Thirty Again?

Tomorrow is my little sister's birthday. My friend Holly generously sent me some of these ADORABLE stamped images from Rachel Ann Miller's collection.

My sister is a few years younger than I am, but I can't help but tease her about her age. When I saw this stamp, I couldn't resist making this card for her.

For the sketch, I used SCS Sketch Challenge #96.

Here is what I used to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Rough Edges Alphabet by SU, Lilly Cutie by Rachel Ann Miller stamps.


Cardstock and Ink: from SU Cutie Pie DP, Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White
Punches and Accessories: Designer Label Punch, 1 inch circle punch, Large and small oval punch, Photo Corner Punch, Vintage Brads, White Gel Pen, Basic Black Marker
Copic Markers: R29, R59, E31, E00, B32, E33, E11, E37, R81, C7

Happy Birthday Becca!

Thank you for looking and have a great weekend!

Bloggers Challenge #49 - ANIMALS!

This was a fun challenge! A girlfriend came over this morning for coffee and I was sitting here. I was going to make her stamp but she said she didn't feel like it. I think that is kind of sick, don't you? ***giggle*** So she sat and watched me. She needed a birthday card for a little girl -

This card is Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge and I used the White Gel Pen for the eyes, tooth and dots so it will qualify for this week's Belli Challenge!

Supplies used:
Stamp Set: Just So Hippy
Cardstock: Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, Whisper White,
Accessories: Paper Snips, Giga Scallop Punch, Coluzzle, Layer Ease, Dimensionals, White Gel Pen






Here is an angled picture....

here is another card for the bloggers challenge!

Stamp Set: Zoofari, Sweet Serendipity
Cardstock: Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Creepy Crawly DP, basic Black, Black Adirondack ink
Accessories: Black Gingham, Rounded Tab Punch, Pewter Hodgepodge, 1/16th hole punch, Dimensionals, Build a Brads, Copics, angled square punch, 1/2 inch circle punch

Thank you for looking!

Layer Ease Tutorial

I have received several e-mails and requests as to how I use my Layer Ease. I decided today that I would pull it out and make a tutorial.

Supplies needed: Pencil or another writing utensil, Layer Ease, Adhesive, cardstock, scissor



1. Adhere image or shape of cardstock that you want to mat. Make sure any angles or edges are firmly held down. If they are not taped down well, your pencil will slide.




2. Choose your disc size that you want to use for your mat or multiple mats.









3. Line up your disc and insert your pencil in the hole. Slowly roll your pencil tip along with the disc around the image your are outlining.
















4. You will have a completely traced image when you are done.

5. Carefully cut around on your pencil lines. When you are finished, erase any remaining lines.

Tip: A shorter blade on your scissors helps you cut more accurately.

I hope this helps! Have a great day!

Birthday Double Pocket Bag

This is a Double Pocket Bag I made using Unity Stamps Birthday Confetti Stamp set. I am loving the versatility of it. This stamp set is a fun Birthday set!

The technique was a new one for me and I even had a chance to use my *NEW* Scor-Pal tonight! I was so excited to pull that out and play with it!

The directions for the Double Pocket Bag are from Splitcoast Stampers.

These are the materials I used to make this project:

Stamp Sets: Confetti Birthday

Cardstock: Nana's Kids with Glitter DP, Ballet Blue, Only Orange, Whisper White, Summer Sun - ink too! :)

Accessories: Dimensionals, Stickles, Paper Snips, Green Galore eyelets, Crop-o-dile, Old Olive 5/8 inch ribbon, 1/4 inch circle

punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Scor-Pal

Copic Markers: Y17, B32, YR07

On the Tassle portion of the hat - I cut between the tassles and put in different areas - to give it different dimension - one to two dimensionals to pop it up at different heights. I took a few different pictures so you could see the different heights. I also popped up some of the circles on the hat.


Thank you for looking! Have a great day!

