Cupcake Fluffles

Happy Wednesday. This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. YEH I did it, after I woke up from heart failure. I just don't usually do well with a lot of layers. LOL. This was a fun sketch though, Thanks Rox. I was unable to do the challenge yesturday so I did it today, so this is also for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Real Black Olives. I saw so many lovely creations Monday using only 1 ink on white so I had to try Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Marbles again. I am in no way ready to even think about Christmas cards and really did not want to use a flower so I pulled out my brand new, never been dirty Fluffles I found at a recent LSS trip. He is just so adorable. My image was stamed 2 times in black then colored with copics and I cut the balloon out, popped it up and covered it with crystal effects. The candle is covered with pearl drops and the flame with stickles. Whey glad there was no limit on supplies or layers for any challenge I was trying to use today. LOL. Gotta get to work. I will have to comment when I get of this pm. Have a wonderful day everyone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cupcake Fluffles
Paper: white, old olive, real red pattern paper, dashing
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: copics, crystal effects, ribbon, stickles, pearl drops, oval punch, oval scallop Mega & Giga punches
Techniques: Rolling Marble Background, 3d

Kids At Play with Marbles on All Holidays

OK so I had an idea what today's TLC was going to be from Lynn's hint last week and knew I did not have any marbles (lost mine yrs ago when my kids became teens, LOL). I was bumbed out bc I have to stamp every day or the day is just not good. DH heard my dilema and came up with some lead bullets he has for his 1864 hand pistol. So thanks to my dh this is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Marbles. While searching for other challenges to use I ran across today's CCEE Stampers Challenge - Everything Old Is New Again and decided that the marble background looked like kids when they 1st start coloring and from there a Mother's Day card was born. I have had this Kids at Play set for a long time, used it 1 time a couple of yrs ago and just never seem to bring it out until today. I inked up the 3 kids that resemble 3 of my grands with my black marker by omitting 1 of them on the stamp. The sentiment is from All Holidays. Both sets are from Stampin UP. For my layout I found a kewl sketch from today's SKETCH AND STASCH CHALLENGE #9. Such a fun layout for what I was making. I used Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, and Kiwi Kiss for my color combo. I love all 3 of these colors and Tangerine Tango just has not gotten used enough. Maybe Emily will use this color combo before these retire. Have a great Monday.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Kids at Play, All Holidays
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, White
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, black
Accessories: Lead Round Bullets, dimensionals
Techniques: Marble Background

Doin' The Birthday Cupcake Wattle

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Wattle. For my layout I used Saturday's PAPER CRAFT PLANET SKETCH. I sponge distressed the edges with rose red for Today's HIGH HOPES CHALLENGE #27, Distressed. I loved browsing through Kathy's gallery and finally settled on her MIDNIGHT MADNESS CHALLENGE CARD. I changed the layout and for my color combo I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Basic Rose Pirouettes. I also left off the mat layer behind my focal cupcake image and placed my ribbon horizontal. I used a really cute set from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY called Birthday Cupcake. My cupcake image was stamped in basic gray 2 times then colored. I colored them with copics, applied some liquid pearls to the candle and stickles to the flame. The icing from one of the colored images were cut out and popped up.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Cupcake - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: White, Rose Red, Pretty In Pink, Pink PIrouette
Ink: Basic Gray, Rose Red
Accessories: Copics, liquid pearls, stickles, Ribbon, Giga Scallop Circle
Techniques: sponge distressing,

