Like a Kid...

...in a candy store: I was on stamp overload today, I had so many new images to stamp and color in! What a problem to have, right? Well, I got all of my TAC stamps yesterday, Julie brought over my new CTMH stamps and I stamped a bunch of Angela's images last night at the workshop. I couldn't decide where to begin. I love the flowers in this set so I decided to start there. This set is from The Angel Company and it is called Friendship Flowers. It is colored with Prisma markers and then I went over the edge of each flower with a Jelly Roll clear glitter pen. The sentiment is also from the same set and stamped in black ink. The beads at the bottom are the decorative accents from Michael's, and I colored the bottom of them with my black Prisma marker so it would match the rest of the colors. Coloring those little things wasn't the easiest thing in the world to do and now my fingers have black streaks on them. This paper is from a pack of paper that was given to me as a gift and I am not sure of the maker and the cardstock is DCWV. Have a great rest of the weekend. I am off to color and stamp more!

Granddad Birthday

This is the card I made for my Granddad's birthday next week. I just love all the Riley images. I used paper from DCWV mat stack. These are great to work with when I am in a hurry, the colors are already coordinated for me and due to the size there is less trimming to do. I ran the brown cardstock through my Big Kick with the CB Tiny Mosaic embossing folder and then used sandpaper across the surface a few times to distress it just a little. I colored Riley with Prisma Color pencils and OMS. The mug is covered with Glossy Accents. You can't really tell but the cupcake is covered with "sprinkles", actually they are purple and blue micro glass beads that I got from Michael's. The "cherry" on top is a larger plastic bead that I got last week at HL in the Christmas area. I think that is what got me in the mood to start my Christmas cards in July. The birthday stamp is from CTMH's Express Postage set. The 14th is actually Papaw's birthday. Those were some tiny numbers to work with though. I stamped it with CTMH Cocoa ink. The stamp that makes it looked canceled out is stamped with the same ink but I stamped off onto scrap paper before stamping over the birthday stamp.

Speaking of Christmas in July, I felt like that today. My The Angel Company demo kit arrived in the mail today!! It was like Christmas going through all those new stamps and paper packs. I can't wait to get ink on them. Keep checking back and I will have some cards made with them in the next day or so. Thanks to everyone that leaves comments, I love reading them!!

Welcome Little One

Another baby girl gift! I made another set of onesies from the same CTMH set, Whimsical Butterfly and this card to go with it. Everyone is having baby girls! For this card, I stamped the butterflies and the dragonfly onto bright pink cardstock for a background paper. The ink is CTMH Pink Carnation. It is hard to see the details in this picture, but I stamped the butterflies onto the white paper and then stamped another set of them onto a separate piece of paper. I cut out one set of the butterflies, covered them with glue and poured iridescent glitter all over them, then I used SU!Dimensionals to put the cut out butterflies on top of the stamped butterflies. I am not sure of the maker of the ribbon. It was in a giant pack that I got on clearance at Jo-Ann's a while back. Hope to see everyone tomorrow night!

I did it!

Every single year I say I am going to start making Christmas cards early. Every year I put it off and end up buying cards to finish up my list. But this year I did it! This is the first actual finished card, but I have several that are stamped out and some that are colored. We send out quite a few cards so I make several different types of them. I get bored after making about 8-10 of anything. So this is my first card and here it is not even the middle of July! This is Curly Surpriseabella and I thought I should color those packages in Christmas colors. I used my Prisma color pencils and OMS. The paper and cardstock are from DCWV. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set, December and the little star brads are from Jo-Ann's. Thanks to Angela for the Bella images. Merry Christmas in July!

Watercolor Blossoms

This is a preview of the card we will be making this Friday night at our workshop at church. I was playing around with a couple of different designs before I decided on this one. I guess I was still in a brown/blue mood for today! I have decided I really like this combination of colors. The blue cardstock has the slightest tinge of green in it and is so pretty. The stamp is from Rubber Stampede and was stamped with CTMH Chocolate ink onto watercolor paper. I colored in the branch with my watercolor pencils and then went over it with an aqua pen. I mixed two different shades of watercolor paint (the kind from the art section that comes in tubes) and then painted the flowers. All the paper is from DCWV. The brads are from Paper studio. Friday night at our workshop I will be bringing a couple of other options for coloring the flowers in case people don't want to paint the flowers. It wasn't any more time consuming that coloring the flowers with pencils or markers but it did require some extra drying time. TFL!

