Blogger’s challenge Friday……Traveling

The end of the week is here, thank goodness! So that means it’s Friday and blogger’s challenge day! This week’s challenge was a sketch challenge, which I find the most difficult. I hope I didn’t break any challenge rules by changing things a little because I just can’t stick to a sketch as it’s given!

I had to use my new MFT set “Going Places”:

Do you like the map? Notice how everything is green except Mexico, lol?! I guess my map is before global warming, at least that’s the story I’m sticking with! I also wanted to make it worn looking so I put some brown shading around the edges. I just imagined this gal as a jet setting model with her LV suitcase pulling out her map wondering where she is today. She’s obviously looking at Europe on the back.

The flowers are some more new Prima flowers from Jacksonbelle. These are from the artful collage assortment and there are super cool patterns and prints on them. Plus the package is cute sitting on my shelf!  

We have our last parent coaching appointment on Monday and then more testing and onto the home ABA therapy. I can’t believe it’s almost time to start and I’m so happy to get on with it! Tomorrow night Ava and I are having another sleepover slumber party only this week we are making cupcakes! She’s just so cute how excited she is to stay up late baking and playing games with mom.

Happy Friday!

Details:

Stamps: Going Places- My favorite things
CS: cocoa, barely blue-SU cosmo cricket DP
Ink: adirondack, tea stain, antique linen
Accessories: copics, ribbon, black brads, Primas from Jacksonbelle

Prima afternoon tea

I had ordered some new Prima flowers and paper kits from Jacksonbelle on Sunday and I got them in the mail today, hooray! The paper kits are so cool because they come with matching ribbon and flowers! I ripped open my two packs and spread them all out and then had to go play! I decided to pair it with the MFT sketch challenge for this week:

I went to afternoon tea on Sunday with my mom and this card reminds me of a tea room, all vintage and distressed. 

Two new things to tell you about:

1) Treehouse stamps is has it’s new releases, 2 full sets that you can view here. I should be getting my images tomorrow and once I do I’ll have some samples for you!

2) Jacksonbelle is having an Inkadinkado challenge! Visit the forum here for the details, so fun!

Details:

Stamps: Hot stuff- My favorite thigns
Ink: adirondack black, antique linen, tea stain
CS: vanilla, steel toe mary jane-Prima from Jacksonbelle
Accessories: copics, distress tool, sponge, flowers, ribbon and crystal, scallop punch

Jacksonbelle Tuesday……a basic frame

I hope everyone has had a great Monday and start to your week! I ended up without any appointments today, which is a rare thing and played all day at home. Ava and I painted with my watercolors and stamps this afternoon and she just had so much fun.

This week’s Jacksonbelle’s challenge was to use Basic Grey. So I made a desk picture frame with Sugared paper and the Grow a Garden stamp set.

I’m probably breaking some kind of alterable rule about posting a frame without pictures but I don’t know which photo’s to put in. Or really, who I’m giving it to may want to put different pictures on it then I would. Each side is 5 inches wide and 6 inches tall and the back side is finished with a coordinating paper and similar scallop edge. It’s a great desk size and will allow a lot of different sized pictures.

I stamped the butterflies in tea stain ink and a flower bunch in antique linen on top of them for depth. Added to it are some felt flowers, buttons and a few rhinestones. The metal rings that connect both pieces are very sturdy and the frames stand nicely on their own, I almost wish I worked at an office so I could have one…….almost.

Be sure to check out the other design team’s blogs for their take on the challenge, you can find them below! Oh and while you are peeking around, take a look at Jacksonbelle at the over 100 new Inkadinkado stamps!!!

Lynda
Lila
Erin
Maren
Kisa

Deets:

Stamps: Grow a Garden- Basic Grey
Ink: antique linen and tea stain distress inks
CS: Sugared- basic grey
Accessories: MAMBI rhinestones, felt flowers-SU, buttons- MM

Just because…….

Happy Mothers Day!!!! I hope you are having a wonderful day however you are celebrating. We took the girls to the Aquarium this afternoon, lots of fun! And then I got to play in my craft room and I decided to play along with Jen’s sketch.

Is she not cute???? I made her and another Bella card today which I’ll show you tomorrow. It started out as Jen’s sketch but it took a turn and I don’t think it will count, lol.

