Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Talking about last minute. This one is last minute. I saw this challenge this week and really wanted to participate. With so many personal demands, I just got to it today. It was a real challenge but oh so much fun. You can see the challenge at Roses On Paper Designer team blog. The challenge was to use the sketch below with any Magnolia or Whiff of Joy stamp. These are the stamps that are available at Roses on Paper.

I chose to use a Magnolia stamp. I am unsure of the name. If anyone knows it's name, please let me know. I bought it back in September and am just now made the time to use it. I loved stamping it and coloring with Gamsol. Tilda is so cute and fun!! Who can resist?!! The sketch was different from my normal but oh so much fun. Thanks for the challenge.

I just purchase this paper today. It is a new DCWV stack called Garden Party. Nice spring colors!!!

The image is popped on dimensionals and layered. Some of the image is glittered (boots, bow, and the cuff on the sleeve). The flowers in the corner are hand crocheted and dyed with SU Cameo Coral. The flourishes are a Valentine Sizzix flourish die. The leaves are cut from glitter paper using a Martha Stewart punch.

Inks: Stazon / colored with Prisma Color Pencils and Gamsol

Paper-DCWV- Garned Party pack, K&Co. glitter paper, green bazzill, and coral bazzill

Accessories: scallop border punch, oval punch (SU), Buttons, flourish scroll Sizzix die, Martha Stewart leaf punch, pink thread and sewing machine, pink ric rac, and white flower ric rac, American Crafts coral glitter ribbon, rhinestones, hand crocheted flowers

Please let me know what you think. Thanks for stopping by to look at my blog!!!

This card I am sharing with you tonight is stamped two sets of stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs to be released on February 1. The lilies are from the set I Am the Way and one of my alltime favorite verses is from Keep My Lamp Burning. The sketch I used is for the OCC Challenge. The lilies were watercolored with Stampin Up markers on Watercolor Paper. I didn't add any glitter because I love the watercolored look on the flowers. The DP is K&Co. paper I purchased from Walmart!! It is recycled paper. I emembossed the vanilla circles with a floral embossing folder and dimensionalized the lilies. The verse is framed using a Martha Stewart floral border punch. The card is sewn with purple thread. Lastly I added some pearls.

CARD RECIPE

Stamps: Keep My Lamp Burning ODBD, I Am the Way ODBD

Paper: K&Co. Recycled Paper-Purple Pack, Eggplant CS, and Taken with Teal CS, Vanilla CS, Watercolor Paper

Ink: Stampin Up Markers, Brwon Stazon

Accessories: pearls, purple thread, Nestabilities, Floral Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Martha Stewart Floral Border Punch

Thanks for visiting my blblog. Please leave a comment. Have a great Weekend!!

I hope you enjoy today's posts. Since there is another snowstorm here and I am cooped inside, it is the perfect day to catch up on some challenges. The sleet is coming down here now. Yuck!!!

Yesterday I found out that my favorite and ONLY Scrapbooking store is going out of business . We do have Michael's and A.C. Moore but it is not the same. Their selection of designer papers and heavy Bazzill was fantastic. I guess I will have to do more online shopping. Boohoo!

The first card I made was for three challenges initially. The color challenge for the week which included using Baja Breeze, Pacific Point and Garden Green (CC203), today's sketch challenge (SC215), and TLC205 (using paper pleats). This was a very time consuming card since I kept changing things as I went along. I had done the paper pleats for the canopy over the window but was not happy with it so I pleated ribbon instead. While I love the color Pacific Point, it is a little out of my comfort zone. It is very hard to match with other colors or designer paper. As I was coloring the girl's dresses using gamsol, my ideas seemed to evolve on how I could design this card. I actually love how it turned out. I had planned on giving this card away but I don't know if I want to part with it now. I applied Crystal Effects to the glasses and boots for a shiny appearance and glitter to the dog's bow for some glitz. The images are colored with gamsol and dimensionalized.

The second card includes paper pleats for the Technique Lover's Challenge (TLC205). This card was made for a little girl's birthday. I thought the ballerina and the saying were just too cute. All of the papers for this card come from DCWV Girl's Nursery Pack. I love all of this paper!!! It is so beautiful! The floral designer paper in the background glistens with glitter. I thought the pleats were perfect for this card since the ballerina looks like she is performing. It makes the perfect curtain. This stamp set is retired from Stampin Up and is called Tutu Terrific.

