Guest DT Scrapbook Stamp Society

What an honor to have been chosen as this month's Guest Design Team member as a challenge winner for Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog where "Have Faith" won. Today they have published a little feature on their My Besties Scrapbook Stamp Society Design Team blog, showcasing this project "Spot of Tea".

Of course, I began with a sweet image from Sherri Baldy, Img927

and colored her up to match Sherri's "Create With Sherri Baldy Designer Papers - A Spot of Tea". I also made a little corner bookmark to accompany my card.

I don't know about you, but I usually choose my image to color, then choose my paper, then color my image in complementing colors to my paper using my copics. The below photo shows the step-by-step Copic recipe. 

This project was no exception, all colored up and adorned with diecuts using my sizzix and LaLa Land dies and my cuttlebug. I hand cut the teapot from one of the papers in Sherri's pack, and added some complimentary ribbon

Until next time, I wish you Tea-riffic Day!

Challenges: Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog-#92 AG/option white; My Besties Germany Challenge-AG/wedding; My Besties in France Challenge Blog-#51 AG ; My Besties International Challenge Blog-May AG; My Besties UK Challenge-AG; My Besties Color it, Create it, Show it-#3 AG; My Besties 3D and More Challenge Blog-May/AG

Happy Birthday, Peggy!

I'm having such a great time being on the Seems A Little Sketchy Design Team. This project showcases Sketch #16, sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy.

The digi image is one of the fairies from Sheet 243 at Whoopsi Daisy - she is soooo cute! Decided to try my hand at "no black lines" with a digi. I plodded through on my own in PhotoShop (guess it would have been easier had i searched for a tutorial ;) With a wee bit of struggling, finally figured it out - and very much enjoyed the outcome; colored up with Copics.

The DP are from Prima's "songbird collection" 6x6 paper stack, which I found at Oozak (love Oozak - the most awesome customer service!). Used Sizzix oval dies, Martha Stewart butterfly trio punch and her butterfly cut/emboss punch, along with a new butterfly punch by Tonic, found on Blitsy. The fairy pewter charm I've had for eons, found on e-bay. Also used Fiskars flower punch, adding Glossy Accents to some of the butterflies and flowers, along with the little envies. The pearls are Kaiser "bliss".

Chalked the edges of the DP and large butterflies, added the lace trim and even braided three colors of floss for added dimension to the trim. Added a lot of Scotch 3m foam tape for lots of dimension of the layers. The sentiment actually has 3 layers of foam tape (I wish I could give credit to the sentiment artist-but no label on the file except for "fairy kisses star").

And... yuppers... it's an easel!

Thanks for popping by today.

Be sure to head on over to Seems A Little Sketchy to check out my teamies projects and join in the fun with Sketch #16!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: Craft Your Passion-things with wings; Always Crafting-fairies; Paper Makeup Stamps-AG; Fashionista challenge #4-things with wings; Incy Wincy Designs Challenge-AG; Love to Create Challenge-AG; OLLCB-mystical magic; Paper Playtime-sentiment; Tammy's Scrapin Corner-AG/AA; Whoopsi Daisy-wings; Dream Valley Challenges-wings; Sentimental Sundays-cute and girly; Sketchy colors-green/orange/white; The Crafty Pad-more than 1 fold; 2 sisters challenge blog-AG; Allsorts-dies; Challenge up you life-no lines

Thank You, Peggy!

Peggy and my birthdays are only two days apart and over the past 21 years, we have usually celebrated our "birthtweenday"; however, this year she was working and so we celebrated on my birthday. We hadn't gotten together in a couple of years (ya, know, that life thing...), but this year we spent 5 hours at one of our fave sushi places - sooooo much fun!!! She broke the rules and slipped a fun "inspiration" bracelet in my card, so this is my thank you to her.

Followed the sketch over at the Sweet Stop, which was perfect for my project.

