This week's One-Layer Wednesday Challenge (OWL 78) is to make a one-layer card using MORE THAN FIVE circles on your card. This was a real challenge for me!  Lost, I decided to clean off my work table, thinking I might find some clarity in a clean work area.  And there it was, a small pile of stamps I had set aside to use in January.  You know, those cute little snowmen, and Wintery themed stamps you don't use during Christmas, that are just perfect for a cold and snowy January day.  It's now almost the middle of February and we still haven't had a Winter, but look at this snowflake border stamp from Hero Arts I used below.  Look at all those circles and dots!  Maybe now we'll get some snow.....

Just to show you what a warm Winter we've had, look at my daffodils.  They're in bloom a month early.



Supplies:

Stamps:  Hero Arts- Snowflake Border & Memory Box-Sentiment

Ink: Palette Snow

Paper: Kraft

Accessories: Bling

Happy Stamping...

Hearts....

I made two cards for the Clean and Simple challenge (CAS156) on SplitcoastStampers.  The theme this week, "Hearts".

The card above is 3" square.  I love this size. 

Supplies:  Card #1
Stamps: Hero Arts-Happy Alphabet
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Memory Box & Vintage Music Sheets
Accessories: Heart Die-Papertrey Ink, Sewing Machine, Black Crinkled Seam Binding

Card #2
Stamps: A Muse
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Bazzill
Accessories: Felt, Dimensional Tape

I hope to post some Valentine's packaging projects for you on Sunday. Happy stamping...!
 

Happy Superbowl Sunday!  Today I actually have a post that's not  apart of any challenge.  I have a few more Valentine's Day cards I thought I would show you.  Both cards are 4 1/4 square. 

Supplies for card #1:

Stamps: A Muse

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Memory Box Cotton Candy (card base), Bazzill Grey & Doddlebug Designer Paper

Accessories: Lace Handmade Flower (my own), Doodlebug Twine, Papertrey Button, Cuttlebug, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig & MFT Scallop Die

Supplies for card #2:

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Memento London Fog

Paper: Memory Box Cotton Candy (card base), Bazzill Grey & Doddlebug Designer Paper

Accessories: Martha Stewart Doily,  Papertrey Heart Die, Cuttlebug, MFT Scallop Die & Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Make it a great week!

Rubbernecker Stamps Challenge SS8

Hi everyone!
Just a quick post today.  I discovered Rubbernecker Stamps has a challenge on Sundays.  You can find their blog here.  The challenge is called Sisterhood Sundays.  This weeks challenge was an inspiration picture seen below.

Here's my card:

I loved the colors in the inspiration picture.  They felt just like Spring to me.  And, I was just looking for an excuse to use a new die from Memory Box (the doily).

Supplies:

Stamps: Rubbernecker (image) A Muse (sentiment)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Card base & sentiment tab-Memory Box Cotton Candy, Doily-Cryogen White, Designer Paper-EK Success, Everything else-Bazzill
Accessories: Copics, Cuttlebug, Stamp-a-ma-Jig, Dies-Memory Box & Papertrey Ink

Another Cut Out Card...

A few days ago I showed you a card I did for the Less is More challenge.  You can see that post here.  I enjoyed the "Cut it Out" challenge so much I just had to do another card. 

I hope you can tell by the pictures that I cut out the heart shape with a die (from Papertrey Ink) and then surrounded it with flat back pearls.  I stamped the greeting inside the card with gray.   The card is 4 x 4.  

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Supplies:

Stamps: Stampabilities

Ink:  Memento London Fog

Paper:  Memory Box - Cotton Candy

Accessories: Heart Die - Papertrey Ink, Cuttlebug, Flat Back Pearls - Michaels 

Thanks for stopping by!

Cut it Out

This weeks Less is More Challenge is "Cut it Out".   Translation, to have some kind of hole or aperture in your card.  Oh the possibilities... but with Valentine's Day right around the corner I decided to use that as my theme. 

I'm sure there are many different ways produce this "Cut Out" technique, but I feel the easiest way is to use

one of your favorite dies.  I added a couple of small pieces of tape to keep the die from shifting. 

I found this sweet little Cherub card/picture holder and thought it would make a great card display for Valentine's Day, Anniversaries, and even baby cards too.  I couldn't resist it!
  
Supplies:
Stamp - Unknown (sorry)
Paper - Bazzill White
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories - Dies & button-Papertrey Ink Dies, Felt-Joann's, Cuttlebug and Twine

Thanks for stopping by!

A New Year...

Happy New Year Everyone!

How do you define the things you want to accomplish?  Are they resolutions or goals?

If you're like me the New Year is a time for planning and organization, or maybe that should be reorganization.    Whether you prefer to define these as resolutions or goals, I believe the process is the same.   It's really all about planning, commitment, and action. 

As part of the commitment process, I believe you have to talk about them.  Put them out there.  With that said, my stamping/scrapbooking goals for this year are:

1. Start scrapbooking again

Specifically, I want to get my oldest daughter's high school scrapbook caught up.  She is a junior this year.  My second scrapbook goal is to complete our  2011 Summer Trip.  We drove across the country (with two teenagers). 

2.  Blog more

3.  Purge  the supplies I don't use

4.  Reorganize my ribbon stash

5.  Try out for a design team

6.  Submit work for publication

7.  Practice coloring more with my Copics

In the next few days I plan to post a few tips about how to achieve your goals.  I hope you'll stop by again.  Oh, and I almost forgot, I have a few Valentine's Day projects to post too!

If you haven't already set your goals for the new year, it's not too late!