Sweet friends

Hey guys!

I know some of you may be waiting for Sweet November sneak peeks and I promise that they are coming soon! Just check back next week when all of the fun will begin... lots of super sweet CHA goodies that I can't wait to share with ya. :)
And the excitement doesn't end there, I just passed my two year blogaversary on Saturday and don't be surprised to see another 1000 sheets candy in the near future as well! hint, hint, wink, wink! ;)

As for today, I've got a card featuring a mix of stamps that I just had to put together... it's like they were made for each other I tell ya! I got the Sweet Greetings Pure Innocence because not only was she too cute with her stick of cotton candy but I also had just the cotton candy stand to go with her from the Craft's Meow set. At first I thought that was going to be it but then I was looking at another Pure Innocence sweetie called Water Lily and realized that with an easy alteration of wiping away her hand and stamping in the cotton candy hand in its place, I could have two little friends enjoying a day at the carnival. Because this was so heavy on stamped images I kept the rest of the card pretty minimal, with just a bit of paper and twine to finish it all off. Oh and once again I spritzed a cotton ball and added it to their candy for some cool texture.

Ok, time for me to wrap this up and go get myself ready for work. Talk to ya later! :)
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Echo Park (Summer Days), K&Co (yellow)
stamps- My Favorite Things (Pure Innocence Water Lily, Pure Innocence Sweet Greetings), The Craft's Meow (Life is a Carnival set)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
The Twinery twine
Martha Stewart border punch
cotton ball
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E35, E37, E59
hair- YR30, Y21, Y26, E35
clothes/cotton candy stand- V05, V06, V09, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG00, YG01, YG03, RV13, RV25, RV17, BG45, BG49, BG0000, 0, C0, C1, C3, RV10, RV02, Y11

Celebrate...

good times, come on!

Good morning!
So have you ever heard the story of Sampson? How his mighty strength left him once Delilah cut off his hair? Well, I'm pretty sure I was suffering from some kind of reverse Sampson effect because it had been months since my last hair cut and recently my crafty mojo has been less than stellar. So yesterday I went and got it all chopped off and I feel SOOOO much better! What can I say... I'm a short hair gal through and through. And even though I woke up in the morning not knowing if I would have a card to share today... once I got home last night I was anxious to get into the crafty room.

Now I'm not saying I was able to re-invent the wheel or anything, heck... I don't even think I'm quite out of my rut yet. But I enjoyed putting this card together and it was good to have that feeling back. :)
I'm thinking all that extra hair was sucking out my creativity and now that it's gone I'll have all sorts of ideas popping into my head as well as the desire to get them onto a card. Like I said, reverse Sampson... LOL! ;)

So this card came together really quickly once I found this sheet of paper with all the lanterns on it. As soon as I spotted this print it was a no-brainer to pair it up with sweet little Mei Li from Sister Stamps. And all those lanterns got me into a festive mood so I thought this would make for a cute and different kind of birthday card. Simple, fun and not too shabby for an hour in the crafty room.

Ok, time for me to scoot off to work. Take care friends!


Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- My Mind's Eye (Abbey Road)
stamps- Sister Stamps (Mei Li), Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
Prima flowers
Kaiser Craft pearls and gems
Fiskars border punch
Copic markers:
skin- E50, E51, E21, R00, R20
hair- C5, C7, C9
clothes- RV00, RV10, RV11, E50, YG0000, YG00, YG21, YG03, W5, W7, W9, BG53, RV23, R02, R05, E07

Welcome to the world

Welcome to another glorious weekend my friends!
I'm heading off to the 'big' city here soon so I'm gonna jump right into my card for the day...

