A Bucket of Valentines!

Quick!! Head over to Woodware USA Blog!!  We have some new DT members and some news about incentives to join our Challenges!!  Good stuff stampers!!  :)

This week's challenge is "Anything BUT a Card".  (Egads, always my most challenging challenge!)  I can't alter worth a hoot!!  My brain just want's to do cards.  But, I gave it a whirl!!  And it was a blast!!  Give it a try all!  Post your project, un-card, or anything you created that is not a card over on the Woodware USA Blog ASAP to be included in the January drawing for a FREEEEEE Woodware set!!  Yahoo!!

For this challenge I used the heck out of the "Lot's of Hearts" set!  This set is amazing, 18 stamps included, easy to color and wonderfully versatile!! Love it!!

I cheated and made cards...six of them, but they're little (3x3) and I put them in a not-card thing.  So it's not a card, it's my Valentine bucket.  (Anything but a Card -- check.) 

I alterered this little bucket that came with a bag of gummy bears in it... I ate the gummy bears a long time ago (hee hee!).  But saved the little clear bucket "just in case." 

Turns out, my little bucket fit little 3x3 cards and envys perfectly!!  (Can you see them inside the bucket??)








I cut out six 3x6 card bases, punched a 3/4" square hole in the front of three of the cards, cut a square scallop using Nesties, then punched a 1" square in those and positioned the (now) scalloped frame over my 3/4" square hole.  The insides are a variety of the different stamps from the "Lots of Hearts" set, and all colored using only R22 and E25 Copics. 

Wanted to show you how fun the "Love You" image from this set is.  I curved the image onto my acrylic block and stamped it onto white CS so it is banner-looking!  I colored in just the little heart in the middle of the sentiment.




Next, I punched a large heart in the front of the other three card bases using SU! Large Heart punch.  I cut them out just as they were, and adhered them over my heart hole.  Fun, right?!!  I outlined this card with dashes using a Signo with gel pen.

To decorate the outside of the pail, I randomly stamped a variety of the images from the set onto two 3-1/4" x 2-1/2" white cardstock panels.  Each of the panels are different (i.e. random!).  I colored in the images with the same R22 and E25 Copics and adhered one to the front and one to the back of my bucket with ATG gun tape. 


My embellishes on the bucket include Large scallop border punch by EK Success (around the top brim),  Paper Studio crocheted trim, and a few half-back pearls. 

For the lid, I used my Nesties to cut a perfectly sized circle of PTI Summer Sunrise CS.  I punched SU Early Espresso CS with SU! Large Scallop punch, ran my tape runner around the back side edge of the Espresso scallop and adhered Paper Studio crocheted trim.  I layered the trimmed scallop with a white circle scallop (SU!) and a 1" circle of Cameo Coral CS.  The sentiment I used in the center is from Woodware's "All Through the Year" set.  The lace bow embellishment is Jolee's Boutique Baby Patches.

And finally, I didn't know what to do with the handle, ribbon just didn't look right.  So I adhered a die cut scalloped heart and large heart with dimensionals in between and tied them together with Waxy Flax fiber and a Gina K button.






I know this was a long post!  Thanks for sticking with me!!  Be sure you head to the Woodware USA Blog to join in the challenge and see all the other AMAZING inspiration there!!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

A Happy Set :)

 Hello All,

This set started out as just one card, but it was so quick and easy to put together, I made it a set.  The card base is a pack of stationary that I got at a stationary store that was going out of business.  The dark brown CS is pre-scalloped and measures 6-1/2 x 4".  For this set, I folded it in half to make smaller 4x3-1/4" size cards.


I used Basic Gray Green at Heart paper pad for the main panel and coordinating Basic Grey Woolies Flowers. I stamped each panel with Rubber Stampede's "Girl Play" silhouette image.

Additional embellishments are SU! Rubons, MS border punches, Webster's Pages trims, Recollections Trims, and Basic Grey paper doilies.

