Happy Birthday!

This is a great color combination that took me a few tries to get it the way I envisioned.  I wanted to participate in the Embellish Magazine Circles Color Trends Challenge and hopefully I interpreted the colors correctly as the one color didn't look like red but more a deep coral color.

I also played along with CAS-ual Friday this week to use ribbon tab or loop.  I think I used some ribbon tab loops :-) with the Fall To Layout sketch for the week.

 It's not too often I get to play in some of my favorite challenges in time, I'm always playing WAY after the challenge has ended.  I'm so excited to have gotten to play a bit this weekend and create a bunch of cards.  I spent yesterday (my vacation day which I was sick for) catching up on a lot of blogging.  

Hope your hump day is going well!

Card details:

Stamps: Daisies2Garden, Spiros2Stamp and Back2Basics from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Coral Necklace, Glamazon Green, Brown Leather Satchel, A Blanc Check (all from Clear & Simple Stamps)

Inks: same as above

Embellishments: A Blanc Check ribbon colored with R22 copic, Glamazon Green ribbon

You're so Dog-gone Cute

Another super quick card I made while the kids were playing nicely to create a card for the current MFT weekly sketch and the Color Trends Challenge to use the color combination below and coloring.

I chose to color my image with my Copics.

Card details:

Stamps: Dog Gone Cute by My Favorite Things

Cardstock: Garden Green Whisper White, My Minds Eye Love Me Do, Kraft

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: colored seam binding, circle punches

Lots to share

Sorry I have been absent for a few days, been traveling for work and am looking forward to 6 days off starting tomorrow.   My kiddos are looking forward to spending some time with their grandparents in Florida while we try and get some things done around here.  We always have a long list of things to do but barely knock a few things off.

Of course I hope to get some stamping done and get caught up on my Project Life.  I'm a little behind on putting my book together although I've been ok about the pictures and journaling.

Here are a few more of my creations for The {Stamps}of Life release this last month.  The cute little boy & girl stamp is from the kids2love set.  So many possibilities with this set and it's accessories, extras4kids.

My next three creations use the animals4prints background stamp set.  I created the boy/girl card for my BFF who is expecting twins (boy/girl) in October.  Her baby shower was this weekend so I finally get to share these here.

Just a quick tag using some of my Tim Holtz Distress stains directly on my tag.  I love these background stamps, so cool!  I was going for the rainbow effect to fit in with the Rainbow Color Trends Challenge.

Hope you all enjoy and aren't overwhelmed with all that I shared today, have to share a lot since I missed a few days.

All Star Baby!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday!  I had a fabulous day with the family.  More about that below.

I created a cute little baby card with the new set being released from The {Stamps}of Life called All4Stars.  I combined it with the FTL138 Layout and the Embellish Color Trends to make a square card with this color scheme.

Card details:

Stamps: All4Stars, Sweet4Babies from The{Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: So Saffron, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Aqua Mist, Whisper White

Inks: Same as above

Accessories: none

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Happy Mother's Day!  

My kids & I spent the morning making cakes (they wanted to make & decorate them).  We enjoyed lunch at a local place and spend the evening enjoying a quick visit to the lake.

Here's a picture of my gift, Mooch.  We spent Friday & Saturday at the Humane Society visiting her and making sure she would be a good fit for our family and at the end of the day-she was!!!

She's a 3 year old Beagle mix who is housebroken and she's been really tolerant of the kids.  

So now I can say I'm the mother of 4 including my furry little gal.

Happy Birthday meets Background Stamping

The challenge over at Embellish Magazine this week was to use the color scheme in the inspiration piece below as well as to create your own background.  I love to create my own background paper with Clear & Simple Stamps.  They are my absolute favorites to work with and I love how this background turned out on this card.

I've been wanting use this yellow felt that I bought from Papertrey Ink for awhile now and decided to use it with my peony nestabilities.  Not sure I love how it turned out with the grey center and button, but hopefully someone at the craft fair I'm doing in November will fall in love with them.

