Use that Stash!

Happy Friday! Don't you just love Fridays? 
Today is the start of a brand new challenge at
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Ch#48: Forgotten Stash

Create any type of project using some of your Forgotten Stash.

Starts: Friday, November 30rd 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thursday, December 6th, Noon EST

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Thursday, December 6th late afternoon

Our Sponsor this challenge is

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Prize: 1 Stamp Set of the Winner's Choice

Here's my project I created for this challenge:

I just love that song, Baby it's cold outside and this Santa Baby snow woman reminded me of that!  Me, I love the hot weather but I don't have any control over the snow that will undoubtedly end up covering Ohio sometime this year.  

This fabulous sassy babe is Santa Baby and she's from Fresh Brewed Designs.  Isn't she something?  Love her and Heather is absolutely fabulous over there!  She's colored with my copics and I've added some white Flower Soft and Stickles to her hat and dress and on the ground around her.  The flowers, papers, gems and lace are all from my stash, but I've had the flowers a while and totally forgot about them!  Come on and show us your stash!  

Hope you enjoy her and can't wait to see what treasures you have lurking in your stash!

The Joy of Giving Release from Sassy Studio Designs!

Sure hope you all have enjoyed the first day of our fabulous Joy of Giving Release for Sassy Studio Designs.  Haven't my designing sisters done a fabulous job with these wonderful images? I love our theme of vintage or shabby chic!  Sometimes that's right up my alley!

Christmas is my all time favorite time of the year.  It's the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus, when we celebrate our families, get to let our minds and hearts be childish, when we can believe that anything is possible.  I'll admit I still believe in Santa Clause and that reindeer can fly.  I love the thought of the North Pole being a total toy factory and filled with elves.  I've always been blessed with being around people who have unlimited generosity of heart and love and played into those magical thoughts.  When I got married, we tried to create a magical atmosphere around our home and the holidays for the girls.  One of our traditions was making a mix we called Reindeer Feed.  We took oats, glitter, and sequence and would give each girl a bag to sprinkle outside on the snow or lawn to make sure the reindeer could find the house and give them a snack while they were waiting on Santa.  Reindeer are really special to me during the holidays so I was thrilled when I was asked to present my take on Reindeer Pin Up!

Isn't she just gorgeous? She's colored with copics and Spectrum Noir markers, has gold Smooch on her jungle bells, some stickles on her tail and front and some glitter and Flower Soft on her costume and boots.  The papers and clip at the top are from my stash, the poinsettias are from Prima, the button and hatpin are from Basic Grey and the pearls and lace are from my stash.

This is the entire card.

Here's the side views of the inside.

Since I've been showing the insides, I can't let this one go by!  I love the bright, vintage glass balls and I remember these boxes.  What wonderful, shiny ornaments used to come out of them.  

 Make sure to leave a comment and then to stop by the Sassy Studio Design blog to get all the details on the great opportunity to win some of our release images!  I sure don't want anyone to miss out on the opportunity of the magic of the season!  So fly over and check out all the details!

Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential - Time for Trees!!!

I just have to thank all of you who participated in our first ever Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential Challenge!  All of the entries were just fabulous and we can't wait to see what this week brings!  This week were are challenging you to make time for trees!  DRS Designs is our sponsor and they have some absolutely fabulous designs!  This time of the year trees start to go through a great transformation and how exciting to share that beauty with them.  Here's my take on Time for Trees:

This gorgeous tree stamp is from DRS Stamps and it's called Summer's End and I have just been taken with it.  I changed it for all the seasons.  Since it's fall, here's my view on fall:

I used Autumn Flower Soft and some yellow stickles to pick up the sun that reflects off the falling leaves.  And now for winter:

I've used White Polar Flower Soft and Frosted Lace stickles to give it a glistening look that comes from snow and ice.  While snow is gorgeous to look at, I'm glad I'm heading away from this season!  And then comes spring:

Spring brings renewed life to the trees as well as us all.  I love that time of the year.  And now summer, that I can stand 365!

