Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 1

Good Morning Everyone!

Guess what?! Sneak Peeks for the April release have started over at Taylored Expressions and I am so excited to peek two stamp sets that will be released this Thursday (April 8th) at 8am PST at the Taylored Expressions store! Today the Baker's Dozen are showing sneak peeks of two darling and awesome stamp sets called: CreativiTEA and Miniture Motifs. These stamp sets have SO many possibilities and are so versatile - I {heart} them!!!!

Project #1 - Have a Happy SereniTea Birthday

The first project that I created uses the awesome Tea Tins that will be available at the Taylored Expressions store on release day and it coordinates beautifully with this stamp set (all the stamps are sized so that they can be easily used to decorate it!) I created a little birthday giftset using the Tea Tin:

I love how much fun it was to decorate this little Tea Tin (giving Tea has never been so much fun!) Here is another picture of it - isn't the sentiment: "SereniTEA" soooo cute?!??! (there are more of these sentiments in this set!) I put EarlGrey Teabags in this tin (it holds 17 teabags comfortably - that is one tea tin that is filled with loads of serenitea! LOL!)

I LOVE that a Stamp in this set coordinates perfectly with the Labels 9 Nesties from Spellbinders - it makes cutting easier :) Here is a picture of the card that I made and it uses this super easy to use template for teacups created by Mel of Mel Stampz. I decorated this with some liquid pearls of course and popped up the flower that is in this stamp set onto the tea cup after coloring and cutting it out:

Project Details:

Stamps: CreativiTEA from Taylored Expressions

Papers: Basic Grey

Inks: Tuxedo Black from Memento

Accessories: teacup template by Mel, liquid pearls, threading punch, dimensionals, grosgrain ribbon, Labels 9 (spellbinders) and tea!

Project #2 - A Lego/Giraffe TeaParty :)

Every Sunday afternoon we have a tea party (of course these tea parties spontaneously happen at other times too) but its become our sunday afternoon tradition to have some tea (I make Peppermint tea with milk and sugar for the kids and strong homemade chai for us) and we have a little tea party. Growing up in India, chai and tea time is SUCH a part of life - things slow down in the afternoon and we relax with some chai and hot pakoras or other such snackies :) I love having these traditions with my wee ones - they also invite other "friends" to the tea party like Lego Men and Giraffes (I don't have the heart to tell my son, that his Lego men are actually holding beer mugs! he was so excited that they could have tea too!! lol!) So I printed out some pictures from our sunday tea to create this little scrapbook page (with all of our tea time guests - and yes, did you know there was pink Lego?)

Here are some closer pictures of our tea party:

I love that my daughter is giving her giraffe (who she sleeps with and whose name is Sweetie) some Chai - And our LegoMen are enjoying chai in her play teacup:

I love created 6x6 layouts because they perfectly fit into the Frame Your Imagination stand that Taylor has in the store. I love that your scrapped creations don't have to hide but can be displayed out - the kids loved this little page! It was so much fun to make it for them :)

Project Details:

Stamps: CreativiTEA from Taylored Expressions

Papers: Cosmo Cricket (Joy Ride)

Inks: Tuxedo Black from Memento and Bahama Blue

Accessories: Layout from Jen Tapler for Scrappy Sunday on PaperCraft Planet, dimensionals, circle punches from CM and SU! and archival pen and Frame Your Imagination Stand.

Project #3- Oh Darjeeling:

Tea and Chai evoke memories of having chai with my mother when it was raining and talking and watching the rain out the window. I am so excited that my mom is coming to visit this week and made this card for her and here is a preview of our tea party to come (pakoras to be made later :)

I created the background using the stamp set: Miniture Motifs - there are four background stamps that make it so easy to create your own background so easily! I love this one with all of the little dots (You know Me and DOTS!!! :) It matches the steam dots in the CreativiTEA set so beautifully and I love LOVE love the sentiment: Oh Darjeeling!!!!I can't wait to give this to my Darling Darjeeling Mother!!!

