Back To School and Birthday Bash!

Hey, everyone!

Not only did Javan turn 3 yesterday (sob)...

...but my sweet baby girl started THIRD grade!

When we signed her up, I took a picture of her by the door of her new classroom. She is on the other side of the building now... the side I think of for BIG kids! Oh the waterworks are on! My goodness! I am so thankful that she has done so well in school, never had any major problems and her school work just seems to come so easy for her. She has been blessed with wonderful, caring teachers and I am so thankful for that! I am praying she has another wonderful school year!

I made a bag tag for her backpack. I wanted to make her something personalized and special just for her! She was blessed with a brand new back pack full of school supplies from our neighbor's church. They even gave Javan one!!! She loves the pink backpack!! I chose some black cardstock and cut it to fit the inside of the name badge. I printed her name, grade and who her teacher is on white cardstock then cut it out to layer onto the black. I took a retired stamp set from The Angel Company that I absolutely love and stamped it in Claret Palette Hybrid ink. Then I took my glue pen and added some Prisma Glitter from TAC. It is so sparkly and pretty! Then I added some black faux rhinestones and some ribbon to jazz it up a little. She likes it.

I raided my "Items To Alter" shelf and found a binder clip, two coasters, sticky notes, jumbo paper clip, and an RSVP pen. I used More Mimi designer paper (from The Angel Company) to decorate the post-it note holder, pen and bookmark. I love this double-sided paper!
I packaged it up for Kadesia to give her teacher on her first day of school. I hope you like these fun little projects! Have a great day!

Angel Hugs,

StampTACular Tuesday Challenge

Hey, everyone!

It's StampTACular Tuesday and that means it's time for another Challenge using only TAC stamps. Our theme is not WELCOME SPRING like I said yesterday, because that was actually last week's theme! This week our Challenge theme is Easter so Christina and I made Easter cards. She showed me a sketch HERE that I used for inspiration. Here is my card:
I used Kaleidoscope Brites paper from The Angel Company and the two stamp sets are Trendy Greetings and Fantasy Flourishes. I used Noir Palette Hybrid ink for the sentiment and Reflection Blue Palette Hybrid ink for the flourish. I hope you like what you see. Thanks for checking out my blog today. Be sure you head over to Christina's blog to see what she has made. You'll be so glad you did!!! I'll see you here tomorrow when I share my scrapbook page for the Scripture Challenge.

Hugs,

FunShop FUN!

Hey, everyone!

I am so sorry I have been absent from the blog world a little bit this week. I know that many of you like to check in each day to see what projects I have been working on. I have been really busy but it's been a good kind of busy!!! LOL I think I mentioned here before that I have been organizing my craft space downstairs and it's coming along so well! It feels great to be able to find what I need in no time at all! I love it! It's been hard work and it takes a LOT of time but I am getting there and I am very excited. I may post some pictures this weekend to show you my progress.

I have some fun cards to share with you! I think they are fun anyway! LOL So, let me just start off by saying that Saturday afternoon I went to Carolyn's house for a FunShop. Carolyn is Shelly's mom (Hi, Shelly!!) and so it was a lot of fun to see everyone again and meet one of Shelly's sisters that I hadn't met before and her father, too. Carolyn has a beautiful home and made some yummy food! It was snowy and slick with ice and rain mixed in some but we all made it safe to the FunShop and back home again! I want to show you the hostess gift and card I made Carolyn. She really liked it so that made me really happy!

