It's Your Birthday

It's your birthday.  Starla, it's your birthday!! 

 Did you come by way of Gina's fabulous blog?  If not you will want to start back at Vicki's blog so you won't miss any of the hop.  Starla is having a bog hop to celebrate her birthday, her 1 year blogaversary, and her belated celebration of 100 followers to her blog.  She has asked a group of blogger buddies to join in the hop and help her celebrate.  I was happy to be asked and happy to hop along with Starla and this great group of crafters.  What Starla doesn't know is that Guylou has created a special image just for Starla.  Starla loves everything fairies and so she has requested that we all use a fairy image.  So happy birthday Starla, what's better than to have an image named after you. 

 Now you will want to check out the rest of the hop.  Your next stop along the way is Tracy's blog.   If you leave a comment on all the stops along the way I know that Starla has some great blog candy for the winners.  If you get lost along the way here are the participants. 

Vicki

Cely

Charlene

Lynn

Sara

Gina

                      Brenda ~ you are here

Tracy

Kim

Guylou

Starla

Happy Birthday Guylou!!! Surprise!!

Welcome to the Surprise Birthday Party of our friend and digital artist, Guylou.  Today is her birthday and she is such a SPECIAL lady that we just wanted to share it with everyone.  I have been a friend to Guylou for about 5 years now and feel so blessed to have her as a part of my life.  She is Uber~talented and just a sweetheart.  We, her design team and friends have decided to honor her with a blog hop for her birthday.  I am so excited to be the beginning of this hop with a card using one of her earlier images.

Bernadette is from her Retro Ladies line.  She is a very elegant lady, just like Guylou!!! 

OK, now we know that you like to find an awesome RAK at the end of a blog hop, so Gina has graciously provided an amazing prize (one pack of 4 copic multiliners, one pack of 2 stardust pens, a black memento ink pad, and a $5 gift card to Guylou's Inimitability) for one winner that will be chosen by Random.org at the end of this hop. 

 You will have from now until Sunday

 October 16th at 11:59 PM EST to complete the hop, leaving comments on all blogs along the way and ending at Guylou's blog to wish her a happy birthday. 

You will want to head on over to Carmen's blog now and see what she has created to wish G (as we call her) a very Happy Birthday.

And if you happen to get lost along the way here is a list to get you to all the stops.

Brenda ~ You are here

Carmen 

Kim 

Sara 

Tracy 

Trina 

Gina

Guylou ~aka the birthday girl!

The Deets of my card:

I used some of my favorite Echo Park paper from the "For the Record" collection. I thought it fit will with this image.  Happy Birthday comes from the AmyR Elegant Greetings stamp set.

Anita Be Stampin Challenge #16

It is Tuesday and time for another Anita Be Stampin Challenge!!  This is my second post today so I would love it if you would check out the Outlawz challenge I posted earlier!

Today is one of the easiest challenges ever!!  It is an Anything Goes Challenge.  I decided to step out of the box (literally) pun intended! And not do just another card this week.  I did 4 mini cards and a box to put them in.  This was fun.  I used to do these types of things more often.  I hope you enjoy my project this week.

OK, that is enough pictures!!  I just really had a lot of fun with this little project.  Once again I used 

Rosie's Sweets from Anita Be Stampin.  Make sure that you head over to the challenge and check out what the other amazing Design Team Members have made this week.  They are pretty fantastic!

I am also going to enter this into the Card Sets Challenge in the Moxie Fab World!!  The challenge is to make a set of cards to give away.  You should play along!!

Time for a Blog Candy

This post will stay on top. Blog candy available until March 31, 2011

So my blogger friend Dana recently did a post about prismacolor pencils versus copic markers.  She got me intrigued.  What do I do when I get intrigued?  I go to Ebay and start looking!!  Needless to say I bid on 2 sets of prismacolors and won them both.  Well you know I am going to keep the 48 for myself.  Now I could have put them back on Ebay, but instead I saved them to go with my Blog Candy.  I recently hit 100 followers.  Now, I would like to celebrate that fact!!  And hopefully get a few more!!  But first I want to show you what I did with my Prismacolors and my new RV-63,66's.  I think we need a color in between as well.  There is a a real difference in these colors.  I started by choosing this fabulous ribbon I got off of Ebay, then chose my papers, then my pencils and markers.  The markers are almost purple but are called raspberry.  I used a Sweet November Lillian stamp and buttons so I could enter it into the Challenge at All That Scraps this week.  So first off I am going to show you my two images.

