Gardening Angel Thank You

It's been a rainy weekend here but that's OK because its washing away all the dirty snow and grimy streets so that it can be warmer and sunny this week. I started working on this card yesterday and then set it aside to work on a sketch challenge card which started to give me a hard time so I went back and finish what I started. I thought this Karen Lockhart Gardening Angel image was so pretty when I saw it at Susana's store I knew I wanted her for my KL stamp collection. After coloring this angel image with my Copics I used a Clear, Gold and Pink Spica Glitter pen on her hair, wings and flowers.

Supplies: Gardening Angel, Trendy Trees for thank you saying, BoBunny designer paper, Nesties, Ribbon, Baubles, Copics, Spica Glitter pens, Pop dots. Colors: Rose Red, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White.

Hope your enjoying your weekend!

Itty Bitty Birds

The other day I wanted to make some cards using these IB Karen Lockhart Birds which I got for free at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design. That's right, Susana still has the offer going on that if you purchase 4 regular size Karen Lockhart stamps you'll receive a IB stamp for free! Don't wait or you might miss out on this fantastic offer!

Since I wanted to make several of these thinking of you bird cards I made them small 3x3 and had so much fun creating them! First I stamped and colored the IB Birds with my Copics and added some Spica Glitter pen to them (see close up shot). Then I cut & embossed the bird images using my square inch Nestabilities die, matted them, added pop dots and added them to the card fronts I had ready.

Supplies: IB Birds - Karen Lockhart, Trendy Trees saying - SU, BoBunny designer paper, Ribbon, Gems, Nesties, Pop dots, Spica glitter pen, Copics: B000, B02, YG07, YG09, YR31, YR23, T0. Colors: Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Whisper White.

Try It Out Tuesday Challenge - Heart Wreath

Today is Tuesday which means its time for another fun Try It Out Tuesday Challenge over at the Follow Your Heart blog for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design! For today's challenge all of the design team members were asked to create a card using a sketch that our design team leader Suzanne had created. Suzanne's sketch is wonderful, I used my Karen Lockhart Heart Wreath to create a Valentine, the roses on the wreath were colored with Copic markers and then I added Spica Glitter pen to each of them to make the wreath sparkle.

Supplies: Heart Wreath - Karen Lockhart, Me & My Big Ideas designer paper, Ribbon, Copics, Nesties, Spica Glitter pen, Scallop edge punch - SU, Pearls, Pop dots.

Be sure to stop by Susana's store so you can see all of the fun new products she just got in, everything from Spellbinders Nestabilities, Bella Baubles, New Rhinestones, Adorable Eat Cake Graphics stamps and the Sassy new line of SMIRKS stamps!

Be on the look out for the New illustrator that Susana will be introducing this Friday and come on over to the Paper Craft Planet (Susana's Custom Art & Card Design group) site and play along all this week as we have fun guessing what one of the new stamps from the new line will be.

Have a great day!

Try It Out Tuesday Challenge #4 - Valentine Tea

For today's Try It Out Tuesday Challenge over at the Follow Your Heart Blog was to create a Valentine card using stamps from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design that weren't for Valentine's day. So I decided to use this Karen Lockhart Teapot stamp and to make it into a Valentine, and using the saying inside the card helped to tie the image and theme together.

The saying on the inside says:

On February 14th at half past three,

brew yourself a cup of tea.

I'll think of you,

You think of me

What good friends we'll always be!

After stamping this KL image and coloring it with my Copics I used a Pink Spica glitter pen on the cupcakes and a Clear Spica on the steam coming out of the teapot. The designer paper is Bittersweet Basic Grey paper that I received from Tammi and I love it! I also added some Baubles, pink taffeta ribbon and the SU Happy Valentines saying along with a pocket inside the card to hold the tea bag to finish off the card.

If you haven't stopped over at the Paper Craft Planet site and visited Susana's Custom Art & Card Design group your missing out on all the fun! Right now we have some awesome Blog Candy up for grabs, so don't miss out on a chance to win!

PS I've been not feeling well over the past few days so that's the reason for not posting.

Try It Out Tuesday Challenge #3 - Violet Cupcake Box

Today is Tuesday and do you know what that means? Yep it's time for another Try It Out Tuesday Challenge over at the Follow Your Heart Blog! This weeks challenge was to use any supplies from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design store and a *NEW* Karen Lockhart image to create a package or a small gift (ie. bags, boxes, wrapping--the sky's the limit).

