What IS the scoop?

{For my Just Us Girls post, I hope you'll click here!}

Well, it's day three of Wplus9's latest release party... And I do mean party!

So, I went a little MOD, ala Mad Men... and some fun word play with
Dawn's latest set, Pile it ON! ~ Sometimes I truly can't account for WHERE
I go with her beautiful sets, but THAT'S what the journey is right about,
AM I RIGHT?

Speaking of JOURNEYS... if you haven't checked out Dawn's latest posts on her blog -
you MIGHT be missing out for several reasons...

1) HER work is amazing!
2) She just did another VIDEO! {I adore watching her creative process!}
3) You can WIN, WIN, WIN the latest set AND coordinating die!

Meanwhile - we're ALL just makin' stuff! Cue "the W9-ettes!"

Dawn
Jinny
Kerrianne
Savitri
Lea
Christina
Jean

So, friends... THAT'S the scoop! So glad you dropped on by!
Continued JOY to you, this fine, proud, weekend! Enjoy!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - October Afternoon
Stamps - Wplus9 Design Studio
Ink - Stampin' Up!
Clip - Stampin' Up!
Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine

We're baaaaaaaccccckkkkkkk!

For my Just Us Girls post, I hope you'll click here!

Wplus9 Design Studio is BACK this month with a brilliant, new release!

I, for one, am giddy from ALL of the goodness... and SUGAR!

Sweet friends..... THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! FINALLY:
a birthday set that satisfies my sweet tooth in the fullest sense!

THAT GIRLLLLLLLLL: Dawn! Ohhhhhhhh, she IS a clever one!
I cannot wait for you to see this set in it's entirety, but for now,
I am THRILLED to do my part to get you in the moooooooood...

Here are some delicious details!

Pile It On

• is a 6x8 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 25 stamps; 14 images and 11 sentiment and 1 journaling line
• will be available for purchase June 1st for just $19

Picture it - a festive and fresh BIRTHDAY set that is allllllll that,
and sooooo much more! Yeowza! {GET A LOAD OF THE FONT!}

Seriously. {*Gasp!*} NOT only is this the answer to my BIRTHDAY CARD CRAFT needs...
~ of which I NEVER seem to make enough of... never! How 'bout you?~ BUT ALSO..........
heyyyyyyyyyyy, girlfriends! This set is perfect for all the lovely cards we need to send to each
other just because.... we're sooooooo sweet! Yup. I'm RATHER excited about this...

For now, I'll just say that the stamps are NOT the only "to-die-for" aspect
of this month's grand celebration.... {Does FAT free not sell the deal?}

No, seriously. Perhaps you'd like to wander through the wonders of Wplus9's
fantastic design team, AND welcome our newest DT members, Christina & Jean!

Dawn
Jinny
Kerrianne
Savitri
Lea
Christina
Jean

So, my dears! I had a DANDY time getting my craft on, here in the dawn of
our, ever so important, Memorial Day Weekend... Woot! Woot!

{After my "world travels" ~ heh heh~ it SURE felt good to get inky!}

Have a WONDERFUL weekend and I hope you'll be back to enjoy the
rest of our FESTIVAL -o- Wplus9 stamp release extravaganza!

Yeeee Hawwwwww!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - October Afternoon
Stamps - Wplus9 Design Studio
Ink - Stampin' Up! & Colorbox
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug
Seam Bias - Wright's
Button - Buttons Galore & More
Bling - Want2Scrap
Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine

I got MY GIRL on!

At my house, it's kind of the season of "girl"....

This is the month when the BABY girl arrived... THIS baby girl arrived.... {back there around when the dinosaurs, and all, were doing their thing.. Ahem!} Anyway, April is a GIRLY month. That's all. Hence, this:



Well, Dawn's stamps didn't hurt the mood! {Have you CHECKED out the full reveal on her blog: OMG! BEAUTIOUS images, to be SURE!} I love GROUP release night: it's my FAVORITE!!! By then, we've all been inky fools and GROUP celebration just feels like the big recital! {I LOVE it!}

These stamps just start TALKIN' to me! They want to break out and run free with the herd
{and WHAT a herd it is!} ALL my W9 stamps start playin'... MORE materials start to kick up their heels - It looks a lot like MY horses did this evening when I had to recruit BOTH kids and a dog, to help me get my HORSES into their stalls! It's like a BIG old RODEO of stamps {and horses!}
... None of 'em can help themselves: it's spring! THAT'S... what I'm talking ABOUT!