This is being posted over on SCS for today's Technique Lovers Challenge hosted by the lovely, talented and sweetheart friend Joan (aka Stamping with a Passion).

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

So Outrageous!

Hello Friends!

Hope your weekend was fun and productive!!  I had much on my plate, but here it is 1:00 a.m. and I'm happy to say pretty much everything was accomplished!

Since it is "Anything Goes" over on the Woodware USA Blog this week, I created an outrageous Valentine Card!!  I used the WWUSA sentiment from the "All Through The Year" set and some awesome new "Swirls" Woodware Peel-Offs that I got in the mail last week to play with  (yay!!  Peel Offs!).

The heart-shaped part of the card was made with Cricut "Cindy Lou" cartridge and then embellished with many pearls, flowers, the peel offs and a bow.  I mounted the embellished, shaped panel onto a Chocolate Chip card base that I embossed using SUs! Framed Tulips EF.  The DP on this card and crocheted flowers are also SU! 

Hurry over to the Woodware USA Blog and submit your Challenge Card entree to be entered into the drawing at the end of the month for a free stamp set!! 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Red, Pink, White

Hello Everyone!

I made this card is for the Woodware Challenge this week: Red Pink and White cards are on the roll call for today!  Join the challenge for a chance to win a WWUSA stamp set!  Head over to the WWUSA Blog for all the details!!

 Today I used my WWUSA "Tulips" set, I think these are poppies...?

The flower image was stamped with Versamark onto Crumb Cake CS and heat embossed with Zing White EP.  I colored it in using Copics, then added Crystal Laquer to the red blossoms. 

I used my Circle and Scalloped Circle Nesties and an oval and oval scallop punch to create the layers.  The background paper is Basic Grey, the sentiment is SU! "Well Scripted".


Stop by the WWUSA Blog and check out the rest of the talented team's challenge cards!! 

NEWS TO SHARE!  Woodware has just released it's Woodware Spring 2011 Collection - 22 new designs!  See them at this link: Spring 2011.  Also new is the first launch of Jennifer Garant's new line of clear stamps. See the additional 8 new sets now at this link: Jennifer Garant.  

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Quilted Card

 Hi All,

Now this was fun!!  This week's Featured Stamper over on SCS is Tracy, aka "Whoistracy".  I was drawn to all her quilt cards and decided to give it a try.  I chose her "Quilted Books" card to case.

I picked up this Sizzix Westminster 1-1/2" Hexagons die at the last scrapbook convention I was at and never really did much with it.  Now I know what to do with it!  It made doing this card really fast!

I used scraps of DP I had from the Basic Grey "Capella" 6x6 paper pack and stacked them onto the die (it was 6 different designs) all at once and ran them through.  I glued them randomly down onto some copy paper, then cut it down to a 4x5-1/4" panel for my card.  I added texture to it with an EF (click on the pic for close-up).

I stamped the pitcher from "Studio Sketches" onto vanilla CS and lightly highlighted it with Copics.  Distressed the card base and the image with THoltz Vintage Paper ink, then assembled the card using Tracy's sketch.






Super fast with the help of the Sizzix die and Tracy's awesome design!  Congrats and thanks to Tracy!!
TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Monochromatic Birthday

Hi Everyone,

Here's a card I just finished up for a Frantic Stamper post.  Sometime this month (I never know when) it will be posted on the Frantic Blog, so meanwhile, I thought I'd share it here before I forget!

I used an Adirondak White Acrylic Paint dauber to achieve a white background on half of the Crumb Cake CS.  I heat dried the paint and then stamped the Penny Black image called "Letters and Flowers" over it.  Layered it onto Espresso and White CS and tied it off with Silk ribbon.  I added a sentiment by Inkadinkadoo, dotted the scalloped oval with a white gel pen, attached it and finally, I just added a couple of stick pins.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Cards for All Occassions!

