FTL88 birthday wishes two-fer

A prior coworker's b'day is approaching and I've been picking up sock monkey-related items now and then, putting them aside, as they made me think of her. Well, her b'day's approaching, so I thought I'd whip up a quick hybrid b'day card to deliver to her house with the stash. This SHOULD have a sock monkey included in it, but such is life! I rec'd this stinkin' cute tulip pic in an e-mail this past week and used the color picker in Photoshop to make both the green card stocks. The FTL88 sketch layout called for ribbon across the card, but I didn't have any on hand that matched the card stock so a bit of white border punch did the trick! The greens and whites in Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger post inspired this green card.


stamps: MSE's Hand Written; paper: recycled handout card stock from work; ink: PC-generated card stocks and Ranger's Black Soot distress ink; tools: ek's dotted scallop border punch

happy nat'l scrapbooking day

My fav project from today's make -'n- take, this uses one of Karen's own stamp of the month offerings from last month. I picked it up a couple weeks ago, thinking it'd be cute for belated b'day cards, kid's cards, etc. Today's stamped turtle is popped up - I popped up both the face and neck, and then the face again, using pop dots. We colored the image using watercolor pencils, stubs, and mineral spirits - a fav technique of my stampin' buddy Kim's.

sorry - no deets today!

check out the STINKIN' CUTE tee a friend was wearing today - I'm lovin' it! My DH has a love/hate relationship with our local squirrels and I'd love to find one of these to give him!

wish list, SU summer mini catty

FYI, just a quick post to share my "wish list" items from the latest mini catty:

• Pedaling Past, page 7
• Sweet Scoops, page 10
• July Fourth, page 28
• Red, White & Blue jumbo wheel, page 28
  (have you ever cut one of these apart? I may need 2 of 'em)
• the humming bird from Elements of Style, page 12 ... sigh ...
  (if you're interested in splitting one of these sets, let me know! I'm droolin' here, LOL!)

So, how about you?

it's all about pink

It's all about pink for this gal - my stampin' buddy Pat - so I HAD to use pinks in a thank you card for her recently. This is my latest stamp set ... ok, TWO of my latest stamp sets ... 'cuz I got a $10 rebate offer from PayPal and ended up ordering two different bird/bird cage sets when I ordered, LOL! I had the DP on hand for inspiration already, and had been searching the Internet for a bird and bird cage stamp that I'd seen once in my travels and mistakenly lost the info from ... well, I've got PLENTY now! These are from Stampendous, and I just HAD to have IO's birdcage pyramid, don't you know ... more on that later!

stamps: Stampendous' birthday cages, tweet cages; paper: Basic Grey's porcelain DP, SU's Always Artichoke, Pretty in Pink card stocks, recycled white card stock from my work place; inks: SU's - methinks they were Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, and Ruby Red, distressed with Ranger's antique linen and SU's Cameo Coral

happy belated b'day Beth

A coworker celebrated her b'day over the weekend and WE celebrated it on Monday with donuts from her fav donut-provider - if you're in the Flint area, check out Donna's Donuts - YUM! I made the card w waves based on the video tutorial at this post from the kind folkes at the Hero Arts blog.

I know the sailboat doesn't conform to any semblance of reality ... but Beth and her family sail most summer weekends ... and it was fun making it! I first made my sailboat using a 1-1/4" circle punch, then the wave stencil using recycled acrylic sheets from work, making my waves all the same size using SU's slit punch. Then I used an X-Acto knife to cut along the top of the waves to tuck the sailboat into the scene, matted and popped it up on the card base. The inside sentiment's PC-generated: Friends like you keep us afloat!

stamps: Clear & Simple Stamps' sunshine; paper: Paper Reflections' black, SU's Soft Suede, and recycled white card stock from handouts from my workplace (hey, it's Earth Day week, right?!); ink: SU's Tempting Turquoise, Yo Yo Yellow

blog candy opp

Claire of Waltzing Mouse Stamps has a sneaky peeky of her upcoming stamp set release and a bit o' blog candy offered at this post ... and you know how I'm always directing you to stop by and visit, and tell 'em that SueB sent you? This time it's for real! She's asked folkes to let them know who referred you and you get another blog candy opp! So, really ... DO please tell her that SueB of Blondin Blogs sent you!

thanx - I needed that!

A hybrid card for today - it's mid-week and I'm home playing. I asked for a last-minute vacation day yesterday afternoon, by special request from my DH, who thought we should head to a local golf store to stock up on supplies as our league starts next week ... and maybe check out clubs while we're there. I'd like a new pair of sandals too. My DH gave me a gift card to go towards clubs a year ago Christmas and I hadn't used it, so today's the day! I put the card in his card this year with a note that it goes towards today's purchases.

