Cheeky Beauty BD for Madison

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 284. I used Tuesday's Tempting Coral Rubies COLOR CHALLENGE # 274. I made this for my 2nd granddaughter, Madison, who will be turning 8 in August. She is the drama queen and Diva of the family so this is so fitting for her. She thinks she is a queen anyway. LOL. So this is also for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 276 - Getting Personal. I just received my order from The Greeting Farm Monday and had to ink up the 2 new cheekys I ordered. They are just tooo stinkin' cute to me. I used my Gina K circle stamp and inked it up with ruby red then stamped on cameo coral and cut it out with Marvy Giga Circle punch. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's All Holidays and is stamped in ruby red on tempting turquoise. My panel 2 b is a Martha Stewart candle border punched in white then I colored the flames with cameo coral and added some Ranger yellow stickles. My dp is from a stack of My Minds Eye. I also added a red gem into her crown. Hope you like it, I know Madison will.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cheeky Beauty - The Greeting Farm, Large Circles - Gina K
Paper: white, tempting turquoise, Cameo Coral, MME
Ink: cameo coral, ruby red, Momento Tuxedo
Accessories: Marvy Giga Punch, MS Candle Border Punch, Copics, Stickles, Gem, corner punch
Techniques: copic coloring, 3D

Merci Texted

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - International Flair, for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Texting, and Thursday's TREEHOUSE THURSDAY COLOR CHALLENGE to use Choc chip, real red, pacific point, tangerine tango and white/vanilla. My layout is from today's FRIDAY'S SKETCHERS. I am not sure I like this but I have to get to work so I am loading anyway. I feel like I am back in the woodstock days looking at that background and the tune of "Age of Aquarious" is in my head. LOL. Anyway I used a set that was the 1st thing that came to my mind as soon as I say the WTC yesturday. This is from Gina K and is called Text Messages. I am soooo like Julia, I do not get it. I would rather dial a number and talk with a person than to take the time to type it out and send it. I saw on the news where a 16 yr old won $20,000 in a texting contest and stated in an interview she typically text 400 messages daily. OK that got my daughters text priv removed from her phone. Anyway I stamped my image in sadle brown and the flowers and sentiment in choc chip. I used my Choc chip marker to hand write the Merci! as I did not have a stamp with any international language on it that I can find. Any suggestions on this would be helpful otherwise I may send it to Davy Jones' locker.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Gina K
Paper: White, real red, real red PP, pacific point, tangerine tango
Ink: Choc chip, sadle brown
Accessories: primas, daisy brad, copics.

CASing A Little Lady

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Mercy. I have always admired her work and am more than happy to CASE her gorgeous gallery. So for this CASE job I picked her very 1st card in her gallery LADY BUG PARADE. I had also spotted these CUTE SLIPPERS from Saturday's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Little Odd Forest Hand Bags. For my layout I used Amy's Sketch Challenge # 3. What a fun layout it is. I stamped the lady bug in real red and basic black ink then used my black marker to make the trail line. The sentiment is stamped in black, That gorgeous red and black ribbon is from my darling daughter Shannon (e3erskine). On the inside I stamped the smaller lady bug and the trail as well as the sentiment from Polka Dot's and Paisly "Find joy in the little things". I love how this turned out. I actually made this at Shannon's for the Inspiration Challenge and found it also fit today's challenge.
Edited To Include: OK so I forgot to mention I stamped this image 3 times before getting it half way right. I was so frustrated, guess it was because I was not in my stamp room and out of my comfort zone at Shannon's when I tried to make this but nevertheless the 3rd attempt was perfect right up to the time where I dropped her ink pad right on top of my image. Gggggrrrrrr.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Little Lady - Gina K
Paper: white, real red, pretty in pink, black
Ink: black
Accessories: gems, black marker, Nestie Circle Punchs, Stickles
Techniques: Dry Emboss