How gorgeous is all of the green and the bright colors.  Yes, I know most trees this large don't have pink and deep green flowers in them, but hey, with stamping you can make them whatever you want!

All of the papers are from the Indian Summer stack from DCWV and the crystals and some of the embellishments came from a very sweet, dear friend.  I had the best time working with this tree and believe it or not, these cards went together in less than two hours - all four of them!

Make sure you stop over at our Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential Blog and see what my other Design Team buddies have come up with.  I know you won't be disappointed!  So pull out those stamps and make some Time for Trees!  We love seeing what you come up with!

Card Ingredients:

Summer's End by DRS Designs, Indian Summer paper stack from DCWV, Flower Soft, Stickles, ribbon from stash, Rhinestones and Pearls from Michael's, hatpins, various cuttlebug folders, nestabilities

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Trees

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog challenge that is going on right now is to create something with trees.  Here's what I came up with:

This tree stamp is so fabulous and is by DRS Designs.  It is stamped with Memento Cocoa Brown and I highlighted the sky and ground with blue and green Dew Drops from Versachalk.  I added some Autumn Flower Soft and cut it out with nestabilities.  The paper is from the Indian Summer paper stack from DCWV and the ribbon is from Offray.  I added some rhinestones on the edges and think it looks great!

 

Here's one side of the card that shows a bit of the inside.

I hope you stop over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and see all the great design team creations and join in our challenge.  I'd love to see you all participate and show off those trees!

Card Ingredients:

Summer's End  tree by DRS Designs, Flower Soft in Autumn, Indian Summer Paper Stack from DCWV, Rhinestones, Ribbon, nestabilities

Autumn Flower Soft!

Get ready, stampers, because Susana's Custom Art and Card Design is having a release coming up and it's going to be such a treat for us to all play with! Find all the details at Follow Your Heart!

Today Suzanne challenged us design team members for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design to create a card using an autumn theme and to try and add a bit of Flower Soft or Polar Soft to our cards. I went with the autumn theme and Autumn Flower Soft. I've loved this Sweetie, Autumn from the Hearts and Hugs 2 Collection from Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design since I've seen it! I think she's just so adorable and I know she would be perfect for this challenge.

She's done with Prismacolor pencils and OMS and I cut her out with my nestabilities and used some gorgeous paper from My Mind's Eye. I added some rhinestones and Stickles and Glaze Pen to the flowers and her adorable scarf and hat. I love my Petaloo flowers and thought the button with Scrapper's floss would add a great touch.



Victoria Case illustrates some of the cutest faces! I love their eyes. They look so life like when you add a bit of color and some Glossy Accents. Just love them!




Thought I'd show you what the leaves look like up front with the Autumn Flower Soft around it. I love this mix and think it's just gorgeous!




I love corner punches and thought I'd let you see what the inside corner of this care looks like.

Make sure to stop by Susana's store blog to check out my other Design Team buddies creations. I am proud every Tuesday to present work for you with this wonderful and extremely talented group of ladies!

Card Ingredients:

Autumn from Hearts & Hugs 2 Collection from Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design, Prismacolor Pencils, Paper from My Mind's Eye, nestabilities, ribbon, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Glaze pen, Shimmerz Spritz, Flower Soft, EK Success Corner punch

Try It Out Tuesday #36 - Triangular Trifold Card!

I had a great time making this tri-fold card for our Try It Out Tuesday Challenge over at Follow Your Heart, our Design Team blog for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. You can find the instructions here. Super Easy and goes together really quick.

This Adirondack Chair stamp is a scene that you could find in just about any card up here in the Maine area. There's something very New Englander about this chair and is just cries to be looking out over a beach or bay, water of any kind. It is from the Lockhart Stamp Company and I colored it with my Prismacolor Pencils and OMS and added a bit of Autumn Flower Soft and a touch of Glossy Accents to the chair. It will be time to have the mums out for the fall and I thought they would be a nice touch to the pot of flowers. This ribbon reminded me of the colors of the sunset and it just made me think of an early autumn evening. Hope you enjoy it!



