pretty sick kitty!

Not me! Well, maybe me a little, but I think I am finally on the mend:) I am talking about non other than Sprinkle, the diva kitty from TCP. The challenge over at The Cats Pajama's this week is 'For the Girls', meaning we make a girls card using one of their female images. Well, the only 'girl' image I have is a few sets with Sprinkle in them, and I hear she is a she indeed!

I stamped Sprinkle with memento, Cut the image out with a circle nestie and matted it in a scalloped circle nestie cut out of green felt (MFT). I stamped the bedding on a scrap, cut that out and traced the sheet and pillow on some pink toile fabric (complete with a kitty cat pattern- what else for Sprinkle would be appropriate I ask you?? lol). I did the same with the sheet (only with pink felt). For the headboard, I stamped the image onto kraft CS in black and then used a SU woodgrain BG stamp and stamped that with brown ink, cut out the headboard and glued it onto the main image on the nestie. I stamped sprinkles again on white and cut her out, colouring her eyes, nose, collar, and ice pack( hot water bottle??) with copics. I also added clear spica pen to the eyes, nose and collar. I gave Sprinkle herself a coat of black with my copic to make her extra dark. I then added her to the very top of all the peiced layers with tombow glue.
The dp is just squares that I punched out with my SU square punch, glued to a peice of white cs with a glue dot in the center of each one and zig zagged stitched along the seams with my sewing machine. DO NOT sew thru glue or any kind of tape adhesive!! It seriously jams up your machine! Don't ask me how I know this....I just do. I wanted this card to have the look of a quilt, so I also added some pleated satin ribbon underneath the pink satin ribbon and bow. I thought it looked like a bed skirt ruffle! What do you think? I added some pink and white paper flowers around the edge of the circle (it just looked a little too bare) and some pearls to the flower centers and corners of the card.

The inside is pretty simple. I used a spellbinders die and a circle nestie inside that. I punched the sentiment with a SU punch. Pearls were added to the corners.
Hope you enjoy:) Thanks for looking!
Jenny

Recipe:
Stamps: TCP, SU- woodgrain BG
Ink: Memento tuzedo brown and rich cocoa
CS: SU (kraft), TE (white)
DP: The Girls' Paperie
Other: Nesties, copics. spica, pearls (unknown), flowers (making memeories- pink; SU- white). fabric (unknown), felt (MFT), ribbon (pink satin- SU; cream pleated satin- unkown), sewing machine, thread, bigshot

What's Your Poison?

Thanks for stopping by! I am still feeling terrible, but since I'm not up for housework and running around, then I may as well get a little stamping in.....I have had some Kraftin Kimmie stamps for some time, but I had to mount them all (YUCK!!!) and then I was turned off of them for awhile for that reason...I know, I'm strange, but thats just how I roll;) But I have gotten over my bitterness regarding unmounted rubber and decided to dig this little devil out and give her some ink! I was a little daunted by the colouring for some reason, but I got it done without to many problems..I am still learning a lot about colouring with copics (ie. colour-bleeding) but I guess practice makes perfect, or at least improvement (I hope;)
This is a Mojo sketch and it's sometimes nice to have a pretty simple sketch and just focus on your main, stamped panel.

I stamped her in memento ink and coloured her with my copics. I added clear spica glitter pen to the ribbons in her hair and on her dress, apron, shoes and bottle. I trimmed her with my paper trimmer and cut around her pigtails (the sketch called for a long, narrow image, so I wanted to keep with that. I matted her with green dp (the flip side of the main skull dp panel) and then concord crush cs which I punched with my scallop edge SU punch around 3 sides. The sentiment label is cut from a nestie label and trimmed to just the one edge. The sentiment comes along with the girl image. I popped that up on dimensionals. I added dimensional pearls to the edges. The little skull on the black satin bow is just a skull from the dp that I cut out, stuck SU's new rhinestones (YUM!!!) on the eyes and coated the rest of the skull with CE. I like the way it turned out! And those rhinestones- They are freakin' gorgeous!! Yes, they are a little more costly than most, but they litterally are faceted like a diamond!! They are going to be treated like diamonds, too, I assure you! They are not something you just add willy nilly....only special places;)

I Know I've added tons of pictures to this blog, but I wanted you to see the sparkles, and the more pictures, the more you get the feel of it:) I won't do this all the time, trust me;) I sewed the edge of the large dp panel (the skulls) with a funky stitch option on my sewing machine...it kind of makes for an evil-ish feel with that sharp, wicked, black stitching, don't cha think??

