shirleys2girls 222 Challenge

Happy Sunday and Spring is on it's way. I completed my next challenge for shirleys2girls. The challenge was to embrace the word "SPRING" using their sweet and oh so chic purse box. To see the challenge and the cute purse box click here. Well I decided with my love and passion for dogs that I would use their newly released images of domino! I love this sweet little dog! We're playing in the park on the first day of SPRING! Here's how I created my challenge.

I took a sheet of Stampin' Up! whisper white 8.5 x 11 and that was my palette. I started by taking my ink pads to create a blue sky using SU soft sky, SU baja breeze and SU pacific point. Once I got it just as I wanted I created the grass using SU old olive and SU garden green. Tried a couple of sheets to get this just how I wanted it. I've never created sky and grass using ink pads before. Works really nice. This is where I got the idea from. I used a sponge and whisper white craft ink to make my clouds. I then cut out my template of my cute little purse matching up where I wanted the grass and the sky to start. I used my word window punch to create the fence and my copics to add some roughness to it. Next I stamped my cute little dog out on neenah classic solar white and memento ink. I colored them both with my copics and then I cut both images out. The womens pants and shirt are paper pieced. I double stacked my dimensionals to give some depth in front of the fence for my images. I punched stems (new ek success punch) and flowers (SU punch) out to put behind the image but in front of the fence. I used my crop-a-dile to put the yellow centers on the flowers. I added some butterflies (martha stewart butterfly punch). Last I added a button for closure and some bright colored ribbon. I hope you like. I had a ton of fun making it!

Mojo Monday #77

It's Mojo Monday Time. I'm so excited to be posting this before the weekend. I actually had some time off of work this week and was able to work on my mojo! I love this DP by Stacy Claire Boyd. This one is called Lemon Drops. The stamp is from Stamping Bella and is called "branching out owlies" and the sentiment inside says "You're such a hoot!" I used my flower punch by Stampin' Up! and punched a chocolate chip and a gable green flow, then placed a cute brown button on top. I also used my swiss dots embossing folder to add a little texture and match the dots in the paper. To add some dimension, I cut the last owl out and put some crystal effects on their eyes to make them pop! I hope you enjoy my Mojo Monday card.

MFT Button Challenge

Here is my submission for the the MFT button challenge. I don't typically use buttons on my cards so this was a challenge for me. I decided to ink up my new Tea for Two and use the spots on the cup for my buttons. I love this tea holder card. I sent several of these out to friends at Christmas time. This set is perfect for this. I used SU certainly celery for the base of my card. I used my basic grey dp as for the inspiration of color. The buttons and regal rose match pefectly. Enjoy!

Rubber Hugs,

MFT Idol Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone! Well today I've been working on the MFT Idol challenge. I created this cute little invite or card using the Cupcake Flopsey and It's a cupcake kind of day. I love these 2 sets and they go very well together. The card is 4.5 by 12 and scored for the lip (1/2 inch) and then again at 5 and 10/16. I then scalloped the edge using my SU scallop border punch. I took my scor-pal and created a diamond effect for the cover and then placed little tiny rhinestones on the diamonds so give it that glitzy look. I created flopsey and his sayings so that I could have them pop up when you open the card. This was quite the challenge since I had never created a card that had a pop-up image. I decided to use several of the sentiments around Flopsey. I paper pieced the cupcake and then added some yummy chocolate glitter on top of the cupcake. Flopsey himself was colored using my copics and blending of my greys. Now that he's in place, I started to work on the bottom part of the card/invite. I used Bo Bunny DP as the base and then stamped the cupcake on Neenah Classic Solar white. Paper pieced the cupcake and colored in the chocolate for the cake and then added liquid applique as the icing. Last I cut out the cherry added a pop dot and viola! YUMMY, huh??! I printed the Cupcake birthday on SU pink passion in chocolate and used dimensionals to give it some lift.

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Wow can you believe 2 postings in one day. That's a first for me. This one is the Verve Mojo Monday Challenge. I needed to start working on my Easter cards so I pulled out my new TCP Beans & Bunnies & Peeps OH MY set and the awesome sketch by Verve and started creating. Dont' you just love the sentiment! "Step AWAY from the jelly beans!" This is definitely going to my nephews for Easter. I love these colors and the DP is by Stacy Claire Boyd and it's called Mango Madness. Enjoy!
Card Recipe:
The Cats Pajamas Stamps
SU paper Chocolate Chip and Regal Rose
White is Neenah Classic Solar White
Copics for coloring
Cuttlebug embossing folder swiss dots
Martha Stewart Cornice border punch

Rubber Hugs,

Verve Release Sketch Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone! It's been a crazy day. I finally was able to sit down and stamp a little this afternoon and worked on my Verve Release Sketch challenge cards. The first one I have is the Verve Release Sketch Challenge. I love this sketch and their stamps so I thought I would see if I could win a set. Go check out the challenge it's alot of fun! These colors look very good together and believe it or not I've opened my Night of Navy paper. LOL! I know and it's such a beautiful color. I hope you enjoy my card!

Products Used: Verve Stamps Serenity and Notes of Prayer, SU paper Night of Navy and Chocolate chip, DP, MS Arch border punch, rhinestones

Sorry for my delay in posting this week but it's been really crazy crazy! First I must send a huge THANK YOU to my sweet dear friend Jen del Muro for posting my koozie on her blog. BTW, go check out her blog, she's giving one away for her sketch challenge this week and join in the fun! I wanted to share with you another picture of my koozies. These are in white. Thanks to Jen, I've had several people ask about them and even gotten some orders. If you're interested in these fun little water botter holders, just send me an email and I'll send ya all the deets.