I love these little gnome images from Whimsie Doodles… I am giving this to my BFF for his birthday. I think he’ll get a kick out of the sentiment. I played along with today’s Featured Stamper Challenge and I chose to case this card by pawallen142. I really liked the interesting layout, everything grouped vertically in the middle. It’s great for longer images and it lets you see any interesting detail on the card-base. (I embossed the card with a cuttlebug branch folder..)

So.. speaking of Whimsie Doodles, here is a great opportunity if you love their stamps and love to colour:

Digital Stamp DESIGN TEAM CALL....
Whimsie Doodles is looking for some new creative team members to start designing with us beginning September 1st to February 28, 2012.
You don't have to have any experience with working with printable (digital) stamps....but you do need to have a printer.

Follow this link if you want to learn more: Design Team call

Call closes Aug 25,2011. Good Luck.. I have LOVED working with Melyssa and I encourage you to apply. You will have a great time!

I was cramming in a few more episodes of Drop Dead Diva tonight (my latest obsession) and at the same time got a couple of quick cards done! I played along with last week’s “Free For All” challenge at SCS, and it was “Itty Bitty Flowers” so I was on the look-out for small flower stamps.. This is what I found:

I stamped an image from the Technique Tuesday set “Fleur” in red, blue and white ink and adhered the panels to the cardbase with dimensional adhesive.. A pretty prima flower highlights the sentiment (from Swanky Sentiments) and that was my first quick card!

This card used an old PTI set (Beautiful Blooms, my first PTI set) and a Cuttlebug die that this stamp set was designed to accompany. (long before the days of metal dies…) I love cards like this that have a simple design, bold colours, and a simple message..
I hope YOUR day is fabulous! Take care.

because I played along with a bunch of challenges! Haha... I'm so funny... NOT! I had a lovely weekend of nothing to do (except some marking) so I played along with a few challenges. It was fun because I tried a couple techniques I wouldn't normally have tried, and I used some products I haven't used yet too!

The first card is from last week's There She Goes challenge: stamp simply. No colouring in, just the stamped image.

I actually really love this one. No colouring and it's awesome! I used a set called "Happy Day."

This is from friday's Free For All challenge: island inspiration. I used the butterfly gardens on Vancouver Island for my inspiration:

I used a great little set called Wingin' It. It's lovely..

Another great little set called "Home Tweet Home."

I used an old Kim Hughes set.. I love the simplicity!

I used a large set called "My Little Princess" and only a few are available..

I told you I would be making more Valentine's Day cards this year, right??? I've consolidated my Valentine's Day papers and embellishments and yowza I've got a lot of stuff.. Not A LOT a lot, but enough so that I don't need to buy anything new for this year's cards... So here are a couple of cards made with some Making Memories papers and embellishments:

We're having a lot of fun this month as we dive into a Clean & Simple style. We challenge you to use stickers to create a card, layout, altered item (whatever you like!) with a Clean & Simple feel. Please provide your entry at the bottom of this post. The challenge winner will receive a SRM Stickers Prize Package along with an invitation to Design for SRM for the month of September. Please load up your creation(s) by the end of the month.

As a side-challenge, the DT were charged with the task of using the same sticker 3 ways.. This is how the story went:

So I was sitting at my craft table churning out some cards and I proudly sat back to show Ian (my husband) my same-sticker-three ways final product:

So now that I've used all of my Quick Cards "Love" stickers, I think I have proved a point: There are infinite uses for these darling little stickers...

*Check out today's blog post at the SRM Stickers Blog for a possible sneak peek of the new Quick Card stickers.. I've seen 'em, they're great! 

Stamps: elzybells

Paper: bazzill, neenah, SEI

Ink: memento

Accessories: ribbon (may arts), glitter ritz, glue pad, nesties, cuttlebug

Over the weekend, my last weekend until school starts again, I decided to do something relaxing and good for the soul: MOVE MY CRAFT ROOM!! Yah, I'm crazy. You don't need to tell me that... But it was a move I have thought about for a while and pretty soon it will be ready for me to share some photos...

