Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamp Release Day!

Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamp Company is releasing two great sets today available exclusively at Stamp Happens.

No Girls Allowed

 

 

 

 

 

 

and Pretty in Pink

 

 

 

 

 

Aren’t they great?!

I get to play with Pretty in Pink and I had so much fun colouring them up…until I spilled my water all over the table! 

Good news: I only ruined 1 out of 2 projects. 

Bad news: I ruined 1 out of 2 projects.

Guess that’s how the cookie crumbles!

So here’s the project that was not affected by the tsunami on the table,

I haven’t made a 4.25 x 4.25” note card in a while, and FINALLY got to try Jacquie’s smooshing technique with the ribbon.

I really like how light and girly this is, and I just love the wording “giggles and laugh” doesn’t that just scream girly slumber party to you?

 

Here’s a detail shot, these are the first pictures with my new camera; if you click the picture, you can see the texture of the paper.  It’s gorgeous in real life, thick and wonderful to hold, and these were actually scrap pieces left over from a custom order of bridal shower invites.  I loved the paper so much, I couldn’t throw out any of it.

Now head on over to the other Stampin Sistahs and see what they put together to show you,

Senior Sistahs

Tonya ~ Beth ~ Julie ~ Jen

Stampin Sistahs

Alyssa ~ Donna ~ Gayle ~ Leigh Ann~ Sarabeth

Then cruise on over to Stamp Happens and pick up your very own set from the Wildflower Kids collection- and there’s lots of Holiday digi items too! 

 

 

 

 

ps- thanks for all the lovely comments from the New Moon blog hop. I’m still making my way through, so I’ll continue to hop as I find time :)

Happy Monday!

Ciao for now,

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4 Morgans; 2 sketches; and a whole lotta Sassy Christmas cards!

Dear Beth, creator and owner of Stamp Insanity Stamps. I heart you. I heart Morgan and I heart the Naughty and Nice set.

I took some non-traditional Christmas colours and went to town, using first the MojoMonday sketch and, this will qualify for the Basic Grey Challenge this week too.

I heart Morgan so much, I made another card, switching the Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses paper.

I heart her even more, I found Jen Del Muro’s SFYTT and made another, using more BG Eskimo Kisses, and the very last of my coveted SU Purely Pomegranate paper.

“who you callin’ a Ho Ho Ho”

Beth, you are a genius. Did I tell you I heart you?

I switched the papers and the location of the snowflake, but kept the sentiment, because, you know, I heart it.

Matching snowflakes on the inside.

I heart snowflakes too.

Do you heart Morgan as much as I do? Show Beth you love her, and visit Stamp Happens, the ONLY place to buy Stamp Insanity stamps.

Happy Tuesday,

Ciao for now,

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Wildflower Kids Snowman has left the building!

Remember this guy? 

I sized him and coloured him for a gift tag, but then it wasn’t working, so I made this card?

 

Well, the Wildflower Kids Snowman, lets call him Sid, he was talking to his friend Pax the Penguin.

Pax told Sid the Snowman about this new housing development that was going up and that Pax was really happy living there.

So Sid packed up.

He left. He gave his notice to his landlord and packed up his stuff and moved out!

 

 

 

Sid is all unpacked at his new place and wants to invite you over to check it out.

Sid is soo much happier in his new place!

The windows!

The view is just incredible!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sid brought some of his snowflakes to make the new place feel more like home, but he is downsizing, so he didn’t bring them all with him.

 

 

Sid’s got lots of space though, so don’t worry.

 

 

 

 

The best thing about Sid’s new place? Totally mobile! He can pick up and go anywhere around the world with just one stamp!

Talk about cheap airfare!

 

 

 

Want Sid at your place? Easy Peasy.  Click here.

Want to make your very own home for Sid? No problem.

Wildflower Kids are available exclusively at Stamp Happens.

 

 

 

 

Happy Tuesday ;)

Ciao for now,

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Holiday release from Stamp Insanity

Beth from Stamp Insanity has done it again! You will LOVE the 3 holiday releases!  And where do you get them? Well, thanks for asking! At Stamp Happens of course! They are the only place on the web to order Stamp Insanity stamps!

