The Scrappy Chick

LAD Monday: Meet Smiley Bob and Mickey Mo

Happy Monday!  I have 2 personalities to introduce you to today.  The first one is Smiley Bob.  My 12 year old DD named these guys while we were stamping them one night and the names have stuck (no wonder Faith names all of her stamps)  My friend Heather came over last week and we got to play with some new stamps.  I haven't bought these adorable stamps yet..so I begged Haether to bring them over for me to play with.  Hehe, they are so fun...I will have to give in and get them!  The set is from Lizzie Anne Designs  called Gizmos and Gears.  There are all kinds of fun pieces in the set, but 2 main robots...this one and the other (you guessed it, Mickey Mo).

I started off with an old WSC from Beate from weeks agao, but it kinda changed a bit I think.  The fun paper is PERFECT with this set...Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo.  And the colors in the stack are an awesome match with the SU! new In Colors...BTW... the new SU! catty will be here in 1 week!!!!Tons of new stamps!

So, here is Mickey Mo...where on earth did she get that name???  He was soooo fun to color in!  I pulled out all the funa colors from the Cogsmo paper.  Not too much special about the card, except now I have 2 new cute ones for my boy stash!

• Supplies for both:
• Stamps: Gizmos and Gears (Lizzie Anne Designs)
• Paper: Blue Bayou, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Blue Breeze, Basic Black, Wild Wasabi (SU!)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir, Blue Breeze (SU!)
• Accessories: markers (copic); red brads (Bazzill); double stitched blue bayou ribbon , black ribbon (SU!)

Thanks for stopping in today!  I still have blog candy up for grabs this week and  CC Designs previews will start Tursday.     -Cyndi

LAD Monday...Le Jardin

Happy Monday!  Hope everyone had a great weekend...ours was pretty lazy, and I like that!  Only 4 weeks of summer til life gets crazy again so I will take all the lazy days that I can get!

I will have lots of peeks starting up in just a few days for CC Designs and H&M Stamps, but in the meantime...a little other stuff.  I pulled up the Lizzie Anne Designs sketch challenge the other day and tried to do a card with the cute new robot set...well that didn't work out so well.  I do have a couple of fun cards made with that set that I'll show you another time...but today I thought about that darn "easy" sketch again, then thought about this gorgeous set, "Le Jardin" that I won during the last LAD release party.  well...it worked this time and I love the result!  Not my cutesy normal, but the colors turned out fun and bold!!   The other part of the challenge was to create you own background paper, which I did for the card base!

I am leaving you with this as I head off to visit the in-laws for dinner.  Ciao chickies!!    -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Le Jardin (Lizzie Anne Designs); Birds of a Feather (Unity Stamp Co)
• Paper: white cs (Papertrey); Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black (SU!)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir
• Accessories: Swiss dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug); Ribbon slot punch (SU!); Sweet Blush grosgrain ribbon (Papertrey); Black/white gingham ribbon (SU!); Flame Dew Drops (Robin's Nest); markers RV10, R35, R05, YG03 (Copic); Olive marker (SU!)

Going Coastal!

I have a number of cards stacked up on my desk that I haven't had a chance to uload yet...so today it is Lizzie Anne Designs Thursday in honor of the 2nd birthday of LAD!!  Happy Birthday Tricia & Meredith :)

I made this card last week for the sketch challenge at SCS, I uploaded it there, but it never made it here somehow.  I love the sketch...very fun and different and it was a bit of a challenge too.  The papers are from a scrap pad by Me & My Big Ideas.  The stamps are a fun set that I borrowed from my friend Heather called By the Sea...it was one of LAD's last releases that I didn;t get.  They have a ton more coming this week BTW...head over to check out their Anniversary Celebration...there is a sketch contest, and tons of peeks!!  I am off now to go birthday shopping with my DD for her party tomorrow!   

 -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: By the Sea (Lizzie Anne Designs)
• Paper: Modern Milan PP (Me & My Big Ideas; Black, Cool Carribean, White (SU!)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir
• Accessories: black brads , black/white gingham ribbon (SU!); copic markers, spica glitter pens, corner punch

WSC46 Spread Your Wings

I finally got to do another of Beate's weekend sketches!  I have missed these!  I have been wanting to pull out my new fairy from Lizzie Anne Designs for a couple of weeks and decided that today was the day.

I am not totally happy with this card.  I think the fairy kinda gets lost with all that pattern paper.  But I was ALSO determined to use my new SEI Dill Blossom paper.  LOVE it!!  Sometimes I should split up my determination between 2 cards though, huh?  Well, I'll try again later with her I suppose.  IRL she is much prettier and VERY glittery...I added a lot of sparkle to her wings, crown, wand and stars with my Gelly Roll Glitter pen.  The fairy saying is also by LAD.  The ribbon is Chocolate tafetta from SU! and the brads are Bazzill I think.

