Heavy Metal and Take a Hike!

My first offering to you today is a card for the Limited Supplies Challenge over at Split Coast - Joy in a Jar's instructions were to get back to basics - to only use shiny embellishments like gems, only paper - a bonus for metallic paper - and only scissors or straight cutter - no punches.And I get the bonus points because I used gold and red metallic foil board! I wonder what I can get with my bonus points?!?!? LOL!! I also embossed my leaves with Red Dragon Opaque Embossing powder which is very sparkly. I used Dew Drops as my only embellishment. The ink on the sentiment is Gold Pigment Ink. I colored in the leaves with a Spica gold pen. The sketch is from Amy Rysavy's blog that you can see here:


The leaf branch image is from a set called Autumn's Flowers by Artful INKables. Kristin is offering a free grab bag of stamps to everyone who orders $25 or more so be sure to check it out. This offer expires 10/12/08 so hurry on over!

AND save 10% on your order by using the code SAVE10JA listed in the Artful INKables box in the right column!


Stamps: Autumns Flowers - Artful INKables
Paper: Grafix Metalic Foil Board - red and gold, shimmery White: SU
Ink: Color Box Gold Pigment Ink
Accessories: dew drops, Spica gold pen, Red Dragon Opaque EP, hot gun, foam dimensionals


And now time to take a hike!!! ...... with these fun little back packs that is!!


Tomorrow I'm teaching a workshop at The Papertree in Manchester, NH and we're going to make both of these cuties!

I'll be posting instructions for these so watch for that...

and I'm also posting blog candy on Sunday so be sure to come back and check that out!

Got to go and pack everything up for my class - have a great weekend everyone!

Monograming a Book Mark - and some Special Offers!

Today's Ways to Use It challenge was to use a monogram of some sort on your card. I have acquired a lot of the Just Rite Monogram stamps (!) and am so happy to use some of them here! I made a magnetic bookmark - starting with a piece of 5 1/4 x 2 5/8 card stock that I folded in half.The font of the J is Special Occasions and the 'from the library of' comes in a separate borders set. First I stamped it on yellow - then on blue - then just punched out the J with a circle punch from the blue one and attached it over the yellow with a foam dimensional. I cuttled the green square with Swiss Dots. I punched the bottom with my Fiskars Treading Water punch just centering it and punching once. I attached two pieces of sticky magnet strip inside on each panel.

I also stamped the monogram on a glassine envelope that I got on line at Oriental Trading Co. to put the bookmark in to give to someone (myself in this case!! LOL!!) Tuesdays Double Dare Challenge that I do with some SCS friends was from jdmommy this week - and we had to use an envelope somehow on our project. You can check out the other uses of envelopes for this challenge here.I used these colors - Ballet Blue, Ruby Red, Certainly Celery, and So Saffron - for KWerner's color inspiration challenge this week that you can see here

So this little bookmark is covering a lot of territory today! Here is a picture of it in use. Just snapped over the page and the magnets on each panel holding it on.

For those readers looking to see if they can figure out what book this is - it's "Songs of the Humpback Whale" by Jodi Picoult - I love her books - I've read 4 of them so far - and she is from nearby New Hampshire so I feel like I know her (how silly is that!?!?! LOL!!!)

and a couple of special offers for you today!

Heather has reduced the prices on ALL of her stamps so hop on over to H&M Stamps to check that out.

and - Kristin is offering a free stamp grab bag to everyone who orders $25 or more - this is good until 10/12 so get over to Artful INKables quick to get in on that special before it's gone!

And last but not least - I just reached 40,000 hits and to show my total appreciation to you all for coming by here - I'll be posting a "Really Big" (as Ed Sullivan used to say) blog candy on Sunday - so be sure to check back!

thank you so much for coming by!!

Stamps: Just Rite Monogram
Paper: ballet Blue, ruby red, certainly celery, so saffron
Ink: onyx black versafine
Accessories: treading water punch: Fiskars, strip magnet, scalloped square punch: Marvy, foam dimensionals, circle punch; SU, Circle nestabilities, glassine envelope: Oriental Trading Co.

