Baking Tilda

Another Tilda - I was on a roll Sunday with her!!! I am still out of town, so hopefully this posts on its own on Wed. I did end up putting stickles on her wings after I took this picture. The s.e.i. paper is sooo nice, the circles are embossed. The whole pack of paper is gorgeous, the colours, textures, patterns...love it!!! It is an 8x8 pack and I got it at Michael's when they had all their paper on for 40% off!! Wheeee!!!!

Supplies:
paper: Bazzill Basics - Apricot; s.e.i. "Oasis" pack (DP); bashful blue (SU)
stamps: Baking Tilda; warm words (SU)
Accessories/tools: hodgepodge hardware, small oval punch, chocolate chip polytwill ribbon, koh-i-noor woodless pencil crayons, gamsol & stumps, corner rounder

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!

To all my fellow Canadians, have a GREAT day - enjoy the sunshine and time spent with family and friends!!! I am heading out to my parent's cabin with Brick (Tim has to stay home!! boo hoo) for a few days, but I will be back Friday night some time! I am going to try this new Blog scheduler thingy and see if it works while I'm gone!!! Fingers and toes crossed!

This trip is an annual "sisters and parents" week (ends up usually only being 3 or 4 days though) so it will be me and my 3 sisters, my parents, 2 nephews and 2 nieces. It is relaxing and a nice way to spend time with Mom and Dad. The cabin used to have a great lake but over the years it has dried up. We still have the cabin and enjoy going out to get away! There is electricity but no running water, so to the outhouse we go! My sisters are all bringing their quads & the kids are bringing their dirt bikes out so it is fun to burn around the fields.I am hoping to get caught up on my scrapbooking while I'm there! Here's hoping! Brick LOVES it out there because he can run and run and run.....not like when we are camping and he has to stay on a leash! Out there he is free and the kids love playing with him - probably because like him, they NEVER stop!! Endless energy!! There must be a way to tap into that and get some for ourselves!! LOL

Anyways, if I don't get on here once more before I leave, have a great week & I will post again on Sat. before I leave for my next trip on Sunday night (this is a work trip - not a vacation!)
Cheers!

more owls!

Ok, only 2 more then I'll move on to something else - I promise! LOL This card is for a Friday Sketchers challenge # 8. I used one of the owls from Simon Says Stamp, and some scrap DP I had in my bin. The sentiment is from High Hopes and the primas are from my stash! I have TOO many primas - more than one person could ever use in their entire lifetime! When I die, sprinkle primas over my coffin ok?? LOL

This second card is for Friday Sketchers challenge #7 - I know I'm a little late but I liked the layout! I used another owl from Simon Says Stamp and added googley eyes to him! How freakin' cute is that??? LOVE this dude! The DP is also from my scrap bin! Both owls are coloured with my Koh-i-noor woodless pencil crayons (LOVE THEM...have I said that yet?? I do, they are amazing!!!)

Ismaki Challenge #25

I made this card for my fellow SBS4 sister Deb, she hasn't seen it yet, so SURPRISE!!! LOL I wanted to post it so I could enter it into the Ismaki challenge #25 this week! I used Baking Tilda and coloured her with my Koh-i-noor pencils (LOVE THEM!!!) and gamsol (OMS). The card base is yellow from my stash - might be Bazzill or it might be from Michael's...not sure! The next layer is DP from Imaginesce. The next layer is Certainly Celery, which I ran through my 'bug with the Swiss Dots folder. The next layer is bashful blue. The flowers are all primas - I love how they go down the side of the card - cute eh??? The brads are Sugar Coated Brads from Doodlebugs. I added stickles to Tilda's wings and the cookies. The ribbon is some random scrap piece I had in my tub of ribbon! I really hope Deb likes this card - she makes such FABO cards, I hardly come close to her calibre of card making! Anyways, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY DEB!!!! Hope it was a good one!!!

Glittery birds

I made this card with the help of Donelda after she sent me a very similar card in May. Here is the link to her post about it. We used her bird & branch stamp from Memory Box & stamped it on acetate with Stazon. We let that dry, then attached a piece of Sookwang double sided tape to the back and peeled the backing off. With the sticky side up, we sprinkled different colours of Pearl Ex and some ultra fine glitter behind the image and rubbed it in with our fingers (they sure were sparkley!). I backed this piece on white, then on black to give it some pop and to match the black bird. The card base is Tempting Turquoise. I used my new Birds & Swirls Cuttlebug folder as it is very similar to this stamp. The sentiment is from Winged Things, an old SU set that I adore! THANKS DONELDA for helping me with this - it was a good excuse to get together!! :D

Neat fold card....my first picture tutorial!!!

