Karen Foster Snap Stamps

Okay blonde moment story to share! I've been wanting these Karen Foster snap stamps for awhile now. These are great for creating your own sentiments. I've found several but I wanted this font (casual) so I went over to Create for less and got so excited that I found them that I just ordered them! Well they came in yesterday in this big box. I thought wow thats a big box for a little alphabet. WRONG! Not a little alaphabet. These are 1" letters! OOPPSS! Well I still love them but Im on the search for 1/4" letters in casual now and I will defintely be paying closer attention to the size this time!

Sc133 Love

I really enjoyed todays sketch challenge! I made this card for Danny. I havent made him a card in soo lonnng! He did something really sweet Monday so I figure he's due for a card.

The card base is stamped with the doodle swirl from doodle this and all the dots are pierced. The base is purely pomegrante stamped tone on tone. My 3 panels are basic black, rose red, and regal rose stamped w/love stamped in purely pomegrante. The heart is watercolored w/purely pomegrante and the flower is regal rose sponged in rose red punched w/ an ABC punch. The dots along the heart are pierced. The hearts are up on dimensionals.

I got a goodie in the mail yesterday I will post later.

Stamps: doodle this, doodle that, wonderful words II

paper: watercolor, basic black, regal rose, rose red, purely pomegrante

ink: regal rose, rose red, purely pomegrante

ass: dimensionals, punch, paper piercer

cc123 Rustic Flowers

I finally sat at my desk today to make something other than Bday invitations and cards. My MIL bday was yesterday so we spent the day w/her. Today is the first time I was able to even sit at my desk since Thursday! So now that the bdays are over w/until next month I have thank you's and a swap to get started on but today I just wanted to play so I decided to do the color challenge. Todays colors were bordering blue, night of navy,mellow moss, and optional arthichoke that I did not use. I used Beate sketch again. I love this sketch! I also used a new stamp set my Mom got that I had to break in for her Rustic Flowers by CTMH. The celebrate is from Paper Trey Ink butterfly kisses set. I stamped the flower once is bordering blue and once in night of navy then layered the smaller flower stamped in mellow moss all flowers are held together w/the brad and on a dimensional. Both of the scallops are paper pierced but you can see it in pic, I also pierced under the you that is part of a "thinking of you" sentiment w/the stamp set.

Paper: WW, night of navy, bordering blue
Inks: mellow moss, bordering blue, night of navy
Stamps: Rustic Flowers-CTMH, Butterfly kisses-Papertreyink
Ass. Ribbon from Ribbons and bows oh my, brad, dimensionals, paper piercer, scallop punches

Dino Party

The dino party Saturday turned out really great! I was soooo happy! This is Braydens cake I had made for him. No one had anything to do a dino cake with (cake kits, etc.) I had a bunch of little ldinosaurs left over from the rocks so I told them how I wanted it decorated and added the animals myself. The candles are some I got from the Dollar Store awhile back. Brayden loved his cake! He was so funny the whole day he was so excited. He didnt understand that his birthday party was on Sat. but his birthday was Sunday so when everyone was telling him "Happy Birthday" on Sunday he keep saying "its my bday AGAIN!" The second pic is from the dino dig. BIG HIT at the party!

Okay cute little story to share. Sunday DH had to go help my Dad put on a range hood and brought Braydens card back w/him. Brayden was opening the card and Dad had put 10 $1 bills in the card. Well you know how kids do stuff Brayden just opens the card and money just starts falling out of the card. My MIL and I starting running to him trying to grab the money playing w/him like we were going to take his money. So he's standing there w/the money clutched at his chest and yells "I got a million dollards!" SO ADORABLE! Okay I know I have a biased opinion but he's so cute!

Dino Party Goodies

I thought I'd share with you the buckets I made for Brayden's Dino Party this weekend. We are having a dino dig so I made each of the kids their own dino bucket. I got the buckets at Dollar Tree and it came with a shovel. Each bucket has bubbles and a cello bag stamped w/the dinos and filled with candy and a dino.

Brayden is getting so excited about his party. This is actually his first party that's just for him. Madison's bday is Aug 23 so we usually had their party together about the 1st of Aug so that is was in b/w their bdays. I think every party they have had has been a pool party.

Okay funny story to share I have no idea how me and my DH have survived these 3 children of ours with our weak stomachs. My Mama seems to get a kick out that for some reason....anywhooo I hate coffee and the way it smells! Well the dino rock recipe is coffee, dirt, flour, salt, and water. Digusting!!! You should have seen me and DH trying to make the rocks last night! LOL! They look like dino doodie instead of dino rocks!!LOL!

Hope you have a great stampin day!

CC122 Unfrogettable brights

Hey everyone! Todays color challenge was to to use real red, greeen galore, and tempting turquiose and these colors just screamed unfrogettable to me! This card was completely inspired by a card MaryJo Albright posted on SCS a couple of days ago. She has an awesome gallery and blog check it out at www.mja.wordpress.com

I used Beate weekend sketch challenge for the layout of this card. Such a fun layout! The flower is a quickutz daisy( I think) with a green brad. All images are colored with prisma pencils and blended with gamsol. The grass was made by using the corner punch to make scallops and making cuts but not all the way to the end of the paper. I layered a think strip of green on top of my cuts so they all look even. All the images except for the mushroom behind the frogs leg are up on dimensionals so this will probably be a card I wont mail LOL! I had alot of fun making it though! Hope you enjoy it to!

Well today marks the countdown to school and work 30 days. The kids and I are marking our calendars and couting them down. This is our last summer together before I go back to work and everyone is in school. My youngest starts prek (sniff sniff). So over the next month I probably will not be posting everyday but I still will be posting 3-5 x/wk. If you want to be notified when I do update you can subscribe to my blog and you will get email notices when I've updated. Hope you all have a great day. Happy Stampin!

Pick a Petal

I made this card a few days ago and Im just getting around to sharing it with you. When I first saw the new in colors I couldnt wait to see how groovy guava looked with cool carribean. My card base is guava. The strip is carribean with the flower center stamped randomly in carribean. I stamped canvas in guava on WW and did fingerwalking for a more subtle look. The petals of the flower were stamped in carribean on WW. I stamped the center in guava on WW and colored the center in w/my carribean marker. The ribbon is from ribbon and bow oh my. I also used my HH that I got can you believe this is the first time I've gotten any from SU!?!?!?

If you dont know how to make your own in color markers let me help you....The blender pen tip comes out this is how you refill it. If you dont have the refill recipe email me and I will send it to you. Okay back to the markers..you take the tip off and soak it in drops from your reinker I think about 5-6 then you put tip back on and you have a in color marker for omitting, color spritzting, etc. My fab upline showed me this after she went to regionals. You can get 1 pack of SU blender pens and make all 6 incolor markers and use a address label on each end to identify you colors.

We have a family reunion tommorrow and then fireworks again tommorrow night here a local farmer always has a huge fireworks show for the town. We have a couple we hang out with that has kids about our age so we are all going to get together tommorrow for the show and let the kids go crazy!