Whisker Graphics Kit and Kaboodle

Hi friends!  I hope you are doing well.  We are ok.  If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you know that Brady just had major dental surgery yesterday.  He is doing fine now but we are just in stress mode around here.  Hopefully it will lessen soon.

Today, I have a SUPER fun announcement/item to show you.  You might know that I am the DT and social media coordinator for Whisker Graphics.  Well, today is super exciting for me because it was the first time that I got to give input on a product (well, kind of a product.)  Whisker Graphics announced their new line Kit and Kaboodle which I helped with.  The Kit and Kaboodle is a crafting kit that you can customize AND you receive 20% off the retail price for buying the items bundled together!  The first kit is the Halloween Kit and Kaboodle.  Check out this awesome loveliness!  Swoon!

Part of the reason this kit is so cool is that it's customizable.  The pictures you see above are just some of the options you can pick.  There are 3 different kinds of Divine Twine to choose from, different Bitty Bags, different Petite Stickys, different tags.  While the general idea of the kit is there, you can pick which patterns best suit your taste.  And this is a straight purchase, not a subscription.  If you get this, please show me pictures of what you make!  I'm SO excited about this idea and I really hope everyone likes it as much as I do!

Have a great day friends!

Paper Made Bakery

Hi friends! FUN exciting announcement time!!!! I made the Paper Made Bakery design team!!! YAY!!!! I could not be any happier about this! It is such a great company with awesome kits! The value is AMAZING! The owner is sweet as can be and the design team is super talented! Check out the Paper Made Bakery Blog to see who else is on this fabulous team!

Ohhh, and go like the Paper Made Bakery Facebook Page, there's all sorts of fun giveaways over there!

Fun Announcement!

****For my Ribbon Carousel Challenge post, please scroll down!****

Eeeeeeek! Did you see THIS POST?!? I get to guest design for Your Next Stamp for the month of September! I'm so excited! I've been a fan since the very beginning and I got to meet Karen at CHA-W and she's super nice! I LOVE supporting companies who are just kind and wonderful!

Here's the card I made to be posted on the Your Next Stamp Blog today. :D Miya from China is my FAVORITE Your Next Stamp! I love that YNS offers a World Kids collection! It is awesome to see all different ethnicities being represented in stamps! I colored Miya with Copics and added a couple different color Stickles to make a color that matched the patterned paper. The paper is Imaginisce Garden Party.

Have a great day everyone!

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

I've been sitting on this news for about a month now and I want to EXPLODE!! I'm so glad that I get to tell you today!!

My friend Amy Castellano emailed me and told me that she was opening a BRAND NEW store called Caffinated Cropper (misspelling intentional.) ;) AND she wanted me to be on the design team! WOW! You could have knocked me over with a feather!

Amy has put together an AMAZING kit for you all to kick off the opening of her store. It's called The Beeez Kneez! And let me tell you, the name doesn't lie! Here's a list of the contents that Amy sent:

"The Beans"

Paper 6x6 3 each/ 27 sheets total

Basic Grey Origins Parrafin

Basic Grey Origins Cucumber

Jillibean Soup diced Tomatoes

JIllibean Soup Head of Cabbage Cabbage

Jenni Bowlin Lemonade

Jenni Bowlin Green Crosshatch

Bazzill smoothies cardstock

Pineapple Bliss

Kiwi Crush

Chocolate Cream

The "Whipped Cream"

Pink Paislee Glittler Limeade Chipboard Alpha

EAD Designs Exclusive 8x8 sheet of vinyl rub ons (bee sentiments)

3/4 yard yellow pom pom trim

1 yd copper irridescent ribbon

1yd green grosgrain ribbon

1 yd brown hemp

1 jar of cinnamon stickles

1 set of Nikki Silivis willowbee stamps

1 package Jillibean Soup Kraft 8 cards and envelopes

strip of 20 Kaisercraft pearls

2 handmade dictionary paper flowers

2 4 inch paper doilies

1 vinyl bookmark cover

3 glassine envelopes ( these are about 2x3 )

6 Jenni Bowlin vintage sew on buttons 3 green/3 cream

4 Jenni Bowlin antique ecru rhinestone pins

2 asst shaped ribbon brackets )there are squares,rectangles, ovals, hearts each kit will get a big one and a small one asst shapes

1 Tim Holtz fragments acrylic tile

10 assorted handpunched bumble bees and crowns

Wow! That's a lot of stuff! Can you believe it? Amy has it for you at an AMAZING price! You can purchase it directly off her blog right now. She has a website coming too! (Here are some more pictures of the kit)



AND if that wasn't enough, Amy has a giveaway on her blog right now to celebrate new big news! :) Go leave a comment on her blog post for today by 10pm Eastern time and you could win a pack of Jenni Bowlin Antique Ecru Pins. I wish I could win! :D

FWF: All Things Unity (Some Exciting Announcements!)

