WOJ # 34....Bev's Fab Sketch....Perfect Love!

Good Morning folks! I have had a great weekend hanging out with my daughter, Hannah! The boys went camping at a local car race track thingy....yes, that is the official term, he, he, he...now you know why Hannah and I didn't go...that is just asking for a migraine..been there done that,lol!!! So we opted to stay home and do girl stuff!!!! Yesterday we went shoe shopping in the morning and then meet up with my friend Dana and took a road trip to Stamping Bella in Toronto. I meet my friend Anna there too, as she had a little parcel for me! She got me my rectangle and scalloped rectangle Nesties at a good deal, so we meet up to do the exchange,lol!!! WOW!!!!! I can't even tell you how much I love the Bella Boutique! That little store is just chalked full of gorgeous stash! I bought this stunning Cosmo Cricket Forever pp...totally addicted to Cosmo Cricket now...just can't get enough of it! I bought a bunch of other stuff too some fun, like adorable lil' charms and some basic supplies, like adhesive (such a good price there), I got a re-inker for my Memento pad and I got the Bazzill Basics Splat mat and I just love it! How have I gone this long with out this Bazzill Splat Mat,smile!

I started this card last night and finished it up today and I am very happy with it! I used Rach's tutorials on masking and the Out of the Box Nesties Technique...I don't have Willow positioned quite right but it will do! She kinda looks like she is going to jump of the swing,lol!!!! Bev's sketch this week at Whiff of Joy Challenge is fabulous I even used it for another card but not a WoJ stamp! My friend ordered this card as she has a wedding to go to! I hope the bride likes it! This paper is perfect as the brides colours are a peachy-orange!

Here is the inside...I picked up this Inkadinkado clear stamp set at the Super Centre (grocery store) they are clearing out there little scrapbooking section and the stamps were $3.00 I have seen the exact same set at Micheals for 24.99...what a bargain,smile! I bought the last two and will keep the extra one for future blog candy!

Speaking of blog candy....be sure to scroll down to my blog candy and leave a comment in my WoJ Blog candy post! It ends today at Midnight! I will announce the winner tomorrow!!!! Good Luck!

So, you all should know what today is by now, that is right, it is the release of the WoJ Women's Delight collection! So make sure you hop on over there and place your order you won't regret it!!! Theses stamps are soooooo beautiful!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee peek!

Hugs,

WoJ Blog Candy!!!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for playing along with me!!!

This Candy is now Closed!!!! Scroll up to see who was the winner!!!

As promised, I am back with my Blog candy featuring a beautiful stamp from the Whiff of Joy Women's Delight Collection that will be released on June 14th!

The stamp that Katharina so generously donated for my blog candy is

Willow as sitting Bride!!!!!

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Scrappy Cat Flourish stamps

EK Success Border punch

American Crafts ribbon and other ribbon

K&Co. Que Sera Sera small paper pad and Adhesive Gems

Prima Flowers

Pop-Dots

So what do you have to do to enter this yummy blog candy!?

1. Leave a comment in the post!

2. if you aren't already following my blog that would be great if you did but not required!

3. Spread the word on your blog if you can but also not required!

We don't have a lot of time on this Candy just a few days! Please Enter by June 14th Midnight my time!!!!

I will announce the randomly selected winner on Monday June 15th!!!!

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Big Hugs,

WOJ Preview Women's Delight.....Cherish!

Here is another card that I made with the gorgeous WoJ Women's Delight collection! The stamps will be available in the WoJ online shop on June 14th! I also have some fab candy from this collection supplied by the wonderful Katharina and I have added to it a bit as I haven't had candy in a very long while! I still have to take a pic of it so be sure to check back later! I will have a second post with the candy later!

For this card I used the beautiful Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday line...I am loving this paper! I stamped Willow with babe on Bee Artist Marker paper made a mask and the stamped the Heidi Swapp word stamp Cherish in blue chalk ink. I coloured Willow and her sweet baby with my Copic Markers and distressed around the image with Tim Hotlz Distress inks! Then, a little ribbon, some half pearls, Primas and then I smothered it in butter cream Shimmerz (yum-o) to finish it off!!!!

for the inside sentiment I used this fab sentiment stamp from the Women's Delight collection and the WoJ flourish stamps.

