Monkey Sketch 74

Oh, those sweet girls Terry & Shirley over A La Card Monkey---they asked me to be a guest designer again!  Of course I said “yes”!  Here’s the sketch, with the theme “You’ve Got A Friend”:

and I was just looking for an excuse to get my new Creative Elements inky:

I hadn’t done anything vintage for a while….the Well Worn DP gave me my colors.  I first stamped the emblem image from Artistic Etchings and punched them out.  Then the floral image was stamped first in Versamark, then Night of Navy and stamped on Very Vanilla, then embossed with Clear embossing powder and shaded with Crumb Cake. 

I stamped the flourish on some First Edition DP, layered it with vellum; stamped the frame and sentiment from You’re A Gem on another piece of vellum and layered it on top.  SU’s new beautiful velvet ribbon and an Antique brad finished it off.

I hope you’ll play along with all the other creative stampers at the Card Monkey this week!!!

Just a fun little picture of MY little grand-monkey:

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This week at the Pals Paper Arts, they featured another wonderful sketch:

Just right for a sweet thank you for a sweet friend:

I haven’t done a collage-style card for a while; it’s fun to add a bunch of bits & bobs to a card.  These Cosmo Cricket papers really make it easy to mix & match.

I mixed and matched several different sentiments on the inside as well:

Any questions, shoot me an email!

The shirt says it all!

Big Buttons!

First, I have to preface my post with a warning:  this is a little long, and my printer, which is a photo printer, prints the WORST photos in the world.  If it weren’t for the fact that I just bought ink cartridges for ALL the colors, I would throw this thing out the window.  The first few photos I printed (several years ago) were wonderful; then boom….nothing worked; different brands of paper, different settings, nothing.  So this project could have been much better IF I had a better photo printer; suffice it to say, once the ink is gone, so is this printer.  I will gladly take suggestions, if you love your printer; I’d love to hear what you like!

OKAY, that being said, if you were fortunate enough to get a freebie bundle from SU, you might have gotten those big, honkin’ buttons in the Spice Cake colors.  PHEW….what in the world was I going to do with them?  They’re big enough to frame a picture—AHA!  Here we go, and I even used some more fabric:

This little project really is honkin’ cute, and speedy to make,  but unfortunately, it was also difficult to photograph (whine, whine).  I hope you can just imagine it….I tried to print Cassidy’s photos in sepia, after the b&w attempt came out sort of turquoise….not the effect I was looking for.  I tried a couple other things,  finally gave up, went with what I had, punched them out with a 1 1/4” punch and went to work.

I used a narrow strip of Spice Cake fabric, folded the long edges over and ironed them together with some fusible webbing.  I had some matching felt and pinked it into a strip about 10” long and hot-glued the fabric on top.  I found a D-ring (honestly, it’s probably 30 years old) and glued the strip through the ring; glued the photos to the buttons, the buttons to the strip and glued the bow to the top.  Done!

Enjoy your day!  Remember, if you LOVE your printer, let me know!

CQC102

Happy Tuesday, peeps! The ColourQ challenge today is a bright cheery one---don’t you wish you had some fun bowls in your kitchen like this? Everything would taste good whipped up in these! I think I am still using mine from the 1970s—yikes! Retro, for sure!

Nothing was coming to mind for a card, so I thought I’d make a scrapbook page. 12x12 pages are daunting to me, and 6x6 wasn’t big enough for the photo I wanted to scrap, so I rummaged through my yardsale finds and came up with an 8x10 frame; although it wasn’t white, I think it still worked for my project:

It’s tough to capture something as large as a frame in a little blog space, but I hope you can see the details. All the color blocks have been embossed with various EFs. I used a couple new (to me) stamps for the sentiment and interest image:

and then added some “rickrack” from the Tasteful Trim die. A really easy quick 3D project that will look cute on my dry sink. Email me if you have any questions--and by the way, the baby shoes are DH’s!!! I hope you will scoot over to the CQC blog and share your project with us---you may be crowned the Queen!

Stamps for Sale

I am putting up some retired stamp sets for sale....you can check out this page for details.

Gift Givers Christmas

This season’s Holiday Mini has busted my budget with all the fun things inside!  This cute set, Gift Givers, has such sweet images that are easy to color and they all coordinate with punches!  This week’s Christmas cards (I had to do TWO!) began with this sweet little girl with the new Shaker Frames and Mica Glitter:

I am still on a learning curve with the Shaker Frames…basically they are little circles of foam with sticky strip on both sides; they adhere to a window sheet on one side and to your image on the other; beads, glitter or whatever can go inside!  You should see the fun page that Erica Cerwin did with…..well, you’ll just have to go see it HERE!   I used the new Domestic Goddess DP for mine along with Pool Party and Pink Pirouette cardstocks.

The little stocking image gives a totally different look when stamped with vintage colors of Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake and Always Artichoke:

That sweet new Stocking Punch makes quick work of this image, which I paper pieced and watercolored:

This card used the Fall to Layout 157 from the Clean & Simple blog:

I actually trimmed a portion from the side front of my card and wheeled the new Sassy Sparkles jumbo wheel on the inside; can you see it here?

I also used some Spice Cake DP and a new mini brad on my Tiny Tags tag.  Whee, I love these cards!

Yesterday was our annual church picnic.  Cassidy felt well enough to attend, although the pulled pork and barbecue chicken were a little beyond her palate; cheerios were more her style:

All those little o’s just tuckered her out!  Enjoy your day!

• Wee Details:
• Shaker Card Stamps: Gift Givers, Petite Pairs
• Paper:  WW, Pool Party, Pink Pirouette, Domestic Goddess DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Blushing Bride, Pretty in Pink , Pool Party
• Acc:  Scallop Punch, Window Sheet, Mica Glitter, Shaker Frame, Ruffled Ribbon, Modern Label Punch
• Reindeer Card Stamps:  Gift Givers, Tiny Tags, Sassy Sparkles Jumbo Wheel
• Paper:  Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Spice Cake & Riding Hood Red Patterns DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Crumb Cake
• Acc:  Aquapainter, Blender Pen, Baker’s Twine, Stocking Punch, Tasteful Trim Die, Mini Brad, Jewelry Tag Punch, Dimensionals
  
  

Paper Players 63

Happy Sunday!  Hope you are enjoying your weekend!  Today Nance has a color challenge for the Paper Players and all of you:

Since the Pals Paper Arts challenge this week was Halloween, I thought I would combine the two, and shoot, let’s throw in a third, a sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

And here we go:

I just got my Spooky Bingo Bits earlier in the week, and I couldn’t wait to get it inky….oh, which images to pick?  I decided on these three, and added the spider web in the corners of my mats:

I also did some heat embossing as well, just to bring those images out a little better:

Fun stuff!  I hope you will be able to play along with us and show us how these colors inspire you!  Fly on over to the Paper Players blog to see what the Design Team as well as our new Fall Guest Designers have come up with!

Cassidy just happened to be wearing a close match to the challenge colors today:

 

I love her little tippy-toes!  And even though we’re not out of the woods yet she is feeling a little better every day!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Spooky Bingo Bits
• Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, WW, Basic Gray, Rich Razzleberry Patterns DP, retired Halloween DP
• Ink:  Craft White, Old Olive, Basic Gray, Rich Razzleberry
• Acc:  White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, RR Ribbon, Basic Glimmer Brad, Pinking Hearts Border Punch, 1” Circle Punch, Curly Label Punch, Dauber