Hi everyone! Happy Friday! I'm so glad it's the weekend! We have a fun one planned. We are going to meet our friends' baby for the first time. We will be bringing them dinner. I am so excited! I love babies! :)

Ok, for my first announcement, you have to check out the new All Things Unity challenge blog. A few of us Unity Addicts lead by my friend Sara Henton have gotten together to create a blog for YOU! There will be challenges and chances to win awesome prizes! And you can use Unity OR Ippity to play along. This first week's challenge is to make a sunshiney card! :) And my sweet Sara is offering up a prize! The prize this time is Unity's This is The Time miniature set. You have until March 18th, 11:59pm EST to link your creation to the All Things Unity blog to be entered to win.

Here is my card using the Feb '10 KOTM. I love this paper from DCWV Citrus stack! Seriously, could you be more sunshiney? I colored my image with Copics then added bling to the middle house and Sakura Glaze Pen to the bird. The ribbon here is May Arts, also super sunny. :)

I have another card and another announcement. Though the anouncement has nothing to do with the card. I'll do the card first. This is a card I made for Jen del Muro's Sketch for You to Try last week. Also, for Taylor Vanbruggen's Dragonfly Card Drive. It is such an AMAZING cause! Please check it out! This card uses Unity's Butterfly Beauty set. The paper is Basic Grey's Sugar Rush. The flowers are Prima and the bling is Kaisercraft.

Ok, my ANNOUNCEMENT! I've been selected to be on the Creation Inspirations Paints design team!! I am so excited to be working with this brand new company! Be on the look out for my creations using these paints in the near future!

Third Post for Today

This is a screenshot I just took from Susanna's blog, CardoftheWeek.  The blue highlighted area is where Susanna put ME (Ashley, I'm still pinching myself) on her Scrapbooking Ideas and Inspiration list.  Really?  Me?  Ashley?  Are you sure?

Now, I actually don't check these lists for my name.  You know, I'm just lil ole me.  But I noticed that people were coming over to my blog from Susanna's so I checked and there I was.  Holy moly!  I'm beyond excited!  

Alright, enough tooting my own horn.  Back to your regularly scheduled crafting and American Idol watching in T minus 20 mins.

Merry Christmas and an Announcement

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas Eve!  I just actually woke up though I don't know why.  Brady is at my mom's today so that he can enjoy some Christmas festivities and we'll join him when DH gets off of work.  

This is a Featured Stamper card.  Details can be found HERE.  This is for Brady's book.  I'm making him a card each holiday that he can keep and read once he gets older.  Though, I still have to make him a Thanksgiving card.  Opps!  This card uses Unity's Bitty Christmas Tags.  

Ok, on to my announcement.  Danni, over at Danni's Dreams, has chosen me to be a featured stamper for January!  Woohoo!  Isn't that so fun??  Each Wednesday, Danni challenges everyone to make a butterfly card which she (and I) call Flutter Bys.  I'm so pleased to be a part of her team!  I hope everyone will join us for Flutter By Wednesdays starting Jan 7th.

Big Announcement #3 (The LAST one!)

Alright, so starting in the month of December, I would like to have a monthly guest designer. (If anyone even wants December.) So, this is a DT call!

Here's what you do:
~Email me 5 (five) samples of your BEST work
~Give me a paragraph stating why you would like to be on the team
~Please give me links to your blog and galleries (To be honest, I prefer people with blogs)
Here's my email: actressangel at gmail

And it couldn't hurt to play this week's challenge so I can become familiar with your work. :) Good luck to everyone! Applications are due by Nov 16.

Big Announcement #2

So, I don't usually have time to announce my new DT members before the EtsyInspired post rolls around.  But this time, I got a little advance notice.  :)  Now, this is a team member recruited by Lindsay Spencer.  I say that because I would never be so bold as to ask someone SO FABULOUS to be on the team.  I usually ask VERY TALENTED people who are not currently on any teams or maybe just one team.

Who's this new designer?  I'll give you some hints...  She's a Caardvark!  She's a stamp designer for Queen Kat Designs.  She gets published a lot.  She's....(wait for it).....

TANIS GIESBRECHT!  ACK!!!  Isn't that FABULOUS?!?  I am so excited!  This is an example of Tanis's work that I *borrowed* from her blog.

Speaking of EtsyInspired, did you do the challenge for this week yet?  There's a $15 gift certificate to be won!  Hurry, you only have until Friday!

Big Announcement #1

Were you able to guess what one of my exciting announcements is?  No, it's not that I got the most AWESOME blog makeover ever by Lindsay Spencer.  But I think she left you a nice clue  about it.  In fact, I wasn't going to say anything until after Tuesday since I have another appointment then and I wanted to make sure all was fine.  But I think it's become a wee bit obvious with my new awesome header.  

Some of you already know but for those of you who don't, we are expecting our second baby in June!  YAY!  The reason I'd been reluctant to share is that I've had some bleeding and I wanted to get everything checked out first.  Sigh...I hope everything is fine when I go to the doctor's tomorrow.  Please pray or think positive thoughts for my little angel to be safe and developing.  

More announcements to come!  Stay tuned!

Big Announcements Coming Soon!

Hehe, I'm such a tease!  I forgot to mention in my last post that I have some BIG announcements coming up for everyone.  Ohhh, they are so exciting!  What could they be?  Personal announcements?  DT announcements?  Who knows?  Come back soon and all will be revealed!

:)