Just Buzzin' By for a Kleenex

OK so today I am so tired from working all week and then I get out in the yard for 2hrs last night working on the walkway to the pool and helping dh get ready to build my pool deck and get overheated. I kept saying "OK I need to stop" but kept right on working. Not a smart move:( When I did get inside I was red as a beet and so nauseated. Jessie made me lie down with a cool cloth on my head and glass of water. My mind must have gotten fried because this morning when I read the title of the IC Kleenex all I could see was that bee from the Nasonex ad and hear his voice (ooh how I just love that accent) so this may be stretching it a bit but I have had this set for ever and soooo wanted to use it. The colors on the box under Holiday Penguins were part of my inspiration as well so if it is allowed this is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Kleenex. For my layout I am using today's SKETCH SATURDAY # 48. I love this layout, so fun to work with. I cut out then embossed my image layer and matt using nesties circles and scallop circles then stamped the bee hive in black brilliance and colored it with copics. I stamped the chicken wire background (bc it is as close as I could get to honey comb) in black on white then chaulked it. I used my Fiskars scallop with holes border punch. The popped up bee was stamped in black, colored with copics and cut out. I did all 3 of the bees from this set and since you only see 1 of them you are correct if you are thinking I must have not cut the other 2 out. Gess I love cutting but that one was so much of a pain and my carpal tunnel started acting up so I stopped with the 1. He is MIGHTY BEE, and he can make all the honey anyone could want. LOL. Have a great weekend.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Just Buzzin' By, SU, Chicken Wire Background - CHF
Paper: non SU black, white, yellow
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: copics, Fiskars scallop border with holes punch, Stickles

Bathroom Inspiration By The Seashore

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Make Yourself At Home where we were to be inspired to use colors from one room in our house. I picked our upstairs bathroom (you can see the picture of my inspiration HERE. The window curtains were made from material I found at WalMart back when we had a sewing department. ggrrrrr. The walls were already painted that pepto pink color and being the new family member I did not want to change everything so I left it. The room off to the left of this bathroom was painted the same color bc it was my dh's daughters room for her overnights before she married. When she married I toook claim on it and the 1st thing I did was change the wall color to a soft blue. LOL . I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE for my layout and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Basic Rose Pirouettes color combo and added some browns, yellow, blue and cool carribean, sorry if that is cheating a bit. I have not got this set dirty since I bought it. What a shame, it is just adorable. Inked in black brilliance and colored with copics. I sponged the sun with Summer Sun, the clouds with bashful blue using a punched oval scallop as a mask and the ocean with cool carribean using a torn sheet of paper for a mask. I added some lines of stickles to the ocean for a sparkle effect. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: By The Seashore - MFT
Paper: Rose Red, White
Ink: Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Pretty In Pink, Basic Gray
Accessories: copics, stickles, dimensionals, oval scallop
Techniques: masking, 3D

Fluttering By Beautiful Fairy

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Basic Rose Pirouette for my color combo and my fairy image is for FLUTTER BY WEDNESDAY #54 CHALLENGE - Open to butterfly or fair and is from Inkadinkadoo "Beautiful Fairies" that can be found at TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. I stamped my image in black brilliance then colored with copics and added some stickles. Fairies have to have sparkle right? LOL. I matted my focal image on pretty in pink cs cut and embossed with the large rectangle scallop nestie then popped it up. My dp is from MME stack I am still trying to use up. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Beautiful Fairies - Inkadinkado - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty In Pink, White, MME dp
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: copics, stickles
Techniques: dry emboss, 3D

Make A Wish Angel

I am so happy to finally be able to stamp. This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Basic Rose Pirouette. For my layout I used last Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I just could not resist the thoughts that came in my head this morning as I was trying to come up with an idea. My dh and I are always teasing about Old Timers kicking in and having to make list just to go to the store or we come home w/o what we went for to begin with. He has 2 and 3 days off together while I am working and I usually leave him a Honey Do list but this time I thought I would lighten his load a bit and remind him days off are for resting and relaxing. I think he will like this list. I stamped the list image and title from "Make A List" in rose red on white. Then stamped the solid heart from "Angel Wings" in pink pirouette, hand wrote the list using a gray marker and matted on rose red. I punched out some hearts and popped them up then popped up my focal image. I used some pretty in pink pattern paper and matted on PIP cs. My #2 panels are Basic gray cs layered with gray ribbon. All stamps used can be found at TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. Will he like it or is too girlie? What do you think?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Make A List, Angel Wings -Treehouse Stamps
Paper: white, pretty in pink pp, pretty in pink, basic gray, rose red
Ink: rose red, pink pirouette, basic gray
Accessories: gray marker, heart punch, ribbon

