Celebrate Today with Cupcake Fhiona

Today starts a new challenge at Your Next Stamp.  

The challenge:   To use a charm on your project.

For my card I used Cupcake Cutie Fhiona and paired her with MME Stella & Rose papers and this time I used the Hazel Collection...and I love how it looks with Kraft paper!  I colored Fhiona with copics and then added some subtle sparkle, pretty much everywhere, with a spica clear pen.  I mentioned using a new hair color on my last post....well here it is again ;)  I added a few pearls, some taffeta ribbon and a butterfly charm attached to my bow.  The bow took me the longest to make, but there is a reason for that.  I had my Bow Easy on my desk from the other day and when I went to use it I could not find it anywhere.  After a lot of searching I was ready to give up and tie the bow myself, but decided to go through my new paper pads I had put away....well good thing I did because I finally found it sticking to the bottom of one of them where a sticker had been....

We'd love to have you join in this challenge and see how you incorporate a charm into your project.  The challenge runs for two weeks, so stop by the Your Next Stamp Challenge blog  for tons of inspiration from the Design Team and then again to link up your entry.   

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Colour Create - Pink, Blue and Brown

That's Krafty - Kraft Cardstock

Delicious Doodles - Anything Goes

Mami Doodles - Crazy for Kraft

Catered Crop -  FTR10 recipe:  Pattern Paper-stripes, miniprints; Colors-pastels; Stamps- go digital, bunnies, butterflies, and flowers; Color Mediums-Copic markers, paint, white pens; Embellishments-burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads; Tools-sewing machine, Cropadile, die cuts; Techniques-sewing, distressing; Theme-Spring
Stamptacular - at least 5 layers
iCopic Lover- pastels
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Copic Creations - Favorite paper for copic coloring - Gina K Pure Luxury

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

YNS

Today starts a new challenge at Your Next Stamp.  

The challenge:   To use at least one texture on your project.

For my card I used the special edition stamp ScrapFest Shopper Fhiona and colored her with copics ~ love how cute she is and she was so much fun to color!  I paired her up with some of my new Lily Bee Picket Fence papers and I have to say a few of the newest copic colors match these papers beautifully.  

The easiest way to add texture is by embossing, so each of my patterned papers has been embossed (I used 2 different folders).  I also added some ribbon, flowers (which I colored with RV25), pearls and stickles to finish it off.

We'd love to have you join in our challenge.  The challenge runs for two weeks, so stop by the Your Next Stamp Challenge blog  for tons of inspiration from the Design Team and then again to link up your entry.   

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated 
Stamps: ScrapFest Shopper Fhiona (Your Next Stamp) 
Ink/Coloring:  Memento Ink (Tuxedo Black); Copics (E000, E00, E01, R00, R20, E55, E57, E59, BG53, V20, V25, YG21, YG23, 0)
Paper:  Perfect Plum; White (GK); DP - Lily Bee (Picket Fence) 
Embellishments:  Ribbon (Eggplant); Flowers (Prima); Pearls (Recollections); Stickles (Stardust)  
Tools: Petite Oval and Petite Oval Scalloped Nesties; Cuttlebug Embossing folders (Swiss Dots and Polka Dots); EK Success Border Punch; 3-D Dots (EK Success) 

Happy Birthday with Fhiona

This month I have been asked back as a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp.  I am so happy to be working with this great company again~ thanks for inviting me back Karen!

Today I would like to share a card I made using Flower Bouquet Fhiona.  

I loved the sketch at Mojo Monday this week, so I followed that and paired up Fhiona with some papers from the DCWV Citrus Stack (which, sad to say, I've had for quite some time and have just removed the stickers holding it closed...at least I know I'm in good company).  Since I seem to always be in need of Birthday Cards, I decided to go that route with this card.

I'll be back next week with another Your Next Stamp creation for the new challenge, but in the mean time, you can still get in on the current challenge.   

We have yet another busy week ahead for us....the DI State Tournament is next weekend, so in addition 4 more practices, we also have a 1st grade concert to attend, Family Night at the Book Fair a Middle School introductory event and then packing up the vehicles to take all the backgrounds/props/costumes to State...not one free night, but it's worth it!   

