Just a teaser...

Friday, July 10, 2009

Wooohooo!! It's finally Friday!

It's supposed to be gorgeous too today....and I have to work :( Bugger.

I was going to show you a card I made for the Hanna Stamps challenge today, but it turned out less than stellar and I wasn't comfortable showing you an awful card. It's probably because I was trying to make it manly, and well....I can't do manly cards all that well. Had it not been so late last night, I probably would have attempted another one, but I was knackered and needed some sleep! Hanna Girl Nikki Fairbairn is hosting today's Hanna challenge, and I really wanted to play, so I'll get my mojo flowing over the weekend and show you a redux card on Monday. Sound good?

Since I feel bad not showing you anything today, here's a sneak peek at an image I colored up yesterday....


It's from the Whipper Snapper new releases and he's "beary" cute!! Sorry for the tease, but he hasn't made it to a complete card yet, so I'll finish putting him on a card and you can see him next week!

Have a fabulous weekend, whatever it is that you're doing! And I hope you get to stamp a little. :D

Tiki Time!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

It's Thursday already! I'm so thankful for that!

Hopefully, if the weather holds up, I think we're going to have a lazy weekend and spend it by the lake shore or the community pool. We do have a wedding reception to go to, but that will be so laid back, it's not going to interfere with our weekend plans. :) What plans do you all have this weekend?

Today's card is all about those lazy days by the pool! Now this is living! :D

I used this week's bonus sketch from 2sketches4you. It was exactly what the doctor ordered to showcase this stamp from this month's 'Life's A Beach' stamp release from There She Goes! (I noticed that it's already out of stock :( but I'm sure Jessica will have it restocked very soon!)

See that faux wood paper? It's double sided paper that I found at Michael's recently and I really just stumbled onto it! The other side, which has cruise ships and a 50's travel theme on it was the side that was facing up and I didn't know it had this awesome wood grain on the back until I flipped it over just to check! Love it when good things happen like that! :) I paired it with some very old Basic Grey island looking paper I've had for eons now. This was the only sheet I bought of it and I have made the most out of every square inch of that sheet! :D I have just enough left to make one more card from it and then it's gone forever :( *sniff*

The Tiki hut was colored with SU reinkers and my aquapainter again. This time on Georgia Pacific cardstock, which isn't' very forgiving, but I like the smooth look. I added some Stickles to the cocktail glasses just to glam up the card a bit. That inverted scalloped circle was created with my decorative scissors, but I think you can buy Nesties that do the same job too. This card took no time at all to pull together. That almost never happens for me! LOL

See you tomorrow! :D

Supplies

Stamps: There She Goes 'Life's A Beach'

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, Close To Cocoa, Old Olive, Morning Marigold, Regal Rose, Coll Caribbean, Sahara Sand

Papers: Core Dinations Color Core, Georgia Pacific, PP - Basic Grey (old stuff!) and Creative Imaginations 'Signature Collection'

Access: Decorative Scissors, Dimensionals, Stickles

The Sky's the Limit!

A happy Wednesday to you all!

Yesterday's shopping trip was quite successful. My cousin-in-law snapped up a great stroller and play pen and a few other little goodies too. They're due in January, so I have a few months yet to make a baby card for them. :D Gotta put my thinking cap on now!

Today's card was inspired by a few different influences. I am still intrigued by the style of cards showcased often on the 2sketches for you blog. I just love the bright, bold colors they use and the pairing of unique embellishments. To me, it's very creative. So, while blog surfing the other week, I stumbled onto a somewhat new challenge blog that caught my interest. Every Saturday over at the Use It Challenge Blog, they post a group of products or things that need to be used on a card or project. It's kind of like the Ways To Use It challenge on SCS, but with multiple things.

This week's Use It Challenge #17 was to use your newest papers, your sewing machine, add at least one button and add a name to the card. I had just bought this small matt pad from K&Company the other day and this was the perfect challenge to break it in! The sketch is from a new blog sketch challenge I found the other day too. The blog is called Unscripted Sketches and I used this week's Unscripted Sketches #13.

I just got this 'Fly Away' set from The Greeting Farm on Monday and I thought it would make a really great inspiration card for someone. And since the Use It challenge required a name on the card, I thought I'd make one for my daughter, Sydney. I used the Zoe mini alphabet set for the letters and a corner punch for the scallops on the main panel. The balloon (isn't it awesome?!) was colored on watercolor paper with reinkers and an aquapainter as usual. I kept the look pretty watercolory (that should be a word too) and whimsical.

