Merci, Thanks and Thank YOU!

I have so much going on at the moment and I'm behind on everything.... The fun thing about being on a design team is that you get to work with a lot of great, new products. The down side to being on a design team is that you have to produce things with those products.... I'm behind on my assignments for both my design teams, so I ended up making a card this morning that includes several things I needed to use. It's a card I made for Scrap Chic Boutique, using two different Basic Grey papers and a stamp wheel - a three-fer! I decided that I would jump start my design by using Beate's sketch for this weekend. Plus I managed to use a few things from my stash that were collecting dust, so all-in-all it was a pretty successful endeavor!

Hope you have a great week. I'm going to be really busy with work through Wednesday, and then we are taking the rest of the week off to spend the holiday weekend with my mom, who will be having a birthday later this month. I'm looking forward to having a few days to relax, eat some good food (my mom is a GREAT cook) and spend time with family.

Hope you have a great week! Thank YOU for looking!

Card Details:
Patterned Paper - Basic Grey - Granola (Grain) and Ambrosia (Smoke)
Solid paper - Marco's Paper - Stardream Stationery
Stamp - Roller Doodles - Glitz Designs
Flowers - Heidi Swapp Ghost Flower; self-adhesive felt flower - Queen and Company
Paint - Making Memories - Cornflower and Steel
Ribbon - Making Memories
Ink - Versacolor Polar Blue
Dew Drops - The Robin's Nest

Cat with Kittens

This is a card I did for Repeat Impressions featuring this beautiful mama kitty with her two cute little babies. The image was colored with Copic markers. I recently picked up the Copic airbrush system and played with it on this card. It takes a bit of practice, I have to admit...The airbrushing was done with multiple markers, but I'm afraid I don't recall which colors. I cut the image and the sentiment out with my Nestabilities and then left the die in place while I airbrushed the background to leave the white border.

There's not much to it, otherwise - Kraft card stock base, pattern paper background (I liked the Oriental theme of the paper with the Siamese kitty), some satin ribbon and a few dew drops and you're done!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Details:
Pattern paper - Basic Grey - Lilykate - Bamboo
Stamps - Repeat Impressions
Markers - Copic
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Other - ribbon, Copic airbrush system, Nestabilities, The Robin's Nest Dew Drops.

Happy Birthday, Leigh Ann!

This is a birthday card I made for a very special someone. It's for my niece's 15th birthday, which is today. This card is actually a three-fer - it's Leigh Ann's birthday card, it's my submission for the July Inchie Inkling challenge and I used the Stampin Diva's sketch from a couple of weeks ago.

I used half of a 12x12 sheet of DCWV scalloped paper as my card base. All of the other papers are from Basic Grey's Oh Baby Girl collection. The glittery striped paper I used for the butterfly is from Making Memories Garden Party collection. The focal image is Lockhart Stamp Company's Itty Bitty Lavender. The sentiment and the frames around the lavender image were cut out using my Nestabilities and I also used my ticket corner punch on the sentiment. Copics were used to color the lavender image and then I highlighted the flowers, stems and bows with my Spica markers for a little extra shine. The butterfly was created with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch and I added a few self-adhesive rhinestones down the center to create a body for her. I finished it off with a few butterfly and flower brads.

Here's my favorite picture of Leigh Ann and me, back when she was just three or so. I love the expression on her cute little pudgy face. She is growing up to be a terrific, athletic, smart and beautiful girl. Niece Leigh Ann, I hope you like your card and I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Hope you all have a great week - I'm just happy to be spending it at home. This has been a travel-filled summer for me and I'm weary of being away. Hopefully I'll have some time during the week to make some new cards and post them here. Then maybe Jenny will stop nagging me...

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Details:

Cardbase - DCWV

Patterned Paper - Basic Grey; Making Memories

Stamps - Lockhart Stamp Company (lavender); Stampabilities (sentiment)

Ribbon - May Arts

Brads - Making Memories

Punches - Martha Stewart; Stampin' UP!

