We Are Going to the Dogs!!

Hello everyone!! I finally got my card finished for the Color Challenge on Splitcoast: Blushing Bride, Marine Mist, and Always Artichoke.
This is also for da Mudder's Teapot Tuesday Challenge to bring the dogs!! It seems there is going to be a race in Raleigh so we need lots of dogs...racing dogs, dogs that can drive, dogs that can high five!! Most of all we need dogs that are furry, in a hurry, dogs that are fast and dogs that can last!!!
I used the Mojo Monday Sketch for the layout and the sweet little Hero Arts Newton stamp. Newton was stamped 5 times, colored a little with copics, cutout and attached with dimensionals. The scalloped edgs, buttons, and fiber finish it off. Pretty easy but lots of fun!!

This is also for a few other challenges:
1. Paper Playtime - variety: several of something
2. Southern Girls Challenge - anything goes
3. Stamp Something - something with spots and strips
4. Bah! Humbug - favorite medium - stamping and copics!

This is short and sweet this morning...my computer caught a virus yesterday so we are off to the repair ship...sure am glad I have the laptop as a back up!!!

Thanks for stopping by....have a great day!!!

Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast: Lace Sponging Tutorial

Hello everyone....are you ready for a super fun and easy challenge??? I am the hostess this week for Splitcoast's Technique Lover's Challenge (TLC290) ...today we are going to do lace sponging!
That's right....we are going to sponge over lace to create some beautiful layers!!!

I used a fairly long piece of lace to cover most of the background. If you use a shorter piece of lace be sure to mask off the part of the card you don't want to sponge.

The sides of the lace were taped to the paper underneath for a little stability and then Rose Red was used to sponge on the Pink Pirouette cardstock. Try not to move the lace or the cardstock so the finished product doesn't become smugged.

Who needs background stamps when you can use lace. The bonus to this technique is that you can use the lace on a card when the ink is dry...LOL!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Gina K. Botanicals, Nina Brackett's Hugs and Prayers for the sentiment

Paper: Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla

Ink: Rose Red

Accessories: Nestabilities, Zva Pearl Flourish, Glittered Prima Rose, Lace

OK, so you don't have any lace...you can punch a border and use it as a stencil. You can also punch both sides of the cardstock strip, sponge, and then sponge a piece of lace in the center....wouldn't that make a beautiful border!!!

If you have stencils like the Glimmer Screens above by Tattered Angels...by all means use them.

Fresh Snow from Papertrey Ink was sponges onto Ruby Red cardstock...you can use Glimmer Mist or any other kind of ink mister spray if you want...what ever flips you skirt!!

Now, go find some lace and create something FABO!!!! Thanks for stopping by....be sure to check out the TLC #290 challenge on Splitcoast...I would love to see what you come up with!!!!

Stamp TV's CSS Alumni Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stamp TV Center Stage Spotlight Alumni Blog Hop...Whoohoo!!! We are all excited to get together so we can share ideas and provide you with lots of inspiration!!! Carolina's challenge to us today is a color challenge:
Orange (Sweet Mango or Pumpkin Spice)
Red (Cranberry Tart, Rocket Red, or Red Hot)
Brown (Chocolate, Tan Leather, Kraft, Soft Sand
ONE Neutral Color from the following: White or Ivory

If you came from Jen's blog, you are on the right track!!! To start at the beginning, please go to StampTV and hop from there.

My card features the beautiful images from Nina Brackett's Hugs and Prayers set. They were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and embossed with clear ep. The images were then watercolored with Tombow markers. Well, I sure hope the challenge police aren't hopping, too, cause I am out of all things red...yikes!!! I ended up using Wine with Everything for my red....it's a secret so don't tell anyone!!!! I found some brown and orange dp that matched the challenge colors and ribbon with button and twine finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Nina Brackett's Hugs and Prayers
Paper: Watercolor paper, Pure Luxury White, Wine With Everything, Basic Grey dp, 7 Gypsies Avignon dp
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Tombow Markers, Button, Twine, Ribbon, Nestabilities, SU Spiral Punch


Thanks for joining us today....now hop on over to Joy's Blog for more AWESOME inspiration!!!!

Lipsylicious!