Project Details:

Stamps: CreativiTEA and Miniture Motifs from Taylored Expressions

Papers: Prism Paper (Classic Magenta) and Choice Buttercream paper from Taylored Expressions

Inks: Tuxedo Black from Memento and Bahama Blue

Accessories: white gel pen, dimensionals, ribbon from stash, bling, scallop and circle punch SU!

All of this makes me want a cup of chai! I can't wait to see what all CreativiTEA projects the Baker's Dozen Design Team has created today!!!!! I am excited to hop on over and check out these beautiful sneak peeks:

Alex Maldonado
Carolina Buchting
Charmaine Ikach
Donna Baker
Jackie Pedro
Jodi Collins
Karen Giron
Karen Motz
Melissa Sauls
Jami Sibley

Nancy McKinney ** our wonderful Illustrator

and of course Taylor VanBruggen

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!!

Please stop by tomorrow for Day 2 of Sneak Peeks!!!

Big hugs,
Sankari :)

Verve Project Parade - Fun With Flowers

Good Morning Everyone!

Have you been checking out all the beautiful creations on the Verve blog with the Project Parade that the Divas have been creating? They are simply beautiful! The theme for this month's project parade is "Fun With Flowers". This is such a fun theme because Julee really designs the coolest most unique flower imgaes that are elegant and beautiful!

I especially love the flowers in the "Feel the Sun" stamp set and I used that set to create today's project. I made this little gift set to give to one of my blogging friends who loves flowers and I wanted to share with her some of these flowers that are felt on wood that one of my friends gave me - so I thought I would create a little card for her to let her know how special she is and also create a little container to house these wooden flower accents.

Here is a close up of the card that I made: I stamped two of the big flower images and copic-fied them and then colored three of the smaller flowers and cut them out, curled them and popped them up with some dimensionls. I love this sentiment!

Here is a close up of the container both closed and opened: I created the same popped up flower accent and decorated with some liquid pearls and some ribbon).

And here is the container opened:

Project Details:

Stamps: "Feel the Sun" stamp set from Verve

Paper: Prism cardstock and handmade black paper

Ink: Tuxedo Black from Memento

Accessories: Pearls from Kaiser, liquid pearls (Adirondack "Lettuce"), ribbon from stash, Spellbinders, MS lace punch, dimensionals, copics, corner chomper and container re-purposed for this project.

I loved making this because it was made for a special friend and I loved coloring in these beautiful flowers :)

Please check out the Verve Blog for a chance to win some Verve yumminess and get your Verve ON!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

big hugs,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #73- Sense and Sensibility

Every Saturday, over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog, we pick a movie from which to create a card from. This week for our 73rd movie challenge we are featuring the movie Sense and Sensibility which was nominated for 7 Oscars and won for best screenplay adaptation by Emma Thompson, who also acts as Elinor Dashwood in the movie. This movie is simply a beautiful love story, not just of romance, but also the love of family and the love of sisterhood. If you haven't seen this movie yet, and you also love Jane Austen and period movies - you will absolutely love this movie!!! The challenge requirement for this movie is to create a CAS card (which stands for clean and simple because this movie has tones that are muted and simple and elegant lines - so have fun creating a card that is simple and clean and is inspired by the themes in this movie!!

I don't know how many times I have watched this movie - it must be over 50 times - its just beautiful to watch it again and again. I love this version with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant the best. My card was inspired by the dresses that Elinor wore - I love the dark rich blues and muted earth tones that she wore and I was imagining the flower as something that they would wear in their hats.. The sentiment is from the stamps set "Feel the Sun" and is from Verve stamps and reads: "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides" and is inspired by the scene where Edward declares his love for Elinor and the love that they both have felt for each other but have had to hide in their hearts due to different circumstances - finally has a chance to shine through - it is such a sweet moment and Emma Thompson's acting is so real in that moment - I get a wee bit teary eyed every time :) sigh...

Card Details:

Stamps: Feel the Sun stamp set from Verve stamps

Paper: Basic Grey and Prism cardstock

Ink: Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa from Memento

Accessories: Corner rounder, liquid pearls, pearl, circle punch, gel pen, ribbon from May Arts

I simply adore this movie, it just has so many sweet little love stories within it and I loved Alan Rickman as Col. Brandon - and the way he cares for Marianne just always touches my heart.

