Its Release Day!!

Release Day is here at I heart papers! Check out the two super cute new Chickengirl stamps Silly Monsters and Happy halloween. If these cute images arent your style be sure and check out the new Petal press images!

For my card today I used an image from the new Happy halloween set. I colored the image using copics and added some ground and highlight using prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I still had some dp left on my desk from my mummy Trevor card so I decided to use it up since it was the last of that striped dp (pout!). I used todays sketch for my layout and as I was taking the pic it started raining so one shot was all I got!LOL! What is it with me and pics this week?!?LOL!! We have a field trip tommorrow at the Pre-K to the fire department so Im sure I will be beat and want to come home and go straight to bed!LOL!! Have a great night!

Stamps: Happy Halloween available at I heart papers
Paper: ghostly greetings dp, kiwi kiss, pumpkin pie, white
Ink: memento black, copics
Accessories: prismacolor pencils, gamsol, swiss dots ef, basic gray tafetta ribbon, paper piercer, dimensionals, square nesties (also available at I heart papers)

Monster Hugs for Shannan

Congrats Shannan todays featured stamper!! I love Shannans gallery and have quite a few of her cards in my favorites so I cased this Rawrrrr card. I dont have that Bella image (pout!) so I used this cutie monster from a set coming soon from I heart papers called Silly Monsters. I pulled out some halloween dp from last year and colored his tummy to match the stripes in the dp. I used prismacolor pencils for the ground and sponged summer sun around the circle nestie. This will be a card for my step dad from the kids. They love hugs especially Papas group hugs!LOL! So I thought the monster hugs sentiment would be cute!

I have a day planned of laundry (uuughhh!!) and catching up on some of my fave blogs! Hope you have a great day!

Stamps: Silly Monsters coming soon from I heart papers
Paper: summer sun, pebbles halloween stripes, old olive, pti white, really rust
Ink: memento black, summer sun, copics yg93, yg95, yg99, bv02, bv04, bv04, y11, y15, y17, e09, e19
Accessories: prismacolor pencils, gamsol, circle nesties (available at I heart papers), sponge, button, thread

Holy Hairy Dimension

I think I have more dimensionals on this card than I have ever used before!LOL! I used todays colors and colored up this silly monster available on Sept 15 from I heart papers. I wanted the monster to look like the purple people eater even though hes not one eyed or one horned!LOL! My FILs bday is on Halloween so I thought this would be a fun card to give him from the kids. I used Jens sfytt for my layout and this is how I ran into all the dimensions!LOL! I love the sketch but I had a hard time with it!! So glad Im not mailing this card!LOL!

Stamps: Silly monsters available on Sept 15
Paper: white, elegant eggplant, black, old olive cs and prints
Ink: memento black, copics v4, v16, v9, yg93, yg95, yg99
Accessories: prismacolor pencils and gamsol, black brads, MS goo punch, ribbon from Michaels, dimensionals, rectangle nesties

IHP Sneak Peeks

Its sneak peek week at IHP and fall is in the air! This month we are releasing two new sets Happy Halloween and Silly Monsters. Ive already given you a little sneaky peek here of the Silly Monsters set! I'll be back today after school with another sneak peek for you but until then check out what the other Chicken girls have for you!
Judy
Tammy
Kendra
Loretta
Kate
Meredith
Natasha
Shelly
Lori

Enjoy!!

Boo-tiful scrapling

I warned you I'd be back today!LOL! This is my first scrapling and I thought it would be perfect for a little card to slip in my kids backpacks! I just love Halloween and have really been ready to make some fun Halloween cards so I couldnt resist using this set coming soon from I *heart* papers. Sorry Kate I just had to!!LOL! When Kate sent me this set I just giggled! Such a cute and fun set. Look for the announcement for the two new Jannie Ho sets on my blog on Sept. 8! I outlined the ghost using copics w1 and w3 and then smoothed the lines with the colorless blender. I popped up the ghost and stamped the sentiment onto the SEI lime cs. That sentiment cracks me up! too cute! I also added some gingham ribbon, white brads, and some distressing to finish off my card. Who knew I could get all that on a little 1 1/2 x 4 scrapling?!!LOL! I think I'll stick a green lollipop on the inside with a glue dot and Alana will just love it!! Have a great day!