Hello everyone!! Hope your day has been wonderful so far!! I have had a great morning stamping away and making a big mess!! You should see my craft room...yikes!!! I have papers and ribbons everywhere...my church's craft sale is in November and I have been making some fun projects to sell. My DH loves Crystal Light and the plastic container is just perfect to cover with paper and fill with candy. I'm also making Christmas card sets and gift boxes, too. Anyway...on to my card for the Moxie Fab Worls's Tuesday Trigger.....Lipsylicious!!

My card is quite a departure from my usual more is more style but it's always fun to do something a little different!! I dug around in my scraps to find matching colors to the lipstick, lined them up and attached them to a scrap piece of cardstock. The window was cut with a square Nestabilities and the striped piece was attached to the underside of the window. The window layer was then attached to the white cardbase. The sentiment is from Rubbernecker's Fashion Icon set #456. Yikes...no ribbon, no button, no bling....I must be sick...LOL!!!

Thanks for visiting....now back to the craft jungle to make some Halloween cards!!! Have a great day!!!

Staying Cool With Winter Cards!!

Good morning everyone!! We had such a great time this weekend...I shopped till I dropped...seriously!!! I found several Christmas gifts and decorations....must be why the first stamps I picked up when we got home were Christmas stamps...LOL!!! Besides, what better way to stay cool than to think snow, snowflakes, and snowmen!!
I used the adorable Tweet Winter Wishes set from Our Craft Lounge for my first card...I also used the sketch from the Friday DT sketch Challenge #29 (OCLDT29) over on the Our Craft Lounge Blog. BTW, I won their August Sketch Challenge and a free OCL stamp set.....Whoohoo!!!
The fence image was masked and then the clouds were sponged on. The image was colored with copics and glitter was added to the snow. The snowman was colored with copics, glittered up, cutout, and attached with dimensionals. Snowflakes from the same set were stamped on the background dp and the silk ribbon finished it off.

Recipe:
Stamps: OCL Tweet Winter Wishes
Paper: White, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey Dasher dp
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Bashful Blue, Vivid Aqua
Accessories: Glitter, Silk Ribbon, Copics, Nestabilities, Dimensionals


Isn't this snowman cute...it's a new stamp I bought from Impressions Rubberstamps. He was stamped with Palette Noir Black, colored with copics, and Stickles was added to the hat rim. Stickles was also added to the wood flourish, sewing was done around the background edge, and a sparkly snowflake and ribbon finish it off. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Vintage Ornaments set.
Resipe: Stamps: Impress Rubberstamps, PTI Vintage Ornaments
Paper: White, Black, Riding Hood red, October Afternoon's Good Cheer dp. SEI Christmas dp
Ink: Palette Noir Black
Accessories: Copics, Stickles, KaiserCraft Wood Flourish, Spiral Punch, Ribbon, sSparkly Snowfloake, Sewing Machine, SU Punch

This is also for a few challenges:
1. Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge - Layers
2. Pile it On - Layers
3. Stamp Something Challenge - Something cute
4. Paper Play Challenges - stitches
5. Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturday's Challenge - Christmas
6. Bah Humbug Christmas - Christmas Carol (Frosty the Snowman)
7. Oh Alice - Sparkle and shine (Stickles on hat and holly)

Thanks for visiting....hope you find time for a little stamping today!!!

Fun Saturday!!!

Hello everyone....hope you are having a great weekend!!! As you read this I am in Canton, Texas, at one of the largest flee markets in the USA!!! It's close to 100 acres of stuff....WOOT!!!
My BFF and I are doing the shop and sweat thing and our DH's are out on the lake fishing....nothing like a happy man to justify doing a little retail therapy...LOL!!!!

I made this card a couple of days ago...isn't the image adorable!!! I borrowed this stamp called Girl Reading from my DD Holly...she is on the QKR Stampede DT and received some super cute stamps to design with. Of course I needed to raid her craft room...LOL!!!