The one on the left is colored with prismacolor premier pencils.  The one on the right is colored with my copic markers.  So the pencils are going to take some work, but it was my first time. 

Then  I went ahead and finished them both off on a card.  I used my favorite sentiments by AmyR  called Sassy Sentiments.  There are some new ones out this month, I need to run over and shop for!! LOL

I will say that it was fun to play with a new medium.  I will need more practice though!!  What I really was thinking though is that it will be so much easier to load up the pencils and OMS in the travel trailer than to pack up all my markers this summer!

OK, now back to the blog candy.  This will be pretty easy.  All you have to do is:
1. be a follower of my blog.
2. put a pic of my blog candy in your side bar.
3. enter using the froggy below.
I would also love you to comment and let me know what you think of the differences between the prisma and the copics.  And feel free to send people my way.

Do you see all the goodies.  A 36 package of premier prismacolor pencils, 2 copic markers, some of my favorite coffee ribbon, some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, some Neenah paper, a Calendar for you to design, 2 new Sweet November stamps, and pearls!! 

Anything Goes Challenge at Guylou's Inimitability

What's not to love about an Anything Goes Challenge?  The Challenge over at Guylou's Inimitability is Anything Goes.  We had some fabulous entries to the last challenge.  I hope you can find your way over to Guylou's site and join in this challenge.  The challenges go on for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to get your creations done.
 Guylou's Inimitability Design Team got to play with the feature digistamps called "Phillip" and "Molly". "Phillip" and "Molly" are hard working people in an industry that is not always appreciative of their service. Next time you go to a restaurant, please take a moment to thank your waitress and send a good word to the cook, that will make their day.
I chose to work with Molly.  I took the colors for my card from this peach colored card.  I really haven't played much with this color.  I actually used some reds for the peachy color on this card.

Do you ever have your project done and then you start adding stuff you shouldn't have.  Well last minute I added glitter to her cake and well, I shouldn't have.  It looks fine IRL, but to photograph it, nope, doesn't really work!!  I think any musical paper looks good with a birthday card, you know, there is usually some singing going on.  I also used my CC Designs Tag it and Rubber Stamp set to cut the flowers. I used some white ink to soften the edges of the flowers.  The stamp is from AmyR Sassy Sentiments set.

You will have until March 3rd, 10:00 pm (EST or click here to find out the corresponding time where you are) to enter your cards or projects here. Be sure to add the link to your entry and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier on the team to find your creations.

As always, thank you for stopping by my blog, today instead of putting on a pot of coffee, I suggest we go out to my favorite coffee shop, where we can be served by one of these great wait persons!!

Happy Monday Guest Spot at All That Scraps

Can you believe we are half way through February?  Happy Valentines Day to you all.  Today I am not featuring Valentines though!!  Today I used the new February release stamps at All That Scraps.  I love the new Bouquet Brigitta and the new Spring Kiki La Rue.  They are so versatile.  You can use them for any reason that you might share flowers!  The other thing that I featured in todays creations is the new Tags it Rubber Stamp and Die Set/.  How great is this set?!!  I love that you can cut out a tag and then border it with the stamp. I also used the flowers on my Thank you card today.

I just love this My Mind's Eye paper. I went looking for it yesterday, it was all gone at the craft store I found it at!  I just love coloring her hair!! I added glitter to her wings and added a flower from Wild Orchid Crafts along with the 2 turquoise ones from Recollections.

The next card I used a Martha Stewart punch and branch punch along with my flowers. Again the bigger rose is from Wild Orchid Crafts and the smaller from Recollections. The thing I was worried about ordering flowers from the UK, but oh my goodness they are inexpensive and fast.  Love that site!!

 

I loved the music paper, I thought it was fitting for someone singing, "Happy Birthday to You."

On both of these cards today I gave a little curl to the tags.   It just gives a little dimension to the card.  

As always, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by my blog today.  I only have 2 more weeks as Guest Design Team member for All That Scraps.  How sad is that!!!  I love playing with these fun images. 

Have a great Monday everyone, now let me get back to drinking my coffee!!!