Stamps: Silly monsters
Paper: black, white, sei lime cs
Ink: memento black, copics w1, w3, r22, colorless blender
Accessories: gingham ribbon, MM white brads,

Nuts about you!

This is going to be a short post today. Ive been sick almost all week so I have a ton of laundry to do today! Im also trying to make it up to the kids since I havent spent alot of time with them this week. So for me today is a day full of laundry and Mario kart!LOL! I also hope to squeeze in some stamping time this weekend.

This is a project that totally fell together for me which is exactly what I needed!LOL! I bought a can of mixed nuts to cover for this adorable squirrel image and its been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks. I still had the dp and cs from the marrakech bear card I made on my desk. I needed some dp with blue since the lid is blue so I knew this dp would be perfect. I paired the dp with PTI enchanted evening cs and coredinations blue. I colored the squirrel with copics and used circle nesties to cut out and emboss the circles. For finishing touches I added a sentiment tag and an enchanted evening button. Both the marrakech dp and into the forest set can be found at I heart papers.

Stamps: Into the forest

Paper: white, pti enchanted evening, marrakech dp, coredinations cs

Ink: memento black, copics e51, e53, e31, e35, e57, e59

Accessories: twine, button, red line tape, can of nuts, circle nesties

Ant Picnic

I was so glad to finally get to stamp today! Im tellin ya this going days without stamping is not for Shannon! I miss my stamp table! LOL! I made a card today for Jeanne's summers end challenge and todays featured stamper challenge. I chose this card to case. I kept the layout but changed the card to a 4 1/4" sq card. I love making these small square cards! I used this adorable ant from I heart papers hugs from a bug stamp set. Hes so cute! I colored the ant using copics and added grass with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I also added some crystal effects to the ant. Its hard to see in the pic but the dp I used is glossy so my ant had to match! I used Sei black orchid dp but I cant find the striped design on the site.


We went to a family reunion today and I hope to finally be able to visit some of my fave blogs today. Maybe after this past week Ive finally got my routine down and I can squeeze some stamping and blogging time in there!LOL! Since Ive been such a bad blogger lately how bout a little candy?!?! I havent had any blog candy in awhile. Leave me a comment today tellin me your fave image from the Hugs from a bug set and I will pick a winner on Friday Aug 21. Have a great day!!


Stamps: Hugs from a bug
Paper: Sei black orchid, white
Ink: memento black, copics c3, c5, c7, c1
Accessories: SU 3 flower punch, square brad, ribbon from Michaels, crystal effects, circle nesties

Marrakech Bear

Isnt it funny how the right challenge can get your mojo going?! I sat down twice yesterday to make a card using the sketch and it just never came together. After I got home today I took a peek at todays WT challenge. The challenge for today is variegated color. I knew I had to use this ribbon I came across the other day while putting all my loose ribbon on my new ribbon ring. I *heart* my ribbon ring btw!! After looking at the ribbon I remembered the colors in it matched the marrakech dp I pulled out to use since I havent used one sheet of it. I used I heart papers new stamp set Into the forest. I love this little bear! He reminds me of Yogi!LOL! I colored him using copics and added some background color using my primsacolor pencils and gamsol. I also stamped a flower image from the set in his hand. Oh...and as I was trying to tie the bow I remembered why I have so much of this ribbon!LOL! Its not easy to tie!

Stamps: Into the forest
Paper: Coredinations orange, choc chip, bg marrakech dp, white
Ink: memento black, copics e43, e44, e47, e49, yr61, yr65, yr69, r24, r27, r29
Accessories: prismacolor pencils, gamsol, ribbon, dimenisionals, paper piercer, silver brads, bling

Im a sucker for you

I just had to make another card for todays Fs. I chose Joannes card here to case. I kept the bug theme but used this mosquito from the new set from I heart papers Hugs from a bug available TODAY! The first thing I thought of when I saw the mosquito and sentiment was using it for valentines with suckers. Well Im not quite ready to make valentines but I did make a card using the same idea! I used some Piggy tales dp and colored the mosquito using colors from it to make him a little more fun! Now that my kids have seen this card and asked who it was for I guess I need to make two more and slip them in their bookbags!

