What We have Been up to ....

So it has been a while since we updated everyone on what has been going on with us. We have been working a lot of projects so just haven't been updated the blog as much as we should. So to make up for that this will be a long post showing you all the things we have been working on lately.


About a month ago I created two scrapbooks for an auction at a non-profit daycare. They were super fun to make and I did love them. People apparently liked them so that made me rather happy.

We also created a few new Holiday Items for the store.

The first is a set of snowflake cards. The happy Holidays is prined on the cards and then the snowflakes were hand stamped and embossed. I do really love these cards.

The last thing we made was this Holiday scrapbook. I love this too. I love the paper!

Etsy Shop of the Day ... Cara's Scrap and Stamp Art

Welcome to a new edition of Etsy store of the week. I know it has been a while since I have done a new one, so i hope this one makes it worth the wait.

Caras Scraps and Stamp Art is a great store with some of the most amazing cards and paper crafts. She has way more great things then I can show you, so head on over there and check her out.

So on to a few of my favorite items:

This is a great sock monkey gift card holder. The holidays are getting closer and everyone loves a gift card but there is never a cute way to present them, well here is one. Plus who doesn't love a sock monkey, I know I do.

Set of 3 Sock Money Gift Card Holder





This set of cards of snowflake holiday cards are great. I the snowflake and the embossing are amazing. I love the filigree on the center of the snowflakes. This would be a great set of cards to send or add to a gift.

Elegant Snowflake Set of 4 cards







This third item is a great exploding birthday card. It is a very unique card, but it is also very pretty! It is perfect for that person who loves fashion or purses!

Horizontal Wishes Purse Birthday Card






The last item I'm going to highlight is this great set of snowflake Holiday cards (I sense a theme). I just love the colors, the snowflakes and the swirls.

Felt Flurries Set of 5 Winter Greeting Cards

Holiday Cards...

It is never too early to start looking for Holiday cards. These are the first two of what we hope will be several holiday card offerings for everyone this holiday season

The first is a set of Hanukkah cards. I love the mix of blue and white. There is some great white and yellow vellum paper backing the image of these cards.

The second set of cards are these great Christmas trees.

I used the same vellum as above but these cards also have the great gems decorating the tree.

Please stay tuned we will have several new Holiday cards coming very soon.

Etsy Item of the Week: Jacqueline’s Creations

Welcome to our second installment of Etsy Store of the Week. Due some slight technological malfunctions it is a bit later than I had hoped but hey better late than never!

This week we are featuring the amazing jewelry of Jacqueline's Creations. She has such a wide range of jewelry from the whimsical green eggs and ham to the beautiful and elegant necklaces. All Items come in a great gift box, so it is ready to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

There are so many items that I want to highlight for you so let's get started.....

This is the super fun green eggs and ham earrings. Who doesn't love a fun Dr. Seuss reference? I love them that's for sure. These earrings are hand sculpted with polymer clay, then sealed.

Check them out here: Green Eggs and Ham

I love this Necklace for many reasons. One is well it is blue; I mean really there is no better color in the world. I also think it is beautiful. I love the great silver accents. It is a great length 18 inches and the charm measures 1 ¼" long by 1".

Check out this great item here: Blue Glass Bead Necklace

These have got to be the best earrings ever. The best thing about Halloween in my book is candy corn, so this set of earrings would be perfect for the coming Halloween season. The earrings measure 2" long and 7/8" wide.

Check out these earrings here: Candy Corn Earrings

Who doesn't love a butterfly? This beautiful silver toned necklace would be a great addition to anyone's collection. I love everything about this necklace. It is a great length 16 inches, and has a lobster claw clasp.

Check out this necklace here: Glimmering Vintage Looking Butterfly

I love these peanut butter and jelly earrings. They look good enough to eat, don't you think? I have never seen anything so fun. These are hand molded with polymer clay then sealed.

Check out the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Earring

The last item I'm going to feature this week is this elegant clear floral necklace. I love classic, clean silver jewelry and this fits the bill. I love the pattern of the floral medallion. It has a great length of 20 inch.

Check out this item here: Clear Floral Necklace

Make Sure you check out all the great items at Jacqueline's Creations. She also has a store dedicated to paper goods which has some amazing things too it can be found here: Jacqueline's Paper

Etsy Items of the Week

Welcome to the newest feature on our blog: Etsy Items of the Week. Every week we will post my homage to the items and shops we just love on etsy. We will be features a large range of items from cards to jewelry to home decor items and everything in between. So check back every week for the new must have item.

Without further adieu let me present the first Esty Items of the week.

Lemon Drop Studio has some of the coolest things in her shop. I love them all but I think the must have items are her Skull cards and tags, perfect for Halloween, birthdays or anytime!

