Friday Sketchers #63 ~ My Week to Host

Happy Friday Everyone! This week it is my turn to host the Friday Sketchers Challenge. I prepared a really simple sketch, there is a fab prize from Simon Says Stamp and I hope you will get the chance to give it a go!

I have used another of the new Whiff of Joy Party Animal stamps. This one is called Fred Celebrating Elephant and I think he is just too cute! I really love elephants so this stamp was a joy to color. I used Copics to color the elephant in and then I took an old piece of terry-cloth with some blender solution on it and just dabbed at the image. You can see how it created that very fun textured look. I then added some Twinkling H20s to the elephant and the background. I just love the effect that it gives.

Stamps: Whiff of Joy Alison Acton Animal Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: SU Soft Sky, Green Tea DP (both retired)

Coloring: Copic markers, Twinkling H20s

Embellies: SU Felt Flowers & Ribbon, Craft Secrets Adhesive Gems & Pearls

Here is my sketch:

The rest of the FS team have created such fabulous cards. You can see them all over at the FS challenge and if you want added info you can visit their individual blogs!

Have a great weekend and thank you so much for stopping by!

Birthday Bear ~ Stamp with Fun Challenge

Happy Thursday Everyone! I have another card to show you featuring one of Whiff of Joy’s newly released Party Animal stamps. This cutie is called Bruno with Cake and I just love him to bits. What an adorable little face. I paired him up with this fun sentiment that is also from Whiff of Joy. I water-colored Bruno and also added some H20s to make him really festive! I am entering this card into the Stamp with Fun challenge which is use pearls. Hmmm…..I just happened to have a few lying around. LOL!

• Stamps: Whiff of Joy Bruno with Cake, Party Animal Sentiment
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU Pink Pirouette, Basic Grey Porcelain
• Coloring: Distress Ink, Tombow Markers, Twinkling H20s
• Embellies: Craft Secrets Pearls, Papertrey Sweet Blush Ribbon, SU Chocolate Chip Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by. Have a super day and I will be back tomorrow with my DT card for Friday Sketchers.

Sweet ‘n Sassy Blog Hop Day 1

It is the first day of the Sweet ‘n Sassy Blog Hop! If you didn’t arrive here from Belinda’s blog, then head on over to the SNSS blog and start the hop from the beginning!

Our theme for the hop is “Wild Things”. I have used the very sweet set “Baby Blessings” to create a new baby card. For a change of pace, I water-colored my images. It gives such a soft effect and I thought it would suit the card. I did use my air-brush system to color the sentiment.

Here is the front: and here is the inside:

I also have my card for this week’s Sweet Stop to show you. The set I have used for this card is “Penguin Hugs”. Once again I water-colored the image.

Sweet ‘n Sassy is having a huge sale at the moment and there is still time to take advantage of the Christmas in July sale on stamps!

Now the next stop on the hop is Lisa! Have fun hopping!

Whiff of Joy & a Little Surprise

Whoo Hoo! The Whiff of Joy Blog Hop was sensational! The DT went all out and their creations are just stunning! I am entering this card for Cute Card Thursday where the challenge is to use eyelets on your card.

I had so many kind and thoughtful comments on my blog, so guess what? I have a little surprise for one of you. I am giving away a brand new stamp featuring Niki Celebrating Racoon:

I used Random Generator to pick a number from all the comments that you left yesterday. I don’t think I ever had so many in such a short period of time!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

158 

Timestamp: 2009-07-26 16:52:21 UTC

Which is Dawn from http://dipstamping.blogspot.com/

Congrats Dawn! Please contact me to give my your mailing information so I can get cute little Niki sent off to you!

This is just a short post. We are celebrating my youngest’s birthday today. He is indeed getting a HUGE ice-cream cake as per his request. My hubbie has just gone to pick it up. The house is decorated with balloons and the sun is shining! It is time to PARTY! See you tomorrow!

Whiff of Joy Blog Hop

Welcome to the Anniversary Blog Hop sponsored by Whiff of Joy Stamps! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Katharina's Blog.

Here is my card using the brand new Whiff of Joy stamps illustrated by the very talented Alison Acton. It has been hard to keep these under-wraps! I decided to create a step-fold card so that I could show-case more than one of these little cuties! The tutorial can be found here.

