Card for baby Emma

Hi Everyone! WOW, I haven't made a card or posted in almost 3 months. I was dealing with some dental issues that had some rare complications. I was seriously out of commission for over 2 months! Yikes! BUT, I am back on my feet and have a precious little baby girl card to share.

I used Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch and a cute little teddy bear from a retired stamp set from Gina K Designs. I'm so glad I hung on to this set, I couldn't find a teddy bear image in any of my other stamp sets!! This little guy was colored with copic markers with T1, T3, T5 markers.

The adorable papers are from Queen and Company that I picked up during their Portland Queen for a Day Event -which was so fun! I've already signed up for their event in 2020. The stitched flower dies are from MFT that I purchased during their Black Friday sale. SO CUTE!!

Here is Julee's sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Mojo roses

Hi everyone! It's no secret my favorite flower is a rose. I mean, I DID name my blog after them! lol! So I was very happy to see that my friend Mendi, who owns Sunny Studio Stamps released a delightful stamp set featuring roses called Everything's Rosy. These are multi step images, and by multi, I mean 5 for each rose! Yes, and the detail on the images is just stunning. Here's a fun picture of my desk while I was playing around with color combinations! I had some crazy inky fingers when I was done.

 As soon as I saw Julee's Mojo Monday sketch #507 earlier this morning I knew I wanted to use it with the roses I made yesterday. Match made in heaven. Here's my card.

The fabulous patterned paper is from Kaisercraft their Ooh La La paper pad. I love how there are some nice neutral prints (woodgrain and heathered solids) as well as some with pale blue and coral!! I added some silver metallic string across the thin strip panel and used a few silver pearls as the final accent.

Here's Julee's sketch if you want to play along. Notice she gives the measurements on each panel? Made this super easy to put together! Thanks Julee!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Mojo Monday ON a Monday

Hi everyone!  I actually have a Mojo Monday sketch card to share with you ON a Monday!  That so never happens -LOL!  But, with all the crews here all day prepping for the concrete pour tomorrow, I have to stay home.  TRANSLATION: I want to stamp instead of clean! 

I love Julee's sketches!  This Mojo153 sketch ROCKS!  I have used a similar sketch in the past and using 4 squares is always a hit with me.  My card uses 2 newly released Verve sets, Happy Hello and Dream Big.  The sketch lends itself perfectly for that cute square border in Happy Hello!  I stamped it on Vintage Cream in Basic Gray ink, masked it off and stamped the medium sized leaf branch from Dream Big.  I colored in the small square border with the W1 Copic marker to add a bit of pop.

I have a couple pictures of how I masked the squares.  First I stamped the square image on the cardstock and on a post-it note.  Using a craft knife, I cut out the inside of the square on the post-it.

I then lined the square outline onto my cardstock and stamped the image over it.  Easy peasy!

Driveway Remodel update:  Well, at the end of last week we had complete demo and haul away of our driveway, walkway and garage floor.  We were hoping to only demo the left side of the garage, but after everything was demo'd we discovered some serious unsound structural issues, so we had to demo the entire thing.  Ugh, we were hoping to save on the cost.  Oh well, it is for the best and will turn out MUCH better in the end!

So today, the crew brought in and leveled off the gravel, placing the drains and are setting the forms.  We are still on schedule to pour concrete tomorrow morning in the garage!  This will be super cool!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Dream Big, Happy Hello
Ink - Always Artichoke, Basic Gray
Paper - Kraft, Vintage Cream, Basic Grey Manilla 6x6 pad
Accessories - 3/8" blue grosgrain, blue rhinestones and green burlap string (all Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts), Tag nestabilities

Monday H{ippity} Hop

Hi everyone! It's Monday and time for another H{ippity} Hop! Be sure to go to the {ippity} blog to see the master list of all the players.

This week's H{ippity} Hop challenge brought to you by ME!!!! Since Valentine's Day is right around the corner, my challenge is to make a Valentine's Card. For a loved one, friend, teacher, it's up to you. Please use keyword: IHHC10 when uploading to SCS.

As you can see, my card is NOT a Valentine card. You see, today is our girl, Lisa's BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday girlie, this card's for you!!

My uses the AMAZING Mojo123 sketch. I am a week late on this one, but it is the CUTEST circle sketch, I just HAD to play. The sentiment from Ippity Stamps Just Wanted to Say. I used some of my Cosmo Cricket, Early Bird paper which is so bright and cheery -perfect for birthday cards, don't cha think?

The buttons are from my girl, Heidi at Pink Hedgehog Papercrafts. And the prima flower is one from my stash.

I have been asked how I make my circle cards. I use my Spellbinders Nestabilities, and am currently working on a tutorial which is scheduled for Thursday the 18th over on the Ippity blog. I will have links for you here on that day too.

So, is everyone getting ready for the {ippity} Sneak Peeks for the Winter release?

Yeah baby! The DT is peeking the eight (8) sets starting on THURSDAY!! AND the sets will be available for purchase on the 15th! I will have all my PayPal buttons up and ready to go on my Sales Blog that day -never fear. I even have created a fun new Accessory Kit that is perfect for all your Spring and Summer projects! See you then!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Just Wanted to Say

Card Deets:

Stamps - Just Wanted to Say (Ippity)

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Paper - Ridinghood Red, Vintage Cream, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird PP

Accessories - buttons, prima flower, burlap string, circle nesties (spellbinders)

Raspberry colors with a Mojo sketch

Hi everyone. My card today combines 2 of my favorite challenges -Dawn's Raspberry Suite color and Julee's Mojo Monday sketches.

OK, first, don't you just LOVE those circles?!? Julee blew me away with this week's sketch!!!! Dawn's colors this time were: Aqua Mist, Tangering Tango, Choc Chip, Kraft and Cream. Hummm... I LOVE these together! Lots of fun. I used the {ippity} stamps flower from Because of You for the image and the pattern papers are from SU Designer Prints.

This one is pretty straight forward, I added a touch of scoring at the bottom for some dimension. I also added some Zva rhinestones to each flower point.

Here is a detail shot of the flower. OK, I didn't trim the flower very carefully, so please look past my cutting! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Because of You

Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa

Paper - Chocolate Chip, kraft, cream, Tangerine Tango and Soft Sky DSP

Accessories - felt ribbon (SU!), circle nesties, Zva rhinestones, orange stardust pen, score-pal

Cupcake inspiration challenge #29

Hi everyone! It's Sunday and that means it's time for another FABULOUS Cupcake Inspiration challenge from Hope Stamps Eternal! Check out this week's cupcakes, how are cute are these little Halloween witches? I get questions about where Rachel finds these cupcake images. I will refer you to her challenge post. She has links there.

I also wanted to mention that Rachel has the new STAMPAVIE stamps in the store now -they are designed by Tina Wenkle and are the cutest little things!!
Honestly, I had a bit of trouble with these cuppies. The witches were not really my thing, so I took my inspiration from the black on them and used black as my layering/accent color and here's what I came up with.

I used some of my neglected Basic Grey Lemonade paper. I used the tiny dotted piece for the letters and carried the yellow dots thru to the rhinestone accents along the punched edge. The flower is made from 2 Zva felt flowers and a Zva corduroy brad. I SO love these brads, I see stampers use them beautifully and this is the first time I finally got one to work!! I tried several kinds of black ribbon and strings, but finally settled on the simple 1/4" grosgrain, sometimes simple is better! The sketch for this card is this week's Mojo108 sketch.

Everyone is invited to play along in the challenge!! If you do, be sure to link your creation to Mr. Linky on the HSE blog. Every week, Rach highlighs the top 5!! Congrats to this week's Top Picks !!!

Now head on over to my fellow HSE Sweetie's and see how they rocked those cupcakes!!

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:

Paper - Vintage Cream, black, Lemonade PP

Accessories - Zva felt flowers and corduroy brad, grosgrain ribbon, yellow rhinestones, Upper Crest border punch (Fiskars), score-pal

Rome wasn't built in a day...

... and neither are MY CARDS!! LOL!!

Hi everyone! I have a couple sketch challenge cards to share today. This first card uses Mercy's Tuesday sketch #35 and Verve's new coffee set, Delightful and Delicious.

I thought I would show you a pic of my crafting area after I made this card. It took me FOREVER! Seriously, all night. Coffee? Tea? Which color? Where to place the cups on the image panel? Look at this---->

I tried lots of ribbons, stamped and cut out the cups colored in various colors. I don't know if you can see, but when I am stumped on how to arrange images on a panel, I trace it out with a pencil on scratch paper and practise stamping stuff on it (on the lower right corner of stuff).

Soooo, here's how the card ended up! I like how it turned out. I used some of the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird. YUMMY!

AND I was just reading my girl Jodi's blog and she mentioned her new obsession is Cosmo Cricket - well, ME TOO! LOVE this stuff! I think the color palette with Early Bird are perfect for coffee/tea/kitchen type cards!

I stamped the sentiments and cup in SU Chocolate Chip. I have found that I can use Copic markers with SU dye ink. Cool!!

This next card is part of the week long celebration of sketches going on at the MojoMonday sketch blog. This one is MojoMaria turned on it's side. I am still a bit iffy on this -specifically my horizonal pattern paper choice, but it's glued down now, so I guess it stays!

The cutie image is Miss Ayna Dressy from The Greeting Farm. I colored her with copic markers with some light sponging and used some more of my Basic Grey Lemonade paper. The bottom panel was punched with the Upper Crest border punch (another one of my current obsessions).

Oh and while I was snapping a picture of my stamping area, I took one of my Copic Marker storage. I use one of the Desk Organizer Cube pieces from Making Memories. Instead of using the 2 organizer baskets that came with it, I put in 2 clear bookends from IKEA and just slide my markers right in on their sides. I have them separated into 3 color categories. I can fit SOOO MANY using this method. I think I could actually fit every single Copic marker in this cube (I WISH I had every single one!)!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Card Deets:
Stamps: delightful and delicious
Paper: ridinghood red, white, early bird DP, more mustard
Ink: chocolate chip, more mustard for sponging, close to cocoa for steam
Accessories: Upper Crest border punch, blossoms and rectangle nesties, silver pearls, copic markers

Stamps: Miss Anya Dressy
Paper: White, Lemonade
Accessories: Black gingham, silver pearls (Michael's), upper crest border punch (Fiskars), corner rounder, copic markers

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

A baby shower for a new oodabug!

There’s a new baby Diva on the way, and today we’re celebrating with a suprise shower hop! So come along with us and do the shower blog hop to help celebrate the arrival of Charmaine’s new little oodabug, Isabelle! The shower started at the Verve Stamps blog, so if you’ve just happened along, head back over there to see what Julee made!


My card uses Verve's Practically Perfect set combined with this week's Mojo Monday sketch. The bunny is pieced with some Lemon Tart bitty dots DP and colored with copic markers and highlighted with a Stardust pink glitter pen! The ribbon is PTI's Sweet Blush (which I discovered is a perfect match for SU! Pink Pirouette) and the pink background strip is from the Pink Pirouette's DSP. I went CAS again, I am lovin' the clean look and hope Charmaine enjoys it too!!

Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over to Shannan's blog for some more cuddly goodness.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Practically Perfect

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - White, lemon tart, lemon bitty dots and bitty squares DP (all PTI), pink pirouette
Accessories - light pink kaiser rhinestones, Sweet Blush twill ribbon, circle nesties

Jacksonbelle Tuesday -Polka dots!

Hi everyone! It's Tuesday and time for another Jacksonbelle challenge. This week it's all about POLKA DOTS. Yeah baby, I can do that!! You are all 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 JBE055 if you upload to SCS or PCP.

For my card, I used some of the yummy Pink Paislee designer paper with polka dots!! The papers I have are from the Sweet Cakes line -I sooo love all the orange tones. You know, in looking at my card last week, I used the SAME paper! I guess it shows I really do love it. LOL! Some of the Pink Paislee is out of stock right now, but send Lindsey an email if you want her to order more, she is happy to do it.

The sketch I used is this week's Mojo Monday week 88. Boy, Julee sure can design sketches!! The awesome hot air balloon image is from the newly released Up Up and Away and the sentiment is from Dare to be You. I outlined the clouds with a light blue copic marker and the striped ribbon is May Arts and a perfect match to Bashful Blue. Just about everything on this card is on dimensionals. I love the happy feel to this card! It's almost like the balloon and clouds are flying away.

I also wanted to mention that this Mojo Monday sketch is doubling for a sketch challenge in the much talked about Stampin' Out Alzheimer's (SOA) event. A small donation (see link in the Mojo Monday blog sidebar) gets you access to this week-long virtual stamping event, which has all sorts of challenges and chances to win some fabulous prizes. All proceeds from this event will go directly to the Alzheimer's Association. Our own Verve Diva, Jen Tapler, founded this event. Her dad has been rapidly progressing through the stages of Alzheimer's. So if you have a few dollars to spare, please particpate in this fundraiser. Not only can you win some fabulous prizes, but you can make a DIFFERENCE!

Be sure to stop by the other DT blogs for their polka dotted goodness.

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

Card Deets:

Stamps -Up up and away, Dare to by You

Paper - Vintage cream, pumpkin pie, bashful blue, Pink Paislee DP

Accessories - silver brads, may arts ribbon, swiss dots EF, double ended tag die cuts (Spellbinders), copic markers, rectangle nesties

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Some challenge cards

Happy Wednesday everyone! I have 3 challenge cards to share today.