I hope you enjoyed today's post. Please let me know what you think. I am now off to look at a few blogs and back to stamping I go. I had hoped to accomplish a lot more today but time just hasn't allowed it.

We are having a heat wave here. It is a whopping 20 degrees. Woohoo!! Of course the windchill brings it down just a few degrees. In all seriousness it is much better than the below zero temperatures we have been experiencing as of late. I have absolutely nothing to complain about!!! After I homeschooled my girls in my snuggly warm house, I had to time to play with my stamps!!! Yeah!

Today I have another New Release to share with you from Our Daily Bread Designs called May God Hold You. This set is a Saint Patrick's Day set but it can be used all year. I LOVE the Irish prayer. I decided to play with some more challenges today but this time I stuck to just one instead of the five on my last card. The challenge (WT202), I did, was to alter specialty design paper in some way, whether it be embossing, dry embossing , adding glitter, cutting, or etc. I did a lot of each when I paper pieced this card. When I saw the background paper in the Once Upon a Time Stack for DCWV, I knew it would be perfect for Saint Patrick's Day! It has so many shades of greens... and the sparkle in the background..... I also wanted a background for the prayer that looked like either a road or a field. There was designer paper in this stack that fit the bill perfectly, I think. The cross and frame were made from a brown designer paper in the Studio D First Blush Collection. The ring behind the cross was stamped and embossed in gold. The green designer paper for the shamrocks was also made from a paper in this same collection. After stamping the shamrocks, there was a lot of close and very small cuts to make.( lol!) The scrolls were cut out using my vintage cuttlebug die on gold glitter paper. Only the swirled embossed background paper behind the prayer and the green and very outside brown of the card was cardstock. All of the rest was designer papers pieced together. There is no coloring on the outside of this card!! The edges were distressed and sponged with chocolate chip. After sewing the card and putting everything together, I added glitter.

Paper: DCWV Once upon a Time, Studio D- The first blush, green and brown textured

Accessories: Label One Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Vintage Die, American crafts glitter ribbon, Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, brown thread., glitter, dimensionals

Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you enjoyed this post. Many of the members of the design team at Our Daily Bread Designs have been creating many wonderful creations with these sets, others are returning home from CHA (Lucky Ducks!) and they will most likely be posting their beautiful creations as well, very shortly.

I just received the sets from Our Daily Bread Designs for the New Release on February 1st. These sets are fantastic!!! I could not wait to ink up my first one!! In addition to inking up my first one, I decided I also had to challenge myself and meet some of the many challenges I haven't done in the last few weeks. So....I met five challenges with this card!! Woohoo!!

The first challenge was posted by one of my fellow bloggers JuieStamps at Splash of Color. Her challenge was to make a butterfly card that included glitter. I punched out my black butterflies using a butterfly punch from Martha Stewart. I then stamped the daylily stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs and embossed it with holographic embossing powder to create the detail on the wings. The remaining challenges are Splitcoast Challenges. I used Color Challenge 188 using pink pirouette, basic black and white.

I used the Limited Supply Challenge 204 making black my focal point and the frame in my card. I also stamped the small lily pattern from Our Daily Bread Designs new release "I am the Way" to create a patterned border around the edge. The lilies were stamped in black and embossed with black on the black paper.

The layout I used was from Splitcoasts Sketch Challenge 212. To create the "Love" in the oval at the bottom of the card I used a white plastic "Love" that was enclosed in some confetti that I found in the bridal department and embossed it in black. I was afraid it might melt when I embossed it but it turned out perfectly.lol!!! The strip which goes down the middle is dry embossed with a cuttlebug folder. The ribbon is a black velvet. Since I did not receive my heart nestabilities in the mail yet, and I wanted to try to make a Valentine's Day card with this set, I used paper lace doilies. The black heart was originally white, I inked it up black and embossed it in black in order to keep the black focal point that I wanted.

The last challenge I wanted to do was to use tacky glitter around the edge of the card (Technique Lover's Challenge 202).

