Some More PaperTrey

I am really enjoying my new PaperTrey stamp sets, I pulled out my Just Hatched set and my Shapes by Design sets to create these fun card. On the first card I used my Jumbo Scalloped Punch to punch out the Aqua Mist CS and mat the 'Little One' sentiment on it. Then I used Aqua Mist CS as the base and added some of the new DP that PaperTrey released, this paper comes from the 6 x 6 pad and I love it! Then to tie it all together I used the Satin ribbon, also just released, to complete the card.The second card I created using the sentiment 'Thinking of You' and the wonderful shapes from Shapes by Design to create some great background paper. Lastly I tied some white grosgain ribbon around the base to tie it in, oh and don't forget the little shapes under the sentiment. I love these sets! Let me know what you think! (I tricked the system, I brought the images to work and uploaded them...lol....I win!)

Upload Already!

Ladies, this is just a quick post about my blogger issues. I do not know why but I have not been able to upload card images since Friday, and trust me it is not for lack of trying. This weekend I made two PaperTrey Ink cards and two Gina K. Designs cards, hopefully it will allow me to upload something tonight when I get home, if not I may be looking into using a different computer or a different host. I will let you know what I decide to do, but I wanted to fill you in. I have not forgotten about you, and cards will be coming as soon as I can get them to upload!

PaperTrey!

Today was a lot of fun at work we had our second International Foods day! Most of the office brought in a dish from their heritage and everything was super tasty. I was going to make Enchiladas but I ran out of time so I whipped together some Guaqumole and a layered dip with tortilla chips, nothing traditional Mexican but yummy just the same. I am mostly Polish but I am closer to the other side of my family, the Mexican side which means some Mexican food….yum! There was SO much food brought in that everyone made up plates for dinner and dessert tonight, plus if you brought in food there was still plenty to return home with. Out of the 50 people in my office I would say at least 35 of them brought something in so we had a wide variety of salads, appetizers, main courses, and desserts from all around the world.
Also, since it is Wednesday I don’t have anything special planned for after work so it is stamping time! I pulled out my newest PaperTrey stamps and goodies to try something a little different then I typically create. I love the new 'Shapes By Design' set and I think these colors work well with the set, the green is the new Spring Moss from PaperTrey. Enjoy!

PaperPretties Cards!

Ladies, I took the time last week to create a few cards using my PaperPretties stamps and I love how they came out! This first one is using Wade E. Bug hes all decked out in dots! Do you like? I have never created an acrylic card, so I thought this would be the best stamp to try one out with.The second card features Snowflake from another PaperPretties stamp that I LOVE. I am a big penguin person, although I don't stamp with them enough I love them, they are all just so cute! This one has to be one of my favorite penguin stamps, I mean look how happy Snowflake is!

Over 200 posts!

Can you believe it? I have already reached 200+ posts.....woo-hoo! Thank you eveyone who reads those posts I know it can't be easy. Today I am sharing with you a card I created for a MFT swap with the PaperPretties ladies, I used the 'Meet Me at the Cafe' set which I just love from MFT. If you haven't taken the plunge and ordered at least one set from My Favorite Things then what are you waiting for! Kim and her team of ladies are wonderful, really, really wonderful and you really got to try them out. If you have never used acrylic stamps then why not give them a try, if you don't like them you could always send them my way! You may remember that I gave you a sneek peek of this card a while ago, but I had to wait until everyone received their swaps back before I could share this with you! I think you can see it, but I used my clear Spica glitter pen over most of the blue to give it a shine, I also used crystal effects over the wine glasses. Enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today is Valentine’s Day! Now I haven’t posted many Valentine’s but everyone at work traded a few goodies to let each other know that they are loved. I received many Hershey Kisses and conversation hearts…its just all so cute! One of the department heads went around giving all the girls those Cherry Hershey Kisses, how sweet is that! Of course the rest of management could care less if it’s a holiday of any sort, but you know how it is.

There were 12 people who went to lunch together for Valentine’s Day at the office, it was nice to go out and celebrate with some of my friends at work. So today I have a few Sweetybella cards for you, the card above is the January card of the month for PaperPretties. I love the decorative paper that came with this box all of the colors are soft and sweet, perfect for the stamp this month. Hope you like it!

Boxes Galore!

