Night out on the Town?

Don't forget your "purse"! Fill this beauty with some chocolate, and any other necessary item and go anywhere!

Noone will believe it is just paper. One 12x12 actually. Yes, that is the new Designer Paper in Stampin' Up!'s Holiday Mini Catalog. Night and Day Specialty Paper. I love all of the detail on these pages-and of course the rockin' prints! Black and White-my favorite! There are 2 sheets of Clear CS with Black Polka Dots on them in this pack. Love! I will have to make something with those and share it.

This purse was made with just a few folds, no tape or glue. After filling it with some treats I closed it with some Jumbo Eyelets and used them for the ribbon handle. Cute, easy and fun to do while watching Heroes.

This is a quick post while kids are asleep. Enjoy making these!

Mwah! Darling.

Happy World Card Making Day!!

I am having a contest today!

In honor of this event I am offering a fun challenge and prize! Make a hand made card of any shape and size today and post a picture of it on your blog, splitcoast, or SUColorQ and send the link to me! You may also reply to this post with a comment, but be sure to leave a link.

I will put each participants name in a hat and draw a winner-who will receive a craft kit from my prize box! Have fun! Your card does not have to be stamped, just hand made!

I look forward to seeing what you create!


I know this picture is dark, but my husband took it with his phone. This is my "iPhone" card I made for him. I love how it turned out.

You have until Midnight Sunday, October 4 EST to participate in this contest.

GIRLY it is!

Kristina Werner's Color Challenge #44!!!

I saw this Girly combination, and thought it was so sweet! It reminded me of a candy store with lots of Chocolate! So, I took out my Big Shot and decided to go for a "cookie" shaped card this time. I got to play with all of my new goodies! I just love the Sizzlits tag dies, and the new eyelet "lace" punch. A yummy little Chocolate Chip button was just the right topping. Feast your eyes.....new stamp sets coming out in April-there on the tag!! I love being a demo, and I love this company and all the fun coordinating stuff they come out with. This card was as sweet and simple! THanks for looking!


Supplies are all Stampin' Up!
Paper: Textured Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa, Whisper White
DSP-Bella Rose
Die Cuts-Big Shot, Sizzlits lots of Tags
Punch-Boho Blossoms, Eyelet
Stamps-Friends 24-7, Matchbox Messages
Button-latte
Ink-Close to Cocoa

Watercolor Toile

Totally addicted to watercoloring with Reinkers. I started stamping some mini cards for a friend of mine who had purchased some stamps awhile back. I used the Bella Toile, and had some extra pieces to use up to make her a card. So.....I have been spending any free time I get with Stampin' Up!'s watercolor paper and Stazon making up pictures/cards to watercolor. Once you drip some precious drops of reinker in your inkpad lid, and juice up that Aquapainter-all that color lust(like wanderlust, except for color) just overcomes you and-you paint every piece of paper anywhere near your reach.

I caught up on all the LOST episodes I missed while in Cali visiting my sis-in-law/downline and painted all night for several nights. If you are a friend or customer of mine you will probably get something watercolored. If I know you or consider you an acquaintance, I may give you a handpainted picture. If I pass you in the street, I may just tell you how the sunset looks like it has been watercolored, and invite you over to stamp and watercolor with me. Watch out people-I have a new obsession! If I stare blankly at you while you are talking it is probably because I am thinking about watercoloring your sweater. If I stutter when you invite me to coffe(which is my first love that I'll never get over) it is because I am probably imagining if I could color you what colors you would be.......etc. By the way, I am most definitely a Cameo Coral melting into Tempting Turquoise with lots of white area, and some black defining the edges. Yes, I have painted myself. I will happily paint you if you are interested..Back to my post. I was making this card for my friend who is definitely a Black Toile if I have ever met one. Then I started to watercolor in some Riding Hood Red-which is exactly the color of her lipstick, and other things she really likes-like her phone and Pottery Barn $50.oo napkins or whatever. Yes, this is what I like about her. A little Kiwi Kiss for that perfect balance, some very regal River Rock, a Regal Rose here and there for good measure-and some Pink Pirouette just to show I made it-and voila! I love the way it turned out-it looks like her as a card. A little bling, very neat polished sides, a lovely tapestry.

I should do this more often. Very cathartic. I wonder what my DH would be. He's Italian, so- lots of black there also, Rough around the edges, very manly. No frou-frou at all. Metro he is not! Yet, he never gets his hands dirty-and he's incredibly snobbish(in a good way?), so smooth and solid images, like Organic Outlines. I would paint him in Kiwi Kiss, Blue Bayou, Going Gray, and almost no white. He is dark and lovely and I could draw his face from memory. It is my favorite face.

