A Peek Into My Stamping Room

Did you see it?

I am on the Spellbinders Design Team!  Can you believe it?  I am so excited!!  I officially start in May, but I can tell you now.  I can't wait to get started.  In April I get to go to AZ and learn a bunch of stuff meet the owner, Stacy and her crew face to face, plus meet the rest of the design team.  If you don't know anything about Spellbinders Paper Arts, check it out!  If you hear whooping, hollering and jumping that is me! LOL

Don't forget I am giving away some blog candy in the form of the latest Stamp It! magazine.  Just go to the post underneath this one and post a comment to be entered into the contest!!

Limited Supply Challenge day plus some BLOG Candy!!

Today is the Limited Supply Challenge over at Splitcoast.  The challenge was to make your own designer paper.  So I thought this card would fit that challenge perfectly.  This is the Bandanna Technique from Technique Junkies newsletter.  Very easy, fun and messy, LOL!!

Supplies Used:  True Friend & Elegant Thank you stamp sets; Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, Basic Brown classic ink pads; Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, whisper White cardstock; white gel pen, scallop & 1 1/4" square punches, fancy brad, riding hood red taffeta ribbon.
So I have an extra copy of the new Stamp It! magazine that I would love to share with one of you! So post a comment to this thread to be entered into a drawing.  You have until Monday, March 2 to post and then I will use that random number generator thingy to pick one person!!  Be sure to let me hear from you!!

New Look!

What do you think of my new look?  I was getting alittle tired of the other blog banner so I contacted Michelle Laycock and she hooked me up with something new.  Now the old one might come back later but for now, this new banner is pretty cool.  Plus there is a background and a signature to match.  Fancy!

Hope you are having a great week!  Mine has been really good.  Have you seen the Stamp It! magazine out on newstands?  I got myself a copy last night.  I have some cards in this issue and was very excited to see them.   Sorry I don't have a picture of one to share but that computer crashed, remember?

I also noticed that the Stamping Royalty contest is going on again and while I can't enter again, I am expecting you guys to enter.  Some of this year's prizes are Copic Markers!  Pretty cool, if you ask me!

I have a couple of more cards to share with you tommorrow.  I am getting ready for Caitlyn's non-birthday (remember, leap day child?).  She is having 12 girls over to spend the night.  AHHHH!  Oh well, pray for me!  Talk to you soon.

Sketch Challenge Wednesday!

Today is Sketch Challenge day over at Splitcoast Stampers.  It's a fun sketch and could potentially make a quick card.  The reason why I say potentially is that I had so many phone calls and interruptions it wasn't even funny while making this card.  Here it is:

 

I used two stamps from DRS Designs today.  The Happy Birthday you have seen before but the stamp I used as a background you haven't seen.  Its really an oval mosaic stamp but I found when you put your Versamark pad right in the middle you only get the cool mosaic look not the oval.  Its hard to see on this picture, sorry.  But I think if you look closely you can see it.

Supplies Used:  Happy Birthday and Large Oval Stained Glass stamps from DRS Designs; Certainly Celery, Cameo Coral, Whisper White Cardstock; Porcelain paper pad from Basic Grey; Basic Brown ink pad, gold brads, Versamark ink pad, Ribbon Originals

More Mojo Monday on a Tuesday....

The Mojo Monday sketch took me awhile to find the time to make something.  But I got a package in the mail with some cool stuff in it and decided it was perfect for this sketch!

I had trouble deciding what sentiment to use so I just didn't use one!  I will figure it out later.

Supplies Used:  Poppy Pair from Cornish Heritage Farms; Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White cardstock; Porcelain Paper Pad from Basic Grey; Palette Hybrid Noir ink pad; Copic Markers - C1, RV11, R20, YG11, YG63; Button Bouquet from Stampin' Up!; Eyelet Edge punch from Stampin' Up!; Photo corner punch

I will have more to share tommorrow!

Learn a new technique on Monday!

I don't know about you, but it was hard getting up and going this morning.  Is it just a typical Monday morning or am I getting sick?  Hopefully, just a typical Monday.  Today's challenge on Splitcoast Stampers was to try the Rubber Band Stamping Technique.  Nothing too hard, just wrap some rubber bands around a wood or acrylic block and stamp using versamark.  Then you can either emboss it or just sponge over the versamark.  Remember, the versamark will resist ink so your "rubber band" marks will still show thru the ink you sponge.

