Happy Birthday

Happy Tuesday all,

This is the second card that I made on Sunday. I need a birthday card for a friend whose big day is coming up next week. I also wanted to get a card made using Jen's Deconstructed Sketch #36 before Thursday when her next sketch comes out.

I stamped the presents first, then masked them off to stamp the balloons behind. The ink was applied directly to the stamps prior to stamping. The birthday banner is part of the stamp set and I carefully trimmed it out to use as the corner element in the sketch.

Supplies
Stamps: Patterned Party by Stampin' Up
Paper: TE blue, green, red and snow white and My Minds Eye Lime Twist "Out of the Blue" patterned papers
Ink: all Stampin' Up markers Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Real Red, Sahara Sand and More Mustard
Other: Kaiser red and green pearls, sewing machine and dimensionals

Thanks everyone,
Colleen

Frosty and Fabulous

Monday Monday, So Good To Me. . .

Another work week is here. As I mentioned a few days ago, this week will find me working in Arizona for three days. At least it's not  July. I'm excited to get this week started because I'm taking the Standard Copic certification class on Friday. WOOT, WOOT! I am SO excited. I've grown to love my Copics and I can't wait to learn more ways to blend and shade while coloring.

I've been noticing many of you getting started on your 2012 Christmas cards and thinking I should get started myself, so with Karen's new Sweet Sunday Sketch #151 yesterday, I decided to get to it. I even have a new Christmas/Winter stamp set that I had not used yet to get started with.

Ms. Fabulous snowlady is colored with Copics and I used some Stardust Stickles to glam up her hat and scarf. She is framed with some tiny pink rhinestones around the big scalloped Nestie.
Here are the Copics that I used:

Supplies
Stamps: Frosty and Fabulous Snowman set by My Favorite Things
Paper: Stampin' Up red, pink and pool party card stock, TE buttercream card stock and Echo Park Season's Greetings patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and rich cocoa, SU Riding Hood red and Copics
Other: Wonky Rectangle and Big Scalloped Rectangle Nesties, small pink rhinestones, SU pool party button, SU pink baker's twine, sewing machine, the Big Shot and dimensionals

Have a wonderful week everyone. Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Love Shack, Baby Love Shack. . .

Who doesn't have this song running through their mind while playing with this sweet TE stamp set? :)

Here's my card for the new TESC151 challenge. Love the sketch this week and I'm so glad that Taylor and her crew are back with the Friday sketches.

I paper pieced the "Love Shack" with papers from January's Key Ingredients kit. (I think that the small heart paper kind of looks like bricks.) The heart windows are pieced with the dark red card stock from the kit then covered with red Stickles. The heart bushes in front are covered with green Stickles. The heart coming out of the chimney is from the new TE jumbo heart border die.

The rest of the papers and the heart buttons are also from the January KI kit.

Supplies
Stamps: Love Shack by Taylored Expressions
Papers: TE card stock and Crate Paper-Paper Hearts patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Riding Hood Red and R27 Copic
Other: classic circle and lacy circle Nesties, TE heart buttons, Stickles, sewing machine, the Big Shot and dimensionals

Thanks all,
Colleen

Hope Your Day Is. . .

I hope your Saturday is "as happy as happy gets."

Hi everyone,
I'm on a stamping and blogging roll this week. I think this is my sixth day in a row of posting cards. I stamped almost every evening this past week, and I loved it! Unfortunately, starting Tuesday, I will be working out of town for the next two weeks, (sad face inserted here), so I'll be back to only stamping on the weekends.

Today's card I made with two challenges in mind. The layout is this week's MFTWSC56 sketch, and the papers I used fit for the Recipe Sapping In Print challenge at Linda's Catered Crop blog.

I used one of my favorite PI girls (is it possible to pick a favorite?) and several MFT Die-namics dies. Lots of sewing again as well.

The fence Die-namic is cut from cork for even more texture. To give the black newsprint papers more "pop," I added black pearls to the corners and to the center of the flower element.

Here's a peek of the inside:

More sewing and another Die-namics flower, this time with a black button and baker's twine for the center. The "happy birthday" stamp on the inside is from SU.

Here are the Copics that I used to color the image:

Supplies
Stamps: Pure Innocence Feelin' Froggy set by My Favorite Things and Teeny Tiny Wishes set by Stampin' UP
Paper: Taylored Expressions red, pink and buttercream card stock,
patterned paper from a TE Key Ingredients kit from 2009 ???
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU real red and Copics
Other: Die-namics Dizzy Doily, Woodgrain Fence, large Scallped border and Fringed Perennial dies, cork, Want 2 Scrap black pearls, sewing machine, the Big Shot, SU button, baker's twine, and dimensionals

Have a great weekend all and thanks for checking in today,
Colleen

Love Is In the Air

TGIF!

I put this card together one evening this week while watching the Australian Open tennis matches. I love watching tennis, both on TV and in person. I played a lot in high school and college, and still love the game.

My card uses the current Card Positioning System layout, #252, sponsored this week by Taylored Expressions. Stamps, papers and dies used are all TE.

The papers are from the Valentine's Day Project Pantry kit. I love the reds and pinks with the kraft card stock. Speaking of kraft card stock, I'm entering this card in Jeanie's That's Krafty Thursday #57 challenge as well.

Supplies
Stamps: Love Everywhere set by Taylored Expressions
Paper: TE kraft, red and choice buttercream card stock and Pebbles With Love patterned papers
Ink: SU crumb cake and ridding hood red, Memento tuxedo black
Other: TE cloud border and clouds dies, TE hearts impressions plate, classic circle Nesties, pink rhinestones, SU corner rounder punch, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Thanks for stopping in today,
Colleen

Thinking Of You

Happy Thursday,

I finally got my January SFYTT card done. I am going to try to do all of them this year. Last year I missed a few. This card certainly evolved. I had picked out my patterned papers to use, but when I was putting everything together, I decided I didn't like it, so, I ended up going with completely different papers, which I think work much better with the stamp. The first were way too bright and tended to over power the image.  Anyhoo, here is my card.

The papers are from Taylor's January Key Ingredients kit. I was inspired by this card by Jodi and added lots of bling.

The heart and circle background is done with an SU letterpress plate and whisper white craft ink. I was hoping for a more embossed look, but I think I needed to add another layer to my sandwich prior to running it through the Big Shot. It ended up looking more like a stamped image instead of letter pressed. I still like the way it looks.

Supplies
Rose Wreath set by Taylored Expressions
Paper: From TE January KI kit, TE card stock and Crate Paper "Paper Heart" patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU craft Whisper White and Copics
Other: SU letter press plate, classic circle and scalloped circle Nesties, SU corner rounder punch, SU rhinestones, TE ribbon, the Big Shot, sewing machine, and dimensionals

I'm looking forward to the weekend, how about you?

Thanks for stopping in,
Colleen

Love You

As promised, here is the second card that I worked up for my craft group get together on Saturday. Since the other card is so feminine, I  thought I should try for a more masculine card. The supplies are mostly from the Stampin' Up.

To get the dots fairly even around the large heart cutout, I placed the framelit die in the cutout area and then used a Spica glitter pen to make the dots along the edge of the die.

Supplies
Stamps: PS, I Love You set from Stampin' Up
Paper: SU grey, black, Cherry Cobbler and red glimmer card stock, SU DSP retired
Ink: SU Cherry Cobbler and black Spica glitter pen
Other: SU embossing folder, SU Hearts Collection Framelits dies, SU tripple heart punch, the Big Shot and dimensionals

Thanks for looking in today,
Colleen