The Holiday release has so many awesome images, but truthfully, the sentiments are my fav! A little on the edgy side and a whole lotta fun!

So lets get to it! My image is from the Naughty and Nice set:

Stamp Insanity Morgan is channeling her playful side!

Card base is SU Old Olive, layered with Bashful Blue and Real Red.  The DP is from Imagininisce Polar Expressions Pine and Peppermint and super sparkly!

I took a hint from the paper and added some MS glitter to everything I could on Morgan’s outfit!

You may have to click on the picture to make it bigger, but I added glitter to her trim on her hat and dress, belt and shoe buckles and her earrings.

I struggled  a bit with the label, it looked too bare just white, and the Prisma didn’t blend as much as I wanted it to, so I think I may redo that.

 

You’ll see my water mark is back…I finally received my order of PhotoShop Elements! Yay! no more dark pictures! It was perfect timing since I just loaded Windows 7 on my computer.  I had to spend quite a bit of time today reloading everything back on to the computer…don’t you hate that? So, forgive me, but I’m still configuring Live Writer so here’s my next request:

Hop on over to the side bar to find the other StampSistah’s links and visit them for some inspiration…by the next post I will have all my links reprogrammed…I promise!

Don’t forget to head on over to Stamp Happens and pick up the new Holiday release!

Happy Monday!

Ciao for now,

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Wildflower Kids Digital ‘Tis the Season

I think the right side of my brain has ADD.  The right side of our brain is the creative side (vs. the left side which is responsible for logical thought) and mine seems to be ALL over the place lately.

Remember yesterday, when I said I had a completely different vision for that winter card? Another main image? Well, I just couldn’t sit still while that image sat coloured, cut out and ready to use on my stamp table.  Truth be told, I printed out the snowman digital image planning on making gift tags.  Then I got sidetracked by patterned paper.  See, I told you, I think my right brain has ADD.

I went to a trusted sketch site Jen DelMuro’s {i heart 2 stamp} to find some inspiration. So here goes:

I was planning on following the sketch exactly, but the size of my digital snowman from Wild Flower Kids Stamps was a little bit too big (remember I already had him cut out, otherwise I’d have just resized him).

I was thinking the card needed a sentiment, but I just couldn’t fit it in.

I left the inside blank, but added more snowflakes you can see peeking out here.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the sparkly snowflakes! The best thing about this paper is that the glitter stays put! No random flakes of glitter all over the table, in your hair…etc.

Want a little giggle? Look closely at the snowman’s left branch hand.  Click on the picture to make it bigger if you have to.  I narrowly escaped a very vulgar gesture by this snowman by almost snipping off one of his branch fingers! LOL.

Ok, so it might just be that I should totally be in bed right now, but I find it hilarious!

Want to play with the snowman on your own? Head on over to Stamp Happens and check out the whole ‘Tis the Season release by Wild Flower Kids Stamps …you will not be disappointed!

 

I’m off to visit my friends and Godson Ethan this weekend; we’re going to a cooking class so I’m looking forward to stocking up on some yummy quick and easy meals since work has been so chaotic lately!

Happy Friday!

Ciao for now,

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Widlflower Kids Rubber Stamps- Digital Holiday release!

Hiya!
I hope you had a great weekend, I'm on the road today (so forgive the layout, I'm working in blogger and it's a timed post); I was at home celebrating the wedding of a childhood friend. It was a large Italian wedding, a great party and LOTS of yummy food! Tonight I'll be attending a Gala event in Toronto, a performance of a 250-children orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

But for right now, it's time for another release from the Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamps and Jen has outdone herself with these adorable digital holiday releases!

Here's my project for this week:


I love the ability to resize the digital images, and decided to make them a bit larger and make a gift tag out of them.
I also got to use my Angle Wings Shimmerz I bought from Tonya at Stamp Happens....I had to hold myself back not to put Shimmerz on everything!





Here's another picture that shows the Shimmerz on the white parts of the candy cane a bit better. If I adjust the lighting, it's much to over exposed, so it is a bit dark.