See the facets on the rhinestones? I know- I think they are real diamonds...Eek!!! Look at the teeth on that guy!!!! Scary! This is my favorite Halloween paper ever and it's discontinued from last years SU catalogue...{tears}! Oh well, I am being a brave girl and not hoarding all my fav d/c items like I used too;)

Isn't the inside sentiment fabulous?? It's not one that comes with the set, but it is a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp as well! Tons of good little verses in that set! Not sure what kind of occassion for this card would call for....attempted murder? assault? intent to cause bodily harm? or just a friendly warning for a misbehaving spouse......;)

Recipe:

Stamps: Kraftin' Kimmie

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

CS: Concord crush (SU), x-press blending card

DP: SU

Ribbon: black satin (SU)

Rhinstones: SU

Other: Spellbinders, copics, spica pen, dimensional liquid pearls (ranger), CE (SU), dimensionals (SU), bigshot, thread. sewing machine

WSC/ Little Nurse

Hello out there! I thought that I'd try my luck over at MFT wednesday stamp club challenge. The challenge for this week is a sketch challenge:

When I'm not at home being a full time mama, I am a Registered Nurse, so any 'nursey' stamps always catch my eye. I've had this little MFT nurse girl partially coloured for a few weeks now. I purposely had left her dress and apron bare as I knew that I'd want to paper piece it. Since this sketch called for an oval I thought she'd be perfect! I was originally going to go with OA paper...I knew that I wanted that vintage, eclectic kind of look, and the lines from Thrift Shop and Fly a Kite are good bets, but then I remembered this paper I picked up last week. It's The Girls Paperie and I am IN LOVE!!! I'm gonna have to pick some more up next time I'm in town...it was on sale, so hopefully it's still there (there's always good ol' internet shopping if it isn't;)
Her nurse's cap is a little out of the box and I popped it up a bit with a dimensional to give it a 3D look. I coloured her with copics and shaded around her feet with a prismacolour pencil. Her dress is paperpieced with some dp and her apron with a denim scrap. I cut her out with an oval nestie and a scalloped oval nestie in real red behind her. The layers of dp are all stitched and distressed around the edges. The denim ric rac border strip is cut from a MFT die and the sentiment is punched with SU punches. I left the threads dangling, as I thought it would add to the overall effect I was going for. I punched cs and dp with my 1" and 3/4" circle punches, spritzed them with water and crinkled them up. I then added a cute little designer brad to the center and viola- my very own homemade flower embellie that coordinates perfectly with my card:)

For the inside, I used the same dp as the front, flipping it over to the green side and cutting a ric rac strip. I sewed that to the main panel using a zig zag stitch. The sentiment also comes with this set, and I broke it up in to a 3 line verse to fit in my punched small circle. I then inked the edges with chalk ink. The denim was cut using a PTI die. I also cut the same die out using 2 sided sticky paper and stuck that to the back of the denim (prevent it from fraying and stay tacked down tightly) and stuck that to the main panel, which I distressed along the edges.

Recipe:

Stamps: MFT

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Colorbox chalk ink- Toffee

DP: The Girls Paperie

CS: SU, TE (choice snow white)

Dies: Spellbinders, MFT, Papertrey Ink

Punches: SU

Other: Copics. prismacolor pencil, brad (SU), sewing machine, thread, bigshot, denim, dimensionals, spray bottle

All this thinking about Nurses makes me think that it's about time I work on my resume and get back into the swing of things in the working world!! See ya soon!

