Happy New Year!!!

Here's to twenty thirteen!! I'm enjoying family time and not near my stamp room... but wanted to share our Keith Family Christmas photo.
Each year my husband photoshops our Bichon, Chibi, into a family vacation photo for our Christmas card. This year's was the BEST ONE EVAH!!! Chibi on Space Mountain! Bwahahaaa!!!

Stampin' Up's new amazing Spring catalog begins tomorrow! If you haven't received your copy please email me so I can get one to you immediately forthwith! Also, you can view it from my website www.darthsunshine.stampinup.net

Merry Belated Christmas!

I'm giggling at my post title....never think of a belated Christmas....even though my last two Christmas cards have gone out after Christmas.
I've mentioned I put the PRO in procrastination, right? Haha
Here was this year's card....with a retired stamp set I will never part with-Christ is Born.
I stamped the poinsettias in SU Perfect Plum on Crumb Cake cardstock, and embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder. I love this set!

So....Merry Belated Christmas!!

I don't "do" resolutions....but my 2013 with be full of crafting that I plan to share more of!
See you soon!

Happy Halloween!!!!

I used Stampin' Up's cute Ghoulish Googly Kit to make these! Love those googly eyes!! AND THAT BAT PUNCH!! (I can't believe SU discontinued that punch! *sad face*)

Tomorrow I'm making a Yoda jack-o-lantern and dressing as Wonder Woman....a zombie WW hahahaha!!
Have a safe & happy Halloween!!

FOUR Challenges in ONE card! Squeeee!!!

Here's another Dare To Get Dirty challenge card! Can you believe it??? THREE posts in ONE WEEK??! SQUEEEEE!!!! I combined FOUR challenges into this one card. You can see details about DTGD over on Splitcoaststampers.com


I have a sweet Bichon Frise named Chibi, and I talk about her in a post, HERE. I found these cute stamps at vivalasvegastamps.com so I had to make a cute bichon card! My mom calls Chibi her "grand puppy" so cute!!

Stamps: Bichon and sentiment from vivalasvegastamps.com, Distressed Dots background stamp from SU; Ink: Stazon Black, Peach Parfait & Pear Pizzazz (both retired), Pretty in Pink; Paper: Watercolor paper, Newsprint DSP, Peach Parfait & Pear Pizzazz (retired); Accessories: XL Pennants Die, Decorative Label Punch, 2 3/8" Circle Punch, Scallop Edge punch, Corner Rounder punch, Aquapainter

 I've had so much fun doing these challenges! Now I'm in Dallas for Quakecon for the weekend so won't get to stamp anymore before the upload deadline on Monday...but it was fun while it lasted!!

Don't forget to RSVP for my class next Saturday! Details are over on my Stampin' Up site www.darthsunshine.stampinup.net !
Thanks for stopping by!

One Layer Flowers...

I love card challenges that are clean and simple. Too often challenges involve many layers etc and I find myself trying to outdo ANY previous card I've seen....and then it looks all too busy in the end! HA!
This Dare To Get Dirty Challenge was to make a one layer card with flowers. I embossed the roses from Fifth Avenue Floral with black embossing powder, then used my aquapainter with SU Rose Red and Melon Mambo ink to watercolor. Sentiment is from retired Warm Words. I dislike that SU retired this amazing stamp set. That rose is so gorgeous AND matches one of our current embossing folders! GAH!

Stamps: SU Fifth Avenue Flower, Warm Words; Ink: SU Rose Red and Melon Mambo reinkers; Paper: SU Glossy White; Accessories: SU Black embossing powder, Heat Tool, Aquapainter

 I love the effect of watercoloring on glossy paper...but man, is it hard to take a decent picture! My little orange light on the camera causes a little bit of orange to appear at the top of the card, and of course you can see the flash. The orange was more pronounced without a flash...so I endeded up taking several pictures before I finally settled on the one above. But I do like that the embossing came out pretty well.

Thanks for stopping by!

I love a Challenge!

I love a challenge....and this week is Splitcoaststampers' (SCS) Dare To Get Dirty (DTGD) week of Challenges!! The "Dirty Girls" of SCS are the best of the best papercrafters....so it's fun to play along as a fan club member! My friend Lydia gave us a challenge to make an all white card...sentiment optional...I opted for no sentiment:

Paper: SU Whisper White cardstock; Accessories: Big Shot, SU Butterfly Punch, SU Dots and Fancy Fans embossing folders, SU Embosslit Beautiful Wings

I'm having a stamp class on August 11th (with option to attend Monday night 8/13!) Details for the class and for upcoming STAMP CLUB (squeeeeee!!!) is on my Stampin' Up site www.darthsunshine.stampinup.net so take a look and then RSVP!
Hope to see you soon! Thanks for stopping by here!

Convention Day One!!!

Soooo excited for Day One of Stampin' Up's Convention--today is bag pickup and Make & Takes!!
Here's my swap....I'm making 96 of these...watercoloring cupcakes and yes I'm still working on them here in SLC!

My friend Lydia has live coverage of Convention over on her blog www.understandblue.blogspot.com so go check it out!