Delight in Life CAS

Hey there,

I hope you are all enjoying your day!! I am enjoying today but I know what tomorrow means, me starting school again. Ahhh I dread school, not because I don't like school or I don't want a good education and a successful career but because I'm miles away from everyone I care about, and it makes it a little hard. I know everyone is just a phone call away but it's so much nicer when you get to hang out with those people you care about. I guess there are weekends but even then that is not enough. I guess I'm grateful that it's only a few mile and not a few states away, it just takes me a good hour to see anyone and I always have my wonderful roommate who I have been friends with since kindergarden, so that always helps.

Well enough blabbing, today's card uses my Tree of Life stamp which as I use more I am starting to like what I come up with. I like this card more than I like the one before it using this stamp. I really like it's simplicity and how it has a little white space that bring your attention to the tree itself. I hope you like it as much as I do. Here it is. Enjoy!!!!



Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Verve Everlasting Life, Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack
Paper: Me&My Big Ideas Fashion District Paper Pad, Whisper White Cardstock, Black Cardstock
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, EK Success Fleur de lis edger, Corner Rounder Punch

Inkadinkado Changito B-Day

Hello there,

I hope you are all having a blessed Sunday. I just wanted to share with you all another Birthday card that I made. It's been a while since I've inked up my Stampendous Changito B-Day stamp, so I figured I would ink him up and make a card with him, or I should say "them" since there are two changitos, lol. Anyways, I wanted to do something simple and as usual I made a blue card and a pink card. So here they are. Enjoy!!!!






Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day and take care!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Stampendous Changito B-day
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack, Copic Markers
Paper: Michaels Paper Slab
Accessories: 3-D Glue Dots, Gross Grain Ribbon, Stickles

I'M A DESIGN TEAM MEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHH, SHOUTING FROM THE ROOF TOP, (it's really hot up here, but I'm still shouting) IM AN INSTYLE DESIGN TEAM MEMBER!!!!! (ok getting down from the roof) lol I just popped over to the InStyle Stamps Blog and found a post announceing the new DT Members and my name was on the list, my name, how exciting is that!!!! Thank you soooo much, I am just super excited!!!!

Oh and I must also tell you, you've probably noticed on my sidebar, I am also a Designer for Doodle Bean Digital Stamps, go check them out they have some super cute images at a really great price!!!

Wish me luck on my adventures in Design Team land, I am super excited!!! I applied for several positions but did not expect the response that I got. I guess I under estimated myself, terrible me. Well enough about that. Wish me luck, and come back soon to see what creations I come up with.

CAS Thinking of You

Hey there,

I hope you are all enjoying your Saturday, I just wanted to pop in a leave a short post. I've been playing some more with my OCL stamps so I decided to do a CAS card and make it masculine at the sametime.

This is an image that I hope to see this weekend, my boyfriend and I are going to go for a quick get-a-way before school officially starts for me on the 1st and for a little relaxation since work has been a little hectic for him these past weeks. And of course I want to hit the beach for one last time, so he has a weekend all planned out for us. I'm sure it will be a good one!!

So here is my quick and simple card. Enjoy!!!!



Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers, PrismaColor Pencil (White), Gamsol
Paper: Kraft
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Brads

August Viva La Verve Challenges

Hey there ladies,

So yesterday I decided to do all of August's Viva la Verve Challenges over on Splitcoast and then sumbit them to the August Sketch Champions thread to be entered in the random drawing for the next FULL MONTHS" STAMP RELEASE!! What a deal, huh?? It's been a while since I've played with my verve stamps and I've been meaning to give them some attention so what a better idea than to ink them up for some Verve Sketches!! So I quickly put them all together since last night at midnight was the deadline for entering so here is what I came up with.

Enjoy!!!!!!!

VLVAug01
For this challenge there was no actual "sketch", instead, the challenge was to CASE A VERVE DIVA!!!!!!!!! The {TWIST}: If the card you're caseing uses patterned paper, you may NOT use patterned paper! If the card you're caseing Does NOT use patterned paper, you MUST use patterned paper! So those were the rules. The card that I cased was this gorgeous card by Amy Sheffer. She does some amazing work!!! I've had my eye on this card of her's since she first made it when they were first releasing the Because of You stampset, I'm this was also one of the cards that made me want to purchase the set, it's definitely one of my favorite sets that I own!!! Here is my card, don't forget to check out her gorgeous card as well!!

VLVAug02
For the second week's challenge we were to use the sketch to the left and the {TWIST} was EDGY! That's right, they wanted to see us use our EDGE punches! What a great idea, huh?? I love my edge punches, I probably own almost all of Martha's edge punches, they are my fav!! They are a great embellishment to all cards!! I just love being EDGY!!! LOL. So here is what I came up with.

