Showing posts with label In Style Stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In Style Stamps. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Looking Back - A Year In Review

I took a little time today and reviewed my blog for 2010.  I started back in January 2010 and scanned through each page rather quickly, wow... the memories...

I thought I'd like to take time today to share some of those memories with you.
  
I'd almost forgotten my friend Susan and I went to the CHA Consumer show in Anaheim California last January.  We had a great time, I won 1300 yards of ribbon from Offray!

The battle I was having with the contractor to finish my kitchen cabinets came to an end.
When I filed a lawsuit against him and took him to court.
Hired a new contractor to finish the job.
We made it to court in April 2010.  The judge heard our case and told us she'd take 5 or 6 weeks to make a decision.
When we got home from court that day my new contractor wanted to come over and finish installing my table.  He told me I'd never guess who his next job was.  Nope, never in a million years...  The judge who I'd just been in front of most of the day!  I asked how long it would take to complete her kitchen and he said, 
"oh, about 5 or 6 weeks"...
You guessed correctly, I won my case.  God is good!
I just love His sense of humor!

The contractor never paid me the amount I was awarded.  I opened a case with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors and we went to a hearing with them next.  The judge strongly suggested to the contractor that he pay me what I'd been awarded in civil court or he'd lose his contractors license and set a due date.  The due date passed, I was never paid the amount awarded me in court. 
The contractor lost his license. 

Long story short, I've filed all the paper work and am now waiting on the Arizona Registrar of Contractors to reimburse me for the amount owed.  Our next "waiting period" is January 11, 2011.  So I'm still patiently waiting and hopeful.  

The photos above are my kitchen which also doubles as my "stamp room", the cabinets under the mirror hold my craft supplies.  That's not totally true, I have infringed a little on the kitchen cabinets, you'll find my air compressor and some boxes of stamps and small paper pads with the coffee.  


 
I also wanted to share some cards and other projects.  
This was a design team project for In Style Stamps.



It's kind of fun to see how my coloring has improved over the past year.


I was asked to be part of the Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps blog administrative team in May 2010.  



I was asked to be a design team coordinator for Michelle Perkett Studio.


I served as a design team member for The Stamping Boutique.


I was asked to be on the Clear Dollar Stamps Digital Design team.


I'm a proud member of the Bug A Boo Stamps design team.

And last but not least another year has flown by with my husband and children.  I feel so blessed to have the privilege of raising 2 more beautiful healthy kids, watching them grow and change becoming the people God meant for them to be.  My husband and I have only been married about a year and a half and again I'm blessed that he found me and wanted to join in our family and raise two more kids in his retirement years taking such good care of us all.


Thank you Lord for being with me every step of the way I couldn't have done it without You and I know You'll be right next to me in the year ahead. 

Hey!  Thinking of Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps, there's a new Midweek Throwdown challenge starting today and it's "cards for kids with a missing you theme", go check it out!


Friday, October 29, 2010

In Style Stamps Blog Hop Featuring Virginia

Hello and welcome to our In Style Stamps blog hop!  You should have arrived here from the fabulous Kerry's blog, if not you can start here at Angelique's blog.  To win the $25.00 gift bag be sure to leave a comment on each of the blogs and vote for your favorite at the very end!

For my project today I decided to make a gift bag for our upcoming Thanksgiving dinner hostess.  I used Virginia and colored her with Copic markers, Virginia is available as a digital image at the In Style Stamps online store.  I used Spellbinder's dies to cut Virginia out and matte her and also the Eyelet border die.  The Thank You sentiment is a stamp from Papertrey Ink.  

Your next stop on this journey is the In Style Stamps blog, time to vote on your favorite!

Challenges:
Scrappy Frogs - Give Thanks
52 Card Pick Up - Count Your Blessings
Simon Says - Punch 'Em
2 Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - Thanks, Thankful

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

In Style Stamps Free Breast Cancer Awareness Digital Images

My cards today feature a couple of the free Breast Cancer Awareness digital images from In Style Stamps.  Here are the details on how to pick up some of these for yourselves straight from the In Style Stamps blog:

Because we love our fans and care about cancer awareness, we are giving these images away to anyone who wants them. That's right - giving them away! To get an image for free, all you have to do is shoot us an email telling us which image you'd like and share a link to your project here within 10 days. If we don't see a project from you, you'll get an invoice from us for $2 per unused image. All of the proceeds will go to cancer charities, so either way it's a win! You are welcome to just outright purchase the images, too - let us know that in your email.

