Ten Little Toes and a New Pair of Shoes!

I'm very late posting tonight - had a busy day with church in the morning and then in the afternoon Kent and I went to Le Grand David Magic Show with the fellowship group from church. It was a fun show. There were lots of kids there for their birthday parties but they
were so interested in the production going on they didn't make a peep! We topped the night off by going out to eat at Acapulcos for Mexican food - Yum!

But, of course I had to stamp when I got home! So this card was made for the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS today who was Kristi (Mommylvs2stamp). You can see the baby card that I CASED (copy and share with everyone) here:

I changed the stamps and the colors for my card but used her nice design. I love this little Star with the face from A Stamp In the Hand don't you? I used my Nestabilities to cut the stars and hearts.

The fun little sentiment is from the Just Hatched set from Papertrey and the stamped stars are from their It's a Celebration set.

Oh, and I forgot to tell you - I did find time in between church and the Magic Show - to stop at DSW and buy these really fun pair of Skeechers - did I mention I LOVE shoes???

Well - I'm finally off to bed - thanks again for stopping by - please check back to see what new things I'm up to!

Stamps: Star with face: A stamp in the hand, sentiment & stamped stars: Papertreyink
Paper: Sweet Blush and white: papertreyInk, Pretty in Pink: SU, DP: Making Memories
Ink: Sweet Blush PTI, Pitch black Adirondack
Accessories: nestatility stars and heart, dimensionals, corner rounder punch,

To Go Where I have Never Gone

This is my card for today's Inspiration Challenge over at Split Coast Stampers.

This is the picture of the bedding to be used as our inspiration today

HaPpY Saturday to you all! I did a few chores first thing like a good girl - so I could jump into my stamping room to get going on today's card.

I was inspired by a few of the images and the teal and gray colors.

It's funny how cards evolve. This started out as a 5 x 5 card and I had stamped images of faces and leaves as well as the ones I ended up using - and I had used lime green ink on some things. I always tend to do literal interpretations of the inspiration challenges - so I was pulling out all the stamps I had that looked like the images on the piece!

As I was laying them all out on the card - I realized that while it had a lot of the images from the inspiration piece - it wasn't looking very pretty (!) - and that's when I had the bright idea to white emboss a few images, not use others and make the card a regular 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 size card! I realized it was ok to not put everything including the kitchen sink on the card!

I'm also learning to take more time with my cards - to put together a template first and see if it works - sometimes even stamping it on regular computer paper to try out a design. You may be thinking that this would take even more time but in the long run it doesn't because you aren't wasting your good card stock when you decide you don't like the direction you are going in!

I tend to be grabbing minutes here and there to do my stamping (do you too??) - between working and just 'living' it's hard to fit it all in. But stamping is my passion so I find the time.

Thinking I only have limited time in my stamping room tends to make me rush to get a card done but I'm learning to stop and smell the 'inks'! The creative process can't be rushed and I miss out on allowing myself to grow if I don't 'think' about the design before throwing it together.

So - back to this card! All of the images accept for the flower are white embossed. I drew on the lines with my gel pen and punched holes on the photo corner and image corners so the colors would show through. I used a panel of Stampin Up designer paper behind the images.

The sentiment is by Uptown designs and the row of trees is by Rubber Tree Stamps. I added dots with my gel pen and Prismacolor marker around the flower frame.

I love doing the Inspiration Challenge - I always end up making a card I wouldn't normally think of!

This afternoon I'm going to be back in my stamping room (Yay!) working on a few craft items that I'll share with you when I get them done so be sure to check back!

Thanks so much for sharing some of your Saturday with me!! Tomorrow is the Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS so you'll see a card from me for that too!

Stamps: Paris in the Spring & Seeing Spots: SU, Trees: Rubber Tree Stamps, Sentiment: Uptown Designs
Paper: Taken with Teal, Basic Grey: SU, Papertrey White, DP: SU
Ink: Taken with teal
Accessories: white gel pen, grey Prismacolor marker, White EP, hot gun, Versamark embossing ink, circle punches, hole punch, dimensionals, photo corner punch

New Dog on the Blocks

Here's another card for you tonight - this one is for Sharon's No Time To Stamp Friday Challenge to make a card using color blocks in the background.


I've had a block of designer paper for months by Die Cuts With a View called Pet Block that has all kinds of fun cat and dog DP in it and I've only used a couple of pieces so far. I thought this challenge would be a good time to get it out and see if it would work on this card. I have tons of cat and dog stamps too (as well as all kinds of other animals but that's another story!).


I decided to use dog paper and then picked out this cute dog stamp that has the sentiment right on it by Inkadinkado. The card base is Kraft CS and I attached a ruffled brown ribbon around the center. I distressed and sponged the edges of the Kraft panel that I stamped my little pooch on and attached it to the Chocolate Chip panel and then to the card with dimensionals.


I added a silver paw print charm that I tied on the ribbon with a piece of raffia. And to finish it off I put a resin dot on the bottom that says Treat by Karen Foster. This is a a big card at 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches so I'll have to make a special envelope for it.

Well - now it's really late - so it's off to bed for me. See you tomorrow with the Inspiration challenge! Thanks so much for taking a look here tonight!


