Happy Thanksgiving!

Good morning to you all, today I have another card using the Thanksgiving Hanna set which will be released by Hanna Stamps this Friday 5th September.

For this card I used last week's sketch challenge from SCS, which I turned on its side so that I could stamp Hanna on the long panel. I also used the autumn words cuttlebug embossing folder to create the texture to the top river rock panel. I added paper piercing to both top corners of my main image panel.


Join us on the Hanna Stamps member forum of SCS for the release party Thursday 4th September at 9pm EST.... See some great preview peeks and participate in some fun prize challenges.

Recipe:
Stamps: Thanksgiving Hanna & Sentiment Set - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Chocolate Chip, Real Rust, River Rock & DP - SU
Other: Black Ink; Close to Cocoa SU Ink; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Punch; Label Punch; Autumn Words Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Corner Rounder; Foam Tape; Copics

An Elf and an Appletini!

This is another card I created using the "Merry Christmas" set from MFT stamps. I just love this sentiment ... I am not sure I want the appletini ...but an elf would definitely come in handy haha!

For this card I used Julee's of Poetic Artistry's sketch challenge from a couple of weeks ago.


Wanna get cozy with the MFT crew? Want excuses to buy more stamps and play with the ones you have? We are changing up our forum to make it tons of fun for the MFT lover in you! On Sept. 13th, we unveil our MFThemed Forum Days!

• Play along with Who’s That Girl? Monday
• Find out more about MFT crew and fans on Thread Starter Tuesday
• Chat it up MFT style Wednesday nights at 9pm(est)
• Get a little sketchy on Thursday
• Hum a little Oldie PLUS Goodie on Friday
  

What’s in for you? We thought you’d ask! So we decided to offer a $5 store gift certificate to one lucky winner each day! And on top of all that goodness, the daily winners will be thrown into a monthly drawing for a $25 gift certificate! Now that’s a reason to celebrate, don’t you think?

Keep your eyes peeled and be ready to party on Sept 13th. Wanna know a little secret to get you started? You’ll need Rain or Shine for the very first challenge, so from now through Sept 13th, it’s 20% off, just to get you in the mood!

Recipe:
Stamps: Merry Christmas Set - MFT Stamps
Papers: White; Old Olive; Rive Rock & Real Red -SU; DP - Basic Grey
Other: Black Ink; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Circle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

Harry with Ladybird!

It is time for Spiral Whisper's "Stamp of the Week". This week the featured stamp is this cute " Harry with Ladybird" stamp. To see the cards the other design members have created using this stamp check out the Spiral Whisper blog. You can also purchase this stamp at a special price for this week only.

My card is also for Beate's Weekend sketch challenge ... not sure how Beate knew I was needing a card for a smallish image LOL but this sketch worked perfectly for this image so it was great to combine the two together.

Recipe:
Stamps: Harry With Ladybird - Spiral Whisper; Hello - Hero Arts
Paper: White; Close To Cocoa & Pumpkin Pie - SU; Turquoise XL; DP - Heidi Grace
Other: Black Ink; Green Ink; Blue Ink; Orange Brads; Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon; Scallop Border Punch; Oval Punch; Foam Tape; Copics; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool.

Live With Passion!

As you can see I have been playing with my Stampin' Up stamps again :) . Today's card is for the challenge I do each week with my CCEE friends.

Our challenge this week was given to us by Carolyn King and it was to use the technique Crayon Resist on our cards.

If you haven't tried the Crayon Resist technique before you will find a tutorial on this technique here.

Don't forget we would love you to play along with our challenge to find out how or to see the other CCEE members cards check out our CCEE Stampers blog.

Recipe:
Stamps: Inspired by Nature - SU
Paper: White; White Gloss; Black; Baja Breeze & Blue Bayou - SU
Other: Black; Baja Breeze, Blue Bayou & Going Gray SU Inks; Crayon; Flowers; Black Brads; Key Tag Punch

You're On My Mind!