I really like how this turned out. It's definitely different, but I like to experiment so this was fun to try. I will have to remember to revisit these two challenge blogs this week again. :)

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you're having a great week so far!

Supplies

Stamps: The Greeting Farm 'Fly Away'

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Morning Marigold, Pumpkin Pie, Regal Rose, Cool Caribbean, Distress Inks 'Tea Dye'

Papers: Canson Watercolor, Bazzil Basics, PP - K&Company Cut 'n' Paste Mat Pad

Access: Buttons, Machine Stitching, EK Success Corner Punch, Quickutz Zoe Mini Alphabet, Dimensionals

Birthday Splash

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Good Morning!

I'm off to shop for baby supplies today.....for my husband's cousin that is! She's visiting from Toronto for a couple of days and only found out a few weeks ago that she and her new husband are expecting their first child in 8 or so months. This trip will probably make me a little clucky (an Australian term I think). I so want another baby too! One day soon I hope.

Today I have another Twinkling sketch for you! This week we have a temporary Twinkie in our midst. Madelynn's younger brother, Jack, has a great sketch lined up for us. You can check it out on the Twinkling Tuesday blog.

I am falling in love with these Sugarplum images from All That Scraps! So is my 4 year old. I had this card sitting on my desk and Syd stopped dead in her tracks when she spotted it! Looks like I may have to make a purchase in the near future. I was given this image by a great friend.

I rotated the sketch 90 degrees. for my card. I used ribbons for the vertical elements in the sketch and the scalloped edge for the stars down the side. The fun paper and scalloped border are from a stack of Sassafras Lass paper I bought at Michael's a while back. Miss Emma is colored up with SU reinkers and an aquapainter.

For a little bit of sparkle, I added an adhesive rhinestone to the center of the flower on her cap.

There have been a few changes to the Twinkling Design Team of late. We're saying goodbye to Kimmie Doktor and welcome back to Taylor Usry! Kimmie, I'll miss your creative talent! Also, Heather Lee Reppen is taking a wee break, so we'll add her name back to the blog list when she's back from her hiatus. This week's featured Twinkie is the super sweet Kim Ross! You can also check out what the other Twinkette's did with the sketch by checking out their blogs listed on the left. If you'd like to play along, just create your card and post a link back to it on today's post. If you upload to SCS, don't forget to use the keyword MTTSC30.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies
Stamps: All That Scraps 'Sugarplums Surfer Emma', Whipper Snapper Designs 'Swimming By'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty In Pink, Regal Rose, Morning Marigold, Cool Caribbean
Papers: Whisper White, Bazzil Basics, Bazzil Bling, PP - Sassafras Lass 'Whale Of A Tale'
Access: Ribbon, Buttons, Adhesive Bling, Dimensionals

If Wishes Were Fishes

Monday, July 6, 2009

Hello! Me again!

A few weeks ago, I had a three way PM going with a couple of my SCS sisters and we decided impromptu, that we would take turns at playing with a card kit we would send each other just to see how different, or the same, our cards would turn out using the same supplies.

Mary was first up and she sent Kadie and I a fishing themed kit with lots of great paper and little embellishment goodies in it. And the image she sent was Mr Fishing Chicken! :) I was a little bit more than happy since I had Anna's 'Hooked On Fishing' cling set with all it's fun fishing sentiments sitting front and center on my craft desk! :)

And this is what I came up with! I used this week's Sketch For You To Try for the layout and used the brads, paper and twine that Mary sent. Mr Chicken was colored up with SU reinkers and an aquapainter. The tags were made with MS tag punch that I picked up at Michaels.

Love Mr Chicken don't you?? Thanks for the challenge Mary - I hope I did you proud! Kadie has her card up and Mary's is posting hers later today. Can't wait to see it! I have got to start thinking about the kit I'll be sending them. Hmmmm....might need to lie by the pool today and think about it some more. ;)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies

Stamps: Whipper Snapper 'Fishing Chicken' and 'Hooked On Fishing'

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', So Saffron, More Mustard, Really Rust, Ruby Red, Old Olive, True Thyme. Going Gray, Sahara Sand

Papers: Canson Watercolor, Bazzil Basics, PP - Ask Mary!

