Mojo Monday (and sneak peek of CDS tommorrow!)

Well, I knew saying that I was going to try to join in on challenges would come back to bite me. Did you see today's technique challenge?? Well, I don't have freezer paper and I don't have any leftover party napkins, so that challenge was out. But, I gave Julee's Mojo Monday sketch challenge a go. So, here's my card for it.

My sister is a SU demo. My mom order this stamp from her and my sister borrowed it. She never got around to using it, so when I saw her yesterday, she gave me the set back to return to mom. Well, I thought the poor little guy just had to be broken in! Besides - my ex-grandma-in-law loves red birds, so this will make a perfect Christmas card for her. I think I have about 5 Christmas cards made now!
So - about the card: The image and sentiment are from SU's A Cardinal Christmas. I used about 50 different shades of red, pink and yes, purple copics to color him. I pulled up an image of a red bird on google and I think I got the colors pretty close. The base of the card is basic black. The panel is wild wasabi with red glitter embossing. I matted the image with black, real red and wild wasabi. The sentiment is stamped in red then inked with wild wasabi and mounted on real red cardstock. I kept it pretty simple, but I like the way it turned out and I think Grandma Marie will love it.

Don't forget to check back with me tomorrow for sneak peeks from Clear Dollar Stamps! I've got some great stamps to show off for you!

Sunday Challenge

OK - now that I have my computer (I'm a little excited after being without for so long), I've decided to join in on some challenges. Today's was the featured stamper challenge, in which one CASES a card from the featured stamper's gallery and changes at least 2 things. The featured stamper this week is SpeedyStamper. Here is the card I CASED from her gallery: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...amp;ppuser=646

Here is the card I made for the challenge:

I used the pumpkin and bat images from inkadinkado and the sentiment from studio g. I stamped the pumpkin on the su dp with craft old olive and matted the circle with a wild wasabi scallop (I meant to use old olive, oops!). I stamped it again on white and on pumpkin pie with old olive. I cut the pumpkins alone out of the pumpkin pie and inked them a little with old olive and pumpkin pie. Then I cut just the stems from the old olive and pieced them both together on the dp. I stamped the bats and then stamped them again on white and cut out some individual bats and popped them up a little. The background is blush blossom stamped with an SU canvas bg stamp then inked a little with pumpkin pie. The edges were inked heavily with creamy caramel. The ribbon is from walmart. I then matted the background on black and then onto the more mustard card base.

birthday card

One of my good friends is turning 40 tomorrow. This is the card I made for her. Her daughter is having a rather impromptu surprise party, so I have to keep her busy for a little while tomorrow afternoon and manage to get her home at the right time. Wish me luck!
I used pink pirouette for the base of the card. The image, from cats pajama's, is stamped twice, once with white on certainly celery and one with black on white. I added black to the dog's nose and eyes and went over him with a souffle' pen to make his fur look kind of curly, like her maltese pup. I colored the cake using copics. The image is mounted on close to cocoa, pink pirouette and chocolate chip scallops made with my nesties. The background is certainly celery matted on chocolate chip with pink pirouette and close to cocoa scallops bordering basic grey dp. The certainly celery is ticked punched and accented with small pink gems. The scallops and the background are accented with dots made with chocolate chip marker and a white inksentials pen.

Friday Face-off

After much crying and gnashing of teeth, I finally have internet service! So, check back often from now on - I will be trying to post daily! So - here's the inspiration challenge for this week. It's a monkey nursery set from pottery barn kids. And, here's the card which was inspired by it:

I used the monkeys with hands latched like in the bedding and liked the blue and brown together, but you know I had to have a little more color - especially to go with these cute Clear Dollar Stamps monkeys! These monkeys are so great - you can buy accessories to go with them like the umbrella! I put a cloudy sky background behind my little monkeys so they could be floating down from a banana tree, chasing those bananas. The paper is K& Co. with real red, chocolate chip and bayou blue.

Back from the dead

OK -I have finally returned. After spening over two hours on the phone with direct tv the other day, trying to find out where my wireless router was, they finally discovered that my order had been deleted because they do not offer wireless internet in my area. Wow - would have been nice had they notified me and told me that. So, I will be having cox come out and hook up my internet tomorrow. So, I will be posting the Friday faceoff this week (and from now on), but it will be later in the day. So, sorry I've been MIA for so long, but hope to see everyone tomorrow afternoon!

Friday Face-off!

Here's the inspiration for this week's Face-off. In honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday, I;m using this cute witches room from virtual dollhouse. My sample is below.

This is from MFT's Totally witchin' set. I paper pieced the dresses and the hat with some SU halloween dp from last year and some "velvet" paper. The rest of the image was colored with copics and sakura glaze pens. I cut the witches out and mounted them on more dp from the same set. Then I matted it on black and pumpkin pie. The spider web paper is Su as well. The ribbon is from walmart. Hope this image inspires you! Have fun playing! Be sure to use the keyword FFIF5 if you post on splitcoast and leave a link here so we can go see your creation!

Just a bit of exciting news! I finally ordered a new computer! It is being built as we speak and should be in my hot little hands by Halloween! So, finally, I can take the time to write a decent blog post and post more often. So, come back and visit more often!

I made this card for a lady in my church choir who just had surgery. I used my new Basic Grey papers with plum, pomegranite and cool carribean. I used "velvet" paper on the lapels of the robe and liquid applique on the bunny slippers. I accented the side with primas, ribbon and dew drops.
Just a sidenote - I'm planning to order a computer so that I will have better access and can update more often, so stay with me - I will start posting daily again!