Sunflower in Winter

Today I used my Gypsy to LO and cut some Sunflower pieces from Disney-"Tinkerbell and Friends" and Leaves from "Stretch your imagination". This is the card I created. I intended to clear emboss sunflowers on some Crushed Curry paper to use for the card idea I had in my head but can you believe it with all the stuff I own I have no Sunflower stamp...funny thing is that in my head I owned this particular Autumn Leaves set I have eyed at the store for ages...

The card went together quickly, I am happy about that. I used SU Basic Gray, Crushed Curry and Alwasy Artichoke to go with this weeks Color Combo on SCS. I hope you like it also. other than putting the pieces together ..I used Black and Basic Gray Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an H2O fine tip pen to dab the colors over the Basic Gray center piece, and Brilliance Moonlight White teardrop ink pad to sponge over the Basic Gray embossed with D'vine Swirls... The sentiment Inkadoo: "Personal Impressions"was stamped in Basic gray ink, and mated with Always Artichoke and mounted on Dimensionals. For a little extra detail on the sunflower I embossed using my Cuttlebug the Petal Flower piece and then sponged with Basic Gray Ink .

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Candy Giveaway

I was going to do this post yesterday, but the day got away from me starting at 7am. Today has been much nicer and I am very happy about that. I just wanted to post a picture of the Album and inserts I bought on Sat. I am so happy with it. It was the perfect find for my DD's wedding album. If you go back and look at runners and such you can see and compare.

Since I never posted what I was giving away as blog candy I thought I would keep with the mystery so Karen can have a surprise to open at the end of the week. Here is just a little teaser picture!! There is a card tucked away in there that I made in Feb... I will be mailing it tomorrow! Keep a look outfor it Karen, and Thanks again for participating!

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Gift for Baby

I needed to decorate this bag for a baby gift.

I often buy these gift bags in bulk in a variety of colors to have on hand for gifts. They are inexpensive and handy, but need to be cuter. I often cut out something to decorate them, for this baby bag I went fairly simple.

I used my Gypsy to layout and design the cut. I used the "Gypsy Wanderings" images and cut the shadow and image for the Baby in GP white Cardstock and light Pink from GP Pastel cardstock pack.

I did have one problem when enlarging. This might be my fault...I will let you know later. When I went to match up the images the white was a bit longer between the "Y" and the "Bottle" on the pink piece..I fixed this by cutting the shadow piece and then adhering the white with a slight over lap. This may have been user error I will check that out tomorrow. I didnt select and enlarge the pieces at the same time and have them locked when I increased the size. Usually I do this together, but I decided on using a white shadow after laying out the rest of the cut.

You can see the over lap in the cut out picture if you look closely.

I cut 2 baby bottles one in Green and one in Yellow, from the stash scrap. I cut 2 so I could get a yellow nipple. It just didnt seem right for it to be green. I then trimmed the nipple and base of the bottle following the line the cricut cut.

Until Later....Happy Stamping!

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HEY, HEY, HEY, Blog Candy Players

I figure my blog candy will be awarded on Monday...My dear friend called, she does taxes and is very busy usually until April, SHe wants to go to the LSS. We never do anything until April usually rhus time of year..She has been having a rough few months..so it wouldnt be right to not go spend a day helping her get away from the world if you know what I mean,, and it wouldnt be right to go to this LSS and not get something! Its a huge store and carries everything ...so tomorrow morning I will be going with her to do some shopping...I figure I will probably buy something. She always feels bad when she spends more than I do, which is usually always! I also have some money burning a hole in my pocket from selling my little cricut & jukebox. Hoq can I not buy something! We will see...but I thought I would let you know.

I did start a project to post today...some jars filled with chocolates..I was going to cut vinyl for them...I misread the screen on my Gypsy, actually miscounted and put the vinyl an inch higher than I should have. Then I just ran out of time to get them finsihed. I was making them for friends that were coming for lunch.
I planned this lunch about a month ago..daye got changed etc...

We had an enjoyable time, and they did go home with jars of chocolate. This is why I have spent more time cleaning than creating...now my house is clean so I think I will create tonight.

I have a baby gift bag to do for my friends DD. I'll it at midnight, if I get it made!