I received my PaperPretties box last weekend and I had to break it out and get stamping, but I realized I never created my December Bella Box card, so I thought I would share the sample first. I think this box may be my favorite yet, the paper is just stunning and the accessories are wonderful. Christie really out did herself with the contents of this box....love it!I am also a subscriber to the My Favorite Things boxes and this month the card sample colors were fun, but I think it was missing a little something. I created the sample card and it turned out alright, although I like the card I created better than the sample. The blue ribbon really ties the card together and the stamps in this set are just so much fun! I think this may be one of my favorite mini sets that MFT has released so far.I hope you liked my cards from today, although I only designed one....lol.....tomorrow I will post the sample from the January Bella Box and my own sample creation so be sure to stop by and check them out, no for what you are all waiting for!

We have a winner for Sister Sweets:

Sarah/WAstamper said...
Hi Jackie! Love your blog. I've been following SU and A Muse for a few years now, and have been following Papertrey and Verve Visual most recently. Those are my favorites right now, but I also like the Bellas, Stampendous, Hero Arts, Lizzie Anne...I am an equal opportunity stamper!!

Congrats Sarah! Please e-mail me your snail mail address and I will get these goodies out to you soon.

Its Snowing!

Its snowing! So much so that my part time job, the local library, decided to close its doors early today. Woo-Hoo! That means I have plenty of time to catch up on my swaps and create cards for fun challenges, in fact two of those hours I will be getting paid for working when I am in fact stamping. How wonderful is that!?! I have a whole list of things to post about for this week including pictures and cards for the January PaperPretties Boxes (Stamping Bella and My Favorite Things), Julee’s Mojo Monday, Manda’s Monthly Bella Card Swap, my Bella Card Kit Swap (almost all swapped out). So much to do and so little time, so hold on to your seats cards will be a flying!

The card above is for Manda's Monthly Bella Card swap...so what do you think? I don't know if its good enough, something about the card bothers me but it needs to go postal tomorrow. Oh well, I tried I guess. Also, you have until tomorrow night to post to be entered for Sister Sweets below!

More Info on Sister Sweets

So I’ve been going through my goodies and I decided what my ‘Sister Sweets’ will be this time around! If you are randomly selected you will win some Prima Flowers and some great May Arts ribbon! I don’t know about you but I follow Jody’s blog Confessions of a Ribbon Addict (link to the left side) and I recently ordered a few extra spools of ribbon in four shinny wonderful colors, so a yard of each and a bag full of Prima Flowers in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. I was going to wait until tonight to draw a name, but since I am only now posting this I will extend the date until Wednesday night at 7pm. At that time I will draw a number randomly and someone will take home ‘Sister Sweets’! Also, tonight when I get home I plan on creating a card or two using my PaperTrey stamps so that I can place an order later this week and I have a Bella card to create for the monthly Bella card swap I am part of, so cards to come! Just post a reply to the post below this to be entered to win some goodies!

Sister Sweets

I hope you all had a wonderful week, I know I did. I am looking forward to hearing about the CHA news and the two big releases next week both PaperTrey and Gina K. are releasing new stamps and goodies, what more can one have to look forward to?! Kimmie’s birthday celebration is almost over, she has posted her last challenge so I have three more challenges to create cards for, but I am so there! If you are also playing along you have until Monday to get those cards created and posted somewhere, also be sure to link these cards up to Kimmie’s blog so she can see all your creations. I created this card for Kimmie's 6th Challege, create a Thank You or Thinking of You or You are Special to Me creation. SoI went for a 'Thank You' card.....no sentiment but a super cute Magonlia Stamps image. This image came my way via Wish RAK and I just love it!

So I have a question for you ladies! How many stamp companies do you follow? I don’t mean which companies do you order stamps from every now and then I mean actually follow. I would love hear what you have to say and maybe, just maybe I will select a person randomly to get a 'Sister Sweets' from me *wink wink*. Perhaps a card from this week or a few stamping supplies…we shall see! I guess you have until Tuesday to post your listing and then someone may get some goodies! Do you like the name? Sister Sweets? I think it works!

