Baptism

Hey there,

This weekend I attended my boyfriend's nephew's baptism so I needed to make a baptism card so  I grabbed the only cross stamp that I had and I created something quick and simple and then I found a cute little prayer for the inside of the card.

Enjoy!!!

I hope you enjoyed. I wanted to share some pictures of the little on on his baptism day but for some reason my internet is being wacky so I will have to share later. So stay tuned for some cute pictures!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Verve  Miracles Blossom
Paper: Nana's Nursery Baby BoyStack (DCWV), White & Blue Cardstock
Ink: ColorBox ChalkPrussian Blue
Accessories: ProvoCraft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, SU Scallop Trim Border Punch, Sheer Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by, have a great evening!!

InStyle Stamps February Blog Hop - Spring Flowers/St. Patricks

Hi there!!!,

Welcome to this months InStyle Stamps Blog Hop!! This months blog hop theme is Spring Flowers/St. Patricks. If you've arrived here from Margie's blog then you are on the right track - continue on!! If you've accidentally stumbled here on your own, take a moment go to the InStyle Stamps Blog to start the hop off right. Trust me, you really don't want to miss any of the fabulous projects the design team has in store for you! Be sure to visit each stop on the hop and leave a comment so we'll know you stopped by.

For this hop I played with the super cute Ginger. I love this little image, it is so appropriate for this spring flower themed hop!! I decided to go very colorful and chose very bright colors, so I used my new DCWV The Sorbet Stack that I picked up at Michael's on clearance. Got to love the clearance section!!! Now on to Ginger who is planting flowers which I can't wait for spring so that I can start digging in the dirt myself!! As for now we shall all live vicariously through Ginger, at least until spring comes!!!

Here is my card!! Enjoy!!!

We will be giving away a Grand Prize to one lucky Blog Hop participant and also have a prize for one lucky design team member. To enter, finish hopping through the design team’s blogs, (leaving a comment at each stop, of course!) and then go to the InStyle Stamps blog and vote for the designer who's project inspired you the most. (You're going to vote for me, right? LOL!) Then, in order to be entered into the drawing to win the grand prize, leave us a comment on that post.

Thanks for playing along with us today! Next you will head to Paili's blog to see what she has in store for you!

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4

Stamps: Ginger by InStyle Stamps, Verve Floral Symphony

Paper: DCWV The Sorbet Stack

Ink: Copic Markers

Accessories: Marvy Uchid Flower Punches, Pearls, Martha Stewart Arch Lattice Edge Punch, Corner Rounder Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a great day and good luck!!!

My Top 12 Favs of 2009

Happy Thursday, everyone!

It's New Year's Eve, and this past year has gone by in a flash!!! I want to share some of my favorite cards from this past year with you guys. Here we go:

January 2009-Mojo71

February 2009 - Happy Birthday...the perfect card

March 2009 - Splish Splash

 

April 2009 - Mojo82

May 2009 - Happy Mother's Day

June 2009 - SFYTT & Color Throwdown # 43

 

July 2009 - Congratulations

August 2009 - I couldn't just pick one for this month, it was too hard!

Daisy

Reflective

September 2009 - Digital Ink Co. Image Challenge

October 2009 - ISS Retro Witch Sneak Peak

November 2009 - D-IC Cornucopia Thanksgiving

December 2009 - ISS Kimi

Have a safe and joyful celebration!! Happy New Year!!!!

D-IC Autumn Blessings

Hi there,

It's beginning to look a lot like fall around here. It hasn't rained much and the sun has been shinning and the leaves are all sorts of pretty colors so what better of a card than a Fall inspired card.

Enjoy!!!

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

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 1/2 x 5
Stamps: Autumn Leaves Stamp Pack by Stamping Dragon Designs (Digital-Ink Co.), Verve Miracles Blossom Sentiment
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Brown, White, My Mind's Eye Tres Belle "Family Tree" Floral, My Mind's Eye Tres belle "Play" Floral, Making Memories Fresh Anthropology Collection brocade DP, Michael's Christmas Slab
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Brown Buttons, Embroidery Floss, SU Scallop Edge Punch

VLVSep01, VLVSep02, VLVSep03 A Little Late!!

Hey there,

I hope you are all having a great start to your week!! I know I'm not quite excited for this weekend, this week marks the beginning of midterms, so I will be studying very hard for exams, so if I am not around you know why.

I know these sketches are from last months Verve Challenges but I wanted to share them with you. You may have already seen them on SCS cause I posted them there during the Challenge time frame, but  I didn't get a chance to share them with you on my blog. So here they are.

This first card was made using this sketch, VLVSep01 and the twist for the challenge was to use little round things. For my little round things I used clear Dew Drops that I colored purple with my color markers. Did you know you could do that? Yup, and it works pretty well!

Check it out, here is VLVSep01. Enjoy!!!

Next I have VLVSep02 which was a "challenge for you to go TINY! Just make a card, or set of cards, that are SMALLER than the normal 4.25 x 5.5. You can make a 3x3 card, a scrapling, a 4x4, whateva! Just not the normal." So I had a tiny card using my Nestibilites and I combined this challenge with SEP09E, to the left, which was to Bring on the Bling, so I used stick to Bling up my card.

Here it is, Enjoy!!!

