Sunday Featured Stamper!

I was very excited to see that the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast Stampers was my friend Wendy!!!!!!

She is an awesome stamper and lovely person. Her Blog is wonderful........ Go HERE to have a peek at what she is up to!!!!

I basically copied the layout of her Sweet Scandia Christmas Card, which you can see HERE

I changed the positioning of the sentiment and the Ribbon slightly and altered the colours to incorporate Riding Hood Red with the Kiwi Kiss Paper, which incidentally happens to be my Favourite Stampin' Up! In colour.


This Happy Little Fellow is called O JOY and is one of the latest images from Daniel Torrente. O Joy is available at www.stampotique.com I love this funny little fellow. He looks a little weary from all the preparations that he is making to get ready for Christmas, but I am sure he will recover quickly after he dashes back to his bachelor pad for a Rum and Eggnog!!!!

It's a Grey kind of day!!!!

It's the kind of day that allows you to stay in your jammies without excuse, to surf the net, catch up on chores and just be low maintenance.

We have been SO blessed this last week with warm weather, that I was even able to don sandles for a few days...........my idea of perfect weather is dictated by Sunglasses, Sweaters and Sandals............lol

The signs of winter are upon us now...... the trees near bare of leaves, a frosty windshield and the appearance of Blue Jays in the Pines.

Why the winter theme???? Why, that is the name of this image. This is Winter, a very funky image from Stampotique. I decided to create a very unique Christmas card using an odd colour combination. The Snowflakes, Stars, Ribbon and sentiment perhaps combined create a rather festive look, but Winter in herself, is quite versatile. You can purchase both the image and the sentiment at Stampotique. Follow the link in my side bar and have a look at all the wonderful images that are available to you.

I think I am going to brew up a pot of green tea, shuffle to a comfy spot and watch the entire Season Two of Sex and the City without excuse!!!!

Have a wonderful day!!!!

For the love of Riley

I adore Riley Moose...........whether he is doing laundry, hauling Christmas trees, dressed up in his Halloween finest or just lounging on the couch eating Godivas......he is my favourite character image.

This Riley is the latest of the newly release Riley Stamps. I created this card for a sketch challenge that you can participate in until Monday. Go HERE
to get all the details...........you can win Get well Hanna if you do!!!!!


I used paper from the DCWV pet stack as my patterned base.............Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip and So Saffron Cardstock all from SU! The sentiment is a Chocolate Rubon also from SU!!! Ribbon is from the $$ store and I used SU Tag punch and 1 3/4 circle punches to mount the sentiment.............Nesties make such lovely circles.................................

Please play the challenges............also, we have a Designer Challenge Each Friday in the Hanna Member Forum. Participants for the month are entered into a draw for a Hanna set at the following months Release Party!!!!! come and play along!

Tonights the Night!!!!!

Yep!!! Tonight is the night and everything will be all right.............

Join us at the Hanna Stamps release party in the Hanna Member forum tonight at 9 p.m. est on Splitcoaststampers

This image is from the B is for Baby Stamp set.
Hope to see you tonight!

Groovy Baby!!!!!

Far out man...........Far out...........lol. I was born in the 60's, but was really too young to experience all things Hippie...........my parents, who were teens in the 50's were a more conservative pair, although my mother quite stylish wore the bells and the flowy shirts. I remember having a bad perm in 1976 that would have resembled this Hannas Hairdoo!!!! and OH my gosh......that happened to be the year we moved from a little village to the big City of Kingston!!!!!

These images are from the very fun Hanna Hippie Chick set, that will be released this Thursday evening at our monthly release party. I was inspired with the colours from the Splitcoast Colour Challenge yesterday, which included Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red and Pretty in Pink. The flower brads and punches are all from Stampin' Up! The Markers, copics of course!!!!!!


See you tomorrow with another peek!

Under the Weather?

Seems to be that quite a few of my friends are coming down with colds, flu and generally not feeling great. Even poor Hanna is under the weather!!!!

Hopefully with a little bed rest, she and the rest of my pals with be feeling up to par soon!!!!

I decided to go with a more neutral colour scheme for this card, choosing on of BG's new line of DP, along with Sahara Sand and Artichoke Cardstock. I used the new SU die as a base for my main image and then used copics to colour her in and took a sponge to the edges of the paper.

A little fern and flower punched embellishment, topped by a button and linen thread added the finishing touches.


Don't forget to attend the Hanna Release Party on Thursday evening! It's going to be a blast!!!!

Where have I been????

I must apologize profusely............yes, profusely is a fitting word for my absence!!!!

For the last couple of weeks I was heavily involved in facilitating a training for staff in a new program that is being offered. So apart from being at the point of exhaustion each evening, all my creativity seemed to be sapped!!!! Where DID my mojo go???

I did get a slight spurt of creativity while attending Jactopia the weekend before last. There is nothing like spending time with your talented friends to be inspired to create. THAT being said......my lack of energy and need to socialize kind of put a damper on my productivity.....oh and perhaps the red wine didn't help either!!!!!





Here is the WHOLE crew at Victopia........my best girls in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD..........Jacqui, Kristi, Laura, Tammy, Kim..........Jacqui's sister Courtney, her Mom Linda and Donna......an up and coming best girl!







Two of the best women you'll ever want to know.

Just wish we lived closer.....................although when we do get together, it's like we've never been apart!














Me and the TAMSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!















The Mood improves immensely with the addition of a little FOOT MEDICINE!!!!!


I am SO blessed to have these amazing women in my life!!!!!!!!










And NOW............back to the card!!! This image is a sweet new image from the Read MY TEE Hanna set, that will be released THIS THURSDAY at the Hanna Release Party! Join us HERE for the party..........we will have some fun contests and challenges and of course PRIZES!!!!!!!!

I coloured the main image with Copic Markers and then I cut her out, with a little help from my cutting queen buddy Jax. I then mounted her onto a SU Die cut over top of some DP, which for the life of me, I can't remember the Co.........crap!

Anyway, she IS cute!!! isn't she????? lol!!!! I also used a Birthday Stamp from SU! as well as Ribbon, and The new Pink and Green in colour Cardstock.......It's too bad, but in real life, there is a lot of texture in her jeans, that weren't captured in the photograph,. I also LOVE her high top sneakers.........a main fashion staple for me in my adolescence!!!!!

Come back tomorrow................i'll have another peek for you!!!! Don't forget to follow the links to the rest of the DT blogs...........they have great samples in store for you this week!!!!!

and again, I'll try my darndest not to be a stranger!!!!