ISS Marissa

Hello there,

Just a quick card to share with you today. I know the weather outside is not flower pickin' weather, it's raining here so it's definitely not, but this past weekend was and my boyfriend did pick me a rose so in honor of Spring coming and picking flower time being around the corner here is a little cards.

Cheers!!! Enjoy!!!

 

Don't forget to come back on Friday for the monthly InStyle Stamps Blog Hop!!! 

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4

Stamps: Marissa by InStyle Stamps, SU Sweet Little Sentiments

Paper: DCWV The Sorbet Stack

Ink: Copic Markers

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Gross Grain Ribbon, Felt Ribbon, Buttons, Embroidery Floss, Shimmerz Sky Blue

Thanks for stopping by today!! Have a great day and I'll see you on Friday!!

DBDS CC238 Tulip

Hey there,

I hope you are all enjoying your morning!!  I know I am, I'm going to be spending my morning at the Scrapbook Expo here in Sacramento. I hope to be there when the doors open, get my shopping on, and then start my weekend. I can't wait!! This weekend is going to be filled with lots of family, friends, and making great memories!!!  I can't wait!! Can you tell I'm excited, lol??!!! If I'm lucky I'll have some pictures to share with you, I'm sure I will have some pics as I wish to do some Photo class homework over the weekend, I just hope I am successful with my picture taking. We will see!!

So for today I want to share with you a card that I made for Doodle Bean Digital Stamps. For this card I CASED this card by Jackie Pedro from The Scalloped Edge. I just love her cards, she's always inspiring me with her great projects. I also joined in on a SCS Color Challenge, to be exact it was CC238 which was issued on September 29th (yes a long time ago, thats also how long this card has been sitting around). The colors for this challenge were Pretty In Pink, Going Gray,  and Sage Shadow.

Take a look and I hope you Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!! Have a great weekend and I will see you all on Monday with a D-IC Challenge.

RECIPE:

Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4

Stamps: Tulip by Doodle Bean Digital Stamps, SU Sweet Little Sentiments

Ink: Copic Markers

Paper: Michaels Paper Slab DP, Pink, Gray, Green, and White Cardstock

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Sheer Ribbon, SU Small Oval Punch

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

One Cupcake at a Time

Hello everyone,

I hope the beginning of your week has started off on the right foot. I know mine has. Here is another card that I want to share with you. So I must share with you all that I am not very creative, well I am, but I am always inspired by sketches, color challenges, or cards made by others. There are very few times that I design my own cards without being inspired by something or someone and when I do just create a card from my imagination it's usually not one of my good ones.

So today and some of the cards that I will be sharing on my blog this week are mostly going to be CASED cards or just ideas that I've seen around. This card that I am sharing today is a card that was inspired by Maren over at Zany not Crazy, it was very cute and simple and I had to give it a try. I of course changed up the paper, ribbon, and the stamps to make it my own but I used her general layout for this card.

Take a look, Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the beginning of your week!!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: SU Sweet Little Sentiments, Justj hanna cupcake stamp
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Making Memories FabricBrocade Rouge Paperie, S.E.I. Mimosa Paper Slab
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots,

Grazing Cow CASE

I was recently inspired by this great card by Silke Ledlow at My Life. Her template was just so beautiful!!!

So I have this cow by Stamps by Judith and I haven't been able to figure out just quite how to use it in my card creations. So today I figured I would try to CASE Silke's card with this great grazing cow image.

So take a look, let me know what you think.



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

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Stamps by Judith, SU Sweet Little Sentiments
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondak), Copic Markers
Accessories: Shimmerz, Marvy Uchida Liquid Appliqué, Gross Grain Ribbon, Brads, Stickles, Paper Piercer

TCPTUES55

Hey everyone,
I hope you guys are enjoying your week. I've had a pretty hectic few days, therefore I haven't been around to stamping. These next three weeks are going to be very busy for me it's the last three weeks of the semester and then final's so I probably won't be around to much, but summer vacation will come and I hope to be around a whole lot more.

So earlier today I decided to do some stamping. I was inspired by Jen del Muro's TCPTUES card, it's just absolutely darling, so I figured I would try something along those lines using the TCPTUES55 sketch (scroll down for the details to the sketch challenge). But here is the story, I had class at 6 and I started stamping around 4:30. I'm stamping, I'm coloring, I'm gluing, I'm adding finishing touches an I look up and it was 5:47 yikes, I was going to miss my class. It was just perfect timing to grab my backpack and hit the road. So I got lost in card making world, who doesn't lol. I got to class a little after 6 but thank goodness the teacher was latter than I was, lucky me, right lol. So yea that is my story about this card. I hope you guys like, I thought it came out pretty cute.