I am quite happy with how this card turned out and glad to use the great Heidi Swapp word stamp that my friend Dana gave me!!!!! I have a few more and know exactly what I am going to do with them, smile!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee peek at my card and make sure you come back later for some great blog candy!

Hugs,

WOJ Sneak Peek...Wedding Congratulations!

I used three of the new WoJ Women's Delight stamps on this card, that will be released on June 14, in the Whiff of Joy online shop! Don't miss out on theses beautiful stamps will be flying of the shelves, I'm sure!!!

So, as promised this is my happy accident card,smile. I thought the WoJ swing was a trellis/walkway, as I mentioned yesterday. I guess Willow is having a garden wedding, how beautiful! I rather like how this turned out and I think this just makes the stamps that much more versatile when you can use them in different ways!!!!!

I stamped Willow on Bee Artist Marker paper and then made a mask out of a post-it-note and then stamped the swing upside down to make a trellis! I only wish I had read Rach's fabulous tutorial on masking before I made this card!!!! She gives a fabulous tip...because the vail is transparent it's important to cut the vail off from the mask so the flowers in the background can show through it. That didn't even occur to me and you can see I didn't do that for this card but definitely will for my other cards.

I coloured Willow with my Copics and I used the "Copic water-Colouring technique" on the flowers...I have a mini-tutorial for this technique here on how to achieve a softer affect with your Copics by filling a tank brush with colourless blender fluid!

I also visited the Copic Creations Challenge blog this week and they have several fabulous links to tutorials on colouring transparent objects. Many of the links are to Marianne Walker's blog I like Markers. These tutorials were extremely helpful to me!!!!

For this card I used this beautiful Heidi Grace patterned paper, Bazzill cardstock and Worldwind cardstock. It was hard to capture in a pic but I used my gold Metallic Rub-Ons to add a hint of gold to the edges of the flowers, leaves and around the oval image, the scalloped mat, the sentiment etc. It looks great IRL! I used Stix 2 glue and dabbed it with a tooth pick on the little dots in the image and then rubbed on the Stix 2 gold foil to add some gold accents to Willow's bouquet and the flowers around the trellis. The sentiment is from the Women's Delight Collection too and I stamped it in VersaMark and used Gold embossing power.

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee sneak peek at the gorgeous new WoJ Women's Delight stamps and remember June 14th is the big day!!!!

Hugs,

WOJ Women's Delight Sneak Peak & Friday Sketchers # 55...Babies touch the world with love!

I am so excited to show you a sneak peak of the gorgeous new Whiff of Joy Women's Delight collection by Elizabeth Bell! They will be available in the Whiff of Joy Online shop June 14th! Make sure you get in on these stunning stamps!!!!

This stamp of Willow expecting is just so beautiful! I just adore it! I do have a bit of a funny story to tell about this card...well, I 'm not sure if it's funny really...It's just that I can be so dense sometimes,lol!!!! Well, Anyways, I wanted something for poor Willow to sit on, after all she is expecting and needs to take a load off! So, I asked my hubby to draw in something that she could sit on! Well, this is what he came up with, a swing! I thought it was brilliant!!!! Not a bad job, eh!? Then, I made another card (that I will show you tomorrow) with what I thought was a trellis/pergola type thing with flowers on it!!! Well, later I realized it is actually a swing, duh!!! Talk about dense or what!!!! Kinda helps if you turn things the right way,lol! Well, I was going to do the image over but I think I would have hurt my hubby's feelings if I didn't show you the swing he drew for sweet Willow!!!!

I made this card for the challenge over at Friday Sketchers with the fabulous sketch they have this week!!

I used some beautiful papers from Cosmo Cricket called Girl Friday! I am loving Cosmo Cricket papers they are really pretty! I used some great American Crafts ribbon, pretty Prima flowers and buttons from my stash. I threaded the buttons with Scrappers floss and I inked all the edges of the papers with Tim Holtz distress inks and stamped the stitching with my Kelly Panacci stamps and Weathered Wood Distress ink.

