Ready to Pounce

I got this stamp at our local dollar store. This little kitty is so darn cute and ready to pounce and eat that lady bug. I believe it is an Anita Stamp.
Same directions as the one I posted a few minutes ago. But this time I have the sketch to go with it I hope. LOL, if blogger will let me this time. This sketch is one of Mary Jo's at Techno Stamper.
So this card is for Mary Jo's Sketch Challenge 15 and for Chrissy's Belli Challenge 15.
Hope you enjoyed both projects tonight.
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An Elephant Never Forgets...CBC15

Here is another card I did for Chrissy's Belli Challenge 15. In fact I made two more I will share the other one too. There is also a sketch for this but blogger isn't letting me do that right now so will try again on the next one.

I got this cute little Elephant in a image swap. Isn't he just adorable? And so much fun to color too. The patterned paper was given to me by a friend. I was up late last night and couldn't sleep so this is what I ended up doing. Creating what better way to spend a sleepless night!

Supplies needed:

Stamped Image of choice.

WW card stock cut at 5 x 10 fold in half to make a 5 x x card.

Basic Gray

Patterned Paper

Gamsol

Colored Pencils

White Gel Pen to do his toes.

Directions:

Color in image and trim around and mount to a basic gray piece. Not giving a size on this cause you may not have this stamp.

Cut WW pieces of patterned paper at 4 1/4 x 2. Cut WW at 4 1/2 x 2 1/4. Mount to back of image. Then with Basic Gray cut at 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 and mount to back of the white you just did. You should have two pieces identical.

Mount them to your 5 x 5 card. Then mount your stamped image piece to that and your done. Very simple and quick to do.

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Froggy went a courtin'.................CBC15

I got these images from a lady who stamped them for me as I do not have this cute little frog. Isn't he just so darn cute.? Not sure of the stamp company that makes him, if and when I find out I will let you all know.

This was done for a Belli Challenge from Chrissy. Check out her blog and her challenge and run with it. This week is using pencils. For this one I used watercolor pencils and my aqua painter. Really simple and cute to make. I hadn't used my watercolor pencils in forever so this was a great challenge.

Here is Chrissy's challenge. This Weeks Belli Challenge is PENCILS Your challenge this week is to make a project using any kind of PENCIL! Art Pencils with Gamsol, Watercolor Pencils, Metallic Pencils...let your imagination go wild! I bought a box of Prismacolor pencils and have let them sit. I also have a box of watercolor pencils, I rarely use!

Supplies needed:

Watercolor Pencils

Aqua Painter

Stamp set of choice

WW card stock, Black, Bashful Blue and Garden Green card stock

Black Gel Pen

Blue Grosgrain Ribbon

Thanks is a rub on I got at the dollar store

Direction:

Stamp images on WW card stock. Color in with watercolor pencils and your aqua painter. Set aside to dry for a few minutes. When dry punch them out with a 1 1/4 punch and then with Garden Green punch out 4 @ 1 1/2 inch pieces mount them to the back of the froggies!

With Black Gel Pen, add dashed lines around each green piece. Cut black card stock at 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 mount images on this piece evenly.

Bashful blue is cut at 5 1/4 by 4, I used little circles with a dot in the center of them so it kind of looked like little tadpoles floating around on the blue. I used bashful blue to stamp them. Added a blue grosgrain ribbon to the side and then rubbed on the thanks aside of that. See sample for placement of all pieces.

Last cut your WW card stock at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half for for a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card. Mount the blue with all your layers onto the white card stock. Your done and it was so easy to do.

Hope you enjoyed today's project. I will try and get another one out today.

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Our New Home

I got these pages in a scrapbook swap I did several years ago and added some photo's to it and my journaling and it was completed. We moved and bought our house in July of 2004. Not much I can tell you about this except for Michelle Price is the artist on this two page layout, all I did was add the photo's and tell about it. The stamp set she used is a Retired Ronald McDonald Stamp set from SU, don't recall the name of the set anymore. Figure it was time I got the use out of some of my swap pages. Now to find a scrapbook that will fit the pages in them. This was a 6x6 scrapbook page swap. I have a ton of pictures I could add to it and pages yet.

Figured beings the first post today was about a scrapbook I would share this one too. Hope you enjoy.

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Cute Little Scrapbook Idea

I was checking out my blogs I subscribe to and Laurie made this cutest little scrapbook I just had to share with you all. I have a chipboard book I bought recently and have been wondering what to do with it. After seeing this I know what I will be doing. Thanks Laurie for the idea. Think mine will end up being either our dog Rascal or maybe my dd in her softball games.