Anyhow, this watercolor/painting thing really brings the poet back out in me. I may just share some of that next post. Thank you for looking. I love your comments!! Come back anytime. Oh yeah, one of my new favorites also is Heat and Stick powder-which I used on the sentiment and then added the Black Glitter!!! It is so beautiful in person. Love that stuff.

KWerner Color Inspiration

Another Color Challenge



Visiting my family out in Sunny California! Had to fit in a challenge though. This was a new style for me, hope you like it!


My sis-in-law and I were the last 2 on the Challenge. With 5 kids we barely finished in time. So fun!

WINNERS of Blog Candy!! and Color Q!!

This is my favorite time, the few days just before receiving the new Catalog! I go hunting through all of my favorite Demonstrator Blogs for a few sneak peeks or slip ups to see what exciting new things are on their way to my doorstep. The catalogs are being packed up and shipped, in order to be at my doorstep on the 19th. I can't wait!!!!!

I know there will be new stamp sets, that I will drool over and have to have. STickers, Simply Scrappin Kits, amazing new embellishments. COLOR Rub-ons I hear! All in our amazing coordinating colors. I love our colors, and mixing them with my moods. I never run out of new combinations I dream of, waiting for me to wake up and put them in my Color Q for safe keeping until stamping time!

This year, when I got my very own SU! Big Shot (by Sizzix) and exclusive SU! dies, I thought, "What could be better?!" Texture plates and more dies that coordinate with stamp sets and Decor Elements, that's what!!!!! I know, that's a lot of exclamation marks-but I'm putting it mildly compared to my insane excitement. I am going crazy! In a few days I fly to Cali, back home to visit family, AND...... to rip open that new box of Catty's with my downline and sis-in-law and scream and squeal together.

This will be a great year for Handmade, and I will be having clubs and classes, and of course, giving a lot of handmade gifts. If you want to get in on any of the events I am doing, either in person or online, there will be more on that later, as well as kits that I will put together with new Products!!! Which is fun for everyone, unless you have the $4,000 to buy all the Gorgeous new stuff or have a sugar daddy.

Thank you to everyone who commented and signed up for my Blog Candy, and for your visits which are very welcome. I will post the winners at the end of this post, then I will commence Searching all of your shared Collections for some fun inspiration.

I will try to thrill you with some great tutorials and projects as soon as I get to CA. I plan on blogging more now that I am post baby and getting back on my feet, er, keypad.

I had to add these photos of what you can do with your Stampin' Up! products with boys..... Gold embossed lego guys, of course!! This one is the "Diamond Angel" that he made and hung on our tree. Lots of VersaMark and Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder, and a heat tool. Instant "Cool" from your son!

Now, on to the Winners! Vittory has already signed up, (which is free!) and I will Update you right away. The other 4 commenters Krista, Mary, Sari Hannenin and Migot77 are all winners also! Please go to SUColorQ and register
Then, just email me with your Registration Name eg. "Gaylyn's Q" You can start right away saving your first 3 Collections, and Searching through the Collections that have been shared in the Public Q. Have fun! If you have any questions or problems, feel free to email me anytime, or comment on this post. Happy New Year everybody!

One Year Blogiversary! BLOG CANDY!

I am celebrating with my sis-in-law, as we both started our blogs last New Years together.

We followed that up with creating the Color Q, (see link above)

our respective Etsy shops ; {mine} {hers}

, joining in Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenges (and both making Top 10 the same week!) and, of course, stamping together when she flew out to visit.

This was the best year yet! I had a baby (the good part), and we had to miss Convention (bad part) -but this year I plan to be there screaming and going nuts over Mr. Brown, and stamps, etc.
sweetest baby ever! and Italian!
(how did that happen?)


Thank you to all of you who visited my blog from all over the world (over 5,000 hits-Wow!), and hugs to all of those who left comments as well.

Now I want to give away some of my own Blog Candy! Woo Hoo! I am giving away 5 (Unlimited for One Year) Color Q Subscriptions!!!!
You can create Color combinations and save them in your Collections to your hearts desire! Just visit the Color Q and register (free) and then leave a comment at the end of this post. 5 lucky winners will be chosen at random on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.

Unlimited accounts include photo attachments to collections-so you can save that picture of cupcakes that inspired you until you get to making the card, or what have you.

I cannot wait to see all of the Collections you all will share! Good Luck, and Happy New Year!