It's Been a CHALLENGE-ing Day

Hi all! I have to say that I think I am going through a major infusion of of creative mojo! I do not think that I have done a project a day in AGES! Today I have a two-fer; one project being submitted for two challenges. Emma's at My Creative Time and Jenny's at Crazy About Cricut. I used my Doodlecharms cartridge to make this adorable bookmark. Since I have no cartridges that have bookmarks, I had to create this one on the Gypsy. My Cuttlebug got some love again today with the Swiss Dots folder. I had the party hat paper in my stash forever and all the other paper was in my scrap pile. I really need to organize my scraps a bit better as I spend more time digging through the pile. Again, I got a little crazy decorating this sucker. I used my gel pens for the dots and inked the edges with my Stampin' Up markers. I had to use my new Sakura white paint pen as I forgot to ink the edges before I pop dotted the "Shhhhhh" . Here is the final result:

Now onto some exciting news. My dear friend Lynne of Her Craftiness and I will be hosting my first ever blog hop. Our Anything goes Festive Birthday Bash Blog Hop will take place on September 3rd and will have 10 wonderful bloggers participating. I have to say that I am so enjoying my 40's that it is a great reason to celebrate. I hope you will join us as there will be lots of great ideas. There will be more details to follow but save the date. Well, I am off to decide what the next project will be for tomorrow. Until next time.....

This is also going to be a Made it Myself Monday submission as well :)

It has been a Scrappingly good two weekends.....

I have to say that it has been a crafty good time here in NJ! I have had two weekends with my favorite Stampin' Up friend Julie (Stampin Up Demonstrator: Julie Kudish) and have made some pretty awesome things (if I do say so myself). In addition to that, I had craft time with our niece Vanessa. She will be turning 4 and loved making cards with Aunt Susan. Here are some pics I wanted to share with you: 

This is a shaker card made with actual  sand

I just could not resist taking a bite

Here we are hard at work

This was the first layout I have EVER made without having pics already printed

 The next day, I went to the dollar store with my sister in law and my niece in law. We saw this damaged saying and Julie turned to me and said, "You good make something prettier!" Well here is what I came up with.....

 Today I went to a stamping up party for one of the gals in our monthly stamping group. This is the projects we made (card was put together by my dear friend Erin (Comfy on My Cloud):

Very looooonnnggg bookmark

Love this card!

Well as they say in Looney Tunes, "That's all folks...." Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #5

This is challenge #5. It was called Teacher Appreciation Days. It could have been made for a teacher or someone you appreciate. Well it has been hand delivered to my hubby sitting in the next room who is so wonderful to me. He supports me whole heartedly in all my ventures and is my biggest fan . Love you honey!

Happy Scrappin',

Sue