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

P.S. Karen M you might want to email me your address, because It looks like you might have guessed the exact date...I tried clicking your ID for a blog or email but no luck. Looks like you might have guessed the very day..I will know for sure when I get home tomorrow...

Another Birthday Card

SO I have been busy..de junking and cleaning...seems I am too tired to create...or too cold..DH bought me a little space heater and I used that last night to keep my toesies warm while I made a card for SCS269.

I used some SU: DP retired from last years catty.

I pulled the Bashful Blue cardstock out na d embossed with D'vine swirl.as the base. I trimmed a piece of SU Only Orange to 1 1/2" then punched down both side with my MS Lattice Arch punch. I also emboseed a piece withthe flowers from "with Love" border embossers. I used my MS pastel teardrops tosponge the light blue color onto the flowers and added Pearls from "The Paper Studio". Finally I added a strip of Bashful Blue between the Orange punched piece and then began layering. The last layer on dimensionals is the sentiment piece, I stamped "Birthday Wishes" from SU:Sincere Salutations set in Only Orange ink., matting in So saffron and using my Marvy double corner punch. I would have posted this last night but thought I would tweek it today on this panel adding some squares or swirls....Today I decided between scrubbing the stove and scanning pictures, doing laundry.etc......It was fine how it is...Hope you enjoy it! Until later...Happy Stamping!

Another Pastel Beauty...I Guess

I am so glad I have finally got a routine going of getting around to making a challenge card andposting to my blog on a regular basis...hoping I can keep it up.

today I did the SC268 challenge on SCS. I wanted to do a mostly white card with a small amount of light pink. As usual what I start out "thinking I am doing" is not what I end up with.

For this card I used SU:Basic Gray, Pink Pirouette and GP White cardstock. I really like how it turned out. I heat embossed the two ends of the image from SU:"Bothway Blossoms" and the "Happy, Happy, Birthday" sentiment from SU: "All Year Cheer II" with Ranger White Detail Embossingpowder and Versa mark. Then I used a sponge to ink with my MS teardrop pastle inks in "PinkDahlia". After this dired I trimmed the images andmatted with Basic Gray. I used the swiss dots and Victoria EF's again just love this look , anyone sick of it yet? then I adhered the layers and put the sentiment on EK: dimensional squares(1/16"). I think it turned out very cute and wentto gether very quickly.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Perfectly Plum Day

I finally had some time today to do a couple of challenges on SCS. I really wanted to make the little matchbook candy holder from TLC260, and use the Color Combination from CC258. I really liked the colors so I used them for both the Card and the matchbook. The color combo is, PerfectPlum, Pale Plum and Soft Suede. I really love Perfect Plum so it surprised me that I used more Pale Plum on my projects.

The Birthdy Card uses SU:" Sincere Salutations" for the sentiment, and they both use the stemmed flower from SU:"Embrace Life". The "Thinking of You" is an individual Stamp byPaper Salon I picked up at a LSS years ago. I used Victoria EF again..I just love the soft look of its embossing. The ribbon is a Plum Offray grosgrain I purchased at Wal-mart. I made a hole with SU: slot tool punch to tie the ribbon on the sentiment panel. Then I raised it up on Fiskars med. Pop Dots.

The matchbook candy cover was fun and quick to do. If you need Directions for the matchbook please follow this link to TLC260.

There is a link to a tutorial in post #1.


I loved how the bottom edge of the Matchbook turned out. I layered a small strip of Soft Suede, with pieces of the 2 plum colors and then punched with my Martha Stewart "Arch Lattice" and SU "scalloped" border punches. I tied the 1/8" stitched ribbon around the layers. The flower images were stagger stampped in Timber Brow Stazon and the painted with a H2O painter using Pale Plum and Perfect Plum Watercolor Wonder Crayons. I love how you can keep layering them to get the look and darkness of color. I did add a tiny bit of Mellow Moss along the stem.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Please see the Blog Candy post in January

if You are interested in the Blog Candy for the Year...

I keep thinking of things I want to buy, but so far I am hanging in there and using my Stash...seriously I have alot of stash. My Firends keep tempting me and sending me emails of all the cool stuff out there...

Please comment on that post if you would like to be in on the action

there are still hundreds of days available!