A Very Pink Christmas

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours was pretty awesome. Hectic, but lots of fun too. We managed to see most all of our family and still had lots of time for friends too. After I get my photos downloaded from the camera, I will post a few of them. 

 I usually make Jenna and Samantha cards to go along with their Christmas gifts and Jenna had a special request for hers this year. She wanted a pink card with some sparkle. Really though, that is her preference for just about everything!! I told her that I think that this is the pinkest card that I have ever made. Even the writing on the inside is pink. I started with Cocoa Riley and colored it with Copics and then added some Stickles to the hat for some sparkle. The ribbon I used is actually some ribbon for gift wrapping, but in person, it has a lovely sparkle that most of my other ribbon didn't have. I added the rhinestone for some extra bling and ended up with a card that made a twelve year old very happy!

Thanks for dropping by today!

Happy Anniversary Kip

Kip and I celebrated our sixth anniversary on Saturday and this is the card I made for him. We have a tradition of doing something new and hopefully different every year and we alternate years planning. With an anniversary the week before Christmas we put more thought into our activity than our gifts. As far as the gifts so, we give each other something that somehow relates to the "traditional" gift for that year.

This was my year to plan our anniversary activity. I started thinking a while back and came up with dance lessons. I do not dance at all. Ever. I have two left feet and am not the most graceful person in the world. But Kip enjoys dancing. We have never danced together because I do not dance. I arranged to have us go in to a local dance studio for a private dance lesson together and unknown to Kip I have also taken a few lessons by myself so that I can feel more comfortable. He was very shocked that I had planned this because of my precious reluctance to dance at all. We haven't had our lesson yet, but I can't wait to show him what I learned.

Since our activity revolved around dancing, I wanted an image of a couple dancing. It took me forever to find one that I really liked. I found this one called As You Wish from Tiddly Inks that I thought was perfect. It is colored with Copic markers, papers are from my stash and the flowers and pearls came from Michael's.

The traditional gift for the sixth anniversary is iron or candy. Kip gave me a cast iron tea set with a tea pot and two tea cups. It is gorgeous. I look at these all the time but never with the intention of buying one. I love it though, it is the most beautiful shade of blue. I gave him a cast iron Korean BBQ plate and a copy of Iron Man 2 for his movie collection. His BBQ plate can either be used on the stove top or on the grill. We just bought a grill this summer and he has had a lot of fun learning how to cook on that.

Thanks for reading all about my anniversary!

Snowman Card

This time of year is just so busy!! I think the time from Halloween to Christmas keeps getting shorter and shorter too. Or maybe that is just an effect of me getting older. I have a quick little snowman card to show you today. I have had this image for a while and it sees a lot of use at this time every year. Several years back I went to a stamping convention thing in Chattanooga and won a prize, which was the set that this came from. The little sign he is holding is actually blank and there are a couple of other sayings that you can stamp in there. I love the size of this image too, it is the perfect size to make tags. The image is from Darcies and was colored with Copic markers, paper is DCWV, the snowflake is a Martha Stewart punch.

I think most of the shopping is done now and I have most everything wrapped. Other than a couple of days of cooking most of my holiday prep is complete. I try and get it all done as soon as possible so that as time gets closer I can just sit back and enjoy Christmas. Kip and went shopping last night. I have to give him some love here. He isn't much of a shopper, normally he is good for a couple of stores and that's about it. I wanted to go shopping at a different shopping center that I had never been to before and he was game with that. I navigated while he drove. I did get him to a shopping center, it just happened to be the wrong one for the store we were looking for! He was a good sport about it though and was able to get us to where we were trying to go.

Have a great day!

Coffee or Tea?

Good Morning! One of the main reasons I started my blog was to challenge myself to learn more and do more with a hobby that I loved. I saw all these challenges online that I wanted to participate in and thought that blogging would be a good way to do that. I know I have tried tons more techniques that I wouldn't have, just because they were a challenge requirement. And many of those things (like the center step card below) are things that I really enjoy and help me keep enjoying this hobby that I have invested so much into. I was not at all expecting the friendships that would develop from blogging. I would have never thought that people that I only knew online could end up being such good friends. I have met people that have encouraged me, wished me well, made me smile and opened their lives to me enough to allow me to encourage them, pray for them during hard times, send cards to their loved ones when needed and hopefully I have passed on a least as many smiles as I have been given.