Jenny

MFTGUESTDT1110, A Busy Bee

I got my hubby off to the airport to go back to work for the next 3 weeks or so,  and came home just in time to get my entry made and submitted for My Favorite Things guest designer for November...You had to use some kind of office supplies for this challenge. I altered a little notebook that I am going to use as my 'to do' book. I used a little metal clip as my office supply and of course the notebook itself:)

I used a lot of layers and machine stitched patterned paper over chocolate CS and distressed the edge of the dp. The main image is stamped and coloured with copics and paper-peiced. I cut the little bee out with a deckled rectangle nestie and sponged with chalk ink. the antenna are 'out of the box'. I cut out a cork label and punched out a peice of patterned paper with a circle punch and adhered that to the cork. The 'busy bee' sentiment is stamped on with memento rich cocoa. I used an SU brown metal clip and tied a taupe gingham ribbon around it. I saw Michele Boyer (one of my favorite stampers) do that with these clips and ribbon(which I find I never know what to do with once I buy them, so thanks Michele for the idea!! Maybe now I'll use some of those darned little things up:) The paper is easy to fit on the cover when you use  the spiral edge punch from Stampin Up. I am totally diggin this designer paper!! I thinks I needs me some more:)

I also added crystal stickles to the antenna and wings and buttercream spica glitter pen to the honey. Since I seem to be such a 'busy bee' I thought it to be a fitting sentiment for the cover of my notebook. I stamped both the sentiment and the inside 'to do:' with TCP's Coolvetica alphabet. Maybe having a To Do list will help me keep my busy self in line and on track and therefore less busy?? ;)

The above picture is really yellow toned, I know, but it shows the glittery wings and antenna the best:)

This is my first ever journal project and I'm overall happy with the way that it came out:) So far I have only stamped 'to do' on the first page, but I think that I might do it on all the pages....and the nice thing about this journal is that when its full, I can tear those pages out and add new ones using the spiral edge punch and some heavy weight CS. No need to EVER throw this away (Note to anyone that may get a journal from me in the future: they should last you the rest of your life and I'll check in every few years to make sure you are still using it..hehe)
Thanks for looking!

Recipe:
Stamps: MFT (bee), TCP (alphabet)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Colorbox chalk ink-toffee
CS: SU
DP: Crate Paper- school spirit
Other: ribbon (SU), clip (SU), brads (unknown), stickles, copics, spica pen, dies (spellbinders-deckled rectangles; Papertrey ink- label), punch (SU), art journal (SU), bigshot, sewing machine

Pumpkins, Witches and Dragons

Hi there!!! Well, I am on cloud nine tonight (except for the boughts of coughing fits every 2 minutes that practically leave me incontinent);) lol!! Here is why I am so darned happy in the midst of feeling crappy....drum roll please......I was chosen this month AGAIN as Swanky Stamper of the Month over at The Cats Pajama's!!! I am so honoured that Alma picked my card as the swankiest! Thank you so very much Alma:) I'm sure glad that I bit the bullet last night and got my winning entry in!

Here are those little Halloween cards that I worked on this weekend for the little ghouls and boys in my family;)

I showed you a witchy little card a few posts ago (I made 2 of those and still had my 3rd neice to make one for) and here are the final cards:

This one was for my nephew Brody.....a cute little dragon with red hair to boot;) Just like Brody's. I added stickles to the wings and spikes on his back and CE to the big eyes on the top of the 'costume'....the pumpkin on the bow also has stickles and a layer of CE to give it more of a 'buttony' kind of look. This was a SSSC layout from last week, but I didn't get it entered in time....

Next up we have baby pumpkins for my nephews Lucas

 (21 months) and Denim (12 months)....Denim is really blonde and Lucas is more of a reddish brown, so I made their cards to look like them...I added stickles to the pumpkin suit here and there and to the lil jack-o-lanterns that they are holding. Again I used CE on the pumpkin punched embellishment and dotted the edge of the panels with dimensional pearls. This is a SFYTT layout.
I don't know why the top picture photographed so green?? And I'm no pro at the old photoshop elements yet, so you'll have to just accept me for my flaws in the photography department;) I wish I had 24 hr technical support.....

Lastly, the card that I made for my middle niece Harley. She is 2 1/2 and would NOT be a witch this year..She had it in her head that she wanted to be a Cyanaur (dinosaur)! So cute:) Same as the others, I added stickles, dimensional pearls around the panels. I also put some rhinestones on the top and bottom of the spellbinders die. This was supposed to be a SSSC layout, but I mixed up the direction of the panels. LOL!

