CBCC #28 - Bows

Bows, bows, and more bows is the topic this week at CBCC! Make a creation with a bow, any kind of bow, then head on over to Courtney's blog and link your creation for a chance to win a fun prize! I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

I decided to use Pam Bassett's ribbon blossom for this week's challenge. You can find Pam's tutorial over at SCS! Here's is my chocolate tin with a great big ribbon blossom! I also made a card with a ribbon blossom that you can see HERE.

Make sure that you go to my sidebar and click on the other chickies blogs to see their creations!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!

I am off to lay down and rest, I have a really bad sinus infection.

WOJ Guest Designer Call

This week's challenge at the WOJ Challenge Blog is to create a card with one of Katharina's wonderful sketches (which I love all of her sketches....they are always fabulous to work with)! The winner of this week's challenge will get to be a Guest Designer for Whiff of Joy for 2 months! To be on the DT for WOJ is one of my dreams! When I was putting my card together I decided to turn the sketch on it's side (I hope Katharina doesn't mind). I had to use my new spring WOJ kit for this challenge. I used Willow with Flower Basket, colored her with my Copics. Papers are Basic Grey, SU, Creative Memories, and KC&Co. Nesties were used to cut the ovals, Martha border punch for edges, Martha branch punch, and medium retro flower punch also used. Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz Blingz was painted on the smaller flowers for extra shine and sparkle. Swirl/flourish stamp was stamped with momento rich cocoa and versamark dazzle in champagne (which you can't see the sparkle on the card but in real life it looks fabulous)! Pink raffia lace is from a very special friend (THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH)!!!! ;) White lace, flowers, spacers, brads, and charm from my stash.

A close up of Miss. Willow! Isn't she so cute!!!

I carried the front design through to the inside of the card.

Close ups of the inside.

Wish me luck with the Guest DT spot! I think I have every body part that is crossable crossed! I would be so honored to be a part of such an amazing DT for my favorite Company!

Thanks for stopping by!

Check These Out!!!!!

I have to share this brand new stamp line with you....Stamps and Smiles! My great friend Jennifer, always had a dream to own her own stamp company and with the help of her Dad (the artist behind her beautiful stamps) her dream is now a reality! I am so excited for her!!! Jen, I wish you the best of luck with your new venture!!!!

If you are looking for the perfect Easter stamps you HAVE to go to her store and order these ASAP! While you are at her store click on the design team and check out their amazing creations with these beauties!



I asked Jen if it would be OK to share the sets here with you and she was thrilled! So without further ado check these out!

Sleepy Bunny

Mama Bunny Loves Me
Egg Hunt

Egg-stra-Special

Cuppy Love

Now, run....don't walk over to Stamps and Smiles and place your order today!

Basic Grey Challenge #23 - Color Challenge

This week is the week for color challenges (which I love)! I decided to choose the color combo Pink and Brown for the Basic Grey challenge this week! No surprise there huh?! :) Since I needed a bookmark for my women's literature class I decided to get out my WOJ Melinda reading book stamp (that you can get from Loreen at Wish On A Scrap)! I got the bookmark idea from Inge! She makes the most adorable projects and when I saw this bookmark and tutorial that she made a while back I couldn't help but save it for future reference.

I colored Melinda with my Copics and used Shimmerz Blingz in pixie dust on her wings. I used the Bittersweet papers from Basic Grey which reminds me that I need to get another packet of these papers as they are my favorite! Punches used were of course Martha borders punches and my SU round tab punch. Lace is a new purchase from Joanns. I also used my new curved rectangle nesties with my corner grunge stamp (I used momento rich cocoa on the pink cs and dazzling champagne versamark on the chocolate chip cs). Ribbon, and eyelets are from my stash.

And here is the back of the bookmark! I really like how this turned out and now I can't seem to put my book down!

Hope you all have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by!

I am off to work on a literature paper that I have due next week! :(

CBCC #27 - Color Challenge

This week we have a color challenge to share with you over at Created by Courtney. These were VERY fun colors to use!The sketch I used was by Jacqueline over at Friday Sketchers (I definitely know I will be using this sketch again)! Of course I used one of my new Tilda stamps, colored her with my Copics. I used my Janome Sew Mini again and think I might just be getting the hang of sewing on paper now (especially since I didn't even know how to use a sewing machine...I haven't used one since 8th grade)! I used my new label nesties (that I got from Wish On A Scrap) for the panels behind Tilda. The corner swirl stamps on the panels are from my Stempelglede grunge collection! I used Shimmerz Blingz in pixie dust on Miss. Tilda's letter. I didn't have any cream/very vanilla colored primas, so I took some white ones that I had and colored them with my Copics to make them match my very vanilla CS. I then painted them with Shimmerz Blingz pixie dust to give them their shine and sparkle. Used my Martha branch punch. Ribbon, spacers, brads and flower rhinestones were from my stash.

