Congratulations!

Happy Thursday! Are the weeks getting shorter, or is it just me? :) This week, I made a quick Congratulations card for a friend who recently graduated from college. This card was made with digi papers and stamps from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. I used this week's freebie background paper, the All Around Phrases stamp, and a piece of the striped paper from the Black and White Elegant card kit. I kept this card all black and white so I could enter a challenge at Drunken Stampers this week. It also qualifies for the House Mouse Monday challenge (distress) and the ABC challenge (unused stash - brads).
I wish you all a fabulous Thursday, and I hope you will take a few minutes to check out the rest of the design team's creations for this week. I have posted a current list of DT members on my side bar, or you can see the list on Lindsay's Blog. Stop by and check out this week's freebie and have fun!

Thursday is Digi Stamp Day!!!

I've been sick for a whole week, and I'm so tired of it! I haven't done much card making. Actually, I haven't done much of anything. Anyway, I am feeling a little better this morning and whipped up this cute "Miss You" card, since I've missed posting and missed hearing from all of you. This week, I've used the Ellie stamp from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. I printed her out on white cardstock, then colored her with my Bic Mark-its. I cut her out and adhered her to a mustard scallop, and then to a rust scallop. I covered my card base with a striped patterned paper from bo bunny and did 4 stripes with the mustard and rust. I zig zag punched (Martha Stewart) the bottom and adhered that to the card. I added the scalloped elephant and stamped "miss you" (studio g), and I'm done!

If you haven't tried digi stamps, you should! They are a really fun addition to my ever growing supply of paper crafts. Lindsay has a great selection of digi stamps in her shop and now through the end of the month of May, she is offering a special deal : For every $5 you spend you can pick a stamp for free, spend $10 get 2 free stamps, spend $15, get 3 free. Just click on the link to the left of this post. That will take you directly to Lindsay's online store. Click HERE to link to her great blog. She always has wonderful ideas and usually a freebie or two! Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Crafting!

Exciting News: I'm Designing for Lindsay's Stamp Stuff!!!

How cool is that? I've been chosen by Lindsay to be on her first Design Team! She has opened an on-line digital stamp store called Lindsay's Stamp Stuff which is loaded with fun digi stamps. I have been creating cards with them, and they are every bit as fun as rubber stamps, and even more fun in that I can make them any size I want, plus I get a perfect image every time! I just love her designs and love the idea of incorporating digital stamps with my rubber and acrylic stamps.

I made this cute card as a thank you for my aunt. I went out of my comfort zone and created a 4x9 card. I found it to be such a fun size to work with! For this one I used a sheet of cream cardstock as the base and covered it with a panel of friends double sided paper. I used a small panel of green (basic grey) and a larger panel of blue (also basic grey) for the bottom. I then cut a small strip of the friends paper and used the reverse side (polka dots) as a kind of "ribbon". I pop dotted on three Prima flowers with brad centers. I printed the PRIMITIVE BIRD stamp from Lindsay's store using adobe photoshop elements, set the width to 3 inches, and printed it on cream cardstock. Next, I matted it with another panel of the green basic grey paper. I colored it with my bic mark-its and attached it to the top of the card. Lastly, I stamped "how sweet you are" with StazOn Jet Black Ink.

Here is a list of the Bic colors I used :

Oceanview Blue to color the bird, Blue Skies Blue to highlight his wing
Adobe Orange for the bird's beak
Lemon Bliss to color the flower and outer edge of the petal
Moonstone Yellow to highlight the flower and finish the petal
Meadow Green for the flower stem
Summer Melon and Margarita Green for the butterfly

I'm off now, to create some more cards and brag about my new status! Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my wedding anniversary. I made this card for my sweet hubby. I stamped my House Mouse image on white cardstock and colored it with my watercolor pencils. I adhered that to a piece of blue bazzill cardstock. Next, I folded an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of white cardstock in half. I attached 2 panels of Lovey Dovey Splendid double sided patterned paper to my white card, using both sides. Then I adhered a strip of blue bazzill across the middle and stamped swirls with stamps by studio g. I adhered the House Mouse panel to that and stamped the sentiment (studio g). The inside is a secret, so that's that! I hope he likes it...

Christmas Card Challenge

Sherri at the Stamp Shack has posted a Challenge/Swap - make 5 Christmas Cards each month all year so we will be "ready" when Christmas rolls around next year. I only made about 5 cards total this year, so I thought this would be a good challenge to try. I am also planning to add 5 addresses each month to my label program, so that I'll have everyone's name and address in the computer and ready to print on a label when Christmas rolls around again. Here are this month's card creations. I stuck with the same basic layout for each of the cards and made 6 instead of 5! I used Bazzill card stock, studio g and Holiday Clear Stamps on both the fronts and on the insides. The circles were cut with my coluzzle. They were colored with Bic Mark Its and watercolor pencils, and of course, I added a few dollops of stickles!