My Forever Love!

Hi everyone, hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

My card today was originally going to be for yesterday’s challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog … but I ended up making something else for that so decided to keep this one for today’s blog post.

For my card I used MFT Stamps “Clearly Sentimental About You”, this is the triple scoop set for the month, if you purchase 3 stamps sets you will receive this one free.

The layout of my card uses the Mojo Monday Sketch (Mojo123) from a few weeks ago.

Here is the inside of the card which copies the layout of the front of my card, the hearts used here are from the “Thinking of Hoo” set from MFT Stamps.

Stamps: Clearly Sentimental About You; Thinking of Hoo – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; MS Valentine Heart Border Punch; Red Buttons; Red Thread; Kimmy Luvs Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Copics

Eggs 4 Easter!

Hi everyone!

It’s Saturday which means it is time for another challenge with my “Crazy” friends over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

This week Robin Willis our challenge hostess for February challenged us to create a card/project using red as the main color.

Our sponsor for this week is The Stamps of Life by Stephanie Barnard.


Each of the “Crazies” were able to select one of Stephanie’s digi stamps to create our card. I picked the Eggs4Easter set. The fun thing about these digi stamps is not only do you get the jpg files for each image, but you also get the abr files which are Photoshop brushes. So I decided to play around with the brushes to create my design and I had so much fun playing with these …. I do love brushes!!!!!!!

Everything but the sky and the color yellow were done on the computer using photoshop elements and the brushes …. I added the last two things after printing off my images.

The layout of my first card uses Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch challenge MTSC60.


 As you can see I couldn’t just create one card for this challenge, I was having that much fun with these images and the brushes. The layout of this card is another of Mercy’s Tuesdays Sketch Challenges (MTSC59). I think I am addicted to her sketches hehe!

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: Eggs4Easter – The Stamps of Life by Stephanie Barnard
Paper: White; Red; Sugar Rush DP – Basic Grey
Other: Blue Ink; MS Double Loop Border Punch; Grosgrain RIbbon; Button; Flower Punches; Foam Tape; Copics

With A Cherry On Top!

Hi folk!

I have another card to share with you all today, using the new Alota Rubber Stamps “Sweet Delights Cupcake, Ice-cream, Cake, Soda” unmounted plate. I just love this new stamp set, all those yummy treats, I mightn’t be able to eat them but at least I can stamp them hehe!

BTW Alota Rubber Stamps have added some brand new stamps to their website this week, that you might want to check out .... some fun Bunny Babies which are perfect for Easter, St Patrick's Day themed Stamps and some great new sexy girl stamps perfect for all occasions ... you can find them all here.

Recipe:

Stamps: Sweet Delights Cupcake, Icecream, Cake, Soda– Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; Sweet Stack Pack DP – DCWV

Other: Black Ink; MS Daisy Border Punch; Circle Nestabilities; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

A CCEE Inspiration Challenge!

Hi folk!

It is time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This week Charlene Merrick our challenge hostess for February has given us another fun challenge …. it’s an Inspiration challenge. Charlene gave us a link to ImageKind website, and we were to use one of the photos on that site as inspiration to create our cards.

I found this image of Ferald and Sahsha which reminded me a lot of this cute new stamp from Alota Rubberstamps called Ali and Asa, so I decided to use that for my card.

The layout is from a recent Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge (SSSC54). I masked the image and then used my copic airbrush to create the grass and sky.

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 see more details of their creations on their individual blogs: Tosh , Charlene, Cindy, Joanne and Shirley.

Recipe:

Stamps: Ali and Asa – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Blue; Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; MS Border Punch; Pink Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Your Future Will Be Full Of Love!

Hi everyone,

It’s time for 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.

This week the challenge is hosted by Jennifer Greco. Jennifer’s challenge is “Something for your Valentine”. It can be a card, a gift, a treat, whatever it is you are giving to your Valentine as long as it is stamped!

