Paperie Petals

I am so happy to co-announce Kim Schofield's new blog design! She is a FANTASTIC person and so nice to work with...we had lots of fun!

Once I reviewed Kim's design notes I just started gathering inspiration from several places. I KNEW I wanted her to have stitching and, of course, some paper flowers. I showed her revision one and she was delighted...HOORAY! After working with Kim on the finishing touches we came to this beautiful end result. I think it fits Paperie Petals perfectly!!!



Graphics from istockphoto and vectorstock were used and embellished using Photoshop patterns, I made the lace using a lace brush from spy-glass. The rest of the digi-scraps were made by me. The fonts I used were all provided by may favorite free font sites.

Thanks for hangin' in there and waiting patiently!

My Favorite Things...

...right now are...STAMPS!!!!!

I have SUCH exciting news today!!! You may remember my post SEVERAL months ago showcasing some siggy and watermark work I did for Kim at My Favorite Things. I made these using some of her existing stamps designed by Christy Beckwith (love her work) but she was curious if I had any original artwork. So I sent her a few samples of previous work including a banner (now retired) and a little sample of what Joanne had in store. Well I was just ECSTATIC when she told me she wanted to work with me on some stamp sets of my own!!!!!! After lots of patients with my lines Kim finally has the sets all ready and I just can't even express how excited I am!!!!!!!!! I even took a little time to garnish my blog with a few of the sparkles and swirls from the Funky Flowers set. The blog hop is going on now so start here at Kim's blog and take a look at all the WONDERFUL cards created by her VERY AWESOME design team!!!!! If you are unfamiliar with a blog hop just read the posts and follow the links...you'll see.

I even got to make the SCS ad...Thanks Kim!



I'm also extremely overjoyed to see them sitting there in her store...you MUST SEE! I told Kevin (my husband), "Look! Look! I'm on her sidebar!!!!!!"

Thanks dropping by and don't forget to check out the whole design team to see the stamps in use....that's where I'm going right now!!!!!

And I MUST say again that I just love working Kim! She is so nice and a blast! Her patience with me has been FABULOUS!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you Kim!!