Live the Sweet Life

Happy Sunday to you! Its a rainy day here in GA today but at least that means some stamp time for me!LOL! As I was browsing through challenges today I came across Karens Sunday sketch and decided to play along. I was in the mood to do something different today so I pulled out some Flourishes images I borrowed from Mama and colored up these peaches. Im really happy about how they turned out!! I even took pics of the copics I used today!LOL!! The yellow shading around the peaches I did with prismacolor pencils. I did the out of the nesties technique for the leaves. The dp I used is from SU but I cant find my catty so I dont remember the name but it was from last years catty (I think!LOL!) I'm really trying to use up the stacks I have of SU dp well really Im trying to use up the stacks of ALL the dp I have!LOL!! Ive put myself on restriction from buying ANY until I put a dent in my stack and its sooooo hard especially with the new MME dp!! I LOVE the Quite Contrary dp! Okay enough of my whining!LOL! Look I even finished the inside WITH coloring!! I NEVAH do that!LOL!!

Have a great day!

Merry Christmas Cupcake

Treehouse stamps will be having a release every Friday this month! Todays release is this super cute Christmas cupcake set! Now I usually dont start on my Christmas cards until October but this year everyone seems determined to get me to start earlier!LOL! I just have to be in the right "mood" to really have fun creating a Christmas card so coolier weather is a definte!LOL! That being said I love this cute cupcake image!

I have a triple challenge card here this morning! Yesterdays challenge was to use your white gel pen. I used mine to make highlights on the holly and berries. Todays LSC challenge is to find a quick and simple TLC challenge to use on your card. I used paper piecing and watercoloring with markers on my card. I love paper piecing! Its my fave quick WOW technique. The dp I used is KI Memories simple Christmas stripes. For the third challenge on this triple card is Beates wsc57 for my layout.

Only one more day to enter for the blog candy!! I will announce the winner tommorrow! I've had fun reading about everyones fave thing about fall. To enter for the blog candy click here!

Summer Plaid Cupcake

Wow todays challenge was well...a challenge. We were to find something in our kitchen like spices and use them in our card. So as I was looking through my spices I ran across the pink sugar crystals I used on Madison's cupcakes for her bday last year. I know its not an orginal idea but I've been wanting to use this Cupcake set from Inkadinkado.

I paper pieced the cupcake with KI memories Summer plaid dp. The cupcake was colored using SU and copic markers. I stamped the sentiment and went over it with SU markers and added dots under the sentiment. I went over the frosting with Tulip diamond puffy paint and sprinkled the sugar on top. This is where plans went a little downhill!LOL! The water (or whatever) in the puffy paint didnt mesh well with the crystals. The crystals sorta dissolved! OOPSS! Oh well! I added ribbon tabs secured with silver brads and also added brads to the pumpkin pie panel. The striped dp is KI memories Summer stripe.

We had a great time yesterday in Albany. We just made a day of it and went to the movies, school shopping, etc. Brayden kept asking on the way was it still his bday so I just told him yeah since we were technically going to see the movie for his bday. He loved the Hulk movie! Madison sat with her fingers in her ears and her head buried in her knees on the fight scenes!LOL! So housework awaits today! Yuckkk! After Danny being here with the kids all weekend and us coming and going the way we have the past few days my house needs some serious attention! Have a great day!

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!

I Scream

I started this card today for the SC but my image was too big but I decided to finish the card. My mojo just hasnt been here the past couple of days.

My stampin time got cut short when I got a call from the school to pick Madison up b/c she wasnt feeling well. I think she's fine she got sick last night I think something she ate didnt sit right on her tummy. She didnt run any fever and only got sick that once but she thought she wouldnt have to go to school today and was very upset this morning when I woke her up for school. "But Im sick I have to stay home with you" she says!

Alana was sick Sunday. That was the insane day! She was fine all morning and we went to go meet Mom for lunch and stampin time and while we were in the restaraunt Alana got sick EVERYWHERE and I will leave it at that!LOL! YUCK!

Recipe

stamps: I scream CTMH, polka dots and paisley

ink: pallette noir, taken w/teal

paper: rose red, pretty in pink, taken w/teal, polka dots and paisley dps, GA Pacific whtie

Other: white gel pen, corner rounder, pretty in pink ribbon, tulip puffy paint icicile

Be mine Pixie Pouch

Well Im a day late for the Celebrating MFT day. Story of my life day late and a dollar short!LOL! Yesterday was a beyond insane day (I'll share later!)

Very quick post today. This is for todays technique challenge to create a pixie pouch. So very easy and cute. I will be making more of these! Check over at SCS for the directions for this super cute pouch! Just picture a Hershey bar in my pouch b/c I was out!LOL!

The main image was embossed and colored w/SU markers and aquapainter then covered in crystal effects. I also went over some of the dots on the swirly layer with my white gel pen.

Recipe:

Stamps: Be mine MFT, so swirly jumbo wheel

Paper: ruby red, cameo coral, choc chip, PTI white

Ink: ruby red, cameo coral, choc chip, creamy caramel, versamark

Other: white gel pen, crystal effects, aquapainter, sheer polka dot choc chip ribbon, corner punch, silver brads, black ep

I'll be back tommorrow to share about my insane day!

wt133 Creepy Candy Bar

Todays challenge was Food Glorious Food. Well theres no better food than CHOCOLATE!! In this cards case dark chocolate which Im not a very big fan of but I had to use black instead of choc chip to match my paper. I had a really hard time photgraphing this card Im not sure if its b/c of the foil or the way the sun was sitting over the house or the fact that my cats knocked this card down 4 x's before I could get a pic!LOL! Sorry for the shadow when I take a photo of my cards I take several pics at different angles so I usually take anywhere from 3-6 pics of my cards then I crop and keep the best one. Well every card I took a pic of has this shadow.

Okay on to the deets...I started w/a white card base standard card size 4 x 5 1/2. I layered the card front w/ bb 4 x 5 1/2. Creepy crawly dp is cut to 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 I love this paper!! I stamped the trick or treat sentiment in bb onto the dp and placed brads in the corner. I used another piece of creepy crawly dp measuring 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 layered on ww with a 1/4 matt. I usually never matt w/ww but it seemed to work for this dp. To make the candy bard I cut a piece of bb to 2 1/4 x 4 1/4. This cs is a scrap piece that has places punched out but its covered up so no one will know!teehee! I pulled out the aluminum foil and wrapped the bb piece w/the foil w/an overlap so I would have some to tea. I used the piece of creepy crawly w/the sentiment on it for the candy bar wrapper. I cut it shorter so the foil would show at the bottom. I wanted it to look like someone had tore the wrapper open w/the candy bar peeking through so I went to tearing. To finish off my candy bar I tied a piece of black grosgrain around the bar and made a tag w/PTI spooky sweets. I saw an idea similar to this on SCS a couple of years ago but I couldnt find it this morning. I think Dawn5377 made it. Dawn blogs is Dawns stamping thoughts.