Well I probably won’t give this to my Valentine, which would be my DH cause we don’t do Valentines, but it was fun to create all the same. I used Paper Pretties Flirty Fortunes set for my project today and I thought it would be fun to use this with the Sizzix take out box die I have.

Want to play along with us
How to Enter: Create a card/project 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 PWC90.

This week’s special: 20% off – Flirty Fortunes; Sassy Shoes; Sassy Circles

Here is a close up of the top of my box so you can see the sentiment I used for this box.

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
• 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: Flirty Fortunes - Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Sage; DP - Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Sizzix Take Out Box Die; Oval Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

The Pink Elephant’s 1st Anniversary Blog Hop

Hi everyone,

Welcome to The Pink Elephant’s 1st Anniversary Blog Hop! Wow doesn’t a year fly by so quickly! I know I look forward to every Monday when I can share another challenge with you all. Thanks to everyone out there who has supported TPE by participating in the challenges over the past 12 months.

Our special challenge for our blog hop today was to create card using your favorite challenge. Well everyone knows I LOVE sketch challenges, so I decided to use one of the past one to create my card.

I used Alota Rubber Stamps’ Angel With Heart Right Hand & Love sentiment to create my card, these are such fun images.

Here is a side on closeup of the image, as you can see I stamped it twice, once on scrap paper and cut that out to mounted over the image stamped on the main panel.

The sketch I used for my card today is from Challenge #25 on July 27th. As you can see I mirrored the sketch this time round for my card.

Well now it is time to move on from me to the next stop in the hop which is Jenn Koss Hope you enjoy the hop!

Recipe:

Stamps: Angel With Heart Right Hand & Love Sentiment – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Sugar Rush DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Heart Brads; Label Tag Die; Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Pink Roses For You!

Good morning everyone,
It is challenge time again over on Riley and Company, this week the hostess for the challenge is Patti Stigsell.
Patti has given us all a fun challenge, which is to create a monochromatic card. Cardstock, patterned paper and embellishments should follow the same color scheme. With the exception of white or ivory. The image can be colored as you wish.
Of course as you can see, I went with pink for my card. I used the new Sweetheart Riley to create my card, however I decided to cover the heart that is on the card Riley is holding and replaced it by stamping the flower on scrap card and cutting it out and add that to the card. Doing this means you can put anything you like on the little card.
Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today so see what they created for this challenge.

Cathy Edgar

Cindy Haffner

Dana Jones

Frances Byrne

Kerry Donovan-Casey

Laurie Clout

Patti Stigsell

Silke Kittmann Recipe:
Stamps: Sweetheart Riley – Riley and Company
Paper: White; Pink; DP
Other: Black Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Hearts Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; MS Border Punch; Pink Candy Dots; Rectangle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

It Must Be Love!

Hi everyone and happy Monday to you all!

It is challenge time again over on The Pink Elephant blog. This week the challenge is a theme challenge ….. Mushy Gushy Valentine. I hope this is mushy and gushy enough hehe … cause we don’t do Valentines in our house. But I do love these cute little bugs so of course I had to use them.

To create my card today I used the cute bug image that is one of the new images from Alota Rubber Stamps. Aren’t they adorable! I stamped the image three times, once the whole image onto white card, just the bugs on scraps of white and the heart onto red card. I then cut out the bugs and heart and paper pieced the image.

Did you know that The Pink Elephant challenge blog will be one year old tomorrow ….. yahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hope you can come and join us in our celebration blog hop.

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: Bugs holding Heart – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; MS Heart Deep Edge Punch; Oval Punch; White Gel Pen; Foam Tape; Copics

Fabulous Friend!

Hi everyone!

Here is a card I made with a group of friends recently, it's a CASE of a card that my friend received for her birthday! This was for a monthly get together we had and our project for the month was to create this card, creating the cute little purses out of various shaped punches. You can see the list of punches I used to create these in my recipe at the end of my post.

