Some Sad News

Sorry for being MIA, I made some cards for the Verve release party on Thursday but I was unable to post them and a lot has been happening around here.

I write to you to inform you of some recent bad news. My grandfather past away, at home, among family, yesterday afternoon at the age of 86. He would have been 87 on October 11th. He was very ill. He had a pacemaker, emphysema, alzheimers, parkinson's, and he was on Oxygen. We knew he was very ill and he had lived a long life but we did not expect it to happen as quickly as it did. I recieved a phone call Saturday morning from my brother telling me that if I wanted to see our grandfather alive I needed to make the two hour drive to my grandparents house. They were unsure of how much longer he had. Then a little later as I was traveling, I recieve another call saying that he had passed. No one expected that it would be as quick as it happened. Never the less the family who was near his bedside said it was very peaceful and he just closed his eyes and was taken to a better place.

So this weekend I have spent my time with family and with my grandmother. We do not know when the services are going to be held but we believe sometime later this week, we will know for sure tomorrow morning.

If I am not around this week this is the reason why aswell as the fact that I will be trying to catch up with classes that I may need to miss to attend the services.

He was blessed with long life and a big, supportive family. May avo(gpa) Borges rest in peace and watch over us.

Digital Ink Co. Poppy

Hey there,

Happy Thursday to ya. Just wanted to share a quick card with you all. You may have already scene this card over at Digital Ink Co. Challenge Blog so I just want to share it quickly with you today, since I don't have any other card to share with you since everything that I have created has a later date to be shared with you.

Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Poppy by Jules Junk (Digital Ink Co.), OCL Coastal Wishes sentiment
Paper: Nana's Nursery Baby Girl Stack (DCWV), Black Cardstock
Ink: Pitch black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Accessories: Rhinestones, Stickles, Martha Stewart Mini Hearts Edge Punch

Club Anime Kit & Image Release

Hey there,

Are you ready for Over the Hump Day? We're half way through the week AND half way through the month, so InStyle Stamps is celebrating with a little candy.

This month we are giving away 3 custom cd cases that contain 5 Journal Cynthia images printed on Neenah paper for you to color and a CD filled with InStyle Stamps Non-Anime Images. That's over 80 images, absolutely free...just for creating a project!!! How great is that!?! Be sure to pop on over to the InStyle Stamps blog for all the details on how you can be entered to win.

On another note today, over at Club Anime we are launching our new images and kit for October. The kit is super cute and it includes some great paper and ribbons, you just have to have them, I know I did!!! We are also launching our new images for October and they are definitely a must have too. They are sooo cute!!!

I got to play with the new image called CC, isn't she cute. She makes me want to go find some monkey bars at some local school and play on them. I loved the monkey bars as a child, I was always playing on them. This image really makes me want to go find some ;-D lol. I paired CC up with some of the paper and ribbon from the October Kit, and then I added some pink rhinestones, that I had, and I typed up a sentiment, "Let's hang out!!!", lol I thought that was pretty clever.

Check it out, CC definitely knows how to have fun on the monkey bars!!! Enjoy!!!!




What are you waiting for, head on over to the Club Anime website and join the club, and get your hands on some of these great goodies, play in our sketch and color challenges, and see what the rest of the DT has in store for you with sneak peaks!!! Click HERE for all the info!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 x 5
Stamps: CC by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Club Anime Kit Bo Bunny Delilah DP
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, SU Word Window Punch, Making Memories Sabrina Gem Stickers, Ribbon, Spica Clear Glitter Pen, Sakura Glaze Pen

ISS Method Monday Slider Card

Hi there,

Today I want to share with you my Method Monday, yes that was yesterday, and you may have already seen it over at the InStyle blog. For yesterday I was to post a Method Monday post where you make a tutorial and teach something. So I thought it would be super cute to make Swinging Cynthia fly/swing across my card. So in yesterday InStyle Method Post I taught how to make a Slider Card, which is not to be confused with a Spinner Card found on SCS.

So here are some sneak peaks of my card, now go visit the InStyle Blog for my Tutorial and how to make your own.

Enjoy!!!







