Friday Sketchers #11...Thinking of you!!!

So, I have had a lot of time this weekend to stamp, make cards, scrapbook and hang with my good friend, Dana, it has been so much fun!!! I was also very happy to be able to play along with this weeks Friday Sketchers. This weeks sketch is by one of my favourite stamper/cardmakers out there in the blogoshpere. Claudia is a very talented lady and I am often in awe at her creations as she makes such complex stamping scenes, has such stunning colouring technique with Copics and is so creative in the use of her stamps. I visit her blog regularly and learn sooo much from her as she is always willing to share her knowledge and creativity with us through her tutorials. So, It was great being able to work with one of her sketches and it was a blast!!!

I made this card again with my BasicGrey Euphoria pp and Bazzill Basics cardstock Monochromatic Juneberry and Sweetheart. I only have two sets of Circle Nestibilites so I cut the scalloped rectangle out of Bazzill Basics cardstock on my QK Silhouette using a GSD file that I bought and downloaded from Kreations by Katie. I stamped Tilda with Flower Jeans, from the Magnolia summer Stampclub, on Georgia Pacific paper with Archival Brilliance Graphite Balck ink. I coloured her in with my Copics and cut her out. I added a little Stardust gelly roller pen to her wings and the swirls on her jeans. I stamped the Magnolia chair stamp on the Georgia Pacific paper and cut it to fit the scalloped mat. I coloured the chair with my Copics again and then adhered Tida with pop-dots. I wasn't sure if this Tilda was a bit too big for this chair but, oh well, I don't think it looks that bad. I thought it looked like she is resting her foot on the rung of the chair,cute! To embelish this card I cut the butterfly with a QK die out of the plastic packaging that the QK dies come in and coloured around the edges with a Ranger paint dabber. The sentiment is from those great little 1.50 Studio G stamps that you pick up at Micheals...gotta love them and the ribbon is American craft.

Well, my head is starting to ache and my tummy is growling, so I guess I should eat. I just realized I haven't done that yet today, it sooo gets in the way of all my stamping and blogging,lol!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

playin' catch up with Friday Sketchers #10!!!

So, I finally got my summer Stampclub set and they are all sooo adorable. I have to tell you it was terrible to abandon them last weekend to go camping, smile. At least I was able to get them mounted on EZmount before I went. I am not sure if you all know about this tip for mounting stamps with EZmount but I will share anyways,smile. I found a cool video on YouTube showing how to mount your stamps on EZmount using a hot knife tool, check it out here if you are interested. I tried it and it worked fabulously!!! Now, maybe I am being overly picky but I was a tinsy winsy bit disappointed when I got my stamps. I only got 5 angles and not the 6-7 as promised on the Magnolia Stampclub website and I got two of the breadbaskets, well I guess you can never have too many breadbaskets. Oh no, that is you can never have too many stamps, right, got it!!!...Oh well, they are still my absolute favourite stamps in whole wide world and I just love this Edwin serving drinks. It make me think of a song that they have been playin' on the radio and it really gets me dancin'...."Love in this Club", by Usher. I really like this line in the song and thought it would make a sassy little sentiment.

I used a new 6X6 pack a BG pp that I picked this week. It is called Euphoria and I just love, love, love it!!! It is just sooooo much fun to work with...love the colour combos. The card base measures 6x6 and I stamped Edwin on Georgia pacific paper with Archival Brilliance Graphite black ink and coloured him in with my Copics and cut him out. I cut the Euphoria pp into a circle with my cuttlebug and the classic circle Nestibilites die and cut the blue bling cardstock with the petite scalloped die. The sentiment is computer generated with one of the many fonts that I have from Two Peas in a Bucket. I also stamped the little cocktail drink with the strawberry, coloured it in with the copics, added some diamond glaze to it and cut it out.

Thanks for having a look....I have a few more posts to make today so that I will be pretty much caught up!!!

Thanks for stoppin' by!!!

Summertime musing and a little heartfelt thanks for FS # 9!