Chose one of my fave Mo images, Baby Fairy Flora. Wanted to try my hand at "no black lines" and waded my way through the muck and mud in photoshop, but finally figured it all out. Love the outcome. You can find my "no black lines digi" mini-tutorial here

Used some fun DP by Prima with a blue and yellow theme. Also brought out two of my fave Memory Box dies - crisp bows and madera corner, but then really who am I kidding - all of my MBs are faves! LOL. Also added some crystal acrylic flowers, a little personalized tag/ticket, a bit of embossing and spellbinder cuts with the cuttlebug, organza ribbon and floss, and a little bit of stickles painted on her wings and edge of dress. Thank goodness I don't have to mail this one-with nearly 10 layers, it is quite heavy :)

Did up the inside a bit, too :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: The Sweet Stop-sketch; Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge-thank you; Simon Says Stamp Challenge-AG; Crafting for all Seasons Challenge-layers; Crafts and Me Challenges-ribbon; Divas by Design-AG; Scrapbook Sisters-AG; Crafty Sentiments-AG; Die Cuttin Divas-AG; Scrap-Creations-fairies; Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT challenge-something with wings; Party Time Tuesdays-AG; Top Tip Tuesday-stash/tip (ribbon, floss, image, stickles); 

Have a Yummy Birthday!

Don't forget to enter my Maggie "just because" Candy HERE!

So I've had six personal best days of my life so far! The day Isaac was born was one of them. Isaac and his wife (Kath) live in Nashville and are both history professors (Isaac-British Studies; Kath-American History) - their birthdays are one week apart and since Isaac is off to England on the 15th for six weeks where he will have an on-campus interview for a tenured position at Warwick University (wooooohooooie) while there, I'm sending off both cards today so they can have them before he goes "across the pond".

I chose this sweet image from Sassy Cheryl's Digis "Sneaky Bear Birthday Cupcake" which you can now find in her $2 bin (hurry, these will retire this month!). I don't do very many "masculine" cards, so this was a bit out of my box.

Followed the PTI anniversary sketch #3 and thought the "bunting" was perfect for this card. Used the cuttlebug to emboss the dots, my star punch to make the "chips" distress on the bunting, sewed the floss through, chalked the edges and used my trusty fine point sharpie to faux sew.

The DPs are BasicGrey and MME, which I thought really complimented each other. The front calendar is from Cindy Close and just put the number 18 for the date, as that is the special day!

The inside of the card on the left has a diagonal pocket for the gift card, and the inside sentiment on the right is from Tracey Brossart - I love this sentiment and Tracey is so clever and amazingly creative!

Bazzil buttons and DMC floss are my main embellies for this card - sometimes i forget about my hoarded buttons, but had fun adding them to this creation. Used my Spellbinders to cut and emboss my image, and colored it all up with my copics.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: Simon Says Stamp Challenge-birthday; Sassy Chery's Challenge Blog-stitching; Cards and More Challenge-party; Craft-room Challenge-emboss; Creative Craft Challenge-AG; Papertake Weekly Challenge-cute; Always Crafting Creative Monday-AG; Incy Wincy Designs-spots/dots; Ooh La La Creations-manly; Tammy's Scrapin Corner-dies/punches; Catered Crop-"B"=birthday, bear, buttons, bunting; Come and get it challenge-let's hear it for the boys; Great Impressions Challenge-AG; That Craft Place Challenge-one for the boys; {Cupcake Insiprations}-#159; A and T Challenge Blog-AG; Mad for Markers monthly challenge-masculine colors; Sparkles Monthly Challenge- *Men*; 2 Sisters Challenge Blog-#90 AG; BasicGrey Challenge-1,2,3 recipe; Catch the Bug Challenge-AG; One Stop Craft Challenge-celebrations; Sweet Stampin' Challenge-four legged friends; Cardmadfairy's Digi Challenge-add a number; Crafty Ann's Challenge-stitching; Inspire me Fridays-AG; Stampin' for the weekend-4+layers/blog hop;

Sweetest Word You'll Ever Hear!

