Some GinaK challenges this week

Well, I got to play a little bit this week, and I just have to share with you these adorable images from Melanie Muenchinger's Just So Hippy stamp set. I just love this set and would also LOVE to add to it, but alas I am waiting until I get back from the beach later this summer to buy any more stamps on line. *sigh*

These were both created for the challenges that Gina's team has going on after the new June release from Friday night. I was there for a little bit, but duty called. I had some work to do on-line, and MAN does it get harder and harder to follow along during those releases or WHAT?! I ran to the bathroom and came back (3 minutes tops), and they were almost 3 full pages ahead of where I was at! Wow . . . okay, anyway. Here are the cards created.

GIRAFFE . . . SO BEHIND CARD

Stamps: Canvas bg from SU and Just So Hippy Set created by MelanieM and sold through GinaK Designs (both links to Melanie's blog and Gina's store are in the blog rolls to the right).

Inks: More mustard, summer sun, creamy caramel.

CS: More mustard, summer sun, creamy caramel, and close to cocoa.

Accessories/Tools Used: Paisley cb folder (sample from a friend), yummy satin ribbon (Thanks, Heather), window word punch, and cs folded and taped under the giraffe's bottom and legs to add dimension too.

APE OVER YOU CARD

Stamps: Just So Hippy Set created by MelanieM and sold through GinaK Designs (both links to Melanie's blog and Gina's store are in the blog rolls to the right).
Inks: Archival Brilliance graphite black.
CS: Glorious green.

DP: So saffron and certainly celery from designer pack SU
Accessories/Tools Used: Ribbon from a blog candy win (Thanks again Heather), white flower from a ribbon (Thanks, Carmen), jeweled green brad, prisma color pencils, OMS, Stickles to accent the flower centers and the green dp at the bottom, and SU markers for the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Good Friday AND . . . JLO in the house!

Okay, first and foremost, I have to admit that GinaK inspired me to post this . I have had this image saved since last year, but I felt it was time to share it with as many people as I could. Note: You can click on the image to enlarge it and to be able to read it better.

I hope you take the time today to thank our Lord God for giving his only Son so that we may be forgiven of our sins. I feel I am not worthy of such love, but in His eyes we are all worthy! Just think of how many generations have been saved or will be saved because of the crucifixion. I also hope you get to celebrate Easter (the day he arose from the dead) with your family and loved ones! We will be going north this Sunday for church and dinner with my parents, so I want to take this time to also wish you ALL a very Happy Easter! :)

Here are a few Easter cards I whipped up this afternoon. They use the GinaK Designs stamp set called He is Risen! I used vellum on two of them. The bg stamp with the different names for Jesus is from Eureka Stamps. This was stamped in basic brown, and then after it dried thoroughly, I used versamark and gold EP for the cross. The vanilla card was gold embossed as well. The pink one has the verse from John 11:25-26 behind the vellum and then repeated again on the inside with Happy Easter. I think my family will enjoy them. The calla lily is for my mom for cooking us dinner. It is a pretty fuscia color.

Also, I received my stamps from Jessica (JessicaLynnOriginal stamps) yesterday, and I am looking forward to playing with them this weekend, too. No one has guessed yet which stamp set I will be using, and . . . I also see that my blog count has rolled past 5K, so . . . whatever I create this weekend could be yours if you guess the correct stamp set. Go to JessicaLynnOriginal and check out the cute stamp sets she has there. If no one guesses, I just might have to pull a name from this post or from March 17th. So be sure and post a guess either way here or on the older post (March 17th below).

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas in February?

I know, I know. Maybe you are sick of Christmas cards, but I worked on so many of them last week and this past weekend, that I just wanted to show them off a bit. I really LOVE to have my Christmas cards done ahead of time, so this is a great way to do it. I only create 10 each month, so here they are all at once for the month of February.

I believe I showed you the GinaK Designs penguin earlier this month, so I forgo another up-close image of those two. I made five of the Jesus is the Reason for the Season card shown here -->

Then I had three House Mouse (HM) images left over from a HM swap last year that I have been wanting to use. They were all colored with prismacolor pencils and gamsoled to blend. One has dazzling diamonds on the berries, the other has sparkling glitter on it from my sakura gel pen and stickles for the ice/snow (wasn't quite dry in the picture hence the lumpy look--sorry), and my favorite of all three is the Warm and Cozy one.

Items used on total group:

Card stock (cs): white, vanilla, almost artichoke, hunter green, choc chip, close to cocoa, dark blue (not SU) and a little sage green.

Inks: Basic black, versamark for gold EP, and some sponged on hunter green

Designer Paper (dp): DCWV for the light blue in the penguin card and Figgy Pudding on the HM cards

Accessories: brads, stickles, liquid pearls, clear embossing powder (EP), gold EP, paper clip, ribbon, dazzling diamonds (DD).

Tools: Coluzzle, Spellbinders nestabilities classic scalloped oval and Stampin Up (SU) tab punch, SU pastels/chalks, prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits.

I hope you enjoyed seeing them. :) Kelly

Been pretty creative the last 2 days

I am so behind on stopping by all my SBS4 sisters' blogs this week. I usually check their blogs daily or every other day at least, but this past week (well . . . okay or two) have been pretty busy with work. I haven't gotten a chance to do the fun things I enjoy very much.



Yesterday and today I squeezed in some stampin' time though, hoping to win a free stamp set from GinaK Designs. There were 4 challenges after the release party on SCS Sunday night. They had to be done by 11 a.m. this morning. Well, I stayed up late last night and then worked off and on this morning while my work was loading to finish and upload these 2 cards and the first Valentine frappucino bottle you see below.



The first card was for Sketch #1 (hosted by Carolyn). I used the fishy friends stamp. I purchased this last year when Gina used to sell them separately. Now they come in sets. I thought with those big eyes staring at the girl fish . . . "I only have eyes for you" would look just right on here. One problem, it didn't all fit on the word window punch I already had punched out, so this is the shortened version with "I Only Have I's 4 U" on it. LOL (DH still thought it was cute). Little does he know, I am saving this one for our anniversary in July (if I remember where I put it by then *wink*).

This penguin card was for sketch #3 (hosted by Erika Martin). I really loved this sketch with almost a circle in the upper right hand corner, main image a little to the right of center and then the sentiment and accent across the bottom.



I used the penguin from the Sandy Claws set I purchased around Christmas time, colored him in with markers, layered him on some navy blue cs and after layering on DP, inked the edges of the card with ballet blue, stamped some snowflakes from the SU snowflake spot set, added a strip of DP near the bottom, stamped Celebrate the Magic! and accented with a clear button and sheer ribbon (which I thought was silver, but I think it is pink now that I look closer with it on some white paper).

This bottle was made for sketch #2 (hosted by Beth).
I only stamped the sentiment from Forever in my Heart,
and then used Penny Black stickers again. They are so quick and look so pretty. I just couldn't help myself. LOL












Then tonight in about 20-30 minutes, I finished two more of these little cuties to put goodies in for Valentine's day. I asked my DH to bring home some Kisses for me and some other candy that he and DS would like for Valentine's day. What does he bring home for them you ask? Fritos corn chips ---- Ack! Now how in the world would they look inside one of these bottles?! Not very good. So after the roads are cleared tomorrow, I need to get some kit kats or M and M's for DS and Reese's p-nut butter cups for DH. *sigh*









Anyway, hope you enjoy looking at my paper creations I made the past couple of days.

Double shot of my blah blah tonight . . .

Wow, hope you can handle a double shot . . . of me and my blah, blah tonight. I actually was inspired by Kristine (fellow SBS4 member) when I saw her card from the featured stamper challenge, and although I should be addressing envelopes for morning (swap cards on their way out the door to my girlfriends--*wink* You know who you are), I actually played in the featured stamper challenge instead. This card was inspired by Danielle's card here, but much more simplified. I like hers better, but I cut back a bit (ya know . . . less is less). See below--postage gripe.

I FINALLY used my Sandy Claws stamp set that I JUST HAD TO HAVE before Christmas this year from Gina K Designs (link to the right), and stamped off a couple of the cute little guy in the sleigh. I used puffy paint, stickles and some pretty gold wrapping paper that has snowflakes on it (which you really can't see in the pic) to dress this up a bit, but I am really keeping most my cards light and less bumpy this year for my mailed Christmas cards. I put an extra 17 cent stamp on about 40 cards this year. . . ugh! See it's expensive to keep things "pretty." Crazy, huh?!

Anyway, here are a couple of cards I made for the stampers challenge and getting a jump start on Christmas Card Challenge 2008. Hope you aren't too sick of Christmas cards to take a look below. :) Thanks for dropping by! Kelly

R U Creative early in the a.m.?

I made this card late last night or early this morning (actually around 2 a.m.) for a post-party challenge. (Didn't really think I would be that creative at 2 a.m. especially after only 4-5 hours sleep the night before) but . . . Gina K opened up her new web site/store at midnight Central time (Nov 1), and she was having some give aways. Awesome gal, terrific stamps, such talent . . .
I could go on and on, but I won't.

This cute bunny stamp was stamped on a ww scalloped oval with a regal rose one cut in half and separated behind so it showed. I used wc pencils and a black marker to color and doodle, then added some cotton for the fluffy tails. There are Star dust stickles on the bunnies noses and around the pink scalloped edge to spruce it up a bit and add some bling. Pop dots hold it up a little bit to give it dimension.

The cb piece is cool carribean (I know it is discontinued, but I still have some hoarded back, and who can resist?). That is layerd on brilliant blue cs for the card base. The sentiment is handwritten--"Hoppin' Good Time?!" for all the fun we had last night from 10-12 midnight before the grand reopening, and this was punched out with a small oval punch and placed on a large oval punch of brilliant blue, held on with pink MM brads and a little glitz again with the Stickles. Matching ribbon helps add some softness to the layout as well. Hope you all like it . . .

OH, DON'T FORGET THE BLOG CANDY BELOW . . . You need to comment there by Friday night, as I am drawing a name/number early Saturday morning (I am done working at 5 a.m. on Sat's).