The images will be available for free until October 31st.

Challenges: 
Stampin' Sister's In Christ - Pink Ribbon & Primarily Pink
Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Plus 

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

In Style Stamps Snowflake Chloe

I used Snowflake Chloe for my card today and made a coordinating backpack to go with it.  I thought this would be a fun gift set for my little boy's teacher later this year.  I'll fill the backpack with goodies for her and write a note inside the card to let her know how much I appreciate her.  She's had two of my three children in her 4th grade class.  

For my card I used Snowflake Chloe by In Style stamps, she comes as a digital image.  I made her 4" tall for my card so she'd be easy to color.  As I was coloring her jacket I couldn't keep the red out of the white snowflake she's holding and had the idea to use one of my snowflake punches to cover my mistakes and give her some fun dimension.  Where there's a will there's a way!  The designer paper is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses and I just happened to have the buttons that go with the paper pad so I used a tiny one with embroidery floss on the snowflake. 

I also used a new die from Clear Dollar Stamps, the sentiment is a digital image from whimsie Doodles.  The backpack is a tutorial by my friend Paula Goff that she has on her blog Inking Addict
Paula vacations every year about 45 minutes from where I live and gets together with the local Stampin' Up! demonstrators to play.  Even though I haven't been a Stampin' Up! demo for several years I still get an invitation and I'm thrilled to spend the day with my stamping girl friends playing with paper. 
One more shot of the card all by itself for you.


We also have an Inspiration Challenge starting today at In Style Stamps you might like to play along in, I have the Inspiration Photo for you below:
 
Challenges:
Gingerloft - Winter

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

In Style Stamps Purrfect Day New Release Digital Image

Welcome to my second post for today!  I have a new release sneak peak for you from In Style Stamps, this cute image is called Purrfect Day and will be for sale soon at the In Style Stamps online store.

I've been having fun with one layer cards so I thought I'd try it again with this wonderful image.  I sized it to be five inches wide to fit on my card front and printed it out.  Before coloring any of it I stamped the "thinking of you" sentiment by Papertrey Ink and used a Copic multiliner pen and my ruler to outline around the image.  To make it easier to color I used my multiliner pen to extend the desk top, legs and window to my outlined area.  I colored the image with my Copic markers and thought the wall would be pretty dull just "painted" so I added "wallpaper" by paper piecing this Basic Grey Marrakech patterned paper and also used it for the envelope liner.  A very simple card showcasing a really fun In Style Stamps image to color.

I also have news about a freebie from In Style Stamps for you today!  
I'm copying and pasting the details for you below:

Because we love our fans and care about cancer awareness, we are giving these images away to anyone who wants them. That's right - giving them away! To get an image for free, all you have to do is shoot us an email telling us which image you'd like and share a link to your project here within 10 days. If we don't see a project from you, you'll get an invoice from us for $2 per unused image. All of the proceeds will go to cancer charities, so either way it's a win! You are welcome to just outright purchase the images, too - let us know that in your email.

The images will be available for free until October 31st.

Challenges:

AiFactory - Lets See Your Animal Side
Simply Saturday - Paper Piecing

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

In Style Stamps Basket of Blessings

I have an In Style Stamps card to share with you today, the digital image is called Easter Basket.  I know it's October and last week I posted a happily dancing Easter Bunny but what the heck this is a design team project!  Being a design team project means it was one of the images we had to choose from so I took it.  

I colored it and set it aside for a few days because I wasn't sure how I wanted to use it and then my card kind of just all came together for me.  I love it when that happens!  The basket is colored with Copic markers, the patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers pad, the layout is a sketch challenge  from Crafting With Dee Dee's Digi's earlier this month.
I used Stampin' Up! Creamy Carmel card stock for the strip down the center and used my Scor-Bug to make stitched looking lines on it.  The bottom edge of the image panel is cut using the Papertrey Ink large ric rac die as was the matting.  The ovals for the Papertrey Ink Blessings Sentiment were cut using Stampin' Up! Oval punches and the butterfly is from a Martha Stewart punch.  

