Tuesday time…..with Jacksonbelle~

Well we have a super fun SKETCH this week to play with, and I just had to use some new Inka stamps on it. I used my cute ‘Gift from Kitty’ set on this one. And I’ll tell you why in a moment.

So one of our cats, Connor is a bad….baaaaaaaaaaad cat. He is always leaving a surprise everyday, and it’s alays disgusting. I can’t put him into a pound where they will kill him, but no kill shelters wouldn’t take him because he wouldn’t be placed due to his behaviors. So we have him up for free but no offers. He is truly an annoying cat and I don’t like him 99% of the time. But he is always the first to snuggle me if I’m sick or sit with me.

I made this card to give to Sean hoping that it would make him smile. It did, but I dont think it helped how he feels about connor at all.

Be sure to play along with us and check out all the great samples!

• Amber Dawn - JBDT
• Beth - JBDT
• Broni- JBDT
• Dee- JBDT
• Erin - JBDT
• Kissa - JBDT
• Laura
• Lila - JBDT
• Lynda Benden JBDT
• Maren - JBDT
• Lindsey

Supplies:

Stamps: Gift from kitty-Inkadinkado
CS: mustard, cooca, olive, PTI white
Ink: adirondack black, copics, chocolate, olive
Accessories: CB folder, distress tool, sponge, punch, brad

A new favorite and an old favorite

Today I got the chance to play with my big order of fresh MFT stamps! I also picked up a pack of the memory box homespun paper and I just love it! I had been eyeing it for a while but decided to just get it this time. I also threw in 2 packs of petaloo flowers, jeweled florettes. I don’t know how I was missing these for so long! You get 80 flowers in a pack with crystals in the center!

Now you had to know that I would love the Flopsey charchter! After all I am the gal who made these for my ATC swap.

So I was giggling as the previews came in for flopsey! I KNEW I had to have him, and I just couldn’t wait to play!

The finished size is 4 1/4 squared. And I just have to make sure to dirty up the wheelbarrow, overalls, carrots (they are straight from the ground) and a touch of soil on his little tail! I can’t wait to see what other adventures Flopsey is going to have!

And because your visiting while I’m feeling generous, I have another card to share with you! (wink)

I’ve actually had this image colored for a couple weeks, but yet to put the card together. Luckily I didn’t forget about it and got busy while I had some time today.

Be sure to join me Thursday as I host the Unity Stamps project of the week! It’s a fun one!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday- color challenge!

I have a lot to post today and I’m super late doing it so these will all be short and sweet. This weeks challenge was a red, black and bashful blue color challenge. They are great colors but I cheated a bit with the black and swapped basic grey CS as the base. You all know by now how hard rules are for me to follow! Oh and I finally used my little corner stamps on this.

Be sure to check out all the other DT’s blogs for great inspiration! And Lindsey has the C-U-T-E-S-T line in right now from October Afternoon…….go check out the super cute stamps and papers! I’ll be back soon with some more fun stuff!

Details:

Stamps: Birds galore-Inkadinkado/ Corner stamps- Prima from Jacksonbelle
Ink: memento black, basic grey
CS: basic grey, real red, bashful blue, PTI white
Accessories: white pen, spica pen, CB folder, ribbon, punches, rain dots, dew drops from Jacksonbelle

Where have I been, why I’m slackin’

So quickly to bring everyone up to speed……my week has been insane. Tuesday was spent in a car with my 4 year old running errands, then alone with the two kids the rest of the night. But 8pm I was exhausted and couldn’t think so I fell asleep on the couch. Yesterday, I was at the copic class all day and while it was fun it was also exhausting. After 7 hours of coloring I had ZERO desire to color or craft.

So now that leaves me with tonight and feeling oh so guilty about not having stamped much this week. So I decided to play in the MFT sketch challenge:

Pretty straightforward, stamps, ink, blah blah blah. Yes I’m tired again, thank goodness tomorrow is Friday!

I am HOPING I will have something else tomorrow and for sure this weekend. I have a 6 person swap to prepare for Saturday that I need to give some thought to.

Off to veg my brain!

Deets:

Stamps: Here’s the scoop-MFT
Ink: adirondack black, antique linen, tea stain distress, blue
CS: blue, yellow, rose-SU  PTI white
Accessories: CB folder, copics, tag and ribbon from Making Memories, Prima flowers and dew drops from Jacksonbelle embellishments

Inspired Unity

Last Friday AJ posted the inspiration piece on the Unity forums and it was just beautiful! I wanted to keep the feel of the room, the florals and colors, I also wanted to use my new ‘Beautiful Life’ set.

 I used sky, river rock, antique linen and chocolate ink for all of the stamping to give a lot of layers and dimension. I was really fighting myself to not put a flower on it, or any other embellishments. I kept trying things out but took them off.

Tomorrow Sean and I will celebrate our 7 year anniversary and this is the card I am giving him. Which he said he will display it proudly at work, lol.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I’ll be back with a little something fun.

Blogger’s challenge Friday…….Get out your sunglasses

Because the future is BRIGHT!!!!! And so is this card;

The challenge this week is a color combo; pink, turquoise and GREEN GALORE!!!!!! I have been stressing about this color combo ALL WEEK! This is just so not my normal style and I don’t think it ever will be. I had to go to the SU website and look at the color before I could pick it out of my bright CS pack. I don’t have the ink, the marker….nothing just a few sheets that I had thought about recycling.

