Monday, February 28, 2011

Mom

I made this card using the fun sketch #180 at Mojo Monday http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/ and the colors from the Curtain Call Color Challenge Act 71 http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com/. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

P.S. Tomorrow is Celebrate the Occasion's Tuesday challenge, fun fun ;)



Recipe:
Bazzill Cardstock
My Mind's Eye paper
ek success punch
Martha Stewart punch
Fiskars circle punch
Tim Holtz Distress ink
Chatterbox brad
Danelle Johnson art warehouse stamp
The Paper Company Studio stamp (Circle saying)
Versamark
Embossing powder
ATG gun
pop dots

Thursday, February 24, 2011

M.A.G. Challenge Guest Designer



I’m elated to be the guest designer over at M.A.G. Challenge by the page. One of my most favorite challenges because it makes me REALLY get creative. Today’s challenge is from the Wild Card cartridge, page 65. I took the stethoscope and made it into a flower, see image below. It turned out to be a really great flower, I was super excited about it. If you haven't been to the M.A.G. site yet it is a must, hop on over and join this weeks challenge http://magchallengebythepage.blogspot.com/. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)



Recipe:

Cricut Wild Card cartridge

Bazzill cardstock

DCWV cardstock

Recollections Gem Brad

The Paper Company Studio stamp

Versamark

Black Embossing Powder

Happy Birthday Nyaira!!


Today is my daughter's 8th birthday and she wants a dog themed party. Hmm I wonder if she is trying to tell us something ;) I used the wonderful digi's from Tiddly Inks, http://www.tiddlyinks.com/. They fit perfectly with her theme and they are really adorable! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:
Tiddly Inks digi's
Prismacolor pencils
Martha Stewart Grass Punch
Bazzill Cardstock
Glossy Accents
Enamel Accents
Mark Richards crystal stickers
Photoshop for saying

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

40th birthday surprise


The wonderful Christy Croll at Tiddly Inks has a dear friend turning 40 and asked 40 volunteers to make her a birthday card. I was so happy to help with this fun project and this is what I came up with. Her favorite colors are red, black and white. The cute little digi and background paper on the front by Tiddly Inks was made especially for her! The cupcake image on the inside is also Tiddly Inks.

I used the fun sketch from the Peachy Keen Challenge #46. I don't have any of there wonderfully cute stamps yet but this challenge is open to all so hop on over and join the challenge!! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day J



Recipe:

Tiddly Inks digi's and paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Enamel Accents

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Prismacolor pencils

Flocking powder

American Crafts eyelets

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Red embossing powder

Versamark ink

Pop Dots

ATG Gun


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Happy Birthday

I made this birthday card with the Mojo Monday 179 sketch in mind, http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/, what a fun sketch. It seems a lot of people born in February are partial to purple, maybe due to there birthstone ;) So another purple card for you!

Also it is Challenge #3 time at "Celebrate the Occasion" http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com//, this weeks challenge is "Anything goes Birthday". Hop on over and see the newly picked design team with there projects and join in on the challenge!! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

I just realized my card would be perfect for the
Recipe:
Colorbok paper
Bazzill cardstock
Chatterbox embellishments
Stampendous stamps
Spellbinders Impressionables
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Colorbox ink
Tim Holtz distress ink
Gala yarn
Offray ribbon
Queen & Co. pearls
White Uniball gel pen
Pop dots
ATG gun


Sunday, February 20, 2011

Fishing you

This card I made by combining two digi's together, one from Hambo Hoedown http://hambochallenges.blogspot.com/ and the other Whimsie Doodles http://www.whimsiedoodles.com/. I used the layout for Sweet Sketch Wednesday http://www.sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/. I got my inspiration from the picture at Sentimental Sundays http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/. Wow that was a mouthful but I wanted to give everyone credit for the inspiration of this card!! I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful evening :)



Recipe:
Hambo Hoedown digi-Pelican
Whimsie Doodles digi's (beach scene and ocean)
Coredinations cardstock
Colorbok paper
Enamel Accents
Prismacolor pencils
Copic Markers
Liquid Pearls
Colorbox ink
Gstudio chalk ink
Our Craft Lounge stamp
Enamel Accents in white
Twine
M bellish eyelets
Photoshop
Pop dots
Atg gun
Pop dots

Friday, February 18, 2011

Sweet Birthday

I made this birthday card for the Papercraft Star Challenge #33. I have a lot of birthdays in February and this is for one, purple and green are there favorite colors. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Enter Challenge 33


Recipe:

Bazzill Cardstock

Kaisercraft paper

Basic Grey paper

Tim Holtz Distress Inks and distressing tool

irock tool and gems

Hero Arts stamp (flowers)

Inkadinkado stamp (sentiment)

Gala yarn

Stampendous embossing powder

a la mode embossing powder

Corner punch

Versamark

Office max tag

pop dots

ATG gun


Thursday, February 17, 2011

Umbrella Tutorial

Okay so this is my first try at the video tutorials, so please be kind ;) This is just the tutorial for the umbrella, I will be doing the cart soon. I didn’t do measurements so I have to come up with a template for everyone. I saw a picture of something like this on a blog or a website of a flower cart a long time ago and just went with what I remembered and made up my own measurements. It is in the works and will be up soon though. Below the tutorial you will find the link to the umbrella template. I hope everything is in working order, lol






