Holiday Hugs...

Have you seen this cute new Penny Black stamp? It's called Holiday Hugs. This is one of my new Seasonal Kits available over at Heather's Hobbie Haven. This one is colored with Ranger Distress Inks, but I colored it in Copic's too.

The coloring makes them both look different. I love that about different color mediums. Maybe I should break out my Prisma pencils and give them a go. Well not today. I've got to go do my How To video for tomorrow post.

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Nose to Nose...

This is my latest Water Coloring Card Kit over at Heather's Hobbie Haven. Look at this cute little guy and his puppy.. Isn't he adorable? I love the shading on his jeans!! I had some trouble with his hair, but kept adding color and it turned out pretty good after 4 colors added. The stamp is from Penny Black and is called Nose to Nose.

On another note the new Magnolia Sweet Christmas Dream collection has arrived at my local scrapbook store. I'm heading there tomorrow to pick some up for me and try and decide which one's I want to order for my store to make kits out of!! Oh the choices!!

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Dreaming Geraniums...

Happy Monday everybody. Hope your having a fabulous day. I picked up this cute new Penny Black stamp at my local scrapbook store Memories of Time Friday and thought it would be perfect for my next water coloring class. Isn't it adorable? I stamped the image twice and cut a few things out to pop up. Like the little bunny, I made him so he seems bent. The border punch is called Flower Burst by EK Success. I also found that on Friday. They have so many cool punches now. This is also my water coloring class for next month.

Hope your all having a wonderful day. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Saturday...

Hello everyone. Hope your having a relaxing day. I got to go teach water coloring today. It was totally fun. The ladies where all so great. I love water coloring. Oh wait I love coloring period..

Todays card features Congratulations Tilda from the Magnolia Your So Special Collection. Isn't she adorable. I din't put a bunch of fancy stuff on this one and it still turned out cute. Some times you don't need all that stuff.

I picked up some new Penny Black stamps while I was at Memories of Time today. So Cute..
Fishing Friends...

Eat Cake...

Hello Dear...

I'm going to try and ink these up this weekend and make some cute cards. So many new things and so little time to play... I just need more hours in my day..

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Make a Wish....

Check out this adorable new stamp I picked up at my local scrapbook store. It's a Penny Black stamp set called Make a Wish. You get 10 images in one package. I love that!! What can I say I love them all if I won the lottery I'd still have to work just to buy stamps. I wish I had more time in the day to blog hop, stamp and color, but alas it's not so. Oh well we got to do what we got to do.

Hope your all having a fabulous Saturday.. I'm off to color some new Tilda's I picked up at my local scrapbook store Memories of Time on Thursday. Thanks Michelle for staying open and waiting for me!! I love the new Magnolia Fairytale Collection.. It's super cute!!

Happy 11th Aniversary...

Today is my 11th Anniversary.. Wow!! And I'm going to go play at my local scrapbook store all day doing Make-N-Takes. Super fun. I'll be doing something with my honey tonight. I don't know what yet, but we'll leave the house at least..

My card for today has nothing to do with the anniversary. I just love this cute Penny Black stamp. Isn't she adorable? I have used the new Basic Grey Paper - Kioshi. I love it, it's so soft and pretty. This may be an upcoming class at my local scrapbook store I haven't decided yet. We'll see.

Hope your all having a fabulous weekend and Happy Easter if I don't make it back tomorrow.. I'm off to pack for make n takes..I'll do the card recipe later...

Everybody Art Challenge #49....

We have a fun challenge for you over at the Everybody Art Challenge Blog this week " Dots & Stripes". I didn't have any problem finding paper for this one. I seem to have a bunch in my scrap basket.
I have used a cute Penny Black stamp this time called How Becoming. Isn't he cute? Penny Black make some cute stamps. I get all of my Penny Black stamps from Dick over at HM Stamps. He has awesome customer service and great prices!!

