Give it an “R”!

Hi everyone!

I have another Riley sneak peek to share with your today, in preparation in the Riley and Company release which is happing on Thursday 18th March. Today I am featuring this cute “Cheerleader Sophie”.

My card uses this week’s Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC65).

To see even more creations using the new Riley’s, don’t forget to check out the rest of the Riley and Company Design Teams blogs.

• # Riley & Company Blog
• Cathy Edgar
• Cindy Haffner
• Dana Jones
• Laurie Clout
• Patti Stigsell
• Silke Kittmann
• Therese' Boyd

Join us tomorrow night, Wednesday 17th March 10pm EST for our Riley and Company Blog Hop!

Stamps: Cheerleader Sophie – Riley and Company

Paper: White; Blue; Red

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Inverted Circle Nestabilities; Blue Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Button; Stars Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah!

Hi everyone,

No that isn’t me pulling faces at you LOL … that is the cute little bug! It’s that time again … what time??? Challenge time, over on the Alota Rubber Stamps blog. Our challenge hostess this week is Marie Carlsson.

Marie challenged us to create a humorous card. Now I guess humor is different to everyone, but I thought this “Gotcha Bug” from Alota Rubber Stamps was funny so I decided to use that. It is been a while since I have pulled him out to play. I wanted a sentiment to go with him so I created that on my computer.

The layout of my card is one I found on Friday Sketchers blog a few weeks ago.

Want to play along???? you can use any stamps you want, although if you have Alota Rubber Stamps we would love to see them on your cards.

You have until the 31st March (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.

Stamps: Gotcha Bug – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Orange; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Cutter; Paper Piercing Mat & Tool; Oval Punches; Orange Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; Orange Candy Dots; Foam Tape; Copics

Slam Dunk!

Hi everyone,

It is day 2 of the sneak peeks of the new Riley stamps that will be released by Riley and Company, this Thursday 18th March. Today I am featuring “Basketball Riley” …. another must have Riley image!

I recently found this fun basketball themed designer paper which I had to get, so I decided to use that for my card. I wanted to create a basketball using a nestabilities & cuttlebug folder, I die cut the circle then drew in the black lines and then ran it through my big shot using my cuttlebug folder. The sentiment I created using my computer. I also found a basketball brad in my stash, that was the exact size of the basketball Riley is holding so I decided to use that over the basketball for something different.

The rest of the Riley and Company Design Team will also be sharing there cards they have created with you this week, so don’t forget to check them out too.

• # Riley & Company Blog
• Cathy Edgar
• Cindy Haffner
• Dana Jones
• Laurie Clout
• Patti Stigsell
• Silke Kittmann
• Therese' Boyd

I will be back tomorrow with another Riley creation to share with you all.

Stamps: Basketball Riley -  Riley and Company

Paper: White; Black; Orange; DP

Other: Black Ink; Aged Paper Distress Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Circle Punches; Basketball Brad; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Orange Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

April Showers!

Hi everyone,

Today starts the beginning of the sneak peeks of the new Riley stamps that will be able from Riley and Company this coming Thursday 18th March. This month Riley and Company will be releasing 6 new Riley/Sophie's as well as releasing floor/brick and sentiments.

For my card today I am using “Umbrella Riley” isn’t it a cutie …. it reminds me of spring and the saying “April Flowers Bring May Flowers”.

The rest of the Riley and Company Design Team will also be sharing there cards they have created with you this week, so don’t forget to check them out too.

• # Riley & Company Blog
• Cathy Edgar
• Cindy Haffner
• Dana Jones
• Laurie Clout
• Patti Stigsell
• Silke Kittmann
• Therese' Boyd

Stamps: Umbrella Riley – Riley and Company

Paper: White; Orange; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Nestabilities; MS Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Rock On!

Hi everyone hope you are enjoying your weekend!

My card today uses another of the new stamps that were released by MFT Stamps earlier in the month. This one is another from the Pure Innocence range and is called “Tweeny Teen – Rock On”

I paper pieced her pants, shirt and the chair she is sitting on.

Here is the inside of my card, the sentiment is another that is included in the stamp set.

I used a recent Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC63) for the layout of my card.

Stamps: Tweeny Teen – Rock On – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Yellow; Made With Love DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Petite Ovals Nestabilities; Oval Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Heart Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

It’s A Guy Thing!

