Springtime Hi

Hello.  Thanks for stopping by again.  Today I'm sharing with you a spring card I made using one of my GinaK sets called Bug Me Anytime. 

I started out by stamping my card in Stampin Up! green galore using one of the tulips to make a border around the edges.  After that, I stamped my scene in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock; stamping some of the tulips onto scrap white paper for popping up later.  After coloring my images with prismacolor markers, I cut out the duplicate tulips and added them using pop up glue dots.  Once that was done, I stippled Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges before adding some diamond ice stickles and a Martha Stewart pre-made bow.

I'm please with how the card turned out.  Thanks for stopping by today.



Stamps: GinaK Designs Bug Me Anytime
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Bashful Blue
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Pixie Pink, Brilliant Blue
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brush, Stampin Up! Bold Brights Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Diamond Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Martha Stewart Bow

More Migraines, Car Rides And General Ramblings

Hello everyone.  Sorry for the breaks in posting, I'm still dealing with these pesky migraines.  My doctor's are trying just about everything to help me out with the chronic pain and to try keeping me at work as much as possible.  They even got an authorization for botox injections (now FDA approved to treat migraines) a week ago, which so far have not helped.  In fact, the migraines seem to have gotten worse and are now moving into my upper shoulders where some of the shots go.  Where do we go from here??  I have no idea but it's getting depressing.

Speaking of depressing, my old man (no not my husband) is just about on his last legs, literally.  Tigger, my 17 year old cat, is having so many problems with arthritis, keeping food down, etc that I'm afraid it's almost his "time to go".  Tig's been trying to get out of the house as well as lot and hiding from people a bit more lately too.  Definitely not a good sign on a cat that's never been outside in his life. 

Our dog, Bella, on the other hand loves to get out and go for car rides.  Her favorite store?  PetsMart of course.  She loves just sniffing the entire floor and walking around like she's "something".  If she sees mommy putting on shoes, then she thinks it's time for another car ride and Bella will do anything she can to get out the door - with or without a leash.  In fact, today she made it out twice following my daughter outside before she was picked up and brought back indoors.  When we got back from our errands today, Bella made sure her displeasure at being left home was noticed....she left some "presents" in front of my son's bedroom door.  Crazy dog!! Even while being scolded, Bella kept giving my husband and I the "well you left me home" look. 

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

MTMEPP04 Challenge

Hi folks!  It's time for another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch challenge.  For this week's challenge, I decided to combine a few sets with some dies to make my card.

I started out by printing out some wonderful digital paper called Plum Pretties and matched the colors to some Stampin Up! card stock I have on hand.  Once the bottom half of my card was stamped using the All A Flutter and So Fortunate sets, I got to work stamping the center divider with the smaller butterflies from the All A Flutter set and two larger butterflies (one for popping up later). 

Once that was done, I die cut the layered labels using some pale plum & lavender lace card stock.  Once my background for the first label was done, I stamped the sentiment from the All A Flutter Sentiments before sponging plum ink around the edges and popping up with dimensionals.

After adding my layered butterfly, I decided the card needed just a little something else, so I pulled out some white pearl stickers from Michael's and outlined the oval label, butterfly, and prima center.  A purple clip tied into some ribbon makes the perfect final touch.

Here's a close up of the details.  Don't you just love all of those pearls with the white baby brads?

Why don't you join in on this week's challenge?  You can find it here on the My Time Made Easy challenge blog. If you upload to a gallery, please use keyword MTMEPPS04.  Thanks for stopping by today. 




Stamps: My Time Made Easy All A Flutter, All A Flutter Sentiments, So Fortunate
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, PTI Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Lavender Lace, My Time Made Easy Plum Pretties Digital Paper
Accessories: Sponge, Dimensionals, Ribbon, Clip, Prima, Glue Dots, White Making Memories Baby Brads, White Pearl Stickers, MFT Layered Labels Die-namics

Thinking Of Tea - MTME Pretty Patterns Sketch 03

Hi all!!  It's Thursday, and that means another My Time Made Easy Pretty Patterns Sketch Challenge.  I've enjoyed participating in the challenges these last couple of weeks, and inking stamps that were starting to collect some dust.  I also have some exciting news to share with you.  I am now a part of the Pretty Patterns Sketch Challenge Team!!  Somebody pinch me!!  I am still doing the happy dance over here.

For this week's card, I pulled out a set that had not even seen ink yet, however is dear to my heart, called A Spot Of Tea.  Since I'm a heavy tea drinker, when this set was released I just had to have it!  I started off by printing one of the digital designer papers from the A Loving Heart collection.  I then allowed the colors of the digital paper to guide my color selection. 

After stamping my teacup images in memento tuxedo black ink onto white paper, I then used some PTI color spots for the roses and leaves before taking my prismacolor markers out and coloring the tags and steam.  After all of the coloring was done, I cut out one teacup, tag & steam to pop up with various sizes of dimensionals and pop dots. There is actually a lot of dimension on this card.  Here's a close up:

As each colored image was cut out, or layered, I sponged Stampin Up!'s Pretty In Pink dye ink around the edges before finally sponging the edge of the card itself.  For the final touches, I used some Stampin Up! bold bright brads and a Martha Stewart pre-made bow with some glue dots. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  If you haven't participated in any of the new My Time Made Easy challenges, you really should.  They're a lot of fun!