Stamping Away

Did you see? Kimmie commented on my tin below…yay! I am thrilled that you enjoyed the tin, that lion is just adorable and I was lucky enough to have a SGF get this set for me…thank you! Now tonight is the release party for My Favorite Things who is apparently releasing three new sets. I don’t have it yet but I will be receiving the new Mini set through PaperPretties and I have been eyeing the new twisted sentiments stamp set that the MFT Design Team has been sharing, they look wonderful! In fact Kimmie is one of the MFT Design Team members who has been show casing the new sentiments, so I decided to use one of my newer MFT stamp sets for the second challenge she posted for her birthday celebration….a sketch challenge! I love sketch challenges simply because no matter what the sketch each card that follows that sketch is always different. I took a different take on Kimmie's Sketch, taking it as a stepping stone and not an actual sketch persay....enjoy! I also decided to try out the Mojo Monday sketch challenge that Julee posted using one of my newer Verve Visual sets. I have now used two of the 6 I own…lol….I don’t feel so bad about purchasing those new sets yesterday. This set is called 'Seeing Stars' and it features all sorts of stars in some great designs and patterns. I just had to have this set, I was going through what stamps I own and I realize that I did not own any star stamps! So a solution appeared….Verve Visual has three fun sets using stars and I am enjoying playing with this set. This paper is also from the Basic Grey Two Scoops paper pack, I had not seen anyone use it and it sort of jumped out at me tonight so I gave it a whirl!Oh! Have you stopped by Nichole’s blog recently for all the PaperTrey news? I am so excited to see everything they have in store for their customers at PaperTrey. I ordered more than the 14 sets this year so I will be receiving the anniversary set and I am planning on placing an order, a nice size order. I did not place an order last month since I had not yet used the stamp sets that I picked up in December, so I think its time to ink those babies up! The challenge Kimmie posted today was all about making a Valentine’s Day card, so what better time to use the PaperTrey stamps!

Too Much To Do....Too Little Time

Unfortunately last night I had to fill out an employee evaluation on myself for the library I work for part time so there was no card making to be done. So far I have a color challenge, two sketch challenges, a square card challenge and an altered item challenge to complete so make sure you stop by tomorrow and for the rest of the week….I am stamping away! Also with MFT releasing new stamps and Verve Visual releasing new stamp soon (on pre-order now!) I need to stamp more with the new sets I have received from them. My goal this year is to not order new stamps without playing with at least the newest stamps I have received, I’ve been pretty good about keeping up but it is hard work! I need to create a few more cards with PaperPretties stamps before I can order the new ones coming later this month, I want to break out my newest Gina K. purchases so I am ready for the mini release coming this month and using a few of my Rubber Romance stamps wouldn’t hurt either. Too many things to do not enough time! This tin is for Kimmie's first challenge to make an altered item. I decided to pull out my C.C. Designs stamps and use the 'Love Ya Lots' set and this adorable lion....isn't he cute! I never realized how hard it is to take a picture of a tea tin! I hope you like it...I just think it is so much fun!

More Hearts

If you haven't seen me post about Julee and her wonderful stamps from Verve Visual allow me to do it again. I have had my eye on these stamps since Julee opened the doors to Verve Visual and for the last stamp release I ordered the 5 sets released. I have only ink up one of the five sets but I am loving the 'Wild Thing' set. Julee has posted a sketch challenge with one winner being selected, in fact that winner will be a Guest Designer for Verve Visual so of course I had to join up and try this sketch out. This will be the fourth sketch Julee has posted that I have taken part in and I am thrilled I decided to join in on all the fun! The center of this card uses the heart outline stamp and the heart filled stamp, in fact there are 4 of each kind in the center creating a flower from 8 hearts. I love the effect of these hearts! The decorative paper is from the new Basic Grey paper Two Scoops, which is a wonderful collection of patterns and colors. Be sure to stop by soon, I plan on cranking out a few cards for Kimmie's Celebation....Happy Birthday Kimmie!...and Mojo Monday is coming as well!

Delay....

Has anyone been having problems with their blogger? I have been having issues with attaching and inserting pictures to my post, because of this my posts have been typed up with no cards to share. I am going to look into a few alternative ways to attach pictures so that I can post the card I created last night, but I thought I would let all of you know that at least one card is coming as soon as I can get that image up and running! In the mean time….the Giants won and my Dad is thrilled, he was yelling and jumping around last night with a few of the other people we had over last night. I hope all of you who had a party had a blast and ate all sorts of yummy and unhealthy goodies! I cleaned my room ladies, there are still a few areas that need to be cleaned a bit more, but the transformation is amazing. I actually have floor space in my room and I can see most of my stamping supplies! I also discovered that I have a LOT of things that people have given me….so I may have a few goodies to share with you guys, I don’t know when or how, but stay tuned.

Quick And Easy

The other night was the Bella Pajama Party so I stopped by and created a simple and quick card following the great sketch challenge that was posted. I wanted to go for a card that fit the sketch but had clean, clear lines...nothing too popping, if you know what I mean. Hope you like it, I plan on creating a few more card following a few sketches I have seen recently, but I need to get back to cleaning. My mom is having many people over this weekend for the superbowl so my room needs a major cleaning. If I go missing I am under the mass of paper, crafting goodies, and clothes!

