Hambo birthday

When I saw todays sketch and the small sq panel I thought about Hambo stamps. Their stamps crack me up and I knew one of their small images would be perfect for the sq panel. I needed a birthday card so I used this rabbit, carrot sentiment, and carrot image. I colored the rabbit and carrot using copics and added cotton candy stickles to his paw, nose and ears. I also added frosted lace stickles to his tummy and tail so hes sparkling all over!LOL! I stamped the carrot image tone on tone on the pumpkin pie layer then stamped part of the sentiment in black. For my embellishments I used coral brads and striped pumpkin pie ribbon. After I finished putting all my layers together the creamy caramel strip seemed to need something so I added some faux stitching and I think the black is too much I prolly shoulda used creamy caramel instead! Next time I'll just leave it alone!LOL!

Today is the last day of school this week so we will be on Easter break until Tuesday. I might have hair left we'll just have to wait and see!LOL! J/K!!

Jugglin Bday

Do you love High hopes?!?! I do!LOL! High hopes now has a blog and challenges. The first challenge is to make a birthday card. I used this super cute clown Juggles (Thanks Shannah!)

I colored Juggles clown with prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. My fave technique! I also added some highlights with my white gel pen. I pulled the colors from the jersey shore dp. I used Taylors cupcake challenge #35 for my layout. I didnt get a chance to play along Friday but I really liked the layout so I did it anyway!LOL!

We had a great weekend here. My Mom and I went shopping Friday and I found an adorable Inkadinkado stamp set I cant wait to get inky! We had a bad experience w/HL though (actually our first one!) and we ate at a restaraunt my cousin raves about. Yuck!!! It wasnt for me!LOL! But other than that it was great to spend the day with my shopping/stamping bud!LOL! See I have to take her w/me to help control my spending!LOL! She always gives me these looks that says "um...you know Danny's gonna kill you!"LOL! So I know to STOP!LOL! I know people hate when I go into a store. See I put all kind of stuff in my buggy but by the time Ive reached the register Ive taken 1/2 of it out!LOL!

I'll be back in a bit with my halloween goodie!

Cupcake Mouse

Today is featured stamper day! My fave challenge but I dont have a featured stamper card to share today b/c IM featured stamper!LOL!!! When I looked last night I hadto read the post twice!LOL!Thank you all for your sweet comments! Its been a great day!

I do have some cards to share with you today Ive made over the weekend and couldnt load b/c I was having trouble w/my blog. This is the card I made for Taylors cupcake challenge. I got this Whipper snapper image sometime last month and have been wanting to use it but havent had a chance until this weekend. Isnt he the cutest!?!? I colored the image using gamsol magic and added highlights with my white gel pen. I used Ki Memories dp b/c I love the colors in it. Theres just something about a pink/orange combo I LOVE!! The ribbon is actually pink passion but looks much darker in the pic. Its a cloudy day here so not great for pics!

The kids had their first football/cheerleading game yesterday. They were so cute!! I have the cutest pic of Brayden to share!LOL! I'll have to wait and share the story w/the pic!! Have a great day!

Swinging cupcake

I have a double challenge card for you today. I used Taylors cupcake challenge 28 and Heathers color challenge. I left off the soft sky from Heather colors b/c I have a hard time with 4 colors but I loved how the turquoise, rust, and choc chip looked together!

I used this cute monkey image from H&Ms Wild birthday wishes
and since hes holding a cupcake it fit perfectly for Taylors cupcake challenge. I colored the monkey using the gamsol magic technique and then outlined in copic cool gray no.1 marker. I used the white gel pen to go over his eyes b/c I colored them in. I also added diamond stickles to the icing of the cupcake. I added 3 ribbon strips to the image using choc chip and turquiose grosgrain. I cut a 2" and a 1 1/2" circle with my fiskars circles and layered the sentiment punched with SU large oval. Both the oval and circle layers are popped up. My card base is 6 1/2 x 7 folded in half so it measures 6 1/2 x 3 1/2. Hope you have a great weekend!

