UPDATED:New Lovey Release at LMMS

There are some super adorable new images at Little Miss Muffet Stamps today! I will be back with a card. I'm struggling right now - my laser printer gave no warning before claiming to be out of toner plus the rain we've been having is killing me with sinus headaches. In the meanwhile, check out my teammies on the LMM blog!

FINALLY!!

I think I've decided that Prisma's Process Red is just about the most perfect blush color I can find in my supplies..

The new Celeste Amberglow Heartstrings has so nicely decided to jump herself onto the front of a card!

Challenges: Avadares: Valentine's Day or Love, Lady Anne's - Sentiment + Anything Goes, Simply Create Too - Anything Goes, Sweet 'n Sassy - Anything Goes (use a digi)

AG at Little Miss Muffet!

Swings N Slides Snow Buds... I wish I'd found some more of those ornament snowflakes on clearance when I went to Wal-mart yesterday. The little movement they add to cards is perfect!

It's time for the last challenge of the year at Little Miss Muffet Challenges! We're making it easy - Anything Goes! I am a huge fan of an Anything Goes challenge, especially at this busy time of year. I'm actually about to go shower and get on the road. Lord willing, I'll be back on Saturday so you won't get much time to miss me.  :D  The challenge runs until Jan 8, and I hope to see your name on the Inlinkz list!

Also, if you haven't checked out the Winter Sale, it's still going until December 31! The Hatters, some Sugar N Spice Dolls, a couple of Pollycraft cuties, and some dies can be yours for 30% off!!


**Challenges: Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes, The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes, Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Girly Release at LMMS!

I HAVE GOT to get my light box back in business! I've been taking pics everywhere!

So, last week I called myself trying to be early with my Little Miss Muffet Challenge project. The challenge, which is still going, was to make a tag or a gift. Well, I'm so awesome (ha!), I made a tag BUT used an image that wasn't in the shop until today! Yep, that's another "oops" for me this week!  There are some new Sonny Honeycloud, Celeste Amberglow, and Luna Bitterfrost stamps from Pollycraft PLUS an angel and some lovely angel wings and dresses from Barbara at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! Make sure you get a News Badge on your blog to be eligible for your choice of stamps from the next release!

**Challenges: Sassy Studio Design - Celebrations,  Crafty Ribbons - Tags or Labels, The Sisterhood of Crafters - Embossing (background is a lace stamp embossed with white, blue Gelato run over afterward)

LMMS Helps With the Stash!

Used some more of the K& Company pack and some of their puffy stickers. I even threw another rub-on on the inside for the sentiment! :D

The new challenge at Little Miss Muffet is Halloween Colors! How perfect for me as I'm working to shrink my Halloween crafting stash!  I am a fan of the traditional Halloween colors. If you want to play along but don't like Halloween, just use the colors! They look great together!

**Challenges: Stamp-N-Doodle - Anything Goes, Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes, Shopping Our Stash - Trick or Treat

Halloween at Little Miss Muffet!

I'm at work and a bit late with this post. So... Have you seen today's new release at Little Miss Muffet?! Barbara & Paula from Pollycraft have some super Trick or Treaters! Plus, there's an amazing new banner die at LMMS!

I was dying last night trying to convince myself to get up and make something. I guess that's why you're supposed to do these ahead of time, huh? Unfortunately, I can't seem to shake this ridiculous tired that comes on after work. I take my vitamins, but I haven't been sleeping well lately. Last night, I must have woken up 20 times between midnight and 4am; I finally woke up 3 minutes before the alarm was set to go off! I hate that! Anyway, before finally giving in to sleep, I caught my second wind and would up using the adorable Celeste Amberglow Fairy Special digi to make a tag. (Me? Tag?? I know, right!) Had I not been rushing so that I could get into the bed, I probably would have thrown some more stuff at this tag. I do like how it turned out, though.

Well, the clock says I'm off, so I'm going to wrap this up. You should make sure you get over to LMMS to check out the awesome creations my teammates made. PLUS, if you haven't already, you should put the LMMS News Badge on your blog. Mary F. wound up getting three of the new digis just for having the badge! Also, Bandit Boy Tom and some Pollycraft images are being retired from digi form. You may want to rush over to ensure you have them!

**Challenges: Color Me Creative - Bright Colors, Crafts and Me - Anything Goes,  Scrapalicious - Make a Tag, Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything But a Card, Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Dunce Cap, Please!

I have been coming home from work super exhausted the last two weeks. Before then, I'd been working something like three days a week. Going in every day was an adjustment I should have built up to! Anyhow, I guess I should start taking a nap when I get home because once eight comes around, I'm struggling to watch all the good shows this season. (I really don't normally watch much tv, but this seems to be a good season of television...) Plus, it's hard to make cards when you're asleep! That Halloween card took me days to finish coloring since I would have to stop once I felt myself drifting off.

Unfortunately, this week I found another bad thing about being half-awake when it's time to put together a card. I stayed up WAY past my work bedtime to finish my Little Miss Muffet Challenge card last night only to get a very polite message from Faye to let me know that the Pollycraft image that I grabbed from the pre-printed images pile is not available at LMMS! UGH! Pass me the dunce cap! :S

So YOU know, the challenge at Little Miss Muffet is Simplicity. The challenge runs for two weeks, and if you use a LMMS image then theme is Anything Goes.

New Pollycraft, Hatters, y Una Mariposa!

Seriously, there are so many things going on a Little Miss Muffet Stamps right now! I'm going to try to run it down quickly...

