Money Can't Buy Happiness

Don't you just love this image. I have had her for a while and haven't inked her up yet.  I thought the iCopic Design Team call would be the perfect place to ink her up for. This stamp is Whiff of Joy Willow Shopping. You can also find her here at One Crazy Stamper where they are having a challenge for Spring Flowers. I am going to also add this card to their challenge.  

I used some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers along with some flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I sewed around the edges of all the mats.  I used my favorite R's on here.  R-81,83,85,89.  Her boots are E-50,51,53. Her skin is E-11, E-02,E-93,E-000, her bags are E-55,57,59 and BG-10,11,13. The tissue is BG-000 and 0000 and her hair was colored with E-30,31,and 35. The fabulous sentiment is from AmyR over at All That Scraps, called Sassy Sentiments.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Wish we could brew a pot of coffee and color together!!! I can't leave though without a shot of the inside. It is very simply done, but I must add it! You know me!

More Challenges:

Pals Paper Arts~ Add flowers

Pixie Dust Studio~Say it out loud (Add a sentiment)

Art Impressions Stamps~ Anything goes

Thanks A Latte

How many of you know that this is Dental Assistant Week?  I manage 2 dental offices in town.  One for kids and Ortho and another for general dentistry.  If there is anything that motivates the staff at my offices it is coffee cards.  Well, I also like them as a way of saying Thank You.  So I made the assistants cards this week and slipped a Dutch Bro card in the center of them.  Right behind the ribbon.  First off, I love my staff.  If you go into my offices you will see in every one of their rooms cards that I have made for them posted on their bulletin boards.  That makes me feel good.  I hope the girls liked their cards for this week.  I also bought each of the girls a coffee cup to use at these foo foo coffee stands so they don't have to use the throw aways.  They will get those later on this week.  The hardest part of these cards was coloring the images.  Here are some of them.

Gotta love this Whiff of Joy image.  It is definitely one of my all time favorites.  Funny thing is most of the girls said, "looks just like me! LOL"  I wish!!!  I did them all alike, using my Grand Calibur to cut out the card and papers.  Had to make them as quick and easy as I could!!

Now, my real question is why do dental assistants get a whole week and Bosses only get 1 day?  

Wish you could all step in and we could share a cup of my favorite beverage called coffee!!!

Oh and on a side note, I want to thank my friend Dana who made me my awesome watermark.  Have you ever noticed that yummy cup of coffee in there that says "Brenda"?!!!  Love it, thank you Dana!!

Thanks a latte challenge card

It is amazing how quickly you can finish a card if you have a good sketch to follow!!!  This card was put together following the sketch over at The Sweet Stop.  What a great sketch!!! I decided to combine the challenge with the one over at 7 kids challenge blog.  The prize there is a whopping $75 at their store!!

I used one of my all time favorite stamps by Whiff of Joy. Willow with coffee. Everyone that knows me, knows that I am a coffee lover. Can't really start my day without it, and if I do, I am off all day!!!  Right now I am loving the Christmas creamer flavors. My favorite is the EggNog.  Mmmmmmmmmmm....

I had so much fun coloring her up!!  The copics for her dress are : BG-72,75,78 and her skin is E-000,00,02,93.  Hair: E-33,35,37 and coffee cup: E-55,53,51.  Sometimes I am amazed you can get all those colors on such small spaces.  The challenge at The Sweet Stop was to decorate the inside, and as you know I always love to show you the inside.  I didn't do a lot this time, just kept it simple.

Thanks for stopping in, wish I could brew a pot and share it with you all!!

Wiff of Joy

I love hunting season!!!  Why, you ask?  Because today as my husband went back out bow hunting I was able to sit alone in my craft room and create!!  I made 5 cards today. I am going to show you one!!  I will show you the others soon enough.  The one I want to show you today is for the Challenge over at the whiff of joy monday challeng blog.  I love when there is a sketch to follow and Tara has given us this one:

So my take on the sketch is a little different. I used a rectangular image cut out with a nestabilitie.  Love those and am putting some on my Christmas wish list. My list just continues to grow!!  For my card I used Shy Willow.  She was a gift from my friend Gina.  I love Whiff of Joy stamps. Especially Willow as you know!!