Inspired Chocholate Girl

We are off on a road trip to who knows where. I will have to make up on comments when we return but for now this is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Skeem. I found my inspiration from this White Tea & Thyme. I also used Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Framed by my Welcome sign. For my layout I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE and for my color combo I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Bordering Saffron Pirouette. My Framed Welcome sign is stamped with black stazon and on metal for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Metal Stamping. I just got some new rubbah from Whiff of Joy and could not wait to get it dirty. I stamped the Chocholate Girl from TREEHOUSE STAMPS in Esspresso 1 time on a post it note and once on white cs. I cut out the post it page to use as a mask. After placing my mask I stamped the Willow's Armchair in Esspresso then colored these with copics and popped it up on my focal layer. I drew the flooring then colored with copics. For my wallpaper I did something I have never tried before, chaulkboarding, after receiving THIS BEAUTY from Shannon for our anniversary. I just love that effect so much it may be my new obsession. I stamped the large image from Baroque in white craft on so saffron then covered that with bordering blue chaulk. I love how it turned out. Hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Fancy Flexible Phrases & Noteworthy - SU Chocholate Girl & Willow's Armchair - Whiff Of Joy
Paper: So Saffron, Bordering Blue, Pink Pirouette, White
Ink: Whisper White Craft, Black Stazon
Accessories: Poppin Pastel, copics, dimensionals
Techniques: Masking, Chaulkboarding, Sponging

Pun Fun Get Whale

Whew man what some limits. Dawn this is a great challenge since Shannon and I were just talking about wheels and how long it has been since I used mine. This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Wheely Like Stampin' and I missed Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Framed. For my layout I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE and for my color combo I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Bordering Saffron Pirouette. I have a co-worker who is in the hospital so I made this for her. Hope it makes her feel better than this blue whale with a fever and obviously a little congestion as well. My 1 embellishment is from some button accessories. I trimmed the shank off and popped up the pill bottle. My 1 wheel is spunky spots inked with versamark then heat embossed with irradescent EP. I sponged the sea water and sky with bordering blue and used so saffron for the sun in the upper right corner then colored my image with copics using B35 and C3 together. I made a faux frame for my focal image with Choc Chip by matting and drawing corner lines then popped it up. Hope she likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Pun Fun, Spunky Spots
Paper: So saffron, Bordering Blue, Choc Chip, White
Ink: So saffron, Bordering Blue, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: copics, dimensionals, embossing powder, Button
Techniques: heat emboss, sponging

Uplifting Occassions

Well I am late today. I woke up at 7:30. Must have turned the clock off instead of on at 1am when I thought I had never set the alarm then fell back asleep. Can't image why. Since I went to bed at 10pm after being up for 39hrs. Got called into work Monday night for ICU again after working all day. I tried to stay over Tuesday morning and work some in my office. Yep that was not happening since I am in an office alone, the sun was shining in the window and I started nodding. Well I don't get paid to sleep at work so I left and went home, slipped into my night gown, layed in the bed and sleeep for 30min before my eyes were wide open again. gggrrrrrrr. Everything works for a reason though. Jessie and I headed to Tallahassee to find some work shoes. Our local Wal-Mart did some revising recently and we lost our 1hr photo lab and have now have a small section of plastic flip flops and work boots for a shoe dept. What a joke. We have to drive to Tifton or Tallahasee to find decent shoes. I don't mind going to either place though bc I get to stop in Omega and visit with Shannon if we go to Tifton, and if we go to Tallahassee we always either eat at Chili's in Bradfordville or Olive Garden in Tallahassee either choices are um um good. LOL. Needless to say I was ready to stamp this morning since I missed doing the CC Tuesday as it was not even loaded until after 11am.
This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Bordering Saffron Pirouette. I knew when I saw the SC it had to be either a scene or a large stamp so I went with one of my fav Penny Black images. I just love this fiesty cat. He so reminds me of one we had way back when my kids were young. LOL. Image was stamped in esspresso ink then colored with SU markers and copics. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Uplifting Occassions - Penny Black
Paper: So Saffron dp, So saffron cs, bordering blue, pink pirouette, white
Ink: espresso, bordering blue, copics, so saffron
Accessories: copics

