Back to crafting...

I've been wanting to use this set for the **LONGEST** time. I finally got a chance to pull out my Sweet Dreams Hostess set this morning and I came up with this little diddy. I challenged myself to just stamp without browsing for the galleries. I'm not so sure if I even like this color combo, but it will do for now. I started the card by pulling out my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and stamped the scallop'd frame on white CS in Bayou Blue. Then, using the SAMJ, I inked up the flowers in Pink Passion and centered as best as I could in the frame. Finally I stamped the small Polka Dot background in Soft Sky. I trimed and tied a sheer silver ribbon around the image. The DP is from one of the Provo Craft stacks that I have laying around, Im not sure which one- I know its really OLD though. I used Friskars Scallop'd shears to cut a white border around my pinkish red DP. Everything was layer'd and I got this card! The brads are from Queen & Co.

My Doraemon

Those cupcakes sure got me reminesing about my Doraemons so I set out on a search. Low and behold, I knew I was a pack rat for a reason, I found them. Me and Doraemon spent some *studio* time together. Here's for you Big Sister.

Doraeman!

I stole these photos from one of my *FAVORITE* cupcake sites: Cupcakes Take the Cake. It came from Anita Jamal's Flickr site. I know my sister and my cousins will know exactly who this is- DORAEMAN!!!!!!! I miss having my Doraeman around, those where the days... huggin' Doraeman and reading his comics- he's such a cool cat. So here's to Doraeman, who was just recently named Japan's Anime Ambassador! If only I could decorate like that!

Happy Easter! It's finally Spring!

In my house, you can always tell when the seasons change by what type of wreath I have on my door. Its taken me awhile to get a spring theme wreath on the door simply because I haven't found anything I liked. I've browsed through endless stores and flower bins looking for the perfect wreath or flowers and have found nothing I wanted, even the expensive stuff didn't get my mojo going. Saturday evening I went to Walmart and thought I would stop by the faux flower aisle to take a gander- and voila! to my very pleasant surprise, flowers that actually LOOKED like real quality flowers! Now I'm not diggin' on Walmart flowers but you gotta admit some of them look very florescent! For this type/size of wreath, you will need, 1 naked wreath, 6 large peony blossoms, 10-12 small-medium roses, 18 flower'd sprays, and leaves as flillers. I used 1 $3.00 bunch of White Peonies; 2 $0.94 bunches of peach/pink roses, and 4 $0.94 bunches of pink and white sprays. The total cost of this project was just $10.00! You will get a much better quality wreath if you make it yourself! To start the wreath, just center your largest blossom and then work out from there. I rotate from left to right.. So you center the first flower, add some leaves on the left, then add some leaves to the right, and then back and forth to get a balanced circle. Once you start and get a groove on, its very easy.

A bloggin' award!

Thank you Heidi for this award! Your work is always incredible.. all the time you invest in embossing really does show! Check out Heidi's Blog!

I am pleased to give this award to my sister and Judy.

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A Groovy New Technique (at least for me!)

This card started out with inspiration from SCS member galleries. The card base is made using an 8.5 x 11 piece of white card stock that I cut into "standard" size. 4.25 x 11 inches- basically, cut in half length wise. I then scored the center and viola! you have a card. The orange sherbert cardstock is then cut to 4x5.25 and layer onto the card base. For the large image square, I used a new technique call'd "Faux Silk" which was taught as a Wednesday tutorial on SCS. To find great instructions to this technique visit SCS and then procedue to the "resources" tab. There is a list of tons of awesome techniques for you to tr. This card utalizes images from the Best Blossoms Stampin Up set. I stamped the blossoms in Groovy Guava and the leaf in Sage Shadow. (Its a conspiricy- I still think my groovy guava is "orange") Oh yeah, the blossoms and leaves are stamped on tissue paper- the gift kind not the AH-Choo! kind. I wrinkled up the tissue and glued it on a sheet of white cardstock and then cut to my needed size. I ran the image through my "Sew Cute" sewing maching to get the edge piercings. I finished the image by layering on Sage shadow-y looking green cardstock and added the white grosgrain ribbon. It was then adhear'd to the orange cardstock. The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip on a simple scrap rectangle of Watercolor paper. I added a small scrap of green cardstock to highlight the sentiment and added the silver brad. I layerd the sentiment rectangle again on the card and viola! the card is finished. Very simple and quick. The technique adds texture and "fun-ness" to the card. Hope you give "faux silk" a try! The deets: Best Blossom stamp set, Sage Shadow, Groovy Guava, Chocolate Chip inks all by Stampin Up! Ribbon and white cardstock from Walmart. Orange and green cardstock by Bazzil. Tissue from Dollar Tree.