You can see the rest of Laurie's little scrapbook here . To get your temptations going to check out the rest of her book here is the cover. Laurie's blog name is Just Give me Stamps.

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SC173 Blossoms Abound

With the snow we have had and the ice this is a welcome card to make. I love Lilacs anyway, they smell so pretty. This sketch is from SCS.

I found a package of Cranberry Crisp so that is what I used. Kind looks like one of the colors we have in the spring and summer. Can't always use Lovely Lavender and Lavender Lace for Lilacs. Come to think of it White ones would be really pretty on colored card stock. Hmmmm.....

Supplies needed:

Cranberry Crisp Card stock and Ink pad

WW Card stock
Brown Gel Pen

Old Olive Ink pad

Choc. Chip ribbon

Choc. Chip Card stock

Directions:

Cut WW card stock at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half for get 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, cut another WW piece at 4 3/8 x 3 and one at 3 1/2 x 2. On the two smaller pieces stamp your image with the 2 step stamp set Blossoms Abound, with Cranberry Crisp stamping off once for the first step and then direct from ink pad to card stock lining up images. Do the same with the leaf stamp only with Old Olive and stamping the vine to the leaf first direct from the stamp pad then stamping off once for the leaves.

With Brown Gel Pen do dashed lines all around the edges. Cut CC card stock at 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 mount to smallest stamped image. Then another CC piece cut at 4 5/8 x 3 1/4 and mount to the larger stamped image piece. Set aside.

With Cranberry Crisp cut a piece at 5 x 3 3/4, stamp with cranberry crisp with little dots. Choc Chip cut at 5 1/4 x 4. Mount to the cranberry crisp one to the choc. chip piece and add brown ribbon in the center. Mount to base card. With larger piece of the stamped image one use pop dots on back and mount to center of card. The smallest stamped image piece add pop dots and mount to center again. See sample for details on where to place things.

Your card is now finished and ready to send. This was a simple design and turned out so pretty.

Hope you enjoyed today's project.

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SC172 Be Mine Mouse

Well we survived the snow blasting and the ice from yesterday. Didn't get as much as they said we would. Whew! So glad of that. But was so slippery today my dh got 2 miles out of town almost went in the ditch 7 times and said forget work. Called in and said he wasn't coming the roads was to bad. So he came home and later we snow blowed the drive way and in front of our house as the road plow still hasn't gone by. We are back drifted in the wind is really bad today. But we ended up with about 5 inches of snow and about 1/2 inch of ice. So today was a good day to stick around home and stamp.

This is the project I found for today. It is a sketch from SCS - SC172. I used a house mouse stamp again. This one is so cute, if you look closely he is cross-eyed. He has such personality.

Supplies needed & Directions:

Scrap pieces more or less of designer paper (patterned paper) You will need two designs. I got mine at that Dollar District in Alexandria. Love them both. Cut your pieces at 2 1/8 x 2 1/2 (2) of these and you will also need (2) cut at 2 1/8 x 3. Look at my sample for placement. So you end up needing one cut at 2 1/8 x 2 1/2 and one cut at 2 1/8 x 3 of one design of the patterned paper. And one cut the same of the other choice of designer paper.

WW card stock is cut at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and folded in half. Mount the cut designer pieces to the card as shown in the sample.

Choc. Chip Ribbon (SU) cut at 5 1/2 inches and place in the middle of the card, covering that seam.

Stamp image with Stazon Black on WW card stock. Use gamsol and colored pencils on mine, you can use what you are most comfy with. Color in image and trim to size. Then with a piece of Choc. Chip card stock cut 1/4 inch larger and mount to the stamped image. I used pop dots to mount my stamped layered image to the card.

Pretty simple and quick. Hope you enjoyed today's project. And those of you that was in this snow and ice storm we got, I hope you faired out and didn't get it to bad. I heard some towns further north of us got 18 inches. Certainly happy it wasn't me.

Stay tune tomorrow for a SU image card.

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Look What's Happening here

It is really coming down. Yup on April 25th we are getting blasted with the white stuff. We had hail for about 3 hours then it turned into this. DD softball game canceled and my youngest had a dance and a sleep over at his school for tonight, just got a call and they finally canceled that too. Today is my Mom's Birthday too, what an awful thing to wake to. It's not safe for man nor beast out there.