For some more SURE fire signs of SPRING and other such stampalicious goodness, I do hope you'll click
on over to my delightful DT pals of Wplus9 Design!!!!! EVERYTHING'S blooming!

Dawn

Lea
Hannah
Jinny
Kerrianne
Savitri

&

our DARLING guest designer for April....

Paulina!!!


Wahoooooooo! What fun we've had this week! I truly, truly hope you
were inspired! {I, SERIOUSLY, think we brought spring to California!} -
Sorry, I can't speak for your EXACT neck of the woods, but SERIOUSLY:
this time last week we were floating AWAY! Today, we were lathering up
the sunscreen and contemplating the Air Conditioner! {????????}

I know!




YOU are special to me: that's for SURE! Thanks for helping
me celebrate this exquisitely fun week of stampilicious joy!
Here's to a WONDERFUL month, and that ain't no April FOOL!

Yee Haw!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - October Afternoon & Crate Paper
Stamps - Wplus9 Design Studio
Ink - Stampin' Up! & Staz On
Die Cuts - Wplus 9 {Filigree} ; Spellbinders {Lacy Frame}
Button - Buttons Galore & More
Twine - Timeless Twine

It's a SPECIAL day!

Because... Wplus9 Design Studio is celebrating the release of "A Special Lady!"

Here are the lovely details:

A Special Lady

• is a 6x8 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 15 stamps; 2 large focal images and 13 sentiment builders
• will be available for purchase April 1st for just $19
• 
  

This set is LOADED for ALL of us special ladies AND then some! What a GORGEOUS, all-purpose set!
I'm THRILLED to think of all the card "to-do" list items that can be
satisfied THIS time of year, with THIS set!
I chose to go for the lady who's acquiring a NEW title:

Oh, yes! The MOTHER-TO-BE! {*Swoon!*} A subject near to my heart right about now.....

{Nooooooooooooooooooooo, not for ME!} But just because...*sniff* nearly 10 years ago, today...

...I earned a new stripe - MOTHER of a baby girl! Myyyyyyy goodness, time flys!

Anywhooooo, this is an EXTRA fun month for Wplus9, since we are welcoming
our newest designer, Lea Lawson! {Wahoooooo! Welcome, Lea!} We are SO
delighted to have her, and of COURSE, cannot wait to see the beautious magic
she creates with Dawn's AMAZING line of stamps! I hope you'll check her OUT,
and don't forget our LOVELY, and endlessly talented, designers...

Dawn

Lea
Hannah
Jinny
Kerrianne

&

our MUCH, beloved and anticipated, guest designer for April....

Paulina!!!!! {Welcome, GIRL! *Wink!*}

I am so excited to check out ALL of the goodness, created by this fine group of
fabby crafters! I sure hope you'll join me! AND thanks, so much!




I hope your day is BEAUTIFUL! Happy STAMPIN'!

Supplies-

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - Basic Grey
Stamps - Wplus9 Design Studio
Ink - Staz On; Stampin' Up!
Scallop Square Die Cut - Sizzix/Stampin' Up!
Digi Bingo Card - Paper Daydream {!}
Seam Bias - My thrift shop stash!
Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine
Floral Button - Buttons Galore & More

Want2 BLING up some fun!?!

To check out my Just Us Girls 3D template technique, click here! {But please stay for some blingy inspo, too!}

C'mon!

They say diamonds are a girl's best friend, but WE know that BLING, whether it be
sparkled or pearlized, is a CRAFTY person's VERY DEAR friend!
{Notice, BLING doesn't discriminate ~ girl, boy, it don't matter!} heh heh

All I know is that MY stash of bling, is on SPEED dial, if YA know what I mean!
I can barely craft without it!

A few weeks ago, I made this:

My SUPER talented cohorts at Just Us Girls and I made FAT envelopes {Woot*Woot!*}
And, in my excitable and sometimes downright silly blog voice, I taunted YOU,
insisting that I would be back to share the little treasure to be tucked inside!