Lastly I made challenge VLVSep03. This challenge was to use this sketch, to the left, and the {Twist} was GIRLFRIENDS! "Make a card for a special lady in your life...be it your mom, grandma, BFF, or whoever!"




I combined the VLVSep03 challenge with the SEP09B Challenge
which was  color challenge, to left, to use Deep Purple, Olive, Rusty Orange and Teal. What a great color combo, if I must say!! These color I would have never thought to put together. They are just perfect together and so fall and autumn like. I love this color combo.

Check it out, isn't it just gorgeous!!!

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

VLVSep01

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Floral Symphony
Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, Lavender, Green
Ink: Su Kiwi Kiss, ColorBox Fluid Chalk Lavender Ink
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Dew Drops, EK Success Embossed Curve Edge Punch, Lavender Stickles

VLVSep02, SEP09E
RECIPE:
Stamps: Verve Circular Sayings, Verve Miracles Blossom
Paper: Whisper White Cardstock
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), SU Kiwi Kiss, ColorBox Chalk Ice Blue and Whisteria
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Stickles

VLVSep03, SEP09B
RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Verve Beautiful Kindness, Verve Because of You
Paper: Deep Purple, Burnt Orange, Teal, Olive
Ink: SU Kiwi Kiss, Color Box Chalk, Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Gross Grain Ribbon, Rhinestones

Digital-Ink Co. Recipe Challenge

Hey there everyone,

I hope your are all having a great morning. So far I am doing fine. I think it's really going to hit me and the rest of my family at the services when we have to say our goodbye's. That is always the hardest and most emotional time, but we will be all together to help each other get through this tough time. We are a rather large family, my grandparents had 8 children and each had 2 to 4 children and there are plenty of great-grandchildren also. Most of my family is with in an hour driving distance from each other excetp a cousin who lives in Washington with her husband and two little boys and then one of my aunts lives in the Azores (Portugal) with her husband and two sons, daughter-in-laws and two grandchildren. My uncle and aunt have plans to catch a flight on Tuesday and arrive here on Wednesday and my cousin from Washington is coming down too so we will all be together.

As for now I just want to share with you all Week Three of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge (D-IC003). This week the challenge is a Recipe Challenge which is to use 2 designer papers, 3 brads/buttons/eyelets, and a Beary Dust Stamps image. I used Bedtime Girl for my card, she is just such a sweetie, isn't she with here little teedy and her lil onsie pj's, so cute!!!

Take a look, Enjoy!!!!



Don't forget to head over to the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog to check out what the other design team members have created or you can check out their blogs below. Also don't forget to check out this post to get you hands on some awesome candy being given by Digital-Ink Co.

Boni
Teri
Micki
Diane
Jackie
Tanis
Darlene
Jennifer
Kim


Have a great day and take care!!!


RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Bedtime Girl by Beary Dust Stamps (Digital Ink Co.), Verve Circular Sayings
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: me&my BiG ideas Modern Milan Paper Slab, Pastel Green Cardstock, Navy Blue Cardstock, Whisper White Cardstock
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Su Scalloped Edge Punch, Cuttlebug, Sizzix Sizzlits Die Flower Set #3, Buttons, Magenta Shimmerz,

Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Tulip

Hey there,

Just wanted to share with you a CAS card for Doodle Bean Digital Stamps. They have this awesome tulip for purchase. It is so beautiful!!!! I wanted to make something simple with it cause it's just perfect by itself. Check it out and I'm off to make cards until 5:30 when I leave for my night class.

Enjoy!!!




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

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Tulip, Verve Floral Symphony
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Whisper White

Birthday Tiers of Treats

Hey there,

Another short post today. I have a few birthdays coming up so I decided that I need to get some more cards started, so here is another one that I made. Don't forget that tomorrow is the launch of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog, there is some good stuff in store for you all so go check it out. If you want to see what some of the Design Team members have been up to go check it out, there is a post with some gorgeous creations form them.

Here's my birthday card, Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to come back tomorrow to see what I've created for the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge!! Have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Stampendous Tiers of Treats, Verve Circular Sayings
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Me&My Big Ideas Fashion District Paper Pad, Brown Cardstock
Accessories: Silk Ribbon, Nestibilities, Liquid Applique, Sakura Glaze Pen, buttons

Everlasting Life

Hey there,

I hope you are all having a great day!! I officially started up school again yesterday. Classes were great but I wasn't quite looking forward to it. I'm just ready for the year to be over so that I can graduate. It's only the first week of school and I already have Senioritous, hmm what am I going to do, heck, I'm going to get down and dirty and hurry up and get done with school, that's for sure, I've got a big reward at the end of the year, yes a big reward, so all I have to do is graduate and wait, lol, it will come, so he says lol ;-D.

Anyways here is a quick card that I made. I was inspired by this card by Silke Ledlow from My Life, so I decided to CASE it and use my Verve stamps. She has some great ideas, extremely talented!!!

So here is my CASE card, Enjoy!!!




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

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: Verve Verve Everlasting Life, Verve Beautiful Kindness
Ink: Classic Stampin' Up Kiwi Kiss, Scarlet ColorBox Pigment Ink
Paper: Red, Kraft, Whisper White Cardstock
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Silver Pearl's (Michael's), 3-D Zots

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

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

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.