Friday Night Challenge

Okay here is my very first Hanna Stamp challenge. Check it out here. This is the one I did.

I first stamped my Hanna on cardstock. Then with a very small flat paint brush I painted each portion of the Hanna the color I wanted. For the colored portion I used making memories paint. I then went back with my CTMH pearl paint mixed with twilight reinker and sparkled up some of the areas. When all the paint was dry I reinked my Hanna and stamped her again to get a nice image. I did the same for the puddle. That is one thing I just love about these clear stamps. To finish it off I added some painted and glittered brads and BOOM done! The paper is also CTMH from the let's get together line.

For Kristen

Hi all, my friend Kristen wanted me to post a Mother's day card I did for a make and take using the pearl paint, here it is. If you like the stamp set it is CTMH March stamp of the month and there are only a few more days to get it.

Crop For Kids - Abigayle's Place

Here is the information on Laura's next crop. Visit her site HERE to read about what she's about and what type of stuff she's done before.

Crop For Kids!
Benefiting “Abigayle's Place” who provides housing and support for needy moms-to-be

Ticket Crop
Saturday, April 19, 2008
10:00 am -9:00 pmTrinity Lutheran Church in Utica @ the NE corner of Hall Rd. & Van Dyke
$20 + 1 pajama/clothing item size 0-2T includes: .
All-you-can-eat lunch spread .
Coffee, Pop, Bottled Water & Goodies .
Dinner .
Generous cropping space .
10 tickets .
Hourly Giveaways .
Use of Creative Memories tools/punches/cutters compliments of Dawn Simon .
On-site store will be www.simplystitched.org (Simply Stitched) & www.chipboardalbums.com (Chipboard Albums & More!) .
Make-n-take compliments of Kelly Kuehn from Close to My Heart .
Product samples compliments of Trish Ethridge of Tastefully Simple
Collect tickets for the chance to win 1 of 10 prizes including the 3 grand prizes:
1. Scrapbook Weekend Getaway for 2 valued at more than $300.00!
2. Genuine signature COACH purse worth hundreds!
3. Scrapbook MEGA Basket filled with hundreds of dollars in product!
Want to earn more tickets to increase your chances of winning?
. Early Bird Special: The first 25 croppers to register earn 5 EXTRA tickets! . For each additional clothing item you bring, earn 10 more tickets the day of the crop -NO LIMIT . For each baby care item (lotion, wash) earn 5 more tickets the day of the crop -NO LIMIT . Paid registration by March 15 earns you 2 extra tickets . Refer a friend who has never been to one of my crops and you both earn 2 tickets! NO LIMIT-(for example: Refer 5 friends, earn 10 additional tickets and each friend earns 2) . Show your support by wearing pj's, earn 2 tickets Plus more chances to earn tickets the day of the crop!
Questions? Call Laura @(586)323-3196

Jana's Tip, My Challenge

Jana just posted a tip on her blog about making fuzzy brads! Go check it out Here, of course I had to add in my own little tip. You can always use CTMH Liquid glass (or any brand you like!) on any of your brads to add sparkles, fuzz or whatever you want. Thanks Jana for sharing your tip and getting us all talking. I think we need to start a challenge, lets all make something with Jana's fun new brad tip. Post your link in my comments (or email them to me) and lets see what type of wild brads we can come up with!

Kind of hard to see the fuzz with my camera but it's there I promise!

CTMH Pearl Paint Tip

I bought this stuff and just love it! Paint is so much fun anyway, you all know how much I love happy sparkly things so why not put it all together on a scrapbook page or card!

The first step is : Get your hands on some of this fun paint!

Once you've found this awesome stuff lets put it to work. Pick out your paper and a darker ink choice (so it will show through the paint) I used Close to my Heart's cocoa brown. I then stamped my image on the paper

Then I took paint and spread a thin layer over the image, making sure I gave it just enough color to really shine but not to much that I made it Gooey.

