It's Pink And Oh So Moddy!

So I've received my new Paptertrey order including my friend, Dawn McVey's new set Mod Squad. This set is so cool and is going to be so fun to play with.

I was inspired by Dawn's pink series she's been showing on her blog to make this card. Using hibiscus burst ink and paper combined with raspberry fizz, created a really bright and cheery pick-me-up card. Adding a prima, ribbon and a gem sticker were just the final touches needed.

Stamps: Mod Squad

Cardstock: Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz

Ink: Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Prima, Gem Sticker, Ribbon, Glue Dots

Christmas One Sheet Wonder

It's week 5 of Cornish Heritage Farms Summer Stamp Star Design Challenge - One Sheet Wonder. Now I've never done a one sheet wonder before so while I thought about this I kind of psyched myself out and gave me a one sheet headache for a bit. Aye vey! It was actually easier than I was making it once I got going.

I decided that since I'm behind in the Christmas card challenge, why not get caught up and make some Christmas cards. I started by printing out one of PTI's My Timeless Templates I had already purchased and not done yet called Captured Card Case. After printing out my template on Stampin Up! bashful blue cardstock, cutting it out, and assembling, I was ready to stamp my one sheet wonder.

I decided to stamp my 12x12 One Sheet Wonder (OSW) using Cornish Heritage Farms Joyeux Noel set in Stampin Up's pacific pointe and bashful blue dye ink before stippling bashful blue in between the snowflakes as seen below.

I then cut my backgrounds for three cards and the lid of my Captured Card Case from the One Sheet Wonder cardstock as seen below.

I then stamped my sayings and punched them out with the Marvy Mega and Giga scalloped punches, added snowflake bobbin ribbon from Joann's, bulk snowflake brads and then gem stickers from the Michaels $1 spot.

To finish using up my One Sheet Wonder cardstock, I pulled out a Target notepad I've had in my stash for years and have just never altered like planned. Once it was covered with my template sheet, I added some primas I've had forever with dew drop centers, then added a saying and a Martha Stewart ribbon bow to finish it off.

I then finished off my Captured Card Case box by stamping some Kim Hughes images in memento tuxedo black on white cardstock and coloring them with prismacolor markers, cutting out and adhering to the box top with glue dots. Then I added the rest of the snowflake bobbin ribbon from Joann's also with glue dots to finish everything off.

Here's what my Captured Card Case looks like filled up with my Christmas cards. It'll make a great Christmas gift later when I fill it with something else besides cards and then the notebook later. So what do you think?

Stamps: CHF Forest Friendzy, Christmas Critters, Christmas Cheer, Joyeux Noel, Christmas Expressions

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pacific Pointe, Bashful Blue

Cardstock: White, Stampin Up! Pacific Pointe, Bashful Blue

Accessories: White Signo Gel Pen, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Brads, Bobbin Ribbon, Marvy Mega & Giga Scallop Punches, Silver Brad Trees, Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Gem Stickers, Sponge

Bathtime With Flopsy

It's week 9 of the My Favorite Challenge over at Splitcoast. This week we're supposed finish our card both inside and out. I usually don't finish the inside of my cards, so this is a bit of a challenge this week for me.

I've been just dying to ink up my new Flopsy set and figured this was a great time to do so. I pulled out some Prima Nursery Rhyme designer paper I found on clearance at Michaels and let the paper choose my colors for the challenge - lots of cool purple.

I started out by stamping Flopsy and all of the accessories he would need for a relaxing bath in memento tuxedo black in on MFT Perfect Panels and colored them with prismacolor markers. I then sponged Stampin Up! almost amethyst dye ink around the edges of the card and the main image, stippled Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around Flopsy to fill in the white areas, then cut out all of his accessories, before punching out the saying. After layering, I added the prima flower & gems, also found on clearance, popped up the saying; then as a last minute addition doodled around Flopsy to "set him off" from the rest of the card.

Here's a close up of Flopsy and the gem additions:

Now for the inside of the card I used some scrap Prima Nursery Rhyme paper on white cardstock and sponged around both before adding the accessories & a layered saying. Again I added more doodling as a last minute addition on the inside as well.

Here's a close up of the inside accessories:

Stamps: MFT Bubble Bunny, Time For The Bubbly, Putting On The Glitz

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue

Cardstock: White, Stampin Up! Lavender Lace, Almost Amethyst, Prima Nursery Rhyme DP

Accessories: Sponge, Gems, Glue Dots, Prismacolor Markers, Prima Flowers, Dimensionals, Black Markers, Micro Pop Dots, Martha Stewart 2-Way Glue Pen

July Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome! It's hard to believe it's already time for another blog hop. This month's challenge is to use text, and since I don't own any of Papertrey's text sets, I figured I would go through my patterned paper and see what I could come up with. Bingo!!

I found this awesome vintage text background paper from Paper Pizazz that's been in my stash for who's knows how long. It's amazing what kind of goodies are hiding in that stash!

So I started off first by stamping on of the flowers in Enchanted Evening ink around the edge of my card before adding the kraft layer and text designer layer. I then stamped my leaves and flowers twice on white cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored them with Prismacolor markers, blended and then cut out.

Once I had the flowers cut out, I decided to sponge some Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel ink around the edges before adding them to the card and then pinching the edges up. The centers of the flowers are popped up on dimensionals as well. Here's a close up of the finished flowers:

Close up of stamped card.

Text designer paper from Paper Pizazz.