This is just a small basket made from the Winterberry paper pack that I love so much! The handle is the same paper with a white cardstock base. The chick is from the HEY CHICK stamp set and is stamped in Burnt Sienna, colored in with my yellow Tombow marker from the Brights collection and then I added a little bit of yellow Fun Flock to make the chick fluffy! I used my Clever Lever Scalloped Square punch with Premium White Cardstock and added yellow doodle dots with my Stardust Glitter Gel Pen.
This is the waterfall card I made Carolyn to thank her for being the hostess. She loves pink and so I tried to go all out with the pink paper! This is also from the Winterberry paper! The stamp is Fantasy Flourishes with Prisma Glitter added for more bling! I stamped it in Belle Rose first then adhered the glitter! The "pull" sentiments are from the Interact stamp set. This is a really fun set!
This is the card, opened some to show how the waterfall card looks when you pull it down! Carolyn really liked this! Yay!!! I hope you do, too!

Carolyn wanted to make a St. Patrick's Day card and an Easter card for her party so I came up with two cards that were really simple and easy to make more than one since she wants to make cards and give them out. Here is the Easter card I made to demonstrate:

The yellow patterned paper is from the Gentle Beginnings set. I love, love, love that paper! I bought it to use with baby papers but I have used it for so many other things since! The "Easter" sentiment is one of our current Gift With Purchase stamps you get FREE with any $30 purchase. The chick and "Peep, Peep" sentiment is stamped in Burnt Sienna. The "corn" is using the Speckles stamp set and Sunflower ink. Then I added my yellow Stardust Glitter Gel Pen to each speckle for some bling. This chick got some yellow Fun Flock also. It was so much fun to see everyone trying to use the Fun Flock for the first time! My, what fuzzy chicks! LOL I love it!!!

I know it's kind of blurry but this is a close-up so you can see the glitter corn, LOL, and the fuzzy chick!

This is the St. Patrick's Day card I made to demonstrate:
I stamped the 4 leaf clover from the Celtic Images stamp set. The horseshoes I stamped on the Willoughby cardstock using the Wild West stamp set in VersaMark. I used the green Stardust Glitter Gel Pen for the clovers and the horseshoes. The white doodle dots on the black scalloped circle were made with my Extreme White Gel Pen. I added some Prisma Glitter to the main 4 leaf clover image. I think it came together well! It was so fun to see everyone's ideas on how to make this card! So fun!!
I didn't add a sentiment but I will later! The GWP stamp we have in our catalog right now would work great, but so would the Trendy Greetings stamp set. Of course, you could always make your own!

I had some kits left over from the FunShop because I always try to make extras. Kadesia asked me if she could make a card, so how could I say no? LOL She had so much fun and I think she did a really great job! My daughter just got accepted into a new pen pal group over at SplitCoastStampers and she already has one pen pal that she loves dearly so you know who will be getting some of these cards! This is my daughter's version of this card for her pen pals:

She didn't want hers to open like a book, she said. She wanted it to open a "different way" so this is her version! I think it is really sweet!
She loves that glitter, can you tell? LOL

There's one more thing to share with you....a fun surprise! The Angel Company has come up with a fun new idea for Angels and our customers! I am so excited to share this with you all. You can get FREE downloads to print and enjoy! I love it!!!! Take a look at what you can download right now...aren't these awesome?

You can click on the photo above to download these fun candy bar wrappers! They are combining my two favorites: Dove Chocolates and St. Patrick's Day! What could be better? LOL Go download yours now and have fun with it! Let me know if you use yours soon! I want to see!!! Thanks for coming to hang out with me today! I am excited about the new March specials. You may see them posted on other Angel blogs if you get the chance to browse around! There are some really fun stamps and specials coming your way and I can hardly wait!!! Oh, and don't forget! The person who showed me the most love this month will get a really special BLOG CANDY prize! I will post a picture of the prize along with the winner's name on February 28.

Hugs,

Pretty in Pink

Hey, everyone!
I wanted to show you a card I made with the Fantasy Flourishes stamp set. I added Prisma Glitter to each flourish. This stamp set is currently $7.98 during The Angel Company's promotion through January 26. The card below is created using only 2 of the six stamps in this set. Please let me know if you would like to place an order. Many have told me they just couldn't pass up such a great deal. They're right! Now is the time to get those sets you have on your wish list but don't wait long because the special ends soon!

