Birthday Present for Punch Art Swap

This is the card that I made for Sama—Paola’s Punch Art Swap.  I typically do not do these cards, but a local demo had a class recently and we made five different cards.  This was one we made and I love it.  I also plan to make a similar one for next month’s stamp club.

Image/Sentiment—Stampin’ Up Happiest Birthday Wishes

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Rose Red and Pink Pirouette

Ink—Stampin’ Up Rose Red

Accessories—Pink Ribbon; Stampin’ Up Stripes and Dots Embossing Folders, Oval, Oval Scallop and Tag Punches

Mystery Swap ~ Round 9 ~ Get Cozy with Cocoa

This card is for a Mystery Swap on SCS.  A group of us are doing a bi-monthly swap where we all use the same mystery image, sent to us by the hostess.  This swap was created by Forest Ranger—Jeanette.  These images were sent to us by Linda Haller, who will swap the cards and send us the next image, provided by Linda Hart!  I can't wait to get the swap cards back to see how everyone else used the same image.  And then we get to do it all again!!!!

This is such a cute My Favorite Things image and I do like many of Who’s That Girl stamp sets.  I was so glad to be able to color one up—though I think my Copic technique needs a bit of practice with a large area to color……………………

Oh Well--I hope Linda and the other swappers think I did OK with this sweet image.

Image/Sentiment—MFT-WTG Get’s Cozy with Cocoa image; Verve Winter Mittens Sentiment

Cardstock— Stampin’ Up Marina Mist, Bashful Blue; The Little Yellow Bicyile Ski Sweater and Snowy Wonder Designer Series Paper

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Copics; Brown Brads; Bashful Blue Ribbon; Punches; Nesties-Circles, Small Scallops & Tag Ribbons

PTI Hip, Hip Horray!

This is the third card that I made for Stephanie’s PTI Swap—this one was for the masculine card group.  I think the designer paper and embossing folder makes this card perfect for a guy for any occasion.

Image/Sentiment—Fillable Frames #3

Cardstock—PTI Cream; Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake and Manchester Designer Series Paper

Ink—SU Always Artichoke

Accessories—Ivory Brads; Ivory Twill; Cuttlebug Argyle Embossing Folder; Punches

Dueling Darling Divas March ~ Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It is the 15^th of the month and that means another Dueling Darlings challenge.  This month, I am the hostess for the Divas and Michelle is the hostess for the Dazzlers.  We decided the theme is “St. Patrick’s Day”, to be celebrated in two days.

And in addition to creating the card, we requested that each person tell if they have a tradition relating to St. Patrick’s Day?  Do they crave a type of Irish food?  Do they prepare something special or go out to a certain place to eat that day.  Are there any special memories of that holiday from the past that they want to share?

I am not Irish-I am100% German as both of my parents were born in Germany and met in Chicago in the 20’s.  But, I do love Irish Stew!  There is a small restaurant near us that has a great stew on St. Patty’s Day, but we are not going to be around this year as we are heading to Chicago to the Flower and Garden Show at Navy Pier.  I am sure we will see lots of “green” that day!

Here is the inside of my card:

Image/Sentiment—Whipper Snapper--Irish Luck and Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Paper—Gina K White; Stampin’ Up Handsome Hunter, Garden Green; Reminisce-Lucky Me--Lucky Stripe and Micro clover, Shenanigans DSP

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin’ Up Garden Green

Accessories—Copics; Circle and Photo Corner Punches; Green Twine; Green Crystal Rhinestones; Shamrock and Leprechaun Shoe Brads;

Please be sure to stop in to see what all of the Divas as well the Dazzlers have created this month. All of the blogs are on the left sidebar of my blog. I am sure you will enjoy all of the Green Creations! 

I hope you enjoy looking at our creations! Thanks for joining us!!!!!!

March Stamp Club Card

This is my card for our stamp club swap tonight.  Laurie is our hostess and the theme is get well or sympathy. I really like this new Stampin’ Up set and wanted to use some of the SU designer paper I recently purchased.  I really the result!  I also like the look of two layers of ribbon of different widths on a card.

Image/Sentiment—Stampin’ Up Thanks for Caring

Cardstock—Gina K Ivory; Stampin’ Up Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Mocha Morning DSP

Ink—Stampin’ Up Soft Suede

Accessories—SU Elegant Lines embossing folder; SU Espresso and Kraft Ribbon; Suede Brads; Oval and Tag Punches; Sponge



PTI Four of a Kind Birthday Wishes

This is the second of the two cards that I made for Stephanie’s PTI Swap in the birthday category.  This is one of my favorite PTI sets and it was free—well……kind of free.  I was a set I got free when I purchased a set amount of items at their CHA booth in 2010.  It was awesome to see all of their sets in person as well as their great colors of paper, ribbon, and all of their other sweet toys!

