Dream Big with Scrapping for Less and Pink and Main this Month!

Hello my lovely crafty friends! I again am so excited to bring you another great stamp company to the website. We have the fabulous company of Pink and Main! I soooo love Michelle...isn't she just adorable? If you didn't check out our "Getting to Know the Brand" blog post last Monday please do so, she is one fantastic lady. So, the Design Team has worked super hard again to bring you great projects for inspiration. We have a selection of items in the store for you of Pink and Main products...many of them from the brand new release that just happened! So hop along with us and get inspired as the team shares their projects.

Hi everyone! Thanks for hopping with us today so excited to be featuring Pink & Main this month they have quickly become one of my go to companies. Just the best images, great quality clear stamps, PINK dies! Hello! PINK dies! On top of that I truly believe in the vision of Pink & Main's owner, Michelle. She is talented, driven and unstoppable oh and a really sweet lady to top it off! Happy Hopping!

These cards were created using the Pink & Main stamp "So Cool" they were so much fun to work with and the paper you see on the card on the right is also from Pink & Main! "Spring Flings" and "Shades of Spring" such beautiful patterns and colors and they coordinate!

Lineup:

Scrapping For Less

Yvonne Morentin: Adventure of the Creative Mind

Stacy Tiedemann: Craft-A-Holic Momma

Teresa Russell: Fresh and Renewed

Kimberly Smith: Sunshine, Smiles, and Cards (YOU ARE HERE)
Sandy Bell Hentzel: Scrapbook Blessings Club  
Jessica Wilson: Stampin' and Craftin'
Tanya Hahn: Crafting on Caffeine

Sunny Studio Blog Hop with Scrapping for Less

Welcome to the Sunny Studio Blog Hop with Scrapping for Less. We are so thrilled to be adding another stamp company to the lineup here on the website. Sunny Studio is a fabulous company and has many types of designs to offer. Great stamps, great dies + great prices keep a crafter happy! Join in the blog hop and see what wonderful projects the Design Team has to offer. Hop through and leave a comment on each blog, then come back to the Scrapping for Less blog and enter via the rafflecopter to win the pictured prize. 

The Prize for the Rafflecopter Drawing! 

Hi guys!

It has been driving me bananas to keep the lid on the info that this fantastic company was coming to scrappingforless.com! I am so glad that the bunny is out of the bag! ( I already have Easter and Spring on my mind.) Hah!  

The stamp set I worked with is "A Good Egg" I stamped the little chick and the Easter basket in MFT Hybrid Ink and colored them with Copic Sketch Markers. I came back and went over the eggs in the basket and the bow on the basket with Spectrum Noir sparkle marker in clear. (I wish the pic did the shimmer justice!) I then grabbed a grassy edge from my stash and glued it on top so it would look as though the chick and the basket were in the grass. I used my Copic Sketch marker B000 to create the sky. I stamped the sentiment in VersaFine black onyx ink so it would be crisp and easy to read. I still felt like it needed something so I grabbed some of my pink lemonade sequins from Neat & Tangled to bring focus to my message.

 

 

 

I just couldn't leave the inside blank so I added my sentiment and had this little scrap left over from the background paper I had used to mat my little scene up above. I pulled this fun print from my Echo Park "Celebrate Easter" 6x6 paper pad. So talk about attention to detail! This little basket I stamped in the corner and colored quickly is a small version of the same basket on the front of the card in the first picture! HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE BASKET!???!!!

Thank you so much for hopping along with us today and don't forget to stop at all the other stops so that you can be entered for the FREE GIVEAWAY!!!

Wishing you sunshine and smiles,
Kim :)

The Blog Hop Line Up:

Scrapping For Less
Teresa: Fresh and Renewed
Yvonne: Adventure of the Creative Mind
Sandy: Scrapbook Blessings Club

Kimberly: Sunshine, Smiles and Cards (you are here)

Stacy: Craft-A-Holic Momma 

Hesitant Shopper No More!!!

Hi Everybody!

There is an issue that I didn't think was an issue until my recent experience (which is what today's post is about) however said issue drives my husband crazy. The issue is this: I am a hesitant shopper. So what I mean by that is I will see something, really want it, and then have to take some time to think about it. I may take days, weeks, months, and yes sometimes even years before deciding to actually purchase the item I initially wanted. At home in the States this method has typically served me well as often times by waiting I will get the item at a good discount or will find an item I would rather have. While living in Ireland...not so much.

So what had happened was...I had been in and out of a great Irish souvenir shop called Carroll's Irish Gifts and had seen the cutest mug that was covered in photos of Dublin's iconic places and items in black and white while having a few items like the double decker bus etc. in color.  I would love to show you a picture of this mug but alas I do not have one. Every time I saw the mug in a shop (many places we visited had this same mug) I would think to myself "you are living here you do NOT need a mug". So I didn't get it and I didn't get it and I didn't get it.

Fast forward to our last night in Dublin and I had decided that I wanted that mug. We had company with us and since it was our last night in Dublin we wanted to go out for dinner and have Bangers & Mash one more time. So we went out and then after dinner I dragged everyone to Carroll's to get my mug but they were closed. There was a chance that another Carroll's that was close by might be open so I dragged everybody over there but that one was closed too. Grrr! Now mind you it was cold and windy and not pleasant at all! So I had everybody tromping through city center for nothing! The store has a website so I went online to find it and the store no longer carries that mug. I found another mug that I liked so I ordered it. It came in the other day and I was so excited! I found the scissors, opened the box, unwrapped the bubble wrap and discovered my new mug was BROKEN!!!

Unbelievable! So I sent an email to the store and they were incredibly helpful and attentive but because the item was so inexpensive and the cost to replace it and cover shipping just didn't make sense so they issued me a refund. No Dublin mug for me. :(

 Lesson learned! In the future I will not procrastinate if it is something I really want. I got the "I told you so" look from Jamie (let's face it I got that look every time I mentioned the mug incident). Almost every morning when I go to get my coffee I think about the absence of my Dublin mug and shake my head to myself. Why must I always learn things the hard way?

Wishing you sunshine and smiles,
Kim :)