Hedge Hugs -- More New Basic Grey

Quickly posting today...not much time to stamp so I'm just gonna put these up and go back to crafting!

This card is made using BG Green at Heart DP and Chipboard stickers.  Used an EK Success border punch on the cardstock base cover.

The Chipboard stickers are really fun, some you can use as charms (see the little butterfly hanging from the "u").  Love this line!!


Everything on this card is available through the Frantic Stamper website!!

Next up:   Mojo Monday Card which I finished early this week but hadn't posted yet!   

Used BG Kioshi DP, SU! Beautiful Wings Embosslits and Nesties Fancy Tags. Sentiment is Impression Obsession.

And finally, this is my card for the Featured Stamper Challenge over on SCS.  This week the FS Crown goes to Brandi (aka Beedubya).  I chose her card called "WSC #66". 

The basket with eggs in the center and surrounding split-eggs were made using these two punches that I got from the daily "Crafty Steal".





The basket layers are popped with the eggs in between. A tiny raffia bow was glued to the handle.




The end result doesn't exactly follow her layout, but I hope you can see that it was clearly inspired by her creativity!  Congrats Brandi!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

New Basic Grey Kioshi!

Supplies:  Basic Grey Kioshi 6x6 paper pad and Chip Stickers, Inkadinkadoo Flower Sentiments, Color Box Dark Brown Chalk ink, Nestibilities

Oh such lovely goodies arrived in the mail today!!  The amazing Fran at Frantic Stamper sent this batch of new Basic Grey goodies "Kioshi" -- so my colors and style, so "Spring-y" -- I just loved all of it and of course dropped everything I was planning to do today to play with it all!!

I created this card to comply with several challenges around the blogosphere:

SCS Inspiration Challenge:  I chose the Heart Shaped Sushi as my inspiration
AllSorts:  Create a Spring Card
Crazy4Challenges: "Spring Time" Theme
Card Patterns Sketch #5

The chipboard pieces adorning the card make it so each to quickly do a fun and fast card.  Love having the matching embellishments to go with the DP!

Be sure to stop by Fran's store, she is so CURRENT with all the new stuff that is coming out -- she is amazing!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Fun Cards, Sad Endings

Quick post to get some blogging done this week!!

This first card was created a couple of weeks ago for my DBIL's BD.   Charlene to make a card/project around a quote you find from this website and incorporate some representation of time in your design.  So, I found the perfect sentiment for the inside of the card from there that says "Just Remember, Once You're Over The Hill, You Begin to Pick Up Speed".  Cute, huh?  There's tons of quotes to choose from on that site -- thanks so much Charlene!!

And, the sad part....this card is also is the last card I'm doing for my beloved DoubleDog Dare Challenge Group.  We took a pulse of the group and determined that we all were ready to move on.  So alas, it is bittersweet, but such good friendships were formed during that time!!  How lucky and honored I always felt to be in your presence: Bev, Julia, Charlene, Joan, JoAnne, Fran, Anne and (for a time) Michelle. Love ya ladies!!  Big hugs Always!!

This card is one I made recently playing around with chipboard letters:

I am currently obsessed with chipboard sticker shapes and alphas.  So lots coming soon using them -- (thanks to FRAN from Frantic Stamper!!)  The ones on this card by KI Memories are soooo cute!!   And -- I snagged them through the daily "Crafty Steals" web special!! If you aren't familiar, get on board quick - each day a different "steal" is made available, and some of them are insane!!  Be sure to check it out!!  This came as part of a package of matching DP pack, epoxy brads and the gummie stickers from the BD above.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Weekend Challenge Cards

I'm so behind on blogging, but only because I have been super busy creating for a multitude of commitments, so the card making has not slowed down at all!!  Just the part where I make time to blog about it!!

So here's my SCS Challenge Cards for this weekend!

This card is for the Inspiration Challenge, the website to go to for inspiration is "Warm Biscuit"! 




I chose this "Nautical Wall Mirror" for my inspiration piece because of the clean lines and simple color combo. 

I embossed Nestibilities Blossom II onto the white circle panel. Used Nesties to cut a scallop border around the circle. And used Nesties to die cut the popped, layered circle in the center. Used Primas and white brads as embellishments around the sentiment.  

All supplies for this card are available at FranticStamper!