I used my Basic Grey ‘Sugared’ again…….that stack is getting smaller and smaller! It’s a good thing I ordered some of the new Prima paper (this one too!) today! Have you seen it? It’s GORGEOUS!!! Just when I said I wasn’t going to get anymore paper…….

I can’t believe the weekend is almost over. The season finale of Survivor is on tonight so Sean and I are going to watch that and have some tasty treats! I’ll have my other Bella for you tomorrow!

The DEETS:

Stamps: Gardenia Greenthumb- chichiboulie from stamping bella  & Essential Sentiments- My favorite things
Ink: Adironadack black, antique linen and tea stain distress inks
CS: kraft-SU,  PTI white,  Basic Grey ‘Sugared’ from Jacksonbelle
Accessories: Felt flowers, vanilla GG ribbon- SU, buttons from MM

Bloggers Challenge Friday……Absolutely Fabulous!

It’s time again for the blogger’s challenge and this week is appropriately a mother’s day card. I knew I wanted to use one of my many new Bella’s that I just got. I had held off for sooooo long in getting any but then all these sweet fairies kept calling my name and I just HAD to cave in!

I love her! I added little white dots to her petticoat layer, I wanted it to look like tule. And she has lots of shimmer and sparkles on her dress, wings and flowers from a mixture of spica pens and a stardust pen. The paper is Basic Grey’s Sugared from Jacksonbelle which I like so much more then I expected. I knew I would love it, but these colors are so “me” and I want more of it! The sentiment is from Papertrey’s set, “Mixed messages”. It’s one of those that I never know why or when to use it and I thought for a mother’s day card it worked. Because Mom’s are ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!

I’m off to watch Survivor and possibly Top Model…….thank goodness for TiVo!

Deets:

Stamps: Eloise Greengrass- Stamping Bella and Mixed Messages- Papertrey Ink
Cardstock: Olive, pink- Stamping Up…..Papertrey Ink white……Basic Grey Sugared
Ink: Adirondack pitch black…… olive and pink- Stamping Up…….. Antique Linen distress ink
Accessories: Spellbinder nestabilities, copics, stardust pen, sponge, rhinestone’s

Bunny’s in the garden book

When I saw the set ‘Can ya’ dig it?’ from My favorite things I immediately wanted to make a book. My original idea for the ATC’s I created for the swap was to do mini books, but I quickly realized 10 mini books are NOT what I wanted to slave over. So I decided to make a book for me, just one. The guest designer challenge happens to be to create something with a focus on animals, so I thought this kind of worked perfectly for it!

I used Cosmo Cricket’s wanted paper for the front and back covers, and the pages are strathmore watercolor paper. The book is 5×5 in size, and I used my cropadile to punch the holes and 5/8 vanilla GG ribbon to bind it. I had wanted to use my bind it all, but decided that would look to hard and the ribbons would be a softer touch.

On the first page the bunny’s are peeking out of their home under the bush to make sure Mrs. Gardener is busy with her plants, it’s all clear!

They make their way into the garden and find veggies!

They keep searching and finally hit the motherload……..carrots!

They safely take their carrots home to the flower bush, with Mrs. Gardener no where in sight.

I wanted to watercolor this because I like the soft dreamy look it gives. Some of my favorite childrens books to read to my girls are watercolor and I wanted to recreate that feeling with this book.

I hope you enjoyed my little bunny book! I absolutely LOVE it and I might sleep with it under my pillow tonight~

Stamps: Can Ya’ Dig it, It’s a jungle, boho blossoms- My favorite things
Cardstock: Strathmore watercolor paper and Cosmo cricket ‘Wanted’, groovey guava from SU
Ink: archival black and stazon brown, stampin up reinkers, antique linen and tea stain distress inks
Accessories: sewing machine, nesties, white gel pen, watercolor brush, sponge

My new space!

So a while ago I mentioned I was re-decorating my craft room, and it was finally finished this weekend! Hooray! So I thought I would share some photo’s of my new space!

These are my wall mounted desk with all of my prepping tools on the right; paper trimmer, scor-pal, almost antique sewing machine (THANKS MOM!!!) On the left is my less used paper, cuttlebug and photobox.

Now we have my new storage unit! It has all my stamps, either in the SU boxes, Gina K tins or in the olive and cream boxes. I also have my bind it all stuff, lots of DP, alterables and my jars of ribbon:

And my new desk, which has so much room for everything! It also has a hanging file drawer for my most used cardstock. It took me almost 4 hours to get everything organized and put away on Sunday…..but everything had to have a place.