Flowahbella

This is one of my favorite Stamping Bella images. I colored with with my Prisma pencils and OMS. I am really enjoying using this technique to color my images. I find it much easier to blend that with using the markers. It took me a long while to decide to invest in the Prisma pencils, but I am so happy I did. I think I was thinking of the coloring pencils I used in history class to color maps with, I didn't realize how vibrant of a color I could achieve with pencils. I do still love my markers too, but have been very pleased with the Pencils as well. Anyway, the background paper is from My Mind's Eye and the cardstock is DCWV. You can't see it in the picture here but the strip of brown was embossed with the Cuttlebug embossing folder. I only wanted a small area of that so I cut out one strip of the flowers. In the center of two of the flowers I put in some pale blue eyelets (Making Memories). I used to same brown cardstock behind the Bella that was cut out with my rectangle Nestabilities. Thanks for stopping by!

Onesies

This was a fun project. My cousin and his wife recently had a baby and so did a childhood friend. I wanted to try and do something a little different for a gift and decided to try making personalized onesies. It was pretty simple after I got the hang of it. I called my friend Julie (she knows how to do EVERYTHING!!) and she wanted to try making some too. So we got together for a stamping "playdate". We used PTI hybrid inks for these and Art Wear transfer paper. The little chick and the little diva are both colored with my Prisma markers. All you do is stamp the image, color if needed and then cut out the image. You have to be very very careful coloring on the transfer paper because it will come up easily. After I got mine stamped and colored I had a slight moment of panic when I thought I was going to have to iron on the image face down and my words would be backwards! But after rereading the directions, I saw that you ironed it image side up. For the set on the left I used an Inkadinkadoo stamp set and the butterfly and dragonfly are from the CTMH set Whimsical Wings. Julie was also kind enough to let me borrow this set to make my matching card with. I was quite impressed with my self that these turned out so well. Here is a close up of the Little Diva:

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy 4th of July

I hope everyone is having a great holiday! I am so very happy to have today off. I got up very early this morning and have been playing in my craft room all morning. I've made a couple of cards, cut out some pieces for some baby cards, made a gift card hold for my father-in-law and started a gallery on SCS. That's a lot for one morning for me! We are headed to my sister and brother-in-law's house this afternoon to celebrate the 4th as well as my father-in-law's birthday.

I made this card using a Stampendous Bee stamp which I colored in with my Koh-I-Noor pencils and OMS. I found these star brads in my drawers of embellies and am not sure who made them. I have had these for a looong time and haven't used them before. The ribbon is also something I have had for a while. I covered the watermelon with Glossy Accents to give it some shine and dimension. All the cardstock is from DCWV. Have a safe and happy holiday!

Happy Birthday Ava

On Sunday we are going to a birthday party for the daughter of friends of ours. The lovely Ava will be celebrating her first birthday. This stamp came from Lost Angeles Rubber Works. They have the best selection of ASL stamps I have been able to find anywhere. They were a great company to order from too, very quick shipping. I like that because when I order something I want it ASAP! Anyway, back to the card, after stamping it, I colored it in with my Prisma Markers to match the colors of the polka dots on the paper. After that, I used Glossy Effects to cover the balloons and the I-L-Y hand. The paper and cardstock are from DCWV. The letters spelling out Ava's name are from Paper Studio and the sentiment is from CTMH's From Me to You set. The green stitched ribbon is from American Crafts. I used my CM corner rounder to round off all the corners. I hope everyone has a great 4th. I am so excited to have the day off!

Poor Riley

This is one of the newest Rileys from Hanna Stamps. I absolutely love all the Rileys. He is colored with my Prismas. I used Making Memories paper and DCWV cardstock. The little blue flowers are from Joilees. The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Ink with the CTMH stamp set, Say It in Style.

Back to my love of Rileys and other stamps... I was not a stamper a year ago. Then my friend Kay invited me to her house for a CTMH party and I met Julie, I introduced Julie to Angela and the obsession began! Who knew there were so many wonderful images out there? Once we discovered SCS and other blogs, an obsession began! I love the images that I get to color in myself. Have a great night, my husband wants dinner and some company.