My biggest challenge of all on this card was to limit myself on the amount of pearls, crystal or gems. I did it!!! I only used one pink crystal!!! I have taken over 20 pictures of this card to capture the colors and sparkle and finally just had to settle for this one. I hope you are able to see all of the details!! Anyone who has been watching my cards knows that I LOVE bling! I wanted the stamps and technique to be my focal point on this card.

I will be posting more previews of feature releases of Our Daily Bread Designs this coming week. I know my fellow stamping buddies on the design team will be as well. Although some of those lucky girls are at the CHA conference in Anaheim this week. Betty posted a card using this same set today as well. It is beautiful!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Please let me know what you think.

I love House Mouse Stamps and I do not stamp with them near enough. My girls often watch me stamp and then see my card or project given to someone else, so I decided to start getting a little valentine together for them both. My girls each have a snuggly teddybear (Build a Bear) they sleep with that they have had since they were very young. They are always cuddling them and playing with them. It is so sweet. This image reminds me of that so I thought I would stamp this and make them little bookmarks and gift tags. Soon I hope to make candy boxes for them. The gift tag will go on the gift which will hold a little outfit for each of their teddy bears. The image was colored using gamsol and paper toled.

Stamp: House Mouse Beary Good Friends

Paper: K & Co., Pink Bazzill, Gold Metallic Paper from Paper Co.

Accessories: Sheer Ribbon, Love You Much Punch from SU, gold thread

Hope you enjoyed today's post! Have a good night!!

Wow! What a day it has been for me!!! From one thing to the next. Finally have a chance to sit down and leave a brief post. This card is one that I made for two challenges SC211 sketch challenge and CC201. The color challenge was too use not quite navy, kraft, and baja breeze, which I did. I love this color combination!!!! I decided to make my own version of a guy's valentine's card. The card says "You light up my life!!". This card was colored with prisma color pencils and mineral spirits, it was also sponged, and distressed. The coloring is very detailed!! (lol) many of the rocks and parts of the lighthouse and birds are cut out and dimensionalized.

CARD RECIPE

Stamps: Inkadinkado Lighthouse

Paper: Baja Breeze Designer paper, Not quite Navy, Kraft, and Baja Breeze

Accessories: Cuttlebug Vintage Embossing Template, silver hodgepodge brads SU, and Soft Sky ribbon, glitter, prisma color pencils, mineral spirits, nestabilities Labels one, long rectangles, and circles

Hope you enjoyed tonight's post! Have a great night!! I know I can't wait to hit that pillow.

This card was colored using gamsol magic, and has lots of dimension. There was lots of cutting. (Lol). I had cramps after cutting all of those flowers out in the wheel barrow. The flowers attached to the ribbon are punched out using a stampn up punch called Spring Bouquet. The ribbon is tied to make it look like a stem with leaves. The paper is very shimmery. It is from the Luxury pack from DCWV. Many pieces are sewn.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Penny Black

Paper: DCWV Luxury stack

Accessories: prisma colored pencils, mineral spirits, cuttlebug floral embossing template, ribbon, SU Spring Bouquet punch, circle nestbalities, embossing powder, glitter

This card is going to be a birthday card for my sister in law. I hope you enjoyed today's posts. Have a great day and thanks for stopping.

I am so happy with the look of my new blog. It is so much more fun to post things on now. I need to give credit where credit is due, though. I wish I could say I did it but I did not. I AM NOT TECHNOLOGICALLY INCLINED IN THE LEAST!!!! Thank you Judy for giving my blog this beautiful fresh look!!!!!! I love nature and this reflects it very well!!!! The two pictures up above are from the garden this summer. As the snow continues to fall and I see the beauty of the icicles in the trees and the pure white ground, I also reflect on past and future Springs and Summers. I love all of the seasons but I must say I look forward to my perennials with great anticipation!!!

Thanks again Judy! God has truly blessed me and put special friends into my path!!!

Today I interrupt my regularly scheduled cards to share my girls playing with the "Bid Kid" outside. Granted I am not out there since it is below zero. No way!!! They are nuts in my opinion. I had to go grocery shop this a.m. in that chilly weather. Going in and out of the car was enough for me. A little too chilly for me. Scott played all morning rigging up the toboggan for my girls. They were so excited. Granted they won't be out too long since my oldest daughter, Nicki,has Asthma and can not be out in the cold air. It sometimes triggers an attack. That is why you only see her eyes. You can never be too careful. Most times the inhaler helps but I have had to bring her to the emergency room 4 times because she could not breathe. VERY SCARY!!!