This card also fits into the MFT sketch challenge for this week. And speaking of My favorite things…………..

A girl remembers all her firsts: your first kiss, your first best friend, and the first time you talk to one of your stamping idols. I had the EXTREME pleasure of talking to Kim, THE Kim from MFT….she called me, on my phone, AT MY HOUSE!!! And it didn’t matter what she had asked of me I would have done it. Fortunately she asked me to do something legal and something that I wanted to do, she asked me to be on her new special assignment design team! Seriously, there are only a few people that Sean remembers who I’m talking about just by their first name and he knows who Kim is, there is only 1 Kim in our vocabulary.

Now I kind of think of this like CSI and all the other CSI shows: same premise, new actors, new location with some familiar faces showing up. You can find the links to the blogs and galleries of the other talented ladies on Kim’s blog and I will be linking them here soon.

So I hope you will enjoy the ride with me as I create some new projects for Kim and MFT. And thanks for letting me share my excitement and tooting my horn a little about all my good news this week.

Details:

Stamps: Icing on the cake, Essential Sentiments - My favorite things
Ink: white, turquoise, black, copics
CS: turquoise, green galore, PTI white, Prima ‘Caliope’ collection from Jacksonbelle
Accessories: nesties, CB folder, ribbon from stash, white gel pen, black spica, Prima flower from Jacksonbelle, WW punch

So much to do and finally some time to do it all!

I have had an exhausting and looooooooooooong craft day! This is week 2 of Sean’s vacation and we are each taking a couple days to get things done for ourselves. Today I worked on finishing my ATC’s for the MFT swap. And then after that I got to working on some samples from the latest releases from Treehouse Stamps

The first one is from the new set called My Hero:

The layout started as Jen’s SFYTT, but somewhere along the way I swapped the paper placement and now it’s just inspired by her sketch, lol. I really tried to give the dudes some tan, sun kissed skin. Since I’m so pale you can practically see through me I had a hard time adding tan tones and worried it just looked like they had a weird skin condition. I hope they dont look sick, just tan, lol!

The next two samples are using the Elegant Sentiments :

I have so much more to show, I was on a crafting ROLL today I tell you! Tomorrow I have to take Audrey to her speech and OT and then it’s a relaxing day at home. We just got the new Mario Kart for the Wii and it’s soooooooooooo fun! Ava really loves to play it and surprisingly she’s not too shabby!

Happy Monday everyone!

Busy as a bee…..

That’s me! I have been so busy these past few days getting ready for different stamp releases and working on projects, just buzz, buzz, buzzing along! My very special project will be ready tomorrow featuring the ‘Hip hop accessories’ from Gina K…….SO excited to have it finished! But tonight I have 2 cards to share featuring an upcoming release from Treehouse stamps called “Home Grown”:

What’s the buzz? Such a cute little bee and flower! I just had to give the bee some sparkly wings and a little trail of sparkle dust, like magic pollen! This reminds me of my friend Bee, I might have to surprise her with a card sometime using this set!

This set has a primitive feel to it, for me at least, lol! So when I started to watercolor this bird I decided I wanted it to look like a rustic painting you might find in an old abandoned Oklahoma farm house, where everything is weathered and dusty. The ‘Honey Pie’ cosmo cricket paper came in handy with this sheet of cross stitch pattern paper. 

And now I am off to watch ‘Gossip Girl’, I’m so glad it is back! Happy Monday!

And Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii will always love yooooooooooooooou!

I can’t help myself from singing that song to myself whenever I see the name of this super cute Gina K set! It’s called “Owl always love you” and I am in love with it! I shrieked when I opened up the envelope and saw these sweet owls.

Aren’t they sweet? I had so much fun coloring them. Even though my craft room is STILL not finished and it’s not really great to work in, these birdies made me want to create all afternoon!

You can see more of this great set and other sneak peeks by visiting Gina K’s blog! And don’t forget about the release party tonight on SCS, there’s sure to be lots of fun and challenges!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check back soon, I have some EXTRA special projects in the works for Gina’s release! I hope your weekend is going GREAT!

Everything…..

I had some time today to play with Beate’s weekend sketch, hooray! And I have found another new favorite color combo……artichoke, basic grey and PTI’s aqua mist! It is oh, so lovely together!

*Sigh*

I am LOVING the 2 PTI colors I got, sweet blush and aqua mist. They are so pretty with such a number of SU colors, Nichole really did a great job!

Today my mom is coming over to watch the girls and Sean and I are heading down to Ikea. That’s about a 50 minute drive from us, I do wish one was closer. But since we don’t go that often it’s not too terrible. I’m looking for some new bookcases and storage items for my craft room! It’s time to decorate it and make it my own space! How exciting!!! I’ve been in it for almost a year but I have yet to paint it and truly make it mine! I’ll be sure to share all the exciting detail of it’s progress with you. (That is said in a completely sarcastic tone as since I can’t imagine too many of you are on the edge of your seat about this!)

I know I’ll squeeze in some more time this weekend for something crafty. I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!

The DEETS:

Stamps: Always-SU  Pretty Pattern BG-CHF
Ink: Aqua Mist-PTI   basic grey-SU
CS: artichoke, basic grey-SU  aqua mist-PT
Accessories: CB folder, aqua mist ribbon, dimensionals, sponge, 1/2 punch, slot punch, dew drops, liquid pearls