Maggie Mini's "Just Because" candy here!

And what is that sweetest word for us who are mommies... I can still hear every one of my children when they were wee wittle bitty things say "Mommy" :) Their sweet little voices still ring in my mind - love it!

For this Mother's day card I chose one of my new gifted maggies - still working on the shading techniques of these sweet stamps - but practicing is soooo fun! Followed the sketch over at Papertake Weekly by Dawny P.

This one I used my MS deep corner punch (this punch is one of my faves and well worth my investment). The DPs are from EchoPark "Victoria Garden". I distressed-shabby upped the edges of my DP with my Tim Holtz distressing tool. The roses were white and colored with copics and sprinkled with "sugar" glitter to go with the theme of the sentiment.

I am soooo thrilled to share with you Tiffany's awesome tutorial on custom-fit sentiments to spellbinders - you MUST check out this tutorial to take the guesswork out of the sizing of your sentiments/nesties.

I was at the LSS the other day and finally got the Lacey Oval nestie to go with my large ovals - perfect for this card. Also cut some Sizzix sizzlets flourishes - all done with my cuttlebug. Added some pearly fun to the roses and lots of layers with lots of double-sided foam tape.

Oh, ya, and it's an easel, too :)

Wicked busy week ahead for me (Shirley, it didn't take me more than a week to fill up my calendar! - LOL) now that I'm retired! First BFF and I went through the "scrap shed" today and pulled everything out preparing for a HUMUNGO craft sale next Sunday May 6th and will finish organizing over 2,000 patterned papers and about that much again in cardstock, page kits, embellies up the wazooo, stamps, tools, storage - you name it, I've got it! Late afternoon tomorrow photographer for a Diamond Wedding Anniversary party, Monday I have two senior portrait sittings, Wednesday a rehersal, Friday a wedding (package deal - sweet hubby is the minister) - whew... and then after the Craft sale, on to the next Estate sale with a house full of antiques and collectables. So if I'm MIA next week, you'll know why :)Thanks for stopping by today!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: Papertake Weekly-Dawny P sketch; Simon Says Stamp-AG; CMC Copic Challenge-celebrations; Craftymess Challenge Blog-distress/emboss; Hiding in my Craft Room-mothers/flowers; My Sheri CRAFTS-Flowers/mom; Sugar Creek Hollow-Mother; Crafts 4 Eternity-spring; Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge-AG; Prairie Fairy Fridays-flowers; Fussy and Fancy Friday-punches/dies; Stampin' for the Weekend-sparkle/shine; The Poodles Parlour-AG; Wags 'n Whiskers Stamps-distressing; Chocolate, coffee & Cards-BINGO/distress/punches/ribbon; Moving Along With The Times-garden/flowers

Mother's Day Sunflower!

The Countdown Continues to Retirement. Celebrate with me Here!

I'm on a roll with Mother's Day Cards, as I have quite a few to make. For this card I chose one of my gifted Tilda's and since she's tenderly holding a sunflower, used my Prima DP collection "Sun Kiss" which was found at Oozak

 and followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday.

There's all kinda stuff going on with this card... Spellbinders, Sizzix and C.C. Designs dies, cut and embossed with my beloved Cuttlebug.

A Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page deep edge punch. I love chalk, and really ran with it chalking nearly all edges of this card. Lots and lots and lots of layers with a bunch of 3m double-sided foam tape. The heart pins are from WOC, two colored to match. The little chocolate pearls are from Queen & Co. Oh, my what a find to rummage through my hoarded/stash (blast from the past) to find the pewter butterfly charm, and the swirl clip from making memories-at least 10 years old! 

The awesome swirl sentiment was a freebie via Free Digital Stamps, printed on the DP and cut and embossed with Spellbinder's nestie classic circles. I sure wish ALL artists would put their name in the save line - would make it soooo much easier to give credit to the designer - KWIM?!? I would love to thank them personally, as it was perfect for this card! The lace and ribbon are from my LSS. All colored up with Copics :) 

And... last but not least, it's an Easel - YAY!!! 