There's a color challenge going on at In Style Stamps that started just a few days ago, there will be a random prize drawn for the entries so if you enjoy doing color challenges go check it out!

Here's the challenge photo for you:
Challenges:
Stamp Something - Something Punchy

Friday, October 8, 2010

Miss Ewe ~

My card today uses another In Style Stamps digital image that's new called Sylvester, isn't he cute?!

When I saw this image I knew just what kind of card I'd like to make with it and of course Operation Write Home being who it's for came to my mind immediately.  I think this would make a great card for a deployed Mom or Dad to send home to a child.  

Since the image is clean and simple I thought keeping my card that way would showcase "Sylvester" the best.  I thought a black and white with a pop of color kind of card would be fun with lots of dry embossing for interest.  I used two Cuttlebug folders for the embossing and a strip of Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush card stock to print the "miss ewe" sentiment from my computer, a couple of black half pearls and my card was ready!

I'd also like to remind you about my give away in honor of my followers here.  Just a couple more days and I'll be drawing a winner!

Challenges:
Pollycraft - Anything Goes
AI Factory - Embossing

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

In Style Stamps October Sketch Challenge

It's time for a new sketch challenge today at In Style Stamps!

But before anything else I have some really exciting news to share with you!!  Two of my cards are going to be published at the end of this month in the SNR Card Universe online magazine!!  One of them uses an In Style Stamps image called "Mailbox Love" and the other is a Michelle Perkett Studio image called "Angel Of Hope", I'm so excited to be having two more of my cards published and thought you'd like to do the happy dance with me again!!

And now... on to the sketch challenge ;)

I'm using Patches for my sketch challenge card today, he's available as a digital image at In Style Stamps.  
I've included the sketch so you can see how I came up with the card layout.  I used Copic markers to color Patches, the paper kit came with punch outs and rub ons so it was fun to use those on my card.  I believe the paper is made by My Minds Eye, it came from the clearance section of an on line store this last summer so it's old and may not be available anymore.   I also used Spellbinders dies and a Papertrey Ink large ric rac die.
I hope you'll join us at In Style Stamps for our sketch challenge this month.  There are prizes to be won so you should go check it out!

I'd like to remind you of my give away in honor of my followers, you can read about it here.

Challenges:
My Time To Craft - Looks Like Autumn
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central - Halloween Challenge 
The Pink Elephant - Childhood 
365 Cards - Imagine This, Candy Corn

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Haute Tote Gift Set

Here we are at the last day of September, I can hardly believe it!  This has been one of the busiest months for me with Operation Write Home's birthday celebration and all the fun design teams I'm on as well as family and friends.  I'm looking forward to October with hopefully a little cooler weather here in Arizona and life slowing to a little quieter pace for me.  One can hope right?!  1

My project today is a gift bag I made using a tutorial and pattern that I bought from Adela Rossol of Creations by AR.  It has SVG files with it too, but my Quickutz Silhouette takes a different type of file so I cut it out with scissors.   One day I will figure out how to get my Silhouette machine to cut it out for me maybe after I get that silly computer it's attached to working for me the way it's supposed to!

Can you tell I used Papertrey Ink Razzberry Fizz Mix patterned paper and Razzberry Fizz card stock?
I filled the little bag with some of my In Style Stamps design team cards from September so I could  give it as a gift.
Here's a photo of the bag and coordinating In Style Stamps Maggie card you saw the other day.  She's available as a digital image at the In Style Stamps Store.

Challenges: 
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - 3 D
Create With Connie & Mary - Anything But A Card

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Thank You!

I have another thank you card to share with you today, this is Violet from In Style Stamps.


My two youngest kids are both in beginning band and my daughter wants to learn to play the violin.  She's playing the flute right now and her brother has started out with the required recorder and hopes to graduate to the Saxophone.  I chose this In Style Stamps image thinking of my daughter Jenny and she loves it!  I think one day it will make a nice thank you card for our friend Mr. Woody their band teacher, it's going in my stash.

Violet is colored with Copic markers and cut out with Spellbinders dies and the thank you sentiment is punched with Stampin' Up! circle punches, the patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Kioshi paper pad and the dark green organdy ribbon from my thousand yard stash.  The purple card stock is Plum Pudding by Papertrey Ink. 

