Pot O' Sprinkle

I made this for the Inspiration Challenge over on Splitcoaststampers today (IC118). I've been wanting to get this Sprinkle image inky for what feels like forever! LOL! I have to do a quick post today (I need to get cracking on a birthday cake for the double birthday party tomorrow to celebrate Harland and hubby's birthdays)!
I've got a cute little Poochie image stamped and matted (I'm hoping I'll have time to finish that up tonight).

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!





Card details:
Stamps: Pot O' Sprinkle, A Bit of the Blarney (The Cats Pajamas)
Ink: Black Staz-On
Cardstock: Basic Black, Certainly Celery, Shimmery White, Reminisce dp (Shamrock Confetti and Lucky You)
Other: corner rounder, ribbon from my stash, petite scalloped circle nesties, bling, Copic Spica glitter pens, WWC, Sakura black glaze pen

Dinking around!

Woohoo! I've learned how to add my signature to a post. LOL!

A case for using the Stamp-a-ma-jig

A pretty card ruined by a misplaced sentiment. Why didn't I use my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig?

Could it be:
a. The little black cat that is giving me love bites on my feet?
b. Is the tool SO complicated that its use would make one wary?
c. Is it 10:20 PM on a Sunday night and I was just too lazy to bring the trusty tool out?
d. Has the Stamp-a-ma-jig been lost to the piles of clutter on my stamp desk?

The answer is C (although D is not too far behind). Don't you hate it when an otherwise pretty card is botched by the misplacement of a sentiment? Oh well...I'm too tired to start it over so I'll just live with it. The card layout and colors and cased from a drop dead gorgeous card made by the very talented Beate Johns (I'll post a link to the specific card later. Right now I've got to start packing my lunch and getting ready to leave for work).

Happy Wednesday!

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful, Canvas
Ink: Timber Brown Staz-On, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Watercolor

Other: Chocolate Satin ribbon, vintage brads, Pretties kit, piercer and mat pack, corner punch, WWC, Art Institute glitter, dimensionals

Birthday Cupcake Mojo!

Sorry for the lack of posts this last week. I started my new job on Monday and the training shift is throwing me off (2:30 PM to 11:30 PM). I've also been spending 3 days a week in my oldest sons Kindergarten class (so he will at least see mommy during the week) which means that I'm having to wake up at 6:00 AM. Burning the candle at both ends has left little time for stamping. Hang in there with me though...I have a couple of cute things up my sleeve!

My oldest son will be turning 6 on Tuesday and this is going to be his birthday card. I used Julee's Mojo Monday sketch (Mojo26) over on her blog Poetic Artistry. The card uses my Hero Arts clear Cupcakes set. This is a perfect gender neutral stamp set (after all, boys like cupcakes too)! The sketch this week was a bit of a challenge for me, but I'm happy I gave it a try.

Have a wonderful week!

Stamps: Cupcakes (Hero Arts), Polka Dot (SU Background)

Card Stock: Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie, Shimmery White

Ink: Black Staz-On, Basic Grey, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Barely Banana

Other: Various Punches, Stickles, Wild Wasabi Striped and Double Stitched ribbon, dimensionals, glue dots, Basic Grey chipboard number, aquapainter

Hey There Cupcake!

This was made for a sketch challenge for the Creative Cuts and More design team members for the month of February. We had two sketch challenges that we could choose from (and you know how much I enjoy sketch challenges). You can see what the other sketch was if you mosy on over to Toni's blog. I have to say, I think that this turned out stinking cute! I typically am not pleased with my attempts at clean, no layer cards (I always like everyone else's, just not mine). I think that this is the first one that I have made that I actually really like (although please feel free to ignore the paperclip in the picture. This was the best way to get a picture of the image within the window)! *wink*