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Birthday Sundae's - Anything Goes Birthday
Catered Crop - I used the following from the recipe:  Striped patterned paper, the colors red and yellow, stamping ink, bling (rhinestones and stickles), ribbon, scallops and circles 
Really Reasonable Ribbon - RRR21 Dies/Punches & Ribbon
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes
CCEE Stampers -  No buttons, bows, brads or buckles
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
CES Challenge - Children
ABC - R is for Ribbon
Papertake - Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful day!

YNS is having a DT call

Your Next Stamp is having a DT call and since I had such a great time being a Guest Designer for them I decided to give it a shot. They asked us to post 3 of our favorite creations (which is always hard for me to do ~ an one of my absolute favorites I just posted recently, so I won't add that since it's on this page), so I chose a shaped card, a basket and an easel card I made and decided to pick both girl and boy creations:

(This is a re-posting as my original posted but disappeared)
Wish me luck!

Your Next Stamp Challenge #19

Happy Wednesday!   Today is time for another challenge over at Your Next Stamp.  Amy is hosting this one and she challenged us to use printed or patterned ribbon on our creation. 

Today I used the Wedding Fhiona single which happens to be one of the new releases for June.  I followed the sketch over at Card Patterns, which happens to be a favorite of mine and one I have used variations of many times before.  The image was colored with copics and then I added stickles to the tiara part of her veil and then gave her some pearl earrings.  I added pearls all along the scalloped border and then a few colored pearls are scattered on the black and white papers.  I don't have much ribbon on here ~ only through the buttons on the larger flowers, but it is a black organdy with pink polka dots.  Too bad I don't know anyone getting married ~ I really like how this one turned out!  

We'd love to have you join us in our "Ribbon" challenge so head on over to the Your Next Stamp blog for all the details ~ it is a two week challenge so there is plenty of time to play along!  You

In addition to Card Patterns, I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Charisma Cardz - "All about Bling"
Meljen's - Fibers, Ribbons or Lace
Paper Play - "Something Old" - the DP is old
Crazy 4 Challenges - Paper Flowers - puchased or punched (Prima's)
One Stitch at a Time - "Seeing Double" - use two of anything
The Corrosive Challenge - "Black, White and one other color (Pink)"
The Pink Elephant - Pink and Black"
Our Daily Bread - Flower Recipe - used flowers, circle shape embellies (pearls), wedding, ribbon
Aly's - "Flower Power"
Practical Scrappers - Flowers
Fun with Shapes - "Flowery"
Cow Girl Sunday - Anything Goes

The kids have been enjoying the warmer days this week (what a welcome from early last weeks weather) and spending a lot of time in the pool, which means I have been outside a lot this week with them.  Doesn't leave much time for crafting, but when I'm not in the pool with them, I have been making some of the lace flowers like I used on the card posted prior to this one, and have also gotten a lot of reading in.   Speaking of weather, we had some major storms come through Monday night and we were lucky ~ we only had heavy rains, but some in surrounding counties didn't fare so well, they had strong winds, causing a lot of damage and some lost homes to tornadoes.  That is the one thing I hate about this time of year.     
   
Today should be another nice day, so I'm sure I will be enjoying it with the kids!

Have wonderful day :)



Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Wedding Fhiona -Your Next Stamp 
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics 
Paper:  Basic Black; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Making Memories (Sabrina)
Embellishments:  Organdy Polka Dot Ribbon (May Arts); Pearls - some colored with copic RV02 (Michael's); Buttons (Making Memories and stash); Flowers (Prima and Imaginisce); Stickles (Stardust)
Tools: Nesties

Your Next Stamp Challenge #18

Back again today with the current challenge over at Your Next Stamp.  Simonne is hosting for this one and she challenged us to use buttons on our creation.  

Today I decided to use the Yippee Fhiona set, and you can get a mini version of her as well since she is one of the new mini Fhiona's that were released the other day.   I colored her with copics and added a flower button to her headband.  Once again I used the DeLovely papers from Cosmo Cricket ~ sure hope you aren't getting sick of these yet because I will definitely be using them again!  The other buttons I used were for the center of the flower and then on each end of the sentiment.  I used the Bow Easy to make the satin bow, however I'm not really sure why the ribbon looks so funny in this picture.....