Challenges:
Digital Tuesday - Thank You - Give Thanks

Friday, September 24, 2010

Thinking Of You

Our In Style Stamps design team is having blog hop today!  It starts at In Style Stamps here.

For my card/project today uses In Style Stamps Firefly Chloe.
My first photo is of my completed card front.  It measures 6" x 6", I used Memory Box Blackbird papers and kept my layout as clean and simple as possible to showcase Firefly Chloe and this gorgeous fall themed paper.  She's colored with Copic markers and you'll see a list of marker colors in one of the photos to come.  I used Stampin' Up! Crystal Effects on the jar of firefly's Chloe is holding to give it some shine and to make it look real.  To make the border strip I used the Stampin' Up! Spiral Border punch.
This is a photo of my card front again after I added it to my Copic coloring book.   The only difference is a pull tab at the top of the card.
This photo shows what's under the card front on the pull tab.  If you'd like to see the front of my Copic Coloring Book and read more about it, you can find it here and here.

I'd also like to tell you about a great product I got to try out courtesy of In Style Stamps.  Our design team was given a few different Glue Arts products this month to try out.  A Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro and a couple of other packages of Glue Arts adhesives.  They're really nice and work quite well.  Below is a photo of a box of cards going out at the end of the month to Operation Write Home.  There are close to 300 cards in the box, my friend Dagmar and I had an Operation Write Home card making party in honor of Operation Write Home's birthday this month.  The point of this story is to tell you we used the Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro to put all these cards together and the ones that were falling apart back together!  
Both Dagmar and I are former Stampin' Up! demonstrators so our party consisted of taking all of Dagmar's card fronts from swaps, conventions and just samples over the years and attach them to card bodies and stamp the backs with the OWH stamp.  I have more cards and Any Hero coloring pages to add to our box before the end of the month.  You can win a Glue Arts goodie pack by leaving comments for each blog post this release week on the In Style Stamps blog!

Did you know In Style Stamps is featuring Operation Write Home with a special challenge and FREE digital stamp this week?  You only have a couple of days left to enter into the challenge so go check it out! 

Your next stop on this blog hop is the wonderfully talented Kerry!

Don't forget to leave comments on each of the blogs on the hop and vote at the In Style Stamps blog for a chance to win an In Style Stamps goodie bag valued at $25.00!
 
Challenges:
Stamp Something - Fall Colors

Thursday, September 23, 2010

In Style Stamps Mail Box Love

Tomorrow is the big day for new releases at In Style Stamps!

I used the In Style Stamps digital image Mailbox Love for my card today.   The image is colored with Copic markers and I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper with it as well as an old Stampin' Up! 6 x 6 pad that I can't remember how or when I got it.  The sentiment was a freebie I picked up from Fred She Said Designs a few weeks ago.  I used the Spellbinders circle and pinking circle dies and the scalloped border is a die from MFT Stamps.  

I really like this In Style Stamps image and this it will be fun to use over and over.
Cards for Operation Write Home comes to mind for this image.

Challenges:
Charisma Cards - Anything Goes
Thoughtful Thursdays - Use A Digi


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

In Style Stamps Inspiration Challenge

It's our In Style Stamps Inspiration Challenge today, and this month we've been challenged to:
Tell us what your favorite childrens book is and make a card/project based on it.

I used Janice from In Style Stamps, she comes as a digital image and you can find her here.
Here's my inspiration photo.  
My youngest children are 9 and 10 now so I had to think about this one, at this stage of life they have Goosebumps books from the library, text books and music books for practicing their flute and recorder.  They read to me out of the reading text books and I just love looking at the graphics to see how the images are colored and shaded as I listen.  Sick huh?  

I actually talked with them about this challenge and they brought me their old Zachary's Zoo book.  We loved sitting and reading that one together not so very long ago.  I had to study it for awhile before the card formed in my mind.  Below is what I came up with.
The simplest thing for me to do was use as many of the colors from the cover of the book as I could.  