Sorry the picture doesn't show the beautiful aqua and rust colors of the papers. I need some new batteries for my camera I think. Make sure to stop by all my design team sister's blogs and see their great and inspiring take on this tutorial. I just know you'll be off making one of these of your own!

Card Ingredients:

Adirondack Chair by Lockhart Stamp Company, Autumn Flower Soft, Glossy Accents, Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, brads by Colorbok, BasicGrey ribbon.

Susan by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD (Susana's Custom Art and Card Design)

It's blog hop and sneak peek time for this fabulously fantastic Susana's Custom Art and Card Design (SCACD) release of Elisabeth Bell for SCACD! If you came here by any other way than from Danni's, please make sure you go back to Suzanne's blog and start at the beginning so you're not missing anything, especially the opportunity for the Kick Butt Blog Candy Susana's offering.

Other than your children, have you ever held something in your hand and just know that it was going to be one of your most treasured possessions, that it was something that was just for you? That's how I felt when I opened my stamps for this exciting and wonderful release! You can laugh if you want and think I'm off my rocker, but when your all time favorite designer illustrates a stamp and your dear, dear friend tells you that for her, it captures what she thought you'd have been like when you were younger and names that sweet likeness after you, well, I don't know about you, but I cried. Real tears! I shook, laughed, screamed really loud and jumped up and down (both dogs thought I'd lost my marbles) and then thanked God for the blessings He's brought to me this year.

I get to design for two of the most giving, caring and inspiring people I've met in such a long time, Susana and Summer, have the pleasure of serving with some of the most talented stampers out there, have the privilege of having Suzanne Dean for a design team leader who inspires and challenges me every week and is so generous with her knowledge, talent and heart, and get to design with two very special people - Anki, who I get to design on two teams with and Danni, who I met right before I made my first blog post. Susana, you mean the world to me and I thank God every day for you and the fact that you took a chance on me. I'll never let you down. Ever. And my friend, Deb, you know how much this stamp means to me. Yes, I am truly humbled and blessed.

Now on to the release! I just want to give you a sneak peek at, well, Me! I have an Elisabeth Bell stamp named after me!!!!! If you know me, you know she's my all time favorite stamp illustrator and it's been so hard for me to keep my excitement at an acceptable level at presenting these sweet, fresh and gorgeous stamps to you. And then to find out one has my name! Well, I've been on Cloud 9 since I held these sweet things in my hands!



I'm colored with copics and have Smooch on my hair tie, heart, buttons and my toe nails! I'm carrying a bouquet of yellow and red Flower Soft with just a touch of violet in it. I adore this BasicGrey Junebug paper, and I colored the Bella Baubles and my ribbon with my bright yellow copic and added a hatpin that I love to make so much. All in all, I think I look pretty good!



In case you've missed it, here's the order for the blog hop:

Suzanne
Lorelie
Aud
Jennifer
Maria
Jami (Who has some pretty fabulous new of her own, Miss Dirty Dozen!)
Teri
Danni
Me
Anki
Back to Suzanne


So make sure that you head back to Suzanne's blog for the final step in our blog hop and then to Follow Your Heart for the great Kick Butt Blog Candy! You have until 3:00 today to get in on that! Get ready to open up those wallets and get some cuteness coming your way!

Card Ingredients:

Susan by Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design (SCACD), Flower Soft, Smooch, copics, nestabilities, Junebug Paper by BasicGrey, Bella Baubles, ribbon, hatpin

Anki's Sweethearts 2 - Sneak Peek and Blog Candy!

