Moving!

Hey friends!

I'm taking this week off of my Monday blog post.

We were just offered a tremendous new house here on the base and we have to move *immediately*! We're jumping on it and working like crazy to pack and move a couple of blocks away by this next weekend!

I had made a card but really don't have any time to photograph it and write it up.

I just know you dearies will forgive me for bailing on you for this week so that I can live in lavish new digs.

Big hugs!

A Muse Valentines!

Hi there cuties!

Are you ready to see the last of my Valentines? :) I finished them up last night!

You know that feels good.

What doesn't feel good is STREP. And it's hit my household up pretty heavy this week and it's started up on my girls this morning, so please excuse the less-than-wordy post. I promise I'll be back to my usual self *next week* when MY HUSBAND IS HOME.

GAH! I can't wait till THEN! :)

I finished my Valentines up pretty quickly with some more of those A Muse stamps I bought. Lookie:

:) Love this song. Love how this card turned out. Love.

(This is their Cruisin' stamp)

I freehanded the sentiment and the hearts with my Copic Multi Liner (0.1) and colored it all in with my Copics and At You Spica glitter pens. The ribbon is May Arts.

And lastly:

This Elyse stamp is so darn adorable. I really enjoyed coloring her in.

The chipboard letters are Thickers from American Crafts (they were white and I colored them dark brown-E47 with my Copics). The pattern paper is also American Crafts.

There you have it! Next week I'll attempt to get caught up on my Birthday cards! It's going to be sparkly!! :D Can't wait till you see.

Healthy hugs to you! Drink that vitamin C, sweeties!

Moo-chas Grass-ias

Hello there!

It's Monday again! Time for another piece of stampy love from my neck'a-the woods.

This week I got a great dealio from a fellow stamper who was reducing her stash of A Muse stamps. A Muse stamps are so darn fun!

And I knew just what I wanted to do when they got to my mailbox. This:

Gahahaahaaaa!!!

Don'tcha just love that cow and most especially the Moo-chas Grass-ias?!?

Oh yes.

I chose to go bright with the greens (Gable Green, Green Galore, and a touch of Glorious Green), and the pink ribbon (Melon Mambo).

I went crazy with the snipping on the 1" strips of greens, while I watched Conan's last show (tear).

I stamped the cutie cow onto whisper white with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored in her umm....milkparts... and snout(?) with R81 and R85 Copics. My son actually was looking over my shoulder while I was coloring her in. And *of course* he asked me what part I was coloring on her. Uuummm. Milkparts. Yup. :)

As for the little sign, I just added a Kaiser lime rhinestone and a teensy weensy piece of green galore grass.

I. love. this. card. :)

It's been sitting here on my table and I smile every time I walk by.

But I shall send it off this week. Yes. Must let go you know.

Must justify my spending.

Even though the joy of the making is good enough for me! How about you?

Moooo,

Kanga Love

Goooooood Monday, peeps!

Aren't you happy it's Monday? Well? Aren'tcha? I know you are. You have to be. You. are. here. :)

Not feelin' the Monday love? Well, that's ok. I know a little kangaroo that IS. Lookie:

Aww. I know.

I kinda love this image.

It's from SU!'s Build-a-Roo set. It comes with hearts to stamp in...and I would have, buuuuut...I had a weird dream the other night.

I dreamt I was in a paper world. There were places called October Afternoon, My Mind's Eye, and Graphic 45.

So I woke up, jotted down the idea and decided that I needed to make a paper scene ASAP. And here you have it.

Kanga happens to be in the Basic Grey Sultry hills, with the SU! Bashful Blue patterned sky. She's also throwing some BG Sultry hearts in the wind.

I did *not* underlay her here because I felt like it would disrupt the scene. She's stamped onto watercolor paper and watercolored with markers. The hearts are from a circle scallop that I dissected into pie pieces. I *heart* paper scenes!

Next up, I made valentines with the kids. They are very simple and I'm inserting them into my Valentines that I'm sending to close family.

I cut watercolor paper to 4 x 5.25 to fit inside the cards. I then had the kids overlap their hands so that their thumbs and pointer fingers shaped a kind'a heart. Traced that with pencil, then watercolored the lines with marker. Stamped this sentiment with Stazon jet black. We stuck red sticky tape hearts into the heart shape and I poured dazzling diamonds onto it. Can you see it?

According to my 4 year old girlie, they're "vewy sparkly and magical, Mama!"...I've been having to keep a close eye on them. That 4 year old keeps trying to thieve them. Stinker.

So are you sending Valentines out?

Making them? Don't tell me you're buying them. I don't want to know that kinda garbage. ;) You know I'm kidding right? I'd love ya even if you bought a $3 printed, mass produced card. Even then. :)

Team Conan,

Jane

Happy Monday sweets! :)

Did you have a good weekend? Did you freeze? It seams like everyone I talk to lately is freezing their hinies off. From Florida (35) to North Dakota (-14). Hey! I'm not judging. Both those numbers are cold, ya'll! I know both of those well.

Yup! It's January! :)

My last post was *bright* and LOUD and cheeky! So here's a palette cleanser to clean the donut off your breath. ;)
Jane Austin. I've been watching a lot of Jane Austin this week. Jane makes me want to watercolor. She always has that effect on me. I love you Jane.

I was watching Persuasion *faint*..and this little watery tree slid out of my waterbrush and markers.

Hello beautiful. I want to live in your warm little world. I really do.

This sentiment is from one of my favorite Stampin' Up sets "Refuge and Strength". And I like the little yellow leaf frond ghosting it near the sentiment.

I. love. watercoloring.

And if you like that...just you wait till next week my dears!

We're gonna dance a happy dance together.

35 days until Valentine's Day is all I'm sayin'!