OCC Inspiration Bandit

Since Ive been a slacker blogger the past couple of weeks I decided to do two posts today! I made this card for the OCC sketch challenge and todays inspiration challenge. I went to Mamas today to stamp which is something we havent been able to do in awhile. I brought along this super cute AC dp for the inspriation challenge since I loved the striped and polka dot bag. The dp is Monkey Bars and Hula hoops. I used her fiskars wavy border and Martha Stewart circle cutter. I had alot of trouble using the circle cutter. I did find if you cut your circle first then stamp is was easier which is backwards from what I usually do! I had to stamp another balloon and pop it up to cover where the circle messed up! Those of you who read my blog regularly might remeber my Bandit card from before. I love this adorable raccoon image from Hambo and I named him Bandit after a stuffed animal I used to have as a little girl. Madison has a raccoon too and its one of her faves and she calls her Raccy!

We just got out of the pool again today. It really stinks that we are having great weather and this is our last summer weekend! Thursday its back to school and back to work! Yuck!!

Wild Birthday Wishes

Its Saturday so you know what that means! Another sketch and or color challenge from Heather! This week she also has some blog candy so go check it out and play along with the challenge.

I used Wild birthday wishes for my card today. I combined both the color and sketch (sorta!) I had to change my main image to an oval b/c the gator was too big for my circles. I used fiskars ovals instead. NEED NESTIES!!!! Thank goodness for a bday soon!LOL! I love the colors Heather chose this week. I will be using them again. I love how the night of navy seeing spots background looks stamped on the soft sky. I also had to leave off the sentiment and stamp it on the inside of the card b/c I didnt have enough room.

I used some colored brads on my card which is something I always forget I have. I just always seem to go for my silver brads for some reason. There is still something off to me on this card Im just too tired tonight to try to figure it out!LOL! Be back in the morning!

Prehistoric Birdday

School starts here on Aug 7 so I will need lots of kids birthday cards. The class sends a calendar home each month with all the kids birthdays for the month. My kids love to give cards as much as I do.

Todays limited supply challenge is simple birthdays since I messed up last week with the limited part I did keep my layers limited today. My card base is textured apricot appeal. I used the soft sky polka dots prints paper and used dtp for the edges since I didnt layer the paper. I paper pieced the dino from Treehouse stamps with the polka dot apricot appeal paper. I stamped the sentiment from Pun Fun onto the pti white with pumpkin pie ink. I used dtp for the edges of the dino and the white layer. The only embelishment allowed is ribbon so I used my pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon to make my stay put bow. I think this will work for a girl or boy card what do you think?

Freaky Tiki Birthday

The dirty challenges continue today..There are 3 challenges today and Ive havent been able to do but one. (*pout*) Hopefully I'll get some stamping time tommorrow! I made this card for Julie's challenge to embrace the white space. When I think about one layer cards the first thing that comes to mind are large images. I love this image from Stamp Oasis (Rubbernecker). He's so funny to me! For white card bases I always grab PTI white cs. I love it and its my fave for the gamsol magic technique. I outlined some of the image with the copic marker. I wanted to add a little something else to my card after I used my ribbon so I added 3 dots in the corners with my green galore marker. I messed them up a little but dont tell anyone!LOL!

This card reminds me of Alanas swimsuit it has all these gorgeous bright orange flowers on it. So cute on her! BTW I forgot to share that I have a snagglepuss in the bunch now!LOL! Madison lost her first tooth Sunday morning before church and they sang Jesus loves me that morning during childrens church and she was so cute up there! Have a great night!

MFT Birthday

So were you at the MFT release party last nite? I was for like 15 minutes and my head was spinning!LOL! Then mother duty called!

Michelle post a challenge every month during the release party to be a guest designer for MFT. Who wouldnt want that?!?!LOL! This months challenge is to create a birthday card since its MFT 2nd birthday and Kim turns 40 this weekend. I had to use You take the cake. This is still my fave set to pull out for bdays! Okay so I had this idea for my card that I think I pulled off!LOL!

