Oh Hoppy Day!

Is this little frog too cute or what?!? This set is by Sweet & Sassy Stamps and is called Pond Pals. If I didn't know better, I'd say Miss Korin designed it just for me!!! I LOVE frogs and dragonflies (but I love frogs more!!). There are several more pieces to this adorable set, you can do soooo much with it! I'm sure you'll see many more things from me with this set soon!

I can't wait for my Guest Designer month for Sweet & Sassy stamps, you can bet there'll be at least a few things with this set!! This card is for a small group of swap buddies I have. Every month the 6 of us swap cards...I hope they like my little frog-dude! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Pond Pals by Sweet & Sassy Stamps

Ink: Timber Brown Stazon & Jet Black Stazon, Copic markers

Paper: Old Olive cs by Stampin Up!, DP & green cs from the All Occassion pack by DCWV

Accessories: Brads & Jumbo eyelets by Stampin Up!, Sakura stardust glitter pen

Bloggers Challenge #35

I was so excited when I saw this week's Challenge...Brilliant Blue, Purely Pomegranate and Old Olive. With that said, I really don't care for this card! Maybe it lacks dimension, I don't know...I just don't care for it and I think I will try again later this weekend! I'm already late enough, so I thought I should post something! Thanks for stopping by & have a great weekend! Be sure to check out creations by the rest of the Bloggers Challenge group (click on the 'Bloggers Challenge' button on the left)!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Garden Whimsy, Short & Sweet (both sets by Stampin Up!)

Ink: Always Artichoke, Brilliant Blue, VersaMark (all by Stampin Up!

Paper: Brilliant Blue, Kraft, Purely Pomegranate & Old Olive cs (all by SU!)

Accessories: Cosmo glitter, photo corner punch, small & large oval punches (all by SU!), green swarovski rhinestones

Thank you, Aunt Rita!!!

My Aunt Rita (she's actually my Gramma's Aunt!), gave us some passes to go to Knott's Berry Farm before the holidays...we had such a great time! All of us really needed a day to just act silly and have fun together! The kids actually had school the day we went, but we kept them out and told them we were going to get some family photos taken...they were fine with this. When we got there, our youngest is super excited, our middle son gets all serious and then says, "wait! Does this mean I'm going to miss the whole day from school?" He was bummed because he was going to miss PE!! Hmmm let me see...a theme park for a day or PE?? Crazy Kid!! He decided he was ok with missing PE on this day after all (this day also happened to be his birthday and he wanted a Birthday Cupcake from the PE coach!!). This is my 'thank-you' card to Aunt Rita for the passes. Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sidekick Sayings by Stampin Up!

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Rose Red and Old Olive SU markers

Paper: Rose Red cs by SU!, Homespun Collection DP

Accessories: Rub-Ons by Bo Bunny, Buttons by SU!, twine, copic markers, Stickles, Red ribbon by SU!

Make N Take

This sour cream container was for a Make & Take I was asked to do. I had so much fun doing this! What a great package to wrap candy or small treat or gift in, and it really doesn't take much in the way of supplies! Directions for this are here on SCS. Hope you all have a great week, and thanks for checking in!!

All Supplies are Stamping Up!

Stamps: Short & Sweet

Ink: Basic Gray

Paper: Sky Blue dp, Basic Gray & Whisper White cs

Accessories: Silver brads, Basic Gray Tafetta ribbon, Large & small oval punches

Another Bloggers Challenge #34 card

I made these cards for my swap this weekend with my SU! group. Love that little chick and the glitter! And yes, there is now green glitter all over my dining room! My wonderful friend Tanya stayed with me this weekend before heading back home to Idaho, we had a great time playing with glitter and stamping, and coloring and playing with this and that! Thanks Tanya for a fun stamping weekend!!!

All Supplies are by Stampin Up!

Stamps: A Good Egg

Ink: Classic Black

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Sky Blue DP

Accessories: Silver brads, Wild Wasabi Double Stitch ribbon, Stampin Up markers, Green Cosmo glitter

Thank you Jennifer-G!!

Thank you Jennifer-G!!! Miss Jennifer-G sent me this wonderfully sweet award! Please check out her blog here, not only does she make great cards & stuff, but I love her banner!!!!! She made that banner by herself (according to her, she didn't know what she was doing...yeah right!!! It's awesome!!). Anyway, she is a super sweet person, a riot to talk to and has become a new blogger friend!

