Christmas Album

Good morning everyone....hope all is going well with you today!!! I have got to go work outside this morning but I wanted to upload the album that I made last week first. My DD Holly and I went to a class at the LSS in Waco and made this awesome album!!! It is supposed to be a recipe album but I think I'll use it for my 2010 Christmas pictures.

Aren't the papers pretty...they are from Tinsel and Twig by The Girl's Paperie. The scrap set included the papers, 6x6 chipboard dividers, stickers, flowers, diecuts, and tags.

They also provided the twine, bakers twine, ribbons and lace. We spent most of our time covering the chipboard dividers and distressing all the papers...my fingers and nails were distressed for a few days after!!!

Most of you know that I am a real slow stamper..sometimes spending a whole day on one card. Well, I want to tell ya...the instructor took no prisoners!!! She pushed us along at record speed...I actually broke a sweat...LOL!!!

I made a few mistakes like using the wrong paper on a couple of pages but what the heck....no one knows what it is really supposed to look like anyway...LOL!!!

She provided us with the 6x6 papers for the pages and I have lots of stickers left over to decorate those, too!!!

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

Creative Belli Challenge #104

Hello everyone and welcome to another Creative Belli Challenge!! The challenge this 2 weeks is to use something old, something new, something borrowed, or something blue....or any combination of these...it doesn't have to be a wedding card unless that is what you want to make. !! Be sure to use something old and forgotten from your stash, too...the Belli Challenge is all about using your old stuff and forgotten treasures!!!

I used a combo of something old ( the patterned paper), something new (new Inkadinkado stamp), and something blue (Pure Luxury Little Boy Blue cardstock).

The Inkadinkado Santa stamp was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copics. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Vintage Ornaments and the blue snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart punch. Sewing was done around the edges of the patterned paper layer and the pearls, sparkly snowflake, and baker's twine finish it off.

Be sure to visit the Creative Belli Design Team Member's blogs to read more details about their designs. You will find lots of awesome ideas!!! If you upload a card to Splitcoast , PCP, Stamp TV or another online gallery be sure to add CBC104 in the keywords section.

Chris Dickinson

Ceal Pritchett

Holly Brown

Anne Harmon

Robin Kirkpatrick

Jessica Stockmeyer

Shelly Schmidt

Maria Matter

Darsie Bruno

Melisa Waldorf

Joy Hadden

Robin Parker

Chris Olsen

This is also for a few other challenges:

1. Stamp Insanity - punches

2. Patty's Creations - Christmas

3. Allsorts Challenge - take inspiration from the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas

4. A Spoonful of Sugar - snow/snowflakes

5. Caardvarkes - die cuts

6. Top Tip Tuesday - Christmas inspired

7. Stampin Sisters in Christ - anything that displays weather related

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #22

Hello everyone!! We are having a beautiful morning here in Central Texas.....it's a good thing because I am taking my Mother shopping. She needs a good jacket to wear to church so we are heading to the mall in a few hours. We have to stop at the library first so she can check out some more books by David Baldacci....my sweet little 90 year old mother loves murder mysteries...go figure...LOL!!! Anyway....I want to share the card I made for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #22. I took a few liberties with the sketch.....hope that's ok!!!

The bird image from Sewing Box-Hugs was stamped on various papers from October Afternoon Modern Homemaker and Seaside, cutout, and attached with dimensionals. The branch was hand drawn and cutout of Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown. The Martha Stewart Fern Punch was used to make the nest and the background was sewn around the edges and distressed with Ranger Walnut Distress ink. The sentiment is from WM's Asian Gardens set.
Recipe: Stamps: Waltzingmouse Sewing Box-Hugs and Asian Garden
Paper: Pure Luxury Ivory, Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Prism Classic Yellowgreen, Prism Intense Kiwi, October Afternoon Seaside and Modern Homemaker
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Balck, Ranger Walnut
Accessories: Martha Stewart Fern Punch, Sewing Machine

This is also for a few other challenges:
1. Crazy 4 Challenges - square card
2. The Crazy Challenge - things with wings
3. Paper, Scissors, and Rocks - thinking of you card
4. Little Red Wagon - a little red
5. Delightful Challenge - stitching
6. Crafty Cardmakers - stitching
7. Drunken Stampers - punches

Thanks for visiting this morning...hope you have a great day!!!!

TLC Challenge on Splitcoast

Hello everyone!!! It's my turn to host the Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast and this week we are going to stamp with water!! This is so fun and easy....you are going to love it!!!!!
Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Fall Trilogy and Victorian Diamond Panel, Petite Word Set from Stamp Oasis

Paper: White, Really Rust, Chocolate chip, Basic Grey Recess dp

Ink: Barn Door, Dried marigold, Rusty Hinge, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Twine, Button, Gelly Roll Clear Pen, Sewing Machine, Perfect Pearls

I used Rubbernecker stamps and Ranger Distress inks. You will need a mister bottle for the water and if you want to add a little glam you can add Perfect Pearls to the mister bottle when you are finished and spritz over the completed image. I used a Gelly Roll Clear pen on some of the leaves for a little shimmer.