Well, perhaps you have stopped by over the last few weeks and noticed that I have been rather delinquent in my stamping/posting duties. Well, its not like I'm a daily blogger like my good friend Kraftin' Kimmie (I honestly don't know how she does it all and soooo fabulously, I might add, smile) but I was making a concerted effort there to post at least once a weekend. Now that summer is finally here I think I may have to reevaluate that stamping/blogging goal. You see, we camp, well, the kids and my husband camp and I trudge along somewhat begrudgingly. Yes, it does have some good points, I will admit, I get to take some great pics of the kids and us convening with nature and frolicking on the beach (well, they frolic, I read) and I guess we get to spend "quality" time together, if that is what you would call all that sibling bickering, fighting and squabbling (I do hope this stage passes soon) but really I guess it isn't that bad cuz I insisted that dh buy a trailer or it would have been a no go for sure. I am not sleeping on the ground...yuck!! So, that is where I have been, camping not stamping, sigh! So, we still have a few more stints at various other provincial parks here in beautiful Ontario...if you see that I fall behind in my posting duties again, go stamp up something real cute and think of me, smile!

So, now do you wanna hear about the darn card or what, he he he!!! I made it following along with this weeks FS sketch #9 by Carole from England! Great sketch as they all are, smile! So, I thought I would do something a little different and try to shake up the creative juices, so to speak. I have been dying to use these cute Magnolia angle wings stamps that I got in my last big order but have been struggling to come up with a good way to use them on a card. I thought I would do a little blurffing for some inspiration and see how others have used these angle wings. Well, no luck, I didn't find one card that actually used the magnolia angle wings stamp, strange, but I did get inspired by Luaren Meader's post about the mother load of Magnolia stamps she just got (can we say jealous!!!) and her beautiful creations that she made with them. Especially, this adorable card that inspired me to NOT use a magnolia "angle" but just the angle wings. I stamped the wings with Archival Brilliance Black Graphite ink on a cloud like blueish sheet of pp from the Prima Marketing Shasha Collection 5X7 pack, cut them out and add crystal stickles. I made the card according to the FS sketch again using the Prima pp Shasha collection and the cardbase from Bazzill Basics fuchsia bling cardstock. I inked the edges of the pp and cardstock and then cut the heart from some fuchsia felt (get it heart-felt, chuckle) with my QK and stitched around it with embroidery floss. I then added my old trusty Melissa Frances rub-ons, oh, the word "thanks" is actually a QK rub-on...I love them too. I then assembled it all and used some pop-dots to give it some dimension and I am quite happy with how it turned out, yay!!

The best part is that my daughter told me she really, really likes this card and I know it's true cuz then she asked me who I was going to give it to, smile. Sometimes she offers up some rather harsh criticism of my cards and for some strange reason she isn't that fond of the little Magnolia angles like me (she is weirded out that they don't have mouths, whatever, I love them!) so, I am thankful to receive that heartfelt compliment from her!!! I also, have to say that my dear Hannah is growing up. She turned 9 when we were on our camping trip last Thursday...I can't believe it...wow,the time has just flown by!

So, I thought I would sign off with a few pics from our camping trip at MacGregor Point in Midwestern Ontario...it was beautiful and in spite of the squabbling, bugs and not such great weather (I like it real hot and it is windy on Lake Huron) we did have a great time together as a family and even though I didn't get to create anything crafty we created some wonderful memories and for that I am truly thankful!

















Well, I am going to check the mail...I'm crossing my fingers that my Magnolia summer stampclub kit is here. I have seen a few other stamper out there have got theirs already. I hope it at least comes before we go camping again.

Thanks for stopping by!

Friday Sketchers #6 is Heaven Sent & News from Cloud 9!!!

WOW! All of the DT members at Friday Sketchers keep pumpin' out awesome sketches. I can't believe how quickly this card came together yesterday afternoon, a true sign of a fabulous sketch, smile! Thanks, Jacqueline, it was great fun to work with your sketch!!!
I decided I would use this little Tingla stamp as I haven't made a card with her yet and I thought I would use up the scraps of Fancy Pants paper that I used to make a mini-album with last weekend (love,love,love this paper)! As I was getting my "mise en place" before getting inky, smile. I had another one of those light bulb moments and went back to my stamp binder to grab my Magnolia cloud stamp. I stamped Tingla on the blue cloud-like side of the FP Confetti pp and (I made a mask but my dh pointed out later that I probably didn't have to, oh well.) then I stamped the cloud upside-down for her to lie on. I stamped two more clouds off the edge of the pp to look as if they were floating by in the background. I ran it through the Cuttlebug with my circle Nestibilites die and added some crystal Stickles. I stamped Tingla again on Georgia Pacific White Cardstock with Archival Brilliance Graphite black ink and coloured it with my Copic markers, added crystal Stickles to her wings and let it dry before I cut it out. Then I adhered it with some pop-dots on to the stamped image on the blue pp.
The card base is 6x6 and is cut from a piece of Bazzill Basics Orange Bling Cardstock. I inked all the edges of the pp and adhered them to the card. I used the small scalloped circle Nestibilites to cut a mat for the main image out of the "wheat" coloured side of the Jubilate pp. Finally, I stamped the sentiment from the Kelly Panacci Baby clear stamp set with brown Staz-On ink on a tag from the FP die-cut sheet, inked the edges, added a MM gemstone brad and some pink American Craft ribbon before attaching the main image of Tingla to the card.

