HSE Halloween blog hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to Hope Stamps Eternal HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP!

Along with seeing some fabulous Halloween creations from the HSE Sweeties, there is also a HIDDEN (well, semi-hidden) HSE Promo Code. To get the code, you follow the blog hop and collect the "hidden" letter from each blog. The letters will spell a word that will give you 25% of EVERYTHING in the Hope Stamps Eternal store!! That includes the Clearance and all the NEW products we just received! (Pre-Order items excluded.) Promo Code will need to be in All Caps and the sale will be Oct 24th - 27th!

AND, it wouldn't be a blog hop without some sweet treats right? So, one of the HSE Sweeties is also a Secret Sweet Treat Stop!! So, be sure to comment on all the blogs, we will choose a random winner from a random blog Sunday night at 8pm Pacific. If you came my way via Colleen, you are on the right track. If not, you can go back to Rachel's blog and start from the beginning.

My card uses the SPOOKY and totally fun Crow Gate image from Inkadinkado. I embossed it in black and then did some sponging to make the moon and the yellow highlighting. I almost never do this, but with this Halloween card I thought it would look cool. The DP is Basic Grey, Eerie. What FUN this paper is!! I used Beate's Weekend sketch #98 for the layout.

Oh and see all the BLING? I finally remembered to use my Zva Creative clear swirls! I removed the last rhinestone on the ends and replaced it with colored rhinestones from Zva's Crystal Dots. The sentiment is computer generated, I used the Matisse ITC font (comes standard with Word), and the purple cardstock is from Core'dinations. I sanded it a bit and the white showed thru -cool!!

Well, thanks for stopping by, now head on over to NATALIE's blog for some more spooky stuff and the next letter!!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Crow Gate (Inka), computer generated sentiment (Matisse ITC)
Ink - VersaMark, pumpkin pie, lovely lilac, black (all for sponging)
Paper - Black, white and Avacodo (all PTI), purple (Core'dinations), and pattern paper Eerie (Basic Grey)
Accessories - Crystal Dots Bright Series rhinestones and Symmetrical Flourishes-small (G) clear (both Zva Creative), rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Distress tool (Heidi Swapp), misc silver ribbon

The Inka Fairy came! AND some sketch cards

Hi everyone! Awhile ago, I entered a contest over at the Spotted Canary site and WON!! I'm even mentioned on the Home page as one of the 5 winners!! The Spotted Canary site is a forum/gallery/community sponsored by EK Success, Inkadinkado and K & Company. Well, last week my prize goodies arrived and check out these!! The paper pack is K & Co Que, Sera Sera, the clear stamp sets are Inka Heartful of Love, All Hallow's Eve, Gem Stone Birds and the wooden stamps are super cute shilouettes! Oh thank you Spotted Canary! AND, they have another contest going on right now -so you can check it out if you want. It's called Back to School Kids Crafts.

This first card uses some of the new Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly Chipboard shapes and paper from the Jolly by Golly mini-deck (Rachel is sold out of the paper, but it was shipped today, so check back to the store soon)! LOVE this paper and LOVE this chipboard!!

I have to say this chipboard has really good adhesive and comes apart really clean compared to Basic Grey chipboard. Don't get me wrong, I love my Basic Grey chipboard stickers, but the paper backing tears a bit and you need additional glue to make it stick. NOT the case with Cosmo! Oh be still my little heart!!

The layout is from this weeks CPS129 sketch. I LOVED the 3 little panels on top of the horizonal piece (which I used as ribbon). The sentiment is one of many cute ones from Verve's Ornamental Christmas set.


My next card started out as the Mojo100 sketch. Can you believe Julee has done 100 Mojo Skeches?!? I can't even design ONE!! LOL! You can check them all out at the MojoMonday Blog.

I just found some Amercian Crafts Thickers at Big Lots (for $2 each!) and really wanted to use a frame piece for the sketch. The pack is from the Wine color collection and was a PERFECT match to my Que, Sera Sera! Woot! BUT, the frame was a touch too big for the circle behind it, so I left it off. So, techincally this doesn't qualify for Julee's sketch!

I stamped the adorable shoe from Express Yourself and embossed it in black. Then I stamped one of the corner flourishes and then place the frame carefully to show just a bit. I decorated the frame a bit with some silver cord, Zva Felt flowers, and silver pearls from Michael's.

Thanks for stopping by! I am just crazy about today's SCS sketch and the week's Mojo sketches, so look for some more sketch cards from me! Have a great Wednesday.