Here is the umbrella/parasol template below to work from, just paste and go to the site.

http://www.4shared.com/photo/2juNvbZn/umbrella.html


***Please do not share, pass off as your own or sale for personal gain. I ask that you please send them here for the link. Thank you for understanding.***


If anyone has any suggestions, comments or constructive feedback :) please leave it on this post. Or if you think I should never do a video again, that is okay also, lol. I hope this helps in understanding the umbrella portion of it. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)


Update!!!! I found the blog where I saw the flower cart and they actually have tons of templates and more wonderfully cute carts for download, including the measurements and template for there flower cart. Sue Berker put these wonderful templates together, http://scor-pal.com/cart/index.htm.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Tuesday Trigger- Comfy Cozy







For the challengeat Moxie Fab World http://www.moxiefabworld.com/ I tried to take the different textures in the picture and incorporate it into the card i.e. the throw, couch and the shelf behind. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:
Bazzill cardstock
Hero Arts Stamp
Studio 112 stamp for sentiment
Tim Holtz Checkerboard embossing folder
Tim Holtz Distress inks and distressing tool
Versamark
Red Embossing Powder
irock tool and gems
Martha Stewart Punch
Colorbox ink
Popdots
ATG gun

Monday, February 14, 2011

CTO Challenge #2



It is time to "Celebrate the Occasion" again. This weeks challenge at CTO is to create a “Masculine” birthday card, layout or whatever other project your heart desires!! I chose to do something a little different and fun. I found this diamond fold card on the web, http://www.making-birthday-cards.com/diamond-fold-card.html and thought it was such a great use for the masculine card. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Don't forget to hop over and join the challenge and see what the other DT has created and there is still time to get in for the next DT call, ends tonight so hurry!!


Recipe:
$1 bill, lol FYI you can do more if you are feeling generous ;)
Steel, green and gray cardstock
Photoshop for sentiment
Paperhouse productions sticker


Happy Valentines Day and Blog Hop Winner

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I made a card today to follow the Mojo Monday week #178 http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/ and the colors red, pink and white for the Sentimental Sundays challenge # 42 http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/ I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

P.S. scroll down to bottom for blog hop winner and recipe ;)


Okay so here we go...... The winner is #39 "A Scrap Above", please email me your mailing information and I will get the prize out to you. Thank you all for joining in on the blog hop and leaving all the wonderful comments!! I am trying to get a video ready for everyone to watch for the umbrella and cart. Just don't judge me, I am a video newbie and I do not enjoy hearing my own voice, lol. I will try to get my brain wrapped around it all as soon as possible, so be on the look out in the next few days. A template will be provided also!!
39. A Scrap Above said...

OK, now this is YUMMY looking, I love this little cart, I would love to know how you made it..beautiful card too.
I am a new follower of your blog
TFS and a chance to win
Bonnie
http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com
ascrapabove(at)col(dot)com

Friday, February 11, 2011

Be Mine Blog Hop


Welcome to the Celebrate the Occasion's “Be Mine Blog Hop.” If you arrived here from Adrian’s blog you are on the right track. If you are visiting and want to start at the beginning, which I highly recommend so you can enter in all the blog candy J then you will want to start at the Celebrate the Occasion blog.

* *Also, you don’t want to miss going to the Celebrate the Occasion because they are having a design team call, so hop on over for more details on that!! Onto the card J


I made a little Valentine candy cart for all of you to enjoy along with a matching card. Looks really yummy :) Sorry for some reason when you put more than one pic up below the writing you can't click on it for a larger image. I hope everyone can see it okay, any questions please feel free to ask ;)

Now to see what you can win!!! Well today’s blog candy is a compilation of Basic Grey items because I love them so and some of those fabulous brads that I used in my “Shades of grey or is it gray” card. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I would absolutely love for you to become a follower or let me know if you already are one and you will have a chance to win it! Winner will be picked on Valentine's Day, ahh how sappy ;) So that means you will have until midnight on the 13th to leave a comment and a way for me to get a hold of you!!


Your next stop is the wonderful Nicole!

Don’t forget to stop and leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win their blog candy, there are some good prizes to be won!! Happy Hopping J

Here is the list of the blog hop line-up just in case you have lost your way:

1. Celebrate the Occasion Blog

2. Melissa

3. Nicole

4. Gloria

5. Ivette

6. Gigi

7. Adrian

8. Lucianna- Here

9. Nicole

Follow the ways....

It is SSW time and Sentimental Sundays time and they both went so well together that I used the layout from SSW and there sponsor is Whimsie Doodles so I used one of there digi's and the sentiment from Sentimental Sunday's.