Pop Butterfly Flower Pot Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Metal Stamping and since I was out of town and unable to do it last week I combined it with last Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Flower Pot Card. I just loved that flower pot and so wanted to do it. I used some quickutz flowers and leaves that I vowed to use more of this year. My butterfly is from TREEHOUSE STAMPS - Butterfly Kisses and was stamped on the inside of the pop can with always artichoke craft ink then heat embossed with clear detail EP. I applied some green, purple and red stickles. My sentiment was stamped with lavendar lace. My pot is some textured CS I have had and do not remember where I got it, probably Michaels. I used my new Fiskars leaf border punch. The sentiment on the insert is from Curvy Verses. How kewl to get some flowers as a get well that will never die or get dusty. I love both of these TLC's. That is why I love SCS.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Curvy Verses (SU), Butterfly Kisses (THS)
Paper: Always Artichock, Lavendar lose, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Ink: Lavendar Lace, cameo coral
Accessories: ribbon, pop can, quickutz, stickles, wide oval punch

On Guard Oberto CASE

Happy Easter Everyone. This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER CHALLENGE - Inge, for Saturday's STAMPING VACATION - Viva La Differnce Pop It Challenge my main image is up on dimensionals, and for today's CARD POSITIONING SYSTEM CHALLENGE - Sketch. I just love my High Hopes Images and was so happy to get these dirty. This time I CASEd Inge's AHOY card. I changed the colors, layout, left off the flowers, brads and distressing. I love everything in her gallery and it is so hard to not keep everything as she has it. My image was stamped in Esspreso ink then colored with copics. We recently went to Lake City for a battle and found a scrapbook store that I just had to stop at. While there I found this really kewl paper that looks just like a sheet of tin foil. I picked me and Shannon both a sheet. I stamped the sword on that paper then cut it out. Found out that even pigment ink will not stay on that paper when I started cutting but anyway I really love how it looks paper pieced. Sorry it does not show up well in the photo. Hope you like it too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: On Guard Oberto, Pirate Birthday Carrd - HH
Paper: Baja Breeze, MME, Silver dp
Ink: Espresso
Accessories: Copics BG10, BG72, E31, E33, E35, E51, C3, C5, Y15, YG75, dimensionals
Techniques: paper piecing

On Angel Wings CASEd

Happy Easter Everyone. This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER CHALLENGE - Inge. Her gallery is AWESOME. Such lovely coloring and designs. I am still drooling. This is also for the 2 Red Banana's - Banana Split Sunday - Sketch Challenge. I found my inspiration for CASEing Inge's DREAM BIG. I changed the colors, layout and left off the flowers. I kept the angel them but used a different image and popped up my focal image layer for Saturday's STAMPING VACATION - Viva La Differnce Pop It Challenge. I used a set from TREEHOUSE STAMPS called Angel Wings. This angel is just that an angel. I dusted off my neglected prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. I applied some stickles to the wings. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Angel Wings - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, striped dp
Ink: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Black Brilliance
Accessories: Stickles
Techniques: Gamsol Magic, out of the box, 3D

Life's A Picnic Going Green

Well I finally had a day I could play. Got some new copics in Thursday in the mail and just had time to really look at them. This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Grandin Road. I found my inspiration from the TEACHER'S APPLE PERSONAL NOTE PAD. All images and sentiment are from TREEHOUSE STAMPS. I used Go Green and Life's A Picnic. I stamped the scene then colored with copics then sponged, I stamped the ant in black brillance then the sentiment with markers. I used the "out of the box" technique. The apple was inked with markers, cut out, popped up and covered with crystal effects. I used my real red marker to make some faux apples on the tree.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Go Green, Life's A Picnic - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: white, garden green, real red
Ink: real red, garden green, black, bashful blue
Accessories: copics, crystal effects, sponges
Techniques: out of the box, 3D

DRS Guest Designer

Guess who is Featured Designer for D*R*S designs today? Yep it's me! I am so excited to show you what I have made.
I got some really kewl stamps to play with and here are just a few of them. This card was made with a really kewl Turle, heart background, and a sentiment stamp. I stamped the heart background with Versamark Champagne which leaves a little bit of glitter. The turtle was stamped in black brilliance, colored with copics then cut out and popped up. I sponged the white layer with garden green.