Rhinestones - My Mind's Eye

Markers - Copic; Copic Spica

Ink - Versa Magic Chalk Ink - Eggplant; Memento Tuxedo Black

Home is where the heart is...

This is a really simple little card that came together quickly. The card base is a ready made notecard from Amuse Artstamps. The stamps are from Repeat Impressions. The chair was stamped on some paper from the Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl collection. The layers were cut out and embossed with my Nestabilities.

That's about it....just wanted to post a little somethin', somethin' from the road!

Hope you're having a good week. Mine's been ridiculously busy. And the Olympics are making me stay up way too late at night. Tonight I'm going to head to bed 'early'.
Thanks for coming by!

Card Details:
Card base - Amuse Artstamps
Stamps - Repeat Impressions
Ric Rac - Cosmo Cricket
Designer Paper - Basic Grey
Charm - Art Parts

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are always a bit tough to do, especially when the recipient is a male. Sadly, I've had to do 3 of them this summer for co-workers and a client. This one I whipped up this morning before I headed out of town. The background is made up of several images from Cornish Heritage Farms' Nature's Silhouettes set. The different images were randomly stamped using a variety of inks and colors. The sentiment and its border were cut out and embossed with my long rectangle Nestabilities.

Not much to it, but hopefully it will provide a bit of comfort to the recipient.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good week!

Card Details:
Stamps - Cornish Heritage Farms
Inks - Clearsnap Colorbox Chalk Ink - Burnt Sienna; Tsukineko Versamagic - Wheat, Aloe Vera, Pumpkin Spice; Tsukineko Brilliance - Cosmic Copper
Other - Spellbinders Nestabilities

You take the cupcake!

Here is another card using the same Hambly overlay I used on this card. Let me just tell you, it was a bear to score that transparency and get a good, tight fold on it. It didn't want to stay closed! I've recently jumped on the Scor-Pal bandwagon and it did a good job with the scoring, it's just that the transparency is pretty thick.

It's a pretty simple card, although you do have to give a little thought to setting it up so that it looks good from all sides. For the inside, I cut a piece of plain white paper, just slightly smaller than the cupcake paper on the front of the card, so it wouldn't show from the front.

I played around with another inchie for this card. The frosting was made using Liquid Applique. A little bit of red Crystal Laquer for the cherry on top, some pink glitter and no-hole beads for the 'sprinkles' and your cupcake is complete and looks good enough to eat....almost... ;-) The best part about this cupcake is there is no mess to clean up in the kitchen and no extra pounds on the midsection!

Thanks for stopping by - you take the cupcake!

Card Details:
Patterned Paper – GCD Studio
Transparency – Hambly
Stamps – Lockhart – Cupcake and border; Impression Obsession - Sentiment
Inks – Adirondack Pitch Black
Markers – Copic and Copic Spica
Other – Spellbinders Nestabilities; Liquid Appliqué – Marvy Uchida; Crystal Lacquer; Ribbon; Glitter – Amy’s Magic ; Glass no hole beads

Can we get your vote??

On Friday, Tim came home from work and told me I needed to go up the driveway and around the corner to the church and then come back. He had this very sheepish look on his face, and while I hated to burst his bubble, I didn't have time to go do that. Come to find out, the reason for his request was this:

Our very funny neighbor, who obviously has too much time on his hands, had posted this sign at the beginning of our street, in preparation for today's runoff election in our county. We are not sure which one of us is running, or what it is we are running for (Tim assumed it was for dog catcher), but we do know that Chuck is the winner of the funniest neighbor contest.
Now, can we count on your vote?

Happy Day!

Happy Monday! I created this card for the store this weekend using a little more of the paper I used for the last card I posted. I also played with one of my new Lockhart Company inchie stamps. They are fun to color and go fairly quickly due to their small size, so they are good for coloring practice! I colored a white flower border strip with some chalk inks to get it to match the paper better.