Sophia

So today I finally sat down and created a card using on of the new PaperPretties stamps. This set features both Sophia and Snowflake....I of course had to dress Sophia up to play out in the snow and I love it! This stamp is a lot of fun to use as is the paper I have stocked up from the PaperPretties store!I have been asked a few times what these boxes I keep refering to are all about so I thought I would fill you all in. PaperPretties is a company run by Christie (who is great!) that offers monthly card kit boxes. I discovered Christie and her card classes in Feb. of 2007 and since then I have bee thrilled with the content of these boxes. Each month a box shows up at my door with more than enough to make the same card (the card design of the month) six times over including all the needed paper, embellishments, instructions and envelopes to mail these creations out. Now, I refer to these boxes and PaperPretties a lot since I am a customer and I enjoy the goodies and creations that come my way as well as the company of the PaperPretties Girls who are all wonderful! At this time you can not sign up for the month stamp boxes, but Christie also offers monthly Nestablities and Copic boxes, plus she has recently added the extra boxes to her store for those ladies who want in but missed the cut off date. I promise to post here if the monthly card classes open up again, right now the three monthly boxes feature Bella, My Favorite Things, or Rubber Romance.

Baby Its Cold...

'Outside' it is pretty cold, so I have taken the time to complete the November My Favorite Things box example, and my own take on what to do with the box contents. The colors of the November box are a lot of fun, bright and fun wintery colors, the perfect for a wintery day.
The paper is wonderful as it typically is for the PaperPretties boxes and the embellishments are a lot of fun. Shimmery ribbon, crystals, and snowflake brads....what more to love! So far I have yet to be disappointed by the box contents, and this box is just like that.The above card is my take on the box contents, I try to do something completely different with my examples to explore what the box holds. This card has some yummy metallic paper that the first card does not show, but is the best! You also can't see the glitter, but the snowflake paper has glitter on it! I also have to create some cards from my December Bella box which features Snowbunnyabella...she is coming, and one day she will be posted her. Enjoy ladies!

So....

So even though I didn’t post yesterday/last night does not mean I wasn’t thinking about it. I starting working on the PaperPretties card of the month for my November My Favorite Things box when I got side tracked. It seems that my house will be the hosting spot for about 15-20 families this weekend and with that my room needs a MAJOR cleaning. Since I live at home still I need to fit everything in my bedroom, now my room is about 16’ x 16’, but with just my crafting things the room fills up fast. If it looked more organized I would share a picture, but since it really is a mess….leave it to your imagination for now. I may share some images once I clean things up a bit. I have been trying to get rid of things I don’t use, organize what I have, and pack things away into the attic if I don’t need them, but I think this will take longer than I thought it would.

I do hope to complete the November MFT Box card tonight and possibly even create my own version. Also on the list of things to do is to create a card with polka dots (PaperPretties weekly challenge), bundle up my Wish RAK Exchange package, create something Hanna related, and stop by the Stamping Bella pajama party tonight. Speaking of PaperPretties weekly challenges I won the challenge from two weeks ago and I never post my winning card, so here it is!
The challenge was to take a card you already created and revisit it in a way that would improve the card itself. I created this card as part of one of my own takes on a Bella box from September, so for this challenge I added a few things. The red paper was added as were the heart shaped brads (both items came from other PaperPretties boxes) and although you can’t really make it out I also added my Copic Glitter markers the Bella, giving her and extra sparkle. Now several of you lovely ladies have asked me about PaperPretties and enrolling for one of the wonderful boxes I have shared with you. I spoke with Christie about the boxes last week and the Bella boxes, Rubber Romance boxes, and MFT boxes are all full but there are open memberships for the Nestabilities and the Copic boxes that Christie offers. If the membership for any of the stamping boxes open up I will be sure to let you know, in the mean time you should stop by the store and pick up some of the cute new stamps PaperPretties have released….they’re too cute for words!

More Mojo!

Today the plan was to use the new PaperPretties stamps I received in the mail, but I got my hands on some Verve Visual stamps I have had my eye on for a while. Since the Mojo Monday challenge is being hosted by Julee (creator of Verve Visual) I thought it was only right to attempt her sketch challenge with stamps she creates.For this card I used the Wild Thing set from Verve Visual to match the wild things going on with the decorative background paper. This paper is from the Basic Grey Gypsy collection, although I never seem to use it I own many collection packs and about 12 6x6 pads from Basic Grey. I am loving these hearts, they have style and the swirls are a lot of fun. Enjoy ladies! I promise Snowflake is coming soon....I just have to let that guy out to play!

