Shake your Booties!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

No! Not that! Although, you haven't seen anything until you see my three year old wiggle her back end and sing "Shake your bootie!" It's priceless!

The booties I'm talking about today are the little ones you can find on the 'B is for Baby' set at Hanna Stamps. They're just darling and I have always thought they had a very vintage feel to them, so that's the look I went with on this card.


I sponged a piece of Whisper White with my Distress Inks in 'Tea Dye', then stamped the image over the top. Then I stamped the image again on another piece of WW and used my aquapainter to color them in. Then I cut the little boots out and popped them on a dimensional. The rest is just layers of Bazzil cs and PP. Don't you just love this particular paper?? It's a piece from Basic Grey I've had sitting in my stash for years now. It was just waiting for the perfect card to come along. *sigh*

Here's a close up of the coloring and layers.

Happy Hump Day Everyone!


Supplies
Stamps: Hanna Stamps! 'B is for Baby'
Ink: StazOn 'Timber Brown', Distress Inks 'Vintage Photo and Tea Dye'
Paper: Whisper White, Bazzil cs, PP - Basic Grey '
Access: Ribbon, Kaiser pearls, EK Success corner creator, dimensionals

Kristi's Dad

Monday, November 17, 2008

I have been humming and haaing over posting something on this but I feel I need to because my heart just goes out to the sweet Mrs Kristi and her family right now.

For those who haven't heard, Mrs Kristi's dad suffered a massive heartattack last Friday that left him without oxygen for more than 10 minutes before help arrived. Kristi has just updated everyone on her blog that the family has decided to remove him off life support. My heart is so heavy with saddness for Kristi, Hanna and her family right now. The pain they must be going through right now is heartbreaking.

So please keep our friend Kristi and her family in your thoughts and prayers this week. This week will be hard on her and I'm sure she could use all your love and support during this time.

Hang in there Kristi!

Happy Birthday Ish!

Who is Ish you ask? Had I not bumped into him and his dad at daycare, I wouldn't have known either. Ish happens to be a little boy in my daughter's class and all weekend, I kid you not, she talked non-stop about how it was his birthday soon and she had to make a card for him. So over the weekend, my 3 year old daughter and I made cards for Ish.

This is my sweet girl hard at work at my craft table.

And this is what she colored in.

It's definitely minimalist in it's style! LOL I think she got intimidated by the stamped image because this isn't how she colors if given a coloring book!


Here's my card for Ish. I wish I could say that I own this stamp, but I unfortunately don't. I received it in an image swap on SCS a while back. It's by Stampendous and it's from their Changito the Monkey line. I usually search through my scrap paper pile before breaking into my stash of new paper and I found this piece from Scenic Route which went perfectly with the cute monkeys! Another simple card but I'm really liking these simple ones. Besides that, it's for a three year old....no need to go overboard!

Toodles!

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampendous 'Changito B-Day' & Starving Artistamps/Doodle Factory 'Creatures'
Inks: Staz On, Close To Cocoa, Certain Celery, Morning Marigold
Paper: Whisper White, Bazzil cs, PP - Scenic Route 'Beach House'
Access: Ribbon (unknown), button, dimensionals

B is for Baby

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Well, we didn't make it to gym class on Saturday because we ended going to see the Madagasgar II moive at an IMAX theatre. It was a lot of fun! It's the second movie I've seen at an IMAX and I'm thinking I now can't see a movie any other way!

For today's card I attempted the technique of using prismacolor pencils and gamsol (or if you're like me and don't have any gamsol or odorless mineral spirits, goo gone!) I've long admired the work of the talented Paula Tracy and yet the longer I stare at her wonderful card creations, the more nothing rubs off on me!! hahaha I'd LOVE to color like Paula does but I think I need a lot more practice.

Anyways, I used Hanna Stamps! 'B is for Baby' set that was just released last week. It's a really nice baby set to have because it has a little bit of everything. It's not really orientated to one particular sex, which I like. The layout I used is from the sketch challenge from Paper Craft Planet. It's a new website dedicated to all types of paper crafts. If you haven't checked it out already I suggest you do so. I was hesitant, because I didn't think I needed another place to hang out online, since SCS dominates most of my online life! But so far, it's been a really cool place to view some amazing work. If you do end up over there, add me as a friend - I could use some! LOL

Hope everyone has a great week coming up!
Toodles!

Supplies
Stamps: Hanna Stamps! 'B is for Baby'
Ink: Archival Brilliance 'graphite black', Buckaroo Blue
Paper: Kraft, Bazzil cs, PP - Making Memories 'Chatterbox - unknown'
Access: Ribbon, dimensionals, prismacolor pencils, Goo Gone, paper piercer

Hip Hip Hurray - it's Saturday!

