Have Fun!

I hit both of the Monday Split Coast challenges with my guy birthday card - the CAS challenge was a sketch and the Technique Challenge (guest hosted by Vicki Dutcher- whoo hoo GF!!!) was to use piercing. A great design for all those boys-kids-guys in our lives don't you think?!

I pierced the top corners and along the bottom edge - connecting the piercings with a drawn black line. I sponged the clouds using my hand made cloud template. The punch is EK Success.

The fun skateborder and sentiment are from Waltzingmouse Stamps

On the inside of my card I repeated the punched panel and stamped the zig zag background in the same color as the card stock, overstamping the sentiment in black.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Stamps: Free Spirit -Boy, Free Spirit Sentiments, Off Beat Backgrounds - Waltzingmouse Stamps
Paper: Aqua mist, spring moss - PTI
Ink: Aqua mist - PTI, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: sponge, word window punch - SU, EK success punch, cloud template, big brad - American Crafts, paper piercer, mat & Grid - SU, black micron pen

What a Fun Time at Stamping Around!

My nametag.

Wow - what a fun weekend I just had! I was teaching one of the classes at Stamping Around held at Wholly Scrap! in North Hampton, NH. And here's what we made!

My class was sponsored by Claire of Waltzingmouse Stamps (Thank you Claire!) and we used this beautiful Sewing Box Hugs set for our cards. Six lucky participants won this set after we made our cards - whoo hoo!! here are three of them saying "hi" to Claire!

Beth from Kittery Point ME Bonnie, from Newbury, MA and Janet from Sanford, ME

We used the Paper Tole technique, stamping the images several times on different colors of Claire's own digital patterned papers, cutting out each layer, and adhering them over each other using foam dimensionals. For the bird above, we stamped the image first directly on the card and then layered the bird and wing over the stamping.

The outlines were made using a Micron 01 fine tip black marker drawing a line 1/4" in on all sides. These are all 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" square cards. On this heart card we added a twine bow and a little heart sticky gem by Amuse.

This set is full of wonderful sentiments that coordinate with the images. And with the stamped outline stitches - people are going to think you are a wiz with your sewing machine because it looks like real stitching doesn't it!?!

Our first class on Friday night was taught by Donna Cecere. (Hi GF!!) Her project was this lovely set of 3 cards tucked inside a stamped clear box. We stamped on the box with black Staz On Ink then colored the image from the inside of the box with Copics. We colored the flowers stamped on Kraft CS with Copics, cut them out layered them on panels and added stickles and Glossy Accents to the centers. Very cute huh!?!?

Here's Donna on the front left and Julie Masse (one of the organizer's) on the front right.


The third person on the left here with the blue top - is Sandy from Epping, NH - and she gave me this wonderful stamped linen that she made using Waltzingmouse Stamps - isn't it wonderful??? thank you SO much Sandy!!!
Lauren Meader's project was one of her not yet released templates - and we each got the stamp set we used for this project. Whoo hoo! Check her store to see all her wonderful stamps, templates and digital stuff!!
Isn't this a super gift package?!?After a delicious lunch of specialty deli sandwiches, popovers, sugared walnut, mixed greens salad and little pastries (Yum!!!) Monika Davis inspired us with a pretty spring easel card and matching magnetic bookmark (these are popping up everywhere aren't they?? wink wink - see Fridays post!) We used Just Rite stamps and a Martha Stewart punch on this project.
Below is Monika sitting at the front table just prior to starting her class. Julie Masse and Kim Schofield are giving away more prizes that were generously donated by several sponsoring companies.

For the last class of the weekend - Cindy Lawrence taught us how to make this terrific file folder organizer. The stamp set we used is Dandy Days by Our Craft Lounge.

The papers are My Mind's Eye/Little Boy Blue. Look at all the fun sections on this! Can you believe it's made by folding a regular manila file folder!!


Here's Cindy holding one of the WMS Sewing Box Hugs sets that she was lucky enough to win!

