Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Here is my card for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge.

Nichole's challenge was to use a sheet of paper that she designed. The paper was basically several square swatches from the "Father Knows Best" paper pack. We could use it in any way we chose. I picked my favorite pieces and used a 1 1/2" sqaure punch and punched out the sqaures and mounted them on Whisper White paper. The flowers are from the Garden of Life set (I LOVE these!!) I stamped them on white and then mounted on Close to Cocoa cs that was cut with my Nesties. The flower piece is popped up with pop dots. I also used the outline of the daisy flower with VersaMark and stamped it on the Close to Cocoa, just so it wasn't too plain. The sentiment is from the same set and I stamped half of it at a time and then used my Word Window punch to punch out both pieces, these are popped up with smaller pop dots. I apologize for the horribly quick post, there was an accident on the freeway and it took me for-ever to get home! If you love this card, I assure it is 100% because Nichole is amazing! (if you don't care for the card, then it is totally the "artists" fault, lol). Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by!!! You can go here to see the other Bloggers participating in this challenge and to vote for your favorites!! Voting is from 5 pm - 8 pm Pacific Time.

Bloggers Challenge

Wow, a day late and a dollar short!! Sorry I am a day late! Holy Snickerdoodles...wouldn't ya think the 11 shoebox swaps & 2 make n takes I did earlier today and Stamp Mania would have been enough? Ohhhhhh Nooooooo I just had to come home and make more (well, yeah the fact that I am late on this was a pretty good motivator :) ). This weeks challenge was to use chipboard...I particularly appreciated this challenge because I LOVE chipboard!!!!!!! I just never seem to use it!! This was a quick and simple card, but I kinda like it! I took two postage stamp style pices of Chipboard (from Stampin Up) and painted them white with some Making Memories paints. Those are Primas inside the boxes with Antique Brass brads popped up on Pop Dots. The sentiment is from Stampin Up!

Thanks for visiting, I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

My doorprize for Stamp Mania...

This is my door prize for Stamp Mania (which was today). If you are at all able to get down to Southern California for this event next year, I highly recommend it!!!! Jami, Joy & Emily host this SCS event and it is beyond fabulous!!! I had a great time! All the gals there were wonderful, the Shoebox swaps were great...it was an all around perfect day!!!!

So this was the door prize I made. I took a paint can and wrapped some Afternoon Tea Dp around it and then finished the edge with some yummy Stampin Up ribbon. I didn't decorate or stamp on the Dp because I figured whoever won it may want to customize it for whatever they decided to use it for. I tied double stitch ribbon in Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava and a misc brown on the handle. For the lid I used another piece of Afternoon Tea Dp and mounted it on some Chocolate Chip cs. I added a couple of Prima floweres with some varied brads. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things (I love this set, Twisted Sentiments). I filled my pail with am altered notebook, some clear little stamp sets, and, of course, some chocolates (yummy). I hope the winner of this likes it, I do!!

Thanks for stopping by...

Huggy Bellas for Kim

I made this card for Kim for keeping me from freaking out about Stamp Mania!! I was so stressed about getting my stuff done...thanks Kim!! This was just a quick flap fold card (my hubby even cut all the paper for this!!). Both stamps are from stamping bella.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Bloggers Challenge #42 - Triangle Box

This week's Bloggers Challenge was to make a triangle box, you can go here to get the directions for the pattern I used. Ok, so this is not one of my more creative projects, but it will serve a great purpose! When I saw this week's challenge a bunch of ideas came to mind, but when I started putting them together... well let's just say there are several unfinished versions of this box on my table (I will probably make more this weekend). I have been wanting some cute little something to hang on my monitor at work, and how perfect is this?!? For those of you who don't know, one of my favorite things to do, one thing that ALWAYS makes the world better (besides stamping); is to go for a drive, turn my radio up really, really loud...and then sing even louder! I know it sounds dumb, but I'm tellin' ya it can totally cure what ailes ya!! Enough of my ramblings, go and check out the other, much more talented girls in the Bloggers Challenge. There's a link on the left side of my blog. Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Friday!

Happy Birthday Gram'ma!

Tomorrow is Gram'ma's birthday! Every year for my whole life, as far back as I can remember, my Gramma has called me on my Birthday and sang to me...this is one of those memories that puts a huge grin on my face! I will not sing to her tomorrow, and if you've ever heard me sing you know why! Anyway, I got the "You Take the Cake" set from MFT recently, and thought Gramma's card would be perfect to ink it up for the first time!

Happpy Birthday, Gramma! You are amazing and wonderful and I love you to the moon!!! (and back!!)

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget tomorrow is Bloggers' Challenge day, and after a 3 week flake (I mean break), I am ready to jump in again! Happy Thursday all!

