Dear Diary...

Dearest Diary,
Thank you for all the wonderful blessings in my life. For all the wonderful, kind blogging friends who visit my blog regularly and leave such encouraging comments. Without them, I would not have reached many of my goals for 2009 and I'm looking forward to lots of happy fun things in 2010.
Happy New Year and keep my friends and family safe!

image is Dear Diary by Victoria Case for SCACD

Fairy Girl

These new Pure Innocence Girls are just the cutest! Of course I had to have this little fairy girl...perfect for a Flutter By Challenge!! I used a sketch I found in the MFT Forum on SCS, MFTSC73.

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: Fairy Girl, PMS Fairy Sentiments,
  
• paper: Basic Grey Lime Rickey, SU cardstock,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
• others: copics, nestabilities, SU oval punches, souflee' pen, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Creative Inspiration paints-I used blue ice, stickles-I used diamond
  

What I did:

• stamped the sweet girl in memento ink onto my cardstock and colored with copics
• cut her out with my nesties
• picked papers and embellishments
• finished the card with some Inspiration paint to her wings and stickles to her wand
  

Flutter By Wednesday #90

Can you believe it's the end of the year? Wow! Thank you for all your support of my little flutter by challenge..it means the world to me!

Next week we will be fluttering to our new home, Flutter By Wednesday's, with a fun blog hop! Hope you will come back and flutter hop with us!!

I'm sad this week as we are losing one of our members... this is Stef's last week. We'll miss you Stef but we'll all be by your blog often!!


Our challenge this week is an open one--so anything goes as long as it has a butterfly, fairy or angel on it!

Leave a direct link to your creation in Mister Linky, (I reserve the right to remove any links not appropriate or linked to blogs vs. entries.) If you upload to SCS or PCP, please use the keyword, FBW. Can't wait to see what YOU create!!

Don't forget to visit the wonderful Flutter By team's blogs, links on my sidebar, to see their awesome creations!

I'll post my creation in a little bit! Have a happy fluttering day and a very happy new year!!

TGF's Sketch #5

Here's the 5th sketch in The Greeting Farm's 12 days of sketches. Slowly I'm getting them done...LOL!
This one is by Mercy--love her sketches!

Here's what I came up with~

supplies:

• card size: 5 x 5
  
• stamps: TT Lottie,
  
• paper: DCWV Sweet Stack,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
  
• others: copics, copic glitter pens, circle punch, bella baubles, glue dots,
  

What I did:

• stamped Lottie onto my cardstock with memento ink and colored with copics
• added touches of copic glitter pen to her bows and apron
• picked papers, added some doodles around the edge of Lottie and the apple, then finished the card with a few tiny embellishments
  

Album question....

One of my goals for the new year is to scrapbook more (more on my goals later)....anyhoo, I've been using these 3 ring binder type album from Hobby Lobby as they hold lots of pages and are easy to rearrange the pages since I scrap out of chronological order. I just went to Hobby Lobby to get more and it looks like they are either discontinuing them or cutting back on their stock. So long story made short, what kind of albums do you use if you're a scrapper and why.....
Thanks!

Edited....maybe they were just low because I realize now they were on sale....I'm hopeful that's the case....but if it's not...what kind do you like?

TGF's Sketch #4

Here's the 4th sketch of The Greeting Farm's 12 days of Sketches. I am so behind but I'm trying! LOL! This is another one by Mercy!

This one had me stumped for a bit but here's what I came up with~

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: Princess Anya, Anya Says,
  
• paper: Basic Grey Wisteria, SU cardstock,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU chocolate chip
  
• others: copics, stickles, gold pearls,
  

What I did:

• stamped Princess Anya onto my cardstock with memento ink and colored with copics 
• stamped another Princess Anya onto my designer paper and cut out her dress for paper piecing
• picked out papers, inked the edges and finished the card up by adding stickles to her crown and wand
  

Last Guest Designer post for Sweet n' Sassy

I can't believe my month as guest designer has flew by so fast! I really enjoyed working with the stamps from Sweet n' Sassy and will be continuing to use them often!
My card today is one more I made for Sam using the Punny Fruits and Veggies set. I am thinking this set will make some fun Valentine's this year too!