More KIT Club

I am glad to know that you are enjoying my Criss-Cross card, they are defiantly fun to make. I thought I would share with you the other cards and goodies we created the other night. My Demo is wonderful with creating thing, but I always put my own twist on what we are doing. For this first card I left it as she created, I liked it a lot, especially the altered chipboard. I have a lot of chipboard but I never know what to do with it! Now I have a few ideas, oh and note the rub on star also from SU!I love using pink and brown together, in fact we made a bow on Friday night that matches this card. I will share the bow with you tomorrow....I love it! I am sure you will too! The third card we created uses one of the new floral sets (one I am thinking of purchasing) and some fun colors.
Now, this DP is two sided from SU! and the card that my Demo created used the other side of this paper....I thought it was too mellow so I flipped the paper to find these great colors! Needless to say a few of the other ladies at the Club followed my lead. I really like how we colored these flowers. We embossed the image with Vanilla embossing powder then we water colored the image with reinkers going from light to dark. Then for a bit of a pop we added the dark pink color in the over lapping areas....love it! The center of each flower is a colored brad to match the colors we used. Tomorrow I will show you a bow and hopefully a fun card using the PaperPretties set I received in the mail on Friday!

Some more SU!

Last night was a meeting with K.I.T. Club and I had a blast. There are a few ladies who get together every month or so to create some fun cards and goodies. Last night I demoed (no I am not a Demo) how to create a Criss-Cross Card. I created a sample on Thursday night but I didn't like the colors and I wanted to create the same card in shades of blue instead, so I cleared it with my Demo to make sure she had the right papers and made my way to her house. When I got there I showed the ladies the sample and told them we would be doing the same card in blues, but they wanted to make the card they had in their hand using So Saffron and Certainly Celery. So change of plans, we went with the first card I created.The first picture is the card we created last night, using Very Vanilla as the card base and the Polka Dot and Paisley set from SU! One side of the cross is DP from SU! and the other is stamped with the flower and the dots from the set.
This is a picture of the two cards I created, the one to the back is the card I originally created and the one on top is the one we made last night. So what do you think? Is it springy like they said it is....or is it too pale? I thought it was too pale, but people obviously have different opinions.

Continuing on....

With more cards from Gina K. Stamps "You Know You're Old When...." set! I really do love this set, I had planned to create some fun cards using either my Rubber Romance ladies (yet to be inked!), my new SOTM House Mouse (not inked yet) or some of the My Favorite Things stamp sets (also uninked) but I just can't seem to stop with this set! I don't know if its the sentiments or the way these sentiments match the great images, but something about this set sticks with me!This time I am bringing you another card from this set, there are four images I had yet to ink up so I think its time to have them met their new best friend Mr. Ink Pad. This one is of a bra and the inside sentiment says "your bra size is a 38 long"....LOVE it! Gina has these excellent sentiments to match these fun images, honestly the only wrong you can do is if you give one of these cards to someone without a sense of humor. Enjoy ladies! I hope to have a criss cross card to share soon, I am supposed to design one for my KIT club on Friday...we will see how that goes.

Feeling Old When...

Since I had so much fun using my Gina K. Stamps set 'You Know Your Old When…' set last night I decided to give it another go. In fact, today I was feeling a little old myself, now before you start harping on my age consider that not only do I stamp, I also quilt and create other crafty things that are considered my most of my peers to be something older people do. I also suffer from a lot of different random health issues, recently shingles, lyme disease when I was in grade school, for about 6 years now (although it hasn't bothered me in a while) ulcerative colitis and most recently a slightly herniated disc in my lower back. Luckily I don't suffer from pain yet, in fact I may never but I got the results of my MRI today (I went Friday after work) and I started to freak out. I have what feels like fluid on my lower back that doesn't bother me, but that I know is not supposed to be there. I hadn't noticed that it even existed until a little over a year ago, but I didn't question it. A few weeks ago when I went for my follow up appointment wiith the shingles I showed my doctor my lower back and she seemed confused and unsure of what it could be….not a comforting thought. Today she called to tell me my results from last week and I sort of freaked out, she stressed that since I am not in any pain at the moment its nothing to worry about, but that I should be aware of it and keep an eye on how my back feels. Not fun, but it made me feel old, do you know what I mean? It's just another thing to add on to the growing list of random things I suffer or will suffer from in the future.
So in celebration of being old…how about using some more of those great stamps! This one is of an old lady driving….my favorite! You know the ones I’m talking about, the ones who can’t see over the wheel and can’t walk to the door but still drive. If any ‘old’ ladies are out there you worry me, really you do. If you can’t walk properly you shouldn’t be driving, just my thoughts. Sorry this is such a long post again, you don’t have to comment I just needed to vent a bit about how I am feeling right now. I would also like to say thank you to all of you who are wonderful enough to read my blog, that counter keeps going up and I am loving it!

