Happy Weekend. I am always so happy when the weekend comes around. I sure do need those 2 days to recoup my energies to face another week at work. Tonight I decided to work on an image by Sandi Huggett over at The Outlawz! I love these ladies. They are just the best bunch. I really love that Sandi and Anne give us 2 new free digis every 2 weeks that we get to play with. This time I thought they had me stumped. The images were of a Jeep and a Loon. I was having a difficult time coming up with something for either one of those. But all week I kind of had a Hummer in mind - you know - that HUGE SUV. With that in mind, I started looking through magazines to see if anything popped out at me. I picked up the Copic Coloring Guide Level 2: Nature which you can purchase from Annie's Attic. So in there is a card with a tractor colored with Gray and Green and it has big tires. All the ingredients I need for my Jeep. With that inspiration and the MoJo Monday Sketch #23, this is the card I came up with.
As I stated - the image was drawn by Sandi Huggett of The Outlawz for the Creative Freebies Challenge. I used Stampin Up Mellow Moss (retired) for the card base and the mat of the image. The DP is the Basic Gray Archaic paper collection as well as the stickers. The suede tie is from my stash that I picked up some time ago in the Dollar Spot at Target. Once I figured out the coloring for the Jeep, it really went together pretty fast. The Copics I used were C1, C3, B0000, YG61, YG63, Y13, Y18, R14, R27.
I am submitting this card into the following challenges:
The Outlawz - Creative Freebie Challenge
ATC's and Cards With Attitude - Anything Goes
Fairytale Challenge - Boys or Men
Fat Pages with Attitude - Father's Day
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations - Father's Day
Peachy Keen Stamps - Just Cards
The Poodles Parlour - Father's Day/Male
The Stamp Man Challenge - Make if for a Man
Cute Card Thursday - Transportation
SJ Papercrafts - All about the Boy + Something Old (suede tie)
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment. I do appreciate each one. Hope you have a fabulous weekend!
Friday, June 1, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
No. 1 Dad
The last day of May and June is right next door. With June comes the day when we honor our Dad's. He does so much for us. Now is our time to give him a special day.
Start out with a special hand made card to show him how much he means to
you.
This card was created for Bowdabra. If you don't know about Bowdabra, here is a picture of the Mini Bowdabra Hair Bow Tool and Ruler which I used to create the bow attached to my card.
You can check out my tutorial on how to make this bow or other bows over on the Bowdabra Blog webpage - HERE.
The layout is from one of Colleen Schaan's cards featured in the Copic Coloring Guide, Level 2: Nature book that you can purchase from Annie's Attic. The card is called "Miss You" and is used with permission of the artist. Thanks Colleen for your inspiration.
Materials Used:
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Stampin' Royalty - Masculine
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments. I so appreciate your time. Hope you have a fabulous rest of the week.
This card was created for Bowdabra. If you don't know about Bowdabra, here is a picture of the Mini Bowdabra Hair Bow Tool and Ruler which I used to create the bow attached to my card.
You can check out my tutorial on how to make this bow or other bows over on the Bowdabra Blog webpage - HERE.
The layout is from one of Colleen Schaan's cards featured in the Copic Coloring Guide, Level 2: Nature book that you can purchase from Annie's Attic. The card is called "Miss You" and is used with permission of the artist. Thanks Colleen for your inspiration.
Materials Used:
- Image - Lili of the Valley - Dad's the Word
- Cardstock - Papertrey Ink - Smokey Shadow; Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Whisper White
- Designer Paper - Echo Park - Times & Seasons. I cut the "No 1" from a sheet of this paper and adhered it to the SU Whisper White which was punched out with a 1 1/4" round punch and mounted on a 1 1/2" PTI Smokey Shadow circle.
- Ribbon - from my stash
- I used my sewing machine to sew around the edges of the DP layers and used my paper piercer to make the holes around the edge of the image.
