All Things Grow Seed Packet

This is the first of 3 cards that I made for Denise to take to CHA to be in the Core'dinations/Storage Units, Ink & More Booth.

The flowers remind me of Shasta Daisies. I made a pocket card for a seed pkt of flowers. This would be a fun card to send to a gardening friend.

The tab on the seed packet is made with SU's tab punch.

Raincoat Lucy

I love this image by Inky Antics. Just makes me want to go out and play in the rain (I know, *some* of you who may read and live here are wondering WHAT rain!).

I am finally getting the images I colored way back in May made into cards!

I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder again for this. Right now, I think it's my favorite design. Ü If you missed the post yesterday, just click on the Embellish It Online banner on the right and it will take you to the EIO store. You can then click on "Cuttlebug" and it will bring up a couple of pages of Cuttlebug items. The swiss dots is on the first page.

Teapot Challenge #1

Okay, I'm almost a week late, but then not really, cuz you can post anytime!
Over at EIO, Mothermark (Cindy) is posting a Teapot Inspiration Challenge on Tuesday's. You all are invited to come and play. She has some of the COOLEST teapots!! Here is her teapot:

Here is my take on her first challenge. I know, not really close, but the set reminds me of Holland and I just went with the colors.

Let's just say this card isn't even CLOSE to how it started. I did several over before I got anything I liked. Maybe it's because I didn't sew on it! Ü

The dots are made with a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder called "Swiss Dots". You can buy it in the Embellish-Online Store. Just click the Embellish On-line button in my right column.

Flower stamp is from a discontinued CTMH stamp set. Verse is from Stampabilities (Hobby Lobby).

Lizzie Ann Flower

This is the other card I made for the Lizzie Ann Designs sketch contest.

I love to sew, so I pierced around the image after I had colored the flower with Gamsol and colored pencils and then hand stitched (embroidered really) the flower. I love the texture this gives my cards. I added Cinnamon Stickles to the center of the flower for more detail.

Papers used are Basic Grey from the Blush collection.

Hey Cupcake!

Here is another card I entered for the sketch contest and this card won that sketch challenge! There were 3 sketch challenges and 1 winner from each, then the grand prize. I didn't win the grand prize, but I did win one set and that is very exciting! Thank you to all of the design team that voted for my card.

Lizzie Ann Mermaid

I entered this card (and a couple of others) for a Lizzie Ann Designs sketch contest. They will post the winner tonight. I have seen the other entries and know who I would choose if I was a judge, but can still cross my fingers can't I? The winner wins all of the July releases. My favorite is the fall set with the scarecrow!
I won't even be able to know right away who won, because Aaron has a Bible School program tonite, so will be away when they announce the winner. I will definitely be checking in as soon as I get home. Ü I will post the other two cards I made Saturday and Sunday.
Now I need to go work on my Storage Units, Ink & More sneak peek for August (July 28) and my EIO items that will go live the first week of August. Stay tuned and I will let you know when and where you can view the fun new stuff I'm working on! After CHA, I will post the items I made for SUINK & More for CHA.

Master Calls Butterfly

I have always loved this sentiment. I recently got both the sentiment and the butterfly from Inky Antics. Yesterday, I decided it was time to ink it up. I am pleased with how it turned out.

The flower is only attached by the center to give it a dimenional look.

Images: Inky Antics

Cardstock: Creamy Caramel-SU!; black-Bazzill; white-Wal-Mart

Ink: SU!'s Basic Black, creamy caramel and white

Other: Gamsol, colored pencils

Girly Play Ball!

I wanted to make a more "girly" looking card with the Put Me In, Coach! set. I have another card to show you later that I made with this set, but after seeing this Sunday's Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS, I knew I wanted to show this card first. The featured stamper was Stephanie Hargis. I case'd this card of hers. I loved the simplicity of it and yet it also is very classy. I know I will be making more cards with this look.