• Stamps: Penny Black - How Becoming 2370K
• Paper: CTMH - Card Stock, Misc Pattern Paper
• Misc: Ribbon, Ranger Distressing Inks, Tank Water Brush, Prima Flowers, Brads
• Equipment: Fiskars - Effervescence Border Punch
• Challenges: Sketches: Everybody Art Challenge
  

Everybody Art Challenge #29...

This weeks challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge is being sponsored by Whiff of Joy stamps. Katarina has donated a wonderful new stamp for the winner. She also made up this weeks sketch. It's pretty awesome. So head over and check it out!!

This isn't my original card... I thought this weeks challenge was a card with flowers. But when I went to add it to the challenge folder it was Katarina's wonderful sketch. So I had to make a new one. That's what I get for not looking before starting... Oh well 2 for the price of 1... :)

• Stamps: Penny Black - 1979K Tweet Talk
• Paper: CTMH - Card Stock, K & Company - Que Sera Fera
• Misc: Ribbon, Prima Flowers, Brads, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, Pop Dots
  
• Equipment: Martha Stewart - Branch Punch & Scallop Dots Border Punch
• Challenges/Sketches: Everybody Art Challenge
  

Everybody Art Challenge #25

This weeks challenge over at the Everybody Art Challenge is another sketch by me. Hope you find time to fit it into your busy schedule...

For my card this week I have used this cute Penny Black image "Angel News". Isn't it adorable?
I also found some jewelry spacers you can put a brad in the middle of. I'm going to have to keep a look out for more of those.

• Stamps: Penny Black - Angel News (750H)
• Paper: Basic Grey - Periphery, CTMH - Card Stock
• Misc: Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, Buttons, Flowers, Jewelry Spacers, Mini Brads, Blue Pearls
• Font: AL Professor
• Challenges/Sketches: Everybody Art Challenge
  

Fly Away Home...

My cards have become popular at work. One of the girls in another office needed a special birthday card for her son who is turning 4. Well of course I told her I could whip her one up. So I stamped up this cute Penny Black image and colored it doing my lunch hour at work. I don't have that many boy images.. I really like the girlie ones I guess. But I thought this one would be perfect. She loved it!!

Stay tuned tomorrow for the Scrapmagasinet DT Blog Reader Challenge & the Everybody Art Challenge.

• Stamps: Penny Black - Fly Away (1368K), SU - Circle of Friendship
  
• Paper: CTMH - Card Stock, Misc Pattern Paper
• Misc: Ribbon, Buttons, Pop Dots, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol
• Equipment: SU - Scallop Punch, 1" circle Punch
  

Everybody Art Challenge 23....

This weeks challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge is "Shabby". I'm not to good at shabby. For me if something doesn't look perfect it usually ends up in the garbage. So this one was a stretch for me. I have distressed the edges and ripped the paper. I hope that's shabby enough...


Hope you'll head over and check out the other DT creations....

• Stamps: Penny Black - Pencil Pal (1142K), SU - Circle of Friendship
  
• Paper: CTMH - Card Stock, Basic Grey - Bittersweet
• Misc: Pop Dots, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, Brads, Basic Brown Ink
• Equipment: Spellbinders - Large Classic Square, Small Classic Circle, SU - 1" Circle Punch, Spiral Punch, Martha Stewart - Edge Punch, Branch Punch, Marvy - Retro Flower Punches Medium & Small, Edge Distress er
• Challenges/Sketches: Everybody Art Challenge
  

For a Friend & Sneek Peek at Blog Candy....

A friend at work was asking about my cards the other day and I was showing her my blog. Well she loved the previous Uplifting Occasions card but wanted it to say Happy Birthday. So I told her I would just make her a new one up.

This also gave me a chance to work on a couple of Challenges. Friday Sketchers #15 and Penny Black Saturday #10 "Ribbon".

Sneak Peek at my blog candy give away. We are currently having out DT Sketch challenge over at the Scrapmagasinet DT Blog and I will be posting the Reader Challenge on 8-26-08.