I'm playing catch up with my Design Team projects for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and having so much fun in presenting our very own Anki's Sweethears 2! I'd love to introduce you to Emilia who is inviting you on a yummy, fun filled picnic and Fluffy, who is here to welcome a new little one into our world! These new stamps are just too adorable and versatile and I just taken with them all! These sweeties, along with the rest of the collection and for a real treat, another set of Susanaments! These are such great sayings that go along with just about any occasios.

Emilia is colored with copics and has Flower Soft all over her! I love the yellow daisies she's carrying and the gorgeous lush purple flowers in her hair. And don't you love her basket? I added a bit of Glossy Accents to the bottle to make it shine and some Smooch on her dress and her shoes. Isn't this Susanament perfect for any party invite? Love it! I used this weeks Splitcoaststampers sketch and I think she's perfect of it! And I love my Retro paper from Dovecraft, also an exclusive for Susana's store!



Don't you just want to scoop up Fluffy and take this sweetie home? I colored this baby with distressed inks and this sweet paper is from the Baby pack from Dovecroft. I put some Velvet Flock from Doodlebug in the center for a bit of dimension and a bit of glossy accents on the pad of this sweetie's feet. Add a couple of Bella Baubles and some beautiful ribbon and it's done! And another great sentiment from Susana makes it perfect! Simple and just so sweet!

Don't forget to check out the great blog candy today over at Follow Your Heart, our Design Team blog for the store. I hope you love these gorgeous stamps as much as I do. They're just precious and so much fun to color and present! Make sure you take a look at my fellow Design Team member's blogs to get a look at the entire collection. What a treat they are! Just yummy!

Card Ingredients:

Emilia by Anki's Sweethearts 2 for SCACD, Susasnaments, Retro Paper from Dovecraft, Kaisercraft Pearls, copics, Flower Soft, Smooch, nestabilities, ribbon, cuttlebug folder.

Fluffy by Anki's Sweethearts 2 for SCACD, Susanaments, Baby Paper from Dovecraft, Bella Baubles, cuttlebug, distressed inks, ribbon

Try It Out Tuesday #20 - Watercoloring!

Suzanne gave us one of my favorite challenges for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design Design Team Challenge blog, Follow Your Heart. She gave us water coloring, one of my favorite mediums to color with! Oh, I was happy as a clam!

I've wanted to present "Alexa", one of the new Victoria Case for SCACD, these adorable stamps exclusive at Susana's store. I love this little free spirit and she reminds me of my Nichole, all ready to take on a cause and give it her all. I think every family has one of those!

Alexa was stamped on watercolor paper with Staz-On in Jet Black and I used Tim Holtz distressed inks and reinkers to color her with. I love the watercolor effect and had such a great time painting her flowers. I used some Flower Soft, one of my favorite embellishments lately, and Smooch (love that stuff too!), and I just couldn't hold back my stickles! I used the sketch from MoJo Monday and this is one I know I'll use again!



Here's a close up of her tie-dyed top. I think it was perfect to watercolor! Such fun that was! Hope you enjoy this beauty and make sure to stop by the design team blog and check out the other fabulous creations that my sister designers have come up with. I just know they'll be out of this world!

And don't forget to go over the the Stamp Out Alzheimer's site. It's an important stamping event that offers a great way to raise money to fight this horrific disease that robs our loved ones of their wonderful memories and precious minds. This is a week filled with great sketches challenges, prizes and just a great way to use our craft to help raise money to rid us of this terrible disease and keep our loved ones with their memories as long as possible.

Card Ingredients:

Alexa by Victoria Case for SCACD, Smooch, Flower Soft, Tim Holtz distressed inks, K&Company Designer Paper, Stickles, ribbon, Kaisercraft Rhinestones

Blog hop - Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and Sketch Saturday

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Woo Hoo! The day has finally arrived and I'm so excited to present "Belle", one of the nine stunningly adorable stamps from Victoria Case for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design (SCACD), exclusively at Susana's store! We're having such fun doing a great blog hop so if you haven't come to my blog from Anki's then you've missed out on some fabulous creations! Our blog hop starts with our ever fearless and total designing rock star, Suzanne, and then progresses on from there. So if you've missed a step, believe me, you'll want to go back and start over! The end result is an opportunity to see this adorably cute collection! The winner of the Follow Your Heart blog candy will also be announced on the store blog at that time. So on with the cuteness!



