All Smiles

Today over at Blogger's Challenge our theme is "Alter It".  I'm not great at altering things, but I came across this Box Top Fridge Holder from Melissa and knew I had to give it a go.

This was so easy to make and decorate,  using a new set I got from Mama Elephant called We Click.

If you didn't see my blog yesterday, you can see that instead of putting box tops in my holder, I made some 3.5 x 5" cards instead and they fit in there perfectly.

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge this week and show us how you alter it.

Card details:

Stamps: We Click from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Georgia Pacific White, textured blue (unknown),  Enchanted Evening

Inks: Night of Navy

Embellishments:  dimensionals

Blogger's Challenge: Alter It

It's Friday!  Finally!!  And it's Blogger's Challenge today and we are to alter something.  I didn't have much time to stamp this week with the Olympics going on and my addiction to watching them like millions of others.

I had to pull something out of the archives but luckily I have something to share.  I'm not much into altering things-as a matter of fact, I just purged a ton of stuff out of my studio that I had bought to alter and they have been in here forever.

This is an altered clothes-pin that I used as a recipe holder.  I combined some of my favorite papers from Simple Stories and adhered the papers using some Scor-tape.  I had to squeeze my writing onto one of the cards to create my recipe card, but man, I can't wait to try this one...think it will be a good one for some easy holiday gifts.

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge and show us how you alter it.

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Supplies Used:

Wood clothespin from craft store 

Patterned Paper: Happy Day from Simple Stories

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler from Stampin'Up! 

Embellishments: Sizzix Flower Framelits, Prima Flowers

Instructions/Techniques:

1. Cover clothespin with patterned paper 2. Create recipe card with patterned paper and layer on cobbler cardstock 3. Wet scraps of cobbler paper and crumble and cut using sizzix flower die 4. Pierce prima flower through all flower layers and Adhere to clothespin with dimesionals.

Easter Dinner

Today at Blogger's Challenge our theme is Easter and I have been holding onto this creation for quite some time now to share.  I loved this creation and had so much fun making it.

It was originally submitted to Paper Crafts (rejected) and when I created it I was thinking of how cute this would look as a centerpiece to either a table or fireplace.

This set was inspired by Gingerbread Man card by Michelle Novak, p. 87 of March/April 2010 Paper Crafts magazine

1. Stamp images from Bunny4Easter on cardstock, color and cut.

2. Create stand for name cards by folding strip of paper in triangle.

3. Create apple basket out of template

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge today with your Easter creations.  You link below in the blog hop or over at the Blogger's Challenge website.

Set details:

Stamps: Bunny4easter by The {Stamps} of Life, Alpha Modern by Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Certainly Celery by SU!, I'm a Princess Pink, Kraft Like a Rockstar and a Blanc Check from Clear & Simple Stamps

Patterned Paper: Simple Stories Baby Steps

Inks: Dish all the Dirt Brown by Clear & Simple Stamps, Licorice from Color Box (Stephanie Barnard), Copic markers R81, R83, 0, W1

Appple Basket template from Clear & Simple Stamps

SDC50: Wearable Art & Guest Designer Call

Challenges...oh, there are some challenges that just stump me and this week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge was one of them.  Val challenged us to make some wearable art.

I have been stumped since I saw what this challenge was and the other night I was stamping and got in a groove and so decided to give this one a try.  

I pulled out a clear case necklace that I got at CHA a few years ago (imagine the stash of stuff I have if I've had this for 2 years)???  I stamped one of my favorite images (Branch 2008) along with Tiny Bee 3000.  

My image is mounted on some Jenni Bowlin paper which I sponged the edges of.  Once I got the image done, I put the glass on and then I adhered the bee on the outside of the glass along with the jewels.

Want a chance to win $30 gift certificate for stamps?  Join us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and create some wearable art with your Stampotique stamps.

And...if you are interested, we are having a Guest Designer call over at Stampotique along with our challenge this week. 

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Card details:

Stamps: Branch 2008 and Tiny Bee 3000 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Basic Black, Jenni Bowlin Red/Black Line Extension, Very Vanilla

Inks: Cool Carribean, Basic Black

Embellishments: Melissa Frances Vintage Attic Treasures, Crystal Ice Stickles, dimensionals

Blogger's Challenge-3D

Going to have a quick post today as my little cheer leader and I are taking a "vacation" day before her competition tomorrow to enjoy the indoor waterpark where we are staying...and we still have to drive 4 hours to get there, and I haven't even showered OR packed yet!!

