Dollar Find Friday

Hi friends!

For Dollar Find Friday this week I created a little something you can give to a special teacher. Long ago I saw this idea by camsmom on SCS. I filed it away in my brain somewhere and it surfaced when cruising the aisles of the dollar store. A ha! Perfect.


I typed the poem out in Word and adjusted the text so that it would fit in the blue Marvy circle punch. Once it was punched, I added the heart from the Happy Day stamp set and adhered the saying to a scallop circle (using the pink Marvy punch). I added an eyelet and attached it to the Sharpie with ribbon. The font I used is Primer Print in case you are interested. It's an awesome "school" font.
Here's a view of the back. I added the For You stamp from Special Delivery and figured you could add the recipient's name to the back. You could always change this up for school secretaries or teaching assistants.

Super quick and easy! This is a great little gift for a teacher since Sharpies (especially new ones) rock! And it's fat-free :)

Thanks so much for stopping 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 :)

Mini Set Blog Hop

Hi all!

My There She Goes mini sets arrived just in time for me to participate in the blog hop today :) Yippie! Haven't been stamping much this week due to these facts: 1. I have been in trying to set up my new classroom and that's taking a ton of time. 2. As I mentioned before, we were renovating our bedroom and the mess spilled out. We have not yet cleaned the mess that spilled out in the craft room. It's a real mojo killer. And 3. I just about cut the tip of my thumb off in our sliding door on Sunday and it hurts!!! I think I probably could have used a stitch but it's too late now. It's actually MUCH better than it was earlier in the week but I still have had to be careful.

Anyways, here is a preview of the two mini sets I was lucky enough to receive in the mail.



Can I just say that for mini-sets, Jessica has sure packed a pile of stamps in that space!


My first card uses the first set called Polka Dot Blooms. I used the Fall to Layout 56 from Clean and Simple Stamping. Colours are Rich Razzleberry, Kiwi Kiss and Whisper White. The sentiment is from the Dream Big set as are the stamps for this next card.


This wedding card uses Going Grey, Basic Black and Papertrey white. The grey layer is on dimensionals. I added jewels to make it a little flashy but am thinking that smaller jewels might have been more appropriate? Unfortunately, they ripped a bit when I tried to take them off so they are staying!

Head on over to Becky's blog and keep on hopping! Don't forget to leave a comment here and at each stop on the blog hop . Then, go back to the TSG blog to enter your name in the Mr. Linky for a chance to win some TSG goodness!

Here's the rest of the lineup so you won't miss anybody :)

Jessica
Angela
Becky
Christi
Faith
Holly
Joanne
Jodi
Julie
Maki
Silke

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

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!

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 :)

Room's Shaping Up!

Oh yes, I'm here!

Trying to emerge from piles of particle board and allen keys. The trip to IKEA was successful and I am trying to get my office space all up and running. I am loving it! I do not however, need to buy one other crafty thing as I could probably stamp for the rest of my life and only have to buy cardstock. And even that would be a few years down the road...


A quick card for you today using the Bloom set from There She Goes. This is such a pretty set and I love the sentiments. I think I mentioned that in my last post, but it's true! I used Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie for this card and accented with Chocolate Chip. I was inspired by the beautiful lilies in my backyard that are the same colour of orange. The scallop border punch and some Taylored Expressions ribbon were also used.

That's it for today! Hopefully I will have some room photos for you soon :)

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

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 :)

Happy Canada Day!

Hope all my Canadian friends are having a Happy Canada Day! Not much going on here. It's overcast but we might try to brave the crowds and pick some strawberries later. Yesterday we bought some steaks for the BBQ so we'll have a nice dinner together complete with cheesecake for dessert.

I've been on holidays since Saturday and it always takes me a good few days to get into the swing of things. We tend to put everything off "until school is out" so when it finally is out, we have a million things to do! Plus, we are having raccoon woes in our backyard (they were trying to get in our bedroom window last week!) so the man with the traps is coming back and forth each day. We're caught four so far (mom and three babies) and thing there are at least two more. Once they are caught, he will release them altogether somewhere. They are cute as can be, but they sure are causing some damage! I've also been busy starting to pack up the craft/crap room. We are going to put laminate down in here and get all new furniture from IKEA. I can't wait! But I don't like packing. I have waaaaaaaaaaaay too much stuff in here. I will be working on limited supplies for the next little while until the reno is complete. I should take some before photos but I'm honestly too embarassed! It's such a mess.....

