He Is Risen!

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my Play Date Cafe post, please scroll down one.  Thanks.

I found another interesting challenge blog surfing the net when I couldn't sleep the other night called 4Crafty Chicks and decided to give it a try.  I couldn't sleep from the pain I was in from my migraine and the double meds were not working, so it was either stamp or cry and trust me, the cry part hurts worse.  This week's challenge is Easter and I still had some Easter stamps on my stamp table from a challenge the week before.

So I pulled out my Blessings set and stamped the lilies in memento tuxedo black ink onto MFP white storm card stock and colored with prismacolor markers before lightly stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the edges and layering.  Then, I stamped one of the butterflies from Hello Butterflies in Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink onto strawberry milkshake premium paper before stippling and layering onto a stamped spring leaf card (using the butterfly from MFP's birthday mini).

Once all of my layering was done, I took my He Is Risen set and stamped the saying in memento black making sure the saying split the lilies stem.  Then taking some left over spring leaf card stock, I die cut a sizzix flourish and added a silk Michael's bridal confetti butterfly with a pearl brad body using pop up glue dots.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Blessings, He Is Risen, Hello Butterflies, Birthday Mini

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tattered Rose Distress Ink, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Bashful Blue

Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Strawberry Milkshake, Spring Leaf

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Sizzix Flourish Die, Big Shot, Pearl Brads, Making Memories White Baby Brads, Stipple Brushes, Pop Up Glue Dots, Michael's Butterfly Bridal Confetti, Micro Glue Dots, Mini Glue Dots

Wild Horses At The Play Date Cafe

I recently found a new (to me) challenge blog called The Play Date Cafe and decided to play along when I saw this week's color splash challenge.  This week we were to use only black, white and a splash of brown just like the picture below.

When I first saw the photo, I immediately thought of horses instead of rabbits for some reason.  So I pulled out my Wild Horses stamp set by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company and got to work.

After stamping my main image in memento tuxedo black onto white storm heavy card stock, I pulled out my prismacolor markers and colored the image before layering and adding some Making Memories black baby brads.  Then I stamped my saying and running horse border before adhering the layered image to the card.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out considering I had made it with no sleep and a major migraine from the storms going through. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and join in on this week's Play Date Cafe challenge.  You still have a few days left.


Stamps: MFP Wild Horses
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Chipboard, Stampin Up! Black
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Making Memories Black Baby Brads

Let's Grab A Cup - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch #54

Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern sketch challenge.  This week we have a very easy sketch for you.

For my card, I pulled out an older set, Grab A Cup, and stamped it in memento tuxedo black ink onto white card stock before stamping the "cup" in memento rich cocoa ink as the letter U.  I then stamped the steam in memento London fog before pulling out a Close To My Heart vanilla marker to color the sugar bowl and a Stampin Up! lavender marker for the accents.  The coffee stains were also stamped in memento rich cocoa.  Once all of my stamping was done, I pulled out my stipple brush and lightly stippled Adirondack latte ink around the edges of the card before adding a coffee colored ribbon from my stash.  A quick, clean and simple card taking only about 15min total even with another migraine.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and stop by all of the MTME Pretty Pattern Sketch team blogs to see the samples.  You can find all of the links on the MTME blog here.  While you're there, why not play along with the challenge.

Stamps: MTME Grab A Cuppa
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog, Lulu Lavender, Adirondack Latte
Card Stock: White
Accessories: Stipple Brush, CTMH Vanilla Marker, Stampin Up! Lavender Marker, Ribbon

Turquoise Peacock - Moxie Fab Feather Challenge

Hello all and welcome to Tuesday!  Today I am sharing a card I made for the Moxie Fab Fascination With Feathers challenge.  I've had this Hero Arts stamp set in my stash for awhile just begging for ink and the perfect opportunity arrived, especially since I was having a hard time sleeping from a migraine over the weekend.

I started out by stamping one of the peacock tail feathers in Stampin Up! tempting turquoise around a turquoise card to form a frame before adding a dry embossed teal panel.  Once that was done I added some $1 ribbon from stash and then stamped my main image in memento tuxedo black ink onto snow storm smooth premium paper before coloring with prismacolor markers and stippling tempting turquoise ink over the tail feathers.  Once that was done, I got this wild hair, and stamped some "loose" feathers underneath the feet of the peacock, colored them, and stippled the same ink over my coloring before layering and adding teal brads.  Then I added some Recollections bling, diamond ice stickles, and silver ice stickles to the tail feathers and head accents before adding some primas with silver ice stickle centers.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and make sure to stop by the Moxie Fab blog to enter into the challenge.  You still have plenty of time since it ends on April 2nd.



Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise, Taken With Teal
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Tempting Turquoise, Taken With Teal
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Ribbon, Primas, Glue Dots, Ice Stickles, Brads

Easter Lilies - Friends of SpeedyTV Challenge #13

Hello everyone and welcome to another Friends of SpeedyTV challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.   This week we are giving away MFP's Pussy Willow stamp set as the challenge prize.

First, I would like to welcome some new members of the Friends of SpeedyTV design team:

Barbara

Davi

Tammylee

With Easter fast approaching, our challenge this week is to make an Easter card.  I started out by pulling out Blessings and stamping my lily images in memento tuxedo black ink onto Mark's Finest Papers snow storm smooth premium paper and coloring with prismacolor markers before cutting out the lilies.  Once my cutting was done, I then stamped the lilies onto my strawberry milk premium paper card in Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink as a border around an embossed deep olive panel.