To participate in a chance to win my blog candy all you have to do is create something for either challenge or both for more chances to win. Then leave a comment with a link to your creation on the DT blog and I will enter you in my drawing. Stay tuned for more sneak peeks tomorrow.

• Stamps: Penny Black- Uplifting Occasion (1738K), StampIn Up- Circle of Friendship
• Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle- Delightful
• Misc: Raspberry Ribbon -June Kit, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, SU- Real Red Ink
• Equipment: SU- 1 1/4 Circle Punch, Scallop Border Punch, EK Success- Orange Circle Punch, Spellbinders- Small Scallop Circle
• Challenges/Sketches: Friday Sketchers, Penny Black Saturday

Fly Away....

Here is my card for the Penny Black Saturday challenge #8 "No Pink". I love this little guy. He's so cute.

My husband and I went and watch Bad Company in concert last night. It was pretty fun. I only recognized a couple of songs, but it got us out of the house for a bit. They were playing at a local fair. So we got to wonder around checking out a bunch of stuff. I think it's really fun to go and just people watch. :) And I'm so proud I didn't have any junk food...

• Stamps: Penny Black -Fly Away
• Paper: My Minds Eye -Tres Jolie -Oui Oui: Brothers Circles, Tres Jolie -Tes Bien: Family Tree Floral, Family Tree Plaid, Orange
• Misc: My Minds Eye -Tres Bien: Birthday Boy French Borders, Pop Dots, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol
• Challenges/Sketches: Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Carolers....

Just a quick post this morning I'm running be hide.

This ones for the Friday Sketchers Challenge #12 and the Penny Black Saturday Challenge #7 "Down on the Farm".

The image is from Dick over at HM Stamps. It came out of retirement and he let us all know we could snatch it up. So of course I had to get one. :)

Hope your all having a great day!!

• Stamps: Penny Black -Carolers, My Favorite Things -Sassy Sayings
• Paper: My Minds Eye-Tres Jolie-OOH La La: Happy Stripes, Chartreuse, Happy Floral, Rose Chaud
• Misc: Ribbon, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol
• Challenges/Sketches: Friday Sketchers, Penny Black Saturday
  

Bonnet Bunny....

This week's challenge at Penny Black Saturday is Snow Much Fun. Well I don't own one PB Christmas/snow stamp. I refuse to even look in the Christmas catalogs. I decided I wouldn't use the Christmas stamps enough to justify buy a bunch. And I don't even have to look to know there would be a bunch to get. I'd rather get ones you can use all the time. (Plus I already picked out my Christmas card stamp for this year)

So I thought I could make this a Christmas card and just add snow at the bottom or something. So I started with my stamp of course and then picked out the pattern paper (it's My Minds Eye: Festive Signature Christmas line) I should be able to make it Christmas like right? Wrong who was I kidding that cute rabbit screams Spring!! So no card for the challenge this week. Oh well I think the card turned out adorable.

I've also discovered I really like the look of the circle stamps but don't have that many. Well this one is a brush I picked up at Designer Digitals. You can size it to the size circle you want and print out how ever many you want. How cool is that? And you know the best put it doesn't take up any room. It's stored on my computer. Even better I thought. Oh and they have a bunch to choose from. Brushes are super!

Also Katharina is starting her own stamp company Whiff of Joy (coming soon). How exciting is that!!! She's had a couple of previews on her blog and they are super cute!! She also has Elisabeth Bell as one of her designers and you know I LOVE her stuff. So I'll be heading to the new store a lot I'm sure. So anyways she's having a Guest Designer call. All you have to do is use the sketch she has provided (I have used it on the card here). So head over and check it out.

• Stamps: Penny Black- Bonnet Bunny
• Paper: CTMH- Card Stock, My Minds Eye-Festive Signature Christmas: Stocking Stripes
• Misc: Spellbinder- Large Classic Circle, Small Classic Circle & Small Scallop Circle, Ribbon
• Brushes: Designer Digitals- Katie Pertiet: Defining Moments- Play
• Challenges/Sketches: Penny Black Saturday Challenge
  

Totally Cute.....