(not sure why this looks so crooked, it's really not!)
supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: Punny Fruits and Veggies,
• paper: Basic Grey Nook & Pantry, SU cardstock,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
  
• others: copics, nestabilities, SU buttons Latte, tan scrappers floss, glue dots,
  

What I did:

•  stamped my image onto my cardstock with memento ink and colored with copics
• I used an older sketch from The Sweet Stop Sketch Saturday Blog, Sketch #5. 
• To finish the card, I picked my papers and embellishments
  

Willow

I have been enjoying the kids winter break. We haven't done much but it's been so nice to just stay at home and relax. I've scrapped some--6 pages yesterday, worked on some upcoming fun DT stuff and just enjoyed being home.
I have taken several days off from commenting on blogs too but I'll get back into that groove soon as I truly do enjoy that. 
My card for today uses a stamp I just recently got but have admired for the longest time. It's Willow from Faerie Song Art that I got at Susana's store.

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: Willow,
• paper: Basic Grey Euphoria,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
• others: copics, stardust pen, Inspiration Paint, SU ticket corner punch, EK Success punch, flower, some Mrs. Grossman's crystal accents I found in my stash, glue dots,
  

What I did:

• stamped Willow in memento ink and colored with copics
• I added some touches of stardust pen to her hair
• I did her wings with Lavender Creative Inspiration Paint
• I played around with different colors for my papers and embellishments, I think they turned out fun. I used a sketch by Mercy, MTSC49 .
  

TGF's Sketch #3

Still trying to do all these 12 days of sketches from The Greeting Farm. Here's the third sketch by Mercy~

Here's my creation~

supplies:

• card size: 5 x 5
  
• stamps: WS Sassy Suzi,
  
• paper: Basic Grey Indian Summer, SU cardstock,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
  
• others: copics, Martha Stewart punch, SU marker,Basic Grey Indian Summer buttons, white scrappers floss (colored with a copic to match), stickles,
  

What I did:

• I stamped my image onto my cardstock with memento ink and colored with copics. I also just found out I've been coloring these eyes wrong!! The "anime" eyes are a bit different. A friend shared this awesome tutorial with me~ click here  Although these aren't quite as detailed, you still leave the white area.
  
• stamped another image onto designer paper to paper piece her coat
• picked papers and embellishments
• finished the card by adding some fun stickles to her hair and doodling around the edge of the image with a template I finally remembered to use!
  

Makeup 4 the Weekend #9

Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day!

This week's Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge is to create a holiday scrapbook page using your PMS stamps!
Now I'm not going to lie...when I heard the challenge I went NOOOOO!!! I can't do it... LOL! I have such a hard time combining stamping and scrapping but that is one of my personal goals...to do more stamping in my layouts so then I said...sure I can do that! I have TONS of photos that need to be scrapped.
Be sure to check out the PMS Blog to see more details about the challenge and also to see what the other team members have created!
Here's what I came up with~ look at my little Matthew!! He was only 2 in these photos...so sweet!! I used Nole as a cute embellishment. (and I used my Cricut for the title!)

 
Hope that you can play along with us!

Our "tree" and Annabelle's creations

This year none of us were in the real Christmas spirit so we decided not to put up a tree or really decorate. Instead the kids decorated a door...pretty cute I think.

 
Belle has also been coloring away and using her artistic skills ALOT lately. She just amazes me, if there is something she wants and doesn't have, she sits down, draws it and cuts it out!
Here's a cookie stand she had--notice the baking sheet with cookies~

She also got tired of waiting on me to make a castle for her princess paper doll~

Here's some of her coloring~ I constantly hear "stamp me something" LOL!

 

Not too bad for a 5 year old. 
Matthew is also creative but his is in his constant thinking of new inventions. He wants to be an inventor when he grows up and wow, he has tons of ideas!
(sorry for the funky spacing, blogger is being weird)
Happy Christmas eve everyone

Just a shout out...

Just a shout out to Hallmark Scrapbook for awesome service--quick shipping! I ordered some new Cricut Cartridges on Tuesday night and they arrived today! Off to play in a bit..hehehe!

TGF's Sketch #2

I am really behind on these sketches but thought I'd try to get a few more done. This is the sketch for day 2 of The Greeting Farm's 12 days of sketches. This sketch is by Mercy. 

