Sending Big Hugs and You're My Cup Of Tea

Hello again,

Here are a couple more LOVEFEST 2013 cards.

The first one is for the Day 7 challenge hosted by My Favorite Things. The challenge is to make an encouraging card. This one is for my sweet niece Rachel, who is away at college.

The sketch is Mojo Monday 282.

Card 2 is for the Day 1 challenge. This challenge is to use supplies that spell out L.O.V.E. Mine are:
L: layers, O: orange, V: Verve stamps, E: embossing folder.

I'm loving the orange and gray colors on this card for some reason.

Supplies Card 1
Stamps: Big Greetings set by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU pumpkin pie and pretty in pink card stock and Studio Calico Here and There patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Other: Circle Nesties, Die-namics Fishtail Flags STAX dies and Heart die from the Homespun Birdhouse set, pink rhinestones, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Supplies Card 2
Stamps: Better With You set by Verve stamps
Paper: SU gray, whisper white, and pumpkin pie card stock and Crate Paper Acorn Avenue pattern papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and SU Pumpkin Pie
Other: Sizzix embossing folder, circle Nesties, TE small scalloped border die, SU ribbon, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks for looking,
Colleen

My Sweet Friend

Happy Wednesday evening,

Or maybe I should say night as it's pretty late. I just finished posting my final LOVEFEST 2013 challenge cards over at Splitcoaststampers. I managed to get all 11 completed, WOOT-WOOT!

This card is the last one that I made. I just finished it in fact. It's for the Day 11 challenge hosted by The Greeting Farm. The challenge is to make a love-themed card with dies. I pulled out many Taylored Expressions dies to fulfill the challenge requirements. When I say many, I mean it, whew! Even though that's the case, I wanted the overall feel to be Clean & Simple.

The colors are SU Pool Party and Pacific Point. I wanted something other than red and pink since the theme is "hearts".

Supplies
Stamps: Banner Day 3 by Taylored Expressions
Paper: TE kraft, SU Pool Party and Pacific Point card stocks
Ink: SU Pacific Point
Other: TE Hearts Impressions plate, TE Curly border die, TE medium and small layering doilies, TE Banner Day 3 die, TE Handmade charms die, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Only two more work days, something to be excited about. We are supposed to have temps in the high 70s tomorrow and maybe 80s on Saturday. The joys of living in San Diego!

Thanks all,
Colleen

Thinking Of You

Hi and welcome,

I have been having so much fun working through the LOVEFEST 2013 challenges over at Splitcoaststampers. Today's card is from the Day 6 challenge by The Cats Pajamas. The challenge is to use this photo

for our inspiration. I don't have any TCP stamps, but parts of the photo reminded me of one of the stamps in the Celebrate Life set by Taylored Expressions. Coincidentally, this months KI kit has some great black and white patterned papers as well as a nice bright yellow card stock that I thought would be perfect to use.

The sketch is the current CAS(E) This Sketch  layout.

Supplies
Stamps: Celebrate Life set by Taylored Expressions
Paper: TE yellow and white card stock and My Minds Eye Meadow Lark patterned papers (TE Feb 2013 KI kit)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and SU Daffodil Delight
Other: TE yellow button also from the KI kit, black embroidery thread and dimensionals

Thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Miss You

Good Monday Morning all,

How was your weekend? I hope a good one for you. I managed to get lots of stamping time in so I obviously had a good one. I worked on some of the Splitcoaststampers LOVEFEST 2013 challenges. Such fun challenges. I'm hoping to get them all done before the 28th.

For today's card, I used this week's Papers Players sketch for the layout and combined it with the Day 5 "Die Crazy" challenge hosted by Simon Says Stamp.  I used many MFT/Die-namics dies with very little stamping.

Supplies
Stamps: Homespun Bird House stamp set by My Favorite Things
Paper: SU whisper white card stock and My Minds Eye "On the Bright Side - Two patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Other: Die-namics Homespun Birdhouse dies, Fishtail Flags STAX dies, teal rhinestone and pearls, sewing machine, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Cheers

Happy Sunday stampers,

Yesterday afternoon I managed to get another LOVEFEST 2013 card made. This one is for Day #3, hosted by Stampingbella and it's called "Bring On the Bling." I haven't used any of  my Stamping Bella stamps in forever! I've forgotten how fun they are to work with. And, as you can see, I used Karen G.'s Sweet Sunday Sketch #178 for the layout.