RECIPE:
Card Size: 6 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Swinging Cynthia by InStyle Stamps
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Rhonna Farrer paper Pad, Summer Ete
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Martha Stewart Picket Fence Edge Punch, Stickles, Rhinestones, Foam Tape

Digital Ink Co. Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to Week Two of the Digital Ink Co. Challenge.

The Challenge this week is a sketch by Tami Mayberry...thanks Tami!!! And the images used this week by myself and the rest of the Design Team are from Reece Designs.

We are going to start using a Digital Ink Co. code so that you can upload your work to SCS, PCP and SNR. The code this week is D-IC002. Be sure to continue using Mr. Linky on this post or we won't be able to see your entries.

Check it out here is my take on the sketch challenge. Enjoy!!!




Don't forget to check out what the other design team members have created.

Boni
Teri
Micki
Diane
Jackie
Tanis
Darlene
Jennifer
Kim

Thanks for stopping by!!! Have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Bucktooth Charlie by Reece's Designs (Digital Ink Co.),High Hopes Farm Background,
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: K&Company, LLC 12x12 Denim Flat Paper, Cardstock, The Paper Company Navy Blue Cardstock, LLC 12x12 Cowby Red Gingham Flat Paper, White, Brown, & Blue Cardstock,
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Black and White checkered ribbon, Martha Stewart Picket Fence Edge Punch

Featured as a CAS Fav for Week Ending September 13, 2009

Honestly what a great pleasure, I got featured again as a Splitcoast CAS Fav of the week. If you go to the CAS Fav link this card, CAS Lighthouse using a Doodle Bean Digital Stamp, is featured in the 4th post by Laura. I'm so excited to be featured again!!! Thanks Laura I really appreciate you featuring my card and I am so glad that you liked it!!!

Thanks again ladies, enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Whiff of Joy Stamps - Guest Designer Call

Whiff of Joy is looking for passionate, talented crafters with great colouration skills to complement our Design Team for the next 2,5 months (end september, october, november).

Some important info:
Everybody can enter from anywhere in the world!!
You can submit as many cards as you like.
You have to use at least 1 Whiff of Joy Stamp on your card!!!
The Guest Designer Call ends on Saturday, September 19th, 8 pm GMT+1

What do you have to do to enter the Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call?

1. Create a card, scrapbook page or papercraft project using at least 1 Whiff of Joy stamp
2. Post your creation on your blog (and SCS gallery if you have one) letting people know about our Guest Designer Call
3. Add your name and a link to your post to the Mr. Linky Widget here

For more details check out Katharina's post.

So here are a few of my cards for the WoF Design Team Call. Enjoy and thanks for taking the time to consider me!!!

Original post for this card found here, dated Sept. 8th.
Original Post for this card can be found here, dated Sept. 10th.




Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Lighthouse

Hey there,

Just a quick post for today. I have had a lot going on lately and I am still not feeling 100%, so bare with me. I just wanted to show you all another one of my clean and simple Doodle Bean Digital Image cards. I made several clean and simple cards when I first got these images to become acquanted with digi images and I still plan on making more cards with these image so stay tuned for some more Doodle Bean Digi stamp cards. They will be coming soon. As for now, Enjoy my lighthouse card!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Lighthouse, OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Whisper White
Accessories: Paper Piercer

ISS KIT Shannon

Hey there,

Thanks Goodness It's Friday!!!!! What a week, I must say. Nothing worse than having a week where you're all achy, and sneezy, and sniffly, and you can't stay in bed and rest because you don't want to get behind and it's only the second week of school. Uhhh that's how my week has been, and I am totally looking forward to a relaxing weekend where I can rest up and hopefully get ride of my sniffling and sneezing. I just hate being sick, I get so miserable!! I would totally stay home and rest up but I know that If I miss school for a minor cold it's not worth it and I get behind, so I drag myself out of bed and off to school even though I know I really shouldn't be there. Enough about that huh, how about some good news.

Yeah!!!! So remember how I announced that I was on the InStyle Design Team, well I have a card to share with you today!!! Oh I am so excited to be on this DT, they have some of the cutest images and I have always been a fan of them, who knew that I, me, would be designing for them. It is such an honor and I am so glad to be a part of such a wonderful company and work along side some awesome design team members.

