Stamp Something!

Happy Friday!  Quick post today...too much to do!  Last minute, I find out a party is NOT canceled...UGH!!!  Anyway, the challenge at Stamp Something this week is a sketch!  We have a fabulous sponsor, Wags and Whiskers Stamps this week. They gave us each an image to work with.  Mine is Puppy Love!  I used some DCWV paper and lots of scrap cardstock pieces.  I threw on a couple of charms and sweet little flowers and VOILA!  I colored these sweet pups with watercolor pencils and a white gel pen.  Thanks for checking it out and please run to visit the rest of the FABULOUS DT!!!!  Happy Friday!



This card fits these challenges:

Pile it On:  Anything digital
Ildi Co:  Scrap metal (metal charms, all pieces were cut from my scrap bin)
PaperPlay:  Precious Metals
RainbowLady:  Recycle (scrap bin)
Digital Tuesday:  Valentine's Day
Spoon full of Sugar:  Hearts
ABC: L is for Layering

My Grafico Blog Hop!

It's a New Year and that means a new MyGrafico Challenges Design Team! And I am a NEW member! We are blog hopping twice this week and you have two chances to win the super cute digi set the teams are working with this week: Zenware Designs Circus! Whether you are hopping with us on Monday or Wednesday or even better, BOTH days, be sure to leave a comment at each designer's blog for a chance to win this entire set! One member of the DT (previously chosen) will be randomly selecting a winner from all comments left on her blog. Which designer? Well that's a secret so leave a comment on all of them so you don't miss out on a chance to win!  To view the prize, click HERE.

You can also win by playing along with this week's challenges! On Monday, Team A will be showing how they included the old (repurposed item) and the new (new item) into their artwork using the Circus set while Wednesday's Team B will be highlighting artwork based on the sketch of the week. Enter both challenges and double your chances to win!

If you have come here first, go back to MyGrafico and start at the beginning of the list.  If not, you should have come from Teri's blog. 

Now to finish the hop, please head on back to MyGrafico as I am the last stop on the Design Team!  Good luck, and thanks so much for playing along!

This card also fits challenges at:


Cupcake Craft: Baby card
Papertake Weekly:  New beginnings 
Paperplay:  New beginnings
Rainbow Lady:  New
3 Clovers: Celebration
Stampin' For the Weekend:  New beginnings
Daring Cardmakers: New beginnings
Secret Crafter: New beginnings
One Stop:  Something with a B (baby boy card, buttons)
Pile it On: #29 Anything Digital
Crafty Pad: some buttons

Whimsy Stamps New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to my turn on the hop!  Whimsy Stamps is doing a New Release Blog Hop!  If you've been hopping, you should have come from Erin's page.  If not, please start at Crissy's blog to begin!  We have a fantabulous prize which is the purpose of the hop...Whimsy's new releases! Not to mention all of the bonus pieces :)

My card is made using "Cool Ride" the winter carousel horse from the Crissy Armstrong collection. I colored it with watercolor pencils and glitter markers.  I then went over it with glitter gel pens for sparkle.  The papers, I really don't know the brand name, but the embellies are buttons, primas, spacers, ribbon and a rhinestone.  I also used a snow marker and 3D glitter pens to make the trim on the horse's cape.

Your next stop on the hop is STACEY's blog.  Please hurry on over and keep hopping!  Have fun and good luck!

This card fits these challenges:

Cute Card:  Sketch
Crafty Pad: Some buttons (snowflakes are buttons)
Pile it On:  Anything digital (image) and Crystal (rhinestone center of flowers)
Corrosive: 2 favorite embellies (Primas and Buttons)
Inky Impressions:  Glitter, embossing or flocking
Creative Card Crew:  Anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers:  Favorites (fave embellies)


Thanks for looking!

Challenge time!

Happy Friday and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a super holiday season!  Back to work with all of the challenges now :)  Hopefully, I will have more time to participate in all of these challenges.  So today is a new challenge at Stamp Something!  The challenge is "New Somethings."  Use something new in your stash to create your project!  Our sponsor this week is KLM Designs. 

"KLM Digi Stamps (KLM Designs) was started by a Mother & Daughter team. Kathryn
(owner of KLM Digi Stamps) and Sue (Company's artist) started designing digi
stamps for their own creations. After much response & excitement to their
designs they formed KLM Digi Stamps.


KLM carry's a large selection of designs from clowns, which are the company's
signature design to digi sentiments. All images are delivered ZIP format. Each
image file contains JPEG and PNG format files. Images can be resized, reversed
and altered to your likings."

Winner will receive 3 images of her choice.

I went with the Young Cowboy image which I think is too cute!  I colored him with watercolor pencils and a white gel pen.  The "badge" is a gold star button I found in my stash.  I used new papers to set up the layout.  I went with a new job theme...wish you luck!  Please check out the rest of the DT...we have a new team and they are AMAZING!!! 

These are the challenges I touched on:


Cute Card Thursday:  Sketch
Crafty Creations:  Glitter and Bling New Years (new job, new year theme)
Paperplay:  New beginnings
Daring Cardmakers: New beginnings
Stampin' For the Weekend:  New beginnings

Thanks for stopping by and Happy 2010!

Crazy 4 Challenges!

Hi again!  I have another card to post!  I've been wanting to get some stamping done but time has not been on my side until now!  So here's another...I want in on the prize for Crazy 4 Challenges this week...because as you know, I LOVE GF stamps!!!  Here's Edward.  I colored him with watercolor pencils and a white gel pen.  The paper is BG.  The sentiment is from SU.  The sketch is from Crazy 4 Challenges and the other part of the challenge is "non holiday."  This card also fits CRAFT's thank you challenge,  and Crafty Cardmaker's "favorites" challenge.  Greeting Farm are my favorite stamps and distressing is one of my favorite techniques!  So that's all!  Thanks for coming by again :)   Hope to see you again real soon!

Babysitting project

Hi there again!  I just wanted to post a little project I did with the kids I babysit for.  We made snowglobes out of Polar fruit jars.  I stamped the images the kids chose with Stazon on acetate.  They colored them with Sharpie markers and cut out the images.  We filled the jars with baby oil and each child chose the glitter colors they wanted.  We glued the images in two of them and let them free float in the other two.  Then the kids chose the ribbons they wanted to decorate the outsides of the jars.  I hot glued and superglued the lids shut and then hotglued the ribbon around the lids and the tops of the jars.  The kids are ages 1, 2, 6 and 8. I can honestly say, I have NEVER seen kids so excited about a project before!  They had a blast and were so proud :)  It's times like this I miss being a toddler teacher!  Thanks for looking! 

Anyone for Anya?

Hello and Welcome!  Today I have a card I made for the Anyone for Anya challenge.  It was a sketch challenge.  I used my new Dress Me Anya stamp.  The papers are DCWV.  The sentiment is from SU's "Noteworthy" set.  I love the colors of this!  I colored Anya with watercolor pencils.  This card also fits challenges at:

Anyone for Anya: Sketch
Charisma Cardz:  Anything but Christmas
Creative Card Crew:  Anything goes
Crafty Creations:  No rules
Inky Impressions:  Embossing, glitter

That's it for now :)  Thanks for stopping by!