My police scanner is just buzzing with roll overs and traffic accidents. I less than 10 minutes we had 8 roll overs on the scanner near us. Not to mention the next towns over.

They are saying we are to get dropped up to 8 inches of snow tonight and have more coming tomorrow and through next week off and on. Mother Nature time to wake up! It's Spring Already!!

I will try and get some stamping done while this stuff is invading us and share.

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Mouse Gift Card

I just got done making this, haven't been stamping. Ever get those days that you couldn't drag yourself to your craft table to stamp or scrap? Well I have had several days like that so hence the no posting lately. Plus we have had one appointment after another and I am drawing near an end on them I hope.
Anyway, we was in Alexandria, MN for an appointment earlier this week and found the Dollar District store. I was in heaven with the stamping and scrapping supplies they had. The designer paper on this card is from the Dollar District and I just love it. Picked up a couple of sheets along with some matching ones to go with it. Found a bunch of goodies and you will be seeing them as I post too.

A lot of you have been making the Gift Card Holder Cards and I thought I would jump in on the band wagon on that too. So here is my sample and a blog to show you how to make them. I followed the directions for this on Dawn's Stamping Spot. She has really good tutorial and some pictures for you too. Instead of doing the band of card stock around mine though I used SU's Choc. Chip Satin Ribbon. Love this stuff it is so easy to work with. I messed up on the saying at the bottom though. I hate when you get a project almost done then do that. But when I stamped the saying it had ink on the edge and I didn't catch it and it left a shadow on the end of the saying. Grrrr! I hate when that happens. Here is a picture of the inside of mine also. I only scanned one side as the other looks the same.

So lets get on with the supplies needed:

Designer Paper of choice Cut at 3 7/8 x 2 6/8, You need 3 of these.

Choc. Chip cut at 4 x 3. You need 3 of these.

Pretty in Pink cut at 4 1/4 x 11.

Punch a Choc. Chip Scalloped Circle and a smaller one done in white.

Image is from House Mouse and stamped with Stazon, then colored in with Gamsol and colored pencils.

Choc. Chip Satin Ribbon is cut at 6 1/2 inches.

I cut a slit in the choc. chip scalloped piece for the ribbon to slide through. You will need to cut so it is under the image. When your ribbon is weaved through this tape ended together in the back of this piece.

White Gel pen around the edges of the choc. chip scalloped circle.

Stamp a small saying at the bottom.

Otherwise follow the directions on the video that Dawn did and you can complete this project in no time. I think on the inside I will stamp Happy Birthday in Choc. Chip Ink, but until I get to the point of giving it I will wait on that.

Hope you enjoyed the project today.

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Softball Bunny CBC14

This card has several purposes. One for my dd that was asked by the coach to be on Varsity which is a dream of hers. Two Chrissy's Belli Challenge 14 and a sketch I did a few days ago. You can see that sketch card here. I love this bunny, he is so cute and fit the occasion perfectly. Chrissy's Belli Challenge (CBC14) calls for ribbon but not used for tying knots or bows but to use it in a different way. So this card fit that too. And I just had to try that sketch again for this one. You can use that sketch so many different ways. Ok so on with the supplies and directions.

Supplies needed:

Whisper White, Real Red card stock

Scalloped punches

Gamsol and colored pencils

Ribbon, I used stitched ribbon in black and red to match the card

Softball from an old SU set

Happy Hoppers Stamp from Stampabilities

Black Ink

Black and White Gel Pen

Directions:

Cut WW card stock at 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 when folded you have a card that measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.

Cut RR at 4 x 5 1/4.

Cut WW at 3 3/4 x 5 and stamp with black ink the softballs all around for background. Mount to RR piece, add a strip of stitched red ribbon to the center and mount this to the basic card.

Punch a larger scalloped circle in RR and with White Gel Pen make dots and swirls on the scallops. With a smaller scalloped punch, punch out a white one and stamp Sweet on it with black ink, add dots with Black Gel Pen. Mount the two together and set aside.

Stamp image with Black Stazon on WW card stock cut at 2 6/8 x 2 1/2. Color in image with desired coloring method. Cut RR card stock at 3 x 2 3/4. Mount stamped image to this.

Cut a piece of red and black ribbon approx. 1 1/2 inches long and fold in half and mount to back of stamped image as shown in sketch. Mount this to card as shown in sample. Then mount your scalloped saying to the lower corner of the image on the right hand side.

Didn't this turn out so cute?

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