Last night I had a hard time coming up with a 3D project for Blogger's Challenge when I thought of all those cute carrot bags I see around Easter time.  While I didn't have ONLY orange jelly beans, I did have some that I could snack on while making this and still think it turned out pretty cute.  My neighbor who walks my dog is going to be the lucky recipient of it today.

I guess I didn't get a great picture of the "stem" of the carrot, but I just snipped some green galore papers and poked them in the top of the bag, then tied it with a ribbon closed so they would sit out a little.  The bag I used for the jelly beans is a Wilton frosting bag (which you can see in the pic) but it was last minute thinking and it worked PERFECTLY for this.

My tag uses one of my favorite Stampotique characters and sentiments of all time- Carrot 6092 and I carrot 'bout you 8988.

Want to join us for Blogger's Challenge?  Just link in DIRECTLY with your new 3D creation at any of the blog hops or at Lisa's blog.

BC250: Altered Item

Today is Blogger's Challenge and while I did not have as much creative time as I would have liked this week, it was because I was busy creating some baby shower invitations and favors. 

So, I cheated a little bit and I altered a die that I haven't used or shared on my blog yet.  This favor box is from Clear & Simple Stamps and I knew it would be perfect to go with the invitations I made for my friend's friend. 

The die is super easy to use and as you can see from below,  it's smaller than a standard size card.  I think it actually measures about 2.5" wide x 3.5" tall.  I suggested she put a little baggie of candies in it, and I hope to make some more of these for Valentine's.  I used it in my cuttlebug and I did have to run it through twice as I don't have any long plates, but I was able to do about 20 of them in a short amount of time.  They pop out of the die super easy as well.

I love how these invitations turned out, they were quick to put together in a few nights once I got the design down.  You can't tell too well from the picture, but the strip panel is sewn on the invitation.  I used the Blessings stamp from Verve Stamps for the flourish on the front of the invite and the stamps4fancylbel from The {Stamps}of Life for my party favor.

Want to join us this week at Blogger's Challenge?  Link up your altered creation at any one of our blogs with the blog hop.

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Card details:

Stamps: Blessings from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Simple Stories Baby Steps

Inks: Pretty in Pink

Embellishments: Scalloped Punch, Janome sewing, Amuse jewel stickers

Party Favor Details:

Stamps: stamps4fancylabels from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Simple Stories Baby Steps

Inks: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink

Embellishments: Party Favor die from Clear & Simple Stamps, Pretty in Pink brads from SU!, Fancy Labels Framelits from Sizzix

Love never fails.

 Today is our Going Grey with Scrap-Creations challenge.  Our theme today is to use die cuts.  I am in love with using die cuts on all my creations when I can, I don't have a huge assortment so there are many creations that I use the same ones over and over again.

My brother and sister-in-law had some photos taken before Christmas and gave us a few  pictures.  I knew as soon as I got this one it would look great framed with the new quote2love set from The {Stamps} of Life.

Here are some basic directions for how I did the frame:

1. Choose frame based on size of your picture (10 x 13 frame and 5 x 7 photo in example)
2. Choose matting colors for picture, sentiment and background of frame
3. Stamp Sentiment from quote2love from The {Stamps} of Life in Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice color
4. Layer sentiment and picture on chosen colors and adhere to frame
5. Create flowers by cutting multiple sets of different sizes and multiple colors of the Flowers Framelits from Sizzix.
6. Once you have cut out multiple sets, lay the flowers out, spritz them with water and carefully crumple them.  Once you have let them dry (I let mine dry crumpled up), undo them carefully and layer them on one another using glue dots.
7.  For the leaves, I stamped a Memento Dew Drop in Pear Tart directly on to my paper and cut it out.  Adhere all flowers and leaves using glue dots onto frame.
8.  Add Viva Pearl Pen in Gold and half back pearl to center of flower.

photo courtesy of Matt Adams from Matt Adams Photo

Hope you will join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations, can't wait to see what you do with your die cuts!