Hi everyone ... hope you are enjoying weekend. For all the Aussie Dad's out there ... Happy Father's Day!

My card today is for Taylor's of Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge ... still no cupcakes on this card as I decided to play with my Stampin' Up stamps instead ... maybe next week I will get my cupcake stamps out again hehe.

This is a similar layout to a card I created earlier in the week ... the main difference is the circle at the bottom of the card which I had been thinking of adding to my other card but ended up not doing ... oh and of course this one is portrait style where the other was landscape.

Recipe:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy - SU
Paper: White; Baja Breeze & Blue Bayou - SU
Other: Baja Breeze & Blue Bayou SU Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Floral Screen Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Blue Bayou Grosgrain Ribbon

Over There ... No ... Over Here!

Hi everyone, I am just playing with one of the owls from the new "We're Not Scared" set that was released a few days ago by MFT Stamps. I just love owls so was so excited to see that MFT had now got owls too.

This is a card I have been wanting to create for about a month, ever since I saw the owls in this set and also when I saw the sign post that was release last month ... I so wanted to use the owls with that sign then LOL ... but of course I couldn't!

Recipe:
Stamps: We're Not Scared & What's Your Sign - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Chocolate Chip, River Rock & Wild Wasabi - SU
Other: Black Ink; Chocolate Chip & River Rock SU Inks; Jumbo Eyelets; Forest Branches & Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

A Dash of This, A Sprinkle of That!

It is my turn to hostess another challenge over on the Hanna Stamps members forums of SCS. Well you all know I love doing sketch challenges so I decided my challenge would be a sketch! I have included the sketch below if you want to play along too.

I used the new "Kiss the Cook" Set that was released earlier today by Hanna Stamps.


Recipe:
Stamps: Kiss the Cook - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Pretty In Pink & Rose Red - SU
Other: Black Ink; Rose Red SU Ink; Purely Pomegranate Grosgrain Ribbon; Corner Rounder; Hole Punch; Oval Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

Spiral Whisper Stamps Have Arrived!

Yahhhhhhhhhhh my Spiral Whisper stamps have finally arrived so I have been busy playing catch up.

My first card is for this week's sketch challenge over on the Spiral Whisper blog. Each Wednesday Spiral Whisper will be hosting a challenge of some type, it will be a mixture of various types of challenges, sketches, products & many other things. So grab your Spiral Whisper stamps and get stamping!!!!! The winner will be chosen at random next Monday.

I made a Halloween card for my sketch card ... using Spiral Whisper's Broomstick Milly ... isn't she cute!! I used my paper piercing ruler & tool to create faux stitching all around the edge of my card.

Recipe:
Stamps: Broomstick Milly - Spiral Whisper; Sentiment - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Black; Lavender Lace - SU; DP - MFT Stamps
Other: Black; Elegant Eggplant SU Ink; Black Brads; Square & Circle Nestabilities; Forest Branches Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Paper Piercing Ruler & Tool; Foam Tape; Copics


Each Monday over on Spiral Whisper blog they feature a "Stamp of the Week" this week's stamp is this cute kitty stamp called "Princess Meg". This stamp can be purchased from Spiral Whisper at a special price for one week only.

I used this week's sketch challenge from SCS to create my card using this stamp.

Recipe:
Stamps: Princess Meg - Spiral Whisper; Paw Prints - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Close To Cocoa, More Mustard & Wild Wasabi - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Close To Cocoa SU Ink; Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Foam Tape; Copics

Best Kitty!

This cat kind of reminds me of my cat ... not so much the color cause my cat is white ... but how it is sitting beside it's empty bowl as if to tell me to fill it up .... which of course I do. If I didn't she would sure let me know about it hahaha!

The stamps used here are from the new "Cat Hanna" set which will be released in a few hours from now. This is a great set for all those cat lovers out there ... even if you aren't a cat lover it is still a great set!