The image was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and colored with copics. It was cutout with Nestabilities using the out of the box technique and the background was sponged while the image was still in the Nestie with Blush Blossom. Pearls, pearl flourish, a scalloped Spellbinders diecut, lace, ribbon, sewing, and a Prima Flowers Spray finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: QKR Stampede
Paper: Vanilla, Sage Shadow, Chocolat Chip, Webster's Pages dp
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Blush Blossom
Accessories: Ribbon, Zva Pearl Flourish, Pearls, Spellbinders Scalloped Border die, Lace, Sewing Machine, Nestabilities, Copics, Prima Flower Spray

Thanks for dropping by this morning....hope you get to do something fun today!!!!

Happy Friday!!!

Good morning everyone and happy Friday!!!! My Dad came through his surgery ok....he is really tired but ate good when we got home and is keeping his ice pack on!! That is really something for my Dad because he is always cold...LOL!!! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. His physician is such a real kind man and even prayed with us before the surgery...it's wonderful to know that there are men who are not afraid to express their faith!!! Anyway.....this is the inspiration picture for the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger from last week. They are running the challenge for 2 weeks so I had a few days to work on this.

The sketch is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 83 and the adorable mushroom stamps and sentiment are from Hero Arts. Felt flowers with buttons were added and the ric rac die is from Papertrey Ink.

Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron, Hawaiian Shores
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Copics, Felt Flowers, Buttons, Pink Gingham Ribbon, Rickrack Die, Nestabilities

Thanks for visiting....have a great Friday!!!!

Moxie Fab World Just Because Challenge

Good morning everyone....hope you are doing well!!! This has been a busy week for us...we are still working on my son's house...the open house is next week so the crunch is on!!!! I watched my two little DGS's on Monday...baby Jacob is 11 months old and Gabe is 3...it took this old Grandma a day to recover...LOL!!! We also picked up big grandkids from school 2 days and I worked at the church most of the day yesterday getting ready for a garage sale. My Dad will have some minor surgery this morning and then off to Canton, Texas this weekend for a little shopping at the Trading Days flee markets....whew!!! It makes me tired just thinking about all this....I did manage to sneak a little stamping in which makes me happy!!!

I made this card for a fun challenge on the Moxie Fab World Blog...it's a *just because* challenge that isn't really a challenge.... just a fun thing to do!!! We were to find inspiration from some fun back to school goodies from Kate's Paperie. I chose the Multitaskers Journal because of the awesome colors.

I used Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Regal Rose, and Chocolate Chip for the strips in the background and decorated them with some lace, a Prima, a metal frame , ribbon, Zva rhinestone flourish, and the stamped butterfly from Unity's Bevy of Butterflies. It was stamped on Pure Luxury Kraft with Perfect Match Vintage Cream from Papertrey Ink and embossed with clear ep. Copper wire was wrapped around the butterfly to form the antenna and a Martha Stewart Scalloped Border punch was used on the Old Olive layer.

Thanks for visiting this morning.....please say a little prayer for my Dad....his surgery is minor but it's still a little stressful!!! Have a great day, y'all!!!

It's a Tea Party!!!

Good morning everyone!!! Hope you are having a great Tuesday morning!!! I used today's Color Challenge on Splitcoast ( More Mustard, Mellon Mambo, and Baja Breeze) to make a card for Ms. Eula's 108th birthday...da Mudder's Tuesday Teaparty is a celebration of her birthday and the recipient of our cards this week. We are celebrating in a limousine on the way to St. Lucia by way of Philiadelpia, PA with a couple of colorful parrots who by the way are in love! Since I didn't have any parrots to bring, I decided to bring the presents!!!I also used the Mojo Monday sketch...the square version. The images from Rubbernecker's Party Time set were stamped on Basic Grey's Lemonade dp and the smaller one was colored with copics.

Recipe:
Stamps: Rubbernecker Party Time Set
Paper: Mellon Mambo, Vanilla, Basic Grey Lemonade dp
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, More Mustard
Accessories: Lace, Button, Twine, Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by this morning...have a great day!!!

SCS Technique Lover's Challenge Tutorial - Recycled Cardboard Box

Hello everyone....are you ready for a really fun challenge??? I am the hostess this week for Splitcoast's Technique Lover's Challenge ...today we are going to use recycled boxes!! Corrugated cardboard is so fun to work with...you can decorate the whole box if you want or create some fun accessories...my first demo is a big flower...who doesn't love big flowers???
I picked a flower stamp from Laundry Line called Flirty Play...inked it with Chocolate Chip and stamped it on the cardboard.

