All Star Hockey Dad

Another hockey card! It seems like that's all we've been doing for the last few weeks is hang out in arenas and watch one kid or another play. Hockey season is almost over but then it's time for baseball!

This card is a total CASE of a card by Stephanie Halinski found on p. 47 of Stamp It! Cards 2010.

I loved the layout and changed it up by using hockey gear instead of baseball and different colours. It's a perfect layout for layering those little sports pieces. I'll save it for Father's Day.


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! I'm off to grocery shop. Have to be back soon because we're off to...you guessed it! Hockey!

Have a wonderful day!



Stamps: Goal! (CTMH), For Father (Verve), Sporting (SU!)

First Card in a Long Time!

Had a chance (and the motivation!) to sit down today and get crafty with my new SU! preorder stuff. Here's a card I made using the set Vintage Vogue which will be available Jan 4th, 2010.

This set reminded me a bit of a SAB set called Best Blossoms and I based this card on a card I made using that set. You can see that card here.

I first cut a mask out to make the rectangle shape using a large post it note and then sponged the area inside the mask onto Naturals Ivory cardstock using Crushed Curry ink. The flourishes are stamped in Old Olive and the flowers in Rich Razzleberry. The big one is popped up and layered. I added some spritzing using a Razzleberry marker and a spritzing tool for some added interest.

Thanks for stopping by today! Sorry it's been so long between posts :)

Have a great day and a Happy New Year!

A Few Card Camp Cards

Hi stamping friends!

It's been a while since I've posted, I know. I've been taking it easy lately and hanging out with the family a little more and in the stamp room a little less. But this weekend I had to get in there and get the designed finished off for the Card Camp I am having this weekend.

Here are two of the cards we will be making this weekend.

Usually I get nine designs completed and struggle for that 10th. I knew I wanted to use the Holy Triptych set (specifically this image since I have not yet used it at a camp) and the Medallion background together. I went downstairs and took a break as nothing was working for me. When I came back up I came up with this in about 15 minutes. And now I do believe it's my favourite of the 10! Sometimes it just comes together quickly.


Colours for this are Rich Razzleberry, Not Quite Navy, Crushed Curry and Kiwi Kiss. The image is stamped in black Stazon and coloured with a blender pen.

For this card, I was inspired by the colours (Taken with Teal and Sahara Sand) from the Holiday Lounge paper (which I used for this card). I also used the stamp from the hostess set "Christmas Punch". The background is the retired Polka Dot stamp using Sahara Sand ink. I love that background and will likely never get rid of it! I cut a snowflake cut using a Sizzix die and the Big Shot, then tied it to the card using silver elastic cord. I think this one is my second favourite ;)


Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Later in the week I hope to have a few more of my camp samples up to share with you.

Have a great day!

Some SUO Stampin' Palooza Stuff

Hi friends!

I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth! Truth is, I haven't had much time or motivation for stamping the past little while. September is such a busy month for me! I think I'm getting set in my new school but there's so much to do... Plus, I was feeling a bit bummed and felt like giving things a rest.

However, I HAD to do some stamping on Friday to prepare for the 5 Minute WOW presentation I (in a moment of foolishness) agreed to do at Stampin' Palooza yesterday! I chose to feature handmade buttons made from paper as outlined in this tutorial by Jenni. Holy cr@p was I nervous! There was something like 185 stampers there yesterday-what was I thinking?

Anyways, it went pretty well. Here are the card samples I made using the technique. Clicking on the photo should take you to my SCS gallery where I have listed the supplies. That is of course, if I have done things right!

I hope you like them :)







Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Wednesday Trends

A new weekly feature for the There She Goes Trendsetters is to take a closer look at one of our favourite current trends. You all know how much I love Clean and Simple (CAS)! It's my favourite way to make cards. I love all the layers and bling that some of the other Trendsetters can pull off, but I can't make it look right when I go for that look. It seems to be a trend that's gaining popularity as there has recently been a weekly challenge dedicated to just this style at Splitcoast.

So, I present to you a Clean and Simple card.


I mean honestly. Can't get much simpler than this! It's a piece of Marigold Morning cardstock, a piece of Basic Grey (Ambrosia) patterned paper, a sentiment from Spread Your Wings and a bit of ribbon. That's it. nothing more. Took...maybe 5 minutes. And much of that time was trying to find the right colour of ribbon in the sad mass of ribbon I have!

Some Clean and Simple tips from lil' ol me:

*Patterned paper is a big timesaver when trying to go CAS. Select one that will "go" with the sentiment you are looking at using and you've saved time stamping images.