Zachary is kind of in a canopy of tropical leaves so I used an old Close To My Heart stamp set for my leaves and even cut out a set of them to hang down over Janice just a little.  The Stampin' Up! Top Note die with the oval cut out is to give the illusion that she's in the jungle too.  I used a Quickutz die for leaves to make the tropical flower down in the right corner and added some tiny red rhinestones to it and I noticed the colorful toucan in the upper left middle of the book cover so I thought a purple butterfly would work okay there. 

I can't wait to go see what our other In Style Stamps design team mates have made!
You can join in the fun at the In Style Stamps Inspiration Challenge too!  Click the link above and it will take you there.

Monday, September 13, 2010

A Sneak Peak From In Style Stamps!

In Style Stamps has new stamps and digital images being released September 24th!

My card today is a sneak peak of one of their digital images called Mailbox Love.  When I saw this image I immediately thought of Operation Write Home, what a great image to use on some of the cards I'd like to make for the troops!  

The layout for my card is Mercy Kerin's sketch challenge #90 at her Lord Have Mercy blog.  The patterned papers are from the  Basic Grey Offbeat paper pad.  I colored the image with Copic markers and matted it on an additional piece of Offbeat patterned paper and a scalloped circle in white.  The "love you" sentiment is a from a Flourishes tag set, I added a button with embroidery floss to my Spellbinder's tag after touching it up with my BG 72 Copic marker, it's attached with SU Crystal Effects for lasting hold.  I also added three white half pearls to finish my card.  

I hope you enjoyed my In Style Stamps sneak peak!  Be sure to visit the In Style Stamps blog to see all of our new release image sneak peaks.

Challenges:
Bah! Humbug! - Your favorite Medium - Copics & Digi stamps
Southern Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenges - Anything Goes
Stamping  Scrapping Central - Anything Goes


Wednesday, September 8, 2010

You're Too Kind

It's color challenge day at In Style Stamps!  

Below is our inspiration photo, I hope you'll join us at In Style Stamps for this color challenge, you have the chance of winning In Style Stamps prizes for your entry!  Click on the link and it will take you to all the details about the color challenge!
I didn't realize it until I looked around our house one day but I LOVE the fall color palette!  Strangely enough if you go room to room you'll see mostly all the same fall color scheme, it was totally unplanned and I thought I had an eclectic mix of stuff.  Guess not...

My card today was so fun to make, I chose Lizzie from In Style Stamps to work with, she comes as a rubber stamp as well as digital for us that like instant gratification.  Lizzie is colored with Copic markers and my layout was a sketch but isn't recognizable as the sketch anymore.  You'll notice I didn't use any patterned paper for this card, I used a Hero Arts background stamp on the green panel, a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the SU Summer Sun panel and a SU punch on the Kraft panel.  The tag is a Spellbinders die and the sentiment is from Verve Visual, I added a thin scrap of Brick Red card stock through the hole in the tag to look like ribbon and the flower is a Papertrey Ink die I've been dying to have!  

Be sure to stop by the In Style Stamps blog to see all of the other wonderful inspiration our design team ladies have for you today and join in the fun ~

And... be sure to check in at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps today for the Midweek Throwdown Challenge - Thank You Cards With A Fall Theme and of course all the other challenges going on this month for our birthday celebration!

In Style Stamps will be featuring Operation Write Home September 19th, that's all I can say for now...  
you won't want to miss that challenge either!!

Challenges:
Totally Stampalicious - Paper Flowers
Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Fall Themed Thank You
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate Fall
Fab & Funky - What 'eva
Gingersnap Creations - Punches
Stamp & Create - Flowers

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Miss You T Slide Card

Have you ever made a T Slide card?  Me either... before today!  

It's September 1st, the first Wednesday of the month so it's time for the In Style Stamps Sketch Challenge #13 and there's a little addition to the sketch this time, making it a T Slide card as well as following the sketch.  I'll direct you to the tutorial that was provided for me so you can try it too!  

Here's the link to Splitcoaststampers.  The prize for participating in the sketch challenge this month is 2 digital images if you use an In Style Stamps image.  One In Style Stamps digital image if you chose not to use one of their images.  All winners are selected by a random number generator.

This was a fun and challenging card for me to make.  I didn't have the same tools as was used in the tutorial so I needed to make some adjustments and I enjoy that kind of challenge.  You know, figuring things out, modifying them and making them work for me.   My card is 6 1/4" square because I wanted my digital image of Tracy to be nice and big for you to see and me to color.  ;)  The patterned paper on this card is from my almost gone pad of Basic Grey Urban Prairie.  The card stock is Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores and the Yellow is from a ream in my stash that I need to use more often!

