WOW!!

Check out this amazing job that Heather did on this Twinkling Tuesday card that she also used for my Flutter By Challenge.... WOW!!

See it here!!

Email subscriptions and some great new things!!

I've had several requests for my blog to be able to be subscribed to via email so I added a "Subscribe via FeedBlitz" button on the right side for those of you who want that option!

Also, be sure to check out Susana's store for new Spellbinder products! Lots of cool new things!!

Try It Out Tuesday #12

This week's challenge was Gift Day! We were to create a card and two gifts with stamps and supplies from Susana's store.
Be sure to check out the store blog, Follow Your Heart, to see what the other talented design team members came up with!
I think I made this much harder than it needed to be. I thought and thought and agonized over this. Even told Susana and Suzanne I didn't think I'd participate this week but then I realized I was being silly and sat down and this is what I came up with.
On the card I cut out the teeny butterfly and popped it up on a little pop dot.
On the bookmark I used the Crinkled Chalk Technique.

Supplies:
For the card:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Cathrine with butterfly, Lockhart Itty Bitty Butterfly on inside,
paper: some from my scraps,
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
others: copics (don't forget the awesome bundles that Susana carries here), Bazzill Bitty Blossoms, granny smith bella baubles, stardust stickles (Susana also carries LOTS of wonderful stickles!! See them here)


For the bookmark:
bookmark size: 2 x 5 1/2
stamps: Butterflies from Things With Wings sheet,
paper: Georgia Pacific, some from my scraps
ink: VersaMagic Pink Petunia, VersaMagic Sea Breeze, VersaMagic Tea Leaves,
others: Martha Stewart punch, fiber,


For the coaster book:
coasters were given to me and they are 4x4 in size
stamps: Butterflies from Things With Wings sheet
paper: some from scraps
ink: VersaMagic Pink Petunia, VersaMagic Tea Leaves, Memento Tuxedo Black,
others: corner rounder, shaped eyelets, ribbon, copics, Pixie Dust Shimmerz,

Twinkling Tuesday #16

For this week we have Rebecca's son, Jameson as our temp. twinkie! He gave us an inspiration photo and a story!! He's 8 and in grade 2! I'm so impressed with these kiddos and what they come up with. Soon I'll have to get mine in on the fun!!

Here's the inspiration photo~

And here's the story:

Mickey is a Park Ranger working in the national forest. One day on his patrols, he hears a cry for help. He sees a beautiful girl mouse with tears on her face because she has fallen while hiking and broken her leg. The gallant Mickey comes to the rescue of the lovely Minnie, administers first aid, drives her to the hospital, waits for her to be treated and drives her home. They fall in love and the rest is history. However, a few months later, when Mickey goes to pick up his tuxedo on the morning of their wedding day, they have accidentally rented out all of the mouse-sized tuxes! So Mickey shows up anyway in his Ranger uniform. Minnie starts up the aisle and is surprised to see Mickey wearing his uniform but she doesn’t care because that is how he looked when she fell in love with him!

Be sure to visit Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday blog to see the featured twinklette for this week and also visit the other twinklette blogs (links on left <-- over there) to see what they came up with. We would love to have you play along! Leave a comment with a link to your creation on Madelynn's blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword, MTTSC16.

I struggled with this one. All I could think of was a beautiful love story and sadly, I have no stamps of my own that are of a couple. So I resorted to my image box and luckily there I found many possibilities. I chose this Sarah Kay image as I thought it was just perfect to decpict a love story starting....and one where appearance wouldn't matter one bit.

Supplies:

card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

stamps: image from RAK,

paper: Basic Grey Bittersweet,

ink: Palette Burnt Umber,

others: prismacolors, OMS, Fiskars Border punch, Glitter Heirloom Hearts,

Just a little note..

