A Sweet 'n Sassy Saturday

Hello friends!!  FIRST OFF....I have to clarify that I am not leaving the blogging and card making world, I'm just leaving my DT's at this time, due to the fact that I'm just not going to have the time to commit to them.  I'll still make time to play but it will be on my time.  Thank you all for the well wishes but you can still come and visit me!!  :)

As some of you know I have been guest designing for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps this month and I have to say that I am having lots of fun with it.  Today I have a card for you that I created after receiving my Split Coast Stampers Weekly Inkling.  OMGosh, I was so inspired that I had to give it a try and the stamp set "Spring Tulips" was perfect for it!!!  Here's my card...

Okay, now for some details about my card.  First off I stamped my image on Kraft cardstock with Distress ink and then added clear embossing powder over the top and heat embossed it.  Then I used the "Bleached Out" technique by Beate Johns at SCS to bleach out my image.  It turned this really pretty pale yellow color.  After the bleach was dry I used my Copics to add a little dimension to the tulips and petals.  After I finished coloring I used my Spellbinder Grand Calibur to cut my image out and then ran it through my Cuttlebug in an embossing folder.  I then used my Distrezz-it-all to distress the edges.  I was trying to do the "Faux Fabric" technique (tutorial by Karen Barber at SCS) but I didn't have the right embossing folder so this is what I used.  I think it still looks really pretty!!  :)  After I had it mounted on my scalloped oval I used my Smooch Spritz over the image.  I sure wish you could see it in the picture because it really is pretty!!!  I then stamped and heat embossed my sentiment from the same "Spring Tulips" stamp set.  I have used this really gorgeous paper from MME called Stella and Rose and OMGosh...I LOVE THAT DP!!!

Copics Used:
Tulip - Y32, Y35, Y38
Leaves - YG63, YG67 and G40

I hope I have inspired you a little today and seriously....YOU WILL LOVE THIS STAMP SET!!!

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have a spectacular weekend!!

As I Say Goodbye

Hello all my dear sweet friends.  With much sadness I announce that this will be my last challenge with Phindy's Place.  Since my hubby retired in January a lot of things have started happening in our lives.  We are getting ready to build a new shop and a chicken coop (I have 55 little babies that are going to need a home in about 4 weeks), time to move the worm business to the next level and my step son and DIL have asked me to continue homeschooling my granddaughter through the summer.  I just have too much on my plate and I don't feel that I am able to devote the time needed for DT work at this time.  I have been with Phindy from the very beginning and it breaks my heart to have to let go but being the anal person that I am...I can't do anything half assed!!!  With that being said, I present you with my final farewell card and hope that all of the friends that I have made through Phindy's Place along the way will continue to come visit me.  I'm sure I'll have a card or two for you along the way.  My cards seem to be getting more and more simple.  :)  Must be the time restraint!!  Your challenge for this week is to use the colors Purple and Teal.  Here's my card using one of the Wee Babbie images called "Fresh Buns" and I just couldn't help the play on words!!  :)

LOL....isn't she just the cutest thing ever!?!  OMGosh, as soon as I saw her I fell in love and had to have her.  She fit perfectly with the way I was feeling!!  I really wish you could see this card in real life.  That little purple thing on my flower is actually a little clothes pin and all of my bubbles have been stickled!!

Copics Used:
Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13 and E95
Shower Cap and accessories - V0000, V12, V15, V17 and BG70, BG72, BG75
Tub - C00, C0, C1
Bubbles and Water - B0000, B000 and RV0000

I used a Sky Blue MultiLiner SP to color her eyes.  I really do love those pens, especially for color eyes!!

I hope you will join us this week for this AWESOME color challenge at Phindy's Place and dang, you should see what the rest of the DT has created!!!  They are amazing and I am so going to miss working with this group of super talented girls!!

Thank you for stopping by today and hope to see you at Phindy's Place!!

Have a good one!!