My green galore card base is scored with diagonal lines every inch for todays challenge she scores I did this to match the bottom present on the main image. I used SU jersey shore dp to match the polka dotted present. The real red strip has two score lines 1/4" apart below the sentiment and above the striped ribbon. I added a bazzil flower with some bling to the top left corner. My front is supposed to be the present/box.

Then when you open the inside.....

The party begans!LOL! Okay so my initial thought was kinda like girl jumping out of the cake. Dont ask me why?!! Probably from some of the demented talk that goes on during the release party!LOL! So mine is more like girl popping out of the present with cake! The image is paper pieced with summer picinic dp for the wallpaper. The cake is also popped up okay I have to explain my cake too..I colored my cake kinda like a red velvet cake since its my Moms fave so I added little brown dots on the topping to look like chopped pecans!LOL! I also added diamond stickles to the candles. The background was too plain and there was no way I was going to try to layer some dp and get the slits cut the same as the white for the pop up!LOL! So I doodled the ballons and confetti dots. I drew the balloons and added used a white gel pen for a highlight. I cant believe I have no balloon stamps! How did that happen?!?LOL! I stamped the sentiment and candles on the bottom of the card. This is my first pop up card! It was not as hard as I thought but it did take some time! I love how it turned out though!

Here is a close up of the pop up (dont look too closely or you'll see my awful cutting!LOL!) Have a great day!

Wild Teal Birdday

I have a triple card for you today since Ive havent posted in a few days. Sorry Ive been absent we have been spending some quality time together. No stamping, computer, etc. Its been nice. We have been spending days in the pool and nights playing our Wii. We have been having a blast. I love stamping and I love SCS but I spend too much time sometimes doing both so I decided to give it a break for a few days. Ive missed stamping so me and the kids made a project I will share with you later.


For todays card I used the colors in todays color challenge and for my layout I used Jens sfytt. The OCC girls post their challenge on Sat so I decided to pop over there and see what it was. Their challenge was to use at least 1 brad and 1 button on your card. Well that went great w/Jens sketch and I have so many colored brads I never use so I added in the OCCC. I love the pun fun set. I just cant stop using it!LOL! I colored the bird with prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I added an outline with copic cool gray no.1 marker. The button was hard to add into my card so I decided to just add it to the corner of my image. I used wasabi prints under the button and glue dots which I would not recommend since you can see them. Next time I will use vellum tape or sticky strip and maybe they wont show through.



Recipe:
Stamps: Pun fun
Paper: Taken w/teal, wild wasabi, pti white, wasabi prints
Ink: Pallette noir
Other: 1/4" circle punch, wasabi ds ribbon, prismacolor pencils, gamsol, dimensionals, nestabilities, clear button, MM brads

Zoofari Party

Todays inspiration challenge was a fun one! I love animal stamps! They are so fun and cute to color! Im a true girly girl! Gotta love anything cute!LOL! The majority of my stamps I own are animals.



Lauren (My time) has Saturday sketches on her blog and I love the simplicity of her sketch today so I decided to use her layout but make a square card to fit for yesterdays challenge and of course todays inspiration challenge. I usually layer my circles but today for some reason it didnt look right so I left them off. I colored the animals with prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. The party time layer is scored to the top sticks up like kinda like a sign.




I didnt stamp at all yesterday. I didnt get off work until 3 a.m. and I had 3 kids jumping on my bed at 8 a.m and I had to be back at work at 5. Thank goodness we are on spring break this week! We had a great band Thursday night. They made it into the top 15 of the Great American Band contest. We were PACKED!LOL! My feet were killing me! Have a great day!

Prehistoric Pockets

Todays technique challenge was to create a double pocket card. I've made a couple of these before but its been awhile. I wanted to put something in the second pocket other than a tag, etc. I wanted to put something for the recipent to keep. I thought about doing a candy bar, tea bag, etc. I went to go through my stash to see what I had that would work with the pocket and found this bag of dinos. That was all it took!LOL! I just got this super cute dino set from Treehouse stamps.