VLVAug03
For the third weeks challenge it was to use this sketch to the left and the twist was to add a tag to your card! Any kind of tag will do, pre-made, hand-made, make your whole card into a tag, whatever! So I snooped around the gallery to get some ideas from everyone else and then I came up with this. I knew I wanted to use some pretty floral paper so I went looking through my SU DP stach and I had never touch this DP set so I ripped into the bag and started creating.

VLVAug04
For this last week in August the challenge was to use this sketch and the twist was to choose your FAVORITE COLOR COMBO!!! I just love that idea!! It means that I get to pull out my purple and green paper, my favorite color combo, along with white and kraft. That combo makes for such a pretty card. Take a look at some other cards I've made using this color combo, there is this one, and this one, and this one too!! The last on is definitely my favorite! Anyways enough with the old here is the new one!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day and don't forget that the Viva la Verve sketch for the first week of September is already out, so head on over there and start playing!!!

RECIPES:

VLVAug01
Card Size:5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Verve Because of You
Paper: Whisper White, Pink, Green Cardstock
Ink: ColorBox Chalk Rose Coral Fluid Ink, SU Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Buttons, Ribbon, Nestibilities, EK Success Fleur de lis edger, 3-D Zots

VLVAug02
Card Size:5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Verve Because of You, Verve Circular Sayings
Paper: Black, Pink Cardstock, Michael's Paper Slab
Ink: SU Kiwi Kiss, Pitch Black (Adirondack), ColorBox Chalk Rose Coral Fluid Ink
Accessories: Silk Ribbon, Silver Pearls (Michael's), Martha Stewart Floral Lace Edge Punch, Cuttlebug, Birds And Swirls Embossing Folder, 3-D Zots

VLVAug03
Card Size:4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Floral Symphony, Verve Circular Sayings
Paper: SU Kiwi Kiss, SU Walk in the Park DP
Ink: Su Kiwi Kiss, ColorBox Chalk Rose Coral Fluid Ink, Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Brad, Butter Cream Shimmerz, Cuttlebug, Nestibilites, 3-D Zots

VLVAug04
Card Size:4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Because of You, Verve Circular Sayings
Paper: Kraft, SU Kiwi Kiss, SU Perfect Plum DP,
Ink: SU Kiwi Kiss, Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Accessories: Silver Pearls (Michael's), Flower Soft, Cuttlebug, Nestibilites, 3-D Zots

Fashion District Tree of Life

Hey there,

So here is another attempt at using my Tree of Life by Inkadinkado. Remember this attempt, my super clean and simple because I was a little intimidated to ink up this stamp, well this time I decided to get a little deeper in the water ;-) lol. I added DP to see what would happen.

I was inspired by this card by Dawn Easton but her tree is a little simpler in design than mine.

So check it out this is what I got!! Enjoy!!!



Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: Me&My Big Ideas Fashion District Paper Pad, Red Cardstock
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon

Mojo101 - Birthday Cards

Hey there everyone,

Hurray for a roommate who is from the same hometown!!! My roommate was in Tracy visiting her family yesterday so I asked her to do me a favor and stop by my parents house to pick it up, I had no idea she went down there after work, but it worked out and now I can share my work with you all again!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!!

So it's been a while since I've played with a Mojo Monday Sketch so I figured I would give this weeks sketch a try. I saw so many great cards using this sketch that I just couldn't resist!!

I decided to go with a birthday theme because I have a few birthdays coming up in September so what better idea than to start early, right!! So here is what I came up with. I made a feminine and a masculine card, so essentially I made two Mojo Sketch Challenges, boy am I on top of it, lol ;-). It's about time huh, you wouldn't know this because I almost always have a new card posted but I haven't made cards in the past two weeks since I haven't been in Sacramento with my craft supplies. I've been out of it for a while so yesterday was really good for me, I got my mojo running and made some 8 cards, which I will post throughout the week. Enjoy!!!


Pink Birthday

Blue Birthday

RECIPE:

Pink Birthday
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Savvy Stamps Flower Cupcake
Ink: ColorBox Chalk Rose Coral Fluid Ink
Paper: Michaels Paper Slab
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Nestibilities, Magenta Shimmerz, Key Lime Shimmerz, Brads, 3-D Zots

Blue Birthday
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Savvy Stamps Flower Cupcake
Ink: ColorBox Classic Pigment Cat's Eyes Moss Green
Paper: DCWV Birthday Blue, Anna Griffin Inc. DP
Accessories: Nestibilities, Key Lime Shimmerz, UndertheSea Shimmerz, Brads, 3-D Zots

BIG Problem

So here is the story. I got back up to Sac yesterday afternoon and I put things away and did some organizing and then I got online to check blogs and all that good stuff. Then this morning I got up and I did some more cleaning and organizing since I haven't been up here in a while and my stamping supplies was packed because sometimes throughout the summer I took it with me to work on, so I was putting everything back where it belongs before I started creating and making a mess again. So I didn't get to actually creating until after 2pm.