Wishing you a day FULL of "Sunflowers"!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: Sketch Saturday-sketch; Whimsy Stamps Challenge-dies/punches; Just keep on Creating-AG; Craft your Passion Challenge-dies/punches; Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge-butterflies; Creatalicious Challenges-butterfly/flower; Oozak-AG; The Paper Shelter-wings/things; Stamp n Doodle's Blog-showers/flowers; The Stamping Boutique-AG; Incy Wincy Designs-digis ONLY; Karens Doodles Challenge Blog-something spring; Whoopsi Daisy Challenge-AG; 2 Sisters Challenge Blog-flower in image; Craft Your Days Away Challenge-metal

I'm All Ears!

It's Happy Easter Week, My Friends - Happiest Easter Wishes To You!

My project started with being the lucky winner of Sassy Cheryl's Blog random pick of the week - YAY... I won a digi of my choice and I chose "Bunny Chit Chat". Over at Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog this week's them is "Easter Parade - Bunnies & Bonnets", so used my new image to make this fun card.

I followed the sketch for the second time this week at Papertake Weekly by Dawny P.

Used my new We R Memory Keepers "Cotton Tails" collection which I found over at Oozak.

I used my Cuttlebug to die cut my flowers from C.C. Designs found at Simon Says Stamp store, along with the Sizzix flourish and embossed with swiss dots.

My sweet friend, KathyCan, cut a bunch of Martha Stewart fences for me, and I've happily used one on this card. The sweet ribbon was a RAK from another friend and fit perfectly with the colors and theme of the card.

Aha, there's the Happy Easter sentiment (CK Becky font), hiding under the image in a mini-easel :)

Have an "I'm All Ears!" week, My Friends!

Love,

Wendy

Challenges: Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog-Easter Parade/Bunnies&Bonnets; Papertake Weekly-sketch; Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog-AG; Addicted to Stamps Challenge-Spring; Come and Get it Challenges-spring; Pile it On-scene; That Craft Place Challenge Blog-all about spring; The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge-Easter; Catch the bug Challenge Blog-Easter/spring; Craft Your Days Away Challenge-Easter; Di's Digi Designs Challenge Blog-emboss; One Stop Craft Challenge-Easter; Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays-spring; Card Makin' Mamas-Easter; Simply Create Too-eggs/bunnies; Totally Paper Crafts-Easter; Wags 'n Whiskers Stamps-flowers; Our Craft Lounge-photo inspiration; 4 Crafty Chicks-Easter; Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog-"Happy Easter"; Delightful Challenges-Easter; Moving Along With The Times-cute/cuddly; Paper Play Challenges-Easter; Shelly's images challenge blog-stripes; The Paper Shelter-Easter; Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge-Easter; The Pixie Cottage-cuddly critters; Scrapbook Sisters-Easter; The Sisterhood of Crafters-Easter; Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge-Easter; Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge Blog-spots/stripes; Paper and Such Design Blog-Easter/spring; Party Time Tuesdays-#61/AG; Craft your Passion Challenges-dots/stripes; Oozak Challenge Blog-AG

Letter to Santa

So on Monday at Henry J's 1st birthday party, I asked his 3 older brothers (Bryan-9, Cooper-7, Nolan-3) if they'd sent their letter to Santa yet... They shook their heads and said "NO, not yet, Nana"... I had a look of disbelief, and smiled and said they should put that on the top of their to-do "list"! I saw this darling image by Sassy Cheryl, and knew it was THE one for their Christmas Card. I did personalize it just for the "bickford boys" (return addy used to be from Tommy-hope Cheryl doesn't mind)! The cute mailbox was perfect, found at Dustin Pike's. I was inspired to do the card all in white except the image from the challenge over at Di's Digi Designs. I cuttlebug embossed to my heart's delight (three layers of snow swirls, hand cut to resemble drifts), punched snowflakes, diecut trees, glittered and colored - what a fun day!

