Grandma Loves You & Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

This is the first time I've been able to participate in the BBTB2 challenge this year!

It's a Valentine for Blake:

 papers are K&Co and Glitz. Die cut and alpha stickers are Jillibean Soup.

Please leave a comment for the chance to win the Snow Day cartridge provided by Memory Miser. I would really appreciate it if you would sign up to be a follower of my blog, too. I know I haven't written much this year, but I plan on posting a lot more.

Here's a layout I made with the Snow Day cart:

For the next person on the blog hop, please visit the fabulous Shelly.

Thank you for visiting!!

Layouts and stuff

It's 7:00 PM and I can't believe I'm still awake. I'm never up this late. :P

The month of December is over, so I thought I'd post the projects I made for Ready, Set Create:

 BasicGrey

 Digi stamp from A Day for Daisies

Graphic 45

Graphic 45

 Under the Num Num Tree

 Under the Num Num Tree

 Wild Rose Studios

 Wild Rose Studios

Thanks for visiting!

Hippo Birdie Two Ewes

I think that is my favorite pun from My Pink Stamper's stamp sets.

Robyn sent me some more stamps to play with and I was excited to oblige. She sent me two sets: Lunchbox Thoughts and That's Puny-licious.

Here's what I've done so far:

I have another card made from this set but you can't see it until Monday. It's for Bitten by the Bug 2. The hippo and bird are from Create a Critter and the Ewes are from Birthday Bash.

These are from Lunchbox Thoughts. I just loved the idea of having stamps to make cards to sneak in your child's lunchbox. These are little cards, around 3x3.

I put a little Glossy Accents on the pieces because you know, pepperoni is greasy. Both of these cuts are from Locker Talk.

I plan on making more cards with these stamps. I'll keep you posted. ;) Thanks for visiting.

Rawr

This was a card I originally made for Ready, Set, Create but they ended up not needing it. I was really nervous about coloring in the tiger but I think it turned out ok. That is the 2nd time I had to color him. The first time he ended up a little too red.

Stamps are Mark's Finest Papers.
Copics to color

If the broom fits, ride it!

I got up early before the sunrise today to work on some cards. Robyn at My Pink Stamper will be hosting BBTB2 in the next couple months. She sent me some stamps to give away and gave a set to me to play with. I was so excited!!

All the cuts are from the October 31 cart.

 

All the stamps are from My Pink Stamper Spook-alicious set. 

Thanks so much for visiting!

Happy Halloween

Agnes asked us to use the Vulture cut from Life's a Party. Can you believe I don't have that cart!!?? If we didn't have the cart, we could use a scary bird from another cart. I found the crow on October 31 and thought it was perfect.

I also dug out the Nesties for the oval and then remembered why I don't use them frequently. I can never get them to emboss properly. Ugh! The dies slip around and I end up with crooked embossing.

Stamp is Inkadinkado
Punch and pumpkin are Martha Stewart
Paper is Recollections

Come over and check out what the other designers did at Bitten by the Bug 2!

Wheelbarrow Challenge

Design Team sister, Donna, chose the wheelbarrow for this week's BBTB2 challenge. I haven't used this cart in ages! When I pulled out the book, I was shocked at how simple the cuts were. I forgot that the Cricut cuts used to be sooooo simple. All of them are so very detailed nowadays.

Anyway, this is what I came up with:

What? Were you expecting just flowers? It is almost Halloween, ya know?

Recollections paper, the stamp is Tim Holtz and the little epoxy greeting is BasicGrey

ooooo....new Tim Holtz

Holy moly...check out all the new Tim Holtz stamps.

How would anyone decide which ones they want?

I like this one. I'd want to stamp it on a photo.This little birdie is cute, too.
No, wait...this is my favorite. The splattered butterfly.

Which one do you like?

Summer Says

I'm excited to announce that I've been asked to be a Guest Designer at My Pink Stamper. I used the set "Sweetest Cupcakes". We had to make something summer themed.

It was a little bit of a challenge with cupcake themed stamps, but I remembered the picture I took of the kids last year. They had been swimming and stopped for a watermelon break. I thought the picture and a few of the stamps captured summer fairly well.


I used Mister Huey's color mists for the stamping on the white paper. I just spray them on my craft mat, tap the stamps in the different colors and stamp away. I like this technique, the colors are always mixed up and the look is soft, not quite as crisp as a regular ink pad.

The font is cut using Cherry Limeade. Once again, I used my Gypsy to get the perfect length. I didn't want the title to be longer than the picture. Instead of changing the height of the cut, I changed the length.

I just love Robyn's stamps. She has so many cute sayings and they're all so perfect to use with your Cricut cuts or just on their own. You can get them here...click here.

Of course, we're doing a Blog Hop, too. I am giving away this:



All you have to do is leave me a comment. I'll choose a random winner in about a week. Make sure I have a way to contact you. If you're not already a follower of my blog, please sign up to be one! You don't have to be a follower to be eligible to win but I'd love it if you did. :)

Afterwards, please visit Maria at her blog for more surprises. Make sure you go back to Robyn's site to make sure you get all the links to all the participants in the hop. Here they are as well:

Robyn

Shelley

Julie-readysetstamp

Angela's Simple Creations

Kassidy

Shauna at Craftee She

Lori

Courtney--Court's Crafts

Cristi

Helen

Raechel

Tracy--Craft Junkie Too

Michelle--Meesh's Pieces

Andrea

Alex

Pam

Edna

CarrieAnne

Heather from Bitten By The Bug 2 (Our Special Guest Hopper)

Maria

Thanks so much for visiting and for your comments.

I thought her unicorn was going to be blue

so I gave her the light blue marker. I wanted to teach the kids about shading and was explaining that we would put the light blue on top and then darker on the bottom and blend the two together. Somewhere along the way, Kat misunderstood me because that unicorn turned brown.

I tried again on the mane but I guess it's hard to explain blending to a little kid.

Here's mine. I should have a chosen a different color than blue as I only had two shades. Now I have to buy more blue. ;)

Here's Trent's. He just didn't care at all about shading and only wanted to color it in.

Aren't these stamps cute? They're new Bam Pop!

Boo! and other cool stamps

This is another card for my class. Aren't those little guys cute? They're from Recollections (at Michael's).I don't stray from Technique Tuesday too often, but I really liked these guys and they were on sale.

These have my name all over them, too. Be still my heart:

Heads

Santa BabyDweeze

I have a basket full of these. I just love them!! They appeal to my retired Gothic Princess (haha) soul and I just have a feeling that they're not "Mother Approved".

Lucky Donna gets to play with these. Check out her latest creation with Oh My Dear.

Magnolia Stamps

cHere are some cards I made with these darling Magnolia stamps and Copic markers. I'm new at the Copic craze and only have a few colors. I bet you can tell which ones I have. ;) I'm not sure how I ended up with so many green/blue colors.

Katrina made this one. She colored it in herself and designed the card, too. Can you tell she did the punch border all on her own, too? She's going to give this one to her art teacher tomorrow. She's very excited!

Thank you for looking and thanks, Magnolia, for these cute stamps to play with!

A few cards

rHere are a few examples of some cards I made for someone. No one has ever asked me to make them cards before. It was kinda cool. ;) I made a total of 12 and all of them were just a little bit different from each other.

Excited!

Can I just tell you how excited I am?!?!?

I was chosen as a new Design Team Member for Technique Tuesday!!!!!! YAY!!! There were so many beautiful entries. I am just beyond thrilled and so very honored. I can't wait to get started. I was already drooling over their new catalog.




Thank you so much!!