Card Sketch

SC180

Michaela and I did cards for SplitcoastStampers Sketch Challenge 180. I really like how her card turned out. She bought the stamp and the ribbon herself :)

Michaela's Card
She stamped the image with 2 colors of ink pads. Colored in with Prismacolor Markers. Grass skirt is glittered up with 2 way glue pen and SU dazzling diamonds. She picked out a Prima flower for her hair. Using Clear Spica Glitter Pen on the eyelashes, bikini top spots and on the sentiment added more sparkle. Main image and sentiment popped up on dimensionals.



Recipe:
Stamps: SU One of a Kind, Imaginisce Snag'em Stamps Penguin Chick
Paper: SU Pink Passion CS, GP White CS, Misc Black CS, Doodlebug Pink Glitter CS, Creative Imaginations Pink Hibiscus paper
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Green Galore Classic
Misc: Prismacolor Markers, Copic Spica Glitter Pens, Prima flower, black brads, 2way glue pen, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Dimensionals, American Crafts ribbon

My Card
I used my new A Muse Bird Bath stamp on my card. I drew the water spraying by hand by making light blue dot coming out of the fountain. Then colored a little with Clear Glitter pen and topped that with Crystal Effects. Looks really cool IRL! Bird bath water also colored over with Clear Spica Glitter Pen and covered with Crystal Effects. The body of the bird is paper pieced and glittered up lightly with Stickles. I also put a little stickles on the oval under the fountain. Turquoise Dot Sparkler stickers on sides of sentiment. Edges of Pattern Paper sponged with dauber and Blue Bayou ink. Main Image on Dimensional.



Recipe:
Stamps: A Muse Art Stamps Circle Frames Set, Animal Wishes Set, Birdbath, Small Oval, Sentiment
Paper: SU Blue Bayou CS, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White,
Ink: Ranger Adirondack Slate, SU Blue Bayou
Misc: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stampendous Turquoise Dot Sparkler stickers, misc ribbon, Copic Clear Spica Glitter Pen, Crystal Effects, Ranger Star Dust Stickles, dimensionals

Michaela's First Color Challenge

Our Saturday Evening Stamping Party

The last time I did a card challenge, Michaela (my 7 year old baby) said she would like to give it a try. Well naturally I'm excited to have her join the fun! So I set her and I up to do a Color Challenge from the Bella Forum on Splitcoaststampers. The colors to use were any shades of Yellow, Orange and a Neutral. I let Michaela read the post in the forum so she knew what the rules were. I showed her pics that were already posted in the gallery so she could see samples. She even left a comment on one :) Let the Party Begin!!

Michaela went for the bright colors.



She decided to use Watercolor Pencils. That was good...until she said she wanted to stamp Bella on this cheap yellow cardstock. This is where I had to let it go (breath in through the nose..and out through the mouth) and let her experiment. I knew what would happen with a 7 year old using a BLENDER PEN on cheap cardstock! HELLO! When Michaela started blending Bellas hair, she learned pretty fast that you can't blend much at all on this cheap stuff. Bella looked like she had a really bad hair day! The moisture chews up the paper...leaving a nice fuzzy mess. She stamped the Bellas again (yes...on the SAME yellow cs) and gave it another try. She wasn't able to blend the color as much as she would have liked, but she accomplished her goal of having these Bellas on this yellow paper. She also used a Basic Black marker and Copic Spica Glitter Pens all over for that girly sparkle that we all know is necessary :) She was really happy with her card and totally excited to get it POSTED! ha!

Am I boring you yet? LOL

Now for my card. Step aside and let a pro show you how it's done. Yeah....RIGHT!! Read on...