Mojo Monday

I had so much fun last week creating a card for Julee's Mojo Monday Challenge so I joined in today on this weeks challenge. My Dad's birthday is this week so I wanted to create a masculine card for his birthday. I have a tendency to never do masculine cards but this Gina K. stamp was just calling my name. This is his 51st birthday and since we didn't do anything big last year I want to make this year a big deal. I will probably try another masculine card before his birthday (on Saturday) until I find one that I think we would enjoy.Have you seen the 'Tickle Your Funny Bone' stamp sets from Gina K.? I own two of them and to be honest this is the first time I have inked one up but I love these stamps. This set is called "You Know Your Old When" and it is so much fun! I love the sentiments and the matching images, its just great! Gina offers so many fun stamp sets that it is always so hard to choose which one to purchase, so my answer is always buy them all! For the 'manly' look I went with grey and blue, both pretty masculine colors. Hope you enjoy!

Hanna's Back!

So Jana posted a card challenge where the winner will be given the new PaperPretties stamp set that is not yet released, so how could I resist? The challenge was to use light yellow, light blue, and apricot. I decided to try the Kick Stand sketch I have seen in a few places recently, and I love it! The colors are subtle and fun, with a little bit of embellishments, the eyelets. I was going to use some ribbon on this card, but I couldn't find anywhere to put it....lol. I used the scalloping technique that Beate posted about, plus the colors in the colors in the challenge and a fun sketch, all sorts of things! Enjoy ladies, I love this Hanna Stamp, don't you?!

SU! New Catty

Ladies I have not used a SU! set in ages, nor have I bought anything from SU! in a while, I've been off exploring the wonders of other stamp companies, as you have seen. Last night my Demo (she is great!) had a catalogue release party where we made these two cards and a picture frame that we added rub-ons to. We used a few of the 'In Colors' this time, and I have to say I liked them a lot more than I thought I would. This first card is simple, but elegant at the same time. In fact I liked this card so much I almost bought the set, but I showed some restraint and purchased Lovely As A Tree and the Word Window punch....oops! I also picked up some of my Demos retired sets at a discount, which is always a good thing.
I really like this second card and to that effect, the colors are great! Simple embellishments and a simple layout, but I like it. I still have some mixed feelings about the new Catty, but I'm sure once I look through it few times my mind will change. Hope you all have a great weekend, and be sure to come back, I am making another Hanna card for a card contest one of the PaperPretties girls is holding.

Mojo Monday....On Wednesday!

Ladies today I sat down and created a card from the wonderful challenge entitled Mojo Monday from Julee's Blog Poetic Artistry. If you have never stopped by Julee's blog you are missing out, months ago I was a host to one of the VSN challenges and all the hostesses participated in a little secret swap, I was SUPER lucky to have Julee be my Secret Hostess and the goodies she sent my way were amazing. I have yet to use the cute little post it pad she sent my way, it is honestly too pretty to write on, I kid you not. I have been reading Julee's blog and watching her Mojo Mondays and today is the day I try to keep up with her challenges. If you did not know Julee is the owner of Verve Visual stamps, a wonderful company that has their own line of acrylic stamps. I also dug through my goodies to find that I had not yet inked several of my Hanna Stamps sets, so today's challenge entry features Perfect Package.I used paper from one of my past PaperPretties boxes, I just love this paper. Both the background paper and the small stripe behind the Hanna image is from Crate Paper and has some really simple but stunning designs. I also used some Prima flowers with Bella Bauble centers. Enjoy!