My bloggin' peep, Rinne, delivered a beautiful baby boy recently and I wanted to send her a special little something to help welcome sweet Oliver into the world. Now, I don't own a whole lot of crafty baby type stamps and goodies and while I could have gone with my usual LOTV 'go-to' something about it didn't quite jive with Rinne's fun and eclectic style. So I was stumped for a while on what I wanted to do. Then yesterday I spotted the new challenge over at Some Odd Girl to Lift an Odd Girl and that got me to remembering that Kristy had a fun digi baby image in her shop. As soon as I checked him out I knew that he would be perfect for Rinne's card.
Now all I needed to do was choose one of the many fab card designs to lift from the talented Odd Teamies and I would have my card done in no time! I finally settled on this fantastic card made by Leah. It had been a while since I made a circle card and her cool layout design with the random mix of buttons and pearls really drew me in. I dug deep into my precious stash of 'classic' KI Memories until I found these papers from the Expecting line and just went to town. Too much fun!
Now this card is heading down to Cali as we speak and I hope that Rinne likes it! :)

Have a good one!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- KI Memories (expecting)
digi stamp- Some Odd Girl (Tiny Baby)
Kaiser Craft pearls
buttons
Shabby Green Door twine
ribbon
plastic safety pin charm
Sharpie white marker
Copic markers:
skin- E00, E21, E13, R00, R20
hair- T5, T7, T9
eyes- E35, E57, E59
diaper- C0, 0

Thumbelina...?

TGIF my friends!
Are you getting ready for the weekend? I'll be keeping busy but that doesn't mean that I'm not hoping for some beautiful sunshiny days! :)

Yesterday I received my order of stamps that included the new sweeties from The Greeting Farm and I was anxious to get them inky. I was a bit surprised by the smallish size of the new Blush girls... for some reason I was expecting them to be bigger than they are. So when I saw that jar stamp still sitting on my desk from yesterday's card I tested it out and found that Bonnie was a perfect fit inside of it. I did do a bit of altering by wiping away her original eyes and drawing in some wide open "Anya inspired" eyes for her... you know how I like me some wide open eyes. ;)
Now I just needed some inspiration to bring the card all together, so I hopped on over to the Farm Fresh Challenge Blog to check out the WOW Challenge for this week. It turned out to be a super cute photo inspiration of a fairytale like nursery... perfect! I pulled the pinks, greens and yellows from the pic and decided on a square card because of the wall covered in giant letter blocks. But my biggest inspiration came from the cartoon mural on the wall. That fun squirrel and the small door and window in the tree trunk paired with the jar I was already set on using got me to picturing little Bonnie as a tiny Thumbelina who's gotten herself into a bit of a pickle. I ended up having so much fun with this card, which is always a good thing!

Alrighty then, stay crafty everybody! :)
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and PTI
paper- October Afternoon (Daydream)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Blush Bonnie), Inkadinkado (jar), Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox dark brown
Prima flowers
buttons
Kaiser Craft gems
Divine Twine
Martha Stewart deep edge punch
K&Co vellum butterfly
Sakura stardust glitter pen
EK Success gold pen
Copic black multiliner pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- YR30, Y11, Y21, Y26
clothes- RV10, RV11, RV21, YG03, YG17, YG95, E81, 0, BG18
jar- BG0000, BG000, 0

A million and one thanks

Hello!

So is anyone else anxiously checking out the CHA sneak peeks going up this week from all of the different paper crafting companies? My crafty little heart is already a flutter at some of the previews I have seen and I'm saving my pennies so that I can get my hands on them once they show up in stores. So far my top five paper goodies are (in no particular order):

1. October Afternoon (Farmhouse)
2. Cosmo Cricket (Clementine)
3. My Mind's Eye (Everything... though I'm super excited about the Six by Six release)
4. Simple Stories (Happy Day)
5. Basic Grey (Picadilly)

Whew... that was tough, though it is definitely subject to change considering I haven't even seen what all of my usual faves are putting out yet... hello, Sassafras... where are your peeks?! LOL
If you are following along like I am and have spotted something fab, let me know! I can't get enough sneak peeks! :)

Alrighty then, I should get to my card for the day. It's challenge time over at Tickled Pink Challenges and this week we want to see you create something cute and that includes butterflies. Fairy Kira was quite insistent that I ink her up for this but since she is usually more sassy than cute I told her that she would have to put a smile on that pretty face of hers if she wanted to come out and play. She agreed, so I wiped the ink from the corner of her mouth as well as her eyebrows and then drew in an upturned smile and raised brows. Now I think she can pull off cute with the best of them. ;)
I found this old woodblock jar stamp recently and thought it would be fun if the butterflies for the challenge were escaping from it. And I went with a 'thank you' sentiment because I think it kinda looks like Kira was the one behind their release. You just know she is more than happy to help out her fellow winged friends. :)

So if you would like a chance at winning this week's prize then why not play along? Don't forget that your card must feature a Tickled Pink stamp in order to qualify for the prize... these include: Lil Lolitas and Lads, Pinkettes, Pink Pets and Cherries. All of which can be found in the Tickled Pink store.