Don't forget to join us this Thursday 4th September in the Hanna Stamps Member Forum for our release party starting at 9pm EST.

Recipe:
Stamps: Cat Hanna & Sentiment Sets - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Chocolate Chip & Cameo Coral - SU; DP - DCWV
Other: Black Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Lace Doily Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Wake Me When It's Christmas!

For the record, I love Christmas .... but I do love this sentiment which comes with this "Merry Christmas" set from MFT stamps which was released yesterday. I am sure there are many people who can relate to that sentiment LOL ... and I guess even for those of us who enjoy all the lead up to Christmas there are times when we all feel a little bit like that haha!

My card today is for this week's MFT sketch challenge over on the MFT members forums of SCS.

I used my swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder on the river rock panel and the snow dots on the olive panel. The main image was layered using the rectangle nestabilities.

Recipe:
Stamps: Merry Christmas Set - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Real Red, Old Olive & River Rock - SU; DP - Basic Grey
Other: Black Ink; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Brads; Swiss Dots & Snow Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folders; Rectangle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

An Elzybell Sketch Challenge

I made this card a few weeks ago when I received my first lot of Elzybell Stamps ... which I have been having fun playing with.

This card is for a sketch challenge that the Elzybell Design Team decided to do .... if you would like to see all the cards that everyone did you can see them on the Elzybell blog. We have more challenges in come too and we hope that you might also like to play along with us ... the details of the next challenge can also be found on the Elzybell's blog.

I used my circle nestabilities for my circle layers. The dot background was created using the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder ... this is still one of my fav folders. I don't normally use white as a background but as you can see I did for this one and I like it :) .

Recipe:
Stamps: Girl on Swing & Sentiment - Elzybells Art Stamps
Paper: White; Real Red - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Red Brads; Word Window Punch & Oval Punch; Red & Blue Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Jump for Joy ... It's Autumn!

Doesn't Hanna look like she is having soooooo much fun playing in all those autumn leaves! This is just a few of the stamps from the new "Fall Set" which will be released by Hanna Stamps this Friday 5th September.

This is a fairly simple card, I masked Hanna & the leaves so I could sponge on my sky and grass areas. The 3 leaves that are falling around Hanna were stamped on a scrap of white card and then cut out and attached to my card to give them a little more dimension.

Don't forget to join us this Thursday 4th September in the Hanna Stamps Members Forum for our release party starting at 9pm EST.

Recipe:
Stamps: Fall Set - Hanna Stamps
Papers: White; Really Rust, Old Olive & Pumpkin Pie.
Other: Black Ink; Blue & Green Ink; Orange Brads; Copics.

Rosemary!

My card today is another MFTeaser I have to share with you all. This one uses one of the new Annie LaPoint images .... Rosemary, this is just one of the stamps to be released later today by MFT Stamps.

I used the floral screen cuttlebug embossing folder to create the texture to the white panel at the top of my card. The designer paper is a new one which is also available from MFT Stamps.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, Sept. 3 from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. This month there are SIX new sets being released, plus one from a new line at MFT: BCDzyns.

*The Girl Who Wants It All special for the The September Collection, which is one of each set being released, except for the BCDzyns set, is $58.95.

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: Rosemary - MFT
Paper: White; Old Olive & Brilliant Blue - SU; DP - MFT
Other: Black Ink; Purple Brads; White Grosgrain Ribbon; Rectangle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics.

Paige's Christmas & Some News!

Hi everyone hope you are all enjoying your day. First up I have some news I have been wanting to share with you all week.

I have been asked to be September's Guest Designer for Spiral Whisper, this is a stamp company based in the UK and they have lots of fun stamps. They have also just released a whole heap of new stamps if you haven't seen this company before go check it out ... oh and they also have a blog which has some great card ideas too.

I normally like to have a card using the stamps from the company I am talking about when I tell you things like this, but unfortunately my stamps haven't arrived here yet ... they are on their way and I had hoped they would be here by now but not so far :( .... now if I didn't need them in a hurry they probably would be here already, you know how it goes right. Anyway as soon as I receive them I will get busy and stamp up some cards to share with you.

OK now onto my card I have to share with you today .... I did get in the mail today my Rubber Romance stamps that I ordered about 3 weeks ago ... I didn't think they were gonna make it either arghhhhhh ... but they did! So of course I wanted to play with them so I used this fun Paige sitting on Gift which I have been wanting for some time. I love this stamp and it can be used for any time of the year just by using different colors. As you can see with Christmas only a few months away I decided to make mine a Christmas card.

I stamped my image out 3 times .... 2 times on white card and once on the patterned designer paper. I cut out the present only from designer paper omitting the ribbon and attached that to my base image. Then I also cut out the girl from the other white card I had stamped and attached her over the main image using foam tape so she is raised. When I colored her dress I went back with the clear spica pen to give the dress a glittery look to make it more festive. I added a paper pierced corner to the top left corner of this image and "Merry Christmas" to the right side.

The blue panel down the bottom of the card was embossed using my snow dots cuttlebug embossing folder.

Recipe:
Stamps: Paige on Gift - Rubber Romance; Sentiment - Gina K
Paper: White; Brocade Blue, Kiwi Kiss & Riding Hood Red - SU; DP - Kaiser
Other: Black Ink; Snowdots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Paper Piercing Tool & Mat; Spiral Brads; Foam Tape; Clear Spica Pen; Copics

Ghostly Greetings!

Today's MFTeaser I have for you features the new Flopsie set from MFT that will be released this Wednesday 3rd September. This Flopsey set is a Halloween one and here you can see how cute Flopsey looks all dressed up as a ghost!

I decided to create another acetate treat box, and my daughter was able to find some candy corn candy to put into my box.

Here is a pic of the top of the box so you can see the little tag I added using the sentiment from this set.

Recipe:
Stamps: Who's That Ghost - Flopsey - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Black; DP - MFT
Other: Black Ink; Tag Punches; Tagger; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Doily Lace Punch; Copics

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, Sept. 3 from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. This month there are SIX new sets being released, plus one from a new line at MFT: BCDzyns.

*The Girl Who Wants It All special for the The September Collection, which is one of each set being released, except for the BCDzyns set, is $58.95.

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.

Before & After!

Hanna Stamps will be releasing 4 new sets this Friday 5th September. The first set I am sharing with you today is a thanks giving set.

Of course living here in Australia, I don't really need to make thanksgiving cards as we do not celebrate Thanksgiving here. However I have had a lot of fun with this set .... I just love how there are before and after images of both a turkey and pumpkin, and the words 'before' & 'after' too. So of course I just had to create a surprise pop up so I could use both of the turkey stamps from this set.

Here is the inside of the card when you pull up the tag at the top of the card!



Join us on the Hanna Stamps member forum of SCS for the release party Thursday 4th September at 9pm EST.... See some great preview peeks and participate in some fun prize challenges.

Recipe:
Stamps: Thanksgiving Hanna & Sentiment Set - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Pumpkin Pie & Chocolate Chip - SU
Other: Black Ink; Pumpkin Pie SU Ink; Rectangle Nestabilities; Circle Punch; Copics

Moose Lake!

Don't you just love this new Ballet Sophie G stamp!!!!! This is a new stamp to be released in the Riley range of stamps by Hanna Stamps this Friday 5th September. Proceeds from the sale of this stamp will go to the Cancer Foundation.

I called this one Moose lake cause I think this is the Moose version of the ballet Swan Lake ..... LOL!!!!!

I stamped my image 4 times along the white card and colored them. The texture on the background was created using the Script Texture cuttlebug embossing folder, I then sponged pretty in pink SU ink to the raised areas of this background.

Hanna Stamps will be celebrating it’s 1^st “Hanna-versary” on 5^th October. To celebrate this exciting event Hanna Stamps will be having a 1 month long contest.