I started out doing the same image as Michaela (on good white cs). I had it stamped and all colored in. But all I could think about was Halloween! My Bellas looked like 3 freaks dressed up as candy corns!! It was BAD! This is where "I" had to let it go (again - breath in through the nose..and out through the mouth) and toss my....ummm...masterpiece aside. Second try - I picked HuggyBellas and went with softer shades. Of course Michaela was now DONE with her card...now watching me attempt to figure out what I was gonna do. Go figure! HA! I ended up putting Michaela down for the night and coming back later to finish up my card - like a true pro! LOL

The most important part of our little stamp party was being together. Michaela got to learn a few new things from mom (the pro)...hummm...and I got to enjoy watching my baby use her creativity. Now I look at my card and see it was meant to be....Huggybellas. Michaela LOVES to hug. Michaela is my Huggybella. We are Huggybellas. It's perfect :)



Recipe:
Stamps: Stamping Bella - Huggybellas, not so bored, need a hug?
Paper: SU Apricot Appeal, Barely Banana and Whisper White CS; Bazzill Textured CS- Brown.
Ink: SU Classic Ink - Basic Brown , SU Markers - Apricot Appeal and Barely Banana; Versamark Marker; Copic Marker - Skin White.
Misc: Copic Spica Glitter Pen - Clear; SU Crystal Effects; Robins Nest Dew Drops; SU Oval Punches; SU Dimensionals.
Techniques: Paper Piecing done on the dress and shirt.

Bella Color Challenge #26 info click here.
Click here to see all the cards posted on SCS Gallery for this challenge.

Stampin Good Time!

Challenge Crazy

Sunday was FUUUN. I got to craft for several hours. :) I was looking at some of the challenges on Splitcoaststampers and found one that got my creativity flowing. It was a Limited Supplies Challenge - LSC162. The challenge was to use only white and one other color that is NOT a neutral. See details here . Be sure to click on my pictures if you want to see them in larger detail.

I LOVE this bunny stamp from Whipper Snapper.

Recipe: Base is a 4 x 4 Gate Fold. Stamps used are Stampin'UP! Linen Background Stamp, Anna's Potted Bunny from Whipper Snapper, Some Bunny Loves You! from Great Impressions. SU Whisper White and Blue Bayou Cardstock. Blue Bayou Classic Ink to stamp background, sentiment and bunny and sponge edges. Aqua Painter and Blue Bayou ink to color image. Clear Copic Spica Glitter Pen on the bunny and the flower centers for some sparkle. SU Corner Rounder Punch, Paper piercing and faux stitching. Flowers punched with Boho Blossoms Punch. White Centers punched with Crop-a-dile and glued on. BTW...I think something is wrong with my Boho Blossoms punch....it is WAY hard to punch out cardstock and looks like it actually like rips on some of the edges. Anyone else have this problem? I'm thinking I might have to call DS and get this one replaced.

This next card I used a stamp set that I bought from my up-line. She had a garage sale to get rid of old retired SU items. Unlike me...she only keeps current products. Works for me cause I got some good deals. The set is called Garden Collage.

Recipe: 4 x 4 Gate Fold Card - My VERY first using my Scor-Pal :) VERY COOL tool!!! Main image stamped with StampinUP Blue Bayou. Sponged the edge with Blue Bayou. The 2 torn layers are attached with Dimensionals. Cardbase is stamped with SU Linen Background Stamp. White brads and spiral clip from CTMH.

For the next card I used the 2 other stamps in the Garden Collage set.

Recipe: Images stamped on Glossy White Cardstock with Classic Apricot Appeal Ink. Distressed the edged and Layered on Dimensionals. I used my Scor-Pal to score all the vertical lines on the card base. Apricot Appeal Cardstock for flowers and then hand doodled lines on them with Apricot Appeal Marker. Punches used on card are SU Ticket Corner, SU Spiral Punch and EK Success Flower Punch.

This last card was not for any challenge. I just made it for fun.
Recipe: 4x4 Card Base. I cut the cardbase about 1/2" longer and then scored and folded over the edge. Used SU Corner Rounder Punch to scallop edge. Sponged Brown on edges and on top of scalloped strip. The main image is from the Garden Collage set stamped on Glossy White CS with Basic Brown Classic Ink. Background stamp is from Inkadinkado stamped with Basic Brown. I used Cinnamon Stickles all over the background image and on the little flower. It really sparkles. SU River Rock Designer Series Paper and Brown Bazzill Textured Cardstock for layers. Marvy Uchida Scalloped Square and SU Ticket Corner punches. Wonderful Friend stamp is out of the SU set Boho Backgrounds. I used SU Chocolate Chip Marker direct on stamp to ink up just those words and a Stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up - another one of those "gotta have" tools! Flower stamped on River Rock Cardstock from SU Set One of a Kind with Basic Brown ink and punched out with Boho Blossoms Punch. Aged Copper Eyelets and Brad.

