For You

So here it is...

My husband has taken the children with him while he runs some errands....leaving me here alone so I can do my quick books work that he wants done by the time he gets home.....and here I am in my craft room making cards! I just can't help it!

Anyways, I'm just going to post this card really quickly and get to work! :O)

The details for this card are pretty much the same as the last except for the flowers which are primas. 

I also used my nifty nesties. 

I used the sketch from this weeks HH challenge # 9...but I didn't use HH stamps so I didn't enter it....

here is the sketch:

By the way, picking up pictures, dragging them and dropping them with my mac rocks!!! 

This is so easy! No copying and pasting! 

Thanks for looking. 

Sweet Kisses

Here is another Magnolia card....kissing Edwin and Tilda. :O)

I really wish I had a good sentiment stamp to go with this set...like "Sweet Kisses" or "First Kiss" or something clever but Hello was the best I could find!

Anyways, Here are today's card details:

Paper: CTMH-Magic Moments (ah ha that would be a good sentiment stamp for this card: "Magic Moments")

Colors: CTMH-Sweet Leaf/Indian Corn Blue/Hollyhock/Sunflower/Cocoa

Brads and Ribbon are CTMH

I colored in Tilda and Edwin with my copic markers.

Thanks for looking! 

Thinking of you

Here is yet another Tilda card. 

I guess I've been making a lot of Magnolia cards lately. :O)

Here are today's card details:

Sentiment Stamp: CTMH

Paper: CTMH-More to Adore

Colors: CTMH-Blush/Hollyhock/Chocolate

Brads/Ribbon/Edge anchor-CTMH

Corduroy Flowers/Metal flowers-from my LSS.

I colored in Tilda with my copics

I also used my nifty nesties and cutterpede scallop trimmer. 

Thanks for looking and have a fun saturday!

Magical

I'm just lovin' my new magnolia's.... :O)

So here is another card featuring Tilda...and her boyfriend Edwin.  Aren't they adorable?

Here are the details:

Paper is retired CTMH

Colors: CTMH-Outdoor denim/Indian Corn Blue/Plum Mist

Stamp: Magnolia

Sentiment Stamp: CTMH

Ribbon&sparkles are CTMH

I used my MS snowflake border punch and MS snowflake punch-obviously a favorite of mine this season. :O)

I also used two felt SU! snowflakes that my SU! friend Shelly gave me.

Oh and I added some doodlebug sugar coating on Tilda's Cuffs and coat hem.

Let It Snow-Friday Sketchers Challenge #28

I finally received my brand new magnolia stamp club stamps for winter!!

Yippee, they are so cute and fun to play with. ;O)

I actually got around to doing a friday sketch challenge...and there were a lot of elements to this week's challenge and I think I did pretty good. 

Here are the details for today's card:

Paper: CTMH-Evensong

Colors: CTMH-Olive/Sorbet/Cranberry/Garden Green

Stamps: Magnolia-Tilda

Sentiment Stamp: CTMH

Brads/waxy flax and sparkles are CTMH

Buttons: My Mind's Eye

I used my copics to color the images in and my MS snowflake punch and my nifty nesties. :O)

Oh and I also used my swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder-my favorite.

The felt snowflake is from my friend Shelly who is a SU! consultant.

Here's the Scoop

I wanted to try something a bit different today. :O)

I decided to challenge myself by not using any patterned paper. 

I am a self-professed patterned paper-holic! Which is not a bad thing but it's good to occasionally step out of your comfort zone right? 

You can't really see the sentiment stamp but it's there on the right side of the image. It's a watermark, and it says "Here's the Scoop!"

Here are the details:

Stamps: MFT-Here's the Scoop

Colors: Hollyhock/Creme Bruele

Technique: Copic markers

Brads/Buttons/Ribbon: CTMH

I used a couple of my cuttlebug embossing folders-gotta love those!

