Saturday, November 13, 2010

C4C 63- Christmas is upon us!





Happy Saturday everyone,

Thank you to everyone who played along with last week's challenge, your square cards were all awesome!

With Christmas only week's away, our challenge hostess for the month Cindy Haffner has challenged us to create a Christmas card or item.

If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C63. Don't forget to go back to the Crazy for Challenges Blog and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Soooooo are you wondering where I've been??? I've been wondering too~ Nah, just kidding ACTUALLY my father, while dismantling an obsolete Television Antennae Tower inadverdently lopped of the wires for our internet connection.........................GASP~! How awful! It's amazing how dependent one can be on the internet............... I really didn't think I was, but wow! It's been a longggggggggggggggggggggg week~~~

Needless to say, I can share some symptoms of being "internetless":

There is a lack of dust on each and every piece of wooden furniture
All dust bunnies have been banished........ I think I can hear them crying out from the vacuum cannister.
No Bags under my eyes.............. I got plenty of Beauty Sleep this week!
More money in the Bank Account-------Ahem! Get REAL Vicki........a couple trips to Michaels this week leveled it out AGAIN!
My Shower is positively SPARLKY!
Clothes Closet neat and organized.........well actually I had NO choice as my internet connection feeds in through my bedroom, through the closet and into the Kitchen and I didn't want to have to call Search and Rescue to retrieve the repairmen should they have to venture in there!

I could ramble on, but point being, the internet encompasses much more of my time than I realized! It's nice to have everything tidy and organized!

This weekend my Best Friend Jacqui and her son Joel have come to visit! They arrived Wednesday evening and are staying until Sunday. I love her SO much and it's a rare occasion that we spend so much time together! It's wonderful to have someone in your life that even though you aren't face to face often, you remain close in heart. Thanks Jax for all your love and support his weekend, you are my rock!

'kay, now about my card! I used "The Gift" from the Flower Soft Moments in time Collection.



I coloured the image with Copic Markers. The outline of the "sky" is done with Prism Pencils. I added some Polar White Flower Soft to the snow. The DP is from the Basic Grey, Jovial Collection.

Glad to be back in cyber world again! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

C4C62-It's hip to be square


I'm SOOOO excited to share that I'm back with C4C and stamping with my crazies. I missed them all so much during my little stamping hiatus, that I couldn't bear to be away any longer. If you've been following my blog, you'll know that C4C is dear to my heart as Frances, Cindy and myself brought this challenge blog into fruition just over a year ago!

This is an amazing team of stampers and wonderful personalities, who have been my long distance friends for quite some time!

This week, our challenge hostess Cindy is challenging us to make a Square Card. For my Project, I used one of the new Stamps of Life November Release sets Flowers to Share. I love these sweet pussy willows. I simply stamped the image onto Kraft Cardstock and then filled in the buds with white gel pen and added a little glitter to the stems.

This yummy paper is from Basic Grey Jovial Collection. The Brown Kraft Envelope will hold a gift card for a dear friend!

Hope that you'll play along! Be sure to visit the C4C blog to get all the details of the challenge and to link your creation up.

Don't forget to check out my crazies creations. I've already had a sneak peek and they are TERRRRRIFIC!!!!

Happy Stamping!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Flower Soft Challenge #10 It's Kids Stuff!



What do you think of this sweet image? This is one of the latest release from Flower Soft Charlie's Ark Collection.It's called I Love You. Our Challenge this week is to create a card or project that would be suitable for a child. In order to get the details of this weeks Soft Sprinkle Challenge, please be sure to visit the Flower Soft Forum on Splitcoast Stampers



I coloured my image with Copics (Of course!) I'm not quite sure of what the DP is, because I swapped some paper with my best friend Jax, but it is a gorgeous line!



I used Polar White and one of the latest colours Silver around the heart. Isn't it pretty? I am loving all the new colours of Flower Soft. Make sure that Check out the FS DT blogs to see who's playing along this week!!!

Happy Stamping!

Monday, November 1, 2010

The {Stamps} of Life November Release

I'd like to share a couple of cards that I created with the latest stamps from the Stamps of Life.
Flowers2share is a sweet and versatile set that you can use to create many fun cards and paper crafting projects! Whether you like to paper piece or colour, this set has many different possibilities. This set is available now at the {Stamps} of Life Website. Be sure to check out the Gallery to see some fabulous designs from the SOL DT!



Happy Stamping!

Totally Stampalicious Monday Challenge



It's been awhile since I played along with the DT challenges. In fact I hadn't been posting much, but I'm feeling refreshed and ready to stamp stamp stamp! You can look forward to seeing more from me than in the last few months! This weeks challenge is to use a red bow somewhere on your card.

For my card, I used the Fat Mice Balloon image. I coloured him with Prism Pencils and Gamsol, as I love the soft effect that you can achieve with the Pencils.

Be sure to check out the Totally Stampalicious Blog for the details of how you can enter your creation to win a chance at some delicious Stampalicious Candy! And don't forget to check out my fellow DT creations by following the links on the sidebar!

Happy Stamping!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween




Hope you had a spooktacular day! Thought I'd better post this project before the day was out, or I'd have to wait until next year! I made this very simple card in a Jiffy using the latest release's over at Stampotique. The Pumpkin is from Halloween Cube 2, The sentiment and Kisses Line image is by the very talented Jo Capper-Sandon!

I love to colour on Kraft Cardstock, it requires little effort and I just like the look that you can achieve. Hope that you had lot's of sweet treats today.......I wish that Jonathon was still trick or treating, because I'd have a Candy Stash to raid..............hmmmmm off to find something sweet!

Happy Halloween,



Wednesday, October 27, 2010

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 8




Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops 8! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! And don’t forget that JustRite has some Christmas stamps in their newly released CLING line of stamp sets -- you can find them HERE. This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team are the Flower Soft and The Shabby Tea Room challenge blog design teams! So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

If you've been hopping, I'm sure that you've just seen something FABULOUS on Cibele's Blog




For my project, I coupled Vintage Christmas with Polar White and Ultrafine Ocean. The sentiment is from the Christmas Nested Sentiments set from JustRite Stamps. I have a thing for Kraft Coloured Cardstock these days, it's all I want to use, but you can pair it with so many colours to come up with some yummy creations!


Make sure that you visit all these blogs for some gorgeous Christmas Inspiration!

Next Stop: The Fabulous Dina K!

JustRite Inspiration Blog

JustRite Design Team:

Sharon Harnist
Angela Barkhouse
Sankari Wegman
Stephanie Kraft
Kazan Clark
Michele Kovack
Kellie Fortin
Barb Schram
Debbie Olson
Becca Feeken
Heidi Blankenship

Flower Soft Design Team:

Jeanne Streiff
Debbie Seyer
Gini Cagle
Linda Beeson
Deb Felts
Cibele Glazer
Vicki Garrett
Dina Kowal

The Shabby Tea Room Design Team:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Nicole Segnere

Clare Buswell

Pattie Goldman


Lisa Golzbein