*Find some great CAS layouts and recycle them often.

*Use a good paper trimmer. Having not a lot going on can really draw the eye to crooked or raggedy cuts.

*Use grid paper. It really helps get those layers straight which again, is important with not a lot going on.

*Be neat. Don't use smudged impressions and make sure your sentiments are straight (Stamp-a-ma-jig is a great tool to get images and sentiments EXACTLY where you want them)

*Try to think of things in threes. Groups of threes, have your paper cover a third of the card, arrange your focal points in a triangle, stuff like that. I find "Threes" a rule of thumb that I refer to often.

So, thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back on Friday when I will have a Dollar Find transformation for you :)

Baby Boy Christening

Here's one of two identical (the cards are identical....not the babies) baby boy Christening cards I made yesterday for my friend and her husband (the godfather to both babies). I was still loving the sketch from yesterday and went with that for these cards. Inside the sentiment reads "on your special day". I have a Baptism stamp, but no Christening. Will have to add one to my collection :)


Cardstock is Bashful Blue, Brushed Silver and Whisper White. I embossed the sentiment and image from SU!'s Special Blessing stamp set in silver. Kinda hard to photo well due to the shiny-ness of the embossing. Sorry about that!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!

Two Cards, One Layout

I've got two cards for you today both using a layout from Oz-somestamps. The first was inspired by a card made by Jenn D at SCS and was how I came upon the layout.

I used the new There She goes set called Side by Side. Colours are Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red, Old Olive and Really Rust. I coloured on watercolour paper with an Aqua Painter and ink from the lid of the pad. The button is made using the SU! button Sizzlet and the sentiment is embossed in white EP. The sentiment is raised on dimensionals.

This second card is made exactly the same way but with different colours and this time using the set Fairy Good Day.

The colours used here are So Saffron, Rich Razzleberry, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo and Blush Blossom. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the wand with a glue pen.

Thanks for stopping by today! Last weekend of the summer and it's back to work on Tuesday. We're going to try to make the most of it :)

Let's Go Nuts!

Another quick little card using Life's A Beach. I used some of the new SU! in-colours (Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry) for this 4.25" square card.


I coloured the drink image in using a blender pen and added Close to Cocoa for the coconut.The main image is adhered using dimensionals and finished off with a polka dot ribbon in Crushed Curry.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today! I always appreciate it :)

DDIC10

Happy Thursday!

Today is another installment of the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge hosted by Lori. Here's the picture we were to use for inspiration. You can find this gorgeous bedding set here.


A few weeks ago I worked on this challenge and actually ended up using the card for my card camp last week. It is a Very Vanilla base with leaved from Lovely as a Tree embossed in gold onto Chocolate Chip card stock. There is a mat layer of gold cardstock and it is tied with gold cord. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped in Chocolate Chip. SU only, baby!


Check out what the other ladies have come up with for today. Make sure you stop by and welcome Anne to the challenge!

• Chat Wszelaki
• Chris Olsen
• Julie Warner
• Keri Brown
• Lori Rider

I know I have been a very bad blogger the past few weeks and I apologize, but I must admit I have been a little addicted! I feel like I am the last person on the planet to read the Stephanie Plum novels and I have been reading just about every chance I get. Love them! OMG that grandmother cracks me up! And, I am totally picturing Shemar Moore in my head as Ranger. I know, Ranger is Cuban, but I loves me some Shemar so it's all good... Anyways, there are 15 books and I've read 5 so far with the rest on order at the library. They are a pretty fast read and I'm hoping to have most of them done before I go back to work Sept 8th. I think I have read more this summer (not just this series but other stuff too) than I have the entire time since my kids have been born! It's been nice.

Anyways, hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by today :)

A Winner? Me?

Good morning!

I woke up this morning to find that the card I posted yesterday for the Unity challenge won! Wooo hoooo! Ladies, you've just got to get your stuff out there and enter. Someone has to win and it might just be you!!! Due to the fact that I was crazy busy the beginning of this week, I forgot to mention that there have been changes to the There She Goes challenges. There is one going on right now that you can read about here. Only a few people have entered so get going and make something! You might be the winner!