Another Garden Hanna

This Garden Hanna is just way to o fun to color!!!! I love when you get a stamp set and the ideas just start flowing!! I don't even know what I'm going to do with this card, but I really like it! Quick, simple card!! I used my Copics to color (of course, gotta love those Copics!!), yup, I even used some of the Copics that I won from Hanna (The wonderful Miss Kristi was giving away a Basic set and I won them. She asked for my address and BAM! they were here the next day!!!! She rocks! I highly encourage everyone to participate in her Release Day Challenges (on SCS, in the Member Forum). The 2 3D flowers on the bottom were from a present box I got from Tina Wilson (my awesome Sistah, from a Sistah Swap), thanks Tina!!

Thanks for stopping by & have an amazing rest of the week! Hope you stop by again soon! Comments are always welcom and greatly appreciated!!!

Gardner Hanna

This is Gardner Hanna, and she is my first Hanna set. She hasn't even been released yet! I'm not sure when she will be released, I got her from a store and Kristi told me that she started selling them to stores but it has not been released yet. Anyway, I love her and she is just too much fun to play with!! By the time I was able to play last night it was 11:00 pm and I was soo tired, so this was just a quick card I "threw" together because I was dieing to kink her up! I hope to be able to play more with her this weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Gardner Hanna Stamp set

Groovy Guava & Chocolate Chip cardstock, I don't remember who the DP is by.

Brilliance in Graphite Black, Copic markers

Espresso Baubles, Mellow Moss Taffeta ribbon & Buttons (both by Stampin Up!), misc. Twine

So Much...

Remember this set that SU! gave us at Regionals? I had no idea what to do with this set so I joined a swap on SCS for it! I rather like this card and all the stamped images on it are from Stampin Up's "So Much" set. I stamped the doodle looking circle on Bashful Blue cs in Night of Navy ink as a background design. I stamped the dotted circle with Bashful Blue on Very Vanilla cs, then matted it on Night of Navy cs. I stamped the flowers with White Stazon on Night of Navy cs and cut them out. There is an Antique Brass jumbo eyelet in the middle of the flowers with a piece of Bashful Blue Tafetta ribbon sticking out the middle. I used the photo corner punch with Night of Navy cs, and mounted the smaller piece on the larger piece and then decorated with three Antique Brass brads. "Thanks" is stamped in Night of Navy on Very Vanilla cs then punched with large oval punch and mounted on Night of Navy cs punched withe the Designer label punch. All supplies are Stampin Up! For a set I didn't really care for, I'm so glad now that I have it!!!

3x3 Note cards Challenge

There was a challenge on the Hanna SCS Member forum to make a 3x3 box and some note cards to go in it...I didn't have a Hanna set, but wanted to play along anyway. I used a Imaginesce clear stamp I got as a gift recently. This set of notecards will be for my Gramma, there are 2 each of the designs to the side. Thanks for stopping by!

BillybootaBella RAK card

Billyboot is one of my all time favorite Bellas!! She is so cute and so fun to dress up! The DP is from a huge pack I got at Costco awhile ago (shhh, this is the first I've used it ;) ). I hope the recipient of this card loves her as much as I do! Can I keep just one??? lol!

Supplies:

Stamps: Billybootabella and sentiment by Stamping Bella

Paper: Dp by My Minds Eye, Chocolate Chip and Old Olive cs

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Chocolate Chip by SU!

Accessories: Baubles by Stamping Bella, felt flowers from the Flower Fusion pack by SU!, Making Memories Pewter brad, Copic markers

HuggyBella RAK card

Yeah, my MOJO came home!!! I had such a great stamping weekend (not enough time and too many other things to do, but I was able to get somethings done :) ). Here is a HuggyBella RAK card I made. I found this paper at a LSS awhile back when I was taking one of my out of town girlfriends "around town". I loved it, and I really liked how this card turned out! Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great week!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Huggybellas by Stamping Bella
Paper: DP by Daisy Bucket, Certainly Celery & Groovy Guava cs by SU!
Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Groovy Guava
Accessories: Primas, Making Memories Pewter Brads (large and small), misc. brown ribbon, Copic markers

March Bella Babe contest

Here is my entry for a sketch challenge on the Bellaholics Yahoo group. This is PartygirlaBella and she is perfect for this sketch! This was also a perfect opportunity to play with my Cutie Pie DP from Stampin' Up! I've been sying to play with it!

I colored Miss Partygirl and her birthday bouquet in using my Copic markers (I love these markers!!!). I also went over a few of the balloons, the flower on her shirt and the cupcake frosting with my Spica Clear glitter pen (love these things too!...I sooooo need more colors of these!!). I ran the Certainly Celery cs piece through y Cuttlebug and then mounted it on Ruby Red cs. The "Happy Birthday" is from the So Many Scallops set from Stampin up, I used my circle punch to cut out the words in the middle. All supplies are Stampin Up! except for the Miss Partygirl herself and the markers/pens. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!!