A couple of online friends and I have exchanged little goodie boxes on occasion and this card is going into one such box. Most people I know are either coffee people or tea people. I love both equally. My friend that is getting this card is the same way, I think she loves both with the same amount of gusto as I do! So I have put together a little goodie box of some interesting teas and coffees I have found that I want to share. Since the box is full of coffees and teas, I wanted to use an image that went along with that and found this one that my real life friend Angela gave to me a long time ago for my birthday. It is a set from My Favorite Things called Tea for Two. The image was colored with Copic markers, the paper is DCWV I think, and I added some chipboard letters, and photo turns from my stash.

And I want to say a huge THANKK YOU to all of my online friends. In my last post I mentioned that I had hurt my back and I got so many sweet comments and emails wishing me quick healing and I wanted to let you know that they all mean a lot to me. I am recovering now and am almost back to normal.

Center Step Card

Good Morning! I almost never do alternate fold cards for some reason, but I am really glad that I decided to play along with the Riley and Company challenge this week. The challenge was to make a Center Step card and a link to this tutorial was provided. It wasn't that difficult and I love the way that it looks. I used Riley and the Christmas Tree image for my card, Basic Gray paper, buttons from American Crafts and the sentiment is from a dollar set I have had for a while.

Before I got my laptop, it was much more difficult to make anything that I had to follow multiple step directions. The computer is upstairs and the craft room is downstairs so I would try and balance my Scor-Pal on my lap at the computer desk which didn't really work all that well. Having the laptop, I can put it on my craft desk and it makes everything so much easier.

Samantha hung out with me on Saturday morning while her sister was at swim practice and she helped me get my tree up. She has helped me with this for the past couple of years now, but this year I had found a bin of ornaments that she had never seen before so she had fun ooohing and aahhing over all the things that were new to her. My tree is done in Elvis ornaments and angel ornaments. Several of the Elvis ones play music, but every time she walks by the tree she presses the button on the one that plays "Viva Las Vegas".

I haven't been around visiting blogs or blogging very much. I hurt my back last week and last night was the first time in about a week that I could sit at the table long enough to even color an image. I have spent as much time as possible horizontal on the couch, with pain meds and day time TV. I'm feeling better now, and am even attempting to go to work today.

Happy Monday!

Good Morning! We had a very busy weekend, busy, but a lot of fun. We had Kip's birthday dinner/party at the bowling alley on Friday night, Saturday was doing all those fun cleaning things that have to be done and then yesterday we went to see Samantha play the piano, got groceries then home for dinner and then to watch The Walking Dead. The grocery store was insane, I didn't think about it being the weekend before Thanksgiving before we went.

My card today uses an image from Sweet Pea Stamps, was colored with Copic Markers and paper, lace and embellishments are from Hobby Lobby. I used Twinkling H2O paints for the background.

Have a great day!

No Coloring Challenge

A no coloring challenge? No Copics or Prismas? Well that is the challenge on the Riley and Company challenge blog this week. I think it actually took me longer to make a no coloring card than it takes me to make one where I have colored the image. Since all white was too much of a challenge for me, I decided to stamp Riley onto kraft card stock and then I stamped it again onto a blue piece of paper and then again onto a brown piece. That gave me a little color to work with. I paper pieced Riley's cookie and the mug he is holding. I used Cookie Riley. papers from making Memories, a Fiskars border punch and a flower and brad from my stash.

I am still hard at work on hubby's birthday gift! Our anniversary is next month, the week before Christmas so I am actually trying to work on things for that too. I can't wait to tell you what I am doing for the anniversary! I am having too much fun, but can't show it yet because I am afraid he might look around my blog looking for hints.

Have a great day!