Belli Challenge #19 - Sketch Challenge 178 - LAUGH

Today is Belli Challenge #19 and it is also Sketch Challenge day on Splitcoast Stampers-

This is is a new stamp set of mine from Unity Stamps! I am loving it - it is a fun image to stamp with and the possibilities seem endless.

This is what I used for the project:
Stamp Set: Confetti Birthday , All Scallops
Cardstock and Ink: White Craft Ink, White Gel Pen, Prints Pack DP, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Dew Drops, White Gel Pen, Mini Glue Dots, Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack
Copics: B32, R81, R85, C5, YR23, YR07, BG10


Thank you for looking! Have a blessed day!

Belli Challenge #19 - White Gel Pens -

BELLI CHALLENGE #19 - WHITE GEL PEN (or any gel pens if you do not have the White Gel Pen)

What is the Belli Challenge you ask?

Each week, I try to give us a challenge that will use things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, I tend to forget about the other things I have and they quickly become clutter! Come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to the card!

This Weeks Belli Challenge is the WHITE GEL PEN. Let your imagination go wild! Make a completed project using the gel pen in a different way and share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC19. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC19 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge! The winner will recieve a stack of Stampin' Up! cardstock in assorted colors. Deadline to make a comment with the upload and do the Challenge will be on Monday evening. A random drawing will be held on Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesdays!

My card uses the following:
Stamp set: Floral BG, French Script BG, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Encouragement, Whipper Snapper Designs Basket of Blooms

Ink and Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue, Whisper White

Accessories: Paper Snips, White Gel Pen, Copic Markers, Rounded Tab Punch, White grosgrain, Dimensionals, Pewter Hodgepodge, Photo Corner Punch

For more inspiration -Check out these and make a comment too for them please! We all LOVE comments. It is fun to see what everyone is thinking about what we are creating! :) Have a fabulous day!
Holly Brown

Trish Wood
Shelly Koskinen
Rochelle Wick
Jennifer Greco
Thank you for looking and playing along!

60 Birth Announcements- All in the Family

One of my dear friends just had her 6th child, so I made her birth announcements for her. She wanted something fun and whimsical and she needed 60 of them.
I used the All in the Family stamp set from Stampin' Up! and the alphabet jumbo wheel.

Colored them in with Copic Markers - Scallop punched the Chocolate Chip and the Bashful Blue - they were fun to make - but truthfully, I am glad to be done after making 60! LOL

I deleted the family name along with the birth date out of respect for our friends. The inside I formatted in Microsoft Word to print and included the baby photograph.

The hand print stamp set, I picked up from Hobby Lobby and do not know the name of the company that makes it.

Thank you for looking! Have a great week!

Dinosaurs are coming!

Ever since my son was 4 years old, he has had a passion for making his own costumes out of construction paper. Yesterday, he made this dinosaur mask and did not want to put his face inside it - He kept telling me - Mom, the mouth is supposed to go OVER his eyes. Well, I thought it would be cute to have his face inside the open mouth, so to amuse his mother, he pulled it down for me.

This boy is content with some paper, stapler and tape - just like his mom. :) I think I will keep him. ;)

My Three Artists

Or should I say Clowns? LOL

When I stamp, I do not get time ALONE. There is ALWAYS some one lurking nearby. This weekend, I have been making 60 Birth Announcements for a friend and I had some extra bodies stamping near me.

All day long I hear, Mom, can I have a Dum Dum? Oh Mom, can I have a Dew Drop? Or even and most frequently requested, Mom, May I please have a Tic Tac?

My desk according to my three year old is a Tic Tac Store. ***giggle***

My 8 yo son has started the Goofy Face stage - not to mention my 3 yo who scrunches up her nose.

Welcome to my world. :)

Cuddlebug Smoosh, Pencilled Twinks - Techniques Galore!

Holly gave me a challenge to make a card with one of my MANY forgotten about stamps - and don't you think it is funny that is titled "Unfroggetable"? LOL

I had a piece of cardstock that Shelly Schmidt had sent me some Technique Junkies techniques of Cuddlebug Smoosh and I did the TJ pencilled twinks on the stamped images too -

Oh - I will throw in another - it was a sketch from the Featured Stampers Challenge on Splitcoast too. Here is the card I cased.

