WSC25, Sleighbells

This is for Beate's weekend sketch challenge, it is a Z-fold card (this is also a Technique Junkies technique). These cards are very fast and easy!

I stamped Sleigh Bells and Holidays & Wishes sentiment in Blue Bayou on Very Vanilla cs, sponged around each in Chocolate Chip, mounted on Blue Bayou cs which is then mounted on River Rock cs. Spotlight image is stamped in Blue Bayou also and on Very Vanilla cs, colored in with Stampin Up! markers, snow is covered in Dazzling Diamonds and mounted on Blue Bayou cs. Chocolate Chip cs is stamped on one section with a misc. crackle bg stamp. Sentiment is attached to Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon with antique brads. River Rock photo corners (punched with photo corner punch) are attached with antique brads. Oh yes, and the antique photo holder on the top corner.

Double Pocket card - I Like Your Style

Here is my card for Deb. It is a double Pocket card from the Oct./Nov. '07 issue of Technique Junkies. This card was so fast, fun & easy to create!! I used Primas & antique brads, I Like Your Style stamp set, double sided paper by Chatter Box, Vintage Violet & WW cs and I colored the yellow flowers on the book mark with a Copic marker. Oh yeah, the round tab punch with the Totally Tabs on the one book mark. Thanks for looking and comments are always appreciated!!!

Card from Deb Lovett

Deb Lovett sent me this beautiful card. She used the Vaseline Resist technique from the Oct 07 issue of Technique Junkies newsletter. For more info regarding the TJ Newsletter go to http://www.techniquejunkies.com/ .

Thanks Deb!!!

SC147 Jolliest Christmas Tree

This picture tuned out yucky, but the card is soooo cute! This is for the Sketch Challenge for today (how do like that I am actually on time!!). I love this striped paper from the Wintergreen DP pack. I colored the Tree (from Jolliest Time of the Year) with Copics and used Red Glass beads for the ornaments. My tree was too small, so I made 2 and stacked one on top to make it taller. I used Antique Brads in the Always Artichoke Photo Corners. The card is mounted on Basic Gray cs (told you I love Basic Gray). Sentiment is stamped in Basic Gray. Thanks for looking!

CC137 Jolliest Santa

I love my Copics, I love my Copics, I love my Copics, I love my Copics!!!!!! I finally decided to got some Copics from Eclectic Paperie. These gals are amazing and wonderful! Customer service is way above and beyond!!!!! I highly recommend them to everyone! Joy & Daisy Rock!!!

Ok, back to business...I love this Jolliest Time of the Year stamp set!!!! This card is for the Color Challenge yesterday (Basic Gray, Purely Pomegranate & Soft Sky). I really like these colors together! I used basic gray for a challenge last week and now I can't get enough of it! Love that color! I'm learning that I don't like things flat, I need texture and layers. This card still seems "flat" to me, but I like it...maybe I'll add some breads to the bottom corner....hmmmmm!

Anyway, I colored Santa with my Copics (did I mention that I love these babies?!!?). Santa's white fur and the "snowdrifts are covered in Dazzling Diamonds. I stamped both pieces of the Soft Sky cs with Canvas BG with Soft Sky ink.

WSC24 Jolliest Snowman

This is for Beate's sketch challenge. I have been making so many Halloween cards lately that this was a very nice break! I love this snowman, he is sooo cute and just begging for some Dazzling Diamonds all over him! I also really like the SU's Wintergreen DP. For the deets...Jolliest Time of the Year, Warmest Regards, Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp sets; Basic Gray, Sage Shadow and WW cs's and Wintergreen DP; Basic Gray ink, Silver brads & Dazzling Diamonds. I colored Mr. Jolly with Prisma's and used Gamsol to blend and mute colors.

Autumn Apparitions File Folder card

This card is for another SU! monthly swap I am in! I love this file folder card!!! So different! I embossed almost everything, because it looked too dull otherwise. This card was alot of fun to make!!! Luckily I get to make 4 more!! A few of you know about the horrible last 24 hours I've had...stamping is such great therapy!! Hope you like the card, have a great weekend! and now I am off to the Florida Keys!!!

Autumn Aparitions Criss Cross card

My first meeting as a demo is this weekend...and I won't be able to go. I'm so bummed! But I will be participating in the swap they are doing...here is my contribution. I love Autumn Aparitions and I love this Criss Cross card, my DP finally came yesterday so today I got to play!! All suppllies by Stampin Up! Autumn Aparitions, Party Punch & Batty for You stamp sets; Basic Black and Very Vanilla CS, Pumpkin Pie DP; Black Stazon, Black Craft & Pumpkin Pie inks; Basic Black Ribbon, black ep, Round Tab, Scallop Circle and circle punches. TFL!!!

