Cutie Pie Valentine

I wanted to share a valentine that I created for my last class. I used the Cutie Pie Plate from Artistic Outpost.
The plate has the cutest vintage valentine images. I picked the little baton girl as she reminded me of my MIL pictures of when she was a baton twirler.  I will have to save this Valentine's card for her. :)

She was stamped using Ranger black Archival ink on watercolor paper and colored using a water brush and watercolor markers. The little puppy was cut to lead the parade.

The paper is from Basic Grey Nook and Pantry.

Simple card and very fun to create!

Hope your weekend is fun!

Suzz

Congratulations Kaeli!

 

My oldest daughter Kaeli was confirmed yesterday. This card was made for her. I used  this beautiful Kioshi paper from Basic Grey and the lovely sentiment. This is also for the Cards blog challenge this week which is to use bling. 

This also was inspired by the soft PDCC colors this week, don't forget there is still time to play in our anniversary celebration!  Go here to see the wonderful prizes and inspiration from the Unity Design team.

Have a blessed Sunday! 

Suzz

Happy Birthday Lexi!

This weekend I have to create 3 cards... I finished 2 of them and am still working on the third. I also want to send off a few packages which need a few cards too. The first card is for our niece Lexi. She is turning 12 and I am hoping she will enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed creating it!

These colors were inspired by the Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper. I have this lovely Inkadinkado butterfly stamp and had never inked it up but thought how perfect it was for this paper. The other background I had in my scraps pile an it seemed to work well with the color scheme.

I love these colors together. The yellows, pinks and turqouise are such fun colors.

Products:

• Inkadinkado - 993113-P
• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie - 6x6 Pack
• Hero Arts - Black and White Flowers
• Hero Arts - Birthday Messages
• StaZon - Fuschia Pink, Teal Blue, Yellow
• Memento - Rosebud
• Watercolor Pencils
• Stickles - Crystal, Blue

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Stamptoberfest begins....

I am planning on lots of inky time today for Stamptoberfest... hosted by Two Peas Stamping board. My first project is this Halloween banner for Nancy's challenge. I have never created one before and found it a lot of fun! My daughter is off making her own banner. (I will add it later to this post if she finishes. :)

Nancy provided the template and the challenge was basically to create a pennant/banner for Halloween.

The only hard part was to photograph it as it didn't quite fit in my light box. I ended up outside trying to find a hook to take a picture on.

Here is a close-up:

The paper is Basic Grey Eerie... The stamps are all Hero Arts. This also applies for the current HA challenge so I will share it over there as well!

Lots of fun... Come over and play if you can. Stamptoberfest runs from today until the 25th..

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Butterfly Wings

Still playing with piecing for the Hero Arts challenge... I created this last night after I bought a few of the new clings from Hero Arts.

I don't usually buy Patterned Paper as I really like to create my own. :) But I love the Basic Grey lines. The 6 x 6 pads are my favorite. I get a smattering of the different papers all at a size that works really well on cards.

I used paper from the new Indian Summer line and the Urban Prairie papers.

The butterfly stamp is the new Hero Arts Cling set called Butterflies. The flourish is from the Hero Arts Clear Set.

Products:

• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie, Indian Summer
• Hero Arts - Butterflies, Thank You Flourishes, Everyday Sayings
• Versafine - Imperial Purple
• Martha Stewart Edger - Cornice

Hope you have a lovely day!

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge # 19

Tag Tuesday Challenge over at Louise's blog is Shabby Chic. I immediately went online and googled some images for inspiration. Love love love shabby chic. The thing that caught my eye right away was the roses. I have one really beautiful rose background stamp that I pulled out to use.

I tried a new technique that I was experimenting with. I hadn't seen this before but had an idea of what I was trying to achieve. Didn't happen but I was okay with the end result.