SDC46: Pocket or Purse Calendar

This week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Maria gave us the challenge was to create a handy pocket calendar or purse calendar.  The challenges are now STAMPOTIQUE ONLY (non-Stampotique will not be eligible for the prize).  Join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

This was definitely a challenge for me as I didn't have a small calendar to work with.  Vicki and I were google chatting one night while stamping and I came across these papers from Simple Stories Happy Day pad and it had these cute little calendars in there.  While there were no dates on them, they were easy to add on myself.


It's a long calendar pocket book, about 6.5" long, but just a little over 3" wide.  For the cover, I again used a piece of the patterned paper and stamped this sentiment which I thought was appropriate for a New Year.

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week for our $30 gift certificate for Stampotique Stamps.
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Card details:
Stamps: Today is a gift...5045, Splatter Blob 3013, Dotted Squares 2170 by Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: Simple Stories Happy Day, Cherry Cobbler, Certainly Celery
Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Certainly Celery
Embellishments: brads

BC244: Ornamental

Today is our last Blogger's Challenge before Christmas and so Lisa has challenged us with something "Ornamental".   She left it up to our interpretation and so mine is a little bit of a stretch, but think it works.

Every year during our Christmas gift exchange we tend to have a few gift certificates.  Our tradition is to put them on the tree as ornaments and so I created this card with the new jar4candy set from The {Stamps} of Life.  I basically stamped the jar image twice and then created a little accordian at the bottom of the card to attach the two and the gift card is adhered inside with a glue dot.  I think after looking at it, I may add on a ribbon to the top so it'll hang from the tree and not just sit in it.

The background of my jar was stamped with the little dandelions from the thanks2you set and then I've added some red stickles on the inside.  My top was paper pieced from a scrap of The Girl's Paperie Tinsels & Twigs paper from last year.

Along with this I also created one for Valentine's Day which is all about glitter.

And my last share is a recipe for No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies which are yummy!

Want to join us at Blogger's Challenge this week?  Just link up on the blog hop over at Lisa's blog here.

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Card Details:

For You Jar

Stamps: jar4candy and thanks2you from The {Stamps}of Life 

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar Cream, The Girl's Paperie Tinsel & Twigs

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice, Artichoke and Strawberry

Embellishments: XMas Red Stickles

Happy Valentine's Day

Stamps: jar4candy and love2hug from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Dare to be a Diva Red, I'm a Princess Pink, Neenah White

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice, Strawberry, Bubblegum, copic multi-liner

Embellishments: XMas Red Stickles, dimensionals

Sugar Fix Recipe Card

Stamps: jar4candy and lines2jounal from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Spring Rain

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Chocolate

Embellishments: dimensionals

BC241: Anything but a Card

Yummy, yum, yum.  Are you ready for some candy?  Well, these only lasted as long as the picture was taken and were gone shortly after that.

Today our blogger's challenge is to make ANYTHING BUT A CARD.   Now, if you are regular here on my blog you know that I'm not much for 3D items, but when this new, candy2share set arrived in my mailbox I couldn't help but think how cute it would be as a belly band around some goodies.

I had these clear boxes from a trade show I had worked a few years back and cut my belly band to fit around it.  I colored the lollipop from this set with my copics after stamping it with the strawberry ink and then popped it up with a dimensional and adding some crystal effects over it.

I cut a little tag and adhered it behind the lollipop.  I sponged the edges just a little to give it a little pop.

Want to join us this week?  Link in over at blogger's challenge and show us your non-card creation, would love to get some more ideas for the holidays on great gift giving ideas.
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Candy Box details:

Stamps: candy2share from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Dare to be a Diva Red, Neenah White

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Licorice and Strawberry, copics

Embellishments: Crystal Effects, dimensionals, Clear Boutique Boxes

Happy Haunting with Blogger's Challenge

Today at Blogger's Challenge we wishing you a "Happy Haunting".  In honor of this wicked Halloween, create something Haunting for us.

I pulled out a Creative Cuts & More coffin box for my project and stamped it with the Web , then sponged it a bit with black and added some black distress stickles to a few of the corners.  The cute little trick or treater is and I colored the pumpkins and then added a dimensional on the back of each to pop them up in front of the scary skull boy.

I thought adding some glossy accents to skull boy would make him a little scarier.

Hope you all have a safe weekend!  We are expecting a few visitors this weekend (my Dad today and cousin on Monday).  Looking forward to it and seeing the kids attend some fun Halloween activities.

WARNING:  All candy corn in this photo were harmed by my sharp teeth :-)

Join us for blogger's challenge- Happy Haunting!

