It's been a while...

Hello All! Sorry I've been away so long for those of you who check in on my projects! I haven't had a whole lot of stampin' mojo these days but I have been attempting to keep track of my projects that I do get to! Today I am posting a couple of projects from last week. The first is the card I made for my dear friend, Miss Ashley for her baby shower. She is due at the end of May and is having a girl! Her shower was great fun, and I must say that she and her sister, Allison, are the BEST gift opening team ever! It was the quickest unwrapping I have ever witnesses! I may have to hire them for our family events ;) Anyway, the card is on a rusty red, textured base. The next layer is white, embossed with Versa mark and white embossing powder umbrellas from a SU set. I cut a small, SU Bashful Blue rectangle and then a smaller floral print paper next. I wrapped organdy ribbon and tied in a knot. I used white cardstock to stamp in blue "your shower" and set it into a metal book plate and attached it to the cardstock using gemstone brads.

The next image is one of the Thank You cards I made as a gift for Ashley. Her theme is "love bug" from Babies R Us, so I went with a cute little bug theme. I've found that a lot of people don't use the cards for what I made them for, so I made these less "baby" and more plain. I used blue cardstock as the base, then layered white cardstock which I CB embossed using the stylized flowers folder. Next I layered the same red color as the shower card and the floral print paper. I used the sheer ribbon as an accent. Then I punched small circles on white, and stamped the cute little SU ladybug holding a tulip. I colored her with markers and embellished her with 3d paint pens on the dots and the flower. I then punched scalloped circles and overlapped them in green and blue, and adhered the ladybug on top. I used 3d dots to adhere to the card. Thanks for bearing with all my chatter and stopping by today! I'll have more tomorrow :)

Cute Card Challenge

Hi All! Here is my submission for Cute Card Thursday's "Metallica" challenge! It's a crimped envelope card I tried off SCS tutorial. I sent it as a Valentine to my friend, Denise! I wanted to send her a nice little note and show off my new Giggling Tilda Magnolia! The technique is really easy with a super cute result! The first picture is the envelope and the second picture is the insert card for the note. I went with a pink, burgundy and off-white color scheme. Tilda was colored with a combination of markers and pencils. Thanks for checking it out!

Whiff of Joy Challenge

Hi All...I've been really under the weather the past few days and my creativity is lacking! I'm not thrilled with my post today, mainly due to the coloring. My hand apparently is not steady when I'm feeling yucky :( This is my submission for the Whiff of Joy Challenge Blog. It was a sketch. I used a WOJ image sent to me by my friend Denise, owner of Whimsy Stamps ( www.whimsystamps.com ) The sentiment is from the "For a Friend" SU set. I embellised with Prima flowers and buttons, stickles for the raindrops and Fiskars lace corner punch for the the photo corners. Thanks for looking :) I hope to be more on my game in the next few days!

Stamp Something Challenge

Hello all! Today I made a birthday card for my mom using the challenge idea from the Stamp Something Challenge blog. The challenge was to use a spring/summer theme. So I went with the Whimsy Stamps frog and used some bright, fun colors to make the card. I colored the frog with a water pen and markers, and some stickles on the eyes. I cut him out and used 3D foam squares to adhere him. It was also adorned with a swirly clip, olive ribbon, and some felt flowers with a button. Thanks for checking it out!

Snow Day :)

Today was a snowy, poor driving day. So, my business partner and I decided to reschedule our jobs and take the day off! I have done NOTHING useful all day, so to avoid the kitchen, I decided to get back to stamping. I made a Spring-like little girl's birthday card using my new stamp "Daisy" I bought from Funkykits. She is adorable...my coloring did not do her justice! I need some better colored markers. It seems I always need something! I used a decorative paper and used pink, yellow and green cardstocks, yellow ribbon, a yellow rhinestone and a pink heart shaped paperclip. I used a tag and stamped the sentiment on white and colored with markers. The corners are punched using a circle punch. This was not a challenge card, but a just for fun. Thanks for stopping by :)

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Hello...Here is a birthday card I made yesterday for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I used the Whimsy Stamps Polar Bear for the image. I used some designer paper in red white and blue paisley and coordinated my cardstock to match. The CB paisley folder and some flowers and jeweled brads perked up the design. I colored the bear with white ice stickles to make him pop. I used red organdy ribbon and a star ribbon folded into a bow. That's all for today!

Stamp Something and PTW Challenges

Hello...two posts in a day! I like to try to combine 2 challenges for an added challenge. Today I did the "Recipe Something" challenge on Stamp Something and I made it using the Papertake Weekly challenge sketch. I used a mocha colored base at 5.5". I then cut 3 strips. One in chocolate brown which I ran through the CB folder "Traffic Jam." The next two strips were a designer paper with a brown brick wall pattern which I cut in different directions. I cut a dark brown piece and a smaller white square which I drew lines in blue and red to resemble an index card. I then stamped that piece with SU So Sweet chocolate chips in SU close to cocoa. I wrote the recipe for Candy Bar Brownies in dark brown pen. I mimicked the look and stamped the sentiment using a mini alphabet set and framed it with a brown sueded frame. For the embellishments, I used a jumbo paper clip and stamped the chocolate saying and punched with the SU tag punch, set a brown eyelet then tied it with hemp twine. I stamped and cut out the chocolate cupcake and decorated it with ice stickles. I think that's all...LOL! Thanks for checking me out :)