Card Deets:
Stamps - sentiment from Ornamental Christmas
Paper - Jolly by Golly DP, white, Prism paper Rose Medium
Accessories - silver cord, silver pearls, cream grosgrain, corner rounder, Jolly by Golly chipboard stickers

Stamps - Express Yourself
Paper - Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Que Sera Sera, white
Accessories - silver cord, silver pearls, double stitched purely pomegranite ribbon, Chipboard Thickers in Wine, swiss dots EF, Zva felt flowers

Cupcake Inspiration challenge 19

Hi Everyone! It's Sunday and time for another delicious cupcake inspiration challenge. Check out the yumminess this week...

For my inspiration, I used the colors of the rainbow and the cutie patootie yellow flowers. I used my Sleepy Owl image from Inkadinkado and paired it with some PTI colors of Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush and Berry Sorbet. I used copic markers to color Sleepy Owl with and I tried to mimic the rainbow feel in his coloring. The little felt flower at the bottom is from Zva Creative.


Everyone is invited to play along!! If you do, be sure to link your creation to Mr. Linky on the HSE blog. Every week, Rach highlighs the top 5!! And if you upload to SCS or PCP, be sure to use keyword: CIC19.

Thanks for stopping by. Now head on over to my fellow HSE Sweetie's cards and see how they rocked those cupcakies!!

Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Bonnie - The Lucky Clucker
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries (Nat has taken this week off)
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck

Card Deets:

Stamps - Sleepy Owl, Inka

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - Sweet blush, white, berry sorbet, lemon tart and aqua mist bitty dots

Accessories - white taffeta ribbon, berry sorbet topnotch twill, zva creative yellow felt flower, Dew Drops in white, copic markers, white gel pen, circle nesties

HSE Cupcake Inspiration #17

Hi everyone, it's Sunday and that means another fabulous HSE Cupcake Inspiration challenge! Set your peepers on this plate of yumminess...

Disclaimer: my card DOES NOT do these cupcakies justice AT ALL! I seem to have peetered out on making cards today after all the DTGD challenges -whew!

OK so, after admitting that this is not my favorite card of all time, here it is...

The whimsical image is called Butterfly Trail and is a sneak peek of the soon to be released Inkadinkado $1.99 series stamps! Rachel is expecting them in the store SOON!! The felt flowers are from Zva Creative and the gem brads are Basic Grey's Lemonade glazed brads. I was completely drawn to the bright pink and green of the cupcakes and I thought PTI's Raspberry Fizz bitty dots paired with the New Leaf were perfect! For my layout, I used the Weekend Sketch Challenge #90, hosted this week by my fellow Verve Diva, Lauraly!

After much fiddling on this, I thought it needed something at the top, so I pulled out and dusted off my SU corner punch. Remember when we used corners on EVERYTHING? I haven't put corners on a card in AGES and thought it would be fun to do so.

Everyone is welcome to play along! Just link your card to Mr. Linky on the HSE blog. Each week, Rachel will showcase the Top 5 picks!! Now it's time to check out my fellow HSE Sweetie's cards and see how they rocked those cupcakies!!

Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Bonnie - The Lucky Clucker
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Butterfly
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White, new leaf and raspberrry fizz bitty dots (PTI)
Accessories - Oval nesties, BG Lemonade glazed brads, Lemon Tart twill ribbon, SU Corner punch, Zva Creative felt flowers, copic markers

Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge

Hi everyone! It's Tuesday and time for another Jacksonbelle challenge. This entire month we have sketches! I love this sketch!! I actually flipped it vertical. Everyone is welcome to play along. As usual if you don't need to have JBelle supplies to play, but if you don't have any, you can check out the store and see if anything strikes your fancy. You can use the keyword JBE058.

That lovely bird image is from Inkadinkado, Birds Galore. I stamped the bird part with purple and the leaves with green chalk ink. I love using chalk ink on clear stamps, because you can see what you are doing and the ink doesn't dry! The amazing crocheted flower is hand made and the pearls are Basic Grey Bling it. The pattern paper is Sprout from Memory Box. See that embossing detail at the bottom? I bought some of the Cuttlebug border folders and never really used them. I kinda like how this turned out.

Be sure to check out the other Design Team's cards, lots of inspiration to be found!!