This is an altered can of cashews stamped with a really cute background stamp. I colored the images with copic markers. So how did I do?

I was hoping for some colors to use this week with these stamps and it just did not happen so I used my own color combo and this weeks SKETCH CHALLENGE on SCS for my layout. Yo Yo Yellow, Old Olive and More Mustard to make this darling birthday card using the snail and daisy background stamp. I think this stamp is just darling. The sentiment was inked w/ SU markers then huffed and stamped. I love using more than 1 color on a sentiment. Hope you like it too.

A New Easter Someone

I am so glad to be back home so I can participate in the challenges. I was going through withdrawals. LOL. This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Bashful Saffron Cocoa for my color combo. This is also for Monday's OUR CREATIVE CORNER CHALLENGE - Easter. I used the bunny from A New Little Someone for my focal image. The sentiment is from A Good Egg set both from Stampin Up. I stamped the bunny in Esspresso ink then colored with copics. The sentiment is stamped in bashful blue and popped up on dimensions. Panel 2 is saffron cs trimmed with my brand new Fiskars Leaf border punch. Have I told you that I have a paper punch fetish? LOL! I used some close to cocoa pattern paper for the base. I really like how this turned out but what do you think?
RECIPE:
Stamps: A New Little Someone, A Good Egg
Paper: White, Close to Cocoa, CTC Pattern Paper, So Saffron, Bashful Blue
Ink: Espresso, bashful blue
Accessories: ribbon, Fiskars Leaf Border

Traveling on Michele's Bday

No project today due to travel for work. We are headed to Savannah after lunch so I had to come into work early to catch up on weekend audits so I will not be so far behind Wednesday when I come back.
Bummer that today's TLC is such a fun one that I will have to wait to do when I get back home (insert large pouty face :( here )LOL.
However, today 25 yrs ago I delivered my last daughter, Michele. She was born at 06:03. So a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY MICHELE. I LOVE YOU even though you kept the family up all night waiting. She was such a pretty baby and still is (pictured on the right). Jessie and I are meeting her for lunch today before I leave town then Friday night we are all going out to dinner along with my other daughter, Shannon pictured on the left, and her family. We require a large table when all of us go out. LOL.
Happy Stampin,
Neva

Nature Silhouette Inspired

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - JustRightDesigns and her's are certainly just right. Love her gallery and have for a while Congrats to you Julie. I chose her OUT ON A LIMB to CASE. I changed the layout, colors, and set but kept the theme of silhouette and sponging. I used Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Easy as 1-2-3 of 1CS (choc chip), 2 PP (real red, choc chip PP), and 3 embellishments (2 ribbons, 1 brad). My layout is Wednesday's kewl SKETCH CHALLENGE, and my color combo is Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pink Choc Hoods. My image and sentiment were stamped in Adirondack Espresso ink, I sponged the main image after applying my circle mask with riding hood red then pink pirouette ink. I will have this ready for Father's Day for my dh's dad who I think the world of. Hope he likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Nature Silhouettes - SU, Nature/Father - Clearly Inspired
Paper: Choc chip, Choc Chip PP, Real Red PP, White
Ink: Espresso
Accessories: Ribbon, Brad
Techniques: Masking, Sponging

Inspired Birthday Cupcake

Happy Saturday everyone. I had spent 30min loading this morning and when I hit process it finally came back with a page not found error. gggrrr. No rain, sunshine and I refused to stay inside today so off we went to Valdosta for a shopping trip. Now I am loading again, hopefully this will take. This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - French Bull. I was so inspired by all the stipes and dots on this site but loved the stipes more so that is what I ended up using. I did also use Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Easy as 1-2-3 of 1 CS, 2 PP, 3 Embellishments. My layout is one of my favs, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE and for my colors Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pink Chocholate Hoods. My focal image was stamped on white then cc pattern paper and cut out. I colored the top, candle and flame with copics and paper pieced the bottom. I applied some stickles to the flam. The red & white striped pp on the bottom is some I have had for yrs. I stamped the sprinkle image on the riding hood red card stock using choc chip. My 3 embellishments are the ribbon and 2 brads. I used a set released last month from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY called Birthday Cupcake. Such a cute set. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Cupcake - Treehouse Stamp Co
Paper: White, Choc Chip, Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red,
Ink: Choc chip
Accessories: ribbon, brads, stickles