I pulled out my SU east coast prep dp to make my pocket card. I love using this dp for boy cards. It has great colors! I colored the dinos using prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. The pteradactyl (sp?) is cut out and popped up on the mustard layer with Prehistoric pals stamped in black. I also added double stitched wasabi ribbon under the image layer. I found 2 dinos in my pack that were green and a mustard color so I pulled them out and made a bag topper. I stamped the sentiment and used my SU turquiose marker to make a border. I left my insert with the mustard dino empty for now but I will put him a little note above the dino for him. I know he will love this! He is a big Land Before Time fan!LOL! I think this turned out pretty cute! Here is a pic of the just the pocket card w/out the inserts. Have a great day!

Cutie Pie Cupcakabella

Today is sketch challenge day! I love doing the challenges on SCS it gets me stamping and definetly challenges me sometimes!LOL! If you havent participated in the challenges then DO IT! I promise you wont regret it!

For todays sketch I decided to also combine Mondays Mix it up challenge and use dots and stripes dp from Cutie Pie. I loved how the dots in the dp matched bella dress. On the top of the cupcake I added my new pomegrante baubles. I love them! I also used my new Lots of thoughts SAB set. I only inked up 3 lines for it to fit in 1 3/8" circle punch and layered w/scallop punch. The polka dot ribbon is from Michaels.

Off to take Alana to Dr. Have a great day!

Featured Stamper Takes the Cake

WOW! Did I have a hard time with this card!LOL! I remeber now why I dont try to stamp first things in the morning. Im just not a morning person! It tooks 3 times of completely taking the card apart and recutting layers before I got the result similar to what I wanted. I have a hard time with using different dps on my cards. If I use dp I usually stick with one design so I wanted to give it a try today. SO not the thing for me today do first thing in the morning...it took me over 2 hrs to make this card!LOL!

I used my You take the cake from MFT for the main image and sentiment. The main image was colored w/prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I colored the dress to match the dp. I also added stickles to the candle and icing. The rest of the card I honestly couldnt tell you much about b/c it changed so much and my brain hurts by now!LOL! I have a hard time "eyeballing" a card and trying to get my measurements right when casing.

Have a great day!

Hoos Birthday

I finally got to stamp today! Not alot of blah-blah today Im going to meet my Dad for lunch and after the kids get out of school we are going to the fall family festival at the Pre-K.

I combined todays masking challenge w/the sketch challenge. I had to move the panel to the bottom instead of the top b/c I wanted it to look like the owl was perched on the sentiment. This is for a boy in Braydens class so I couldnt make it too girlie so I just added some buttons.

Stamps: Carolyn King stamps, wood grain from Michaels

Paper: summer sun, kraft, choc chip

Ink: timber brown stazon

Other: buttons, hemp twine, markers, aquapainter, dimensionals.

Carrots Your Birthday

Okay so Im starting to feel more like a human being today!LOL! This was my card from yesterdays sketch challenge. I wasnt exactly thrilled w/how it turned out but I didnt feel like messing w/it too much. I have a much better version of the sketch I will post tommorrow!

Sometime during the past few days I hit 5,000 on my counter. YAHOO! Thank you all for visiting! I will post some blog candy the first of next week!

Okay on to the card...I used my American crafts dp I love to use for card bases since it has a coordinating solid color on the reverse side. The yellow panel layered w/pumpkin pie is actually the color on the reverse side of this paper. I stamped the sentiment on the yellow panel with black stazon and the strip is old olive with a silver brad. The rabbit and carrot are colored w/SU markers and layered on creamy caramel and bb. On the rabbits tummy, tail, ears and paws I used Tulip puffy paint in Diamond. I got mine at Walmart and I love the dimension it gives! The carrot is popped up on dimensionals. The inside of the card has the rest of the sentiment (A whole bunch) with several carrots stamped in the corner. I love the sentiment and rabbit! Too cute!! The rabbit, carrot, and senitment images are from Hambo stamps.