So, I have some exciting news to share, grin!!! Do ya wanna know what it is??? Well, I am absolutely on cloud 9, smile!!! Cuz I have been chosen to be on the DT for my LSS, The Scrapbook Academy, YAY!!! When I went to the store yesterday, Jackie, gave me my first DT kit....oh, sooooo exciting!!! I can't wait to make my very first DT assignment...eeekkk!

Thanks for stopping by, having a look and for sharing in my excitement! I hope you have a heavenly day!!!

Friday Sketchers #5...Rainbows and Butterflies!!!

Well, I know this card is way past due for the Friday Sketchers challenge # 5 but I have had a crazy busy week, no worries, I won't bore you with the details, smile! I worked on this card over the course of the week when I had a bit of time here and there. I thought I might get it in just under the wire, but no such luck. Oh well, here it is anyways. I must say this sketch by Kimmie just rocks!!! I will definitely be using it again!

So, have ya noticed I love my music and love adding songs to my blog that "co-ordinate" with the theme of the card or the theme of my post. I love to rock out when I am in my scrapbooking room and I also, really like using the lyrics from my favourite songs as the sentiment on a card or for the title of a scrapbooking page...music is such great inspiration for me! Well, for this card I used part of a line from the song "She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5 (one of my favourite bands and I just love Adam Levine. He is such a hottie,lol!!) Whenever I hear this song I am really struck by this line "It's not always rainbows and butterflies...it's compromise that moves us along". whoa, isn't that the truth!

Another one of my favourite things is collecting fonts. One font that caught my eye recently is called "Dear Joe Four". You may have seen it yourself at your LSS, It is used on some of the new Prima packaging. I searched for it on the many free font sites available on the net and found it (or one that is pretty darn close to it) on dafont.com. I think this font is also very close to the font used in the MFT set By the Sea Shore. The only down side is the free version available on dafont doesn't come with punctuation.
So, for this card I used a piece of the Core'Dinations Cardstock for the 6X6 base and distressed the edges. The pp is from the Prima Marketing 5X7 paper stack, Sasha Collection. I stamped the main image of Tilda Med Maskros (one of my very first Magnolia stamps and one of my all time favourites too) on Georgia Pacific White Cardstock with Archival Brilliance Graphite Black ink and coloured it with Copic markers. Then I matted it on a peice of orange Core'Dinations cardstock that I distressed the edges of with the Tim Holts Tonic Distressing tool. I added a few of my new Prima flowers that I picked up at Micheals and blinged them up with some crystal Stickles and MM gemstone brads. I added the crystal Stickles to Tilda's wings and used a yellow Sakura stardust Gelly Roll pen to add some sparkle to the dandelion. I printed the the lyric from the song on a strip of velum and adhered it to the card with some transparent double-sided squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look.

Tell Me,Me Oh,Me Oh My, Wasn't that Party!!!

There is a good reason why I am signing this little ditty this morning...could've been the three, four, six, Smirnoff Ice, lol!!!

Well, My bestest friend in the whole wide world, Donna, threw a big birthday bash to celebrate her 50th birthday with friends and family last night! Wow...wasn't that a party...and I am afraid to say that my head does feel a little like a football right now, lol!!!!! What a blast though!!!! It doesn't get any better than that...good friends, family, yummy food/cake dancin', singin' and oh, imbibin' (just a little) all night long, lol!!!!