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Coffin Template from Creative Cuts & More

Stamps: Web 3025, Halloween Cube 2-6110 and Skullboy 9221 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Neenah White

Inks: Perfect Little black Dress, copics

Embellishments: seam binding colored with copic, glossy accents

Altered Poison Bottle

We are gearing up for a new challenge today at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  Maria, aka Lollyrot is our hostess this week and here is what she says about her challenge:

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week.  Are you ready for Halloween?  Well, guess what?  My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle.  I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.  

WARNING:  Don't Drink, that's Poison!  Happy Halloween Stampotique-creatures!

I went in a whole 'nother direction than a lot of the other design team and hopefully you can draw some inspiration from it.  My fellow design team member and friend, Lisa, had made me some GORGEOUS metal flowers and I originally wanted to use them for a gift but the shade of color was just a smidgin' off so I set them aside to use later.  

Along with the metal flowers she sent me these cute little mini glass bottles.  I really wanted to do a shadow box but couldn't find one laying around so I broke out a canvas I had and decided I would alter that.

I filled my mini glass bottle with red stickles, handwrote the sentiment I found online and cut out my loving couple and adhered all onto my canvas.  I framed it with the beautiful flowers.

I encourage you to stop over at the Stampotique Designer's Blog to see what the design team created this week, you will love the various bottles used!

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Canvas Details:

Stamps: Mela 6134, Oliver 6135 from Stampotique 

Cardstock: Neenah White, canvas frame, Old Olive

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: flowers from Lisa, mini glass bottles, stickles

Candy Monster

This past weekend creating, I tried something a little outside of my comfort zone.  I created a 3D object, which I don't do a lot of as I never seem to give any of them away or do anything with them.  Of course my daughter saw this and immediately wanted to eat the candy.  I was bad, I told her they were old and yucky...so I can consume them later :-)

My good friend Lisa had sent me some goodies, and I realized about 3 weeks after she sent me the fun stuff that one of them was a test tube.  So, what a perfect choice for the Our Craft Lounge #86 Spooky & Sweet Treats using one of Lisa's tutorials for the single test tube holder.

I pulled some retired Stampin' Up! cardstock out of my stash to decorate the test tube holder with and the Little Boogas set.

Okay, off to indulge in a little candy corn!

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Test Tube Holder details:

Stamps: Little Boogas from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, Perfect Little Black Dress, A Blanc Check, retired cardstock from SU!

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: A Blanc Check twill ribbon colored with Copic, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels die

SDC36: Altering a Book Page

Over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge, design team member Valerie challenges us to try altering a page in a book - any book: novel, journal, sketchbook, cookbook, music book, coloring book, dictionary, whatever!  Any book counts!  Valerie said that she chose this topic to challenge herself to try something new.  She said it worked too well and she found herself waaaayyyyyy outside of her element with this one but gave it a go anyway and she hopes you'll give it a go too even if you've never tried one before!!  (I was in the same boat as here for this challenge)

 If you have Stampotique stamps already, we'd love to see how you incorporate them into this challenge.  If you haven't started your Stampotique collection yet, the Stampotique Designer's Challenge invites you to participate using stamps from any company this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

This was NOT an easy challenge for me by any means.  I'm NOT an altering type of person, no matter how much I admire those that are, and how much I try, it's just NOT my style.  This was my 2nd attempt at a page and my friend Lisa was kind enough to give me some good advice to liven up my page when I was one and I was pleased with the end result.

I water colored this page in my journal (which mostly houses my card ideas) and then added my images on.  I added Bellaweensie which always reminds me of my daughter and some journaling.  Some of the musical tissue tape was added along with some doodling and I used a toilet paper roll to create some tea stained circles on my page (very faint).


Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for your chance to win $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.
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Journal Page details:
Stamps: Balla-Weensie 8571, Dotted Squares 2170 from Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: journal pages
Inks: Pixie Pink, So Saffron, Cool Carribean, Perfect Little Black Dress
Embellishments: Symphony Tissue Tape

Around the House: Group Challenge

Today is Clear & Simple Stamps Group Challenge.  Our challenge this year was to create something you could use around the house.  I guess I didn't think too "outside the box" on this one, but I created something I knew I would use.  My kids love to create artwork to go on my file cabinet and I never have enough magnets.

