I used my new sweet occasions set from Taylored Expressions. I got it with my cool christmas present. It was a gift certificate from Taylors store. I got lots of cool things. I love this doodlebug paper with the yummy stuff on it. I used PTI cardstock Hibiscus Burst. Colored the image with copic markers and added some stickles and ribbon. Also a few dew drops.
Its so nice to make something other than a christmas card again. I have been waiting to play with this little gal. She is from My Favorite Things. One of the Pure Innocence stamp sets. I thought this would be a fun winter card. Although there is a flower on it but I think that Camillas will be opening up in January so I will just pretend that is what this flower is. I used a stampin up die to make the flowers. It is called Floral Fusion. The ds paper is from Jolly By Golly Smitten Mitten from Cosmo Cricket. I think it goes perfect with stampin ups in color papers Crushed Curry and Melon Mamba. I colored her with copic markers and glittered all the snow. Maybe making winter cards with snow will make it snow here. But probably not!
I started this little guy a few weeks ago. He was out cutting down pink flocked trees. I wish I had one for my house. I would probably have pink flocking all over the house. Instead I have glitter everywhere. This cute santa is from High Hopes. I colored him with copic markers and glittered the tree with candy pink sparkles from Our Craft Lounge. I used white sparkly glitter on his hat. The sentiment is from stampin up Best Yet. My ds papers are basic greys Eskimo kisses. I made 30 of these today, plus three loads of laundry in 8 1/2 hours. My back is really tired and I am ready for bed.
Well, I havent had much to post lately. I have been too busy with orders for cards. My hubbys work has been keeping me pretty busy. He ordered christmas cards and his friend that I made baby annoucements for liked them so much his wife ordered two dozen more.
Here's a picture of our fountain in our back yard. It has been so cold. 
Well, Christmas is close to two weeks away and I dont have any christmas cards made for myself. I was going to make this card. But now dont know if I will have time. My hubby needs cards for his work and I have to make 4 name cards for a co-worker. Also the birth annoucements I made a few weeks ago, the wife liked them so much and cant find anything like them so I will be making more of them hopefully. So I will be spending lots of time stamping this weekend but I do have to work on saturday also.
I wanted to make a quick thankyou card for the christmas card order I got from my hubby's work. Quick and simple. So I came up with this card. I had received a store bought card at work and liked the style. I had to add a layer to my card tho because if I just stamped my image and on the white card base and colored it my copic markers would have gone thru to the inside. My flower image is from Gina K Designs. If I used her white cardstock I wouldnt have had to worry about it. Her videos say her cardstock is thicker and copic markers dont bleed thru. But everyone that uses copic markers say they are supposed to. Even at the copic marker class Marianne Walker said that. I think the Copic marker company even makes papers as thin as copy paper that Marianne recommended. 
This is Taylors sketch challenge for this week. You can check out all her challenges over at http://www.tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/. She also has some new stamps available. They are really cute and some neat card kits also. I am hoping for a gift certificate for christmas or my birthday so I can order a couple of sets I have on my wish list.
I just love this little raccoon. This time he is out skating. He is from Stampendous and so it the sentiment. I found this layout for the card somewhere when I was cruising around. Cant remember where, but I liked it and thought I would use it. It is a great card layout for scraps. I have tons of what 1 1/4 and 1" white scraps. I got rid of a lot of them with this card because I am using it for my stamp club tomorrow.
I thought this paper from Basic Grey would go perfect with this stamp from papertrey ink. My nice sis sent me some stamped images of it. I colored the house with copic markers and added some glitter for a snow look. The wreath wouldnt fit on the front store so I added it to the side. It is from the Poinsettia and Boxwood set from Flourishes. I borrowed this set from my friend Alice. The sentiment is from Verve. It comes with a poinsettia stamp. I used stampin up bravo burgundy and pink piroutte. 
My Hubby called me from work yesterday saying he just found out a work associate just had a baby that morning. Could I make something for them to give them on Monday. So I decided to make some birth annoucements for them. I made twentyfive of these cards. I had seen a card and saved it awhile back wanting to make some baby cards but didnt have anyone to make them for. It took me all day today to make these.