Stamps: My Time Made Easy A Spot Of Tea

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pretty In Pink, PTI New Leaf, Berry Sorbet

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Pretty In Pink, Green Galore, My Time Made Easy A Loving Heart Digital Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Sponge, Martha Stewart Bow, Glue Dots, Computer, Printer, Pop Dots, Dimensionals, Stampin Up! Brads

Welcome To The Neighborhood

Hello and happy Tuesday.  While playing around this week with some of my Taylored Expressions sets, I decided to finally ink up Cozy Cottages. 

Once I had stamped all of the cottages I wanted and colored them with prismacolor markers, I cut each one out to pop up some while leaving others "flat on the card".  I had decided to use some MFT cloud digital paper as a background to give a more realistic look.  After pulling out some Jolee's die cuts, the Whimsy Tree Die and a MFT cloud die-namic, I was ready to assemble everything.

Once I had popped up two of the cottages, I realized I needed one more so I stamped the birdhouse, colored it then added it to the card.  The grass and flowers are Jolee's die cuts while the frog is a dimensional sticker from Michaels.

Thanks for stopping by. 


Stamps: Taylored Expressions Cozy Cottages
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Green Galore, MFT Digital Cloud Designer Paper
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, TE Whimsy Tree Die, MFT Cloud Die-Namic, Dimensionals, Jolee's Die Cuts, Frog Sticker

Teapot House - MMTPT139

Happy Monday!  It's the beginning of a new week.  First and foremost, let me apologize for my card being assembled crookedly.  I'm still dealing with a freakin migraine that doesn't want to go away.  For this week's Teapot Tuesday challenge, we are to make "girly" or feminine cards with ribbon some for a fellow SCSer who lost all of her stamping stuff in a flood. 

With the inspiration photo being pink & white teapots, I pulled out a retired Cornish Heritage Farms Mushroom Lane teapot house I've had for a while.  After stamping it up in memento tuxedo black ink then coloring with prismacolor markers, I lightly stippled some Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges before layering.  For the card base itself, I pulled out a retired Stampin Up! wheel that I've had for years, and inked it with pixie pink before rolling diagonally across the card base. 

Once the card was done, I added a MFT jumbo scallop die-namic die cut that was in my stash before popping up my image panel.  Once that was done, I added a couple of primas with bling centers and some ice stickles to the bugs & flowers to finish everything off.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great week.



Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Mushroom Lane Teapot, Stampin Up! Bugs & Blossoms Wheel
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, Pixie Pink
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Pixie Pink, Lovely Liliac, Green Galore, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Stickles, Primas, Glue Dots, Dimenionals, Brads, Ribbon Bow, MFT Jumbo Scallop Die-Namic, Stampendous Bling Stickers

Creativitea And A Sketch Challenge

Third post for today.  If you're looking for my Christmas Card Challenge or My Time Made Easy challenge, please scroll down.

I've finally gotten a chance to participate in the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge.  Since I had to stamp and assemble my card with a migraine, I chose soft colors to work with.  For the challenge, I pulled out my Creativitea stamp set, and then made myself a cup of tea to stamp with. I stamped the images in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring with prismacolor markers.  After coloring my images, I pulled out my Stampin Up! 1 1/4 circle punch, punched out the images, and then sponged regal rose ink around the edges. 

Since the sketch has a bow in it, and I'm horrible at making bows, I stamped an extra flower image  and layered it over stamped regal rose card stock to replace the bow/ribbon in the sketch.  I then decided to pull out my Stampin Up! small flower trio punch to create some small flowers out of scrap Basic Grey Euphoria designer paper then adding some glitter stickers to the centers.  For the final touch, I added some gold ice stickles to the centers of my stamped flower & teacups.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day.



Stamps: Taylored Expressions Creativitea
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Regal Rose
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink, Pink Pirouette, Basic Grey Euphoria Designer Paper
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Dimensionals, 1 1/4 Circle Punch, Flower Trio Punch, Glue Dots, Sponge, Stampendous Bling Stickers, Gold Ice Stickles

Friendship Flowers

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my February Christmas Card Challenge, please scroll down one post.

For this week's My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern challenge, I decided to go with a spring theme to match the Stamp Something Spring Challenge and pulled out my Bold Botanicals set and stamped the flowers in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring with prismacolor markers.  I had allowed my color design to be decided by some Basic Grey Infuse designer paper I had planned on using as a background.  Once everything was stamped and colored, I layered the flowers on Stampin Up! basic black card stock to help make the images pop a bit more and added some baby brads.  It was at this point I decided to be a bit of a rebel and omit one layer from the sketch because it wouldn't work with what I had planned.  Since I'm too lazy to tie a bow (yes, I admit it), I cut a piece of real red scrap card stock to act as a border under the images, stamping it in memento ladybug ink, before pulling out a pre-made rose ribbon and adding it with glue dots. 

Since the card still seemed a bit plain, I then added some red gem stickers to the flower centers and then a vintage brad saying to the left hand side of the card to fill in all of the empty space there since I changed my card around a couple of times while assembling it.  Here's a close up of the details.

If you haven't tried any of the My Time Made Easy challenges, you really should since they're a lot of fun.  Thanks for stopping by, have a great day.


Stamps: My Time Made Easy Bold Botanicals
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Ladybug Red
Card Stock: Stampin Up! Real Red, Basic Black, White, Basic Grey Infuse Designer Paper
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Making Memories Baby Brads, Vintage Brad Sentiment, Silk Ribbon Rose Bow, Glue Dots