Here's a card I made using the beautiful butterfly set from TSG called Spread your Wings. It is coloured with Twinkling H2Os. I stamped the butterfly image repeatedly in Versamark and embossed it with black. Again, this is the secret for me to have decent colouring if it's not on watercolour paper. I had a number of random flecks of black EP so to cover them I used the colour spritzer tool with a black marker. Now the flecks look like they are supposed to be there! The sentiment was stamped and then punched with the wide oval punch. I attached two black wide ovals together and tried to make a mat for the oval. Looks okay unless you really inspect it up close. The rest is pretty straight forward stamping. Let me know if you ahve any questions!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!

Unity Combo Challenge

Hey everybody!

Sorry it's been so long since I posted but we've been busy around here lately! My youngest son fell from the top of the ladder to my nephew's tree house on Sunday and broke his wrist. Thankfully, that's all the damage that seems to be done! He must have had an angel sitting on his shoulder as he fell from about 10 (eek!) feet, bumped his head and got some "ladder rash" on his back. The wrist should heal in about three weeks thankfully. No concussion or anything which was my biggest worry. So, we've been busy with appointments at the hospital and trying to keep him entertained. He's such a physical kid so it has been hard. I can't complain though, as things really could have been a lot worse and we are so thankful.

Anyways, I do have a card for you today. There was a Unity challenge today to create a project with "wings", and to create a card using no ribbon. No ribbon! That is a challenge for me.


The image and sentiment are from Unity's September KOTM and the backround is made using the Distressed Dots stamp. I was inspired by the colour combo of Orchid Opulence, Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive in the SU! catalogue. Pretty straight forward stamping. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today. Have a great day!

DDIC9

Good morning!

Today is another Divine Diva Challenge. Here's the picture that is to inspire us today.


I was drawn to the colour scheme, the flowers and the large white frame around the top. Here's what I came up with.


And it's SU! only! Imagine that! ;)

I pulled out the Big Shot and cut some flowers in Ruby Red using the Birds and Blooms die and used Old Olive to cut an image using the Little Leaves die. The centers were made using hand punches and a 1/2" circle punch. The middle sized flower is on a dimensional. I added a sentiment from Really Retro stamped in black onto Marigold Morning cardstock and finished it off with an Old Olive ribbon. The Marigold piece is layered onto a white base using dimensionals.

Check out what the other Divine Diva's have some up with for you today!

• Chat Wszelaki
• Chris Olsen
• Julie Warner
• Keri Brown
• Lori Rider

Have a great day! And thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today. I've been limiting my computer time lately as there's so much to do offline so I do appreciate when you use your time to come and visit me :)

I'm So Happy For You

For this card, I used the There She Goes set Bloom.


I made some patterned paper by alternating two of the sentiments in the set tone on tone in Pale Plum. The flower image is stamped in Pale Plum and the sentiment in Perfect Plum on Very Vanilla cardstock. A big ol' bow using Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon finishes it off.

Happy Wednesday! Thanks for taking the time to stop by today. Have a wonderful day!

First of August

Second half of the summer :( Ah well.

Not much going on here. The weather is finally beginning to warm up (but shhhhhhhh.....don't tell anyone but I think we have been having PERFECT summer weather! I hate the heat....) so we've been getting outside and having some family bike rides. I have the sore butt to prove it! I think I need to get me one of those jelly seats or something 'cause it hurts!!!

I've got a card to share with you today from the beatutiful new There She Goes (hey-there's a challenge going on there and you can win a gift certificate-I'm just sayin') set called Spread Your Wings. As soon as I saw the images, I knew I wanted to colour them using Twinkling H2Os. I don't use them too much, but really do love the effect when I do. It's too bad, but you really can't see all the sparkle on this card but I also used Shimmery White paper to beef up the sparkle.


I think the key for me to colouring is to start with an embossed image. It really helps me to keep things within the lines. So I started off by stamping both the image and sentiment in Versamark ink and embossing with black embossing powder. *A little note-I used a large block and placed the image and sentiment on it together and stamped it once instead of doing them separately. I little thing, but it saves time, that's for sure* Once it was heat embossed, I coloured the image using the H2Os and an Aquapainter. I selected China Black, Dreamsicle and Egyptian Gold for this image.

To finish it off, I debated long and hard about what colour ribbon to use and tried out a pile. Thanks Sheilagh for suggesting this yellow-y-orange colour! Perfect. I found that black or orange made the whole thing look too Halloweenish.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

CAS25

Good morning!

I've been trying to participate in some of the challenges this week. I've got two cards for you today using the Clean and Simple challenge (a sketch). The first card also combines the colour challenge for this week at Splitcoast.