I just wanted to stop for a minute and say thank you to all of you who come visit my blog! It truly means so much to me and I truly appreciate all the comments you leave.
I have been sort of having a rough time the past few days, call it a funk or lack of mojo or whatever and it's all of YOU that have helped me to get myself out of it.
I haven't had a chance in a few days to comment on blogs but know I've looked and I've loved all the creations I've seen.
I hope that with Sam going back to work today and Matthew going back to school tomorrow that I will have a chance to get back into a routine and visit you all and leave comments again.
Anyhoo, thanks again!!!

Miss Anya

I know I've mentioned it before, but I just love the stamps from The Greeting Farm. Here's another image that was shared with me, another set I so want! It's called Miss Anya.

I was so happy that I cut her out without cutting any of her important parts off and none of my important parts off but then when I went to outline her with my black marker, I smudged some of it on her boot. Downfall of using RAK images, you can't just stamp another boot to go over it! So I left it and pretended that's what I meant to do. LOL!

I couldn't get the sparkle to show up but her purse has shimmerz on it and then her headband and boots have copic glitter pen. She's really quite sparkly in real life!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: image from RAK, TAC Retail Therapy-retired- on inside
paper: TAC Rustic Chic,
ink:
others: copics, CM cutting system, pink poinsettia shimmerz, copic glitter pens, rhinestone stickers,

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #10

I can't believe we're already on week #10!!Wow! I feel good in knowing that my Christmas cards are being made so maybe there won't be the mad rush in December.
This week's sketch came from a card that was submitted by Gracie. It's a great sketch but one that had me in my normal ACK mode as I don't have many long skinny images. I had to search and think a bit on this one. Even still I didn't make it like the sketch, I tried but it just didn't work. LOL!
Remember to check out the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the other challenge divas came up with! The directions are there too on how to play along! We'd love to see your work!

EEK! Looks like I need a new cutting blade! LOL!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: image from a RAK, TAC Snowflakes on inside
paper:
ink: Palette Jardin Moss, SU Real Red
others: prismacolors, OMS, ribbon, white glitter dots, Scor-Pal glitter clean up cloth (This is awesome), Martha Stewart Snow/glitter, icicle stickles,

A new poll.

Just for my own knowledge, I created a poll over there --->, please take a minute and answer it for me. Thanks!

3 Clovers Thursday Challenge #6

This week's 3 Clovers Thursday Challenge was to create a purple birthday card with glitter in honor of Kerry's birthday on the 1st.

Sounded easy enough so I thought I'd give it a try!

I've been thinking alot about my card making. I love it but I tend to rush through cards and not really "think" about all the extra things I like to do so I'm really going to try to start slowing down and putting more effort and thought into my cards as it's truly the little details that make a card "pop". Little things like sewing, cutting out part of the image and putting it on dimensionals, paper piecing and so on. So that's my new goal...slow it down and think! Even on cards that I don't want bulky, I can still "step them up a bit".

For this card I stamped the balloons twice and cut out one of the images and raised it up on dimensionals.

I also used a sketch from Taylored Expressions, TECC42.

Supplies:

card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

stamps: TAC Dear Friend, A Muse Essential Ovals, TAC Squiggle Ladybugs for sentiment, TAC Birthday Blessings (retired) on inside

paper: Georgia Pacific, Bossoms and Butterflies Stack,

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Pretty Petunia, Palette French Lilac,

others: copics, stardust pen, iced lavender shimmerz, CM fine tip pen, diamond stickles

Another Tilda

I'm not sure of this Tilda's name, think she might have been from the New Year's Collection?? A friend sent this image to me as a RAK. I just thought it was time to color her and turn her into a card!
I've really been liking cards that aren't so bulky for mailing lately. I think they still look nice, in a simple way. What do you think??

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: image from a RAK, CTMH Flutter-on inside
paper: some that a friend gave me,
ink: VersaMagic Aquatic Splash,
others: copics, CM fine tip pen, sunflower shimmerz,

Don't forget!!

Don't forget that my Flutter By Wednesday Blog Candy is still available!! Have you entered yet?
See the details HERE!

Sympathy card

I so despise making these type cards. This one unfortunately is for a friend who I just found out lost her husband, very unexpectedly. He was only 55. So sad.