Hi everyone,

It’s Saturday which means it is challenge time over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week our challenge hostess for March, Barb Anders has another fun challenge for us. Barb’s challenge ….. “It’s A Guy Thing”. I think we all have trouble coming up with masculine cards so this is a great challenge!

Our sponsor this week is DRS Designs. For my card I used DRS Designs “Golf Is” and “Above Par Birthday” stamps. I actually stamps the main image three times … and cut out parts of the stamp and layered it. The circle on the left side of the card was embossed using Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug Embossing Folder to resemble a golf ball.

Here is the inside of my card, I stamps the sentiment onto white card and used my circle nestabilities to create the circle shape and then I used the Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug Embossing Folder so that it resembled a golf ball again.

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

Stamps: Golf Is….; Above Par Birthday Sentiment – DRS Designs

Paper: White; Brown; Orange; DP – Bo Bunny

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Brown Candy Dots; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Java Junkie!

Hi everyone,

Totally Stampalicious are having their first Coffee Shop Blog Hop today and I have been asked to join them as a guest hopper … as I love their stamps of course I said yes!

If you haven’t started on the hop from Totally Stampalicious’ blog then you might want to hop on over there now, I will wait, so you don’t miss out on anything.

My card today uses the new “Coffee Brawd” which will be available at MIDNIGHT EST Thursday, HERE! I know all you coffee drinkers out there will be able to relate to this fun image and all the wonderful sentiments included in the set.

I don’t have the stamp set so I used the digi version for my card, I kept the girl and sentiments the same size as what they would be if I had the stamp set. However and this is where it is fun that when you purchase the stamp set that you also receive the digi version …. for the coffee mugs I decreased the size to suit where I wanted them to go. You can’t do that with many stamp sets now can you! Oh and if you are a digi lover, you can now just purchase the digi version of the stamps if you want to … cool ha!

I decided to create a freestanding pop up card, these are fun to create and it has been a while and seeing them as a challenge over on SCS this week reminded my about them. You can find a tutorial if you need it over in the resources section of SCS.

Totally Stampalicious is giving out lots of blog candy during the hop:

6 - $5 Gift Certificates
3 - $10 Gift Certificates
2 - Coffee Brawd Stamps Set
*Grand Prize* - 2 Stamp Sets and 2 Digi Sets - WINNER'S CHOICE

All you have to do is make sure you leave a comment on every DT Members Blog and YOU could win!!!! The Blog Hop ends at 9PM EST Friday March 12! Winners will be announced on Stampalicious Monday the 15th!

Well now it is time to continue on the hop, your next stop is the very talented and charming Cindy Haffner, I am sure she has something wonderful for you all to see.

Stamps: Coffee Brawd – Totally Stampalicious

Paper: Cream; Pink; Brown

Other: Brown Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; Impression Folder; Oval Punch; Modern Label Tag Punch & Die; Foam Tape; Copics

Like A Morning Dream!

Hi everyone,

All this month our Tosh Leyendekker, our hostess for this month’s challenges over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog is tempting us with food inspirations this month. Anything goes...shapes, embellishments, styles... we have to create our card/project based on each week's photo. All the photos are from Williams-Sonoma. When I look at the photo’s I see sketches!

This is my inspiration for my card which is was also last week’s Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge, but it worked so well with this pic.

The three jars on the plate are the three panels of designer paper I used at the bottom of my card, the lids are the flowers, one near the bottom and the other two at the top of my card. And the little packet on the top left is my panel that i used for my sentiment … see the packet even has it’s own sentiment LOL! The brown box at the top of the pic are represented by the brown candy dots at the top right of my card. Oh and of course all this is layered onto my card which I cuttlebugged (which is the tray and ice. Done! I thought this was going to be hard this week, but when I discovered this sketch challenge it was sooooooooo super easy.

The sentiment’s used on both the outside and inside of my card are from MFT Stamps new “Clearly Sentimental about Birthday’s” stamp set. This set is this month’s triple scoop set which means if you purchase any three stamp sets this month you will get this set for free … cool!

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
• Shirley

Stamps: Clearly Sentimental About Birthday’s – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Brown Ink; Labels 10 Nestabilities; Scallop Circle Punch; Flower Punches; Brown Candy Dots; Brown Brads; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Hippity Hoppity!

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 Christie Ortman. Christie’s challenge is an Inspiration challenge using the photo below. When I looked at the pic, the first thing that I got from it was the layout and also the patterns of the papers which I tried to follow on my card.