Once I was done stamping the outside of my card, since I was still having so much fun with the set, I decided to stamp the inside of my card too. Now this is something I don't normally do. I then stamped the images again in Memento Tuxedo Black onto the designer paper and cut them out to adhere onto the kraft cardstock inside.

Here's the finished inside of the card:

Thank you for stopping by. I hope I've been able to provide some inspiration to you today.

Stamps: PTI In Bloom

Cardstock: PTI Enchanted Evening, Kraft, Paper Pizazz Designer Paper

Ink: PTI Enchanted Evening, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Creamy Caramel & Night of Navy

Accessories: Sponges, Prismacolor Markers, Mini Glue Dots, Brads, Dimensionals

Christmas In July Part II

Sleigh bells ring, Are you listening?

In the lane, snow is glistening.

It's a beautiful sight, We're happy tonight,

Walkin in a winter wonderland.

I love the Charles Schultz Peanuts characters and decided they would be part of my Christmas cards again this year. I colored these images while my husband was in the hospital in May as well, but once again, took forever to put them together. The images are stamped in black and colored with Stampin Up! and Close To My Heart markers. I have faux brad stickers from Joanns around the edges. Stampin Up! bashful blue is stippled for the sky with real red sponged around the edges.

I hope you have found some inspiration for your Christmas cards here today.

Stamps: Stampendous, PTI Holiday Wishes, Rollergraph Wheel
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, Glorious Green, Real Red, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: White, Glorious Green, Real Red
Accessories: Ribbon, Faux Brad Stickers, Markers, Stipple Brushes

Christmas In July!

"It's beginning to look like Christmas, Everywhere you go....."

Can you just hear the music? Can you just feel the chill in the air? Ok, so we have to wait a few more months for the chill in the air, however, it's never too early to get started on Christmas cards.

I've joined the SCS Christmas Card challenges every year, but this year I'm about three months behind. So these cards are technically my cards for the April Challenge. I colored these images while my husband was in the hospital in late May from a broken ankle and just took forever to assemble the cards. The images are from Stampendous, markers from Stampin Up! and Close To My Heart.

For the penguin card, I also used some Queen & Company Felt Fusion I found in my stash that's been buried for a long while as well as the snowflake brads. It's amazing what I find when I start digging around in that stash from time to time.

For my kitty card (I so love this image), the designer paper is from the Michaels $1 bins! Can you believe it? A pack of yummy paper for $1!!! It's so rich looking and definitely well worth the price especially since it's Karen Foster paper too. I also wrapped some gold cord around the image before adding the brads and popping it up on dimensionals.

Stamps: Stampendous, Rubber Stampede

Cardstock: White, Elegant Eggplant, Handsome Hunter, Bashful Blue, Karen Foster Designer Paper, Stampin Up Designer Paper

Ink: Black

Accessories: Felt Fusion, Brads, Ribbon, Dimensionals, Markers, Cord, Brads

Organic Friendship!

This week's sketch challenge I had a blast with! This card was made with a specific friend in mind and with a long storey behind it and she is going to kick my booty when she receives the card too. ;)

When MFT came out with the set I just had to get this set just for the cherries.

I stamped the cherries in memento black on MFT perfect panels & cut them out. The ribbon I got from Jody and is just yummy!! Now the saying I stamped everything in black except the word "organically": that is stamped in memento brown ink for obvious reasons. The cherries are adhered to the card with mini glue dots and the leaves are Michaels confetti flowers dyed by prismacolor markers then cut out to look like leaves. I found some "faux brad" stickers in my stash from Joann's to finish the cherries off. Background paper is from a Basic Grey Phoebe pack I've had for awhile.

Here's the close up of the detail of the cherries and leaves.

Stamps: MFT Feelin Fruity?

Cardstock: Celery, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey Phoebe

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Riding Hood Red, Green Galore

Accessories: Stipple Brush, Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots, Prismacolor Markers, Confetti Flowers, Brad Stickers

My Favorite Challenge - Week 8

Hello and welcome to week 8 of the My Favorite Challenges. This week we were supposed to de-stress! Oh, excuse me...distress, texture, emboss, whatever, our cards, scrapbook pages, projects, etc, etc. I'd rather do the de-stressing end of it personally. ;)

Seriously though I had found this really cool paper at Costco from My Minds Eye and wanted to use it somehow so I let the paper choose the colors & my stamp set for me. Since the background paper sort of looked like there were sunflowers in it and looked like fall stuff, I pulled out a set that sorely needed to see some ink, Stephanie Fizer's We're Not Scared. Gotta love those cute little owls!

I started by stamping everything in memento ink on MFT's perfect panels and coloring with prismacolor markers and then cutting the owls out. After layering the image on a dusty durango panel, I took my distressing tool and ran it along the sides to "rough it up" a bit and then popped it up on dimensionals. Then I decided to stipple some Tim Holtz distress inks (old paper & tea stain) to age the paper a few years before adding some twill ribbon that Kim has just got to keep in stock across the middle of the card. After adding some brads to hold it in place, I pulled out the edges of the twill to "rough" that up a bit too.



Here's the close up of the scare crow and the owls.




Stamps: MFT We're Not Scared, Essential Sentiments
Cardstock: Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry, MFT Perfect Panels, My Minds Eye
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Old Paper & Tea Stain Distress Inks, Dusty Durango Dye Ink
Accessories: Twill Ribbon, Dimensionals, Mini Pop Dots, Brads, Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Distressing Tool, Mini Glue Dots