Stamps: Dog - Inkadinkado
Paper: Kraft, Choc Chip, DP - DCWV Pet Stack
Ink: Pitch Black Adirondack, Choc Chip
Accessories: Prismacolor markers, sponge, distresser, raffia, paw print charm, resin pet circle: Karen Foster, dimensionals, ruffled ribbon

Love Blooms in One Color

Happy Friday everyone! It's the weekend again! Even though it's chilly and rainy here, I'm happy because I don't have to go to work for 2 days! And I get more leisure time in my stamping room instead of fitting it in before and after supper and late into the night! Well, ok, so I'll still be up late stamping but I can sleep in a little bit!

So - todays card was created for two challenges - the Limited Supplies Challenge on Split Coast and Beate's weekend Sketch challenge.

For the limited supplies challenge we could only use white and one other color. I chose to use white and Soft Sky for my colors. I love these two colors together - they are so soft and soothing don't you think?? I used Stampin Up DP and Papertrey stamps from the Green Thumb and Favor It Wedding sets. I used my nestabilities to cut the circles which are up on dimensionals. It was hard not to add another color - especially black ink for the sentiment! My card is a 4.5 x 4.5 square card.

There were a lot of things going on today - a lot of my blogging and SCS friends got chosen for design teams! Linsey will be a guest designer for Gina K Designs and Cindy (Mothermark on SCS) and Charlene (Lilluvsstampin on SCS) are both on the design team for the new H&M stamp company. I'm so happy for them all! What a thrill to be chosen and they are so deserving - they are all terrific creative stampers.

Stamps: PapertreyInk - Green Thumb and Favor It Wedding
Paper: Soft Sky: SU, Papertrey White, DP SU
Ink: Soft Sky
Accessories: white gel pen, dimensionals, nestabilities, circle punch

You Rub Me the Right Way!

An easy peasy card tonight - I ran out of time this evening but I wanted to do the Split Coast Ways to Use It challenge which was to use Rub On's on your card.

I just got these wonderful rub-ons from Stampin Up so it was the perfect chance to get them out. All you do is cut out the rub on piece you want - lay it on your card where you want it - and rub over it with the included popsicle stick. You just have to be sure you have rubbed over all of it before you lift off the backing. And if some of the decal sticks - just lay it back down and rub over that piece again. These Stampin Up rub ons worked beautifully - they rubbed right off cleanly!

The designer paper is one of the new ones called Pink Patterns from PapertreyInk as well as the Berry Sorbet card stock - pretty colors I think!

I thought the card looked pretty good with just the rub on - so all I added were some layered Primas from Close To My Heart with some coordinating jazzy brads. At first I tried them in the right corner figuring to balance right and left - but it didn't look right - and when I moved them over to the vine - it seemed to work better. So the space on the right balances the 'stuff' on the left!

Gotta go - a new CSI is on and I have to cook supper first!

Thanks for stopping by! I really appreciate it! Have a great night!

Stamps: none
Paper: Basic black SU, Berry Sorbet PTI, DP Pink Patterns PTI
Ink: none
Accessories: rub ons- SU, primas CTMH, Brads, dimensionals
Techniques: rub ons

I Received the Arte Y Pico (Art & More) Award!

What a thrill today! My great blogging friend, Linsey, awarded me the Arte Y Pico Award which is given to bloggers who share their art and creativity making their contribution to the blogging world.

Here are the rules:

1. You pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2. List the names of the people you chose to receive the award on your blog and link to their blogs. Then go comment on one of their posts to notify them that you have given them this award and link to the post on your blog.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name of the person who gave them the award and link to their blog.

4. The Award-winner and the one who has given the award have to show the link to the Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award (it's in Spanish).

I am passing along this award to these wonderful bloggers whom I have come upon since I started blogging last month:

1. Beverly at Beestamper who has a fairly new blog like me and is Beestamper on SCS.

2. Chat at Me My Stamps and I, who is Nitestamper on SCS

3. Christy at Snapdragon who presently lives in Okinawa and has a fairly new blog like me and is Christy S. on ScS.

4. Jana at Stamp with Jana who presently lives in Germany

5. Stef at Ingeniousinkling who is SmilynStef on SCS

Thank you Linsey! and I hope everyone checks out all these blogs to see all the creativity going on!

Stampin Hugs!

Julia

God's Promises Are Like the Stars

Tonight's card was made for the Sketch Challenge over on Split Coast. We had to make a card using this pattern. It's a nice simple sketch and one that really shows off your designer paper if that's what you use on the 3 background panels which I did. I used some of my new papers from PaptertreyInk called Every Day Blessings. The cardstock is their new Aqua Mist color as is the ink I used for the stars over the sentiment. This wonderful verse stamp is from Verses Rubber Stamps.

I'm a little tired tonight so I was glad this was an easy sketch and it went together pretty quickly after I decided what stamp I wanted to use.

Last night I was so excited because it was finally warm - but I had to eat my words today - I wore my spring coat today and almost froze to death - it was in the 40's and wind gusts up to 50 mph!

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight - I'm off to cook supper for me and my guy!

Stamps: Verses Rubber Stamps, Stars - Papertrey Ink It's a Celebration
Paper: White, Aqua Mist - Papertrey Ink, DP - Papertrey Everyday Blessings
Ink: Pitch Black Adirondack, Aqua Mist PTI
Accessories: Dimensionals, Ribbon PTI