The Earth Laughs in Flowers!

Hi everyone,

It is challenge time over on The Pink Elephant blog, this week the challenge is a sketch challenge!

Our sponsor for this week is  ………………………………….

For my card today I used “Fleur Belle” and “The Earth Laugh’s In Flowers” sentiment which are both available from Stampotique Originals. Isn’t this flower lots of fun!!!!! There is a whole range of flowers in this line available at this site.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along with us this week.

Don’t forget to check out The Pink Elephant blog to see what the rest of the design team have created this week.

Recipe:

Stamps: Fleur Belle & Sentiment – Stampotique Originals

Paper: White; Red; Blue; DP – My Mind’s Eye

Other: Black Ink; MS Scallop Dot Border Punch; Oval Nestabilities; Tag Die;  Foam Tape; Copics

 

Let It Snow!

Hi everyone!

Well now you can finally find out what Cooper is doing ….. he is all Bundled Up so he can play in the snow!

This is one of the stamp sets that was released by Paper Pretties on Friday, and is called “Bundle Up Cooper”. Isn’t he just adorable!!!!! I used the Martha Stewart Snowflake punch around the page punches to create the snow border around the edge of my card.

This was also for this week's Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge (PWC86) which was to use sewing on our cards. I stitched around the edge of the designer paper.

Recipe:

Stamps: Bundle Up Cooper – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Sage; Burgundy; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Polar White Flower Soft; Oval Nestabilities; Oval Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; MS Snowflake Punch Around the Page Punches; Sewing Machine; Foam Tape; Copics

Read A Book!

Hi everyone!

My card today is for this week’s challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week our January challenge hostess, Lori Boyd has given us a sketch challenge. Now you know I love sketch challenges.

Our sponsor for the next fortnight is The Greeting Farm

I used “Library Mouse” from The Greeting Farm for my card … isn’t he such a cutie! I wonder what he was planning on doing with all those books …. hopefully read them LOL! 

And here is the sketch …. hope you can find some time to play along with us this week.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessica Diedrich
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Robin Willis
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe

Stamps: Library Mouse – The Greeting Farm

Paper: White; Brown; Teal; DP - Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Oval Punches; Ribbon; Brown Candy Dots; Foam Tape; Copics

Easter Greetings!

Greetings Everyone!

My card today is for this week’s challenge over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog. This week it is my turn to host the challenge, and as I love using my punches on my cards, I decided to make it a punch challenge.

Let's get Punch Happy ..... get those punches out .... borders, shapes or decorative .... let's have some punch fun when we are creating our cards this week! As long as you use at least one punch on your card this week you are fine ... of course you can use as many punches as you wish ... the more the merrier!

Alota Rubber Stamps are not required, but we would love to see them if you have them!

You have until the 31st January (11.59 pm US Pacific time) to complete this challenge, you can enter as many entries as you wish for a better chance of winning!!! You have a chance of winning some wonderful stamps if you card/project is selected randomly from all the entries received.

Would you like to receive 20% discount when you order from Alota Rubber Stamps .... all you have to do is use the coupon code: FBDTCHAL when you place your order. You can use this coupon code as many times as you like throughout January.

For my card I decided to create an Easter card. To create my card I first stamped “Hidden Surprise” onto white card and airbrushed the sky. I then stamped “Klara Sitting/Flowers” on a scrap of white card and cut her out and attached her to the egg using foam tape. I used just the “Easter Greetings” part of the sentiment to complete the stamped portion of my card.

I used a number of punches for this card, first up the Martha Stewart Daisy Border Punch. I also used circle and scallop circle punches for the sentiment. And finally I used a corner rounder to round the bottom corners of the main image.

The layout of the card uses this week’s Mojo Monday sketch challenge (Mojo121).

Recipe:

Stamps: Klara Sitting/Flower; Hidden Surprise; Sentiment – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Burgundy; Pink; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Pink Ink; MS Daisy Border Punch; Circle Punches; Corner Rounder; Glittered Garnishes; Embossing Folder; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics

Purr-fectly Fabulous!

Hi everyone

My card today uses the new “Glam Kitty” stamp set from Totally Stampalicious. I am just loving this image. The fun thing about Totally Stampalicious is that when you purchase the stamp set you are also sent the digi stamps for the set as well which means no more waiting for your stamps to arrive you can play while you are waiting …. how cool is that.

Totally Stampalicious is also hosting a challenge over on their blog, which is to create a card using shades of purple. This is the card I came up with!

For the layout of my card I used this week’s Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch challenge (MTSC56).

Recipe:

Stamps: Glam Kitty – Totally Stampalicious

Paper: White; Purple; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

My To Do List!

Good morning everyone,

I just had to share this project with you all that I created last night. This project uses 2 of the new stamps sets from MFT Stamps and also their new “To Do” list template that you can also purchase.

This project was inspired by something I received from our local council about 12 months ago … so when I was thinking what stamps to decorate my “To Do” list I decided what better for me but an Owl … after all you know I love owls! So I grabbed the new “Thinking of Hoo” stamp set as well as the new “Make A Date” set and created my to do list.  The Make A Date set is a fun set useful for so many things including calendars, besides the template for the “to do list” you can also purchase calendar templates, templates to create birthday books or perpetual calendars … you can find them all here.

Here is a close up of the top section of my “To Do List” before I added the calendar … as you can see the thought bubble that comes with the owl set was the perfect place to add the words I wanted to use for this project.

If you look under the pencil you can see the slot I punched out so that my tear off note book I created could slip into place. The pencil & holder I pinched from the one I got from the council hehe!

BTW I will also tell you how I created my little “tear off notebook” that I used to slip into the slot it is sooooooooooo easy. Just print out the notebook first … I wanted mine smaller then the original size, so I selected the print 2 to a page option on the pdf file when I went to print. As there is only one page to the file you only get two printed on one end of the page but then you put that back into the printer and print more at the other end.

Next I cut all them all out so that they were all the same size and then used a couple of bulldog clips to hold the top together … put the bulldog clips at the side near the top not on the top itself and then just spread a little PVA glue along the top, smooth it out and leave to dry … then you have your own little tear off notebook. Sooooooooooo easy!!!!!

To finish of my To Do List, I added a piece of magnet strip to the back so it can be hung onto the fridge.

Recipe:

Stamps: Thinking of Hoo & Make A Date – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Burgundy, DP

Other: Black Ink; Burgundy Ink; Slot Punch; PVA Glue; Magnet Strip; Foam Tape; Copics

A CCEE Sketch!

Hi everyone,

It’s Thursday, which means it is time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers blog. This week our challenge hostess for the month Cindy Haffner has supplied us with another fun sketch to play with!

I used one of the Anya’s from The Greeting Farm’s “Miss Anya Love” set, I just love this Anya! I stamped and cut her out so I could use her with this sketch. The pink circle was created using Nellie’s Multi Frame Circle Die.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along!

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also check out their individual blogs for more details on their creations.

Joanne Grzelak
Cindy Haffner
Tosh Leyendekker
Charlene Merrick
Shirley Quarry

Recipe:

Stamps: Miss Anya Love – The Greeting Farm; Sentiment – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Pink; DP – Heidi Grace

Other: Black Ink; MS Valentine Heart Border Punch; MS Happy Birthday Deep Edge Punch; Nellie’s Multi Frame – Circle; Oval Punches; Red Heart Brad; Sizzix Embossing Folder; Bling; Foam Tape; Copics

Can You Guess What Cooper Is Doing??

Welcome to Paper Pretties 3nd Anniversary Blog Hop! We're celebrating in true Prettie style and you won't want to miss out! This release we will be having a week long Blog Hop!

Remember that on the 15th at 8 pm EST we'll all meet in Forum at Paper Pretties to celebrate and find out who the grand prize winner of our Blog Hop contest is!

This hop is not like our typical release hops, instead the Design Team will not only be showing you previews of all the wonderful stamps we will be releasing this month, but we will also be show casing one super cute stamp that you get to try and guess what our adorable Cooper is doing! In order to win our super cute Cooper from this hop, you'll need to collect all of the clues from the blog hop - 10 in all and submit your answer to Jackie (babitoons@gmail.com). Answers must be in by 8am on the 15th to qualify.

If you didn't hop onto my blog via Christi Thorsen's blog then you might want to hop back over to the very start of the blog hop which is at Christie Ortman's blog.

Are you ready for my clue ………. “HAT”

Here is a sneak peek at my card

think you can guess what Cooper is doing?

Don't go yet ... cause it is also time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge, this week the challenge was hosted by Wendy Bond. Wendy's challenge was to use stitching on our cards. Now I did use stitching on the card that I created using Cooper above, if you look closely at the top of the scallop piece you will see stitching on either side.

Want to play along with us
How to Enter: Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC86.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, January 19th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

• Christie Ortman
• Julie Masse
• Jana Weaver
• Jackie Rakoski
• Christi Thorsen
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• Kristy Ketterlin
• Jane Matsumoto
• Jennifer Greco

Hop on over to Heather Lee-Reppen’s blog to get your next clue! Remember to collect all the clues and to email your answers to Jackie! (babitoons@gmail.com).

Holy Mackerel!

Hi everyone,

I have another Prettie Peek to share with you today in readiness for Paper Pretties January Release! On Friday, January 15th Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 8pm EST and will last until 10pm. Besides the chatter, and all around fun, we will also be releasing 7new sets. Check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs this week for more sneak peeks. Hope to see you there!!