Then I made sure to add the lilies, crossing the stems, with glue dots before adding a pre-made gingham Martha Stewart bow, punched butterflies with bling centers, and then stippling the tattered rose distress ink around the edges of the entire card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and please make sure to check out the rest of the design teams samples as well as participate in the challenge.  We'd love to see what you come up with.

Stamps: MFP Blessings

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Strawberry Milk, Deep Olive

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Bling, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Glue Dots, Martha Stewart Bow, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch



Hello Flowers

Hi all.  I couldn't sleep the other night since I was in so much pain from a migraine, so I decided to take a digital image I've had on my stamp desk and put it to good use as a second card for this week's For Your Inspiration #26 challenge and also for one on Splitcoast.  As a reminder, here's the inspiration picture from FYI.

The digital image I used is a freebie from Sliekjestamps and is so cute to color with prismacolor markers, especially when combined with My Time Made Easy's Amour digital paper. Then I stamped my saying using Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company You Light Up Your Life stamp set. Once my coloring was finished, I took some scrap olive card stock and die cut three borders using The Cat's Pajamas icing border die, then punched two sets of faux brads from scrap razzleberry card stock before gluing them on with a Martha Stewart 2-way glue pen.  Then, I lightly stippled bashful blue and wild wasabi inks around my main image before popping it up over the die cut border.  My final embellishments were ice stickles on the flowers and some Stampin Up! razzleberry satin ribbon.

Challenges this card is submitted for:

For Your Inspiration #26

SCS F4A109 - Using Three or More

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps:  Sliekjestamps Digital Image, MFP You Light Up Your Life

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, MTME Amour Digital Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, TCP Icing Border Die, Big Shot, Ice Stickles, Stipple Brushes, Ribbon, Glue Dots, Mini Hole Punch, Martha Stewart 2-Way Glue Pen

Mother's Magnolias - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Lighthouses Featured March 20
Flap My Wattles Featured March 21
Wild Horses Featured March 22
Mother's Magnolias Featured March 23

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 four winners will be announced on March 24, 2012 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 11PM EST on Friday March 23, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Harriet

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Mark's Finest Papers

Our big promotion  this month! With the purchase of the March New Release Package, you will receive this stamp set for FREE!

Our March New Release Mini:

Brick Wall

Today we are featuring a set called Mother's Magnolias by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company and this set is just perfect for Mother's Day cards, Father's Day cards (yes the saying is great for dads too), friendship cards or for scrapbooking.  When my mother lost her battle with breast cancer 21years ago, I also lost my best friend, teacher, confidant, and pseudo-twin.  Mom and I had so many mother-daughter sets of clothes, and we liked pretty much the same things, that a lot of people really wondered if we weren't sisters instead.  My mom is also the one who taught me how to craft and how to really color.  I'm not just talking about your basic coloring book stuff, but painting, coloring with pencils, pens, markers, etc and cake decorating.  My mom was her happiest when she was making something.

I decided to make a scrapbook page for my project this month after reading the saying that came with this stamp set.  This saying is my mom in a nutshell and is the best way I can think of to say thanks.  I printed out a black and white picture of her when she was around 10 years old which is one of my favorites of her and paired it with one of the last ones taken of the two of us together.  The color photo was taken approximately 8 months before she died, right after announcing my engagement.  I have a hard time looking at my wedding photos of her because she passed away soon afterwards and she looked so sick at the wedding.  Here she looks healthy even though the cancer had spread everywhere throughout her body.

I started out by stamping my images onto Mark's Finest Papers White Storm premium paper in memento tuxedo black ink and then colored them with prismacolor markers.  Once the coloring was done, I cut everything out and adhered them to my scrapbook page making sure to arrange some of the flowers over the photos.  Once my saying was stamped and layered, I also adhered it over the black and white photo with a couple of flowers arranged around the lettering.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and make sure to stop by the rest of the design team blogs and leave some love for a chance to win today's featured set.


Stamps: MFP Mother's Magnolia's
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: MFP White Storm, Markie Strawberry Milkshake, Spring Leaf, Michael's Designer Paper
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Printer, Computer, Photos

Wild Horses - Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch, please scroll down one post.

Hello! Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Lighthouses Featured March 20
Flap My Wattles Featured March 21
Wild Horses Featured March 22
Mother's Magnolias Featured March 23

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 four winners will be announced on March 24, 2012 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 11PM EST on Friday March 23, 2012.

Lois

Vicky

Anne

Pat G.

Karen H.

Patty P.

Mary

Marilynn

Chrissy

Karen K.

Pam

Debbie

Nancy

Bonnie

Harriet

Kathy

Brenda

Toni

Tangii

Anna S

Mark's Finest Papers

Our big promotion  this month! With the purchase of the March New Release Package, you will receive this stamp set for FREE!

Our March New Release Mini:

Brick Wall

Today we are featuring a new western set called Wild Horses.  Now I happen to LOVE western, or horse, stamp sets so this months release is definitely one of my favorites since joining the design team.  This set definitely has something for everyone and would also make a great framed wall hanging.  With that in mind, that's what I set out to do for my project today.

I started out by stamping the main horse image twice in memento tuxedo black ink on MFP Snow Storm Smooth and then colored them both with prismacolor markers before cutting one out to pop up on dimensionals under the glass.  Once I was done with my coloring and cutting, I took the horse trio and stamped it in memento rich cocoa on the frame mat before stamping the saying in the memento black as well.  A clean and simple project to decorate the house with that only took 10 minutes to make.

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


Stamps:  MFP Wild Horses
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Rich Cocoa
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth,
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Dollar Store Frame, Dimensionals