I used some DRS Designs stamps for this card.  The cute birthday sentiment (H371) made me think of my middle daughter, Caitlyn, right away.  You will remember she was born on Leap Day and there isn't one this year!  So she is celebrating on Friday night and this will be her birthday card.  The balloon image (E491) was stamped 3 times and cut out.  I think Caitlyn will really like it because these are her favorite colors.  She is not a girly girl.  But she will be 13 years old.  Now I have 2 teenagers!  I will have my pity party later if you would like to join me.  LOL just kidding ......not really.

Talk to you tommorrow!

Sketch Challenge Wednesday!

Here is my card for the sketch challenge today on Splitcoast Stampers.  I used an image from DRS Designs.  Its a Butterfly and I just love butterflies.  The stamp is also a ribbon slide, so if you cut out the little spaces in the middle, you can slip some ribbon right thru for a very cool look.  You can check out the stamp and see other ribbon slide stamps at DRS Designs.

I stamped the butterfly using Palette Hybrid Noir Black ink pad on whisper white cardstock.  Then I used my Cert. Celery Marker & my Baja Breeze blender pen marker to color it in.  Oh yeah, I used creamy caramel on his middle.  I then cut it out carefully and using mini glue dots I attached half-pearls to his body.  I used my new stamp set, Friends 24-7, for this card.  I stamped the background in baja breeze, and even stamped on the celery circles.  The background paper is by Basic Grey and its pretty subtle but I think it goes well.   Well, tommorrow is the Ways to Use It challenge.  Wonder what is in store?

Don't forget that Virtual Stamp Weekend is this weekend.  It will be lots of fun and I am going to participate, too.  If I didn't tell you, I am now a Gallery Moderator over at Splitcoast (just started this week) so I had planned to "work" my shift during VSN.  But I found out today that I don't need to work, because the gallery will be on automatic upload.  So there is no excuse for not joining in and checking out the VSN weekend.  See you tommorrow!

Color Combo Tuesday!

The color challenge today on Splitcoast Stampers is Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss & More Mustard.  Now that doesn't sound like a great color combo but here is the result!

I just got this stamp set yesterday along with the Eyelet border punch.  I was so excited to get my order!  Another SAB set and other goodies.  I got some other stuff in the mail yesterday that I will share with you later.  I am pretty sure you can see that I stamped the flowers from Eastern Blooms on the base of the card for a more interesting background.  I had to use the Stamp-a-majig for this but I lined those trees straight and where I wanted them!!

Talk to you tommorrow!

Supplies Used:  Trendy Trees, Eastern Blossoms; More Mustard, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White Cardstock; More Mustard, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Brown ink pads; gold brads, eyelet border punch & Stampin' Dimensionals.

Monday Technique Lover's Challenge!

The challenge for today is to make a Round Top Box.  You can find the thread HERE.  There is even a pattern to print out onto your cardstock, so all you have to do is cut it out and put it together.  Pretty easy.  Today I am using some of the new release stamps I got from DRS Designs.  The Giga Birthday Circle stamp fits perfectly into the Giga Scallop Punch I have that Marvy makes.  Too cool if you ask me!  What do you think?

The Cherry Top Cupcake is one of my favorites!  I used it already to make Caitlyn's birthday invitations.  I ran some Riding Hood Red cardstock thru my crimper and trimmed it using my tabletop cutter to get that "stuff" inside the box.  I think I will make a couple of these for Caitlyn's birthday party.  Cute party favors with some candy inside sitting around her stand of cupcakes.  That will look good won't it?

Hope you have a great Monday!

Sketch Challenge Wednesday

Here is my card for today's sketch challenge on Splitcoast.

I just got an order from Stampin' Up! today!  Here is the new Tea Party Designer Series Paper.  Isn't cute?  I love the colors and the flowers.  I will have to buy the stamp set that matches it eventually. 

Supplies Used:  Sweet Stems stamp set; Almost Amethyst, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Tea Party Designer Series Paper; Nestabilities, gold brads, ribbon, photo corner punch, piercing template & paper piercer, markers.

Hope you have a great day!  Don't forget Valentine's Day is Saturday.  We are making stuff for Valentine's day parties right now!!