I also used my martha stewart border punch. :O)

TFL>

Also, I wanted to share with you...

my husband has been in Hong Kong for the past week and he found some copics for me...they are a bit cheaper around $5.00 cnd and no shipping. :O) 

I'm so excited! He was able to get me 15 of the 18 colors I aksed for! Yippee! And he is due to arrive in Calgary this afternoon!

  

Thinking about you

I was messing with this card for a bit. :O)

My kids were right here beside me so I ended up assisting them more than actually working on my card. There may be a few too many elements. Oh well. 

Here are the details:

Stamp: Magnolia

Sentiment stamp: CTMH-Say It In Style

Paper: CTMH-A Perfect day

Colors: Cocoa/Tulip/Sorbet 

Flowers: Bazzill

Brads/Ribbon: CTMH

I used my copic to color in Tilda

And I used my Martha Stewart Punch to make the border

TFL>

Hoopefully I can steal some time by myself today to do a little scrappin' I'm really feeling like I need some ME time. :O)

Frosty

Another card using the winter paper-Aspen. Not one of my favorites when I first saw it in the idea book, but as soon as I got it in the mail & started playing with it it became a favorite. :O) 

Here are the details:

Stamps: CTMH-Christmas Scripts/Snow Friends

Paper: CTMH-Aspen

Colors: Creme Bruele/Twilight/Outdoor Denim/Bamboo

Snowflakes: Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Ribbon/Brads and Sparkles: CTMH

I also used my nifty circle nesties-gotta love em!

I colored in the snowman with chalk and a blender pen-love that soft look on snowmen. :O)

TFL>

BTW, this is a scheduled post so hopefully is posted properly...last time I scheduled a post blogger forgot to include my picture......so annoying. :O)

 BTW, 

I found a link through Claudia (who by the way is a huge inspiration to me-she creates beautiful artwork!) showing a pictue of the Magnolia winter stamp kit that I know a few of you are anxiously awaiting.....

here it is:

Magnolia Winter Stamp Club 

Missing You...

Here is a card using one of my Magnolia-Tilda stamps. 

I'm anxiously awaiting my Magnolia Winter Stamp Club stamps...I though for sure I'd have them by now. But for now I'll just keep playing with my oldies. :O)

Here are the details for todays card:

Paper: CTMH Caprice 

Colors: CTMH-Chocolate/Crystal Blue/Sweet Leaf/Honey

Technique: Copic Markers

Ribbon/Waxy Flax/and brads: CTMH

Corduroy Flowers: from my LSS

Sentiment stamp: CTMH-Say it in style

I also used my nifty nesties to make the rectangles. 

TFL>

BTW, 

I wanted to thank Yvette for giving me a blog award. :O)

She is so sweet. 

I have a mac computer and have not yet figured out how to save a picture from a blog. 

As soon as I figure it out I'll pastes my award onto my blog so everyone can see it. 

Thanks Yvette-you are soooo sweet. 

Snow Friends

Here is a card I made this morning. 

I love this stamp set-I've had it for years but never really get tired of it. :O)

I pulled out my chalks-which I haven't used forever-especially since I got my copics! 

I used chalk and then went over it with my blender pen to smooth out the strokes. 

Here are the complete details:

Paper: CTMH-Aspen

Colors: CTMH-Twilight/Creme Bruele/Bamboo/Outdoor Denim

Stamp Set: CTMH-Frosty Friends

Snowflakes: Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch

Sparkles/Brads/Ribbon/Spiral-CTMH

Thanks for looking. :O)

Celebrate for HH Challenge #7

I originally meant to use a Tilda stamp for this card, but she wouldn't fit into the rectangle I made using my nesties...and I really wanted to use my new rectangle nesties!

So I searched through my stash and found the little birds and cat. 

The card appears so cute and sweet and happy, but is the scene a bit sinister..... 