AJ Otto--The Willow Garden
Heather Lee-Reppen--Ink on my Ear
Jill Dunn--InkGenious
Jennifer Buck--The Buck Stamps Here
Kimberly O'Rosky--Sunshiny Days
Kisa Peters--Kisa's Paper Cuts
Lindsey Botkin--Embellished
Lynda Benden--Stamp Act
Maren Benedict--Zany not Crazy
Melissa Bove--Creating From the Heart
Shannan Teubner--Pink Tulle with Feathers & Sequins

So, did you hear the news? Lindsey is having a DT call to be a JBelle Rockstar! Check out this post on the JBelle Blog for all the deets. Thanks for stopping by!

Be sure to enter my Blog candy!! 2 prizes up for grabs!! Just leave me a comment on this post.

Card Deets:
Stamps - Birds Galore
Ink - VersaMagic chalk ink in Purple Hydrangea and Spanish Olive
Paper - Vintage Cream, Pale Plum, Memory Box Sprout
Accessories - crocheted flower, burlap string, Basic Grey pearls

Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge

Hi everyone! Today is Tuesday, and that means another Jbelle challenge! This week's challenge is to CASE my fellow JBelle Rockstar Kisa! WooHoo! A couple weeks ago you all were challenged to case Kim, this week it's Kisa's turn! AND be sure to check out the tutorial she wrote! It is up on the Jacksonbelle Blog.

Everyone is invited to play along. You don't need to have JBelle supplies to play, but if you don't have any, you can check out the store and see what strikes your fancy -Lindsey just put all her Shimmerz on sale 15% off now thru Friday + 6 NEW colors are in stock!!

To play you can go to Kisa's SCS gallery, find a card and CASE it -which means to use it as your inspiration and change a couple things to make it your own. Be sure to use the SCS keyword JBE044, so we can find all your creations.

I chose this card to case. I liked it so much I made 2!! I have been likin' the CAS lately, so this card grabbed me right away. I kept the same use of white with simple framing and piercing. I changed the colors, image and added a sentiment and piercing at the bottom.

My first card is made with Inkadinkado, Wedding set (which is back in stock now). My second card is made with the new Inkadinkado Morphic Birds set and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink's Birthday Basics. All the primas are painted with Angel Wings Shimmerz for that extra shine!!

Don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for their Kisa inspired cards!

AJ Otto

Heather Lee-Reppen
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Kisa Peters
Lindsey Botkins
Lynda Benden
Melissa Bove
Shannon Teubner
Taylor Usry

Card Deets:

Stamps - Wedding, Morphic Birds

Paper - white, groovy guava and Prismpaper Blush Red Dark

Accessories - rectangle nesties, green bling, paper piercer

Jbelle Tuesday challenge -a sketch and a contest!

Hi everyone. I have returned from the land of the remodel -LOL! It's Tuesday and time for another Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge!


Today's challenge is everyone's favorite, a sketch! Woohoo! AND there is a contest this week! Beginning today thru Friday the 13th at noon Pacific time, play along with us and link your card in the contest post on the Jbelle blog! One lucky winner will have a chance to win an awesome prize package! The winner will be announced Friday night and announced on the JBelle Blog Saturday morning! If you upload to SCS, be sure to use the keyword JBE043 so we can find it!!

This card also follows the SCS CAS05 challenge which is to make a card in shades of blues and greens. My card uses the new Inkadinkado Morphic Birds set and Basic Grey Urban Prairie DP. The ribbon is PaperTrey Ink's Spring Moss twill (super love that stuff!). The bling is from Kaiser Crafts and the primas are Got Flowers Deux green.

Here are some of the supplies I used. See that celery tab on mt Basic Grey pad? That is part of my newly organized 6x6 paper pads!

Need a little inspiration? Be sure to check out the DT's creations! You will notice that we all used Inkadinkado stamps! That is in honor of Lindsey's store, she has put ALL the Inka stamps on sale!!


AJ Otto--The Willow Garden
Heather Lee-Reppen--Ink on my Ear
Jill Dunn--InkGenious
Jennifer Buck--The Buck Stamps Here
Kimberly O'Rosky--Sunshiny Days
Kisa Peters--Kisa's Paper Cuts
Lindsey Botkin--Embellished
Lynda Benden--Stamp Act
Maren Benedict--Zany not Crazy
Melissa Bove--Creating From the Heart
Shannan Teubner--Pink Tulle with Feathers and Sequins
Taylor Usry--Musings of an Addict

Stay tuned, later today I will be posting pictures from my NEWLY REMODELED stamping space! Lots of blood sweat and tears went into this and I LOVE IT!


