Popcorn bear

When I saw Caroles food challenge for the dirty dares I knew I wanted to use this popcorn bear from Rubbernecker. I also knew I wanted to include popcorn so Tracys in the bag challenge was perfect. Now I have a confession...Im box challenged. As long as I have a template Im fine but to sit down with something and make a box for it...uh No!LOL! So I had to call my stamping partner in crime Mom to help me out with this one!LOL! The box holds two mini bags of popcorn. I decided this would also be a good image for Kims paper tole challenge since he's hanging out of the bag. So I stamped 3 images. First I popped up his arms and the pieces of popcorn on the sides and bottom of the bag. Then I popped up his head then the popcorn on top of his head so he looks like hes really poppin out at you!LOL! Since popcorn is written on the side of the bag I thought it would work for Lauras ABC challenge. Yes, I know its a stretch but I am actually very limited on sentiments just ask my Mom I steal hers all the time!LOL! Amys challenge is animals and since my image has an adorable bear he works for it too. Since the image is so big I just used a couple of brads and ribbon to finish off my box. Before I give this to someone I might replace one of the packs of popcorn with a movie and it can be a movie night gift.

Stamps: Popcorn bear
Paper: summer sun, black, white
Ink: memento black, copics e35, e37, e39(bear), r27, r29, r24(red stripes), c1, c3(shadows), yr23, y17, y36(popcorn)
Accessories: real red striped ribbon, dimensionals, silver brads, red line tape, 1/2" circle punch

Ctd50 Bathing Beauties

Michelle Zindorf and Kittie I am NOT!!!LOL!! I wanted to play along in the Color throwdown this week. The colors are real red, tempting turquoise, and kiwi kiss. Love these colors!! I pulled out a Rubbernecker image I borrowed from Mama that has yet to see ink! She has probably had it now for 2 yrs and it was feelin unloved so it had to come visit me to get some love!LOL! So after coloring up the ladies using copics I was feelin froggy and decided to try to sponge some sand underneath them! That worked okay so I stamped the itty bitty background image using close to cocoa. That worked too!! Alright!! So I went on to the water....I shoulda stopped at the sand!LOL! I really messed up the water and the more I tried to fix it the worse it got! I used the circle nestie to sponge in my sun. My 8 yr old says "Its fine Mama, it just looks like the water is touchin the sun." Well I decided to finish up the card instead of trashing the image!LOL! For some finishing touches I added some piercing and red brads.

Maybe next time I wont try to make a card after a day full of school clothes shopping with the kids!LOL!!

Stamps: Bathing beauties set of 3-Rubbernecker, SU itty bitty backgrounds
Paper: real red, kiwi kiss, tempting turquoise, white
Ink: memento black, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, summer sun, marigold morning, tempting turquoise, copics
Accessories: circle nesties (for sun), brayer, sponges, red brads, paper piercer, post it notes for masking

Bug Me and New look

I had to work today but when I saw the go ahead and bug me challenge I knew I had to play along. I love the time change I can actually stamp after work now!! I love this Rubbernecker bee and sentiment!! Cracks me up!LOL! I colored the bee using copic markers Y21, Y17, and YR23. The wings were colored using W1 and W3. I also added stickles to the wings. Instead of dp I used CHF hexagon tile background for a honeycomb look and stamped the sentiment over it in black. I used Taylors sketch 59 for my layout. And look only 4 layers!! Yayyy for me!!LOL!

So how do you like my new look??! Its not quite finished yet just the banner but I have to say I *HEART* my new banner!! BIG thanks to Jami!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker bee and sentiment, hexagon tile backgrounder CHF
Paper: black, white, summer sun
Ink: more mustard, memento tuxedo black
Accessories: copic markers y17, y21, yr23, w1, and w3, stickles, silver dew drops, summer sun and black gingham ribbon, circle nesties, sq nesties

Put on your big girl panties

....and just deal with it!!LOL!

