Under Wraps

I know Im killin yall with all these CC designs images this week!LOL!! Have I said before how much I ADORE these super cute images?!LOL!! After I made my witch Emma card I had to show Trevor some love too! I knew I wanted to give this weeks Sketch Saturday a try so I used Mummy Trevor from last years Halloween release. I paired Trevor with some MME spiders web dp and embossed the dot and black panels with the spider web ef. I also used a quickutz button punched out in the dot design and popped it up with dimensionals. I really love this dp for a masculine Halloween card so I didnt want to add any girly elements to it. I used some twill ribbon sponged with antique linen to "dirty" it up some and also sponged the edges of the dp and main image. I also used my cutter kit to distress the edges of the dp. Well thats it for me today! Hope you have a great one!

Sparkling Froggy Gift

I made this card for todays sketch challenge. Ive had this cloud 9 dp for the longest time. I love the sparkling frogs on it although my paper cutter didnt like it!LOL! The frogs are raised so it wasnt the easiest to cut. I paired it with HH froggy gift that I colored using copics. The colors in the dp were hard to match up. I ended up coloring his hat 3 times before I finally got it where I wanted. I finally ended up adding some cool gray shades to tone down the b01 to try to match the blue in the dp and then most of it got covered up!LOL!! I used labels 3 nesties to cut him out and added quickutz photo corners. I paper pierced the two sq panels and decided to leave off ribbon. Have a great day!!

Stamps: Froggy gift
Paper: textured night of navy, textured sahara sand, textured certainly celery, white, sparkling baby frogs dp
Ink: memento black, copics e50, e51, e53, e35, e37, b00, b01, g20, g21, g24, bg78, bg75, (I cant remeber the greens I used for his shirt!)
Accessories: quickutz photo corners, labels 3 nesties,paper piercer

Batty for Cupcakes

I love this dp!! I cant believe this is the first time Ive used this new ghostly greetings dp! Its so cute. I made this card for Taylors cupcake challenge. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew what I wanted to do. I had to move one of the strips to get my card the way I wanted but I love how it turned out....and its a SUO card!! Its been forever since I made one of those!! This batty for you set was my FAVE last year so I had to give it some love this halloween.

I sat down yesterday getting all my halloween cards ready to mail out (local that is I mailed the out of town ones last week) and I realized I still need 8 more halloween cards by Friday!LOL! They are mainly for the kids teachers(6 of them) so they can be hand delivered....so expect to see some more halloween cards this week!LOL!

Dont you love when you have a perfect day!?!? We had one yesterday! I love it when that happens. We met my Mom for lunch and went shopping and got the kids halloween costumes (yes Im a procrastinator) I planned to make their costumes this year and ran into trouble finding the outfits I need for them so we went to plan B. I still didnt pay the $20-35 they are asking for halloween costumes!! (I'll share the pics Sat) okay back to my day...(I get sidetracked so easily!LOL!) after we went shopping we came home and the spent the day playing games (old maid, go fish, etc.) and when Danny got home we built a fire and roasted marshmallows and hotdogs. The kids LOVED it!LOL! Well all except Brayden he was not too fond of his burnt marshmallow!LOL! He said it was disgusting!!LOL! As I was kissing the kids good night last night Alana grabbed and told me she had the BEST day!!! I went to bed with the biggest smile on my face last night. Have a great day!

Happy Trails

Sorry for the last post today but we had some errands to run this morning so I had to put my stampin time off until this afternoon. Todays begins the week long fun of Dirty Dares. The first challenge is from Laurie the queen of vellum. We were to use vellum and she gave several examples of how to use it. I chose to use the vellum over the dp since I love when she does that! I combined the vellum challenge with this weeks MFT sketch challenge. I love this western sky dp its the first time Ive used and it goes great with the MFT Ride em cowgirl. I just love this cowgirl image! I colored her using copic markers-no paper piecing this time. The circle panel is stamped tone on tone with the flower image from Wanted that is in the paisleys on the dp.

Im not sure I love this card I dont know if its the colors or what. Let me know what you think!

