Naughty Laundry

What a catchy title for my post!! I feel pretty witty, if i don't say so myself;)Some naughty little witch left her laundry hanging in plain sight out on the clothesline! What a tramp;) lol!!
 I was playing around with my new box of Taylored Expressions goodies.....I was so stoked to get this stamp in the mail!! I am in love with it I think:) I am playing along with Mercys Tuesday Sketch Challenge this week.

I paper pieced all of the little 'dainties' and then stamped them on the cloud-sponged CS and layer the cut peices over top with dimensionals. I wanted the lace tie up on the boustierre (?) to show, thats why I stamped it on the base as well. There is alot of black and diamond stickles on the clothes and the trim and socks are coloured with copics. The polka dots on the bloomers are glazed in CE. I stamped the clothesline stakes and covered them with CE and drew the clothesline in. I applied eggplant liquid pearls around the edge of the spellbinder cut image, and layered it on top of black CS. The sentiment tag die was sponged with rich razzleberry ink and liquid pearls were used again. The black flower is actually patterned with spiderwebs..its a really cool embellie that I found at Michaels and I think it goes great on this girly halloween card;) I sponged the edges along all the layers in rich razz ink.

Recipe
Stamps: TE (Hangin out- Wicked Wardrobe)
Ink: memento tuxedo black, rich razzleberry (SU)
CS: SU
DP: Pink Paislee, Making Memories, SU
Other: Flower (recollections), Dimensional Pearls (ranger), ribbon (unkown), Crystal Effects, spellbinders, copics, dimensionals, copic multiliner.sponge

Cinema Saturday~ Edward Scissorhands

Hi there- remember my previous posts rant? Well, that night my oldest woke up with the vomitting again!! Grrr! So there I am at 1am lysoling everywhere, cleaning carpet, and showering off my poor, sick boy:( But thank God, it didn't last and he was better by the next morning, just really weak and tired. Poor kid has missed so much school lately..good thing he's a smart nut or we might be in trouble! He was at school today and did great, so I think we are home free?! fingers crossed anyway:)
And...Craig comes home tomorrow! His mom and dad are picking up the 2 youngest and heading to Calgary in the morning to pick him up at the airport and I am heading to my weekend retreat. I guess I'll just have to see him when I get home sunday night..whats a few more days, right?
So this weeks challenge over at CSCC was to make a card based on the movie Edward Scissorhands. What a great film..I remember watching it when I was just a young one...I think it was made in 1990? Poor Edward, just trying to fit in somewhere....I love the mother....'Avon calling' lol....Dianne Weist maybe? She cracked me up! And Winona Ryder as a blonde...crazy stuff. Anyway, here is my take on the challenge:

So, I'll probably have to explain this one a bit to you:) I made the card base out of yellow CS to represent pretty lil winona's hair...I seriously could not get that bad bottle blonde out of my head, so I thought I'd just go with it and use the yellow one my card. The three black strips and buckles were inspired by edwards leather belts (?) around his neck....his outfit was fantastic! I distressed the edges to make them look like his worn leather clothes. One of my fav scenes in the movie was where he was in the yard carving the ice angel and she came out and was dancing around in the 'snowflakes', so I used black and white snowflake dp and I tore strips out of it (like edward cut everything that he touched) and I used a nice winter pastel purple dp behind it. This movie went from black and white to powdery pastel suberbia, so I wanted some kind of pastels in the card (yellow and purple). Oh, back the the snow, I used 2 snowflake dies and applied black glitter to one (Edwards- the misfit snowflake) and white glitter on Wynona's...what the heck was her name in the movie anyway? Each snowflake has a matching purple stone to show that they have the same 'centre' even though they are so different. The sentiment describes how she seemed to love him even  with his differences, and of course the glitter and rhinestones are inspired by the twinkling christmas lights and snowflakes in that scene...Got it all???

