Monthly Archives: April 2010

A DIE-NAMIC Peek!

Posted on April 30, 2010 | 25 comments

TGIF! 🙂

The My Favorite Things design team is so excited to be sharing samples today using a brand new MFT product which will be available for purchase Wednesday, May 5th (along with lots of other fun, new things)!

DIE-NAMICS! Border dies and more! This month we have a jumbo scalloped border (which I *love*), a scalloped scallop border and a trio of CLOUDS! Eek! I cannot wait to get those clouds.

Miss You Much

Here I’ve used one of last month’s releases, Sitting Pretty, from MFT’s Jolinne line. I paper-pieced her dress and colored in the rest with Copics.

I die-cut the bottom edge of the pink card base using the following stack in my Cuttlebug: A Plate, C Plate, die (face up), cardstock and one B Plate. Smooth sailing, right through the rollers! Next I die cut a scrap of denim from a worn pair of my son’s jeans using the same stack combo. I ran the denim through twice, just to be sure I had a good, clean cut. It was perfect. No little strings and no clean-up with the scissors. I’ve been wanting a big/wide scallop die and now I have one! YAY!

After I cut the denim, I ran it through my Xyron and then adhered it to my die-cut card base. 🙂

This month’s releases include:

JUMBO SCALLOP, $10.95

SCALLOPED SCALLOPS, $10.95

And CLOUD TRIO, $14.95 🙂

The design team has used quite an assortment of materials with their Die-namics, so be sure to check out Kim’s blog HERE after 11 a.m. EST for direct links to their samples. You can also see samples HERE on Splitcoast. (This month’s VIP customers received a free Die-namics die-cut with their order and will be uploading to this gallery as well, keyword dienamics. Once you get yours, feel free to add in also!) We’re so excited about this new product. We think you will be too!

May release previews begin tomorrow so I’ll be back for the next several days with new things to share! 🙂

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Stamps: MFT “Sitting Pretty” and “Miss You Much” (Jolinne) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Cardstock: Prism Frosted Pink, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary Mary Mary “Beautiful” So Cute Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E33, E35, R20, R81, R83, R85, YG03, BG0000), MFT Jumbo Scallops DIE-NAMICS, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Prima flowers, buttons/string. Finished size 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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Feel Better Soon

Posted on April 28, 2010 | 14 comments

Good morning. I don’t know why but I seem to be in slow motion today. I wasn’t up any later than usual. I’m just…tired. And my coffee seems weak. Bleh! So if my fingers end up on the wrong keys and I’m typing junk, I’ll come back later and fix it, ok? 🙂

Feel Better Soon

I’m trying to use up a big ol’ pile of scraps I’ve saved. I’m also trying to create some general-themed cards to have on hand when needed. I have wayyy too many cards lying around here. (I really need to start my own Etsy store or something.) But I never seem to have get well, sympathy or general birthday cards. So this is my beginning.

I used my favorite new Stamping Bella character, Izzie. (I still have more I have not yet inked…that’s another mission.) I colored her with Copics, added ground and shading with pencils and used a strip of scalloped sticker along the bottom from Cosmo’s Girl Friday collection. I “stamp-a-ma-jigged” the sentiment onto the lined paper and added some scrappy (messy) stitching.

I must drag myself upstairs to get the kids ready for school. I’ll be back Friday with a My Favorite Things peek at a brand new product. I think you’ll like it. I sure do! 🙂

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Stamps: Stamping Bella “Izzie Has a Brellie”, Cornish Heritage Farms “Comforting Hugs” (Kim Hughes Collection) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday “Tuesday” and “Sunday” and scalloped border sticker Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E35, E37, YG03, YG05, BG0000, C1, C00), Prismacolor pencils, Fiskars Apron Strings border punch, Prima “Madeline” lace, Recollections mini-brads, sewing machine. Finished size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

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Millie and CPS

Posted on April 26, 2010 | 12 comments

TGIM! 🙂

This week’s sketch at Card Positioning Systems is being sponsored by My Favorite Things. I created a skinny little card using the sketch and MFT’s Millie the Mouse.

