Did you know Stampavie have a new range of stamps – The Laurence Collection.  And what a collection of cuties it is.  My new DT stamps arrived yesterday and I had to ink this little cutie up right away.

I have used Cosy Christmas and have coloured the image with Copics.  The paper is Fancy Pants Mince Pie left over from last year.  I have applied Glossy Accents to the baubles but it’s not showing up in the picture.

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Hi Everyone!  It’s my turn to post today and I want to share a couple cards that I had lots of fun making.  I enjoy cutting out images and popping them up to add dimension to my projects. I also love to put a focal image out of the ” box” for added interest. If you look closely at my first project with Lynnette Collecting Her Vegetables you will see that I cut out extra vegetables and popped them up to add depth to the garden.  

For my second project I cut out Siku and Shiya to pop up over festive holiday designer paper with a snow storm in the background that I created using a tiny brush, white craft reinker and white embossing powder.  I used white watercolor paint to color the fur trim on the jackets.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

I have such an unexpected treat for you all today…

Yep, the adorable new images arrived on my doorstep this morning! {Don’t tell anyone, but I very nearly kissed the poor postman when I realised what he was handing over…}
I couldn’t resist inking up this darling little pair – they stole my heart when I first saw them! – and whipping up a card to share with you all
If you haven’t checked out the new Christmas 2010 designs {where’ve you been?!} go do it now!

Before I get to my card, have you seen the new Stampavie Christmas images that are coming?  Adorable!  Be sure to check them out!

It has been way too long since my Sarah Kays got inky!  They’re so fun!

I drew the sun shape, traced it on my card and cut it out.  Then I stamped the sweet Sarah Kay image on the front.  This one is called Lynette Collecting Her Vegetables.  The circular shape is the cardfront and the back of the card has the “rays”.

Some sponging, doodled stitches, and Stickles finished off the edges.  I was happy with how it turned out, but I wished I would have cut around the Sarah Kay image and popped her up on the front because that way I could have embossed a pattern on the sun.  Next time! 

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  Enjoy the sun!

Today I have a Sarah Kay card to share with you.

I think I went OTT with this card (so what’s new!)  I have used Magnolia papers and distressed them then stitched them then applied Diamond Stickles around the edges of the paper.  I also distressed the paper doily and the flowers. 

I wrote the sentiment after stamping and distressing the heart stamp then applied Diamond Stickles to this as well.  The flowers didn’t miss out on being distressed, they got the Walnut Stain distress ink treatment too lol.

The colours used on this image – Quiet Moments by Sarah Kay for Stampavie are:
Boy Hair: E77, E74, E71, E70
Girl Hair: E49, E47, E25, E21
Clothes: BG11, BG10, BG000, BG94, E53, E51, E50, E000
Book: E70, E40
Skin: E11, E01, E00, E000
Cat: C5, C3, C1, C0
Shadow: W5, W3, W1, W0

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I have been having lots of fun this week playing in the Splitcoaststampers Dare to Get Dirty Challenges. If you’re a Fan Club Member this is your chance to play along with Dirty Girls, past and present, in a ton of fun challenges.  If you’re not a Fan Club Member, this is the perfect time to become one!  You can get all the info here.  There are 33 challenges to choose from – play one or play them all.

I made this card for a challenge called Embrassing White Space.  Leaving lots of white space around an image is really a challenge for me.  I always want to add grass, trees or some type of background scenery to make the image pop to life.  More is always better as far as I am concerned.  I sort of proved myself wrong with Adele and her basket full of apples as they seem to pop right off the all white background. Sarah Kay’s little girls are absolutely adorable images that can definitely stand alone and be the center piece of any project.

I hope you take time to pop on over to Splitcoaststampers and check out the special week of challenges.

Hy Hy. Do you all enjoying your vacation. I hope I do when this card is going published. So I hoop it’s going well. I cant see that because I hoop I laying in the sun with a nice drink.  Now back to the card I made this won is from the Sarah Kay collection Time for Apple pie

For this card I used the paper from Kaisercraft Hey Birdie collection. The apples I used are from the same paper, also the bird and the tree. I coloured it with the Distress ink, Tattered rose, Victorian velvet, Vintage photo, Aged mahogany, Peeled paint, Antique linnen.

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Marga

Eeeeeeek – I am so late posting today! School finished this afternoon for the summer, so things have been a bit crazy, I’m sorry!

I have yet another card showing “Bernadette admiring the spring flowers” to show you today – yep, she’s definitely my favourite!

She’s such a beauty, I wanted to keep embellishments to an absolute minimum – so I opted for one big button and some squiggly stitching!

Hope you’re having a great day!

I cannot believe how fast time is passing by. It’s my turn to post today and I have used a  fun Helz Cuppleditch image for my project called Coco Cat Flowers. 

I only wanted to use the cat from the Coco Cat Flowers so I masked off the floral bouquet and bees when I inked the stamp.  I don’t often do clean and simple card designs but I wanted the cat to be the main focus of my project so I used plain kraft cardstock for the background and simple brown for layering.  I love the simplicity of the paw prints going across the card and right around the cat image  and the brown ginham bow and  fish bone tag was the perfect simple embellishment. 

I hope you have a wonderful and that you have a chance to get your fingers inky.

Hey everyone
I have a card to show you today, using stamps from Rachelle Anne Miller’s Stampavie collections.

Aren’t they just the cutest little trio?! I’ve used Cuddle Up (which I always reach for when I need to make a quick card!), Picket Fence Borders and one of the lovely sentiments – for anyone who’s unsure about masking stamps, Jay Jay has an easy to follow tutorial here on her blog

Don’t forget to check out the “Kickin’ it for Michelle” post, if you haven’t done so already – a big thank you for all your support!