So for the challenge today I created a small gift box and used the Karen Lockhart stamp Violet Cupcake for the top. It's difficult to see from these photos but after coloring the cupcake with my Copics I used a Clear Spica glitter pen and colored in all of the flowers to make them glittery. I made the 3"x3" box from a tutorial on Splitcoast which you can find here.

Supplies: Violet Cupcake - Karen Lockhart, Basic Grey designer paper, Nestabilities, Scallop edge punch-SU, Ribbon, Pop dots, Tacky Tape, Spica Glitter pen, Copics: YR31, YR23, V12, V15, V17, YG03, YG07, G07, B000. Colors: Lavender Lace, So Saffron, Whisper White.

SC212 - Be my Valentine

This Valentine is for yesterday's Sketch Challenge #212 over at Splitcoast Stampers. The Karen Lockhart Heart Wreath and be my Valentine sentiment are fun new stamps that I purchased from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design.
After stamping the heart wreath image and coloring it with my Copic markers I used my red Spica glitter pen on all of the roses to add some sparkle. Then the image was cut and embossed with my Nestabilities square die and the narrow stripe of card stock behind the image was embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder, I added my sentiment, ribbon and baubles and the card was finished.

Be sure to stop by our Follow Your Heart design team/store blog for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design because Danni (one of our design team members) is doing a fantastic tutorial on paper piecing today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Try It Out Tuesday Challenge #1 - Lockhart Strawberries

Today is one of the first "Try It Out Tuesday Challenges" for our design team over at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design. Suzanne our head designer gave us the challenge to create a card/project using only Black, White or Grey with only a pop of color, so I used a Karen Lockhart Strawberry stamp with the red strawberries being my pop of color along with some Making Memories black and white polka dotted designer paper. If you would like to play along with the challenge and see all of the wonderful projects that the rest of the design team created for this challenge please visit our New Store Blog - Follow Your Heart!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Tulips

Today marks the final day of the "Countdown to Karen" promotion that Susana and her design team are running and is also my day and Suzanne's day to share what we've created using Karen Lockhart stamps. Susana now has all of the New Karen Lockhart stamps for sale as well as some great Karen Lockhart Web Candy up for grabs on the Paper Craft Planet site - Fans of Karen Lockhart and a large selection of other fun products at her store Susana's Custom Art & Card Design.

For this card I used the Karen Lockhart stamp Tulips and colored the image using my Copics, then cut and embossed the image with my Nestabilities die. You may be able to see from this close up shot but as a final touch I used my Spica glitter pen and out lined some of the tulips to add some sparkle to them and then used Crystal Effects over all of the tulips to make them look waxy like real tulips do.

Supplies: Tulips - Karen Lockhart, Happy Birthday - Warmest Regards/SU, Sweetie Pie Squeeze designer paper -BoBunny, Ribbon, Baubles, Nesties, Spica glitter pen, Crystal Effects, Copics - RV10, RV11, RV34, RV17, R81, YG95, G99, E31, E35, E57, E47, B00, T0. Colors: Rose Red, Old Olive, Whisper White.

A Note of Thanks

The last few days our family has been busy cleaning up from Christmas, the gifts are put away and the house was cleaned up and today the tree was taken down since it seemed to be a huge beacon for our 2 year old. We've also been working on cleaning our basement, a few weeks ago my husband build some wonderful large wood storage shelves under the basement steps and now this week were going to be building some walls to enclose this area which will be our storage area. Our basement has been a work in progress for the last two years or more and I'm excited to get a little more of it completed and de-cluttered.

Today I created this thank you card and tea holder for a friend, I used the Karen Lockhart stamp Lavender & Primrose and the new Laura Ashley Designer Paper, both of these items can be found at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design store. I heat set the image after stamping it with Brilliance ink and then colored it with my Copics, then I cut and embossed the image using my Nesties and added some Spica glitter pen.

To create the tea holder I cut a sheet of card stock 9 3/4" x 3 1/4" then scored length wise at 3 1/4" and 6 1/2". The third panel then needs to be cut on a slight angle and folded in to create the pocket for your tea bag. If you plan on using a larger sized tea bag I would cut your card stock 3 1/2" x 9 3/4" to allow for more room.

Supplies: Lavender & Primrose - Karen Lockhart, Thank You Kindly & Say it with Scallops - SU, Laural Ashley designer paper, Rectangle Nestibilities, Spica glitter pen, Ribbon, Pop dots, Baubles, Scallop edge punch, Scallop square punch, Copics - R20, R32, R14, R27, BV02, BV04, YG95, G99, T0. Colors: Night of Navy, Blue Bayou, Whisper White.