- Copics used: Bear: E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, E41; Stool: E02, E23; Tie: R89, W8; Box: E04, E21; Tools: C3, C4, E25; Letters: D - YG91, YG93; A - E42, E43; D - BG23, YG63
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Stampin' Royalty - Masculine
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments. I so appreciate your time. Hope you have a fabulous rest of the week.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Hi There! PSC34
Happy Wednesday! It's that time again; time for another Perfect Sentiment Challenge. This week the challenge is Anything Goes (with a sentiment on the front, please)!!!!!! Don't we just love those challenges where we can let our creativity just flow.
Create anything you like as long as it has a sentiment on the front...card, tags, ATC's, altered art. Twist: If you create a scrapbook page that clearly has a stamped sentiment, scripture, or quote on it, you may enter it. It must be stamped, it cannot be digital and the Title of your scrapbook page does not count.
I stuck with a card for my creation and used My Favorite Things Sketch No. 67 for my layout.
Once you've checked out the Design team, get yourself over to your stamping space and put a card together yourself and then go over to the Perfect Sentiment blog and link it up. You could be the lucky winner this week, or you might get picked as one of the Perfect 3. Have fun!
I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
My Time To Craft - Two of Anything
Oldie But A Goodie - Use something at least 6 months old - my designer paper I've had for at least a year.
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash - Anything Floral Related
Tip Top Tuesday - Use something older than 6 months - my designer paper is over a year old.
Love to Create Challenge - Sentiment
Create anything you like as long as it has a sentiment on the front...card, tags, ATC's, altered art. Twist: If you create a scrapbook page that clearly has a stamped sentiment, scripture, or quote on it, you may enter it. It must be stamped, it cannot be digital and the Title of your scrapbook page does not count.
I stuck with a card for my creation and used My Favorite Things Sketch No. 67 for my layout.
The image is from our sponsor this week - Limited Runs. One lucky winner will receive 3 digi images from their shop.
My Card Recipe:
- Cardstock for base, mats, and Martha Stewart double edge punch - Stampin Up - Bashful Blue
- Image printed on Xpress It Blending Card
- Sentiment - Hero Arts - Thinking of You stamped with SU Bashful Blue ink on SU Whisper White c/s and matted on SU Bashful Blue - edge cut with a 1" square punch
- Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Cupcake
- Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
- Copic markers: Skin - E000, E00, E04, E11, BV00; Shirt - B00, B12, B14, B16; Skirt - YR15, RY21, YR24; Hair - E31, E35, E37; Flower - Y02, Y18, Y38, YG05, YG09; Shadows - C1; B0000
Maggie - You are here.
May Guest Designers
Once you've checked out the Design team, get yourself over to your stamping space and put a card together yourself and then go over to the Perfect Sentiment blog and link it up. You could be the lucky winner this week, or you might get picked as one of the Perfect 3. Have fun!
I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
My Time To Craft - Two of Anything
Oldie But A Goodie - Use something at least 6 months old - my designer paper I've had for at least a year.
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash - Anything Floral Related
Tip Top Tuesday - Use something older than 6 months - my designer paper is over a year old.
Love to Create Challenge - Sentiment
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment. I do appreciate your time. Hope you have a fabulous week!
Maggie's Cat House
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Mine was low-keyed. I did get out to a baby shower on Saturday for the daughter of a good friend. I didn't have any plans yesterday so I thought I'd take advantage of the day off from work and clean up my stamping space. My room is one of the old bedrooms that I didn't have any use for. These are just 2 shots of my room. This one from the doorway is of my stamp tables. I usually work with stuff piled all around me so I can just grab it. You can see in the background that there are books on those shelves over to the right.
These are my stamp drawers where I keep all my stamps, most of which are from Stampin Up, but there are many others that are being added.
To the left of the draws is a unit that has 3 pull out drawers that holds some of my 12 x 12 dp, some grunge chipboard, and other stuff.
Now on to the clean up. Here are my stamping tables all cleaned up. The cabinets below the tables hold hanging file folders with my 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock. The bottom drawer to the far right also has a lot of my magazines and all my Copic magazines and class books from my 2 classes.