She just seems so serene!!  And you know I have to show you some other angles!

I just love these mulberry roses. These are in brown, red, and white.

Of course you want to see the inside, well and if you don't I want to show you!!!

I made this card for a friend that lost her mother last week and was looking for a card to send to the hospice care home she was in before she was able to go there herself to take care of her. 

Copics used

Skin: E-000,00,02,93

Hair: Y-21,23,26

Dress: R-32,35,37,39

E-51,53,55

E-31,33,35

YG-01,03

As always, thanks for stopping by my blog, I love visitors!!!

Willow Christmas Card

Today I pulled out my first Whiff of Joy Willow Stamp.  Willow with Cocoa. This stamp can be used for cocoa, coffee, or tea.  It just resonates the holiday season to me though and I decided to use her for the Challenge over at wojmondaychallenge.  I also incorporated a gate fold so that I could enter into the challenge at justusgirls. These cards to me, are so difficult to photograph!!  But here is my effort!!

And of course the inside of the card with a sentiment from All that Scraps

The copics that I used to color this Whiff of Joy stamp are:

Hair: E-33,35,37

Skin:E-000,00,02,93

Sweater:R-32,34,37,39

Jeans:B-91,93,95,97

also YG-03.

These papers are from some scraps I had last year and some ribbon also from my stash!

Thanks for dropping by my blog, wish we could sit and have a cup!!

You're Tea~riffic

I am so blessed to have an amazing friend, Kristin.  I work with her, but she manages at another location. Recently I had to request some help from her. She never hesitates but is always so willing to be a support for me. I hope that I am as much of a support for her as she is to me.  Of course I had to make her a card!!  I used my favorite Whiff of Joy stamp, Willow with coffee, but made it with a tea twist. Everyone knows I love coffee, but I grew up with a Gramma that loved tea.  Some of my first memories of Gramma Lusch are when we would have tea (lots of milk) and cookies at her table.  I loved having tea with my Gramma.  I generally have tea when I get together with my friend Kristin.  There is a place that we pop into that has an amazing Vanilla Coconut Tea blend and I love it!!!  So rather than making her a coffee themed card I thought I would make it Tea themed.

And of course, a view of the inside!

How about one more close up!!!

I love these papers from My Mind's Eye, Little Miss Muffet Line. They are such a thick gorgeous paper to work with. I just love them!!  Plus they match perfectly with my favorite Copic red combination.

Copic are as follows:

Hair: E-13,17,27

Dress, shoes and purse:R-81,83,85,89

Cup: E-30,31,34

Skin: E-000,00,02,93

I am also going to add this card to the challenge at: Cute Card Thursday

As always thanks for stopping by, would love to invite you in for a cup of coffee, or in this case let's make it tea!!!

Dance

While hopping my favorite blogs this week I saw that Guylou did a challenge with more than one fold. It inspired me to do the same.  The challenge can be found here.  I have really enjoying entering challenges lately!!  I love this whiff of joy stamp called Willow Dressing Up.

We were in our little Bi-Mart store here last weekend and they have a very small scrap section, but I came across this paper called "Its all about girls" by DCWV.  They only had it in a 6X6 stack. I have used all the shoe paper. There are only 3 pages of it, so am going to search it out today to find the 12X12 pack. I love the other papers as well. 

The sentiment stamp is one I have had in my stash for a while. It is from Mirramark. I think I bought this one on ebay.   So I finally broke down and bought roses from http://www.allthatscraps.com/.  I bought a pkg of magnolia roses, CC designs roses, and prima. I wanted to see what I liked the best.  The ones on this card are the prima and the magnolia. Not that I didn't like the CC designs ones, they are just not the right color!!  So I have decided I like them all!!! 

Copic colors:

Hair: Y-11, Y-21, E-95

Skin: E-00, YR-00, E-11

Dress: R-89, R-85, R-83, R-81

Embossing folder: Swiss Dots

Nestabilitie: Scallop rectangle.

Thanks for stopping by my Blog!!

