RI SOTW - Puffins

We have a new Stamp of the Week over on Repeat Impressions' blog,  The House That Stamps Built and it's this sweet image of three Puffins (2711-I).  For my sentiment, I used You Make me Smile (8602-E) from Quartet Complements. The patterned papers I used are from Stampin' UP!'s Haiku collection and Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl collection. 

The papers were selected to go along with this week's Just Us Girls color challenge, which is to use Chocolate Chip, Deep Yellow, Riding Hood Red and Olive Green.  The layout for my card is from this week's Card Positioning Systems sketch (I won last week's CPS challenge by the way!)  #232.

Please make sure to hop over to The House That Stamps Built for the details on getting this week's Puffins stamp for half price and to see the cards the rest of the team has made using this great image!

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Missing You Bunches

This card is for this week's Card Positioning Systems sketch challenge #231 and features My Favorite Things stamps (Flopsey's Flowers) and dies (Rolled Daisy and Leafy Flourish).  The patterned papers are from K&Company (Embossed Daisies) and Papertrey Ink (Pacific Vineyard).  I added yellow rhinestones to the flower centers and the label panel.

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RI SOTW - Raggedy Ann & Andy and a Blog Award

Hello again! This is my second post for today - please scroll down one to see my weekly Outlines post!

This week's Stamp of the Week from Repeat Impressions is this cute Raggedy Ann and Andy (902-I) image. When I was little my grandmother made a pair of Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls for me and I cherish them.  Recently my cousin, whose name is Ann, sent me a box of gold trims and decoupage supplies that had belonged to my grandmother, and that is where the gold circular element on my card came from - I guess you could say it all came full circle!

My papers are from Cosmo Cricket's Gretel collection.  I decided to go with a vintage feel since my Raggedy Ann and Andy are practically antiques!  My layout is from this week's Card Positioning Systems CPS206 sketch challenge.

For the inside, I stamped the 'You Make Me Smile' sentiment from Repeat Impressions Quartet Complements set.  Please be sure to head over to The House That Stamps Built to get the details on getting this great image for 50% off this week only!

Blog Award

My Krafty Kat friend Miriam recently started her own blog, Miriam's Delirium, and recently bestowed this blog award on me:

The Liebster Blog Award is given to bring newer blogs to light and originated in Germany. It's a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others. They should have less than 150 followers.

As a recipient of this award I must share the love and pay it forward by:

1 Creating a post where I blog about the Liebster award and reveal my 3-5 blog picks

2 Letting the honorees know that I selected them

3 Copying and pasting the blog award on my blog

Most of the blogs I follow are not new, so this was a little bit of a challenge, but here are three blogs you should check out!

Vicki Boddick - Heartwarmers from Vicki

Michele Greenwood - Whimisical Creations

Joy Hadden - Pieces of Joy

Dana Joy - Got Joy Creations


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Belli Challenge #92 - Rub-ons!

It's time for another Belli Challenge! This week the challenge is to use rub-ons.  For my card, I started with a Card Positioning Systems' sketch (CPS170) and used this week's Stamp of the Week (#4304-K Fairy’s Fun/Dragonfly) over at Repeat Impressions (it's available for 50% off this week only!). 

I combined the image with some of Graphic 45's Botanicabella papers and Stampin' UP! twill ribbon.  The image was colored with Copic markers and the background was airbrushed.  I added a rub-on border from Cosmo Cricket to the twill.

For the inside of my card, I made use of the 'punch trash' from the vertical layer on the front of the card, and combined it with a leftover strip of the patterned paper.

Please play along with us this week and pull out some of those long lost rub-ons in your stash!  In order to participate, link your project to today's Creative Belli blog post.  Don't forget to head over to the Creative Belli blog and check out what the rest of the design team members have done with their rub-ons!

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CPS150 Sweet birthday wishes

TGIF! Hope you have had a good week - I'm looking forward to the weekend! Sunday is Krafty Kat day - always something to look forward to!!

On Monday I posted a card using this same stamp for this week's sketch challenge at Card Positioning Systems. The sponsor for the challenge is October Afternoon, so I decided to do a second version using their 8x8 pad of Cherry Hill papers. This is also a good example of the different looks you can achieve with the same stamps. Everything is pretty self explanatory, the stamps, buttons, twine and ribbon are from Papertrey Ink, the patterned papers are from October Afternoon and the card stock is from Stampin' UP .

To make my paper flower, I used the two smallest Spellbinders Blossom dies with the text paper from the Cherry Hill collection and crumpled them up, then aged them and the rest of the paper panels with Papertrey Ink's tea dye duo inks. That's about it!

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your weekend!