Have a great day!

Sealife flowers

Good morning! As you reading this Im stamping it up at Faiths retreat with some fellow SCS!

I made this card for Heathers Saturday sketch challenge. I love this dolphin! Hes so cute! Ive been trying to use my in colors since they are about to retire. I think soft sky and blue bayou was probably one of the most popular color combos with this set of in colors we've had. I colored the dolphin image with copic markers and used my square nesties to matt the image. I have tons and tons of the prints in all the colors so Ive been trying to use up some of them too!LOL! When I saw the flowered print I remeber my latest find at Michaels. I saw on Laurens blog where she has been using the bridal flowers from Michaels and you can color them with your copics! The flowers have a shimmer to them even after you color them and they come in a cute clear paint can that will be fun to alter later! Have a great weekend!

Wintergreen Sealife

I have a confession! Im dp challenged! I love dp and have plenty of it to prove it!LOL! All the colors, patters, etc! My faves are stripes and polka dots. I can use them no problem but when it comes to other patterns I draw a blank when it comes to using more than one design. I see so many fabulous card with mixes of dp and think I NEVER would have thought to mix those!

So for today I thought Id mix things up a little. I love todays sketch challenge! Awesome layout! I started with my H & M turtle from the Sealife set. I love this turtle! Isnt he the cutest?!?! I colored the turtle when I was praticing with my new copics. I used bg10 cool shadow, g21 lime green, and e33 sand to color my turtle I also used my white gel pen to add some highlights. The turtle is layered on certainly celery and then soft sky. Okay so at this point I have my creamy caramel card base, my layered turtle image and so I go digging for dp.....I pulled out several different sheets of dp trying to find what I wanted to use then I saw the soft sky pattern from the Wintergreen. I decided to pair it up with my least fave design in the prints pack. I attached both the patterns to a textured soft sky layer. I added in the polka dot ribbon and popped my main image up on dimensionals. To finish off my card I pulled out my neglected colored brads and used celery brads on each side of the ribbon. What do you think of my mixed up card!?!?!

Have a great day!

Quilted Cowgirl

Todays inspiration is from a quilt at Garnet Hill. The first thing that jumped out at me was the pattern that reminded me of the cowgirl paper by Crate. This weeks sketch challenge was perfect since the inspiration was a quilt. I started with my main image. Ive only used this MFT Ride em cowgirl set a few times and I couldnt use cowgirl dp without a cowgirl!LOL! I paper pieced the dress and used prismacolor marker to color the scallops on the dress. I stamped the image 2 more times and colored the hand on one and the rope on the other and cut them both out. I put the rope onto my paper pieced dress first then the hand. I colored her boots with Y11 Pale yellow, prismacolor crimson red, and E33 sand. For the ground I used the E33 sand again and for the sky BG10 Cool shadow. For my squares I used 2 patterns from the cowgirl line, soft sky prints, and real red prints. I matted each 1 3/8" sq onto close to cocoa textured cs ( 1 1/2") and layered onto barely banana cs. I added faux stitching to the middle panel of squares. I stamped the sentiment Howdy on twill ribbon using timber brown stazon and added a red dot with the prismacolor marker and attached to the middle of my card. It was at this point I had my card leaning against my little trash bucket I keep in front of me that my card fell onto the pad! AARRRGGHH! I matted the main image onto the polka dot dp and textured close to cocoa and added dimensionals. After I assembled the card I realized it needed something else and I wanted to try to cover up the place where the card fell on the ink pad the main image thankfully covered most of it! So I pulled out my stash of buttons and played around with them I finally ended up putting them on the four corners.

Have a great day!

Groovy Plum Mojo Bird

Todays ways to use it challenge wt172 is to use birds on your card. Birds have been really hot in the stampin world this year! I love this bird from Spring Solitude its my fave hostess set from the S&S catalog. Its a level 2 hostess set and will be retiring soon so get it while you can!

