Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

Please be sure to scroll down for my other post for today!!


Hi friends! Happy Monday to you!!

It's time to get started on those Christmas cards if you haven't already!! It'll be here before you know it!! This week, Vicki of Summerthyme Studio will be hosting our challenge! Can you believe we're on week 32 and each week, we're closer to the holidays and closer to having those cards done! Vicki's challenge this week is to create a card using traditional Christmas Colors-Green, Red and a dash of silver or gold!!! We want to see your best creations. Sounds pretty simple, huh? We hope you'll play along this week! Please comment on today's post on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog with the link to your project, SCS/PCP or online gallery. We can't wait to see what you come up with! There is a sketch if you need it on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog but it is not part of the challenge. My camera was not liking all the red, so my pics are not very good today. I may try to re-take them if I get a chance, maybe outside.


For my card this week i used this adorable Penny Black image!! Isn't she cute!! I colored her with my copics, glitter pen, and I paper pieced the packages. I used fun flock on her sleeve cuffs to look like fur!! I used an Inkadinkado stamp for my sentiment and look at these cool clear plastic/acrylic snowflakes!! IRL they are very sparkly!! I used DCWV paper and Bazzill cardstock. To fulfill the silver or gold part of the challenge, I used silver pen to color in one of the shopping bags!! I used the wonderful Sketch Saturday sketch #66 for my card this week. I hope you like it!!





Be sure to visit the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas have created. I also have them listed on my sidebar. Again, we'd love for you to play along. Just leave a comment and a link to your creation on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword CSAYL. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Be sure to leave me a comment so I can return the favor! Don't forget to come by tomorrow to see what I have to show you.

It's Still Flutterby Wednesday!!

Hi Everyone,

According to my clock it's still Flutterby Wednesday!! This is my second post for today so be sure to scroll down to see both. I hope the rest of my week gets on schedule! I hate when going to the dentist gives you a 2 day migraine. Ugh.

Anyway, I'm trying to get caught up so this week at Flutterby Wednesday we had a sketch challenge courtesy of the lovely and talented Maria Bell. I love Maria, she is so very talented and is one of the sweetest people ever. For super inspiration, visit her blog here.

To celebrate Danni's 50th Flutterby Wednesday post, we have a special guest designer, Catherine St. Clair! And our featured team member this week is Heather! I also have to tell you that this is Ami and Kimmie' s last week. I know, we are sad too, but we can only take on so much, before something has to give. So we wish them well and hope that they will visit us really soon.

Danni is offering blog candy to celebrate her 50th week doing Flutterby Wednesday. So be sure to visit her blog to get all the details. Here's a sneak peek though!!

Here is my card for this week. This is the cutest Penny Black stamp ever!!! I love it and will be using it again soon!! The image is stamped on white cardstock and colored with my copics. To add a little color, I created a scene for our sassy little kitty! I stamped grass and flowers. I colored the flowers and leaves with my copics and chalked the grass and sky around her. She looks like she's lounging in the backyard!! I could hardly keep from laughing while I colored her and her little scene. It really made me smile. I used Bazzill bling, regular Bazzill and Bo Bunny patterned paper. I generated the sentiment on my computer and cut it out with my Nesties. That's about it. I hope this card makes you smile. I want to thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you leave a comment so I know you were here. Hugs to you all!!

It's a Hedgehog Valentine!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

I can't believe Valentine's Day is this weekend!! I have such cute Valentine stamps that I haven't gotten to use yet!! What's a girl to do? I guess I could post 3 or 4 times a day until then. Okay I can't, because I can't seem to find enough time to make the stuff that I want to post! So I 'll get to the point.

I did this adorable Penny Black Hedgehog for Valentine's Day. It is such a cute image, I love it!! I colored it with my Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. He was such fun to color! Isn't it great to color images that we love. You get to watch the black and white picture develop into a colorful personality. Anyway, here's my card for today.

I stamped the inside sentiment and used my Martha Stewart scalloped heart punches to decorate the inside.
I hope you like it and will come back tomorrow to see what I have planned for Flutterby Wednesday. Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know you were here. I love to read them.

Recipe:

Stamps: Penny Black, My Sentiments Exactly

Ink: Memento

Other: Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, Martha Stewart punch, brads Hobby Lobby, Cloud 9 paper, Bazzill cardstock

Poor Little Sophie!!

Happy Thursday everybody!! Today I'm sharing my Sophie Moose card with you. Everytime I stand on the scales I have the same look on my face . But I'm trying to fix the problem so that is a start!! Hanna Stamps are the cutest stamps with Riley and Sophie Moose, and the Hanna line. They are certainly a must have for your "collection".

The colors on this card are all my favorites. All of the patterned paper is from Die Cuts with a View and is so sparkly and cute, I just want to eat it up!! I colored my Sophie with my copics and kind of "smooshed" the color around a little bit so that it would look like fur. I also added Glossy Accents to the the part of the scale that has the numbers on it. This makes it look like glass. Very cool dimension!!! I cut Sophie and her mat with my nesties and ran the pink one through my Cuttlebug flower folder for pretty embossing. I popped her up on pop dots for dimension. The sentiment is from Penny Black and is just the cutest. I stamped it, cut it out, rounded the corners, matted it and popped it up on pop dots as well. I finished off my card with pink dew drops.

In this picture you can see a little of the shine from the Glossy Accents, so cute! Ok, this is my story and I'm sticking to it!! Think FLUFFY and picture a smaller fluff!!! This was a very fun card to make and I hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come back again soon to see what I'm up to, because you never know!!

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV, Bazzill

Stamp: Sophie by Hanna Stamps, sentiment is by Penny Black

Dies: Nestabilities by Spellbinder scalloped ovals

Other: Copics, dew drops, Memento ink, Glossy Accents