Easter Creations

Easter is just around the corner so I thought I should get busy on cards!   I tell you - I'm really behind this year.  I haven't even started on Mothers Day or Fathers Day or graduation cards yet.   I think I'm going to have to camp out in the craft room for a few days and get caught up!  The card above was made with DCWV paper and pink cards stock.   The tulip stamp is from DeNami and the scripture stamp is from Clear Dollar Stamps.  

I just love the bright colors on this card.   The paper is from K&Co.  and the stamp is Stampendous!   Can you believe I got that stamp for 50 cents at an estate sale?  Bargain!

Here's another card I did with my Cricut.   Isn't that bunny sweet?   I think I'm going to use this as my official Easter card to family and friends this year.   The Cricut cartridge I used was the Woodland Wonders cartridge.  The papers are all K&Co., and I used the Cuttlebug and Nestabilities dies to cut out the scalloped ovals.

Well, I'm off to the kitchen now to try out some new recipes I found in my blog travels this last week.   After that it's either house cleaning, laundry or ----- more stamping.   Guess which one I'd rather do.  :o)

Have a great weekend all!
Hugs!
Sue :o)

It's Time for Spring!

Hi everyone!
Sorry I've been MIA lately but life has been crazy busy.   I thought I'd pop in real quick here and share a card I made a few weeks ago.   This was made with a Clear Dollar Stamps set and some punches.   The big flower and the leaves were embossed, cut out and paper pieced, and the smaller flowers are all punches.   I made the background by embossing the big flower with clear embossing ink and clear powder on black paper.

I popped up the big flower on foam tape too - because foam tape rules!  :o)

In spite of my absence here, I have actually gotten quite a few Easter cards finished and should be posting them in my Etsy shop later on today - hopefully between running errands and then working for a few hours this afternoon.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Hugs!
Sue :o)

Just Us Girls Challenge #19

 

Hi all!

Boy, I sure am getting into these challenges lately!   This one is for the sketch challenge over on Just Us Girls.   This week's challenge was a sketch and you can find it here.

The stamp is from Clear Dollar Stamps.   I embossed it with black Colorbox ink and clear powder, and then colored it with my ZIG markers.   I cut all the scalloped circles with my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities dies, and the white circles were cut on my Cricut.   I sponged everything with Memento Lulu Lavender Ink, and then raised the circle with the pansies up on foam tape.   The paper is from DCWV Once Upon a Time.

  

I hope you're all having a happy Thursday!   I'm hoping to get some more stamping done today in between loads of laundry and picking up the house.   Hubby was home sick yesterday so I need to sanitize EVERYTHING.    

Oh and if you get a chance, send up a little prayer for my Grandma.   The poor thing has been in and out of hospitals and a nursing home all year, and just yesterday they had to take her back to the hospital because she has an infection in her leg that is going to require surgery.   Pray that God will heal her up and lift her spirits.

Thanks so much & God bless YOU too!

Hugs!

Sue :o)

Mojo Monday 103

I've never done a Mojo Monday yet, but when I saw the sketch today (a day late) I thought it would be a fun time to try. If you'd like to play along click here.

I'm afraid I have no idea who made the background paper. I just found it in my scrap heap and of course it wasn't a piece with the company marked on the back. Sigh. The image is from Clear Dollar Stamps and I colored it with watercolor pencils and a blender pen. The strips of paper behind the image were run through the Cuttlebug with the swirls embossing folder, and the buttons and ribbon I bought at Joanne's. This is actually going to be a card with pockets in the inside (when I get it finished) so check back later this week to see the inside.

I'm really hoping to get some more challenges done this week, but we'll see. We just returned from a camping trip and right now I'm knee deep in after-camping laundry. I love the smell of a campfire until I get home and smell it on everything we took with us. We had a great time so maybe the happy memories will take the sting out of going up and downstairs fifty times. LOL.

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! Talk 2 you soon!

Sue :o)

Button Flowers

Yeah, I'm still stuck on those buttons! Well, I made the buttons flowers so I had to find a way to use them, right? I decided to go with a bigger card than I usually do because I wanted to try to use all the button flowers. I'm not sure what you call this kind of card, but I made it by taping 2 cards together. I cut the flower stems and leaves by hand and then ran the leaves through different Cuttlebug embossing folders. The papers I used are K&Co. and the 3 dimensional stickers are also K&Co. This is exactly what I had in mind when I was making those little button flowers a few days ago! It's so fun when what I make jives with the way I saw it in my head when I started!

Stamp Credit: Clear Dollar Stamps

Well, it's the first day of school where I live, and I've got the house all to myself today. I really like it when my son is home during the summer, so it always takes me a few days to get used to a quiet house. It's going to take me a few more days to get used to getting up that early again too! Yikes! We were both dragging this morning!

I hope you're all having a great day! Now that I've got all this time on my hands I might be back later with another project!

Hugs!

Sue :o)

Buttons

I have a confession to make. In addition to hoarding paper - I also have a serious addiction to buttons. Okay, maybe it's not terribly serious. I don't steal other people's buttons and I don't lose sleep over it if I lose one of mine. But I love them! I love the colors, the shapes, and the textures and I love sinking my hands into the big old bowl of them I have in my craft room. I used to try to keep them organized by color in one of those plastic boxes with the little dividers, but the messy girl in me just couldn't comit to that kind of organization so now they all commingle in one place waiting for me to use them. The only problem is - I like them and I don't always want to part with them. LOL.