Now don't you wish you had come to Stamping Around???

Thanks so much for coming by!

Friends of WMS Blog Waltz - Mother's Day

Welcome to the 2nd Friends of WMS Blog Waltz! It's all happening over at the Play Room in The Waltzingmouse Forum. The theme for today's Waltz is Mother's Day!


I used several WMS stamp sets on my card today - The lovely quote is from Roses in Bloom, the daffodils on the front (that I stamped, then masked and stamped again 3 times) and sentiment on the inside are from Spring Baskets. The fun stitched border

is from Off Beat Backgrounds (I just love this stamp!) The little heart stamped on the quote is from Earth Angel. The DP is one of Claire's great digital's - Victoriana Papers. I used the stitched background again on the inside of my card to frame the sentiment and punched two strips of the digital patterned paper for top and bottom.


Now go back and look at my card and see how many little round white flowers I've 'hidden' on my card. (NOT the daffodils!) You need to add up the flowers that all the DT members have hidden on their Blog Waltz cards and enter that number over at the WMS forum in the Playroom - Claire will pick a winner from all the correct guesses! See all the deets on Claire's blog.

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Off Beat Backgrounds, Roses in Bloom, Spring Baskets, Earth Angel
Paper: Vintage Cream, White - PTI, DP - WMS Digital Victoriana
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Lavender Moon - PTI
Accessories: Glue dot, foam dimensionals, Fancy Tags Shapeabilities, butterfly punch -Martha Stewart, Top Note Die - SU, Eclipse Tape for masking, EK success edge punch.

Get Ready for the WMS Blog Waltz!

The WMS April Blog Waltz begins on Saturday, April 17th at 7:00 am Pacific, 8:00 am Mountain, 9:00 am Central, 10:00 am Eastern, 3:00 pm GMT!
Once again, the festivities will begin in the Play Room in the Waltzingmouse House forum. (If you haven't registered yet for the forum, it's just a few clicks away!) The threads will go live when the waltz begins... one for you to post your blog link to your project if you are participating in the waltz, and another for chat.

And of course there will be prizes!!!
The theme for this month's waltz is Mother's Day!

All we ask is that you use Waltzingmouse Stamps stamps for your Mother's Day cards/projects.
Check Claire's blog for all the Deets!
We hope you join in for all the fun!!

Please come back tomorrow to see my WMS Mother's Day Card!

I haven't been posting as much this week because I've been on vacation and doing some fun things with the DH like taking walks and going to movies (we saw It's Complicated - how funny was that!?!?! I just LOVE Meryl Streep), visiting my sister for lunch and cleaning up the house a bit! I've also been busy on some DT work that I can't share just yet!

But I do have several more magnetic book marks to show you that I made for some friends.

This one uses the beautiful Celtic cross from the WMS Celtic Heritage set and a sentiment from Notes of Prayer by Verve Stamps

Just a pic of the sticky magnet strips inside the bookmark.

The next 4 bookmarks all use stamps from PTI - Tea for Two, Damask Designs, In Bloom and Wishing You.

Useful little gifts for the book lovers in your life!

Tonight I'm off to teach at the Stamping Around weekend. I'll have some pics to share on Sunday!

Winners of Rubbernecker Blog Hop!!

Whoo hoo!!! The winners have been chosen from our Rubbernecker Blog Hop this week.

Our two, randomly drawn winners from comments left on all the Red Hot Momma's blogs are: "Sue D", and "craftymom205"

"All are absolutely beautiful! A tutorial would be wonderful.
Posted by: Sue D April 13, 2010 at 09:55 PM " (as posted on Kittie's blog)
AND
"craftymom205 said...
Great cards. I especially like the first one.
April 13, 2010 11:20 AM " (as posted on Tammy's blog)

So - Craftymom205 and Sue D, please go to Bevs blog for instructions to claim your prize! You will need to decide which stamp set you wish to receive from the list below! what a dilema huh?!