After all any cat would be celebrating if two chubby birds were flying over head. :O)

Okay enough chit chat, here are the details:

Technique: Copic and a CTMH marker or two

Paper: Chatterbox-Happy Garden

Stamps: Magnolia/CTMH-sentiment

Ribbon: CTMH

Waxy Flax on buttons: CTMH

Brads: bazzill

Buttons: My Mind's Eye

Flower: Making Memories

Star Dust stickles on the cat and bird's wings.

I also used my Martha Stewart border punch and rectangle nestibilities

Thanks for looking!

I know I should be using a High Hopes stamp for the challenge#7-"sparklemania"..I hope it's still okay! 

I'll leave a link back to the High Hopes stamp site-they really have the cutest stamps out there! And they are a great canadian company! :O)

Merry Pursuits

A quick Christmas card using Close To My Heart Evensong paper. 

Here are the details:

Stamps: CTMH-Say it In Style/Merry Pursuits

Paper: CTMH-Evensong

Colors: CTMH-Garden Green/Cranberry/Sorbet/New England Ivy

Brads: CTMH

Sparkles:  Me & My Big Ideas

I used my Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch/My SU! Ticket Corner Punch and my Circle Nesties

Thanks for looking have a wonderful weekend!

I colored in using a combination of copic markers and CTMH markers-which actually works good. 

So I have to add that I originally made this card and the post yesterday and had a scheduled post for this morning...just for the fun of it! And when it came up this morning the picture wasn't there! Technology.....can't rely to much on it. :O)

Angel Sent Gift Card

I know this card looks like a normal size but it's actually super small. :O)

It's a 2.5 by 3.5 gift tag.

Paper is CTMH-Evensong

Sparkles are CTMH

Stamp is angel sent by CTMH

I colored in the angel with copic markers and added some stickles to her wings (you can't really see it in the picture)

TFL> 

You made my day!

Wow! It's been a long time since my last post. Life just got so crazy for a while there that I couldn't find any time to blog or stamp..... a very sad time indeed! :O)

Anyways, I'm back and here is my come back card. 

The stamp is one of my favorites: WOJ

And here are the rest of the details:

Stamp: WOJ

Sentiment Stamp: MFT

Technique: Copic markers

Paper: CTMH

Colors: CTMH-Hollyhock and Cocoa

Ribbon, Brads, Charm, : CTMH

Metal Flowers: My LSS

I also used my nesties. 

Thanks for looking. :O)

Oh and by the way, check out Lisa's site because she is giving away some BLOG candy. :O)

 

Edwin

I finally had a chance to play with some of the stuff I got from Kelly's blog candy. 

I'm still having trouble getting copics to match with my cs and paper but I think this one worked out okay-still need a copic to match with my CTMH-Sweet Leaf....

Here are the details:

Stamp: Magnolia-Edwin

Sentiment Stamp: CTMH-Say It In Style

Brads and Snaps: CTMH

Paper: CTMH

Card stock: Cocoa and Indian Corn Blue

Copics: Skin:E000/E00/E11/R02 Clothes: B45/E47/E37/Y35/YG03/YG63 Wings: B00

 I also used my SU! star punch.

TFL>

Ciao Bella

I must start off by saying I love this stamp-:O)

Then I have to rant a bit....I went out last night and bought 7 more copics...to match with the new line of Imaginisce paper...."Fairest Of Them All"

when I got home and started coloring with my copics I couldn't get any of the colors to match with the paper!!! What is up with that? I have 23 copics, and I can barely get any of them to match with any paper I own-and I own a lot of paper!!!

Anyways, after several attempts to color in with my copics, I decided to use my water color pencils.

Here are the details for today's card:

Stamp: Whiff of Joy

Sentiment Stamp: MFT

Techniques: machine stitching/water color 

Ribbon and brads: CTMH

Cardstock: CTMH Sweet Leaf

Patterned Paper: Imaginisce "Fairest Of Them All"

Dragon Fly Charms: My LSS

I also used my nifty nesties. 