Anyways, enough of my rambling! I've got a few cards for you today using new There She Goes sets. This first card is using a gorgeous new set called Bloom. I love the sentiments! And you can never have a enough flowers...

I stamped the flower image randomly in Pretty in Pink ink onto cardstock of the same colour and again on Whisper White. Memories Black ink was using for the sentiment. It's layered using dimensionals onto Basic Black cardstock and then a sheer polka May Arts ribbon tied in a bow.

These next two cards use another newly released set called Life's A Beach. How fun is this? So many great images in this set.


For both cards I used Whisper White and Baja Breeze with Tangerine Tango ribbon. The top card also has So Saffron for the umbrella, Tangering tango for the fruit and Memories black ink for the drink image outline and sentiment. For the top card I stamped the drink twice and cut out just the liquid part, coated it with Baja ink and then glittered it up with a two way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds. A Marvy punch was used for the scalloped border. These two cards are for the CAS challenge this week which is to use glitter on your cards. Love glitter!

For the bottom card, I again used a two way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds. I also used SU!'s Scallop border punch for the white layer.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope you have a wonderful Canada Day/plain old Wednesday (depending on where you live)!

To finish, here's a little proud Canadian action for you in honour of Canada Day :)

TSG09

Good morning!

Well, it's crunch time. Two more weeks of school. Ten days left and about 20 days of stuff to get done! I know it will all be finished, but it's feeling crazy the last few weeks.

I took some time out today to make a card for the There She Goes Challenge TSGO9. It was a sketch challenge combined with an inspiration challenge. Here's the inspiration site. You can see the details of the challenge here. Click on forum to get to the challenges part.


I decided to use this room for my inspiration. Father's Day is coming up and I have a few cards to make for that.


I combined the star from the Tweeterpated set with the Father's Day sentiment from Holidays Galore. Colours are Riding Hood Red, River Rock and Not Quite Navy. I scored the card base with my Scor Pal to get the stripes. The corners of the sentiment panel were punched with a ticket punch to give more of a "baseball" feel. I used a 1" punch for the stars (stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock). The sentiment panel and stars are both raised on dimensionals and some gold tone eyelets finish it off.

Here's another card I made for the Splitcoast colour challenge earlier this week which was to use white as a main colour.


The image from Act of Kindness was rock and rolled in More Mustard and Bravo Burgundy ink.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! I'm off to clean my house as my mom is coming over to babysit the kids tonight while hubby and I go into the city to see Russell Peters at the Air Canada Center. Check him out on You Tube. Some seriously funny stuff IMO. Some language though, so be forewarned! I don't think we will be the only ones representing B-town tonight. Can't wait!

Hope the rest of your day is great!

DDIC5

Time for another Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge! Lori picked this tank top as inspiration for today.

As I often do with an Inspiration Challenge, I started with the colour scheme. Even though this is a "sage" tank, I was feeling River Rock. The Really Rust and Pacific Point flowers are picked up from the flower colours in the tank. It's a but of an unusual colour combo, but I'm liking it!


My new sets from There She Goes arrived just in time for this challenge! I was anxious to ink them up and fortunately this set Act of Kindness was perfect! I added some little rust/copper coloured rhinestones from Kaiser Craft to the little flowers.

I'd love to see what you come up with using this tank for inspiration so be sure to link me up to your creation! Be sure to check out what the other Diva's have come up with for today's challenge.

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

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today :)

CAS Challenge Finale

So, this past Sunday was my last Clean and Simple challenge DT assignment. :( I'm going to miss it! Such fun. If you haven't had a chance to play along with that challenge, check them out here.

The challenge this past week was to re-do a card in CAS style. First is the original card and below that is the redo.




I kept the colour palette similar for the new card using a layout from a previous CAS challenge. The base is Confetti Cream and the DP circles are punched from Cosmo Cricket's Wanted DP. The stamps are For Father from Verve stamps and the sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip and Really Rust.

Also, I realized that I didn't post my CAS challenge card from the week before.

The challenge for this card was to use only black, white and one Bold Bright colour. It was a bit of a challenge as I don't tend to use the brights too often. I chose Pixie Pink to use with the Cupcake Mix and Match set from There She Goes. The card base is made with the SU! scallop die for the Big Shot and I used Nestabilities to make the other circles. A bit of ribbon from Taylored Expressions finishes it off. A different shape for me, but I'm liking it! I made a little scrapbook out of this same die cut shape that I'll have to get some photos of for you.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today! The school year is winding down so that means that my workload is piling up! Hopefully I'll still have time to stamp and share with you over the next month :) I promise I'll make it up to you over the summer!