You Make Me Smile

My card is 3 1/4″ x 6 1/4″ so it will fit into one of the standard (smaller, #6 3/4) envelopes.

I cut a triangle of orange cardstock and punched two different sized circles to resemble the cheese.

If you’d like a chance to win a prize from My Favorite Things, check out the CPS post here for details.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

ETA:

<–This is the inside of the card.

Stamps: My Favorite Things “Millie the Mouse” Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Cloudy Blue Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Pumpkin Pie Patterned Paper: Making Memories “Chloe’s Closet” 8×8 Accessories: Copic markers (YR00, YR02, B95, W00), Making Memories ribbon, 1/8” and 1/16” hole punches, sewing machine, dimensional boosters.

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Flower Power with Kraftin’ Kimmie

Posted on April 24, 2010 | 6 comments

Hi everyone! I’m back today with a sample for Kraftin’ Kimmie‘s weekly challenge. Andrea is having us use lots of flowers. Since I’m pretty “flower-challenged,” I decided to use the minimum (which is three).

You Make Me Happy

Here I’ve used one of Kimmie’s latest releases, You Make Me Happy (from the Cindy & Mindy line).

I paper-pieced the little girl’s dress and bow and then got lucky with a good color match using a marker for her shoes.

The flowers are my very, very favorite burlap Prima’s from my good friend, Jody.

Be sure to pop on over to the Krafty Challenge Blog to see more design team samples! Plus we have a very talented special guest sticking around for a while. Go check her out! 🙂

As always, if you’d like to play along, be sure to post a link on the challenge blog for your chance to win a free Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Stamps: Kraftin’ Kimmie “You Make Me Happy” (Cindy & Mindy) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Bravo Burgundy, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Lemonade “Sun Dress” and “Strawberry Patch” Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E31, E33, E35, E57, R20, R59, W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, BG0000, BG01), Prima Homespun Bittles, buttons, natural jute string, Maya Road trim, dimensional boosters. Finished size 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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A Quick Birthday Greeting

Posted on April 22, 2010 | 8 comments

Hellooooo! 🙂

My nephew’s birthday was last week. I thought I’d share a quick little card I made for him. I don’t have a lot of “young boy-ish” stamps, but after digging through my stash, I decided on this cute koala from Whipper Snapper.

Let’s Party

I recently went through my ridiculous amount of patterned paper, deciding what to keep, what to give away, what to toss. Within that mess, I found a few pieces of Bella Blvd “Super Stud” (lol) paper that I thought would work well with this little guy. Nice bright colors without being girly. 🙂

I used more of the striped scraps on the inside and left plenty of room for everyone to sign (and draw silly pictures).

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be back Saturday morning with a Kraftin’ Kimmie challenge sample. Have a great day!

Stamps: Whipper Snapper Designs “Party Koala”; Cornish Heritage Farms “Birthday Bash” (Kim Hughes Collection) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate, Stampers Select White Patterned Paper: Bella Blvd “Super Stud” Accessories: Copic markers (E33, E35, E57, B24, B29, E08, YR23, YG93, YG95, Y0000), Prismacolor pencils, brads, dimensional boosters. Finished size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

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MFT’s VIP WTG Hop

Posted on April 20, 2010 | 26 comments

Hi everyone! Welcome to the My Favorite Things WTG VIP hop! If you’d like to start at the beginning, you can do that HERE. If you just came from Megan, then you’re right on track. 🙂

Today the MFT team is sharing samples using two new sets: WTG Top Shelf and Sheltering Tree.

With the VIP WTG package you will receive:

-WTG Top Shelf stamp set
-Top Shelf ribbons (7/8” grosgrain in white, black, wisteria, gray, sunflower)
-An MFT NEW EXCLUSIVE PRODUCT. This is a “BLIND” addition to the kit. You will be one of the FIRST to receive and use this product! It’ll be a happy surprise!
-Top Shelf Sentiments ($9 value)

Top Shelf VIP package: $34.85 — Available for one day only, now through April 21st, 11:50 p.m. EST.

