Early St. Patty Bling

Just a quick post - I created these for my daughter to wear these to school. She said the band hurt so I made the hair band for her. Happy St. Patty's Day early!!

Spring in a Jar - My first contest!

SVGCuts.com is having a contest with their kits.  I had to use only the contents of a few kits to create something new or update something they did.  So I created a acetate jar with Spring inside.

This jar is from the Toil and Trouble Kit - it's a potion jar that I did at Halloween.  

This one is over a foot tall!

Here is some pictures of it all going together:

 It was a feat of magic to put the lid and jar together - did you know if you bend it too far it snaps in half!

 Here is my Cricut cutting lots of colors all at once - ran this machine about 4 times full of leaves.

 The Clematis leaves were used to create a base and make the ground uneven and full of greens.

 I love Clematis plants.  My current house doesn't have one. Can't get it to grow.  Now I have one all year round in my house.  I plan on making a bigger one for my bedroom wall.

 The fence is rectangles twisted into pipes and then I took twine and made it look like it's holding the plant.

 Some flowers are added and more leaves.

 Finished the plants!

Thanks for looking!  Check out SVGCuts.com for all their kits and you can follow the contest on their Facebook page: Spring Challenge.

Wish me luck!

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Mary Eisen

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Floral Happiness

If you are coming from Joy's blog, you are on the right track. If you are starting here, keep hopping and you will make a complete circle!

This is the stamp set for March:

I had a hard time with this stamp set. . . .

I didn't like just stamping the flowers in two colors. I'm way too out of the box for that.

So I tried to do inside the box and just stamp flowers with 2 different colors . . .

I didn't like the way it looked.

I tried St. Patrick Day colors:

What about doing some masking and talk about a technique:

OOOOOHHHHHH, the green on green looked great!  Making a bunch of flowers - Thanks A Bunch . . .

I was warming up to this until I put the detail stamp on top and it looked like CABBAGE PATCH!!

So out came the bunny stamp and Whala!   

Easter Card No. 1 for 2013! 

(I made the front flower and the bunny stand out from the card using foam squares).

 And the inside reads: Happy Easter to my peeps!

Hmmm . . . Maybe more color on the front:

Thanks for looking.  HOP over to Jill's blog to see what neat things she has made with this stamp set!

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Mary Eisen

New Product Blog Hop!

If you are coming from Elizabeth's blog, you are on the right track, if not, start here and keep jumping and you will do a complete circle.  Here is some great ideas to do with the new products from our New Catalog!

I worked with the paper called Chantilly!

I created this 3D picture frame!

 My daughter just celebrated her 7th birthday and we did it western style.  

All the girls created their own little cowgirl hat.  

My daughter is wearing her real one.  

The ones in the background on the table are the paper ones.

 Here is a mini one I cut for giggles.  The bigger ones below are big enough for their heads.

 They decorated them with large craft diamonds, unlike the Sparkles I used on the mini one.

My picture frame is complete with sides and a back.  

Got the cutting file from SVGCUTS.com - Love this place! 

Her name is stamped onto a Dimensional Element piece from Chantilly DE Pack! 

Hope you like my project.

Now got to Melinda's Blog for more great products and ideas!

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Mary Eisen

Happy Valentines Day!

Just a few photos of how our day started out. The box is what my daughter and I made for her party today. Thanks for looking and I'll have another special post tonight for a product blog hop!

Thanks for looking!

What Jeanie and Gary found when they woke up!

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - February Home Sweet Home

If you are coming from Krista's Blog, you are on the right track! If you are starting here, keep clicking and you will do a complete circle.  This is a great way to see a ton of creative ideas for the stamp of the month!

Here is February's Stamp set:

This stamp set means more to me than I think to some people.  

The stamp I used is the the top left.  

I sell real estate and in the last couple of years I've had to watch families give up and walk away from their American Dream - their home and home ownership.  I've also had to come to the belief that as long as I'm with my family and we are healthy, then I have all I really need and it doesn't matter where we live.

I made this for my hubby for Valentines Day. 

I know he'll understand the hidden deeper meaning. 

Hey! Let's do a little Game!  What stamp set is the heart from - It's an oldie but a goodie!

