I’m in your deep shag…..

Anyone remember that song by Luscious Jackson? I keep singing it whenever I see my new Sassafras lass papers. I just LOVE them, they are so fun, cute and funky. And I want to make everything with them feel kind of retro 70’s!

This week’s MFT sketch is the big number 40~ can you believe it’s been 40 weeks of fun sketches? I can’t, man this year just flies by! I have been on a watercolor kick this weekend and decided to continue it with this card:

I have to say that I live vicariously through my MFT girls! I always give them furniture, outfits, accessories that I want, lol. Sean wouldn’t be down with a chair like this……but I SO WOULD! And I also love her outfit, I promise if I find it I’m going to take a picture of myself just like this.

Alright, this week should have lots of updates regularly. I have 3 colored images ready to go! We got to spend Saturday night at our friends wedding which was lovely. It’s Sean’s best friends sister, so that family is pretty much Sean’s family which makes them my family. Got that? lol….. Anyway, it was a great night and once again I fell prey to the salty water emotion during the ceremony. Even if I don’t know the couple I ALWAYS cry at weddings, I am a super duper sap! Oh…….except I did NOT cry at my wedding! I was too excited and SMILING~

I also finally got to give that MFT wedding tag book I made for the gift, I put it inside a custom box wrapped with ribbons and a Sarah K card. Which I did NOT take pictures of…..ugh.

Off to watch the Simpsons movie, more fun tomorrow!

Stamps: Call me- MFT
Ink: memento, various SU reinkers
CS: mustard, chocolate, cocoa, PTI white, sassafras lass
Accessories: nesties, punches, stickles, petaloo flowers, ribbon

Some cards, a new title and a question

Yesterday when I mentioned I had 2 new cards being published, someone wanted to know what kind of hit I would be now. After some googling and research I have concluded that I am a 4 hit wonder, as is Whitesnake: Here I go again, Is this love, Fool for your loving, The deeper the love.

Now for some eye candy:

Bunny slippers…..looks mighty comfy! I wanted her robe to look lived in so I created a faux chenile texture on it. This could also be what I needed this week, with both the girls sick and all of my back issues I need a big comfry robe to stuff all the tissues in.

This is just one of my favorite quotes! I love looking at it, reading it makes me feel good inside. The cards are pretty straight forward, MFT stamps on the first and Unity on the second. I’m tired so I want to scoot off the computer, I’ll come back with detail information in the morning.

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!

Going to the chapel

I needed to make a gift for a couple of friends that are getting married soon and started to look through my stash. I had a 6 page accordian tag album that’s been sitting and waiting to be used and decided that now was the time to use it. There are several MFT sets used for this, Boho blossoms, Going to the chapel and Behind the scenes.

I wanted a lot of dimension on the cover, so there are lots of primas in various sizes, MAMBI rhinestones, pearls and dew drops. On the wedding dress I used some micro beads and decided to cover a few glue dots in microbeads and place them on the cover. They were very messy, but I love the way they look and feel!

And a closeup of the beads on the dress and some of the bead dots:

It was hard to get a picture of the album open, so here are the first couple of pages. The inside was lined with DSP from ‘ginger blossom’ and ‘apple cider’ and then stamped and more primas.

Each of the tags has an image and a sentiment. I thought it would be nice for them to be able to put special pictures on them, or just use them as a little journal to jot down some of their favorite thoughts from the wedding.

Now I just need to make a matching card! I hope you enjoy!

Chamomile

I got a little time yesterday to color and play while the ABA therapist was here for Audrey and Ava was content playing. I had yet to ink up this pretty image so I thought it was time I did!

I colored it with copics, of course and then went went over it with pearl watercolors. Not too shimmery but just a touch.

I am going to a swap tonight where I get to see Maren again, maybe AJ and meet Linsey and a few other Seattle area gals….how fun! Luckily I only need 6 cards for the swap because I haven’t figured them out yet, lol.

I hope you all have a great Saturday!