Sweet Birthday Wishes

I made this birthday card using this week's sketch over at Card Positioning Systems.

I picked up this paper from Graphic 45's Domestic Goddess collection specifically to use with this stamp from Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits set. I created my sentiment by combining parts of two different sentiment stamps from the set. I colored the stamps directly with Stampin UP! markers (Old Olive and Real Red).

The accents on the right side of the main image were cut from a scrap of the patterned paper using a 3/4" square punch and popped up using foam tape. I replaced the two square elements on the left side of the focal image in the sketch with a bow made from Papertrey Ink Ripe Avocado satin ribbon.

That's about it! Thanks for looking! Enjoy your week and be sure to check back on Wednesday for another Belli Challenge!

Thank Ewe So Much!

Happy Thursday! Hope you are staying warm - it's 24 degrees here in not-so-Hotlanta. They are calling for snow this afternoon, which is a pretty rare occurrence here.

I made this card for Card Positioning Systems' CPS148 sketch challenge, which is sponsored by Gina K. Designs. The sheep and the sentiment are from Gina K.'s Down on the Farm set. They are paired with October Afternoon's Farm Fresh, Farm Yard paper - a match made in Heaven if you ask me! The sheep is stamped on an Inchie+ square (1 1/2 inches square), then I filled it in with some Liquid Applique. The doodles on the Inchie+ were done using a green Spica pen.

The striped ribbon is from Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love collection and the orange ribbon is from Martha Stewart. Pretty simple, but fun and I like the bright colors right about now!

Thanks for looking! Stay warm!

Happy Birthday You Old Bird!

A very good friend of mine had a birthday last week, and this is the card I made for her. It was a quick card that I made right before I headed out of town for a conference (which explains why I have been such a bad blogger for the last week). I was in Las Vegas from Monday through Thursday and am glad to be back home. I'm not a Vegas girl...

Anyway, Tina and I were Chi Omega sorority sisters in college. Chi Omega's symbol is the owl, so over the years we have done a lot of owl gifts and cards. When I saw this Inkadinkado set with the owls and this sentiment, I had to have it for her! She is four months older than I am, and I have often teased her about being older, so this sentiment was perfect. She has collected rabbits as long as I have known her, so that explains the rabbit brads on the sentiment. That, to me, is one of the greatest things about making cards - you can customize them with the perfect little details, just for your recipient.

I used Card Positioning Systems' CPS120 sketch, the stamps and the patterned paper as my starting points. The patterned paper panel behind the owl image is the reverse side of the patterned paper used for the larger panel, which is from Best Creations. I wanted to show as many of the owls on the background paper as I could, so I trimmed the left edge of the second layer close to the giraffe's head and neck. The stamped image was colored and airbrushed with Copic markers, and cut out using a square Nestabilities die. The mat layer is Bazzill Bling card stock that was cut out using a Labels Three Nestabilities die.

That's about it for this one. Hope everyone is having a wonderful Fourth of July weekend!

CPS108 - May the light always find you...

The first line of this sentiment certainly fits our weather here in Atlanta today - it's a dreary, rainy day. The last line of the sentiment is just a bit silly....but good for a chuckle. And these little frogs are pretty cute and very fun to color!

I used this week's CPS108 sketch for this card, and I can also use this card to play along with Sharon's Mix and Match challenge today. I thought the green polka dot paper was perfect for frogs, so I started with that. It's from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy paper pack, so it was easy to find a coordinating stripe to add for the little strips. I weaved them together in the corner and added a purple Dew Drop in the center where they intersected.

The frogs were colored with Copic markers to match the colors in the striped paper. After I colored the frogs, I used the pale yellow marker and pounced it on the frogs to give them some texture. Then they got a little Diamond Stickles on their eyes to make them sparkle.

I stamped the set of frogs twice and then cut out the individual frogs from one set and mounted them with foam tape on the top of my Labels One die. I punched and embossed the bottom edge of the polka dot paper using the replacement punch that Fiskars was kind enough to send to me when I complained about the one I bought recently. Unfortunately, this one isn't much better, but it's not as noticeable on patterned paper.

I don't usually show the insides of my cards here, but I always decorate them to coordinate with the front. For this one, I repeated the woven paper strips and used a section of the punched polka dot paper. I stamped and colored one more frog, then cut it out and mounted it in the corner.

I think this card would be a good 'pick-me-up' for someone who is down in the dumps.

Hope you've had a good week and that there are no frogs in your underpants...eeeewww!

Card details:
Patterned paper: DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy 8x8 paper pack
Stamps: Repeat Impresssions
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Markers: Copic - Y21, Y23, YG03, G24, BV000, BV11
Other: The Robin's Nest Dew Drops (Water), Ranger Diamond Stickles