Whiff of Joy Challenge #89

What a great Sunday I had creating 3 Whiff of Joy cards. This is one of my all time favorite images and I had to use her for the Wiff of Joy Challenge that can be found here http://wojmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/challenge-89-janes-sketch.html

I also used my all time favorite coffee paper on here. It is be Flair Designs.  The inside sentiment says, thanks a latte.  It has not been made for any one in particular but I love to give coffee cards to my staff as a thank you for their hard work. The copics that I used on this card are:

Skin: E00, YR00, E11,B20

Hair: E13, E17, E19

Dress: R20, R22, R24, R27

Coffee Cup; E53 and E55

Thanks for stopping by.

Whiff of Joy dressing up

Today I had a lovely Sunday afternoon where I was able to create a couple of cards.   I have had this sentiment stamp for a long time. I am not even sure where I got it.  I think it goes well with this Whiff of Joy stamp that I received recently.  I just love this image! I bought this DCWV paper today. Thought it would work great with this image.  Also I used the tutorial from Color me Copic, for their challenge this week.  You can find it here

The copics used on this card are: E-04, E-43, 

E-44, E-47, E-49, C-1, BV-00, BV-02, BV-04, BV-08, B-60, B-63, E-00, E-11, YR-00, R-20.

Espressly for you

I just love this Wiff of Joy image. Willow with coffee.

I am such a coffee lover as you may be able to tell by the amount of coffee cards that I make. There isn't a coffee image that I don't covet!!!  I also found this adorable paper from DCWV today and had to use it with this image.   Love the shoes!!!  And Willow wears such great shoes!!!  

I didn't have to use too many copics on this one.  The colors of her dress and shoes are BG-10, BG-13, 

BG-15, and BG-18.  Her hair is E-13, E-17, and E-18. Her skin is E-00 and E-11 with a little R-20 for her blush.  The coffee cups are colored with E-51 and E-53.  OK, so that is a bit of a list!!!

Fill your cup

On my way to work one day last week I was listening to KLUV a Christian radio station and the host was talking about something she has seen. I didn't get if it was a card or what exactly she saw.  It was "Fill your cup, and nourish others with your overflow".  I dug into my purse and grabbed a business card and scrawled those words on the back of it.  I just knew I had to go home and make a card with those words.  I was also browsing around on the internet and saw Willow with coffee and knew I had to have her.  There is just something about coffee images that reminds me of me heritage.  I grew up the daughter of a pastor, as well as one time farmer in Alberta.  The thing about these farmers in Alberta is that winter, summer, spring, fall, any weather; you stop in and they put a pot of coffee on.  My dad still goes for coffee in the mornings with his coffee friends.  And my mom has frozen desserts ready for when family and friends stop by.  I know I will use this sentiment again.  If I can find one of a girl reading her Bible over a cup of coffee or tea, it will be perfect.

Gina's Challenge Card

This card was made for a challenge I am participating in over at Scrapbook.com within a forum I belong to, the Scrappin derelicts!!..The challenge was to use 2 diff printed papers and buttons on a card as well as a stamped image sent to us by Gina.  Here is my take on the challeng.

Here is the Copics that I used to color my image.  The image is a Whiff of Joy stamp.  I also used a CTMH sentiment and flowers for the inside of my card.

another wiff of joy card

Last night I spent the evening in my scrap room making cards. This is the same image as the last. So far this is my only whiff of joy stamp. i am sure there will be more. I ran the nestabilitie shape through my cuttlebug in the snowflake folder. Again ribbon and sentiment is from
CTMH. I also added 3 little pearls under the sentiment. Thanks for looking.

Whiff of Joy Christmas Card

Some of my girlfriends don't LOVE magnolia stamps which most of my Christmas cards are!!! I just can't figure out why, something to do with no mouths!! LOL. Maybe that is part of why I love them!
So I inked up my hot cocoa Whiff of Joy stamp. I just love her. I used my nestabilities for the large tag and ran it through sideways for the dots. The ribbon and sentiment are from CTMH. On the inside it says....."warm your Heart all year long"
And of course I colored her with my copic markers. How many addictions can one girl have?!!!