Here is a close up of my stamp pad storage - holds all my Stampin Up stamp pads, markers, and some of the reinkers. The unit on the left doesn't have room for all the reinkers, so they are all in a box on one of the shelves.
Above are my stamp drawers all cleaned up and organized. They are all marked as to what is inside them - flower stamps, nature, backgrounds, birthday, Christmas, etc. Makes it a little easier to find something that I'm looking for.
Here is that shelf unit. I removed most of the books from it, put a few of my trinkets that I wanted to keep out to show and opened up the bottom shelf to put some of my boxes of ribbons - have you noticed how many boxes of ribbons that I have???????? Can I just say, I'm addicted to ribbons.
Up close photo of some of my ribbon boxes. Each one is organized by colors.
This is another shelf unit that holds more ribbon, boxes of embellishments, plastic sleeves with my Stampin Up designer paper which is sorted alphabetically and also some plastic sleeves for my 12 x 12 cardstock. On the bottom shelf are large binders with pages that hold some of the cards that I've received over the years that I don't want to part with.
This is up close of the boxes of embellishments and some other supplies.
This is upclose of the dp, cardstock, and binders.
One day when I was out shopping I found this over the door shoe holder with double pockets. I thought it would be a great addition to my stamp room to hold all my large punches.
I have added to this by buying some Cricut cartridges to use instead of punches. I have no room in my stamp room for my Cricut or Cuttlebug, so I keep them out on the kitchen counter.
This photo is the inside of the closet where I put shelves to hold more supplies. Most of the boxes in here hold flowers all sorted by colors. Did I tell you that I'm also addicted to Flowers?? I love using flowers on my cards and haven't mastered the art of making my own yet, but I keep practicing.
Almost done. These last photos show the other shelf unit that holds bottles of Prima flowers and just a lot of other supplies. To the right is my new Air Compressor which I have not had time to get out of the box. On the floor to the left are some of my Christmas stamps. I make Christmas cards throughout the year, so they are kept pretty much close at hand. I do have some large 2" plastic paper keepers that hold all my Christmas designer papers.
This is the last photo. Shows some of my smaller supply drawers that hold labels, brushes, gel pens, my distress ink pads, etc.
It's not exactly the way I would do it if I were starting over, but I used what I had or what was available that would fit the room. No matter, I love being in here and creating cards or other altered items as gifts for my friends. Hope you enjoyed seeing what Maggie's Cat House looks like. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous day. If you're ever in my area, please stop by.
Have a fabulous week.
These are my stamp drawers where I keep all my stamps, most of which are from Stampin Up, but there are many others that are being added.
To the left of the draws is a unit that has 3 pull out drawers that holds some of my 12 x 12 dp, some grunge chipboard, and other stuff.
Now on to the clean up. Here are my stamping tables all cleaned up. The cabinets below the tables hold hanging file folders with my 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock. The bottom drawer to the far right also has a lot of my magazines and all my Copic magazines and class books from my 2 classes.
Here is a close up of my stamp pad storage - holds all my Stampin Up stamp pads, markers, and some of the reinkers. The unit on the left doesn't have room for all the reinkers, so they are all in a box on one of the shelves.
Above are my stamp drawers all cleaned up and organized. They are all marked as to what is inside them - flower stamps, nature, backgrounds, birthday, Christmas, etc. Makes it a little easier to find something that I'm looking for.
Here is that shelf unit. I removed most of the books from it, put a few of my trinkets that I wanted to keep out to show and opened up the bottom shelf to put some of my boxes of ribbons - have you noticed how many boxes of ribbons that I have???????? Can I just say, I'm addicted to ribbons.
Up close photo of some of my ribbon boxes. Each one is organized by colors.
This is another shelf unit that holds more ribbon, boxes of embellishments, plastic sleeves with my Stampin Up designer paper which is sorted alphabetically and also some plastic sleeves for my 12 x 12 cardstock. On the bottom shelf are large binders with pages that hold some of the cards that I've received over the years that I don't want to part with.
