Blog trouble

Trying to do some updating of my blog.  It needs some bling, but in the process, I have made it looked all crazy!  I guess I have no idea what I am doing & I have no time to finish this mess now....so please bear with me and I'll try to get it spiffed up and then get some more cards posted!
Enjoy the day!

Blogaversary....new friend

My blogfriend, LeAnne, introduced me to her friend Linda.  She is having a blogaversary with some nice blog candy! Stop over and say hi and enter to win! She has some fun blog candy, I want to help her reach 100 followers!! Tell her Stacy sent you!

Unity Wishes

This is the first card I have made in a while.  I have all my Unity stamps for the past few months that haven't seen any ink yet!  Loved the color challenge on Splitcoast today and it is rainy outside, so I decided today is the day to create!  Unfortunately, half the day is gone and I only have this one card to show!  Took a while to get my mojo going and of course, there are always other things in the house that need to be taken care of!

Stamps:  Unity January 2010 Kit of the Month

Paper:  Soft Suede, Tempting Turquoise, Certaily Celery, Whisper White

Ink:  Soft Suede

Extras:  Certainly Celery Wide Grograin, Soft Suede Polka Dot Ribbon, Blender pen and ink (for coloring flowers.

OCCC Challenge - You've Got Style

Wow, my second post today.  I guess this is what happens when the hubby leaves town!  I should be cleaning up, but who's going to notice - not the kids!  This card used Our Creative Corner's Sketch challenge.  I'm really liking the wide black satin I picked up at Hancock Fabric on clearance.  I should go back to see if they still have any left!

Stamps: Express Yourself (Verve)

Paper: Thoroughly Modern DSP, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Burmuda Bay, White

Ink: Black, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: CM Oval Patterns & CCS, Craft Knife, Rhinestones, Wide Black Satin Ribbon (non-su), Razzleberry ribbon, Black grograin, CB Swiss Dots Folder

Mojo123 - Superstar

Here's my first card made with Verve stamps. What a fun stamp set! I used Mojo 123 as my inspiration. The wide ribbon got a bit wonky. I tried to use my CHI iron to iron the wrinkles out of the ribbon and I think it was a bit too hot! Oops! I used a bit of glitter pen on the main image to high light. Hard to capture with the camera.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Wings of Friendship

A quick and simple card I made this morning.  I picked up the La Creme matstack last week at Hobby Lobby and just love the papers in it.  I also recently received the Wings of Friendship stamp set.  This paper and the image seemed to go nicely together.  Behind the 3 rows of vanilla ribbon is a 1 1/2 inch wide piece of satin black ribbon.  It adds a nice sheen to the card.  Thanks for taking a peak at my creation today!

Flocking Fun!

Paper Craft Planet's Back to Basic's lesson this week (#6) is on Fuzzy Flock! Something I always thought was too mess to play with, but after seeing the tutorial it didn't look so bad. Plus, with a chance to win some prizes I had to play. So, I went to Michael's and picked up some of the Fuzzy Flock. Of course, I couldn't just pick up one container, I had to get two different sets of colors! Both cards today are using the Oh So Majestic set. I also have the Saltwater Taffy colors and hope to try those soon. I'm thinking I can make some fun cards for tween girls with the saltwater taffy colors!

On to the cards I made...The first one is using the Bundle of Joy set. I thought the flocking would be perfect for the giraffe's spots. I also used SCS's Color Challenge today CC240 and an old Sketch Challenge SC242.

The second card uses an old set (2000) Spooktacular Greetings. I thought the black cat would be perfect in black flocking. As I was playing I thought I would also add the flocking to the witch's hair. She needed some drama! I found an old scrap of paper that had some great colors for Halloween and used that as my color palette. The other papers are black, Apricot Appeal and Kiwi Kiss. The ribbon is the striped Kiwi Kiss with a piece of black grogain over it.

I can't wait to try the Saltwater Taffy colors. We'll see what later tonight or tomorrow brings. So glad to be back in the swing of creating! Maybe one of these days I'll actually figure out how to make my blog more attractive!

Blessings - Stacy

Again, WOW, I just don't seem to get this blog updated. BUT, I have been making some cards that I will post tonight.

Both of these cards use the Rainbow Sherbet paper pack which I JUST opened and have had for several months. I should make it a goal some month to use up a whole pack of DP! That would be fun....but then, I might miss the paper!

Here are two more cards using Le Jardin Botanique. The first one I made as a sample for a Women's Retreat I am going to in a few weeks. The second one I had made for a sketch challenge hosted by my SU! Demo 2 months ago. I just hadn't loaded it as she has a contest each month and the card with the most votes receives a prize.

Thanks for stopping in today!

Unity Hip Hop Challenges

WOW! It has been WAY too long since I posted. I've been making a few cards, but frustrated with the upload process. BUT, today, things are going to change....even if just for today! Here is a card I made using some Unity stamps I've been collecting.

The first challenge was to use a black and white background. The second challenge was to not use any squares on the card....thus, I stuck to circles and ovals! Now, I probably have plenty of papers that would have worked as a background, but I chose to create a background from the circles stamp in my "The Good Times" stamp set from Unity. I stamped this onto black paper using Whisper White Craft ink. Then I stamped the verse on white with black ink. I cut and embossed with the oval scallop Nestabilites. Then I decided to add the CB With Love embossing border with the dots to the white card base. I found this cheap ribbon in a stash that worked nicely with the image and background. To add a little sparkle, I used a glitter pen on selected areas of the background and around the embossing on the verse image. This should be a nice general purpose card to send sometime.

