Loni's Life

This week I combined VC Rocks Weekly Challenge 5 - A Digital Father's Day or Masculine Card with Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge # 175 .   Late Night Stampers is also having a Masculine Card challenge . Created using images from  My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up! Hugs & Kisses image from All Holidays stamp set Happy Anniversary Image from Hugs and Wishes stamp set Hearts are from a heart punch

The Late Night Stampers Royal Blog Tour is coming November 5th thru 8th and I have been lucky enough to be selected as one of the Princesses on the tour. You can read my LNS Intro here .

Saturday Sketch Challenge #121 combined with Late Night Stampers Challenge #42 (Ruby Red, Really Rust, Old Olive) and completed in My Digital Studio

Late Night Stamper's Challenge #41 was a sketch challenge; I was playing with Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio and came up with this holiday card.

Late Night Stampers Weekly Challenge #38 was to use our Stampin' Pastels (chalks) Stamps: The More The Merrier (Hostess 3), Short & Sweet; Sassy Sparkles jumbo wheel  Ink: Versamark, Basic Black Paper: Melon Mambo, Whisper White Accessories: Stampin' Pastels (real red, brilliant blue, glorious green, sage shadow, pixie pink, yoyo yellow, lovely lilac); Melon Mambo polka dot grosgrain, large oval punch, oval scallop punch, stampin' dimensionals Technique: Poppin' Pastels  1]   Stamp the image with a white Craft Stampin' Pad or VersaMark ®  ink pad. 2]   Use sponge daubers to apply the pastel color directly to the ink. 3]   Blow off any excess powder. (Repeat this process if you are using this technique with a Two-Step Stampin' set.) QUICK TIP To avoid smearing, gently dab the chalk rather than rubbing it across the image. 

I won a limited edition Stampin' Up! Build-A-Bear Workshop bear from the Fabulous Sherrill Graff from Late Night Stampers. These stinkin' cute bears were only available at Stampin' Up!'s annual demonstrator convention this year. I didn't attend convention, though it would have been fun, educational, enjoyable.. and did I say fun? However, I am opting, instead, to go to Kauai in January for two weeks to celebrate my Grandma's 98th birthday. Oh boohoo, boohoo; such a hardship to go to Kauai... NOT!!! I LOVE going to Kauai and the family time is a bonus too as my Dad is definitely going along with my BFF and and hopefully my StepMama and StepGrandmama too. If scheduling works out, possibly even my DH may be able to go; but his work schedule is sketchy plus it may depend on my MIL's health status at that time too. Here's some other terrific locations to check out Sherrill's great work! Sugar Doodle Ronald McDonald House Charities Late Night Stamper...

The Late Night Stampers Royal Blog Tour from July 26 to 28 was great! All the glass slippers are in the process of disappearing, but I didn't want to lose this list of great stampers and their blogs. Stop by an visit their to see their latest creations. Castles listed alphabetical by surname . Angela Anderson Marie Aviza Connie Babbert Cindy Beach Patty Bennett Rachel Brumley Dawn Bullock Nola Burkhard Stacey Carter Kate Cecil Amy Celona Lee Conrey Amanda Coughlin Tangii Crain Marti Crapo Debbie Currier Monika Davis Dawn Dickinson Barbara Dondero Jennifer Eby Lorita Edwards Sharon Field Ann Fitton Raberta Gannon Sherrill Graff Marisol Gutierrez Frances Hicks Loni Holt Tammy Howell Sally Johnson Lucia Kaiser Bethany Keeney Virigina Killmore Lisa Kim Blythe Klipple Lynn Larson Nancy Legate Sandi MacIver Brenda Marshall Kelly Mayou Diane McCornack Natalie Meyer Heidi Michel Sarah Miller Lisa Milliron Gloria Plunkett Sue Poile Mary Jo Price-Williams Kendra Richardson Melissa Rodger...

I am pleased to present samples from The More The Merrier a Hostess Level 3 set. You can earn this set with your workshop order of $500 US or more. So contact me or your Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator to schedule ye Girl's Day Out or Girl's Night Out of Stampin' Up! fun today. Halloween Fun Stamps: The More The Merrier Ink: Basic Black Paper: Dusty Durango, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Cast-A-Spell Designer Series Paper Accessories: Stampin' Write Markers- Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Summr Sun; Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Rich Razzleberry polka-dot grosgrain, Silver brads Happy Thanksgiving Card Stamps: The More The Merrier; Teeny Tiny Wishes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds Ink: Not Quite Navy Classic Paper: Dusty Durango from Assorted In-Colors 8.5 x 11 package; Not Quite Navy Accessories: Metal Edge Tags, 1 3/4 & 1 3/8 Circle Punches, Stampin ' Writer Markers - Not Quite Navy, Creamy Caramel, Dusty Durango polka-dot grosgrain ribbon, Line...

The Royal Blog Tour is three days long, and you'll be happy it is! There are four tours - a total of 80 fabulous blogs! But wait - there's more! Blog Candy, Blog Candy, and more Blog Candy. Over 50% of the blogs on this tour are offering Blog Candy. Check the Princess list on launch day. Every name with an asterisk next to it is offering blog candy. That's not all!  The Royal Blog Tour Home Page is offering  their own Blog Candy. And it is -- a  Big Shot Die Cut Machine!!!!  Honestly - you don't want to miss this tour! This drawing is open to all countries represented by Princesses in this tour, including Canada and Australia!

For my non-stamping blog readers... the crown in the side bar means that I have joined the Late Night Stampers' Royal Blog Tour , as one of the tour stops, running July 26, 27 and 28.   What is a Blog Tour?... well, it's basically like the Cards For Heroes Memorial Day Weekend Blog Hop where I also participated as a blog hop stop (#124 at of over 130).  It's fun for me as a stamper and helped me to find my stamping mojo as it had gotten lost while my knitting mojo was going full force.   Now, I've found a way to do both :)  There will be four Tours of 20 talented stampers on each tour, so for my stamping and scrapping buddies it is a 3-day fest of oohs and aahs over lots of paper crafting.    I will be featuring projects using a new Level 3 hostess set, The More the Merrier .   If you choose to tour, and I encourage my stamping and non-stamping friends to do so, you will meet another talented "Loni" on the tour.. and no, it's not me using a different s...