Friday, November 14, 2008

I love Saturdays because it's the weekend and I don't have to be at work and I have time to run errands at my own pace. My three year old has a gymnastics class around 1pm today and then hopefully, we're headed to the Mall to stock up on some winter clothes for her. I can't stand the fact that the closest mall to me is 1.5 hours away! Blah!


Anyway, isn't this a fun card?! I received this image as part of an image swap I was in a few months back, and I had no idea who made it until now. I did a little bit of web surfing (I googled 'pigs + cupcakes rubber stamp') and found out that it's made by Close To My Heart.

I let the pigs do all the talking on this card and matted them front and center on the kraft cs. I used Karen Foster's snap stamp mini alphabet set to stamp the background. Excuse the pun, but I snapped up two of these sets when they were at my LSS a few years back and I'm so glad I did because they were discontinued and it's unbelieveably hard to find any for sale anywhere now! I stamped the sentiment using the new Studio G $1 stamps from Michaels. They're so much fun to play with too! Expecially since I'm severly lacking in sentiment stamps, so these are perfect for me! If I owned this stamp, I probably would have stamped another image and cut out the heads and popped them on dimensionals for a layered look.

Ok, time for me to get going today....hope your day is a fun one!


Supplies:
Stamps: Close To My Heart 'Nursery Bash', Studio G $1 alphabet stamps, Karen Foster Design Snap Stamps
Inks: Pretty In Pink, Close To Cocoa, Vintage Violet
Paper: Kraft, Whisper White, Bazzil cs
Access: American Craft ribbon, piercing tool, dimensionals

TGIF!!

I'm so done with this week, aren't you?! I want to be home, with my family hanging out watching a movie while it's dark and rainy outside. Yeah!

As is with every Friday, today is Hanna Stamps Challenge Day over at SCS! This week's challenge, HSC43, is brought to you by the talented Jeanette Olen. It's a sketch challenge, so get out your Hanna Stamps or Riley's and start stamping!! (If you don't have any Hanna Stamps, don't let that stop you.)


When I started this card, I knew I wanted to create a warm, cosy kind of card but the vintage look that it has just kind of morphed on it's own!

Today I'm using the 'Get Well Hanna' set from Hanna Stamps which was released last week. I sponged the edges of the patterned paper with my Ranger Distress Inks 'Vintage Photo'. The piece of deep red cs is the other side of the orange harlequin paper! Then I stamped out the box of tissues first, masked it off with a post it note, then stamped the side table over it. I sponged the edges of this piece heavily in DI 'Antique Linen and Vintage Photo'. The side table was watercolored with the Vintage Photo ink and the box of tissues with SU Pumpkin Pie, Cranberry Crisp and Soft Sky. I added the ribbon and charm last. The charm is from Hanna Stamps too! If you haven't already, I suggest you check out their range of charms - there is a charm to match every stamp set and Riley that Hanna Stamps sells!! Don't believe me? Check it out here!

Happy Friday everyone!!


Supplies:
Stamps: Hanna Stamps! 'Get Well Hanna'
Inks: Staz On 'Timber Brown', Sky Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Cranberry Crisp, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain'
Paper: Very Vanilla, Bazzil cs, PP - My Mind's Eye 'Bohemia -Bungalow "You Are My Sunshine" #BH2135'
Access: Ribbon, charm, jump ring, sponges, dimensionals

Read My T!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

I can't believe it's Thursday already! Where on earth did the week go?? Hubby has the weekend off so we're scheming up something fun to do - what are your plans for the weekend? Maybe you can give me some ideas!

Yesterday's SCS sketch challenge (SCS202) lent itself perfectly to the Hanna Stamps! 'Read My T' set released last week because the set has lots of individual stamps that you could use on the individual squares.

The hearts are one of the stamps that comes with the set and I used it to stamp the rainbow of hearts on the small squares. I think it turned out pretty great, don't you? (Nod your head!) Hanna has another t-shirt saying on her shirt which ended up being my sentiment for the card.

Some friends of mine think this set's name should be changed to Gigantor Hanna! She's not your average little petite thing thats for sure! And at 5'-9", I too have never been called petite, so this Hanna and I have something in common! LOL!


Toodles!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hanna Stamps! 'Read My T'
Inks: Archival Brilliance 'graphite black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty in Pink,
Paper: Bazzil cs, Georgia Pacific cs, PP - Making Memories 'Noteworthy - Delaney Ledger Dots'
Access: dimensionals, ribbon, decorative scissors