Gardening … Who’s That Girl! Hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. It time to join the MFT Stamps Design Team for another MFT "Who's That Girl Hop!" to celebrate the release of the MFT VIP Kit.

The hop started at Kim's 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 only VIP customers have the opportunity of purchasing the WTG set "Who’s That Gardening Girl" TWO WEEKS EARLY!!!!!!!!!! There will only be 50 VIP collections available and then the set will be unavailable until the full release on July 7th at 10:00 PM EST.

Here is what is in this months VIP Kit:

Who's That Gardening Girl? VIP $36.75

• Who's That Gardening Girl? $15.95
• Ruffled Ribbon Garden Collection (2 yards each of 3/4" ruffled ribbon in Tomato, Celery, & Sunshine) $7.95
• Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety $5.95
• Garden Button Collection $1.95
• Set of 10 White Scalloped A2 Notecards $4.95
• Green Thumb mini stamp set (FREE, $9 value)

For my project today I created two things, first up the card. The fun thing about this set is that you have options as to what you want WTG to grow. There are 5 different plants that can be stamped into the garden bed, plus one sentiment which I included on the inside of my card.

The “Time To Bloom” sentiment used on the front of my card comes from the “Green Thumb” mini stamp set which is also included in today’s VIP Kit.

After stamping the WTG image onto my card, I added a row of grass created using felt from the My Favorite Felt - Outdoor Essentials pack and die cut using MFT’s Die-namics Grass Die. The sun is created using MFT’s Die-namic Sunshine Die.

Here is the inside of my card using the sentiment which is included in the WTG stamp set. I stamped the sentiment onto a cloud shape created using MFT Die-namics Cloud Trio Die. The scalloped border at the bottom of my card was created using MFT Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die.

I also created a “High Back Basket” to hold a garden related gift which was die cut using my cricut machine. I added the same details to this basket as I did my card above: The MFT Die-namics Grass Die; MFT Die-namics Sunshine Die & MFT Die-namics Cloud Trio Die. Above my basket is shown empty so you can see the details of the back of the high back.

Here is another photo of my “High Back Basket” this time with the gift inside the basket. It is winter down here where I live so I thought it would be perfect to include two packets of bulbs for a gardening friend to plant so they have some beautiful flowers in spring time, just like Who’s That Gardening Girl does here.

Well now it is time to say goodbye to me and hop on over to the marvellously talented Megan Lock’s blog, to see what she has created.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks for dropping by!

Stamps: Who’s That Gardening Girl – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Green; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; MFT Die-namics Grass Die; MFT Die-namics Sunshine Die; MFT Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die; MFT Die-namics Cloud Trio Die; Rectangle Nestabilities; My Favorite Felt - Outdoor Essentials; My Scrap Chick’s High Back Basket Template; Oval Punches; Foam Tape; Copics

Riley’s Pencil Box!

Hi everyone,

The Riley and Company Design Team are back with another challenge to share with you today. This week our challenge hostess is Patti Stigsell who challenged us to create some type of packaging …. it could be a box, a gift bag, bag topper, whatever we wished. What a fun challenge!!!!

I used the cute “School Girl Sophie” on my project today.

Now recently when I was checking the blog posts on my Google Reader, I came across something on Illina Crouse’s blog that made me go investigate further. While there I discovered this delightful Pencil box she had created and had for sale as a template …. of course I was in love with the box so had to buy it.

So of course when I was thinking about what packaging to use for this challenge I decided to take the opportunity to use that template. The instructions were easy to follow and it was so easy to put together. I kept my colors the same as Illina’s, I guess cause when I think of a pencil I see red first for some reason. But of course the pencil could be any color.

I have put my spica pens in my pencil box, and I may decided to keep them in there, cause I don’t think I can part with this box and I need to find a use for it hehe. But it would make a fantastic gift to give to someone with colored pencils in it don’t you think???

Here is another view of my pencil box so you can see what it looks like on the inside.

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: School Girl Sophie – Riley & Company

Paper: White; Red; Black; Mustard; DP

Other: Black Ink; Large Oval Punch; Sizzlits Lots Of Tags Die; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Go Team … Let’s Go Blog Hopping With Alota Rubber Stamps!

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 our June release, all of which are available to purchase from Alota Rubber Stamps NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far during this release I have featured various sports …. soccer, football and basketball. And today it’s baseball!!!!!!!!

I wanted to create a card using all the cute “Baseball” themed bugs that are being released today so I decided to make a trishutter card … I love making these cards. And yes I do know that the catcher should be behind the one with the bat … but it looked better this way for the card LOL!

For my trishutter card I used the Catcher Bug; Slugger Bug; Pitching Ball Bug and the Scoreboard and a couple of the sentiments from the Sports Words set.

The above photo shows my card when it is closed.

Here is another card this time using “Pitching Ball Bug”, I actually made this one before I created the trishutter. I wanted to use one of the baseball brads I have in my collection so placed it where the ball was stamped on my card.

And don’t forget the inside of my card, this time using one of the sentiments from the Sports word set.

Want to receive 20% discount from your entire Alota Rubber Stamps order …. then enter the code ALOTARSJN10 when you place your order between 13th June and 19th June.

