Mother's (In Law) Day

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Good Morning! Good Morning!

I needed to create a Mother's Day card this week for my mother-in-law. Nothing like leaving things to the last minute! LOL This week's Mojo Sketch Challenge MOJO85 was the perfect place to start and as an added bonus both Our Creative Corner's and CCEE Stampers challenges this week is to create a card for your mother! Woohhooo! Love it when challenges come together like that. :D

You know, I frequently try to convince my hubby that I'm the poorest stamper around with the lack of stamps and toys/equipment I have. He usually just rolls his eyes at me. :) So it pains me to admit it, but I don't own a Mother's Day sentiment stamp. ;( However, I pulled this sentiment from the oldie, but goodie SU set, Best Blossoms, which works just as well.

I stamped the sentiment on Very Vanilla cardstock with Timber Brown StazOn and sponged the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. Then I layered it again on another piece of Very Vanilla. The patterned paper panels were sponged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, matted with Kraft cardstock and machine stitched around the edges. I sponged the chipboard swirl with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks and adhered it to the vertical panel. I just love these vintage flowers from Prima Marketing (Michael's Craft Store). They're so beautiful! I blinged them up a bit by adding some rhinestone brads and smaller adhesive rhinestones for the tiny prima flowers. I would have loved to have added some of that glimmer mist product that some people are using. It would have finished off this card so nicely. Add it to my wish list! :)

Look Ma; no coloring! hahaha I like to change things up a bit every now and then. :)

Remember that card I made for Rubbernecker's Wacky Wednesday challenge a couple of week's ago? Well, I found out the other day that it won! :) Waahooo! Now I have a 40% off coupon to use at Rubbernecker! (We're supposed to be on a spending freeze right now, so I may have to make a small, sneaky purchase that will hopefully go unnoticed by hubby. Shhh!)

Thank you, as always, for stopping by today.

Supplies
Stamps: Stamping Up 'Best Blossoms'
Inks: StazOn 'Timber Brown', Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Tea Dye & Vintage Photo'
Papers: Very Vanilla, Kraft cs, Bazzil cs, PP - K&Company 'Classic K Margo Stack'
Access: Ribbon, Fancy Pants Chipboard, Prima Marketing Company 'Nursery Tales Vintage Flowers' and 'Fancystiz Flowers', Prima Flowers, Rhinestone Brads, Adhesive Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Sponging, Sewing

A Snowman Hedgehog?

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Good Morning! Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a festive Christmas holiday. Did ya stuff yourself with yummy food like I did? Between my husband, me and our daughter we have 2'x1'x1' box full of candy just from our stockings! And not the cheap kind of candy either - Lindt balls, Ghirardelli squares and blocks of Cadbury chocolate! I CANNOT and will not throw good chocolate out, no matter how bad for me! hahaha (Sorry Mary!)

So what did everyone get for Christmas?! I still have a few things coming in the mail this week, but I my main present from hubby was this:My very own 9" mini laptop!!

He absolutely spoiled me this year, no doubt about it! However, if he was being completely honest with himself, he'd admit that he was sick of sharing the 17" laptop we bought a year ago! Now he doesn't have to. Don't worry, he definitely got his fair share of new toys from me. Our three year old got her first Fisher-Price digital camera. Believe it or not, she has been taking some great shots with it. And just when I thought Christmas couldn't have gotten any better; hubby and I each received an IPOD Touch for from his parents!?! An IPOD Touch!? I was absolutely gobsmacked! I've been playing with it ever since. :D It's way cool!

Anyways, thank you for allowing me a small break from blogging and card making to spend some down time with my family. I hope you managed to do the same. :D I have a cute card to show you today.
I used another image I received in a swap. I'm 99.8% sure it's a Penny Black stamp, but after a bit of searching, I couldn't find out for certain. These cute critters are colored up again with my trusty inks and aquapainter and then double matted on some Georgia Pacific cs and Bazzil cs. Then I used some more of the K&Company patterned paper my sweet friend Mary gave me.

EDIT: I was kindly told by a few SCS members that this stamp is infact from Stamping Up and part of the 'Holiday Hedgehogs' set. I would never have guessed this!

I am really pleased with how this card turned out! I love it's simplicity. It does bug me a bit that there's no sentiment, but I don't have one that would be appropriate, so none will have to do! It actually sort of resembles one of Paula Tracy's cards (which I ADORE!) - she MUST be rubbing off on me! I can only hope! hahaha

Hope you're all having a wonderful Monday! I have the week off, so I'm planning a week of card making for the Hanna Stamps release party next week.

Supplies:

Stamps: Penny Black

Ink: Staz On 'Jet Black', Soft Sky, Cool Caribbean, Buckaroo Blue, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, Close To Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Certain Celery

Paper: Whisper White, Bazzil cs, PP - K & Company Brenda Walton 'Designer Mat Pad'

Access: Ribbon, Kaliedescope EP, dimensionals

Let the countdown begin!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Only seven more sleeps until Thanksgiving in the US! Yay! We're very fortunate that we don't have to travel on this day. My in laws live 5 minutes down the road from us, so my 3 year old won't get cranky on the way there and the appetizers I bring will still be warm!