I actually made this card for my youngest son who turns 4 tomorrow. Talk about perfect timing. He loves animals and can imitate most of their sounds quite well! I know he will love this happy and colorful card. He is so funny. If you ask him how old he will be turning, he says 8 (that is how old my middle son is) and if you ask him what he wants for his birthday…….well it is CAKE! Not just any cake mind you, he wants an ice-cream cake!

• Stamps: Whiff of Joy Alison Acton Animal stamps available TODAY, Party Animals Sentiment
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Wild Wasabi
• Paper: SU Wild Wasabi
• Coloring: Copic Markers, Sponging- SU Wild Wasabi
• Embellies: Papertrey Gingham ribbon

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Rach’s blog to see her fabulous creation. Have a great day and Happy Hopping! Hope to see you at our group at Paper Craft Planet for some serious fun, prizes and chatting! Also as you continue the hop, look out for some prizes along the way!

Sketch Saturday Week # 61

Hi Everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Here is my card for this week’s Sketch Saturday Challenge. If you have already been to our challenge site you will see that 3 of us chose to use the exact same image this week! Go figure!

It really is the sweetest little image don’t you think. It is another of the sweet Swiss Pixies and her name is Heidi. It is so much fun to color. I find these ATS stamps hard to resist.

• Stamps: CC Designs Swiss Pixie Heidi available from All That Scraps, Sentiment from Whiff of Joy
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU Baja Breeze, Wild Wasbi, Green Tea DP
• Coloring: Copic Markers, Shimmerz Angel Wings
• Embellies: Papertrey Ribbon, Butterfly charm from my friend Katharina :)

Please stop by my fellow DT to see the gorgeous creations they have to share! I hope you will get the chance to play along we have a wonderful prize from the Craft Barn. You can find all details here.

I will have a second posting later today to show you a card I made with the newest WOJ release! So stop by a little later on because the WOJ Anniversary Blog Hop and Party is today starting at 2:00 pm EST. You’ll have to do the math to figure out what that is your time! LOL! Hope to also see you at our group at Paper Craft Planet for some serious fun, prizes and chatting!

Friday Sketchers Week #62

Happy Friday Everyone! Hope you have all had a great week and I hope your weekend will be fun and relaxing! Here is my card for this week’s Friday Sketchers. This week it is the wonderful & sweet Jacque who is hosting the challenge and who has designed a wonderful sketch for us all to use. We have a fantastic prize being offered by Shimmerz! This stuff is fantastic, easy to use and adds a bit of glamour to any project!

For my card, I decided to pull out my Prisma pencils & OMS to color in my image. It takes more time than using my Copics but I like the delicate and soft look. I also was afraid that I’d lose my touch with them since I am using my Copics most of the time. I used my new Spellbinder’s Fleur de Lis pendant die. I air-brushed the bottom pendant to soften the look a little. I adhered my pendants with dimensional tape. It really changes the look quite dramatically than if you just adhere them flat to each other.

• Stamps: Whiff of Joy: Guardian Angel Spring 2009 Collection
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: Papertrey Plum Pudding, SU Whisper White
• Coloring: Prismacolors & OMS, Twinkling H20s
• Embellies: Papertrey Plum ribbon, K&Co Adhesive Gems

For inspiration, check out my fellow DT’s creations at the Friday Sketchers Challenge and I hope that you get the chance to enter! We love seeing your gorgeous creations!

Don’t forget that tomorrow is the Whiff of Joy blog hop. You can find all the information in the link in my side-bar. Hope to see you at the chat forum!

The Sweet Stop #13

Hi Everyone! Had a bit of a late start to my day. I actually slept past 8:00 am this morning! Felt great but then it was a mad rush to get my son’s lunch ready and get him over to Sailing Camp!

Today I have my card for this week’s Sweet Stop to show you. This week there is a spin (Christmas) and a prize! I also wanted to let you know that Sweet ‘n Sassy is having a Christmas in July Sale. You can save 15% on Christmas stamps plus get some free digital ones. All the details can be found here.

