Bug Hugs

Hi everyone!

It’s OCC challenge time over on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This week Jenny Gropp our July challenge hostess has given us a sketch challenge. Guess you all know by know what I think of sketch challenges hehe *smile*

I decided to use this cute Bugs Hugging image & Bug Hugs sentiment from Alota Rubber Stamps. I added texture to the 3 pink strips using a sizzix texturz plate … I think this is my fav texturz plate!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Joycelyn Turner
• Loretta Lock
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:

Stamps: Bugs Hugging & Bug Hugs – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Pink Pirouette & Bella Rosa DP – SU;

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Sizzix Texture Plate; Buttons; Black Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

A Monkey Happy Birthday!

Happy Saturday everyone.

It’s OCC challenge time over on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This week have another sketch to play with …. you can never have too many sketches right!!!

My card today uses the Changito Monkeys from Stampendous I love these little guys, I have been wanting to use this stamp for a while now and finally got around to doing so.

Here is this week’s sketch, hope you enjoy playing with it too.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Joycelyn Turner
• Loretta Lock
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:

Stamps: Happy Birthday Changito – Stampendous

Paper: White; Chocolate Chip & DP – SU

Other: Black Ink; Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon; Brown Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Bee Happy!

Happy Saturday everyone.

It’s OCC challenge time over on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This week have another sketch to play with …. who doesn’t love sketches right!!!

For my card I used one of the new bugs called “Staying Cool Bugs” available from Alota Rubber Stamps. I just love all the bugs that Alota sell and these ones are no exception … expect to see a few more bug cards over the next few weeks.

I paper Pieced the umbrella and stamped the bugs a second time so I could 3D them over the original image.

Here is this week’s sketch, hope you enjoy playing with it too.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Joycelyn Turner
• Loretta Lock
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:

Stamps: Staying Cool Bugs & Sentiment – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Regal Rose, Tempting Turquoise & Pink Flamingo DP – SU

Other: Black Ink; Circle Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Friends!

Happy Saturday everyone.

It’s OCC challenge time over on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This week have a sketch to play with …. who doesn’t love sketches right!!!

A couple of weeks ago a couple of friends and I went up to our favorite scrapbook store (I don’t scrapbook, but I do love their papers etc that they sell) …. we must have been made cause we went on the worst day of rain in about 30 years … although to be fair we did think it was starting to clear up when we left here but apparently not … oops. Anyway while out shopping my friend found a couple of Disney sets which we all had to have …. shhhhhhhhh!

Of course I had to get them out and play so I decided to use Minnie for my card today. I paper pieced her dress & bow using some designer paper.

Here is the sketch we were given …. I didn’t round my corners of my base card like it shows in the sketch …. oops! I am not going to try and pull it apart just for rounded corners.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Joycelyn Turner
• Loretta Lock
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:

Stamps: MM Clear Stamps & MM Friend Clear Stamps – EK Success

Paper: White; Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red & Candy Lane DP – SU

Other: Black Ink; Red Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

I Still Believe!

Happy Saturday everyone! It’s time for another challenge over on the Our Creative Corner blog. This week our challenge hostess Robin Willis has given us a sketch as our challenge … yahhhhhh I so love doing sketch challenges!

I used The Greeting Farm’s Wendy from their Never Ever set which I received recently. Do you still believe?????? hmmmm I think I do hehe!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Joycelyn Turner
• Loretta Lock
• Lori Boyd
• Robin Willis
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:

Stamps: Never Ever – The Greeting Farm

Paper: White; Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze & Regal Rose – SU; DP – Unknown

Other: Black Ink; Petite Oval Nestabilities; Regal Rose Grosgrain Ribbon; Word Window Punch; Pink Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

An OCC Sketch!

Hi everyone and happy Saturday!

It is time for another OCC Challenge over on the Our Creative Corner blog. This week Silke gave us a fun sketch challenge to use to create our cards.

