Kissed Flowers

Hello!!!! I created this card for the first color challenge on Stamp TV. My friend Cindy created this week's color combination---

always artichoke

apricot appeal

and pumpkin pie

This is what I came up with:
I used the Floral Frenzy kit from Gina K Designs for this card. I also used the kissing technique. You can see a video tutorial on this on Stamp TV!

Wanna play along? Just create a card using the color combination above and upload it to the Stamp TV gallery by next Monday, March 2nd, at 8am CST. One winner will be drawn at random to win a Gina K stamp set valued at $19.95 or less!

Silly Little Bear

Awww....I just love this stamp set. Not only does it make a cute paper doll set but you can mix and match outfits for the girl and make the cutest cards.

Here is a card I created with Isabelle Paper Dolls and the sentiment set Paper Doll Sayings:
The sentiment says "silly little bear"-I love that! I created the curved sentiment banner by placing the words in an oval shape on my acrylic block. I stamped it along the bottom of a yellow die cut oval. Then I just took my scissors and cut along the top of the sentiment following the curve of the bottom. I cut the little slits in the side. Easy!

Materials used: Stamps-Isabelle Paper Dolls; Paper Doll Sayings (My Favorite Things Presents- Stephanie Fizer); Memento tuxedo black ink; ribbon (My Favorite Things-spring collection); cardstock-white (Gina K Pure Luxury); Designer paper-Basic Grey-Urban Prarie; heart punch (Creative Memories); Copic markers; heart rain dot (Gina K Designs); Fiskars Threading Water punch; Cropadile; eyelet (SU!); Spellbinders oval dies; Wizard; dimensionals (SU!).


Fun Schtuffs:

TONIGHT (Wednesday!)--PaperTemptress will be holding it's first ever release party on the forum on PaperCraftPlanet at 8 p.m. CT. on PaperCraftPlanet! Come and chat with the design team and see all the gorgeous samples used with the new paper that will be released in the store that night. There is also going to be a fantastic give away (or two!)-- one sheet each of the new card stock being introduced that evening, a value of over $29.00!!!

Also TODAY: It is WUW (What's Up Wednesday) for My Favorite Things. Check out the MFT WUW forum on Splitcoaststampers for a fun tutorial. If you are one of the FIRST 50 customers to order today, you'll receive a FREE Versamark cube! You can use your Versamark cube for a variety of things including heat embossing and even making your own designer papers! Finally, Do you want to be an MFT VIP? Of COURSE you do! Being a VIP comes with it's perks! MFT has decided to offer a bundle on the last Wednesday of every month that includes NEW products that have not been released yet. Excited yet? Check out the forum for details on the MFT March bundle.

Told you it was FUN!

Thanks for stopping by!

Friends

Happy Tuesday (finally!) I am pretty busy with some family/house stuff so another quick card today. I am trying to use up a lot of my rub-ons that will expire soon!

The flower stem is from Unity Stamp Company (Growing in Unity!)
Materials used:Cardstock-white, bannana, black (Stampin' Up!); Designer paper-Black small dots (Making Memories); Silk flower-Spare Parts (The Paper Studio); ribbon (Offray); Stamp-red rubber-Growing in Unity (Unity Stamp Company); Memento Tuxedo black ink; Rub on-Friend Sentiments (Royal & Langnickel); Build a Brad (Stampin' Up!); slit punch and small circle punch (SU!); Spellbinders Tag Trio dies; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!)

Sorry for the short post---I am trying to get some things done that I cannot put on here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

HAPPY happy birthday card

Today---a super easy birthday card. I used a fun rub-on from SEI (Alley's wonderland) and embellished it with small prima flowers and brads. I made the grass using the slit punch from SU! and applied a sentiment rub-on.

Easy peasy. The fun colors make me happy! (I need that after having TWO Mondays in a row!)
Materials used: Cardstock-turqoise, celery, white (Stampin' Up!);Rub on sentiment-Fresh Paint Sentiment transfers (Marcella-K&Company);Rub on flowers-Alley's Wonderland (SEI);prima flowers- Got flowers? Duex (Prima Marketing);pink brads-pastel (Making Memories);gingham ribbon (Stampin' Up!);jumbo eyelet (Stampin' Up!);Cropadilepaper piercing tool (SU!);slit punch, oval punch (Stampin' Up!);Certainly celery classic stamp pad (SU!);sponge ;dimensionals (SU!)

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A STINKY challenge

OOPSIE! I hit the post instead of the schedule button so this published early! Instead of deleting it...just pretend that you are reading this on Monday! K?

It's Monday (again!--doesn't there seem to be a few in a week?) and time for another CCEE challenge. This week was a supplies challenge and Tosh sent out the skunk image (Pun Fun- SU!), the scalloped ribbon, the dp, a set of sentiments and the die cuts to each of us.

We were to make a card using all the supplies and send it (optional) to Laurie, who HATES skunks (I am right there with her!). Nice Tosh! But, of course I had to play along because Laurie has tortured Tosh because she doesn't like monkey stamps. (Believe me---she had this comin'!)

I colored the image with Copics and cut out one of the flowers from the dp to attach over the stamped one. This was an easy way to coordinate the image with the paper. I added some pink to the stinker's cheeks and then added some stardust glitter over it for a bit of sparkle.

<--Here is a close up of the main image. Hope you enjoy all your skunk cards, Laurie! (Blame Tosh!) You can check out all of the other Skunky cards on the CCEE blog.

Other news: By now you have had time to check out Stamp TV. I just wanted to let you know that starting this week you can play along in daily challenges. Everyone who plays each challenge will be entered to win free stamps. It is that easy! Today's challenge is a color challenge. You can play along HERE!