Bella Calendar Swap

I am finally hostessing my FIRST swap! I am so very excited, it is a Bella Calendar Swap. If you are interested in joining leave me a comment on this post with your email addy and I'll get right back to you!

Bella Hugs!!

Bella Babe Challenge

Thank you to Miss Katie for starting off the Bella Babe Sketch Challenge!! Here is my entry! Can you see the flower brads in her basket? And yes those are Bella Baubles in the middle of the Primas. I had a hard time being creative for this one, but I loved using the baubles! My order comes in today so, hopefully I will get some serious cardmaking & posting done!!!

Gift Set

I made this cute little gift set for a gift for someone. I love it!! The card is a Triangular Trifold card (tutorial by the brilliant, Beate Johns). The boxes I got the pattern for at an Open House at my Uplines house (thanks, Ruth). Now, my fishy set gets to hibernate for a bit - Good Night fishy's).

Yes, more fishys

I love this card! I started CASE-ing this beautiful card from Kathie McGuire, but I didn't have the same punches, and then my stars were bigger than her scalloped circles...to make a long story short, the original idea for this card was hers, but I had to make a few changes Hope you like! The open space is for some kind of sentiment...I just made the card because I loved it, have no idea who or what it's gonna be for yet.

Thanks for looking! Oh yeah, if you think I'm on a Fishy-fling, just wait til you see what I post tomorrow!!!!!

Here fishy, fishy, fishy...

I just love this Fishy Friends set!! And so far Burnished Watercolors is one of my absolute favorite techniques (Technique Junkies August `07). This was made for a swap I am doing. Hope you like!!!

Silly Fish for Victoria Enmon

This is a card I made for Victoria Enmon. Victoria is a young girl with cancer, her teacher is trying to get cards mailed to Victoria from all over the US. To learn more about Victoria or to see how you can send a card to go to http://createdbycourtney.blogspot.com/

I used the Sketch Challenge for today for this card. I love this Fishy set and I finally got to use my PearlEx!!!!

Recipe: Stamps: Fishy Friends by SU!, sentiment by StudioG; Paper: Taken with Teal, Sage Shadow and WW; Ink: Black Stazon & Chocolate Chip & Versamark; Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, PearlEx, Luminere, Ribbon by EK Success, clear embossing powder & CB Embossing folder. Thanks for Looking!!!

Time to play...

"All stamping images, and no coloring makes Tangii a dull Bella!!!!". I stamped over 200 images this weekend for my Bella Sistahs...after all that, it was time for me to play! I had some scraps left over from a card class (given to me from an SU! Demo friend of mine), so I decided to see what I could make. Cresta & Tracy also inspired me with 2 super cute cards they sent me. The picture isn't as pretty as she is sitting here on my desk. The green cs with all the layers on it lifts up like a flap, so you can put a sentiment or note under the flap (on the floral DP).

RECIPE: GardenBella by StampingBella, Itty Bitty Backgrounds by SU!, all paper by SU! True Thyme & Cranberry Crisp cs, not sure of the DP, Primas & flower brads by Making Memories, ribbon by SU!

Feeling "Creatively Challenged"!!

I'm not entirely sure what my problem was, but boy, was I "creatively challenged" the other day!! I just could not seem to get this card to work, everything I tried came out wrong...after several attempts this is my end result. I still think it's missing something (not sure what), but I think it is pretty! This went out to a Bella Sistah that made my day today! You'll know who you are when you open your mail!

RECIPE: stamps: GardenBella by StampingBella, sentiment by MSE; paper by SU!: So Saffron & WW cs, Petals & Paisley DP; Primas; Iridescent Ice by SU!. Coloring with my Prismas!

Ok, a new office means new pretties!!!

So I just HAD to make myself some beautiful file folders, and of course some beaded pens and certainly a holder for all those pens, and oh yeah, a note pad so I can write on something with those pretty, pretty pens!!! This was sooooo much fun, I really need to make some more. I think an altered clip board may be next!!!

SU Designer Papers, ribbon, some bling by MME, Primas & flower stamp (on ribbon) from Priceless by SU!

These were so much fun and turned out so pretty Victoria (the DD) is covering her notebooks for school (yup, she's a Senior!!).