All Wrapped Up

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Another early post because I'm sneaking in a card using a September Offer of the Month stamp at DigiStamp Boutique. It's that adorable Coco with Presents~

I actually started this color palette from pattern paper, but didn't use it in the end because my digi-print was SO big. The paper was such an inspiration though that I kept going with the present theme and pulled out my collection of Cuttlekid dies and found a present to use. I cut them out on white CS and colored with the same pattern as I did on the Coco image then outlined it with my PITT artist pen. I overlapped the presents into a line and used them as a strip for the bottom of the SC300 sketch. I tried to be clever and repeat the color pattern from Coco by creating a light blue ribbon strip above the presents. Can you see it? Well, I thought I was clever enough at such a late crafting hour. LOL

This card is all wrapped up in challenges with prizes! Check out the challenge list below!

Pile It On - Cute and Charming
Splitcoast Stamps Card Sketch - SC300
Charisma Cardz - Christmas Crafting (no I'm not really, it's sponsored by DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann has a great prize for the winner)

Thanks for stopping by~

Details:
Card Size: 5 1/2 inches square
Stamps: Coco with Presents, Perfect Presentation
Paper: Neenah Solar Smooth White, WRF chocolate and WRF Blue
Ink: LaserJet, Prismacolor Markers, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Cuttlebug Polka Dots EF, MFT dienamics ribbon texture, Cuttlekids present die, paper piercer

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Raindrops and Chloe

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I've got an InStyle Stamps project for you today that will be a perfect rainy day gift for someone with children. First I have a whole list of things to talk about. Yep, it's going to be a long post!

First InStyle Stamps released a whole lot of images on Friday!

Some Chloe's some Love Mail, and more! Go check them out under What's New!

Second, this month the design team was gifted with an enormous array of sticky fun! We all had our crafty little hands on some products from Glue Arts! Wow, what fun! For my project today I used Glue Glider Pro, Ribbon Adhesive, Mini Adhesive Squares and U Cut It Raisen's. Now I had know idea I was going to have so much fun with all glue before, but once I got the hang of a handled glue applicator (Glue Glider Pro) I was making some serious tracks on this projects. Seriously!!!!

Now for the project! It's a Bubble Tea kit! I used Raindrop Chloe (a digital stamp) and the September Sketch Challenge.

A big thanks to some friends who gave me a local restaurant and online store to work on the foody parts of my project. THANKS Vern and Elizabeth! I also found some nifty recipes for a crowd here, that I used for the recipe booklet.

Details:

Stamps: Raindrop Chloe, digital sentiments using Susie's Hand font

Paper: LSS color pack

Ink: LaserJet, Stampin' Up Re-inker and aqua pens

Accessories: Glue Arts adhesives, Stampin Up ribbon, Martha Stewart edge punches, hole punch, Tim Holtz Brackets die, RAK flowers, buttons and embroidry floss stash

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Birthday Card Pirate Style

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Good early morning to you! I've got the CUTEST pirate card to show you. He's even got a treasure to boot! I'm using Josh and Parrot from DigiStamp Boutique. This image is part of the Josh Collection for Offer of the Month.

I know some of you might have remembered that I promised a CoCo card for early this week, but Josh and Parrot were calling my name. I think I'll be using this one as a birthday card with a handwritten sentiment inside to the effect "...with Birthday wishes."

Have a great day and weekend!


Details:
Card Size: A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches)
Stamps: Pirate Josh and Parrot
Paper: WRF Kraft cardstock, Neenah Solar Smooth White, Cream
Ink: LaserJet, Prismacolor Markers
Accessories: Black Button Thread, Tim Holtz Woodgrain Texture Fades EF, Black Felt-tip pen, 3D Dots adhesive

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New Release, Blog Hop and Prize, Oh MY!

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This post almost has me hyperventilating from excitement!  So much to talk about including some prize opportunities for YOU!

Detail from this card in May 2010

It's the last Friday of the month and that means its a Design Team Blog Hop starting off at InStyle Stamps blog. It's going to start at 10:00 AM PST and you'll be seeing some awesome projects from the team with images that release today!

If you can't wait and haven't been by InStyle Stamps blog yet this week, get a gander at all the creations from the Design Team using the new Chloe stamps.

Let's see what am I forgetting????? PRIZES!!!!!

• By leaving a comment on the ISS blog after you've been through the hop and voting for your favorite DT creation you could be the winner of a goodie bag from InStyle Stamps.

Other ways to win some goodies:

• Win 4 digis! Find out here at Operation Write Home Birthday Bash. There's still time to participate. The deadline is Sunday the 26th at 12:00 PM EST


• Comment on all the new release posts on the ISS blog by Sunday the 26th at 12:00 PM EST for a chance to win a Glue Arts adhesive goodie pack.

