Hanna 1:1 Challenge for Kimberlee

This little box is for Kimberlee. Kristi from Hanna Stamps has started a new challenge on her Yahoo group...it's a 1:1 Challenge. Kristi posts a challenge, we sign up, she assigns us 1 partner and we make them something according to the challenge. Tons of fun!!!! Well this round I got Kimberlee Doktor, who is just the sweetest thing ever!!! The funny thing is that the same day or the day before Kristi gave us our partners, I had gotten the sweetest RAK card and some goodies from Kimberlee! :) Kimberlee, I hope you enjoy your gift as much as I enjoyed making it for you! This is Garden Hanna, isn't she just adorable?! This lid didn't have a handle, and it really needed something up there so I punched a couple of holes (ok, hubby 'drilled' a couple of holes, lol) and I made a ribbon handle. I used Stampin Up! Jumbo eyelets in the holes for the ribbon. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are all having a great weekend!!

Bloggers Challenge #50

Black & White was the challenge for this week. Here is my challenge card. I like the simplicity of this card, but it isn't plain. The picture seems kinda horrible, but I am about to fall asleep standing up, so maybe I will try to change it.

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Petals by Stampin Up! and God's Grace by Sweet & Sassy Stamps

Ink: Basic Black by Stampin Up

Paper: Basic Black & Whisper White by Stampin Up

Accessories: Basic Black brads by Stampin Up & misc. sheer black ribbon

Graduation Announcements - Tassle Time

Months ago my daughter decided that she wanted me to make her Grad Announcements instead of ordering them, this is what I came up with. This gate-fold was perfect for what I had in mind, it let me add 2 pictures, but still keep the announcement as the focus. I LOVE the inside, but the outside is growing on me! The embroidery floss tassle really finishes the look! Other than the embroidery floss, yellow cs and my printer, all supplies are Stampin Up!

Supplies:

Stamps - Tassle Time

Paper - Brilliant Blue, Real Red & Whisper White by Stampin Up; Yellow Bling by Bazzill

Ink - Brilliant Blue, printer

Accessories - Embroider Floss, Brilliant Blue Brad, small & large oval punches and ticket punch, Real Red Marker

Gina K Sketch Challenge #1 for May

Last night was the May Release Party for Gina K Designs over in the SCS Member Forum. It was alot of fun and VERY fast paced! This is my card for Challenge #1 by Julie, her sample is very cute! I LOVE that Ostrich! My image and the sentiment are both from "Just So Hippy" (designed by Melanie Muenchinger, sold at GinakDesigns.com). I don't really know where the DP is from as it was a gift, so was the ribbon! I don't have circle nesties so I used my corner rounder to make the scallops. THanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy the "back half" of your week (hahahaha, I crack myself up!!). :)

Fantastic Friday Challenge

This is my card for Korin's Fantastic Friday challenge. The sunflower stamp is from Bee Happy by Sweet & Sassy Stamps. I colored the sunflower with Copics and added some fun flock to the center. The rest is pretty basic. Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!

Supplies

Stamps: Bee Happy (Sweet & Sassy Stamps), Garden of Life (Papertrey Ink)

Paper: Not sure DP name, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Barely Banana & Whisper White cs (all papers by Stampin Up!)

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Buttons by SU!, Circle punch (under the buttons), Fun Flock, twine

Bloggers Challenge #47

Happy Friday!!! This weeks Blogger's Challenge was a sketch challenge using the puppy card on page 21 of the Stampin Up Occassions Mini. The stamp set here is Friendship Blooms, I stamped the flower in Real Red on Very Vanilla cs, then I stamped it again and cut it out. I stamped the flower a 3rd time, but in Wild Wasabi and just cut out the little flower. The Wasabi flower is adhered to the middle of the 2nd Real Red flower and is then popped up on the torn Vanilla piece. There is a Red Rhinestone brad through the middle. The red DP is from the Summer Picnic pack, it's mounted on Basic Black cs. The card base is Wild Wasabi. The ribbons are Wild Wasabi Double Stitched ribbon and 1/4" Basic Black ribbon on the bottom. I stamped the swirls in Wild Wasabi along the side. Everything on this card is from Stampin Up!

This was a fun challenge, and the best part of it was that my 8 year old little guy was stampin' next me!! Here's his creation... He made this for his Big Brother who's birthday is in the winter (thus the snow flakes!). Thanks for stopping by, hope you have an amazing weekend!!

More PTI...Garden of Life & SC175

I haven't done a weekly challenge from SCS in forever...I really miss doing them! This is Sketch Challenge #175, and I think this is one of my favorite sketches ever!! I really wanted to use some more of my PTI paper & ribbons, I love their Perfect Match papers, etc.! The colors here are Aqua Mist and Spring Moss. The DP is a pack called Everyday Blessings. I also used white eyelets, the Word Window punch, Basic Gray ink and the Short & Sweet set all from Stampin Up! Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you tomorrow for the Friday Bloggers Challenge!

Bloggers Challenge #46

First of all I want to wish all you Mommy's out there a very, very Happy Mother's Day!!!! This weeks challenge was, what else...make a Mother's Day card...so here's mine. Not only did I get my Challnge card done, but it is EARLY!!! Woo Hoo!! I actually had it done last night! Yeah, Go ME!! Ok enough of that...I love this card, I love these stamps and I love the paper!!!!! The stamp set is Garden of Life from Papertrey Ink. These flowers are so fun, I just love this set! The Design paper is from the Pink Patterns set, card stock colors are Berry Sorbet and Sweet Blush, all from PTI. The pearls are random pearls I had laying around. I used the Dragon Fly stamp from the Pond Pals set by Sweet & Sassy stamps. I stamped him on Vellum (by Stampin' Up!) cut out the wings and then used pearls for the body. Not sure if you can see it, but there are also 3 larger pearls on the right side of the card, to give it a bit of balance. I hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend, and again, Happy Mother's Day!!

One Sheet Pocket Book

Is this the funnest thing or what??? I love this idea! Of course it is not mine, you can go Vicki Hook's blog to see her book and to get instructions. This project alone, makes a Scor-Pal sooooooo worth it!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I made this one for my upline, thinking maybe she could put business cards in it. But then I got to thinking, how cool would this be as a Mother's Day present...put the grandkids' pictures in the pockets!!! Hmmmmm...
Ok, so here are the deets...

Supplies (everything is Stampin Up!)

Stamps: Heartfelt Thanks

Paper: Afternoon Tea, Chocolate Chip cs

Ink: Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Groovy Guava & Wild Wasabi double-stitched ribbon, Very Vanilla Tafetta ribbon, Rhinestone Brad, Scor-Pal, Binding machine

I put a couple of business cards in here just to show the pockets, etc. Thanks for stopping by and looking! Have an amazing week!!!

Bloggers Challenge #45

Last week's Bloggers Challenge was to make a Graduation card. Well I wasn't going to participate because I didn't have any Graduation stamps yet (yes, I say "yet" because I have to "Graduating" next month!). While cleaning up my "stuff" I found a couple of these DiplomaBella images from an image swap...what the heck! This is a very simple card. I used 2 Primas in place of the bouquet, and used some Spica glitter on the yellow sash & tassle. She is colored, very carefully, with Copics (I say "very carefully" because I am sure the image was stamped with a non-Copic friendly ink since I got it soooooo long ago :). This will not be my daughter's Grad card or announcements (yes, she insisted we make her announcements instead of ordering them :). Thanks for looking and I apologize for the tardiness and simplicity!! have a great week!!!

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!!!