These skull cards are terrific, who wouldn't want to get one (or maybe all three) of these amazing cards. I like them so much, but I couldn't decide which color I liked the most so I'm featuring all of them.

Fancy Skull: a Halloween Card



Very Sweet, A little Scary: Skull Card



Sweet Like Candy Skull Card: For Any Occasion



Aren't they great?

The only thing better might be these great Skull Tags. These would be great for Halloween gift bags, or tags for Birthday party favors. I know you will love them as much as I do.

Skull and Crossbones Tags




Skull and Crossbones Tags with Stripes


Thanks for looking at my etsy items of the day. Please check out Lemon Drop Studio. There are many great items at this store and new items are added all the time!

First Custom Order ....

I have been working for the last few days on a custom order for a friend Meriwether. She asked for some customized notebooks. They were really fun to make. I do really hope she likes them. Thanks Meriwether for the really fun custom order.

I made three notebooks. Each of the notebooks has 50 pages of lined paper. The paper was printed on standard printer paper and then hand cut to size.

Leopard Print Notebook:

Smiley Face Notebook:

Hawaiian Themed Notebook:

More new Notecards.....

As promised we have added more notecards to our store. They are great. Both have been hand stamped and I'm sure you will love them. We have several different notecards options so check out our store at A and R Design Studio

The first set is celery green, which can be a difficult color to photograph, but these cards are great. You can can more details here: Celery Green Notecards

The second is a great set of Lilac notecards. You can get more infor on this set by going here: Lilac Notecards

New Notecard Line

We have been working really hard the last few weeks to develop a series of flat notecards. Some are personalized some are not. It was really fun for me to create these notecards. I can't wait to make other new items. Here are some of the notecards we currently have available at the store: AandRDesignStudio

Flat Flower Notecard:
The envelopes are a great peacock blue. There are some great flower and name color choices too!


Flat Swirl Notecard: The envelopes are slate grey and also had some great color choices.


Flat Color Corrdinated Note Cards. I love how I stripes and the font color coordinate with the envelopes.


More new notecards will be coming very soon. So stay tuned or check in at the store to see them.

Dont forget, to enter the giveway at http://soundsliketomatoes.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/giveaway-2 It ends at 12:00 pm Wednesday Septmeber 9th.

Another Busy Week!

There has been a lot of things going on with us at A and R Design Studio. We have been working on a few new item which will be in the store soon. I'm sure everyone is going to love the new items.

We received our first custom order yesterday. I am really excited to make these three fun themed notebooks.

Last Week I won this great giveaway at Lemon Drop Studio. It was this set of Monkey magnets created by Tommie of Oh My Glue Stick. Check out her Etsy store at Oh my Glue Stick Store and her blog at Oh My Glue Stick Blog. Everyone who knows me, knows I love monkeys, and now everyone knows i love monkeys!

Here is a picture of the item I won!

There are many great things coming up for A and R Design Studio, and we are really excited about it. So check back often to see what we are adding, or any cool events we have going on.

Busy Week ....

It has been a busy week for us, most of it was not store related but necessary and fun. I had to work on a few projects for school and Amie played hostess to our Brother Kevin and two nieces, Kristal and April. Mine was necessary, Amie's was fun.

Amie also spent last week working on several new items for the store. The first is the very unique card, that I absolutely love. It is this great Tri-fold, pull out card. I love the way it turned out.

If you would like to take a closer look at thsi card you can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/nj4d8x


Amie also made some great die cuts. Using her Cuttlebug, nestabilities and this terrific glitter cardstock she made several different sizes of diecuts. One set of them have already sold but I think we will be listed them again soon.

You can look at all the die cuts, and everything else we have by visiting: http://tinyurl.com/mggyj3

More new and exciting things will be coming to the store very soon. You never know what you might find at A and R Design Studio's!

New week.... New Cards ....

On the heels of the first sale several new single cards and a card set have been listed.

These are the single cards that were listed today. I love all the paper, it is bright but not too bright. I love it when I can add ribbon to a card, even better is when I get to add some ink to the edges and add ribbon!

We also listed this great set of thank you cards. It s really fun making these. I love anytime I can break out my cuttlebug and emboss some paper. I love the combination of the black and pink.

You can see these and many other items by visiting A and R Design Studio

First Sale ....

A and R Design Studio made our first sale today. Ironically it is the same day I wanted to start the blog. My dear friend Carrie bought this super cute set of cards made by Amie.

If you look at this and say well I wish I had seen this item, you are in luck, there is another set of these cards at the store right now. It is slightly different, it has an orange base instead of red but is exactly the same in all other ways!