Have A Meowy Christmas

Hello and welcome everyone. I'm on a roll here.  Two cards in two days.  Hopefully my mojo is back to stay.

Today I'd like to share another Christmas card I've made using a Bugaboo Stamps digital image I've had for a while and have never used (NBUS) yet called Make It Snappy - Meowy Christmas.

After printing off the image and colored using both prismacolor and copic markers, I layered it onto some scrap card stock before adding some silver brads.  I then adhered it to a card made using scraps of Recollections designer paper before adding some prima poinsettia flowers along with holly leaves punched from more scrap card stock.  The final touches was adding some stamped highlights to the holly leaves, card and then silver cord and silver dew drops to the poinsettia's.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bugaboo Catch The Bug - December Anything Goes
Pixies Snippets Playground - Challenge #341
Show Us Your Pussycats - Challenge #37
Pammies Inky Pinkies #1849 - Anything Goes
Outlawz Festive Friday FF120718- Christmas


Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Bugaboo Make It Snappy Meowy Christmas, Stampin Up Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Ink: Memento Bamboo Leaves, Tim Holtz Fired Brick
Card Stock: Stampin Up!, Recollections Designer Paper Scraps
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, MS Holly Punch, Glue Dots, Silver Cord, Silver Dew Drops, Brads

Tis The Season....

Hello and welcome.  I know it's been some time since my last post.  My migraines and overall health has been not that good.  With that in mind, I'm trying to get some Christmas cards done before Christmas week.  Shoot!  I'd love to just get anything done to keep my mind occupied.

The card I'm sharing today was inspired by all those Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and grouchy shoppers.   The image is from Bugaboo Digital Stamps and is called Stella Christmas - Psycho.  I started off by printing the image then coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  Once that was finished, I layered the image and card before adding some silver cord and brads.  For my final touches, I sponged some Tim Holtz pine needles distress ink around the edges of the card and added a floral spray using card stock scraps and Martha Stewart punches.  The final touch was spritzing some Stampin Up garden green marker over the card front.

Once the front of the card was finished, I made my own "punch line" saying for the inside us MSWord then printed it out to crop and add.  The final inside touches were two Jolee's ornament stickers I've had in my stash for years.

I'm really happy with how this card turned out. I'd like to enter it into the following challenges:

Bugaboo Stamps - December Anything Goes
Outlawz Festive Friday - FF120718 Christmas
Pammies Inky Pinkies 1848 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: Bugaboo Digital Stamps
Ink: Tim Holtz Pine Needles
Card Stock: Stampin Up, MME Lost and Found Christmas
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Silver Cord, Stipple Brush, Brads, Glue Dots, Ice Stickles, MS Punches, MS Word, Computer, Printer, Jolee's Stickers

Sending You Sunshine

Hello and welcome.  Today I am sharing a card I made for a friends grandfather using the Frame It - You Are My Sunshine digi from Bugaboo.  I don't see it in the new store so it must be retired now.

Once I printed it off and colored using both prismacolor and copic markers, I stippled some Tim Holtz broken china distress ink around the edges of the frame before layering.  Once that was done, I secured the layers using some Recollections cloud brads, added a cloud die cut border stippled with broken china ink, and then added the image panel.  My final touches were sponging some Tim Holtz wild honey ink around the edges of the card before adding a floral spray using Martha Stewart punches then highlighting using ice stickles.

Challenges entered:

Catch The Bug Color Challenge

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

Stamps: Bugaboo You Are My Sunshine (retired)
Ink: Tim Holtz Broken China, Wild Honey
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stipple Brush, Sponge, Martha Stewart Punches, Brads, TCP Cloud Border Die, Big Shot, Ice Stickles.

Hi Sprinkle

This week's TCPTuesday269  is an inspiration challenge.  For this challenge, I pulled out Flying By and stamped Miss Sprinkle in memento black before coloring her and her plane in prismacolor pencils, adding brads and layering.  I then pulled out a Stampin Up! cloud embossing folder, dry embossed a white panel of card stock, stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink lightly over the clouds before adding my layered panel at an angle.  After adding a butterfly and some handmade flowers, I made my own saying by just inking part of one of the saying stamps in the Flying By set.  The final embellishment was to spritz a little color from a pacific pointe marker over everything.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: TCP Flying By
Ink: Memento Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Stipple Brush, Big Shot, Stampin Up! Cloud Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Punches, Glue Dots, Brads, Color Spritzer Tool, Ice Stickles

Be The Change

Hello and welcome.  I finally decided to participate in a Unity Be Inspired challenge.  For the challenge, I chose to use the sketch as my inspiration and also decided to pull out a retired Unity stamp kit I had never used yet called Be Bold.

After stamping my rose in memento inks, stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass around the edges and layering, I added some dusty brads to the corners and dimensionals before popping the image panel up over some ribbon and washi tape before making my own floral spray using punches and mini prima roses.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Unity Be Bold
Ink: Memento Dew Drops, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Ribbon, Washi Tape, Dimensionals, Martha Stewart Fern Punch, Prima Roses, Glue Dots, Brads, Stipple Brushes

I Couldn't Have Picked - NBUS #1

...a better friend.