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: TAC With Sympathy, image from RAK-SU's Bloomin' Beautiful,
paper: Georgia Pacific
ink: Palette Prussian Blue,
others: prismacolors, OMS, swiss dots embossing folder,

Bunny Tilda

Another sweet Tilda that I received as a RAK. I thought she was just adorable in her little bunny suit. I colored her at Jennifer's house and couldn't decide on what color to use so she helped me decide on pink. I think it was the perfect color choice, don't you?

Supplies:

card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

stamps: image from RAK, TAC Flopsey Bunny-retired-inside,

paper: some from my scraps,

ink: VersaMagic Aloe Vera,

others: prismacolors, OMS, CM cutting system, buttons, cotton candy stickles, pixie dust blingz shimmerz,

Sugar Nellie Flowers

I was lucky enough to receive some Sugar Nellie images as a RAK, this one is called Flowers. I colored her at Jennifer's house one afternoon. Doesn't she just look too sweet?
I used a sketch from SCS, SC220.

supplies:
card size: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
stamps: image from RAK
paper: DCWV Whimsy Stack
ink: Palette Ballet Blue
others: prismacolors, OMS, buttons, yellow scrappers floss, diamond stickles, red copic glitter pen,

Happy Birthday Heather!

Please be sure to go wish my friend (and Flutter By Team member) Heather, a very happy birthday today!!!

Enchanted Lily

I am getting so bad at not using new stamps! I pre-ordered this adorable Pink Cat Studio Enchanted Lily set and got it a while ago and am just now getting to play with it! (no comments, Kristie! LOL!) I colored this at Jennifer's with my copics, sorry didn't keep track of the colors.
Don't you just want to hop on the swing with Lily? Fun!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Enchanted Lily, TAC retired GWP, TAC Swirlies-inside,
paper: Georgia Pacific, TAC Mimi
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Palette Burnt Umber, Palette Landscape,
others: copics, TAC Mimi ribbon, stardust stickles, staple,

Crinkled Chalk Tutorial

I had so much fun making this tutorial!! I hope you'll stop by Susana's store blog,
Follow Your Heart, and take a peek!! Let me know what you think!!

Fairy Chloe

I'm so blessed to have so many great images shared with me through RAK's. It helps me "try before I buy" so to speak. And you can bet that I'll be buying this stamp (and others) soon! It's by The Greeting Farm. I just adore their stamps!!!
I was so excited to use my new Happy Words stamp with this too! I just {heart} this stamp by Susana.

You can see the shimmerz in this photo!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: image from a RAK, Happy Words, TAC In Bloom-retired-inside,
paper:
ink: Calypso Kaleidacolor,
others: copics, pixie dust shimmerz, bloom dots embossing folder,

For Kristie

Kristie has been debating about the Little Monkey's Storage System so I thought I'd show her (and anyone else interested) some photos of what I've done with mine. I love it!! I didn't edit the photos but you get the idea, you can get ALOT of stamps on a sheet!!

Flutter By Wednesday #50 Blog Candy

I wanted this to be a separate post so that the details don't get lost! So without boring you some more....here's the how, when and what!
How do you enter? and by when?

• Complete a card with the sketch provided and with a butterfly somewhere on it before March 31, 2009 at midnight.
• Enter your direct link to your creation in Mr. Linky below(it's my first time using this so I'm hoping it works, if not, I'll correct it as soon as I can). ONLY cards linked there will be entered in the drawing.
• I will randomly choose a winner on April 1st, 2009--no fooling!! Winner will have 2 days to contact me with their information or else another winner will be choosen. (Only US residents please). I will ship the goodies out as soon as I have the winner's info.

What do you win?

• all the goodies in the photo!! which include:
• Anki's Sweethearts stamp- Cathrine with butterfly
• Flutter By buttons donated by Susana--they can be found in these button sets
• Angel Wings Shimmerz
• TAC Cute as a bug hostess stamp set
• TAC Interact stamp set
• Assorted bella baubles
• 3 stamps from this I Brake For Stamps Things with wings sheet
• Assorted stamped flutter by images

Hope to see lots of entries!! Here's the sketch again:

Flutter By Wednesday #50

Woo-hoo!! It's my 50th week of doing Flutter By Wednesday's!! I am just so excited!! In honor of this we have lots of fun in store!