I am thinking that I may give this card to one of my daughter's on the last day of school.  Only 2 1/2 more days left.  Alicia is quite sad that school is almost over, as she really loves it.  The other 3 kids are ready for it.  I really can't believe how busy the last two weeks of school are!  I was on an all day Field Trip to Old World Wisconsin with Alicia's class last Thursday ~ we haven't been there in quite some time, so it was nice going back, and I think we will be taking our kids over the summer ~ preferably for Laura Ingalls Wilder Days.  Friday was Trevor's spotlight day in class so that morning I had to make Brownies and then head over to school to  spend time with his class and then had lunch with the kids.  Monday and Tuesday Alicia had her class play, and of course I had to go to each performance.  Being on the DI team this year has really helped her overcome her fear of performing in front of others and she did fantastic.  Her role was Princess Isabella, so each night before bed, I had to put her hair in rollers so it was nice and curly for the play.  Right after the play Monday morning, I went on a Field Trip to the park with Trevor's class that was for the rest of the day.  Tyler went on a Field Trip to a different park to meet their pen pals ~ thank goodness it was a beautiful day since Tuesday ended up cold and rainy!  I "think" I have a break tomorrow from School activities but Thursday it's back to school all day for "Field Day".  

We'd love to have you join us in our "Button" challenge so head on over to the Your Next Stamp blog for all the details ~ it is a two week challenge so there is plenty of time to play along!  

Have wonderful day :)


Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Yippee Fhiona -Your Next Stamp 
Ink/Coloring: Pink Passion; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics 
Paper:  Pink Passion, Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Cosmo Cricket (DeLovely)
Embellishments:  Satin Ribbon (Michaels's); Organdy Ribbon (JoAnn's); Flower (Prima); Buttons
Tools: Nesties; Bow Easy

Your Next Stamp Blog Hop

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from  Kerri's blog, but if not, please head back to Cabio's blog to start from the beginning.  
 

For my card I used Make a Wish from the Dale Designs collection.  When I saw this set I thought this girl was just adorable and couldn't wait to use her (and we have a few girl birthday's coming up in the near future, so what great timing!   I decided to paper piece her dress as well as the stool cushion and tablecloth and just added a bit of subtle shadowing with my copic markers.  I added stickles to her hair bow, the icing on the cake and her shoes.

Be sure to leave a comment on each stop along the way as someone will win $50 in new release stamps of their choice!  The winner will be chosen from a randomly drawn comment on one of the Starlet's blogs, but we don't know who it is.  The blog hop ends Sunday, June 13th at midnight EST.   

Your next stop is Maylee and I'm sure she has something amazing to share with you.

Here is a complete list of the blog hop order in case you get lost along the way:

Cabio

Angela

Simonne

Kerri

Jodi (you are here)

Maylee

Jen

Maureen

Amy

Karen

When you have finished the hop and made a list of all those must have stamp sets, head on over to the YNS store and where Karen is offering 15% off your entire order using the code YNSJune2010.


Have wonderful day :) 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Taylored Expressions - sketch
Oh Alice - "My Muchness" - pearls, flowers and paper piecing
Clearly Inspired - Birthday
Fab N' Funky - "Piece that Paper"
Little Red Wagon - Altered Embellishments
AI Factory - "Anything Goes with a Punch"
Paper Play - Flowers and Sparkle
Alphabet Challenge - F is for Flowers

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated

Stamps:  Make A Wish - Dale Designs Collection - Your Next Stamp  
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Elegant Eggplant; Copics (E00, E01, E33, E35, E37, E41, E42, Y000, RV10, RV11, V95, V99, 0, BV08)
Paper:  Elegant Eggplant; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Basic Grey (Eva)
Embellishments:  Pearls (Michaels); Flowers (Prima) colored with BV08; Stickles (Stardust) 
Tools: Martha Stewart Border Punch; Nesties

Your Next Stamp Preview Day 2

I'm back today with another new release for Your Next Stamp.  Today there are 5 new nature inspired designs as well as an Elegant greeting set and they are fantastic!   