Hi All,

Had one of those itches today that just had to be scratched, and poof!  Out came 4 new cards.  Actually one I started yesterday for a challenge, then I needed to make a belated birthday card, and so while I was at it, I made a couple more for some other challenges.  Why not.. ya?   So here's what I got:


For the inaugural Do You Stack Up Challenge - Buttons
and Stamp Fairy - Layers and Buttons

Cosmo Cricut papers, die cuts.  SU Crumb Cake CS, "Favorite Peeps by A Muse stamps

For the Crafty Cardmakers - Use red and a die cut (almost the same as above card):

Cosmo Cricut papers, die cuts.  SU Crumb Cake CS, "Favorite Peeps by A Muse stamps

My belated Birthday card (are you seeing the sketch pattern here!) for the Paper Sundaes - Circles challenge:

Basic Grey "Max and Whiskers" papers and die cuts, SU Crumb Cake CS, sentiment by Stamp La Jolla

And finally, the card I started this weekend and finished tonight for the Flourishes Colors of Love Challenge.  I had to wait for the Crystal Effects to dry before photographing so that's why it took two days.

Variety of pinks, red, white CS, "Large Spring Tea Kettles" by Whipper Snapper, mini red tin roses by Making Memories, Crystal Effects, mini half-back pearls by Recollections

Thanks for checking out my blog today!!  I really truly am so glad you stopped by!

Woodware Challenge -- Hearts!

This week's Woodware USA Challenge is "Hearts".  I could have used a heart stamp but I decided to keep playing with my "Jewel Garden" set that I had out, and that I just happen to "love" (!!),  so I ended up making this card.

I created a heart mask from copy paper with scissors, free-form.  You remember, from grade school, you fold the paper in half, cut out a half heart...

Then you open it up and you have a whole - heart shaped - hole!

Next I taped a 4-1/2" x 3-1/2" piece of white card stock over the hole.

I stippled PTI Berry Sorbet Hybrid Ink around the entire edge of the heart shape.  (Could also use a sponge, but I tend to favor a brush.)

Once I was happy with my stippling, I stamped several of the images from the Jewel Garden set over the stippled heart area with black ink, but I didn't completely cover it.

This is what it looked like when I lifted the mask off.  Then I proceeded to color in the image with copics.  Next I stamped the "With Love" sentiment from the WWUSA Set "Jane's Script" in the center of the heart.

Finally, I used added a little bit of sparkle using my Sakura Quckie Glue pen and Crystal Glitter from Stampendous.  (Sorry this photo doesn't capture it so well, but it's sparkly, I promise!)




I matted the finished image onto Black, Pale Plum, and Rich Razzleberry cardstock. I rescued a MS Hearts Border panel that I had discarded and added it to the layering. Finally, I embellished it with some Primas that the sweetheart queen Piali sent me and added some half back pearls in between the hearts around the border

Come join the Challenge!!  Create a card using "Hearts" and post it over on the WWUSA Blog for all of us to see!!  At the end of the month, all the entries are pooled and someone will win a Woodware USA set.  If you use WWUSA stamps in your project, your name will be entered into the drawing twice for your card!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Inspiration Challenge!

Hello Friends!

I'm filling in for Stephanie as host of the IC over on SCS.   Hope you'll get a chance to play along!  The inspiration web store is "Stephen Joseph Gifts".  Just browse the store and if an item inspires you, either the design, colors, theme, etc., to make a card, then by all means, give it a go!!  It's always fun to see what kind of cards those store items turn into!

I chose this little quilted purse as my inspiration piece.  I liked the colors and the basic layout design of the purse so that's how I set out to create my card.

Very simple design; a punched flower border with some rhinestones from HL and my favorite Woodware USA stamp set called "Get Well Soon", stamped onto white CS, colored in with Copics, then fussy cut the image out and adhered it to the green panel.  The sentiment was stamped last and it is also a WWUSA stamp from the "Mixed Greetings" set.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!