Sparkly Valentine

Here's a fun card I made today with lots of bling. I left it without a sentiment so it can be used for a Valentine or other special occassion. It was the first time pulling my Chunky Sprinkles out. They were fun! I still have sprinkles all over my desk though!

Recipe:

Stamp heart from Love You Much in Riding Hood Red on Very Vanilla paper. Cut out; adhere to Riding Hood Red paper and cut about 1/8" larger. Adhere this to Pink Pirouette paper and cut just a bit bigger. Place rhinestones on heart where dots are. Cut scallop from Pink Pirouette. Cut 1 1/4" circle from Going Gray and adhere to scallop. Stamp set of 3 hearts on Very Vanilla, punch out. Punch out Heart To Heart with Pink Pirouette. Adhere rhinestones to scallop. Adhere small heard to scallop.

Place sticky double sided tape to 1" strip of Riding Hood Red paper. Pour on Chunky Sprinkles, pressing slightly to help adhere. Mount strip onto Pink Pirouette. Mount Candy Lane DP to Going Gray card base. Adhere glitter strip. Adhere large heart with dimensionals. Adhere scallop with dimensionals.

Thanks for looking.

Challenging Day!

OK, so not in the way non-stampers might think! (Although my 4 year old did give me a few challenges today!) I actually spent some time with my stamps today rather than doing my household/motherly duties.

My first card was for the Color Challenge at SCS today. I had gotten Love Ya Bunches on Ebay a while back, but had yet to ink it. The color challenge was exactly that for me today. I loved the Kiwi Kiss and Bravo Burgundy, but I had a hard time adding in the Regal Rose. I finally ended up getting something I liked. I also used my new Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug Folder!

My second card incorporated both the Color Challenge and Verve's Mojo Monday challenge. I made a 3 1/2 x 5 card for the Verve challenge. I thought the dimensions of the stamp would better match the smaller card size.

Have a beautiful day - and create something! Stacy

Mojo68 Unity card

Right after Christmas Unity had a great sale and I placed my first order with them. My order arrived last week, but there was no time to play with all the fun birthday activities we had going on. Today, I committed that I would make a card with my new stamps. The stamps are much larger than I was visualizing and I had a hard time coming up with something to do with them. I ended up liking what I came up with for this first inking!

I've never tied a double ribbon before, but I like the way this turned out. I did use a few small glue dots to hold the ribbons together once they were tied, otherwise, the Pretty in Pink wanted to go all askew on me!

Have a great day & I hope to get another posting before next weekend!

Tween card project

Here's the card I came up with last night for the 16 girls coming to my daughter's birthday party. I wanted to keep it fairly simple, yet fun for the girls. I thought this would be great as they could use it as a birthday card or a Valentine's card.

My daughter had asked me if they could make a card at her party earlier this week and I really wasn't sure if I would be able to pull it all together with everything else going on. But, after she went to bed last night, I got busy and came up with this card. I wrote inside it birthday wishes to her and placed it by her alarm clock so she would see it when she woke up. She was thrilled! I'm hoping to come up with another card or a gift bag or something today, but we'll see. The hours are going by quickly...especially when I'm sitting here on my blog! Important things first, right?!? Really, what else do you do while you wait for the brownies to bake? Certainly not clean!

Enjoy the day! Stacy

New Year - New Posts

Happy New Year!!!



Getting caught up on my photos and some cards today.



I've been terrible about posting my cards lately, but here's a fun one I did for McKenzie's Birthday party coming up this month.







Resolutions:

1. Get photos organized


2. Scrapbook all of this year!


3. Make 30 cards per month


4. Lose 6 pounds and keep off for 1 week - buy a pair of jeans


5. Lose 12 pounds and keep off for 1 week - buy a new phone!


6. Exercise 3 days in addition to the yoga classes


7. Update my blog weekly


8. Watch 1 movie per month with the family