Simple instructions:

1. Stamped background stamp on white cardstock using Memento Black Ink.
2. Colored image using my Copics.
3. I wanted an overlay of something soft and wrinkled. I thought I would try tissue paper but wanted it to be transparent.
4. I crinkled the tissue paper. Flattened the tissue paper out.
5. Applied Versamark to the entire tag and the tissue paper.
6. Sprinkled clear embossing on the tag and the tissue paper. Lay the tissue paper on top of the tag and heat emboss the tissue paper onto the tag.
7. This is going to give you a very shiny coating on the tag.
8. Emboss using a CB embossing folder.
9. Sponge StaZon brown ink over the surface to add a vintage color.
10. Stamp words over the top using the StaZon.
11. Add the lace, velvet ribbon and pearls.

Products:

• Versamark
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Tissue Paper
• Velvet Ribbon
• Lace
• Rubber Stampede - Wild Rose Background
• Copics
• StaZon - Timber Brown
• Memento - Tuxedo Black
  

On to my second project tonight... My younger daughter wanted a bookmark since her sister received the last one I had created. So I decided to create this bookmark for her:

She wanted something fun and she said she liked the Asian dolls. I dressed them in fancy Basic Grey Autumn Indian Summer.

Have a great day!

Suzz

ATC Time

I love making ATC's because of their size... Hero Arts Weekly Challenge this week is ATC's. This is a great way to use up scraps. They also are easier to design on a smaller space.


I was playing with some scraps last night of my Basic Grey paper and created this ATC. Too fun!

Products:

• Hero Arts - Flower Words
• Hero Arts - Outline Flowers
• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie
• Hero Arts - Artistic Butterflies
• Versafine - Onyx Black, Majestic Blue

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

My mother...

I never do scrapbook layouts. The space is too intimidating for me. But a couple of things led to this layout. The challenge this week for Hero Arts is to use a photo in a project and my youngest sister Jodie had printed this adorable pictures of my mother and I wanted to honor my mother with a layout.



I didn't do any journaling and left a little spot for my sister to put in my mother's name.

I apologize for the picture. This is too big for my light box I created and it is gloomy outside today. So the lighting is limited. I used the flash but it lost the true colors so I stuck with this picture because it shows the real colors even if it is a little dark.

I used my copic markers on the black and white picture which was printed on glossy photo paper and was really pleased with the effect.

Products:

• Tattered Angels - Butterfly Chipboard
• Lace - (Provided my little Sis Jodie)
• Prima Flowers
• Hero Arts - Anytime Messages
• Hero Arts Raindrop Background, F4281 Petal Lace, K5232 Dot Flourish Border, F4321 Graceful Leaves, H2365 Old French Writing
• Stampers Anonymou s - U3-1414
• Rangers Distress Inks - Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen
• Basic Grey - Wisteria
• Copics

Suzz

Inspired by...

Here's my second inspired by card.. Tiffany is another wonderful artist and she is very clever with creating her card projects. Here is her card that inspired mine. http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfairytalebook/3222659817/ Spend a few minutes wandering through her gallery on flickr and you will be amazed.

Take a look at that flower, notice anything? I also wanted to highlight the little black tag. Andi just sent me a bag of goodies and these little puffy tags were in there! So fun, so I added it just for effect!

Products:

• Hero Arts Heart Winged Butterfly
• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie Corn Husk (Love this paper, still my fav of the Basic Grey)
• Hero Arts - Petitie Happy Birthday
• Hero Arts - Graceful Leaves
• MSE - Little Birdie
• Ranger Distress Embossing Powder - Lettuce
• Memento - Bamboo Leaves
• Fiskars Border Punch
• Lace Trim Unknown
• Pearls - Kaisers

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

ACF Challenge #17

I thought I would try to do anothe ACF Challenge: http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/2009/03/challenge-17.html. They provided a picture of a lovely lady looking off into the distance.

I incorporated her with some of my scraps from the take it off challenge on WF09 at 2Peas. I also used some new Basic Grey paper from the Porcelein Collection. (Love that collection)

Products:

• Inkadinkado - 98165, 98162
• Light Yellow Embossing Powder
• Kaisers - Pearls
• Basic Grey - Porcelein
• Hero Arts - Old French Writing
• Versamark
• Ranger Distress Inks - Antique Linen
• Fiskars Corner Punch

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Roses, Stripes and Flourishes

Jacqueline http://myscrapbasket.blogspot.com/had sent me some of her scraps and in those scraps there is some wonderful patterned paper. I have been wanting to use some of those scraps and the HA challenge allowed me to do that.