Simple Christmas Cards

These were a few Christmas cards that I had made a while back using two Itty Bitty Lockhart stamps and a sketch from Beate. The cards are smaller sized cards and measure 4 1/4" square, the back ground Real Red panel was partially embossed using a Swiss Dot Cuttlebug folder and the images were cut, embossed and and matted using my Nestabilities dies.

I really do love these IB Lockhart stamps and how fun they are to color and make into cards either alone or grouped together.

Supplies: IB Mittens, IB Snowman, Season Greetings - Karen Lockhart, Me & My Big Ideas designer paper, Nesties, Copics, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Ribbon, Brads, Gems, CB embossing, Small circle punch, Pop dots. Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Whisper White.

I hope your holiday preparations are going well and that you have some time to stop, relax and enjoy the season because before you know it, it will be 2009 and another Christmas will have gone by!

O' Christmas Tree

For this Karen Lockhart Christmas tree card I used some non traditional colors and decided to go with a red and blue theme with a little gold mixed in. The tree was stamped using Brilliance ink and colored with Copics then I cut and embossed the image with my Nesties and added a mat and pop dots. The red back ground panel was embossed using my Swiss Dot Cuttlebug embossing folder. After the card was assembled I added some Champagne Designer Stickles to the string of beads running through the tree and the star on top so that the whole image would sparkle.

Its late so my post is short, my day was filled with running errands and getting more Christmas shopping done.

A Card and some Exciting News!

The exciting news I have to share with you is that I've been asked to joined a great new design team for Susana's Custom Art & Card Design! I'm so thrilled to be working with Susana and the talented women on her design team! Susana's on line store has a wonderful selection of rubber stamping and crafting supplies including a large selection of Lockhart rubber stamps, with fun new products arriving weekly! So be sure to stop by Susana's store and see what's new!

This thank you card was stamped using the Lockhart stamp Flowers in Chintz and colored using my Copics, then I took my Spica glitter pen and out lined the image and some of the lavender daisies to make them sparkle.

Supplies: Flowers in Chintz - Lockhart, Dean Blue Stripe - Creative Imaginations, Copics, Spica glitter pen, Scallop edge punch, Ribbon, Baubles, Pop dots. Colors: Almost Amethyst, Barely Banana, Whisper White.

More Mittens

Today is the birthday party for our two sons and we've all been running around trying to get the house cleaned up and things ready. Your probably looking at this card and thinking more mittens, more Christmas, well I'm happy to report that I'm pretty much done with my Christmas cards which makes me feel good that I have them done early this year unlike other years. Now if I can only get all my Christmas shopping done and the kids Christmas clothes and pictures taken I'll really be doing good!

Supplies: Mittens & Seasons Greetings - Lockhart, Nesties, Copics, White gel pen, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Red gem, Green velvet ribbon, Snowflake Cuttlebug embossing folder, Me&My Big Ideas paper, Pop dots. Colors: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White.

Hope your having a great weekend!

Frosty Mittens

It was a fun day yesterday getting together with a few of my friends, we shopped, went out to lunch, worked on projects and had lots of laughs. This is one of the cards I made yesterday while stamping with my friends. The image is Karen Lockhart which was colored with my Copic markers and then I used a Spica glitter pen on the cuffs for a little sparkle. Then I cut and embossed the mittens using my square Nestabilities die, added the scallop mat and pop dotted the whole image. The snowflake is my favorite part of this card, I bought a Martha Stewart punch (30% off) and some ghost snowflakes (Hedi Swap) when I was out with my friends yesterday so I glittered the snowflake and layered the two together and added a gem. The Soft Sky paper was only partially embossed using my Swiss Dot embossing folder and the designer paper is Me&My Big Ideas.

Christmas Gift Tag Box

The other day my daughter was down in my craft room digging around in my stash of things to alter and pulled out this band aid box. She was bored and was looking for stuff to make a craft, can you imagine a kid these days being bored, wow? Anyhoo, yesterday I decided to make the band aid box that I had gotten at my LSS into a Christmas tag box and just finished it today.

You can see in the close up shot (click to enlarge) that I used the same Lockhart stamp in my previous post but omitted the border by using a square punch for the image, then stamped the snowman again and cut the pom pom from the hat to attach it to the punched out snowman. Once the snowman was punched out I colored him with my Copics and matted the image using my Nestabilities die, then added dazzling diamonds to his pom pom and snowflakes.
In the photo here it shows only six tags but I actually made a total of ten to go inside the box. The tags measure 2 1/4"x 3 1/4" and fit nicely into the band aid box, I used my SU corner tag punch on the corners and scallop square punch as a mat for the images. The little stamped trees on the tags are SU from the set Holiday Blitz and the mittens and snowman are Karen Lockhart.