This week the Design Team are using “Hippity Hoppity”  and “Bunny Slippers” which are both the stamp sets that are on special this week … 20% off!

I used Paper Pretties “Hippity Hoppity” stamp set for my card.

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 PWC94.

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.

 

Stamps: Hippity Hoppity – Paper Pretties

Paper: Cream; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Oval Punches; Yellow Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Happy Easter!

Hi everyone,

Hope your week is going well! Every second Tuesday the Riley and Company Design Team get together for a fun challenge. This week Kerry Donovan-Casey has challenged us all to create a non card item.

It is always fun coming up with something other then a card, and this week I decided with Easter just around the corner to create an Easter treat container in the shape of a mini milk carton. I will fill this up with tiny egg shaped treats.

I stamped up four Eggshell Riley’s and cut them out and attached one on each side of my milk carton. I am thinking that besides Easter, this could make a cute baby shower favor ….. could be I have babies and baby showers on the brain right now LOL!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today so see what they created for this challenge.

• #Riley and Company Blog
  
• Cathy Edgar
• Cindy Haffner
• Dana Jones
• Laurie Clout
• Patti Stigsell
• Silke Kittmann
• Therese' Boyd

Stamps: Eggshell Riley – Riley and Company

Paper: White; Green; DP

Other: Black Ink; Sizzix Mini Milk Carton Die; Library Clip; Foam Tape; Copics

Let Me Explain …..

Hi everyone,

Totally Stampalicious have a sketch challenge this week, and of course since I love sketch challenges and also love my Totally Stampalicious stamps, I decided to play along :)

I decided to play with my “Willameana” set which I haven’t played with since Christmas. I know this is a Christmas themed stamp because she has the letter to Santa behind her back, but with a little playing this can be use for any time of year.

I also got to play with one of my new Martha Stewart punches I got on the weekend when I attended my favorite Scrapbook Stores “Silly Sunday” Day …. they only open the one day a year and wow what amazing bargains they had, what I loved best was the 30% off everything scrapbooking related which meant Martha Stewart punches, so guess where I headed for first when I walked in the door … you got it hehe! I saved my DH a packet cause I would have bought them anyway eventually bwahahahahahaha!

Here is the sketch if you want to play along.

Oh and one more thing, if you haven’t been to Totally Stampalicious’ blog recently, they are offering the most amazing blog candy this week . Everyone of their stamp sets …. oh wow!!!!!! go check it out!

Stamps: Willameana – Totally Stampalicious

Paper: White; Pink; Dark Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Square Nestabilities; Oval Punches & Die; Cloudy Hearts MS Border Punch; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Foam Tape; Copics

It’s A Surprise Party!

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time over on The Pink Elephant blog. This week the challenge is to create an Invitation.

Of course I just had to grab my new MFT Stamps for this challenge, Invitation Only, Who’s That Birthday Girl both of which were released last week. I also used Make the Date, which was released earlier in the year.

My card is a Side Stair Step card, which are a lot of fun to create. I paper pieced the girls skirt and the birthday cake.

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

Stamps: Who’s That Birthday Girl; Make The Date; Invitation Only – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Purple; DP

Other: Black Ink; Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; Purple Button; Pink Brads; Copics

 

Alota Rubber Stamps Blog Hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to the Alota Rubber Stamps blog hop.

The hop started at Helene’s Alota Rubber Stamps 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 the Design Team are featuring stamps from the new “Under The Arbor Collection” which were design by the new artist Lisa Michaels. These stamps are all available individually and are available to purchase from Alota Rubber Stamps NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are also welcoming two brand new members to our design team, Andrea Pierron and Ria Van Son, I am sure you will love their creations.

My project today uses “Bunny Blossoms”, isn’t it a sweet bunny! I decided with Easter just around the corner to create a Chocolate Box Holder to use as an Easter Gift. I stamped the bunny onto scrap white card and cut it out and attached it to my circle using foam tape.

Here is the inside of my chocolate box, both sentiments included on this box are also from Alota Rubber Stamps.

Want to receive 20% discount from your entire Alota Rubber Stamps order …. then enter the code ALOTALM10 when you place your order between 7th March and 12th March.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the brilliant Birgit Edblom'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!

Stamps: Bunny Blossom, Somebunny Loves You & Easter Greetings – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Brown; DP

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

Puppy Love!

Hi everyone, and happy Sunday to you all, yes it is already Sunday for me down here in Australia! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful weekend.