This card is still inspired by one of the bloggers on the win a day at HA blog. Sarah M was one of the winners. She has a card in the Flickr group with 3 panelshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/25252212@N04/2495427518/. I cased her card and use the patterned paper to come up with this:

Her card had stitching which I have no talent for and really don't like to do. :) So there will be no stitching on any of my cards.

Products:

• Pattern Paper - Unknown (Center piece is Basic Grey)
• Hero Arts - Artistic Butterflies
• Hero Arts Sparkle Clear - Mini Messages
• Hero Arts - Two Flourish Flower
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ribbon - Unknown

Thanks for stopping by... I appreciate it and thanks for leaving comments. I look forward to hearing from everyone.

Suzz

Happy Birthday Challenge

Been struggling with creating things lately.... Here is an entry for the Hero Arts weekly challenge. It was based on an idea from Godelieve... http://www.flickr.com/photos/stampingmathilda/3170141676/

I stamped the frogs on patterned paper from Basic Grey and added some color using the colored pencils.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Clear Design - Birthday Expressions
• Hero Arts - Sparkle Clear - Froggy
• Hero Arts - Clear Design - Birthday Messages
• Basic Grey - Periphery
• Martha Stewart - Zig Zag Border Punch
• Memories Dye Ink -Honey
• Versafine -Olympia Green, Lagoon
  

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Year in Cards

2 Peas is hosting a year in cards and this month is Kristina Werner. http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/cg_display.asp?cmd=display&seed_id=28705

She gave 3 layouts and assigned homework of a valentines card. I doubled this up with the Hero Arts hearts challenge.

Products:

• Martha Stewart Border Punch
• Hero Arts Clear Design - Woodland Critters
• Ribbon - Michael's
• Basic Grey - Periphery
• Hero Arts - Pearls, Hearts
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Floral Fantasy
• Stickers - Making Memories
• Sizzix Hearts
• Marvy Uchida Corner Rounder

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Another pocket card...

Here is my second pocket card. These little animals are so cute and I know I have used them before in a similar fashion... I had an idea of a palm tree hanging out of a pocket with a few animals peeking out..

The tag by itself looks like this:

Products:

• Hero Arts Clear Design - Playful Animals
• Hero Arts Clear Design - Wooldand Critters
• Basic Grey Paper
• Versafine Pigment Ink - Lagoon, Smokey Grey, Olympia Green
• Prisma Color Pencils
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
• Memento Dye Ink - Rich Cocoa

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Small share today...

Here is a little card I did for the Hero Arts Challenge of thanks. I was busy yesterday typing up instructions to send off some projects. I also played around with some little pink elephants who haven't made it on a design yet.


I found this snowflake in an after Christmas sale. There was a little pack of 3 plastic iredescent snowflakes in the ornament aisle. I immediately thought accent for a card and bought them. I stamped the writing on them using the StazOn ink.

Products:

• Basic Grey - Wassail -
• StazOn - Royal Purple
• Fiskars Threading Water Punch
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Button, Ribbon - Unknown
• Hero Arts Sparkle Clear - Simple Messages
• Hero Arts - Three Holiday Messages
• Hero Arts Clear Design - Warmest Winter Wishes

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Kristina Werner Color Challenge # 34

Kristina's color challenge #34 http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/2008/12/color-inspiration-34.html contains the following colors:


I had purchased these cute turtle stamps after Halloween and decided I could definitely include the greens in the turtles.

Here is my entry in the challenge:

Products:

• Inky Antics - Halloween Turtle Clear Set
• Basic Grey -
• Martha Stewart - Cornice Border Punch
• Hero Arts - Native Grass
• Hero Arts - Sparkle Clear - Love That!
• Adirondacks - Lights Pigment Ink - Cloudy Blue
• Ranger Distress Inks - Shabby Shutters, Aged Mahogany
• Kaisers - Gems

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Spinning Penguins...