Oh on another note, I ordered the new Because of You stamp set from Verve Stamps and I just got it in the mail today, I was so excited but when I got the mail I was on my way out of town for the weekend so that made me a little sad, but I hope soon to play with the new set and show you some cards. Stay tuned.

Enjoy and Thanks for stopping by.



Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Hanna Stamps Riley Tractor, High Hopes Farm Background, SU Sweet Little Sentiments
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondak), Copic Markers
Paper: My Mind's Eye Tres Belle
Accessories: Nestabilities, Martha Stewart Halloween Fence Edge Punch, K&Company Adhesive Gems

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Head on over to Carole's Blog today.

She is the Hipster Hostess with the Mostess for this week. And she's hosting a fantabulous Sketch challenge. She's using this wonderful sketch to challenge herself and you. It's her first (not last) week as the Hostess with the Mostess. Won't you play along?

Want some even more inspiration? Check out the DT members to the left throughout the day to see their great cards.

Now I want to see yours.

Here are the deets. (Lifted from Ana's page.)
1. Each a week one of The Cat’s Pajamas DT members will host a challenge.
2. The challenges will vary {stamp, color, theme, sketch, etc.}
3. You will have until {this} Saturday night to complete the challenge.
4. Link your project on this week’s hostess’ challenge announcement. This week you will link your project HERE.
5. TCP stamps are not required, but of course, highly encouraged. {Unless it is a challenge calling for a specific stamp}
6. There will be one winner each month. They will be deemed that month’s Swankiest Stamper and get $25 in Cat’s Cash {money to spend on the TCP site!}.
7. When uploading to SCS or PCP, please use the keyword TCPTUES55 for this challenge.
8. Alma (that's me) will post the entries from the week the following Monday on her blog.
9. The newly crowned Swanky Stamper will be announced on the First of the Month and have his/her winning entry posted on The Cat’s Pajamas website where he/she will reign for the entire month.

VSAPR4 AMYRS65 She's all that

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share with you all Verve Release Challenge 4 (VSAPR4). The last challenge was a color challenge and also if you did all four challenges you were able to enter into the Verve Release Week Champion.

So here is the color challenge swatch. I thought these were great colors and I knew exaclty what paper I was going to use because I had some DP that had all three colors, how perfect was that.

But my next challenge was what design was I going to use and what stamps and everything else. I had the paper but had no idea for the rest. So I started looking for sketch challenges and I came upon the AMRYS65 Sketch Challenge and I was able to creat this card.



Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy!!!!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: SU She's all that, Su Sweet Little Sentiments
Paper: Rhonna Farrer Paper Pad, Summer Ete
Ink: ColorBox Fluid Ice Blue
Accessories: Sheer Blue Ribbon, SU Scallop Punch, Liquid Pearls

TCPTUES53

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share with you a quick card. I used the SCS Sketch Challenge 223 and the TCPTUES53 Color Challenge and a Shirly's 2 Girls digital image. Sorry I have to be short and sweet but I have to get to my school work before class.

Enjoy!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!



Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Shirley's 2 Girls Mouse Flowers (Digital Image), SU Sweet Little Sentiments
Paper: Amanda Blu paper pad, Pumpkin Orange, Rasberry Pink, Sunny Yellow
Ink: Copic Markers
Accessories: Brads, Martha Stewart Crafts™ Simple Scallop Edge Punch



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We hope you get to play with us. Here's the details on how you can be a part of the action:

1. Each a week one of The Cat’s Pajamas DT members will host a challenge.
2. The challenges will vary {stamp, color, theme, sketch, etc.}
3. You will have until {this} Saturday night to complete the challenge.
4. Link your project on this week’s hostess’ challenge announcement. This week you will link your project that you have posted on your blog or in the SCS gallery by adding a comment and link on this post, making sure your link is correct and posting it by midnight Saturday, April 11th.
5. TCP stamps are not required, but of course, highly encouraged. {Unless it is a challenge calling for a specific stamp}
6. There will be one winner each month. They will be deemed that month’s Swankiest Stamper and get $25 in Cat’s Cash {money to spend on the TCP site!}.
7. When uploading to SCS, please use the keyword TCPTUES53 for this challenge.
8. Alma will post the entries from the week the following Monday on her blog.
9. The newly crowned Swanky Stamper will be announced on the First of the Month and have his/her winning entry posted on The Cat’s Pajamas website where he/she will reign for the entire month!
10. HAVE FUN!!!