I started off with an A2 Small Circle Window Card in Cryogen White (Curious Metallic). I first masked off a long rectangular section using two post-it notes. I sponged Gable Green dye ink between the two masks, being careful to have the color lighter (almost white) towards the middle. Next I stamped various ribbons (from the Papertrey Ink Faux Ribbon set) in Versamagic Pretty Petunia within the green section. I then used the same Pretty Petunia ink to stamp the sentiment in the lower left hand corner of the card front. My next step was to place a Scallop Frame die cut in Amethyst (Stardream Metallic) to frame the circle. I *heart* this Amethyst color (it reminds me of a beautiful light Tanzanite color, which is one of my favorite gemstones)! Terry offers this Scallop Frame in her store but she doesn't have everything posted on the website yet (once it has been added to the website, I'll edit this post with a link). On the inside of the card, I lined up a cupcake image from my new Hero Arts Cupcakes set using my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig. I colored the cupcake image with my watercolor crayons and an aquapainter and then added some diamond stickles to the frosting.

Thanks for stopping by!

Wild Thing...I think I LOVE you!

ETA: Whoops...hit upload too quickly. Forgot to post a picture of the actual card! LOL!

I recently one a lovely set of stamps from Julee over at Verve Visual. I picked the Fancy Florals Remixed set as my free set but *ahem* had to order a few more things to help round out the envelope (why let a perfectly good envelope go to waste shipping just one little thing)! :-) Talk about super fast shipping! I think I received my ship notice late Wednesday night (I placed my order on Wednesday) and received it beautifully packaged in my mailbox on Friday. Thanks Julee!

I made this for Julee's Mojo Monday sketch challenge over on her blog (Mojo25)! I think if there is only one sketch challenge that I have a chance to do weekly, it will always be Julee's. I *heart* her sketches! I used my new Verve Visual Wild Thing set to make this card for my oldest son to tuck in his lunchbox next week. The second I saw this set, I was in love with it. Unfortunately, not having any employment offers in sight at the time, I had to restrict myself from purchasing the set when it first came out. I will be starting my new job tomorrow and I know that my oldest son will be hit the hardest by my being gone again. Unfortunately my new hours will be 2:30 pm - 11:30 pm, and since my oldest always wants me to snuggle him at night for a few minutes before he goes to sleep, he's going to be missing me. However the nice thing about these hours is that I'll be spending time with both of my boys during the day at Harland's school (so hopefully that will make up for the missing mommy at night thing). I know that Harland's teacher is really looking forward to having help during the day.

Karrie was also so sweet in nominating me for the Excellent award (she's such a sweetie)! I think just about everyone that I know of that blogs has this award up on their blog already, so I'm just gonna say "Thank you very much"!

Card details:
Stamps: Wild Thing (Verve Visual)
Cardstock: Papertrey White, Basic Black, Shimmery White, Pretty in Pink
Ink: Basic Black, Pixie Pink, Pretty in Pink, Wild Thing dp (KI Memories)
Other: Dew Drops, Diamond Stickles, Dew Drops, glue dots, dimensionals, Cuttlebug

If casing you is wrong...I don't want to be right!

*snort*! When I saw who today's Featured Stamper was on Splitcoaststampers, I jumped at the chance to make a card. The very talented Mary Jo Albright is the featured stamper today and she just oozes talent out of every single one of her pores. I know that she inspires me often with her lovely creations! I didn't even have to go far to find a card to case as she has posted the most adorable TCP creations within the past few days (and you know how I love my TCP)! Here is the card that I cased. The rules for the challenge are to case a card, but change up three elements. For my card, I changed the format of the card from square to rectangle, changed the TCP images, and I changed up the colors and designer paper used.

Thanks Beth for the awesome challenge!

Card details:

Stamps: Havin' a Pow Wow (TCP)

Ink: Black Staz-On, Chocolate Chip

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Really Rust, Shimmery White, Outlaw (retired dp SU)

Other: Twill, copper brads (MM), Copic Spica glitter pens, piercer and mat pack, WWC