This is one of my new stamps from Wags N Whiskers. Its a very large stamp so I had to make it square, which I think I said in my last post is not one of my favorites. I see other peoples square cards and they are beautiful, but oh well. Anyway, even making it square there still wasnt much room left. But I think this image is so cute with the little kitty helping build the snowman. I colored it with copic markers. I added sparkly stuff on the tops of their hats and some glitter here and there on them. I added a little ribbon and some snowflakes, plus the sentiment and thats all there was room for. 
I made this card using the watercoloring technique with the reinkers. I only used one color of reinker, purely pomangrante. I embossed the poinsettia in gold first on shimmery white cardstock. The ribbon is from codwholesale. I used my stampin up punches and my nestibilities.
I made this card with two challenges in mind. One from http://www.tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/ and the other one for kraftin kimmie. I used a set from Flourishes called Poinsettia & Boxwood. The papers are misc designer papers. Stampin up ribbon and cardstock. Misc flower and snowflake and my nestibilities.
This card is just like my previous tea card that matched the calender. I was looking to see if I had any of the charms left I used for the calender and came across these teapot charms so I decided to go with the plum color. I used stampin ups perfect plum and pale plum. I used a different sentiment also still from the papertrey ink set Tea for Two.
Yesterday was my hubby's birthday so I made him this card. We have frogs in our backyard like 5 feet from the bedroom window that keep us awake most of the spring. You cant believe how unbelieveably loud they are. People say I love to listen to frogs. I used to too but when they are 5 feet from your window and in mating season from the March until the end of May and you dont get sleep you really end up not liking them. Anyway, now I have been buying frog stamps and papers. Go figure. So I saw this at a stamp store and couldnt resist the paper. Its from K&Co and is called Actopus To Zelephant Frogs. The color seems off alittle. The cardstock is a bazzill green and is much brighter in person. My sentiment is a Gina K set. 
This is the other Bernadette card I did for Kraftin Kimmies Blog Challenge, "Get Stitched". I am not good at stitching and realized that the ribbon it double stitched, so thats my stitching. The designer papers are eskimo kisses by Basic Grey. I love these papers. I also used stampin up ribbon and cs purely pomegranate and pink piroutte cardstock. The flowers my friend Alice pointed me in the direction of a great tutorial by Stamped Art by Lisa. They are done with Martha Stewart punches. Mine are a little flatter than hers are but thats ok.I colored her a tiny bit differently than the other pink Bernadette card. I used my copic markers again.
Meet Oliver. Isnt he the cutest? He is a new stamp from Kraftin Kimmies rubber stamps. I think he is just adorable. I colored him with copic markers. Then layered him on red. I put little white dots around the red. I wanted to give it a snowflake effect. The sentiment came with Oliver. The snowflake under the sentiment and beside Oliver are from sizzix. I ran the small snowflake thru my sticker xyron machine to glitter it and then glittered the snowflake under the sentiment with my glue pen and glitter. The ds papers are from bobunny. My cardstock is from stampin up, old olive and real red. This card is for Beate Johns WSC105. 
This is Bernadette. She is from Kraftin Kimmie's Rubber Stamps. Isnt she adorable? I had to go pink with her because she is just too cute. This is for Kraftin Kimmies Blog Challenge, Get Stitched! I went for faux stitching and it didnt turn out very well. You can barely see it around the pink embossed piece. I used Basic Grey papers Eskimo Kisses and stampin up pink piroutte and whisper white. The ribbon is stampin up also. Some satin retired ribbon I think is purely pomegranate. I used my nesties and ran it thru the cuttlebug with the snowflake embossing folder. The snowflakes were made with a martha stewart punch and then I layered them with some little plastic flowers and a pink velevet brad.
This is my calender for June. I didnt meet my deadline yesterday so I only got three calenders done instead of 4 but at least I feel I got a lot accomplished. 
