Hop, Skip and a Jump

Happy Hump Day!

I've had this fun image from Sasayaki Glitter over Christmas and colored it in late December, just didn't get to it until now. This image is called Christmas Friends. I colored the image using Copic markers. 

Life's Simple Pleasures

Hello Stampers! I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. We spent time shopping and hanging out at the beach to celebrate the last days of Summer. Summer went by too fast this year.
Today we have a new challenge over at Tuesday Throwdown with the "Best Friends" theme and Robyn's Fetish is our sponsor. I used this adorable bunny image for my friendship card.

CCM DT Showcase..Hello

Hello Stampers and Happy Friday! I don't have many all occasion cards so what a perfect time to make some with Chi Chi Memories' Spring Is Here set. This adorable set has many images perfect for any occasion. 

CCM DT Showcase...I Got Your Back

Hi Stampers! I am loving the Friendship set from CCM. The sentiments are perfect for each image. I colored in the image with Copic markers and matted the image onto kraft cardstock.

CCM DT Showcase...It's Ok

Hello Stampers! August is here and that means it's time for another fun new release from CCM. This month's new stamp is called Friendship and comes with 3 adorable images and matching sentiments.

Friendship

Hello Stampers! I had to try my hand at a white on white card. It's so different but I love how it turned out.

PTT112 - Color Challenge

Hello Stampers! It's time for another challenge over at Party Time Tuesdays. We have wonderful sponsors with awesome prizes this week. This image is from The Paper Shelter called Sophie in the Country.

Vintage

Hello Stampers! My card today features this wonderful friendship sentiment from There She Goes called In All the World. I love this set with all the adorable images and beautiful sentiments to go along with them.

Friendship

This is another one of my shabby chic cards from my class with Mona Pendleton. It sure was a fun class.

How fun is this? Making these flowers? I love it! I have a stash to use now. I am going to have to buy more shabby chic looking papers to use. I also didn't realize that paint comes in a little bottle with a sponge dauber tip to use. It was the first time I didn't make a mess with paint. It was a lot of fun playing with paint, paper and ink. 

I am linking to the following:

Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge - anything goes

Shabby Chic

I love the shabby chic look and have been wanting to create some cards with that theme. I finally had a chance to do just that by taking a class at Paper Tales Friday when my kids were in school. Our teacher was Mona Pendleton and she was a fabulous teacher. I would definitely take another class with her. It's been years since I had taken a class. It was so much fun to be around other stampers. After taking this class, I have fallen in love with dies and glitter all over again. This was one of the cards we did. The papers are from Melissa Frances and the sentiments we used are from MFT. I can't remember what the set is called but the sentiments are so fun to use. 

Our Creative Corner - shabby chic
Phindy's Place Challenge - use 1 image, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - sentimental
Penny's Challenges - anything goes
Creative Monday - stitching
Party Time Tuesdays - vintage or shabby chic

Sunflower

I am having so much fun stamping! I take a little bit of time out here and there to stamp. I love all the challenges out there in blogland. It really helps with the inspiration. On my card today, I am using this large sunflower stamp from MFP and colored it in using various shades of yellow Copic markers. I didn't want to tie my usual bow so I tripled the layers and added a button. On my pleated ribbon, I used a piece of double sided redline tape then randomly folded the pleats to adhere it onto the tape. The last thing I did was pierced around the oval cardstock and adhered the sentiment to the ribbon using 3-d foam tape.

I am linking to the following challenges:

FOSTV - paper piercing
Simon Says Stamp  - anything goes
Just Keep On Creating - anything goes
Crafty Emma - anything goes
Creative Craft 2 - anything goes
Great Impressions - anything goes
The Poodles Parlour - anything goes
Our Creative Corner - sketch
Make It Monday - anything goes

Good Friends

Note: All posts preceding this were transformed from my business blog.


It's Tuesday and that means times for another Tuesday Throwdown. The challenge is background stamping. This is to much fun to do. I love using stamps to create my own patterned paper.  This week Mark's Finest Papers gave the DT various stamps to use from their designer clear stamp collection. I love my set! It's has wonderful friendship sentiments paired with fruits and cute little bug stamps. I stamped the berries all over then used coloring pencils to color in the image. Don't you love the sentiment? I popped the bee up using 3-d foam tape and I curled up the wings to add more dimension.