It's about a 2 inch stamp...you have to press pretty hard to get it to cover the cardboard.

Now cut it out...

seperate the layers on the petal edges....

and roll the top layer edges for a ruffled look.

Now, add it to you card.

Recipe:

Stamps: Laundry Line and sentiment from PTI's Year Round Puns
Papers: PTI's Lavender Moon, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen, Daisy D's Sweet Baby Jane

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Lace, Button, Twine, Cardboard

My second demo is a Christmas card using this beautiful bird from Little Paper Shop called Christmas Wishes. Like the flower above, the bird was inked up with Poppy Parade and stamped on the cardboard.

Cutout the bird image, seperate some of the layers, and attach to the card.

I also made a little banner for the sentiment. Some of the top layer was torn off to reveal the corrugated layer...this adds a little shabby chic look!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Little Paper Shop

Paper: Pure Luxury Kraft, Pure Luxury Lipstick Red, Mistletoe dp by Memory Box

Ink: Poppy Parade, Old Olive

Accessories: Lace, Zva Rhinestone Flourish, Prima Poinsettias, Buttons, Twine, Ribbon, Sewing Machine, Cardboard

My last demo shows how you can use the cardboard as one of your layers. For my card I tore off the first layer of paper ...

Then I sprayed on some Copper Shimmer Spritz, sponged with a little Poppy Parade, and distressed the edges with my handy dandy kitchen knife....my favorite tool...LOL!!! Remember when picking out your colors the ink will look darker on the cardboard so experiment with a few different inks to get the right color.

To make the flowers, I again tore off the first layer of paper and ran it through the Cuttlebug with a Stampin Up! flower die.

Next, I sprayed and sponged it....

and added the button with twine.....

Taa daa...like magic, it's all finished!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Stampin Up's Script background (retired)

Papers: Pink Pirouette, Pure Luxury Kraft,

Ink: Creamy Caramel

Accessories: Copper Shimmer Sprits by Tsukineko, Cotton Scrap from Crafty Secrets, Lace, Buttons, Twine, Zva Rhinestone Flourish, Wood Bird from Kaiser Craft, May Arts Pink Silk Ribbon, Sewing Machine, Cardboard, Cuttlebug

Now, go cut up a box and create something FABULOUS!!!!!

Stamp TV's CSS Alumni August Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stamp TV Center Stage Spotlight Alumni Blog Hop...Whoohoo!!! We are all excited to get together so we can share ideas and provide you with lots of inspiration!!! Carolina's challenge to us today is a limited supply: 1 neutral color for the cardbase, 2 different colors of cardstock, 1 patterned paper, 3 buttons, 1 color of ribbon, and many images as you want. If you came from Jen's blog, you are on the right track!!!

I used images from Rupa Shevde's adorable set called Spring has Sprung for both my cards today. Pure Luxury Ivory was used for the cardbase, Baja Breeze and Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown for the 2 colors of cardstock, patterned paper from October Afternoon, 3 buttons were used along with Baja Breeze ribbon...I used the same ribbon for the buttons. It was cut length wise, threaded through the holes, and shreaded the ends.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rupa Shevde's Spring has Sprung
Paper: Pure Luxury Ivory and Chocolate Brown, Baja Breeze, October Afternoon's Farm Fresh
Ink: Baja Breeze, Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: 3 buttons, Ribbon, Nestabilities, Sewing Machine

This one used Pure Luxury Ivory for the cardbase, Pure Luxury Lipstick Red and Pure Luxury Sweet Corn for the two cardstocks, 1 patterned paper from October Afternoon's Farm Fresh, 3 buttons and the yellow ribbon. I used the same ribbon to thread the button and fray the ends.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rups Shevde's Spring has Sprung
Paper: Pure Luxury Sweet Corn, Lipstick Red, and Ivory; October Afternoon's Farm Fresh
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Ribbon, Buttons, Top Note die, Martha Stewart Scallop Punch and leaf punch, SU Flower Dies, Ric Rac die, Copics

Thanks for joining us today....now hop on over to Joy's Blog for more AWESOME inspiration!!!!