Dot technique inspired by Cindy Haffner 

I forgot to tell you..I won Kelly's blog candy the other day! Yeah! I love winning blog candy. :O)

Thanks Kelly!

HH Challenge #3-Octopus Wishes

I made this card for the High Hopes Blog Challenge #3-use stitching on a card.

Gotta love High Hopes they have the cutest stamps!

Here are the details:

Paper: My Mind's eye 

Stamps: High Hopes

Technique: Sansodor & Prisma Pencils and machine stitching

Brads: CTMH

Cardstock: CTMH-Autumn Terracotta/Tulip

Tilda & Her Turkey

Here is Tilda holding her hot from the oven Thanksgiving turkey. 

I don't really have any fall stamps and I definitely don't have any turkey stamps so I dusted off my cricut and made one. I used doodle charms cart. I used my dauber and colored in the turkey to make it look basted and roasted-yummy! :O) 

I hope you like it. 

Here are the details:

Paper: CTMH A Perfect day

CS: Chocolate/Tulip/Sorbet

Technique: Copic Markers

Brads & Ribbon are CTMH

Thanks for looking!

High Hopes Challenge #2

Okay so I pulled out my copics again-wow I do just love my copics! The only problem is that I don't have enough of them-and the colors I do have don't really match with any paper that I have. 

So I decided to try and make my own paper-and it worked out great! 

I randomly stamped and then colored in with my copics to make my patterned paper; and then used the same colors to color in Tilda! :o)

And then when I completed the card I realized it had blue/green/brown and a neutral-thus qualifying for HHC2-Yippee!

Here are the details:

Stamp: Magnolia/CTMH Friendship Blessings

Sentiment: MFT

Paper: Randomly Stamped Flowers from Friendship Blessing

CS: CTMH Chocolate/Buttercup-embossed with cuttlebug swiss dots

Ribbon and Brads: CTMH

Flowers: Prima and Bazzil

Copics: E00/E11/R20/YG03/YG63/Y21/B45/B32/R02/E35/E37/E29

OOPS! I just realized I didn't use High Hopes stamps for the high hopes stamp challenge.....sorry about that; 

how about I include another link to your site.... 

Check out High Hopes-they do have the cutest stamps out there! 

Another Sarah Kay

Here is another card featuring one of my new Sarah Kay stamps-of course Sarah Kay just released her winter stamps but...oh well, I just couldn't pass her summer collection up. 

Here are the details:

She's colored in with watercolor pencils and my water brush. Stamped with versafine on watercolor paper from Michael's. 

Paper: K&Company

Ribbon and Buttons: CTMH

Sentiment Stamp: MFT

I also used my nesties to make the ovals. :O)

Thanks for looking>

New Sarah Kay

Sorry about the slack on posting-my daughter had her ninth birthday party this past weekend and it just really consumed every spare minute I had!!!

Anyways, my brand new Sarah Kay stamps arrived last week and I am so happy to have time to play with them. They are so finely detailed and delightful. 

I made this card for a friend of mine who is going through stressful times.

I also used my sewing machine to sew the borders. 

Here are the details:

Paper is K&Company

CS is CTMH Cocoa

Flowers are inknown

Brads & Ribbon are CTMH

Sentiment Stamp is MFT

Stamp is Sarah Kay-Rose's Garden

Thanks for looking>

New Magnolia

My new magnolia stamps arrived yesterday...yeah! These are my favorites-I never have trouble makin a card with Tilda-she's my gal! LOL

Here are the details for todays card:

Paper: CTMH Caprice

Colors: Crystal Blue/Sweet Leaf/Chocolate/Honey

Stamp: Magnolia-Tilda holding basket

Technique: Watercolor

 Flowers are Bazzil

Spiral Clip and Brads are CTMH

BTW, as a side note-I bought some watercolor paper from walmart, bc I thought all watercolor paper was the same; evidently not! I had trouble with this watercolor paper-it made blending very difficult. I'm not happy with how tilda's face turned out and was afraid to add cheek color....o she's looks slightly sickly....But I just worked so hard on her clothes and am so happy with the way that turned out that I decided to still post it. :O)

I'm off to Michael's to find my first brand of watercolor paper I bought-it worked great!