For my card today I started with Julees Mojo43 for my layout. I started with the main image layers . I inked up the tree branch with close to cocoa marker. I used the wasabi reinker and a fantastix to make a temporary marker to ink up the leaves. I stamped the bird in perfect plum. I dont have the oval nesties yet so I had to leave off the scallops and use my fiskars oval cutter. The bird image is 2 x 2 1/2" and the wsabi mat is 2 1/4 x 3". The close to cocoa layer is 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 and I attached the oval layer to it. I knew I wanted to do something to the corners but decided to wait until I got the rest of the card made to see what I was going to do. I cut a 4 x 51/4" piece of perfect plum and a 3 x 4 piece of groovy guava. I stamped the wheel onto guava using tone on tone and attached it to the bottom of my plum layer. I then cut my textured cocoa card base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I put all the layer together to see what else I needed to add to my card. The plum looked kinda blah so I pierced it and added faux stitching with my plum marker. I wanted to do something to add more wasabi and guava so I pulled out my ribbons and decided to use the wasabi ds ribbon. I wanted to add a flower so I went digging through my very small stash of primas. I found a pretty close match to guava in a set of MM primas and brads I got at HL and because the flower is so small it fit perfectly over the leaves. My corners still needed something so I added piercing to 2 corners of the cocoa layer and used my cocoa marker for the faux stitching. I attached the main image layers with dimensionals. Now the only thing I had left to do was add the sentiment. which is usually the hardest thing for me!LOL! I have a very limited supply of senitments. I always want to get cute images instead of sentiments! The first sentiment I tried was a verve visual sentiment you brighten my day that fits the ww punch. I stamped it onto textured wasabi tone on tone. I put it on my card to see what it looked like before I attached it. I didnt really like the way it looked and then I thought about my oval punch since my main image was an oval. I had found that some of the verve sentiments fit the oval also. Not the one I had though!LOL! So it was back to searching for a sentiment. I pulled out the Pti faux ribbon set its always what I grab when I need a small font sentiment. I decided on the many thanks so my card went from a you brighten my day card to a thank you card!LOL! I attached the oval sentiment to the card and then I remebered HH!! I always forget to use it! When the stylized silver HH tin came out I HAD to have it. I love all things silver! Well today is the first time Ive used it. Isnt that why we buy stuff and hoard it so that when youre making a card and you think it needs just one more thing your precious stash comes to the resuce and now you've used it at least once so can buy some more!LOL!

Have a great day!

Froggie and friends

I almost forgot to post on my blog today!LOL! Ooops! I made this card today for the sketch challenge and posted it on SCS. I had to run to a local farm to pick up some bushels of peas and while the peas were blanching my intentions were to post on my blog....then I started commenting on SCS and frogot!


Okay! Here we go!LOL! Madison is on a frog kick lately since she found a pet frog those of you who read my blog probably remeber the story about Madison finding the frog if not you can read the story on this post unfrogettable smile. The kids are in the Catch the reading bug program and Madison has been reading alot of the Froggy books by Jonathan London. As most of you know little froggy here is retiring (boo!hoo!) so I made this card for Madison. I kinda jumped around alot when making this card. I started by stamping the images onto pti white. I stamped each image 3 times. I punched them out with the 1 1/4" sq punch. I colored the images using prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I added an outline to the bottom of each of the images using copic cool gray no.1 marker. Then I colored my main image and outlined with the copic marker. I punched an apricot appeal mat for each image using the 1 3/8" sq punch. I used my grid paper to figure out what size to make my card. I used the lines on the grid paper to figure out my spacing, etc for my squares. With my 3 sqs across and down I needed at least a 5" card base. I used cool carribean for my 5" sq panel and layered my images. I added my cool carribean layer to a textured wild wasabi 5 1/4" sq card base. I matted my main image onto textured wasabi and punched a hole in the lower left side for my ribbon. For some reason it didnt look right to me so I added a guava layer also and that looked better. To finish off my card I had to add some sparkle! I used diamond stickles and added them to the frogs eyes, the wings of the dragonfly, the circles on the mushrooms, and the snails body.