I AM A GIRL OF MY WORD!

I'm back to share a SUPER fun companion to this lil' chicky!

THIS is my BLINGED-OUT banner BONANZA!





Thanks to the inspiration from my plethora of Want2Scrap bling {SCHWING!!!}
and their exciting relationship with Want2Scrap {bring ON the Nestabling! C'mon APRIL!}
I was sent a handsome stash of Spellbinders to work with, so I made THIS fun
banner with their nested pennant die collection, but ALSO, I topped them off with
Labels Nine, accented with circles and scallops and just generally, had a diecutting,
stamping, paperpiecing, painting, shading and completely BLINGED - OUT festival!


For ALL of the bling-a-licious details {!},
I would POSITIVELY be doing cartwheels of gratitude if you would go check out the
BLINGY fun and {slightly addicting} project, over thar, at the WANT2SCRAP
blog, and leave me a lil' love over there, too! Shameless, I know! But I would be positively
giddy with joy if you dropped a few words of of excitement about WHAT amazing things
bling can do, either on THIS project, or in your OWN crafty life!

YOU are THE BEST!

THANK you soooooooooooooooooooooo much for your kind words and support!

YOU, ROCK!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - Jillibean Soup
Ink - Stampin' Up! & Staz On
Stamps - Jillibean Soup; Waltzing Mouse Stamps
Die Cut Shapes - Spellbinders
Chip Board Letters - Basic Grey
Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine
BLING - Want2Scrap

Still trying to coax out some SPRING!

I'm still at it!

I'm NOT giving up....

I even dragged another Just Us Girls project into the fight! I'm DEMANDING spring to perform, at ONCE!

Luckily for me, there is a PERFECT place to harvest some spring beauty....
Just Us Girls have a MOST wonderful challenge going this week! ZIPPER flowers!





This technique is SO addicting! Start grabbing your OLD jeans, jackets and sewing kits:

You'll be pickin' for parts in no time! This is SUCH an fabulous technique!





That's RIGHT! Get your 3D glasses out! {But ... don't ACTUALLY put them on...!}

The, ever so lovely, DANA, is challenging us with a smokin' hot, 3D template idea!
I'm SO excited! WHO doesn't love a hand crafted flower, AM I RIGHT?
In case you didn't hear me gushing about the incredible sights of Winter CHA 2011 -
PAPER and FABRIC flowers were EVERYWHERE!

So, imagine my delight when not only did Dana decide to host a JUGS challenge,
she created a step by step tutorial for us to follow on our BELOVED place for BLING,
Want2Scrap! I hope you'll check out her work there, as well as on the
Just Us Girls website and indulge yourself by viewing ALL the fine work
of the HUGELY inspirational corral of fabby design chicks....

Dana
Andrea
Kathryn
Maria
Lisa
Kristin

&

please don't forget our lovely and talented guest designer for this month

Alyssa!

Meanwhile, let me tell you just a smidge about my Zipper flower journey!

First of ALL - there is a WONDERFUL craft/thrift shop not far from my home
and I was the lucky companion of, none other than Paper Daydream, herself:
Dana, just a few weeks ago! The lovely store that benefits a local senior center was
having a 50% off sale, on their ALREADY way-reasonable prices, so I GOT me some
zippers! {And a whole sackful of "hoardables!"} Yeahoooooooooo!




The zippers were LONG, and the twill was neutral, and the possibilities ARE endless....

So, I ABSOLUTELY could NOT us those!

{'Cause... I might NEED 'em! Later! In a zipper flower EMERGENCY!}

Soooooooooooo, I went through a vast hoarding.. ur, I mean STASH, of zippers I have
collected ... just BEcause... Some of them are brightly colored {remember the
zipper craze in Scrapbooking down there, round about '04? OH, yeah!}, but had
nylon teeth... {Maybe NOT quite as charming as metal teeth...} AND some of my
previously hoarded zippers are WAY manish! {From the Nash Bridges booty of 2001}

So what's a girl to do?

PAINT!




