Happy Birthday, Cody!!

I had a tough time getting a good picture of this card today, and the inside has a cute image too,

but unfortunately both of them I had taken were blurry (so since it is just after midnight I will have to update another time with the inside photo).  This is a digital image called Video Boy from Mo's Digital Pencil Shop.  I saw it on someone's blog or photo gallery at SCS, and instantly knew this had to be on my son's card.

although he has given up the remote control video games for PC ones, the image does look familiar.  LOL

I kept it CAS since it is for a young man who isn't into ribbony, frilly things,

plus I just couldn't bring myself to distract from that GREAT image too much anyway.

Inside has an image of a little boy in a car (Zoom), which I felt would be perfect too, reminds me of the days when he used to ride around in his little red Jeep Wrangler.

Other card details:

CS:  Night of Navy cs, Lime Rickey BasicGrey paper

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black ink and ballet blue ink sponged around image

Tools:  octagon nestabilities, Copics, prismacolor pencils, gamsol

Embellishments:   Sports flatbacks

Inky Hugs and Happy Stampin'!

RAKs and Challenges!

Here are a couple more Christmas cards/RAKS from friends. This first card is from my friend, Chris Salyers, and of course the glitter and CE aren't nearly as sparkly in the picture as in real life. Thanks, Chris! This is one cute card, and I LOVE teddy bears! :)

This sweet kitty cat card is from Jessica George, one of my best friends in the bloggin'/scrappin' world! :) She was also a DT member at KL Stampin N Scrappin last year, and I will truly miss working with her every week. You check out her lovely blog by clicking on the link on her name. She is also giving away some scrumptious blog candy. Check out the photo to the right for more on that too.

Now these were SO much fun to create, and ya know . . . I just can't stop using this sketch from the January challenge at KL StampinNScrappin DT blog. It is pretty versatile, if I do say so myself, and I really LOVE this MS doily punch too. Using buttons was the challenge over at Sparkle's blog for this week, and I just had to play along. I am working on my Christmas card stash for 2010 so I don't have to fret over them this December -- besides I still had this one out on my craft table to use. :)

Card details for the 2 photos above:

Santa stamp from TAC stamped in Memento tuxedo black ink and colored with Copics, MS doily punch, oval scalloped nesties, Eskimo kisses paper, sakura glitter pen (in his beard but not so easily visible in the photo), misc ribbon, MS snowflake punch, Rhonna Christmas buttons, white gel pen and liquid applique. The bashful blue CS piece was ran through the divine swirls cuttlebug folder.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you get a chance to be creative this week, too! Check out the fun challenges mentioned above for chances to win!! :)

Hugs and Happy Stampin'!!

Glowbug Inspired Scoops

. . . Two Scoops that is. :)

I was looking through Glowbug (aka Chris Olsen's) gallery yesterday, as she was SCS's featured stamper this past Saturday, and I fell in love with this beautiful card, so I CASED it . . . well, kinda. *wink* Then I went to post to the featured stampers challenge page, I realized that I cased a sketch challenge. Well . . .you can imagine my disappointment . . . but hey, it's still a cute card, and . . . I need to get moving on some Christmas cards, so I just might CASE this one again. :) Thanks, Chris, for the inspiration!!

I didn't cut my front layer rectangle quite as long as Chris did, and then when I went to center it, my ribbons were in the way . . . so I attached it a little more to the right. I used a snowman from Great Impressions, used faux stitching because I am still fighting the tension settings on my sewing machine to get it to sew paper properly (its as old as me and kinda stubborn too -- ohh, that part is not at all like me! *wink*) But I used that lovely Two Scoops, which we still have a KL Stampin N Scrappin (see the quilt-like pattern? Pretty huh?! I think so) and some cuttlebug folders, D'vine Swirls and Snowflakes, punched the SU sentiment from All Year Cheer out with my small and then large oval and adhered them with pop dots on top of pop dots under the image. The image was stamped with Momento ink and colored with prismacolor pencils, gamsol and some stickles for the fuzzy parts of his mittens and earmuffs.

It was dreary and cold here yesterday, so . . . I sure hope your days are Merry and Bright where ever you may be!

By the way, before I go . . . if you are waiting on an order, the following are on the way:
1. The 2008 Halloween stamps and the Yummy collection of Magnolia stamps should be here any day, as they shipped the end of September.
2. BasicGrey papers shipped out today (all the papers will be in stock very soon)
3. High Hopes stamps are shipping out on Wednesday, and Bethany tells me it should only take a couple of days shipping!

Woohoo, I am so excited to get them all -- of course they will probably come the same day ;) which makes for a busy day, but that's okay. I love to get them right back in the mail to you all either that afternoon or the next morning if it is late in the day. That way I know you aren't waiting on me.

Hugs,

Are you ready for fall?! Wow, it has been hot these last few days, but luckily here in the northeastern United States it has not been as bad as out West. Phew, I don't want to move to California when it is THIS hot! :)

Well with my wish for cooler temps . . . Fall was the inspiration for this card with my never before inked Harvest Bear from T.A.C. and the little pumpkins are from my Happy Fall Y'all SU set. The colors are old olive, pumpkin pie and really rust with some BasicGrey DP thrown in. All of the sketches in this post are from the Anni-Verve-sary week from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ this past week. They were lots of fun! :) Julee from Verve gave away a ton of goodies. I was a little jealous that I didn't win a set, but . . . ahh well, I still had a good time playing along.


