I’ve been Tagged!

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on a project for a birthday the last couple of nights - so that’s why no card. I’ll post it when I’m done. Likely next week sometime.

In the mean time, I’ve been tagged … for the first time!!!

TheDvineMsM has tagged me!

I have to list 7 things about myself!

1 - I have 2 Toy Poodles - Jack and Benny!
2 - I hate wearing shoes and socks! If possible, I would wear sandals all year round.
3 - I have 2 tattoos currently, and want a third. My brother is a tattoo artist … so one of these days!
4 - My favorite tv show right now is The Office.
5 - I live in the house I grew up in … for now.
6 - I’ve been to 33+ US States, 6 Canadian Provinces, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico and The Grand Caymans.
7 - I have more card making and scrapbook making supplies than anyone could ever need … but I keep buying more!

Now I need to Tag 7 other bloggers! Fingers crossed I can find 7 who haven’t been tagged!

*My friend Melissa over at Socalscrapper has started a blog as well!
*I love Julanne’s blog atGlitterfreak
*Jennifer at Makings from Scratch
*Yvonne at Stamp Your Art Out
*Shannon over at Cherished Keepsakes
*Inkin’ and Thinkin’ - she has great altered items!

Ok - I have only listed 6, and while I have over 100 blogs listed in my Bloglines list, most of them have already been tagged! So 6 it is!!!

New Cards

Hi!

Here’s a couple of new cards I made tonight. It’s been a great mail week for me this week. I ordered, and received my new Cuttlebug! Also I ordered some of the Marvy punhces and got those today. Sooo happy about my new things!! It really only makes me want more of the punches though! I also finally used my new Bella stamps tonight. I’ve had them for about 3 weeks and hadn’t made a card with them yet. I also wanted to use orange in a card. I use a lot of pinks and greens I noticed and wanted to do something different.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Orange, Cranberry, White
Inks: CTMH - Blush, Outdoor Denim, Sunny Yellow, Cranberry, Chocolate; Other - Staz On
Stamps: CTMH - Card Commentary; Other - Cosmobella
Accessories: CTMH - Cranberry Ribbon, Water Brush; Other - Marvy Oval Giga and Mega Punches, Cuttlebug Spots & Dots embossing folders

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Floral Tapestry Paper Kit
Inks: CTMH - Orchid Bouquet, Sunny Yellow, Twilight
Stamps: CTMH - For Every Occasion, Floral Delights
Accessories: CTMH - Pewter Brads and Photo Hangers; Other - Marvy Giga and Mega Circle Punches

Birthday Hat and For You

I’m having a real hard time being creative today. I literally sat and cut paper and tried to make a card for over an hour and it just wasn’t happening! UGH!

I’ve found a couple of cards that I did some time ago that I wanted to post. The birthday card is real simple. On the For You card I did the polished stone technique with reinkers!

Thanks for looking.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Make a Wish Papers, White
Inks: CTMH - Sunflower
Stamps: CTMH - Celebrations Solid
Accessories: CTMH - Sunflower Ribbon, Buttons

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Autumn Terracotta, Barn Red, Glossy White, White
Inks: CTMH - Autumn Terracota
Stamps: CTMH - Curly Greetings
Accessories: CTMH - Barn Red Reinker, Autumn Terracotta Reinker, Gold Reinker

Le Chic Greetings!

Hello everyone!

It’s been a long day, but wanted to get this posted before I head to bed.

I cut a mask of the dress and sponged in the color from the ink pad. I also sponged the base of the card.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Natural, Aspen (retired), Spring Iris, Vellum
Inks: CTMH - Black, Fawn (retired), Spring Iris
Stamps: CTMH - Le Chic, Fancy Ornaments
Accessories: CTMH - Black Organdy Ribbon, Black Eyelets

Jack and Benny

Here are a couple of 6×6 Scrapbook pages I made of my dogs Jack (white) and Benny (red).

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Pawsitively Pals Paper Pack
Inks: CMTH - Desert Sand
Stamps: CTMH - Best Friend Doggie
Accessories: CTMH - Silver Spirals, Silver Photo Hangers, Olive Ribbon; Other - Black pen

Greetings!

I made this card tonight to send to a friend. I think it may be the most neutral card I’ve made in a long time!

I stamped the lily pad in second generation. Then stamped the frog and rolled the edges.

I’m also trying a new way to take pictures. The black background will hopefully show the colors how they truly look.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Lazy Days of Summer paper pack
Inks: CTMH - Olive
Stamps: CTMH - Frogs, Fancy Ornaments, Stoneware Texture
Accessories: CTMH - Olive Eyelets; Other - Grosgrain ribbon

Oldie but a Goodie!

Hi everyone! I’m back online. And to good news too! I was one of the winners of Jen’s Sketch Challenge #6! It’s the first “blog win” I’ve had an I’m very happy!

I was digging through my old cards today and came across this one. I really love it still. I used the masking tape techinque on it.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - New England Ivy, Pansy Purple, White
Inks: CTMH - New England Ivy, Pansy Purple
Stamps: CTMH - Le Chic
Accessories: CTMH - New England Ivy and Pansy Purple markers, Goldrush ribbon; Other - Black Marker, masking tape, UTEE

Internet Problems …

Hello!