I received a card like this in a recent SCS swap I was in, not sure the name of it, but it is like a slider card, so I recreated it. IF anyone knows the real name of the tutorial and who I can give credit to, please let me know!!!! I will try to give directions as best I can. It was hard to take a picture of it too, as it wouldn't stay closed properly. So, here is what it looks like from the front: Ok, so here goes! The first piece of cardstock is your base (mine is Always Artichoke). It is 11 x 5 1/2, score at 3 1/2 and 7". This picture shows how to fold the first piece. Panel 1 is in the front foreground.

The second piece, is also Always Artichoke and it is 6 1/4 x 5 1/2, score at 2". This second piece gets glued to the front panel with the 2" piece sticking out towards the middle panel of piece 1. (Are you with me so far?) I left it open a little so you could see where it is glued together. That front piece with 2 layers is now the FRONT of your card. The little 2" piece will be the little slider that moves when you open the card.

This is the card opened up flat, with the front on the far right side. I used my 1 1/4" punch and punched through the 2 layers on the front panel. (sorry it's blurry!) Then in the middle panel, I traced the hole so it would match up and punched another 1 1/4" hole. Here it is standing up, looking at the inside view of the card. Gosh, I hope this is making sense!!!

Here is a top view of how the card should be put together so it slides properly...the 2" piece will go between panel 2 & 3, so when you open the card, the 2" piece will slide in front of the middle panel hole.

Now for the stamping part! Decorate the front cover however you wish. I used my scallop punch and 1 1/4" punch to make the border around the front hole. I didn't decorate the middle hole but you could!

<-- I stamped the Hoppy Birthday on white then glued it ON the 2" piece. Then I cut a 2 1/4 square piece of paper and glued it on the BACK INSIDE of the card (panel 3) - you can kind of see the white CS in the top view photo above. I closed the card, stamped the frog THROUGH the hole so it was lined up properly, coloured him, and I was done! So, when the card is closed, you see the frog through the front hole. When you open the card, the 2" slider piece moves forward into the view of the 2nd hole you punched in the middle panel, covering up the frog.

IF anyone tries this, please let me know how the directions are, if I forgot anything, or if something is confusing! I didn't have a tutorial to follow, just the sample, which made it easier! Post a comment with a link to your card if you make one!! It is a really cool card, I love how it slides!!!

I hope you enjoyed my first photo tutorial & I hope it made sense!!!! Have fun with this card - it is perfect for those "little" stamps!!! You could always adapt the size of hole too, or make it a square, oval, etc.

Supplies:

cardstock: Always Artichoke, white, chocolate chip

ink: Always Artichoke, koh-i-noor pencils & gamsol

stamps: Simon Says Stamp (Frogs jumping for joy); Clear Dollar Stamps (pond accessories-sentiment); Linen background (SU)

accessories/tools: 1 1/4" punch (SU); ribbon (Michael's); scallop punch (SU); scor-pal;

GOOD NEWS!! and some new design team cards!

We've decided to keep the trailer and do some adaptations to it!! We are keeping the potty and the sink at the back, but we are going to pull out the furnace, fridge and stove and extend the bed out another foot or so, so we can get a regular mattress in there! We don't need those 3 things because we like to cook outside anyways, and we have an Xtreme cooler that keeps ice cold for 7 days! I'll keep ya updated on the progress of our little advanture!! Should be interesting since neither Tim or I have done anything like this!! LOL

Tomorrow is my last day with the kids - yipppeee! I will miss some of them, but I SO need a break! If I hear "Mrs. Sather" (in a whiny needy voice) one more time I might explode!!! LOL I'm kidding, I do love them all!

Ok, here are some more design team cards for Simon Says Stamp! This set is called Knock, Knock, Whoo's there? LOVE these owls! They were so fun to colour!! I used my new Koh-i-Noor woodless pencil crayons and gamsol, and it was awesome...like butter! I bought these at Gina K's store for $15.95....pretty good for 24 crayons....that won't keep breaking in the sharpener!!! Wheee!!!