Some Fun in the Kitchen
For breakfast Michaela found this "recipe" in a Children Highlights Magazine. We didn't have bacon or banana...but we still got it done :) Michaela ate it all up!

That's it for now. Hope I didn't bore you all to death!

French Fry Tooth

She Lost It...

Her tooth that is! Michaela wiggled and wiggled her tooth for a couple days. During that time I got to enjoy her showing me how she could push her tooth back and forth with her tongue. What a lovely site! ha ha ha. While she was at school on Monday she got the job done. It was so funny when I was picking her up that afternoon as she came running toward me with her big toothless smile! She was SO excited. Of course we had to get a couple pictures.



Funny how kids get so much amusement with that little open space. It's a given that they MUST stick things out of that hole. They purposely look for stuff to do with it. Like drink through a straw with the straw sticking through the hole. Or smile at you and say "Look Mom! I can stick my tongue through the hole!" Or better yet..... "Look Mom! I have a French Fry tooth!" LOL Well...not matter what...they are SO CUTE :)

BTW - I got my free stamp set from Gina K! It's awesome. I've started working on a card and will share it as soon as I get a chance to finish.

Here's a sneak peek...

Easter Day

I have lots of FUN Easter stuff to share!

A Good Egg for Michaela

I was browsing the gallery at Splitcoaststampers (as I often do!) and ran across a super cute card made by jupiter. Check out her card here. I decided to make one and give it to my daughter for Easter. Michaela really loves to get cards. Wonder where she gets that from?! ha! Card details are on my SCS Gallery here.

We did Paper Crafting with our Easter Eggs!

Our Easter Egg dying kit had fun papers and templates to make these flowers. The pieces of square paper were folded and then cut out...sort of like how you make snowflakes. These turned out really cool! I saved the templates and instructions because we can use them for other paper crafting projects. By the way....can you find Sponge Bob hiding in there?

More Fun With My New Holly Berry House Easter Egg Stamp

As I was making a card with this new stamp from Holly Berry, I had this idea of making an ornament. I stamped the image 4 times and colored them all the same. Trimmed the out and then traced around them used my Layer Ease to cut out colored cardstock to back each piece. Scored all the pieces down the middle and then taped them together. Before I put the 4th piece on, I put the string with beads down the middle. The crystal and silver beads really add to the piece. I gave this to my daughter Alisha for Hosting the family Easter get together. (See previous post for card here.)

Family Fun on Easter Day!

Michaela finding Easter goodies.

Baby Emalie's 1st Easter.

Haylie makes the cutest Spring Flower!

Kayla and James found some really special eggs!

Kylee was as cute as can be with her girlie Easter basket. Nicholas is getting so BIG! He is my first grandchild.

Here's Alexa checking out all her Easter eggs. Brendon stopped for a "quick" picture and then off he went searching for more eggs!

That's me with my daughter Sabrina and grandaugther Kylee. We did manage to get the kids to stand still for a couple minutes to take a group picture.

When we all get together....my 3 oldest daughters always manage to get their picture taken together. Of course it's usually not just 1 shot...it's MANY shots! You know...we have to get ONE that all 3 of them look fabulous in! LOL

Ben Franklin Field Day

Ready, Set, GO!

Here are a few pics from Field Day at Michaela's school. The kids had such a good time. Michaela did win 3rd Place for Hurdles and 3rd Place for Long Jump in her class.

This is a funny video of Michaela doing one of the events. She started off putting her team behind...but they caught up and won the race!

One Nation Under God

Something special happened this morning.....

Watch this video to see what my daughter did this morning at school :)

What Time Is It?

High School Musical PARTY TIME!
Michaela's 7th Birthday

FABULOUS

Just a few of the party highlights!

Since we have such nice weather her in Arizona, the kids were able to party in the back yard. (That's a blessing! LOL) We had Hot Dogs with all the works. Did you notice the cup cakes? I punched out white cardstock with my Scalloped Oval Punch -- put stickers on them -- attached to tooth picks -- and there ya go!! The kids did a couple beading projects, played in the Bouncer and ran around just having fun. The kids are so fun at this age! The girls can't seem to "HUG" each other enough! Don't forget you can click on the pics to see them bigger.

BTW -- No Baby Yet -- Still waiting :)