Stamps: Hugs from a bug
Paper: coredinations orange, yellow, and teal, white
Ink: memento black, copics yr16, bg45, bg49, y21
Accessories: sucker, teal brads, paper piercer, dimensionals

Hello Friend! Release day!

Todays featured stamper is Sleepy in Seattle. I cased this card of Joannes. I wanted to use my Into the forest stamp set that is available TODAY from I heart papers! This great set is only $10! Gotta love a great priced set! Joannes card is just what I needed to get started! I kept the layout but changed the card size to 5 1/4" sq. I stamped and masked the trees and drew a hill. I popped up my bird instead of the rabbits Joanne used and stamped the Hello friend sentiment. I sponged the edges of the white layer with river rock. I also used some yummy sassafras lass dp that comes with the border I used. My image turned out pretty large so I covered most of the dp!

Stamps: Into the forest
Paper: river rock, white, cool carribean, sassafrass lass dp
Ink: memento brown, copics bg93, bg96, yg91, yg93, yg95, bg15, bg32, bg34, yr16, e49
Accessories: dimensionals

Into the forest

I survived my 1st day at the Pre-K! yayy! Hey...that rhymes!LOL! Ive been trying to make this card for a couple of days now! I used a soon to be available set from IHP called Into the forest. Well you know I like to tell you all about how my card came to be so here we go...I colored the tree image to use for the color challenge Tues and was going to add a bird image from this set. Well I never got around to making a card Tues so when the sketch challenge was posted Wed I could still use my image but then this Penny Lane dp from MME caught my eye and I thought I would try to punch out the circles with my circle punch and put them on my tree for a fun look. I used a 1/2" circle punch for the large circles and a 1/4" circle punch for the smaller circles. Well thats as far as I made it on the sketch challenge Wed!LOL! Finally today I got to sit down and finish my card. My kids were all sound asleep by 8:45 which must mean they had a great 1st day of school today!LOL! Now you would think after all Ive been through to finally finish this card it would be over....NOPE...as I was taking my pic on of my bulbs blew on my one of my lamps. Did I have a replacement bulb?!?! Of course not...that would have been too easy!LOL!! So here is my finally finished card with bad lighting! Hope you like it! Dont forget to check out the other Chickengirls blogs for some eye candy!

Judy
Tammy
Kendra
Loretta
Kate
Meredith
Natasha
Shelly
Lori

Recipe
Stamps: Into the forest-Chickengirl Designs from I heart papers available on Aug 9
paper: Penny Lane dp, real red, choc chip, white
Ink: memento brown, copics
Accessories: circle punches, dimensionals, regal rose brads, regal rose ribbon, paper piercer, circle nesties

Hugs from a bug

OMG!! I cant even begin to tell you how much fun we had this past weekend at CHA! It was so great to meet everyone!! I have some pics to share but I will do that later this week. I have a sneak peek for you today. This adorable bee image and sentiment are from the new stamp line from I heart papers. This set is called Hugs from a bug and will be available on Aug 9. I paired the bee image with some Piggy tales dp I also got at I heart papers from . It reminded me of a honeycomb!LOL! Todays CCEE challenge is birds and the bees so I had to play along with this cutie! I also used Julees mojo sketch for my layout. I colored the bee using copics and sponged some pumpkin pie ink around the circle. I also did some hand stitching on this card b/c I ran across some orange thread. Have a great day!!

Stamps: Hugs from a bug
Paper: coredinations yellow, orange and teal, pti white, old king cole dp from I heart papers
Ink: memento black, pumpkin pie, copics y11, y21, y26, c1, c3, bg45, colorless blender
Accessories: dimensionals, paper piercer, circle nesties, labels 3 nesties, orange thread, sponge daub