I used this cute girl stamp from Penny Black to create my card. The circle was created using my circle nestabilities and then embossing using the houndstooth cuttlebug embossing folder.

Hope you will join us this week and play along with our sketch challenge.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the OCC Designers cards over on the OCC Blog.

• Cindy Haffner
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Kim Teasdale
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Loretta Lock
• Lori Boyd
• Robin Willis
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe:
Stamps: Light the Night & Sentiment - Penny Black
Paper: White; Black; Pretty In Pink - SU; DP - Basic Grey
Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Houndstooth Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Flower; Pearl Brad; Foam Tape; Copics

An OCC Sketch Challenge!

G'day everyone!

It's Saturday so it is time for another OCC challenge over at Our Creative Corner. This week Kim gave us a sketch challenge to do ... now you know I love sketch challenges hehe!

I used Anya from the Rock the Farm set which is available from The Greeting Farm! I am loving this new designer paper from Stampin' Up ... expect to see a lot of it cause I am having fun using it. When the new in colors came in last year in the US I didn't think I would be using the pacific point and kiwi kiss colors too much ... but I think that has changed now LOL ... I love the combo! I used my copic marker to color my white grosgrain ribbon to get the color I needed for my card.

Wanna play along and have a chance to win $25 worth of Clear Dollar Stamps? Lori McCroskey has generously donated this week's prize and all you have to do is upload your card to your blog or gallery and leave us a link here in this post so we can see what you made! To be included in a random drawing for the CDStamps, please have your card linked here by 12 noon on Friday, March 27th. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced Saturday, March 28th.

Don't forget to visit the Our Creative Corner blog to see the creations from the rest of the OCC girls this week.

Recipe:
Stamps: Rock The Farm - The Greeting Farm
Paper: White; Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss & Good Morning Sunshine DP - SU
Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; White Grosgrain Ribbon; Label Tag Die; Blue Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Bowling Hanna!

Hi everyone ... I have a couple of cards to share with you today that I created using the new "Bowling Hanna" set that will be released by Hanna Stamps after the release party on Thursday 5th February.

I think this could be a very versatile set suitable for males and females ... although my samples today are probably more feminine ... however I do have another sample using this set that I will be posting during the release party so come back and check it out too!

As you can see I went with a black & pink theme for this first card. The sentiment that I used for my card is one I got from Clear Dollar Stamps that works well with this set too.

Recipe:
Stamps: Bowling Hanna - Hanna Stamps; Bowling Set - Clear Dollar Stamps
Paper: White; Black; Regal Rose - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Circle Punch; Scallop Circle Punch; Pink Ribbon; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Tag Die; Foam Tape; Pink Brad; Copics

I used Our Creative Corner's sketch from 24th January to create my second card you can see here. The circle layers are created using the circle nestabilities. And I used my broken Martha Steward punch to create the lace border on either side of the centre panel ... yes it may be broken and look ugly now but it is usable which is all I care about yahhhhhhh!!!!!!


Here is the inside of my card .... and again the sentiment used here is from Clear Dollar Stamps ... the image at the bottom is of course from Hanna Stamps.

Recipe:
Stamps: Bowling Hanna - Hanna Stamps; Bowling Set - Clear Dollar Stamps
Paper: White; Riding Hood Red & Baja Breeze - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Riding Hood Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Lace Doiley Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's Way!

Here comes Peter Cottontail,
Hopping' down the bunny trail,
Hippity, hoppity,
Easter's on its way.

Sorry I am singing again LOL!

It is Pretties Tuesday and I am so happy to be able to share with you the newest stamp set from Paper Pretties. This is "Bunny Hop Sophia" ..... isn't she just the cutest!!!!!!!! This is February's Paper Pretties SOTM, find out how you can receive this stamp in February the month before she is officially released to the public here.

I used this week's OCC (Our Creative Corner) sketch challenge to create my card. I flipped the sketch so that it would work with this image. I used the Martha Stewart lace doily punch to create the border at the right side of my card. The swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder was used to add texture to the pink panel on the left.

