Dance Recital

Last Sunday, my two niece's had their dance recital, so...being their FAVOURITE Aunty, I couldn't pass it up! I picked up my Mom on the way (hour and a half drive) - it was a nice way to spend Mother's Day! The recital was great, the girls looked soooo cute and they danced wonderfully! Hailey, in the front, was a Sheep from "Little Bo Peep" and Darby did a tap dance to "Stupid cupid". It was awesome!! They are too darn cute!!
This is the most recent card I received from my Secret Sister - I had to post it because the colours are so awesome! I love the pink and green together and of course that stamp set.....I will have to buy it one of these days but it is so expensive! My Mom used to always tell me I had champaigne taste on a beer wage!! Ain't that the truth eh?? LOL

Knight in Shining Armour!!

I made these cards with my new Fairy Tale set by Doodle Factory - there are about 20 stamps in the set and they are CUTE! There is a wizard, a princess, a horse, dragons, a cart, a castle, a turret, frog, etc. Check them out at Starving Artistamps

So, here are the DEETS!! I MADE MY OWN TECHNIQUE (well, at least I think I did!! I'm sure it's somewhere but I came up with it on my own!) I call it...Faux Armour!! LOL I have seen faux denim & faux wood, but I needed something shiny and silver to go with my little knight. So, I rubbed Going Grey ink on my cardstock, then sponged on silver metallic reinker all over to give it shimmer (boy did it stink though! UGH) Done!

The first card I paper pieced his suit with another piece of "faux armoured" cardstock, but the second card I coloured him using gamsol & prismas. I added Crystal Effects to the shield in the first card, and all over his armour and shield in the second one. The sentiment is from Father Figure (Verve Visual) I added some brads and some photo corners and mounted it all on black to make it pop!!! What do you think???? He's cute eh?? You REALLY gotta check out the whole set - so cute!!!

New Magnolia's

This is one of the new Magnolia stamps I just got from Phebe at The Town Scrapper in Petrolia, Ontario! She's sooo cute!! I stamped her on SU watercolour paper then coloured with gamsol (OMS) and prismas. The card base is a shimmery green I got at Michael's awhile ago, and the DP is from SU but I can't remember what collection it is from! The flowers are from Women of Life (PTI) and the sketch is an SCS sketch challenge - SC173. Same Tilda, same sketch - different paper. I also have her resting on a stool that is popped off the page along with Tilda. I used my Diamonds in the Rough Cuttlebug folder and the DP is from Creative Memories - jewel tones. The card base is brocade blue. I added a green prima, tag and dew drop to give it some more colour.

Phebe is donating these cards to the Cancer Society, so I made these 2 and 3 others but I forgot to take pictures of those...whoops!!! Thanks for looking!!

Congrats Diana!!! and a card

My SBS4 sister Diana is celebrating 250 posts & is giving away amazing blog candy!! Check out her blog for your chance to win!!! And check her blog out for all her awesome creations!!! Very talented lady!!!!

Here is another card I made, nothing special, just a baby card. The base is Night of Navy, even though it looks black. The stamp is a Magnolia stamp, BABY ALVIN. I coloured him with gamsol and prismas and perched him on the ribbon. I used my Cuttlebug baby words folder and navy ribbon with 2 bows attached. Very simple but I couldn't "flower" it up for a baby boy!!! LOL I'm sorry it looks yellowish, I took it in natural light but I guess it wasn't enough! I must stick to my lamps downstairs!!!

Hoppy for you!

We made this card at my workshop on Friday night - it is the circle window with frame tutorial I found on someone's blog and for the LIFE of me, I cannot figure out where I found it! If I find it, I will edit this post with the link!!! ETA: "anonymous" reminded me that it was from Kristina Werner's design blog...AND it reminded me that it was my Secret Sister that SENT me the link to that tutorial....duhhhhh!!! I have a feeling "anonymous" is my Secret Sister, so THANKS for the kickstart!!! LOL
I used: Certainly Celery (card base and 1 piece 3 x 4 1/8), Close to Cocoa ( 3 1/2 x 4 5/8) and DP (2 7/8 x 4), all from SU. The ribbon is Old Olive poly twill which is amazing...so soft!! This is a great card for those small images!

