Clearsnap/The {Stamps} of Life Blog Hop

Today we are doing a blog hop with The {Stamps} of Life and Clearsnap.  

You should have arrived here from Suzanne Austin's blog.  If you are just coming across this post,  you may want to start the hop at the Clearsnap Blog.  If you get lost along the hop, all the blogs are listed below.

"Be sure to visit all the blogs on the hop and leave a comment to be entered to win a fabulous prize of Stephanie Barnard’s line of ColorBox inkpads, Stephanie Barnard Sprays!, and Stephanie’s new SCREENS!"

For my card I used the Trees4Christmas set along with Colorbox Premium Dye Inks by Stephanie Barnard in Cornflower, Licorice and Strawberry.  The background paper on the bottom is created by stamping the star from the set in Cornflower.

To add a little texture and fun to my card, I applied a 1/2" strip of red cardstock with some Scor-tape and then pressed in some Stephanie Barnard Sprinkles Chunky Glitter.

Hope you enjoyed stopping by and seeing how I'm getting a head start on some Christmas cards.

Clearsnap Blog: http://blog.clearsnap.com/

Jeanne Streiff http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com

Tami Sanders http://tamisanders.com/

Lorie Souther http://www.thinkinspot.com/

Suzanne Austin http://whatsinalousyananut.blogspot.com/

Kim Howard http://basementstamper.blogspot.com/

Judy Rozema http://jarfullofjoy.blogspot.com/

Becki Adams http://beckiadams.com/

Beverly Sizemore http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/

Emily Niehaus http://emmielouwho.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Priest http://hydrangeahippo.com/blog

Laura Williams http://www.lauralooloo.blogspot.com/

Steph Ackerman http://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com/

Anna Wight http://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/

Kelli Hull http://stampingwithadream.blogspot.com/

Adrienne Ford http://bry-and-i.blogspot.com/

Tiffany Johnson http://iheartartblog.com/

Lydia Fiedler http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

Meihsia Liu http://meihsia.blogspot.com/

Debbie Cole http://debbiecole.com/blog/

Bee's Knees

Today over at Blogger's Challenge is Things with Wings.

This is a very simple card for me, I worked with the designs on the patterned paper and stamped my bee images directly on it.

After stamping the bees I added the sentiment with some pearls.  Like I said, super simple card for me today.

Hope you are having a great week, I'm looking forward to hanging out with some friends at Archiver's tomorrow to get some Project Life done.

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Stamps: Bees #3000 & #3008 from Stampotique, Old Fashioned Afternoon from Sweet Stamp Shop

Cardstock: Basic Gray and So Saffron from Stampin' Up! and My Mind's Eye Be Amazing

Inks: You're Such a Gray-Cious Host and Perfect Little Black Dress from Clear & Simple Stamps

Embellishments: Bo Bunny Weekend Market Jewels, Distressing tool from Stampin' Up!

Thank You...You're the Best

This month over at Paper Crafts, the July Gallery Challenge is all things nautical.  

This paper from the Unchartered Waters Collection from Glitz screams nautical to me and combined with the Lighthouse Collage set from Our Daily Bread designs, this card turned out just like I envisioned it.

I stamped the image directly onto the patterned paper to give it that ocean feel.

Thanks for stopping by to visit me today, hope you are having a great week!

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Card details:

Stamps: Kind Deeds from Clear & Simple Stamps, Lighthouse Collage from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Unchartered Waters Collection from Glitz, Night of Navy and Whisper White from Stampin' Up!

Inks: True Blue Fan from Clear & Simple Stamps

Embellishments: Bo Bunny Weekend Market jewels, Dimensionals from Stampin' Up!

BC319: To Die For

Happy Friday!  I'm so happy the weekend is here yet again, the long weekend last weekend went by way too FAST!!  This weekend we don't have a baseball tournament so I'm hoping the weather will be nice and we might be able to get out on the boat for an afternoon.

This week at Blogger's Challenge Lisa has challenged us to break out our dies or die machines.  I haven't been stamping a whole lot lately, and am okay with it for now.  Most of the evenings when I normally stamp I'm just enjoying some quiet time reading with the ball games on in the background. 

But knowing how many dies I have to work with, I had to get off my rump and get something made.  Am thinking maybe tonight I'll get some stamping done if everything goes as planned.

