until later,
~Lea L.

Happy Sunday, everyone!  I hope that your day has been going well so far, and that you had a wonderful weekend.  I went ice skating with my cousin and her family yesterday.  Her daughter, Kyla, wanted to go for her birthday because they had done it on a class trip and she loved it!  Kyla improved so much yesterday while skating, and she had such a good time with her friend that she brought along.  After that we all went to eat at Fuddrucker's together...then Josh and I came home and just relaxed the rest of the evening.  We also had a fun Friday night with friends...so it has been a good weekend for us!

For the month of March, I am the Flourishes Limelight Designer, and I will be bringing a new project to you each Sunday using Flourishes stamps.  I was very excited when Julie emailed me and asked if I would like to do it!  Today my card is all about stamping your images on book paper.  If you want to read what I had to say about this card, please go to my first Limelight Designer post on the Flourishes blog!  Here is what I created:

Happy Friday, everyone!!  After taking a few days break from the fun craziness that was the Lawn Fawn inspiration week, I sat back down at my desk and created a lovely Easter card to share with you today.  But before I get to that....I have to chat about American Idol for a moment.  If you have been a regular visitor to my blog, you will know that I love Idol.  Love it.  We watch it every single year...and I love as I start to form favorites, and as each of the contestants wow me in some way.  If you haven't watched the episode yet...then DO NOT READ the next paragraph, and just scroll on past it.   

Last night the Top 13 were picked, and I have to say....I think that America did a pretty good job.  My VERY favorite went through right away....Phil Phillips.  I have loved him since his audition, and every time I hear him sing I like him even more.  He will be the one who gets my votes, for sure.  My favorite female, Erika, didn't make it through on America's vote, but she was chosen to sing as a wild card- and then the judges put her through.  She needs some definite styling help, and I really just hope that she puts on a performance next week that America "gets" and loves.  The other contestants that I am fond of are Jessica, Colton & Jeremy...and for the most part, the rest are bearable.  Deandre gets on my last nerve with the hair flipping and constant falsetto singing...let's hope he gets some coaching on BOTH things.  And I cannot BELIEVE they brought back Jermaine as the 13th guy.  His over attachment to his mother is just weird to me, and his voice is completely irrelevant right now.  Sigh- they should have brought back Johnny Keyser as the 13th guy.  Attractive and completely relevant.  But, what do I know.  I'm no expert in the music industry...I just know what I like to hear.  Tee hee!

Alright...I guess I will move on to my card now, since that is probably what you are here for!! :)  I wanted to make this card, because I think I am just so excited for Spring to get here!  While it is still snowy and gloomy here...playing with my Easter and spring themed goodies helps tide me over until it does actually get to Montana...which is typically 2-3 months after everyone else does.  :)