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.

Bloggers challenge and a little extra!

This week’s challenge is insects……pretty easy and fun for me, I love insect stamps! I guess the challenge would be picking out which one I want to use. I chose the ‘Fantastical floral’ set from Unity:

Ah, a butterfly! Probably the most “friendly” or non creepy insect around. Although I think a ladybug is people first choice for insects that don’t bother them. No, I haven’t been watching a marathon of family feud, lol.

And since I’m feeling generous again, I thought I would share another card made for a sketch challenge on SCS.

These little images are sooooo darling! And the sentiments are so fun……”Lovin from the oven”.

Those silly clear buttons. I just HAD to have them and I rarely remember to pull them out! I have developed a button obsession, infact I received a new bag o’ buttons today! YIPPEEE!

Oh, and I’ve got a special project that you can see over on the Unity Stamp blog. So if you haven’t been there take a peek!

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!

Beautiful Life

Hello and happy 4th of July! Thanks for stopping by today, I have something very special to share with you! A few months back I ordered that big cosmo cricket special from QVC that came with some chipboard pieces, including a photo cube. That cube has been sitting on my shelf for months because I just wasn’t wanting to make it, but then I had an IDEA! So I whipped out my stuff and started to work.

The box is covered outside in ”Tea and silk” Prima paper that I stamped with the flowers from ‘Beautiful Life’, the inside has cocoa paper. Lots of prima’s, cream pearls, hearts and ribbon on the top, including a ribbon pull with a little tassel.

 And what is inside?

A little tag scrapbook! Again I altered the unity wooden tags that come in the handles or with the wooden sets. I had these in a little stack on my desk and thought it would look cute as a little scrap book. Here are what the tags look like before, in case you don’t have any. (you should get some though……the stamps that come with them are pretty amazing!)

Again, the pages are covered in ‘Tea and silk’ and distressed edges. I decided to use some of my extra photo’s I have of the girls from their birthdays and the first sister Christmas.

 I just kind of kept adding to each page until I couldn’t fit anything else. It has been so long since I scrap booked and I’ve gotten used to the small size of a card. These little tags made me feel nice and at home because I didn’t have a huge page to fill. 

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful weekend. We have no special plans and will probably just chill at home. There were some AWESOME thunder/lightning storms today, lots of rain to make the grass safe for all those fire works.

Details:

Stamps: Beautiful Life- Unity Stamp Co.
Ink: guava, chocolate, river rock-SU, tea stain/antique linen, palette boudoir blush
CS: cocoa, PTI white, ‘Tea and Silk’ Prima collection
Accessories: pretties kit, nesties, MAMBI rhinestones, may arts ribbon

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!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday………free for all!

Wooohooo! It’s Tuesday so you know that means the Jacksonbelle DT girls get together for a challenge. This week it was easy……anything you want! So I decided to use some of the last of my favorite pieces of cosmo cricket  on this, and some primas that I had been eyeing but not using.

There’s some sewing, lots of sponging, some spica pens, dew drops and lots and lots of primas. This bird set just gets me everytime, I love it.

For more fun and inspiration check out the other DT’s blogs and see what they have cookin:

Lyndsey

Deets:

Stamps: Birds galore-Inkadinkado
Ink: chocolate chip, basic grey, antique linen and tea stain distress inks
CS: basic grey, cosmo cricket ‘honey pie’
Accessories: sewing machine, spica pens, nesties, PTI ribbon, dew drops, primas

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

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.