Stampotique Designers Challenge: Girly Girl!

Girly Girl I am NOT, but I have a 4 yr old who IS!   And our hostess with the mostess this week, Kim over at Stampotique Designers Challenge issued us this challenge to make a creation with a Girly Girl theme.

I got this bright idea to make her a frame for her room and although it looks fairly plain, it looks beautiful on her wall.  We just redid her room recently in a two toned pink with a chair rail and it looks great.  It fits her so well. Baby Cakes was the perfect choice for her room. I tried to match the colors as close as possible and I think it turned out well.  I wanted to add a lot more accessories to bling it up but my husband nixed that idea.  He thought it looked perfect the way it was.  I stamped the Honeycomb background randomly on the matting of the frame.

I had gotten these beautiful flowers for Easter from my sister-in-law's Mother and they were wrapped in this gorgeous hot pink tulle.  Of course I had to stash it away to use and thought with this frame it would be perfect but for the life of me could think of how to incorporate it.  Hubby & I were on the same wavelength when I was telling him what I wanted to do and he suggested I somehow use it on her skirt.  I cut a slit just above her skirt, slid a cut piece of tulle through it and then cut held it down & cut it to the desired shape.  The frame does have a glass over it (not shadowbox) so it does push the tulle down but it looks great and my little Syd couldn't wait to get it up on her wall (which we hung Sunday night for her).

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week and a chance for a $15 gift certificate to the Stampotique store by creating something with a Girly Girl theme.

Frame details:
Stamps: Baby Cakes and  Honeycomb backgrounds by Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: Confetti Cream
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pixie Pink, Copics
Accessories: Prima Flower & Tulle for the skirt

Nursery Baby Frame

I made this frame for a co-worker who had a baby boy. I wanted it to match the nursery and to coordinate with the card I made here.

These adorable letter stamps are from the set Alpha Modern which is due to be released on September 15 from Clear & Simple Stamps. I love this Alpha set as well as many others that will be released!

Stay tuned in the next two weeks for more sneaks at the new releases.

You can also check out the rest of the DT for more sneak peeks:

• Beth Matson
• Clear & Simple Blog
• Jen Tapler
• Lori Tecler
• Maria Levine
• Millie Dawson-Hardy (Guest Designer)
• Neva McMullen
• Robyn Weatherspoon
• Sue Berker

Primary Stamp Set	Alpha Modern
Other Stamp Set(s)	Little One
Paper / Cardstock	Very Vanilla, Kraft
Designer Paper	MME 29th Street Market Fresh "Beauty" Perfect Poises/Greenery Paper, yellow is a picture mat
Embellishments	Nestabilities Mega Curved Rectangles, Small Scalloped squares & regular squares Accessories: Papertrey Ink Rustic Buttons & Rustic Twine (Cream & Jute)
Inks	Close to Cocoa, PTI New Leaf
Markers / Colored Pencils / Chalks	Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Old Olive

We've Moved Sneak Peek

I told you the other day how much I love this set and the little house from the We've Moved set being released by Clear and Simple Stamps on June 15th!! This was by far one of my most favorite projects of them all. Don't you hate when you think about giving something away and then can't bear to? I thought about it for about 2 seconds but it looks so wonderful hanging on my office wall I can't seem to give it up. I mean, really, doesn't it look great up against my wall?

I got these little 4 x 4 frames from the Target $1 section. I think there were 3 of them for $2.50 and I'm wishing now I would have gotten more of them. I've used them all and will be sharing a few more next week as soon as the recipients have them in their hands.

I pulled out an old CTMH scrapbook kit that I had (I love their kits) . For some reason I'm drawn to the brown, green, blue color combo, its the colors of my office as well. I brought in some yellow on the house as that's one of the accent colors in my office as well (where I spend most every day).

I mounted the house on a few of the coordinating papers on a labels nestabilitie. I covered some a chipboard flower and added another chipboard ribbon piece to it.

I stamped the sentiment on this cute little tag I found in my stash and added some eyelets which I don't hardly use anymore.

I'm pleased with how it turned out and think it would make another cute little housewarming gift!

For more We've Moved samples check out Beth's blog and the Clear & Simple Stamps blog.








Frame details:
Stamp Set: Welcome Home
Inks: Basic Brown, copics
Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Bashful Blue, Papertrey Ink White, Patterned paper CTMH
Accessories: Target frame, Nestabilities, Chipboard, Chocolate Chip Ribbon

Welcome to the world Bailey!

Blogger's Challenge week #88: Alter anything

My friend just had a baby girl this evening and I had been planning on making her a little something. Baby arrived just before she's moving on Monday. It really stinks as there have been 4 of us getting together for years, with a few others joining at times, to stamp and scrapbook. We've already decided we'll have to stamp via webcam when she moves.

This is her 2nd daughter and I'm proud that I'm her oldest little girl's godmother. I was there when she was delivered and to watch her grow has been fun. We are going to miss having them around!!!

This frame (from the Target $1 spot (3 4 x 4 frames for $2.50...bargain!) was perfect for some High Hopes images my girlfriend Kristen sent me. I don't know why I have never bought any of them, as it was so much fun to color and practice with my Copics. I really wanted to do the ribbon at an angle in the corner, but it just wasn't working.

Make sure to check out the other blogger's by clicking on the blogger's challenge icon to the --->

Have a great weekend, baseball tournament here, so we'll be at the park. And my goal is to work out at least one more time before Sunday arrives.

Frame Details:

Stamps: Oops Ellie from High Hopes (thanks Kristen!)
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Pink Piroutte
Accessories: White ribbon colored with RV11 Copic, Ellie colored with Copics, Bailey tag printed on computer and circles and tag cut with nestabilities, Fire Rhinestone square brads, Swiss Dots cuttlebug

Nathan frame

This is a frame I did for my cousin and his wife who just lost their little baby.

I had wanted to make the baby a name frame and he lived only 4 brief days before passing so I thought about doing a verse in a frame instead. I hope they will like the verse as well as the frame.

I'm tired and don't feel like writing out the recipe right now, but hope you like it!

Thank you to all my girlfriends who sent me several sites to poems, verses, etc. This one I found online I really liked and since my cousins are very spiritual I thought this would be perfect.

Bloggers Challenge: Week 28 Pink and Brown

I haven't posted this to my blog before so I hope that a recycled item will fulfill todays challenge. I do hope to do something this weekend for this challenge that is new, but I did want to post something today as well.

This is a name frame that I was commissioned to do last year, and I did about 3 of them that were all pink and brown. This one was challenging for me as I had a different size and layout requested. I had fun doing it and was thrilled how it turned out. It's been a year since I completed it so I apologize that I do not recall all the supplies used.

Stamp Sets: Pick a Petal, Bundle of Joy, CTMH Giggle Caps, Doodle That, several others for backgrounds of each letter which are difficult to see

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink

Accessories: Brads, Primas, Hodgepodge hardward

Name Frame/Brody

I've been doing quite a few name frames lately...baby boom???

I wasn't feeling as creative when I was trying to do the girl frames so I started with the boy frame. I knew the nursery was a frog theme and I didn't want to embellish it too much so I just did simple this time around.

Sets Used: Unfrogettable and CTMH Giggle Caps, Polka Dots & Petals

Colors Used: Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue, Gable Green, Barely Banana

Paper: Brocade Blue, Barely Banana, Whisper White, Splash

Accessories: Staples, Aquapainter, Blue Grosgrain