I wanted to use the "relax" sentiment to remind me when I'm having a stressful day to take it easy.  I can look at the pretty artwork my kiddos have created and know that everything will be a-ok.
 

 

 I covered a coaster with my patterned paper and wanted something nice and bright.

 

 

Here's how this cool magnet looks on my file cabinet.  

Wanna see what everyone else created...I can't wait to see!  Check out the design team below to see what they created for around the house:

 

• Laurie Willison
• Kim Duran
• Viola Mahr
• Lori Tecler
• Dana Grothaus
• Cristina Kowalczyk (she's our celebrity Paper Crafts Gallery Idol Winner)

 

Magnet Details:

Stamps: House Notes II by Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Say Yellow to All Your Fans, A Blanc Check, Orange You Fabulous, You're Style Blue Me Away, Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss 

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Green with Envy, Orange You Fabulous, You're Style Blue Me Away, Copics B21, B23, B24

Embellishments: Design Mix brads, round tab punch

Introducing Beauty Secrets II

Today is the first of the month and that means lots of new releases here.  My first share of the month introduces the new Clear & Simple Stamps Stamp of the Month, Beauty Secrets II.  This set is a very girly girl set for those that love their beauty products and it compliments the previously released Beauty Secrets wonderfully.  Along with a complimenting set, there is also the Spa Darling set that would coordinate well with this one.

It's always nice to be able to have a cute gift bag on hand, especially to put some bath goodies or beauty products in for a girl friend.  

For my bag I wanted to really focus on this sweet sentiment so I didn't stamp any of the images on the main panel, but just stamped the sentiment.  I put a little tag on just stamping the perfume bottle.

Check out what the design team created with this girly set:

• Laurie Willison
• Kim Duran
• Viola Mahr
• Lori Tecler
• Dana Grothaus
• Cristina Kowalczyk

Gift Bag details:

Stamp Set: Beauty Secrets from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: A Blanc Check, Mauved by the Paparrazi, Basic Grey Hello Luscious

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Mauved by the Paparrazi

Embellishments: Tag Punch, Pink Sorbet Twine, gift bag

BC213: Inspiration

I don't have anything *new* to share for blogger's challenge today, but if you are not a long time follower of my blog this will be new to you.  I have this frame that I made almost 2 years ago hanging in my office and when I saw the inspiration photo from Lisa today, I immediately looked up at my frame (above my desk) and longed to be back at this beach. (this was previously shared on my blog here)

This picture was taken on our cruise at one of my favorite stops in Grand Turks.   It was my first cruise ever and we took our oldest son and went with a friend and his 2 boys.  We all had a great time and this day I just laid on the beach the whole time.  I didn't do much other than that. 

I've had this frame laying around for about a year, just waiting to be altered. I originally tried painting this a shimmery blue but was not happy with it so covered it with this CTMH paper I've had in my stash that I thought would be perfect. A little worn, weathered look with a nice warm blue.

Thanks for stopping by and letting me cheat this week, it was a crazy week with work travel and all 3 kids being home one day from school while I tried to work.  Needless to day, TGIF!!!

Want to join blogger's challenge this week and create something based off the inspiration, link directly to your creation below using Linky Tools.

Frame Details:
Stamp Set: Traveller by Clear & Simple Stamps
Cardstock/Paper: Designer paper by CTMH
Inks: Blue Bayou & Baja Breeze, Tim Holtz Distress Ink (tea dye)
Accessories: corkboard, twill ribbon (unknown source), circle & labels trio nestabilities, wood frame

Masculine Krafts Group Challenge

It's the second Tuesday of the month and that means it's time for the Clear & Simple Stamps Group Challenge.  This month we were challenged to use any Kraft Like a Rockstar or any of the Kraft colors. 

With Father's Day quickly approaching, I thought a gift card holder would be perfect to go with this masculine color.  I kept the front of the gift card holder clean adding only the framed image and the stamped sentiment.  Since it was going to be masculine I used some of the Kraft Like a Rockstar Tan twill ribbon on this instead of ribbon.