I carried the design from the front of the card into the inside. I used another grunge stamp for the edging on my very vanilla CS. It is textured cardstock so when you stamp on it you get a very cool effect! I love how it turned out!

And for the back of my card I used my handmade stamp on very vanilla and stamped my circle grunge stamp around on tempting turquoise.

I hope you that you all decide to play along! Make sure you head over to Courtney's blog to leave the link to your creation for your chance to win a surprise! Head over to my side bar and check out what my fellow chickies have made! Can't wait to see what you create with our color challenge!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your week!

Magnolia vs. Stampavie - Week 14

YAY...I am so excited that I got to play along this week with the Magnolia vs. Stampavie challenge....I love their challenges (school work just had to wait today...ha ha).....I got my creation done just in the nic of time! Woo-Hoo! This week was a color challenge, you needed to use chocolate chip, old olive, not quite navy, and bashful blue. Seeing how these are colors I normally don't use it made my brain think hard.....but I did have fun and found some new favorite colors to play with! I love it when that happens! Since I love to follow sketches when I create, I headed on over to the fabulous Katharina's blog and found THIS sketch to use as my starting point. Katharina makes the best sketches!!!

For this card I used Valentine Tilda who was colored with my Copics (real surprise huh?!). I got out my handy dandy Janome Mini Sewing machine for this card.....I just love that thing.....thanks mom and dad for the fun toy (they got me it for christmas)! Used my nesties (nesties and Tilda were purchased from Wish On A Scrap)! DP is Creative Memories, and cardstock is SU and textured CS from my stash. Flowers, ribbons and charm also from my stash. Used my Martha punch for my leaves. The small flower on the bottom was painted with December Sky Shimmerz Blingz for some extra sparkle.

Here's a close up of Miss. Tilda so you can see the coloring!
Then here is the inside....I decided to carry the sketch through to the inside of the card...can you tell I went crazy with my sewing machine today?!

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend! We are getting some snow here today so it's a good day to stay inside and craft....tomorrow is homework day....ICK!

Thanks for stopping by!

CBCC #26 (FINALLY!)

OK...sorry for the LONG delay everyone! My hubby has some back problems so I had to take him to get an injection on Tuesday so I didn't get time to create....then yesterday was school all day.....But have no fear....I did finally (whew!) get my creation done! By now I am sure you all headed over to Courtney's blog and saw that this week's challenge is to stamp with bubble wrap! How fun does that sound?! I loved it! It gives such a unique impression! If you haven't tried this technique yet you have to do it!

I am also using this as my entry for the Roses On Paper Love and Friendship challenge, and for the Friday Sketchers challenge which was to use this sketch! I used Tilda with Tag and colored her with my Copics...I left her tag blank as I don't know what I will use this card for yet. :) I used purple metallic acrylic paint on my bubble wrap for the background design on the heart. Then I sprayed the heart with pink taffy glimmer mist (that I got from Loreen at Wish On A Scrap.) Papers, ribbon, and flowers are from my stash. Used my heart nesties and my new Martha heart lace border punch.

Here's the inside. I used two Martha border punches and overlapped them, added some purple rhinestones. Used my new Retro flower punch with my Stempelglede grunge flower stamp, then added some pixie dust Shimmerz Blingz for sparkle!

Here is a close up of the Blingz sparkle! Isn't that so pretty? I just love this stuff!

And here is the back. I used my EK Success Swirl punch and another of my new handmade stamps.

Thanks so much for being patient and waiting for me to get this creation done and for all of you who sent get well comments for my hubby (they are GREATLY appreciated)! If you haven't checked out the other chickies creations make sure you do that. They are listed on my sidebar!

Also, I have a few blog candy's to share with you! Jacquie, Bev, Rach, and Nikki all have some fabulous goodies up for grabs. Make sure you go and check them out and while you are there check out these ladies work! They are just fabulous artists and make some amazing projects!

Enjoy the rest of your week! I am off to water aerobics tonight! Or as my hubby says...I am off to swim like a dolphin! Boys....I tell ya! Hee hee!