Once again don't forget the blog hop tomorrow, great stuff to be given away ;)

Sweet Sketch Wednesday: Sketch #88 with Whimsie Doodles. com as the sponsor


Sentimental Sundays: Happy Valentines Day Challenge #41 http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/

Die Cuttin Divas: Love is in the air Challenge #2

Recipe:
Whimsie Doodles digi http://www.whimsiedoodles.com/
Sentimental Sundays for Sentiment http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/
Sizzix tipsy hearts die
Bazzill cardstock
Prismacolor pencils
Copic Markers
Tim Holtz distress ink
irock tool and gems
Stickles
Photoshop
Recollections brads
Pop dots
ATG Gun



I've got my eyes on you

Hambo Hoedown is having there challenge and this is the weekly digi or you can use another one of there's with a heart, http://hambochallenges.blogspot.com/. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

REMINDER: Tomorrow is the Be Mine Valentine's Day Blog Hop with a lot of blog candy including mine, hint....... Basic Grey :) You'll want to join us for that tomorrow!!!

Recipe:
Hambo Hoedown for digi and saying- Eye Monster
DCWV paper
Potpourri cardstock
G studio Pink and light pink flocking powder
Googlie eyes from the dollar store
Enamel Accents
ek success punch
K & Company chipboard
Pop dots
ATG gun
Photoshop for saying layout

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Miss you



My Pink Stamper is having a challenge and this is what I thought of when she said something Springy, Valentines or just something that makes you happy. I hope this is able to brighten someone’s day because when I see it, it sure makes me smile J I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

P.S. Don’t forget to hop on over to the Celebrate the Occasion blog for the first challenge and blog candy J Design Team 1 has come up with some wonderful projects!!

Recipe:

Cricut Give a Hoot and Kates ABCs cartridges

My Pink Stamper stamps

Studio g chalk ink

irock tool and gem

Tim Holtz Distress inks

Martha Stewart grass punch

Markers

Glue dots

ATG gun

Monday, February 7, 2011

My heart takes flight

I made this card to go with the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge, Challenge #97. I got the cute little owl digi from Pop “N” Stick and colored it to match the colors of the cupcake challenge. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:

Pop “N” Stick owl digi

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Bazzill Cardstock

Marvy Scalloped circle punch

Marvy Circle punch

Enamel Accents

Prismacolor colored pencils

Copic Markers

White Uniball gel pen

Pop dots

ATG gun

Saying from the $1 bin- g studio

Colorbox ink

Saturday, February 5, 2011

I still love you


It is time for M.A.G. challenge by the page #13 http://magchallengebythepage.blogspot.com/. The challenge was to use your Tinkerbell cartridge, pg. 51. So I used the outfit button, which is the layer you see above, and for some reason saw crabs, lol. Remember it never hurts to think outside the box :) I also used the shift, flesh/hair button and enlarged it and got the hearts. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)


Recipe:
Cricut Tinkerbell cartridge
Googly eyes
Recollections heart bling
Stickles
Sandpaper
white, red and orange cardstock
Tim Holtz distress ink
Photoshop for saying
pop dots
ATG gun

Friday, February 4, 2011

All bets covered

Many are getting ready for Super bowl and so I thought it fit perfect to do a card for it. Hambo Hoedown has a challenge going on using there digi's, http://hambochallenges.blogspot.com/ and this is the digi for this week. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)

Recipe:
Hambo Hoedown digi- Football girl
Prismacolor pencils
Tim Holtz distress ink
Tim Holtz Crackle paint
Photoshop for saying

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Welcome to the world- SSW # 87

Sweet Sketch Wednesday time #87, http://sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/. The sponsor this week is Meljen's Designs, so I got her cute little butterfly with fairy on her site http://www.meljensdesigns.com/ . I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)


Recipe:
Meljen's Designs Digi
Me and My Big ideas paper
cream, white and green cardstock
M.S. punch
Prismacolor pencils
Prima flower
Tim Holtz distress ink
Enamel accents
Stickles
irock and gems
Nestabilities
Versamark
Stampendous embossing powder
Studio g chalk ink
Uniball white gel pen
Liquid pearls
Dollar stamp
pop dots
ATG gun

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Congratulations

Today my daughter had one of her State tests and I always make her a card, so I made this for her. I used the Mojo Monday layout "Round or Square?" and actually chose round, amazing huh ;) http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/. This could also go to the giveaway winner but I am going to make one of her very own. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful day :)


Recipe:
Cricut Florals Embellished, George and Basic Shapes and Paisley cartridges
ki memories paper
DCWV paper
Sgtstamper ticket sentiment
Tim Holtz distress inks
Uniball white pen
pop dots
ATG gun

Giveaway Winner!!!!!!

I am so excited to announce the winner of the giveaway!! I feel like I need some drums playing to announce this :) Random.org picked the winner and I did it through 30 because 2 were deleted out of the 32, just so you know why I did it through 30 ;)
Whoo, Whoo, Congratulations #7

Victoria said:

Congrats on your 100 followers I became 101. I loved your Masculine Birthday Card. I am always making girlie cards i need to make more Guy Cards. Thanks for a chance to win. Yeah i made it to 40 followers today and am excited about that. Have a good day and thanks again. Victoria