Other other news: PaperTemptress is having a PAPER party on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Central on the forum on PaperCraftPlanet! Come and chat with the design team and see all the gorgeous samples used with the new paper that will be released in the store that night. Beautiful stuff.

Thanks for stopping by!

Silver Lustre Flowers

Hello everyone! As you read this I am off visiting my in-laws for the weekend. But, I did create a card to post for today! (JOY!)

The stamp is from the new Floral Frenzy kit from Gina K Designs. If you haven't checked out the new Stamp TV---you have to! It is amazing! SEE ya there!

This card also features some of the new Silver Lustre cardstock from PaperTemptress that will be in the store on February 25th (more details to follow!). This stuff is amazing. You can stamp on it and color and the paper absorbs the ink and makes it shimmer. The card looks different depending on what angle you are looking at it from.

Here is one view:
Can you see all the shimmer???? Copics work a bit differently on this cardstock. The the color is a bit more muted (or pearlescent)..the blender works well to create highlights---instead of moving the color, it removes it. The Copics look beautiful on it. I am excited for everyone to try it.

<--Here is another view of the card. Lying flat you cannot see the shimmer as much. (SEE--looks different!)

The rest of the cardstock is Mica Metallic in Amber, Cappuchino and bronze. I love the gorgeous look of this cs...it has already become one of my all time favorites.

Materials used: Stamps-Elegant Flowers-Floral Frenzy (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; Copic markers; Cardstock-Silver Lustre, Amber, Cappuchino, Bronze Mica Metallic (all from PaperTemptress); Spellbinders photo corner dies, circle and scalloped circle dies; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); textile embossing folder (Provocraft); hardware (We R Memory Keepers); ribbon (May Arts).

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

the BIG reveal....

HERE is the BIG surprise(s) you have been waiting for!

Gina K Designs PRESENTS Stamp TV. Gina has created a whole site devoted to stamping. Through her quality broadcast videos, she demonstrates how to perform stamping techniques...so you can see it AS you create.

In addition, she is assembling kits that will include all of the materials (stamps, Pure Luxury cardstock, embellishments, designer paper) that you need to recreate her projects. There will be one kit released at a time and the first one is called Floral Frenzy. If you saw my post yesterday, I used materials from the kit as well as the "thumping" technique on that card. Gina has a video tutorial on this technique on Stamp TV--check it out!

I created this little basket with the Floral Frenzy kit. I used the directions HERE to make the basket. The tag was created to mimic the designer paper. I stamped the large blossoms and then stamped the fun circles in chocolate in random places. I then stamped the little HI circle and popped it on a build a brad. This little basket is a great presentation for a spring birthday/thank you, etc.

And finally....Gina is releasing Pure Luxury in COLORS! woohooo! In the Floral Frenzy kit, you get sheets of the Pure Luxury White (layering weight and base weight); Ivory (layering weight and base weight), Chocolate Kiss (base weight); Black Onyx (base weight). Gina will be releasing the Ivory Pure luxury in the store this month, the Chocolate Kiss in March and the Black Onyx in April! This paper is fabulous! (I created the box above with the Chocolate Kiss Pure Luxury cs!)

Gina will fill you in on all the details!!! I am so excited to be a part of this venture. Gina has been working on this project for over a year and it is just so fantastic to SEE someone performing a technique. The idea to have a kit go along with the episodes is fantastic. For those who are new to stamping, you can watch along while you create the same cards as Gina. For seasoned stampers, these videos provide a nice refresher to many techniques that you might have forgotten about or may have never understood just from written directions. Go check out her blog for her BIG reveal!

You can find lots of other fabulous projects with Floral Frenzy on these dt blogs:

Joanne, Erika, Theresa, Cindy, Melanie, Emily, Jessica, Kurtis, Asela and Donna.

Thanks for stopping by!

Something *B*I*G Hint #2

I mentioned on Monday that something BIG is coming to Gina K Designs on FRIDAY...

HERE is another clue:
The materials used to make this project came from a special new product being launched tomorrow at Gina K. Designs!

Check out these rockin' blogs for more CLUES:
Joanne
Erika
Theresa
Cindy
Melanie
Emily
Jessica
Kurtis
Asela
Donna

Check out Gina's blog today and enter to win the "What's in the big brown box contest" and be sure to stop back tomorrow for the full reveal!

Thanks for stopping by!

Let's Twist Again Blog Hop

Hello! This is one stop along the MFT Let's Twist Again blog hop. If you want to start at the beginning, go to Kim's blog HERE.

Today we are showing you the newest TWISTED set from MFT--Twisted 2. Not for the faint of heart, this stamp set is twisted and oh so hilarious! Use it to say JUST the right thing... when the right thing may be SO wrong.

REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION

Twisted 2 is chock full of funtabulous sentiments that will fill a certain "void" in your stamp collection. I used one of the most mild sentiments on this card, cause that is just the kind of girl I am (giggle!)

I paired my twisted sentiment with MFT's Tote-ally Fantastic stamp set.
Twisted 2 is available now at My Favorite Things. Also new---Spring and Summer 6 by 6 paper packs. I used some of the spring collection on the card above.

Materials used: Stamps-Twisted 2, Tote-ally Fantastic (My Favorite Things); Memento black ink; cardstock-white (Pure Luxury Gina K Designs), Designer paper-Spring Collection (My Favorite Things); Copic markers; ribbon (MFT); slit punch (SU!); flourish die (Quic Kutz); adhesive dots (Mark Richards); metal adhesive dot; foam mounting tape.

The next stop on this blog trail is the AWESOME Jody!

Thanks for stopping by!

Something B*I*G.....

...is coming on Friday!

Check it out: HERE! Hint: YOU will L*O*V*E it!