Now it's 6:30 and I have 6 cards done, so what do I want to do next, take pictures, right, but low and behold my camera stayed behind in Tracy, ahhhhhh, I'd scream but I'd scare the neighbors, I'm so disappointed, so whats me next option, my cell camera, brilliant right, well I can't figure out how to get my pics off and they probably won't be good quality. The only thing left would be to scan them...definitely not!! AHHHHHH, I-M S-O F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-E-D!!!!! H-E-L-P!!!!

Digital Ink Co. Grand Opening and Design Team Call

A new digital design store, Digital Ink Co. , is holding its Grand Opening Today, August 24, 2009. The designs there are some of the cutest you have seen and they are having tons of discounts, specials and freebies the week of Grand Opening - so get on over and link up to the new store website.

They are also having a Design Team Call. This is their first Design Team call and they are looking for fresh faces - crafters/stampers/artists who are wanting to get in on the ground floor of a new venture. They are also looking for tried and true crafters who have experience working on a team and are cohesive team thinkers!

Head on over to the new challenge blog and check out all the details!

CASED Fifth Avenue Floral

Hey there,

I hope everyone has been enjoying their weekend. I've been a little busy but not with card making, I still haven't gotten back to Sacramento to make more cards, I should be back up there soon and you bet the first thing I do is make a bunch of cards. I've been deprived and I truly miss creating. But I do have one last card to show you that I made before leaving my craft room.

I was inspired by this card made by Tammy from Stamp Happy. I used her general layout but changed up the paper, stamps, and ribbon.

So here it is. Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by enjoy the rest of you weekend and the beginning of your week. Thanks for stopping by!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: SU Fifth Avenue Floral
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Making Memories Fresh Anthropology
Accessories: clear baubles, ribbon, Nestibilities

The Pixie Cottage Design Team Call

The Pixie Cottage is looking for their very first design team!! They are a new stamp company with a wide variety of stamps. They specialize in whimsical designs, as well as background and accessory stamps that work well with other stamp lines. They are looking for a handful of design team members who are ready to grow with them and show their talent by making cards, altered art, scrapbook pages and whatever else they can dream up with their products.

To enter you are asked to post on your blog three recent projects and then provide a link on the Pixie Cottage Blog to your post. So here is my post. Enjoy and thanks for taking the time to consider me in your design team call, I really appreciate it!!

Digital Ink Co. Design Team Call

The Digital Ink Co. is a new digital image store, opening its doors August 24, 2009. They are looking at filling an awesome Design Team with players who are friendly, creative and enthusiastic stampers to help promote all of the fun and sweet images in their store.

They are looking for 8 members to head up this new team. The team is all about having fun while inspiring creativity in others! This call is open to everyone interested. Just check out their blog for more info.

To be considered they ask to create a post on your blog with 2 of your best cards/projects and use “Digital Ink Co. Design Team Call” as the title in your post. So here is my post. Enjoy and thanks for taking the time to consider me in your design team call, I really appreciate it!!

Paper Crafts Recipe #1

Happy Sunday to you all!! I hope you are all haveing a wonderful day and enjoying it before the work week starts up again!!! I recently recieved my Paper Craft Magazine and I saw some great cards and projects inside and I wanted to give some of them a try. Recently I made a post CASEing one of the cards in the issue, so for this post I'm going to try out one of the sketches they have in the issue.

On page 20 of the issue there is this great sketch, Recipe #1, and there is this super cute card by Stephanie Muzzulin, "Just a Litte Note Card." So I decided to try out the sketch and CASE Stephanie's card at the same time, becaue they are both just super cute!!!

Take a look at what I came up with. Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy whats left of your weekend, and don't forget to stop by soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: SU Sweet Little Sentiments
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: Making Memories DP Fresh Anthropology Collection
Accessories: Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots, Nestibilities, Button, Sizzix Sizzlits Die Flower Set #3

Featured as a CAS Fav for week ending Aug 15th

Hurray for me, thats what three weeks in a row now. WOW!!! I'm so excited, I got cased again as a Splitcoast CAS fav of the week . If you go to the link this card CAS Congratulations is featured in the 8th post by Lisa and this card VSAPR3 Beautiful Kindness is featured by Shannon on the 16th post. I'm so excited to be featured again, it is such an honor!!! Thanks again ladies I really appreciate you featuring my cards!!! Your more than welcome to do it anytime!!! ;-) lol

I hope you all have a great day, no card for today, but you are more than welcome to go check out my featured cards. Thanks again ladies, enjoy the beginning of your week!!

Your Next Stamp 1st Design Team Call

‘Your Next Stamp' has finally arrived and they have the cutes images ever!!! Check our their shop here. They are having their very first design team call to help promote all of their unique and fun images!!

