My Entry for the Creative Inspirations Challenge

Challenges Entered
Creative Inspirations Challenge--Stitching
TOMIC--Pearls and Shimmer

Hello and I hope you're having a good day! Thank you for stopping by today! I made this card for the Creative Inspirations Challenge DT call. This is another challenge blog that I have just found and wish I'd found sooner! Their challenge this week is stitching. I tried a new idea (to me anyway) of  machine applique with the zig zag stitch. It was really fun, and I think I'll try it again soon! Thanks for the inspiration, ladies! 

I am once again playing with the lightbox my DD made, and this time I think I got better exposure with the Reveal light bulbs. 

I used The #226 Birthday Tilda for this card, and Basic Grey paper from the Sweet Threads collection. The flowers are a mixture of ones from Michael's and from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I am also entering this card in The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge, which is shimmer and pearls this week. The photos don't quite capture it, but I used quite a lot of gimmer mist on the flowers and leaves. 

A couple of quick pics of the inside and back. I've really gotten into signing the back of my cards, and I'm always on the look out for fun personalized stamps. I got this signature stamp from here:

http://stores.ebay.com/loongchai74

Once again, thank you so much for visiting my blog today. I appreciate your taking the time to take a peek! I hope you have a great day, and I'll be back on tomorrow with Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge and Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge projects! Thanks and happy stampin'! Lisa

My DT Entry for the Bling It On Challenge

Challenges Entered:

Bling it On

The Sweet Stop 

Hello and I hope you're having a great Saturday! Today I have a card for a new challenge that I just found today on Feline Playful. It is called Bling it On, and I wish I had learned about it sooner so I could have been playing all along! They are even having a DT call with this challenge, which I am entering with this card. This time, the challenge is Embossing, and so today I made this card using my Rose embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I followed the sketch from today's The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.

I somehow have had the entire day to play and craft, so I've done a bit of experimentation. A few days ago my DD made a light box for one of her photography projects. I tried it out today for the first time. It really worked pretty well! I think I need to use Reveal light bulbs to get a more true color. But for now, I adjusted things in Photoshop. Baby steps, right?!

As a result of this new gizmo, I probably took WAY too many pictures. My apologies for that. . . :-)

Anyway, another experiment I tried was to make more of my own flowers. I've made them before, and I switch between using the ones from Prima or Wild Orchid Crafts and making my own.

For my image, I used the Brother and Sister stamp from Magnolia. One of my favorites! The papers are from Prima Marketing, the Madeline collection. The good news is. . .there are also beautiful but totally different papers on the back, so look for another card made with this paper (and it will be easy if you'll hit the follow button at the top of my blog!) I got it at the scrapbook store in Chantilly, VA recently. I am really wishing we had a store like that here in Northeast Arkansas. 

Here are a few pix of the inside and the back. The papers inside aren't from Prima. I think they are K&Co. from last year. They match fairly well, though. A bit more embossing on the inside. . .

Another thing I've seen folks do on various blogs is to list or show the Copic markers they used to color their image. This is a good idea, but I must say I am a little surprised that I used so many. I'm also a little embarrased that I HAVE so many. I guess they just keep jumping in my shopping cart, is all I can say. That ever happen to you? Anyway, I enjoyed keeping track, so I may do this more often. Do you think it's helpful?

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today. I hope you got time to craft, too. . .and spend time with family. I worked at work really hard this week--it was a good and productive week--but I was really ready for a little fun time! Well, the kids and the neighbors' kids have the sprinkler out--so I'm thinking I'll be spending the evening outside, not a bad thing! Guess I'd better go make dinner! Have fun and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

My DT Entry for the Bling It On Challenge

Challenges Entered:
Bling it On
The Sweet Stop 

Hello and I hope you're having a great Saturday! Today I have a card for a new challenge that I just found today on Feline Playful. It is called Bling it On, and I wish I had learned about it sooner so I could have been playing all along! They are even having a DT call with this challenge, which I am entering with this card. This time, the challenge is Embossing, and so today I made this card using my Rose embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I followed the sketch from today's The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.

I somehow have had the entire day to play and craft, so I've done a bit of experimentation. A few days ago my DD made a light box for one of her photography projects. I tried it out today for the first time. It really worked pretty well! I think I need to use Reveal light bulbs to get a more true color. But for now, I adjusted things in Photoshop. Baby steps, right?!

As a result of this new gizmo, I probably took WAY too many pictures. My apologies for that. . . :-)

Anyway, another experiment I tried was to make more of my own flowers. I've made them before, and I switch between using the ones from Prima or Wild Orchid Crafts and making my own.

For my image, I used the Brother and Sister stamp from Magnolia. One of my favorites! The papers are from Prima Marketing, the Madeline collection. The good news is. . .there are also beautiful but totally different papers on the back, so look for another card made with this paper (and it will be easy if you'll hit the follow button at the top of my blog!) I got it at the scrapbook store in Chantilly, VA recently. I am really wishing we had a store like that here in Northeast Arkansas. 

Here are a few pix of the inside and the back. The papers inside aren't from Prima. I think they are K&Co. from last year. They match fairly well, though. A bit more embossing on the inside. . .

Another thing I've seen folks do on various blogs is to list or show the Copic markers they used to color their image. This is a good idea, but I must say I am a little surprised that I used so many. I'm also a little embarrased that I HAVE so many. I guess they just keep jumping in my shopping cart, is all I can say. That ever happen to you? Anyway, I enjoyed keeping track, so I may do this more often. Do you think it's helpful?