I made this card with a certain friend in mind. I know that she'll love it. For my bling I used pink Stickles over the coloring on the cosmo and Fruit Punch Stickles over the coloring on her tank top. And, since that wasn't enough, on went the pink rhinestones around the scallops of the Nestie die. You don't think it's too much do you? : )

Here's the inside:

I just love this sentiment from My Favorite Things "Lets Toast" set.

Supplies

Stamps: Cosmobella from Stampingbella and Let's Toast set from My Favorite Things

Paper: TE Kraft, SU Bravo Burgundy and Very Vanilla card stock. Crate Paper Acorn Avenue pattern papers

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Bravo Burgundy and Copics

Other: Big Scalloped and Classic Circle Nesties, Die-Namics Fishtail Flags STAX die, Stickles, pink rhinestones, sewing machine, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks all for stopping in,

Colleen

Let's Celebrate You

Hi again,

I thought I'd do one more post today. This is a card that I made for the Seize the Birthday #7 challenge, feminine birthday card. I pulled out some really old SU DSP to go along with this fun Pure Innocence stamp set to put this one together.

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence "Hula Girl" set by My Favorite Things
Paper: TE pink card stock, X-Press It Blending card stock, SU River Rock card stock, SU Ginger Blossom DSP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and Copics
Other: Labels 9 Nesties, Die-namics flower die, SU Fans EF, red Stickles, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks all,
Colleen

A Little Love Goes A Long Way

Hi and happy Saturday all,

I'm happy to say that I'm home this weekend and I plan to stamp. I've already been at it, playing along with the Splitcoaststampers Love Fest Challenges.

For my cards today, I chose the Day 7 challenges hosted by Taylored Expressions called "A Little Love Goes A Long Way." Taylor has challenged us to make a set of 3x3 inch cards.

I pulled out the TE Let's Chat set, the coordinating dies, and a couple other TE dies to put this cute set together.

The phones are all colored with Copics and I added some rhinestones to the phone dials and to the heart dies. After all, nothing says LOVE like some bling!

Here's a peak at the inside. I kept this very simple and made two of each sentiment to make my six cards.

I think they turned out too cute! How about you?

Supplies
Stamps: Let's Chat set by Taylored Expressions
Paper: TE blue, red, yellow and white card stock. The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine patterned papers by My Minds Eye
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight and Not Quite Navy classic pads and Copics
Other: TE Let's Chat dies, TE small Layering Doily die, TE Heart Tag die, SU Baker's Twine, yellow embroidery thread, SU clear rhinestones, Kaiser yellow, red and blue rhinestones, the Big Shot, and dimensionals.

Have a great weekend all and thanks for looking,
Colleen

Thinking Of You

Hi and happy Wednesday all,

I haven't played with the MFTWSC in quite awhile and since I liked the look of last week's sketch, I used it to make one of my cards last weekend. I pulled out an older PI stamp set to work with and I really like the way it turned out. I think it's the bling, LOL.

The papers are from the TE January KI kit. I colored the image with Copis, lots of Copics. (I didn't keep track of them for the post though.) After doing the layering, I fussy cut the image and popped it up with dimensionals. I added some light pink Taylor's Tiny Twinkles to the center of the flowers and used some pink TE flower rhinestones to embellish the oval under the sentiment.

Supplies
Stamps: Because You're Special set by My Favorite Things
Paper: Taylored Expressions Pink and Red card stock, X Press It blending card stock and For the Record 2 by My Minds Eye patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics and SU Real Red
Other: classic Oval Nesties, Die-namics Fishtail Flags STAX dies, sewing machine, Taylor's Tiny Twinkles and flower rhinestones, SU tiny pearl, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Happy Birthday

Hi fellow stampers,

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I've been away from blogging for a few weeks due to work and personal travel. I sure miss my stamps, ink and paper on these long periods when I'm not able to get into my craft room. I had a few hours today to make a couple of cards. This card uses Jen's Deconstructed Sketch 88 for the layout, and The Paper Player's 132 challenge for the colors.

Supplies
Stamps: Happy Moments set by Stampin' Up
Paper: SU Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals and Whisper White card stock and SU DSP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Midnight Muse and Copics R83, R85, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y18, B26, B28
Other: Classic circle and Scalloped circle Nesties, SU embossing folder, Die-namics Fishtail Flags dies,  yellow pearls, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

I hope you have a great Sunday evening and week to come. I'm traveling again for work and have to leave for the airport at 6:00 am in the morning. I'll be in Colorado Springs for the week.

Thanks for coming by,
Colleen