Riley--Oldies but Goodies Challenge

I almost forgot to post this challenge card! It has been a little hectic here, nothing major going on just lots of fun things to do so I didn't make it to my blog to post last week. It seems like the time between Halloween and the end of the year just zooms by. On the Riley and Company blog this week the challenge was use an oldie but goodie image, using an image that was released at least a year ago. I am getting another box ready to send to my friend's son that is in Afghanistan so I thought this would be the perfect image to use for this challenge and for the card that I will tuck in his box. I used GI Riley, DCWV papers, some leather photo corners and brads from Making Memories.

I have also been busy working on something for Kip. His birthday is Friday and I have a big surprise for him. I can't post it early though, because sometimes he checks out my blog!

Have a great day.

Fall Flowers

Good Morning! It is a cold and rainy day for us this morning. I think fall has really settled in for us. The colors here have been absolutely beautiful but a lot of the leaves have already fallen so I am seeing more and more bare trees on my way to and from work. This is a fall inspired color challenge for me. The stamp is from Impression Obsession, papers and ribbons from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks for stopping by today!

House Mouse Halloween

Good Morning! I have one last Halloween project to share with you. I am a little sad that Halloween is over. In part just because I love Halloween so much and because after Halloween the rest of the year just seems to zoom by in one giant big flurry of activity. Between Halloween and the end of the year we have Kip's birthday, Thanksgiving and travel involved with that, my grandmother's birthday, our anniversary, and the Christmas. Mixed in with all that is the shopping, massive baking and cooking sessions and different holiday parties.

Now on to my card, this is a House Mouse image and was colored with Copics. The little sentiment panel is a piece of thin wood, painted black and then I wrote Boo with a white gel pen. Pretty simple. I just love this image though! It's so funny though, for the longest time, I would only color House Mouse images with pencils and because I was never really happy with the result when I used Copics on them. I am pretty please with this one and now when I sit down to color them it just depends on whether I am in a pencil mood or a marker mood.

Have a great day!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

It's here, it's here, it's finally here! Halloween has finally arrived. If you are celebrating, have fun and be safe! My card today is for the Riley and Company Orange and Black challenge. I left Riley a little pale with very little shading since he has gone all goth with this image. I gave him some little diamond stud earrings and then added that skull and crossbones from Recollections. I don't remember where the paper came from, it was actually from a Halloween or two ago and I have been holding on to it.

I can't wait to see all the little trick or treaters in their costumes tonight. This is the first place that I have really ever lived that has lots of trick or treaters too and I love it. I remember my first apartment after I moved to Nashville, there were several kids around so I got my outside all decorated, bought tons of candy, got ready to pass it out and I had exactly one trick or treater. After we got married I asked Kip if there were a lot that came by here and he didn't know since he was normally gone to a party. I was thrilled to have so many.

Have a great halloween!!

Twelfth Day of Halloween!

Here is my final post for the Twelve Days of Halloween challenges with Simply Betty Stamps. And just like last year, I had a great time playing along with these fun, daily challenges. Anytime I can pull out the Halloween papers and embellies I have fun. Image is from Simply Betty, colored with Copics and the papers and bats are from K & Co and the ribbon from my stash.

On the twelfth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me,

Twelve bats a flying,

Eleven casks a-leaning,

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I had so much fun today. I went with a friend and her daughter to a cooking class at the Viking Cooking store where we learned to make pasta doughs and sauces. Yummy! I took a couple of pictures that I will try and post tomorrow.

Enjoy your Halloween tomorrow!!

Day 11 of Simply Betty's 12 Days of Halloween

I have another Simply Betty project to share with you today. I can't believe tomorrow is Halloween. We had a fun time last night with some friends and family at our Halloween Bash. I tried something new, I made some black bean burgers. I have one vegetarian friend and instead of buying some frozen ones I wanted to try and make them. I didn't think that many people would eat them so I planned on freezing some to have some quick lunches on hand. But they all got eaten! We made three kinds of burgers and they were the first plate to disappear. I will be making those again.