And you saw the card that I made awhile back for my other 2 nieces, Gracie and Elliot..Well, that about wraps up the halloween cards....And I tell ya, all that colouring was alot of work...they might not be as labour-intensive if more little people come along in the future;) Thanks for stopping by!

Jenny

Recipe: (for all)

Stamps: CC Design

Ink: Memento, SU

CS: SU

DP: SU, Reminscence

Other: Copics, dimensional pearls (ranger), spellbinders, punches (SU, martha stewart), ribbon (unknown), rhinesones (offray), sponges, stickles, CE

Lazy Rabbit

Wow- I've been a terrible blogger this past week!! Lots of things going on + an awful cold and cough= not alot of time for stamping! I did manage to get my halloween cards all finished and this card for TCP tuesday.

This is such a fun challenge with the funky colour combo: red, pink and orange!and  I used the sketch challnege from earlier this month for this card as well (i moved the sentiment flag over a bit). Hope thats allowed! This little guy is obviously a TCP stamp. I cut the bunny with my paper trimmer so that his ear and foot are 'out of the box'. He is coloured with copics and tiara stickles are applied to the dandilion (?) fluff and mushroom spots and distressed stickles are on his tail. I used alot of layers and some black thread and paper to add some balance. The ribbon is from the new SU mini catalogue, cherry cobler seam binding and it is absolutely amazing to work with!!!! I am so pumped that I oredered the other colour that it came in too:)

Oh, and I got some new xpress blend CS for my copics and it is fab!!! Soooooo smooth!
Recipe:
Stamps: TCP
CS: SU
DP: Basicgrey- lime rickey. SU- raspberry lemonade
Ribbon: SU
cord button: SU
Other: Copics, felt flowers (unkonown), rhinestones (offray), stickles

Hi there...long time, no blog

Oh my, it's been almost a week since my last post! It's been a hectic week...my hubby came home and you'd think that would give me more time for stamping, but I seem to get less done when he's home...maybe I feel guilty if I lock myself away in my stampin room while we could be spending time together?? And I also was away at a retreat this past weekend. My baby album is almost finished:) Maybe I'll get around to posting some of my fav pages sometime. Then Monday night was my stampers group night and I spent all of monday preparing their projects and making popcorn balls for my middle sons preschool party. Tuesday was the party and that night I started getting a sore throat and feeling yucky:( Yesterday we had appointments in town and had family supper at my moms, and today I am working on getting my house ready for our annual Halloween party tomorrow night! I also have a Copics class in Red Deer that I should be going to, although I can just pick the kit up and do the projects at home without the instructors help.....I guess we'll see what the weather brings later- it's foggy right now. And this weekend we also have family from Ontario visiting...Yikes!! Busy right?
I also would like to take this time to vent a little....not like last time, hang in there- I promise I'll keep it short;) So, I worked really hard on my TCP blog hop contest (the prize was their whole new release) and then they picked a winner throught a random generator! What the heck!! I worked hard! I think that we are all adults and we shouldn't have to be treated like preschoolers who all need to be 'picked' to feel good. But I got over it:) Here is some good news: My card was featured as one of Mercy's Magnificent Musings again....Awesome! Makes me feel great, and then I read on to find out that next week she'll be going to the random generator to select her favorites (which isn't really her favorites if it's random)....In this paper crafts industry, aren't people wanting to showcase the projects that 'stand out'? Do the magazines print the cards they do because they let a random generator select them...not likely! Their sales sure wouldn't be as high if they they went for the 'no hurt feelings' method of selection. I'm by no means trying to say that I'm the best! I'm far from it, but I am striving to do my best and in all honesty, part of that is to be recognized for my creations! And I understand that if there were always the same winners that people might stop entering...they should try and mix it up a little, but I don't think that completely random is the solution either. Anyway, there's my little vent session!!! If you hung in til the end, then thanks for listening....if not, then thats A-okay too;) I have some more little halloween cards that I need to get done this afternoon while Hayes is sleeping and Jake's in preschool. My hubby is going to help my dad with some farm work, so I should have ZERO monkeys on my back.....see ya later!