Please check out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog for more details and I hope you will play along with us to this beautiful movie!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Skipping Stones Design - Sadness Flies Away on the Wings of Time

Good Morning Everyone!

Today is my last day as a guest designer for the Skipping Stones Design stamp company :( and I have loved being part of this sweet group of amazingly talented ladies this month! Thank you Heather and DT! This last sketch is from Jami Bova and I loved the three square element of the sketch and thought to use this beautiful stamp set called Healing Wings by Skipping Stones Design . It is always hard to make sympathy cards for me - but this set has beautiful sentiments and images that makes that card making process easier. I love the three different butterfly images in this set and the sentiments that are in this set are simply beautiful - so sweet and encouraging.

I hope to make a few more of these cards and I love this sentiment: "Sadness flies away on the wings of time"....

Card Ingredients:

Paper: CC: Earth Love, Couture Cardstock for the card base

Stamps: Healing Wings by Skipping Stones design

Ink: Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa from Memento

Accessories: ribbon, bling are from stash, corner rounder, thick chunky glitter from Martha, EK Success punch

If you haven't already checked out Skipping Stones Design - please hop on by! Heather's stamps are so full of humor, sweetness and I am sure they will make you smile!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope your day is full of happiness!!!

Sending each of you sunshiney wishes!

big hugs!

Sanakri :)

12 Designers, 12 Spellbinder creations and 5 Winners

Hi Everyone,

I have been having internet problems this weekend - and I am so glad that it is finally up and working (although it was nice to drive to the coffeeshop and use the WiFi and have a latte). As much as I love technology, I also can't believe how dependent I have become on it - which becomes very apparent when it doesn't work! Ack! But, I am thankful that its back and today there is some exciting things going on! Today the Supernovas over at PaperCraft Planet are having a blog hop for one of our favorite products: Spellbinders!!! yipee!! We are showing off the new summer dies (yay! bring on the summer weather!) and hop along with us and you could end up winning one of the new sets!!!

I got to play with the super cute dies: Fresh Fruit Borderabilities Petite and I love these super cute little fruit (apple borders and strawberries) too cute. I made two cards - one using the apple die as a border and one using the apples as little cut outs. This first card uses Mercy's Sketch#66 and uses the apples as cut out and the sentiment You're So Sweet is from the Thankful Accents stamp set from Verve:

The second card uses the die as a border - I put little sheets of patterned paper behind the apples and printed out the sentiment: "You are the apple of my eye" :) I love these little apples all in a row:

We have hidden FIVE prizes among the Supernova blogs, but no one knows which one! So go ahead leave a comment for a chance to win! Blog comments will close on Wednesday at 6pm EST.

Adela Rossol

Lynn Mercurio

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Jen Tapler

Tammy Hershberger

Erika Martin

Lori Techler

Jessica Fick

Sankari Wegman (that's me :)))

Susanna Boyd

Amy Park

Check out the gallery of all of our projects here over at PaperCraft Planet! And check out all of the new labels and dies over at Spellbinders! I always drool looking at all of the yummy dies :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by !!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Let It Snow! (but not really till next winter :)))

Good Morning Everyone,

Today is Friday and that means there is another challenge from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog where this week's challenge is to have fun with embossing (heat embossing, light embossing, embossing folders, faux embossing, etc.) As much as I love getting the glittery embossing powder all in my hair and forehead for the whole day, I went with the embossing folder for today's card creation.

I made this using the Christmas Joy Borders & Centers Oval 1-3/4" x 2-5/16" stamp set from JustRite Stampers. I LOVE this little penguin and as much as I love the sentiment "let it snow" - I really hope that we have seen our last snowfall and that it doesn't snow till winter :) I used the one of the cute oval borders in this cute stamp set and then adorened it with punched out snowflakes and bling. The cutie penguin was stamped six times and then colored, cut out and then popped up on dimensionals :) Here is another picture from the side:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Choice Snow White from Taylored Expressions, Bazzill basics (blue shades)

Stamps: Christmas Joy Borders & Centers Oval 1-3/4" x 2-5/16" stamp set from JustRite Stampers