Work Interferance

Oh well, I want to stamp and have to go to work instead. My plans were to take the day off or at least only work until lunch. Those plans got shot last night around 7pm when I made the mistake of picking up the phone. I knew it was the hospital but thought it could be my dh telling me he was headed home bc we were having a horrible rain, thunder and lightening storms while under another tornado warning for the 4th straight day. Nope it was the supervisor with a request to work for my friend who would be out attending her 35yr old daughters funeral who died from a massive sudden heart attack. ONLY bc of who it was for did I say "yes I will work". Then I try to go on SCS to see what challenge I will be missing and can not even get on the website. gggggrrrr. Glad I am going to work. Have a great day stamping with out me, but get ready bc I will be back tomorrow morning raring to go. LOL

Baroque Sympathy

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used Tuesday's kewl COLOR CHALLENGE - Pink Chocolate Hoods. This was such a hard card to make. A sweet fellow nurse co-worker is grieving the death of her 35yr old daughter who died Monday night with a sudden massive heart attack. No warning just instant death. I had to lean back as I was making this to keep my tears from staining my card. I used choc chip for layer 1, Berry Bliss for layer 2a, and riding hood red stamped with tone on tone Baroque for layer 2b. I covered my seams with some dark brown ribbon. My focal image was stamped with the sentiment in choc chip then I inked the flower image with pretty in pink and old olive markers, stamped off, huffed and stamped over my sentiment. This is layered with pink pirouette, riding hood red, then choc chip and popped up. I really like how this turned out but hate that I needed it. I am taking this to work to have all of her co-workers sign before handing it to her at the funeral home tonight.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Close As A Memory
Paper: choc chip, riding hood red, pink pirouette
Ink: choc chip, pretty in pink, old olive, riding hood red
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals

Coctails Cheers To You - FAVORITE LISTING

UPDATE 4/5- This card made it in the FAVORITES forum at SCS. Am I tickled, oh YEAH!

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pink Chocolate Hoods and for my layout I used Saturday's PAPER CRAFT PLANET SKETCH. I love this layout bc it is CAS, which is my style. I just realized I did forget the 3 brads, oooppps. Oh well. My base is choc chip matted with riding hood red. My image was stamped in black brilliance, colored with copics and topped with crystal effects. It left just a bit of a bubble in a couple of places which looks really kewl IRL. I have layered my main image with PP, RHR, and CC then popped it up. My strip is pink pirouette layered with choc chip ribbon I got from Ashley Bowen, owner of Treehouse Stamp Company, in a gift pack last year when I had the pleasure of meeting her. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cheers To You
Paper: White, Choc Chip, Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red,
Ink: Black Brilliance, Copics
Accessories: Copics, Crystal effects. ribbon

This is for this month's Dirty Dozen Challenge of TV DINNERS - More Is More, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pink Chocolate Hoods and for my layout I used Saturday's PAPER CRAFT PLANET SKETCH. I love this layout bc it is CAS, which is my style. I added the stamped image on my base panel stamped tone on tone useing riding hood red ink and placed the 3 brads on top of the ribbon layer. My base is choc chip matted with riding hood red. My image was stamped in black brilliance, colored with copics and topped with crystal effects. It left just a bit of a bubble in a couple of places which looks really kewl IRL. I have layered my main image with PP, RHR, and CC then popped it up. My strip is pink pirouette layered with choc chip ribbon I got from Ashley Bowen in a gift pack last year when I had the pleasure of meeting her. Hope you like it.