Have a great day!

Classy and Fabulous!

Happy Friday!

Another loooooong week. I always seem to be saying that! Getting those Mother's Day projects finished up and out the door on time with the kiddies is exhausting! lol But now it's Friday and I'm happy :)

I've got a card for you today from There She Goes' She's A Lady stamp set. It's one that I was supposed to have a sneak peek for last week but Canadian Customs had other plans!


This card measures 6.5 x 3.25 " The images are stamped in Pink Passion and raised on dimensionals. The white is Shimmery White from SU! I totally love Shimmery White but forget to use it! The sentiment is stamped in Memories black ink and the SU! border scallop punch created the scalloped edge. It's dotted with gems from Hero Arts and finished off with May Arts ribbon.

Thanks to Natasha at Clean and Simple stamping for the awesome sketch! I haven't been feeling the love from the craft/crap room lately, but browsing through Clean and Simple stamping seems to have done the trick today!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Last Post Before the New Release!

And I know I'm going to forget something, so I'm just going to send you on over to Jessica's so she can give you the lowdown! Lots of cool new changes coming to There She Goes starting with this new logo.

Let me hear you. "Ooooooooh, aaaaaahhhh!"

Isn't it cool? Hopefully we'll get a chance to chat at the New Release par-tay! Find out where by going here to Jessica's blog.

Have a great day! The weekend is right around the corner :)

Happy Day

Oh, it certainly is a happy day! My stamps were waiting for me when I got home tonight :)

Here's the sneak peek card I managed to put together in the short time that I had before I had to get this post ready. I've got lots of ideas for this set, all I need is the time!


I used Cool Caribbean and Only Orange. It's an unusual combo for me, but I wanted something bright and summery. The ribbon is from Taylored Expressions and the flower brad is SU!. Main panel is, of course, on dimensionals.

Want a chance to win the new TSG set? Comment on all of the Trendsetter's Blogs on their Happy Day sneak peek post, go back to Jessica's and add your name to the Mister Linky. You do not have to have a blog to play along, you can also use the URL of your favorite online craft gallery!

Leave a comment here and then head over to Becky's blog to see what she's come up with.

Here are all the Trendsetters' blog links in case you get lost!

http://jessica-thereshegoes.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-day-blog-hop-challenge.html

http://aninkandasmile.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-day.html

http://www.lakeshorestamper.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-day-3.html

http://cici510.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-she-goes-sneak-peek-day-3.html

http://stampinwithmarkiesmom.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-3-of-there-she-goes-sneak-peeks.html

http://toyzhaven.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/04/28/there-she-goes-hop-day-three/

http://jentapler.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-day-3.html

http://canyousayaddictedtostamps.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-peeks-day-three.html

http://inkyoceangazer.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-happy-day.html

http://stampingalatte.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-she-goeshappy-day.html

http://stampsandtaxes.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-preview-day-3-happy-day.html

http://makinkstudio.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-happy-day.html

http://silkeledlow.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-3.html

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

A-z and 123

Hi ladies!

Thanks for stopping by but Mr. Customs agent is still hanging on to my package. Dang, those TSG stamps are just too darn cute for him to let go! lol But hey, as you fellow Canadians know, it's just like that here! Worth the wait though :)

Want a chance to win the new TSG set? Comment on all of the Trendsetter's Blogs on their A-z and 123 sneak peek post, go back to Jessica's and add your name to the Mister Linky. You do not have to have a blog to play along, you can also use the URL of your favorite online craft gallery!

Leave a comment here and then head over to Becky's blog to see what she's come up with.

Here are all the Trendsetters' blog links in case you get lost!

http://jessica-thereshegoes.blogspot.com/2009/04/z-and-123-blog-hop-challenge.html

http://aninkandasmile.blogspot.com/2009/04/z-and-123.html

http://www.lakeshorestamper.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-day-2.html

http://cici510.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-she-goes-sneak-peek-day-2.html

http://stampinwithmarkiesmom.blogspot.com/2009/04/there-she-goes-day-2-of-sneak-peeks.html

http://toyzhaven.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/04/27/abcs-123s/

http://jentapler.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-day-2.html

http://inkyoceangazer.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-of-abc-123_28.html

http://stampingalatte.blogspot.com/2009/04/abcits-easy-as-123.html

http://stampsandtaxes.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-preview-day-2-abcs-123s.html

http://makinkstudio.blogspot.com/2009/04/tsg-sneak-peek-z-and-123.html

http://silkeledlow.blogspot.com/2009/04/fttc13-swing-by-tsg-sneak-peek-day-two.html


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

CAS11

Hi! Thanks for stopping by. Hope you had a wonderful spring weekend!