I chose to use the FTL109 sketch for this card, I will be using a lot of their sketches for my holiday fair as I love the clean & simple style of them.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Card details:

Stamps: Art Deco and Circus Fun from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Basic Black, White, Lemon Tart, You're Such a Gray-cious Host

Inks: Pretty Little Black Dress, Going Gray

Accessories: Lemon Tart Felt, Peony Nestabilities, Mini black brad, Vintage Holiday Mix Collection, Black twine, Janome Sewing, large scallop border punch

Web of Love

I'm a little late getting this post up today, so I apologize.  

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations our challenge was a Halloween theme.  I went for a cutesy Halloween, this stamp was too cute not to use for this card.

While I don't have any designer paper on my card, I created my own instead.  I used my Wallflower background set to create the background with some Perfect Little Black Dress ink.  Embellish Magazine has a new challenge using Green, Purple & Black as well as Squares.

My card is 4.25 x 4.25 and I added lots of layers to it.  I kept it pretty simple by adding some Glossy Accents to the spider eyes and some spots below the sentiment.  It's hard to tell from the picture but one of my layers is a eggplant envy.

Hope you will come over and join us at Going Grey with Scrap-creations, remember you do NOT have to use Basic Grey papers anymore-any designer paper will work.

Card details:

Stamps: Cute as a Bug and Wallflower from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Eggplant Envy, Basic Black, Spring Moss

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Copic C3

Accessories: Little Black Dress spots (no longer available), Glossy Accents, Distress-it-all

Chapter 26: Sizin' up a sketch...

 
 
CHAPTER 26: Sizin' up a Sketch...


"The Caterpillar was the first to speak. 

`What size do you want to be?' it asked. 

`Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; `only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.' 

`I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar. 

Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 

`Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 

`Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: `three inches is such a wretched height to be.' 

`It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). 

`But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought of herself, `I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!' 

`You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again..."


Hello!  How is everyone here in Wonderland today?

We are sizing up a GREAT sketch by JEN and the main panel just HAPPENS to be THREE. INCHES. TALL.  :)  Now, of course you don't have to stick to this if your image won't fit, but we didn't want to anger Mr. Caterpillar by saying that Three inches wasn't a respectable height, so here's the sketch:

 

And here are some samples by our AWESOMELY Twisted team.
 
Here is what I created, I wanted to use this image but then after I was working on it realize that it was a little out of proportion to the sketch itself.  I used the Wonderland Collage plate from Artistic Outpost as well as the challenge over at Embellish Magazine which was Quirky, Cutesy, Clean with a color challenge. 

Hope you will join us over at Oh, Alice, we'd love to see what you create using Jen's sketch!
 
Card details:
Stamps: Wonderland Collage from Artistic Outpost
Cardstock: Melon Berry, Sage Shadow, Kraft and Rustic Cream Cardstock
Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Copics
Accessories: Pearl from Kaiser Crafts, button from Clear & Simple Stamps, cream twine, flower cuttlebug die cut, ric rac die from Papertrey Ink

SDC13: Wings, Wings, Wings

Willy Anderson is our host this week over at the Stampotique Designer’s Challenge. In this challenge we are going to fly with the theme ‘Wings, wings, wings’. Get out your stamps and fly with us. 

I had an array of stamps to choose from when it came to wings but sick and demented mind immediately was thinking of some yummy garlic & parmesan chicken wings.  I love wings and you know, chickens do have wings.  Okay, so I'm a little different...I'm okay with that.

I love these Bold Birds, they are fun to color and you can use so many different colors with them.  I finally just got the sentiment to go with it and so glad I did.  For the strip on the side I used this fun stamp called Crayon Circles.  I need to make more background paper with this stamp.

I know the color combination is a little different but I decided I would try a few challenges all rolled up into one for this card.  My mojo has seriously been lacking lately-this card took me a whopping 2 hours to make and I had the colors, sketch and theme chosen for me already.  SAD I say.  Hoping that it's going to hit me like a ton of bricks here soon and that I will be stamping like crazy by this weekend.