Supplies:

stamp set: Put Me In, Coach!-Storage Units, Ink & More

cardstock: Core'dinations Scotch from the Harvest Yellows set

ink: Basic Black-SU

other: Gamsol, Prismacolored pencils, ribbon-Target, piercer

Play Ball treat box

I think I've said before how much I love these boxes by Nichole Heady! They are so quick and fun to make. You can see a step by step tutorial for these here.

I used the Put Me in Coach! stamp set from Storage Units, Ink & More and Black Iris from Core'dinations Indigos Blues cardstock set. Red is Bazzill and white is Georgia-Pacific. I colored with colored pencils and Gamsol.

Hoppy Day bag and card

This was really fun to make. The bag pattern was from a PaperCrafts magazine. I stamped a full 8.5" x 11" sheet of white cardstock with the frog stamp from Storage Units, Ink & More Leap Frog set. I colored with Gamsol and colored pencils and then cut up for my projects. This box is a perfect size to fill with cards or any kind of goodies. Solid cardstock is Core'dinations.

The sketch for the card was for Julee's Mojo Monday challenge this week.

Thanks Coach!

It seems we need alot of these cards. Benjamin has a wonderful Cross Country/Track & Field distance running coach-they are the one and same. Mr. Petit really CARES about his "kids". He is always encouraging them, has them over for spaghetti feeds, watermelon feeds, BBQ's, and sets up running times for them as a group throughout the summer and winter when they aren't involved in any other sports. He sets goals for them (many then set their own a little higher) and helps them reach those goals. He is very careful when it comes to their safety too. If they get hurt, he will NOT let them run until he is sure they are ready, even if a dr. says it is ok. He knows the kids that well. So we are always in need of thank you cards for him (and his wife Ü) for everything they do for the kids.

The shoe is from Storage Units, Ink & More's "Put Me in Coach" baseball set, but I am using it for a cross country/track theme. I like sets like this that you can take and use "out of the box" (for something other than they are originally made for).

For those of you that know Broken Bow's colors are red and white, you may wonder why the green and black. I took Benjamin's running shoes and colored these the same color as his (mainly because I don't have my Core'dinations red cardstock yet Ü). So the next "Coach" card I make I will use the school colors when my red comes.

Green cardstock is Mantis from Grass Green's Core'dinations, black is Bazzill. Colored with Gamsol and colored pencils, brad is from JoAnn Fabrics, "thanks coach" computer generated.

Edited: Forgot to say this is my FIRST "inchie" card. These have been kind of the rage lately. The squares with the shoe are 1" square. I set them on the diagonal and they fit perfectly across the width of the card! How cool is that!! If I had a 1" punch, I would suggest: stamp your image and then punch. But I didn't so cut ALOT of 1" pieces and then stamped the shoe. It helped that the stamp was clear, but still had to do lots of them to get the shoe at the right angle.

My Little Garden Journal

Today’s project is this mini album using coasters for the front and back. You can find a tutorial here that Beate wrote.

I did mine different in that I cut my pages 3 5/8” x 7 ¼” and folded in half to make a 3 5/8” square. I corner rounded the folded edges and added double stick tape to each side of the score lines on the spine so that the spine didn’t show on the back side of a page. Otherwise, I pretty much followed her instructions. “My Little Garden Journal” was computer generated using the font “Sunnydale”. The sentiment in the flower is from All Things Grow by Storage Units, Ink & More. The peach, green and aqua cardstock is Core’dinations and the patterned paper is DCWV.

Sock Swap

Now that Michelle has received her pkg, I can post this. We are doing a 1-4-1 swap with each other. This was a sock swap. We were to buy a pair of $1 ankle socks and make a coordinating card and candy wrapper (with the candy) Ü.

