Riley and Company *NEW* Stamp Release BLOG HOP!

Welcome friends! 

 I know it's cold outside for most of you so pull up a comfy chair, 

your coffee or tea and hop along with us tonight as you enjoy the first

 NEW STAMP RELEASE of 2014 for Riley and Company Stamps! 

 Head Moose Tanya has simply outdone herself with 60 new Funnybones 

and 10 new Riley/Sophie stamps! 

*Bliss!*

I'll be showing you 3 cards tonight, introducing new stamps and sentiments.

If you are hopping along, you should have arrived from

 Heather's happy blog! 

 If you need to start at the beginning, start at the Riley and Co Blog.

First up, I have a card showingcasing the new Funnybones sentiment

"Fruit salad for dinner" that I've paired with Pointing Midge - already available in the store!

 Inside of the card:

Next up, is new release stamp Meditating Sophie!
This stamp could be used for a variety of cards
and a great way to start of the new year's personal journeys!

 The card inside with a new Funnybones sentiment "Its all good"

 Lastly, I've created a tent card with the new Funnybones
sentiment "Trust me, you can dance." ~ Vodka -
hee hee!
I've paired it with Staying Alive Riley, polyester
light blue suit and all! :)

Card was modified from the original tutorial I found at SCS
for tent cards to lean back a little better,
as you can see here ;)

 

That's it for this stop on the hop!

This new release is OVER THE MOON fantastic!!

From here, you'll hop on over to Michele's marvelous blog!

Before you go, I wanted to let you know about a few specials!


We will be giving away gift certificates to two lucky winners that leave comments on RILEY's blog!

Special #1: Buy the entire unmounted sheet of the new Riley for only $40! (Save $10!) (Offer not available to wholesale customers.) Limit one per customer. Offer ends January 20th.
Special #2: You can also get a set of 3 FREE Funnybones stamps (our choice) during this release by simply placing an order of $25 or more (before tax) in the first 24 hours of the release! (One per customer please.)

Special #3: But wait - there's more! As an added bonus, we are giving EVERYONE FREE SHIPPING from Thursday night at 9 pm CST until Sunday night at midnight CST! Just enter FREESHIP in the coupon code section! 

Happy Hopping!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

WOYWW #241 ~ Riley Sneak #3!

 Happy Wednesday!

This is always a fun day of the week - WOYWW #241,

a fabulous hop around the globe thanks to the uber wonderful Julia!

I hesitated showing my desk today as it is in need a serious

need of cleaning up and organizing! :)

And that's because I've been super busy - as a mom, volunteer,

crafter, etc!

 Alright - here we go!  

See, pretty messy right now!  

The pile of red rubber is the Riley and Company new stamps

that you've been peeking at this week. I'm going through 

paper scraps to use the up and creating cards!

  First up, one of the new Riley and Company stamps

being released is Lipstick Sophie!

I paired her with another new stamp coming out

for a funny take on it, LOL!

  

This is the card inside ~ left blank for now

 

 Next up, using the same scraplings of paper,

I inked up Wondering Midge - already available in the shop,

with one of the new Funnybones stamps

"Wine with Laundry!"

I've often wondered myself - hee hee!

 

  Here's a quick reminder!

 Release Date: Thursday 16th January 2014

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday! You can find them in my sidebar.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday 16th January 10 PM EST, starting on the Riley and Company Blog.
• 60 Funnybones Sentiments and 10 Riley images to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Thursday 16th January10 PM EST.

Thanks for your visit today!

I'll see you tomorrow for another sneak and then the BIG HOP!!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

I'll enter the 1st card into: 
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #74 - Girly
Card Mania #8 - Anything Goes Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
2nd card: Craftycatz - Pink


 

Riley's new Challenge - Scraplings!

Hello dear friends!  Back today with the new Riley and Company challenge brought to us by our hostess this week, Frances.   Frances gave us a unique and wonderful challenge - one surely ALL of us can not only relate to but can jump on board the challenge with!   What could the challenge be? 

To use up our scraps!  In Frances' own words, she shares this:

So this week let's make "scraplings"
Scraplings are normally 1.25" x 4.25" because they are often made from the off cuts you get when you make a square card (4.25" square) from a piece of card that is 4.25" x 5.5". However if you are like me your scraplings may be a little wider depending on what you are working on at the time. Now for me 1.25" is way too narrow and I normally have wider card then that left over so you can makes yours wider .... BUT for this challenge they cannot be any wider then 2.5 inches that is for the base of the scrapling ... you can have wider pieces hanging off like I did with my scrapling above, that is up to you .... as long as they are no wider then 2.5 inches. 

