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I love this couple from Printworks! Yep… the fun sentiment is Printworks too and on the inside, which I forgot to photograph, it says I love you… beautiful…black on white. Scroll frame is from Marianne Design. I die cut a black frame and a white frame…traced inside the white one with a pencil and cut it out by hand.
then for the bright, FUN valentine…new images for Valentine’s Day…
A NEW candy heart and heart sentiments…the new big LOVE, embossed on vellum… My trusty stamp a ma jig made this a fun card to create! I watercolored the hearts with Printworks stamp pads.
You’ll find these stamps at Printworks, HERE! I’ll be back to add some links tonight… Grandchildren coming over to make Valentines in a bit so I better dash! ttul!
It’s a dark chocolate cuppy cake kind of day! My card for the reminder post over on the All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge blog. The challenge going on right now is a color challenge.. Blue, Brown and Tan. I really meant for this to be a true blue card but the new Farmhouse 8×8 pattern paper pad was hogging my desktop, crying for use, so I went with it. Ugh! So my card is “kinda blue”! Rolling my eyes…@@ At least I got the brown right and kraft is tan, isn’t it? Today it is the new tan!!! lol Head over and create for a chance to win!
The half doily is cut from one of the pieces of pattern paper in the pad. Hug Snug ribbon dyed with a Walnut Stain distress stain. All the pieces are edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the ink blending tool. Instead of messing with thread for the buttonholes, I cut a sliver of card-stock to thread the button with… glue it on the back… slick.
The cupcake die is so cool…the bottom embosses, I used a little copic marker from the bottom up on the cupcake paper… Y28… the dark chocolate is enhanced with E40, 44,47,49. I tried vintage shard glass glitter on the top but just didn’t like it w/the more old fashioned feel of the papers so took it off and colored it and added the button instead! The cupcake logo is stamped on a piece of the paper from the pad too.
I used the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge blog HERE…
So that’s my bit of shabby chic for today. Wish it was healthy to eat these things for breakfast, lunch and supper! Hey, just stick a carrot in the top! Carrots make everything healthy, right?! ha! oh that reminds me of the broccoli ATC I made for a friend one year… it was a picture of a broccoli cake! She hates broccoli! lol
I found the picture of it…hahaha… well, I think it’s funny anyway! lol
Jilly’s excited about another birthday! Like all kids, she loves candles! Jilly’s Candle is one of the NEW Birthday Fairwees from Sweet November in the CC Designs January release at All That Scraps.com. Today is Tuesday Review day on the All That Scraps blog, HERE…more fabulous creations from the Design Team gals.
I stamped Jilly with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Hammermill 80# Color Copy Cover and colored her with Copic Sketch Markers. I really like this card-stock…super smooth, colors blend and it’s easy to fussy cut too! She’s a cutie and fun to color too!
I colored up little Daphne’s Balloons from CC Designs Sweet November Fairwees Birthday collection for today’s post. She’s hangin’ on so cute…lovin’ those balloons! Kids and balloons… Tim’s mom loves to give the grands balloons and they love them too…they make me so nervous! Pinching and poking makes me sure they will pop! lol The new Party Time Logos in the CC Designs January release are so cool! Be sure to check them out! I have something I want to try with one of them but not sure it’s gonna work yet…
Daphne is stamped on Hammermill Color Copy Cover 80# paper with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers. Her hair is E23, 25, 27 and 29; her face is E000,00,11, R20,22; her wings are BG00, 01; her dress is E81, 87, R24, 27, 29. Balloons are YR12, 04, 07 and W1 over the top and R 24, 27, 29, 59 and W5 over the top.
I used the tops of the CCD Cutters Mistletoe die for the tree tops. Added a little foliage “look” with Copics YG93 and 95. The pattern paper I used is from Simple Stories Happy Day 6×6 pad. I love the pad but they are sure different colors to photograph…bet it was just that orange throwin’ me off kilter! eek! lol It’s really not fluorescent IRL!
Check out the other birthday creations from the All That Scraps Design Team on the ATS blog, HERE.
I’m so excited and honored to be a new member of the Marianne Design World Design Team! I love to be challenged and using her dies, stamps and supplies to create with is going to be great fun! So….here’s hoping I can inspire and challenge you at the same time!
Today I’m posting two cards. A Clean and Simple card with the new tree Creatables die LR0203 from the January release. I LOVE scene dies! = ) I wish I hadn’t used such dark brown card-stock …if you watch the video you’ll see the detail of the die better! The sentiment stamp is C2398 from Printworks.
Here’s a video to show how I layered the tree.
Then my second card is a Don and Daisy stamp from Marianne Design that I colored and matted on a Marianne Design Craftables Rectangle die set CR1202, the black dot ribbon is from Marianne Design and the Elegant Brocade stamp is from Hero Arts. SOOOO CUTE! Don is so sweet to carry Daisy over the threshold! hehe
Surprise! I’m back, three days in a row! Amazing! lol Today’s Preview for CC Designs is the NEW Sweet November Birthday Fairwees release. I used Piper’s Surprise. Over on the ATS blog, HERE, you can see all the other adorable new images, six in all! Be sure to link up for a chance to win on all three Preview Day posts!
I went with a CAS card today…although the simple part sure can’t count toward the amount of time spent! I find that clean and simple takes me almost as long as the other kind of cards I normally do!!! Wacko! It doesn’t help when you make booboos! haha!