For every $50 you spend, throughout the month (1^st September to midnight 1^st October) your name will go into a drawing, the lucky winner will have their choice of the Copic Air Compressor, or the $200 shopping spree in the Hanna Stamps store.

During our release party on Thursday night Oct 2nd, we will video tape Hanna picking the winning name out of a jar.

We are going to have weekly give aways during the entire month of Sept. So stay tuned here or on the Design teams blogs for these great prize give aways!

Don't forget to join us this Thursday 4th September in the Hanna Stamps Members Forum for our release party starting at 9pm EST.

Recipe:
Stamps: Ballet Sophie G & Sentiment - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink & Regal Rose - SU
Other: Black Ink; Script Texture Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Pink Flowers; Brown Brads; Copics

Rockstar!

I have another MFTeaser to share with you today. MFT Stamps is excited to bring to you a brand new line of stamps by Kim's daughter Brianna Smith, called BC Dzyns. This first set in this line to be released is called Hey Chica, and was created by a brand new illustrator named Chesney Young. Don't you just love it!!!!!! This set along with 6 other sets will be released by MFT Stamps on Wednesday 3rd September.

I used the same designer paper as I used for the background to paper piece the girls dress. I stamped the image on white card and then cut it out using my petite ovals nestabilities ... I extended my paper piecing and coloring down to the bottom of the oval.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, 3rd September from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. Lots of fun is planned including finding out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. Head over to the MFT forum on SCS to find out all the details and we hope to see you there on Wednesday night.

Recipe:
Stamps - Hey Chica - MFT
Paper: White; Black; Real Red - SU; DP - Unknown
Other: Black Ink; Black Brads, Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Punch; Petite Ovals Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

Happy Hoot to You!

Well it seems like I am having an owly type of day today as both cards I have uploaded for you today have owls on them. Well you all know I love owls ... you can never have too many just like stamps ;) .

Today's card is for the challenge I do every Monday with my CCEE friends. This week our challenge is a supply challenge ... this was the one we normally do at the end of the month but as our supplies hadn't reached a few of us last week we changed the challenges around a little. Our supplies for this challenge were sent to us from Tosh ... who sent us the designer paper and also the pearls. We had to use both somehow on our card. The designer paper is actually double sided but I forgot to take a picture of that.

I used the pearls on the worm and the stars around the owl. I added paper piercing to the top corners of my main image.

Don't forget that you can see what all my other CCEE Stamper friends did on our blog here.

Recipe:
Stamps: Owls - Stampavie; Sentiment - CC Designs
Paper: White; Pink; Chocolate Chip - SU; DP - My Mind's Eye
Other: Black Ink; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Lace Doily Punch; Flowers; Brown Brad; Rectangle Nestabilities; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Boo To You!

Happy Monday ... today starts the beginning of the MFTeasers I have to share with you this week, ready for the release of the new stamps by MFT stamps this Wednesday night.

Oh course I am sure it comes as no big surprise to any of you that the first set I am sharing with you all is the one that contains owls .... you all know how much I love owls. It doesn't look like that scarecrow is having much luck scaring anything away from it hehe. This stamps used here are from the new set called "We're Not Scared" and it contains five images including the scarecrow and the two different sized owls. The sentiment is from the new flopsey set which I will share with you later in the week

I used the pumpkin cuttlebug embossing folder to create the embossed background on the pumpkin pie card.

My Favorite Things is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, 3rd September from 9-11 p.m. Eastern time. Lots of fun is planned including finding out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. Head over to the MFT forum on SCS to find out all the details and we hope to see you there on Wednesday night.


Recipe:
Stamps: We're Not Scared & Who's That Ghost Flopsey - MFT Stamps
Paper: White; Black; Pumpkin Pie - SU; Purple; DP - MFT Stamps
Other: Black Ink; Sewing Machine; Tab Punch; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Pumpkin Harvest Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Black Brads; Foam Tape