My card today uses the new “Holy Mackerel” stamp set which is one of the sets that will be released on Friday. This penguin looks like he had lots of success fishing!

If you want to see more Prettie Peeks today, head on over to Kristy Ketterlin & Julie Masse blogs as she will both be posting something also.

Recipe:

Stamps: Holy Mackerel – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Yellow; Red; DP – Cosmo Cricket

Other: Black Ink; EK Success Wavy Border Punch; Circle Nestabilities; Label Nestabilities; Modern Label Tag Punch & Die; EK Success Photo Corner Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

It’s Your Birthday!

Hi everyone!

Well it is time for another challenge over on The Pink Elephant blog.  This week the challenge is Theme challenge with the theme being Birthday! You can never have too many birthday cards right.

This week’s sponsor is Kraftin Kimmie Stamps, so the Pink Elephant Design Team got to play with some of the latest stamps which have just been released … how cool is that! Of course seeing that the theme for the challenge was Birthday I just couldn’t go past this Birthday Celebration stamp.

Recipe:

Stamps: Birthday Celebration – Kraftin Kimmie Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Rose; DP - Kazzazz

Other: Labels Nestabilities; Fancy Tags Die; EK Success Candle Border Punch; Oval Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

 

An Aussie Snowman!

Hi everyone,

I have another Alota Rubber Stamp card to share with you today, this time using the “Aussie Snowman” unmounted plate designed by my friend Susan Uncle. I received a card using this set just before Christmas before it was even released and knew as soon as I saw it that is was a stamp I HAD to have hehe! I used a Snow Marker to add snow effects to the sentiment.

Down here in Australia right now we are in the middle of summer so the only type of snowman we could have would be water! It wouldn’t take long to melt at all. Even in winter where I live it doesn’t get cold enough for snow, of course there would be some places where you could make snowmen in winter but not many.

I decided seeing it was an Aussie Snowman to go with bright summery colors for my card.  The layout for this card is a sketch I saw recently online at Michelle Wooderson’s blog, I loved the sketch so just had to use it.

Don’t forget that you can receive 20% discount when you order from Alota Rubber Stamps .... all you have to do is use the coupon code: FBDTCHAL when you place your order. You can use this coupon code as many times as you like throughout January.

Recipe:

Stamps: Aussie Snowman Unmounted Plate – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Yellow; DP – Cosmo Cricket

Other: Black Ink; Oval Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; Snow Marker; Sizzix Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Happy Birthday!

Happy Saturday everyone,

Well it is time for another challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week our challenge hostess for the month, Lori Boyd challenged us with another fun challenge. So what is the challenge you ask, well as it is Lori’s Birthday this month the challenge was to create a birthday card … now you know you can never have too many birthday cards on hand, right!

As my Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps arrived this week, I decided I had to play with one of those and of course this one called “Francesca” looked perfect for a birthday card with all those cupcakes & candles! I used Nellie’s Multi Frame Rectangle for the red layer underneath my main image.

Here is the inside of my card, as you can see I used the Martha Stewart “Happy Birthday” Deep Edge Punch to create a border. I figured this was enough sentiment so left it at that. I did add some bling to the stars.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessica Diedrich
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Robin Willis
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe

Stamps: Francesca – Kraftin’ Kimme Stamps;

Paper: White; Red; Pink; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; MS Border Punch; MS Happy Birthday Deep Edge Punch; Nellie’s Multi Frame – Square; Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Bling; Foam Tape; Copics

Eggstra Special Easter!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our Prettie Peeks for Paper Pretties January Release! On Friday, January 15th Paper Pretties will be having their monthly Stampin In Your Jammies party!! The party starts at 8pm EST and will last until 10pm. Besides the chatter, and all around fun, we will also be releasing 7new sets. Check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs this week for more sneak peeks. Hope to see you there!!

My card today uses the new “Eggstra Special Easter” set which is one of the set that will be released. Isn’t Cooper so sweet holding that massive Easter egg.

If you want to see another Prettie Peek today, hop on over to Kristy Ketterlin blog as she will be posting something also.

Recipe:

Stamps: Eggstra Special Easter – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Blue; Bright Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Oval Punches; EK Success Embossed Scallop Border Punch; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Grab Some Chocolate and Hop Around The Block!

Happy MFT release day everyone and welcome to my blog. It time to join the MFT Stamps Design Team for another "Hop Around the Block".

The hop started at Kim's (MFT Lady) blog so if you didn’t start from there you may want to head over there now so that you can start at the beginning of the hop. You don't want to miss anything and believe me there is lots to see!

My projects today use two of the new stamps sets which are available to purchase at MFT Stamps NOW! These sets are “Who’s that Chocoholic” WTG Mini and “Clearly Sent about Chocolate” which is a fun sentiment set all related to chocolate

For my card I decided to create an Easel card as I love how these look. The designer paper is also from MFT Stamps and is the My Favorite Paper Pack - Chocolate Kiss Range.