First you will sponge color on a piece of cardstock. I used Rusty Hinge, Dried Marigold, and Bard Door.

Make sure the background is covered completely.

Spritz you stamp with water and stamp the image over the sponged background.

Then dry with a heat tool......

How cool is that!!!!!!

Next, I covered the stamp with all three of the background colors and stamped over the dried background a little off from the original image so it would look like a shadow.

After the ink dried a background stamp was spritzed with water just around the edges so the inked leaf image wouldn't smudge.....the background was then dried again with the heat tool.

The background was spritzed with the Perfect Pearls and water mix and dried again.

The sentiment was stamped and the leaves were glammed up with the Gelly Roll pen.

Have fun with this technique...I can't wait to see what you make!!!

Oh, BTW...the church craft sale was a real success!!!! We made lots of money for our church mission group.....we will be able to donate to several needy organizations for the Christmas season!!!!

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

More Craft Sale Goodies

Hello everyone!! Today is the big day...the craft sale starts at 9:00. Before I head out I wanted to show you the rest of the card set designs I made...hope they all sell!!!

This fun set was made with the Blossom Nestabilities for the flower and a Stampin Up! die was used for the leaves. The Paper Studio dp is from Hobby Lobby and the bag was made from PTI's Plum Pudding cardstock and Plum Pudding ribbon. Sentiment is from PTI's Communique Sentiments.

This set uses the Nativity image and sentiment from Lizzie Anne Design's Silent Night set...the image was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx and embossed with clear ep. The Basic Grey Jovial dp, gold pearls, and a gold ribbon finish it off.

Don't ya just love that Jovial dp...it's sooo pretty!!

My last set uses stamps from Papertrey Ink's Christmas Friends set. They were stamped with Kiwi Kiss, Perfect Plum, and Marina Mist onto Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock. The ornament was popped up on dimensionals and a few pearls were added for a little glam.

Whew.....everything is finished and ready to sell!!! I can't wait to see what everyone else is bringing!!! Have a great weekend!!!

A Study in Green and More Projects for the Church Craft Sale

Good morning everyone!!! I hope all is well with you on this wonderful Friday morning!!! Our church craft sale is Saturday so today we will set everything up. I have been using all my spare time to finish up my cards and other goodies so I haven't cleaned my house or cooked anothing...I'm getting kinda used to carry out...LOL!!! I am going to share more of the cards and projects I made but first I wanted to show you the card I made yesterday for Julia's Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast. We were to use mostly green on our card...... I used six different colors of green ink to create the background and stamp the trees. The colors were sponged on the vanilla cardstock, the script stamp was stamped using water misted on the stamp, and then Perfect Pearls and water was spritzed over the entire area and dried with a heat tool. The trees were then stamped, sewing and distressing were done around the edges, and the sentiment, Prima poinsettias, lace, and ribbon finish it off. All the stamps are from Rubbernecker Stamps.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rubbernecker Pine Trees, Script Background, Sentiment
Paper: Vanilla, Old Olive, Hunter Green
Ink: Ranger Crushed Olive, Pine Needles, Peeled Paint. Stampin Up! True Thyme, Old Olive, and River Rock
Accessories: Prima Poinsettias and leaf, Nestabilities, Ribbon, Sewing Machine, Lace

The script and dove images from Gina K's Blessed is the Season were stamped with Versamark and embossed with white ep. The snowflake and the sentiment were stamped with Night of Navy onto the Bashful Blue cardstock. The snowflake was also stamped on the inside and on the envie, too. The silver ribbon finishes it off.

Recipe:

Stamps: Gina K Designs Blessed is the Season

Paper: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, White

Ink: Versamark, Night of Navy

Accessories: Nestabilities, Silver Ribbon, White Embossing Powder

My DH loves Crysal Light so we have lots of these containers. I started collecting them a few months ago because I just knew they could be used for something!!! I'm glad I did because they were decorated, filled with candy, and I thought they were to be sold at the craft sale. However, most of them were sold at the church yesterday!!! I guess I better make a lot more for next year...LOL!!!

I used a variety of Christmas papers, ribbons, lace, gold pearls, stamps, and stickers to make these and more that I didn't photograph. The paper was secured on the container with score tape and a tag was attached to the top. This was such a fun project...I might have to start making more of these next week for the 2011 craft sale!!!

Thanks for stopping by....I'll show you more things I made for the craft sale tomorrow......hope you have a great weekend!!!!