Yup so the other day I went to the mail, and there was a package and sure enough it was some goodies from InStyle, some kits, a welcome package with awesome paper and ribbons and a stamp. I was so excited I rushed in and began creating. And if you know me I don't just make one card I make as many as I can make before I have to go to bed, and sometime, this is really bad, but I get into creating and I forget that I have to use the restroom and I forget that I need to eat, lol that's how into creating I get. I don't know If anyone else gets like this but I think it's kind of silly of me. But yea when it was time for me to go to bed, or more like I noticed it was past my bedtime, lol, I had already created 5 cards using all the different InStyle images and goodies that I had gotten. So Im pretty much ahead of the game, which definitely works for me because with school and everything I definitely don't want to get behind, it could be really bad!!

Ok, ok so enough blabbing, I'm sure you have all had enough!! So here is my card using some of the goodies from my InStyle package. I don't know what the papers name is so bare with me. I used Shannon, she is just too cute isn't she, I wish I was as happy as she is with her ice cream, mmm my fav, and her little doggy. So Cute!!!

Enjoy!!!




Check out the ISS blog if you haven't already! There's a challenge every Wednesday- Joy's hosting this week-you can win a free digi of your choice!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and enjoy your weekend!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 6 1/2 x 5
Stamps: Digi Shannon by InStyle Stamps
Paper: ???
Accessaries: Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, Stickles, Silver Rhinestone Stickers (Michaels), 3-D Zots

WoJ Celebrating Donkey

Hey there,

Here is another birthday card. This one using Whiff of Joys Celebrating Donkey. I just love these little celebrating animals, they are so cute!!!

This time I went for a more feminine card. One of my girlfriends is turning 30 so I wanted to make her a cute little card, but I'm thinking that I need to make another one because this one is not the one for her. I guess I had a different idea in my head when creating it, and it just didn't come out the way I had pictured it for her card. So I will have to give it another try before her Birthday Cocktail party in two weeks. It still came out nicely, but this one is just not for her.

Enjoy!!!!


Just a quick note don't forget to check out my Digital-Ink Co. Challenge post from Monday. Head on over to the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog to get your free Jules Poppy image so that you can enter our challenge and get a chance to win Lil' Cowboy Stamp by M&M Designs, he has the cutest little butt I have ever seen ;-)!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Whiff of Joy Celebrating Donkey, Savvy Stamps Birthday Set
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: Me&My Big Ideas Fashion District Paper Pad
Accessaries: Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, EK Success Retro Flower, K&Company Adhesive Gems, SU Word Window Punch, 3-D Zots, Sakura Glaze Pen

Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Tulip

Hey there,

Just wanted to share with you a CAS card for Doodle Bean Digital Stamps. They have this awesome tulip for purchase. It is so beautiful!!!! I wanted to make something simple with it cause it's just perfect by itself. Check it out and I'm off to make cards until 5:30 when I leave for my night class.

Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Tulip, Verve Floral Symphony
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Whisper White

WoJ Celebrating Mouse

Hey there,

Sorry for the late post today, I had the images uploaded but I didn't get the chance to put the complete post together. So here it is, another birthday card this time using Celebrating Mouse by Whiff of Joy. My boyfriends bother's 30th birthday is coming up so I figured I would make a masculine card. So here is what I was able to come up with.

Enjoy!!!



Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Whiff of Joy Celebrating Mouse, OCL Coastal Wishes
Paper: Rhonna Farrer Enjoy Paper Pad
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Accessaries: Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, K&Company Adhesive Gems, Stickles, Sakura Glaze Pen

Digital Ink Co. Image Challenge

Hi everyone, did you hear about the new digital stamps store called Digital-Ink Co.??? How about the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog??? The Digital-Ink Co. has a ton of artist with some of the cutest images around!!!! And with a new digi store and a challenge blog comes a very talented Design Team, there are 10 of us to be exact!!!

Each Monday we will bring you all a new challenge, and our design team will share their interpretation of the challenge here for you to see. We hope that you will all play along with us! If you play along you may receive a free image ;-)!!!

Want to see who is on this Challenge Blog!!! Then drop on by our blog Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog and leave us a message, we would love to hear from you!!!

While you are there we would love for you to take our badge and display it on your blog!!