Card Deets:
Stamps - Morphic Birds
Ink - Taken with Teal
Paper - Urban Prairie, white
Accessories - bling, twill ribbon, primas

Celebrate Simply!

It's Tuesday and time for another Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge! Nothing very official today, it's kind of a Free For All challenge with a lean towards the About A Boy line from Fancy Pants.

As always, everyone is invited to play along, and you don't need to have JBelle supplies to play. But if you don't have any, you can check out the store and see what strikes your fancy (get it Fancy Pants? LOL!).

I combined this challenge with SCS's new Monday challenge, the CAS challenge. Lately, I am really likin' the CAS style and am glad I stumbled onto this new challenge hosted by Jen! This weeks challenge was a sketch and you can find all the deets here. My card uses a piece of About A Boy, Chillin' DP with a tiny strip cut off and turned over. I then framed it in black and added a piece of pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon. The sketch called for some kind of embellishment in the upper corner so I went with some Basic Grey buttons from the Granola and Ambrosia packs. The sentiment came from Inkadinkado's Birthday Cupcakes set. VERY simple card -hence CAS!! LOL!

Be sure to check out Lindsey's store, man oh man, she has the coffers FULL of new stuff! Lots of Inkadinkado, Basic Grey and Prima -yippee! If you play along, be sure to use the SCS keyword JBE041, so we can find all your creations. And don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for their cards!

AJ Otto--The Willow Garden
Beth Thomas--A Stampin' Good Time
Heather Lee-Reppen--Ink on my Ear
Jill Dunn--InkGenious
Jennifer Buck--The Buck Stamps Here
Kimberly O'Rosky--Sunshiny Days
Kisa Peters--Kisa's Paper Cuts
Lindsey Botkin--Embellished
Lynda Benden--Stamp Act
Maren Benedict--Zany not Crazy
Melissa Bove--Creating From the Heart
Rachel Baird--Hope Stamps Eternal
Shannan Teubner--Pink Tulle with Feathers and Sequins
Taylor Usry--Musings of an Addict

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget, there is still time to enter my Blog Candy giveaway. To enter to win, you must have a Cricut -you can enter here you have until noon (Pacific) today (Tuesday!).

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge

Hi everyone, today is Tuesday and that means another Jbelle challenge! This week's challenge is to CASE my fellow JBelle Rockstar Kim O'Rosky! WooHoo! A couple weeks ago you all were challenged to case me, this week it's Kim's turn! AND be sure to check out the tutorial she wrote! It is up on the Jacksonbelle Blog. Everyone is invited to play along. You don't need to have JBelle supplies to play, but if you don't have any, you can check out the store and see what strikes your fancy -Lindsey just got TONS of new PRIMA and INKADINKADO stuff!


To play you can go to Kim's SCS gallery, find a card and CASE it -which means to use it as your inspiration and change a couple things to make it your own. Be sure to use the SCS keyword JBE040, so we can find all your creations. I chose this card to case. I kept the same image and layout and changed the papers, sentiment and made the card A2 size instead of square.

The image is from Inkadinkado, Birds Galore and the papers are October Afternoon, Weather Vane -Chilly Morning. For those of you not familiar with OA designer paper, it rocks! Thick and double sided... Yum LOVE it! Anyway, the owl is embossed with Chocolate EP and I colored his little tummy with Copic markers. The bling on the branch was my version of Kim using stickles. The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink's Birthday Basics.

The 1/8" organdy ribbon is from Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts. I just got the 5 yard bundle, there are 41 colors -you read right, 41 colors!! Talk about heaven. Here is a picture of them all on that I threaded on the ribbon rings!!

Don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for their Kim inspired cards!

AJ Otto
Heather Lee-Reppen
Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Kisa Peters
Lindsey Botkins
Lynda Benden
Melissa Bove
Rachel Hope
Shannon Teubner
Taylor Usry

Card Deets:
Stamps - Birthday Basics, Birds Galore
Paper - PTI Brown, Kiwi Kiss, October Afternoon DP
Embellishments - blue bling (Kaiser crafts), 1/8" organdy, Copic markers, chocolate EP, Labels One nesties

Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge

It's Tuesday, and time for Jacksonbelle Embellishment's weekly challenge. This week, to use STITCHING on your card -real, faux, stamped, whatever -just stitching! As always anyone can play along, you don't have to use JBelle products, but if you don't have any why not click here and check out the store? If you post to SCS, you can use the keyword, JBE037 so we can find them!