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black and Bahama Blue

Accessories: corner rounder, divine swirl Embossing folder, glaze pens, scalloped border from corner rounders, bling from Kaiser, ribbon from TE

I seriously love being part of this awesome group - its been fun to create a little bit of the holidays all year long (and that way, I get to use up my papers so that I can buy more papers without feeling any guilt :))))) Check out all of the embossed beauties over at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog and we hope that you will play along with us!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Center of Attention Product Spotlight - Metal Squares

Good Morning Everyone,

Today, half of the Baker's Dozen and I are showing projects created with these awesome craft metal sheets that come in aluminum and copper (they come in 8 sheets that are 4" x 4" - which is a ton of metal yumminess for an awesome value!) I have to say that I love these craft metal sheets! It is such a fun way to add some texture and uniqueness to your card. They are very thin, which allows you to emboss on them, cut them out and even bend them - all of which makes it very easy to use. You can use them as a place to stamp the main image on or sentiment on, or you can also make it as a background for your card or even bend it to create a little embellishment for your card or scrapbook page. This is also a great product to have for making "man" cards :).

For this first card, I cut out the aluminum metal sheet with my nesties and then embossed it and used it as a background. The ingredients in this card comes from the February Key Ingredients kit (you can click here to learn more about these wonderful kits). I used the sentiment "Your friendship is blessing to me" from the Branching Out stamp set to create this card for a very special person who inspires me every single day - she is such a sweet blessing in my life and I loved making this card because I was making it for her :) I kept the palette black and white with a pop of green and embossed the silver sheet to create a shiny swirly background for the yummy flower:For this next card, I used the stamp set: You're My Hero which is part of the Giving Tree program that Taylor has created, where every quarter a stamp set is released, with some of the proceeds going to benefit a different charity. This stamp set was released earlier this month and goes to benefit the CureSearch organization, which unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through their mission to cure childhood cancer. You can read more about the inspiration behind this stamp set here on Taylor's blog.

I used the awesome papers from the Rock Star Key Ingredients kit and stamped the sentiment You Rock with Stazon black ink onto the metal sheet. The silver embellishment was created from the Easter Blessings stamp set (I stamped the image twice and then cut out the flower and popped it up with dimensionals and curled the edges - I love that this is thin enough to do that!)
Here is how the embellishment looks from the side (I added a little bling to the center):


I had so much fun working with these awesome metal sheets! Can't wait to make more projects!!! Please check out these amazing ladies who have created some amazing works of art with these awesome craft metal sheets!

Taylor VanBruggen
Jeanie Witmer
Carolina Buchting
Karen Motz
Alex Maldonado
Jackie Pedro

Also, from now through the 28th of March- these metal sheets will be on SALE! (they will be 15% off) over at the Taylored Expressions store) so if you haven't tried it out yet - now is a great time to check it out - or stock up on it!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
(Are you ready for Friday as much as I am??!)
Big hugs!
Sankari :)

Day 2 - March Mega Blog hOp

Good Morning Everyone!

Today starts Day 2 of the JustRite Mega March Blog Hop - and seriously - it is WAY mega - not only are there 88 Designers participating in this 3 day blog hop extravaganza, but there are a TON and I mean a TOn of prizes that you could win! Each day there will be FIVE shopping sprees - and no one knows where the prizes will be! Each day will also hold FIVE Mystery Blog Candy Prizes with a total retail value of $600 (WOW!!). The five mystery blogs will be selected each day of the hop and randomly allocated to each of the shopping sprees - and for your chance to win: Simply leave a little love (a comment) on each of the designer's blog starting over at the JustRite blog!! Comments will remain open for three days and all the winners will be listed on the JustRite blog on Friday! If you missed all the yummy creations yesterday over at the JustRite Inspiration Blog, you can click here to see all of the Day 1 of the blog hop details!