This owl is the cutest I think! I wanted to make him soft so I blended the grey and black pencils. After, I thought I should have added some Fun flock to him....next one I will do that!!!It is made with black cardstock and bits of DP from my scrap bin! For this fuzzy guy, I used Sage Shadow, Purely Pomegranate, and Cutie Pie DP.

This one has Chocolate Chip base, then a brocade blue layer. I don't really like this card (although I love how the owl is so patchworky!).. I think it is missing something, but I don't know what! Any suggestions?? It opens at the top, so ribbon looked too busy, flowers looked dumb..... sort of at a loss on this one!!!! On the inside, it says "Whoo's there?"

I used some scrap DP for this one too, on a Chocolate Chip base. The ribbon is from Wal Mart and the blue brads are from Michael's.

Fabulous blog candy for some FAB stamps!

Starving Artistamps is giving away an AMAZING blog candy this week! They are giving away 3 SETS of their stamps - The Doodlefactory "Tropics" collection! They are SO cute! I just got the Tropics set, now I NEED the 2 sets of sentiments that go with it!! LOL

Here is the direct link to see the sets they have to give away! Check em out...sooo cute!!!

Camping fun!

Hey everyone! I was SO tired yesterday that I didn't get a chance to get my photos off my camera until now!! So, here are a few pics of our trip and of our trailer. Sad news though, we are going to sell the trailer because it is too heavy for my vehicle to pull. We thought it would be ok, but it was working extra hard and I don't want to replace the transmission on a fairly new vehicle. We will use the $ we make off the trailer for a good down payment on an ultra lite trailer that will be easy for my Santa Fe to pull!!

We went to a place called Red Lodge Provincial Park, and it is right along the Bow River - which had flooded two weeks ago. Some of the sites were still full of water which is probably why the mosquitoes were the size of dinousaurs! And man, were they hungry! Poor Brick had such a lumpy nose with bites - we really need to find some pet friendly repellant!! The river was high and dirty, but we did manage to find a spot for Brick to swim, even though I was up to my ankles in mud! YUCK! It was OK, but I still prefer going to the mountains - we always go to Kananaskis country (google it if you want to see GORGEOUS scenery!) but thought we'd try somewhere closer to home with the trailer for the first time! We had two YAPPY cocker spaniels beside us, that would not shut up, and 2 chirping chihuahua's across from us!!! ARGHHH!!!!! People didn't even know we had a dog because Brick is so quiet, he never barks!! I did get most of my book read and some colouring of images for some swaps I needed to finish! And yes, this is Brick's very own lawn chair!!! If we didn't take him one, he'd steal ours!!!

Here he is laying on MY lounger...little thief!!! Hard to kick him out when he looks so darn cute!!! Anyways, it was fun, despite having to clean out the trailer and get it ready to sell!! SAD!!! But maybe we can find one with a bed that we both fit on comfortably!! LOL

Busy, busy, busy!!!

Wow, the last 2 weeks have been crazy busy!! I forgot to update you all on my Farmer's Market experience since my BUST night! LOL The last 2 weeks have been pretty good, not great but better than nothing - at least I paid for the table and my gas out there!!! One of the ladies who has been a vendor for years told me not to get discouraged - the more people see me there, the more they will buy! So - we'll see! I can go this Thurs. then I can't make it for the next 3 Thursdays, as I'll be out of town!

Report cards are almost done - thank God!!! And only 8 teaching days until Summer Vacation!! WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! The kids are done on the 26th and teachers have to put half a day in on Friday..ugh!!! My students write Provincial Achievement exams this week too - and they are so wired and so NOT focused I worry they will do poorly!

Tim and I bought a trailer last weekend. It is a 1978 Travelaire, 14 foot little guy...so cute!! We love camping but hate packing up a tent! The trailer is small and light enough for my Santa Fe to pull it. We spent all day Sat. getting it cleaned, loaded and ready for this coming weekend. I am so excited, I can hardly wait!! Brick LOVES camping - he even has his own little bed beside ours! As soon as we get pictures of it, I will post them! And maybe on Monday I will post pics from our adventures!!! You'll probably get to see a lot of these as the summer goes on!!!

My girlfriends and I are going for dinner and a Pedicure on Wed. night! I can't wait! They both have kids, and are both pregnant, so it will be nice to hang out with them again & let the Daddies take care of the little ones!!

Well that is all I have to share with you tonight! Brick is scratching at the door to come in so I better let him in before he breaks down the door!! Have a great week everyone!!!!