SPCC #107 - Shower Posies

Welcome back! As you can see, Samantha has such a pretty color combo for us this week! I thoroughly enjoyed coloring up this pretty watering can full of posies :) My good friend, Tamie, and I were at her local scrapbook store a month or so ago and they were having a 50%-off-everything-in-the-store sale! YEP, cha-ching is right! Tamie and I scored some really nice stamps and dies that day...this was one of them....

I used Copics to color the image, Stampin' Up! paper and some nestabilities for the circle panels. The sentiment was stamped and then punched with the Word Window punch and layered on the Modern Label punch. Some grey pearls were added for a little extra punch. The layout I used was from Inspirational Card Sketches a couple weeks ago...it worked out perfectly!

Thanks for stopping in again this morning! Be sure to take some time to create with us this week - we'd love to see what you come up with using our colors! Link your creation HERE.

CAS Challenge at Totally Stampalicious

Are you ready for another challenge from Totally Stampalicious? This week, our challenge to you is CLEAN & SIMPLE: 3 layers or less! Easy peesy right?! Ha...not for me...I find CAS cards absoultely nerve wracking (or at least that's how I make myself feel)...I usually like the end result, but always fight with myself "should I put more here...should I put this flower here?" :) I always admire those crafters who pull of absolutely stunning CAS cards - I envy them :) I hope you enjoy mine....I used the CAS sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches:

Stamps: Bugaboo Brats; Paper: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake DSP; Ink: Basic Black, Versafine Onyx Black; Accessories: flowers, pearls, nestabilities, markers, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping in today - be sure to link up your CAS creation back at the TS blog...you get the chance to be a guest designer - just by playing! Good luck!

Totally Stampalicious February New Release and Blog Hop!

WELCOME TO THE 2nd STOP OF THE
FEBRUARY NEW RELEASE AND BLOG HOP!

All FOUR of the New Releases from our Bugaboo Line by artist Jodie Mackerell are available RIGHT NOW at the Totally Stampalicious Store!

And as always we have some very COOL PRIZES to give away to a few randomly selected Hoppers so be sure to leave comments on everybody's blog for your chance to win:

1st PRIZE - All FOUR NEW Stamp Sets
2nd PRIZE - $15 Gift Certificate
3rd PRIZE - $10 Gift Certificate

Don't forget the gals over at Totally Stampalicious are still offering the Stampalicious Scarlette Promotion! Spend $50 and get her for FREE!!

I made 3 cards for this Blog Hop and I can't tell you enough how much FUN I had creating them! These images and sentiments make me chuckle as they come to life on my paper :) My husband loves to see them too when I'm done - and he also gets a good laugh!

The first card is made using Exercise Stella :) I got my wonderful sketch from Peggy and the clan over at Paper Works Co. blog...

The next card I used Beer Drinkin' Gus....and this one really made me laugh! The sentiments with this set are perfect for any guy you know who loves BEER :) ha ha...I got my sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches and I turned it on it's side:

...and thirdly....this one is goin' to my wonderful lovin' man on his 40th birthday (he turns 40 while we're at DisneyWorld in a couple weeks!) Dottie Cake Surprise is perfect for a surprise birthday card! With the sketch from Sketch Saturday, I was able to use my new "pom-pom" ribbon from the new Occasions Mini from Stampin' Up!

Now it's time to hop on over to our super dooper talented lady, Cindy Haffner, to see the amazing goodies she has in store for us tonight!!

And here is the entire line-up just in case you get lost along the way:

Totally Stampalicious
Lori
Cindy
Monique
Laurie
Becky
Joycelyn
Joanne
Stacy
Vicki

Thanks for Hopping along to celebrate our latest collection of stamps!!!

4 Crafty Chicks....4 Colors!

Welcome back for another installment of crafting FUN from the 4 Crafty Chicks! This week's challenge "Hostess-with-the-mostess" is Melissa, and she chose a bright, cheery color combo for all of us to play with!

I went on a search for "just the right sketch" to go along with my stamp set that I chose and I finally found it over at Inspirational Card Sketches:

...and here's what I came up with using both challenges:

Stamps: Party This Way, Crazy for Cupcakes, Itty Bitty Bits; Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Old Olive, and Daffodil Delight; Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Basic Black; Accessories: scissors, dimensionals, perfect dots embossing folder

The stamp set, Party This Way, was a gift I received from Stampin' Up! for achieving $20K in sales last year! Woot! Woot! I was so happy to receive it, I *had* to make a card with it right away! Thanks for stopping in for our 2nd challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks and I am super dooper excited to see what y'all come up with using these awesome colors! Please put a link to your creation back at 4 Crafty Chicks blog for your chance at the "Golden Egg" badge!

For more inspiration using these colors, please check out the other "Chicks" blogs (right-hand sidebar) and leave each of them some luvin's :) Happy crafting!

A Little Dirt Never Hurt....

Good afternoon from a very chilly central Alberta...it can't decide if it should rain, shine, be windy, or calm...we've had quite the mixture of all of them today. I was blog surfin' this morning and came across 3 challenges I wanted to do this evening...Diva Coffee Break Designs (color challenge), Stampin' Royalty (pearls and rhinestones), and Inspirational Card Sketches (sketch)...

....here is my card using all 3 challenges:

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps (for Totally Stampalicious); Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, River Rock, Baja Breeze DP, River Rock DP, Rose Red; Ink: Versafine Black; Accessories: markers, corner rounder, dimensionals, pearls, gemstone (in flower)

Thanks for popping in tonight :) Be sure to check in tomorrow morning for our first challenge for the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog! See you then!

Color Throwdown #97, Sweet Stampin and ICS #70

Happy Hump Day! I can't believe this week is already half over...I've been making plans for Father's Day and looks like it will work out that my Dad can come up here for the weekend and have a BBQ with us along with Jackie and her family on Sunday :o) I believe my DH will be home by then too...so that's a double bonus!

Today's card incorporates 3 challenges:

Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Doodling
Color Throwdown - color challenge
Inspirational Card Sketches - sketch

...here is my card using all 3 challenges:

Stamps: The Best is Yet to Be; Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery, Greenhouse Gala DP; Ink: Chocolate Chip; Accessories: markers, pearls, Square Lattice embossing folder, scallop circle punch, circle punches, nestabilities, dimensionals, owl rub on (retired)

Thanks for stopping in this afternoon..I'm off to get some more laundry done and then I *think* I'm heading into boot camp tonight....I might be back tonight! Ciao!

"Magical" Color Throwdown & ICS

Hello again! Well, I made it back...I survived my 3rd night of boot camp and I must admit, I'm a wee tad sore. I think tomorrow will be a "movin-kinda-slowly" sort of day. Amazing how fast your body can resort back to "no, don't make me do those things!!!" mode after "chillaxin" for a few months! :)

Tonight Melissa wanted Tamie, Leanne and myself to join her while she did the Color Throwdown Challenge for this week. So, we did it through cyber crafting LOL...Check out the girls' blogs to see if they did the challenge....I also used the Inspirational Card Sketches challenge this week for my card....

...here's my card combining both challenges:

Stamps: A Little Bit of Magic; Paper: Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Welcome Neighbor DP; Ink: Black Staz On; Accessories: markers, white ribbon, scallop trim punch, dots embossing folder, dimensionals

Thanks girls for the fun! I am going to clean up my mess a bit and try to coordinate some stuff tonight that I can start on in the morning :) I think I need to just "be" and not use my brain too much tonight - I'm tired! Almost time for beddie bye! Have a great night! Ciao!