Today, I feel sooo completely honored to be amongst these Rockstar designers - WOW! And stay tuned for tomorrow as the blog party continues with more designers and more fabu creations! For today's blog hop, I created a little giftset using the Breath of Spring Borders & Centers 2 (1/4" x 3-1/16") stamp set and the Loving Thoughts Centers 1-5/8" from January/February release from JustRite Stampers. My friend had a leftover bag template that she had left over from a birthday party (that I think she cut out from a Cricut cartridge), So, I used it to create this little set:

Here is picture of the card - I first stamped the flower images (twice - one for the card and one for the bag) and then colored them (or copic-fied them :) and then cut them out. I stamped the oval border and cut that out too. And then popped the flowers on the orange circle center with dimensionals and popped up the whole thing with dimensionals onto the card and bag.

One of my favorite accessories are liquid pearls and I used it to decorate around the card and around the sentiments, ovals, hearts and circles in the card and on the bag. I love these beautiful flowers and I love the versatility of the way you can combine the borders centers and sentiments in all of the JustRite Stamps.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Prism cardstock, Bazzill cardstock, Basic Grey

Stamps: Breath of Spring Borders & Centers 2 (1/4" x 3-1/16") and Loving Thoughts Centers 1-5/8" from JustRite Stampers

Ink: Memento Inks in the colors: Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa and Ladybug Red

Accessories: corner rounder, white gel pen, red grosgrain ribbon, Recollections bling, Adirondack dimensional pearls and circle punches.

I used the SCS sketch for today for this card and had so much fun creating this little giftset :) Please hop on over to see these amazing creations and for a ton of chances to win!!! Check out all of these chances to win:

Today during the JustRite Mega March Blog Hop (Day Two) JustRite and our sponsors will be giving away the following five prizes:

· $200 JustRite Shopping Spree

· $100 Spellbinders Shopping Spree

· $100 Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Spree, and

· Two additional $100 JustRite Shopping Sprees!

Have fun hopping! I know I am off to hop now too!!!

THank you so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

JustRite Inspiration Blog

Sharon Harnist

Sankari Wegman (that's me :) yay :)

Marianne Walker

Michelle Wooderson

Linda Duke

Barb Schram

Eva Dobilas

Liz Weber

Jeanne Streiff

Lori Craig

Sharon Johnson

Michelle Woerner

Sherry Cheever

Keri Lee Sereika

Lauren Meader

Michele Boyer

Lucy Abrams

Janine Blackwelder

Edna Morrisedie

Deb Saaranen

Melody Rupple

Charmaine Ikach

Michelle Giraud

Amy Crockett

Lydia Fiedler

Kelly Landers

Amber Hight

Margie Higuchi

Mary Pfaff

Debbie Seyer

Skipping Stones Design - Happy Snowman

Happy Tuesday Everyone,

Hope you had a great weekend! Our weekend ended up with me getting a little under the weather, which is not so good when the weather outside is starting to be so bright, beautiful and sunny - no fun at all!

But speaking about fun - here is a fun card using the awesome sketch from Jami Bova for Skipping Stones Design. I used the new stamp set with the cutest snowmen with both hilarious and awesome sentiments - the sentiment on this card reads: "Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled" - I love that! (there is another sentiment in this set that simply cracks me up - but I will save that for another time ;)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Bazzil, American Crafts: MerryMint

Stamps: Skipping Stones Design

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa

Accessories: scalloped square punch cut in half, snowflake punch from MS, ribbon from stash, glue dots, spellbinders, copics, sliver stickles, rhinestones from Want2Scrap and button from Summer buttons from Bag O'Buttons.

Please hop on over to the Skipping Stones Design blog and check out all the wonderful cards using this sketch! Heather who is the owner of Skipping Stones, designs such awesome sentiments that are both hilarious and beautiful for her gorgeous stamps!

I hope you guys are having a wonderful day!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #71 - 13 Going On 30!

Hi Everyone!

Every Saturday, my friend Brooke and I run the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge where we pick a movie and then create a card inspired by it! This week for our 71st challenge, we picked the movie: 13 Going on 30! starring Jennifer Garner :) I remember watching this movie in the theater when it came out and I loved watching it because I grew up in the 80's - so all of the references, music, and little "jokes" were something that I totally got. I had to sing along to Pat Benatar's Love is a Battlefiled song - wow did that bring back memories!

