Morning Cup x 3--sounds about right for me!

That is three cups of coffee while doing my morning computer work, that is not to mention how much more I may or may not drink throughout the day.  I do love my coffee!  Surprisingly I am drawn to the tea part of this stamp set more, weird how that is.  Anyway, I am still working on samples for the Challenge/Contest on Latenightstampers.  Remember the one where someone is going to win $25 worth of Stampin Up products of their choice from me.  If you want more details check out this post, or better yet join the Latenightstamper's group and play along. It's free and awesome too!

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Anyway here are three samples using the brand new set called Morning Cup.  I used the same colors and papers on all three.  Fun cards.  I am loving these new in colors!  So fun.

Don't you agree that these colors are fun.

Stamps: Morning Cup
Paper: Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Whisper White Sunny Garden DP, in color paper pack
Ink: Basic Black Pear Parfait, Poppy Parade
Other: top not die, markers, embossing folders, rhinestones, Wide oval punch, Spiral Border Punch, build a brad, in color ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today, tomorrow will be the Blogger's challenge so come on back!
Mary Jo

4 more cards withthe In Wilderness Stamp Set

Seems that Blogger and I have not been getting along lately.  I have been trying to post these card since yesterday morning!  It just would not let me do a new post?  Well it seems I am winning for the time being so I better type fast, lol.  Here are the other four cards made with the In Wilderness stamp set that I said I would post yesterday.

I really enjoyed making these cards.  They are all fairly simple and make wonderful masculine cards.  I f you have any questions feel free to leave a comment (with your e-mail) and I will get back to you.  I am afraid I may have some type of stomach bug, so I am going to lay down for a while.  Hope you have a great day!

Mary Jo

Technostamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 132!

Here we go again.  I love Mondays because I love sketch challenges and I get to share mine with you on Mondays and spend the week seeing what you create with the sketch.  I hope you find time to play along this week.  Participation was a bit down last week, but I hope it goes up again this week.  Anyway, this sketch made for a super fast card--I love that!  And it is a masculine card to boot!  Again, got to love that!  Here is the sketch....

As you can see I decided to turn it on it's side for my card.

When I first saw this set I didn't really like it but it really is easy to work with,  I am very happy I got it.  Tomorrow I will be sharing 4 more cards with it.  Remember this week is the continuation of the challenge/contest on Latenightstampers.  One stamp set--two or more cards (that's the challenge) and who can post the most cards using the challenge (the contest-you can win $25 worth of your choice of Stampin Up product.)

Stamps: In Wilderness
Paper: Crumb Cake, Peach Parfait DP and card stock
Ink: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip
Other: brads, circle scissors plus, markers, colored pencils

Remember to come on back and add you sample below on the Inlinkz!

Thanks for visiting and playing along!
Mary Jo

Top Three for Sketch 131!

What beautiful cards this week ladies. Even with the lower participation it was still hard to choose since they were are so fabulous! Thanks so much to everyone who played along with last week's sketch challenge. Here are my top three favorites for the week. Remember that you can click on the little previews of the cards to be brought to the creator's original post with all the details. I would love if you took a few minutes to leave the winners a comment. We all love comments, makes us what to work harder!

Mary Brown

Susan's Crafty Chaos

Robbie Rubala

Thanks again to all who played along.  Ladies that have won feel free to add my badge to your blog.  Here is the HTML Code:

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Blogger's Challenge gone bad--too many bugs!I

I got this super cool thing in the mail the other day. It was a canister type thing and when you opened it there were drink mixes in there.  I was so excited because I thought it would make a super cute gift holder.  I was thinking fun summery paper on the outsides and then filling it with a small sun screen, nail file chap stick, small lotion.  You get the picture don't you.  Well as the title implies--it did not work.  After I covered the inside part with paper it would no longer fit inside the outer part!  No matter what I did--can't believe they were that tight--I only used designer paper and only one layer!  So that was that!  I decided to cover the other part and make them into pencil and accessory holders.  Sorry guys.....I am sure the rest of the Blogger's challenge crew had better luck than me, lol. You can visit them by clicking on the logo on the top right hand side of my blog.  I do have some fun bug cards to share at the end of the post though!

Here is the original container....

And my boring old containers....

Here are my buggy posts too.  This week and next on Latenightstampers we have a contest/challenge going on where you could win $25 worth of Stampin Up product of your choice from me.  The details of the challenge are as follows....

Challenge 80--one stamp set two or more cards

And a contest to see who can post the most samples using this challenge (in the Challenge 80 members photo album)

You can win $25 worth of your choice of products from the new catalog!!

Challenge and Contest will run from July 19-August 2

So here are some samples with the Bugs and Kisses stamp set.

All three cards use the Bugs and Kisses set.  The one with the ants carrying the caterpillar also uses the Loads of love set.  I also kept to the same color combo using the same papers and inks.

Papers Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, and the dp from our current mini.
Ink: Old Olive, Real Red, Basic Black, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie
Other: wide oval punch, ribbon, scallop edge punch, mini circle punch from the punch pack, embossing folders. 

Hope you have a great weekend--full of fun and blessings!
Mary Jo