What man wouldn't love a Best Buy gift card for Father's Day? (or a birthday for that matter)

Hope you will hop around and check out what the Clear & Simple Stamps design team has created with their Kraft cardstock.  Here are the participants this week:

Dana
Viola
Lori
Amber
Cristina
Tracy
Clear&Simple Stamps 

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Card details: *all supplies from Clear & Simple Stamps unless otherwise noted*

Stamps: A Guy Thing

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, Emerald Bling, A Blanc Check

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Emerald Bling, Copic G21, G24, G28, W1

Accessories: Kraft Like a Rockstar Tan twill ribbon, corkboard, Spellbinders Square and Scalloped Square nestabilities

SDC28: Newsprint/Old Book Pages

"I read the news today, oh boy"

This week our fantastic host, Jo Capper-Sandon has challenged us to use newspapers/magazines/newsprint on our creations. Our challenge is open to any stamps this week, so please join us by linking up directly to your creation over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge. We will choose a winner randomly and announce it at our next challenge to win a $30 gift certificate to the Stampotique store for stamps.

 

I have been hoarding a few canvas frames in my stash for awhile now and decided I was going to break them out and use one.  Well, my first attempt to stamp directly on it didn't work and I didn't want to waste the frame so I decided to use it for this challenge-and I went CRAZY with some Tim Holtz Tissue Tape in Symphony.

Once I covered the whole frame in tape, I completely covered it with Mod Podge and let it sit for a few days while I pondered how I would finish it.  Again, my first thought was something completely different than the direction I went. 

I pulled out a few of my friends, stamped them on watercolor paper and then used my aquapainters to color them up.  I had a tab open to play along with the Imagination Emporium's first challenge to use fragments and I wanted the sentiment on this to stand out just a little more so after I applied my friends to the canvas and used another layer of Mod Podge, I sprayed the Tim Holtz fragments with my Tattered Angels Carribean Blue Shimmer mist and then adhered onto the sentiment before the mod podge dried. 

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use newsprint/old book pages on your creation!

Canvas details:

Stamps: Minkygirl 6125, Toby 6126, Gibbi 6101, Dweeze 6102, Twinkie 6103 and A Friend's Touch 8921

Cardstock: Watercolor paper, Certainly Celery, Basic Black

Inks: Archival Ink Jet Black, aquapainter, various inks

Accessories: Tim Holtz Fragments and Symphony Tissue Tape, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Mod Podge, canvas frame

Birthday Blog Hop-Happy Birthday Reenee!

 

I am so excited to wish Reenee a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!  Anyone who knows Reenee knows what a doll she is, so sweet and so meticulous.  I remember her teaching me at CHA how do the little ribbon packages that Clear & Simple Stamps sells and we sat for what seemed like hours packaging ribbon (and if you have not tried their ribbon-it is the BEST).

I have been very fortunate to be working Reenee and Clear & Simple Stamps now for quite awhile now and am very honored to be a part of this hop celebrating Reenee's birthday. I used one of the very first sets I ever got from them.

So join us along this hop for your chance at some goodies in honor of Reenee's birthday.  You should have arrived here from the Clear & Simple Stamps blog and if not, you will want to start there.

 

 

I created a cute little gift bag with Glamour Darling for Reenee's "gift".  I picked out some vibrant colors and paper pierced her skirt.  I adorned the bag with one of my favorite flowers from In Bloom.

 

I also created a little gift card to go with it using Paint the Town Pink and the Wall Flower background set which I adore.

I hope Reenee enjoys the creations along the way.  --------->From my blog you will want to hop on over to Cristina Kowalcyzk's blog.   

 

Now hop along the way and you can have a chance to win a surprise package of Reenee's favorite products.  Each package will be valued at $50 and in order to qualify for the prize you must leave a birthday with for Reenee on the Clear & Simple Stamps Facebook page and/or the Clear & Simple Stamps blogpost.  There will be one winner chosen from Facebook and one from the Clear & Simple Stamps blog.

And to help Reenee celebrate, Clear & Simple Stamps is offering a 15% off coupon good for today (3/8/11) ONLY.  Just enter birthday15 in order to receive the discount.  This coupon code is not valid with other offers and is only good for one day.

Have fun and Happy Birthday Reenee!

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Kim Howard <-------(you are here now)

Cristina Kowalczyk

Heather Pulvirenti

Jen Tapler

Susan Raihala

Sarah Martina

Dana Grothaus

Beth Matson

Tracy Schultz

Viola Mahr

Ryann Salamon

Simone Pursiful

Sue Berker

Eva Dobilas

Ayana Posadas

Maria Levine

Stephany Zerbe

Ashley Newell

Regina Mangum

Lori Tecler

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