Here's a card I made in honor of Thanksgiving Day next week. Isn't this the cutest image you've seen?? I wish I could tell you what company it's from, but after a half hour of scouring the Internet and SCS, I couldn't find any info on it. If you know who makes it, can ya let me know?? I may just have to make a purchase. This is another image I had received in an image swap and lost track of who it was from. Sorry!!

Again, I colored the image with my SU inks and aquapainter. I don't have the SU Basic Black ink, so I use my Distress Inks 'Black Soot' instead. It's great because it can give you the blackest of black or just a very light grey coverage. For the background, I channeled my Hanna Stamps DT pal and Dirty Dozen Alumni, Jeanne Streiff. I really love how her cards are so detailed, yet so uncluttered. I let the image take center stage on this card and just matted it, popped it on dimensionals and onto the card. The ribbon was something I picked up at my LSS a year ago and I got the charm at a cute little scrapbook store in Manchester, NH called Talk, Paper, Scissors. The cutest little shop ever and they have this workshop area that is to DIE for!! I have to go back there again soon!

Ok, now I have to get dressed and head to work! LOL But before I do, there's just one person I have to give a shout out.....

HAVE A ROCKIN' HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY!!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Unknown
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Certain Celery, Cool Caribbean, Cranberry Crisp, Morning Marigold, True Thyme, Sort Sky, Distress Inks 'Black Soot and Vintage Photo'
Paper: Bazzil cs, Whisper White, PP - Melissa Frances 'Ramona'
Access: Ribbon, jump ring, charm, dimensionals

Happy Friday!

Friday, November 7, 2008

TGIF!!!! It's been a busy week for me and I am so happy the weekend is right around the corner. Last night's Hanna Stamps! release party was so much fun! Lots of chatter and ooohing and ahhing. There was even talk of moose in thongs! It was hilarious.

I made today's card for my inlaws. It's either their 37th or 38th wedding anniversary, so I had to whip up something pretty special for them. I got all my inspiration from today's Limited Supplies challenge (LSC193) over at SCS. Jeanne challenged us to use only a rectangle, circle and ribbon on our card.
SU's 'Best Blossoms' set is the only flower set I own but I adore it because of the branch of leaves in it - they can be used in so many ways! I started out by stamping the leaves onto a scrap piece of the green cs I used behind the back panels. I inked up the flowers with the Pumpkin Pie first then lightly dabbed the red chalk ink around the edges, then I stamped them out. Without cleaning off the stamp, I added more red ink to the edges of the stamp and stamped it out again. This gave me a few flowers in a range of colors to work with. I then cut all the pieces out and either mounted them to the circle panel with glue or dimensionals. The circle panel has some sponging around the edge of it to give it some more dimension to it. The three back panels were matted with green cs and then the edges were distressed.

This card wasn't hard to do, just a little time consuming cutting out all the pieces. Hope my Inlaws like it!

Oh, before I forget, if you feel the need to drop some dough today (if last night wasn't enough!) head over to Pink Poison's blog for a preorder sale of the up coming sets. Marie is selling them below her usual retail price for today only so you'd better snag 'em quick!

My three year old is sleeping over at my Inlaws tonight (our anniversary present to them! LOL) so hubby and I have the house to ourselves! Waaahoooooooooooo! *insert Barry White music here*

Toodles all!

Supplies
Stamps: SU 'Best Blossoms', sentiment by Studio G $1 from Michaels
Inks: True Thyme, Pumpkin Pie, Colorbox chalk ink 'warm red'
Paper: Bazzil cs, Georgia Pacific cs, PP - Fancy Pants 'Floral Chic - Fairytale'
Access: Ribbon, stickles, dimensionals

Clean and Simple

Saturday, October 18, 2008

I adore clean and simple cards! They look like they took no effort at all yet they're probably the most hardest to come up with if you're not that way inclined! I stumbled upon today's Inspiration Challenge over on SCS and fell in love with the inspiration for this week.I took the inspiration literally (cause I'm like that!) and used an old SU set that I thought would be perfect for this challenge. It's called Best Blossoms and it's retired now, but I ended up buying it on the Buy/Sell forum on SCS. Not much to this card, but that's what I like about it!

I stamped the images with versamark onto the Old Olive cs, sprinkled white ep on is and then heat set it. I then sponged the edges with Distress Inks 'Peeled Paint' (because I don't own Old Olive ink). The sentiment I used is from MFT's Essential Sentiments set.

Hope you're all having a fabulous Saturday! I have a turkey in the oven and the smell is driving me crazy this afternoon!! :) Fall is definitely here!

Supplies:
Stamps: SU Best Blossoms, MFT 'Essential Sentiments'
Ink: Versamark
Paper: Old Olive, Georgia Pacific CS, Bazzil CS
Access: White EP, Circle punch 1-3/8" and 1-1/2", dimensionals