I used prismas to colour the red parts, and blended with OMS. I've noticed that my printer ink doesn't smear with OMS like it does with other blending mediums (baby oil and goo be gone), and even with watercolouring. I watercoloured the bow with SU Old Olive, which I will be using a lot this holiday season; it's my favourite shade of green. I punched the wrong size hole for ribbon, so I'll use some twine to tie it to the gift.

Want to see the rest of the digital images?
Hop on over to the sidebar and check out the design team's projects for some inspiration.

Then, get your shopping shoes on and head on over to Stamp Happens to download the digital holiday images and you can start creating IMMEDIATELY! (that's the other great part about digis....no waiting!)


Happy Monday!
Ciao for now,


(ps) make sure to come back tomorrow for the TwilightTuesday.com anniversary blog hop!!

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Gobble Gobble!

 

Perhaps this is terrible timing, with the recent  H1N1 outbreak in turkeys…but what can you do?

I had a day off today to attend some appointments, and was looking forward to a day of stamping.  However, Fate had another plan for me today. 

I went to (finally!) reinstall my printer today, and as I plugged the USB cable in, my mouse and keyboard ceased to function. This happened last week, for 3 days, but I plugged in my work keyboard and a spare mouse.  A few days rest for the entire computer and they were back up and running.  Not the case today.  After muttering a few choice words in Italian,  I hopped in the car and bought a new keyboard and mouse.  I went wireless again, which goes against a lot of market research, but I’m hopelessly addicted to my Microsoft keyboard functions built into the keyboard…programmable favourite buttons, media player controls, one touch email… and a corded keyboard is hard to find these days!

So needless to say, the time I wanted to spend stamping, was spent finding, purchasing, and installing my new keyboard.   It’s a split keyboard, so the jury is still out on if I’ll be able to adapt or not.

I did manage to get some stamping done and catch up on using the Wild Flower Kids Stamps Autumn Splendour digital release.

I just loved this little turkey so much, I printed him in two sizes on SU Very Vanilla Cardstock and coloured him with my prisma pencils and some Gamsol I got from Tonya at Stamp Happens (I love! that applicator bottle!)

I’m on the Kraft cardstock bandwagon again, and kept this card really simple.  I used my Score-Pal to make the frame, and then added my cut out image to the centre, some SU Chocolate Chip Taffeta ribbon,…eh voila!

I actually printed two turkey’s the same size and cut out the body, and popped it up on dimensionals, here’s a close up:

 

 

 

 

For my second card, I used a favourite layout…I think it may have come from the Clean and Simple blog, but I’m really not sure.  I will be using this layout again and again!

This little turkey is printed out a bit smaller than my card #1, but I used the same colours and the same effect; cutting out the body on a second image and popping up on dimensionals.  The sentiment is also from the Autumn Splendour set, and perfect for Thanksgiving, but can be used for every day life too!

I apologize if the pictures are a bit dark…I’ve misplaced all the registration info for PS Elements and can’t find the Serial Number…so I’m stuck using Picassa until I figure out a backup plan.

Happy Tuesday!

Ciao for now,

 

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Friends + Stamps = Bliss! and BLOG CANDY!

One of our Stampin Sistahs assignments is to use the Stamp Insanity Stamps for an ABC- Anything But a Card.

If you’ve been following me along for a while, you’ll know I love to make the mini pizza boxes from SCS.  I thought this was a perfect project for my ABC, I just had to choose which of the lovely Stamp Insanity Stamps I was going to pick!

I chose a sentiment from the Meet Morgan and Henry set and available exclusively at Stamp Happens.

This is a great set for any stamper to have, there are so many incredibly useful sentiments!

 

So here is my pizza box

I wanted to use fall colours, but I think it ended up looking a little Christmasy instead…oh well!

 

I used SU Chocolate Chip for the box and American Craft cardstock and DP for the rest.  The sentiment is inked in SU Old Olive.

Here’s a close up…how true!

So, now to the important part…the CANDY!

 

 

 

To celebrate the wonderful friends I have made through stamping, I’m going to offer up some blog candy.  Over the next few weeks, until October 31st, I will be filling this pizza box with some goodies and it will be the Candy prize.

My first addition…well, it doesn’t even fit in the box!