Since Im trying to catch up on my stamping I have a triple challenge card for you!! I used Mercys sketch challenge for my layout. I used silver brads and colored the dog collar with my Sakura silver gelly roll pen for todays ways to use it challenge. I havent been able to do any of the HCE challenges so I decided to pop over there and see what the challenge was today. Jen challenged us to pull out some old stuff! I saw a card Frances aka stamp owl did for VSN awhile back and she used this cutie dog from Rubbernecker and paired with my fave sassy sentiment from Missy B Designs Sassy girls. So of course I had to order this dog from Rubbernecker!LOL! Well that was quite awhile back and he still hasnt seen ink yet....until today!!LOL! This sentiment was just made for him!!LOL!! The remainder of the sentiment is stamped on the inside of the card. Have a great New Years Day!!! We had a great New Years eve night. We had a Wii party and played Twister dance. Alot of laughing involved!LOL! Granny didnt get moved out of ICU yesterday they're not sure when she will be moved out possibly Friday but we'll have to see what kind of day she has today!

Popcorn Bear

Todays sketch was just what I needed to make a card using my new super cute Rubbernecker image. Isnt he adorable!?!LOL!

I made my card a sq card base since the image is large. I colored popcorn bear with copic markers. I used my white gel pen for the nose and cheeks.

As soon as I saw this image I knew I wanted to make some dp using the popcorn image from SU Treat yourself. I stamped the popcorn randomly on ga pacific white and colored with copics. I used my SU real red and black markers to make my dots. I used striped real red grosgrain to cover the seam I thought this ribbon would be cute since it matches the popcorn bag! I colored the clear bella bauble with my copic marker (the bottom bauble is a little off I just noticed that!LOL!). I think this turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself!LOL!

Alana is doing wonderful!! She did fantastic yesterday! Im so proud of her. She never once complained about pain and she only cried once and it was when she first woke up in recovery. As soon as we got back to the room she was sitting up in the bed talking to everyone and wanting her presents!LOL! She got up and walked the halls a couple of times. We didnt have to stay overnight we made it home just in time to watch the new 90210 last night! Have a great day!

Red Red wine

So how many of you know that song by UB40 and how many are going to be singing it for the rest of the day?!LOL! I have a triple challenge card here for you this morning. Todays inspiration challenge was a table setting. I was inspired by the red and turquiose colors and the red glasses. So I pulled out my Rubbernecker wine glass and sentiment from the Happy hour collection. I colored the wine glass with my prismacolor marker. For my layout I used Lauren Saturday sketch which went along perfectly with this weeks OCC limited layers challenge. I limited my layers but went a little crazy with the bella baubles!LOL! Really simple and quick card. Have a great day!

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!

Fs70 Rooster case

Todays featured stamper is Cindy(YLM). Cindy had a rooster card in her gallery that I HAD to case. Ive had this rubbernecker rooster for awhile but Ive yet to make a card using him.

I wanted to give my prismacolor pencils a break for a couple of days so I pulled out my watercolor crayons. I embossed the image b/c somewhere (I cant remeber where) I read its easier to color the watercolored images if they are embossed. Dont quote me on that though!LOL! I know now why my crayons had a layer of dust on them. I needed the watercolor queen Kittie here for some tips and tricks! I really liked how Cindy added colors to her rooster so I tried to add some red and green to the tail feathers. The keyword is TRIED!LOL! I also added some white gel pen accents and sponging to my image.

The card base is night of navy stamped with flannel plaid tone on tone. I stamped the SU retired chicken wire background inked in close to cocoa onto creamy caramel. The rooster is layered on real red. The two circle tabs are more mustard and garden green. I used a pewter large eyelet on both circles. The layout on my card is Holly's (Toy) sketch thsc16 I did leave off the sentiment panel just b/c I didnt have the room!LOL! I made 3 sketch cards this weekend already! Yaaayyy for me!LOL! Have a great day!

cc154 Times fun

Todays colors were perfect for my party frog from Rubbernecker. I love this frog! I started out using Kirstens sketch challenge but it didnt end up that way. I'll try another one later. Click on her blog link Confessions of a naptime stamper to see the sketch.