I stamped Willow on Bee Artist Marker pad paper and coloured her with my Copics. My Hubby, Chris, drew in the swing with a Copic Multiliner pen and they are Copic Marker Proof, so I was able to colour it with my markers and not have the ink smear.

Here is the inside!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee sneak peek at the new Women's Delight collection from Whiff of Joy! Make sure you mark June 14th in your calendar and visit the Whiff of Joy Online store!

Come back and see my other happy accident tomorrow,smile!!!!

Hugs,

Just Magnolia #8, Cute Card Thursday # 36, Copic Colour Challenge #16 & Colour Create # 18....Tilda says"Life is too short for beige!"

Wow!!! I managed to combine four great challenges into one very colourful and very bright card, lol! I made this card for the Just Magnolia Challenge following Rach's fabulous sketch...definitely one to use again as it makes a fab looking card without being too complicated...gotta love that!!!!! I also followed along with the challenge at CCT to use punches/die cuts, Copic Colour Challenge and Colour Create Challenge #18 the colours of the rainbow!!!!

I made my cardbase 6x6 with yellow Bazzill Basics cardstock and matted with blue Bazzill cardstock and used my new BG Lime Ricky 6x6 paper pad and brads. I thought Lime Ricky would be the perfect paper for Colour Create challenge...colours of the rainbow!

I stamped Spring Tilda and the butterfly scene from the Magnolia Chasing Butterflies collection on Prism Simply Smooth cardstock and coloured Tilda and the secne with my Copics. I used Y06, but I don't have RV11 or E39 so I used RV13 and E37 instead. For the CCT challenge, I use my new EK Success border punch, circle and scalloped circle Nesties and QK Butterfly die. I cut the butterfly die out of the QK adhesive clear plastic material and then dusted it with Glamour Dust!

To finish it off some yummy American Crafts ribbon, Primas, Stickles and the perfect sentiment by Stamping Bella...love, love, love this sentiment!!!! I stamped it with VersaMark ink on the blue cardstock and used American crafts Zing white embossing powder...love the crisp white sentiment!

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I want to let you know, if you haven't already heard, that there is going to be a new WoJ stamp release on June 14thWomen's Delight - a phenomenal Wedding and Baby Collection will hit the Whiff of Joy online store! I have seen these stamps up close and held them in my hand and OMG they are absolutely stunning!!!!!! Look for inspiring creations with this new collection by the WoJ DT very soon! Katharina has a stunning gift holder using one of the new images on her blog here just to tease you a bit, smile!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!!!!

Hugs,

WoJ Project of the Month...Something for Dad!!!

Here is what I created for the WoJ Project of the Month! We were asked to make "something for Dad"! Well, I know Chris loves to go golfing although he doesn't get out as often as he would like to.

I thought I would make him something golf related so, I picked up some golf balls and tees at Golf Town and will add a gift card or some money to cover the green fees, smile!

I used my QuicKutz Silhouette to cut the door hanger and octagon box. The door hanger is rather cute and has a little pocket on the back that I stuck some of the tees in and will add the green fee $$ later! The dotted paper is American Crafts and the plaid is from Cosmo Cricket Lil' Man Collection. The golf hole and flag and the tee and ball were all cut on my Silhouette using QK digital downloads out of cardstock. I inked all the edges with my Chestnut Roan chalk ink. The grass is a QK 2x2 die and the letting is a QK alphabet.

I used Oakley with pullover as I thought he looked like a wee golfer and this Willow is a real fave of mine and when my husband first saw these stamps he said she reminds him of our daughter Hannah. I coloured them with my Copics and pop-dotted everything to give dimension! Here you can see the back pocket on the door hanger.

I love how the octagon box top folds up at the top! I added a Nesties tag with a WOJ sentiment.

inside the box is a few golf balls! Now hubby will be all set to hit the greens!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee peek! The other WOJ DT members have fabulous PoM to share with you too. So go check out their blogs or go to the PoM gallery on the Whiff of Joy website!

Hugs,