Here is what you do: Using the 1 1/4" punch, punch a hole in the small piece of celery paper. Using the 1 3/8" punch, punch a slightly larger hole in the DP (being careful to line them up so it looks like a frame. Stamp your image on white (2 1/2" square) and attach it to the back of the small celery piece with pop dots. Attach the small celery piece to the small Close to cocoa with pop dots as well, then attach all of that to the celery cardbase. I masked the saying from the stamp when I stamped the frog, then masked the frog when I stamped the saying. I punched the saying out with the SU Word Window punch and attached it with a glue dot.

I hope that makes sense!!! If not, email me and I can try to explain it better!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!

Mojo Madness Contest!!

Julee at Poetic Artistry is holding another sketch contest, this time with Mojo Monday #36!! LOVE LOVE LOVE this sketch!!!! Here is my entry for the contest! I had so much fun with it last night!!! Thanks Julee!!

Supplies:

paper: Green Galore; DP is from SU but can't remember what pack (sorry!), Whisper White

stamps: butterfly is from TAC (I believe it is one of the hostess sets in the new catty; sentiment is from Great Expectations set by Verve Visual

Ink: Night of Navy, Green Galore (for the Rock n' Roll technique on the butterfly)

Accessories: Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon; circle punch; sponge

Another Father's Day card....

This is totally not how I planned this card in my head, but I kinda like how it turned out! The sketch is SC174 from SCS, which is a tall card (9 1/4 x 8; scored at 4, then again at 3/4" for the flap. The card base is Barely Banana and the DP is from Creative Memories. The elk stamp is from Wildlife Reserve - which I've had forever, but forget to use it...Donelda inspired me to pull it out again! Thanks girl!!! :D The "DAD" is from my new Verve Visual set, called Father Figure.

I have a table at a Farmer's Market in the small town that I grew up in, every Thurs. night - tomorrow night is the first one, so I've been prepping Mother's Day, Father's Day and Graduation cards. Although I don't feel 100% prepared, I hope I sell what I have!! Wish me luck!! I just finished 2 Mother's Day cards using the Women of Life set by Papertrey Ink. I will post them later, still have to take pics of them!!! Wish me luck tomorrow night - I need to make some money to pay for these dang supplies!!!! LOL

Kimmie's sketch challenge

Kimmie is having another High Hopes Challenge on her blog & here is my entry for it. The sketch was really fun. I used my new jewel tones DP from Creative Memories - it is such pretty paper I didn't want to cut it up!!!!

I'm sorry the photo is so dark - I used natural light, but guess it wasn't "light" enough!! I'll figure it out one day!!! The card base is Elegant Eggplant & there is one layer of Handsome Hunter - both SU. The stamp set is Merci, which was a Sale-a-bration set from SU. I added stickles and primas too! I kept the outside rubber from the die cut stamps and used it to mask the butterfly so there was an "aura" around it!!!

Anyways, I hope Kimmie likes this one!!! :)

New Challenge Blog!!!

Check out STAMP SOMETHING - a new challenge blog that looks awesome!!! They will have a new challenge every Friday!!! They are also giving away blog candy as a Grand Opening prize for spreading the word....so....check it out!!!!

Another Father's Day card

I made this card for a Monthly Bella swap I'm in on SCS - this month's theme was Father's Day. I saw one very similar on someone's blog & for the life of me, I CANNOT find out where I saw it...so if this is your idea....let me know & I will give credit where credit is due! I traced the lid of my embellisment holder to make the round card (Nestabilities were too small & I forgot I had the Coluzzle circles....oops), then ran the one side through my Cuttlebug with the Spots and Dots folder. I dirtied it up a bit, cut some grass, and used my Karen Foster snap stamps "FORE" the sentiment.
Here is the card opened - with a pop up golfer (Golfafella). I left the inside blank in case they didn't want to use it for Father's Day - it could be any type of card for a golfer. I've never made a pop up card - it was easy & kinda fun!! I could see myself making more kids' cards like this...they'd love it!!!

Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was good, busy....but worth it!! Friday night I stamped with friends for a few hours, then Sat. I went out to the Stampers Celebration in Airdrie with a couple friends - that was cool! We spent 3 hours there and there were only 7 vendors! THOUSANDS of stamps, new products, supplies, paper...it was awesome!! I spent a "little" bit of money (THANKS DONELDA!!!) but am happy with my purchases!! Now to find the time to play!!!! Today was my niece's First Communion then my whole family got together at my sister's acreage and sat outside in the sun! What a glorious day!! Wasn't too long ago I was complaining about the snow!!! NOW, I'm exhausted and NEED to clean my craft room before I can play with my new glitter!! Can't wait to share what I create!!!