On to today's project! Our inspiration from the Simply Betty Blog:

On the eleventh day of Halloween

My true love gave to me,

Eleven casks a-leaning,

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I used this Edward Scissorhands image from the Burton Chibi line. When I saw casks, it made me think of a science lab and that make me think of this image. I love the Edward Scissorhands movie, but it makes me really sad. the image is Simply Betty, papers are from Martha Stewart and the border is from K & Co.

One more challenge post to go and then my Twelve Days of Halloween will be complete!

Tenth Day of Halloween

On the Simply Betty Blog:

On the tenth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I thought this mummy image would be perfect for my groaning ghoul. If you look close, that background paper is full of the eyes of lots more ghouls!

Nine Ghosts A-Booing

Just a quick Saturday post from me today. We have until the 30th to load all of our 12 Days of Halloween projects on the Simply Betty Blog so I will be back today and then in the morning with the last of my entries. This have been another fun round of Halloween challenges! On to today's poetic inspiration:

On the ninth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Nine ghosts a-booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Six pumpkins a glowing,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I know that cat looks like he has been spooked by something. Probably all those ghosts in the background! Image from SImply Betty Stamps, colored with Copics, ghost from K&Co. and I am drawing a blank on the papers right now.

Gotta run, I am teaching a Copic class today then back home to get ready for our Halloween Bash tonight!!

Eight Monsters Shrieking!

That's right it is day 8 of the Simply Betty 12 Days of Halloween challenge. Only 4 more challenges to go! And what fun these challenges have been too.

One the eighth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

If you look there are other little monsters in the background paper behind my main image!!

Simply Betty Day 6

I am back with my day 6 project for the Simply Betty 12 Days of Halloween challenge. I still don't know what got on the first one I made, but it was pretty much all across that purple panel. Fortunately I didn't have to start over again, I was just able to redo that one panel. Here is the poem for our challenge:

One the sixth day of Halloween,

My true love gave to me

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

My image is from Simply Betty Stamps and was colored with Copic markers, the papers, little goblins and the sentiment are all from K& Co. and the brads are from Jo-Ann's.

Halloween--Day 7

Here I am with a second post today! And yes you are reading it right, I skipped from Day 5 to Day 7 of the 12 Days of Halloween! I didn't notice until I was loading the photo of my day 6 project, but it has a big smudge of some sort on it so I am going to redo that portion of my card. I will be back with day 6 tomorrow.

According to the Simply Betty blog:

On the seventh day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I used Pumpkin London for my card and colored her with Copics. Paper is from Martha Stewart, ribbon from Michael's and the jack-o-lanterns are from Reminisce.

Last Saturday I met some girlfriends for lunch and some shopping and those little pumpkins were one of the things I bought at a scrapbook store. I had to be good in there because I had already spent too much money at World Market. I love that store! I am of the opinion that you can never have too many dishes or stamps!

Have a great evening, My friend's daughter is here cooking with me. We are making chicken noodle soup for dinner and homemade twinkle-like cakes for dessert. Shhh, don't tell, but we already ate one of the cakes and dinner isn't ready yet.

Five Scary Spooks

And on the fifth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

This is my card for Simply Betty's 12 Days of Halloween challenge. My scary spook is standing in a hallway showing off the photos of the rest of her spooky family. I am a couple of days behind on posting my cards so I will be back with another card this afternoon after I get off work.

Kip and I use a shared calendar app on our phones and he was looking over the activities for the next few days. He noticed that I listed our Halloween Dinner as "Our Halloween Bash" and asked if it was really going to be a "bash" or if we were just having people over for dinner. I told we were just having a few people over but it just sounded more fun and festive to call it a bash!

Have a great day!

4th Day of Halloween with Simply Betty

On the Fourth Day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Four Skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I am back with my entry for the fourth day of Halloween with Simply Betty Stamps. It's not too late to play along if you want to join in on the fun. The image is from Simply Betty Stamps

and was colored with Copics, papers are from The Paper Studio and Target, skeleton hand is from K&Co. and the ribbon and buttons are from my stash. Aren't those dancing skeletons just too funny?

I am getting excited as Halloween gets closer and closer. I have been making candy and things for our yearly Halloween dinner with family and friends, the house is decorated and I have my treats ready to pass out. Add to that the fun of getting to play with all of my Halloween images and supplies and I am one happy crafter.