A Sweet 'n Sassy Birthday

Happy Saturday!!  :)  Whew...just about forgot about my post today.  We have been busy getting ready for 30 new baby chicks that are supposed to be here on Monday.  This will be my very first time raising chicks so I am pretty excited about the whole thing!!  Beds are all warm and ready for their arrival.  :)

Anyway, today I have a card for you using the new Sweet 'n Sassy digi images called "Circus Fun" and these are some seriously cute images!!!  You can also get them in stamp format for all you diehard stampers out there!!  :)  Here's the card I have for you today....

I ended up cutting my tent apart because I couldn't get it to look the way I wanted it to but I think it turned out pretty cute this way.  Aren't these images just too fun!?!

Check out all of the AMAZING stamps and digis to be found at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  You won't be disappointed that you stopped by!!

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a totally awesome weekend!!!

An Easter/Spring Challenge at Phindy's Place

Hello friends!!  It is time for a new challenge at Phindy's Place and this week we are challenging you to use and Easter or Spring theme for your project.  I am so ready for spring especially since we received about an inch of snow today with another 2 to 4 inches expected tonight.  Ugh!!!  For my card I have decided to go with an Easter theme.  I have used this darling little image called "Eggstatic".  This little cutie looks like the little chicks that I am expecting to show up on Monday.  We're going to have 30 of the little cuties!!  Here's my card for this challenge...

 Isn't this image just adorable!!  I really had a lot of fun playing with this one!!  I am also using this card for The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge with I have issued the challenge of "Combining Mediums".  For this card I have combined my Copics with Prismacolor pencils and also use some Sakura glaze and stardust pens.  I really with you could see this image in real life.  It has so much more character than this picture shows!!!  :) 

Copics Used:
Chick - YR30, YR31 and Prisma's.
Egg - C00, C1, R81, R83, B21, B24, YR30, YR31 and E44  I also used a custom R81 and R21

Sentiment is from TLC Creations created specially for Phindy's Place.  :)

My DP is a really old Sassafras Lass but hey, it matched perfectly!!! 

Thank you for stopping by today and hope that you will check out the rest of the DT cards at both Phindy's Place and The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge!!  We hope that you will join us in both challenges!!  :)

Have a good one!!

Happy Birthday Korin

Hey everyone!!  If you have joined me from Janette's AWESOME blog then you are on the right track.  If you have stumbled across my blog make sure you go back to the Sweet 'n Sassy blog and start from the beginning. Here's a list to help you if you get lost along the way!!  :)

Sweet N Sassy stamps blog - http://sweetnsassystamps.blogspot.com/

Janette Olen - http://stampinwithstyle.blogspot.com/   
Tammy Maynard - http://tmaynard.blogspot.com/  ***You Are Here***

Sandy Domelle - http://www.madewithlovenprayers.blogspot.com/

Kim Schofield - http://paperiepetals.blogspot.com/

Monika Davis - http://stampnmad.typepad.com/mad_stamper/

Carol Longacre - http://ourlittleinspirations.blogspot.com/

Jessica Fick - http://iembellish.blogspot.com/

Julie Smith - http://paperandsuch.blogspot.com/

Ceal Pritchett - http://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com/

Lorie Ames - http://live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com/

Taylor Usry - http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/

Jessica Stockmeyer - http://thebugstampinmomma.blogspot.com/

Melissa Craig - http://stampitscrapitshareit.blogspot.com/

Amber Hillman - http://ambersantics.blogspot.com/

Stephanie Serrano - http://stephaniesstampinspot.blogspot.com/

Neva McMullen - http://scrappinbelle.blogspot.com/

Joni Mastronardi - http://joni52.blogspot.com/

Mary Faus - http://merrymstamper.blogspot.com/

Well, today is Korin's birthday, of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and we are surprising her with a birthday blog hop!!  I hope you will join me in wishing Korin a very happy birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KORIN!!!!  MAY IT BE THE BEST EVER!!  MAY GOD BLESS YOU IN THE YEAR TO COME.