Christmas Card Sets

Good morning everyone....it's a little chilly here this morning but it will warm up soon. Fall is in the air....the trees are starting to loose their leaves and it's time for me to plant my pansies!! Pansies are hardy little flowers...they will bloom all winter!! My neighbor just finished planting a winter garden...they will have vegies again in Dec/Jan and I will have a few tomatos in a month or so. Anyway....I thought I would show you a few of the card sets I have been working on for the church craft sale. I just love the skaters from the Stampin Up! set called Winter Post...the images were all watercolored and the papers are retired Stampin Up.

These were left over kits from a Christmas swap I went to last year. The tree is from Papertrey Ink and the paper is from Karen Foster.

The bird images from Impression Obsession were watercolored and glitter was added to the holly berries.

I tried to keep all the designs flat so they could be mailed easily...now that's no easy trick for this embelishment hound!!!!

Thanks for visiting.....I'll have more sets tomorrow!!

Teapot Tuesday and Color Challenge

Hello everyone!!! It's 1:15 AM and I'm still up...yikes!!!! I was watching some of the election results...what an interesting time we live in...ya never know what is going to happen but one thing is a constant....STAMPING!!!! It's wonderful to have a little sanity in all the chaos!!!!
Anyway...I did a little stamping today......I don't know about you but I got confused (which seems to be my natural state these days) with all the Rogers, Rauges, Troys, Treys, and Trans but I did get that the teapotters from Da Mudder's Teapot Tuesday gang were off to the Taj Ma Lodge to turn Hodge Podge into the next designer extrodinare!!! We were to bring something black and white to the teaparty today and make it grand!!!! I used the damask stamp from Stampin Up! Friends 24-7 and added black pearls and a big bad black bow!!! I added the black flower because I smudged the ink in that corner and I just had to add a dark pink rhinestone to the center just to be ornery...don't tell da Mudder!!!!! The destination for the cards today is the parents of Traci (Tracim) who are spending some time away from home and need a little cheering up.
Recipe:
Stamps: Friends 24-7
Paper: White, Black
Ink: Versafine Balck Onyx
Accessories: Pearl Flourish, Black Ribbon, Black Flower, Dark Pink Rhinestone

The Color Challenge on Splitcoast used some beautiful colors; Peach Parfait ~ a lighter shade of pumpkin pie, Cajun Craze ~ a dark rust shade, Early Espresso ~ a much darker chocolate chip, Neutrals of choice. However, I didn't have a single one of those new colors so I had to make this up as I went..LOL!! I also tried Holly's TLC challenge; Embedded Image. I LOVE this technique!!! Everything was going ok until I got to the part about embossing the silhouette image with a darker embossing powder...wouldn't ya know I didn't have anything darker but gold and silver so I used clear. The image just melted into the background like a shadow. Not to be out done by a little embossing, I just stamped the image again with Tangerine Chalk ink and Dusty Durango and left it alone...kinda like the icing on the cake. The stamps are from Gina K. Designs Botanicals set and a little sewing, distressing, lace, and ribbon finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Botanicals by Gina K. Designs
Paper: Dusty Durango, Vanilla, Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Me & My Big Ideas dp
Ink: Tangerine Chalk ink, Dusty Durango, Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Button, Twine, Wrinkled Seam Binding, Lace, Nestabilities, Sewing Machine, Clear ep

I'm off to bed now...I can hardly keep my eyes open!!! Have a great day !!!

Halloween 2010

Well, did you all survive Halloween??? My DH spent 3 days putting up the fence and all the Halloween stuff for his *Haunted Yard* display. We had around 200 people come by to join in the fun!! George and his friend attached pullys to the creatures in the trees and then sat behind the fence to wait for victims...LOL!!! They would drop them slowly until people noticed them and boy did they jump!! You can see the opening into the yard with the 7 foot tall ghoul as the door greeter.

Just another ghoul that came to the party!!

This is my friend Egore...he's so cute!!!

My DGS Gabe came as a dinosaur.....

my DGD Mackenzie came as a vampire and my DGS Cody came as Wolverine.

I think my littelest DGS Jacob came as a puppy...or maybe he's a bear....oh well, he looked adorable, anyway!!!

One of the ghouls just hanging around!!

He had more scary creatures hanging from the trees...they went up and down by themselves and made lots of noise!!

Here is the graveyard. They had plastic bags under the dirt that were hooked up to air compressors. The dirt went up and down and looked like someone was trying to get out...yikes!!!
He said next year he was going to talk one of his friends into laying in the casket....that should really freak people out!!!

The witches cauldron had a globe sitting in it and when touched exposed the witch inside. George had a fogger machine hooked up to it so the smoke looked like it was coming out of the cauldron...you can see the hose behind the kettle. It really looked cool once it was dark!!

The weather was just perfect..in the low 80's..and all the kids had a great time!!! You should see my house now....we look like we should be on the Hoarders show!!! It may take a day or two but we will be back to normal soon!!

I will start showing you some of the card sets and containers I made for our church craft sale tomorrow. Have a great day!!!!