Over at HA this week it is about creating quick cards... Well I discovered that I am not so quick. I knew what I wanted to do with this card before I started which is unusual. I knew the design, colors, and layout. It still took me a little time to execute the card. Although in my defense it was intermingled with running my daughter to gymnastics, showers, bedtimes, letting the dog out... I am sure you all know what I mean. :)

This was my quick card. I had two inspirations for this card... Lisa Spangler made the cutest little owl card on her blog with a cut out circle http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/?p=471 and Kelly had these gorgeous pink scraplings that she made. http://cruzinkellster.blogspot.com/2008/12/minute-cards-with-marths-stewart.html Based on those two wonderful inspiration pieces the spinning penguins were born...

Recipe:

1. Since I am a lazy cardmaker I didn't measure out the centers of my ovals. I eyeballed them. I used my nestabilities and layed the pattern paper upside down on the cutting plate and laid the die cut in the middle and laid the C cutting plate on top and flipped it over. I then ran it through the cuttlebug. I then did the same for the left and right ovals.
2. Emboss the patterned paper with the oval cut outs using the swiss dots embossing folder.
3. Create a card 5" x 7" from pink cardstock. Cut out a rectangle on the front of the card to leave the ovals open to the inside of the card.
4. Sponge the patterned paper with teal colored dye ink.
5. Attache PP to front of the card with pink thread in between the pieces in the center of the oval.
6. Stamp six penguins on the patterned paper with pink ink. Cut them out with your fine scissors.
7. Stamp snowflake in teal onto patterned paper. Stamp three penguins in pink on the snowflake stamp. Cut out the hats and scarves.
8. Attach the little hats and scarves to the front of the penguins.
9. Attach the penguins with the hats and scarves to the front of the pink thread and the other penguins as the back sides on the other side of the thread.
10. Punch 20 snowflakes from the patterned paper and sponge pink ink on the snowflakes. Attach them to the top and bottom of the card in 2 layers.
    

Products:

• Hero Arts - Cap and Scarf Penguin
• Hero Arts - Grand Snowflake
• Basic Grey - Wassail - Snow Dust
• Adirondack Brights - Pool
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• StazOn - Fuschia
• Martha Stewart - Snowflake Punch

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Last Minute Gifts

This is another entry in the Hero Arts weekly challenge for last minute gifts. The idea came from my daughter Kaeli. She liked when I was paper piecing the Snowman's hat a couple of weeks ago and she said you should make some other outfits. This idea has been percolating and when the challenge was last minute gifts I decided to make a stamped version of paper dolls.

This is the front of the little gift. What you can't see is the Cats are in a little acetate pouch on the front. So they have a storage compartment. They don't have any clothes on right now.



The inside is where all the clothes, accessories, hats and scarves are stored. I attached 2 sheets of acetate.



Here are the young ladies with two of the frocks on...

A couple of fun things...

• There are extra eyes so they can switch the eye color.
• The gems, pearls are for necklaces and bracelets.
• Use repositionable tape from Kokuyo to attach the paper products to the acetate.
• The cats are made from glossy cardstock.
• The cats need a dab of repositionable tape on them to assist in sticking the outfits.
• Included is the white version of each piece to allow them to use as a template/color in their own version.
• There is extra space on the dresses area to add more items.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Dancing Cat
• Hero Arts - Cap and Scarf Penguin
• Hero Arts - Lace
• The Paper Loft - Grandma's House, GH108- Herb Garden/Annie's Apron
• Basic Grey
• October Afternoon

This was a lot of fun to create... thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Suzz

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone... This is a time for family and thankfulness. I am very thankful for my family and friends.

I was just going to post my entry for this weeks Hero Arts challenge and went to pull the link forgetting that today they announce the winners from last week challenge. Much to my surprise I won first place for last weeks challenge! Yeah! Something else to be thankful for today.

This weeks Hero Arts challenge http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2008/11/24/a-mouthwatering-monday-with-the-web-artists/ is last minute gifts. This card started to come together as a gift card holder or money holder.

This is the full card put together:

This is the card with the inside tag pulled slightly out and with the gift card peaking out.

Here is a picture with both pieces together to show how they look individually.