(4) 6X6 We R Memory Keepers “Explore Hubcaps” double sided paper. On the back is a great circle pattern in coordinating colours:

RULES:

• Leave a comment, with the number of your entry, on this original post to be included in the draw
• Add a link to my blog candy on your blog and get a second entry

That’s it! you can add a little story about a stamping friend, I always love to hear stories…have you ever met a stamping bloggy friend in person?

I will ship worldwide! Some of my stamping friends live across the pond or down under :) 

I will be adding to the Pizza box until October 31st, and post when something is added.  I will also include a link on my sidebar so you can be kept up to date.  I will use a Random number generator to pick the winner on November 1st.

Happy Wednesday!

Ciao for now,

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Meet Me at Merlottes

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend!

I’m back in London and trying to get my computer back up and running. I found out today, that my backup of my files before I reformatted didn’t work. Ugh. So it’s going to take me a bit longer than I had hoped. Ultimately, I think programming Live Writer with all my auto links is going to take me the longest! Don’t you just love technology?

I’d like to share with you a birthday card I made for Tonya a few weeks ago. I used the Otherwordly Loves, one of the premier releases from Stamp Insanity Stamps and available exclusively at Stamp Happens.

For those fans of the HBO True Blood series, you’ll recognize both the sentiment, as well as the picture.

I took this picture while in Hollywood, taking the tour of the Warner Bros. studio. This is THE cabin that is used for the outdoor shots of Merlottes’ Bar and Grill, and has also been used for scenes in The Mentalist.

I used some TH distress inks and some chalk to add some roughness to the photo and papers.

For the inside, I used a GinaK Company “Happy Birthday” sentiment, then picked up the Stamp Insanity Stamps Otherwordly Loves set again and stamped “Fangbanger” in Red ink.

Again from the same set, I added the lips/fangs in the corner. This set can do so much!

Here’s a close up of the mouth…I added some Candy Cane Stickles from Tonya for the lips and added liquid pearls to the teeth…with some more red stickles on the tips of the fangs for good measure!

Head on over to Stamp Happens to pick up your set…the Halloween Stamp Insanity Stamps are on sale, it’s perfect timing!

Happy Tuesday!

Ciao for now,

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Come have dinner with the Wild Flower Kids!

Yes, I know they’re stamps, but just give me a minute to explain.

Today marks the 2nd release of Wild Flower Kids Rubber Stamp company AND their 1st digital release of Violet and friends! Today’s release is all about autumn.  The leaves are changing, the temperature is dropping, and it’s time to give thanks.

I’ve invited the Wild Flower Kids to the table; well, really to help organize the seating arrangements.

That’s right folks- place cards!

The wonderful thing about digital stamps is that you can resize them for any project.  Rye is dressed in his Pilgrim best and measures 3.83” tall; he’s attached to a 3 1/4” wide by 2” high place card.  I used a tiny leaf stamp in the corner and distressed the edges with TH Tea Dye ink.

 

Rye is coloured with Prismas and baby oil, and since his outfit is basic black and white, I snazzed it up a bit by embossing his belt buckle, his shoes (and his hat buckle which you can’t see) with gold embossing powder.

 

 

 

Violet has also marked her place; I chose shades of pink for Violet’s dress and kept her apron and shirt white.

The same leaf stamp and distressing was used on her card; Violet is also about 3.8” tall.

 

 

Isn’t she cute? All nice and rosy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And last but not least (there are more images in the set, I just chose the main 3 to work with for this project) is my personal favourite Bramble.

Bramble was so much fun to colour!  It was nice to make him bright and cheery.

 

 

 

Bramble is also coloured with Prismas and baby oil; I think I’m starting to get the hang of this colouring thing!

 

 

 

 

So now that you’ve gotten some inspiration, hop along to see the rest of the DT creations, then over to Stamp Happens to get your digi Wildflower Kids stamps and you can be creating in about…well, as fast as your little fingers can type you over there!

Senior Sistahs:

Tonya ~ Beth ~ Julie ~ Jen 

Stamp Sistahs:

Alyssa ~ Deb ~ Donna ~ Gayle ~ Jacquie ~ Leigh-Ann ~ Sarabeth 

Happy Thursday!

Ciao for now,

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