Warm hugs,

Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop and BLOG CANDY!

Happy Tuesday!

If you are coming to my blog today from Erin's blog: Welcome!

If you are just checking in on me, we're on a blog hop today so hop on in and enjoy the ride!

If you'd like to start from the beginning of the hop you can go HERE.

Skipping Stones Design sent me a lovely stamp set for the hop. It's a set called Donut Birthday and it hasn't been released yet so my card is just a SNEAKY PEEK! How fun!

They also sent me a set to give away as BLOG CANDY so make sure you read my whole post and leave a comment so I can enter you! There is blog candy all along the hop so make sure to stop at each spot and leave a comment to enter! The winners will be announced on the Skipping Stones Design site on January 8th!

Without further ado, I present to you my sample from Donut Birthday:

Donuts! *Gah* I love donuts! I mean, WHO doesn't love a donut! And I love that SSD didn't just make a cutesy set here. Yes, it has your "Happy Birthday" sentiment and "Thank You", but they have some fabulously funny sentiments too- which I really went for!"29th" Birthday! Ha!! Isn't that so true, though?!? :) I've got lots of friends who would love a card with that on it! But. WAIT! It gets better! Let's open'er up!
More donuts! And these pop out at you as you open the card! Wish they'd just pop into my mouth. :) This card makes me hungry. LOL
If you've never made one of these, all you do is take a punched out circle, cut into it to make a spiral and then attach the center of the spiral to the card, and the end to the image you want to pop out. Easy and fun!"From your '110 lb.' friend". Ahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa! Ooo...mercy, I need a Kleenex! :)

It doesn't matter how many times I've read that...it still cracks me UP! And how appropriate to have the donuts next that sentiment. Hehehe.

Skipping Stones Design just did an AWESOME job with this set and I know it's going to be a big hit for them (especially when you see the other sentiments in it!), so tune in to them to pick up one for yourself! I personally can't wait to make a card for a police officer we have in our family. He's gonna kill me, and I'm gonna love it. LOL

So on to the BLOG CANDY!

I have the set Blocks & Borders-Swirl up for grabs:

Dear SSD, I want to keep this set. If I enter myself into my blog candy, could I win it? Pretty please with a donut on top?!? :D No? *sigh*

Well, you guys leave a comment letting me know what you think of Donut Birthday (if you can stop laughing, anyway)! And DO go on with the blog hop and see what the other SUPREMELY talented ladies have whipped up for us to ogle over. The next stop is Chelsea's blog. Click ---->>>HERE<<---- to go to her blog!

Your 110ish lb. friend,

HB and The Process

Happy Monday ya'll!

The first Monday in 20-10. I think we should just rip off the shackles of "Monday" and rename it something more appealing..like Canday. Yeah. Canday. :)

Ok. No more hating on Monday. I happen to love Monday now ya know. :)

This week, I'm going to walk you through my process. How do I go from nothing to a card? You're about to find out so look snappy!

1) Find inspiration. Here is a magazine picture that made those butterflies act up again.
2) Next comes the papers. What do I have that makes me feel the that inspiration? And also I choose my neutrals. Should I go with stark black lines or warm brown lines? Should I go with clean white or natural/homier feeling white? Vanilla? How much paper? Do I want a clean style or layers?3)Next, assemble the cast. Here: Stampin' Up! Woodgrain background block; American Crafts white Thickers (chipboard stickers); Saltbox Candle Glow set (on sale HERE right now at Amuse for 7.50!); round acrylic block (found HERE)4) Cut and Score

5) LO (Lay Out). Visualize the magic that's about to be! Do a little happy hop, cause it's gonna be fabby! :)6) Ink it up, baby! 7) Don't forget the jams. *Critical* You are about to color! You can't just start coloring with out some groove. Trust me. You need the jams. 8)Sustenance. 'Nough said. :)9) Color you groovin' thang! If possible, add sparkle! (here: colored with Copics and At You Spica glitter pens)10)Underlay. Are you going to pop something up? You'd better stamp the image below it. This serves great purposes: a) you can line everything up nice and tidy. b) if there are pieces to the image that are too tiny to cut out this can save your behind by eliminating cutting. c) professionalism. If you ever get a card with underlay you'll notice this little detail and wiggle with glee that you are loved enough to receive such a card. I know I have. :)

11) Hmmm and haaa... do you need to change something? Do you hate it and have to throw it in the trash or worse: stick it on the dart board? Do you have a Monday Blog and have no choice but to post it? OR do you just think it's lovely and fabulous and can't take how brilliant this hobby is? *sigh* You've done it! The world is a better place. :)

12) Picture it.

Fin.

So there you are. How one card is birthed. And if you cut out the step with the MnMs then you gain no baby weight! But who would do that.......nutso.

I's got a surprise for you! Tomorrow I'm going to be featuring a card for a stamp release blog-hop. A few of us Dirties where asked to participate and when I saw the stamp set *GAH* I could NOT say no, yo. *big grin* You'll see what I mean when you come back tomorrow!

Warm hugs,

Celebraaaa'ate!

Sometimes I make a card that just makes me Siiiiiiiiiiiiing! :)

It all started last night. My husband and I were talking and while I was listening to him..no really I was listening ...I can do like 4 things at once! I swear it. Well anyway.. I was listening to him and looking over his shoulder and...that Baja Breeze ribbon next to the Rich Razzleberry ribbon just kinda gave me butterflies. Just out of the blue.That's when I knew. A card had to be made. Oh yes. A card was. going. to. be. made. Uh-huh!

And what a card. I'm in love.

I'm in Three-Layered-Sheep-go-to-Vegas-for-New-Years L-O-V-E. Love.

Happy New Years my darlings! Cheers to all things new!