All Things...tall card

It seems like I never get to SCS to do challenges. I'm "kinda" late on this one as it was Sunday's challenge, but according to the thread, "you are never late" just post when you can. Sunday's challenge on SCS is a Featured Stamper challenge. They choose someone's gallery to be featured and you go to the featured stampers gallery and choose a card/project to CASE (copy and share everything). One of the guidelines you have to follow is to change 2 or more things on your project-so that you aren't posting an EXACT project that is already there. Sunday's FS was Teneale Williams. This is the card that I chose as my challenge card. And here is my version. I chose to CASE the layout of her card. Supply list:

stamps: All Things Grow

cardstock: Core'dinations-Atoll Aqua from Aqua Blues , French Roast from Coffee Cafe , Fern from Forest Greens collection. The orange was in my scrap bag. I will have to order it next as I LOVE the Core'dinations cardstock!!! Patterned paper was some I picked up at a scrap store when I was staying with my SIL last summer. There is no company name on the back, so I have no idea who makes it, but I love the color combo in it.

misc: brads: unknown-rec'd in a secret sister pkg long ago, sewing machine, scallop punch by SU!

fun RAK's

The past few days I have rec'd some fun RAK's, BRAK's and bd cards. FYI...RAK-Random Act of Kindness; BRAK-Birthday Random Act of Kindness.

I rec'd this card from Jennifer Bradley congratulating me on my design team acceptance: Birthday RAK I rec'd from Deb Albright: Birthday cards: another card from Jennifer... And this from Emma's Paperie-be sure to click on the name and check out this website. I love how she used a glassine bag. Too cool! And this 4th of July card from a friend who was also a very dear friend of Kim's. I love this card!!! It was soooo good to hear from you Sonya!! I will be e-mailing you.

Back to stamping...

Hello! I am back to stamping again. What a busy week/weekend we had! Benjamin is now in New Mexico, our 4th of July BBQ was lots of fun-we had 24 here, I am another year older today and I got to stamp! WOOHOO!!!

Benjamin called me this afternoon to wish me a Happy Birthday. I was good and didn't cry, but it was hard. What in the world am I going to do when he goes off to college??!! Follow him? LOL!! It's funny what guys see and what girls see. I talked to one of the girls' mom this morning and she said that Tessa said it is just beautiful where they are. I asked Benjamin if it was beautiful there and he said "no, it's red". LOL!! The "red" is because of the clay. Too funny! He has already seen the reservation and they are going to set up for the Bible School today and then tomorrow morning start their first day. The Bible School is from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM and then in the evenings they will be working on a barn. Not sure what all that is about, but we will learn everything when he comes home.

Anyway, had a great weekend with friends and family and a good day today. Bruce and Aaron took me to Runza-new to town, then we went to Pump & Pantry to get a 60 cent ice cream cone-strawberry with strawberries in it-had a yummy yogurt taste to it too.

This afternoon, I braved the hot humid upstairs and finished putting this card together. I have lots of Storage Units, Ink & More images to finish up into cards and projects. This card is made with the All Things Grow With Love set. You can click on the name of the set and see what the other design team members have done so far with it. I don't want to look until I get all my projects done so that I won't be influenced in what I make. I DID however see THIS card made by Leigh. You are just going to flip!! You have to check it out as well as the rest of the cards/projects with the other stamp sets. Okay, back to the card...

I used Core'dinations cardstock again-have I said how much I LOVE this cardstock!!!! It is soo cool AND I just learned that the top strip on each color is what the core color is. I love sanding cardstock/paper and this is just the best with the colored core vs. white core. I stamped one bunch of flowers in SU! Basic Grey ink and masked and stamped another bunch. Masked both bunches of flowers and stamped the wheelbarrow. I colored the images with colored pencils and Gamsol. The olive green cardstock is some textured cs that was in my scrap bag and I don't know the company of it. I *think* the patterned paper is SEI, it was also in my scrap box and didn't have the company name on it. Finished it off with some Prima and paper flowers and antique copper brads.

Cake Inspired

ETA: Someone wanted to know what size of card this is and whate size of circles I used.
The card fits into a regular envy like you would mail a bill in and it is 3.50" x 6.25" when folded. The circles are 1/2".

Rose are you peeking?????

I belong to a yahoo group that has weekly challenges. I can't always do them, but had a chance to do this one. The challenges vary, sometimes they may be color, sketch, stamp set, theme, etc. This one was to make a card inspired by this cake:

And here is the card I made

Thank you and a winner!

