Hugs

I have been stamping for over twenty years and so I have collected quite a few rubber stamps over the years :) Every now and then I like to go back and stamp some of my old favourites and today's card is just that. Doll with Quilt is a stamp from Azadi Earles and I used the word 'hugs' from Unity. Give someone a hug today!


Supplies:-
Stamps - Doll with quilt by Azadi Earles and Hugs by Unity
PTI white cardstock
Brilliance ink
Copics - R43, V09, G21, E000, E42, G28, V12, V15, V17, C1, 0
Ribbon
Buttons
Bazzil textured cardstock
SU coloured cardstock
Scrap patterned paper
SU border punch
Foam Dots

Hello

Hello...I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. When I made this card I wanted to use green brads but didn't have any so I punched out some small green circles and used those instead...this is a good idea if your card needs a little something extra to balance it out and you don't have any embellishments in the right colour. I sometimes even use thin strips of cardstock instead of ribbon if I don't have the right colour. Have a great day!

Supplies:-

Stamps - Garden Visit by Penny Black and Hello by Amuse

Brilliance ink

PTI white cardstock

Clear embossing powder

Watercolours

Tim Holtz distress ink

SU coloured cardstock

Bazzil textured cardstock

SU tag punch

Eyelet

Ribbon

Foam Dots

Ms. Brightside Award

What a lovely surprise it was to wake up this morning to this special award from my blog friend Jenn. It was fun to learn a few new things about Jenn on her blog Jax Bean Stalks. Now it's my turn to list 10 things that make me happy, 5 pieces of trivia about myself, and pass this award on to 5 fellow bloggers...only 5...that'll be tough!

10 things that make me happy
1. My family
2. Knowing Jesus
3. Receiving emails from friends and family all over the world
4. Creating things in my craft room
5. Playing my guitar
6. Sending cards to people
7. Friends
8. Cooking...and eating it of course!
9. My cat Snowflake
10. Playing Ping Pong

5 Pieces of Trivia
1. I was born in Australia and five years ago moved to America
2. I like to mow the lawn
3. I hate vacuuming
4. I love ice-cream!
5. I've climbed the Great Wall of China

And finally 5 blogger friends to receive this very special award!
1. Molly at Miss Molly Creations

2. Rebekka at A Diamond in the Rough

3. Lynn at Creative Crafts by Lynn

4. Bonnie at A Life Unrehearsed
5. Tammy at Tammy's Spot

Please take the time to go visit these very talented ladies! They all deserve the recognition!!

You Rocked It!

***These cards are a great fit for the Operation Write Home Challenge ~ 14 April 2010***

There are so many great stamps in Unity's March KOTM that it was hard to decide which ones to ink up first. I came across the Basic Grey circle background paper whilst tidying up my craft room and thought it might go nicely with this jukebox stamp so chose my markers and papers to match and this is what I came up with....

When I finished it I thought it would actually make a great 'boy' card in different colours so went digging through my paper stash and here's the finished card!

Supplies:-
Stamps - Unity KOTM March 2010
PTI white cardstock
SU coloured cardstock
Brilliance ink
SU markers
Copic markers - RV 32, RV 34, YG00, YG95, B12, B23, Y06, YR68, YG03
Circle punches
SU brads
Foam Dots
Basic Grey and unknown patterned paper

Operation Write Home Challenge

Yesterday's challenge over on the Operation Write Home's Stars and Stamps Blog was to create a card using Blues and Browns...we could use other colours too. It was the perfect opportunity to make a masculine birthday card...something my card stash always seems to be lacking. I made a few extras to send off to the troops too.

Supplies:-

Stamps - SU Starring You

PTI white cardstock

SU ink

SU coloured cardstock

SU DSP

Foam Dots

SU ribbon

Color Box Chalk

SU circle punch

SU corner punch

Hello...I Love You

The {Ippity} challenge this week is to create a tri-fold card. I'm really enjoying these challenges as they are getting me to try things I don't do very often and making a tri-fold card is one of those things. I remember seeing similar cards to this a while ago made with hearts but the hearts were made using punches. There are so many nice {Ippity} heart stamps that I thought it would be fun to stamp them all up and use them on my tri-fold card. I used some little punched out hearts to fill in some gaps and each heart was stamped twice as you can see the front and back of the hearts when you open the card.

Supplies:-

Stamps - {Ippity} sets Life's Little Moments, Straight From the Heart, Music of my Heart, Devoted, and Because of You.

SU cardstock

Brilliance ink

Copic marker RV29

SU heart punch

Challenge #1 for Eyelets, Ribbon, Paper-Oh My!!

This week, Jenn over at Jax Bean Stalks is hosting the very first challenge for our blog group "Eyelets, Ribbon, Paper-Oh My!" The challenge is to to reuse/re-purpose an item(s) that we all have in our house...a cereal box, cracker box or a cookie box...and she encouraged us to use up our scraps. I've been wanting a container to hold all my little white cardstock scraps that always seem to accumulate on my craft table and I haven't been able to find one the right size. I do eventually use up all these scraps and so it's nice to have them handy and not mixed up with all my other coloured scraps...oh, and it helps if they're not covered in ink or glitter! I decided to use a Wheat Thins box...


I cut it down to the size I wanted so that all my scraps are easily accessible but wont fall out!


Then I rummaged through my scrap paper draw and found this small piece of stripey paper (Basic Grey if I remember rightly) and some colours to match and covered the inside and outside with paper. Then of course it needed some ribbon and a flower...guess I should have used an eyelet instead of a button and it would have been perfect for our blog group name!

Here it is filled with the white cardstock scraps from my table! Can't wait to see what everyone else makes!