I will be back later today to share what the kids made other day. For now Im off to bag up peas!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

Bold Bright Sunshine

I made this card for todays sketch challenge Sc181. I love the sketch!!


When the retirement list was posted I of course pulled out all my sets that will be retiring to use over the next month. Time well spent is one I have barely used. I think the problem is the few cards Ive made with this set have not been my faves. I am happy with my card today though!LOL! For my main image I stamped the large flower on pti white w/pallette noir and colored with prismacolor pencils. I then added an outline to the flower using copic cool gray No.1. For the pink passion panel I stamped the smallest flower image randomly and used the white gel pen to color in the middle of the flower. I added the ribbon that inspired my colors to the left side of the card. I still thought the card needed something so I went in search for a sentiment b/c the sentiments that come with the set were too large. I came across the MFT sentiment Sending you sunshine and thought it fit the card b/c of the bright colors. I stamped the sentiment but when I did the end of the g and y didnt stamp as well b/c I already had my knot! Oops! So I went over them w/a SU marker. I added a line under the sentiment with the SU summer sun marker and used the mat pack to line up my 3 rhinestones. I attached the main image panel to the green galore card base stamped with polka dot background. After I attached the layers I added stickles to the flower. Ive learned the hard way to always add my stickles LAST!LOL!


For those of you who asked for a step by step process HTH! Have a great day!

Kraft Seashore skies

When I saw todays color challenge I wasnt thrilled. I tried to go a different way but the colors just kept coming back to beach. So I looked through my beach images and saw the MFT By the seashore set I had just used...I saw the bird image in it and this card was born.


Since I was using a MFT image I decided to pop over to the MFT forum and see what Cindy cooked up for a sketch challenge yesterday. I used MFTsc35 for my layout. My main image is stamped with the waves and birds from By the Seashore and popped up on dimensionals. The bird was cut out and popped up on the wave layer. I used the shells from the set to make my seashell "dp"and added dimensionals. I also used soft sky prints and soft sky ds ribbon. This card will go to my bestest friend Dusty who lives in FL. I talk to her all the time but its been awhile since she came home to visit and talking is just not the same as a girls night out!LOL! Have a great day!

Lighthouse OCCC

Quick post for today. Im trying to finish up the last of my Fathers Day cards today while Danny's at work.


My card today uses the OCCC sketch. Amy posted a card on her gallery the other day called Dream Thyme. She used river rock, true thyme and ruby red color combo. I loved it! The main thing I liked was how great the river rock and true thyme looked together. River rock is my least fave of the In colors but I love how it looks w/true thyme. I have 2 unopened packs of true thyme from stocking up last year!LOL! I finally opened one of the packs this morning.


I used my new Su set A light unto my path. I love this lighthouse image! The sentiment I used is from HM stamps Dads Outdoors. I dont know if Im thrilled w/this card or not. Something seems off to me like its not balanced but I decided to just leave it alone before I messed the card up by adding stuff to it!LOL!



Recipe:

Stamps: A light unto my path, Dads Outdoors

Paper: textured river rock, true thyme, vanilla, kraft

Ink: true thyme, artichoke SU marker

Other: Ribbon from Joanns, Brads, paper piercer, dimensionals

Lsc172 Knotty Cabin

Sorry I havent posted the past couple of days. I think I mentioned that my exclamation point was worn out. Well the next day none of my symbols or numbers worked so I couldnt sign in to my blog. Uggghhh! So you know how you go to town and come back w/everything except what you went to town for? Well guess what I forgot?! Yep a keyboard. LOL!