The challenge today at Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog is an image challenge using Jules Junk Poppy, found at Digital Ink Co. And to play in our challenge this week you get Jules Poopy as a freebie to use in our challenge and submit to Mr. Linky for a chance to win a free image from the Digital-Ink Co. Store. Sounds like fun,huh, so hurry go to the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge blog to download Jules Poppy so you can create something for our challenge, and don't forget to return to submit your creation to Mr. Linky.

Check it out, here is what I came up with using Jules Poppy. Enjoy!!!!





Don't forget to head over to the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog to get your Jules Poppy so that you can enter our challenge. And don't forget to check out what the other design team members have created.

Boni
Teri
Micki
Diane
Jackie
Tanis
Darlene
Jennifer
Kim

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Jules Junk Poppy (Digital Ink Co.)
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: S.E.I Bridgeport Paper Slab
Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Sheer Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots, Corner Rounder Punch, Martha Stewart Lace Doily Edge Punch, Pearls

Featured as a CAS Fav for Week Ending September 6, 2009

Check it out ladies, I got featured again as a Splitcoast CAS fav of the week . If you go to the link this card, CAS Baby Laundry-Girl, is featured in the 1st post by Susan and this card, Everlasting Life, is featured by Diane on the 5th post. I'm so excited to be featured again, it is truly such an honor!!! Thanks again ladies I really appreciate you featuring my cards!!! Your more than welcome to do it anytime!!! ;-) lol

Thanks again ladies, enjoy the last day of your labor day weekend!!

Birthday Tiers of Treats

Hey there,

Another short post today. I have a few birthdays coming up so I decided that I need to get some more cards started, so here is another one that I made. Don't forget that tomorrow is the launch of the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge Blog, there is some good stuff in store for you all so go check it out. If you want to see what some of the Design Team members have been up to go check it out, there is a post with some gorgeous creations form them.

Here's my birthday card, Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to come back tomorrow to see what I've created for the Digital-Ink Co. Challenge!! Have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Stampendous Tiers of Treats, Verve Circular Sayings
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Me&My Big Ideas Fashion District Paper Pad, Brown Cardstock
Accessories: Silk Ribbon, Nestibilities, Liquid Applique, Sakura Glaze Pen, buttons

CAS OCL Happy Birthday

Hey there,

Just wanted to share a quick and simple CASE card from Dawn at My Favorite Things. Just like Dawn states in her post, "This card just goes to show you that if you have a great pattern whether it's stamped or a piece of lovely patterned paper, you can have a beautiful card in minutes by just adding a few small details." It is so very true. Check out what I came up with using her idea!!!

Enjoy!!!!




Sorry for such a short post today, I'm still trying to get myself together from my first week of school. Im going to need to get some balance and figure things out, thats for sure. So if I'm not around, which I will try my best to do, I make several cards at a time so that I can schedule them, just be patient I will pop in every now and then with Design Team stuff.

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a wonderful Saturday and a safe Labor Day weekend!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: Karen Neuburger sorbet: lime sprouts
Accessaries: Ribbon, Button, EK Success Embossed Curve Edge Punch

Doodle Beans Digital Stamps

Hey everyone,

So today I want to share with you some super clean and simple cards that I made using some new digi stamps from Doodle Bean Digital Stamps. Have you heard of them?? They have some great images over there, you should really go check them out, and while your there check out their idea gallery and their design team for more inspiration.

So today I used the Baby Laundry-Boy and Baby Laundry-Girl images for my two cards. So because this was my first time playing with these images I decided that I wanted to go super simple and clean just to get an idea how these images would look. As simple and clean as they are I think they came out great.

Take a look and Enjoy!!!!





Now head on over to Doodle Bean Digital Stamps to check out their fun images!!

Thanks for stopping by today, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Doodle Beans Digital Stamps Baby Laundry-Boy & Baby Laundry-Girl
Ink: Copic Markers
Paper: Whisper White,

OCL Relax & Enjoy Lighthouse

Hi there,

I hope everyone is doing well. My first few days of school have been going well. So far I think this semester will be a good one.

A few days ago I told you all that my boyfriend and I were going to take a little trip before school started and for him to relax a little from work, which that didn't work to well, his phone rang all Monday long with clients asking for stuff. But other than that we had a wonderful time. We definitely did some sight seeing and I definitely got a few good pics. Check them out.