"Weeds" http://www.rubbernecker.com/p-1813-new-release-weeds.aspx

"Florals" http://www.rubbernecker.com/p-1812-new-release-floral.aspx
"Fashion Ladies" http://www.rubbernecker.com/p-1811-new-release-fashion-ladies.aspx
"Vines" http://www.rubbernecker.com/p-1815-new-release-vines.aspx

Congratulations to both of you and thanks to everyone for hopping with us!

We'll be doing this again on 4/27 so don't despair if you weren't a winner this time!

A Floral Get Well

Pat Smethers was the Featured Stamper over on Split Coast this week - she makes the most wonderfully detailed cards.

I chose her May's Swing Card to case, changing the punches and the stamp used.

I'm going to use this as a get well card and will stamp an appropriate sentiment on the inside.

My pretty flower stamp is from a new release of florals by Rubbernecker Stamps #496-06 and I used my brandy new deckled edge oval nestability for the framing. The bottom punch is by EK Success and the lacey punch is a Martha Stewart.

Stamps: Rubbernecker Floral #496-06
Paper: white, ripe avodado - PTI, DP Amuse
Ink: Color box chalk Cats eye/Lime Pastel, Memento angel pink dew drop, Chamomile - PTI
Accessories: organdy ribbon - SU, foam dimensional, curved punch - EK Success, Lacey punch - Martha Stewart, oval and deckeled edge oval nestabilities.

Rubbernecker - Fashion, Florals & Weeds (Oh My!) Blog Hop!

I'm so excited to be part of my first Rubbernecker Blog hop! I've got three projects to show you today highlighting the beautiful new Fashion Ladies, Florals and Weeds Stamp sets that Dave recently released. See how you can win one of these complete sets at the end of my post!

First I made a magnetic bookmark using Florals #496-01 The sentiment is from an older set called Word Set #4 under KK Originals.

I used ink daubers to color the flowers so it was easy to use different colors on the stamp

I cut small strips of adhesive magnet tape and attached it on the inside ends.
And here's the bookmark in use - slipped over a page to hold my place! (I usually slip it over the side of the page to mark the exact line I stopped reading at but for this pic I placed it over the top so the word was oriented correctly!)

For my second project - I used seven of the weed stamps to make a set of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" note cards that I put inside this clear acetate box.

I simply drew a border around the card with a fine point Micron 01 black pen and then stamped a different weed with black ink on each card. I tied a black silk ribbon around the box and attached a Spellbinders scalloped tag stamped with a sentiment from an older set Floral Silhouette Set #467. "Friendship is the only flower that blossoms in all seasons."

Don't these make a great set of note cards?!?!

And my third project is two cards using the Fashion Ladies stamps
This is Katherine #494-14
and this is Daphne #494-03
They are both colored with Copics and the flowers are Floral Creations 3 Spellbinders.

The Details
Two winners will be chosen randomly from the comments left on all of the participating Red Hot Mommas' blog hop postings.

The Prize: You get to choose the complete set of one of the new releases listed here!
New Release Florals
New Release Weeds
New Release Vines

New Release Fashion Ladies

So be sure to leave a comment at everyone's blog below for your chance to win! That gives you 9 chances to win if you hit all our blogs!!

You have until Noon (EST) Thurs 4/15 to leave your comment. The two winners will be announced on each of the participating Red Hot Momma's Blogs by 6 PM EST on 4/15

Dave has recently lowered many of his stamp prices, including the new releases! So be sure to check them all out at Rubbernecker!

So here are the blogs you need to check out and leave a comment at!

Thanks so much for coming by today - and for sticking through this LONG post!! and be sure to check back here on Thurs night to see if you won!

Julia Aston (Me!)
Tammy Hershberger
Joan Ervin
Kittie Caracciolo

Cathleen Torina
Fran Gumprecht
Karen Hunsaker
Juliana Swanson

Bev Gerard