Recipe
Stamps: Verve (One Person)
CS: SU
DP: Cosmo Cricket (purple), BasicGrey (black/white)
Other: snowflake diecuts, glitter (SU), small rhinestones (TE), lrg rhinetstones (Dress it Up), stickles, hodgepodge hardware (SU), tag punch (SU)

Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows

Not a super fitting title seeing as how I'm in a cranky mood tonight...lol..not sure why!? Nothing terrible happened to me. I actually had a decent day on the whole. I think it might be hormonal (TMI)...and I am feeling really sad that my hubby flies in on friday and I won't even see him until sunday night because I will be at a scrapbook/quilting retreat (which I am excited about...can you say 'sleep through the night'??) Somedays it's hard to raise 3 small ones mostly by myself. I try not to complain, because there are so many mothers out there that have it SOOOO much worse! My husband is not deployed and fighting a war in some awful place, he is alive and well, he is providing for his family, he is an amzing father and husband and is so hands-on and his favorite thing to do is spend time with our boys and do family things, etc, etc...but sometimes self pity gets the best of me and I have a few hours of 'poor, poor pitiful me' ringing in my ears;) Okay, I feel a little better now that I ranted!! haha! I hope there is someone out there reading all this jabber that I write daily...I don't get much for comments (*Hint Hint*) and it would be nice to know that I don't suck entirely....whoops, I'm on another rant! LOL- Better save some whining for tomorrow:)
Okay, on with my card! Obviously I didn't make this cheerful little number for you today (or it would have been black with a tornado plastered on the card front)..I actually made it yesterday afternoon. It was a really quick one for once! No intense colouring, die cutting, 4000 layers, bows with bad attitudes and a cantankerous sewing machine to deal with! A tiny bit of colouring, a few simple layers, easy peasy ribbon and some brads...not even teensy little button holes to thread on this button!!

The image is from Unity Stamps. I stamped it on the TE snowhite CS, coloured with copics, went over the candy jar lids and labels with a clear spica pen, covered the jars in CE glaze to make them look like glass, and went around the signs with diamond stickles. The ric rac die is MFT and i just ran the centre strip through the big shot again, repositioning it a bit to make it thinner.  The bottom stripe wavy strip is the negetive cuts from the ricrac die. The bakers twine that runs accross the ric rac strip is TE and the button is MFT. The square crystal brads are SU. The DP is My Minds Eye (I think?) and the CS base is SU, as well as the new Peach Parfait coloured ribbon (I love SU's new colours!!). The little tag and stamp to go with it are SU. I did decorate the inside, but for some reason forgot to photograph it?? Oh well, not gonna loose sleep over it (I'll loose sleep for other reasons (read: children))!

This is my take on this weeks MOJO sketch challenge:) Thanks for looking! And comment people! (see above complaints)...I'm not doing this blog for my health;) lol

See ya soon! Jenny

Oh, and I got a nice little package from Taylored Expressions yesterday, so tomorrow I'm going to play with some new stamps and embellies:) Stay tuned!!

Think Pink #4~ Penguins & Popcorn

So much for my mechanical knowledge. Appartantly you can have running lights but not enough juice to run the starter. So hopefully its just the battery:)
This is my last entry for TCP's Blog hop....I know what you must be thinking, but trust me, they said you could enter as many times as you wanted to! lol! And I am finally really happy with a card..the other pinks just weren't doing it for me:( I don't know if its because I'm not a huge pink fan, or if its that pink seems to be really hard to get a good photograph of- seems like there is never a good representation of the true colour??, or if it was just because they weren't coming together easy for me? Either way, I am DONE with pink for a little while;)
This layout was from a cardabilities sketch, and I thought that it would go perfect with the stamp that I was planning to use. These little penguins pull at my heart strings...aren't they just adorable all snugged up on the chair-and-a-half (?) with the bucket of popcorn, remote and a tissue:) They must be watching P.S. I Love You...(one of the only movies I've actually cried at) lol

There is a ton of paper peicing on this card....since I didn't want the penguins to appear 'sunken' I had to peice in the correct order so they would be on top of the chair rather than the chair looking more in the forefront. I drew floorboards on white CS and coloured with copics. I wanted the scene to have a 'grandmas living room' kind of feel, so I thought the DP from October Afternoon looked like wallpaper, so thats what it is in my room:) The television has a really retro look to its shape, so I coloured it dark to look like walnut veneer and coated it in CE. The remote, popcorn, tissue, and penguins feet and beaks are all coloured with spicas over top of the copics. CE and a rhinestone are on the remote as well. I stuck rhinestones on the TV antenna as well. The scallop circle panel is popped up on dimensionals. The rectangle/square panels are stitched and the cream flowered paper is sponged with chalk ink. The sentiment is stamped and curled to look like a banner. I didn't have any black flowers, so I coloured a mini white paper daisy with my black copic. Pink brads are set in the corners, and rhinestone flourishes are added in the bottom corners.

The inside has stiched layers of DP, more rhinestone flourishes, a paper flower and I used my 1/2" circle punch to punch out a piece of black dp and covered it in CE. The sentiment is punched with various SU punches and the edges of all the lighter papers are sponged.

Recipe
Stamps: TCP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Colorbox Chalk ink in toffee
CS: TE, SU
DP: October afternoon, SU
flowers: Prima, SU
Brads: SU
Ribbon & twine: SU
Others: flourishes (unkown), buttons (MFT), copics, multiliner, nesties, sponge, dimensionals (SU), Crystal effects (SU), bigshot, sewing machine, thread

Thanks for stopping by!
Jenny

Think Pink #3~ PJ The Bear

Hi girlfriends! Well, this is my third installment of TCP's Think Pink Blog Hop, and I will be posting my final one (I saved the best one for last;) later today. I got this card finished yesterday, but was waiting to photograph it and blog about it until I was sure that it didn't need 'something else'....but alas, that never came. LOL, so I took a picture and here I am. I thought that I would go with a peachy pink on this one (remember- I don't have alot of pink hanging around, so if you want to see more than a few patterned papers, then we have to get creative:)

I stamped PJ and coloured her (she is a she this time;) with copics. I thought that I'd go with a really dark PJ on this card (E55, E47, E49, E30, E31) Her apron is paper peiced and so is the teacup and suacer (which also has clear spica coloured over top of the dp). I glazed the tea and PJ's eyes and nose with CE. The paper is retired SU. The ribbon and card base are SU's new colour, Blushing Bride, which I kind of am digging:) I added alot of pearls here and there. I also sponged the edges of the papers with SU chocolate chip. This is an old Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge layout (I think???) I scribbled down a bunch of sketches on scrap paper months ago and so I'm not 100% sure where I got this, but thats my guess:)

This post was supposed to go up last night, but just as I was about to press the 'publish' icon, the internet crashed!!!!!!!!!! Ack!! So here I am, next morning, posting..and did I mention that my truck is dead in the garage?? the 'engine' light is on and there is no turnover at all (not even that grinding noise, which is at least an indicator of a weak pulse?) NOTHING!!! But the lights still work, so the battery is fine. Thats the extent of my vehicular diagnoses knowledge. And, my hubbys truck cratered in Sk, so he is flying home from Regina on Friday and was banking on having my vehicle here for him when he gets here (I will hopefully be gone to southern AB on another scrapbooking retreat..cross my fingers (and toes))...I haven't given him the bad news yet...I'm going to phone my dad right away and see if he can pop over and give me his take on it. And I guess my trip to Costco today is off:( Oh well, get some things done around here....yesterday i cleaned my basement and stamp room and got fairly caught up on laundry (as well as made a Kick-patootie card-which you can soak up later;). Today I should finish the upstairs work and there is a few challenges this week that I'd like to play along with:) See ya later!

Happy First Birthday!!

