Hello there and happy holiday Monday to you! In the States we are celebrating Labor Day with a long weekend, giving me LOTS of stamping time!

Today I'm playing along with The Paper Players and a fun Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge!

Here were my choices:

I decided to work with Birthday, Yellow, and Patterned Paper. I threw in the Pear Pizzazz because the challenge didn't say ONLY yellow :) I hope I don't get thrown out! lol

I pulled out the Borderettes stamp set and my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and got busy! I really enjoy these small images because they are so versatile! I also combined birthday sentiments from two different sets, Age Awareness and Remembering Your Birthday to mix up the fonts a bit. This star clip from the Basics Hodgepodge Clips set is the perfect accent!

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you will come back again real soon, I've been busy and have lots to share! Have a great holiday!

Today's card is for a very special person in my life. She makes me beautiful every two weeks and is one of the hardest working and cheerful people I know.

Inspiration is a funny thing. Annie usually chooses my toe nail polish for me so when I asked for purple this week, she picked out just the perfect shade. I looked at it and thought "Perfect Plum"! (I do that a lot now, see things in Stampin' Up! shades, just ask my husband) and voila!, the perfect inspiration for her card! I know she will get a chuckle out of it :)

Annie is a sparkly person and she wears more bling than any person I know, so I just had to bling her card up! I'm not sure if it comes through in the photography, but there are rhinestones and glimmer paper galore on her card! Just like her :)

Happy Birthday Annie!

...on a closing note, have you noticed the envelopes in today's post as well as Saturday's post? Do you really think I trimmed that envelope liner out by hand?!? I think I spot a sneak peek of a new product in the holiday catalog! Woot! And a wonderful product it is indeed! The 2013 Holiday Catalog will be live on August 1st so if you haven't received one, please feel free to email me and I will get one right out to you!

Stampin Supplies:

Flowering Florishes	Remembering Your Birthday	Whisper White	Perfect Plum	Silver Glimmer Paper
Perfect Plum Classic Stampin' Pad	Stampin' Trimmer	Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents	Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels