Honoring Queen Carol

The Queen for the Day over at Splitcoast Stampers this week was Carol_PA925. I have so many of her cards bookmarked in my favorites on that site and considered doing one as a case in her honor, but I really needed a grad card for a dear friend's daughter, so I chose another card entirely. This is what I ended up with. The image is a digi from Pink Cat Studio. They have a matching boy image that is just as cute. Colored my little grad with Copic markers, though I didn't go for a lot of shading and blending with this image. The dsp is by Reminisce. I love all the swirls, shimmer and glitter on these papers. The 2010 is a piece of one of the papers, though I'm not sure if it is from the same manufacturer.  The little starts and Way to Go are bubbly stickers. Added some brads down the side. Got some other cards done at the 2-day crop besides this one. I have lots to share this week! Thanks for stopping in!

Core-dinated with texture

I found this super cool paper at the LSS (Priceless Scrapbooks) a couple of weeks ago. It's so cool!!! The dots on this card are in the paper but you can't see them until you lightly sand the paper. The little butterflies are there, too!! Just added some ribbon and flower trimmings and a simple sentiment and the card was done!

On this card made with a different pattern of the same paper line, you reveal the stitching in the paper. Again, most of the work is already done because of the details in the papers.
Just a quickie share of a couple of cards that I actually made several weeks ago....hope you like it!! I'll be doing some heavy duty creating for the next two days. I even took a day off from work in honor of the holiday...LOL!!! I'm so excited...see ya in a few days!!

JJ Cook-ing Journal

I made this little journal using one of the new images from Totally Stampalicious. This one is called JJ Cook and is an image brought to you in clear polymer acrylic by Totally Stampalicious and was previously available only as a digital image by Bugaboo. I covered a wire-bound journal that I bought forever ago and found stashed in a drawer. I covered it with polka dotted papers and added pink, black, and white trimmings!! Isn't she cute??? I've never kept a cooking journal myself.....DH remembers when I used to cook once in a while! LOL!! Don't think I'm going to start keeping a cooking journal now, so I believe this will become a gift to someone who is actually in the habit of creating delectable delights in the kitchen!! Bon Appetit!! (Digital image used for sentiment)

Tickle Your Funny Bone with the Totally Stampalicious Challenge

The challenge this week at Totally Stampalicious is to make a humorous card, so I used one of the new Stella images from Totally Stampalicious. This image is part of the collection of acrylic stamps that were previously only available as digital images from Bugaboo. There are a total of eight sets in this collection and they were just released Thursday evening for those of you who love those Bugaboo images but prefer to work with a rubber or acrylic stamp.
I made another easel card with a base of Basic Gray. The dsp is from SU!'s stack that was available during Sale-Abration and is layered with GP white.The ribbon is Basic Gray taffeta ribbon, also from SU!!! I love this ribbon....ties up into the prettiest bows!! The image is colored with Copic markers. I used a clear glitter gel pen to add some sparkly accents to the image. Hope you like it...sure was fun to make!!

Queen for the Day: Cathleen Torina!!

There is a new game on Splitoast Stampers called Queen for the Day and this is week 6! This week the stamper being honored is Cathleen Torina aka ctorina and she has a fabulous gallery!!! I ended up casing two of her cards which can be found by following the link to this week's game. This was my first card and I used one the newly released sets from Totally Stampalicious. This set is called Sean and is an acrylic version of a digital image from Bugaboo Digital Stamps. I kept the layout and whimsical feel of Cathleen's card, but changed the image, colors, and papers. Hers was a square card and I made mine a standard A2 size. I also added some ribbon and bling.
My second card is made with an image I received as a RAK from one of the sweetest stampers on SCS, StampMuse. She and I share a passion for all things that sparkle, shimmer, and contain glitter!! I think the image is by Sarah Kay, but I'm not sure. Thanks, M!!!

I have been wanting to do one of these boxes with the easel card as the topper and finally got one done Friday night. I used chocolate chip card stock and Close to Cocoa dsp for a majority of the project. The buttons for the drawer pulls are cordouroy brads by SU! and the sentiment is a rub on I've had for ages and never used. I used half pearls as the flower centers.

Totally Stampalicious New Release Blog Hop

(copied from the TS web site)

Welcome to one of our most EXCITING releases EVER!!! As most of you may have heard by now, Totally Stampalicious has teamed up with Jodie Mackrell of Bugaboo Stamps!! We are thrilled to be taking some of our favorite Bugaboo critters, kids and characters and turning them into RUBBAH!!! (Well...photopolymer actually but you know what we mean)! We have also added a few fun sentiments to the main images that we think you're going to love!!!

Just to keep you on the up and up, please know that if you are interested in the Digi Images, they are only available at Bugaboo Stamps and are NOT part of the Totally Stampalicious Digi Promotion!!

We have EIGHT brand new stamps sets to share with you this release and they will be available at 10PM EST at the Totally Stampalicious Store!!

So! Are you ready for a bit of a sneak peek??!!

The first stop on the Bugaboo Hop is the Totally Stampalicious blog. 

If you found your way to my blog first, you will want to hop over to the TS blog and start there. If you arrived here from Melissa's blog, you are on the right track!
We are offering up THREE prizes that will be drawn randomly from all the Blog Hop-ees so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment for your chance to win!
The prizes are as follows:
1st - $25 Stampalicious Gift Certificate
2nd - 2 Bugaboo Stamp Sets of Choice
3rd - 1 Bugaboo Stamp Set of Choice

The Blog Hop will end at 9PM EST Friday and the winners will be announced Sunday Night!

Now here's a little peek for you!!
       

This card was made with the Fat Mouse Flower set. The papers are from K and Co. Image was colored with Copic markers with a little sparkle added to the flower with Stickles. The border and corner punches are by Martha Stewart and those little white flowers were crocheted with my very own hands! I even really sewed the buttons onto the centers! Now here is another card I made for the hop:

This card features a set that was a favorite of mine the first time I saw it on the Bugaboo site! I just love the sentiment!! How true is that???? Papers are by SEI and image is colored with Copics. Kept this one pretty simple with the all the patterns in the papers. The stamp set is called Stella Nurse.
Now it's time to Hop on over to Monique's blog to see the fab eye candy she has in store for you!!
Just in case you get lost along the way, here is the order of the whole HOP!

Totally Stampalicious
http://twinshappy.blogspot.com/">Stacy-Twinshappy>
http://summerthymestudio.blogspot.com/">Vicki-Summerthyme Studio
http://stampsncoffee.blogspot.com/">Joycelyn-Stamps 'n' Coffee
http://stampingwithkokirose.blogspot.com/">Patricia-Stamping with Kokirose
http://auntbaba246.blogspot.com/">Becky-Stampin' For Fun
http://stampinvirgo5.blogspot.com/">Laurie-On the Bright Side
http://mypaperobsession.blogspot.com/">Melissa-My Paper Obsession
http://justaddglitter.blogspot.com/">Lynnor-Just Add Glitter 
http://fortheloveofpaper-moniques.blogspot.com/">Monique-For the Love of Paper
http://cindyhaffnerscorner.blogspot.com/">Cindy-Cindy Haffner's Corner

Totally Stampalicious color challenged....yes I am!

The challenge at Totally Stampalicious this week is to use the colors Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, and Creamy Caramel in a project. Colors that I love proved to be quite a challenge when I started putting ink to paper! First I will show you the card I made as my second project because I just wasn't feelin' it for the first one. Then we'll take a peak at the first attempt with these colors. I have a disclaimer on this card, though....I had to throw out the Creamy Caramel and I have totally cheated on this one!! I think I know why SU! is retiring Creamy Caramel. It used to be a go-to color for me, but when I read about the colors that were being retired, I realized that I hadn't used CC in AGES!!!

The dsp I used is from a new stack I picked up while at JoAnn's on Saturday. It's from DCWV and is called linen closet. These papers are in lovely shades of blues, greens, grays, and neutrals....gorgeous!!! And they are loaded with my favorite embellishment....glitter!!! The color I used is closer to Kraft...soon to be known as Crumb Cake....makes me want to buy it already!! Paper pieced the Old Brawd image and added a sentiment from the Farmer Hawg Sentiments set.  The flowers on her hat are another Saturday find from the thrift store for a small local church.....a bag of assorted hair pieces made from ribbon, beads, and silk flowers. They were a little beat up in their finished form, but torn apart for their pieces, they will embellish many cards in the future! Added little pearls to her necklace and some dimensional glaze to the cupcake icing. The pearls at the bottom were white half pearls that I colored with a Copic marker. It all ended up being a project I'm pretty happy with.
Now, my first project was another story. I just wasn't feeling that old flame for the creamy caramel and I think it really shows here, but since I will be carrying my coffee around in it, I guess I may as well show off my failure, too. Helps to keep one humble, too!

I used the Coffee Brawd set to make this. The dsp is from SU! and I think it's called Candy Lane or something close to that. It's from last year's catty, I think. The sentiment says "You haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running!" My philosophy exactly!! Sure helps with the ability to multi-task!!
I never noticed until I actually made something with these little mugs how cloudy the plastic is on the outside. When you take the insert out, it's much brighter...see???

Well, they they are....my projects for this week's challenge. Kinda wishin' I had the wardrobes this "brawd" has with all the cool paper piecing that has ever been done with these sets!! I'm off to work now, in clothes that aren't nearly as cool as this chick's!! Why not play along this week? There's always a cool prize! Head over to Totally Stampalicious' blog and use the Mr. Linky tool to link your project so we can all see it, too!!
And be sure to check back on Thursday evening for our blog hop to celebrate our new release of cute Bugaboo images in acrylic!!! Very cool!!!