This is up close of the boxes of embellishments and some other supplies.
This is upclose of the dp, cardstock, and binders.
One day when I was out shopping I found this over the door shoe holder with double pockets. I thought it would be a great addition to my stamp room to hold all my large punches.
I have added to this by buying some Cricut cartridges to use instead of punches. I have no room in my stamp room for my Cricut or Cuttlebug, so I keep them out on the kitchen counter.
This photo is the inside of the closet where I put shelves to hold more supplies. Most of the boxes in here hold flowers all sorted by colors. Did I tell you that I'm also addicted to Flowers?? I love using flowers on my cards and haven't mastered the art of making my own yet, but I keep practicing.
Almost done. These last photos show the other shelf unit that holds bottles of Prima flowers and just a lot of other supplies. To the right is my new Air Compressor which I have not had time to get out of the box. On the floor to the left are some of my Christmas stamps. I make Christmas cards throughout the year, so they are kept pretty much close at hand. I do have some large 2" plastic paper keepers that hold all my Christmas designer papers.
This is the last photo. Shows some of my smaller supply drawers that hold labels, brushes, gel pens, my distress ink pads, etc.
It's not exactly the way I would do it if I were starting over, but I used what I had or what was available that would fit the room. No matter, I love being in here and creating cards or other altered items as gifts for my friends. Hope you enjoyed seeing what Maggie's Cat House looks like. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous day. If you're ever in my area, please stop by.
Have a fabulous week.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Chocolate and Strawberries
Happy Sunday my friends. I hope you are all enjoying the long Memorial Day weekend. It's been kind of relaxing for me today. So much so that I was able to get a couple cards done, one of which is for the Monday Greeting Card Challenge over at The Outlawz. The theme there is Strawberries. This is the only stamp I had that would fit the challenge and since I'm a chocolaholic, it was perfect.
Can you believe I made a card and did NOT use even one Copic marker on it. Oh well, there will be more of those coming up soon. LOL!
For this one it's mostly Stampin Up, in fact it's all Stampin Up except that little piece of dp that is under the strawberries and sentiment layer. The base is SU Real Read as well as the mat under the flowery dp. The images and sentiment are done using SU Whisper White. The images are colored using SU markers direct to the stamp and then stamped. I didn't like the look of the images. Not sure why they came out kind of fuzzy, but I used the markers and colored in the images once they were stamped. The sentiment is stamped using SU Chocolate Chip. The dp which is on top of the base is from SU Berry Blossom. I used the Martha Stewart Swirling Lace edge punch along the bottom edge of the Real Red layer. To finish it off, I put a red brad up in each corner of the card.
That's it. Pretty simple and easy. Enjoy your holiday tomorrow.
I am submitting this card to:
The Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge - Strawberries
Great Impressions Challenge #3 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment. I do appreciate them. See you soon.
Can you believe I made a card and did NOT use even one Copic marker on it. Oh well, there will be more of those coming up soon. LOL!
For this one it's mostly Stampin Up, in fact it's all Stampin Up except that little piece of dp that is under the strawberries and sentiment layer. The base is SU Real Read as well as the mat under the flowery dp. The images and sentiment are done using SU Whisper White. The images are colored using SU markers direct to the stamp and then stamped. I didn't like the look of the images. Not sure why they came out kind of fuzzy, but I used the markers and colored in the images once they were stamped. The sentiment is stamped using SU Chocolate Chip. The dp which is on top of the base is from SU Berry Blossom. I used the Martha Stewart Swirling Lace edge punch along the bottom edge of the Real Red layer. To finish it off, I put a red brad up in each corner of the card.
That's it. Pretty simple and easy. Enjoy your holiday tomorrow.
I am submitting this card to:
The Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge - Strawberries
Great Impressions Challenge #3 - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment. I do appreciate them. See you soon.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Celebrate You
Happy Friday! Yeah! Looking forward to the three-day weekend. Got plans?