Warm Wishes to you!
(((hugs)))
wendy

RECIPE: Sassy Cheryl-rushed letter image; Dustin Pike-mailbox image; cuttlebug-embossing folders(3); Sizzix-die; Martha Stewart-glue/glitter; Fiskars-snowflake; copics

CHALLENGES:
Sassy Cheryl
Di's Digi Design challenge
2 Sisters Challenge 68
Catch the Bug
Designed to Delight
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!
One stop craft challeng
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday
Card Mad Fairy's Digi Days Challenge
Clearly I Stamp
Crafty Catz
Fairy Tale Challengeblog
Mami Doodles
Poodles Parlour
Simply Create Too
Stampin' with the Dragon
Totally Paper Crafts
Crafty Ann'sglitter,tree,silver
Christmas crafting!
Creatalicious Challenges
Cupcake Craftroom
Delightful Challenges
Digi Doodle Shop's Best
PaperCrafting Journey
Sassy studio designs
Shelly's images
Digi stamps 4 joy
Divas by design
The Paper Shelter
Scrapbook Sisters
Simon Says
Party Time Tuesdays

A Merry Little Christmas

So through the wonderful site (I get a daily email) Free Digital Stamps I picked up the free image from Addicted to Stamps by Sherri Baldy. I watched all of Suzanne Dean's You Tube tutorials(5) on distress ink coloring with copics, and tried my hand at this technique (obviously, there is quite a learning curve). Need more practice, but I sure enjoyed myself. Picked up a few new goodies at the LSS and LCS, along with a fabulous collection of paper from Tim Holtz. I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday and just had the best time doing a Christmas card in monochrome peachy-pinks.

Much love to you!
wendy

RECIPE: Image-Sherri Baldy; Sketch-Sketch Saturday; Tim Holtz-DP; Memory Box-snowflake corner; Sizzix-label die; Martha Stewart-icicle punch, glitter; embellie elements-handcrafted with supplies from LSS/LCS; copics

CHALLENGES:
Sketch Saturday
Addicted to Stamps
Gingerloft Challenge
The Ribbon Girl Blog
Crafty Emma's Store (CES)
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday
Totally Gorjuss
Craft your days awaypearls, flowers, ribbon
Just some Linesembossing,digi,flower
Crafts for Eternitysnowflake,feather,flower
Frosted Designs
Phindy's Place
Sweet 'n Sassy Digi
Wags 'n Whiskers
Crimbo Crackers
Moving along with the times
PaperCrafting Journey
Shelly's Images
Delightful Challenges pattern paper, punches, flower
Southern Girls glitter,ribbon,embossing

Horsey Snugs

I tried something new (for me) today, using the negative cuts from my sizzix to frame the darling Mo Manning image. My sweet sister, Sandy's (the most WONDERFUL, precious gift my parents ever gave me)birthday is a month away and purchased her first horse a little over a year ago. "Cloud" is a gorgeous medicine hat paint (nearly all white), hence my choice of copic colors. My dear friend, Kathy, told me about using a 3d glue dot and baker's twine - bit of a learning curve, but I love the results. It's been a fun day.

Good to see you, thanks for stopping by :)
(((hugs)))
Wendy

RECIPE: Mo Manning-digi image; paperloft-patterned paper; bazzill cs; VersaMagic chalk ink-java; sizzix-dies; scrapalicious sentiments-birthday ticket; copics.

CHALLENGES:
Craft Your Days Away
Little red wagon
Simon Says ing it! "Don't fence me in"
Catch the Bug
One Stop Craft
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday
Sweet Stampin'
Card Makin Mamas
Crafty Ann's
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Pink - last challenge :(
Mami Doodles
Pattie's Creations
Cute Card Thursday
Crafting for all seasons
Kelley Kid's