Here's the card that I created for Korin using the new release stamp set called "Spring Tulips" and this set is absolutely gorgeous!!  LOL, I think I said the same thing about the last set I used but seriously, these stamps are FABULOUS!!  Okay....NOW here's my card!  :)

Okay, don't look at the embossing because my image obviously slipped when I was doing it.  Ugh!!  Oh well, the image is still pretty!!  :)  My image is colored with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils.

Thank you for stopping by today and your next stop on the Birthday trail is Sandy.

Hope you enjoy the blog hop!!!  :)

Sweet 'n Sassy Guest Designer

WOW...I can't believe that it is already April 3rd and I have failed to let you all know that I am so excited about being asked to be a Guest Designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for the month of April.  It is such an honor to work with this very talented group of ladies and to work with such an AWESOME company as Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!!  I hope you will stop by and check out some of the beautiful stamps that Sweet 'n Sassy has to offer.  I LOVE THEM!!!!

For my very first assignment I have created a card with the new release stamp set called "Praise The Lord" and I totally fell in love with this stamp set.  I love all of the images that include scripture and inspiring words with them.  They just warm my heart!!!  Here's my very first card.....

I have to admit that I had to pull out my bird book so that I could try and get the color pattern right on my bird.  I really love bluebird although all we have around here are the Mountain Bluebirds so they have no rust color in them but beautiful nonetheless!!!  I have colored my image with Copic and Prismacolor pencils and I have to say, I love how it turned out!!!  It took me a long time playing with my pencils to achieve the wispy blend of the colors.  But alas, I prevailed.  LOL!!

I want to thank Korin and the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Design Team for giving me the opportunity to work with these beautiful stamps and hope that I have inspired you all just a little.

Make sure you stop by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and look at all of the awesome stamps they have in both acrylic and digital.  I'm sure you will fall in love with them just as I have.

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have an awesome week!!

An April Fools Challenge

Hello friends!!  This week at The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge I have issued the challenge to color an embellie with your markers.  Here's the card I have created using the adorable Magnolia stamp called Tilda With Many Hearts.  Here's my card....

I'm not overly thrilled with my coloring on this one.  I wasted a whole sheet of paper trying to stamp an image yesterday.  OMGosh, I sure hope it's just spring fever and I'm not losing my mojo altogether!!  Eeek!

I discovered a new technique for me and although I've never seen it used before doesn't mean it's not out there already.  Anyway, I wanted a flower that went from dark around the outside to the cream in the middle like you see on flowers.  Well, I just made an outline with my marker around the outside of my flower and went OMGosh, that looks horrible so I took my colorless blender and started working it out a little and woohoo...I was able to get the look that I wanted, totally by accident!  :)

Thank you for stopping by today and I would love for you to join me at The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge this week.  Oh, I forgot to tell you that there are a couple of REALLY AWESOME prizes for April.  One is an ABS1 system being offered by Rusty at Oozak!!  WOW, talk about being generous but you can't win if you don't play!!  :)

Have a good one!!

Have a Little Humor

Hello friends!!  It's time for a new challenge at Phindy's Place and this week we are challenging you to use some humor.  Okay seriously, this was very very difficult for me as I have been missing my mojo and I'm sorry but there is nothing humorous about it!!  :P  WOW....what to do!?!  Well, this is what I came up with using this adorable image called "Bug Buddy"...

With all that curly hair, I just had to make it red and give him a few freckles!!  :)  Okay, I know my humor is really corny but none of us could think of anything that would be funny.  I tried to give him dirty knees but it ended up just looking funny.  Hahaha....there's my humor!!!  LOL...I think my humor card turned into an April Fools joke!!

Copics Used:
Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E11 and E95
Hair - E13, E15, E17, E18, E19
Shirt - R37, R35, R32 and BG10, BG11, BG13
Pants - Y0000, Y11, Y13, Y15

Thank you for stopping by today and we hope to see you at Phindy's Place this week.  Make sure you check out the rest of the DT cards.  Theirs was a lot better than mine!!

Come back later today because I have a seriously fun and awesome blog candy that you have a chance to win!!!  WooHoo....gotta love awesome blog candy!  :)

Have a good one!!!