So, just when I was packing all my scapbooking supplies Friday night to go to a weekend crop, I had a light bulb moment, and decided to make a memento for Donna, to remember her rockin' birthday bash! So, I made her this mini-album and took pics last night that I will print and add for her. She loved it (and her Timmy's gift card), yay!!! And I have to say I am thrilled with how the album turned out too. I have made it before as an "All about me" mini-album and even taught it as a quick class....lots of fun! It is a great gift idea, very easy to make and has a lot of impact as there are lots of little flaps to open. The directions are from TVWeekly Scrapbook Lounge and you can download them here. I have taken a lot of pics of it, bare with me, but I wanted you too see all the pages. I hope you like it and maybe even give it a try. Let me know if you do! I would love to see your mini-album, so, post your pics on your blog. Oh, and I can't forget about the pocket card that I made too from the fabulous tutorial/directions on Claudia Rosa's blog, Pretty Pressings.

I used Fancy Pants Celebrate collection 12x12 double-sided patterned papers, co-ordinating rub-ons and the titles and tags die cut sheet. I also used Melissa Frances new Celebration and various other, of her fabulous, rub-ons. I cut the rub-ons up and rearranged them to say what I want. I also, put my QK to work on this little album using tags, and various other dies to embellish the pages.

It might be a little hard to see from the pics but this album has many pages that open and fold out with little side flaps that open to reveal more pics and embellishments. Check it out on the Scrapbook Lounge and you will be able to see it better in the video.

Here is an example of how I cut up my rub-ons and use them to suit my needs. The black Mellisa Frances rub-on originally said happy holidays and I cut the "holi" part out and cut of the "s" and layered the reaming "happy day" over the word happy on the die cut.

I'm quite happy with how this neat little idea turned out. I butted two pieces of pp together taped them on the back and then applied the ice cream cone rub-on on top. The beige pp on the bottom looks like the cone and the top is some yummy lime green colour, then I cut it out. I covered the ice cream with my new clear glaze pens and used red stardust glitter pen to colour in the cherry.

So, When I feel a little better...later this afternoon, (let's keep our fingers crossed)! I will run up to Wal-Mart and print the pics from last night, to add to the album. Thanks for stopping by and having a look, leave a comment too. I love reading them and then I will pop on over to your blog and have a look-see, smile!

Clearly, a great weekend and a great FS sketch too!

Wow, What a busy but fun filled weekend I have had! Yesterday, I taught another clear acrylic album class at The Scrapbook Academy...what a blast and what a great group of ladies! Clearly, they all deserve an A+++ as everyone made such fabulous albums,smile! I was so inspired to make another album by their creativity and I just might make a few other acrylic projects well I'm at it! I couldn't believe just how many of us were huge Disney fans too! Many of the ladies were even making Disney themed acrylic albums. I think I might just have to do the same! We also shared lots of great tips about WDW! Then, when I got home Chris and I looked at the pics on our Disney Photopass and discussed our next trip to the happiest place on earth...can't wait! To top it all off, Chris and I went and saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (a Disney movie). You see, we were sans kids last night...both kids had sleepovers,whoohoo!!!

So, When I was at the Scrapbook Academy yesterday I picked up the new MFT sets, Friends Furever and Gone to the Dogs. I decided to use the Friends Furever set for Sketch #4 at Friday Sketchers. I stamped it with Archival Brilliance Black Graphite ink on Georgia Pacific paper and coloured it with Copic markers and inked the edges. The card base is 6X6 and cut from Bazzill Basics card stock, watermelon. The pp is from a 5X7 Prima pad from the Breathe collection that I picked up at Micheals. I really like the patterns and the colours, it is just too bad, they didn't have it in square, 6X6 or 8X8 pads, though. I used Technique Tuesday Postage stamp FUNdementals as a guide to make the border and inked all the edges of the pp. The sentiment is stamped on two QK ribbon slider 2X2 die cut from the pp and I added some American Craft ribbon. I also, cut four photo corners with a QK 2x2 die and added them to the stamped image. Then, I stamped the inside sentiment on the dog bone tag stamp, cut it out, added a heart brad and pop-dotted it.

Well, I gotta take a quick trip to the grocery store and pick up some things to make lunches with for tomorrow. I guess all this fun had to come to end sometime, lol! Thanks for stopping by! have a great Sunday afternoon!

Oh, I wanted to give a shout out to Bella. She was one of the 10 fabulous ladies in my class yesterday and she posted her acrylic album on her blog. Go have a look...it is gorgeous!!!