Today was my nephew Denim's 1st Birthday party!! My brother and sister in law rented the swimming pool and party room, and we had a great time! Denim is not supposed to get much water in his ears, as he is very prone to ear infections, but try telling that to a one year old who just wants to dip his whole head underwater!
Here is a card that I made for him. I kind of mixed a bunch of sketches to get this 'hybrid' layout;) It is pretty clean and simple (which is not usually how I roll, but I like my boy cards to be pretty no-frills! If they are for my kids and I know I'll keep them forever, then I usually pull out all the stops:) LOL

The little birthday boy is by CC Designs. I coloured him with copics, cut him out and popped him up with dimensionals onto a sponged nestie layered panel. His cupcake is a new thing that I tried. I applied dazzling diamonds glitter with tombow adhesive, which is my norm....now here's the twist: I then let the glue set a bit and applied crystal effects OVER top of the glitter.....its a really neat look and more durable than plain glitter, with the same-ish sparkly effect:) The candle flame is glitter, no CE. I did alot of paper piercing on this one, which is something that I don't often do (blame my obcession with sewing), but it adds so much and is super easy and relatively quick (if you have a template to follow to keep the holes evenly spaced- mine is SU). Baby gold brads in the corners and a ribbon tie finish it off. I did decorate the inside, but I wrote a bunch in it before I remembered to photograph it, so I left it out:)

Recipe
Stamps: CC Designs
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, cantaloupe, tangerine
DP, CS: SU (retired dp)
Ribbon: SU
Other: Baby braddys, copics, dazzling diamonds glitter (SU), CE (SU), Copics opaque white paint, dimensionals (SU), Spellbinders, bigshot,  paper piercer kit (SU)

Thanks for looking...I'll hopefully be back tonight with another 'think pink' TCP project to show you:)
Jenny

Lost at Sea~ yeah, that seems fitting:)

Well, I do feel lost at sea somedays! I think that most moms have moments where they feel like it's all going downhill fast and it would be nice for someone to just throw you a life preserver!! LOL! ONE MORE WEEK!! And then my hubby will be home:D The boys are really starting to miss him and Ryan is giving Jake the daily calendar lesson to show him exactly when daddy comes home!
So here is a card that I made for TCP's weekly challenge (TCP TUES 130). It was another one of those rascally inspiration photos!

I used the ever mischievious TCP penguins in a teacup for this one. These 3 remind me of the penguins of Madagascar.....always in hot water it seems (a little like my 3 penguins:) I wanted to use the actual teacup as my inspiration, as well as the colours. I used some retired dp from Stampin Up. I love the glitter on this stuff;) I never nose around the SS for pink, so it's good that I have occasionally bought designer paper packs from SU for my 'girly' projects:) I used SSSC88 for the layout, only I put the scallop panel (or lace ruffles in my case) on the opposite side. This card was going in a complete different direction and thats why the base is a larger size (6x6). The pengiuns and their boat were cut out and popped up on dimensional boosters. The stamped image was looking really small when my original plan was thwarted, so i added another nestie layer behind it to eat up some space. The teacup/spoon are paper-pieced. The black on the penguins are coloured with a black spica glitter pen and the beaks, feet and spoon are coloured with a clear spica pen. There are rhinestones applied around the scallops and on the sentiment label. The nesties are sponged with chalk ink. I machine stitched around the cream & pink panel and also sponged the edges of it. Some cherry bakers twine and a pink cord button finish it off.

I left the inside fairly plain as I'm not sure who will be the recipient of this one...I'll also be submitting this one for the 'Think Pink' blog hop:) Thanks for looking!
Jenny

Recipe:
Stamps: TCP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, colorbox chalk ink (toffee)
CS, DP: SU
Fibers: Lace, ribbon(SU), twine (TE)
Other: Copics, rhinestones (offray), nesties (circle, scallop circle, ribbon slide(?)) scallop border punch (SU), Cord button (SU), sewing machine, thread, dimensionals, bigshot, sponge