Back to prepping Disney pages for my next Scrapbook day :)  Have a great Monday!  -Cyndi

LAD_WC_24 Le Jardin

Hello from Florida!  Again, you ask?  Yes, we are back in Orlando, but not at Disney, and not with the kids.  This trip is a bit shorter and is "business" for my hubby.  Business means a few meetings, a lot of fabulous dinners, live bands, golf & pool.  I have some cool stuff to share later, such as we heard President George Bush Sr. speak to our group, how cool is thst?  The man is 83 years old and is still quite humorous.  The speech was not political in the least, more on values.  Lots of family anecdotes.  Don't know if I can share a pic online?

Anyway, I had just received my free set that I won from Lizzie Anne Designs  right before we left, so I threw it and a few copics and some paper in a craft keeper.  I had fun creating this yesterday, but didn't have time to post it. I need to be quick so here's the nitty gritty on supplies:  stamps: Le Jardin by Lizzie Anne Designs, greeting from Thankful Florals by Verve Visual; ink: Palette & copic markers; CS: SU! black & celery; paper is Amanda Blu; ribbon is SU!; dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by!  -Cyndi

Lizzie Anne Designs Rocks!!

I know that I have said this before, but its is so true...Lizzie Anne Designs  ROCKS!!  I just won a new release stamp set last night on the Stamp Safari!   I am so excited!!  So, in honor of Tricia (Lizzie) and Meredith (Anne) here are a couple of cards using one of the sets from the last release: In the Treetop.

First up is a card for this weeks LAD sketch challenge :)  The twist was to only use 2 colors.  I had Kristina W'c color challenge in mind { Cocoa, Celery, Bashful Blue, and Saffron}, but could only pick 2 so I chose Certainly Celery and Close to Cocoa.  (I am assuming White is a neutral and doesn't count??)

I stamped the top of this tree on the back of the polka dot DSP then cut it out and adhered it to the white piece, then stamped the tree bottom over the top of that.  The grass was stamped with the little zig-zag from that set on the same DSP and then cut out.  All pieces are distressed with the 2 color pads.

The sentiment is from the same set...I just love what it says, and there is also a thinking of you in the set as well as some more treetops and bottoms and little accessories, like the swirl that I used for my background on the card base.  Card also has Soft Subtle brads and White tafetta ribbon (all supplies besides the set are from Stampin' Up!)

The next card I actually made over the weekend for last weeks sketch challenge (the twist was to use circles)  I used the same set, but had some fun with the colors.  I pulled the colors out from Bo Bunny DP...the pads are SU! Cranberry (retired), Groovy Guava, and CTMH Kiwi. 

The card base is Kraft CS, the white is still my go-to choice for stamping: Papertrey Stampers Select WHite.  The edges aof all the papers and cs are distressed with Chocolate Chip ink.  I didn't think the cirlces in the DP were enough for the circle theme so I added a piece of my SIlver STyled Hodgepodge...I just love these circle frames!!  It was attached with the brads through the Guava ribbon.  The sentiment from this card is actually from the LAD set L'AMour and was masked and re-arranged to fit in my frame.  Both sets can be seen at the Lizzie Anne Designs site.  ALso, check out Merdith and Tricia's blogs for more great samples: Little Treasures and Letters from Lizzie.    Thank again to these gals for my set!  Can't wait to ink it up :)

Thanks to you all for stopping by!  Have a great hump-day   -Cyndi

Here Kitty, Kitty

Have you ever stamped an image and gotten side-tracked, then found it months later?  Well, thats the story of the little frame on this page.  I made this back in the fall I think (can't remember why??) but it got lost on my desk and shuffled around a few times.  I finally pulled it out the other day, determined to create something with it...cause it was so cute!  Here is the closeup: 

I used the pretty heart border stamp from the Lizzie Anne Designs set L'Amour (still one of my all time favorite sets!) and stamped it 4 times in Temting Turquoise around the outsides of a white square (the middle was punched out using a square punch repeatedly).  I then colored in the little hearts with a Green Galore marker.

So, I decided to frame my little cat, Roxie.  Its not as if we don't have a gazillion pictures of her!  I pulled out some more photos from around the same time and backed them all with Turquoise and Gable Green.  The background pieces are Kraft, and the next large mats are Cool Carribean.  I added a few more pieces using the same heart border theme (across the bottom of one page, on a corner mat, and at the bottom of the journaling) to bring a little balance to the pages.

The alphabets are Pupcat (retired from Lizzie Anne Designs) and Spunky (retired from Stampin' Up!).  I also added a few hearts, the little ones are also from the L'AMour set, the large one is from a SU! set called Foerever in my Heart.  The buttons are all Doddlebug (I think).