Here are a couple more purses that we made, but so far I haven’t done anything with them … but I decided to add them to my blog post anyway because then they are all together and if I lose the tiny purses at least I have my blog post to refer back to …. these are all so cute and easy to make.

A girl can never have too many purses, right!

Recipe:

Stamps: Oval All & Linen Background – SU

Paper: White; Blue; DP

Other: Blue Bayou & Chocolate Chip SU Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Square Punch; Circle Punch; Round Tab Punch; Oval Punches; Scallop Edge Punch; Boho Blossoms Punch; Curly Label Punch; Foam Tape.

You Color My World!

Hi everyone!

It is time for another challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Being a new month means we also have a new challenge hostess, our February hostess is Robin Willis. Robin’s challenge is: “Be My Valentine – created a valentine themed card”

We also have a new sponsor, which is The {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard.

For my card today I used the new MFT Stamps “Basket Full ‘o Flopsey” I love how versatile this stamp set is … last week I used it for Easter and now I can use it for Valentines Day, just by stamping something different in the basket.

I used my copic airbrush to create the clouds and the grass was punched using the Martha Stewart grass punch. I used Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC59) for the layout of my card.

Here is the inside of my card, the sentiment used here is from MFT Stamps' “Clearly Sentimental About You” which is this months Triple Scoop set.

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:Basket Full ‘o Flopsey & Clearly Sentimental About You – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Pale Yellow; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Candy Dots; MS Deep Edger Punch; MS Grass Border Punch; Modern Label Tag Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Hay! How are You?

Hi everyone,

Well I hope the answer to the above question, is that you are all doing very well!

My card today is for this week’s Totally Stampalicious’ challenge, which is a sketch challenge. Of course I had to play along too, cause I just love sketch challenges.

I already had “Farmer Hawg” stamped & colored with the sentiment from the new “Farmer Hawg Sentiments”, so I decided to use that for my card. I did cut off part of the image so that it would fit for this sketch.

Here is the sketch, in case you want to play along too.

Stamps: Farmer Hawg; Farmer Hawg Sentiments – Totally Stampalicious

Paper: White; Blue; Brown; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Oval Punch; Label Punch; Forest Branches Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Baby Shower Invites!

Hi all,

I have been busy the past couple of week’s making Baby Shower invites for my daughters upcoming Baby Shower ….. as this is my first Grandchild of course I am excited!

To create the invites I used my Sizzix “Onesie” die. I used a background stamp to take off a little of the plainness. My daughter loves monkeys, and so the baby has already acquired a few monkey outfits and a few giraffe outfits too … so when I saw this new digital stamp over on the Pink Cat Studio site I knew I had to use it for the invites. The image actually has a balloon attached to the monkeys tail, but as that would have been too hard to cut out I just cut it off instead.

The wording “Baby Shower” is from MFT Stamps new “Make The Date” stamp set. This set has so many different words that you can use for all sorts of occasions.

Recipe:

Stamps: Make the Date – MFT Stamps; Monkey/Giraffe Digi Stamp – Pink Cat Studio; Backgrounder – CHF

Paper: White; Blue

Other: Blue Ink; Blue Brad; Sizzix Onesie Die; Foam Tape; Copics

Love Birds!

Hi again all!

It’s time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a new month we have a new challenge hostess, Charlene Merrick who has some fun challenges in stall for us all this month.

To start of the month, Charlene first challenge is a Heart Challenge - to make a card/project incorporating hearts in your design and add a charm.

I decided to create a heart basket which I created using the Sizzix petal card die. The image is one from MFT Stamps called Love Birds which was just released last night ….. aren’t those birds adorable!

The image was stamped onto Cream Perfect Paper Panels which is also available through MFT Stamps.

Here is another view of my basket, you can see the handle I created using one of Martha Stewart’s Deep Edge Border Punches. I must admit I am getting very addicted to these punches.