I think this image is totally cute. Penny Black has some awesome stamps. I fall in love with more of them every day.

This ones for the Penny Black Saturday challenge. This week it is an awesome sketch. I really love it.

• Stamps: Penny Black -Surprise
• Paper: DCWV -Pets Blue Dots, ColorMates -Dark Terra Cotta & Awesome Aqua CS, Daisy D -Espresso
• Misc: Spellbinders -Lg Classic Circle & Lg Classic Scalloped Circle, SU - 1.25 Circle Punch, Prima Flowers, Brads, Pop Dots, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol
• Brushes: Designer Digitals -Katie Pertiet: Stamped Sentiments
• Challenges/Sketches: Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Penny Black Saturday Challenge...

This is my card for the 3rd challenge over at Penny Black Saturday. You to use the colors

Pink, Brown & Green. I'm not sure what the name of the stamp is. My friend Sue bought this one on our last order from Dick over at HM Stamps. We have decided to buy different stamps and then share. That way we have twice as many.

• Stamps: Penny Black
• Paper: Basic Grey -Infuse, CTMH -Card Stock
• Misc: Spellbinders -Classic Rectangle & Scalloped Rectangle, Prima Flowers, Brads, Ribbon, Primsa Pencils, Gamsol, Pop Dots
• Challenges/Sketches: Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Just 2 Today....

I only managed to use 2 challenges on this one. Don't you just love that Penny Black image? Thank you Annie for sending it to me. It's super cute. I've added it to my wish list for HM Stamps.

• Penny Black Saturday: Challenge #2 "Friendship"
• Stamp Something: Sketch

I started out with the gorgeous paper by Daisy D then colored my image to match. I think it turned out pretty good. I may have to stop by my local scrap store tonight after work and pick up some more of that paper. Maybe not if I go in there I'll be getting more then paper. I have to stay away..... Oh I also used my corner rounder to make the scallops on the espresso paper. I haven't figured out how to make my spellbinder dies do that for me.

So have a super day!!!

• Stamps: Penny Black -Sharing a Moment, My Favorite Things -Essential Sentiments
• Paper: Daisy D -Sheherazade, Fleur de Lis, Espresso & ColorMates -Awesome Aqua CS
• Misc: EK Success -Corner Rounder, Spellbinder - Variety Tags, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, Ribbon, Pop Dots
• Challenges/Sketches: Penny Black Saturday Challenge, Stamp Something

I'm On A Roll....

I'm feeling very creative this week. I got a bunch of images colored and a few more things made up. This is unusual for me.

I used the sketch from I Heart to Stamp. Jen puts up a new sketch for everyone to try on Saturdays. They are always good, but I never seemed to get to it. So this was the week.

As you can see I used the same papers I used on the last card. Hey they where already out and they matched my colored image. So what the heck.

Also don't forget to comment on the blog candy post about your favorite stampville stamp and add a link to here on your blog. I'll be posting the winner on Saturday.

• Stamps: Penny Black -Critter Party
• Paper: Basic Grey, CTMH -Card Stock
• Misc: Spellbinders -Small Classic Rectangle & Small Scalloped Rectangle, Prima Flowers, Me & My Big Ideas -Icons

Fathers Day Card...

With Father's Day coming up I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make mine up and do a couple of challenges too. I used sketch #4 from Friday Sketchers and Paper Take Weeklys "For the Fellas" Challenge. This is one of the new Penny Black stamps I got from HM Stamps last month. He's really cute and great for coloring!!

Just a quick post today I have to go throw dinner in the crock pot for tonight before I go to work. So Have a great day!!

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  Stamps: Penny Black- Fish Dreams
• Paper: DCWV- Patterned Paper, CTMH- Chocolate CS
• Misc: Nestabilities- Tag Trio & Double Ended Tag, Prisma Pencils, Gamsol, Brads
• Challenges/Sketches: Friday Sketchers, Paper Take Weekly