Recipe:

Outside Card

1. Cut white cardstock 6 3/4" x 4 3/4". Ink Script Stamp with Antique Linen and stamp across 1/2 of the white cardstock.
2. Cut white cardstock 6 3/4" x 3 1/2". Cut patterned paper 6 3/4" x 3 1/2". Ink Flourishes stamp with Milled Lavender and stamp on patterned paper. Attach the patterned paper to the white cardstock.
3. Cut olive green carsdtock 1" x 6 3/4". Cut white cardsotck 1" x 6 3/4". Ink lace stamp using Versafine Vintage Sepia and stamp along edge of white cardstock. Cut out edge of lace.
4. Attach olive green cardstock to top of the patterned paper. Pop Up lace border and attach to center of olive green strip.
5. Cut out 2 1/2" Oval Scalloped Nestability from white cardstock. Emboss edges. Stamp vines and sentiment using light green ink onto scalloped oval cardstock. Lay the acrylic block over the oval. Line up the clear branches and leaves stamp to arrange it in an oval position. After I inked it I wiped off some of the ends to limit the length they ran around the sides of the oval. Ink the dove with the sepia and stamp in the nest of branches and leaves. Sponge the edges of the scallop with brown ink.
6. Attach the oval to the center of the lace.
7. Attach the patterned paper section to the script background. Apply tape around the bottom edge and sides.

Inside Tag:

1. Cut olive green carsdtock 6" x 4 1/2". Punch the doily lace border along one edge.
2. Cut white cardstock 3 1/2" x 5 3/4". Ink flourishes with light lavendar and stamp on white cardstock. Attach flourish background to bottom edge and centered on green cardstock.
3. Cut olive green cardstock 5 3/4" x 2 1/2". Punch border using cornice border punch.
4. Cut patterned paper 5 3/4" x 1 1/4". Ink flourishes with light lavender and stamp on patterned paper.
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6. Cut 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" scalloped rectangle from white cardstock. Stamp sentiment and branches and leaves using light green ink. Sponge edges with brown ink.
7. Attach patterned paper to green cardstock. Attach bottom half of scallop to patterned paper and green cardstock.
8. Attach the green cornice piece only taping around the bottom edges and the side. this forms your inside pocket for gift card or money.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Lace (Stamp set)
• Hero Arts - Sparkle Clear - Hello Birdie
• Hero Arts - DesignBlock Flourish
• Hero Arts - Clear Design - Classic Christmas Borders
• Hero Arts - Old French Writing
• Hero Arts - Sparkle Clear - Holiday Messages
• Hero Arts - Pearls
• BasicGrey - Wassail - Sleigh Ride
• Memento - New Sprout, Rich Cocoa
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Inks - Milled Lavender, Antique Linen
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Scalloped Rectangle, Scalloped Oval

Happy Thanksgiving!

Little Snowman Card...

This little card is made with the Hero Arts Snowman. I think he has been done in a similar fashion on a few of my other cards. This card was made for the Hero Arts Blog challenge. You are to be inspired by one of the guests on the blog this week. This card was inspired by Donna she is such a nice person and she makes the cutest cards. Here is a link to her flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3umbrellas/ and here is the link to her day on the HA blog: http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2008/11/05/win-a-day-contest-winner-donna-mikasa/

Here is a card that is inspired by Donna's cards:

I won't provide all the details as they are fairly simple...

I put the folded cardstock on top of the nestabilities oval scallop and made sure I could see the outline of the oval on the left side. I just ran it through my cuttlebug and there you have it a little scalloped oval card.

I stamped the snowman on the patterned paper to cut out the brim of the hat, the hat and the scarf.

I used watercolor pencils and water brush to give the snowman his pink tinge and black gems for his eyes.

Products:

• Hero Arts Design Clear Warmest Winter Wishes
• Basic Grey Wassail - Greetings,
• Versafine Onyx Black Pigment Ink
• General Kimberly Watercolor Pencils
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Oval
• Marvy Uchida Scalloped Oval Punch
• Fiskars Oval Template, Fiskars Circle Cutter
• Crystal Stickers Pearls

Thanks for stopping by...