Also available are Sheltering Tree stamp set ($17.95) and Sheltering Tree digi-paper pack ($3.95).

Friendship is a Sheltering Tree

I stamped and colored my tree onto cream cardstock, cut it out, adhered onto the cloud paper and then stamped the leaves directly onto the cloud print.

The owls were stamped and colored onto cream cardstock as well.

The flowers are made of foam and were originally a pale green. I colored over them with an olive Copic, adhered each one to the front panel with the brads and then added thin strips of brown cardstock to create the stems and leaves.

Your next stop along the hop is with my fab friend JODY MORROW.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Stamps: MFT “Sheltering Tree” Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Spanish Olive Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: MME Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue “When I Grow Up” Day Dream “Curious” Who Loves You, “Little Man” Growing Up Accessories: Copic markers (E35, E57, YG91, YG93, YG95, YR23, W1), Flora Doodles by Petaloo, brads by Basic Grey and Recollections, Spare Parts trim by Paper Studio, dimensional boosters. Finished size 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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April’s JiFFy

Posted on April 19, 2010 | 12 comments

Hi everyone! It’s time for April’s JiFFy challenge with my JiFFy friends! I know it seems like we just did this, but last month’s was a bit late and this month’s is a bit early. 🙂

It was Alli’s turn to choose the paper and she selected these gorgeous new Quite Contrary patterns by My Mind’s Eye. I can’t get enough of it! (I love MME.) It was my turn to choose the image so once the paper was on the way to everyone, I revealed that I had chosen Stamping Bella ‘s Izzie Has a Daisy. When I first saw Izzie, I knew that when it was my turn to choose the image for our challenge, I’d choose one of her. She’s SO sweet! 🙂

Hello

After coloring Izzie with markers, I added some dots to her dress using a white opaque pen. A black 3-d glaze pen added some glossy buttons to her jacket.

I finally decided to stop hoarding the velvet flowers and used one here. To add little “leaves”, I looped two scraps of ribbon and tucked them beneath the flower, securing with glue dots.

Be sure to hop on over to see what the other JiFFy girls did using this same pretty paper and image!

Thanks SO much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Stamps: Stamping Bella “Izzie Has a Daisy”, My Favorite Things “Essential Sentiments” Cardstock: Prism Razzleberry Medium, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary “Little Miss Muffet” Delight Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E35, E50, R20, R57, R47, R81, R83), black Sakura 3-d glaze pen, Inksenntials white opaque pen, Prismacolor pencils, Maya Road Velvet Puff Blossom, May Arts ribbon, Prima Jaqueline trim, dimensional boosters. Finished size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

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Warm Wishes

Posted on April 16, 2010 | 12 comments

It’s the weekend! Hooray! We have company coming for dinner tomorrow so I thought I ought to post now rather than wait. You know…clean, cook, blah, blah, blah. It’ll be fun though. 🙂

I took some images and markers along with me on vacation and I’m just now getting around to finishing the cards. One is this adorable image from Belles n’ Whistles by Elisabeth Bell (sent to me by one of my all-time favorite stampers, Tammi…she is such an inspiration).

Warm Wishes

I adore this little girl with her little apple bowl. So sweet!

As always, I used Copics and Prismacolor pencils. I don’t know why, but I always like coloring hair. Too bad I can’t color my own hair! Ha! (That would be a nightmare.)

I tried to give this a bit of a scrappy feel by adding all the zig-zag stitching. Another of my favorite things to do is add bits of zig-zag here and there as I did around the girl.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be back on Monday with this month’s JiFFy challenge! Have a fabulous weekend!

