Crazy4Challenges 136-Im inspired by.......

This week's challenge is posted by our May Hostess with the Mostest Barbara!!! She provided us with the pretty inspiration piece below and said " Let this picture inspire your creation. For example, make a round card, or round elements , go with the colours or the small prints-Go Country-wherever this picture takes you, follow it. The photo inspired me to create this little country scene using these fabulous new stamps and matching dies from Impression Obsession

Supplies:

There's no place like home cling stamp set

House Die

Birds Die

Tree Die

Nest and hole die

Door & window Die

Cover a card distressed brick

Sponges,

Versamark and White embossing Powder

Brads-Bo Bunny

Flower Soft Sweet Pea

To I created a small house card by doubling over my paper, leaving a little edge to the left of the die!!! How Fun!!! I embossed the Fence on the background of the card. I can't wait to use the matching Die Cut, but couldn't with this creation as I wanted the card to open without interference! I created the roof by diecutting again in a complimentary colour and edging the bottom of the roof with a MS border punch!!!

I totally can't wait to play more with these fun and adorable stamps and dies!!!!

Here's the inspiration picture!

The interior view

and again!

Have a great weekend and be sure to follow the links on my sidebar to link up your own creation on the C4C site and see what my favourite Crazy chicks have been up to!

Happy Stamping!

Stampotique Designer's Challenge 54. It's all in the Family

Kate is our hostess this week and here is what she says about her challenge this week:

For quite some time now, I have been thinking that some of the Stampotique characters remind me of a family gathering ...( er, no offence to any of my family members who may happen to be reading LOL!) So, with that in mind I set you a challenge to create something, anything, with the theme of family. It could be a greeting card, a journal page, an ATC .... whatever you like. Now, we've all got families but it means something different to each and every one of us, so you can be serious .... such as 'If sisters were flowers I'd pick you', or tongue in cheek... 'You pick your friends, not your family', or anything else that takes your fancy! 

For my card, I created a Masculine Birthday Card that I will give to my Father. Doesn't it have a nostalgic feel? Using the Timeless Background Stamp as well as the Leaf stamp, the background is actually the focal point for this card. The sweet sentiment is from the Bo Bunny Weekend Market  Priceless Sticker Collection, the sweet brad in the middle of the seam binding is a cute clock from the Weekend Market  Brads. It's a pretty simple card, but I like it!!!

Ready to play for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate forStampotique stamps?

Please remember only one entry per person and our challenges should use Stampotique stamps only.  Please link directly to your creation using in linkz on the Stampotique Designer Challenge Site.

Happy Stamping!

CPS 264

Wanted to share my quick and easy card that I created for the Card Positioning System Challenge.

Using the fabulous sketch posted below, I whipped up this elegant card in a matter of minutes literally!

I was thinking that it would make a really nice graduation card. What do you think?

I used several elements from the BO Bunny Market place collection

A HUGE thank you to Sheila over at Scrapping Great Deals for the lovely Designer package that she sent down with Kim. It had almost the WHOLE  Bo Bunny Weekend Market line in it, so you are going to see quite a few projects with this delicious paper and all the accessories!!!

for this card, I used:

 Bo Bunny weekend market 6x6 paper

Bo Bunny Weekend Market12x12 Chipboard

Bo Bunny Weekend Market Dimensional Stickers

Flower-Misc

Here's the sketch if you'd like to play along!

Be sure to head over to the CPS blog with the deets on linking your card up and to see the fabulous Designers' interpretation of the sketch!!!

Happy Stamping

Crazy4Challenge 135-The great outdoors!

I was just thinking about how lovely the weather has been as of late! What a perfect challenge for a warm spring day!!! Our challenge to you is to create a card with an outdoor or garden theme!!!

These stamps of life stamps and dies are perfect for that!!!! I love Steph's Dragonfly die cut that coordinates with the Butterfly2build and Creations2fill stamp set. The wing stamps for the butterfly also coordinate with some of her floral sets! how cool is THAT!!!!!

I also used a Spellbinders Label Die and the pretty Memory Box Circle Floral Die, both available at Scrappin' Great Deals!!!!

I decided not to put a sentiment on the card yet, because I'm not sure what I plan to do with it. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon!!!!

Soooo it's been pretty hectic around here. I want to get around to posting some gorgeous photo's from Victopia weekend, but it's been a crazy week with Jon's appointments, dealing with the resource teacher at the school, the physiotherapist, the tutor and work!! Unfortunately Jon took a hit to the head at Football tryouts a couple of weeks ago, which seemed to reactivate a concussion that he had incurred in the fall. I've now learned more about concussions, their effects and the rehabilitative process. Fortunately, physiotherapy can be helpful in the healing process.