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This is what I used:

Stamp sets and wheel: Unfrogettable, Daisy Field Wheel

Cardstock and Inks: Green Galore, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black,

Accessories: Vintage Brads, Dew Drops, Aquapainters, Twinkling H20's, Watercolor Pencils, Dimensionals, mini glue dots, Paper piercing tool, Mat Pack,

Confetti Birthday - FS68

Today is the Featured Stampers Challenge #68 on Splitcoast Stampers. Peanutbee is the Featured Artist this week. She has a fun, clean style. I love her gallery.

What you do for the Featured Artist Challenge is take a card from their gallery and make it - changing two or more things.

HERE is the original card that I CASED. Then I changed the stamps to Unity Stamps Birthday Confetti set. I changed the colors to Stampin' Up!s East Coast Prep, Real Red, Tempting Turqouise, Whisper White, Basic Black, Wild Wasabi. I also changed the ribbon on hers to brads.

I used the Paper Piercing Tool and the Mat pack, along with a black marker to connect the dots! I love the vibrancy too! I used the Copic Markers to color the images.

Thank you for looking! Have a great day!

Bloggers Challenge #38 - RED, WHITE & BLUE

This weeks Blogger's Challenge is to use Red, White and Blue - I combined this since I am so tardy, with Beate's weekend sketch challenge.

This is what I used
Stamp Set: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp God's Word, Stampin' Up! Essence of Love
Cardstockand Ink: Brocade Blue, night of Navy, White Confetti - Daisy D's DP, Burgundy
Accessories: Photo Corner, 1/2 inch, 1/4 inch circle punch, Paper piercing Tool, Giga circle punch, Giga Scallop punch, Coluzzle, Light Blue Taffeta Ribbon, Navy Copic Marker, Mini Glue Dot, Dew Drops, Dimensionals, Heat Tool, Hologram Highlights EP

Thank you for looking!

Sweet 'n Sassy Gift bag

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps posted a contest in their yahoo group to make a Sack Purse this week - so this was my take on the gift sack!

I used the Cricut and the Doodlebug Font for the castle - I cut the Castle out in Craft and Sahara Sand cardstock - then used my Copic markers to color in the bricks and stones - I also used Ruby Red to run the turrets through - and then used Ruby Red Marker to draw in the shingles....

I cut grass blades using my Paper Snips with Garden Green and Old Olive cardstock. That is more work than I thought it would have been!

The handles for the bag are Twill. The stamp set is from Sweet 'n Sassy stamps called Knight In Shaining Armor.

Cardstock: Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Ruby Red, Old Olive, Garden Green, Ginger Blossoms DP, Brilliance Black

Accessories: Zig Painty, Dimensionals, Cricut, Jumbo Brads, Twill, Cropodile, sponges

Always on my mind...Forever in my heart

This is another contribution to Belli Challenge #18 - PAPER PIERCING - it is also Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge. Be sure and share your Belli Challenge project for an opportunity to win! The directions are listed in each of the Belli Challenge announcement posts...

I NEVER use Pale Plum - so for todays challenge - I decided to use it. I have a pile of this cardstock here - so I NEEDED to use it! LOL

This is what I used:

Stamp Sets: Always

Cardstock and Ink: Basic black, Old Olive, Rose Red, Pale Plum

Accessories: Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Markers, 2 way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Dimensionals, Olive stitched ribbon - this is by Making Memories - Cuttlebugged cardstock is from my friend Joan - I think I NEED a cuttlebug!

Thank you for looking! Have a fabulous day!

Chrissy'd Belli Challenge #18 - PAPER PIERCING

What is the Belli Challenge you ask? Belli = PAPER PIERCING

Each week, I try to give us a challenge that will use things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, I tend to forget about the other things I have and they quickly become clutter! Come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to the card!
This Weeks Belli Challenge is your Paper Piercing Tool. Let your imagination go wild!
Make a completed project using the paper piercing tool in a different way and share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC18. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC18 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge! The winner will recieve a stack of Stampin' Up! cardstock in assorted colors. Deadline to make a comment with the upload and do the Challenge will be on Monday evening. A random drawing will be held on Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesdays!

