MORE blog Candy! AND another card!

WOW!! Michelle at Stamps, Paper, Scissors and Donkey Smiles is giving away an amazing blog candy prize for reaching 5000 hits!!! CONGRATS Michelle!! You MUST check out her blog, her work is AWESOME!!! All you have to do to enter is link her blog & blog candy post to your blog! Easy Peasy!!!

This card was made for Adelee's swap club - the theme for this month is "farewell to in colours"...so I used Purely Pomegranate, a colour I am going to miss a LOT!!! The sketch is SC172 (SCS). The card base, scallop circle and ribbon are all Purely Pom, the DP and the strip under the ribbon is Close to Cocoa. I rock and rolled the butterfly with Groovy Guava and Purely Pom and added some sparkle with my Sakura Gelly pen. The butterfly is from the set "Garden Whimsy" and the sentiment is from the set "One of a Kind", both SU. That's all for today! Have a great day!!!

Three Father's Day cards

This first card was made for a Monthly card swap I'm in, where we each hostess a month and send the girls in our group 7 images and 7 pieces of DP. When we get these packages, we make cards with them & send them back to the girls in the group. It is A LOT of fun. This month I got this ol' golfer (Rubbernecker) and this is the card I made with him. The DP is unknown but it is texturized, like that old velvet wallpaper we all probably had growing up....so cool!!! I coloured him with gamsol and prismas. I actually added a circle punch on the bottom right corner that says Happy Father's Day. This is one I'm going to sell at the Farmer's Market on Thurs. night! Last Thurs. I sold about $60 worth of cards and 3D items...not bad for a pretty slow night!!! It will pick up once the BC guys come with their truckloads of fruit!!! I used the Mojo Monday 36 sketch for this card and the next one.
This card I made for Tim's Dad, who lives on Vancouver Island, very close to a light house. When I asked Tim what kind of Father's Day card he wanted for his dad, he said "a Lighthouse"...of course, a stamp I don't have!! So I put out a call to all my stamping buddies and Donelda came through for me! This stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms. She even hand delivered them when we went to the Airdrie Stampers Celebration (or spending spree as she calls it!!) I coloured it with gamsol and prismas, and sponged the sky with Sky Blue. The shell charm is from a Dollar store & is on a piece of hemp; the sentiment is from this GREAT little set from Clear Dollar Stamps - their SOTM for May - you cannot buy it, but you can get it FREE if you spend $50! Not hard to do, Lori's stuff is awesome!! The base is close to cocoa and the DP is from Creative Memories (jewel tones).
This card is for Tim's Step Dad. I think he might be tired of getting golfing cards from me, so I made this one with Grillafella. The background is stamped with images from the Clear Dollar Stamp SOTM set - it is totally cool...go check it out!! I coloured with gamsol and prismas and sponged the edges. The base is Close to Cocoa, The green DP is from Basic Grey (can't remember which line...sorry!)

I posted the card for my Dad earlier in the month - the faux suede puppy one...so I didn't forget him!! I was WAY on the ball for my dad!!! :) AND look at all those links I gave you.....what an enabler I am!!! MWAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Blog Candy @ Heidi's!

I was BLURFING and found this FABULOUS blog candy! Heidi is giving away a HANGLAR stamp and 30 images. Hanglar stamps are from Norway and they are similar to the Magnolia stamps that I adore so much - they are sooo cute! BUT impossible to get!! So, check out her blog for your chance to win! I don't have any so this would be a nice start!! ;)

Burnished Velvet cards

Well, I finally had time to play with the new toys I bought at the Airdrie Stamper's Celebration a few weeks ago!! This first card was my first attempt & I messed up a bit on the flowers but I still think it's pretty. It is WAY more sparklier in real life! Is that even a word?? LOL.. it is now!!! The project uses Sookwang double sided tape and micro fine glitter. You use the tape backing as a stencil for either positive or negative images. You do one layer, burnish it (rub it with your finger to make it shiny and adheres it to the glue), then lift off the next mat or stencil and do the same in a different colour) and continue until you have used all the colours you want. In the first one I used my Marvy dragonfly punch & retro flower punch and my Boho Blossoms punch from SU. The sentiment is from Happy Everything. It was pretty fun - and the results are GORGEOUS!! And the texture IRL is like REAL velvet!! So soft!!!
This card I made for my SIL's birthday. I used my Creative Memories Star punch - it has 2 different size stars - very cool...and perfect for this type of project!!!
Here is a close up of the glitter. I used gunmetal as my base, then copper, peacock and stardust.
And the last one I did for my friend's birthday - I used lilac and stardust. I used the Bubble punch from Creative Memories for this one. Now that I look at this, the cupcake needs some "bling", so I'm going to add some stickles to the cupcake to match the background.

This spending spree was courtesy of Donelda & Lorinna - thanks ladies!! LOL But I"m glad I did - it is very cool stuff!! Here is the link to the store that was demo'ing these products and their online store, so you too can SPEND SPEND SPEND!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!! (that is my evil laugh!!! I'm Impressed (based out of Vancouver, BC...so perfect for all us Canadians!!!)

Thanks for stopping by...... :D

Three in one day!

Aren't you lucky??????? LOL

I just HAD to share the good news - I am featured on the Canadian Scrappers Blog Carnival website!! You gotta check it out, it is pretty cool! They travel across the country featuring bloggers from coast to coast!! Anyways, I am on there now!!! Maybe I'll start getting more hits on my blog!! They are taking submissions for the 5th edition so if you are Canadian and you have a blog, send them an email!!! Or, just go check out all the great blogs in Canada!!!

Had to add these too!

Here are two cards I made for my Mother in law. I actually haven't given her the top one yet, but I will soon! She got the bottom one last weekend for Mother's Day. I used Women of Life stamp set by Papertrey Ink - it is quickly becoming my fave! I also used Night of Navy ink and designer paper (creative memories - jewel tones) and Night of Navy ribbon. In the center of the big flower & the petals on the little flowers above are stickles. I also used PTI's spring moss cardstock and ink. For the bottom card, I didn't use any stickles, but I used a jumbo eyelet (SU) to thread the Night of Navy ribbon through.

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!!!