Walton Lighthouse in the background

We went out to get a better look at the lighthouse and in the distance we saw dolphins, I was so excited!!!

This last one is definitely my favorite picture. The other pictures are good too but they need some Photoshop help, which just so happens to be one of the classes I'm taking this semester, Digital Photography, so hopefully by the end of the semester I will be able to brighten up the pictures and not make us look so dark. I'll definitely be paying attention in that class, not that I don't normally pay attention or anything ;-P, lol, It will definitely come in handy!!

To go with my Lighthouse pictures, I made a lighthouse card using OCL Coastal Wishes Stamp Set. It goes perfectly with our little getaway. Check it out. Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Whisper White, Green cardstock
Accessories: Paper Piercer, button

Everlasting Life

Hey there,

I hope you are all having a great day!! I officially started up school again yesterday. Classes were great but I wasn't quite looking forward to it. I'm just ready for the year to be over so that I can graduate. It's only the first week of school and I already have Senioritous, hmm what am I going to do, heck, I'm going to get down and dirty and hurry up and get done with school, that's for sure, I've got a big reward at the end of the year, yes a big reward, so all I have to do is graduate and wait, lol, it will come, so he says lol ;-D.

Anyways here is a quick card that I made. I was inspired by this card by Silke Ledlow from My Life, so I decided to CASE it and use my Verve stamps. She has some great ideas, extremely talented!!!

So here is my CASE card, Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: Verve Verve Everlasting Life, Verve Beautiful Kindness
Ink: Classic Stampin' Up Kiwi Kiss, Scarlet ColorBox Pigment Ink
Paper: Red, Kraft, Whisper White Cardstock
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Silver Pearl's (Michael's), 3-D Zots

A little secret for you!!!

Shhhhh I've been keeping a really big secret!!! But wait let me grab a ladder and get myself to the roof to let you all know...k wait, give me a second I don't do ladders to well...
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Ok, Ok I've made it to the top. Ready??? "IM ON THE DIGITAL INK CO. DESIGN TEAM, YEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Oops did I wake you?? Oh so sorry, lol, nahhh not really!! I'm so excited can you tell!!!!

The Digital Ink Co. is a new digital image store, which opened its doors on August 24, 2009 and we are all sooooo excited for this new adventure!!! There are soooo many great artists and soooo many great images. Check out all of these images on the Digital Ink Co. Store Blog and if you see something you just can't live without head on over to the Digital Ink Co. Store. We also have a great challenge blog with some awesome challenges, let me tell you, I know, I've been playing with these awesome challenges. Our first Challenge is Monday September 7th so don't forget to head on over there to check out the challenge and see what the new Design Team has in store.

Speaking of the Design Team don't forget to head on over to their blogs and see if they are shouting off of their roof tops and while your checking them out don't forget to give these awesome and very talented ladies all a big congrats, they deserve it!!

Boni Boutelle-Jones
Teresa Sherman
Micki Harper
Diane Davies
Jackie Semark
Tanis Palmer
Darlene Pavlick

Lastly I would love to share with you all a card that I made using some stamps from this set to the left by Reece's Designs. She and all our other artists are quite talented, thats for sure!!! Check out all of the work by our talented artist here and for this specific set, you can purchase it here. It's an awesome set for Halloween and Thanksgiving!!!

Alright, enough babbling I hear you saying, just get on with it, right!! So here is what I created. I hope you all enjoy and I hope you will come back soon to see what myself and the other design team members have created and don't forget that on the 7th our challenges begin and I'm sure you won't want to miss out!!

Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and don't forget to come back soon!!!

RECIPE:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Pumkins (It's Halloween - Stamp pack) by Reece's Designs (Digital Ink Co.), Verve Miracles Blossom
Paper: Making Memories FabricBrocade Greenhouse Paperie, My Mind's Eye Tres Belle "Play" Floral/Apricot Papier, Whisper White cardstock
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Accessories: Ribbon, buttons, Embroidery Floss, Spellbinders Shapeabilities Ribbon Tag Trio, Paper Piercer, EK Success Embossed Curve Edge Punch