For the above card, I used some textured Pixie Pink for the card base. I love the little extra some textured card stock gives a clean and simple card. The images are from Unity's July KOTM and Bevy of Butterflies. I coloured the images on white card stock using and Aqua painter with Pixie Pink, Apricot Appeal and Certainly Celery inks.

This second card uses the new level 1 hostess set from SU! called Out of the Box. It's an SU only card.

I pulled the colours Bashful Blue, Kraft and Vanilla from the Manchester DSP. The box is stamped in Sahara Sand which is about the closest Kraft coloured ink I have. The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. The elephant and Vanilla/DP layer are on dimensionals. I thought this set would be so fun to use with dimensionals and it's well documented how much I love to use them ;) I'm thinking this second card might be a card camp card for next week.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is wonderful and less rainy than it is here...

Happy Together (My Cricut and Me!)

Hi everyone!

We're just back from a very relaxing week of camping in Prince Edward County. Such fun! We rented a trailer near Sandbanks and hit the beaches. The kids had a blast and hubby and I got to take it easy for a week. No baseball practices, deadlines, phones, e-mails.... But, back to reality now :)

I've mentioned before how I am starting a new job in Sept? Well, the staff at my old school gave me a gift card for Michael's. I of course could have blown it bit by bit each time I visited, but decided to put it towards a Cricut instead. I wanted to have something to "show" for it, KWIM? Anyways, I bought myself a little Cricut original and also bought the Sure Cuts A Lot program (awesome!). I bought mine here but loads of places have it.

Using a file I found here, I was able to cut myself out these sweet little birds and a cage for them to go in. Loving this little machine!


Colours are Whisper White, Basic Black, Crushed Curry and Rich Razzleberry. The sentiment is from Verve Stamps and goes really well with the image, I think. Some Crushed Curry ribbon and little black gems from Kaiser Craft finish it off.

I'm working on the photography, sorry about the quality. Since I moved the craft/crap room around, my regular photo spot is no more and I'm still trying to figure out what to do about it....

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Just Another Day In Paradise

A quick little card using the set Life's A Beach from There She Goes. Perhaps it will inspire you to take part in the TSG challenge this week? You can see it here. The set is sold out right now unfortunately, but Jessica's having a rockin' sale to make up for it! Check it out... Until the 25th receive 15% off your entire purchase when you use the code July09 before checkout.


Straight forward stamping on this one using the new Bermuda Bay combined with Melon Mambo ribbon. Sentiment is stamped in black.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful rest of the day and a super weekend :) I'll be back everyday next week using TSG stamps and some goodies from ShortCuts. Hope to see you!

WT227

Here's a card for the Ways To Use It challenge at SCS today. The challenge is to use two of something on your card. I added two buttons for the cherries on this card that uses Unity's June KOTM.


Very quickly, I used the Rockabilly Specialty paper from SU! as well as Basic Black, Whisper White, Riding Hood red and Kiwi Kiss. The cherry stamp was paper pieced and then I added the two buttons with glue dots. The ribbon is also SU! The main image panel is raised using dimensionals over the black piece which I used the scalloped border punch on.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today! Hope your day is filled with sunshine like the one I'm enjoying today :)

A card to share

Hi!

Sorry it's been a while since I posted but the craft room reno has begun! I don't have much in the way of access to the computer or to my crafty stuff (oh no!). But, I do have a There She Goes card to share very quickly today using the new Bloom set.


I used one of the flower images to create a patterned paper. I was going for a toile (ish) feel.
Anyways, the colours are Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. The scallop border punch was used to create the scallop along the top.

So, I am so excited about my new stamping/office space!!! Picked a colour for the walls this afternoon. Am I the only one who finds selecting paint colours stressful? I worry that I'm not going to like it when it's up on the walls... but I picked it and it's mixed and everything so no turning back!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

DDIC7

Hi again!

Today is a Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge day. Here is the inspiration piece we are to use.


I definitely was inspired by the blue, brown and white colours in this print and also used the little house for my inspiration to create this card.


The stamps are by Unity Stamp Co and I think they are from the September KOTM. I inked the "friend" up again separately from the sentiment and stamped it near the top. Had to do that a few times as I was looking for a certain spacing that I just wasn't getting the first few times. Shoudl ahve used my Stamp-a-ma-jig the first time and saved myself the headache. The colours here are white, Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze which coordinate really nicely with the Parisian Breeze specialty paper from SU!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Don't forget to check out what the other ladies have come up with for this challenge :)

• Chat Wszelaki
• Chris Olsen
• Julie Warner
• Keri Brown
• Lori Rider