Next Up:

This card is for the Featured Stamper Challenge.  The gallery this week belongs to Kristen (aka MommyLuvs2Stamp).  I loved her contemporary style and use of DP!  I chose her  "With Gratitude & Mojo47 .. maybe?" card.  It was eye-appealing and fresh and I love butterflies!!

I kept her layout and the brown color scheme, but changed the elements to supplies I have on hand. My butterfly is a Poppy Seed Grand Adhesion Dimensionnel sticker from KI Memories "Bloom" set and I used American Craft Thickers chipboard letters to create the sentiment.  Some dotted stamping with a WoodwareUSA clear stamp across the bottom strip to go along with the theme of Kristen's design.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Cotton Anniversary Card - ODBD

Hi All!

Whew!  Barely got this card posted in time for the deadline yesterday, so now I'm adding in the deets to my card!! 

This is for Saturday's ODBD challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.  They are celebrating their Second Anniversary this week with a challenge every day!!  Today's challenge is to use Cotton in some way on your card! 

I used the bird image from the "You Will Find Refuge" set.  My "cotton" is the wonderful Sparkly Fluff in Sugar and Coffee Bean Brown from Our Craft Lounge.  I  l-o-v-e  playing with that stuff!!  I sprinkled the white over the bird in stragegic areas first, then let it dry and tapped the excess off.  Then sprinkled the brown in some of the other areas, repeated the process, and the result is a downy, soft feeling and looking little bird!!  With an added bonus of some sparkle!  

In addition, I added an antique cotton lacy ribbon just for good measure for the "cotton" theme!!  The little angel charm came all the way from Sweden from my sweet friend Birgit (aka Bigann over on SCS).  I'll be sending this card to her as a thank you!!

Congratulations to Our Daily Bread Designs (Click on the link to see what's going on over there!!) on their Second Anniversary!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Mosaic Butterfly Card

Supplies:  "Inspiration Mosaic" by M.Muenchinger, Versafine Onyx Black ink, Copics, Dimensional Butterfly stickers from Marcella K, SU Word Window punch, misc. faux jewels and patterned paper.

This week's Featured Stamper is Vera (aka Vera)!  And may I just say that this is one fabulous gallery to go through!!   I was so excited to see so many great ideas, I have a lot of the stamps she has!  One in particular is the the "Inspiration Mosaic" set by Melanie Muenchinger.  Vera uses it quite a bit so I checked out every one!  This is such a versatile set, it's hard to go wrong with it!!  Vera created this very cool "Inspiration Mosaic" card with it and shared a great technique to when using the Mosaic stamp.

You stamp the mosaic onto a single sheet of patterned DP, then color over the different segments in different colored inks!  It works!!  So very fun, and easy peasy!!

I stamped the mosaic stamp onto some scrap DP to test out the technique.  Colored in all but one of the squares with Copics that coordinated with the original pattern of the DP. The original colors of the pattern paper is the square under the pink butterfly in this photo.

Must have taken a whole 90 seconds to do the coloring!!  Then I stamped one of the sentiments from the set and the card was ready to be embellished.  So super easy, I just love the technique, love that set!!  So worth the investment ladies!!

Congrats to Vera and thanks for sharing this technique!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

With Love

Supplies: Clear Magic Stamps "Mary and Friends", SU Chateau Bella rub ons and Scallop Border punch, Recollections Gemstone brads, Tiffany Teal Primas, Nestabilities, misc. ribbon, We R Memory Keeper Corner Chomper

Hi All, I'm hosting the Inspiration Challenge over on Splitcoast this week!! Come join me!! Had a blast with this one, a fun website and new stamps! Life is good! :) The inspiration website is "Ginko Papers". The fun and whimsical items throughout the store are contemporary and Asian inspired! Seems like every time I looked through the pages I'd find something else that made me smile. The owner writes that "when we travel to Japan, a country as much in love with paper as I am, I end up spending hours in the stationary section of the department stores...I wanted to bring all those unique items together for you in one place. Here they are! May your search through them be as fun as my search in gathering them." I can totally relate to that, can't you? So after changing my mind all week long on which item I wanted to use as my inspiration piece, I finally settled on this "Shinzi Katoh Red Riding Hood Notepad 3". The focal image on my card is from Woodware USA, Clear Magic Stamps (be sure to check out their brand new blog!!). The set is called "Mary and Friends" -- so cute!! Comes with three main images and several coordinating sentiments. I used "With Love" from the set. The corners are embellished with white SU Chateau Bella rub ons. TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!