Image/Sentiment—PTI Four of a Kind

Cardstock—PTI White; Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, and Designer Series Paper

Ink—SU So Saffron and Wild Wasabi

Accessories—Green Brads; Patterned Green Ribbon; Oval Punch; Sponge

PTI Green Thumb Birthday Greetings

This is one of the three cards that I made for Stephanie’s Papertrey Ink-PTI swap on SCS.  I really like many PTI stamp sets and love to participate in these swaps to get back some of the awesome creations made by these great swappers!  This was one of the two cards I made for the birthday group.  What a perfect card for a spring birthday

I do have to admit that the sentiment I used is not a PTI-it is Stampin’ Up.  The birthday greeting in this set said “Hoppy Birthday” as it had many garden components.

Image/Sentiment—PTI Green Thumb; SU Birthday Greetings

Cardstock—PTI White; SU Close to Cocoa, So Saffron, Certainly Celery and DSP

Ink—Stampin’ Up Certainly Celery

Accessories—Brown Brads; Circle Punches; Certainly Celery Ribbon; Cuttlebug Polka Dots

Funny Card for a Friends's Birthday

This is the second of the two cards that I made for April’s Humorous Card swap on SCS.  I have many funny stamps and sentiments—Whipper Snapper and Impression Obsession companies fill most of the stamp drawers.  This will make a perfect card for my friend who has a birthday next week...............................

Image/Sentiment—Whipper Snapper Presents Galore; Impression Obsession Sentiment

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin’ Up Regal Rose, Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight; Basic Grey Two Scoops-Sprinkles

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin’ Up Regal Rose

Accessories—Pink button Pink/White Twine; Copics

It's a Birthday Potty!

This is one of the two cards that I made for April’s Humorous Card swap on SCS.  I have many funny stamps and sentiments and this is one of my favorites!  Yes, I do love Whipper Snapper stamps and have many to choose from!

Image/Sentiment—Whipper Snapper Birthday Potty

Cardstock—Gina K White, Bubblegum Pink, Wine with Everything, Chocolate Kiss; Bella Blvd Sweet Celebrations-Treats & Sweets

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories— Brown Ribbon; Brown Button with Pink Floss; Copics

Crafty Gals March Challenge ~ Not Luck.......... Blessings Card

It is the 5^th of the month, so I am back with the fourth Challenge of the Crafty Gals!  We are a group of bloggers who have monthly challenges, caring comments & fun chit chat on SCS—our favorite stamping site to visit.

This month, the challenge was posted by Melina, who also organized this blog group.  Here are the details:

"NOT LUCK......BLESSINGS!"  Okay, so this month we celebrate St. Patty's Day. Well, some of us do. I never have gotten into it that much even though I have some Irish blood in me. I guess my thing is I don't believe in luck. I believe in blessings. So, I love saying "Have a blessed day" when I'm out and about on St. Patty's Day! LOL!  So, my challenge for you is to create a project whatever you'd like, a card, scrap page, 3D item, etc....using these things:

1. 2 different shades of green.
2. Make the sentiment a "blessings" or "thankfulness" theme.
3. A Nature element somewhere on your creation. Examples: plant, sun, flower, grass, etc image and/or use patterned paper with plants, grass etc.....Any Natural element you can think of on your project.
I want you to really go "green" on this challenge!

Green is one of my favorite colors to work with and I got this stamp last November at a stamp show  in Madison that I attended.  I did a make and take in the Seaside Stampin Ink booth and the owner mentioned he had not sold one item yet—and we were about an hour into the show.  I felt bad, so I “needed” to make a purchase……………  The embossing folder I used was also a purchase that night from a company I had not heard of before-Lifestyle Crafts

Image/Sentiment—Seaside Stampin Ink--Gratitude

Cardstock—Gina K White, Grass Green, All Spruced Up and Crème de Menthe; Stampin’ Up Welcome Neighbor DSP

Ink— SU Handsome Hunter

Accessories— Lifestyle Crafts Classic Diamonds Embossing Folder; Green Button & Bakers Twine; Cloud and Green Leaf Brads; Green Ribbon;

Please check out the blogs of all of the Crafty Gals.   All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar and I hope you will enjoy all of our creations. Thanks for joining us!!!!!!!

SOTC February Swap ~ Faith

This is a card that I made for our monthly SOTC—Sisterhood of the Traveling Cards-- Swap on SCS.  Kelly was our hostess for February.  Here is her challenge:

How exciting to bring you the theme for this month's card creations! When I thought of what theme to do, I was instantly drawn to the walk of faith that guides me through my days and thought of the old proverb "Prayers go up and blessings come down " Truly you are each and every one of you a blessing to me, as we are to each other and our friendship is an abundant of blessings and a joy to behold! So my challenge to you this month is to create a Faith based, spiritual card! Your card can be created using faith based images, or scriptures, or both! Or anything that best exemplifies what blessings, God's love, peace in the heart, faith, etc means to you that you'd like to share with us!  I look forward to seeing your cards this month and shower blessings upon each of you!

I have a few stamps from Our Daily Bread and Unity that reflect this theme—and I decided to use a Unity stamp that has not seen ink in the past.  I hope you like the card.