I’m having internet problems at home right now. It might be fixed today, but if not, it’ll be Monday before I post again!!!

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Quick Card

It’s late, but I wanted to post a card before going to bed real quick. I haven’t had time to do the Caardvarks Nine Time challenge yet. I’ll do that when I get home from work tomorrow!

This is an 8×3.5 card.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Red Velvet (retired), Outdoor Denim, Silver Metallic
Inks: CTMH - Red Velvet (retired)
Stamps: CTMH - Star Impressions
Accessories: CTMH - Ribbon

Eight is Enough

I’m early! I’ve already finished my submission for the Eight is Enough Challenge over at Caardvarks.

The challenge today was to include 2 pattern papers, 2 circles, 2 stamps and 2 ribbons all on one card. It was actually easier than it sounded.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Groovy Blossoms paper packet, Cocoa, White
Inks: CTMH - Hollyhock
Stamps: CTMH - Small Pleasures, Stoneware Texture
Accessories: CTMH - Staples, Cocoa Ribbon, Hollyhock Ribbon

Lucky Number 7

I don’t know if I’m feeling the love with this card or not! But it’s what I came up with for Caardvarks challenge of the day.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Outdoor Denim, Breeze, Clover Meadow, White
Inks: CTMH - Clover Meadow
Stamps: CTMH - Heart Impressions, For Every Occasion, Stoneware Texture

Birthday Card and Chipboard Books!

Well, I’ve spent the last 4 days with some scrapping friends. They left today, and it’s back to the grind tomorrow.

I actually got quite a lot accomplished this weekend. I finished a scrapbook that is for a gift - it’s a total of 16 pages so not too shabby at all. Plus I made several cards, some of which you’ve seen over the past few days.

I also got to play with a couple of new gadgets this weekend. She has a Bind It All machine! I love this thing! As you can see from the pic, I practiced quite a bit with it, and most likely will be buying my own when they go on sale again at the LSS. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all of these, but I’m sure I’ll have fun figuring it out.

The other toy was a Cuttlebug Embossing folder. She uses hers in her old Sizzix die cutter. It works great. I instantly needed the folders. I was completely bummed though that I would seemingly have to spend $80 on the Cuttlebug itself though. At about midnight we had a brainstorm though. I have the QK Revolution. Well - we made a shim out of chipboard and voila! Works like a charm. So, I’m off to order a few of the folders and can’t wait to get them! In the mean time, I pre-embossed some pieces of cardstock to have while I wait.

Here’s a Birthday card I made with the Birthday Embossing folder.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - White, Sweet Leaf, Hollyhock
Stamps: CTMH - Birthday Bash
Inks: CTMH - Sunflower, Hollyhock, Grey Wool
Accessores: CTMH - Designer Ribbon; Cuttlebug - Birthday Embossing Folder

6 Shooter!

Today’s Caardvarks challenge is to make a 6×6 card.

When I was cruising Blogs last night I saw this particular color combo and was really drawn to it. I even commented in the Blog. But for the life of me I can’t find the post this morning to give credit. I’ll keep looking though and update my post when I do find it.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Outdoor Denim, New England Ivy, Blush, White
Inks: CTMH - Blush
Stamps: CTMH - My Mom, Hope Everything …
Accessories: CTMH - White Hemp; Other - Buttons

Funky Florals

One more card before I go to bed.

This card is for Jen’s Sketch Challenge.

Funky Florals was one of the first stamp sets I ever had. I love this set. This is also the first card I’ve ever used Twinkling H2O’s on as well. I don’t know if I used them properly, but I was just playing and washed them over the 2 pieces of white cardstock I cut (the rectangle with sentiment and the oval). You can barely see the shimmer in this picture, but it’s really pretty in person. I only have 6 colors of the H2O’s (all nuetral), and now I do believe I need to get more.

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Discovery Paper Packet, White
Stamps: CTMH - Funky Florals, For Every Occasion
Inks: CTMH - Hollyhock, Topiary
Accessories: CTMH - Ribbon, buttons, Hollyhock My Accents; Other - Twinkling H2O’s

5 Star Card

Another day, another Caardvarks Challenge!

Today’s challenge was the 5 Star Challenge - create a card with 5 embellishments on the front. I managed to get 3 brads, 1 bigger brad, and a piece of ribbon on my Tent Card. Reading through all these Blogs, I kept seeing these cards that everyone kept calling Tent Cards. Then someone linked back to the first post about them at Michelle’s site. They are so cute, so I made my first one today!

I dug around in my stash and found these papers that I’ve had since last Fall and never even touched. And let’s not talk about the stamp set …

Recipe:
Papers: CTMH - Promise of Spring Paper Packet
Stamps: CTMH - Promise of Spring, Stoneware Texture, Thank You
Inks: CTMH - Smokey Plum, Olive
Accessories: CTMH Promise of Spring Accessory packet