Good Morning!! It is very crisp here in NY. The temperature is below zero. I little too cold for me. I don't mind the snow but this bitter cold is not very comfortable. Since my car is in the shop anyway, I will be staying indoors all day.

Where does the time go. Wow! I was hoping life would slow down after the holidays but it hasn't yet. I still make sure to find time to do some stamping even if it is in the very early morning or wee hours of the night.

I had a request from a friend to make a purple card since purple is her absolute favorite color. She loves a lot of glitz. This is the card I made. The stamp set I used is a retired stamp set from Stampin called Tender Toile. I love this scene. It is so spring looking. I sponged around the edges of the image. The image is colored using gamsol magic. I love how it blends and you can make your colors subtle. The background paper is stamped with images from the same set. and embossed with a cuttlebug floral folder. The image is 3D and glittered. The flourishes are made of rhinestones. The lace is from JoAnn Fabrics. The leaves on the card, by the purple prima flower, are punched from 2 different Martha Stewart punches. I drew on the leaf veins and slightly watercolored them. The ribbon is from Back to Basics.

Paper: SU Lovely Lilac CS, Elegant Eggplant CS, SU Very Vanilla, DCWV purple glitter paper

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, and Orchid Opulence

Accessories: Ivory ribbon, Martha Stewart Leaf and Fern punch, rhinestone flourishes, purple crystal, purple prima, Purple lace from JoAnn Fabrics

I hope to leave another post tonight for a card that I made using Our Daily Bread Stamps. If you haven't yet made a card for their sketch challenge, you have until the 23rd at 12 midnight EST. You don't want to miss out on the wonderful Shimmerz. Check out some of the design teams blogs or Splitcoast Stampers (search ODBDSC01) for others creations with the sketch. They are amazing!!!

Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by!!

Earlier today I announced the challenge from Our Daily Bread Designs. I would like to share the card that I made for this sketch. This card was also made for the color challenge at Our Creative Corner. The challenge at Our Creative Corner was to use different hues of blue in your card. I chose to use the set Lift up our Hands set from Our Daily Bread Designs. This was newly released in January. I used Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy as my two blues. I used the flowers from Sing to the Lord(ODBD) and stamped them lightly in Baja Breeze. I then stamped the verse over top in Not Quite Navy. The embellished flowers were dyed with Stampin up ink and painted with Shimmerz. The dove is from the stamp set To You and Yours from Stampin Up. It is stamped in Baja Breeze, painted with Angel Gold Shimmerz, and layered for dimension.

CARD RECIPE

Stamps: Lift up our hands- Our Daily Bread Designs, Sing to the Lord-Our Daily Bread Designs, To You and Yours- SU

Paper- Baja Breeze Designer Paper -SU, Urban Garden DP- SU, Baja Breeze CS, Not Quite Navy CS

Accessories- Angel Gold Shimmerz, white ribbon, silver hodgepodge hardware, lace, swirled rhinestones, pearls, floral embossing template, nestabilities, white thread, sewing machine

Thanks for looking!!! Be sure to check out the other Our Daily Bread designs Designer team's blog's for their creations with this sketch. They are listed in my previous post. Come join the challenge!!

As the weather here is very chilly and extra snowy, I am thinking warm. We are going snow, snow and more snow again today. Today I would like to share a Spring card called "Pink Hydrangea". I love Hydrangeas and I had a good time making this one.

This Hydrangea is from Inkadinkado. The flower is watercolored, embossed, glittered and has several layers to give it dimension. The middle of each flower has a little pearl. The leaves and ferns are punched out with a Martha Stewart Punch.

CARD RECIPE

Stamps: Hydrangea (Inkadinkado)

Paper: DCWV Luxury Stack, Bazzill

Accessories: pearls, embossing powder and heating tool, Stampin up Refills, ribbon from Michaels, cuttlebug, swiss dots embossing template, prima flowers, Stampin up Corner punch, Martha stewart leaf punch

Enjoy your weekend!!