Love and Stamps

I know your out there and I know most of you check out different stamp companies so on that note have you seen SCS Companies recently? Big changes ladies! PaperTrey has now left, returning to the PaperTrey forum they created a few months ago and Hanna Stamps, Flourishes, and Craft Ladies have all arrived! I don’t know about you but once I decide to visit your company if I am pleased I will come back, as you may have noticed on my blog. I received my new Gina K. stamps, I ordered six sets and got two for free, I received my My Favorite Things new sets, and I received the new Hanna Stamps set and I need to start using these stamps. I am recognizing a problem that I hope to resolve this year, I don’t stamp. No, honestly, I don’t stamp. What do I do? I horde and I am trying to stop, so on that note….I am not buying new stamps from a company if I have not at least used a few of my currently owned stamps. Last night I did not place an order with PaperTrey, not because I didn’t like the stamps, on the contrary I LOVE the new sentiment stamp set and the new Branch set….too CUTE! I love my PaperTrey sets but I don’t use them as much as I would like. I am going to try and set up some sort of weekly thing where I create several cards using stamps from the same company which will hopefully solve my problem. So, ladies I will be showing you at least two more Bella cards from the swap Manda hosts on SCS, but after that I am going to try to use some of my other wonderful stamps. I think its bad when you have received the newest My Favorite Things stamp sets and you go to your clip it (which I love!) and you see that you never even open last months releases. I feel like I am wasting the stamps I am buying by not using them, does anyone else feel this way? If so I would love to hear how you rectify the problem. I mean I have shared pictures of my new Elzybells and stamped images of them for other people but I have yet to use them myself!
Okay, I think that is enough of a rant, I am sorry it turned into such a long post, but I wanted to be clear. Now on to the next Bella card…LOL….Yes, I know another Bella card. This one is for February which has the theme of love for both of the groups I am in. For this first love card I wanted to use all different shades of pink and my Ballonabella which until I created this card had yet to be inked up. I used some of the yummy paper I received in a past PaperPretties box and the scallop technique I read about on Beate’s blog to create this card. I hope you like it, I think the ribbon and the scallops really complete the overall look….and do you see my scalloped Oval frames? I created them using my Nestabilities and Cuttlebug…yummy!
Copics: E00 - Skin White, RV06 - Cerise, RV11 - Pink, RV21 - Light Pink, Y13 - Lemon Yellow, Spica 02 - Pink
The next card is using SavyShopabella, this card had to use 'In' Colors from SU! and I only had Sky Blue, so I offset it with gray and white. I love the layers and begin able to use my cuttlebug recently has been awesome between the swirls and the silver ribbon I am in love! Oh...and my photos are getting better, I am working with my camera and so far I am liking the results.
Copics: B14 - Light Blue, BG10 - Cool Shadow, E00 - Skin White, Y28 - Lionet Gold, W3 - Warm Gray No. 3

Bella Monthly Card Swap

Ladies, I am becoming horrible at concentrating! I sat down several times to create four cards for a Bella Card Swap on SCS that Manda is hosting and several times I came up empty handed. Here is one of the cards I finally finished for this swap, the scan isn't that clear but the card is embossed and then the Bella image Glidabella is stamped in the center of the embossed area. I used the PaperTrey Snowflake Serenade set for the snowflakes around the perimeter. I also used my new stardust pen that I received in my PaperPretties box to add some sparkle to Ms.Glide, it needed something more so I added the fibers, I think it finishes it off nicely. Don't you.

Now which Copic did I use on this one? Here is the list...E00 - Skin White, B00 - Frost Blue, B14 - Light Blue, Y13 - Lemon Yellow. Honestly only a few markers, but I think she looks nice and toasty in her winter get up.

Some Bella Fun

I feel like I have been leaving my poor Bellas out in the cold, so on to some recent Bella creations! Tonight was the big party over at PaperPretties where they reveal that they now have their own stamps! These stamps (2 sets released) are adorable! I of course ordered one, I mean can you blame me? Here is the November Bell Box card of the month, I followed the wonderful directions that are included in my kit each month to get the order of things correct....I love this card!

I love the different take on the color scheme to a holiday card, in fact we were supposed to stamp 'happy holidays' on this card, but I just couldn't do it. With the holidays over I think it makes a fun winter card. I plan on giving it as a winter card and not a holiday card.

The next card is from this weeks challenge over at PaperPretties they have weekly challenges for their members and this week is no different. The rules are that you have to use something from the PaperPretties store on your card and complete the challenge. This week we had to use scallops so out came the Nestabilities! Love these things too! Hope you enjoy them!

More Be Mine Fun

I have been getting a bit carried away with this set, but it is just so fun to use. Plus, I also created two more entries for the MFT Guest Designer Challenge, once again the challenge was to make something that was not sqaure or rectangular so I made a heart (post below this), a lady, and a mail box! Too much fun! All three things used the new MFT Digital paper that I am also loving, so far I have used the red and pink set, but I ordered all the colors....too many choices to pick from!

I had this card in my head all day long, but I was worried that I wouldn't be able create this card before the deadline. But have no fear, I got home earlier than I thought I would and began crafting away. I used the paper from the MFT Digi Paper kit and the heart shape brad came with my PaperPretties box...cute isn't it!

This mail box is now altered to match the heart shape card I created. It should make a nice gift for someone, don't you think? This is one of those wonderful Target Dollar Spot mailboxes. I found a bunch at one of the Targets near me and stocked up on them, I should be fine on tins for a while!

More MFT!

Today was the day for the release of three new sets from My Favorite Things as well as new Digi Paper. If you missed the Cocktail party on SCS you missed all sorts of fun! There is a Designer Contest and a Question Contest still going on so make sure to check it out. Here is the card I created for my entry to the Designer Contest.