And on the 3rd Day of Halloween...

On the third day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters and

An owl in an oak tree

I think I am as excited over Halloween every year as the children of some of my friends. I am getting the house all decorated, planning my Halloween dinner for friends and family and am having fun playing with all my Halloween supplies and participating in all the challenges, especially this one from Simply Betty. My card today uses Betty from the Emo Everyday line.

See you later!

On the Second Day of Halloween

One the second day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Two trick or treaters and

An owl in a rotten oak tree.

I am back with my second day's entry for the Simply Betty's 12 Days of Halloween. Aren't those little trick or treaters cute? I love seeing all the little ones come by my house every year, it's so much fun.

Gotta run, we are have a scary movie-a-thon at my house!

Simply Betty 12 Days of Halloween is Back!!!

I had so much fun playing along in this challenge last year and was very happy to see it back again this year. Each day there is a new challenge to play along with. I love, love, love Halloween so these challenges are so much fun. It's not too late if you want to play along, info is here.

On the first day of Halloween......My true love gave to me an owl in a rotten oak tree. I decided to use Zombie Christian for this challenge. The tree is a die cut using one of my favorite Sizzix dies and the papers are from K&Co. and The Paper Studio. The grave border punch is from Martha Stewart. I have three organizers full of Halloween papers, embellishments and ribbons. And almost no owls! Honestly, I think I have more Halloween supplies than Christmas supplies. It took me a while to find an owl to use and finally found it in the last bin in a pack of K& Co. Halloween stickers.

So that's my first day of Halloween Challenge card! Thanks for stopping by today.

Leaf Challenge

Good Morning! Well it is back to work for me today. Not only is it Monday, it is the Monday following an entire week off. I really do like my job, but being on vacation is better. It took me a while to get going this morning too. The current challenge on the Riley and Company challenge blog is to use a leaf or leaves on your card. I decided to use Scarecrow Riley from the Riley in Oz release.

Image is from Riley and Company, paper is K&Co. buttons and ribbon from my stash.

Have a great day!

Back from Vacation--Lots of Pics

Kip and decided to head out on vacation last week. I didn't have time to schedule some posts to go live while I was gone because I was too busy getting everything packed. Since we were both going to be gone, I didn't announce it anywhere online that we wouldn't be at home this week. After talking about it a bit, we decided to head out to Savannah, GA for a week long vacation. It was heavenly. We were both in dire need of a vacation and this one was pretty great. We had a nice mix of seeing new things, visiting new places, eating incredible food and getting in some relaxing time as well. We started out last Saturday morning and since we were passing through Chattanooga we met my sister and her husband and son for lunch. After enjoying our lunch with them we drove the rest of the way to Savannah.

Here are some of the random photos I took. I will add a little explanation of what they are. They are a little jumbled up and not really in the order that our vacation went!

This is a photo looking at at the River Walk area in Savannah. I have a thing about taking photos of fences and trees! I loved that brick work against the cement of the sidewalk with the brick buildings in the background.

One of the things that we did was drive out to Tybee Island. On the way back we stopped at Uncle Bubba's for dessert. We were still full from lunch but wanted to eat there so we sampled the Strawberry Shortcake and the Key Lime Pie. Everything we ate on vacation was fantastic and this was no exception. This was a photo I took just behind and to the side of the restaurant.

This is a photo of my feet in the ocean at Tybee Island. The very, very cold ocean. I just had to get my feet in there though!

Another fence picture! This was also on Tybee Island. I just loved those little yellow flowers and the zig zag fence on the sand.

This was walking out onto the pier area on Tybee.

This is one of those photos that I just happened to have the camera ready as that little bird took a drink of water from that pipe. Normally when I try to capture something like that on film I wind up with a big blur. I am very happy with this photo.

One of the park areas in Savannah.

The Cotton Exchange building with the griffin fountain in front.

The famous Waving Girl statue in Savannah.

The port area.