Supplies:
Premium White Cardstock V-290
pink cardstock
white ribbon
Belle Rose ink TT-193
White Xtreme Gel Pen F-169
Prisma Glitter A-287
glue pen
sticky gem

Thanks for letting me be your Angel. I look forward to serving you this year!!

Hugs,

First Card This Year!

Hey, everyone!

Did you have fun ringing in the New Year? I'm a home body...I would rather be at home than anywhere else and when I am surrounded by family and friends...well what could be better? So, for New Year's Eve this year we decided to just play some board games at home and anyone that wanted to could come and hang out but we weren't really doing much. Paul ended up going to bed with a fever and not feeling well long before midnight. So here is a picture of us together. We don't have a lot of photos together because I do not like to get my picture taken at all.Arnold and Hannah came over for a while to play games. It was so much fun. We laughed so much! We were having such a great time that we didn't even realize it was the NEW YEAR until we heard the fireworks outside! LOL Before they left, I took a picture of them with my kids. Kadesia and Javan adore Hannah and Arnold so they were very excited about their visit!
I make a lot of cards and then give them to my brother who then gives them to Hannah. She loves my cards. THANK YOU, HANNAH!!! My brother told me he has run out of cards for Hannah, so we just can't have that. I have been wanting to make this card for a while now. I saw a dress in the kids section with a print on it that reminded me of a stamp set from The Angel Company called Fantasy Flourishes (T-2875) so I decided to try to create a card with that same design idea. I also used the Basic Birds (T-2636) stamp set. I added some of my bargain ribbon, a tag made with my Sizzix machine and some embellishments I had in my stash.

I hope you like this card! The good news is that if you want to make this card, too, but don't have those stamps, you can order them anytime from Jan. 6-26 for HALF PRICE because they are T-coded stamps! How cool is that?

Thanks for stopping by today to see my card. Be sure you check back again soon! Next Tuesday will be the first StampTACular Tuesday Challenge and you won't want to miss it!!

Hugs,
Bridgett

New news!!

Hey, everyone!

Today I have felt better, so I am really thankful for that. I am still improving but am so much better than before! Thank you all for being so kind and wishing me a speedy recovery! I have a few announcements to share with you all that I am pretty excited about! I hope you will be, too!!

DOUBLE DIPS

If you thought it was awesome to get double benefits this month, then you will be really excited to learn that The Angel Company has extended their Double Dip promotion through December 3! It's an excellent time to have a FunShop, place an order or become a new Angel!!! You can read all about the Double Dips promotion here.

HOSTESS 3 FOR 3 CLUB

I want to thank Teresa, Dawna and Jama for joining my Hostess Club this time! Teresa earned double benefits this month with our Double Dip special! Ladies, your order just arrived today (Thursday) so I will be getting your orders to you soon. November hostess is Dawna. Orders will be due by November 15, but I will place the order sooner if you all are ready!

BIND-IT-ALL MACHINE
Think Pink! That's right, The Angel Company is now offering the brand new and IMPROVED Bind-It-All machine. It's in a new color: pink!!! The new design is able to punch through thicker material, and has an extension on the paper guide bar and plate. During our Double Dip promotion you get TWO items of your choice in the whole catalog at HALF PRICE with a qualifying order, so please let me know if you want to order today!

STAMP OF THE MONTH

You have one more week left to order the October Stamp of the Month with any $30 purchase. Be sure you let me know if you want to place an order. In addition to the SOTM, you will earn TWO FREE GWP STAMPS with every $30 purchase!

You can see our new stamp sets from our fall supplement when you click on the photo:

Since I haven't shared a project with you in a little while, I will leave you with a card I made using chalk, Treasure Seeker stamp set (TAC) and Fantasy Flourishes (TAC). The paper is TAC retired Mulberry Meadow. I was inspired by Dawn's card here. Thanks for looking!

Hugs,