Of course anyone that knows me knows that I looooove pink! Its my absolute fav! So I saw this card done on Pickled Papers and loved it. So I had to use her colors and make it into a calender and card. You can visit her card here http://pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html. 
This is my card for Kraftin Kimmies blog challenge. KKSC3. Shades of Autumn. I love this line of Basic Grey papers. Indian summer. I also love when we have an Indian summer. These papers are so gorgeous and match almost all of the incolor stampin up colors. I used crushed curry and soft suede cardstock and crushed curry ribbon. I found the little spoon charm I had had forever.
This is another card I did for Taylors Sketch Challenge. You can find her at http://www.tayloredexpressions.blogspot.com/. I love these little monkeys. They are so much fun. I colored it with copic markers and used som misc ribbons and brads. Also used pretty in pink and barely banana stampin up cs. The designer papers are from Doodlebug Designs Sweet Treats and sundae stripes. 
This is Taylored Expressions sketch challenge for this week. TESC88. I used my eskimo kisses papers from basic grey. Plus pretty in pink and baroque burgundy cardstock from stampin up. Also some misc ribbons and snowflakes I had laying around and my nesties. I colored the little mice with my copics. The mice are Mistletoe and Mice from Stampavie's Gillian Roberts collection. I think they are so cute and perfect for the eskimo kisses paper collection.
I used to love stick chick stamps but havent used them in like forever. They are made by american art stamps. This one is called building a snowman. I found it when I went to the beach with the girls in like june or july but it was a wood mounted price for a cling mounted stamp so I put it back. Then when I went to the beach with Kati last month or so it was on sale for like $5. So I thought to myself thats more like it and got it. I cant remember where the ds paper is from but the cardstock is stampin ups blue bayou and purely pomegranite. Both retired in-colors from a few years ago. I think that is also Old Olive. I used stampin up punches and my nesties. Colored it with copic markers and glittered it. The ribbon is also retired stampin up.
This is a fall card I did for stamp club. I saw this card at Craft Warehouse on a stampendous display and totally changed the papers. I used basic grey designer paper indian summer maple sugar and stampin ups incolors crushd curry and rich razzleberry. Both the butterfly and the sentiment are from stampendous. They are the rubber unmounted ones on cling plastic. Even tho they are acrylic you can still place them really well like when I used the pumpkin on top of rocco's head in a previous card. I colored the butterfly with my incolor stampin up markers and watercolor brush. 
I know I am doing my cards backwards but this was my 1st card for Kraftin Kimmies Blog Challenge. Add buttons to any card. This is my 1st and only My Cats Pajamas stamp. Well, two really since I have the senitment also. I used Basic Grey Patten paper Two Scoops Creme Brulee. (Yummy, I love Creme Brulee!). My cardstock is stampin ups Pink Piroutte and Kiwi Kiss. I added some kiwi kiss ribbon also. Another thing I will be sad to loose when it is gone.
I made a 2nd card for taylors sketch challenge. I used one the stamps from her set. I love these flowers. You can check it out for yourself at her online store. She is great. I used papers Deena's Paper Lane from My Minds Eye. I love how soft this card looks. I think it would be a great birthday or wedding card. I used it as a thinking of you card. The stamp is from Endless Creations. I love the font on this stamp. I have a Happy Birthday stamp from them also. It looks it was handwritten. I had a little ribbon left from some wedding card samples I did awhile back and got these little ribbons at a stamp store in Newberg. I colored the image with copic markers and layered it with my nesties then put some pink candy dodahs I bought from Taylors online store awhile ago. I used Pink Piroutte and Baja Breeze for the cardstock. I really love these two colors and will be so sorry to see them go when I run out.
So here is my1st card for Taylors Sketch TESC86. I used Airy Fairy papers again. I love these colors. They are from Kaisercraft. This is Puttin On The Glitz from My Favorites Things. I love this gal. She is great. I colored her with copic markers and added some glitter to her scarf. I used my new punch from stampin up and my border punch from Ek Success. I thought stampin up cardstock bermuda bay and orchid opulence go perfect with these papers.
