Wacky Prize Giveaway... Sneak Peak... oh and a card -

Stampavie is in the swing baby! They are in full prize package give away. I hope you all had a chance to get your name in the hat for the one day weekend blog candy they gave away Saturday night, and then Sunday they started up "Wacky Prize Give away"!

What is Wacky Prize Give away you ask? A fun different Blog Candy. All you have to do is email Stampavie a picture of you, a friend or family with a card made using one of their stamps in the most original manner you can think of. Participate in the wacky prize give away and be in with a chance of owning the brand new stamp First Kiss from Sarah Kay before it’s available in the stores! Seriously!

All entries that we receive will be shown in a blog gallery and judged by Heidi, founder of Stampavie. The wackiest entry will win this fantastic goody bag including the First Kiss Sarah Kay stamp -

Send your entries to gallery@stampavie.com before midnight Paris-time 2nd November.
Be creative, be original, be wacky! And you really need to see Heidi and Stuarts daughter showing off a Sarah Kay card..... Stampavie Wacky Prize Give Away!

Boy you are lucky I don't qualify for the prize... I so would have a card riding a mini donkey! HA.. maybe I should do it just for fun! So have your kids dress up, train the dog... have fun cuz that is one great prize you want in for this one!

Oh and while you are there.... YOU HAVE TO LOOK at the sneak peak of the new line collection of stamps created by the talented designer Leeré Aldrich! OH I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THESE! I can't wait to get them in my hands, ink them up and color! They just look so fun! I LOVE the bathtub one! See them HERE. While you are visiting the Stampavie Blog for two things today... take a look around, there are some really cute cards from all of the DT.

Now my card for today....... With all of the Stampavie news I decided I really needed to make a Rachelle Anne Miller Stamp and "Lily - Teddy's travels" is one I had not inked yet. I really am trying before I play too much with all of my new Christmas Collections to try and use some of others that haven't been inked yet, just so much to work with right now.

Lily is colored with my Copics, Spica Glitter Pens and white gel pen, for the layout I used this weeks Sketch Saturday Blog Challenge, perfect for this image. I cut Lily with my circle Nestibilities and a larger circle for the mat from the same card stock as the base. The pattern paper is a sheet from K&Company, yes that is the reverse side... oh I love that! I cut the flower side to fill the card, the plaid side I cut the two bands. I inked the edges of everything with dark brown, then sewed it all down. The lace is also sewed down, and yes.. it sagged in one section and once sewed down... sigh its attached and no moving it. I attached 6 prima flowers, spacers and mini brads for some frill as well. The sentiment is form Hero Arts and I stamped on a scrap of the card stock and used the smallest Fiskar's Circle Squeeze Punch. I know this isn't a "Fall or Christmas" image, but hey... we had a warm front here this past few days and yesterday it was over 80 here. Then last night a cold front came through will be 40 tonight so I am thinking I am getting back in the cooler images...

Whew... that was a long post! I think I am going to go get a coke, breakfast and sit and enjoy some blogs - Have a great Monday and find some time to get inky!

HUGS and-

Two cards for Tuesday -

Spoon Full of Sugar is "Spooky" today! Yes a Halloween theme is in the plan. I will admit, I haven't ever really been into making Halloween Cards... and now this is two days in a row! And I think I want to make a few more as there are just too many adorable stamps I really want to use.

My DT card for Halloween today is again from Alota Rubber Stamps, Helene has just brought out so many really cute fall and winter stamps. This is "Witch with Pumpkin/Ghost Garland" isn't she adorable. I colored her with my Copics and Sakura Glaze Pens. I used an orange card stock as the base, the pattern paper ahem... well I did it again, the name is glued down, sorry. I matted the witch with orange and then black and the sentiment is from Alota Rubber stamps as well, looks really cool in person as I use embossing powders to do it. I sewed everything down with shiny metallic thread, now don't ask me what stitch it is... as my machine did not like this thread and was totally messing up, but after I stressed and was upset I realized it was a cool look for a Halloween card so I finished it "messed up". The ribbon is funny... it came on a cookie gift from a friend, good timing huh? Two prima flower are stacked and I cut out one of the pumpkins for the center.

Make sure to check out the other DT cards at Spoon Full of Sugar, really spooktacular this week!
Oh and don't forget there are prizes so why not make up your own Halloween card and join in!

Now my second card today was one to join in on Sketch Saturday and two because I had a new product I was dying to use! I picked out one of my Hanglar images sent by a wonderful friend and colored it with my Copic Markers. I really colored it heavy, including the background. I matted it with the same Bazzill Bling card stock as I used for the base. The pattern paper is from a Debbie Mum/JoAnn's stack, love the heaviness of these papers and the fact that they have bling to them! I found a scrap of yellow card stock and cut it to follow this weeks sketch and placed it down on the pattern paper and sewed it down with a blanket stitch. I sewed around the pattern paper and the image with a regular stitch and attached everything to the card. The image with pop dots.

I decided to color in the star with a gold Spica Glitter pen... then the new product that I got at this weekends Expo.... TAKE A LOOK AT THE MOON! then remember that in a photo you can't see just how cool this is. I put "The Stencil Collections Glazed Dimensions" over the copic ink. Now this stuff is really thick. It is like many many coats of Diamond Glaze. Really cool in person! And really cool is it comes in colors! This is the clear, but I did get a few of the colors so I plan to try them soon too. I love this stuff! I decided to not add anything else to the card, I wanted the moon to be the focus! The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Ok, now to grab some breakfast and do some blog surfing before I get my day going. Hope you all have a great day and have some time to get inky!

HUGS and-

My First Distressed Ink Coloring and a Card for Laughs!