Well that is about it from me for today, now it is time to hop on over to the marvellous Marie Carlsson’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 as you travel along … one design team member is secretly given away blog candy!

Stamps: Slugger Bug; Pitching Ball Bug; Catcher Bug With Numbers; Sports Words Set; Scorboard – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Red; Blue; Digital DP – The Digi Chicks

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Circle Nestabilities; EK Success Zigzag Border Punch; Red Brads; Baseball Brad; Foam Tape; Copics

Baskets of Fun!

Hi everyone and happy Sunday to you all!

My card today is another sneak peek at one of the new stamps that will be released by Alota Rubber Stamps on Monday 14th June.

Today we are playing basketball! Well ok so I am not actually playing it … but my cards feature basketball stamps.

My first card uses the cute “Basketball Boy” designed by artist Jodie Mackrell. After stamping the boy, I masked him so I could stamp the “basketball hoop”. I used my copic airbrush to color the floor and walls of this one.

The basketball that holds the sentiment is actually punched out from the designer paper (I had printed another piece that had the basketballs larger, so I punched that out and then added my sentiment to it.

Stamps: Basketball Boy; Basketball Hoop; Sports Words – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Green; Digital DP – The Digi Chick

Other: Black Ink; Circle Punches; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics

For my second card I decided to create another shaped card, this time of a basketball shape which is easy enough to do seeing it is just a circle. The image here is another of Alota’s stamps created by Jodie Mackrell  and is called “Basketball Girl”.

As i liked what I did adding the sentiment to the basket DP I printed some small Basketball DP and cut these out for the smaller basketball themed sentiments, which come with the Basketball Hoop.

 

Here is the inside of my card …. yes I punched out yet another basketball shape from the designer paper and used the larger “Baskets Of Fun” sentiment.

I will be back tomorrow (Sunday 13th June 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: Basketball Girl; Basketball Hoop Set; Sports Words – Alota Rubber Stamps.

Paper: White; Black; Orange

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Circle Punches; Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Ginormous Birthday

Hi all,

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

This week our challenge hostess for the month, Mercy Kerin has given us another fun challenge which is a color challenge. The colors we had to use are:

Our sponsor for the past two weeks is Stamp N Plus Scrap N so I decided to use their large Dinosaur stamp. To keep with the challenge I decided to make my dinosaur a girl …. light pink and light purple and added green to the base of my card and the ribbon.

The layout of my card uses a recent Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC76). I love Mercy’s sketches :)

Here is the inside of my card, both sentiments (the one on the front and the one on the inside) are from Our Craft Lounge. I couldn’t resist adding the EK Success Dinosaur border to the inside too.

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
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Silke Kittmann
• Vicki Garrett

Stamps: Dinosaur – Stamp N Plus Scrap N; Sentiments – Our Craft Lounge

Paper: White; Light Pink; Light Purple; Light Green; DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; Oval Punches; EK Success Dinosaur Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Just Kick It!

Greetings everyone,

It’s day 2 of the sneak peeks for the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps this coming Monday 14th June.

One of the new stamps which will be released is this cute “Football Boy” which was designed by artist Jodie Mackrell.

For my card today I decided to create a shaped card of a football, the template for this is from The Cutting Cafe. I converted the file to an SVG file so I could use my cricut to cut out the pieces..

Here is the inside … what better thing to add to the inside but the words …. Just Kick It! which is a sentiment included in the Sports Words set.

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

I will have another sneak peek to share with you all tomorrow!

Stamps: Football Boy; Sports Words Set – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Brown

Other: Black Ink; SCAL; Cutting Cafe Football Template; Foam Tape; Copics

Soccer Kicks!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to day 1 of the sneak peeks for the new stamps to be released by Alota Rubber Stamps this Monday 14th June.

This month Alota is releasing a bunch of sport related stamps …. 7 kids; 3 bugs; 6 sports backgrounds (like the soccer net in my first card) and sports related words/sentiments too. If you have kids or friends/family who love sports, then these stamps are perfect for them. I love them and I am not even a sporty person LOL!

Today I am featuring two soccer cards, the girl and boy used here were designed by artist Jodie Mackrell. To create the first card I stamped the boy and then masked him and stamped the goal. I used my copic airbrush to add the grass and sky to the card.

Here is the inside of my card … using one of the new word stamps from Alota. I love this sentiment, it can be used for just about any occasion you can think of!

Stamps: Happy Everything -  Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Green; DP – The Digi Chick

Other: Black Ink; Black Brads; Circle Punches; MS Optic Dot Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics

Girls like soccer too, so my 2nd card is the female version of a soccer card using “Soccer Girl Sitting”. I used a recent sketch from SCS for the layout of my card. The ball on the bottom right is punched out from a scrap of the designer paper that I used for this one.

All my designer papers I used for all the sports cards for this release are digital papers I purchased a while back and printed out. The fun thing about using digital papers is you can play around with them to get the size and colors you need for the project.

And again the inside of my card, using another of the sentiments from this release.

