Thinking of You-Truly Scrumptious #9

OKay so time is evidently flying by...will it ever slow down? 

It's already Truly Scrumptious Challenge #9....wow!

Challenge 9 is a great sketch by the talented Beth...I have to tell you, I love this sketch! I don't usually do rectangle cards but I just love how this one turned out! 

Here is the sketch:

The second part of the challenge is to alter one or more flowers....no problem! I LOVE adding flowers to my cards; and I always change them up a bit! I distressed these paper flowers, layered them and added brads.

This weeks sponsor is Whiff Of Joy...now who doesn't LOVE WOJ stamps?? So head over to Truly Scrumptious so you can play along with us and have the chance to win a WOJ stamp. :o)

 

Paper is Close To My Heart-Caprice

Image is WOJ, colored in with copics of course. ;O)

Flowers are punched and some are CTMH

Brads and ribbon are CTMH

The bookplate is CTMH, stamped with a CTMH sentiment stamp in chocolate ink

I also added some stickles...how predictable eh? lol

Thanks for looking and have a scrumptious Wednesday!

-Nicole M Bailey

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #4

Geesh I know it's April Fool's day today...I'm so lame I can never think of anything creative to do on April Fool's day besides telling people I'm pregnant when I'm not! If you did something crazy today or have done something crazy in the past tell me about..I'd love to have a good April Fool's joke for next year! :O)

Well, it's that time again....another Truly Scrumptious Challenge! Challenge #4 is called Flower Power. You have to use the sketch created by Mina (scroll down) and you have to add flowers....easy peasy! And Guess who our sponsor for Challenge #4 is......Whiff Of Joy!  WOJ has the most adorable stamps! I just LOVE them. 

Here are the complete details for my card today:

Paper is Imaginisce-"Fairest Of Them All"...I just love this paper! It's so cute and adorable!

I also used some CTMH Sweet Leaf cardstock

The image is Whiff Of Joy-Melinda Blowing Kisses

I colored Melinda in with my copics-I also sponged around the edge with some CTMH-Blush ink while the oval was still in the nestie, that way the recessed edge stayed white.  

I also decided to try out the technique where you use your stylus to emboss with the nesties. I was having trouble getting my sizzix to make a nice emboss with the tan mats....anyways, I used my empressor and it worked awesome.

Here is a picture of the empressor if you aren't sure what it is. :O)

         

The ribbon is SU!-certainly celery and I also used my SU! Ticket punch on the corners

I punched the flowers using my Marvy and EK Success punches

The brads and gems are Close To My Heart

I also added some stickles to Belinda's wings & hearts

The sentiment stamp is from Close To My Heart-"God Bless You"...stamped in CTMH Garden Green ink

Thanks for looking, make sure you head over to The Truly Scrumptious Blog to take our challenge.  Have a super Wednesday!

-Nicole M Bailey  

 

First Ever Truly Scrumptious Challenge

Okay so the day is finally here! 

Truly Scrumptious' very first challenge. 

The first challenge is a sketch challenge. 

Here are the details for my card:

Paper is Close To My Heart-Unforgettable

Ribbon and Brads are Close To My Heart

The image is Whiff Of Joy, and I colored it in with my copics. I also used some twinkling H2O's on the mug that my friend Shelly lent me. Gotta get myself some of those twinkling H2O's!

The sentiment is MFT

Thank you for looking and have a great day! 

Make sure you go to the Truly Scrumptious blog right now so you can take part in the challenge...we have some great stamps from Alota Rubber Stamps up for grabs! 

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)

 

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!

Sketch Saturday Challenge #16

Another WOJ card-featuring my fav. image! I just couldn't resist. :O)

This card is for the Sketch Saturday challenge. 

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

CS is CTMH-Cocoa/Sweet Leaf

Flowers are CTMH/Bazzil and the white flower with leafs are making memories-I think...

The silver charms are from my LSS. 

I stamped the image on watercolor paper from Michael's craft store with my versafine ink pad. I colored in the image with my watercolor pencils and water brush.

The sentiment stamp is MFT.

Brads are CTMH. 

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Blowing Kisses

This is a card featuring the second WOJ stamp that arrived on friday. I just love these stamps they are so cute and fun to color in and they stamp very crisp and evenly. :o)

I worked on this card for a while-I got the image stamped no problem and the layout done no problem but it just wouldn't balance out so I just kept adding embellishments to it until 11 brads later-it looked good to me! I ended up adding flowers/edge accessories and ribbons!

Paper is from my never ending K&Company stack from costco

I colored in the image with my watercolor pencils and water brush. 

Flowers are bazzil

I also used a martha stewart border punch that embosses at the same time. 

Brads and ribbon are CTMH.

CS is CTMH-Olive and Desert Sand

The sentiment is CTMH-Say It In Style

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Brand New WOJ stamp

My brand new WOJ stamps arrived on Friday-yippee! I just love this stamp-I love how her hair falls, I love how she is sitting, I love how she appears to be blowing the steam off her hot coffee, I love her jeans and her warm cozy sweater. :o)

I was enjoying some free time at my LSS this morning and found these cool little charms, I bought a few other styles also, they are a great embellishment alternative to my prima flowers, I love my primas but I only own a few different colors/styles.  

I did a little bit distressing with my dauber and chocolate chalk ink-I haven't done that in a while.  I also used my edge distresser a bit. 

I colored the image in with my watercolor pencils and water brush. 

I made the swirl with my sizzix and quickutz die. 

Paper is CTMH Life Delights

Colors: Chocolate/Blush/Lilac Mist and Sweet Leaf. 

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