Here's what I created with this fab sketch~

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: TT Madelynn, Butterfly Wishes,
  
• paper: SU cardstock, some designer paper from my stash,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Rich Razzleberry,
  
• others: copics, stardust pens, copic glitter pens, SU Sizzix embosslit die--coming out in the new occassion mini catalog--Beautiful wings, stickles, tiny buttons,glue dots,
  

What I did:

• I stamped sweet Madelynn onto my cardstock twice with memento ink and then colored one full image with copics and just the flower on the other image
  
• I cut out the extra flower and popped it up on the original image with pop dots for dimension
• added some touches of sparkle with stardust pens and copic glitter pens
• cut out my image with my nesties 
• picked papers and embellies
• added stickles to the flower and butterflies
  

Emma

Sorry I'm late with my post today for Flutter By Wednesday. I've been doing so well at staying ahead on my projects but yesterday we spent some time with friends (and shopping at Kohl's--kids got snuggies and I got a soft, fuzzy, warm blankie) so I didn't get a chance to create yesterday.
It's cold and rainy here today..blah. So I thought happy Emma would be a fun stamp to play with today. 
Before I get onto my card, I would like to take this chance to thank all my Flutter By Team and all this years guest designers for their wonderful, hard work for me. I am so blessed and I really appreciate them all.
Please keep Kris and Nicola in your thoughts especially as they are both going through some icky times right now.
Onto my card~

supplies:

• card size: 5 x 5
  
• stamps: Emma, Dance in the rain sentiment,
  
• paper: DCWV Pocket Full of Posies stack,
  
• ink: Memento Tuexedo Black, Palette French Lilac,
  
• others: copics, gold lame' smooch, stardust pens, copic glitter pens, CM cutting system, The Robin's Nest Raindrops, stickles, Cricut Plantin SchoolBook cartridge, corner rounder, brads, circle punch, glue dots,
  

What I did:

• stamped Emma onto my cardstock with memento ink and colored with copics
• used gold lame' smooch on her buttons and touches of copic glitter pens and stardust pens to the entire image
  
• I used an old sketch from the SCS Bella forum, BSC47, for my inspiration
  
• cut my image out using my CM cutting system
• finished the card with picking papers, embellies, sentiment and adding some stickles to the raindrops and her wings
  

Flutter By Wednesday #89

Almost the end of the year! Almost the big Christmas day! Woo-hoo!!

Thanks for stopping by for Flutter By Wednesday!!

Our challenge this week is an open one--so anything goes as long as it has a butterfly, fairy or angel on it!

Leave a direct link to your creation in Mister Linky, (I reserve the right to remove any links not appropriate or linked to blogs vs. entries.) If you upload to SCS or PCP, please use the keyword, FBW. Can't wait to see what YOU create!!

Don't forget to visit the wonderful Flutter By team's blogs, links on my sidebar, to see their awesome creations!


I'll post my creation in a little bit later in the day.....have a  happy fluttering day! 

Birds of a feather.....

A "just because" card.....

supplies:

• card size: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  
• stamps: Q.T. Hooty Owl,
• paper: SU cardstock, some from my stash,
  
• ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU close to cocoa, 
  
• others: copics, Cricut Storybook cartridge, Petaloo Dazzlers, stardust pens, copic glitter pens, stardust stickles,
  

What I did:

• stamped my image twice onto my cardstock with memento ink and then colored one full image and only the hats on the other one with copics
• cut out the colored hats and popped them up on the other image for dimension
• I sponged close to cocoa onto the edges of the image and designer paper
  
• the little corner swirlie doodads were made on my cricut and sponged with close to cocoa ink then I added a dazzler on each
• I finished the card with touches of stardust pen, copic glitter pens and stickles to the hats
  

Praying for you

Another card from the wonderful Trees of the Field set by Sweet n' Sassy. 
I still think it is so wonderful of Sweet n' Sassy to donate $5.00 from each set sold to the Anderson family who recently lost their 3 year old son, Henry. It will never bring back their angel, but it will help his memory live forever.

supplies:

• card size: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
  
• stamps: Trees of the Field,
• paper: SU Lavender Lace, SU Perfect Plum, TAC Angelee,
  
• ink: SU Lavender Lace, SU Perfect Plum,
  
• others: TAC Angelee ribbon,
  

What I did:

• stamped several of the trees with lavender lace
• stamped a few trees with perfect plum
• stamped the sentiment in perfect plum
• finished the card with some ribbon