So today I got it in my head that I was going to use the buttons - take them out of the big pretty bowl and actually use them on a project. I've had this stamp set for awhile, and when I bought it from Clear Dollar Stamps I envisioned using buttons in the centers of the spirograph-ish swirls, so I decided to start with that. I stamped the image in different colored inks, cut them out with my Cuttlebug and scalloped circle Nestabilities dies, and then sewed two buttons (one stacked on top of the other) into the center of the image. I don't sew so it's a miracle I managed this task - and an even bigger miracle I was able to find a needle. After the buttons were sewn on, I layered the images onto coordinating scalloped circles of card stock. Now I just have to find a way to use these babies! I have an idea in my head, but I wasn't able to get to it tonight but I'm planning on it tomorrow. I hope you'll check back to see what it is!

Sue :o)

Christmas in August?

I got some new Christmas stamps from Clear Dollar Stamps the other day and I just couldn't wait to get them dirty!

I was going for a softer look on the first card, so I used watercolor pencils and an aqua painter to color the image. I also used some Stickles on the star and the halo. I got some new Spellbinders dies too so I used them on this card. I made the die cut, embossed it and then kept it inside the die and sponged it with navy blue ink. That way the white shows around the edges. I popped that piece up on foam tape, then cut out the image and popped that up on foam tape too. The little sentiment in the corner reads "His perfect gift."

Since I did a "soft" card I figured I might as well do a "bright" one as well. I colored this image with my ZIG markers and then cut it out with my Cuttlebug and more Spellbinders dies. I also embossed the green paper with my Cuttlebug and the argyle embossing folder. Boy, I had some major ribbon issues with this card. For some reason I could not get it lined up. Grrrr.

Thanks for looking!
Sue :o)

Clear Dollar Stamps Guest Designer Challenge for July

I'm going to go ahead and give this another go! I made this card for Clear Dollar Stamps Guest Designer challenge for July. If you'd like to try out for their guest design spot for July, here is the link: http://clearlyistamp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/july-2009-guest-designer-challengechallenge-is-open-now-until-4-pm-cst-on-june-30-2009-here-are-the-deetswhat-do.html

I learned how to make this medallion at a Stampin' Up! workshop a few months ago and when I saw the sketch for the challenge I thought it would be perfect! The card came out a bit more chunky than I would have liked, but it is really pretty. Here are the details:

Stamp Set: In God's Hands / Clear Dollar Stamps

Paper: DCWV and K&Co.

Accessories: Gold ribbon (SU very old!), Fiskars border punch, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities dies (scalloped circles), embossing folder (birds & vines), flower punch, gold brads, little flower brads in the corners (Making Memories - I think)

CDSGDC0609 - Clear Dollar Stamps Guest Designer Submission

I've been thinking about doing this for some time now, so here goes! This is my submission for the Clear Dollar Stamps guest designer challenge. Naturally, I had to use one of the adorable Charlie stamps. This set is Charlie Daisy. I embossed the image on watercolor paper, cut it out with my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities scalloped oval dies, and then colored it with my ZIG markers. For the sky I used watercolor pencil and an aqua painter, and then I sponged the edges with turquoise ink. I also sponged some green ink on the bottom edge by the grass. Both ovals are popped up on foam tape.

The papers I used are Basic Grey - I think from the Marrakech collection. I ran the quilty looking paper through the Cuttlebug with the Herringbone embossing folder because I wanted it to have some texture - like an old quilt. I have absolutely no idea where I got the ribbon but I'm thinking I picked it up at Archivers a few years ago. I'm a bit of a hoarder and often surprise myself a second time when I come across something cool I bought six months ago. :o) I guess it's my way of amusing myself!

I hope everyone is having a great week!

God bless!

Sue :o)

I had a productive morning in the craft room today and got 7 new cards up in the shop. Here's a preview of a few of them. You can see the rest of them at MOUSEMOM40.etsy.com! I just ordered some new stamps from Penny Black and The Little Paper Shop too so be on the lookout for some new designs next week. Oh and I'm having a Stampin' Up! party tomorrow night so I'll have some more new designs out in a few weeks! Looks like the housework is going to have to wait - again! :o)

I wanted to share a few pictures of my garden too. I was out and about in the yard today and snapped some pretty pictures of my Korean dwarf lilac and my bleeding hearts. I hope you have a great day! God bless! Sue :o)

I'm Blogging Now!

I've decided to give this blogging thing a try so here goes! I put four new cards in my Etsy shop today. You can see them in the sidebar of this blog but posted a few pictures up above anyway. (I couldn't figure out how to get them below the text and hubby is sleeping - Eeek!). I hoped to get more cards done today, but the nursery was beckoning me so I ended up there dropping a bunch of $$$ on flowers for my garden. I didn't plant them yet though because we might get a frost tonight. Ugh. I'm ready for summer!

Anyway back to my cards. I really love the way the sand castle card turned out although I don't think it photographed very well. I used watercolor pencils on the background and the "sand" and then colored everything else with my ZIG markers. The sand castle stamp is from Clear Dollar Stamps and I added Stickles to it to make it sparkle. I used my Cuttlebug and the polka dots and swirl embossing folders for the dry embossed papers and the sandy background paper is from DCWV.

The get well card is simple but SO pretty. The flower stamp is by Stampendous and the Get Well Soon Sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps. I used lavender and pink card stock, some striped background paper and then added some dry embossed paper in a paisley pattern. I think my Cuttlebug was one of the best investment I've ever made. I use it a TON!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm in the garden tomorrow - after church of course. :o) I'll be putting new cards in the shop on Monday! God bless! Sue :o)