This card also was created with a stamp that hasn't seen ink before. It is from the JustRite monogram set. I believe it is considered the 1 3/8 inch set. It was one of their early sets that I just had to snatch up before they were all sold out and the new ones in stock. I hadn't used it for months and months, but now I would love to add more to my collection. If you haven't seen them before, you gotta check them out. The dp is the pretty Bella Rose from Stampin Up and a little extra scrap of a darker red in the front that matched so well I couldn't resist.
Lastly, this set was made with the discontinued groovy guava and purely pomegranate papers and Riveting stamp set from Stampin Up. I was going to place an image in the center rectangle, but I just couldn't bring myself to cover up that pretty patterned paper. I also moved the ribbon up in the sketch challenge instead of leaving it at the bottom to cover my edge of the scalloped layer. It also has tiny half pearls on every other scallop, but later after the picture I decided to use them on each little scallop.

I hope you enjoyed all the photos, and I hope wherever you are, you are staying cool and comfy! :) If you would like to see what I created for the other 2 sketches, they will be showcased on the KL Stampin N Scrappin DT blog on Tuesday, August 18th, because they use Magnolia stamps! I hope to see you there!!

Hugs and Best Wishes,

Spread your Wings and Hop Along with Us

Welcome to KL Stampin N Scrappin's

first Blog Hop!!

The design team is so excited to see what you ladies are going to come up with for our Sparkle themed Blog Hop, and also to share some Sparkly creations of our own. If you are playing along, you have arrived here from Sparkle's blog,

but if not that's okay, you can start back at the beginning HERE.

This sweet little DragonFly Tilda is spreading her wings to take off on a life-long journey out of the roses and into the big, big world just like the young lady that will be receiving this set! I created this sparkling sweetie as a gift for a friend's daughter who just graduated this past June and will be off on her own adventures in the armed service. I know Tilda doesn't look ready for basic training, but she is definitely flying off on an adventure . . . don't ya think?! The sparkly items I used on her are . . . Stickles on her wings and antennae, shimmery ribbon, as well as pretty golden butterflies on the upper right hand side (its so hard to get sparkle to show in a photo, isn' t it?)

The shimmer really shows in the green sheer ribbon though. My inspiration here came from Cheryl's lovely bows and my "basic training" in bow making from when I sold Home Interiors (now don't you laugh). *wink*

Inside the cute Tilda folder are 8 Rose designer paper OSW cards created from the assistance of my dear friend, Luanne! Thanks, Luanne!! These are all Stampin' Up materials from the stamp set to the paper. I do hope Kristen likes them too. They are on their way to sunny South Carolina!

Although I hope she does not have to use this one any time soon, the lacy feel of the edge and the pretty dainty flowers makes this one definitely a favorite (0f mine) from the group.

**Now more details on the hop . . .

If you would like to play the word scramble,

my word for you is "with"

and from here you'll want to make your way over to Jessica's blog.

Reminder: you must leave a comment on the DT blog and ALL the DT member blogs to be eligible for the GRAND SPARKLY prize along with sending the correct phrase to steinrn@yahoo.com with the KLSNS SPARKLES in the subject line

by 9pm Saturday August 8th. (by the way there are 8 total blogs including the DT blog).

We would love for you to join us and make a Sparkly creation of your own - if you post it on your blog with a link to the KLSNS design team blog (leave us a comment there), and we'll enter you again. Plus, who knows what I have up my sleeve, I just might be giving away some other surprise "blog candies" so be sure to leave some luv everywhere! (wink!)

Check out the KL SNS design team blog to see some photos of what you can win!

Thanks for stopping by, good luck,

and remember you have until

Saturday, August 8th to play along!!

Hugs,

Treat Yourself

Treat yourself . . . to some fun . . . maybe a bright colorful balloon?!

Well, us adults may not think a bright, colorful balloon is much to be excited about, but this cute little party dragon sure does. I remember when my son LOVED balloons, we couldn't get in and out of Wal-Mart without one. I barely notice any there now, but when he was little . . . they were EVERYWHERE! lol

This bright, cheerful card was SO much fun to make. I used the card sketch from SCS 225 and the colors were easy -- brights for kids of course. I just had to grab my Lime Rickey BG paper pad and match the card stock (bordering blue, brilliant blue and gable green cs from SU!) with the colors I used on the dragon image (prismacolor pencils and gamsol for him). Then I added a scrap of red polka dot ribbon from a hot cocoa gift that worked perfectly with this bright little guy. The balloon has crystal effects on it too, but not so noticable in the photo.

Highlights and stitching were also added with my Signo white gel pen to the image and the extra balloons on the inside. The sentiment was from the Sugarplum sentiment set from C.C. Designs.

Hope everyone has a bright, cheery weekend. We are hoping it doesn't rain Saturday, as we will be up at the farm hopefully shearing the alpacas.

Hugs,