And I found this cute little planter at Michaels for $4 for my copics, which all fit perfectly. The whole set of ciao’s, if your wondering how many there are.

And last this sweet little box. Again, it was from Michaels at the bargain price of $2!!! Currentlyl it has my cuttlebug folders and dies in it, but really I just like looking at it!

And there you have it! I have 3 out of 4 walls in the room and Sean has the missing 4th wall. Which looks very manly and office-like.

Thanks for taking a peek at my work-space! Now you can imagine where I’m sitting when I make something, lol.

Brainwave Wednesday- Bloom

Ashley has been having great challenges every Wednesday called ‘Brainwave Wednesday’. Each week is different, it may be a sketch challenge, color challenge or as this week turned out an inspiration challenge.

So here’s the deal with this card, lol. I used some Daisy D’s rub-on tape on the edges. This is SUPER COOL stuff……….however…….it must go on paper evenly. So I learned the hard way on this and I’m saving you the trouble. I thought I would be all cool by layering it on the Boxer DSP and my navy base. But NOOOOOOOOOO, this rub-on tape wasn’t going to play that game with me. So let’s all just ignore the little oopsies with that shall we? Ok…..onto the card:

Oh, and if you look at my dahlia and the image on the THS website you’ll notice that they are a wee bit different. I was coloring the flower and started to worry that I had colored too many petals and didn’t leave enough leaves so I drew a couple extra at the bottom. No buggy biggy, I just don’t want Ashley or Kristin to wonder why I changed their stamp. Another oopsie…….

Ok, now run on over to Ashleys blog and try out the inspiration challenge! Be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you do it with a link!

Supplies:

Stamps: Delightful Dahlia and Elegant Sentiments by Treehouse stamps
CS: Navy, green-SU  PTI white   Boxer by Basic Grey from Jacksonbelle Embellishments
Ink: adirondack black, tea stain and antique linen distress inks
Accessories: Nesties, copics, liquid pearls, Daisy D’s rub on tape from Jacksonbelle, hydrangea dew drops

Get ready for a Jacksonbelle color challenge!

Today marks the first Jacksonbelle challenge, and it’s a fun one a color challenge! These colors were right up my alley; pink, grey and green! I had just ordered a pad of that delicious sugared basic grey paper and it had all those lovely colors in it, so all I needed was basic grey card base curtousey of stampin up@

 I combined 2 inkadinkado clear sets, Patterned bugs and chelsea sentiments , which the more I look at them the more ideas I keep getting from then……so I’m mighty excited!

My mom gave me her sewing machine which is close to being vintage at this point, it’s definately retro! But I really love having a sewing machine so I owe my mom ……again! I also really love distress inks. I had been using the antique linen for a while and then decided to grab another one, tea stain. So far I’m really liking it!

The butterfly has accents of raindots, spica glitter pens, metallic paste and the new me and my big ideas rhinestones.

So you’ve seen the challenge; pink, green and grey thank you card. We would LOVE to have you play along! If you upload to SCS please use the keyword JBCC01. Or if you don’t have a gallery there you can link directly back to your blog as well.

I can’t wait to see what you create! Have a wonderful day.

Time to do the bloggers challenge!

So this weeks challenge was a graduation card which is SO VERY HARD for me! My girls are 2 and 4, so nowhere near graduating anything right now, lol. I have never bought a graduation type stamp or anything! Sooooo, here’s what I came up with:

I used the owl from Inkadinkado’s ‘Birds Galore’ set which I got from Jacksonbelle’s and paired it with the basic grey boxer paper. I didn’t find any sentiment that would work for a graduation theme so I printed out the sentiment from my computer. To make the little owl’s cap I cut a 1/2 inch square and topped it with a brad and some hemp! Pretty simple but it just has to do…….I wasn’t buying a special stamp for this one challenge!

Tomorrow is national scrapbooking day and Jacksonbelle is having a sale, 15% off your order! Here is a link to the thread where you can get the code, it’s good Friday through Saturday…..hooray!! And if you’ve never shopped with her before you’re in for a treat because this gal is one fast shipper! I place an order and in a couple of hours I always get the notice it’s on it’s way. I’m starting to wonder if she ever sleeps, lol!!!!

Have a wonderful Friday night! I FINALLY get to pick up my desk tomorrow and finish off my office and take pictures…..what a loooooooong process this has been!