Until then, though, I thought I'd play on the PC. I made a thank you card for a friend who loves Penny Black hedgehogs - they're so stinkin' cute, y'know?! The card's based on today's Splitcoaststampers' SC277 sketch challenge and uses a digi image someone e-mailed me last year. I used Photoshop's color picker tool to grab a few colors from the image and colored some card stock - recycled handout materials from my work place in honor of it being Earth Day tomorrow (and 'cuz I'm temporarily out of white card stock except for scraps!).

stamps: Penny Black's Acrobat, MSE's hand written (inside sentiment); paper: recycled handout cover from work; inks: ColorBox Frost White, Tri-C watercolor markers; accessories: SU 1/4" pretty in pink grosgrain ribbon from my most recent ribbon share; tools: ek success' dotted scallop border punch

surprise!

My eldest son and I are both movie junkies. I surprised him last Sunday and took him to see How To Train Your Dragon, when he'd expected that we were off to our usual Blockbuster outing.

It was SO nice ... except for my timing mixup. I'd searched show times based on the movie title, and when we arrived in plenty of time for the particular showing, then realized it was playing in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D at the same theater. Well, if you've not been to a 3D show lately (where've you BEEN?!), they're just SO much more worth it ... so, we waited 'til the next 3D showing, which happened to be an IMAX showing. Well, my son has spacial issues and walking into large rooms freaks him out. In the past we've had regular outings to museums and let him very slowly adapt to his surroundings, and he's been to IMAX shows at this theater in the past, but on this particular occasion it was too much, too quickly, for him and we had to return to the ticket booth to exchange our IMAX 3D tickets for the smaller theater's 3D tickets. The delays meant weren't long enough to warrant returning home but WERE long enough so that Mom could pick up extra nachos and pop, so we just cooled our heels watching previews of coming attractions ... over and over and over again ... sigh ... while waiting for our movie.

The movie? He LOVED it! My opinion? GREAT stuff; here's a trailer for you.

Our prior 3D venture, Avatar, comes out on DVD tomorrow! If you haven't checked out either of these movies, you should!

Paper Crafts Blog Hop

Vicky at Clips-N-Cuts is celebrating 100 posts and inviting all of us to connect via a new-to-me type of blog hop. It's a script similar to Mr. Linky, but when you add your blog's URL here, it will show up on everyone else's page too! She's aiming to connect 1,000 bloggers and I think it'll be interesting to see how many we connect!

Ready?

a two-fer

It's been a while since I've made a card based on any challenge - sketch or otherwise, and today I've got a two-fer: this one's for the FTL86 sketch and embellish magazine's parties color challenge one.

The flower stamp set's a new (to me) one that I picked up a couple weeks ago and hadn't inked 'til today. It's my Inkadinkado one to substitute for SU's Fifth Avenue Floral set ... or Papertrey Ink's various florals (boy, they've got quite a few in their lineup now!). Well, they've all been on my wish list, and we all know how fast THAT grows, LOL!

stamps: Inkadinkado's The Garden Variety, MSE's Hand Written; paper: The Paper Co's kraft card stock; ink: CTMH's Cranberry and Tri-C watercolor markers, Color Box Frost White, Tombow's white gel pen, and SU's Basic Black

make-'n-take

Scroll down for my blog candy winner post (congrats, Tanya!).

I've gotta admit, this may be my first Saturday make -'n- take where I have no clear favorite card ... they're both stinkin' cute! Here's one of the cards we made today. No deets 'cuz I was too lazy to walk around checking where the supplies came from.

The smaller top yellow-mounted tent-fold card has a PC-generated sentiment on vellum card stock mounted inside. I used my Tombow mono vellum adhesive to mount that - a first time using this brand, part of my winnings from the product testing I participated in last year as noted in this post. I've been disappointed with past vellum adhesives as it tends to show thru the vellum material but this adhesive rocks! The larger tent-fold card is blank inside. My bow lady (thanx, Pat) helped me out with the yellow bow.

Tanya904, Blog Candy Winner!

Hi folkes! Just a quick note to advise that I used random.org to draw the winning post number, and sent Tany904, post #3, an e-mail to let her know she's the lucky winner of the blog candy, giving her 48 hours (as noted in the original post) to claim the booty! If I don't hear back from Tanya, I'll draw again on Monday 4/19 after 2:15 p.m. Now I'm off to pick up a pizza box to mail all the winnings in!