For now, I have a couple projects to share. I felt so inspired and invigorated by the move that I got busy!!


This is a very sweet image from Cornish Heritage Farms that I have had laying around for a while. It was time to make it into a card. The cuttlebug'd background added to the antique look I have going on with the image.

Reorganizing always inspires me to use old materials, do you do that too?? I have had these prima flowers for ages, and I bought that bright green Hambly overlay months ago and just never used it! Well the time is now, my friends! I love these products now, and may not in a year's time, so why not enjoy them on a layout instead of my shelf?

School tomorrow.. yay.. I am excited to get back to work again, but there is SO much to do. I just got a call and another one of my choirs was invited to sing at an Olympic event. It's only a month and a half 'til the Olympics and we are going to have to WORK WORK WORK!!

To all of you that are back to work tomorrow: GOOD LUCK!

This week's featured stamper at SCS is jo-jot and here's the card I "cased." I was on a mission to use stickles, so I chose the "Crazy for Cupcakes" set from Stampin' Up because I could fill in the icing with pretty, sparkly stickles! Aren't they fun? Here's a sideways view that shows the sparkle better:


and here's the whole card:

Stamps: crazy for cupcakes

Paper: basic grey (Lemonade), papertrey ink

Ink: Momento

Accessories: ribbon (amuse), brads (bo bunny), making memories tag, copic markers, stickles, cuttlebug embossing folder

and let me tell you, I'm exhausted. I've had a chance to sit down to make a couple of cards here and there, but I haven't had time to post them, so I'm playing catch-up today. Here's a card I make using this week's CPS sketch. I LOVE how this card turned out. The colours are just gorgeous.

1.  cut out the main panel with nestabilities.
   
2. stamped the main image(s) in versacolor ink then embossed with clear embossing powder. 
3. airbrushed the background with copic markers and airbrush system with two colors leaving the nestabilities die on the paper so it leaves the white border.
   
4. coloured the "flames" with Koh-I-Noor pencils and gamsol

The rest of the card was just trial and error, but really I just followed the sketch to a "T." Here's the inside:

• Paper: Bazzil, Papertrey Ink, Cosmo Cricket 
• Ink: Momento (London Fog), Versacolor (charcoal)
• Stamps: Crafty Secrets
• Copic markers, embossing powder, Koh-I-Noor pencils, EK punches, AMuse ribbon, Nestabilities dies, Cuttlebug
  

It's day 3, and what a coincidence... I have 3 cards for you:





These cards were made with one image and one sentiment from the "Spring Cubes" clear stamp set. I coloured the daffodils 3 different colours combinations (the three combos I was sure of at least... is there an all-white variety??) and I just happened to be hoarding a Basic Grey "Bittersweet" paper pack that was full of yellowy inspiration, so that went on the cards too. Here they are inidividually:





All different layouts that I dreamt up in my head, they are also a return to my more funky style verses the clean and simple cards I've been doing lately. Head over to Elizabeth's blog to see what she has up her sleeve, and tomorrow; IT'S RELEASE DAY! Have any of the images the past couple days caught your eye? I hope so... Here are the other DT's blogs:

• Angel Rivera
• Charlene Austin
• Deborah Southard
• Eva Costigan
• Frances Byrne
• Jeanne Streiff
• Kim Fee
• Kitty Frampton
• Maria Adams
• Michelle Short
• Paula Williamson
• Rachel Hope Baird
• Stephanie Mayne

 Supplies:
Paper: Prism (white), Bazzill (pink and yellow), Basic Grey Patterened paper
Stamps: Spring Cubes (Elzybells)
Ink: Momento (black), Versamagic (Jumbo Java)
Other: Fiskars and SU! punches, Cuttlebug embossing folder, twine, buttons (Basic Grey, Autumn Leaves), paper flowers (Making Memories and Prima) Copic Markers