Overall I think it turned out really cute!  And I love being able to use something that would have otherwise been discarded :)  Thanks for stopping by!  More peeks tonight and tomorrow from All That Scraps so check back!   -Cyndi 

LAD_WC_20

I realized the other day that my Lizzie Anne Designs stamps have been feeling neglected.  I got so caught up in scrapbook pages that I laid aside all my new stamps that were hardly played with...so sad!!

So, here is a card for the latest LAD weekly sketch challenge (well, last weeks actually).  This challenge  came with an additional twist...I had to use a stamp that has never seen ink!! Hmm, not too hard, except for my LAD stamps, all have been stamped at least once...except for "Its a Party".  So, thats what I had to use!

The cute little flowers are both from this set, as is the sentiment.  I used Orchid Opulence, Pixie Pink, and Kiwi, inspired from the pattern paper that I used...Marcella Princess Paper.  The stems are from the set Funky Floral, also by Lizzie Anne Designs.  I added a button to the center of one flower (Foo-fa-la), and a punched circle to the other.  The circle and scalloped circle were cut using my Nestabilities Die cuts run through my Cuttlebug.

Thanks for stopping by!   -Cyndi

Double Challenge

This is for CC154 over at Splitcoast and also for Lizzie Anne Designs sketch #15.  Don't you love a double challenge...the layout and colors are all picked for me, I just have to choose some stamps!

For this I chose LAD Funky Floral which you can find on the Lizzie Anne Designs website.  The colors are Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Opulence, and Certainly Celery.  Kinda fun!  I layered the flowers over the background swirl design to give it a bit of depth.  But otherwise the layout was pretty simple, so I tried to keep it simple.  The sentiment is done with markers using That's Nice, a retired SU! set from last year.  The buttons and ribbon are also from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for stopping by for another of my quick posts!    -Cyndi

Surfer Dude pages

This page turned out so cute that I decided to show you the whole thing ;)  It will be one of the ones in the Beach/Pool track for the upcoming March Scrapbook Day.  Thanks Audra for reminding me how much I love these stamps!

You can also see the closeups of each page below, the page IRL look soooo much better.  The card stock is all Stampin' Up!, and the colors are sort of borrowed from the new Spring Break DSP.  I pulled out the Old Olive...thats really in there.  I thought the darker blue was Not Quite Navy (which I used) but in reality its Blue Bayou in the paper.  I also used some lighter shades...Certainly Celery, which is not in the paper...its actually River Rock...and the background pieces are Taken with Teal which helped the page to POP a bit more.  (This color combo was also arrived at by my friend Heather P's suggestion of the colors of my bathroom candles...Teal and Olive) 

The cute little surfer dudes are from The Cat's Pajamas...Alma designs the MOST adorable stamps!!  I used Poochie Frankie, Moon Doogie, and Sprinkle Annette...even the names are cute!  I colored these in with my Stampin' Write markers and cut out the images.  The palm trees are from an Autumn Leaves set that I borrowed from Haether.  The larger font is Pupcat from Lizzie Anne Designs (retired) and the smaller is SU! Simple Type alpha (retired).

I also want to thank Heather for all the help she has given me on getting these pages designed!  I used to depend on Traci, Bev, Melissa, and Dana for valuable input and thanks to them too!! but since I moved its been just Heather here to say "yeah thats great" or "no...change the color" or "hey, try this".  Trying to design 20 layouts in a month is a daunting task I must say, and a bit of creative advice is a neccessity!  so again, thanks to Heather for hanging out and lending me some mojo :)  I'll have more for you guys later today.  Thanks as always for visiting!  -Cyndi

Some LGMs (little green men)

I was in a bit of a whimsical mood today, so I pulled out some of my new Lizzie Anne Designs stamps.  These cute little LGMs are from "out of this World" available at Lizzie Anne Designs website.  Now I can't get Buzz and the LGMs out of my brain..."the uni-mind", bwaaha.

Anywho...the stamps from this set are very fun to color.  The first card uses just 5 of the images...all colored with my copic markers.  Besides the aliens, the ufo (how cute is that??), and the sentiment, both backgrounds are in the set.  I used Whisper White craft on the pumpkin cs and Gable Green on the white cs.  The next card uses a handful more images...the astronaut, flag, sentiment, planet, and moon.  And guess what?  I still haven't inked them all up after all those!  The possibilites are endless.  Lots of cute b-day sayings and more planet/star images as well as a cute rocket.

I also colored the images on this card with my copics.  I love the little craters on the moon!  And the flag...its blank so that you can put all the little words or stars in it.  Too stinkin' cute!  Meredith and Tricia are so awesome!

I hope to play some more with these space dudes soon, but I must get back to scrapping this week!

Thanks for visiting!