This week Liz Miller has won the drawing. Congratulations! Check out Liz's beautiful Book mark that she made! Thank you for participating!

My card uses the following:

Stamp set: Party hearty (Stampin' Up! 2008-09 IBC)

Ink and Cardstock: Yoyo Yellow, Green Galore, Tempting Turqouise, Whisper White

Accessories: Stickles, Coluzzle. Paper Piercing Tool, Yoyo Yellow & Green Galore grosgrain Dimensionals

For more inspiration -Check out these and make a comment too for them please! We all LOVE comments. It is fun to see what everyone is thinking about what we are creating! :) Have a fabulous day!

Holly Brown

Trish Wood

Shelly Koskinen

Rochelle Wick

Jennifer Greco

Thank you for looking and playing along!

A True Friend

I did TWO challenges with this one! Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge 166 and their Color Challenge 167!

This is a special card for my dear friend's birthday...Now to get it in the mail.

So the REAL challenge for me now quite truthfully will be to get this in the mail! LOL

I stamped the Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon using the Itty Bitty Bg's and the Whisper White Craft Ink - to make some polka dots. There is a close up here for you to view it.

I also colored the image using a Blender pen and Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip and the Always Artichoke Markers. I used the same color cardstock.

I also stamped the All Scallops above the certainly celery cardstock with Blue Bayou ink. I did not line it up perfectly, so took a Blender Pen and filled in the edge I missed.

Stamp Sets: A True Friend, All Scallops, Itty Bitty Bg

Cardstock: Soft Sky DP, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Blue Bayou, Whisper White

Ink: Same and Always Artochoke

Accessories: Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon, Stickles, Dimensionals, Vintage Brads, sponge, paper piercing tool, Mat Pack, Blender Pen

Thank you for looking!

Carousel Note Purse - Belli Challenge #17

Patty Bennett inspired me after seeing her Carousel Note Purse to make one of these -However - the bad news was I didn't have the Carousel Note Cards - BUT I did have the Mini Monogram Font for my Cricut that has a scallop on it, so I set it at 5.5 and then used my Layer Ease to layer it and make it big enough. Since my Carousel Note only measured to be 5.75", I had to be a little creative and change the measurements. I also didn't have the envelopes for the Carousel Notes, so I had to use the Medium Square envelopes which measure 5.5"x5.5" by Stampin' Up!.

My friend Holly, challenged me to make something using the Chipboard and Chunky Glitter from the Spring Occasions Mini I hadn't cracked open yet.

I had a BUNCH of left over Rub Ons laying around, I thought I would use up too - I have SO much clutter. :)

You can find the directions to the Carousel Note Purse on Jan Tink's blog.

Like I said before, my measurements are a bit different and I added pictures! As I was making it, I thought I should have a COMPLETED project for once instead of just leaving it blank.

Here is the side view

Supplies used: Blossoms & Basics Chipboard (on sale through May 31, 2008. If you do not have a Demonstrator, let me know and I would be happy to help you!), Crystal Effects, Chunky Sprinkles, Mini Monogram Font, Cricut, White Gel Pen, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Layer Ease, Eastern Elegance Rub Ons, Apricot Appeal, ballet blue, Certainly Celery DP, White Medium Envelopes, twill

Here is the Purse Open

Other Materials Used: Scallop Punch, 1 3/8 circle Punch, Base Camp Font Cricut, Computer for typed journaling, Dew Drops, Soft Subtle Brads, Mini Glue Dots, 5 Petal Flower Punch


I used the Cricut for this - so I am adding it to the collection for the Belli Challenges! Do not forget to Check out the Wednesday Belli Challenges - post your participating entry for a chance to win!

A special thank you Patty Bennett and Jan Tink for the inspiration and help with the tutorial!




Thank you for looking! Have a great day!