I made this card for todays Lsc172 and Beates wsc52. I need Fathers day card since I havent even started on them. Masculine cards are not my fave to make so I tend to put them off until the last minute. I LOVE how my card turned out today. Theres alot of dimension on my card since it will be hand delivered. Its very heavy and I had a hard time taking a pic of it b/c it doesnt want to stand up.LOL! Okay onto the deets. I started w/ a garden green card base stamped tone on tone w/canvas background. My next layer is choc chip layered w/close to cocoa strips stamped w/a wood grain background I got at Michaels a couple of years ago. I also sponged all the edges of the strips w/choc chip ink and used my choc chip marker to put a dot to look like nails. The ruby red layer is stamped w/weathered background inked in choc chip and all edges are sponged. I also popped this layer up on dimensionals. For my main image I stamped the cabin from H & M stamps onto Pti white w/timber brown stazon. I colored the image using prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. I wanted to do something so I wasnt left with all the white background so I decided to give the Zindorf brayered scenes a try. I used my Versamarker and covered my image w/clear detail ep. This is the first time Ive ever used it and Ive have it for over a year. I was shocked it worked!LOL! Next I used post it notes to cover the top portion of my image and brayered wild wasabi ink for the grass. I used the garden green marker to make some grass. For the sky I used post it notes and covered the grass. I brayered soft sky and then cool carribbean. The edges are sponged w/garden green and cool carribbean. I layered the main image onto garden green and added stacked two dimensionals to pop it up. The Dads cabin sign is also popped up on the image. Since this was a masculine card I thought twill ribbon was the best way to go. I stamped the sentiment from the set onto twill ribbon and I think it was the perfect embellishment for my card.


Have a great weekend!

Real Regal Punny Farm

Todays color challenge is real red, regal rose, and so saffron. At first I thought ackkk..but as I was pulling out the colors I got inspired. Yayyy. Love when that happens. LOL. I knew I wanted to use a MFT set with the Mftsc34. Ive neglected my MFT images lately so I wanted to give them so love.

My card base is real red stamped tone on tone w/the weathered background. The saffron layer is also stamped tone on tone w/ the chicken wire background. I used primsacolor pencils and gamsol to color all the images and used copic marker cool gray no.1 to outline the images. I used Fiskars oval to cut out my ovals. For my embellishments I decided to not use ribbon on my card *gasp*. I used 2 large pewter eyelets and placed a crystal bella bauble in the center. The right side still needed something so I decided to do some faux stitching. This is the point where I wish I would have left it alone. My white gel pen decided to act up this morning. It threw up on my card. LOL! It just came gushing out so if you're wondering I was going for the crossstitch. Other than the white gel pen blobs I love how my card turned out today.

We're off to the library. The kids are in the catch the reading bug program and they have a little show today. I think its a juggler. Last week they had a clown and the kids loved it. Brayden got to help do a trick. He was so cute.

Cherry on top

I made this card today for Taylors cupcake challenge (tecc19). When I saw the sketch I thought it would be perfect for the small images in tart and tangy. Looks like a pretty simple card right?!?!LOL! Not today! It took me over 2 hrs to make this card. I have no idea why! The main prob was the sentiment. I decided to use this sentiment and printed it out on my computer that took 5 times to get right! Im pleased with how my card turned out though. I guess when youre finished with a card thats all that matters right?!!? This card will definetly go to someone special though since I had such a hard time with it!LOL!


I love the summer picinic dps. I didnt like them at first b/c Im not a big fruit/veg image lover. My mom and MIL always tried to buy my kids clothes with watermelon, cherries, etc on them and I hated them. Well this year Madison swimsuit has apples on it. Its so cute! Great colors! I have an inspiration piece in the works so stay tuned for that.


I finally broke down and bought the bashful blue and real red striped grosgrain ribbon after I fell in love with the pumpkin pie striped ribbon. I have no idea what Im going to do w/out my in color double stiched ribbon!LOL! I think Ive used it on just about every card Ive made!LOL!


Okay Im through rambling....like I said the card is pretty simple. I used my SU markers to ink up the cherry and stamped onto PTI white. I still got a few blotchy looking areas so I went over it with my blender pen and smoothed it out. I noticed while my card was loading that when I did that I blended over the white part of the cherry so I went back and added it w/my white gel pen so for now just imagine the little white highlight!LOL! I added an outline to my image using the copic cool gray no. 1 and went over the cherries with crystal effects so they're super shiny!


We're off to the kids VBS program tonight after soaking up the sun today! Have a great day!

As I was getting ready to browse through some of my fave blogs I realized I havent posted today! Oops! Sorry!



