Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sweet Tooth Add-ons

There is some more celebrating in the blogger world....
  1. Martine is celebrating her new title.
  2. Enfys is celebrating fun, friends, inspiration and her popular blog.
For more details see my Sweet Tooth sidebar :-)

It's a Two-fer

I combined 2 challenges to come up with a baby boy card for my friend's new nephew...it ended up that way b/c I couldn't come up with a good sketch (maybe the ice cream I had right before gave me creative brain freeze...lol). The sketch was taken from the Sketch & Stash challenge and for my new item I used my stitched bunny stamp by Sandylion that I just got from Michaels. The other challenge was at Card-A-Licious and the instructions were to make a baby card with ribbon & stitching. Well, I can't do anything but faux stitching right now so I hope my faux stitched image border and my stitched bunny stamp will count ;-) When I was making the card I had all my elements picked out but ran into a problem when it came time to find a matching ribbon. As luck would have it I had white satin ribbon and a Copic marker that matched my color palette. I colored the ribbon, dryed it with my heat gun and *presto* I had matching ribbon. I tell you, those Copic markers are GREAT!

Baby Bunny






Ingredients:
  • cs - DCWV
  • pp - DCWV Nanna's Nursery
  • stamp - Sandylion (from Michaels) **new**
  • ink - VersaCraft Black
  • color - Copics
  • ribbon - Michaels
  • buttons - Doodlebug Designs
  • sketch -

TGF 3 Stamp Challenge

I'm so excited that I actually got to make some cards this weekend. :-) I was sick earlier in the week and then went back to work and my classes down in Houston so I haven't had much energy lately to do any stamping or cardmaking. Saturday I started on 3 of the challenges I wanted to participate in this week. This post is about the newly named 'Farm Fresh Friday' challenge over at The Greeting Farm...the current challenge for the week is to use 3 TGF stamps. As it's the month for June brides, I decided to make a wedding card. After taking some time to figure out what pp I would use I finally ended up with this:

Old Fashioned Wedding






Ingredients:
  • stamps - TGF Cake Topper
  • cs - DCWV
  • pp - K & Company
  • ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
  • embossing powder - Zing Clear
  • circle punch - EK Success

I guess I just got into the whole wedding thing b/c I made an additional one with the same Cake Topper stamp :-)

Simple Wedding



Ingredients:
  • stamp - TGF Cake Topper
  • cs - DCWV
  • pp - Me & My Big Ideas
  • ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
  • embossing powder - Zing Clear
  • dew drops - Robin's Nest
  • paper flower sticker - Marcella

Saturday, June 20, 2009

New Sweet Tooth Additions

Some crafty bloggers are giving away some SWEET blog candy:
  1. Michelle O(a fellow Texan) is celebrating over 75k hits on her blog with a prize on June 24th.
  2. Michelle (a Next Level Challenge Lover like me) is celebrating summer with a give-away on June 30th.
For details on both of these great candies check out my Sweet Tooth sidebar :-) **Just click on the blog candy pics to take you to their blogs**

Sunday, June 14, 2009

TGF Challenge - No Layers

Gosh I love my layers! I didn't think I would be able to do this challenge without even 1 paper layering but I DID IT! :-) I used VersaMark watermark ink then added Zing embossing powder (clear & silver) to make a patterned background of Anyas. The ribbon was something I had laying around and the 'sweet' chipboard embellishment is from DCWV.

Sweet Anyas






Ingredients:
  • cs - DCWV latte
  • embellishment - DCWV
  • embossing powder - Zing (clear & silver)
  • watermark ink - VersaMark
  • ribbon - my stash
  • stamps - Princess Anya, Fairy Anya, & Mermaid Anya from The Greeting Farm

I also made this one just for fun:

Green Thanks



Ingredients:
  • cs - DCWV
  • emboss - Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 1
  • embossing powder - Zing Black
  • color - Kimberly Watercolor pencils
  • watermark ink - VersaMark
  • stamp - Heidi Swapp (thanks), Autumn Leaves (corners), Teacher Anya (TGF)

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Busy Busy Bee

Sorry I haven't posted for quite a while...I've been busy at work (I work in an ophthalmologists' practice) and with my classes at night so I haven't had much energy to do much scrapping :-( But the good news is I have Thursday and Friday off so I'll get to have my fix then :-D

Monday, June 1, 2009

RIP Laptop Update

So it turns out my entire laptop isn't dead just my 2nd replacement AC/DC adapter is. In hopes that maybe one of the 1st two adapters might on the off-chance work I went searching for them. Thank goodness I found them b/c the 1st replacement adapter actually WORKS again. Go figure?! Guess getting a year's vacation helped it revive itself...LOL

As for my posts on my Sunday card creations look for them later today as it's too late now to post them. I'll get them up right after I get home from work...promise :-)

SOA Cards....


Clear Card Challenge







Flower Friends - Button Challenge




Grad - Sweet n Sassy Sketch Challenge
*altered Ian Grad digital stamp








Cupcake Bday - Two by Two & Sketch Challenge





Butterfly Bday - Any Winged Thing Challenge





Pink Congrats - All in One Challenge






Get Well - Sketch Challenge