Never Ending Garden Whimsy

This is for today's not so easy TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Never Ending Card. I was searching through my 12x12 dp and ran across a sheet that has olive & baja breeze in it. Where was this dp last week? Anyway I decided to use it and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes one more time. I trashed 3 different cuttings attempting this. I think my paper trimmer is defected. My ends just would not meet and when I trimmed I ended up with huge wholes in the center after opening folds. gggrrrrr. Anyway I wanted to use something other than just white cs so I used this dp and sponged the white sides with baja breeze. I stamped ontop of the dp (was not sure how layering would affect the folding). Not really happy with this but I did it. NOT a TLC I plan to do all week. LOL.This is the frontThis is the front openedThis is the open view of the next foldThis is the last fold

RECIPE:
Stamps: Garden Whimsy
Paper: MME dp
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Pretty in Pink, Baja Breeze, Sage Shadow, Old Olive
Techniques: Never Ending Card

CASEing Cat On A Dress

Whoo Hoo and a big shout out to Michelle. Congrats to ya gurl. So deserving. This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - JustPaintingAround (aka Michelle). I have been a devoted fan of Michelle's since joining SCS. I love everything in her gallery but a recent upload by her has had me drooling. Of course mine does not even compare but it is my attempt anyways at CASEing her FINALLY CARD. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes for my color combo. I hand drew my hardwood floor which we have in our house. I love hardwood floors. So easy to take care of. The wallpaper is from Nature's Garden paper pack I picked up on mine and Shannon's last shopping spree. The sentiment is doubling as a hanging picture. The image is from Stamps Away called "Cat On A Dress" and can be found at TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. I just loved this image when Ashley added it to her new line. I love cats and this would be a typical thing for a cat to do. I colored the floor and the image with copics. I am also stuck in the 1800's and think the dresses back then were just gorgeous. Hope I did Michelle's creation justice.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cat On Dress, Treehouse Stamps
Paper: white, Nature's Garden, Pretty In Pink, Old Olive
Ink: Black Brilliance, Old Olive
Accessories: copics

Inspired To Count Your Kisses Mom

This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Glenda Mosher Art. OMGosh what a wonderful art gallery she has. I chose the Tiger Lily on the right side bar marked as sold for my inspiration to make this card. My Mom has passed away and I have alread made a card to give to my MIL but I do have 2 daughters and a daughter in law that I can give cards to so I made this for one of them. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes for my colors and Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE for my layout. Not only did I use 3 challenges from this week today but I also used 3 different stamp sets recently released from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. Count Your Blessings, Butterfly Kisses, and My Mom are the sets I used. They are all just wonderful sets and I love how I can use parts of each one to make 1 card. My image was stamped in black brilliance on wc paper then I water colored which I have not done in awhile. I used SU wc crayons for coloring. The butterflies are from a MS punch with 2 sizes. My matt for my focal image was cut and embossed using Nestibility rectangle scallop. I tried doing to same with the wc paper only to find that it did not emboss so well and my matt ended up toooo big so I trimmed both down. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Count Your Blessings, Butterfly Kisses, My Mom - Treeshouse Stamps
Paper: water color, white, pretty in pink, baja breeze, kiwi kiss
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: water color crayons, wc brushes, MS punch, diamond accent, ribbon
Techniques: watercoloring, dry embossing

Black & White Polka Dotted Pun FUn

Happy Friday all. This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Out Like A Lamb. Man talk about limits, but a fun challenge nevertheless. I stuck to the rules so the challenge police would not get me today. LOL. But I had to combine some other kewl challenges with this one since this weeks CC would land me in jail so for my layout I chose a sketch from STAMPS AND SMILES Sketch #8 and I made used striped dp and made a dotted background for Sharon's STAMP SIMPLY #80 - Stipes and Dots. I stamped the lamb in basic black then sponged the edges and matted on black. My polka dot layer was stamped in basic black. I even used some black with white dots ribbon. Yahhooo! Hope ya like it as much as I do.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Pun Fun, Polka Dot Background
Paper: black, white, MME dp
Ink: basic black
Accessories: ribbon