Now doesn't this sound fun!  What a terrific way to use up those long scrap edges when cutting a card from a full sheet of cardstock .... creating something cute and with purpose at the same time!  Using Popcorn Riley, one of my faves of all times, I created this little scrapling which is actually a book binder marker.  It drapes right over the top of the book as a page marker ~ cute and handy!

Please upload your creations to the Riley Blog HERE.  When uploading to a gallery other than your blog, please use the keyword Riley1912.   I hope you have "loads of fun" making your scrapling!  :)

Before you go, in case you haven't heard, there is a SALE at Riley and Company!!  Get 50% off ALL Riley stamps!!!

Simply enter SUMMER50 in the coupon code during checkout! 

 But hurry - this offer ends Sept. 31st! 

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

  

Riley's Favorite Fairy Tale! :)

This week at Riley and Company is all about Fairy Tales!  The challenge is to show us your creations with your favorite Fairy Tale!

I’m an avid reader – I read pretty much a book a day.  Yes, a day! :)   I have a voracious appetite for books and have since I was a little girl.   Whenever we moved, which was often, the first thing I’d do was peddle my bike around town to find the library and join up!  Books are truly one of the most magical gifts we can give ourselves.

Truly, my ideal Fairy Tale would be a stack of ‘to be read’ books beside me on a chaise lounge at the beach under the first palm tree I find!  You can have the Castles and Prince Charmings (I already have one of those, too!) and I'll take my books!   I take a weekly trip is to the library where I’ll browse through the selected titles of the books on my long list, usually from my Goodreads lists.  Yes, I am OBSESSED with Goodreads and have been since I joined a few years ago :)  I spend hours at the library and browsing bookstores – new and secondhand – for hours on end just getting lost in the books  … some of which just happen to jump into my basket :)

Okay, I digress!  For the new Riley and Company Challenge this week, the theme is Fairy Tales.  I made 2 different types of bookmarks ~ one corner bookmark for the books I read in vast quantity and one kid's bookmark for my son. 

I used Sophie's waiting for a prince.  And my son is so crazy about Riley - he always asked me to stamp out a few extra images for him to color up as well so I created a bookmark of his very own.  He loved it!  We read every night without fail and it's a joy to pass on the baton of reading to my little ones (and the teenagers that aren't so little!) :)  For this one, I used Riley and the beanstalk.  

If you want to add your card to a gallery, please use the codeword Riley1712. And to see what the rest of the DT have created, please see my sidebar!  TFL!

Happy Reading, Happy Crafting!

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly

Entered into:  Pile it on Challenge:  Cuddly Critters

For the Special Guy :)

Hi there!  I hope your week is off to a good start :)   We have 2 of the kids at VBS this week and the other 2 are at 3 weeks of musical theater camp all day so for the next 3 weeks it zoom zoom all around town, all the while trying not to cough up a lung :)  

This bi-weekly challenge at Riley and Company is brought to us by Jovita who asked us to make a card for the special guy/Father.  My sweet father has left this earth to be with our blessed Savior and I await our great meeting again one day - hopefully many, many years from now :)  And I already made my honey his Father's Day card so I thought I'd make another one 'just for pun' :)  He takes our lil man fishing from time to time which is a joy like none other for him so I chose Fishing Riley.   This has always been one of my fave Rileys to use for the guys!  I love his old fishing hat, how relaxed he is hoping to catch something other than an old boot ;)   Remember to load your cards to the gallery using the keyword Riley1212 and you can link them to the challenge blog  ~ we'd love to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by today ~ have a fantastic rest of today!

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly

Entered cheerfully into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (or Father's Day)

Pile it On - Go Outdoors!
Delicious Doodles - For the Fellas
Patti's Creations - #45 Father's Day/For a Guy
Phindy's Place - Father's Day
Secret Crafters Sat. Challenge - Father's Day

Cheers!

Happy Friday! Just a quickie card that I made for a friend's "It's 5 O'Clock somewhere!" swap. For me, this would be the ultimate in relaxation and pleasure - to hang in a hammock with some CL lemonaid & a cool breeze - yay! The reality of that being the kids squealing & spraying each other with the hose and calling for "mooooooooooooom!", tee hee!

This will be a busy weekend, as we are paring down before our trip and really making room for what we have and don't need. So much of it has gone to church and charity already but there were a few things we wanted to try to put out in a tag sale. I'm nervous! We are not only expecting rain but it will be a lot of work to juggle at the same time but dh has the weekend off and is going to be a big help in this endeavor! Plus we are babysitting and dd10 has a sleepover and dd12 has a birthday party and did I mention this is finals weeks for the kids? Yikes!

Deets: SU Cardstock w/ some fun summery paper I found at the dollar spot at Target LAST SUMMER, lol ..... SU ribbon, MS lace punch, Riley w/ sentiment from Hanna Stamps, I believe? And stickles on the little drinkie ;) Have a terrific weekend!