First, there are EIGHT new images this week! There are 4 new Hatters, 3 Pollycraft cuties, and a Mexican monarch butterfly! Here's a card using one of the Pollycraft digis, Casper Silvermist Crush:

Barbara is going out of town this weekend, so there are bonuses if you buy stamps before she gets back on Sunday evening! If you buy 3 digis or rubber stamps, you can get one free. (Check the blog to see which rubber stamps you can choose from this week...)

Next, one commenter on today's LMMS post, one commenter on a DT blog post, and one commenter on the new LMMS Facebook page will each receive Iris May Hatter in rubber! I have my DTmates over in the sidebar to make it easier for you to visit from here. (I apologize as some of the folks have left the team, but I didn't delete them...)

And finally, the new monarch stamp, Hola Butterfly, is being sold as a fundraiser. Barbara's daughter drew the life cycle of the monarch, and each step is being sold along with Barbara's stamp. Two dollars from each one sold during August will go to the Monarch Butterfly Fund!

**Challenges: Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes, Jackson's Digital Expressions - Sketch/Anything Goes (I used most of the sketch for my card; I skipped the circle in the bottom left...), Party Time Tuesdays -  Anything Goes

Circles at LMMS!

Hey out there! It's time for another challenge at Little Miss Muffet Challenges! During the next two weeks we'd love to see you and some circles! A circular card or even a tag will earn you a chance to win some new digis from LMMS! OR if you use a LMMS stamp, you can make anything you want!

Here's my card using one of the Pollycraft digis, Butterflies:

The sentiment is The Greeting Farm's Roll Call set.

Lately I've decided that my Copics are not the business for adding blush. My blending is just not working. I've been playing with my colored pencils and pastels to decorate cheeks, and I think I like it more...

**Challenges: Joanna Sheen - Circles, Great Impressions - Coloring in the Lines, Dream Valley Challenges - Anything but a Square, Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Something Bought in the Last Two Months (Paper from TJ Maxx for $3!), Fashionista Challenge - Things with Wings

Sparkle!

It's time for a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet! I'm behind with this card. It's mostly my fault as I didn't start until VERY late, but I've spent the last few hours being harassed by a fly. It's a big, huge, loud fly - the kind my father (yes, that guy again) would call a doo-doo fly. You know why... This thing is so loud that no matter where it was in the room, it sounded like it was right in my ear. Or like a swarm of bees was about to attack. Surround sound! I can only imagine how many calories I burned twirling my arms around my head like a crazy woman and wielding the fly swatter like a baseball bat. Heck, those calories are the only good thing about that fly being in my house!

Yeah... back to the challenge. For this challenge we want to see some sparkle! It could be bling, glitter, or whatever else sparkly you have at your disposal.  I used some of the trim that came in my Webster's Pages warehouse sale box. I've looked through that box a bunch of times, and I'm not sure that should have bought it. I like bright paper! I've seen lots of awesome projects using their stuff; I'm just not sure that I'll ever even try...My image is one of the Pollycraft/LMMS stamps, Luna Bitterfrost Birthdays Rock. One of my markers decided it wanted a refill as soon as I started using it and left a mucky mess on my image that didn't blend out well.

You know what? I am going to bed. I will sit here and keep complaining because it's after 3 in the morning. Love you guys! Make something for the challenge! You have until July 11...

**Challenges: Anything Goes Challenges - Polka Dot + Birthday, Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Lollipop!

I'll have to smooth out those spots on her face. Do your browns act crazy when you try to go back over them after they've dried?

I can't figure out what I want to write. I was going to talk about this morning's squirrel raid on my apple tree, but I'm not feeling it anymore. Seriously, it's been over 40 mins since I put the picture in this post and still nada... SO, I'll remind you that Pollycraft is not disappearing. You'll still be able to find some of your favorites over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! There are new releases there, including two new Pollycraft stamps! Hit the blog to see some Pollycraft goodness!

*Oh, thanks Piali! I'm still using supplies she sent me two years ago!

**Challenges: ScrapFit - Stickers (My lollipop is an old sticker that just happened to be almost the right size...), Paper Crafting Journey - Hand Colored Images, Jackson's Digital Expressions - Color Challenge/Anything Goes

Umm... Duh!

Whoo! I need a moment of silence for operator error! I had just written up some stuff about Blogger and how I couldn't post this message earlier today because of some issues, only to find that those issues were way too easily solved! I'm talking a one-click-of-the-mouse solution! I'm ok...  :)

Anyway, today is Wednesday which means another sketch challenge at The Outlawz! Here's a shot of the sketch:

And here's the card I made:

That cute little guy is Kuthbert from Pollycraft. (There are some really cute holiday digis over there on sale right now...)  He's been colored with Copics and propped up on some paper from The Paper Studio's Sugar and Spice stack. The little white hearts are scraps from using the Heartbeat punch from MS. (Did I already tell you all how much I love that punch? If not, I love it to pieces!) Making Memories's Metro Mini Shimmer Alpha stickers in white make the sparkly sentiment, and the dots are from a Sakura white Gelly Roll pen.

**Thank you so much to my followers who have joined us at The Outlawz! I hope all of you make it over there and join the challenges. As a reminder, a different type of challenge starts every day. I think there should be something there that interests you!

Sunday: Clean and Simple
Monday: Birthday Cards
Tuesday: Color
Wednesday: Sketch
Thursday: Prisma and Other Mediums
Friday: Copic/Promarkers
Saturday: Scrapbooking

Anything Goes challenge at Guylou's Inimitability is still on until Jan 20 @ 10 p.m. EST! If you're interested in a Guest Designer spot and some free digis, enter any card you've made from Jan 6, 2011!

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Challenges:  Incy Wincy Designs - #77 Bears!, Bunny Zoe's Crafts - # 8 Love is in the Air, Lexi's Creations - #31 Say it with Love, One Crazy Stamper - Love