Seasons Greetings

First off I have to say that over the past two weeks I've been a bad blogger. My creating time has been very limited between taking extra time with our youngest child who has been having some discipline issues, getting ready for Halloween and having my DH go away for several days for hunting, creating was pushed to the back burner. I miss blog surfing and seeing what everyone is up to, I love seeing new projects and reading how my on line friends are doing and hope to be back to surfing soon. Even thought my creating time has been limited I've still been trying to stamping a few projects, I'm just not able to share them with you yet until they've been received by the friends they were created for.

In the mean time I've also been trying to work on creating more Christmas cards so I can have them done and ready to send out. Both of these cards use Karen Lockhart stamps and both of the images were colored using Copic markers. The mitten card was created using Beate's Weekend Sketch from this last weekend, this is an excellent sketch I can see using again and again.

On the close up shot of the snowman card (click to enlarge) you can see that I added dazzling diamonds to the falling snowflakes and pom pom on the hat of the snowman and that I cut and embossed the image using my square Nestabilities die. For the back ground on the snowman image I used the Copic marker YR31 Light Reddish Yellow which is suppose to make the image pop. I found this tip two different places, first on I love markers and then again on Michelle's post on her blog Mish Mash and her adorable snowman card (Michelle is one of my amazing on line idols I love her style). I'm hoping the yellow back ground doesn't just look like yellow snow, cause yellow snow is not a good thing, lol.

Supplies: IB Mittens, Snowman, Seasons Greetings - Lockhart stamps, Some designer paper from last year sorry no name, Nestabilities, Copics, Dazzling diamonds, Ribbon, Snowflake punch, Red gems, Scallop edge punch SU, Piercer w/mat, Pop dots. Colors: Real Red, Always Artichoke, Whisper White.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Bloom with Happiness

This is another Lockhart image that I received as a RAK, this image is very tempting and I may need to put this stamp on my wish list, I can see using this stamp for spring and making some pretty Easter cards with it. Although any rubber stamp purchases are all on hold now until the new SU catty comes out, I can't wait to get that catty in my hot little hands and see all of the new stuff. August can not get here fast enough! I just pre-ordered my catalogs yesterday and am awaiting the shipment of the few items I could pre-order from the SU sneak peek! Oh so exciting, I'm looking forward to getting some fresh new SU rubber stamps!
Its hard to see from the photo, but I used Crystal Effects on the tulips after coloring them with my Copics.

Supplies: Lockhart Tulips, Blooming with Happiness - SU, Square scalloped nestie, Old designer paper, Ribbon, Brads, Crystal Effects, Pop dots. Colors: Whisper White, Real Red.



PS, I have some blog anniversary candy coming in about eight days, so stay tuned!

I'm Back

Our family is back from up north as of last night, we all had a great time and enjoyed seeing family and having fun. The kids went boating, tubing, swimming, had silly string fights, a water balloon toss, ate smores, watched fire works, stayed up late, got sun burned and mosquito bitten and had a blast! I hope all of you enjoyed your holiday weekend and had some time to relax and have fun.

I received the Karen Lockhart image above as a RAK and have wanted to color it and make it into a card ever since I got it. I think coloring a stamped image is the best part of making a card for me, maybe it goes back to the love of coloring in a new coloring book when I was a kid (yes I was the kid who outlined every picture and colored inside the lines).
This image was colored using my Copic markers, with a little Spica glitter pen on the centers of the daisies and babies breath, then it was cut out and embossed using my Nestabilities die and matted on Brocade Blue. I used So Saffron card stock for the main background panel and some old yellow checked designer paper I've had forever for the top panel.

Supplies: Lockhart flowers, Warmest Regards, Copics, Nestabilities, Scalloped scissors, Ribbon, Baubles, Pop dots. Colors: Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White.

SC178

This card is for today's sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers, the sketch looked interesting but I'm not so sure if I can say the same about how my card turned out.

This is a new Lockhart Peaches stamp I just got, I liked the image because of the bowl the peaches are in, I have a set of dishes and bowls that look just like this. I colored the bowl of peaches using my Copic markers and cut and embossed both the image piece and the mat with my Nestabilities, then added pop dots before adhering it to the card. I wish I could remember who makes this designer paper, but I taped down the piece that had the name on it.

This week is flying by fast, I can't believe tomorrow is already Thursday!