I haven't played with May Favorite Things for awhile, but this week, it all came together. I had a great image drawn by Anne Fenton over at The Outlawz Freebies Challenge and it was perfect for the MFTWSC challenge this week.
Here's my card.
The image is from The Outlawz which I printed out on XPress It Blending Card, colored up with my Copic markers and distressed around the edges with Stampin Up Night of Navy. The card base is Gina K Designs 120# white. I love this for bases. The sentiment is Stampin Up - A Little Birthday Cheer inked in SU Night of Navy on a scrap of SU Night of Navy. The designer paper is from Authentique - Genuine collection pack. I added a little piece of SU Crushed Curry Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon behind the image layer. The flowers are from Martha Stewart Flower stickers and the leaves are punched out of SU Night of Navy cardstock using the MS leaf branch punch.
The Copics I used for the image were Skin: E50, E11, E04, R81 for her lips; Hair: E31, E35, E37; Shorts & Shoes: B23, B24, B26; Shirt: Y13, Y15, Y18, Y21; Outline/shadow C0, C2. I also used the Spica Gel pen - Buttermilk for her bracelets.
This is the first card I've made since taking the Intermediate Copics class last weekend. What do you think?
I'm submitting this to the following challenges:
The Outlawz - Creative Freebies
My Favorite Things - Wednesday Sketch Challenge
AUD Sentiments - Any Sentiment
Moving Along with the Times - Celebration, Anything but a Birthday
That's it for this time. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments. I really appreciate all of them.
Here's my card.
The image is from The Outlawz which I printed out on XPress It Blending Card, colored up with my Copic markers and distressed around the edges with Stampin Up Night of Navy. The card base is Gina K Designs 120# white. I love this for bases. The sentiment is Stampin Up - A Little Birthday Cheer inked in SU Night of Navy on a scrap of SU Night of Navy. The designer paper is from Authentique - Genuine collection pack. I added a little piece of SU Crushed Curry Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon behind the image layer. The flowers are from Martha Stewart Flower stickers and the leaves are punched out of SU Night of Navy cardstock using the MS leaf branch punch.
The Copics I used for the image were Skin: E50, E11, E04, R81 for her lips; Hair: E31, E35, E37; Shorts & Shoes: B23, B24, B26; Shirt: Y13, Y15, Y18, Y21; Outline/shadow C0, C2. I also used the Spica Gel pen - Buttermilk for her bracelets.
This is the first card I've made since taking the Intermediate Copics class last weekend. What do you think?
I'm submitting this to the following challenges:
The Outlawz - Creative Freebies
My Favorite Things - Wednesday Sketch Challenge
AUD Sentiments - Any Sentiment
Moving Along with the Times - Celebration, Anything but a Birthday
That's it for this time. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments. I really appreciate all of them.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
PSC33 - A Special Man
Well, second post for today, but this one has no card attached. It is Wednesday and that means that it is time for another Perfect Sentiment challenge. As you can see from my post the other day, I was in Dallas this past weekend taking the Copic Intermediate Certification class. I had a fabulous time! But that didn't leave any time to create a card for this week, but I'd still like to tell you about the challenge.
Once you've checked out the Design team, get yourself over to your stamping space and put a card together yourself and then go over to the Perfect Sentiment blog and link it up. You could be the lucky winner this week, or you might get picked as one of the Perfect 3. Have fun!
Challenge: create a card with a sentiment for a special man. Your sentiment must be on the front of the card
Twist: no patterned paper is allowed on your card.
Sponsor: Pattie's Creations
Prize: one digi
One lucky person drawn randomly will win one digital image from Pattie's Creations. Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team and see what they have come up with this week.
Maggie - You are here.
May Guest Designers
Once you've checked out the Design team, get yourself over to your stamping space and put a card together yourself and then go over to the Perfect Sentiment blog and link it up. You could be the lucky winner this week, or you might get picked as one of the Perfect 3. Have fun!
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