For my card today, I paired up the Owl Occasions set with the Christmas Owl Add-ons set. I colored the images with my Copic Markers and added a little fun flock to the hat brim. The papers are from my scrap drawer and I believe they are Basic Grey.

That’s it for me. I have a lot to get done today and I am running way behind! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Water Baby Edwin

Hi Everyone! This is a card that I made for my oldest son. This Summer he asked if he could be enrolled in the Summer Nautical Camp so that he could learn to sail. He loves the water. I always call him my “water-baby”. He is just loving it. We drop him off at 9:30 am and he finishes at 4:30 pm. I miss him (so do his brothers) the days that he is gone but he is so excited and happy that it is worth it. So when I saw this Edwin with the wetsuit and little board, I thought I could create a little “scene” card for my son. In all, I have used 4 stamps. The fence and Edwin are from this years Summer Kit and the reeds and cloud are from last year’s collections. The cloud stamp also has a bench and flowers but I just didn’t ink that portion of the stamp. So I did a lot of masking and coloring but I am really happy with the way that it turned out. I am entering this card in the Magnolia-licious challenge which is to create a card using Edwin.

Here is a better shot to see the shimmer from the Atyou Spica pens that I used:

• Stamps: Magnolia Summer 2008 & 2009 Collections
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi
• Coloring: Copic Markers & Airbrushing, Atyou Spica Glitter Pens
• Embellies: SU Hemp Twine

I can’t wait to give this to him! It was so much fun creating it for him.

Hope you have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

Whiff of Joy Anniversary Blog Hop & Party

Whiff of Joy is celebrating its First Anniversary this coming Saturday with a Blog Hop that starts at Katharina’s blog and ends at the WoJ group at Paper Craft Planet! I can’t wait! I love parties and chatting!  Of course there will be lots of prizes and both illustrators, Elisabeth & Alison will be there to answer all our questions! I hope you can meet us there….mark it down on your calenders. You REALLY don’t want to miss this!

All the information can be found in this PDF file below. Just click on it!

WoJAnniversaryBlogHop_info.pdf

Showers of Blessings

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Good-morning Everyone! I wanted to show you this card that I made using the new digi image from Sweet ‘n Sassy. I feel in love with it this image when I saw it and I thought it would be perfect for paper piecing. I printed the image out 4 times and colored them, cut the various parts out and layered them. The bottom layer I cut with an oval nestie die and airbrushed it with B00 & BG000. You can see the layers a little better in these shots:

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I received my new Spellbinders pendant dies on Friday and of course, they didn’t stay in the packaging very long! They are gorgeous and I am going to be playing with them a lot. I layered theses as well, using foam dimensionals to create different heights. I am entering this card for the Stamp with Fun challenge which is to use shapes or punches.

• Stamps: Sweet ‘n Sassy: Digi-Image Showers of Blessings
• Ink: Printer Inkjet
• Paper: SU Baja Breeze, Retired DP
• Coloring: Copic Markers, Twinkling H20s
• Embellies: SU Ribbon

Have a wonderful day. We are going out again for another BBQ – this time at my sister’s house. It looks like the weather will be perfect and my kids are already bugging me to know when they are going to see their cousins!

Totally Spoiled

Yes, I am going to have to admit that I am totally spoiled. I just had to share the gorgeous cards that my lovely blogging buddies sent me for my birthday! All these stunning cards are displayed in my craft room so I hope some of their magic rubs off on me!

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Sketch Saturday Week # 60

Happy Saturday! I just love weekends! I have my card for this week’s Sketch Saturday to show you. I just had such a fun time creating this card. The curved shape is such a great look!

We are being sponsored once again by the lovely Emma Lockley.

I used another of my new Tildas from the Summer Kit. Isn’t she just adorable? I paired her up with this yummy MME paper and some SU Designer paper. I just love these colors together.

• Stamps: Magnolia Summer Kit
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU Wild Wasabi, My Minds Eye Bloom & Grow
• Coloring: Copic Markers
• Embellies: SU Ribbon, Hero Arts Gemstones

Here is Jo’s wonderful sketch and I really hope you get a chance to play along this week. You should check out my fellow DT’s creations for some brilliant inspiration!