I want to thank all of you for your kind comments about my card using the Leap Frog set from Storage Units Ink & More.

I have a very tired little boy (okay maybe not so little, but he is my baby). Aaron couldn't figure out why he was so tired when he thought he slept well at camp. I told him I was always that way too. It's go, go, go at camp and then come home and crash. Ü I can't wait til tomorrow when he is able to show us his pictures and tell us all about it. Maybe he will let me share a few with you.

Okay, I know, I know, it's time for the winner of Leap Frog...

Miss L said...
I LOVE frogs! Growing up, they were my favorite animal and I
have collected them since before I can remember. This set is absolutely adorable and one that I would use over and over again! Too cute!

Miss L, please e-mail me your full name and address and Denise will get your set out to you. You have until 6 pm tomorrow night to respond. If I don't hear from you, I will draw a new name. Thank you every one for entering!

"I'm so excited

and I just can't hide it..." -okay, don't have a clue to all the words of the song and it's probably just as well to what I do know LOL! BUT.....I can share some MORE good news with you!!
I have been accepted on the Embellish-It Online Design Team! Do you know how hard it is for me to keep ONE secret, let alone two back to back??!!
Now, I gotta get busy!!!!
I will have something new that isn't design team related posted tomorrow since the last few posts have all been design team related.

Oh Hoppy Day!

Edited again: Last nite when I was trying to get this post together Blogger went down and I'm just now noticing part of what I had written is gone. Most of it wasn't that important, but this card was inspired by the layout of Cambria's card on her blog. I wanted to be sure to give her credit for the layout.
Edited: Okay this is weird, the post at 6 this morning didn't show the card!! Here it is.

I am very excited to show you yet another new set from Storage Units, Ink & More. This one is called Leap Frog. Since I have two boys, I just had to have this set.
I used two images from this set to make this card. I actually stamped a whole sheet (8.5" x 11") with one frog using SU!'s Basic Grey ink to make my own background paper. I used orange, green and brown Core'dinations cardstock for the solid color accents. This cardstock is soooo cool! It has a "core", but it's not white like alot of other companies. This cardstock has a COLORED core that is a different shade of the cardstock. It also has a texture like Bazzill making it a really nice quality. You can see from my card the lighter core color in the brown piece that I tore. This cardstock can also be sanded to show the core color which I also did with all 3 colors.
I used prismacolor pencils and gamsol to color my images. Added some stitching, ribbon and computer generated saying to finish it off.
Would you like a chance to win this set? Just leave a comment here to enter to win. I will draw a name sometime Thursday night after I pick up my youngest son from camp.

Toucan Thanks

I may be posting a few times today. There is an option to create a post and then set up the time you want it to be posted. Because tomorrow is the first day that the sneak peeks start on SU Ink & More, I want to be sure to have my post ready to guide you first thing in the morning. We've been having bad weather and I want to be sure that the post is able to go through in case I can't get on line.

This card was made with one of the images that I colored last month when I was working the polls. Images are SU!-I think both are retired.

Mr. Bumbly

This card was made for a challenge on Embellish It Online. If you want to play along you can go here.

Image is Mr. Bumbly from Inky Antics, paper is SU!

EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!!

I told you all that I've been busy stamping and I have. But I didn't tell you all WHO I've been busy stamping for except some cards to go to convention for Inky Antics. Well....I've also been stamping for Denise Wenzloff. Ü

You may be familiar with Denise and her husband. They make the wonderful storage units for your ink pads, markers, reinkers, etc.

