Label Tulip card kit sneaks...

Hope you are all having a great weekend. Hubby and I had a "date day" yesterday without the kids, so it was refreshing to spend some time with him alone and go out for a nice dinner. We are just relaxing today (well scrapping for me..ha).

I wanted to let you know about a new card kit coming out soon. Label Tulip has its very own monthly card kit beginning this month! This kit is just an add-on kit that goes with the main kit. It comes with the latest and greatest 12x12 papers that you can use for your layouts, but upon purchase, you will get instructions for 4 cards made by me! The instructions are free and will be downloadable upon purchase of the kit. Make sense?

You won't need to subscribe to buy these kits, and you can pick and choose which ones you want when they go up for sale on the 15th of each month!

These are some sneaks for you of the fun, colorful card kit coming out in a few days! If you'd like to subscribe to the newsletter to get more information when the kits come out, etc., go to the main Label Tulip page and scroll down to the bottom. Just put in your e-mail address, then when the kits are available, you'll get a notice. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments!

Cards Magazine spotlight...

Do you subscribe to Cards Magazine? If so, you've probably seen the September issue by now and my mug in there along with an article about me! I haven't seen it yet, but about 6 months ago when Alisha Gordon from Cards Magazine sent me an e-mail asking me to be the Spotlight Designer for September, I about fell outta my chair! Me? You've got to be kidding! I'm anxiously awaiting my issue. Here are a few things I created for it...
Back 2 School card: Here I used a Worldwin card base and printed out a teacher poem that says, "Teacher: For all the time, all the care, the things you know, the wear and tear. For all you do we want to say, Happy Back to School Day!" I added some Pink Paislee papers from the Winsome collection, rub ons and their sticker letters.

Happy Fall card: I used the Captivating line by Pink Paislee on this one and the gorgeous flower turned into a little fall tree. I added the autumn rub on over the chipboard letters. This is still one of my favorite lines..the colors are yummy for fall!4 You card: This one has lots of different things on it...Captivating paper, Enchanting paper, stickers and chipboard letters, Pop Fashion rub ons and Vintage Moon rub ons (Press Ons as they call them)...all by Pink Paislee.
If you haven't seen Cards Magazine before, you should definitely check it out. I think they are offering on-line issues as well for a cheaper price point now.

One question I have been asked is: How do you mail your dimensional cards?
I do have to admit...I love adding dimension and things that pop up off my cards. Not sure why...it's a sickness. ha I just think it makes a card come alive. My family all live in South Dakota and usually I am mailing boxes with gifts inside, so it's easy to just stick my card in the box with the gift and it won't get squished or harmed in any way. So most of my cards are sent in the mail that way. But..if you have a special card you want to make for someone like a teacher or friend, you could certainly hand deliver it instead of putting it in the mail. If I know I am going to mail it the regular way, a button or two won't harm anything, but I wouldn't go all-out dimensional in that case. Hope that answer helps!

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

I've been creating a couple of things for some magazine calls, so I don't have anything scrappy to share with you today, but I found some super cute Halloween cupcakes and couldn't resist sharing them with you! One site that I visit often for inspiration...scrappy and otherwise...is Better Homes and Gardens. They always have awesome ideas and beautiful, colorful photos that inspire me!

Witch legs

Under Wraps
Gone Batty

Peekaboo
Frankenstein

Bare Bones

Aren't they adorable? Fun for any Halloween party! I would have to make ALL of these, but then the kids would be fighting over which one they wanted. ha

Also, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Check out these gorgeous buttons by Tessa Ann:A good scrappy friend of mine lost her mother to breast cancer 20 years ago today. If you are blog hopping, please stop over to Amy Tara's blog to read her story, see photos of her beautiful mom, and leave her a comment for a great give-away she is hosting. What a beautiful reminder for us to take care of ourselves. Sometimes we forget that the best thing we can do for our children is to take time to make sure we are healthy too.

Thanks for reading today,