Friday Sketchers Week # 61

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Happy Friday Everyone! This week Friday Sketchers is being hosted by my friend Jacqueline and she has a sketch that will surely inspire you. As you can see, I myself got a little carried away and I used the partial circle shape to create a pocket where I could tuck a little bookmark into! These images are the ones from the new Summer Kit. I just love them paired up together. The separate life preserver is from last Summer’s collection.

This week, Friday Sketchers is being sponsored by Ribbon Mad.

Stamps: Magnolia Summer Kit 2009, Small Life preserver from Summer 2008 Collection

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Stampin’ Up Red Riding Hood, Pink Pirouette, Candy Lane DP

Coloring: Copic Markers & Airbrushing

Embellies: PaperTrey Ribbon, SU Brads, Anchor Charm and Flower center from my sweet friend Katharina:)

My fellow DT have outdone themselves this week. If you haven’t already been over, you have to check out the Friday Sketcher’s blog!

Have a wonderful Saturday. We are going to a big BBQ tomorrow and another one on Sunday! I will soon be all partied out! Whew! Every year my birthday seems to go on for more and more days…but I am not complaining!

Sugarplum ~ A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge

Hi Everyone! Thank you to you all for your warm birthday wishes! I had a wonderful day and was completely spoiled by all my boys. The weather was phenomenal – probably the nicest day we have had all summer! I have received some gorgeous cards from my blogging buddies and I will get them posted for you to see soon.

I am so happy that I was able to join in the A Spoonful of Sugar challenge this week. It has been too long! I have followed the gorgeous sketch and used one of my new SugarPlums from All That Scraps. I cannot resist these little cuties!

• Stamps: from SugarPlums Sunglasses Emma All That Scraps
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper” SU Red Riding Hood, Retired DP
• Coloring: Copic Markers & Airbrushing
• Embellies: SU Ribbon, Hero Arts Gemstones, ATS Flowers

Sweet Stop #12

Hi everyone! We are back from our little vacation and we had a wonderful time. My card for this week’s Sweet Stop reflects perfectly our time away. The boys chased dragonflies and caught frogs at the edge of the lake. It was just so nice to be together and enjoy some downtime.

• Stamps: Sweet ‘n Sassy Pond Pals
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, Retired DP
• Coloring: Copic Markers, Airbrushing
• Embellies: SU Ribbon, Stickles

You can see more cards by the DT at the Sweet Stop and I hope you have a chance to give the sketch a try this week!

I will be spending some time getting re-organized and hope to be back in my craft room creating and doing some blog hopping.

Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!

Sketch Saturday Week #59

Hi Everyone! It is the week-end! Yippee! Here is my card for Sketch Saturday. What a great sketch that Jo has created for us! We are being sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

Stamps: Whiff of Joy Women’s Delight Collection – Pregnant Willow

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Stampin’ Up Black, Papertrey Lavender Moon, Basic Grey Bittersweet DP

Coloring: Copic Markers

Embellies: Papertrey Ribbon, K&Co Gemstones

Friday Sketchers #60

Happy Friday! This week Friday Sketchers is being hosted by my sweet friend Heidi. She has created a really wonderful sketch for us all to follow.  We are being sponsored by Motivet Stamps. They have the most adorable little animal characters! I really hope you can join us this week.

When I first say this sweet new Tilda and birdcage from the new Pet Collection, I immediately thought of this paper from the Basic Grey Porcelain pad. What a perfect match! I went all pink today and I love the girly-girly look of this card. The frame is from a collection last year. My friend Claudia used it a while back on a card and I just loved it and “had” to buy it! I think I will use it often as it is such a nice little frame for Tilda! I colored the edges of the frame as well as the wires of the bird-cage with my Sakura star dust pen. I took a picture from a different angle so you can see the shimmer better.

• Stamps: Magnolia Pet Collection 2009, Frame 2008 Autumn Collection
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: Papertrey & Basic Grey Porcelain
• Coloring: Copic Markers
• Embellies: Hero Arts Gemstones, Papertrey ribbon

We are going off on a mini-vacation to celebrate our birthdays (3 of us are in July – my hubbie, myself and the little one).  I will be scheduling my post for tomorrow’s Sketch Saturday. I have been having issues with it not working so if it doesn’t post I will manually post it when we get back. Have a great week-end!