Access: Prima Flowers, SU Brads, Twine, Martha Steward Tag Punch

Hooked On Fishing

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! We had no less than three BBQ's all weekend and as you can imagine; we're knackered! :) It's also why this post is a little late today. Sorry about that. It was a great weekend though.

So, yesterday morning while I was on the phone with my husband giving him a list of things to get at the grocery store, I get an email from a friend on SCS telling my that I was the featured stamper on SCS. Hold the press: What did you say?!? I immediately told hubby, I had to get off the phone because something major was going down! LOL Turns out, it was true! Me?! The SCS featured stamper this week?! I kept shaking my head in disbelief. I thought only big names got to be featured stampers...not newbies like me. What a huge honor though. I can't stop grinning! :D

Ok, getting back to why you stop by my blog - I have another card to show you today!


I really wanted to play the Weekend Sketch Challenge WSC87 this week because I haven't had the opportunity these last few weeks. And thankfully, the sketch was exactly what I needed to show off the 'Hooked On Fishing' set from Whipper Snapper and Anna Wight. If you've never played with Anna's cling sets before and you love to color, you really need to try them out. They are awesome to color up and I really love that you get a ton of sentiments with them because that's probably what I lack most in my collection.

SweetMissDaisy herself, Anna Wight, and Whipper Snapper will have (at very least!) two more sets to release this month, so be on the look out for them. And you don't want to miss who will be her new featured designers for the next two months! I've just had the BEST TIME designing for Anna and I know these new gals will too. Thank you Anna!! Don't worry though, this is not the last time you've seen me play with stamps from Whipper Snapper. I have a huge order arriving on Wednesday - most of them are from their Fall/Winter 2009 new releases! My hands are itching to color them up!!

Be on the look out for another card from me today too. I was too exhausted last night to finish it, so I'm doing that this morning. :) I've got some girls waiting on me to get this done!

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Just a reminder: Hanna Stamps is having their July release party tonight, starting at 9PM EST in the Hanna Stamps member forum on SCS. I'll be there, so pop in and say hi, ok? :)


Supplies
Stamps: Whipper Snapper/Anna Wight 'Hooked On Fishing'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', So Saffron, More Mustard, Really Rust, Cool Caribbean, Ruby Red, Going Gray, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen and Vintage Photo'
Papers: Canson Watercolor, Bazzil Basics, PP - K&Company 'Actopus to Zelephant'
Access: Ribbon, Circle Punches, Sponges, Dimensionals

Have you seen my DT stamps?!

Friday, July 3, 2009

TGIF! Woohoo!

The Man, myself and Syd are all home today and if it doesn't rain all day, we might be doing some fun outdoor things. We're expecting thunderstorms all weekend, so our July 4th celebrations might also involve dodging lightening! LOL

It's the Friday before the first Monday of the new month right? And you're probably wondering where my July Hanna Stamps sneak peeks are, right? Well, me too! I'm so sorry, but I think my mail man took a liking to that particular piece of happy mail and kept it for himself! *sob* So I have no sneak peeks to show you this weekend. *sob* Never fear; help is here! I do know a few gals that got their stamps...the rest of the Hanna Girls! Their blogs are listed on the left. You can also see their sneak peeks in this thread on SCS. Please join me in welcoming this month's guest designers - the talented Laurie Clout and Keri Brown! Welcome girls! Can't wait to see what you have created!

Ok, so since I'm lacking the aforementioned stamps *sob*, I created a July 4th themed card for tomorrow's celebrations with last month's cute set '5 Little Dresses'. I used this week's Mojo Sketch Challenge MOJO93 for this layout. I'm really loving these papers from Creative Imaginations - so vibrant and lively!

After your long weekend, don't forget that Monday night is the Hanna Stamps July release party and I'm hosting one of the challenges that night, so stop by and check it out! I'll post a link to it on my Monday post when it's available.

Thank you so much for stopping by this week. I really do appreciate it.

Happy July 4th to all my American friends!

Enjoy, eat well and don't forget to take a nap....I plan on it! :D

Supplies
Stamps: Hanna Stamps! '5 Little Dresses'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Real Red, Cool Caribbean, Distress Inks 'Black Soot'
Papers: Georgia Pacific, Bazzil Basics, PP - Creative Imaginations Helen Dardik Collection - 'Patriotic'
Access: Ribbon, Heart Brads, Circle Punch, Scalloped Square Punch, Dimensionals