Happy Birthday DH!!!

Well it's my DH's Birthday today and I specifically bought My Favorite Things "Maid For You" stamp set just for today.

I just love how it came together, especially how the swiss dot embossing matches the ribbon. I coloured in the image using copics, but used chalk to colour in the back wall. Inside I mimicked the front panel layering the black, red and white paper, and also adding the ribbon.

Ingredients:
Stamps: MFT Maid For You

Paper: SU Basic Black; SU Whisper White; SU Real Red

Ink: black; Copics (B set)

Accessories: Cuttlebug; Dot embossing folder; ribbon (Micheals); button; black embroidery thread; SU chalks

MTTI05- Apron Inspiration

Well it's that time of the week for another of Lauren Meader's My Time to Create Inspiration Challenges. This week she provided us with the photo below. I instantly thought of my Grandmother and all her aprons that she wears. I decided to simply use the colours and the idea of an apron for my card.
Here is my take on the challenge.


I thought about the ruffles and lace you often find on the bottom of aprons. So I used one of my Martha Stewart's punches to create my frill at the bottom of the card. I then covered the seam with some scrap ribbon I had in my bin. I then decided to cut a top note die in half to represent those little pockets you often find on aprons. I lined the top of the top note using some thin pink ribbon. I used PTI's Guide Lines to create a pattern on the pocket, added some buttons and a sentiment from MFT and there you go.

Ingredients "Apron Inspiration":
Stamps: PTI Guide Lines; MFT sentiment
Paper: PTI Spring Moss; SU Tempting Turquoise; (Top Note was some blog candy I won, so not sure the paper colour)
Ink: SU Rose Red
Accessories: Martha Stewart Punch; scrap piece of ribbon; thin pink ribbon; buttons; embroidery floss,

Crazy Week!

It has been a crazy week. It's the last week of school and I have been busy with report cards, cleaning up the classroom, awards, prayer services, tutoring after school, as well as packing and getting ready for Italy. I leave in 9 days!!!!! I haven't had a chance to get into the scrapin' room. I have just been too exhausted these last few days. So here is a quick card I made a while ago but haven't had a chance to post. It uses the Botanical Blooms from the Sale-a-bration SU catalogue. I used SU So Saffron; SU DSP (hostess set from a few catalogues ago) and SU Whisper White. The ink is SU Real Red and So Saffron. The flower pots are from MFT "Can Ya Dig It?" And a little piece of scrap green grosgrain ribbon was added to the one side.

Simply Sweet Trio

I've given up Dairy Queen!!!! and boy is it hard. We use to go like 3 times a week....or more. So I finally decided to take a stand and say no more to DQ trips. Well, unfortunatley I have a craving for a Pecan Mudslide right now. So to help subside my craving I decided to use my sweet stamps to create some satisfying, yet calorie free cards.

"You're Simply Sweet" follows sketch 200 from Splitcoaststampers. These stamps are from G Studio and were in the $1 bin at Micheal's. Well worth the $1.

Ingredients:

Stamps: G Studio

Paper; PTI Sweet Blush; PTI Dark Chocolate; My Mind's Eye - Bella "Pretty Little Girl"

Ink: Copics; SU Chocolate Chip

Accessories: ribbon; pop dots


My Version of a DQ Pecan Mudslide.I left the right hand side blank so I can add my sentiment at a later date, depending on who and why I am sending the card.

Ingredients:

Stamps: MFT Here's the Scoop

Paper: SU Basic Grey; cranberry (unknown); scrap DSP

Ink: Copics

Lollipop, Lollipop, Ohlali Lollipop:

I just used my scrap paper and some ribbon to whip this 3x3 card up.

Ingredients:

Stamps: G Studio

Paper: PTI Sweet Blush; SU Lavendar Lace; SU Whisper White

Ink: Copics; SU Almost Amethyst

Accessories: Ribbon

Here's the Scoop Colour and Sketch Challenge

Wow, third post today...what a nice change. Usually I am out of town or busy with commitments, but today I was able to get three posts done, plus a bulletin board display for church. Nice!!! It was nice not to be rushed...plus I was able to watch the hockey game too.....crappy game though. Detroit is blowing Pittsburgh away 5-0 by the end of the 2nd period, so decided to post now during the third period.

Anyway, this post incorporates Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge and Lauren Meader's Sketch Challenge.

This is only my second time playing around with copics. The first time I used them was the other day on my Father's Day card..but I haven't posted it yet, as I don't want my father to see it just yet. So I am still getting the hang of blending, shading, etc. As you will notice I had to move the sentiment from Lauren's sketch to the other side of the card. I had a little mishap with blending...more like a smear into the cream wallpaper and I needed to cover up her feet. However, I do think the card turned out well considering. I used SU Chocolate Chip; SU Purely Pomegranate; and a cream colour to match Dawn's colour combo. The only thing that doesn't match the colour combo is the ice cream itself...but a girls got to have her Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.

Here's the Scoop Ingredients:

Stamps: MFT Here's the Scoop

Paper: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Purely Pomegranate; Cream scrap paper

Ink: sentiment is SU Purely Pomegranate; colouring done by copics...see picture below

Accessories: Martha Stewart punch; brads; ribbon; pop dots; redline tape

These are the copic colours I used.

Thanks for looking!!