The set used here is the new "Be Mine" set from My Favorite Things, this is the new mini set and I love it! This set is a lot of fun, and as you can see I ordered the fun digital paper that went on sale as well....I just had to use that too! The challenge was to create a card that was not your typical shape, so I went the heart route, using my scalloped circle punch this heart was created. Hope you enjoy the card!

MFT Box!

I am having a great time creating cards with this box. I just love what comes inside this month box, the MFT set is super cute and the paper that comes with the kit is perfect for it. The first image here is of the card design that the kit was created for, I love the colors that Christie picks for each box, you can tell that a lot of care goes into her selection.

This decorative paper is one of my favorite that have been featured in these boxes...so yummy!

The second card is my own take on all the other goodies included in my kit. Since I subscribe to the petite MFT box I get enough supplies for the same card six times ovr, but I have yet to take the entire box and create all six cards. Part of me doesn't want to use these kits since they look so nice and fun even before I do anything. This time I went for a cute look, using the same supplies, but with a different spin on things. Enjoy!

I interrupt your regular scheduled program....

To bring you some great goodies that came today! I finally received my PaperPretties boxes today and not just the November boxes that had some delay, but my Decemeber boxes as well! So, as I always do I am posting the contents for these great boxes. I am a subscriber to the Bella Premium Box as well as the My Favorite Things Petite Box and I have loved all the boxes I have received for almost the last year.Wreathabella is the PaperPretties Bella for the month of November and look at the great colors that were selected for these cards! I love the bright colors, especially around the holidays, a different take on the traditional colors. I am missing something from my MFT box, it was a slight over looked item, no biggie. I let Christie know, and as she does, she responded to me immediately and it will be sent tomorrow. So on to the December boxes!

The December Bella box is Snowbunnyabella and I LOVE her! And the included paper is just to die for, you can't really make it out, but the paper is either flocked or metallic....LOVE it! I am a big person for the colors blue and silver and now I have all these goodies to play along with. Now the last box for today is my December My Favorite Things box and it features the brand new mini set from My Favorite Things. In fact this set is not yet on sale (it goes on sale at midnight on the 9th) but as a PaperPretties subscriber we get the sets before everyone else, which is a huge perk! I hope you like seeing the goodies...next step? Get creating! I hope to make a card to share tomorrow....so make sure to stop by tomorrow night to see my creations!

I can't wait!

So all sorts of stamp companies are releasing new stamp sets and I am thrilled! I will be at the party tomorrow on SCS for Gina K., I need to order my Hanna Stamps, today is the release day for the new C.C. Designs stamps that look oh too cute.....oh the choices! If you have not noticed yet, I jump around from stamp company to stamp company, I like choices to be honest. If I like the stamp design I am there regardless of mounted, unmounted, distance, shipping....stamps are stamps and if I want them I get them!

So....with that being said I created a card using the scrap piece from the oval I made to back the last card I posted. I like the colors I used and the background paper together so I decided to incorporate it into the card. This time I used a Stampendous image from the Fluffles collection....too cute! I don't know if you can see it, but I used my glitter pens from Copis....love them!Oh....and if you haven't seen it yet RUN on over the Jody's site Confessions of a Ribbon Addict and check out her newest ribbon share. Her shares are to die for and I of course a going to die at the sight of the new ribbons from May Arts that are being offered. If you have any questions about her shares just contact Jody, she is a doll!

We Have a Winner!

Ladies, I am so sorry that I didn't post this one yesterday...but we have a winner! Actually, we have two different ladies who get some goodies! I am giving away the Day 12 Bella card and remaining kit (Cosmobella Kit) as well as a brandy new Partygirlabella! So on to the winners!

For the Bella Card Kit we have........#23:

Anonymous (Amy) said...
I was just recently directed to your blog and I absolutely have fallen in love! You convinced me to finally order some Bellas just by seeing the gorgeous cards you made. I've bookmarked your page and have already visited it several times today looking through your archives! I would love to be in the contest! Keep postin and have a great evening!~Amyamylnorris

For the Bella...Partygirlabella we have.......#49

Cindy Vernon said...
I would love to win this new bella!

So ladies please send me an e-mail or PM on SCS with your address so I can send you all your winnings! Now on to your regular programming.....I made a card! You heard me correctly, I finally got my juices flowing and created a cute Wintery card, that I think I am going to use for a Birthday card....what do you think? I like the off centered oval, gives it a little something.

I also thought the ribbon should be something different so I started with a knot and continued adding a few more ribbon pieces to make it almost star like....I really like it!