Drum Roll Please - and the winner is.........

First - I'm happy to announce the winner of my Blog Candy for last weeks H&M Blog Hop. There were 81 comments left on my blog hop post and Random Interger.com picked #63 for my winner:


and that was Mary Webb who said "I love all of your projects. Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy, that set is awesome."


So Mary please e-mail me (see right side bar) and tell me your mailing address and I'll get that fun H&M Sweetly Stamped set out to you so you can start stamping!!


I wish you all could have won - I am so very grateful for all of you stopping by and leaving me your comments and for checking out all the other H&M Stamps design team members blogs too! We will be doing another blog hop on November 1st so watch for it here!


And now back to the card business !!! Here is my card for today's color challenge over on Split Coast where Emily asked us to use Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss. The stamps and designer paper are Papertrey First Fruits. I used a Spellbinder tag trio for the sentiment framed with a piece of Kiwi Kiss card stock punched with the designer punch and paper pierced.


I highlighted the circles on the pineapple with my Spica gold pen and knotted a piece of gold ribbon around the top of it. I love this super fall color combination.


Thanks again for stopping by tonight!


Stamps: First Fruits - Papertrey Ink
Paper: Choc Chip, tangerine tango, kiwi Kiss: SU, Vintage Cream & DP - First Fruits: PTI
Ink: Choc Chip: SU
Accessories: Spellbinders tag trio, foam dimensionals, corner rounder punch, dew drops, designer punch: SU, gold Spica Pen, gold ribbon: PTI, paper piercer

Friendship Sewn in a Pizza Box

Isn't this just the cutest miniature pizza box?!?! What a wonderful Try a New Technique challenge this week over on Split Coast. You can see Jen Del Muro's instructions for this box here. (It's an Adobe file). Mine is a 4x4 and she also gives directions for a 3x3.

I made mine a quilt top package that will have these sewing kit items inside to give to a friend. All the stamps, paper and ribbon are from Papertrey Ink. Nicole offers a free download of her new designer papers every month at her site. I save it to a file on my computer and I print it on cardstock. Then I can use them whenever I want to on cards or projects.

I got the sewing kit from Oriental Trading Company. They don't offer the same one now that I show - but this is similar - just less items. (I got mine last year).

You can see everyone's pizza boxes on SCS here.

AND a reminder to check out my H&M blog candy here. You can enter to win for this until 10/7. I will post the winner at 10 PM Eastern Standard Time.


AND a reminder that Kristin at Artful INKables is offering a grab bag of stamps for every order over $25.oo between now and October 12th and you get 10% off your order if you use the code on the right column of my blog here.

Thanks so much for coming by today - leave me a comment so I can come visit you too!


Stamps: Semtiment - Quilters Sampler, Butterfly - Butterfly Breezes: PTI
Paper: Dark Chocolate, White, Sample DP : PTI
Ink: Dark Chocolate: PTI
Accessories: Dark Chocolate Swiss Dot ribbon: PTI, glue dot, Cuttlebug, small rectangle nestabilities, foam dimensionals

You are Such A Deer

First I want to let you know that Kristin is having a prize drawing on her blog -

you just have to post a comment on her blog about what Artful Inkable stamp sets you like or how you heard about Artful INKables - she's choosing a winner at noon Monday 10/6 so hurry over and get your comment in!

She's also offering a grab bag of stamps free when you order $25 or more between now and Oct 12th so check it out!! see all the details on her blog posting....

Ok - so now back to my card!........ My card today was made for the Featured Stamper Challenge on Split Coast.

This weeks Featured Stamper was Love Stampin!!!! and I have to say that I have not been in her gallery before - and discovered she has many lovely cards there! I chose this pretty sympathy card of her's to case.

I stayed with the deer theme but used different stamps and made mine a card you'd send to a friend as a thank you or thinking of you card rather than a sympathy card.