One of the other items I was asked to use on a card for the store was the pink Heidi Swapp Chandelier Crystal that is hanging from the flower border with the sentiment attached. The sentiment was cut out with my new Stampin'UP! word punch, as were the border pieces for it. I cut the largest border piece with the punch and then cut a little off the end of the sentiment and the middle border piece to have them graduated.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a happy day!

Card Details:
Patterned Paper – KI Memories Bloom Trellis
Solid Paper – Marco’s Paper – Stardreams Stationery
Stamps – Lockhart Stamp Company; Amuse Artstamps
Flower trim – Doodlebug Design paper frills
Inks – Memento Tuxedo Black; Colorbox Chalk inks – Amber Clay and Burnt Sienna
Markers – Copic Spica
Colored Pencils – Koh-i-Noor
Other – Spellbinders Nestabilities – classic squares; Ranger - Yellow Stickles; word punch – Stampin’ UP!; Gamsol and paper stumps

A home without cats....

...is like a garden without flowers....

I love this sentiment and stamp. This is the first card for my first round of Repeat Impressions design team assignments. When I returned home last Friday from being on the road all week, I had a lovely package from Wendy with 28, count 'em 28, stamps with which to make cards. That's a LOT of stamps! So, this actually started out as a card for Scrap Chic Boutique, since this background paper is from my current assignment for the store, but after the card was finished and had a few emails with Wendy, I decided I need to send it to her because you really need to see it in real life to appreciate it - the picture doesn't do it justice. The finished card measures 6" x 6", which is a bit large for a 'normal' card anyway.

All of the flowers in the stamped image have been colored with Copic markers and then I used Copic's Spica glitter pens to add a touch of bling to them. It's impossible to get that really fine glitter to show up in a photo. I really love all the bright colors, which is not really my 'normal' style.

So if you head to a rubber stamp show in the future and Repeat Impressions has a booth there, look for this card because it is supposed to end up being displayed in the booth! Have a great weekend - I know I will since I'll be working on more cards! I've got a lot on my plate at the moment, including another card with this paper for Scrap Chic Boutique, but it's all fun!

Card details:

Patterned paper - KI Memories - Bloom Trellis

Card base - Basic Grey - Oh baby

Stamp - Repeat Impressions

Ribbon - SEI

Brads and eyelet - Making Memories

Markers - Copic

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Butterfly Wishes

This card was made using the reverse side of the paper I used for the Mercat card from my last post. I find it interesting when the reverse sides are so different from one another. This one is also for Scrap Chic Boutique and incorporates several things I was given to to use - the brown flower, the big rhinetone brad and the pretty butterfly wings. The rest of the elements are just some things from my stash. It doesn't show up too well in the photo, but the ribbon has little white butterflies on it.

Initially I wasn't too crazy about this card, but I showed it to a friend the other day and she thought it was 'stunning', so it just goes to show - different strokes for different folks!
Thanks for looking!

Card Details:
Paper - Black Market Paper Society
Ribbon - SEI
Flowers - Kaisercraft (green paper flowers); Scrap Chic Boutique (brown flower)
Stamps - Savvy Stamps (sentiment); Lost Coast Designs (butterfly on inside of card)
Rhinestone brads - Stampin' UP! (small brad); Scrap Chic Boutique (large brad)
Butterfly wings - Tinkering Ink

Have a Purrfectly Wonderful Day!

This is a card for my Scrap Chic design team duties. The item I was asked to use is the background paper, which reminded me of a tropical ocean. I had yet to use this cute little mercat stamp I picked up at the last Heirloom Pro stamp show here in Atlanta, so this seemed like a good time to put it to work.

There's nothing fancy about this card - I added a few fishies to the background paper to make it really look like water. The mercat image was colored with Copic markers and cut out using my Spellbinders Nestabilities. A few little Dew Drops were added to resemble bubbles.