Here are a couple of pictures of Jon at his session

Fortunately the concussion hasn't seemed to affect his fine motor skills......lol

 He's been doing a lot of relaxing as of late.....no video games, very little t.v. and other than walking, no exercise!!! He's missing Rugby this spring, but has been to a game to cheer on his teammates.

He found the heat therapy VERY HOT!!! He's a warm blooded fella, so he thought he would surely not make it very long with the heat pack around his neck. He did say that he felt very good afterward though!

I'll keep you all posted with his progress.

Hope you'll play along with the challenge. Please click on the links on my sidebar to check out the other crazy creations and to link up your creations on the blog!

Happy Stamping!

Stamps of Life and Clearsnap Blog Hop

Please join The Stamps of Life and Clearsnap for a blog hop featuring The Stamps of Life stamps and Clearsnap inks and other fun products. Make sure to comment on all the stops along the hop because prizes will be randomly chosen among the comments.

If you've already been hopping, you've just arrived from one of my best friends, Kim's Blog

For my card, I used one of my favourite sets, More Mums2love

I stamped with Donna Salazar Mixed Media Inks in Truffle, Peridot and Mossy. I love this ink, because it allowed me to clear emboss over the images to add some dimension the Clean and simple design!!

The Stamps of Life will be giving away 3 prizes – one stamp set (of the winner’s choice) per winner.

Clearsnap will be giving away an assortment of Stephanie Barnard Colorbox Premium Dye inks.

Here's the hop in it's entirety !

Clearsnap – http://clearsnap.blogspot.com

The Stamps of Life http://stephaniebarnard.blogspot.com/

Jeanne Streiff - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/category/inks/clearsnap/

Sabrina Alery – http://sabrinaalery.blogspot.com

Deb Felts - http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Stamps%20of%20Life

Steph Ackerman - http://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com

Lydia Fiedler - http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

Mary Dawn Quirindongo - http://mypinkmexico.blogspot.com/

Kim Howard - http://basementstamper.blogspot.com/

Daniela Dobson - http://danieladobson.blogspot.com/

Tami Mayberry –  http://tamimayberry.blogspot.com/search/label/clearsnap

Jennifer Priest http://hydrangeahippo.com

Laura Williams –  http://www.lauralooloo.blogspot.com/

Kim Pargeter – http://stampinriley.blogspot.com/

Vicki Garrett – http://summerthymestudio.blogspot.com/

Joana Studer- http://joanastamps.blogspot.com/

Emily Niehaus - http://emmielouwho.blogspot.com/

Beverly Sizemore - http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/

Impression Obsession May Release!

This is Jeff.......apparently he lost his marbles, but it seems that he found them again! I can relate to Jeff 'cause when it comes to remembering things, well sometimes I don't do so well. It's really not the important things that I forget...just things like where I put my car keys, what I ventured into the kitchen for, what was it that I was going to look up on the internet......a sign of getting older, or perhaps too much aspartame!!!!  Geeeez, I almost forgot why I'm here writing this blog post (just kidding). Jeff is a little cutie patootie stamp that's being released today at Impression Obsession!!!! I love this little guy with his wavy hair and sack of marbles. I remember the days when marbles were a very cool toy. Long before video games and ipads, interactive reading toys and when Fisher Price made those cool telephones on wheels with the bobbly eyes that would blink as you pulled it along the floor. The slinky, yoyo's and Silly Putty!!! That was when I had to walk over a mile to school, uphill both ways. Four trips a day. Home for lunch ONLY because the Flintstones were on and when the show was over, it was time to make the long trek back to school for the afternoon. I'd get home just in time for Dark Shadows. We lived in an old Victorian House and on the days that my mom was working, i'd get a little creeped out waiting for her to come home and wondering if any  ghosts would come sauntering down the oak staircase. It was only on the days that she was home that I'd try to sneak in a few slides down the bannister!

I coloured Jack with my Touch Markers and have included the colour combinations here for you. I used some pearl pen to create the marbles and to add an interesting border to the designer paper, which is from Echo Park. Be sure that you head over to the Impression Obsession blog to get all the details with regard to the release and to see who's created some fun samples for you!

Happy Stamping!

CPS 263

This week's CPS sketch is being Sponsored by 

Skipping Stones Designs

I choose this fun and funky Grunge set as I thought it would work really well with this weeks sketch!

I have to tell you that I'm totally enjoying this design team! Card sketches make card making Super Easy!!!!  I added the little gears to the card to give it just a little interest. Do you see all the awesome textures in this stamp set??

Soooo if you want to play along with us, be sure to visit the CPS Challenge Blog to get all the deets!!!

Happy Stamping!