My Belle is from the first series entitled "The Hearts and Hugs Collection" so yes, my dear friends, there will be more cuteness on the way! She's precious and don't you just love the Susanament that just matches her perfectly? The Susanaments area collection of 10 sentiments that fit so many different occasions so yes, you'll be seeing more wording on my cards in the future!

I followed Sketch Saturday's sketch for thise beauty. I love their sketches! She's colored with copics and I used some Siren and Moonlight Smooch on her leotard, some stickles on her tutu and some Glossy Accent on her shoes. The paper is from K&Company Wild Raspberry collection and I love the gold textured paper from The Paper Company. Don't you just love that gorgeous Petaloo Mulberry Wild Rose on top? Belle so reminds me of my Nichole and her recitals. Hopefully I'll have lots of recitals coming up from Allie and Emma!

So to finish up your hopping, head on over to Suzanne Dean's blog and see her gorgeous sweetie. It's going to be a real treat! Thanks for joining us and go snatch up these sweet little darlings - but after the hopping! Make sure to stop by Victoria's blog and congratulate her on her wonderful talents and gifts to us! You can also find her Design Team members blogs for their take on her new stamps! Go spread the love!

Card Ingredients:

Belle by Victoria Case for SCACD's Hearts and Hugs Collection, Susanaments by SCACD, Smooch, Petaloos Mulberry Rose, Flower Soft, K&Company Wild Raspberry Paper, Stickles, ribbon, hatpin, copics, Glossy Accents.

Out of This World and some Whiff of Joy!

I love a man in a uniform! Can't resist them. But the thought of an astronaut sends me over the edge! When I was little, I remember sitting outside with my dad at night and I would lay at the edge of our small porch and gaze up at the sky and try and count the stars. Every child has done that. But I was lucky to be born in a time when the space program was just formulating and I was so excited about the possibility of space travel. How exciting to be off of earth and out in the vast outer space! I went as far as to write to my congressman and ask how I got into the space program. He wrote back and I'm the proud owner of some of the original NASA promotional information that was sent to those inquiring minds who wanted to know about getting into the space program. Well, actually my mom still has it. That and my Chatty Cathy doll, but that's another story! I wanted to go up so badly and still would love it. Every space movie that comes out, I see. Love it!

Space Ian from Summer's great store, Roses on Paper, is from The Greeting Farm line (gosh, I adore this line of stamps!) and I had to make him up! I used a glitter pen around his shield and used Glossy Accents to cover his face and I love how it turned out. Looks like you could knock on his shield and never touch his face! I added a moon and embossed the star background to give it a bit of dimension. I colored him with my copics and love how he came out!


And then there's Spring, on of my favorite seasons! I love when everything goes from white, grey and brown to green, pink, lilac, and yellow! Here is Willow with Flower Basket from the new Spring Collection of Whiff of Joy. I've had her done but haven't had the opportunity to put her together yet. I was organizing my craft things and found the small pack of paper from Making Memories called Sabrina and it was perfect. I colored Willow with copics and used Glossy Accents on her band and isn't the Flower Soft just perfect for her basket? I used Bella Baubles on the corners and some ribbon from my stash. I wanted to keep her as non fussy as possible and just show her off!

It feels good to be back and I hope everyone has a great day, be in dreaming of space or of the new spring season we're trying to get to!

Card Ingredients:

Space Ian from The Greeting Farm, Willow with Flower Basket from Whiff of Joy, Glossy Accents, Jelly Roll Clear Glitter Pen, Center Kisses Round, Spots and Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, nestabilities, Bella Baubles, ribbon, Flower Soft,