For today's preview I got to use Branch Tree  along with Elegant Greetings.  No coloring needed on this image which makes for a nice change!  After stamping the image I added little pearls to the double leaves on the tree.  I thought that this paper from the DCWV Farmer's Market stack was a great match for this image, but since it is rather busy, I did not add much in the way of embellishments.  The side panel was punched with an EK Success punch and then I added some pearls as well as some satin ribbon.  A quick and easy elegant card. 

So are you ready to see some more projects with these new images?  Head on over to the Your Next Stamp blog and check out all the fantastic projects.  Stop back on the 8th for the New Release Blog Hop ~ you don't want to miss this one! 

Have wonderful day :)

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Branch Tree and Elegant Greetings -Your Next Stamp 
Ink/Coloring: Always Artichoke, Close to Cocoa, Bravo Burgundy 
Paper:  Naturals Ivory, Always Artichoke; DP - DCWV (Farmer's Market)
Embellishments:  Satin Ribbon (May Arts); Pearls -colored with E43 (Michael's)
Tools: EK Success Border Punch; Nesties, Sponge Daubers

Your Next Stamp Preview

I have some exciting news!  This month I am a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp ~ I am thrilled to be working with Karen, Simonne and the other girls this month and know it will be a lot of fun!  Today there are 10 new releases ~ all single Fhiona images and I get to show you one of them.  

I got to use Flower Bouquet Fhiona and I think she is just so cute!  I colored her with copics and added some stickles to parts of the image, the flowers and some of the papers.  As you can see, I went with an all out flower theme, using a flower nestie for a mat, a flower border punch, flower embellishments, that fun felt trim and those fabulous DeLovely papers ~ I LOVE these bright colors.  I colored the blue flowers and all the rhinestones with copics to match my card ~ one of the many things I love about those markers.

So are you ready to see some more projects with these new images?  Head on over to the Your Next Stamp blog and check out all the fantastic projects.  I will be back in a few days with another new release to show you and mark your calendars for the 8th, we will have a New Release Blog Hop that you don't want to miss! 


I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Charisma Cardz- "Going Round in Circles" - include circles (image, rhinestones)
Delightful Sketches - "Use Texture"
Pixie Challenge - "Going Round and Round" - use something round (image, rhinestones)
Sweet Stampin Challenge - "Pimp Your Card" - use lots of embellishments and or lots of bling 
One Stitch at a Time - Use something new - image, felt ribbon, border punch
Cupcake Craft Challenge - "Summer Delights"
Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy- "For the Little Ones" - card for a child  
Pear Tree Designs - "Floral Delights" 
The Pink Elephant - "Gotta Wear Shades" - bright fun colors
A Spoon Full of Sugar - "Birthday" - use something old/neglected - the DP and the ribbons
Everybody Art Challenge - "Summer"
Papertake- "Fun, fun, fun"
By the Cute and Girly - "Something old (primas), Something New (image, border punch, felt ribbon), Something Borrowed (felt ribbon-from my daughter), Something Blue (cardstock, rhinestones, flowers)" 
Clearly Inspired - "Flower" 
Lil Red Wagon - altered embellishments
Color Throwdown - Black, Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion, Green Galore

Have wonderful day :)

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Flower Bouquet Fhiona -Your Next Stamp 
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics (E00, E01, E11, R20, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, RV17, RV19, BG02, BG05, BG07, Y06, YG06)
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion, Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Cosmo Cricket (DeLovely)
Embellishments:  Felt Ribbon (Michaels); Rhinestones -colored with RV17 and BG05 (Michael's); Flowers ~ as is and colored with BG05 (Prima); Stickles  (Stardust)
Tools: Martha Stewart Border Punch; Leaves Die (Sizzix), Nesties, Dimensionals

I Love You Valentine

Since there are so many Valentine/Love challenges this week I decided to make another Valentine's Day card ~ not to mention the fact that I still need a few more to give/send out..... 

