Love Potion No.9

I love when I can use stamps in a nontraditional manner!!! Can you say - gettin' some bang for my buck!!

Here I used two Amuse stamps typically seen on Halloweenie items. I thought it would be fun to stick them together for Valentines Day! Hee hee :)

Hope you had a great weekend! I made some fabulous homemade mac&cheese today (here's the deliciouso recipe). I love to cook, but I tend to slack and make the same things over and over. I don't know if it's the new year, watching Julie & Julia a few weeks ago, or watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate tonight on Food Network but I think I'm going to start tracking all the yummy foods I make. I try to track the outfits I wear (yes, I have a little datebook where I keep a record) so I wear more of what I own rather than just my favorites. So why not track the food I'm cooking, too!!

Details:
Stamps - Bernice & Boris (A muse)
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento); Copics (E51, V17, YR04, YG06, BG10)
Paper - white (Georgia Pacific), black (DCWV), Melon Mambo (Stampin Up)
Accessories - Cricut w/Georges & Basic Shapes cartridge, Joyful Juliana font, Glossy Accents, fine tip black marker, dimensionals

I Must Be Da' Bomb!

The first two days of school have gone nicely - not to say there weren't problems, but I guess that keeps life interesting! We're undergoing major building renovations this year to the middle/high school with the construction of the elementary school on site to create one central campus. Needless to say, it's a been noisy and messy :)

I wanted to share the card I made for the Caardvarks challenge along with a cute anecdote from my first day back with the kiddos. The challenge is to create a card using black, white, and hot pink - the colors of this week's sponsor's logo...My Stamp Box. What a fun color scheme! I knew right away that I wanted to use my houndstooth stamp from Hero Arts and my new edger punch - Embossed Curves by EK Success (thanks Kelley - you enabler you!!)

Here's what I came up with:



Simple, but sooooo cute... don't ya think? I thought it would be a perfect thank you for one of my girls. Speaking of which....my 1st day story - I had to force a few third graders to go to recess. They must have missed me this summer and wanted to hang out in my room to chat. Too sweet!

Hope you're having a great week! AND.....the MyGrafico site is up and running again!!! Yippee!!! All of the design team members have been preparing lots of great projects, and we even have a few surprises up our sleeves!! So stay tuned :)


Details:
Stamps - Houndstooth (Hero Arts); Bomb (A muse)
Ink - StazOn Black; Copics
Paper - white, hot pink
Accessories - black grosgrain ribbon (Offray), crystal stickers (Mark Richards), Embossed Curves edger punch (EK Success), sentiment computer generated (Pea Bandit font)