Hello and welcome.  I found a new blog the other day belonging to someone I follow on Pintrest, and she's holding a monthly challenge as well as challenging followers to use their virginal or Never Before Used Schtuff.  The first challenge is based on friendship and I figured these challenges would help me get my mojo back.  So I pulled out a set I bought years ago from the now closed Clear Dollar Stamps store and had never used along with some never used pearl dew drops to create this card.

I stamped the background using the tools from the Bless My Blooms set using regal rose ink directly onto the card before sponging the background.  The main image is stamped in memento black then colored using prismacolor markers then cut out the heart flowers and popped them up on dimensionals before layering, adding brads, a floral spray made from scraps and Martha Stewart punches, and then the virginal white pearl dew drops.  My final touch was to spritz regal rose ink over the main image for some extra texture.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: CDS Bless My Blooms
Ink: Memento Black, Regal Rose
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Sponge, Martha Stewart Punches, Glue Dots, Dew Drops, Ice Stickles, Brads, Color Spritzer Tool, Regal Rose Marker

Pretty Pears - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured  June 10

Gears To You & Gear Up

Featured June 11

Pretty Pears

 Featured June 12

Great Flowers & Flower Blocks

Featured June 13

Please Snow

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All six winners will be announced on June 14, 2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!). The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday June 13, 2014

Here's the Design Team:

 Jane C

Pat 
Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 
Bonnie 

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Pam M

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

For today's card I went with a spring/summer color theme to match the designer paper I chose for the background.  After stamping the main image and coloring with prismacolor markers, I lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the edges for a finished look before layering and adding white baby brads and placing on my card.  As an afterthought, I decided to add a saying in the right upper hand corner of the image panel before adding a small punched butterfly with gold ice stickles highlighting the center.  My embellishments consist of celery grossgrain ribbon, clip, and a handmade floral spray with gold ice stickles highlighting the centers.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to stop by the rest of the design team blogs to leave some love for a chance to win today's featured set.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Stamps:  MFP Pretty Pears

Ink: Memento Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Stampin Up! Celery

Card Stock: Stampin Up!, Frutti Tutti, Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Sponges, Brads, Glue Dots, Martha Stewart Punches, Clip, Ribbon, Ice Stickles

Christmas Fawn

Hello and welcome.  Today I am sharing a Christmas card I've made for the Mountain Plains Crafters Lawn Fawn challenge.  For the challenge, we had to make a card using a lawn, or a fawn, or both!!  Since, I'm trying to get my Christmas cards done ahead of time to avoid stressing during the Christmas season, I pulled out my Joyous Season and New Pines stamp sets by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company and got to work.

After stamping the background using the pine bough from New Pines in Adirondack citrus ink directly onto the card, I stamped the main image from Joyous Season in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock.  I then colored the fawn, grass and pine needles using prismacolor markers before coloring the cardinal and sky using prismacolor pencils with a blender marker before stippling Tiim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the edges of the image to help finish filling in the sky and Stampin Up! green galore ink to help fill in the grass a bit more.  Once all of the coloring was finished, I layered the image, added brads, and then adhered over a dry embossed snowflake border using glue dots.  I then made my own floral sprays using a flourish die along with a Martha Stewart poinsettia, fern and pine branch punches highlighting the centers with gold ice stickles.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Joyous Season, New Pines
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Adirondack Citrus
Card Stock: MFP Black, New Leaf, Snow Storm White, Red/Green Scraps
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Prismacolor Pencils, Stipple Brushes, Snowflake Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Brads, Glue Dots, Martha Stewart Poinsettia Punch, Martha Stewart Pine Bough Punch, Martha Stewart Fern Punch, Gold Ice Stickles

Oriental Joy - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

May Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured May 13
Kiss Me and Plywood 

Featured May 14

Oriental Joy

 Featured May 15

Tiger Lily and Tree Frogs

Featured May 16
Bearded Iris 

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All six winners will be announced on May 17, 2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!).  The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday May 16, 2014.

Here's the Design Team:

Lois

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie
Sandy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Today I am sharing a card made with the new Oriental Joy set combined with some Prima Meadowlark designer paper.  After stamping my main image in memento black and coloring with prismacolor markers, I stippled tumbled glass distress ink around the edges before layering, adding some white baby brads and silver ice stickles to highlight some of the blossoms.  

I then stamped and sponged a lavender border using the Blossom Branch mini set received free in the April Oriental Swap on SpeedyTV.  Although the April swap is finished, there are still swaps open to participate in and receive a free stamp set of your own too! 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to stop by the rest of the design team blogs to leave some love for a chance to win today's featured set.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Stamps: Oriental Joy, Blossom Branch Mini

Ink: Memento Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Milled Lavender, Stampin Up! Wisteria

Card Stock: Stampin Up!, Prisma Meadowlark Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Sickles, Stipple Brushes, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Glue Dots, Baby Brads, Sponge