Today I'm showing a few "oldies but goodies." These are some recent cards I've made that are a few of my favorites. I would be so honored to be part of their design team, so I decided to apply. The requirements are to "Create a post on your blog with 2 of your best cards and use ‘Your Next Stamp 1st Design Team Call’ as the title of your post." So here is my post.


Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a look at my post, I really appreciate it!! Good luck everyone!!

Tree of Life CAS

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!! I recently picked up this Inkadinkado stamp, Tree of Life, at my local Michael's store. I picked it up thinking it was super cute and that I would figure out something to do with it. I love the image but I have the hardest time with large stamps and abstract images, I like my fancy DP and colors so for my first use of the stamp I decided to go simple and just dip my feet in the water with the stamp. So what better than a one layer card with a simple saying to get a little feel for the stamp. Maybe sometime later I will try something a little more courageous with it but for now I just wanted to ink it up.

So here are two cards I came up with, let me know what you think.

Enjoy!!!


Chestnut Roan Tree of Life



Rainbow Tree of Life




Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend, and come back soon!!!

Chestnut Roan Tree of Life Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 2/2
Stamps: SU Fresh Cut Sentiment, Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Chestnut Roan ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpad
Paper: Whisper White

Rainbow Tree of Life Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 2/2
Stamps: SU Fresh Cut Sentiment, Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), ColorBox Classic Pigment Cat's Eyes Queue (Heliotrope,Lime, Scarlet,Marigold, Canary),
Paper: Whisper White

OCL Relax & Enjoy CAS

Awww what a beautiful day here in California, although very hot, so what better than to make a card with the gorgeous beach on it. Now if only I was really there...probably later this week, at least hit the beach before I go back to school, right!!!

LOL so here is another card using my new OCL stamps, Coastal Wishes, I just totally love this new set!!! I decided to go super simple and quick, so here it is.

Relax and Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, stay cool, and come back soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: SU Whisper White

CASED Beautiful Kindness

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all having a great day, as it has just begun. Last week was my birthday and my neighbors back home always send me cards with little goodies, like lotto tickets and if I'm home they always bring me one of my favorite fruits, strawberries. And of course I always send them a Thank You card for their birthday wishes. Yup...so my thank you cards are a little late but I wasn't around my craft room to be able to make them right after my birthday, I was having fun in Pismo. So now that I have gotten to making them, I want to share them with you.

Again, I CASED another card. Laura Fredrickson over at Scrapnextras had a great layout on her blog that she created to Preview "Chillax" by Taylored Expressions . Another super cute layout!! So I had to give it a try and I decided to ink up my never used SU Botanical Blooms and one of my Beautiful Kindness sentiment from Verve that just went perfect for the occasion.

Take a look. Enjoy!!!







TIP: If you want to make your baubles match your card perfectly take a clear bauble and use your copics to color the bauble whatever color you want to make it, to make it match your card. It's real easy and you can't tell that they were colored by you. (That's how I made mine a matching pink.)

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and don't forget to come back soon!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: SU Botanical Blooms, Verve Beautiful Kindness
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Rose Coral ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpad
Paper: Michael's Paper Slab
Accessories: Nestibilities, SU Scalloped Edge Punch, Gross Grain Ribbon, clear baubles, 3-D pop Dots.

Anni-VERVE-sary News!!

Just wanted to let you all know of the fun stuff going on with Verve this week as we celebrate Verve's 2nd Anni-VERVE-sary:

Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch Challenges: Check them out on this thread!

Diva Giveaways: Each day from now until Thursday each of the Diva's are hosting a Giveaway Challenge/Game/Activity in the Verve Forum! You can check out all of the details on this thread!

Sneak Peeks begin tomorrow on the Verve Blog! You won't want to miss it!

It all wraps up on Friday Night, August 14th, at the Verve 2nd Anni-VERVE-sary Release Party beginining at 8PM EST in the Verve Forum! I hope to see you there!!

I hope you have a great day!

Daisy

How I do love my Sugar Nellies. They are so cute and match with all sorts of fun paper that can't always be used with just any stamp. There images are just soo cute, and only now have I discovered them, where have I been? and what has taken me so long to get my hands on them, right?? lol, Their just sooooo much fun to create with. So today I have another Sugar Nellie image to share with you, these images make such great cards!!! I definitely had lots of fun playing with my new Daisy stamp and my new S.E.I. Bridgeport paper.

For this card I was inspired by Jen del Muro's , Berries and Cherries... card. It just had a great layout and I had to play with it. Jen is always inspiring me, she does such great work.

So here is my card using Daisy from Sugar Nellie and using my fun S.E.I. paper. Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great week, and don't forget to come back soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Sugar Nellie Daisy
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: S.E.I Bridgeport Paper Slab
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots, Stickles, Martha Stewart Arch Lattice Edge Punch, Pearls