I used two recently released stamp sets from Artful INKables called Deer Friends (the deer, chipmunk, and sentiment) and Country Critters (the tall grass, short grass and tree stump) for this card. I used a double sided designer paper for the background. I love double sided DP because you can use the two different sides and you know they coordinate without having to think about it! I thought these colors echoed the forest theme of the stamps.
I masked the deer using Eclipse masking tape - then stamped the stump and grasses. I used Prismacolor markers to color the images. The front grass tufts are up on foam dimensionals as are the image and sentiment panels.
I stamped and colored the cute chipmunk, cut her out and mounted her on the top corner of the sentiment. I added a little paper piercing underneath the sentiment.


Hope you all had a wonderful weekend - back to work tomorrow so I can earn more money to buy more stamps ! LOL!!!

Remember to check out Kritsin's Artful INKables blog here.

AND a reminder to check out my H&M blog candy here. You can enter to win for this until 10/7.

thanks so much for stopping by!


Stamps: Deer Friends, Country Critters: Artful INKables
Paper: Vintage Cream: PTI, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke: SU, DP - Graphic 45, Times Nouveau Collection - Wall flower
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine
Accessories: Prismacolor markers, foam dimensionals, Eclipse masking paper, paper piercer, gathered ribbon, dew drops

A Frog and a Rock (On) !

First a reminder to check out my blog candy here. You can enter to win until 10/7.


The - No No No Put it down - limited supplies challenge over at Split Coast was to use only paper, punches, markers, pens, ink on your card - (no embellishments other than paper!)


This is also for Heather's Saturday sketch and color challenge on her H&M blog - you can join in on it here and she is offering a discount to one winner - so go on over and check it out - and post your sketch or color challenge card there! I used my cuttlebug, circle punches, key tag punch, corner rounder punch and hole punch for the faux brads in the corner.I used Prismacolor markers to color my cute little frog. He is part of the H&M Stamp set called Dreaming of Princess Land.

Stamps: Dreaming of Princess Land: H&M Stamps
Paper: white: PTI, close to cocoa, real red: SU, DP - Basic grey Figgy Pudding
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, certainly celery: SU
Accessories: key tag punch, corner rounder punch, cuttlebug, Mesh Folder, hole punch

For my next card - Stef gave us fun shirts for the Inspiration Challenge on Split Coast - I chose this grey and blue robot shirt design:

Instead of robots - I used Rock music images from a fun new set by H&M stamps appropriately called Rock On! I dry embossed the grey card stock background with my Cuttlebug and added this shimmery blue rick rack ribbon that I've had for ages (and finally used on something!) All the images are up on foam dimensionals. I used silver ice stickles for even more shimmer on parts of the images.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

tamps: Rock On - H&M Stamps
Paper: basic black, basic grey, baja breeze: SU
Ink: Onyx black versafine
Accessories: distressed stripes folder, cuttlebug, foam dimensionals, silver ice stickles, key tag punch: SU, shimmery rick rack ribbon: Michaels

Thank you for Oak Leaves and Acorns

First a reminder to check out my blog candy here. You can enter to win until 10/7.

I made this card for the sketch challenge on Split Coast - here is the sketch Roxie gave us this week:

I used a wonderful fall leaf set from Artful INKables called Autumn's Flowers that I stamped randomly on the panel with Wild Wasabi ink, colored in with Prismacolor markers and then drew over the leaf veins with a Spica gold pen to give it some shimmer.The striped designer paper is from Stampin Up and the ovals designer paper is an Amy Butler by K&Co. I used the Design label punch and 2 oval punches, all from Stampin Up, for the sentiment. Both the sentiment and stamped panel are up on foam dimensionals.What a great sketch this is! This is one that I'm sure to use again.

Remember you can get 10% off your Artful INKables order when you use the code listed in the right hand column of my blog - so be sure to write it down when you hop over to check out the stamps!

Stamps: Autumn's Flowers & Basic Salutations: Artful INKables
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Basic Grey, DP - Striped: SU, Ovals: K&CO Amy Butler Sola Teal Jelly Beans
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Wild Wasabi
Accessories: gold spica pen, design label punch, oval punches, prismacolor markers, foam adhesives