This challenge was tough for me, I am not a sewer (my sewing maching is in it's box in the garage -GASP!), so I opted for the stamped kind of stitching. Sassafrass Lass has a stamp set with all kinds of stitching borders and such, called Stitched Borders. The cupcake is from Inkadinkado, Birthday Cupcakes.

I did something different with the cupcake, this time I colored the image with Shimmerz Gold Glimmer and Wintergreen. I highlighted the sprinkles and bottom with copics and then painted on the Shimmerz. I love how it turned out, very sparkly with a hint of color! I also painted the Shimmerz Gold Glimmer on both primas. The DP is from Basic Grey, Urban Prairie -so love that pack, the colors are fantastic!! The sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink, Birthday Basics. Here is a close up picture, I am not sure if the sparkle shows up in the picture.

For the sketch, I followed Taylors Cupcake challenge TECC52TV -it's part of her anniversary celebration of sketches!

Here are some of the supplies I used.

If you haven't had a chance to check it out, I did a tutorial on Shimmerz awhile ago, you can check it out here. Don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for more lovely stitched creations!

AJ Otto

Heather Lee-Reppen

Jennifer Buck

Kisa Peters

Lindsey Botkins

Lynda Benden

Melissa Bove

Rachel Hope

Beth Thomas

Card Deets:

Stamps - Birthday Cupcakes, Birthday Basics

Paper - Cool caribbean, Urban Prairie DP

Accessories - Shimmerz Gold and Wintergreen, copic markers, primas, buttons, SU scalloped border punch, oval nesties, aquapainter for Shimmerz

JBE New Year's Bash Challenge #4

Woohoo! The last challenge of the night -what a great bunch of challenges we have going on and HAVE YOU SEEN the prizes? Whoa, Lindsey has gone all out for each challenge!! Check out the Jacksonbelle Embellishment Challenge blog for all the details!

Challenge # 4 is a Birth of a New Day! That's right, make a birthday card. Lindsey has a birthday on January 4th, so in celebration I have made her a birthday card! For Splitcoast, use keyword: JBENYE4.

This card uses the super cute cupcake set by Inkadinkado called Birthday Cupcakes. I colored it with copic markers and decorated it with lots of glitter! The DP is Imaginisce Fairest of Them All line called Sweet Satin Ribbons -very cool it has glitter strips in it! In the center of all the Prima flowers I put some Dew Drops and accented them all with lots of Crystal Stickles! Oh man, this card is sparkly :-)

Here is a close up pic of the yummy cupcake.

Don't forget to cruise to all the Design Teams blogs to see their challenge cards and find out who has the CANDY!

Jennifer Buck

Jill Dunn

Kimberly O'Rosky

Kisa Peters

Lindsey Botkin

Lynda Benden

Maren Benedict

Taylor Usry

Rachel Baird

AJ Otto

Maren Benedict

Shannan Teubner

Card Deets:

Stamps - Birthday Cupcakes

Paper - PTI spring moss, white, DP

Accessories - prima flowers, circle nesties, Art Glitter, copic markers, paper piercer

JBE New Years Eve challenge #1

Are you ready for the first Jacksonbelle Embellishments New Years Eve challenge? Here it is!

Challenge #1 (3pm EST): Make a RING card!

Let's “RING” in the New Year together!! Keyword here - RING!!! Use your imagination and make a card that has a “ring” to it!! Ideas ~ Wedding card (wedding rings), circles, a bell, kids (ring around the Rosie), diamonds (either the shape OR the bling!!!). Have fun with it! SCS Keyword - JBENYE1

And... I HAVE SOME BLOG CANDY FOR THIS CHALLENGE!! Woohoo, you found me! I am giving away 3 lovely jars of SHIMMERZ! Oh yeah baby, SHIMMERZ! The colors are Wintergreen, Teal and Kiwi Lime. So, leave me a comment on this post and you will be eligible to win.

On to my challenge card. I chose to make a wedding card using a rings image! The images are from the Inkadinkado Wedding set. I stamped the bride and groom image in Versafine black onyx ink and lightly colored the flowers with a Copic marker (BV11 soft violet), the rings are embossed with Silver EP. I painted Angel Wings Shimmerz on the entire dress as well as the frame of the white oval panel. I also painted the Shimmerz on the prima flowers to match the glittery brad is from Imaginisce Hallowhimsy brads.