I hope I can still remember what the brand was!! lol 

What brand do you use?

Thanks for looking. ;O)

You're Simply Sweet

Today's card is another MFT. I'm anxiously awaiting some new stamps from Magnolia and Sweet & Sassy....so I'm going through my stamp stash and trying to use all my old favorites while I wait. 

Here are the details:

Stamp: MFT

Paper: CTMH Boom-Di-Ada

Colors: CTMH Red barn/Olive/Hollyhock/Goldrush/Sweet Leaf

Ribbon/Buttons and Brads are CTMH

I paper pieced the wall and floor on the stamped image & water colored everything else with my water color pencils 

TFL>

Mermaid Wishes for High Hopes Challenge #1

So High Hopes  just introduced 50 new stamps yesterday and they also introduced their new blog...which also includes the first challenge...brads & birthday wishes! Yeah! I need an easy challenge. :O) I just love High Hopes, they are a great canadian company and they make the cutest, most adorable stamps!

So here is my card for HHC1. 

I hope my "Hugs & Fishes" counts as a birthday wish....

The details are:

Paper: My Minds Eye and K&Company

Stamps: High Hopes

Technique: Watercolor

Brads and Ribbon: CTMH

Namaste

So I'm in my craft room-DH brought the four kids swimming-I'm here with my youngest and he's napping.....aaaahhhhh-there is no better way to craft-in silence. :O)

Here is another card using MFT Serenity Things stamp set. This card is super simple. 

I used copics this time. (Eoo/E11/Y21/E37)

The thing with copics is that you need two or three colors in the same number family in order to do any shading-I did not know this! So I really need to order some more copics....hmhmhm I think I need a job now! 

Anyways, I still love my copics and am willing to invest in them bc they are so awesome!

Here are my card details:

Paper: K&Company

CS: CTMH Olive

Flower: Kaiser

Metal flower is from my LSS

Brads are doodlebug-not my favorite by the way-they really bend out of shape when you try to insert them...not good!

TFL> 

Serenity Now

Sorry I've been slack about posting the last few days; fall is always so crazy with the kids back in school and doing all their activities!

Here are the details for todays card:

Paper: CTMH-More To Adore

Stamps: MFT

Colors: Chocolate/Blush/Hollyhock

Technique: Water color pencils and water brush

Brads and Charm are CTMH

Flowers are Bazzil 

Buttons: I can't remember the brand....

Ribbon is from my Local Cupcake store

Thanks for looking!

First try with copics.....

Okay so Kimmie is one of my hugest inspirations for using copics. She does beautiful work and she is very knowledgeable.  I took her advice and bought some wausau cardstock (bright white) -I got mine at Walmart. Kim also uses memento ink to stamp her images so I tracked that down too. And they do work beautifully with copics. I can blend easily and the image does not bleed. Thanks Kim!

This is my first try-I only stamped half the magnolia image and am not sure if I have CS to match the colors I bought but I wanted to post it anyways. It's not perfect but it turned out way better than I thought it would.  It kinda "stained" a bit...on tilda's apron, not sure why..maybe over blending???

I also wanted to note that I got sketch markers. 

TFL>

I'll try and get a card done tonight, I just have to search thru my stash for paper/CS to match the copic colors I bought. 

I also wanted to tell you about some HEE HAW blog candy over at Michelleo's blog. Her blog is so cute and she has some fabulous blog candy she wants to give away!

EX-citing News

I have some exciting news.......I have officially gone copic!

My LSS just got in their first shipment of copic sketch markers....so of course as soon as I heard I sped down and spent my first 100$ on copic markers!

I'm so excited I can't wait to try them out!