I started todays card with a 5 1/4" sq card base b/c my image is so large. I used creepy crawly dp measuring 3 x 4 7/8. I love the new striped grosgrain ribbon. I think it looks good with the striped dp. My image is colored with prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. The sentiment is from Hambo and I think it goes great with this image. To finish off my card I added 3 celery brads. Pretty simple card but I love the colors!

We had alot of fun at the My little pony show on Sunday it was so cute! My sister and I took our girls and we both took our last pic at the same time and missed getting a pic of the big teapot! The name show was Worlds biggest teaparty. The teapot was so cute and all the ponies were standing around and my sister said "we came to the worlds biggest teaparty and dont even have a pic of the teapot!"LOL! One of those you had to be there moments!LOL! The girls all loved it though! Thanks Nana!

Is this not the cutest!!??!! I love it!LOL! I bought quite a few images from Rubbernecker a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to playing! I love this little bee. This card will go to my friend to give her a little laugh.

I used todays sketch challenge for the layout. My dp is American craft. I love their dp! I colored the bee with prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I also had to give her a little bling and added diamond stickles to her wings and popped her up on dimensionals. The image was a little bigger than I thought it was so I was trimming it down so I could make it work for todays sketch and I almost cut her stinger off!LOL! My ribbon is some I got from the $1 bin at Michaels forever ago!LOL!

Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker bee and sentiment, linen

Ink: pallette noir, summer sun

paper: creamy caramel, summer sun, black, PTI white, American craft dp

Other: prismacolor pencils, diamond stickles, brown ribbon, dimensionals

Dimensions: card base 5 3/8"sq , american craft dp 4 3/4" sq, Bee image 2 3/4 x 3 1/8, sentiment layer 2 3/4" sq.

Have a great day!

Tangled Kitty

How cute is he??!!!? I stamped this Rubbernecker image along with a few others while I was at Mama's the other day when we were making candy. I only have a couple more Christmas cards to make and I've realized I havent inked up a few of my new Christmas sets so I will probably be posting more Christmas cards this week and next. As long as I ink up the stamp once during the holiday season I can justify buying it. Right!?!!LOL!

This card is for todays limited supply challenge to use a white card base. I colored this image last night and it fit perfect for todays challenge. I used PTI white for the card base its my fave for a white card base. The tangled kitty was colored using prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I applied stickles to all the lights and the star. My card base is 5x5. The red ribbon is from Taylors share.

Alana is doing better today she had to get a shot yesterday and she did better than I would have!LOL! I have never seen medicine in a shot that was as thick and milky as what they gave her. OUCH!!! Im such a sissy when it comes to needles! NO Mama! I didnt pass out!LOL! All 3 kids are home today and we get to go back to the Dr. for them to swab Madison and Brayden so make sure they dont have strep too. I want to make sure and get them all well before Christmas.

Sketch Challenge-ish

Very quick post for now. I made this card this morning waiting for the Dr. office to open. I started with the Santa face image from Rubbernecker that Im so in love with!LOL! I colored the image w/prismacolor pencils and used my Tulip puffy paint for his hat and heated it to make it have more texture. My intention was to use yesterdays sketch challenge b/c I really liked it! Well I didnt figure in how big my image was and that it wouldnt fit so this is yesterdays sketch challenge minus the sentiment layer and the image layer!LOL! I used the holly from background basics and colored them w/prismacolor pencils and sponged and distressed with creamy caramel. Im very pleased with how this card turned out. I think its my fave Christmas card I've made this year and may not be given to anyone!LOL!

Alana is home sick today. We had a very long night. I had to call the Dr last night b/c she came to me complaining that her throat and tongue hurt. Well of course her tonsils were red and she had a rash on her tongue. I called the Dr and they told me to watch her closely through the night and if she began to run any fever rush her to ER so I got no sleep last night! She is fine though she has a very bad case of strep (sp) throat so she had to get a shot. Dontcha just LOVE this time of year!LOL!