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.

Charlene Merrick

Cindy Haffner

Joanne Grzelak

Shirley Quarry

Tosh Leyendekker

Recipe:

Stamps: Love Birds – MFT Stamps

Paper: Cream Perfect Paper Panels – MFT Stamps; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Sizzix Petal Card Die; Red Ribbon; MS Floral Deep Edge Punch; Red Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Hurry Home So You Can Come Hop and Shop!

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

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!

Today I have 2 cards to share with you today using the new “Jolinne” range of stamps. The Jolinne sets I have used are:

• Birthday Balloon Jolinne - $9.00
• Miss You Much Jolinne - $9.00

The first card uses “Miss You Much Jolinne”, I paper pieced the suitcases and dress of the little girl. I added two of the brown Glittered Garnishes - Chocolate Kiss to the top corners of my main image panel.

Here is the inside of my card using the sentiment that is included in the “Miss You Much Jolinne” stamp set.

For my second card I created for today’s blog hop I used “Birthday Balloon Jolinne” After coloring the balloons with my copic markers I added dots and stripes to them using a white gel pen. I added Hotfix Glitter Pearls to the bottom right hand corner of my card and also to Joline’s necklace. I also paper pieced the outfit that Joline is wearing using the same designer paper that I used on the right side of my card.

And here is the inside of my card, the Very Happy Birthday sentiment is included in the Birthday Balloons Jolinne stamp set.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the amazing Jody Morrow'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: Birthday Balloon Joline & Miss You Much Joline – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Blue; Brown; Pink; Purple; DP

Other: Black Ink; Grosgrain Ribbon; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Oval Punches; Glittered Garnishes - Chocolate Kiss; Hotfix Glitter Pearls; Foam Tape; Copics

To The Newlyweds!

Hi everyone,

It’s time for 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.

This week the challenge is hosted by me, being the first Wednesday of the month … and of course it is a sketch challenge!

For my card I used Paper Pretties “Time for Cake” stamp set. I stamped the cake twice, once on my white rectangle and once more on a scrap of white, I cut the second one out and layered it over the first using foam tape. I also paper pierced the corners.

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 PWC89.

This week’s special: 20% off – Time For Cake & Sealed with a Kiss

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: Time for Cake - Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Green; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Glittered Garnishes; Oval Punch; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Cake, Cupcakes, Cookies, Pie!

Hi again,

I have another MFTeaser to share with you today, this time using the new WTG “Lovin’ From the Oven” & “Clearly Sentimental About Food” sets. 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 3rd February.

I decided to decorate a recipe book, that I purchased over a year ago to alter. I finally had the perfect sets to use! Besides the two sets that I mentioned above (“WTG Lovin’ From the Oven” & “Clearly Sentimental about Food”), I also used MFT’s “Alpha Dots” which was released a couple of months ago!

Here is a closeup of the WTG image and the sentiments from “Clearly sentimental about food”. As you can see I paper pieced the girl using the Nooks&Pantry Designer paper which is also available from MFT 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: WTG Lovin’ From The Oven; Clearly Sentimental About Food; Alpha Dots – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Nooks&Pantry DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Circle Punches; Grosgrain Ribbon; MS Drippy Goo Border Punch;  Foam Tape; Copics

Better Get Better!

Hi everyone,

It’s time for another 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.

This month it is Cindy’s turn to host the challenge! For my card I couldn’t go past using one of the new “Pure Innocence” stamps that will be released tonight (3rd February) by MFT Stamps. This set is called “Better Get Better” ….. isn’t she a cutie!!!!!!

Here is the inside of my card, again using one of the sentiments that is included in the set.

 

And of course let’s not forget the sketch.  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: Better Get Better – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Yellow; Green; Origins DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Oval Nestabilities; Button; MS Eyelet Scallop Border Punch; Oval Punch; Foam Tape; Copics