New Moon RELEASE DAY and Twilight blog hop!

Yes, it's here...

Release day!Here's a yummy New Moon still. Be still my heart!And another amazing New Moon still of our tortured Edward:

Hi everyone and welcome to the Customer and Design Team Twilight Artful INKables blog hop! If you just happened on my blog, hop on over to the Artful INKables Blog from the beginning, so you don't miss any Twilight love!

Today is the official release of New Moon!! Man, doesn't it seems forEVAH ago when we all started the countdown? AND NOW IT'S HERE!! OME!! So to celebrate, we're all highlighting the Artful INKables Twilight inspired sets: Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired.

My card uses my favorite image and of course it says Edward. I am Team Edward all the way, I can't even bring myself to make a Jacob card -LOL!! I colored the image with my copics. The pattern paper is from Kaiser and from my BFF Kathy (she's on the hop too)! Thanks girlie, isn't this paper perfect for Twilight cards?

Remember this Twilight card? I posted this one some time ago for a CAS challenge, but thought I would share it again today. I just love it! ***sigh*** EDWARD!

Here is the master blog hop list in case you get lost. Have fun today and spread the Twilight love...

Kristin Soboloski - the beginning!
Margie Cortina
Alison Heikkile
Jen Shults
Lois Bak
Michele Lourenco
Jodi Collins
Jennifer Olauson
Jen Pahoulis
Juanita Gillen
Donna Wardle
Joy Stagg
Cathy Cunningham
Sherry Campbell
Michelle Woerner - ME!! You are here!!
Crystal Irwin -GO HERE NEXT!!
Kathy Jones
Dani Chapman
Tamara Bennett
Tonya Klar
Jackie Rakoski

Holly Endress

April Davis

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog along the way for your chance to win your choice of 2 AI sets, you have until Midnight, November 23rd!

On a side note, my {Ippity} Stamps have arrived and are available for purchase!! You can find the details here, or on my sidebar!

Believe me, this will cure all that ails you!

Hahaha! I'm just playing around with this card!

It's for my final Hanna Monday post wrapping up my guest designer spot from Hanna Stamps. Scroll down for my JBelle challenge card for a brief description of my day yesterday, to see why I am a day late!

Anyway, I have had this idea for a "doctor" card for some time now. I rarely do funny-type cards, but this one I couldn't resist! I printed off the picture of Rob from my computer and generated the sentiment from the computer as well. The doctor is from the new Hospital Hanna set, is colored with copics, and cut out. The DP (blue pattern and the woodgrain) is October Afternoon from the Night Light line.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Deets:
Stamps: Hospital hanna
Paper: Dark chocolate and white from PTI, Not quite navy, Night Light DP
Ink: rich cocoa Memento
Accessories: copics

Some challenge cards to share -one for you Twilight fans!!

Hi everyone! I have 3 challenge cards to share. This first one is from yesterday's SCS color challenge -to use Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa and So Saffron. These are such a soft color combo and a perfect match to the SAB paper pack, Delicate Dots.

For this card I used the daffodil from Flourishes Signs of Spring set. It is so pretty and suprisingly easy to color. It's hard to tell in the pic, but I have the center part of the flower popped up on dimensionals and there is stickles all over it. The layout caught my eye as I was browsing thru my gallery. I cased it from this card. The sentiment is Verve's Circular Sayings and the dotted organdy ribbon is from Heidi's store, Pinkhedgehog Papercrafts.

This next card was a SUPER fun card to make!! It is for this week's SCS sketch challenge and feature's mt main vampire, Edward!!

My mom has the boys for a couple days so I have some time to play around! This card is for all the Twihards out there! The hardest part was cutting into my magazine to get this little picture -LOL! The stamp is a discontinued stamp from Unity Stamps. I, for one, think Angela needs to be talked into making more!!

For this, I decided to keep with the black/white/red theme after all, Edward is a Vampire -LOL! Isn't he lovely surrounded by the red heart bling and flowers? Ahhhh...

The last card for today is a double Flourishes challenge card. The first challenge is the Timeless Tuesday challenge, hosted this week by my GF, Silke. It is to make a card using your favorite Flourishes set. I chose Coffee With Friends -this was my first and still favorite set! The second challenge is Flourishes April challenge to use paper piecing. All the challenge info can be found in the Flourishes Forum.