The sentiment is from CC Designs AmyR Stamps Mixed Messages Sentiment set… the embossing is done with Nestabilities Labels 18. Piper is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Papertrey ink select white card-stock and colored with Copic Sketch markers. Hair E50, YR31, 21, 23, 24 and E37; Skin E000, 00, 21 and a diluted (w/R00) R20 for the cheeks; Present BG01, 02, 05; Bow W3, R35, 37, 39. White Signo Gel pen for the white dots.
All That Scraps still has a clearance sale going on, link over in my sidebar, close to the top. New Products too! Super sweet new stamps by Sylvia Zet, postmarks and neat paper pads! HERE‘s the New Products category in the store if you want to see!
Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the show on the ATS blog. I’ll post links to the new release tonight! Thanks for shopping through my blog! I appreciate it! Happy Stamping!
Are you smiling? This little monkey is new for CC Designs January release and called Monkey Zoo. Comes with it’s own birthday sentiment too! I was washing up a few pans, thinking…wanting something fun to create with this cutie and thought circus tent! Well, sure enough, googled and found this card HERE. So cute and easy to piece together too!
I printed Heidi’s pattern and then held it behind my pattern paper by my desk light so I could see through it to cut it out. To make the card I used a piece of card-stock scored at folded at 4 1/4 in. wide. I held the tent base piece on top of the folded card and cut on the tent pattern sides. Adhered it to the tent top. I used a toothpick on the top to hold the flag and bead. On the back I cut a piece of card-stock the same color as the folded card and glued it over the top so that the back side is all covered and the same color. Cute! Easy too.
Inside…
another side view…
and from the front…
When I was in grade school…one of the gals in our class had a pet monkey! Crazy….I’m not much of an animal lover, so of course I didn’t hold it! eek! lol They are entertaining in the zoo, that’s for sure!
Here’s the scoop….another cute Animal Crackers stamp in this release too… cards on the ATS Blog, HERE. Moo-valous!!! That’s a clue! lol Tomorrow, another day of Preview and the stamps are available in the store HERE at 10 p.m. CST. Hope you’re enjoying the Birthday stamps! Always need them!
Thanks for your visit and comments….I appreciate it!
This new CC Designs Swiss Pixies Lucy can stand alone because she is the cutest thing ever! I know, I say that every month!!! I love my job! Christine just keeps on drawing cute stuff for us and I love it!
Well, here’s the whole card…
Our granddaughter Lilli turns 7 on the 8th. Yep, you guessed it, she’s a red-head! This card is for you Lilli! Happy Birthday! AND, she loves pink! She loves to color with copics too… for Christmas I gave her the markers to color red hair, cuz she loves to color her color hair! hehe Today I used E97, E08 and E19 for her hair. Her skin is E000, 00, 21, cheeks are R20, 21, 22…micro amounts! lol All the pink is R81, 83 and 85.
Today the ATS Design Team is featuring the new Swiss Pixies Party Time Lucy, Birthday Lucy, Party Time Logos, Candle border die, Cupcake die and circle logo die. Check out their creations on the ATS blog HERE. Link up while you’re there for a chance to win Party Time Lucy and Birthday Lucy. I used Party Time Lucy, Party Time Logos and the Candle border die.
Here’s a side view…
I hope you can see that I used two different pattern papers for the candle border die. I cut the candle border out of each one…kept the back piece with the flame and attached the second piece to the top after I cut the flames off… very easy! You probably can’t really see this, but I embossed lines with the small end of a stylus between the candles to give definition and dimension.
I used Marga’s sketch from Scrap-en-stempel club blog HERE.
Wish you could see this one IRL… so sweet. I know what my friend Linda is going to say….another pink card! lol She’ll get to see it at stamp club! lol
Be sure to check back in on the ATS blog tomorrow…the team will be debuting some new Animal Crackers stamps. I’ll be back here on Wednesday with Sweet November stamps… then later in the week… I have some other fun news to post! Hope I can keep up!
Thanks for visiting Lucy and me today! We loved having you over! = )
I know, I know… it’s not Christmas! lol This has just been unfinished for three weeks or so and I had to finish it yesterday!!! Just had to so I could move on! I’m happy with it finally! One of those cards where I had to keep walking away and coming back! eek!
I love this Printworks chair… the third time I’ve used it and the second time for this Printworks window that I love too! HERE, HERE AND HERE. All the stamps I used are from Printworks. The pattern paper is from the Echo Park 6×6 pad called Season’s Greetings. The Chair is paper pieced. I edged the pieces with Distress Walnut Stain ink and the ink blending tool. I think this living room type scene could be for any time of year! Happy 2nd day of 2012 to you and yours! Hope you don’t have the biting cold wind that we have here in Iowa! Brrrrrr. Wish I didn’t need to go out today! Hip hip hooray this card is done though!!! lol
A fun challenge to link to… Paper Sundae challenge blog – something old (PW evergreen tree stamp), something new (Echo Park Season’s Greeting paper pad).
All Winter theme products are 15% off TODAY at scrapbook.com. If you don’t have the Limited Edition Tim Holtz Distress ink set yet… check out the awesome price of $9.99!!! Click the 15% off box below to see the Winter sale items for today.
That was hard! So many I could have picked that I liked! It was a fun creative year ! I’m looking forward to 2012 and more fun stamping and sharing! Happy New Year and thanks for sharing your stamping too!
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