CPS 100 Card Contest

Good morning my crafting friends. Have you been over to CPS lately. They are celebrating their 100th sketch with a contest. You still have time to enter but time is running out. This is my entry for the challenge.

I started by stamping my image from the Tim Holtz Collection in Choco Chip and then again in White Pigment and heat embossing with White EP. I then stamped the Saldigo Sprig and sentiment in Black Pigment Ink and heat embossing with Black EP. Layering one image over the other. I also stamped, heat embossed and cut out the birds from Hearts & Love. I love these colors with the Kraft card stock.

Stamps: Tim Holtz Collection (Stampers Anonymous), Saldigo Sprig (Rubber Stampede) Hearts & Love (Inkadinkado). Papers: Kraft, Gray Textured, All Occasions Mixed Media Pack. Inks: Choco Chip, Black Pigment, White Pigment. Extras: White EP, Black EP, Ribbon, Threading Water Punch, Dimentionals.

So how many of you all are gonna be watching the Superbowl today? Usually I watch just for the commercials (I don't really get into football unless it's my son playing) but since my Cards are in it this year I gotta watch a root for them. Sorry if you are a Steelers fan. I love them too but I grew up in Arizona and have hoped year after year that the Cards game would improve. I'm ecstatic that they made it so far this year. GO CARDS!!!!!!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! Hugs to you! TTFN

Happy Birthday to my MIL

Hi all! Happy Wednesday! I hope you all are having a great week. I added three shifts to my work week so I'm now working full time. Great for the pocket book but not so great for my blogging.

Don't worry! I'll get the hang of it in no time.

I did get the chance to do some stamping this weekend but am just getting around to posting.
I wanted to share the card I made for my MIL's birthday. She doesn't have a computer, let along blog, so I know it's safe to post it here even though she hasn't received it yet.

I used last week's layout from CPS but added a few extras. I am channeling a little bit of Jessie Rone on this card with the spiral clip and ribbon. She's a good friend and I just love her style and couldn't resist. It just needed that extra touch.

I started by stamping "garden poems" (Penny Black) on kraft cs in brilliance graphite black and heat embossing with black ep. I colored the image with my copics and then sponged white pigment ink around the edges. The papers are from my classic coordinating prints mat pack(DCWV). Butterflies (Martha Stewart punch) are embellished with black crystal stickers (Elements). I embossed half of the background with birds and swirls ef and also sponged the edges. Ovals were cut with my cricut and george cart. Other embellies are offray ribbon, swirl clip and brads.

She is gonna love this for sure.

That's it for today. Make sure to stop in tomorrow to check out this week's Sketches card.

Have a great evening! Hugs to you all! TTFN

I'm such a goof!

I should have known things were coming together all to well. I was up later than usual last night and blurfed on over to CPS to check out their new weekly layout. Usually I print a copy for me to take to my stamping desk, but I'm low on toner and didn't want to haul my hiney out to Wally World at 11:00 PM. "No problem", I said to myself, I'll just remember the layout. Well, there is a problem! My 46 year old brain just loves messing with me and likes to change things up from time to time. LOL! This was one of them.

Imagine my dissappointment when I got ready to post my card and looked at the CPS site and discovered that the main image was supposed to be an oval, not a rectangle! Argh! Oval, rectangle, now how in the heck could my brain mix the two of those up? LOL! I guess my mantra this year is gonna have to be "write it down, write it down"!

Anywho, here is the card that I created. Again, I used one of the lovely images that Sue (coffeestamper) sent me. Thanks again, Sue! I *love* this image to pieces!

I colored the image with my Copics. I used my Martha Stewart punch for the border and photo corners (got a tutorial on that I'll post later today). The edges were sponged with Mustard and Choco Chip. The DP is from My Minds Eye and the card stock is Vanilla textured. In retrospect I think I should have sponged the edges of the vanilla too. I did deboss a border (using my Cuttlebug and border EF) along side the scallop border, but you can't really see it in the pic. I have no idea who to give credit for the image but I think she's very pretty, don't you?

I guess I don't have to tell you what my next move today is gonna be. Gotta go stamp! Have a great day and thank for stopping by! TTFN

Some really fantastic news!

I just wanted to share my good news! Mom's pet scan showed no progression of the Myeloma so she won't have to do another round of chemo. We are in a watch pattern now, which is good news. I was hoping that this would be the outcome. Thank you to all of you who said prayers for her. You are awesome and we are very grateful for you!

I came home today and made this card for layout #66, posted on CPS this week! Round cards used to scare me, but I am getting the hang of them. I just love the colors of this one. So bright and festive, don't you think? Just the way I feel today!

Recipe
Stamps: Sentiment (Studio G) Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Apricot Appeal, DP from My Minds Eye. Inks: Purely Pomegranate, Versamark. Accessories: Flowers, Ribbon,Brads, Buttons, Fiskars Circle Template and cutter, Cricut and Mini Monogram cartridge, Clear EP, Deco-edge scissors, Sponge Dauber.

Here are a few money saving tips for you. The flowers on this are from the dollar store. I buy silk flowers and take them apart. They have to be small enough for cards. Another tip that I learned from Laurie is that you can emboss in any color ink you have as long as you have versamark. You ink up your stamp with versamark and then ink it up with the color that you want it to be and stamp, then add clear ep and heat. Voila, an embossed image in whatever color ink pad you use.

That's all I have for now so I'm outta here! Have a fantabulous day and thanks for stopping by! TTFN

Happy Tuesday to you all.........

Good morning blogging buddies! I hope you all had a great night. I'm dog tired, cause I just couldn't sleep last night. I think I finally climbed in bed sometime around 4 this morning. You would think that I would have tons of cards to show you today, but alas. I just sat, like a couch potato, watching some mind numbing shows on TV. I can't even tell you what it was I was watching, just trying to quiet my mind.

I do have one card that I created for the CPS layout. Notice, I added a link to their site on my sidebar. Check them out! They have some cool layouts and they even give away some really cool prizes from time to time. It's been a while since I inked this set, but I just felt like showing it some love today.

Recipe- Stamps: Delight In Life (Stampin Up). Paper: Plum textured, Vanilla, Olive, DP (MME). Ink: Basic Black. Accessories: Markers, Ribbon, Dimentionals, Stickles, Scoring tool, Slot punch, Hole punch.

I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but I scored lines across the top and bottom of both vanilla pieces.

The flowers were stamped on DP and then cut out. I colored around just the edges and centers with a marker to give the flowers a little more depth. It's really pretty simple.

The next two cards I'm gonna show you were sent to me in the last couple of days. This first one was sent by Jessie aka Jess aka knightrone. OMG! The DP she used is *Gawwgeous*. The picture doesn't do it justice at all! It has this shimmery silver glitter running through it and that scalloped edge is embossed paper, not ribbon. So cool! I met Jess at the Arlington swap and had a blast stamping with her and just know that we are gonna be great friends. Thanks so much for the card and the extra goodies, Jess! You sure know how to make a girl feel special! Muah!!!!

Last, but certainly by no means least, here is a card that I won from Jennifer Meyer over on Jennifer's Sweet Designs. She and I were both recently selected to be on the same DT and she is and awesome stamper. All I can say is *FABULOUS*!!!! What a lucky girl I am to have a Jennifer original sitting in my house. The picture doesn't do it justice either. I love this set from Verve and have now added it to my list of must haves. Thanks for the beautiful card, Jennifer! Muah to you too!!!!

Well folks, in the words of Porky Pig- bathatbathatbathats all folks. Have a great day and as always, thanks for stopping by! TTFN