Have fun and good luck!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Basic Grey (Out of Print)
stamps- Tickled Pink (Fairy Kira), Inkadinkado (jar),Technique Tuesday (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black, Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress and Colorbox creamy brown
CC Designs butterfly cutter
Martha Stewart butterfly punch
Kaiser Craft pearls and gems
gold embroidery floss
Signo Uniball white gel pen
Sakura stardust glitter pen
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E95, E11, YR14, E07
eyes- YG23, YG67
everything else- R32, R43, R35, YG21, YG23, YG17, Y11, Y15, BG0000, BG000, 0

Talkin' bout my guy...

Olo!

Hope you are all well on this fine Wednesday morning. I've got the day off and depending on the weather I'll either be out and about or if it is rainy like yesterday, I just may have to stay home and get my craft on a bit. ;)

So I've got a just for fun card to share with ya today. I had some My Guy Ians that were stamped up and partially colored for one of my videos a while back and I wanted to start getting them onto cards. So I grabbed some very guy colored papers and whipped out a quickie card, then I finished coloring up Ian to match the greens, blues and oranges. Because I wanted him to have his eyes open I did a quick head swap with Special Autumn Ian. Such an easy alteration but oh-so effective!

I kept the embellishing to a minimum but I thought it would be fun to use a wood popsicle stick that fell out of a pack of rub-ons rather than throw it away. When I snapped the ends off I thought it kinda had a nature type vibe that worked. And don't ask me why I added the moose... I saw him on a sheet of paper, thought he was cute and just had to add him to the card. ;)

Well, thanks for stopping by... chat at'cha later!
Supply list:
cardstock- Kraft and Paper Trey Ink
paper- American Crafts (Campy Trails)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (My Guy Ian and Special Autumn Ian), Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox dark brown
The Twinery twine
round paper clip
Popsicle stick
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E25, E27, E29
clothes- B91, B93, B95, E40, E41, 0, W5, W7, W9, Y21, YR15, YG95, E47, E49

It's a Lil Little Hop!

Good morning!

Are you ready to get your hop on with Tickled Pink's Lil Little blog hop? These sweet kiddos are sure to delight with each stop along the way and I promise that you are not going to want to miss a single blog of all the participating Pink Ladies and guests because as always we've got some great prizes up for grabs to celebrate this release! :)
Once you have finished hopping don't forget that all six of the new stamps are now available in the Tickled Pink store.

I used the adorable Lil Little Lilith for my card today and once again I did a bit of altering to remove the skully pockets from her dress. But I didn't stop there, this time around I also wiped away the handle of her umbrella and replaced it with some little flower stems that I drew in. I've actually been getting quite a few questions on what I mean when I say I 'wiped away' part of an image so I went ahead and did a quick video to share and show you just how easy it is. I love how this technique can open up the versatility of any given image and make them work for a number of different types of cards. :)

Alrighty, I'm sending you on your way now as Angela has the next blog that you'll want to be sure and visit today. If you ever get lost just reference back to the complete hop list at the Tickled Pink blog and don't forget to leave a comment there as well telling us which of these new stamps is your fave of the release and why... we would love to know!

Hugs!


Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Making Memories Chloe's Closet packaging
stamps- Tickled Pink (Lil Little Lilith), Paper Trey Ink (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
ribbon
Martha Stewart border punch and butterfly punches
Prima flowers
Kaiser Craft pearls
Sharpie white marker
Copic black multiliner pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- YR30, YR31, YR23, YR24, Y38, Y11
eyes- B41, B45
clothes- YG21, YG23, YG03, E50, E51, 0, E31, E34, B41, B45, YR31, Y38