And because I really liked the way this turned out I have a closeup too~

These sweet Sarah K images are available at stampavie.com, if you would like to take a peek.

I’m hoping to knock out a few things tomorrow while Audrey has her therapy. I’ve got way too many ideas and just plain not enough time.

Details:

Stamps: Sarah K-stampavie
Ink: stazon, SU reinkers
CS: pti white, SU, Daisy D from Jacksonbelle
aCCESSORIES: MM noteworthy, buttons, nesties

 I have a friend who is due witha  girl in August, so I think this is going to go to her.

Sean and I went to a wedding this weekend and it was actually nice! I saw that because the thought of going to most weddings makes me cringe, but this was different. They had their own vows which actually didn’t sound cheesey, but they sounded sincere. And there were so many people to see and catch up with that the night flew by. Then Sunday I woke up with a migraine……..so there ya go. It totally made me feel like I have been out of the swing of things for months.

I have the CUTEST Sara K to share with you tomorrow! Be sure to stop by and check it out!

Here’s the links to all of the players:

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

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

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.

After touring her gallery I decided to CASE THIS card. I decided I wanted to keep the bird, branch and monochromatic feel to the card. So off I went to my craft room and whipped up my card:

It’s a sage base but the rest of the paper is from the Honey Pie Cosmo crickett pack, including the blackboard berry branch. The edges were all sponged in cranberry ink and the bird was highlighted with a sakura pen and white ink pen. Then I used twinkling watercolors to paint on the branch and around the bird. Finishing it off is of course some primas and dew drops!

I received some fun news today, that 2 of my cards were picked up for publicaiton! I was so excited about which one’s they were too, both MFT and Cosmo Crickett!!!!!! Plus I got an order of Bella’s that I’ve been waiting for.

Be sure to check out the other DT’s to see who they CASE and what they’ve come up with!

Details:

Stamps: Birds Galore, Chelsea Sentiments- Inkadinkado from Jacksonbelle
CS: sage, Honey Pie Cosmo Crickett - from Jacksonbelle
Ink: cranberry
Accessories: sakura pen, white pen, twinkling h20, Primas, cosmo cricket black board, dew drops- from Jacksonbelle

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!

The picture below has the basic supplies; polymer clay, rolling pin, cookie cutters, embossing powders and inks. The rolling pin and cutters were all in the cake decorating dept. at Michaels, as they are used for fondant. But the roller comes with attachments on the end to allow you an even thickness and the cutters are sized right for what I have needed so far. PLUS they were all super cheap! After standing and staring at the polymer clay accessories thinking there had to be something cheaper……..I walked to the other side of the store!

You will roll out your clay and then cut in the desired shape, place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes at 275. EASY!!!!

To stamp and emboss an image on the clay you need to use either a craft ink, versamark OR brilliance graphite ink. The brilliance is a thicker ink and holds onto the embossing powder the same as the craft or sticky versamark.

I used the round shaped tree from Tiny Trinity for this pendant:

Using your heat gun on this is similar to on paper, you want to watch the EP “change” and get glossy to know it is done. Then you can color it in! YEP, copic markers work on polymer clay! They have much more texture and look like painting, but I really like the effect.

I started with a pale olive, then added olive to it. You can see that it starts to look like stained glass, with the different colors peeking through.

I wanted to add even more texture, so I used some lace stickles on the tips of the leaves and poured microbeads onto it.

I have these punched metal tins from Making Memories that I love to use in jewerly. You can stamp on them, do photo transfers…..just ton’s of fun stuff. The sad thing is that they are discontinued and I have had to do lots of ebaying to keep up a good supply. I adhered the clay to the metal base with resin.

To finish the piece, I added half back pearls, some jewelry findings and platinum stickles around the pendant.

The great thing about using your stamps for jewelry is that you can make it as simple or detailed as you want. You don’t need the metal base, or coloring. Simply stamping and embossing then giving a sealant in resin would look fabulous.

I hope I have inspired you to look at your stamps a little differently. Take a look at your stamps, notice how the design looks on a smaller scale by stamping it and then punching out a small circle. The possibilities of stamping with clay are pretty big and I’m excited to share even more of those with you throughout the month!

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you try this! I would love to see your creation!

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!

Now I usually take some kind of liberty with a sketch, and this is definately no exception. But I am surprised how many of the elements are represented, even if they are moved a little.

I have a couple packs of those SU sticky cuts letters and shapes and decided I should finally play with them. It was interesting, not bad and not quick. I was ever so thankful for the glitter cloth that I got from scor-pal, seriously picks up all that glitter.

Be sure to check out all the other DT’s blogs for some more inpiration on this great sketch!

I’ll definately have a few cards to show tomorrow and Wednesday. Thursday I am hosting the Unity Stamps project of the week, so prepare to have some fun!

I hope everyone had a great start to their week!

Details:

Stamps: Patterned bugs-Inkadinkado
Ink: bashful blue, chocolate chip
CS: bashful blue, PTI white, Daisy D ‘Chloe Marie’
Accessories: sticky cuts, glitter, punches, MAMBI rhinestones, ribbon, sponge, dimensionals, primas, buttons, dew drops

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