I used Best Buddies set from Your Next Stamp since they are such a cute couple and are perfect for Valentine's Day.  I used DP from the K&Company KaZoo stack and the big heart the cute couple is on was cut out from one of the papers in that stack ~ how easy is that!?!  I paper pieced her dress and added stickles to her headband, the heart and her shoes (speaking of shoes, don't the little bows on her shoes look like hearts?) and then added some more stickles to the outer layer of the sentiment as well as the heart on the sentiment.  Both the sentiment and the couple are popped up on dimensionals.  I wish I could have gotten a better picture showing the right side of the card as the bottom edge is punched with a border punch, but even with the stand, I couldn't get it flat enough to photograph properly.    

I am entering this for the following challenges:
Copic Color Challenge - E00, E33, R02 
Creative Belli Blog - Hearts 
Crafty Creations - Celebrations
Your Next Stamp - Sparkle
AI Factory - Use any sketch 
Craft Challenge - Paper Piecing 
Hand Full of Stamps - "I give you my heart" - use hearts
Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Hearts
Alphabet Challenge Blog - N is for New - the stamp, papers
Little Red Wagon - Hearts
Secret Crafter - Hearts
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Open theme
Magical Crafts Fornightly - Valentine's
Paper Sundaes - Valentine 
Pile It On - No more winter colors
The Corrosive Challenge - Love
Crafty Cardmakers - Hearts and Romance
The Pink Elephant - All About Pink
Sophisticat Challenges - LOVE
By the Cute and Girly - Love
ABC Designs - I Love You Sweetheart
Creative Card Crew - Valentine's
Papertake - Love
Flourishes - FTCC52B - Cut out items and pop them up.

Have a wonderful day!

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:   Best Buddies (Your Next Stamp); Sentiment - A Happy Heart
Ink/Coloring:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Mauve Mist; Copics (E00, E01, E02, R02, E33, E35, E37, E57, E59, E41, E42, E43, BG11, BG32, R24, R27, R29) 
Paper: Mauve Mist; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP- K & Company (KaZoo)
Embellishments:  Ribbon (American Crafts); Stickles (Stardust)
Tools:  Heart Punch; Martha Stewart Border Punches

Cupcake Birthday Girl

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween and all the kids had fun Trick-or-Treating.  
I won $50 worth of stamps from Your Next Stamp (thanks again Karen!) and this is one of the sets that I chose. 

The challenge over at Your Next Stamp was to make a shaped card.  I thought a cupcake shaped card would be perfect with Cupcake Fhiona and these are so easy to make!  I added stickles to the dots on the "frosting" of the cupcake as well as her shoes, headband and of course the cupcake.


This card is also for the following challenges
Simon Says Stamps - All that sparkles (stickles)
Crafty Cardmakers - Use stamping on your project
Digital Ink Co. - colors


Last Wednesday, I spent a bit of time at school since the kids had their Halloween parties, and then we stayed after school to decorate Alicia's classroom bulletin boards.  The kids had off Thursday and Friday but we were stuck home since Alicia was sick ~ ends up she has a sinus infection.  On Saturday, right before trick or treating, Tyler got sick (but insisted he go out for just a bit) and had a temp around 103 that night.  Today after Ashley got home from school, I took her temp and it was 103.8, so I was going to give her Tylenol, but then she got sick.  Tonight I went to the doctor since over the weekend I developed a dry cough and wheezing along with chest tightness and have had a low grade fever ~ I have some viral infection.  Gee...all these different illnesses in one house.....

I wanted Tyler to have his Business in a Box project done over the weekend, but things didn't work out that way, so we worked on it tonight a bit and need to get it finished tomorrow!  He is making a candy shop called "Tyler's Tasty Treats".


Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Cupcake Fhiona ~ Your Next Stamp
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics (E00, E01,R20, E33, E35, E37, E40, E41, E43, E44, B12, B14, YG03, YG05, RV00, RV02, RV32, RV34); Signo White Gel Pen
Paper: Regal Rose; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - DCWV
Embellishments:  Ribbon (Rose); Stickles
Tools: Pinking shears