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted - I've been out of town a bit lately for work. I've got several cards to post, so things will pick up this week! Hope you have a purrfectly wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

Card Details:
Paper - Black Market Paper Society - Swingin in the Hammock; Marco's Paper - Stardreams Stationery
Stamps - Mercat - Stamps on Fire; Sentiment - Whipper Snapper Designs; Fish - Inkadinkado
Ribbon - SEI
Markers - Copic
Ink - Adirondack Pitch Black
Other - The Robin's Nest - Dew Drops

A little birdie...

I love this little stamp set from Repeat Impressions. It's from the series of swing card stamps that they make, but I didn't create a swing card with it, I just created a traditional card. The image is colored with Copic markers in an attempt to match the patterned paper from SEI.





The card looks innocent enough from the front, but the fun part is on the inside.....









I think that smug little cat is so perfect with the sentiment. But, as a bird lover, as well as a cat lover, I keep my cats indoors so they and the birds are safe!



Card Details:
Stamps: Repeat Impresseions
Patterned Paper: SEI
Ribbon: Leeza Gibbons Legacies (Xyron)
Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black
Markers: Copic

Oh Hoppy Day!!

I adore this little bunny, and I feel just like that right now! I just got some big news yesterday that had me almost jumping around like this little bunny. I recently submitted an application to be on the design team for Repeat Impressions design team, and I learned yesterday that I have been accepted! And while this guy is a little out of season, he was one of the cards I made for my submission, so that's why I'm posting it in the middle of summer.

I'm still relatively new to the stamping/card making world, especially in terms of blogging and posting my work, and I'm still a bit timid about 'putting myself out there', so it's really exciting for me to have been so successful. Since January of this year, I've applied for three design teams and been accepted to two, so I'm feeling pretty good at the moment! A little overwhelmed, but very excited about what lies ahead and all that I have to learn.

OK, enough gushing....thanks for 'listening' and stopping by!

Card details:
Patterned Paper - Flair Designs - Bunny Trail, The Easter Collection
Stamps - Repeat Impressions (Did I mention? I'm on their Design Team!!!)
Ink - Archival Ink - Sepia;
Other - Spellbinder's Nestabilities; The Robin's Nest Dew Drops; Ribbon - Michael's; Copic Markers; Copic Spica Glitter pens (Melon, Lemon, Pink); Signo White pen

Crush Me, Squeeze Me!

Being a wine lover, I just had to have this stamp, from DRS Designs. I had this glass wine bottle embellishment from Stampington & Company and thought it would be perfect for a card with this stamp. I backed it with some grape decoupage paper and added a miniature wine label from some designer paper, then covered the mini-label with Ranger Sepia Accents.

The tag is a regular office supply shipping tag that I stippled and distressed with several of Ranger's Distress Inks. A trio of purple Dew Drops in the corners mimics the clusters of grapes in the pattern paper. I'll have a hard time parting with this one!

Thanks for looking!

Card Details:

Pattern Paper - don't know who makes any of the ones used - sorry

Inks - Ranger Adirondack Pesto, Lettuce, Oregano (sounds like a salad...)

Stamps - DRS Designs

Other - Glass wine bottle embellishments - Stampington & Company; The Robin's Nest Dew Drops, Ranger Glossy Accents and Sepia Accents; Shipping tag - Staples; Hemp twine

Pretty in Pink

The assignment for this card was to use a printed transparency from Hambly Studios. I love transparencies and have a bunch, but I have to admit, they can be a bit tricky to find just the right way to use them. So, for this card I had the pink gridlines transparency and thought these stamped flowers looked good with it. I matted the stamped images on some Marco's Paper Stardreams Stationery and adhered the transparency on top with 4 little drops of Ranger's Glossy Accents, which I covered with my dew drops.

The butterflies on the bottom were colored with the same markers as the flowers and the Happy Birthday sentiment was inked with the same pink marker.

Thanks for looking!

Card Details:
Solid Paper – Marco’s Paper – Stardreams Stationery
Transparency – Hambly Studios mini graph
Stamps –Hero Arts – butterflies; 7 Gypsies - sentiment
Markers – Inque Boutique Whispers
Other – Ranger Glossy Accents; The Robins Nest Dew Drops