High Hopes Princess Girl

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Heat It Up. I used some fibers I bought up in north GA 2 yrs ago on a business adventure. You stamp your image with a pigment ink, layer with the fibers, then parchment paper and heat with an iron. I even bought one of their tiny irons to use. They are just adorable. I also love these fibers. This is only the 2nd time I used it. Bad Me! For my colors I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes. For my layout I used the OCCCHALLENGE - Sketch. I love this layout. I got some goodies a few weeks ago from High Hopes and this little princess, tierra, and seepter was in my goody bag. I just love these images. I have a granddaughter turning 7 this year and she is convienced that she is a queen, totally skipped the princess level (LOL), she will love this birthday card. Hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: High Hopes - Princess Girl, tierra, seeptar
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Pretty in pink PP, Old Olive pp, baja breeze, white
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: fibers, iron, parchment paper, ribbon, stickles, copics, giga & extra giga oval scallop punches

Eastern Bloom Holiday

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE and I used the colors from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes for my color combo. My focal image is stamped after being inked up with SU markers then huffed on white cs. I stamped the image again on pretty in pink and baja breeze and cut out a few of the flowers. I can not find any prima's small enough to go on this image. Shannon would have had a fit trying to cut these tiny flowers out. LOL. Anyway they are popped up and then I applied stickles. I stamped one of the flowers from the set onto kiwi kiss with kiwi kiss ink for panel 3, panel 2 is pretty in pink pattern paper. My base is white layered with baja breeze that I ran through the cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. My sentiment is stamped in baja breeze and is from All Holidays. I am giving this to a co-worker who is having a BD Saturday after I get it signed by her peers. She is always so grateful to get my handmade cards.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, All Holidays
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Pretty in pink PP, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, White
Ink: Pretty in PInk, Sage Shadow, Old Olive
Accessories: Stickles, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots, Ribbon, Cord
Techniques: Dry Emboss, 3D

Bloomin' Beautiful CASE

Well I took Monday off from work so we could go fishing but the winds and temperatures curtailed that trip so I stayed home anyway to finish out our 10th Anniversary weekend. We have had a wonderful weekend. We went to Calico Craft fair Saturday, church Sunday and just layzed around Monday until his dad called and was headed to the Doctor with gastroenteritis he got from Mom who had been sick all night and we had no idea. So his afternoon was spent driving dad to the doctor then the pharmacy. They were much better by last night sy 9pm after I went to the store loading them up with gatorade and soup. Now onto todays challenges at SCS.
This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Pretty Kiwi Breezes and Sunday's FEATURED STAMPER - Beate. This time I picked Beate's beautiful GUAVA ROSE to CASE. I left off the brads, changed the colors for today''s CC and for my layout I used MONDAY''S MOJO #79 sketch challenge. I colored my rose 1st with Prismacolor pencils blending with Gamsol then highlighted the darker areas with my SU Marker. I cut out a portion of the front from the 2nd stamped image that was colored and popped it up. The ribbon is some Shannon shared with me from a past order. I got this kewl Fiskars border punch last week during our shopping spree we went on and have been dying to use it. I love these new border punches, They fold flat for storage and since I am obsessed with punches and have limited storage space, I really love them. LOL. How did I do?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful
Paper: Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Old Olive PP
Ink: Black Brilliance, pretty in pink
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol blending medium, blending stumps, ribbon, dimensionals
Techniques: Gamsol Magic, 3d

Treat Basket

Well I was not at all happy with my 1st attempt at this so I will have to try again maybe later today. Just no MOJO. This plain and blah treat basket is for today's TECHNQIUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Mini Easter Basket. I used some CS and DP I have had for yrs that I got at Michaels. The base is the same as the border trim. I attached my handle on the ends for stability. I finally found some Robin Eggs, YEA! Maybe my Mojo will creep in later today. If not see everyone tomorrow for the CC. LOL


Well I decided to try another one of today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Mini Easter Basket. I think I like this one better. I used a stamp from All Holidays and used my quickutz balloon punch to match the balloons on the liner dp. The balloons are popped up on a giga scallop oval punched piece of the cs I used as my base. I may consider making these in black and white for my dh 50th birthday celebration in August.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays
Ink: ballet blue
Accessories: Giga oval scallop, quickutz balloon