The first card I uses Julee's FAB MojoMonday sketch found here, and is for my weekly DoubleDog Dare Challenge (DDC). This week my Dirty Dozen Roomie (that means we joined the Dirty Dozen together), Joan challenged us to use an image with a basket -any kind, AND some plaid paper. Hummm, seriously, I HAVE NO BASKET stamps of any kind. Not one! So I broke out my WishRAK image box and searched thru the entire thing -no baskets! What? Then I remembered my Crafty Secrets file and found that one of my Cotton Scraps HAD ONE! Whew! A baby girl image in a basket. And, what's even more perfect is that I need a baby girl card for Friday as one of the moms in my MOPS group just had her girl!

I sponged the white prima with pink and added Angel Wings Shimmerz to it. Here is a close up.

Card Deets:
Paper: pink pirouette, vintage cream (PTI), retired mint melody, misc plaid DP
Accessories: white prima, white dew drops, su scallope edge punch, small flower punch, swiss dots EF, shimmerz

This next card is for today's SCS sketch challenge. First let me say, I didn't really like it. I felt it a bit too top heavy and it was hard for me to find the right balance. But, I had some time to play and need to stock up on my Mother's Day cards for my Etsy store, so I fudged the sketch a bit and added brads at the bottom!

I used some of my Tres Jolie, Mon Cheri DP I got on clearance last year. The flower images are colored with Copic markers and have Stardust stickles on them. The sentiment is from Verve Stamps, Happy Thoughts (my all time fav sentiment set!).

For some interest, I strung some beads and a heart charm with silver cord and tied them with a bow from one of the panels. Silver cord and brads are from Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts, PrismPapers can be found here.

Card Deets:
Stamps: embrace life, happy thoughts
Paper: Vintage cream (PTI), Tres Jolie DP and Desert Coral Light Prismpaper
Accessories: copic markers, square punch, charm, beads, silver brads, stickles

And lastly, I have yesterday's SCS color challenge card that I paired with Crafty Secret's weekly challenge -which was to do a SINGLE LAYER card! Man, both were tough! The colors were Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie and Kiwi Kiss. I love those colors, just NOT together! I used the Baby Boy set from Crafty Secrets, some ribbon and buttons.

It's hard to see in the pic, but there are 3 scored lines below the ribbon.

Card Deets:
Stamps: baby boy
Paper: white
Ink: pumpkin pie, kiwi kiss
Accessories: score pal, square punch, stickles, buttons, grosgrain ribbon

Before I forget!! Jacksonbelle is offering up 2 jars of Shimmerz OF YOUR CHOICE as a prize! Check out the JBelle blog post here for the details!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mojo fun with felt and Sketch 213

I went to Michael's today... AND WHOA! They have some amazing stuff in stock right now. Their Dollar Section is rockin' and they have a WHOLE new section with Primas -oh be still my heart!

My friend, Pam made a cute card using their felt coasters and I just HAD to get my hand on some. I chose the yellow ones (they come 4 to a pack) and got some ribbon to match. I mounted it on white cardstock and put stickles all over it.

I used Julee's Mojo 71 sketch as it had the PERFECT sized panel for the coaster. The sentiment came from Verve's Beautiful You set. The punched butterfly is from Martha Stewart, Royal Butterfly (also bought today). The clear bling are from Kaiser Crafts.

Here is a pic of some of the supplies I used.

This next card uses yesterday's SCS sketch challenge (SC213) and Crafty Secrets weekly challenge (CSSC53), this week to use long lost stamping stuff!

I have had some Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Stickers forEVAH and never used them. I love how they help make the card easier to make. The prima is from the Sprites collection, the buttons and dotted organdy are from Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts and the BG stamp is Pretty Pattern from CHF.

I painted Angel Wings Shimmerz on the prima for some extra sparkle. I also used a couple of the stickers from the pack to decorate the inside of the card. Here is a close up shot of the flower and buttons.

Card Deets (mojo):
Stamps: Beautiful you
Paper: Summer sun, Lemon Tart (PTI), white
Accessories: MS butterfly punch, clear bling from Kaiser, Ribbon and felt coaster from Michael's, stickles

Card Deets (SCS):
Stamps: CHF pretty pattern BG
Paper: blush blossom, wasabi, celery, celery DSP
Ink: blush blossom
Accessories: Greeting and Sentiments stickers, buttons, ribbon, prima, dimensionals, shimmerz