Make A Wish

Today is my husbands 46th birthday.  He didn't have to work today and spent time cleaning and getting the house ready for the kids to come over tonight for his birthday.  I think he is a pretty good guy!  I wanted to make him a card with one of Kenny K's images.  I bought this image last month called Miss Thang.  She looks like she has a bit of attitude! LOL.  I have a bit of attitude myself!  This weeks challenge was distressing, so I did a little distressing. I find it hard to do to much to a guys card. For one they don't appreciate all the hard work that women do, and it'll find it's way to his drawer and probably not come out!!!!

the tag is from Whimsy Stamps. You can find it here or in Canada here.  

Thanks for stopping by my blog.  I have been working in craft room for some upcoming projects that I can't wait to show you!!!  But I will!!!

Copic Colors:

E-000,00,01

G-000,01,03

B-91,93,95,97

Y-21,23,26

C-00,01,03,05

One Crazy Stamper

How fun is it to do something you love and have them posted on other blogs?  It is the funnest thing ever!  I am the guest designer for One Crazy Stamper for the month of December. Don't you know that the cards I made were with my fave stamps by CC Designs.  For this card I used Cupcake Kiki. I just love her.  I think she has the funnest hair to color! LOL, sometimes I have a problem with the shading of hair, but Kiki just makes it easy!!!

I used this gorgeous paper from My Mind's Eye, quite contrary. It is a yummy thick textured paper that I just love. In fact I am pretty sure that I need more!!  I love the greens and reddish pinks in this paper.  It also lends itself to some of my favorite Copic colors.   I added some scribbles paint in white and then sprinkled some yummy glitter on it to look like sprinkles on her cupcake.  It just cried out for a cherry on top! I used a yummy pearl sent to me by my friend Gina.  When adding ribbon, I have such a hard time with a yummy bow, so I added my ribbon under the nesties with a knot instead of bow.  That sentiment, is from my stash.  It lends itself perfectly to kiki holding a sweet cupcake, don't you think?

It is kind of hard to tell but I added Glossy Accents to her hair bobbles, flower, and eyes. 

The Copics in this project:

Hair: Y-21,23,26

Skin: E-000, 00, 95, 93

Dress: R-32,35,37 and YG-0000,00,01,03

Shoes: E-24,27

Thanks for dropping by my blog, I love visitors!

Cupcake Kiki

I think that of all the CC Designs stamps, Kiki may just be my favorite!!  I got this little Kike La Rue with a cupcake last week and thought that she would be perfect for the challenge over at All That Scraps this week.  They are celebrating Amy Young’s birthday designing for All That Scraps!  So the challenge this week is to make a project that is birthday themed.  What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a cupcake.  On this cupcake I used some of the liquid snow that puffs up and added glitter to it before I puffed it up with heat.  I sewed every layer onto this card and used a couple different punches. I believe that both are from EK Success.  These papers are some of my favorite from My Mind's Eye, Quite Contrary Line.  I just love the colors in it.  

Isn't she darling!!!  Another angle so you can maybe see the dimension.

Isn't that flower darling?  I love these mulberry roses from Recollections.  I used the oval Nestie in my cuttlebug and some ribbon from my stash.

I have to of course leave you a shot of the inside as well.

I tried a new combination of pinks this week.

For her dress and shoes and inside cupcake I used

RV-32, 34, 00

YG-000,01,05,06  I really want 03!!

Skin: E-000,00,02,93

The stamp can be found at one of my favorite stores http://www.allthatscraps.com/

This Card will also fit the Challenge found at: http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog.

A day off

Today I decided to take a day off of work. My body has been telling me for weeks that I needed a day to myself.  This week I had a headache all week, so decided it was time!!!  I had all these plans of doing laundry, cleaning house, etc.  Well, the truth is, I did none at all!!! I played in my craftroom instead!!! I am going to post 2 birthday cards that I made for a friend whose sisters (twins) have a birthday next week.  I used some Penny Black stamps that hadn't been pulled out in a while. I love these stamps!!!

This stamp is Cinnamon.  The copics that I used on her are:

Jeans: B-93, 95, 97

Cake E-51, 53, 55, 25, 27

Shirt and purse: RV-91, 93, 95, 99

Hair: Y-21, 26, 28

Skin: E-000, 00, 02, R-20

This stamp is Ginger. The copics I used on her are:

Dress: RV-91, 93, 95, 99

Hair: Y-21, 26, 28

Skin:E-000, 00, 02, 11, R-20

The papers I used on both cards are form All My Memories Couture line.  Thanks so much for stopping by.