We had a fabulous time. It rained and was overcast the first couple of days we were there but all in all it was a great trip. We took a trolley tour around Savannah on the first day and then later in the week we took The Movie Tour to see some of the sites where movies have been filmed in Savannah. In addition to touring Savannah and driving out to Tybee Island we also drove to Hilton Head. While in Savannah, I found a fabulous kitchen store called Kitchens on the Square that I ended up shopping in on two separate days. My love for kitchen gadgets even exceeds my love of stamps and markers, so I was really in heaven in that store. I also love hot teas, and we founds a couple of stores that had some amazing tea blends that I was able to purchase. We headed home yesterday morning and then as we passed through Chattanooga this time we met my parents for dinner. Today we are just vegging out and trying to catch up on the laundry!

House Mouse Flag Card

Good Morning! I spent quite a bit of time this weekend coloring. Sometimes I will do that, I will just stamp or print a bunch of images and then just color. I have always loved coloring, with crayons, pencils or markers, it doesn't really matter, coloring is just relaxing for me. Most of the time now I use Copics when I color but sometimes I want to play with pencils. I am getting another box ready to send to a Marine friend in Afghanistan and thought this House Mouse image would be the perfect on to include on the accompanying card. When coloring House Mouse images I do tend to reach for my pencils more often than my Copics, I am not sure why either, but they are generally my first choice. Image is from House Mouse Stamps and was colored with Prismacolor pencils, paper is from The Paper Studio (I think) and the stars are from my stash.

Riley Goes to the Movie Blog Hop

It is finally here! The Riley and Company release of Riley Goes to the Movies. Hopefully you arrived here from Joy's blog, if not, you can start at the beginning here. You don't want to miss a stop because a winner will be chosen from the comments left on each blog. My first card tonight features Riley Pottermoose. Can't you just see him flying around Hogwarts waving his wand?

One of my friend's daughters has been wanting to have a movie day and watch the Happy Potter movies for the first time. She is getting this card as an invitation to remember the day and I have already fixed us up a basket of movie snacks!

My second card features Sophie as Sandy and Riley as Danny from one of my favorite movies Grease. What a cute couple!

My final card tonight features Marilyn Mooseroe.

You know you need some of these great images right? They will be available after the blog hop here. As if the images weren't enough to tempt you, there is FREE domestic shipping tonight through Sunday, all ordered placed in the first 24 hours will receive a never released limited edition image and you can save 10% when you purchase the entire set!

I have had so much fun participating as the guest designer for this release. Thanks for visiting me during the Sneak Peaks and the Blog Hop!

One More!

That's right, one more sneak peek before the Riley Goes to the Movies Blog Hop tonight! I have had so much fun playing along with the Riley and Company design team as the guest designer for this release. Today I have Spider Moose to show you. Isn't that a great looking hero?

Don't forget to join us tonight for the Blog Hop! All the fun will start here at 10:00 p.m. EST. Be sure to visit all the blogs on the hop for your chance to win your own Riley image.

Riley Sneak Peek--Day 5

It's Batmoose to the rescue!! I have another great Riley Goes to the Movies image to share with you today. After finding this great paper, I decided to go with the campier Batman series from the 60's. What a hero our little moose friend is! Remember this and all the other new images will be available after the Blog Hop on Thursday. The Blog Hop will begin here and will begin at 10:00 p.m. EST. Join us on the hop for a chance to win one of the newly released images.

(My comic book reading, Batman fan husband will argue that the series isn't really Batman, but it was my first exposure to the character so I still like it!)

Riley Sneak Peek--Day 4

Are you loving these new Riley images as much as I am? I am having lots of fun with all these Riley Goes to the Movies images. Today my sneak peek uses Sophie as Bridezilla. I found that lightening bolt paper in one of my Halloween stacks and knew it would be perfect to use with this image. After coloring Sophie with Copic markers I added some light purple glitter on her dress. The ribbon and brad are all from my stash and the glittery border is K & Co.

All of the new images will be available for you to purchase after the Blog Hop on Thursday at 10:00 p.m. EST.

Thanks for dropping by today!

