Rainy Day Kindness

It’s a rainy day here – a perfect day for stamping!  So I looked around online to find a challenge and remembered Taylor’s challenge that she puts on each week.  So here’s her sketch:

And here’s my card:

I embossed the rose with Rose Red craft ink and clear embossing powder then watercolored it in with Pretty in Pink ink and an aquapainter.  To make the circles I used the Circle Scissors plus.  And the butterfly came from the Bigz Beautiful Butterflies die with the Big Shot.  And I love the Brushed silver card stock additions.  I sometimes forget about our specialty card stocks; I really should start using them more! LOL  Anyway, hope you like it and hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend!

Bugs and Kisses Color Challenge

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to play along with one of Kristina’s color challenges.  So today, on this gorgeous day outside, the baby and I stayed inside.  Good and bad.  Sure would’ve loved to enjoy the  beautiful weather and watch my hubby do the yard work (yes, watch, I do the flowers and he does the rest) and play with the older kids, but the baby needed me inside and so ‘we’ stamped and it was great fun. 

I have a few little boys birthdays coming up so with that in mind I went to Kristina’s color challenge and began playing.  I decided right away that I wanted to do an unusual layout, use the circle scissors plus, and use the Bugs & Kisses stamp set.  I pulled out the colors of cardstock and inks from the challenge and sat and sat and sat.  I just couldn’t decide where to start with the layout!  I finally decided to just go ahead and cut a circle, which led to stamping the bugs in rows, which led to layering the circles, and then I sat and sat and sat.  Remember that unusual layout I wanted?  Ya, wasn’t feelin’ it.  So I turned my focus onto the background and challenged myself NOT to use Designer Paper (I seriously have an addiction to DSP!) so that left me where?  I wanted to incorporate some kind of round aspect to mimic the bugs circle.  But my go-to fave background stamp (Polka Dot) has retired, so I decided to keep thinking.  That’s when I decided to do the Big Shot texturz plate but knew I wanted more.  That’s when it hit me to make my own DSP with a baby wipe and reinkers and Whisper White CS.  Hence, the stripes.  I grabbed an envelope and striped the bottom inch of that and then grabbed an inside layer for the card and striped that!  Fun!  The rest of the card came together pretty easily and an hour and a half later (yes, I know it doesn’t look like a card that should take an hour and a half but remember all that sitting and thinking I was doing?!?!) I had this simple layout, bright and fun birthday card!  Hope you like it and I hope the recipient and his mom do too.  So T.R. pretend you didn’t see this post! 

The colors for the challenge:

My creation:

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Bugs & Kisses
Paper:
Real Red
Tempting Turquoise
So Saffron
Chocolate Chip
Whisper White
Inks:
Tempting Turquoise marker,  pad, & refill
Real Red marker, pad, & refill
Chocolate Chip marker, pad, & refill
So Saffron pad & refill
Accessories/ Embellishments:
Tempting Turquoise brads
large oval punch
circle scissors & glass mat
baby wipe
paper snips
Big Shot
Texturz Plate
blender pen
dimensionals
 

Buttons, Brads, and Clips – Oh My!

So, you’ve seen all the new and fabulous buttons, brads, and clips in the new catalog, yes???  (If you answered no, click here!)

Don’t you just WANT THEM ALL???  So do I, but who can afford it?  We ALL can!  Here’s how…a basic kindergarten rule – WE SHARE!!

For just $21 for your share you will receive:

BUTTONS:

• CORDUROY (p. 176 or click on Corduroy)
  • 3 Kiwi Kiss
  • 3 Chocolate Chip
  • 3 Pacific Point
  • 3 Kraft
  • 3 Summer Sun
  • 3 Pumpkin Pie
• LATTE (p. 176 or click on Latte)
  • 10 assorted (1 of each style)

BRADS:

• FLOWER ASSORTMENT (p. 175 or click on Flower Assortment)
  • 1 Pumpkin PIe
  • 1 So Saffron
  • 1 Pretty in Pink
  • 1 Chocolate Chip
• JUMBO 5/16" (p. 174 or click on Jumbo 5/16")
  • 10 Silver
  • 10 Chocolate Chip
  • 10 Whisper White
  • 10 Very Vanilla
• JUMBO 5/8" (p. 174 or click on Jumbo 5/8")
  • 2 Silver
  • 2 Chocolate Chip
  • 2 Whisper White
  • 2 Very Vanilla
• CLEAR RHINESTONES (p. 174)
  • 10 clear

LIBRARY CLIPS:

• 1/2" Library Clips (p. 176 or click on Library Clips)
  • 1 Chocolate Chip
  • 1 Old Olive
  • 1 Whisper White

Once I receive 8 people willing to share I will place the order.  When the order arrives I will divide up all the goodies.  You can either pick them up from me or I can ship them to you for an additional $5.

Pre-payment is required.  You may pay by check, cash, or PayPal (CC) below.  Thank you!

Click Button Below for NO SHIPPING:

Click Button Below to have items SHIPPED to you ($5, US only):

Flip Scrapbook Class

(Originally posted on December 8, 2008)

Flip Scrapbook Class       a Flip Scrapbook capable of holding at least 13 pictures (or more if your pictures are smaller)!  There’s plenty of room for journaling and personalization too!   Create:     Have some fun with your daughter while creating a special scrapbook to keep precious memories.   Class Information and Options: Date:  Monday, December 29th (with child) Time: 6:30 pm Place: My Stampin’ Suite Class Fee: $20 RSVP by: December 20th E-mail me to sign up or pay with your CC below   Date:  Tuesday, December 30th (sorry, class only for those young at heart, not young in age!) Time: 7:00 pm Place: My Stampin’ Suite Class Fee: $20 RSVP by: December 20th E-mail me to sign up or pay with your CC below

My Daughter’s Birthday Invitations

(Originally posted on November 10, 2008)

So, my baby girl (yes, she’s our middle child at the moment but she’ll always be our baby girl!) is turning 4 next month.  I can’t even believe it.  Of course she’s crazy excited for her party and has been busy making her own invitations for weeks now (not that any of them make their way out of the craft room or are remotely understandable!).  So yesterday I made her ‘real’ invitations.  Her favorite color is blue and she always asks for the green plate at lunch so I used those two colors as my starting point.  I loved the brightness of the Glossy White and using the blender pen on the Glossy White CS on my cupcake card earlier this week and I wanted to do something signifying ‘4′ (see the 4 balloons?), and I also like to try to use up some retired SU! items I have lying around.  With all that in mind, here’s what I ended up with.  (And apparently she likes them because all of her grandparents visited yesterday at some point and she showed her invites to all of them unprompted!)  I wish I could say the layout was all my idea but it wasn’t.  Something has to give, right? LOL So I CASEd the layout from ’sepia’ on SCS. 

Supply List

Stamp Set:
Crazy for Cupcakes
Lots of Thoughts (retired)
Inks: 
Old Olive Classic, Jet Black Stazon
Markers: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
Ink Refill: Cool Caribbean (retired)
Card Stock: 
Certainly Celery (8.5" x 5.5")
Always Artichoke (4" x 5.25")
Cool Caribbean (retired) (3.75" x 5")
Old Olive (4" x 3.25")
Glossy White (3.75" x 3")
A retired DSP which I think might be Petal Patch, but I’m not 100% sure (1.5" x 4")
Embellishments:
Always Artichoke brads (retired)
Punches:
1-3/8" circle, scallop circle, crop-a-dile
Accessories: 
blender pen, dimensionals