The designer paper is the new Memory Box Sprout paper pack -LOVE, love, love this paper pack, such soft designs and pretty purple and green colors!!

Here is a close up showing (I hope) the shimmerz on the image and flowers. I think you can click on the pic to make it bigger.

Here is the the BLOG CANDY! Again, to enter to win these Shimmerz jars, just leave me a comment. Check back for the winner announcement on Friday, Jan 2nd at 9am (PST). P.S. I fiddled with loading these 3 pictures for almost an hour trying to get them all in a row, I gave up and here they are -LOL!

Check out the other Design Team creations!!!

Jennifer Buck
Jill Dunn
Kimberly O'Rosky
Kisa Peters
Lindsey Botkin
Lynda Benden
Maren Benedict
Melissa Bove
Rachel Baird
Taylor Usry

Card Deets:

Stamps - Wedding (Inka)

Ink - Versafine black onyx, pale plum (for sponging), versamark
Paper - Perfect plum, certain celery, white, Memory Box DP

Accessories - Prima flowers, Imaginisce glitter brads, Angel Wings Shimmerz, circle and oval nesties, Cuttlebug swiss dots EF, silver EP, copic markers

Featured Stamper card and some New Year's Eve fun with Jacksonbelle Embellishments!

Holy Smokes, it's almost 2009! Seriously, where did 2008 go? LOL! Whatcha all doing? Well, if you are staying at home like me (ok, I DO have 2 little kids) and want to have some stamping fun -you're in luck! There is a New Years Eve bash with Jacksonbelle Embellishments over on Papercraft Planet (PCP). There will be lots of chatting, challenges and PRIZES! Yeppers, prizes!! All the action starts at 3pm EST -so I hope to see you there.

Now on to my card. This was for yesterday's Featured Stamper challenge over on SCS. This week's FS was Stampfilled Dreams, AKA Barb Schram! WOWzers, that girl can rock some elegant cards. I had a great time cruising thru her gallery. I chose this card to case. I changed the image, and colors. What an amazing card it is, I so wish I had that lovely butterfly she used. But I really love this owl image from Inkadinkado's Birds Galore set and thought I would give it a try. In hindsight, it may be a bit too small for the space, but I really love that little owl! I embossed the image with chocolate brown EP and put tiny gems in each of the body circles (from Kaiser Crafts). The sentiment is from PTI's Birthday Basics and the ribbon is SUs pink taffeta. The celery eyelet and pink burlap string for the tag are from Heidi's store, Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts.

Here is a close up of the gemmed out owl!

Card Deets:
Stamps: birds galore, birthday basics
Paper: chocolate chip, pink pirouette, white
Ink: versamark, pretty in pink, choc chip
Accessories: Kaiser gems, taffeta ribbon, pink burlap string, celery eyelet, corner rounder

Birds Galore

Hi everyone, did you all have a good Christmas? Oh, Santa was kind to me! I have some wonderful new stamping stuff to play with and I just COULDN'T wait to get started. This card is for today's SCS Limited Supplies challenge -to make a NON-Christmas card and not to use traditional Christmas colors.

So, I used Taylor's Cupcake sketch and made a birthday card. Almost all of my goodies are from Jacksonbelle Embellishments Store -yummo! The image is from Inkadinkado's Birds Galore and the DP is Memory Box Sprout (love love love this paper -delish purples and greens with lovely delicate patterns!). I embossed the bird with white EP and then colored in the bottom details with a copic marker. I then lightly colored over the bottom with some sage green chalk. The corners of the image panel are small white rub-ons from Basic Grey Wholy Cow and I added some white dots with a gel pen.

The flowers are from Prima hydragea white can and lightly sponged with pale plum and Spring Moss ink, painted with Angel Wings Shimmerz, and then I added a green sparkly brad from the Imaginisce Hallowhimsy pack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, Birthday Basics and is also embossed in white. The white satin ribbon, irridescent edged ribbon and Shimmerz are all from Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts.

Here is a pic Taylor's sketch! You can play along here.

Card Deets:

Stamps - birds galore, birthday basics

Ink - versamark, PTI spring moss and pale plum (for sponging)

Paper - PTI spring moss, white, Memory Box Sprout DP

Accessories - White embossing powder, glitter brads, Martha Stewart branch punch, Prima hydrangeas, rub-ons, organdy and satin ribbon