For my card I used some of the new papers in my stash which reminds me of summer and the lake along with some of My Favorite Things dies.  I loved the current Cas(e) this sketch! and wanted to use that.

Hope you will join us and show off your dies at Blogger's Challenge.

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Card details: 

Stamps: Sweet Pea from There She Goes Clear Stamps

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Glitz Unchartered Waters designer paper

Inks: Night of Navy

Embellishments: Die-namics Mix & Match Banner and Botanical Beauty from My Favorite Things, Bo Bunny jewels

Lighthouse Birthday

I can never have enough birthday cards in my stash and I NEVER have any masculine cards. 

I got this Lighthouse set a few months ago from Our Daily Bread Designs but hadn't inked it up but once.  I think I need to make a batch of these so that I have a few guy cards :-)

Hope your Tuesday is going well, our little gal is getting over the flu and has been a bear this week back at school.   It's affecting us all in that she's DRAMA.  Praying she bounces back soon!

Card Details:

Stamps: Lighthouse 2 and Dad from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Marina Mist, Crumb Cake from Stampin' Up! , Gina K. Luxury White; Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Bluebell

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics B00, W3

Embellishments: Divine Twine, Circle Dies from Spellbinders, gem from Bo Bunny Zoology jewels

Dude, You Rock!

I'm a bit behind this week, I'm finding I don't have as much time to get creative as I used to with 2 kids in sports and we are just finishing the season of one and starting the other one.

Today's Blogger's Challenge Lisa gave us a "By the Seashore" theme.  I already had the card planned in my head so I cut my lunch hour short today to stamp a little bit and get my card up.

When I think of the seashore, so many things come to mind.  One is hanging out in Cape Cod with friends, watching surfers in Santa Cruz, honeymooning in Hawaii and just lounging in the sand in the Bahamas.  

I used two of Verve Stamps sets for this card, the Relax and Dude set.  The Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss papers are just perfect to combine with this set.

My sketch folder was opened to Jen's Deconstructed Sketch today so I went with that.  Not sure my waves turned out as I wanted, but I'm still happy with the overall card.  I colored my strip of twill with my copic marker.

Hope you will join us for blogger's challenge by linking up at anyone's blog participating in the blog hop.

I'm also participating in these challenges:
Just For Fun Challenges- sporty man (surfing)
4 Crafty Chicks- Double Down (used 2 surfboards)

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Card details:

Stamps: Relax and Dude from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Summer Sunrise, Basheful Blue, White, Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copic markers

Embellishments: dimensionals

I'm thankful for...

Happy New Year!  Hope you all had a great ringing in of the new year and weren't asleep before midnight.  We just barely made it, but we heard the fireworks around the neighborhood for awhile after midnight.

Last year I was very thankful for the creative endeavors I was able to explore and the wonderful opportunities I was given to design.  I've enjoyed being on great teams and making great friends, and for that I'm very thankful!

The new release, list2write from The {Stamps} of Life is one I can see myself using a lot this year as I try to complete my 2nd year of Project Life.  I have not been doing a week layout like it's meant to, but more used it as a guide to keep up with some scrapbooking.  I plan to continue it this way in 2012 along with integrating some digital and regular scrapbooking pages.  This page fits the CR84FN color challenge this week, the yellow is subtle but there is some in the designer papers.  I'm definitely going to be using this color combo again.

Above is a cute pic I took of my youngest earlier in the year at a baseball game.  I love his many faces and thought this would make a great scrapbook page.  I also used the boxes4abc for my banner along with the rounded tags framelits from Sizzix.

My second cards I was inspired by a card I saw online with this color combination.  I thought these would make a cute notecard set.  My goal for 2012 is to use more bright yellow, which I rarely use now.

I for one always have a "honey-do" list going for the hubby.  Right now as I type this up, he is busy hanging a new t.v. from the wall...something that has been taking him 1/2 the day to do, but he's getting there.  That's after he helped take down decorations, built a desk for our oldest son, etc.  So this notepad that hangs on the fridge will come in handy.  It has a perforated top so I can just tear the pages out when done.

For my last card I decided to use a size I don't create much with, it's a 2.75 x 4.75" card.  I used the Mojo Monday sketch #221 for this.  My petals are created using the creations2fill set and I added some stickles to my center flower.  I adore this color combination and it's one I will be using more frequently.