I would now like to award this "Excellent Blog" award to those blogs that I constantly go to for inspiration...
*A Day in the Life by Gina K. Now I don't know that she will actually put this on her blog, but I really appreciate and love the tutorials, etc. she posts on that blog (and of course her amazing stamps!!)
*Belle Papier by Julia Stainton. How this woman does everything she does, just amazes me!!
*Taylored Expressions by Taylor VanBruggen. I LOVE her 'Cupcake Fridays'...I can't even look at a cupcake anymore without thinking of her! I think all of her creations are just amazing!
*Technostamper by Mary Jo Price-Williams. You are always in for treat when looking at her blog...if I had a fraction of her talent!!

Well there are many, many more blogs that inspire me, and these are just the tip of the iceberg!!

Thanks again Jennifer-G for the wonderful compliment!! Have an amazing rest of the weekend all and thanks for visiting!

Bloggers Challenge #34

Happy Friday!! Here is my very first Bloggers Challenge card! I am very excited to join this very talented group of ladies!! You can click on the 'Bloggers Challenge' button to the left and visit their blogs!! Today's challenge was to use the layout from the Birthday card on page 42 of the Spring/Summer 2008 Stampin' Up catty. I had a really hard time getting started on this, I think because the layout seemed a little simple for me. I really liked the final card though...thanks for the challenge!!! I have a hard time with lots of "empty space", so I just had to add the rhinestones at the bottom, and "ink" the edges of the white. I've also realized that I have a hard time with square corners and have felt the need to either round all my corners or use my Ticket corner punch. I took my Chocolate Chip marker and out little "dots" in the scallops of the border. Thanks for coming over and checking out my card! Have an amazing weekend!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Friendship Blooms and Itty Bitty Backgrounds both sets by Stampin Up!

Paper: Blue Raspberry by Deja Views; Chocolate Chip and Whisper White cardstocks by SU!

Ink: Chocolate Chip & Soft Sky by Stampin Up!

Accesssories: Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon, Light Blue round brads, Flower Fusion felt flower,

Hogs & Kisses

This is my card for the WT152 Challenge for this week and 2 weeks ago's SC160 on SCS. I love doing the challenges as often as I can, they really keep me from getting into a rut! I have had this cute little piggy stamp for years!!! Like from when I first started collecting stamps (11 or so years ago!)...not to be confused with when I really started stamping (more like 8 months ago?). Anyway, this card was alot of fun to make and I have to say this is probably one of my favorite layouts ever!! I LOVE those 3 panels!!

This is the first challenge I have done since December (wow, is it ever time to get back into things?!). Today was kind of a crazy day at work, since I was frantically trying to play catch-up because I was home with a sick kidlet yesterday, but I knew that as soon as I got home I was gonna stamp...JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!!! December was the last time I got to do that! So as soon as I got in the front door, I put on some PJ's and hit the ink! Of course I had to make a pitstop by SCS to check out some challenges to get those juices flowin'!

The primas on this little guy were a gift from a good friend (who was at my house last weekend for a super fun girls' weekend). I also love those Pearls, another gift from another dear friend!

Well, I am falling asleep on my keyboard...so nighty-night! Happy Friday & have an amazing weekend! Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies:
Hogs & Kisses stamp by Rubber Stampede
Rose Red ink by Stampin Up!
Close to Cocoa, Whisper White and Rose Red cardstocks all by Stampin Up, DP also by Stampin Up!
Heart ribbon from Michaels, primas, Pearls by Mark Richards Crystal Stickers and of course my Copic markers

Divine Bible Challenge

This is my project for the Bible Verse Challenge by Lori Craig on SCS. This challenge is wonderful and I encourage you to join Lori and the other gals. One of my goals for this year was to find and join a womens Bible study group. Well, I haven't found one yet, but I am really excited about this challenge! I have found myself reading more of the scriptures and using my study guide more! Thanks Lori for this very inspiring challenge!!

This is mounted on a 4" x 4" piece of chip board that I plan on punching at the top and putting rings or something through. The paper is Blue Raspberry by Deja Views. The hardware is from the Hodge Podge hardware kit by Stampin Up! This will sit on top of my desk at work.

As always, thanks for looking and for allowing me to share!! Have a great week!!

B-day gift for my MIL

This was for my MIL for her b-day. I saw this Sunflower stamp at Michaels a million years ago, and thought it was just gorgeous. This is a set of note cards and a note pad (from Target). I love the way this set turned out and can see me making a ton more of them (and some of you know how much I HATE mass producing cards, etc!!!!). All of the paper is by Stampin Up!, as is all the hardware and ribbon. The stamp is by Rubber Stampede. I stamped the image using Brilliance in Graphite Black, then I embossed it using clear EP (also by Stampin Up!). I colored it in using Copic markers, I blended these using the markers themselves because I still haven't gotten the hang of using my colorless blender (if anyone wants to come over and give me some coloring lessons...lol).
This is a close up of my coloring, not too bad I thought! There are also monogrammed envelopes. The monogram sets are from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the "B" and the circle then used my circle punch to punch it out and then glued it onto an envelope. Thanks for looking and any comments are always appreciated!