I so love all the cards that I see on blogs that are colored with Ranger Distressed Inks. I finally decided this was something I needed to try myself. I slapped my hand twice when it reached for my Copics last night while starting this Hanglar image. I don't have all the Ranger Distressed Inks, but pulled out what I had dug for my water brush and took a deep breath. I see that this does take a lot of practice, but for my first try I am ok with how it turned out. I really see that I need to work on less ink. Mine turned out a little darker, I was really going for a lighter look. After I finished I remembered a bunch of bottles of distressing ink from Fiber Scraps that I purchased at a Scrap booking Conference, 18 colors I think. Different brand but I am sure it would work the same right? I may try that with the Rangers, as my 6 colors of Rangers were not enough choice for me. Then again I may just get some more Rangers too ;0)

For my layout I used this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge. Loved the sketch, and thought it would work well with my image I had colored. I used a yellow and sage green Core'dinations card stock for my card, with a pattern paper from Fancy Pants. I sanded both of the card stocks to match the distressed pattern. My image is cut with my Nestibilities petite ovals. I love the wide ribbon as the band behind the oval. And then in my squares I used jewelry spacers with yellow mini brads. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and is punched out with a Fiskar's squeeze punch, love that it is the perfect size for these round stamps.

I do have a second card today. I made this one a few days ago. I found some stamps from Rubbernecker stamps that I had never used. I ordered them months ago... honestly I can't even remember when. Feeling guilty that they had never seen ink, I decided to have some fun with them. One thing you have to realize, all the pieces are separate stamps. So you can do a lot of different things with them. And I love the the sentiment! LOL! "Behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry". So true... don't you think. And today I have more than one basket full! Everything is colored with my Copics and cut out. I wanted to create a room feel so I found a scrap of pattern paper that looked like wall paper, then I used a piece of light brown kraft paper stamped with a wood background stamp, then rubbed with a couple different colors of brown ink. I attached all the pieces.

Oh and let me tell you with out my Fiskars fingertip craft knife I would have never been able to cut out the iron, spray bottle, soap box and softener bottle! I wanted the washing machine window to look like glass so I cut a circle out of a transparency and attached over it. Shame you can't see that in the photographs.

I hope this card gives you a giggle as it did me!
Well it is cloudy and drizzling here today, we need some real rain not this yucky stuff. Oh well will cool things off a bit and we do have a chance of rain later in the week. Guess I had better go and sort my dirty laundry and get it done -

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit me, I really do appreciate each visit! Hope you have a great Monday-

HUGs and -

It's a Pink Day!

What a great challenge this week at A Spoon Full of Sugar! Ok, so it isn't a hard challenge at all, I love using Pink and Green together. I knew I was dying to used this image. Nikki, my fellow Spoon DT and a great friend, sent me some Hanglar images, this is one I just love!!!! Oh I would love to find this actual stamp, as I think it might be my favorite Hanglar. Isn't she just adorable. It may be because one of my many "collections" is laundry stuff.... any how I just adore it! I colored it with my Copics, and white Gel pen all the way to the edges of the paper.


I matted with a bright green card stock as close to the same color as the American Crafts card base that I chose to use. The pattern paper is DCWV loved how the bright pink and green pops together. For some fun I used a Quickutz flourish die and made two flourishes that I dabbed with a light pink ink, then stickled. Really looks neat in person, darn camera, you can't see that! How fun is the "Let's Do" stamp? It is from Inkadinkado, that I stamped with green ink. And then checked in a few with a pink gel pen. I thought it looked lop sided, it needed more on the left, so I cut two Quickutz strap dies with the green card stock and then found two pink buttons. The die comes with a button die, but this time I wanted the real thing. I gel pen stitched down the edges of everything to finish it off. I am so happy with how this one came out!


Make sure to check out all the pretty Pink and Green cards at the Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge! They are soooo pretty!




Now a second card for today!!! And it is pink too! Yesterday I read on Sue's Blog "Slumber Cards", that she is having a Think Pink Challenge for Breast Cancer Awareness and a 30,000 hits celebration Candy all in one. All she ask is that you make a card in pink and then send it to a friend that could use some tender loving care. Well I have a friend that I just want to send a "hug" too so this is perfect. For the layout I decided to give the Sketch Saturday Challenge Blog a try this week. Loved the sketch, and it was perfect for the image! The image was sent to me by Annie, one of the sweetest Blogging Buddies a person could have! If you haven't seen her blog, "Ink 'n' Rubba", you need to check it out she is awesome, and really is the sweetest! I think this is a Cuddly Buddly image, tell me if it isn't Annie... Isn't she adorable? I colored her with my Copics and gel pens. I found a My Minds Eye pink pattern paper, that had a wonderful shade of solid pink on the back, I chose a cream yellow for the card stock base and then followed the sketch. I double matted the image and doodled and stitched down the edges. The flowers and leaves are Creative Imaginations felt flowers with yellow brads, the sentiment is from Hero Arts and is punched out with a SU window punch. The ribbon is from Micheals. I like this one, sweet and simple.


Wow I just realized with out my Internet friends I wouldn't have had any images today! I love my Internet Buddies, Best Friends across the world!


Well better get going. I want to get a couple loads of laundry done before the workers down the road come and say the water is being turned off! They are replacing a pipe down our private dirt road, they just better get it done in one day, is all I have to say!


Run on over to Camilla's Blog... she has LOTS of Whiff of Joy to share! Yep stamps up for grabs in her blog candy! Go and take a look!


Oh and thank you all so much for the well wishes, I think I am better today. Hope you all have a great Tuesday, and have some time to get inky! (And don't forget tomorrow is my Blog Candy Donkey Give Away!)
HUGS and-