Now hop on over to Wanda's Blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

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Mary Eisen

Writing on the wall

Something I did before Christmas, my church asked me to do some "writing" on their wall! I cut and and installed this on their wall! My husband and I did it during a school day. Boy, did we draw attention from students and staff. It was fun and I'll be doing more for them again!

Thanks for looking!

Welcome to the New Year!

Wishing you and your family a Happy and Safe New Year!

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Mary Eisen

January Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

We enter a new year and a new blog hop!

If you are coming from Nikka's Blog, you are on the right track, if not, 

keep hopping and you will make a complete circle.

This month we are doing Valentines Day stamps. 

This stamp set is called Happy Valentine's S1301 - you can get it for only $5 

with a purchase of $50 or you can buy it for $17.95.

Here is the stamp set:

I made a Valentine's card, but you could do so much more with this set. I used Cashmere Ink to stamp the image. I then used our color pencils to color in the flowers and leaves. I used two different color pinks/purples pencils. I went to outline a leaf and hated the color so I cut out the flower image and to hide the boo boo I put that leaf behind the box I made for the Happy Valentines. Chocolate Ink was used for the Happy Valentines Day stamp.

Thanks for looking, now head over to Wendy's Blog for some more great ideas for this stamp set.

Don't forget to have a happy, safe and wonderful new year! 

Right about Midnight the three of us will be celebrating with Sparkling Grape Juice!

December 25, 2012

From my family to yours

Hope Your holiday is merry and bright!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Whooo's Your Valentine Blog Hop

We are hopping again for a special that is kicking off December 13! (Tomorrow)

If you are coming from Susan's Blog, you are on the right track,
otherwise, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  

Just spend $35 dollars in product and get this awesome kit with directions to make adorable Valentines treats for only $10! 

You get tubes and pre-cut cubes and a whole 12 x 12 sheet of Silver Glitter Paper and this great stamp set:

The rules for this hop is that we had to do something other than the kit it's self.
So I saw the owls and I thought what a great card for Christmas!
There is 3 in my household so this is just the right amount of birds!

I cut the leaves and the branch freestyle.
The winter "gear" came from another stamp set - can you guess which one?
It's an oldie but goodie!

I stamped the ear muffs twice so that they overlapped and cut out the smaller center one
to create a tiny one for the little owl.  Let me know what you think!

Now hop on over to Lucy's Blog for more great ideas for this stamp and kit!

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Mary Eisen

December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

If you are coming from Amy's Blog, keep hopping you are on the right track, if you are starting here, keep hopping you will do a complete circle.

Oh, what a time to be bad!  

I've been too busy this month and forgot the blog hop.  

I made this cute little 3x3 card to show you one of the stamps that I'll be using this month for my presents:

I used our markers to accent the stamp and add some color.

This is all the images from the set!  You could make a lovely calendar with this set!!

You can get this set for $5 with a qualifying order on my site!

I was busy with 2 trade shows and a weekend retreat - all day today I made this:

150+ piece of Baklava!  I now have to go back into the kitchen and put them in little paper cups for the bake sale at church tomorrow - it's my donation - so you decide how bad was I?

 Now head over to Lauire's Blog for more great ideas for this set!

Happy Holidays!

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Mary Eisen

Love Your Layouts - Studio J!

I was running thru some links on the corporate website when I came across some archived YouTube videos regarding Studio J.  I found about 16 informative videos that I will be adding here weekly.  I just love the company I sell for!

What a great way to learn the digital scrapbooking program.
Also, our software is online, FREE and you can go in and play, save your work for up to 3 months - if you print your layouts, it saves it longer - go play and test it out!

You can Google the YouTube videos or if you sign up to get emails of my posts then they will be sent to you automatically!  (Sign up for emails on the right)  

Follow along as we show you how to do this great layout in Studio J!  

See how easy it is to do digital scrapbooking!

Set up your Studio J account or 

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Ink It Up!!!

Discover the versatility of the Exclusive Inks^® alcohol-based marker sets and pigment pad sets to bring your artwork to life!

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What I'm thankful for

I'm thankful this year for all the blog readers like you!

I've been MIA - I've tried typing this via iPad 4 times.  So I'm not going to retype my whining about being sick or too busy.  I enjoy busy but not sick.

My kitty Fluffy was massively all over the stove today - first time ever - funny thing was that when I put some in her dish she didn't want any!  Had to put can cat food in her dish!

I hope your family and you have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend!

More to come from me soon!