Have a great week!

Happy Turkey Day-bella

Lots of Prima's here!!! With all the Christmas & winter things I've been making over the past few months I've really neglected my Prima flowers!! Chefabella is surving up a yummy Turkey Day Dinner!!! Colored with Copics and glittered up with the Spica glitter pen. Sorry these last calendar posts are so short, but to be honest as great as everyones calendars turned out...I am soooo ready to be done with them!!!

Thanks for looking! Now that these calendars are done I can't to play just for the sake of playing!!! On to the next challenge!!

Hope you all have an amazing week!!!!!

Luck O'the Irish Bella

Here is Luck O' the Irish Bella (aka CosmoBella). She is colored with Copics and glittered up with Clear Spica glitter pen. Those are green rhinestones (hard to see in the pic).

Thanks for looking!

The last of my Bella Calendar pages...

Here are the last of my Bella calendar pages!!! Here is my very sparkley WinoBella with plenty of red & white rhinestones!! I colored her with Copic markers and used my Red Spica glitter pen on the wine bottle and glasses, Silver Spica pen for the wine label, and Sakura glitter pen for her hair band, trim on her dress and of course her "diamond" necklace, and shoes!!! The ribbon is Silver Organza from Stampin' Up! The Jumbo Eyelets are from Stampin' Up! also (love those things!!!).

Lookie what I got!! and let me just say that it totally made my day!!!!

Tangii,
I am sending you this cute little award for great blogging inspiration. Your blog is one of the fun ones I look at, at least once a week.From what I understand you are to pay it forward to other bloggers that inspire you! Thanks for the fun! Your Bella Calendar is adorable. So are you going to the Splitcoast Stampmania? You pointed me out to it and now I am going!! Hope you are. It would be nice to meet you!
SueR

Sue, is in one of the same Yahoo groups that I am and when the new catty's were coming out from SU! we noticed that we are not far from each other!!! Yeah!! Sue, you are awesome and wonderful, thank you so much and I can't wait to see you at SCS So Cal Stamp Mania!!!! You can see Sue's awesome blog here.

Now I would like to pass this award on to...

Michelle Gaul (Check her amazing Blog here)

Katie Skiff (here's her beautiful blog)

Janette Morrison (here's her fun blog)

Cresta June (here's her wonderful blog)

I also want to tell Tanya and Shannon that you two always "make my day"!!!! Have a great weekend, as you can tell mine is starting out pretty darn good!!

Billybootabella

Here is my April calendar page for the Bella Calendar swap I hosted. I really LOVE BillyBootaBella! and paper piecing her is soooo much fun!! Billybootabella and sentiment by Stamping Bella, the rain drops are from the Rain or Shine set by MFT stamps, the DP is from my scrap box, the cardstock is Ballet Blue, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White and Sage Shadow by Stampin Up! The flowers are Primas, the ribbon is by Dots & Dashes (from Michaels), the Blue Brad is by Stampin Up! and check out the bling!!!!! I colored this Bella with Copic markers. Thanks for looking!

Witchybella Calendar page

Here is my Witchybella for October! Shannon stamped the images for me, thanks Shanna-banana!! I colored her with copics, then went over her shoes and the band on her hat with a Sakura Black Glaze pen (I totally love these!!). I went over her hat with a clear Spica glitter pen, and went over her cape/wings with a Sakura glitter pen (Stardust, I think?). I love the way she turned out... The stamps are Witchybella by Stampingbella and the "Boo" stamp is from the Autumn Apparitions set by STampin Up! The DP is random paper that I have had forever, the cardstock is Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White and Basic Black from Stampin Up! The ribbon is a black sheer ribbon by Bobbin Ribbon at Michaels, the silver brads are from SU! and the silver swirly clip came in a gift bag from my DSS. Thanks for looking & have a great week!!

Huggybella Calendar page...

I think Huggybella is one of my fav Bella stamps...she's so quick and easy to color, but doesn't seem plain! Here is a quick page I threw together for the Bella Calendar...hope you like!! Paper is by Deja Views - Blue Raspberry! The sentiment was a gift from my extremely wonderful friends, Shanna Banana (Shannon Roberts...ya gotta love that gal!!)...Thanks Shannon! Hope you all have a wonderful Friday, I am off to the office!