Hope you enjoyed these cards/creations and if you want to see some more spectacular creations with this set, visit The {Stamps} of Life gallery where there are hundreds of samples.

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Cutie Pie Scrapbook page:

Stamps: list2write and boxes4abc from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Barefoot & Bliss from Bo Bunny, Neenah White

Inks: Blueberry, Tangerine and Licorice from Color Box by Stephanie Barnard

Embellishments: Janome sewing, rounded tags framelits from Sizzix

Just a Note:

Stamps: list2write from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Yo Yo Yellow, Spring Rain, Kraft Like a Rockstar,  Neenah White

Inks: Chocolate from Color Box by Stephanie Barnard, copic markers

Embellishments:Yo Yo Yellow grosgrain ribbon, stapler

"Honey-do" List:

Stamps: list2write from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Taken with Teal, Neenah White

Inks: Chocolate from Color Box by Stephanie Barnard, Taken with Teal

Embellishments: dimensionals

I'm Thankful For:

Stamps: list2write and creations2fill from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Rose Red, Neenah White

Inks: Chocolate from Color Box by Stephanie Barnard, Rose Red and Old Olive

Embellishments: Fruit Punch stickles, dimensionals

Froggy-licious Cards

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We are still enjoying one more day off (well hubby and I are anyway).  

I'm VERY behind on my blogging and can't believe this is the last week in November already.  SCARY to think there are only a few more weeks until Christmas but I can take a deep breath as for once...I'm ALMOST done shopping.  Really hoping that today may be the day I finish up.

So bear with me as I share some frog-i-licious cards!

This is using one of the Sizzix pop-up card dies which I believe should be available in a few weeks.  I love the pop-up and how you can decorate the outside and inside of it!

This card is one I struggled with as it was too plain for me so my friend Vicki gave me some suggestions and this second try was much better.

My last card was a bit brighter and one I originally created for the challenges over at SCS and never ended up using it for the challenge.

Well, I'm being ultra lazy as I didn't write down supplies on any of my cards this time.  I did use the wonderful sets from The {Stamps} of Life called Froggy2love and Sayings4froggy.

Thanks for sticking with me through all my shares today and come back tomorrow for the new Going Grey with Scrap-creations challenge.

SDC42: Sketch

Lisa is our hostess over at Stampotique Designers Challenge this week!  Her challenge is one of my favorites and here is what she had to say about it

 

"I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch."

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact.  For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them.  

 

 

For my card I kept exactly to the sketch, that always challenges me even more to do that.  I used some stitching on my card and colored my images with copic markers.

Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate for stamps, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz here.  Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

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Card details:

Stamps: Two Gifts 2193 and Happy Holidays! 5261 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: River Rock, Spring Rain, Cherry Cobbler, Bo Bunny Blitzen collection

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copic markers, Haute Red Couture

Embellishments: mini jewels, Janome sewing, felt ribbon retired, Spellbinders Nestabilities

 

 

Butterfly Kisses

Very excited today as hubby is returning from his trip to California.  Normally I'm the one traveling for business and he's been at home by himself.  I have a lot more respect for the hard work he does to allow me to travel for a job I love and also personally at times.  It hasn't been all bad, but the little one has decided temper tantrums are a good thing around dinner time and it's been hard.  Thankful for a sunny day yesterday where they could play outside and I could get some work done around the house and work in my office while being able to still watch them.

I did get a few hours to do some stamping on Saturday night and probably could have done a little more, but with the time change figured I better not test the waters and get my sleep while I needed it.

I've been trying to play in some of the Our Craft Lounge challenges since I've gotten a few more of their sets.  This week was Distressed & Stressed.  Hopefully I did mine good enough, it's a little out of my comfort range but I finally used the Donna Salazar Distresser I purchased over a year ago.  The sketch is one of Mary Jo's over at TechoStamper that is for a one-on-one challenge at one of the yahoo groups I'm on.

The twill ribbon is stamped on and then I stitched across the top.  I sponged my butterfly with some various colors and adhered it with dimensionals.

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!

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Card details:

Stamps: Butterfly Kisses from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Kraft Like a Rockstar Cream, Bo Bunny Et Cetera

Inks: Color Box from Stephanie Barnard-Chocolate, Bronze Spotlight, Golden Tiara

Embellishments: Twill Ribbon, dimensionals, Janome sewing