AS soon as I get a card together, using my brand new copics-I'll post a picture!

Yippee!!!!! 

Rachelle Anne Miller

I've had this super cutie for quite a while and decided she needed to be inked up again!

She's a Rachel Anne Miller stamp and I got her and the sweet & sassy stamp store. 

Here are the details:

Paper is CTMH-Blue Ribbon

Colors: CTMH-Outdoor Denim/Cranberry/Honey/Indian Corn Blue

I colored the image in with my watercolor pencils and I also used CTMH markers with my watercolor brush

The gold flowers are from my LSS. 

The sentiment stamp is a Michael's $1.50 find

The extra bird is a Magnolia stamp

I also used a Martha Stewart border punch. 

Brads & Ribbon are CTMH

And the sketch is from a previous Friday Sketchers.

TFL>

Glam Girl

I've had this stamp for a long time but have had a lot of trouble with it for some reason...

Anyways, I figured the best way to show case this glam girl was to use a simple patterned paper. One that was more graphic than floral...does that make sense?

Here are the details:

stamp: Glam Girl C.C Designs

Paper: another sheet from my never ending K&Company stack from costco-I think I need to retire this stack for a while and use something, anything else! lol

I also used Sweet Leaf and Orchid CTMH CS

I paper pieced her clothes

Colored in all other parts with CTMH markers

Added doodle bug sugar coating to her shades.

Bling is CTMH

Sentiment is MFT

Ribbon is SU!

I made the flowers on my cricut-geesh I resurrected my bug!

Thanks for looking

First Day Of Fall Card

I surprisingly don't have many fall stamps-I have two sets, I'm not really fond of either....

So I pulled out this retired CTMH set and colored it with fall colors!

Here are the details:

Paper is CTMH retired fall paper

Colors: Barn Red/Autumn Terracotta/Cranberry

Leafs and Acorns were made using my cricut

Buttons/Brads are CTMH

I colored the image in with my watercolor pencils

TFL>

My Plan...

Okay so I know you want to see a card but I wanted to share with you my plan-which I'm sure most of you do this already but it hadn't  occurred  to me until last night!

So after my kiddies were all tucked in and sleeping-I took out my basket of cling stamps and started stamping-no pressure just the images. For me because I have five children and two are still at home with me-I usually only get to "steal" a bit of time here and there. So now I canjust grab my already stamped image and go to town! Plus there are a lot of stamps in here that I totally forgot about!

Anyways, I plan on getting a lot of cards done this week now!

I'll post a card later. 

Leave a comment with a tip you use to save time....

see you later!

What's Up Cupcake?

So here is a quickie-I really need to entertain the kiddies-they are going a bit stir crazy so I can't spend the whole day in my scrap room!

I made this card and it just needed something so I hope Cindy Haffner doesn't mind me using her "dot" technique. It really is her signature.  She's an amazing artist and my work will never compare to hers.....

Anyways here are the details:

Stamp Set: MFT 

Colors CTMH: Sorbet/Tulip

I colored in the image with ink from the pad

Doodlebug sugar coating white sparkles

Just Clowning Around-Friday Sketchers Challenge #20

Wow! I can't believe it's friday already...and friday afternoon at that!

The one good thing about fridays is Friday Sketchers!   One of my favorite sketch challenge blogs! 

So todays card is this weeks sketch. 

I colored the images in with my CTMH markers and my waterbrush. I'm so glad this is possible bc all I have is CTMH CS an sometimes it can be tough finding the perfect watercolor pencil to match. 

I made this card for my nephew-sorry about the flower Bruin but it's so hard for me to not include at least one flower in every card/layout I create! ;O)

Paper is from my never ending K&Company stack from Costco.

CTMH CS: Cocoa/Sweet Leaf and Crystal Blue

Buttons and Waxy flax are CTMH

Stamps are High Hopes

Flower is from my LSS.

Thanks for looking!