To the Nines Friends 24-7

Unbelievable! It has been 2 months since my last post! I guess I just haven't had the mojo lately, but today I was determined that I would make a card. I took advantage of Sale-a-bration and have lots of new things to play with. Today I really wanted to use my new To the Nines Specialty paper. It was really difficult to cut into the beautiful paper, but I just had to do it. I love the bird from Friends 24-7 and it seemed to be a good fit. Here's what I came up with.

Supplies - Paper: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, To the Nines Specialty; Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze (should have been Sage Shadow), Versamark; Accessories: Chocolate Chip Corduroy Brad, Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, Linen Thread, Clear EP, paper mask (for bird).

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

Punches Three Baby Girl Cards

Here are two of three baby girl cards I made yesterday with the Hostess Set - Punches Three. These were really quick and easy with my Cuttlebug. The third card is very close to the second, so I didn't post it.

I love how the buttons turned out with the scallops on the first card. If I do this again, I will cut the scallops first and then score and fold the card as the front ends up quite a bit shorter than the back if you don't. The first card also uses the shimmery white cardstock from SU!

The second card is pretty self explanatory. I think I'll be making some more of these to have on hand. I probably make some in blue and some in neutral colors.

Mojo 55 Inspired by Nature

I've been so anxious to give this set a try and finally got to it tonight. I haven't played Julee's Mojo Monday at http://www.poeticartistry.blogspot.com/ for quite a while, so I decided to give it a go today with my new Inspired by Nature set.

I've been accumulating the Watercolor Wonder Crayons over the last few months, but I haven't been using them. This stamp set is perfect for coloring right on the stamp and then misting and stamping. I love the way the image turned out. I know I'll be using this technique with this set again....maybe even for the card trade I'm in next month.

Paper: Chocolate Chip, True Thyme, More Mustard and Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate chip and More Mustard on the tag only; True Thyme (barely seen on the 2nd layer)

Accesories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons (More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Chocolate chip and a little bit of Really Rust just around the edges of the flowers), Jumbo Eyelets, water mister

I made a few other cards today also, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to upload them. They are all Cuttlebugged, so it is better to photograph in daylight to get the dimension of the embossing to show up.

Blessings - Stacy

Birthday Card for 2 year old

Today's card if for my nephew James' 2nd birthday. Wow, how times flies! I decided to give SCS's sketch challenge this week a try as it looked very appealing and easy to use up some DP I had sitting here. I also pulled out my first pieces of the new In Colors! The stamp set used is by Inque Boutique which I had never used before.

We're looking forward to another beautiful day here in South Dakota. I probably should go outside and do something, but my new stamps have been calling my name for the last few days! We'll see how things go. For now we just need to focus on getting homework done and things in order for school tomorrow.

Blessings! Stacy

Happy Harmony Thanks

Today's card was for the FS81 at Splitcoaststampers. The challenge was to case something from this gallery Kokirose. What a beautiful gallery of things to case. I also wanted to try and fit in the Limited Supplies Challenge from this Friday - Oldies But Goodies. I found this card Kokirose Case that Kokirose posted back in February. I immediately fell in love with it and knew that I wanted to case it. It uses Happy Harmony with is a set I have had for quite a while and I have only used the sentiment from the set, so I thought that would qualify as an "Oldie but Goodie". The paper is also my Glossy White which I haven't used in quite a while. Unfortunately, River Rock will soon be disappearing from my stash and will turn into an "Oldie But Goodie".

I started by taking a piece of glossy white cardstock and wiped it down with the Embossing Buddy and randomly stamped the floral image from Happy Harmony all over with Versamark, then applied clear embossing powder and heat set it. I used my brayer to apply Elegant Eggplant ink all over the paper going over it several times and moving in different directions. I let this set a bit to dry and then wiped it with a tissue to make sure any excess ink was off before I proceeded.

From here, I cut my square panel and the smaller rectangular panel. I mounted the two pieces on some River Rock cardstock and pierced around the edges. I "stitched" (connected the dots) with a white gel pen on the smaller piece. Then I moved on to the main image which I simply stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Sahara Sand paper. Cut with Scalloped Nestability, then sponged the edges, mounted on a larged scalloped oval which was also sponged. Added the pierced dots and the gel pen dots. I adhered everything with brads and tape, adding the ribbon and the hodgepodge hardware. A fun, relatively simple card with a bit of sheen because of the glossy cardstock. I hope you like it. I'ppy to have a beautiful thank you card for the next time I need one.

Happy Sunday to everyone!

Cocktails Anyone?

Grrrrr....I just had this all typed up real nice and then I hit something that deleted it all, so here I go again!

This morning I challenged myself to use some of the things I have been accumulating over the summer. I love a lot of the weathered looking papers; however, when I go to use them, they don't seem to match up with the stamps I have. Well, today I think I found a combination that works. I think I'll use this as a birthday card once I find an appropriate, witty sentiment!

Here are the products I have been collecting and finally broke open for this project:

• Cocktails? stamp from Inkadinkado


• Cosmo Cricket paper - Gretel: Gingerbread


• Itty Bitty Backgrounds - I have this for YEARS and NEVER used it!


• Petal Pushers in Yellow and Brown by Bazzill- These are the flowers.


• Fab Brads in Honeycomb by Bazzill


• Rain Dots in copper by Cloud 9 Design


• Tim Holtz Distressing Powder in Old Paper (used with IBB to create sand look the roosters are standing on)


• WWC - I had been borrowing these and using them constantly. Finally I returned them and have been buying 1 color group each month. Well, since I have bought them, I haven't even opened the packages.


• Zots 3-D - I had seen a friend use these with some flowers and HAD to have them. I got them 6 months ago and hadn't used them yet!

Other products:

• Inks: Creamy Caramel, Soft Sky and Chocolate Chip (also used to distress edges)


• SU Distressing tool


• Really Rust and Very Vanilla Paper