Stamps: Belles n’ Whistles “Tania Baking” (Elisabeth Bell), Cornish Heritage Farms “Script Essential Expressions” Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Wheat Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate, Ultra Smooth Neenah Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue “Little Man” Growing Up and “That’s My Boy” Daring Dots; Creative Imaginations (apple print) Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E31, E33, E35, E37, YG91, YG93, YG95, R29, W00, W1, W3), buttons/string, sewing machine, Prima lace, dimensional boosters. Finished size 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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Perk Up

Posted on April 14, 2010 | 14 comments

Hi everyone! It’s actually Tuesday night as I’m typing. I’m preposting this entry for tomorrow (today/Wednesday for you) in a bit of a hurry. I’ve been busy helping my fourth grader with a mountain of math homework (his least favorite) and it’s a “must-see” tv night…American Idol, Lost and, finally, the season premier of Deadliest Catch. (I’ve been impatiently awaiting the return of Deadliest Catch, but I heard some very sad news this morning regarding that show….I think it will be difficult to watch, knowing what’s coming.) I also have some prep work to do yet for my daughter’s afterschool scrapbook meeting tomorrow. Eek! 🙂

Kraftin’ Kimmie is this week’s sponsor at Card Positioning Systems and so I have a quick little sample to share. Well, the coloring was not so quick, but I love having a layout right there to work with. Layouts are always my biggest struggle.

Perk Up

I chose my favorite Kraftin’ Kimmie image, Charlotte from the Moonlight Whispers line. She’s colored in with Copics and then I added ground/grass with Prismacolor pencils. The paper is new from My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary line. I picked up a bit in Arizona but now I wish I’d gotten more. I **love** it.

I used Charlotte’s little accompanying ragdoll image and a phrase from Kimmie’s Coffee Sentiments to complete the inside.

Be sure to check out the CPS blog! I believe there will be a prize to be won. And Kimmie is giving away an extra dose of Kimmie stamps if you use the CPS sketch, KK stamps and link to CPS and the KK challenge blog. You can find those details here (after 7 a.m. EST).

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day! 🙂

Stamps: Kraftin’ Kimmie “Charlotte” (Moonlight Whispers) and Kimmie’s Coffee Sentiments Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and VersaMagic Wheat Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary Jack & Jill “Cute” Engaging Gingham and “How Sweet It Is” Berries Accessories: Copic markers (E000, E00, E31, E33, E35, E47, E50, R20, R27, R29, BG23, BG93, Y0000, YR20, W00, W1, W3, W5), We R Memory Keepers extra large eyelets, dimensional boosters. Finished size 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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Kraftin’ Kimmie’s April Release Hop

Posted on April 11, 2010 | 51 comments

Hi everyone! Today’s the day Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps releases the new April images! As you may have seen over the last few days, Annie has gone Medieval on us. We have a princess, a queen, a knight, a minstrel and a dragon. We also have another one of Annie’s incredible paintings made into a stamp with Marie Antoinette! Additionally, we have a super-sweet single image featuring Cindy & Mindy titled You Make Me Happy. And you’ll get to see them all the throughout our hop today!

If you want to start from the beginning, just head on over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog. As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of stamps from the new release! And when you’re done hopping, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie store because ALL the new images are now available! Oh…AND each and every order placed on Sunday, April 11th and Monday, April 12th is eligible to be entered into a drawing to win one of three postcards featuring Annie’s original painting, Le Messager!!

Without You…

This little dragon fellow comes with two really cute sentiments, “You Slay Me” and “Time’s a Dragon Without You.” I decided to split and reverse the sentiment, saving the pun for the inside.

Your next stop along the hop is with MAGNIFICIENT MELANIE! I’m sure she has something to share that will blow your socks off!

One final note before you hop away, Kraftin’ Kimmie is this week’s sponsor at Card Positioning Systems. Be sure to check out the fab sketch this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Stamps: Kraftin’ Kimmie “Dragon” (Moonlight Whispers) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Peeled Paint Distress Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue “Curious” Accessories: Copic markers (YG91, YG93, YG95, YR31, E33, E0000, W00, W1, W3), ribbon, brads, Creative Memories circle cutter, sewing machine, dimensional boosters. Finished size: 5 ½” x 5 ½”.

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Monthly Archives: April 2010

A DIE-NAMIC Peek!

Feel Better Soon

Millie and CPS

Flower Power with Kraftin’ Kimmie

A Quick Birthday Greeting

MFT’s VIP WTG Hop

April’s JiFFy

Warm Wishes

Perk Up

Kraftin’ Kimmie’s April Release Hop

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