Sweet Happy Birthday

Well I had a difficult time deciding on what to do with today's colors but I guess that is why it is called COLOR CHALLENGE. This weeks colors were Vanilla, Choc Chip, and Sage Shadow. I recently received my Inkadinkado Sweet Bithday set with a variety of cupcakes so I thought this was the perfect time to ink'em up. I mean choc and cup cakes do go togethere don't they? LOL.My image was stamped on vanilla with choc chip twice. One was cut in a circle to be matted on Giga Circle scallop choc chip stamped with Gina K circle using Vanilla Craft Ink. I cut just the top part off from the other image applied stickles and popped it up. I used Beate's weekend sketch #49 as my layout. The sentiment is 2 of the ones from Fancy Flexible Phrases which I love especially when I have limited space to work with like on this one. My choc chip panel was embossed using Cuttlebug Birthday folder. I am not sure I like this but I finished it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Fancy Flexible Phrases, Gina K Circle Designs, Inkadinkado Sweet Birthday
Paper: Choc Chip, Sage Shadow, Very Vanilla
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Giga Scallop Circle, Ranger Stickles, Cuttlebug, Happy Birthday Emboss Folder
Techniques: Dry Emboss, bling

To Have And To Hold

OK here is the news of the day,week, or month whichever: My DH will NEVER be able to repay the debt he is accumulating. Last week I volunteered to go into ICU and work in his place so he and a co-worker could leave work and go fishing. See trout season opened 3/1/08 from being closed the entire month of Feb every year and he goes stir crazy after 3/1 until he gets to wet a hook. lol so for the sake of his mental wellbeing I was a good wife. When I volunteered I thought I would just be there if they needed me, turns out I was working with a fairly new employee and was sorta overseeing her and only 1 other experienced nurse working ooops. Well of course the phone rang and a new patient coming. The rest of the shift was AWEFUL. While I was finishing up my card Tuesday the phone rang and I was relieved when I heard his voice knowing it was not the hospital calling to see if I could work. Well guess what, they put him up to calling for them! eeekk. So I went again, and I worked ICU again. Thank GOD it was a much better day. I vowed not to answer the phone this morning if it rang :) OK on to today's challenge:
This is for today's SKETCH and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGES. These colors are so elegant I had to make a Wedding Card with them. I used the new Cuttlebug Birds & Swirls embossed folder on the basic gray layer then applied stickles randomly then matted on black. The white layer was stamped with Gina K's Circle Stamp using versamark then heat embossed with Stampedous Marcasite EP cut out and matted on black Mega Scallop punch. The image is stamped in black stazon then colored w/blender pen from the ink pads. I applied Crystal Effects to the flowers and Ranger Stardust stickles to teh viel and gown. This really sparkles IRL. Hope you can see the shine and hope whoever gets this really likes it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: To Have And To Hold, Gina K Circles
Paper: black, basic gray, purely pomegrante
Ink: black stazon, versa mark, purely pomegrante, black
Accessories: Stampendous marcasite EP, Crystal Effects, Ranger Star Dust Sticles, Cuttlebug, birds & Swirls Folder
Techniques: Dry Emboss, Heat Emboss

Be Mine Text Message Triple Challenge

Well this is my 3 in 1 that could have been 4 in 1 except red is in this weeks CC:(. Oh well anyway this is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY- Non traditional Valentines w/no flowers, red or pink, Thursday's WAYS TO USE - DOTS, and Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGES from this week. Whey. The phone image is from Gina K Text Messages and is stamped using blue stazon then colored w/prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol, cut out and popped up. Crystal Effects applied to the message box and the number key pads. The dp used in layer 1 is from Everyday Expressions. I stamped the dots from one of my small background stamps in brillant blue on the light blue and green layers. The sentiment is from the dollar bin at Michaels. The ribbon is green with BB dots from the marker applied.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Gina K Text Messages
Paper: Everyday Expressions DP with matching layers
Ink: brillant blue
Accessories: Crystal Effects, diminsionals, ribbon
Techniques: Gamsol Magic

Pringles Covered Cans Wrapped Up

This is for Thursday's Ways To Use It: Its a Wrap. I am having to back up to do it. I have been saving my single serving Pringles Cans for a while now and today I covered them with WalMart Holiday Cheer Designer Paper. The lids were glued to Paper then I applied Crafters Glue to the rim to reseal the can. The tag is from SU "Tags For All". The "Do No Open Til Christmas" Sentiment is from Close to my Hearts "No Peeking" set. The Merry & Bright is from Gina K's "Punchy Words". The insides are filed with Hershes Cardinal Cherry Kisses. Yummy. I really LOVE how these cute cans turned out and will be doing this for more gift ideas. It was very simple to do.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Tags for All, No Peeking (CTMH), Punchy Words (Gina K)
Paper: Wal Mart Holiday Cheer Designer Paper
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: 1" circle punch, Crafters Glue