Well a few weeks ago I received an exciting e-mail from Denise asking me if I would be interested in being on her design team. I said "YES" right away! She has decided to expand her business and she's got some terrific new things coming. All will be revealed on July 1st but to get everyone buzzing they've come up with an amazing contest prize-The "MOTHERLOAD" of all prizes!! The details are on the new SUInk & More blog. Here is what it says:

"We're so excited to share our news with you that one lucky person will actually WIN the "MOTHERLOAD" of new products from Storage Units, Ink & More! You know...the whole kit & caboodle, the big kahuna, the whole enchilada, the big mama jamma!!! All of our new products will be unveiled on July 1st but this is YOUR chance to win it BEFORE you can buy it. Here's what one lucky person will receive:
6 brand new Storage Units, Ink & More! Clear Polymer Stamp Sets!
6 Storage Units, Ink & More! Inkpads and Reinkers in our very own colors!
4 packages of Core’dinations Cardstock!
1 set of 8 Acrylic Blocks
1 bottle of Ultra Stamp Cleaner
1 set of 12 Copic Markers in our hand chosen colors!

What do you have to do to enter? Head on over to the Storage Units, Ink & More blog and add a comment to THIS POST letting us know what kinds of stamp images you'd like to see in the future. Easy-peezy, right?! Give it a little thought because you can only enter once. Entries will be accepted from June 17th through June 30th. One winner will be randomly chosen and revealed on the Storage Units, Ink & More blog on Tuesday, July 1st. GOOD LUCK and THANKS FOR HELPING US CELEBRATE OUR NEW PRODUCTS!"

The brand new SUInk & More Design Team will begin posting SNEAK PEEKS on Friday, June 20th to both their own blogs and the SUInk blog. You should definitely check back to see what they've created. The first designer to share will be
Lauren Meader.
The other design team members include: Kendra Giles, Leigh O'Brien, Kathie Bailey, Dawn Easton, Bethany Paull, Susan Liles and Kimberly Gajewski.

Don't forget to click on the image below to enter to win the "Motherload" of all blog candy!

Proof I've been stamping and a reject

Here are the cards (upside down) that I put in the mail today. You can see the color combination in the colored pencils and paper that I used for all 28 cards.

Here is the "reject". I sent this in to 3-4 places for submission and didn't hear from any of them, so I will post it here for you all to see.

National Donut Day!

Yep! According to MSN's homepage, today is National Donut Day.

So, go make donuts or buy one of your favorites. I mixed some up this morning and they should be ready by late this afternoon if you want to come over for one. Ü

End of the chicks...

Here are the last of the chicks I made for Inky Antics for CHA in January. Hope you didn't get too sick of them! Ü Now, I better get something ready for tomorrow.

Inky Chicks 8 & 9

More chicks! Ü

Tired of the chicks?

Here are three today... This one is my favorite...

Chicks 3 & 4

Two more chick cards for you today. Ü

Inky Chicks

Sorry, I haven't been posting. I have been enjoying staying home and have been doing lots of cleaning. I have 3 bags ready to go to Goodwill next week.

We had my parents and two of my brothers and their families over for Memorial Day and BBQ'd. It was a nice and fun day.

Here are two cards that I made for Jackie @ Inky Antics to take to CHA earlier this year. I will be showing more of the cards I made for CHA this week as I work on more cards for her for Convention-won't show those til later this year. If you would like to order these chicks and more very cute Spring images from Inky Antics go here and scroll down to "Spring 2008 Supplement". You can download the supplement and see all the fun new images.

Ramblings and a birthday card

YAY!!!! School is out! I know some dread this as they lose their *free* time, but since I homeschool one there is no *free* time as such for me. Because Benjamin runs cross country, there is no time for ball games/sports as they would interfere with cross country training. So we get to stay HOME much more and that makes me happy. Ü

In woods class, Benjamin made me a dining room table. I love it!! He did an awesome job and it is soooo sturdy! It is kind of a Farmer's/Shaker style table-3 ft x 6 ft.

Right now, a nephew is staying with us for a week. He is between my boys, so that makes them all a year apart. They get along great and I have been able to get lots of cleaning done.


In amongst the cleaning, I needed a quick bd card, so used one of the images I had colored last week to make this quick card. Gail had asked about Gamsol. It can be purchased from http://www.inkyantics.com/ and comes with a tutorial on using it.