Beate's WSC #38

Wow, I haven't done one of Beate's Weekend Sketch challenges since she started them back up again...I really miss these!!!!! Her blog link is to the left on my list of blogs, I highly recommend checking her blog out and participating in her challenges, they are loads of fun! This card is pretty simple, it is for my Daddy for his b-day (he's kind of a "no frills" kinda guy).

Supplies (all supplies are by Stampin Up!)

Stamps: Birthday Whimsey, So Many Scallops

Paper: Blue Bayou DP, Wild Wasabi & River Rock cs

Ink: Ruby Red, Blue Bayou

Accessories: Hodge Podge hardware, twine, scallop punch, Blue Bayou Double Stitched ribbon

Bloggers Challenge #37...

Anything but a Rectangle...that was this weeks challenge. I made the circle card last night, but wasn't very happy with it...it was missing something, so tonight I took it apart and put the scallops around the Chocolate Chip base, it made a difference, but I still was super happy with it so I tried another one. I like this square card, but I'll be much happier when my "mojo" (as I've heard many of you call it) returns!! I'm thinking it ran away from home because of all the sick germs that have invaded my house for the last 2 weeks! Ok, back to card stuff...

The circle card: All supplies for this card are from Stampin Up! I was determined to use my So Much set (free from Regionals :) ), so I stamped the circle in Chocolate Chip ink on Bashful Blue cs. It still needed something because the cs circle was 4" (so it would make a 4 1/4" circle card) so I paper pierced a border between the circle and the edge of the cs (I had to make my own template in Word for this, if anyone has an easier way to paper pierce circles please post a comment here, I'd love to hear it!!. The sentiment in the middle is stamped in Basic Black Craft ink and with Iridescent Ice ep. The Flowers were stamped in Versamark on Groovy Guava, then stamped with Chocolate Chip for the detail. There is a Vintage Brad (forgot the color name) brad in the center of each flower. Two of them are mounted with Pop Dots, the other is flat on the BB cs. I punched 2 holes at the top and laced some Chocolate Chip Taffeta ribbon through. There is also 2 pieces of the Taffeta ribbon stapled towards the bottom. The scallops on the base were made with my Corner Rounder.

The square card: All supplies for this card are from Stampin Up! This was fun to make. The waffle patter was made using my Bone Folder and my SU! Cutter. I got the idea from this tutorial by Gina K. The stamp is from the Merci kit, I colored it in with my Copic markers (ok, so these are NOT by SU!, sorry), added a Rhinestone brad to the center of the flower and 2 small silver brads to the bottom corner. The ribbon slide is from the new Sterling Silver hardware set. The "Joy" is one of the new SU! rubons. I like the simplicity of this card!

Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!

P.S. If you find my MOJO, please send it back home, I really, really miss it!!! :)

4 Tag

I've been tagged by Lynn Put, thanks Lynn!

4 Jobs I've Had: Graphics Artist, Systems Analyst, Stampin Up! Demo (this is my 2nd favorite), SAHM to my 3 awesom kids (best job ever!)
4 Movies I've Seen: My top 4 favs are...Under the Tuscan Sun, The Notebook, An Affair to Remember and ??? (that's all I can think of :( ).
4 Places I've been: Cabo, Florida, Michigan, New York
4 Places I've lived: Seal Beach, CA; Long Beach, CA; Diamond Bar, CA; Irvine, CA
4 TV Programs I watch: NCIS, Criminal Minds, Ghost Wisperer, CSI.
4 Radio Shows I listen to: With satellite radio and CD, I don't listen to the regular radio much.
4 Favorite Foods: Crab legs, Steamed clams, Lasagna and my #1 fav. is Gramma's family recipe of homemade noodles & chicken!!!! Mmmmmm!
4 Places I'd Rather be: Driving down the coast in my Jeep, in a castle in Austria, at Disney World, somewhere in the snow!!!

Now it's my turn to go tagging...so, Michelle Gaul & Janette Morrison, tag your it!!

My Planner...

Wow! It has been awhile since I've posted! I have had one very sick family for the past couple of weeks! It has just been one of them sick right after the other...everyone except me (so far)! Tonight has been the first chance I have had to stamp in more than 2 weeks, guess what I did...not a darn thing!!! I sat there and stared and stared at my stamps...and NOTHIN'! I hate this! But I have finally finished my planner (and for those of you sitting there saying "geez, isn't it a little late"...yeah it is, but better late than never :) I still have some finishing touches to add inside, and some more sanding to the edges. Thanks for stopping by and I hope to get a little "inky" tomorrow!