First we have a special guest designer, Catherine St. Clair! She has truly been an inspiration to me. I met her in a yahoo group and just immediately fell in love with her work. Then she branched off and started her own online store, Paper Garden Projects. Such a great store too! She's also who I've consulted with on numerous occasions about copics, inks and other fun stuff. I am honored that she agreed to be my guest designer for this special day!

For this special week, I chose to have a sketch challenge. Maria Bell graciously allowed me to use her sketches and here's the one I chose for this week:

Here's Catherine's wonderful take on the sketch~

And our featured team member this week is Heather! What a total sweetie she is. I am so happy to have her on my team!! Here's her wonderful card and be sure to stop by her blog and leave her some love! I think she has other cards for this week too so be sure to visit her!

And don't forget to visit the other team members blogs to see their amazing creations as well!! I feel so blessed to have such an amazing team!!

Ami I'm sad to say this is Ami's last week on the team. She is picking up some extra college classes and needs to devote her time to her studies and family. I'll still bug her on her blog though and hope you do as well!
Ann
Ashley
Cassie
Cathy
Heather
Jodi
Kimmie I'm so sad to say that this is Kimmie's last week on the team as well. She has alot on her plate right now so she's stepping down. I will miss her flutter by creations but I'll still bug her at her blog daily!! and hope you do also!!
Kristie
Michelle

And here's my card for this wonderful week too~~

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: TAC Beautiful Butterflies-retired, TAC Tag Tidbits, A muse tiny butterfly,
paper: TAC ultrasmooth cardstock , Basic Grey Euphoria,
ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaMagic Purple Hydrangea,VersaMagic Pink Petunia,
others: prismacolors, OMS, Flashee Fuchsia Blingz Shimmerz, metallic dew drops, stardust stickles,

There is a separate post about the BLOG candy and how to play along this week so be sure to check it out!!

Try It Out Tuesday #11

Our challenge today was to use an Anki's Sweetheart stamp and make a card using limited supplies 2+2. (only 2 layers & 2 embellishments).
Be sure to check out Susana's store blog, Follow Your Heart, to see all the other wonderful creations by the other wonderful DT members! We'd love to have you play along! Just leave a comment with a link to your creation on the store blog or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword TIOT11.
I chose to use Young Julia with Purse as she's one of my favorites, okay they're all my favorites but I was in the mood to use her. LOL!
Also check out her purse! I used the new Smooch that Susana is carrying now! Fun stuff!!

Supplies:
card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
stamps: Young Julia with Purse, A muse essential ovals,
paper: Georgia Pacific, Dovecraft Retro Floral,
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Tea Leaves,
others: copics (I used the Blonde 2 bundle and the Basic blue jeans bundle on Young Julia! I'm telling ya, these bundles are awesome!), Smooch Pearlized Accent ink-Azure, red copic glitter pen, angel wings shimmerz, CM fine tip pen, metallic dew drops,

Twinkling Tuesday #15

This week we have a Temp. Twinkie, 9 year old Brittany. Her mom is Cathy, so be sure to stop by her blog and leave Brittany some love on her sketch!!

You can also check out Madelynn's blog to see who is the featured twinklette this week! We also want to welcome Heather Lee-Reppen to the Twinkling Team! Be sure to visit all the twinklettes, links are on the left <---- over there!

We'd love to have you play along! Just create a card with Brittany's sketch then leave a comment on Madelynn's blog with a link to your creation or if you upload to SCS or PCP, use the keyword MTTSC15.

Here's what I came up with~~

Supplies:

card size: 4 1/2 x 6

stamps: IBFS Fairy with rabbit, TAC Fruit of the Spirit-retired-inside

paper: Georgia Pacific,

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

others: copics, nestabilities, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder, ribbon, CM fine tip pen, stardust stickles,