The DP is from the Garden Party matstack by DCWV. Love this paper pack! These DCWV packs are so much fun, cause 1, you can get them 40% off with a coupon and 2, there are 3 pages of each design. So, I took an extra page and cut out the butterfly and the flowers and popped them up! The sentiment is from Flourishes, Many Sentiments. And I finally used my new SU punch that matches those bookplates from the HPH tin!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card deets (daffodil):
Stamps: signs of spring, circular sayings
Paper: cocoa, saffron, bashful, white, Delicate Dots DP
Ink: black
Accessories: copic markers, yellow stickles, yellow rhinestones, yellow organdy ribbon, circle punches

Card deets (Edward):
Stamps: Vampire, discontinued by Unity stamps
Paper: real red DSP, black and white
Ink: black, red
Accessories: gems, primas, organdy ribbon, shimmerz

Card deets (coffee):
Stamps: coffee with friends, many sentiments
Paper: taken with teal, choc chip, Garden Party DP
Ink: choc chip
Accessories: Hodgepodge hardware, teal bling, rectangle nesties, su scalloped border punch

Brace yourselves ladies...

Just in case anyone needed convincing to buy April's issue of GQ magazine. I give you a peek of a couple pictures from the GQ photo shoot.

This is the cover sans the words

This is so reminiscent of James Dean it hurts

Well, words escape me

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Totally non-stamping related, but...

... serioulsy, how could I NOT post this? This is the newly released poster for New Moon and isn't Edward the ABSOLUTE yummiest? Oh man... took my breath away! Is it November 20th yet???

(for those of you non-Twilight fans, New Moon is the sequel to Twilight)

I edited my Edward slideshow to include this and a couple others, and I removed some pictures that came out a bit "pixelly". I also deleted my card slideshow (not that anyone made it past Edward -LOL) cause having 2 of them is clogging up my computer. Have a great day!

Twilight progress

OK, I am now almost finished with Eclipse (have less than 50 pages to go). I to go grocery shopping (why do we have to eat?) yesterday and that cut into my reading time -LOL! I also saw the movie and am embarassed to say this 40 year old woman is IN LOVE with a 19 year old FICTIONAL vampire!! Ahhh, Edward...

My friend is coming over for an all day of making cards (scheduled this before my Twilight decision), so I won't get a good dent into Breaking Dawn until tomorrow.

Thank you everyone for the comments and emails! For those of you who have asked, YES reading the series is worth it. I also read all the Anne Rice vampire chronicles and actually (gasp) like them a bit more. Two very different styles of writing and story telling. The Twilight series is definitely a fast paced easy read and very compelling. So, if you want a great compelling set of stories to sink your teeth into (pun INtended), definitely start Twilight!!

Check in later!

We interupt this "Twilight" break...

...to bring you this Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge!! Every Tuesday the Jacksonbelle Embellishments DT brings you a challenge. This week the challenge is to use October Afternoon products -stamps, paper or BOTH! As always, you don't have to use JBelle products to play along, but if you don't have any why not click here and check it out? If you post to SCS, you can use the keyword, JBE036 so we can find them! 

 

My card uses the FAB October Afternoon paper from the Weather Vane line called Sweater Weather. For those of you new to OA paper, it is thick and double sided! I loved the soft blue tones of this paper and paired it with Blue Bayou, Soft Sky and Very Vanilla. The stamp is from Prima -yep, they have stamps too, and is called Giraffe. I colored the image with a couple Copic markers. The sentiment is from Verve Stamps, Family Phrases. After gluing everything down, I took my paper piercer, made 2 holes and then tied some silver cord around his neck. I then tied some more cord around each side of the sentiment panel to balance out the design. The stars were punched out with a combination of the large and small SU! star punches and the mini one is unknown.

This card uses this week's fabulous sketch by Jen, one of her Sketches For You To Try! She posts a great sketch every Saturday!

Here are some of the supplies I used.

You can hop over to the JBelle Embellishments blog for some more details. Don't forget to check out the other DT blogs for more lovely OA creations!

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

Twighlight update: Finished New Moon this morning, starting Eclipse!!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Prima, Giraffe

Paper - Soft sky, blue bayou, very vanilla, October Afternoon -weather vane

Ink - Black Stazon

Accessories - star punches, silver cord and brads, copics, SU double stitched soft sky ribbon, CB flowers die and tags die, word window punch

Taking a "Twilight" break

Ok, it was only a matter of time. EVERYTHING it seems is all about Twilight!! My GF Jodi (Kharmagirl) and the entire Unity Stamps DT rave about this series of books, the movie, and have you TRIED to get FaceBook Flair without it being something Twilight related?!?

Anyway, at the last Verve Stamps release party, I was chatting and shyly admitted I had never read the books... well, the girls informed me I simply MUST make the time! So, my mom has the boys staying at her house this entire week, and I thought this is it!

Yesterday, I read Twilight (LOVED it, fabulous, just as everyone said!!). I couldn't help myself, last night around 9PM, I drove to my sister's house and borrowed New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn (the rest of the Twilight saga). I figure, what the heck? I will spend the next several days doing NOTHING but reading -no stamping!! Make up for lost time. Oh, I will be back tomorrow to post a card for the Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge, but that's it!!

Have a great day -I will!