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: Soccer Girl Sitting: Sports Words Set - Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Yellow; DP – The Digi Chick

Other: Black Ink; Black Candy Dots; Circle Punches; Oval Punch; Label Punch; MS Stars Border Punch; Yellow Button; Black Grosgrain Ribbon Foam Tape;  Copics

Trimmed With Love!

Hi all,

The MFT Stamps Design Team are back today to play another “MFT’s Greatest Hits!” challenge. This month we are featuring the “Flopsey” range of stamps.

For my card I decided to use “Trim The Tree Flopsey” …. this is officially the start of my Christmas cards for 2010. Don’t worry I still have a long long way to go LOL but one done I guess hehe!

I also used MFT Stamps Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die to create the purple dotted panel underneath Flopsey. I just love this die!

The layout used on my card is a recent SFYTT sketch challenge, I turned the sketch on it’s side so it would work with my image.

FLOPSEY code is good for $3.00 off any Flopsey set! This code will be valid Thursday June 10 and Friday June 11th.

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

Check out Kim's Blog at 11:00 AM EST for direct links to the other MFT gals creations !!

Stamps: Trim The Tree Flopsey – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Green; Purple; Dear Santa DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Old Paper Distress Ink; MFT Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die; Oval Punches; Bling; Buttons

Byte This!

Hi everyone and happy Thursday!

Of course Thursdays mean it is challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This week our challenge hostess for June, Shirley Quarry has challenged us to create a masculine card, it can be for Father’s Day or a male birthday card.

I just love the new MFT Stamps “Who’s That Geek Guy?” so I decided to use that for my card. I paper pieced the shirt on the Guy.

To create my sentiment circles I used the Martha Stewart Quilted Corner punch on each corner of a 1 1/2 inch (3.8cm) square piece of card and then added the smaller punched piece with the sentiment.

For more ideas on using the Martha Stewart corner punches on your cards see my post from last Friday, you can see my tutorial here.

Here is the inside of my card … as you can see I created another sentiment piece with the MS corner punch.

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: Who’s That Geek Guy – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Blue; Brown; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; MFT Die-namics Jumbo Scallop Die; MS Quilted Corner Punch; Circle Punch; Rectangle Nestabilities; Glittered Garnish; Foam Tape; Copics

Happy 4th July!

Hi all!

It’s time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop.  If you didn't hop onto my blog via Jackie Rakoski'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 it is Jane Matsumoto’s turn to host the challenge, which is to create a Tri-fold card of any kind - as long as it has 3 panels.

This week the Design Team are using “Lady Liberty” and “Canadian Girl” which are both the stamp sets that are on special this week … 35% off!

For my card today I decided to create a “Trifold Pocket Card”, you can find the tutorial on how to make these over on the SCS resources section. And of course I used the “Lady Liberty” set to create a 4th of July card … July will be here before we know it!

Here is another photo of my card, this time showing the inside as well as the outside of my Trifold Pocket 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 PWC107.

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
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• 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: Lady Liberty – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Red; Dark Blue; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Oval Punches; Tab Punch; Blue Brad; Scallop Trim Border Punch; MS Stars Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Hi Ya!

Hi ya everyone!

My card today uses one of my favorite Riley stamps ever! You can find them over on the Riley and Company site.

I just love this new “Follow The Yellow Brick Road Riley” stamp that I had to play with it again! This time I used one of my oval nestabilities to die cut the image. After stamping and cutting out the oval shape, I masked the image and then used my copic airbrush to color the grass and sky area.

The sentiments used on my card are from the new ‘Riley Oz Words 1” (for the inside of my card) and “Moose Sayings” (for the one on the front of the card)

Stamps: Follow the Yellow Brick Road; Riley Oz Words 1; Moose Sayings – Riley and Company

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

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Oval Punches; MS Crown Border Punch;Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush; Copics

Happy Birthday Jane!

It’s birthday time again for one of our Paper Prettie Design Team Members. Today Jane Matsumoto is a year older, Happy Birthday Jane!!! Of course what better way to celebrate than a Birthday Blog Hop Prettie Girl style! As we can't get together to celebrate in person the next best thing is a virtual birthday party .... yahhhhhhhh what fun!

The hop started at Christie Ortman’s blog so if you didn’t start off there you might want to hop on over there now so you don’t miss out on any of the fun!

For my card I decided to use “Bubble Time Sophia” …. just love this set and Birthdays are the time to spoil yourself right!!!! I used my Martha Stewart Garden Trellis Border punch to create the lattice border on the top and bottom of my card. I have been wanting to make a card like this for a while now.

Here is the inside of my card, I used the sentiment that is included with the stamp set.

Here is the order of the hop:

• Christie Ortman
• Julie Masse
• Jana Weaver
• Jackie Rakoski
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• Jane Matsumoto –The Birthday Girl !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the party festivities so far. Now it is time to continue on our birthday blog hop and visit the blog of Heather Lee-Reppen. Don’t forget to wish Jane a Happy Birthday when you reach her blog.

Stamps: Bubble Time – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Blue; Dark Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; MS Garden Trellis Border Punch; MS Quilted Border Punch; Pink Grosgrain Ribbon; Button; Foam Tape; Copics