I paper pieced Sophia's dress using the same DP that I used for the base of my card. The layers for the main image were created using the long rectangles nestabilities.

Recipe:
Stamps: Bunny Hop Sophia - Paper Pretties
Paper: White; Certainly Celery, Pretty In Pink & Pink Pirouette - SU; DP - Darcies
Other: Black Ink; Pink Pirouette SU Ink; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Lace Doily Border Punch; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Oval Punch; Label Punch; Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Wishing You A Happy Day!

My card today is for this week's sketch challenge over on Our Creative Corner.

I used my corner rounder to create the scallop border along the bottom edge of the so saffron card. I colored the ribbon using copic markers to get the color I wanted for this card.


Recipe:
Stamps: Girl - Magnolia Stamps; Sentiment - Hero Arts
Paper: White; So Saffron & True Thyme - SU; DP - Kaiser
Other: Black Ink; Corner Rounder; Hole Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape

One Happy Kid!

I can't decide why this little guy is happy ... maybe it is because school is out ... maybe it is because he is going back to school after summer holidays (you can see I am thinking school since I used that designer paper & also added the pencil button etc on this card). Of course I guess he could be happy for some other reason but it doesn't really matter.

The Our Creative Corner team issued sketch challenge on their blog on Saturday which I have wanted to get to all week. And I finally got round to doing it.... I used this cute little kid stamp which is from alota Rubber Stamps.

The circles were created using the circle nestabilities dies. The background on the blue card is Cornish Heritage Farms writing paper background which fits this theme well.

Recipe:
Stamps: Kid & Sentiment - alota Rubber Stamps; Writing Paper B/G - CHF
Paper: White; Bordering Blue & Real Red - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Bordering Blue SU Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Punches; Pencil Button; Red Brads; Creative Memories Curve Cutter; Foam Tape

Kick Back and Relax!

My card today uses the new "Bunny Slippers" set to be released later today by MFT Stamps. Doesn't she look comfy in her nice warm dressing gown and slippers! Just right for the cold winter mornings & evenings we have here at present.

This card combines two challenges ... the first is the SFYTT sketch found on Jen's Iheart2stamp's blog. I turned the sketch on it's side so that it would work with this long image I used.

Our Creative Corner's challenge this week was to use Basic Grey designer paper .... which is what I used here ... the rose designer paper is by Basic Grey.

I used the distressed stripes cuttlebug embossing folder to add texture on the pink panel under the image. I also used the long rectangle nestabilities dies to create my layers on my main image.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, July 2 from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. July marks MFT's 2nd birthday, and Kim's 40th, so we'll be celebrating all over the place!

*$2.00 US shipping for orders under $40, and for Intl orders and US orders over $40, they'll receive the same $2.75 discount until July 15th.

*FIRST 50 orders will receive a full sized stickles glitter glue!

*The Girl Who Wants It All special for the July Collection is $49.95. T

Head over to the MFT forum on SCS to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. We hope to see you there on Wednesday night.


Recipe:
Stamps: Bunny Slippers - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Pretty In Pink & True Thyme - SU; DP - Basic Grey
Other: Black Ink; White Fun Flock; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Pretty In Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button Brads; Distress Stripes Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape

You Make-Up My Day!

Today's card is for this weeks OCC challenge that can be found on Our Creative Corner's blog. As this weeks challenge was a sketch challenge and I love doing sketch challenges ... I decided to play along ... this particular sketch was designed by my friend Cindy Haffner.

I decided to play with my Stamping Bella stamps ... it has been a little while since I have stamped them. The sentiment and nail polish bottle used on this card is from an old SU set called "Glam Girl", the sentiment works so well with this Bella image.

Recipe:
Stamps: Oh So Pretty Bella - Stamping Bella; Weave Background - CHF; Sentiment - SU
Paper: White; Black; Pretty In Pink & Pomegranate - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Pretty In Pink SU Ink; Circle Punches; Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Black Brads; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape