Sale-A-Bration Starts Tomorrow!!

HOW DO YOU EARN FREE GIFTS DURING SALE-A-BRATION?   Between Jan. 22 and March 22, you'll receive your choice of a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every $50 you spend. 

Place an order conveniently through my website at sweetpiecesbyme.stampinup.net.All the details will be posted tonight at Midnight, Mountain time!

See new products and stamp sets and get ideas here! I'll be posting some new card designs starting this week! One of my new years resolutions is to BLOG MORE!...My DS Wyatt, who is now 7 months old, keeps me busy. He doesn't sleep much during the day so I plan to make cards, craft, scrapbook at night. I will leave you with a picture I took, caught Wyatt spelling words with his blocks! ;-) Yep, gonna frame this one for sure!

Sweet Stamping,
Charlene

Menu Board

I've been wanting to create a menu board for a while now! I've seen a lot of them on Pinterest and I did get a few ideas from it. I finally did it! I am very happy with it. All I need to do now is type up all the recipes that I cook (and there's a lot), get them laminated and then hang up my board. Here is a picture of my finished board. I used all Stampin Up paper. Even though this paper is retired it is one of my favorites. I love that it matches Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake, two of my favs. The boxes that hold the recipes are actually for       3 x 3 notecards, I used the You Tube video here. I embellished them with the naturals buttons by SU as well. If you like what you see and you have any questions, let me know! Happy cooking!

Winner of my blog candy!

Hi Everyone and Merry Christmas!!!

Just wanted to announce the winner of my blog candy!

TAMIKA!

You are the winner of my blog candy! Please email me your address and I'll get it out to you. My email is sweetpiecesbymeatgmaildotcom.

Hope you all have a very merry Christmas!!

Charlene

A Simple Christmas Card

Here is a very simple Christmas card I made for my stamp a stack class. It's very easy to reproduce, definitely a 10 minute card. First I stamped the snowman from Snow Much Fun in black Staz-On ink. Then I used a blender pen to color him in. I used Cherry Cobbler, Lucky Limeade, Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie. Then I punched him out with a 1-3/4" punch and layered him on top of a 2-3/8" scallop circle. The card base is 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" Lucky Limeade folded in half. I adhered a piece of 4" x 5-1/4" Very Vanilla to that, and a piece of patterned paper 4" x 2" to that. The patterned paper is from the Festival of Prints designer series paper stack, which is only $6.95!  Above it I adhered a piece of Crumb Cake seam binding around the card. I stamped a sentiment from More Merry Messages in Basic Black. You can purchase any of these supplies from my website at sweetpiecesbyme.stampinup.net.

Signed up with Stampin' Up!...I'm back! Hello Blog Candy!!

Wyatt is almost 6 months old. I think I am finally getting a handle on his "schedule" but it is difficult. He doesn't sleep much...but I'm finally trying to get him to have at least 1 nap a day. I really try for 2. Some days he is the most happy boy. Some days he is kinda whiny...teething I'm sure. But no teeth poking out yet. 
We've had a busy couple of months, getting used to a baby...and moving!! Yep, my husband got promoted to Manager finally and we had to move to Antioch (or near there). It's pretty hard to get used to things because all my friends and family are in the Sacramento area. So I am re-starting up my Stampin' Up! business in this area and we'll see how it goes. :) I hope to share my love of stamping and crafting with everyone I meet! I will throw myself into my business and raising my son. Making new adventures and having new experiences. He really is a great little boy and a sweetie. Being a mommy is the best job!! Then being a Stampin' Up demonstrator. ;)

So I've been promising a blog candy, so HERE IT IS!!! You can win these goodies here! Just comment on this post and I'll pick a random comment on December 15th. Some of the goodies are American Crafts ribbon, a Glue Glider Pro Tape Gun, Fancy Pants rub-ons, SEI ribbon and an album made by me! So please comment so you have a chance to win! There will be more blog candy to come, this is just the beginning! :)

I've been busy...We had a baby!

So....I have been preoccupied...distracted...and a little overwhelmed! We just welcomed our first baby to the world on June 12th! He was a little early, almost 4 weeks. I had preeclampsia and very high blood pressure so he figured it was time to come into this world. He did with only 3 big pushes. Labor was not too bad but it wasn't easy. The Dr. missed the cavity for my epidural the first time and I threw up, but he got it the 2nd time. My labor started at about 6:45AM on the 12th and out came Wyatt Christiaan (yes with 2 A's) at 9:34PM on the 12th. (So glad he wasn't born on the 13th!) ;-)
So here is our little peanut!!!.............

Wyatt Christiaan 

4 lbs 11 oz

19" long 

I love being a mommy. I love taking care of him and just looking at him! And Galen is SUCH a great daddy. So Wyatt just turned 3 months old and he is finally sleeping for about 5 hours once we put him to bed at night. This is great because he doesn't sleep much during the day, just little naps! I have been working on his baby book and some scrapbook pages but it's hard. When he sleeps I usually try to grab a shower or make something to eat!! But it's getting better....sloooooowly. :)

I have recently resigned from Stampin' Up! to have more time for Wyatt and taking care of our home. I'm now a full time mommy and home maker. I love it so far, but it ain't easy! I do plan to sign up again as soon as I am able, November I think. That is my "hope" anyway, we'll see what happens.

I also plan to blog MORE!!! YAY!! I am going to want to brag to everyone about this little man, I'm sure. So, to celebrate, I am doing a BLOG GIVEAWAY!!! YAY!!! Haven't done one of those in a while! So, stay tuned, I should be announcing it this WEEKEND!!!

Thanks for staying with my blog! xoxoxo

New Stampin' Up! Products, A Challenge & Lemon-Raspberry Coffee Cake

Thanks for stopping by! I created this card using some new designer paper and stamps from Stampin' Up! I rounded corners all the corners to fit in with a challenge over at Scrapbook & Cards Today's Blog. I love the soft look the rounded corners give. It goes great with flowers! I'm in love with these bright, summery colors too - Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade and Tangerine Tango. It sounds like a great combination for a smoothie if you ask me! ;)
I'm not sure why this photo turned sideways - it was straight when I edited it!

Also, I made this Lemon-Raspberry coffee cake and I just wanted ya'll to know, it is delicious!! So, make it for Mother's Day or your next brunch and everyone will LOVE it. The only thing I changed was I added about 1 tsp of lemon zest and 1 Tbs of lemon juice to the cake batter. (Since it had no lemon flavor besides in the cream cheese) It had just the right amount of lemon flavor - not too much!  The cream cheese made it so moist. I think I will add a few more raspberries next time too. It's an impressive coffee cake!!