The sketch came from Jen's Sketch for You to Try.  I don't get to play in some of these challenges as often as I would like, so I'm always excited when I'm able to play along.  Over at Embellish Magazine there is a challenge going on until tomorrow using the colors pink, brown & green with a bird theme.  Hoping my chicken fits the challenge.  ETA:  I'm also submitting this for the first Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is Things with Wings

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and create a project using wings.

Card details:

Stamps: Crayon Circles, Bold Birds and Just Chicken in on you! all from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Hibiscus Burst, Ripe Avacado, Chocolate Chip and Stamper's Select White

Inks: Hibiscus Burst, Dish All the Dirt Brown, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Webster's Pages Bloomers, Webster's Pages Garden Gala/Seaside Retreat Collection, Circle Nestabilities

Embellish Magazine Blog Hop

Have you heard of the blog hop going on?  If you haven't, jump on over to Embellish Magazine Blog Hop to check out the colorful creations as well as the AWESOME prizes being given away.  I've gotten the e-zine that is available and love the way it is put together and the beautiful color layouts of it.

Clear & Simple Stamps is part of the blog hop and they are giving away a $25 gift certificate to the

Clear & Simple Stamps store.

I decided at the very last minute to create some cute little note cards for teacher's gifts as part of the colors scheme of the blog hop.  I had previously done a card similar to these colors (minus-the Kraft) here.

For this card, I started off with the intention of doing Susan's One Layer Wednesday challenge but then forgot-it's ONE layer.  Oh well, maybe next time I'll read the details better to participate as I was greatly inspired by her blog and the Clean & Simple blog in making my teacher's gifts this year.  I was able to make 11 card sets consisting of 8 cards each using a lot of their layouts.

I'm thrilled with how this little card turned out.  I used the Kind Deeds set from Clear & Simple Stamps and overlapped the sentiment.  The butterfly is a die cut from Papertrey Ink.  I use some Amuse creative candy in the middle of the the butterfly in which I stamped with the Art Deco background stamp.

 Hope you jump on to do the blog hop and hope that you win some good prizes!!  Good Luck!

Card details:
Stamp Sets: Kind Deeds and Art Deco from Clear & Simple Stamps
Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, On the Catwalk Cream, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Simply Blue-tiful all from Clear & Simple Stamps
Inks: Dare to be a Diva Red, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Simply Blue-tiful from Clear & Simple Stamps
Accessories: Butterfly die from Papertrey Ink, Ivory Pearls from Amuse Creative Card Candy

Embellish Magazine Color Challenge

 

 

Clear & Simple Stamps is sponsoring the Embellish Magazine Online Color Challengehttp://embellishmagazine.com/blog/2010/01/embellish-stripes-color-challenge-sponsored-by-clear-and-simple-stamps/.

COLOR CHALLENGE:
The color combination is purple, kraft, and brown and we are using it along with the design element of stripes, which can be added through patterned paper, ribbon, stamping, etc.  Use the above picture as inspiration if you like.

I had a good time with this challenge.  I'm not a HUGE purple lover, but I do love the paper that was created for this challenge which is available on the Embellish Magazine blog.

Can't wait to see what everyone creates for this challenge and how different they all turn out.  Make sure to stop by and visit Clear & Simple Stamps at CHA (booth #659).  I will be helping out with the make 'n' takes and wandering the floor at other times.  I can't wait so make sure you see me, stop and say "hi"!

Card Details:

Stamp Set:  Glamour Darling from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock:  On the Catwalk Cream, Purpilicious, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar 

all from Clear & Simple Stamps, Embellish Stripes patterned paper created by Ashley

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copics E31, V12, V15, E25, 0, E02, V09, W1, YR24, R000

Accessories:  5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Ribbon from SU, Brown prima, Purple Button from the Designer Mix Buttons

from Clear & Simple Stamps

 

Card Details:

Stamp Set:  Believe in Words I by Clear &  Simple Stamps

Cardstock: SU Kraft, Lavendar Lace, Stamper's Select, Offbeat by Basic Grey

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copics V12, V09, E25, 0, YR14, V15