• Another InStyle Stamps digi will go to two random commenters on any of the Design Team's personal blog posts this week. See my sidebar for their blog links. The deadline is Sunday the 26th at 12:00 PM EST

Oh my goodness! What a prize-tastic week! Have fun and good luck! Breathe...breathe...breathe...

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Apple Pie Tree Story

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Happy Monday to you all!

Did you see the neat inspiration for InStyle Stamps last week? Go check it out and then come back here to read about an unrelated project. I just had to put both in the same post because the project goes so well with InSpiration Wednesday, .

So I decided to try and be an Art Mom for my daughter's Kindergarten class this year. EDIT: I AM the Art Mom for the year.

Last Tuesday I brought in to my daughter's classroom a crock pot and a Peel Away (peels, cores and slices apples and potatoes, possibly more than that). The teacher asked the class to each bring in an apple. While the children were in seatwork, they took turns using the Peel Away on their apple and then placed it in the crock pot. I added a few seasonings and when it was time for pick up the room smelled like chunky applesauce. Well, it was suppose to be applesauce but it resembled more of a pie filling. LOL Each student took home a cup to eat at lunch. Thanks to my friend and hairdresser, Susan, for that idea.

The art project was an apple book to give the students a chance to

The supplies for the apple book are:
-Two red circles
-Two white circles 1/2 inch smaller in diameter than the red
-One green rectangle
-One brown strip

Put together with a glue stick. The leaf is an outline of their thumb cut out and put between the back cover circle and the second white circle glued all together.

Then glue on the front cover:

-Torn colored tissue paper

We asked them to draw on the first page their favorite part of the Apple Pie Tree book and then on the second page they drew or wrote what is their favorite apple food

Lots of fun and they did a phenomenal job. I think all 10 students were done with the project within 30 minutes.

Hope your Monday is a good one!

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A different kind of Journal

I've been inspired to create an artist journal. I've yet to get the official description, but I think I probably should avoid that because it would put a damper on the idea I had immediately after super talented Taylor over at Quiet Moments had sent the word out. She was wondering what she was going to do in her artist journal. WHAT? Where have I been?

Really, I've known about them from all those art classes in college (think DaVinci sketches, Degas, etc.), but it never crossed my mind that I would create an artist journal for me. This idea I had incubated for almost a month and then it was a lightbulb moment, I tell ya. I can't really add anything else to my busy life, but what if I just put the journal together with my need to scrapbook about and of my children? That's it. That's my super-duper-uper-schmooper idea!

Gesso and Re-inker, stamps and felt

Have a blessed day!

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Name Badges for Moms

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Hi all,

I'm a week late sending this Thursday post out. My best attempt at scheduling my posts and I've failed by a whole week! LOL I know you all will go easy on me. That's why I love my blogging friends so much.

For the new 2010-2011 Mother's of Preschoolers group this year, I have signed up to be the Creative Director. I'm not doing it alone and I have a ton of support, so I might have some fun with this new role.

I thought some of you might be interested in what we do for our creative time each meeting. Last Thursday was the first meeting and to break the ice we create our name tags around the art table to chat and help and get to know one another. With a few suggestions from veteran MOPS moms, I put together this idea. It needed to be easy, but give the moms some choice in creativity and here's what I did.

I gave the moms a pile of flowers, a pile of pleated and ruffled ribbons, various patterned paper and the use of all my edge punches to create their badges. Oh yeah, we added some bling too. {wink}

Here's a badge that was made up by one of the moms. I had to bring it home to fix the glued together pin and lucky for her I liked it so much I took a picture of it for my blog!

The flowers? I'm so lucky to have made friends with wonderful and talented ladies through this blog that I knew someone would be able to find just what I was looking for in a tutorial and supplies to make these flowers. Since the flowers took quite a bit of time for me to put together, my creative assistant, or the one who keeps me organized, suggested we have them all made up instead of the moms making them. (You can see the link at the bottom of this post for a tutorial.)

The flowers are glued to jewelry bar pins so moms could reuse them at the end of the MOPS season to pin them on a hat or shirt or summer bag...really whatever you can get a pin through you could use these flowers. I really like how they came out.

You'll have to image what all the different badges might look like with these flowers. So much fun!

Materials: Poly Liner fabric cut into 1 1/2- inch strips, jewelry bar pins, candle flame, needle and thread, felt backing, hot glue gun. Tutorial

Thanks for stopping by!

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DigiStamp Boutique's September Offer of the Month

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Do you remember way back in January this year when DigiStamp Boutique came out with Coco?

Well that furry wonderful little bear is back for christmas! Come back in a few days to see a new wintery wonder with Coco. AND there is also new Josh images. Both will be in Offer of the Month sets.

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InStyle Stamps September Release Week

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Today is the beginning of release week at InStyle Stamps.

Head on over and take a look at all the goodies the Design Team has created.

InStyle Stamps Blog

While you're there check out the sketch challenge. InStyle Stamps is sponsoring the Card Positioning Sketch Challenge!

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