I let the paint dry. The CTMH paint dried really quickly so there was not a whole lot of waiting. Once it dried I started to color in my image with my CTMH markers. I used slightly darker colors then what I wanted because over the paint it looks lighter.

Once my Image was done. I cut it out and added it to a card.

I love the extra little POP it adds to my image and my card. I can't wait to use this on my cupcake stamps!

Another great idea for this stuff: Add some reinker to it and then paint over paper flowers for your very own bling bloom! Or paint over chipboard letters for so shiny titles. This is so much fun I think I am going to scrap right now... It is spring break (meaning it's time to stay in my PJ's and stay home all day! If only those two older kids would take a nap too, then I'd really be able to play.)

Happy Belated Easter

It's been a long week in the Kuehn house hold. We left for Grand Rapids on Friday... in the snow...five hours later we showed up at my parents house. Where the boys screamed and cried because they are scared of my parents very big dog (really they are scared of all dogs at the moment...I will not name the "mean" puppy who started this...but you know who you are!) Finally Jake was banished to the basement and things started to settle down, well, as much as settled down ever happens at my parents house. My mom is one of those people who just creates craziness. I can't even explain it to you but much to my mothers dismay "things" are just always happening to her. Ten o'clock rolls around and Matt and Dad decide to go out for a drink (a much need drink after that drive).

Bed time comes around 12 and finally we have everyone asleep.

The next morning the boys head out to Todd's house (Traverse City Area). Two hours later the girls (and Peyton) head up there. Another two hours in the car. We arrive and once again the boys are "scared" of the dog. More tears and carrying Peyton around because there is no way he is touching the floor. Poor puppy gets sent outside (once again thank you unnamed puppy!) I am getting pretty sick of this "puppy" crying. Saturday rolls on with not a lot of excitement...remember we are in the middle of no where. We all go to bed in various places in the house and look forward to the morning.

Sunday comes and the morning quickly goes by with Easter Baskets, Breakfast and the Egg hunt. We pack up the car and are off again. 4 hours later we pull into our driveway and I have never been so happy to be home. 11 hours in the car over less then 48 hours is not my idea of fun. Not to mention more snow! I really need a vacation! I don't recall a time when I have liked snow as little as I do right now.

With my complaining done through all of this I did almost finish a sweater ( I should have had it done with all the driving!) and once the gift is given I'll post a picture...it makes me want to have another little girl though! So sweet. I am also going to post some of my scrappy pages and a fun How to tip on Close to my Hearts Pearl paint.

What are best friends made of?

Apparently in my case Sprinkles cupcakes.

Yes, got some. I finally got to dive into the cutest cupcakes in the world. It's true they are the original thing. How did this happen you ask? Who was kind enough to send me sprinkles cupcakes and how in the world did they make it to Michigan still looking (and tasting) so perfect.

As many of you know this was a busy weekend for us Delta Tau girls. One of our very own is getting hitched and this weekend was the shower and girls night in celebration. My BFF (who left me for LA) is standing up in the wedding with me and flew in for the festivities. So Saturday I was sitting at our school crop talking and selling my CTMH stuff and having a good old time when in walks Amber with a brown bag. I am so excited to see her I don't even look we hug and then she holds it up....It's sprinkles cupcakes all the way from LA. I was shocked. Not in a million, billion, trillion years did I think that anyone would fly cupcakes all the way to Michigan to see me! Those four little things were just the loveliest things I have ever seen. Tears swelled up in my eyes as I looked from the box to her. How could such a simple thing bring such joy and love all at the same time. Once I got myself together a little I ran around the Gym showing off my cupcakes and my wonderful friend who had hauled them through security to get them to me! From the adorable store in Beverly Hills to LAX to DTW to Twelve oaks mall to St. Thomas. Those cupcakes came a long way to meet me and when we bit into them it was worth every mile (all 2000 of them!)

So here is a big (tear filled once again) thank you to the person in this world that loves me so much that she thought up all on her own to bring me my cupcakes.

PS they were 100 times better then the ones I made! It was HEAVEN!