Sketch Challenge

I decided to play along with Beate's sketch challenge on her blog. I stamped the old olive cardstock with my linen background stamp. The patterned paper is Basic Grey and I used my computer for the sentiment. I hand drew the toast and inserted it into the toaster (got that idea from Julie Ebersole's card). I think I maybe need to sponge the edges of the sentiment - it just seems so white! But on the whole, I think it turned out o.k.

Flip Flop Challenge Card

I made this for SCS's Limited Supply Challenge. You had to create a card that said summer to you. To me, summer is not summer without flip flops. I think I'd wear them all year round if I didn't live in Canada. I stamped the sentiment directly onto the ribbon because I didn't want to cover the ribbon up (it's too pretty!). And I sewed around the edges!! I'm quickly becoming a sewing addict - it's such a pretty addition to a card!

Oh and by the way - have you seen the new croc flip flops? I've never been a fan of the original croc flip flops, but I think these ones are to die for (and they are super comfy too!)!

Tea Bag Holders

These are the tea bag holders I made for a friend. I hope she likes them as she left the details up to me! The bella holders are using some DCWV paper I bought at Michaels (oh the shame!). It's so pretty and sparkly! I mounted the bellas on Bazzill Bling and it is also sparkly - I love that paper.

The mug is from Sunshine Designs and is on the same cube as the refrigerator and the cutlery from previous cards. I stamped it on watercolour paper (my first foray with wc paper) and used my aquabrush and inkpads to colour it. I think I did o.k. for one of my first tries. The paper is from the My Mind's Eye stack that my Mother in law brought me from Costco in the States.

No stamping Mojo..

There has been so much going on this week that I haven't had the time nor energy to stamp. I sat down tonight to stamp and produced this, but I'm not really happy with it. Hopefully I can break out of my funk before we leave for the West and leave you with some nice eye candy.

She wore an.....

Itsy bitsy, teeny, weeny yellow polka dot bikini. Or is it eency, weency, teeny, weeny? I'm getting my oldies mixed up with the itsy bitsy spider....but I digress. This is a new stamp from Sunshine Designs. It also has a bbq, flip flop, and surf board on it but I haven't had a chance to play with those yet. I've been all by myself this weekend with the kids and I am exhausted. I do think this card is really cute though. I went over the yellow polka dots with my glitter pen and added some paper glaze randomly on the background to look like water spots. The verse across the bottom reads "itsy bitsy teeny weeny" over and over again. Thanks for looking!

You're Cool!

I thought this was an appropriate sentiment for a card with a fridge on it. Better than "Please clean me out, I smell because something is rotting inside of me". Come to think of it, I may just make that card and post it on my own refrigerator in hopes some one will do just that.

The bow is made from paper, it was a tutorial on Nichole's blog a while back. Oh and the background is stamped with the same stamp using Versamark ink. This card is actually for another splitcoast stampers challenge where you had to use a stamp you normally wouldn't to create a stamped background. I think I cheated since I used the same stamp as for my image, but I liked the graphicness of the fridges in a line.

I'm currently mass producing cards to give to Riley's teacher as part of her year end gift. I'll post them when they're done - I'm also making the cutest little tote out of paper to hold them in. Oh and I want to try to make a banner for my blog - I just need to find a tutorial. I have lots of digikits and have Photoshop so it should be fairly simple, I'd just like to have the dimensions and such.

Just playing

...with some new rubber! This is one of the images on a 4 sided stamp. The other three are a fridge, toaster, and a coffee cup. Can't wait to play with them too! I used paper glaze on the handles of the cutlery to make them shiny and also used the glaze on some of the circles too!