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today. I hope you got time to craft, too. . .and spend time with family. I worked at work really hard this week--it was a good and productive week--but I was really ready for a little fun time! Well, the kids and the neighbors' kids have the sprinkler out--so I'm thinking I'll be spending the evening outside, not a bad thing! Guess I'd better go make dinner! Have fun and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

Sweet 'n' Sassy DT Project--A Sketch!

Hello everyone! Happy Friday! It's time for another Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge! This week there's a wonderful sketch to try. Hop on over and check it out and play along!

http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/

My stamp is from Sweet n' Sassy's new beach collection:

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/products/Ocean-Paradise-Digital-Stamp.html

I made my own digi sentiment for the inside. Feel free to download it if you'd like!

I used some beach-y paper that I bought at a scrapbook store in Virginia Beach last month. It was a really nice store. The owner said she buys every beach themed thing that she sees, and they did have a bunch! She said this set was brand new. Cute! I bought the flowers at Michael's and the centers are from a blog candy package I won a while back.

That is it for me today! I hope you have a great weekend! Happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

My Card for Sketch Saturday

Hello everybody! I made this card according to the sketch at Sketch Saturday. It was a nice one to work with. These papers are from Jilli Bean Soup, and the Magnolia image is one of new ones. I hope you have a great day! Thank you for looking! Lisa

Fussy and Fancy DT Card--Case a DT Member!

Hello! Today over at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge, the challenge is to CASE (which means, Copy and Share Everything) a DT Member! So, what the DT did was to make anything we liked, and then our challenge to you is to CASE one of us! For this challenge, I made a little recipe book out of a paper bag. I got the idea from a tutorial over at Splitcoast Stampers. I get their Wednesday email newsletter, which always has something fun to try in the tutorial section. This was really simple to make, and could easily be a mini photo album or scrapbook. Or even a coupon book for a special someone. Lots of possibilites!

Here is one of the inside pages, the stamp set is from Stampendous, and there are small cards to write notes or other recipes tucked into the pocket. The other pages are pretty much the same, just changing the categories. It was fun and easy and pretty quick to make. Not as quick as a card, of course, but pretty quick!

View Joanne's tutorial here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/paperbagbook/

I hope you enjoy this challenge and find one of the DT's project to CASE this time! Thanks for looking and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

Sweet 'n' Sassy DT Project--Summertime!

Hello everyone! Today the challenge over at Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenges is Summertime! Here is my card, using some cool summery paper I got at a scrapbook store in Virginia on vacation recently. The stamp is a sweet new one from Sweet n' Sassy Stamps. Korin actually gave this away on the release night on the Sweet n' Sassy Connection. It is a forum that you can join and do challenges and get the latest news from Sweet n' Sassy. And of course meet other folks who enjoy these stamps! 

Get your Sandcastle Digi here:

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/products/Cocoa-%26-Cookie%27s-Sandcastle-Digital-Stamp.html

Check out this week's challenge and enter your own here:

http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/

Join in the Sweet n' Sassy Connection here:

http://thesweetnsassyconnection.ning.com/

Thanks for looking today, and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

Sweet 'n' Sassy DT Project--Father's Day!

Good morning and happy Friday! This week at the Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge, the challenge is to make a Father's Day Card!

 Korin has perfect stamps for the occasion. 

Lighthouse Stamp
http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/products/Lighthouse-Digital-Stamp.html

Father's Day Sentiments
http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/products/Father%27s-Day-Sentiments-Digital-Stamp.html

Hop on over to the challenge blog and make a project for the man in your life!

http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

My Card for The Sweet Stop Sketches

Hello! Just a quick post to enter with The Sweet Stop Sketch for the week! I really love this digi stamp too. 

Challenge

http://sweetstopsketches.blogspot.com/2011/06/sss111-june-4.html

Digi Stamp

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/search.php?search_query=fishing&x=9&y=11

Thanks for the great sketch!

Challenge Entered:

The Sweet Stop

Stampin Royalty

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'! Lisa

Fussy and Fancy DT Card--A Card for a Man or Boy!

Good morning and happy Friday! This time over at Fussy and Fancy Friday, the challenge is 

A Card for a Man or Boy!

We need to have these cards in our stash--those poor guys need cards too! :-)

Hop on over to the blog and get all the details and make something for your guy!

http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)

Sweet 'n' Sassy DT Project--Anything But a Card!

Good morning and happy Friday! Today over at the Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge, we have a fun on for you: Anything But a Card! I love these challenges as it gets me doing something else, usually three dimensional. I altered this mailbox for a couple we know who is getting married. I'll be putting some $$$ inside!

I used Korin's Birds and Roses digi stamp.

http://www.sweetnsassystamps.com/products/Birds-%26-Roses-Digital-Stamp.html

I made my own sentiments, which you are welcome to download:

I used Mod Podge to adhere the paper, which is the Once Upon a Springtime collection from Graphic 45.

I just used scraps that I had and made a collage with them. I glued them on with the ModPodge, then, I put a layer of ModPodge over the top. 

It was fun to make! A great challenge! Hop on over to the Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge and get all the details and get started on your ABC!

http://sweetnsassydigis.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'! Lisa :-)