Tracy is colored with Copic markers, here's what I used:
Hair:  R22, R37, R46, R59, E37, E44, E59
Skin:  E00, E000, E0000, E04, R02
Eyes: YG11, YG13
Shirt:  BG10, BG11, BG13
Pants:  C6, C3, C1
Stool, phone:  Y000, Y11, Y13, E43,E51
Here's a photo of the inside of my card.  As I was putting my prototype together I was thinking about which of my In Style Stamps digital images I'd like to use and what the inside of the card should say.  

One of my dear friends came to mind, she's struggling with life right now and has kind of pulled away.  I understand it's not about me and people we love sometimes need their own time and space to figure things out.   I think this would be a nice way to let her know I'm still here when she's ready. 
Maybe I can put my card through the mail slot in the door where she works and pray no one steps on it before she sees it first thing in the morning.

And, here's the sketch for you to try.  Be sure to stop by the In Style Stamps blog to see what our other fabulous designers have made with this sketch and what their T Square cards look like.
The prize for this sketch challenge are 2 digital images from In Style Stamps if you use and In Style Stamps image and one digital image if you don't.  
Challenges:
Our Daily Bread - Texture It
Speedy The Cat & Friends - Friendship
Scrappy Frogs - Slider Cards
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Anything But Christmas
Your Next Stamps - Anything Goes

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cupcake Chloe for Cupcake Inspirations

My card today is for the Cupcake Inspirations challenge, In Style Stamps is sponsoring the challenge this week!  I used Cupcake Chloe and colored her with Copic markers.  Cosmo Cricket DeLovely papers seemed perfect for this challenge and my layout is a sketch by my friend Karen over at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps a few months ago.
Challenges:
Penny's Challenges - Color challenge pink & green
Your Next Stamp - Bold, Bright Summery Colors
The Lolipop Ladies - Cupcake with ruffles
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Pretty In Pink

Friday, August 27, 2010

In Style Stamps Blog Hop Today!

It's Blog Hop day at In Style Stamps, this months theme is end of summer!  I hope you arrived here from  Axa's blog Crafts & Love, but if not you can start here.

Instead of making a card I made a gift box using the In Style Stamps Flower Love digital image.  It's a quick and simple image to color and then I got a little carried away, in a very fun way of course!   The Flower Love image I used is a new release and became available for purchase August 20th.

I added the dots around the Flower Love image using a stamp from Waltzing Mouse then cut it out with a Spellbinders Labels 10 die and matted it with a bigger Labels 10 die and matted it again with the largest Labels 10 die.  I added a bow using Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist ribbon.  The Gingham patterned paper is from a Martha Stewart pad.

After I made the tag I needed a box so I got out my trusty Scor - Pal and made a box that I could fill with A6 sized cards later.  I used the Papertrey Ink jumbo ric rac die to decorate the sides and layered white and another piece of the Bayou Blue paper after embossing it with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The "live your bliss" stamp is also made by Papertrey Ink.
Here's a side view.

I have one more project to share with you that I made for a friends baby shower tomorrow.  I was asked if I could make a book to write notes of advice, best wishes and scripture in.  Do you know what I said?  I have just the thing!  So, here's my little book.
I used Ellie one more time and paper pieced her and colored her just a tiny bit with Copic markers.  It wasn't my intention to paper piece her in the beginning.  The Spellbinders Fancy Tag was printed on the same white sheet of card stock as Ellie.  It had no pop off of the cover so I thought I'd try it in color.  Ellie just happened to print with it again on the colored paper and I thought I'd see what it would look like if... 
...and here's a photo of the inside.  I used the Stampin' Up! Top Note die for the cards to write notes to our friend on.  The other tools used to make this little book are a Bind It All, paper trimmer and Scor - Pal.
Hope she likes it!

Ohhh, I seem to have gotten a little off the theme of the hop in my excitement over my project...

I hope you have time to hop along with the In Style Stamps blog hop, the next stop on our hop is the fabulous Barbara at Forgotten Scraps, enjoy yourself!