Image/Sentiment—Unity Something Within

Ink—Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip and Melon Mambo

Cardstock—Gina K White; SU Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink; Basic Grey Porcelain DSP

Accessories—Labels 11; Cuttlebug Swiss Dots; Pink Button & Bakers Twine; Brown Brads; Brown & Pink Dotted Ribbon

Calendar Girls--LOVE our Furry Friends!

It is the 28^th, so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers. 

Kelly, our Miss February, provided us with this challenge: 

** Show us how FURRY you are! **

It’s February, a month that symbolizes LOVE. When thinking of a theme for this month’s
Challenge, I knew I wanted us to get happy with the furry ones! My challenge for you this month is: Show some LOVE to our furry animals! I love them great and small, Short and tall – furry and fluffy! I am also sure at one point we have all had a special pet that we have loved, or maybe still do have a pet (or a bunch!) So let’s show them some love! I challenge you to show us fur, your fluff, your waggin’ tails! The possibilities are endless – from doggies to cats, mice to turtles – in one case, a spider! (lil dj!!) LOL! Let’s bring some creativity to making a card (etc) with any image showing us a pet (including if you don’t actually own one!)

** For an extra part of the challenge, since it is February, please try to include the color RED on your card somewhere (coloring of the image, your DSP, cardstock, embellies – just a touch (or a lot!) of red.

Please post your cards to your blogs on February 28th ! I hope you LOVE  this challenge this month and LOVE creating with FUR and FLUFF!

I feel like a broken record (remember those?) when I post the following--I do love my Whipper Snapper images and it probably is not a surprise that I used one of the many stamps that I have.  I love this image and the sentiment that goes with it—and yes, I do have lots or red on it!

We do not have any furry friends in our house, but do dog-sit for some of our friends when they leave town.  We have fin-friends and they do not like to be petted at all………………….  I grew up on a farm and we always had beautiful Collies--named of course Lassie,  along with Laddie and Skippy.

Here is the inside of my card:

Image/Sentiment—Whipper Snapper Sheepdog & Hydrant, Some Days

Cardstock—PTI White; Stampin’ Up Real Red, Early Espresso, So Saffron; DCWV The Pet Stack DSP 

Ink—SU Real Red, Memento Black

Accessories--Nesties Squares and Scallops; Copics; Yellow Button; Red/White and Brown/White Bakers Twine; Dow Paw Brads

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us, so it might take you a bit.   I am sure you will enjoy all of the creations as we LOVE our furry friends. All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us!!!!!!!

I received a Blog Award!

Special thanks to Carolina for awarding me the Liebster Blog Award.

The idea of the Leibster award is to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers. So, in the spirit of good fun, I am passing this award on to five other bloggers. Please stop by and encourage them by leaving a little love on their creations.

For the 5 blogs I'm presenting this to, please .....
1. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.

2. Reveal your five picks for the award and let them know.

3. Post the award on your blog.

4. Bask in the love from the most supportive people on the blogshare-other bloggers.

5. Finally and the best rule of all..........have fun and spread the love!

I'm awarding this to 5 very special blogs. It was hard to choose between all the ladies I have in my blog groups so I chose the ones with less followers. That is what Carolina did and it seems fair to me too!

1. Carol

2. Michelle

3. Darlene

4. Terry

5. Tami

When Your Life Isn't So Sweet

This is the third card that I made for Andi’s I Haven’t Used It swap on SCS.  We were to ink up some stamps that have never seen ink or it has been a long time since they have been used.   I have a couple of these Inkadinkado stamps and some have not been used yet.  I think this sentiment is so darn cute……………………..  I guess I was on a Basic Grey roll with this card as I used their designer paper, fibers and brads!

Image/Sentiment—Inkadinkado

Cardstock—Gina K Just Peachy, Cranberry Tart; PTI Berry Sorbet, Ivory; Basic Grey Two Scoops Sprinkles and Waffle Cone

Ink—Stampin’ Up Cranberry Crisp

Accessories— Basic Grey Fibers and Brads

Birthday Party-Block Party

Here is the second of the three cards that I made for Andi’s I Haven’t Used It swap on SCS.  We were to ink up some stamps that have never seen ink or it has been a long time since they have been used.  This is another set that I do not remember when I last used this retired set, if it has ever seen ink by me.  I too think I got this from my demo after it retired when we get to chose one stamp set for every $50 ordered at her retirement party—I guess I placed some significant orders during Nancy's retirement parties J

I stamped the image twice—once in Not Quite Navy and a second time in Crumb Cake.  I then cut out the Happy Birthday section from the Crumb Cake image and placed it over the same words on the Navy sentiment.

Image/Sentiment— Stampin’ Up Block Party

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze; PTI White;

Ink—Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy

Accessories—Sizzix Tween Stripes Texture Plate; Kraft Ribbon with blue stitched ribbon on top; Blue Buttons with Blue Fiber