Todays colors are vanilla, choc chip, and sage shadow. I also used Julees mojo39 sketch challenge. Ive really loved the card Silke has posted lately! They are striking! I wanted to try to make a similar card todays w/the color combo. For my main image I stamped the bird in versamark and then chocolate chip. I embossed the image w/clear detail ep. I colored in the flourishes (?) on the bird w/my sage shadow marker. For the sentiment I used the sage shadow marker to only ink the always in the sentiment and pierced 3 dots. The image and sentiment are both popped up on dimensionals. I used choc chip 5/8" wide grosgrain ribbon and gold brads for my embellishments. Pretty simple card and far from my usual style. I like it but it doesnt come close to the striking cards Silke makes!LOL! Have a great day!

Inspired by Maurices

I got to stamp and post 2 days in a row! Im on a roll!LOL! Todays card is using the sketch challenge. I bought a shirt from Maurices a couple of months ago and its one of my faves! I wrote down the color combo and a few sets that fit the style of the shirt in my inspiration book. The three sets were baroque motifs, true friend, and wanted. I need a thank you card for my step dad so I thought the colors were good for a masculine(ish) card but I knew the true friend wouldnt work b/c it would be too girly. I decided to use baroque motifs. I still feel like I went too girly with it so I might try it again w/Wanted. Here is a pic of part of the shirt that inspired my card. The design goes up the shirt in a swirl.

For the card I started with a taken w/teal card base. I stamped the baroque swirl in night of navy and the small flower in brilliance cosmic copper. For the main image panel I stamped the same design as the card base and layered w/night of navy and copper textured cs from DCWV metallic pack. For the side panels I used night of navy and placed 4 copper snaps on each one. I stamped the Baroque medallion inked in teal onto Pti white and punched out w/the scallop punch. I added copper stickles to parts of the medallion and both are popped up on dimensionals. Since this is a thank you card I stamped the kind sentiment inked in cosmic copper onto the the main image panel. Have a great day!

Sparkling Smiles

I got some much needed stamping therapy this morning! Ive missed doing my daily challenges but I love my new nephew so I guess my stamping can take a back seat for a couple of weeks!LOL! Jaylen was 1 week old yesterday and is doing great!



Since Im so behind on challenges I used todays colors challenge and Julee's mojo38 sketch. I thought todays colors were perfect for my unloved turtle from the SU silly sealife set. I colored the turtle using prismacolors and blended w/gamsol then I sponged soft sky and blue bayou around the image and edges. I stamped cheesecloth inked in blue bayou onto soft sky. The 3 panels are embossed using itty bitty backgrounds and holographic ep. I love it b/c of the sparkle! I also added diamond stickles to the bubbles in the image and the oval sentiment layer. The sentiment is from Verve Visual. I actually used white as a background layer on this card which I never do but I like the way it looks on this card! My knot turned out perfect on this card. Wanna know how?!?!?! I used the stay put bow! Love it! Have a great day!

Fancy Free Riley

I wanna be like Riley! Kicked back with a cupcake and coffee although I dont drink coffee so we'll pretend its hot cocoa. I made this card for yesterdays sketch challenge and Tuesdays color challenge pumpkin pie, soft sky, and ruby red.

I received the Riley image from a friend (Hi Deb). I colored Riley with prismacolor pencils. I used my nesties on him too so Riley's feelin all kind of love!LOL! The dp I used is from the Creepy Crawly dps. I did have a hard time with the layout I couldnt get my sentiment panel right. I finally got it to where I was satisfied with it! I used a sentiment from Many Happy returns and added pomegrante baubles.

Last week was a very bad week! Alot of things have been going on lately that I prefer not to share here b/c my blog is supposed to be my happy place so I dont want to bum you guys out!LOL! This week has just been busy baby busy! My sister had a boy on Monday! Hes so cute and sweet! So Ive been busy getting baby kisses!LOL! Dontcha just love how babies smell!?!?! Brayden is already asking when they can go outside and play!LOL! Have a great day!