Inkredible Stamping with Julie

CARD: Night in Bethlehem

Hi Stampers, At the beginning of November I had my annual Christmas Card stamp a stack. If you follow me on Facebook you've already seen the pictures from that fun day!! Today I'm going to share with you one of my favorite cards from the class. I am so in love with the Night in Bethlehem stamp set. It's a beautiful stamp set that lets you create simple stunning cards. When you add in the coordinating die set you get even more fun options!. For this card we kept it simple. Stamping on card stock, add in a little Merry... Read more →

Hello Bookmark - New In Colors

Hi Stampers, Last Saturday was the first stamp camp with the new 2015 Catalog out - so of course we had to play around with the New In Colors!! We started off stamp camp with a simple Bookmark featuring all five new colors... We used the Layered Letters Alphabet stamp set to stamp background circles in Tip Top Taupe Cucumber Crush Mint Macaron Watermelon Wonder Tip Top Taupe This we stamped the Hello greeting, used the Triple Banner Punch to add a perfect banner to the end of the bookmark and topped it off with some of the SUPER Yummy... Read more →

World Book Night 2013

Hi Stampers! Tomorrow Night is World Book Night!! and I was honored to be selected again this year as one of the Book Givers!!! WHAT IS WORLD BOOK NIGHT? World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people go out into their communities and give half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light or non-readers. World Book Night is about more than just encouraging people to read more! It’s about people, communities and connections, about reaching out to others and... Read more →

World Book Night: Spreading the Love of Reading

Who is helping to give out half a million free books all across America on one day? I am. Tonight is the first United States World Book Night. World Book Night U.S. is an ambitious campaign to personally give out thousands of free, specially printed books across America. Volunteer book lovers like myself are helping to promote reading by going into our communities and handing out free copies of books we love to new or light readers. Thirty different book titles were chosen to be a part of WBN and when I put in my application I was able to... Read more →

A Tag that Will Brighten Your Day

This weekend my Cousin was celebrating her Baby's 1st Birthday with a Rainbow Party! Of course you know for me that means the present has to work with the theme! So I decided to create a Rainbow tag for the wrapping. OMG I think this tag is the most adorable thing I've made EVER (If I do say so myself ) Of course the gift inside the package had to work with the theme too - So I found what I quite possibly my new FAVORITE children's book EVER: Pantone Colors I LOVE how this board book takes a different... Read more →

Demons are a Girls Best Friend

Demons are a Girls Best Friend by: Linda Wisdom (Author's Website) (Hexy Witches #5) Sourcebooks, Incorporated, April 2011 384 pages From the Publisher: A bewitching woman on a mission… Feisty witch Maggie enjoys her work as a paranormal law enforcement officer—that is, until she’s assigned to protect a teenager with major attitude and plenty of Mayan enemies. Maggie’s never going to survive this assignment without the help of a half-fire demon who makes her smolder… A hotter-than-sin hero with an agenda… Declan is proprietor of an underground club and busy demon portal. No way he’ll allow his demon race to... Read more →

The Quick and the Thread

The Quick and the Thread by: Amanda Lee (Author's Website) (An Embroidery Mystery #1) Obsidian, August 2010 336 pages From the Publisher: When Marcy Singer opens an embroidery specialty shop in quaint Tallulah Falls, Oregon, she throws a soiree and a Stitch-In. Soon, Marcy’s sign-up sheet for embroidery classes fills up and everyone in town seems willing to raise a glass—or a needle—to support the newly-opened Seven Year Stitch. Then Marcy finds the shop’s previous tenant dead in the storeroom, a message scratched with a tapestry needle on the wall beside him. Now Marcy’s shop has become a crime scene,... Read more →

Town in a Lobster Stew

Town in a Lobster Stew by: B. B. Haywood (Author's Website) (A Candy Holliday Murder Mystery #2) Berkley (Prime Crime), February 2011 384 pages From the Publisher: Things start to boil over at the annual Lobster Stew Cook-Off when an award-winning recipe is stolen and a seven-time contest champion mysteriously disappears—leaving Candy no choice but to find out who in Cape Willington, Maine, would get steamed enough to break the law. Quick Thoughts on This Book From Julie: I had a hard time getting through the first few chapters of this book. It didn't seem to be moving quick enough... Read more →

A Crafty Killing

A Crafty Killing by: Lorraine Bartlett (Author's Website) (A Victoria Square Mystery #1) Berkley (Prime Crime), February 2011 304 pages From the Publisher: The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner, Ezra Hilton, is found lying at the bottom of a staircase, bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. A collection of booths for artisans and craft sellers in a renovated applesauce factory building, Artisans Alley is the main attraction in the quaint Victoria Square shopping area. But business under Ezra had been faltering—enough to provoke someone to... Read more →

Stitch Me Deadly

Stitch Me Deadly by: Amanda Lee (Author's Website) (An Embroidery Mystery #2) Obsidian, February 2011 336 pages From the Publisher: Maggie Singer owns The Seven Year Stitch, an embroidery specialty shop in the small town of Tallulah Falls, Oregon. Trouble strikes when an elderly woman brings an antique piece of embroidery into the shop—and promptly dies of unnatural causes. Now Marcy has to stitch together clues to catch a crafty killer. Quick Thoughts on This Book From Julie: I love cozy mysteries and I LOVE a book set in a crafty store so of course this book was a pattern... Read more →