The Clean and Simple Challenge over at SCS on Monday is to create a card inspired by this JC Penny kids bedding. I chose this particular bedding set to use as my starting point for the card you see below.

For the polka dot background paper, I used the circle stamp from Tweeterpated from There She Goes. The colours are Kiwi Kiss, Lovely Lilac, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Pale Plun and Cool Carribbean (all SU! colours). The cupcake and sentiment are from Cupcake Mix and Match. The icing on the cupcake is cut out and covered with Dazzling Diamonds glitter and then adhered with dimensionals. The cupcake paper is paper pieced. It's finished off with a knotted So Saffron grosgrain ribbon.

Hope you have a chance to participate in the CAS challenge today! Don't forget about the give away you can read about in this post. There's still lots of time to enter :)

Hope the rest of your day is great!

A Card I Forgot to Share!

....plus one more.

Happy Saturday! It's not as nice here as I was hoping weather-wise, but I think we still might be able to spend some time in the yard cleaning up a bit. We're staying close to home this weekend. Colin has had a cough and runny nose the past two weeks (I've taken him to the walk-in twice and his lungs are clear) but Thursday night looked like he had a sunburn across the bridge of his nose and cheeks which later developed into a rash and redness all over his face. It's now spreading to his body. Apparently it's Fifth's Disease. It's no longer contagious now that the rash is out, but he's a bit self conscious about it so we won't likely go out too much. He has no discomfort or anything, it just looks sore. Kids. You just never know the minute something is going to hit!

Unfortunately, my stamping mojo is still off somewhere (I haven't felt like spending much time on the computer lately either? Weird) but I did find a few cards I made and forgot to share. So here they are!

First up is a Mother's Day card I made using two sets from There She Goes.


The colours are Pink Pirouette and Lovely Lilac. The background and butterfly stamps are from Nature of Friendship and the sentiment in from Holidays Galore. The main panel is on dimensionals and the butterfly has some small pearl jewels on it as an accent.

This second card was made for the SCS CAS challenge last week which was to make a monochromatic card.


I used a 3/4" punch and randomly glued the punched out circles to create a monochromatic background. I thought about using the same colour ink but wanted to try something a little different. The sentiment is from a There She Goes set called Cupcake Mix and Match. I seem to be on an oval punch kick lately! Colour is Pacific Point. It's a pretty colour that I don't tend to use very much.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great!

It's Dollar FInd Friday Again!

Hi all!

My turn again for Dollar Find Friday. I've got a quick project for you today.

I was at the Dollarama and saw these mouse pads that can be personalised with a photograph.


Instead of using a photo, I decided to stamp up a piece of Whisper White and put that in. I used the set Flowers of Happiness and stamped the flowers and sentiment using Black Stazon. I then coloured them in with watercolour crayons in Apricot Appeal, Cameo Coral and Lavender Lace. An Aquapainter blended the colours easily. A black marker was used with the Colour Spritzer tool to add some black splatters. Covers up my colouring skills (or lack thereof) a bit!



Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a great day and start to the weekend!

Number Three!

Hi all!

So, here's the last sneak peek you're going to get from me this month. It's from a fun new set called "Tastes Like Chicken". Oh, I know you're interest is piqued with a title like that!!!!
Just so you know, the hearts are not from the new set, but from the set called Special Delivery. But, I was thinking that the Special Delivery sentiment would also be awesome with this pick-up truck, no?


I used Kraft paper and coupled it with black and Regal Rose. That ribbon is from Taylored Expressions. It's so yummy....

Now, you must go off and check out the other Trendsetter's blogs to get a better idea of what this set is all about! If you'd like a chance to win this fun new set, first leave a comment here. Then head to the other ladies' blogs and leave a comment there as well. Start with Becky and keep on going! I'll list everyone at the bottom of this post so you don't miss anyone :) Once you're done, go back to visit Jessica and leave your name in the Mr. Linky box for today's preview. Pretty simple!

Now, off you go!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful Monday :)

Jessica

Angela

Becky

Christi

Faith

Gabby

Holly

Jessie

Joanne

Jodi

Julie

Maki

Silke