My card today is another sneak peek at one of the new stamps that will be released by Alota Rubber Stamps on Monday 8th March. This time round I used the “Puppy Love Girl”, isn’t she a sweetie!

The layout of my card uses a recent “Sweet Sunday Sketch” (SSSC57), this is a great layout to use up some of those scraps, although I must admit I didn’t use scraps to create this one hehe!

I will be back tomorrow (Sunday 7th March 10pm EST) with the rest of the Alota Rubber Stamps Design Team for our blog hop to celebrate the release.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team to see what they have come up with today.

Stamps: Puppy Love Girl – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Greetings!

Greetings everyone,

It’s day 2 of the sneak peeks for the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps on Monday 8th March. My card today uses the new “Umbrella Girl“ stamp, this so reminded me of oriental that I had to use some of my new designer paper on this card. The Greeting’s Sentiment is an older stamp also by Alota.

It’s also time for another challenge over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Of course being a new month means we also have a new hostess which this month is Barbara Anders. This week, Barb has challenged us to add some paper piercing to our cards/projects. I added my piercing to the top left hand corner of my red panel of my card.

I used last week’s SFYTT sketch challenge for the layout of my card, although I did flip the sketch so that the image could go on the other side of my card.

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

I will be back again tomorrow with yet another Alota Rubber Stamps sneak peek to share with you all.

Stamps: Umbrella Girl; Greetings Sentiment - Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Grey; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Black Brads; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Boy and His Dog!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to day 1 of the sneak peeks, of the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps this Monday 8th March. Alota Rubber Stamps will be releasing 9 brand new stamps from a new designer, Lisa Michaels.

This cute little boy wheeling his dog around in the wheelbarrow is called “Puppy Wagon“. I used my copic airbrush to create the sky and grass.

The layout of my card uses a sketch posted by The Sweet Stop last Sunday, (SSS45).

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team’s blogs to see what they have created using the new stamps. I will be back again tomorrow with another sneak peek to share with you all.

Stamps:  Puppy Wagon - Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Mustard; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Brown Brads; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon, Green Button; Foam Tape; Copic Air Brush; Copics

Bunny Babies x 4!

Hi everyone,

It’s Thursday which means it is time for another challenge with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month means we have a brand new hostess for our challenges, which is Tosh Leyendekker.

For our challenge today Tosh has given us an Inspiration challenge, not my favorite type of challenge but I won’t complain too much hehe. It is probably pay back for that monkey card I made her create last year *wink*.

What I saw when I looked at the picture of the food which is below, was 4 separate sections (plates) sitting on a larger layer (plate) …. so I turned my inspiration into a sketch … my favorite type of challenge hehe!

I am just loving these Alota Bunny Babies so decided to use those to create my card and seeing there were girl and boy bunny babies went with a pink and blue color theme.

We would all love to see what you create using this picture as your Inspiration.

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
• Shirley

Stamps: Bunny Babies – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Blue

Other: Black Ink; Flower Fantasy Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

I’ll Be There to Hop & Shop!

It’s release day over on MFT Stamps, which means it is 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!

My first card today uses one of the new Jolinne stamp sets, Love You Jolinne $15.95 which you can find over on the MFT Stamps store here.

One of the things I love about this stamp set is the different look you can give the stamp by either add the grass around the rock or leaving it off. The grass comes as two separate stamps is and very easy to stamp onto the rock without having to mask the image. I stamped Jolinne onto my card and after adding the grass I airbrushed the green for the grass area and the blue for the sky. The pink button used on the front of my bow is also available from MFT Stamps, Scoop o'Buttons - Chocolate Kiss Collection.

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

My second card today uses one of the new Pure Innocence stamps called PI 4 Leaf Clover. Again the button used on my ribbon is from the Scoop o'Buttons - Chocolate Kiss Collection and I also used Glittered Garnishes - Chocolate Kiss in the top right hand corner of my card.

I used the Mojo Sketch Challenge Mojo127 for the layout of this card, and paper pieced the girls top and pants.

Here is the inside of my card, I used one of the sentiments from the set and also stamped the little girl again in the lower right hand corner of my card.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the marvellous Melody Rupple'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!!

Stamps: Love You Jolinne; PI 4 Leaf Clover – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Pink; Yellow; Origin DP – Basic Grey; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Square Nestabilities; Oval Punch; Brown & Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Buttons; Glittered Garnishes; Scallop Trim Border Punch; Foam Tape: Copic Airbrush; Copics