Accessories: Spiral punch

Card Details:

Stamp Set:  Glamour Darling  & Glam Girl from Clear & Simple Stamps,

Cardstock:  On the Catwalk Cream, Purpilicious, Dish all the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar 

all from Clear & Simple Stamps, Embellish Stripes patterned paper created by Ashley

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copics E31, V12, V15, E25, 0, E02, V09, W1, YR24, R000

Accessories:  5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Ribbon from SU

 

Mish Meets Embellish Online

My marathon stamping session Saturday night (well, marathon by my means) paid off in that I was able to get some cards created for some challenges I had been wanting to participate in.

I was THRILLED to see one of my stamp idols had created a sketch challenge and it was a challenge for me (this is my 2nd card for it-the first is resting nicely in the garbage).  I created this for Michelle Wooderson (Mish) first sketch & also for the Embellish Online challenge.

Chipboard is not one of those go-to embellishments I use.  I adore what others do with them but I often wondered how they always made them so pretty with designer paper.  Some of them seem so difficult to cut around, but I decided to try again.  I love the added heart embellishment on this one!  I covered it with a pretty paintchip color and then added the stickles over it to really make it sparkle.

I have all this designer paper laying around and really need to use some of it before I go out and buy the newest papers out there.  I pulled out this SEI paper pack I bought at Michael's and love the colors/texture of it.  This is from the Black Orchid paper pack.

The little polka dot circles I used is from a set called Woodlands from Clear & Simple Stamps, thought it was perfect for adding a little more sparkle to the centers.  The ribbon I also bought at Michael's.

Hope you enjoyed my card, tomorrow I hope to share some of my favorite pictures from our Christmas in Charleston.

Card details:

Stamp Set: Woodlands from Clear & Simple Stamps

Ink:  Real Red, Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Real Red, SEI Black Orchid

Accessories:  Rhinestone Brads & Chipboard from SU!, ribbon from Michael's, Crystal Ice Stickles

Embellish Owls Color Challenge meets Mojo Monday

This card has a few challenges I created it for, although some may not be current. I can't seem to keep up with all the challenges I like to do so I save them for that rainy day.

The color scheme for Embellish Magazine was to use Coral, Brown & Green combined with an owl image. She even provided a digital owl image if you did not have any owl stamps. I have this one, although I think I might have some older ones I didn't go dig out. Oh well!

I also combined the Embellish Magazine Challenge with one of Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch #108

What kinds of challenges do you enjoy participating in, if any?

Card details:
Stamp Set: Ollie + Olivia from Stampendous, Mocha Chica from Kim Hughes
Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Confetti Cream
Inks: Cameo Coral, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Twill tape, ice crystal stickles, berry sorbet buttons from Papertrey Ink, twine, primas, stylized flowers cuttlebug embossing folder

Polka Dot Paradise Color Challenge

I love the challenges on the new website Embellish Magazine!! This is the 2nd one I've completed although I haven't posted the first one as it was submitted for their publication call. You have until the 27th to join!

This was a fairly simple card for me, I kept the layout pretty simple along with my image. Believe it or not, I broke out some eyelets for it!

Card details:
Stamp Set: Delightful & Delicious by Verve stamps, Print Pattern Background by SU!
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Apricot Appeal, Very Vanilla, Bravo Burgundy
Inks: Bravo Burgundy, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Earth Elements Eyelets

Okay, I just re-read the directions (would help had I done that the first time) and it calls for the above colors & a polka dot pattern. Back to square one on it then :-)





We spent the weekend celebrating in birthday mode. Friday was my birthday and I enjoyed it by stamping a bit. Saturday we celebrated my oldest son's birthday which actually is on Wednesday but we had to work around a few schedules to make it work. All he wanted was to have a friend over and go to the skate park...for his 10th birthday, how could I argue. I got him the coolest cake (looks just like his skateboard, with wheels that spun) which I will share as well. He had a good time, which was the most important part and I'm still in shock he is turning 10 already!