Deets:

Stamps: Chamomile- MFT
Ink: memento, copics, pearl H20’s
CS: sand, mustard, vine-rubber soul
Accessories: nesties, MM flowers, sewing machine

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

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

Bloggers Challenge Friday…….Black and white

This weeks bloggers challenge was to make a black and white card. And while I know these can be quite elegant and beautiful, for me it was a big challenge simply because I LOVE color! And when I showed my DH the card finished, either it REALLY stinks or he’s so used to color that he called it “A beautiful funeral card”………………..beautiful funeral! I never thought I would make something to get that reaction!

I used my largest scalloped square nestie to cut out papers from the Angelique Prima collection, from Jacksonbelle. Then I added some Queen & co felt to the top, felt flowers again from the Angelique collection, flowers and brads from gina K and the finally I stamped! I used the large flower from MFT’s “Boho blossoms” and turned the edges so it wasn’t stiff looking and placed 3 glitter dots in the center. White brads in the bottom right hand corner are the final touch.

I have no idea how, who, when or why I would use this card. It’s so not me. I think I might take it apart tomorrow for anything salvagable.

Deets:

Stamps: Boho blossoms - My favorite things
CS: Angelique Prima collection from Jacksonbelle
Accessories: felt flowers from the Angelique prima collection at Jacksonbell, queen & co felt from Jacksonbelle, gina k flowers and brads and glitter dots, white brads.

Jacksonbelle Tuesday…..orange, brown & green

This weeks challenge did me in, I saw the word ORANGE and GREEN and panicked. Then there was a lot of talk about green galore and adding some less than stellar colors to the mix and my mind couldn’t get off the idea of BRIGHT. So when I set out to make my first card I was trying to do the orange very subtely.

There is a panel of mellow moss behind the bird cage and my orange is the collage primas. This is such a QUICK card, that stamp is just perfect for quick and beautiful cards. I LOVE it! And the collage primas are just too cool. I used the Hampton Crate Paper collection for this one and the Chelsea Sentiments set from Inkadinkado as well.

But when I made this card I felt like it was REALLY cheating so I thought I would make another one. But this one is kind of a cheat too, so I don’t know if I redeemed myself with this one:

See? His shirt is BRIGHT orange, lots of GREEN grass! And you can’t miss all that brown! Again I used the Hampton paper collection from Crate Paper.

Both of these cards are going in a gift set for my trainer. I want to give her a good variety of cards and I know she likes big dogs, so I thought of her when I saw this set. I will show you the gift box and cards tomorrow.

And now you can check out the fabulous creations from the other DT members who have made great samples with these colors!

Lindsey
Amber
Maren
Lynda
Kisa
Lila
Beth
Dee
Broni

Details:

Thank you card

Stamps: La Cage au Folles, Chelsea Sentiments both Inkadinkado from Jacksonbelle
CS: cocoa, moss, PTI white Hampton Crate paper from Jacksonbelle
Ink: memento black, antique linen, chocolate
Accessories: corner rounder, sponge, dimensionals, collage prima flowers from Jacksonbelle

Friends Furever card:

Stamps: Friends Furever- MFT
Ink: memento black, chocolate
CS: cocoa, Crate Paper Hampton collection from Jacksonbelle
Accessories: copics, silver HPH, dimensionals

MFT sketch Monday

I’m just going to pop in really quick to share the card I made for this week’s MFT sketch.  I had a few pieces of Gretel paper from Cosmo Cricket left over and I just had to use them with the cowgirl!

The flowers behind the cactus are Prima Collage flowers from Jacksonbelle.  And you still have time to save 15% with the Promo Code JBE15 !

I hope you are all having a wonderful and relaxing weekend. I’m off to watch a movie and then go to bed!

Stamps: Ride em cowgirl- MFT
CS: sage, cocoa, PTI white, Gretel cosmo cricket
Ink: adirondack black, chocolate
Accessories: copics, brads, ribbon, punches, Prima’s from Jacksonbelle