For my second project for today, as the stamps were chocolate related I wanted to create something that would hold chocolate so I decided to create a candy wrapper box.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the amazing Barbara's Blog and see what awesome creation she has to share with you today.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks for dropping by! Don't forget to leave comments on all the blogs, you never know who may be giving away blog Candy!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Who’s That Chocoholic Mini & Clearly Sent About Chocolate – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; My Favorite Paper Pack – Chocolate Kiss – MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Fancy Tags Die; Borderabilities; Rectangle Nestabilities; Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Tag; Foam Tape; Copics

Humpty Dumpty!

Hi everyone,

It has been a while, but the CCEE Stampers are finally back ready for another year of fun challenges, I hope you will have time to play along with us sometime throughout the year.  We have a few changes in the line up for the Design Team to start off the year, which you can find out all about on our CCEE Stampers blog. Please give our new members a warm welcome!

To start of the year Cindy Haffner is hosting the January challenges and as Cindy loves sketch challenges we are starting off with a sketch month! What fun!

For my card I used a digital image that I purchased from Digital Delights from Louby Lou, I just love her nursery rhyme sets that she has created.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along too!

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week.

Recipe:

Stamps: Humpty Dumpty Digital Set – Digital Delights

Paper: White; Red; Blue; DP

Other: Oval Nestabilities; Blue Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Blue Bunny!

Hi everyone,

I am back again today with another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop. If you didn't hop onto my blog via Christi Thorsen's blog then you might want to hop back over to the very start of the blog hop which is at Christie Ortman's blog.

Being the 1st Wednesday of the month, it is my turn to host the challenge which of course is a sketch challenge.

For my card I decided to use Paper Pretties “Snowbunny” …. I think this set makes a fabulous card for a baby. I colored mine blue for a baby boy *smile*

Want to play along with us
How to Enter: Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC85.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, January 12th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

• Christie Ortman
• Julie Masse
• Jana Weaver
• Jackie Rakoski
• Christi Thorsen
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• Kristy Ketterlin
• Jane Matsumoto
• Jennifer Greco

Now to continue on the hop you need to head on over to Heather Lee-Reppen’s blog to see what she has created for this week’s challenge

Recipe:
Stamps: Snowbunny - Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Blue; DP - Kaisercraft

      Other: Black Ink; EK Success Scallop Diamond Border Punch; Checkerboard Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Oval Nestabilities; Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

For You!

Hi again,

I have another MFTeaser to share with you today, this time using the new WTG “Click Flick” set. This set along with all the other stamps to be released this month will be available from MFT Stamps after the release party tonight, Wednesday 6th January.

The designer paper I used on this card is the My Favorite Paper Packs - Summer Collection, I also added 3 of the red glittered garnishes from the Glittered Garnishes – Summer pack.

And here is the inside of my card … this set has lots of fun sentiments to go with the image as well as some fun accessory stamps.

Don’t forget to visit Kim’s blog any time after 11AM EST to get the list of which Design Team members are also featuring this set on their blogs today.

Recipe:

Stamps: Click Flick – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Red; My Favorite Paper Pack - Summer DP – MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Labels Nestabilities; Glittered Garnishes – Summer;  Foam Tape; Copics

Wheeeeeeeeeee!

Hi everyone,

Have you heard of the Wednesday Stamp Club over on the MFT Stamps Member Forum of SCS???

Each Wednesday, (with the exception of the week prior to the release for the next Guest Designer contest) someone from Team MFT will post an idea, project, sample or more to inspire our creativity. On the 1st Wednesday of each month Cindy Haffner and I will be bringing you our sketch challenge … yahhhhhhhh!

To get things started I have designed the first sketch, I hope you like it.

For my card I used one of the new Pure Innocence sets that are due for release later tonight Wednesday 6th January by MFT Stamps. This set is called “Start the Day with Whee!”, this set was inspired by Kim’s daughter Emma who loves to swing. I added 3 of the brown glittered garnishes from the Chocolate Kiss Glittered Garnish Adornment set to the top right hand side of my large circle.

Here is the inside of my card, using the sentiment that is also included in the set.

And of course let’s not forget the sketch, I used a star shape for my card, but if you want to play along and don’t want to use a star, then you can substitute it for any shape you like. For more details on this challenge don’t forget to check out this week’s Wednesday Stamp Club thread over on the MFT Stamps Member Forum of SCS.

Recipe:

Stamps: Let’s Start The Day With Whee! – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Pink; Nook&Pantry DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Circle Cutter; Star Nestabilities; Sizzix Embossing Folder; Chocolate Kiss Glittered Garnishes; MS Butterfly Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics