Sunday, March 29, 2009

Hoppin" for Cupcakes



Do you recognize these? I made these a couple of months ago. I am reposting them because I am participating in a "Little Cupcake" blog hop. If you want to see a bunch of other GREAT projects using this set just follow the links at the bottom of this post.
Supplies: Lilly Ana SWIC with matching cardstock and ribbon, white cardstock, Lime green paper posies, coluzzle, punches, pink, black and brown ink, and watercolor pencils with a dove blender. (All supploes are from The Angel Company)
1. Melisa
2. Laurie
4. Barbra
5. Jen
11. Jany
12. Carol
13. Shirley
14. Gloria ??
15. Diana

To see all the cards I have made with this set just follow THIS link.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Vacation to Maine

My boys and I just arrived back from visiting my family in Maine. We were out there to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday and stayed around for an extra week. My parents live on the same road as the oldest covered bridge in Maine, but the town road crews do not plow down to it at all in the winter. A small group, including my husband and sons, decided to walk down and see it anyways. The snow was packed down hard for the snowmobilers so they walked on top of the snow. The kids walked the 3 or so miles in, and then were pulled out on sleds.

Walking


Walking some more

First view of the bridge


Uncle Lance and BJ take a break








Anthony with his cousin David





Bj being pulled














Anthony pulling Brandon

Thursday, March 26, 2009

ATC Mouse


This little ATC sized card was actually made to go on a cardfrotn for a contest I was entering....but I didn't like it when I started to put the card together and switched to something else.
Stamp set: Fairy Tales (TAC)
Paper: DCWV and TAC Ivory
Accessories: paper piercer and plastic canvas, watercolor pencils and blender, little scissors

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Spring Blog Hop


Are you in the mood for spring??? I am! To find some wonderful spring stamped creations follow the links at the bottom of the page.
This cute little bunny is part of TACs "I Love Easter" set. I love the set because it can be used for more than just the season it is made for...it also works so well for birthday and thinking of you cards.
The paper is from the Lillyana SWIC, and the cardstock is the paper that co-ordinates with it.
To the the other creations go here:

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Hooray for Me!

Recognize any of THESE cards??? Yep, that is right, I won a TAC contest!!!! I am SO super excited. I wanted so many sets out of the new Serendipity that there was NO way that I could afford them all. Now I will get some of the for FREE! That is right FREE! TAC has contests for its demo's to enter every month and the winners receive free rubber-what could be better? (Well, my DH would say cold, hard cash, but then I would feel guilty if I spent it on stamps, so I still say this is better =) )

These cards were all done using the same two stamp sets "Playful Kitties" and "Life is Short". I used Juliette paper and ribbons, and colored with watercolor pencil. The bottom card is the only one not previously posted on my blog.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Guest Designer on My Blog

That is right, I have a guest designer on my blog today. My friend Melora and I got together to stamp a couple of weeks ago and she made 3 cards while I finished one. She picked her favorite card from hers and has graciously let me put it up on my blog.

Now for a little about Melora. She is a six years old, homeschooled girl, who has lived all her life in this wonderful state. She loves animals and reading. She is also, as you can tell, an AVID stamper, and has already been stamping for years....probably since she could hold a stamp in her hands =).

Creating these cards was a bit of a challenge for both of us. I had only pulled out 4 of the clam shells that I keep my scraps in for us to play with. We could only use those scrap, plus white cardstock. Since each of these clam shells only had one color in it (like all shades of pink, etc.) it was kind of interesting. We also only had black ink and colored pencils for coloring....not the coloring medium that I am the most comfortable with. We also only had ribbon scraps that I had been shoving into some little baggies when I was too lazy to put them back where they belonged.


Here is Melora's card:


Supplies:


Stamps: Little Stinkers (TAC)


Black ink (retired TAC)


Hearts PP (Provo Craft) Pink PP (Walmart), silver ribbon (SU!), scalloped punch (TAC), and colored pencils



And this is the card that I came up up with.

Stamps: Little Stinkers (TAC), scallop punch, circle punch (both TAC), colored pencil, white gel pen (TAC), paper piercer and plastic canvas, gingham ribbon (Walmart), corner rounder (Walmart), and black retired TAC ink

Friday, March 20, 2009

Fairy Tales #5

With this card I have now used all the animals in the Fairy Tales set. They have been so much fun to work with, but I have other new sets calling my name (some called before I finished with this set, as you can see in some of the last posts, lol).

Supplies:
Stamps-"Fairy Tales" and "Running Stitches"
Paper: DCWV Golden Yellow2, Kaleidascope Girls (all TAC), white cardstock
Ink: Palette Noir
Accessories: Square mini Brads, watercolor pencil and dove blender, colored pencil