One of my favorite parts of this movie was when she asked her mother if there was something that she wished she could do over again - like if she had made some mistake and wished she could re-do it. Her mother gave her such a beautiful answer I thought - which was that those moemnts give us an opportunity to figure out how to make things right. This movie I felt was about sometimes what we think we wish for might not always be what we really want and its about a chance to be true to ourselves.

Its an interesting thing to look at our lives sometimes - There are moments that I wish I could re-do - and moments that I wish I could re-live, but I don't ever think I would go back and change anything about how I got to where I am right now. I love the journey that I have been on and its always amazing to me how the the twists and turns of life bring new possibilities, new friendshis, new ways of understanding your self, new ways of being present to yourself and those around you. More than anything right now - I am grateful for my friends and family - especially when things have been rough - it is a blessing to have that connection and support. Speaking of friendships, my card was inspired by the sweet friendship between her and her childhood best friend Matt:

Card Ingredients:

Cardstock: Snow White Choice cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Stamps: Stampology and Making Memories

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: EK success, corner rounder, star punch from CM, Spellbinders, liquid pearls, rhinestones from Want2Scrap

She later realizes that it is Matt whom she has always loved but never gave him a chance. Their childhood friendship is so sweet and he truly sees her for who she is - a wonderful, happy, caring and beautiful person. Sometimes, we can take for granted our friendships and our family because you know they will always be there for you, but it is so nice to make sure they know how much you appreciate them! This card is for one of my best friends and even though we have grown a bit far apart over space and time - she will always be one of my BFFs :)

I hope you are having a lovely and wonderful start to your weekend! We got hit with an end of March snowfall - so I think its time for one last sledding outing that ends with some hot cocoa goodness!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! Stop by the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog for more details and I hope you have a chance to play along!!!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

CSAYL#44 - Wings of Happiness

Good Morning Everyone,

Every friday over at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog, there is a fun new challenge to help inspire and keep us motivated all year long with making holiday cards and I can't tell you how much I am so happy to be part of it... especially as the weather gets warmer and it is hard to pull out all the snowy goodness of craft winterland :) Today, for the 44th challenge, Debbie has come up with a wonderful inspiration that is kind of springish for our challenge today - which is to create a card based on the pic that a) uses the colors in the photo, b) has lots of white space and c) has a bird! LOve that! And isn't this inspiration picture soooo lovely!?! I {heart} Pottery Barn - as much as I wish our house looked like the catalog, the reality is that it wouldn't last more than 20 seconds before my kids made it umm... "lived in"... Here is my card based on this inspiration picture using one of my fave images from the Wings of Joy stamp set from Taylored Expressions. - and it was really nice to be able to keep a lot of white space :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Choice Snowwhite cardstock and Prism cardstock Taylored Expressions

Stamps: Wings of Joy from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento Ladybug Red and Tuxedo Black

Accessories: liquid pearls, corner rounder, may arts ribbon, spellbinders, cuttlebug embossing folder, snowflake punch from MS, rhinestones from Want2Scrap.

I loved using this sweet inspirational picture and am glad to add another card to the pile - yay :) If you have a chance to play along please check out all the details at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog and see all the lovely cards for this week's challenge!

Happy Friday! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Hope Your Birthday RockS!!

Hi Everyone,

It finally feels like Spring is here! And I have been spring cleaning - I can't believe how the change in weather can inspire me to clean (because really, that is not what I would rather do!) Yesterday when I was cleaning out my craft corner (which is stuffed to the gills right now!) I came across this fun MVP paper from WRMemory Keepers and I immediately stopped cleaning and sat down to make a card :) I based this on Taylor's Sketch Challenge #104 and used the newly released You're My Hero stamp set to create this.

I love using this set because part of the sales from this stamp set benefit the CureSearch which unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through their mission to cure childhood cancer.

Our niece's birthday is next week and she loves American Idol and all things musical (dancing, singing, being in the school band, etc.) so this was the perfect stamp set for her birthday card - and the only thing that I hope is that it is "cool" enough for her :) - she is going to be 15! Yikes!

Well, I am off to keep cleaning (yes, I can't believe I wrote that sentence myself!!!! LOL!) but first a cup of "energy" :) Hope your day is springalicious!!!

Big hugs,

Sankari :))