That's RIGHT, babies! I painted my zippers with acrylic paint, let them dry
before running a stitch along the bottom of twill. I used strong nylon thread
and pulled those suckers HARD! Although, Dana's technique is FLAWLESS
in it's presentation of a beautifully rounded "Ranuculus" type of flower,
I immediately fell in love with the more disheveled look of the puckering and
gathering that occurred, so I decided to go with more of a crazy, mutated
kind of Carnation type of look! Yes, FOLKS! You'll have to believe me, OR
perhaps you'll join us - and then you'll know what kind of zipper flower
YOU are! {Trust me on THIS - you'll BE glad you did! I LOVE this technique!}

Thank you, SO much, for stopping by!
Having you here was like a ...
{wait for IT!!!}
breath of SPRING air!

OH. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - Basic Grey; Echo Park
Stamps - S/U! - Flower stems; Banner shapes - Waltzing Mouse
Ink - Stampin' Up!
Dies - Banner pieces - Spellbinders; Ric Rac - Sizzix
Tissue Tape - Tim Holtz
BLING - Want2Scrap

Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine
Fuzzy Letters - American Crafts

It's a CORNUCOPIA-O-STAMPING!

That's the only way to describe what happened when I began to play with Dawn's latest release!
In particular, these two sets, All Occasion Tags & From The Kitchen Of :they WILL keep you busy!

Here's what I did:

{Tee Hee!}

Some super fun to stamp, "Tag ART!" {This set, designed by Hannah, is SO well thought out!!!!}

I'd share my LOCALLY famous pumpkin seed roasting recipe, but then, you'd have to go into witness protection...
When queried, I'll just give you some - it's easier! {Mwwwwaaa haa haaaa!}

Soup, on the other hand, it's not as cloak & dagger....

The writing is ON the card!!! {Literally!} Make some and ENJOY!

This is the day for the WHOLE W9 group post! For more AMAZING ideas and totally terrific uses for these exquisite stamps, check out what the lovely designers from
WPLUS9 Design Studio have done to illuminate the wonders of Dawn's newest stamps:

Dawn

Jinny

Hannah

Kerrianne

Maile

Hope you're having a truly BOUNTIFUL crafty day! Thanks for visiting!

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!

D/P - Stampin' Up!

Stamps - WPLUS9 Design Studio

Ink - Stampin' Up!

Punches - Stampin' Up!

Ribbon - Recollections/Michael's

Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine

There she goes!

WAIT, oh, just wait until you see THIS set! {Seriously!} Dawn W... { "W" for WONDERFUL...!} is back with MORE of the stampiest, juiciest, most GRATEFULLY possible stamps.... Yeeowza!!!

Be still my "harvest-lovin" soul - I smells me some pumpkin bread and it is gooooooood! {Yum!}

Okay, I wish I could describe EVERY detail of this glorious set, but that's where the
"sneak peek" thing gets REALLY s-n-e-a-k-y... Let me just give you the details -

Season of Thanks

• is a 6x8 clear photopolymer stamp set
• contains 18 stamps; 12 images and 6 sentiments
• will be available for purchase October 7th for just $19

That's as much as I can reveal, for now - except to say " WAHOOOOO! This set is fun, fun, fun! Look! I made a "Savitri" bow! {*Gasp!*I finally got my hands on some BAKER'S TWINE! Thanks, Etsy!}



Let me tell YOU somethin'.... I AM THANKFUL FOR THIS SET! I can't wait for you to see the rest of it! For now, though - one more shot of my card - because I LOVE how much fun I had stamping those leaves, leaves, leaves... And DARLING pumpkins! Here's hoping this set will become part of YOUR autumn bounty!

And, speaking of bounty! Hop, skip and CLICK on over to see what the other DT gals are up to, and check out the fruits of THEIR labor... You'll be harvesting ALL kinds of cool ideas! I guarantee!

Jinny

Kerrianne
Hannah
&
Dawn!






Thanks for stopping by for DAY 2 of WPLUS9's October Release-fest! {Got accordion music?}

Supplies -

C/S - Stampin' Up!
D/P - Stampin' Up!
Stamps - WPLUS9 design studio
Ink - Stampin' Up!
Ribbon - Michael's Recollections
Baker's Twine - Timeless Twine via Etsy
Scallop Edge die cut - PTI
Button - My Stash!