Riley Sneak Peek--Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the Riley Goes to the Movies Release! Today I have a gift card holder to share with you using Popcorn Riley. Popcorn is serious business in my house so I really love this stamp. I probably eat popcorn for dinner at least once a week, sometimes twice if Kip is working late. Isn't Riley just too cute sitting there at the movies with hip popcorn? Remember this and all of the other new images will be available on the Riley and Company site after the blog hop on Thursday.

I cut out one of the film reels from the paper I used and then cut it in half to make a pull tab. If you pull on the tab you will find a gift card that will slide out from behind the card. We do give lots of movie gift cards as gifts, especially to Kip's Dad, so this is the perfect image to accompany a gift card from our local theater. The only gift card I had on hand was this one for Chili's so I used it for the picture.

Don't forget the Riley Goes to the Movies Blog Hop. It will start here on Thursday evening at 10:00 p.m. EST.

I will have more to show tomorrow!

Riley Sneak Peek--Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the Riley Goes to the Movies Sneak Peek! I am here to introduce you to Mr. Moose Butler and Sophie O'Hara. Aren't they just an adorable couple?? Making this card reminded me that I haven't seen Gone with the Wind in a while, I think I will have to remedy that soon.

Remember this and all the other movie inspired images will be available on the Riley and Company website after the Blog Hop on Thursday night. The Blog Hop begins at 10:00 pm EST. There are lots of wonderful images so make sure to check out all the DT blogs to see more.

See you tomorrow for another Sneak Peek!

Riley Sneak Peek--Day 1

Riley is going to the movies! Today is the first day of peeks from Riley and Company for this awesome release. I am so happy to be a part of this special release as Guest Designer. There are 18 new images being released and they all have a movie related theme. Don't forget to check out the Design Team blogs, you are going to love these images. Sneak Peeks will be going on this week and there is a Blog Hop on Thursday starting at 10 p.m. EST. After the blog hop all the images will be on the Riley and Company site for you to purchase.

I am using Director Riley and he is on set and in the middle of the action, calling all the shots. I love that paper because it reminds me of spotlights. After coloring Riley with Copics, I surrounded him with some metallic pearls.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for another project using another Riley goes to the Movies image!

Riley Challenge-Layers, layers, layers

Good Morning!! I am so happy to be playing along this month as the Guest Designer with Riley and Company. If you read my blog very often you know how much I love that little moose so this is so much fun for me. Heather is the hostess this week and the challenge is to make a distressed/shabby chic card using at least 7 layers. I have used Vampire Riley for my card today. Grab one of your favorite Riley images and join us here in this week's challenge.

Vampire Riley is from Riley and Company, the papers are DCWV and I used some Pebbles chalk and CTMH Amethyst ink around the image. Buttons and thread are from my stash.

Miranda

Good Monday Morning! I am not sure how you come up with your card designs and color pallets, but I often will sit down and color several images at once and then will search through my vast paper collection for what I think are the perfect papers to go with my image. Sometimes I will color the same image in different color themes or I will color a bunch of different images using the same color families. This card though was the opposite for me. I saw this paper in Hobby Lobby the other day and this image came to mind immediately. I wanted the colors I chose to make her appear part of the paper but to still stand out some too. I was very happy that I was able to really achieve what I saw in my mind while I was standing there in the paper aisle at Hobby Lobby.

The image is an Elaine Cox image from Sweet Pea Stamps, was colored with Copic markers and all the papers came from Hobby Lobby.

Fall Riley

Ahh, we are finally almost to the end of another week! Fall is definitely in the air here, I am really enjoying the cooler air, especially in the mornings. I have a fall inspired Riley card to show you today. I am using Farmers Riley and Sophie, and I colored them with Copics. This is one of my favorite stamps of Riley and Sophie together, they just look like the perfect little hosts welcoming guests onto their farm for a great big slice of that pie.

The wood grain panel was done with an embossing folder from The Paper Studio. I noticed a few weeks ago that Hobby Lobby has a bunch of these now, and in several patterns that I don't have from other manufacturers. They emboss very deeply and so far I am happy with them. The papers I used are also from The Paper Studio and Riley is from Riley and Company.