Color Challenge

I finally have my stash of Stampin Up inks!!! YAY!! Everybody has been diggin on River Rock and Basic Black so I thought I would give it a try myself. This is how mine turned out, not bad!
I case'd the design from chrisations.ink on SCS. You can find her original here. She did an awesome job and I just LOVE the ribbon, but my ribbon turned out kind of funky so I didnt include it.

The deets: Merci Sale-a-bration Stamp set ; River Rock & Basic Black Ink from Stampin' Up! White and Black cardstock from Walmart; Watercolor paper from Canson; Silver Brads from Memories; Ribbon form Michaels

Baby Fever!

If I do say so myself, this creation turned out *Fabulous*. This was a Card Sketch swap, hosted on the PC Mag website. The inspiration for this design was born from paper scraps left over from altering wooden letters. I started with a cream colored base layer for my card and then distressed all edges with Tim Holtz' Tea Dye ink pad. I then built up the layers from there. I used my SU! slit punch to create the blue scalloped border. The deets: Cream CS from Paperzone; DP from Baby Boy Nana's Nursey Stack from DCWV; Slit punch from Stampin' Up; Ribbons from Craft Warehouse; Friendship Blooms Stamp Set and Baby Carriage stamps from SU!; Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery ink from SU!; Tea Dye ink from Tim Holtz.

Just for you...

After reading numerous postings on SCS I figured it was time for the music to go. It was getting real old for me too. You can turn your ears back on, there is no more space age alien music coming out of the blog.

Just testing out some new smileys

My dog has a love obession with the refridgerator and the chest freezers we have in our garage. He loves them so much, he opens them and steals food out of them!!!

Altered Coaster Swap

In my ever e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g waistline, er, knowledge of papercrafts, I challenged myself to try something new. I signed up for an Altered Coaster Swap. Yup, it sounds like what it is exactly- altered paper coasters. Hey, TWO NEW THINGS- I also used an Aqua Painter SUCCESSFULLY! The coasters are from a Dollar Bin at Michael's and they've been collecting ALOT of dust in my cubbies. This project took some serious thinking as I did not know where to begin. Inspiration came from lots of gallery views on Splitcoaststampers- I may have even case'd this from someone and not even known. Again mostly SU supplies (are you seeing a trend here *wink,wink*?) The deets: Because of You Stamp Set, Inks all SU; DP and Green CS from DCWV; Watercolor paper from Canson; Aqua Painter from Kuretake Co.; Ribbon from Craft Warehouse.

Good 'ole USofA

I just had to have an excuse to pull out this stamp set. I am totally diggin' the Boho look that Stampin Up has. For this card I used Bronc Buster and Headline Alphabet from SU. The swap theme was "Around the World" and my choice was the good 'ole USofA. The deets: All stamps and Inks from Stampin Up; DP from Chatterbox; Red Tx background from Paper Source; White CS from Walmart; Eyelets from Memories.

Whats the big idea?!

What's the deal with Blogger today? Hmm... I have more pictures of some new creations if only I could post them...

My Milo!

This is my puppy doggy, Milo. All 115lbs of him are so loveable, I just wanted squeeze him all day long! One of my most *FAVORITEST* characteristics of my Milo is that he SMILES ALOT!

Let's try this again...

Ode to St. Patrick's Day! I would gander to call this one of my *favorite* holidays- get it? St. Patty's Day?!!!! {Okay enough of my dry senseless humor} I case'd this card from someone on Splitcoaststampers.com. I apologize as I do not remember whom. This care was created for a St. Patrick's themed swap. Unfortunately, I only had two mini sets of St. Patty's day items so I had to come up with something else. I thought the card turned out So VerY cUte! The deets: Elephant from Hero Arts; Shamrock & "st. patrick's day" from Studio G clear dollar stamps; DP from DCWV Stack 5; Ribbon from Craft Warehouse; CS from Paperzone; Watercolor paper from Canson.

Really, Im still around

Its been awhile since I've made a meaningful post. Its been a crazy week with just about everything turning into "something" I had to deal with. Anywho.. here's a catch up of what I have done. The jar is the "Wishing" jar I made for my friend's baby shower. It says "Prayers and Wishes for Kaysen" on the front and on the back it says " Spectacular Journey". The inside is filled with small scrolls of DP tied with matching ribbons. This was a great activity to do at the baby shower. The Ingrediants: Jar from Walmart, Ribbon from various manufactuers, Rub Ons from Memories, Paper from Provo Craft.

I didnt abandon ship...

Sorry I havent posted in awhile, I really didnt jump ship so soon. I've been busy with work and creating some great stuff for my friend's baby shower. I (hopefully) will be able to post pics soon of my projects for that. In the mean time, hope everyone is doing well. Happy scrappin' everyone!