-Cyndi

In the Meadow

I am a week behind on sketch challenges it looks like...this is for Lizzie Anne Designs sketch #10, last week.  I hope to do this weeks too because its a fun one!

I chose to ink up "In the Meadow" of my new LAD stamps first.  I'm not sure why, its not my usual style, but I was in the mood and very drawn to it.  There are a variety of beautiful floral images in this set, and very pretty sentiments as well...this one says "sending you happy thoughts".  I used SU! So Saffron for the card base and then layers of more of my new favorite Bali Breeze DSP.  The circles are cut using my Classic and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities dies in my Cuttlebug.  The flowers are stamped on Whisper White and cut out.  I colored them in with Copics # Y00, Y17, YR20, YR02, and YR07.  The other cardstock mats are Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive...the ribbon is wide grosgrain in Olive, and narrow grosgrain in Apricot and Pumpkin.

Thanks for visiting! -Cyndi

Lizzie Anne Designs Sketch Challenge

Have I told you guys lately how much I love the challenges everywhere online?  They can really jump start you when you don't know what you are in the mood to do.  This is for Lizzie Anne Designs sketch this week, but I also ended up using the color challenge from SCS again (did I ever post the first card with this combo?)

Anyway, this card uses Funky Floral and Pupcat alphabet.  They can be found at the Lizzie Anne Designs website.  while there you can check out some sneak peeks of all the new releases coming out on Monday.  I can't wait to get my hands on some of these babies!

The colors are STampin' Up! real Red, Certainly Celery, and Taken with Teal.  Also used: 1.25 and 1 3/8" circle punches, scallop circle punch, word window punch, May Arts ribbon, Bazzill brads.  Thanks for visiting!   -Cyndi

Another Sneaky Peeky

Day 2 of the Sneak Peeks...heres LuLu all ready for Valentines Day.  This stamp is from "Love Ya Lots" which will be released Friday night at midnight.  Head over to All That Scraps to check out other CC Designs stamp sets in the meantime!  Christine also stocks tons of accessories and tools in her store, and the best part is that shipping is always FREE for any order over $10!  How cool is that?

Back to the card...LuLu is stamped in Palette Hybrid Noir and colored with copic markers: C3, C5, BV00, RV02, and YG03.  I also added some bling with the pink and purple spica glitter pens on the flower.  The white background was run through my Cuttlebug with the Heart Blocks folder.  I had to use 2 pieces because of the width, then they are pieced together behind the ribbon.  The ribbons are both from Stampin' Up!: basic gray tafetta and pink gingham.  The sentiment (also from Love Ya Lots) was punched out with the SU! word window punch...it was a perfect fit! and then attached to the bow with  a mini safety pin.  The gray brads are from my stash (Queen & Co maybe??)  The heart border at the bottom is from Lizzie Anne Designs L'Amour set and is stamped with the SU! Whisper White pad.

Thanks for visiting!  Happy New Year to everyone and if you have to go out tonight, drive safe!  -Cyndi

Quick Post

Can you guys tell that I am sick of red and green?  Haha!  I Looove Christams, and never get sick of it, and I love the way my house is when its decorated.  It looks so naked in January when I take it all down :(

But, for cards, I took on a few challenges this week and thought I'd pull out some different sets and papers.  This card is made with L'Amour from Lizzie Anne Designs.  This is the first set I bought from LAD, and possibly still one of my favorites!  I am anxiously awaiting the new releases in January!!

All other supplies for this card are Stampin' Up!  The cardstock is Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip, the DSP is from last years Valentines line, but I don't remember the name.  I paper pieced the bird with the same paper that is used for the scallop border.  The bird and the heart are popped up with Stampin' dimensionals.

I'm off to go pick up a child.  More later including my blog candy winner!  Thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

Fun with Lizzie Anne Designs Celebration Frames

You may remember that I told you guys a couple of weeks ago that I was one of the runner ups for the WCMD contest at Lizzie Anne DEsigns.  Yipee!!  Woohoo!  I got a free set called Celebration Frames.  I made a bunch of cute little things the other day so I could play with my new stamps :)

First is a cute little lunchbox tin.  ENABLER alert***, I found these at the $1 SPot at TArget...they are Lightening McQueen tins about 3x4" and sooo begging to be altered!!  I used KI Memories Love, Elsie Christmas paper to cover the front, back and a strip around the middle.  The little tag is one of the many frames from the Celebration Frames set.  I stamped it in Real Red then punched it out with my SU! Scallop circle punch.  That was layered onto 2 Round tab punches to form the bigger Red circle mat.  The little Pretti in Pink mat is the 1.25" punch.   Finally I stamped 2 of the little candies...one in Red, and one in Green GAlore.  I used my blender pen to pull some color out then layered the 2 pieces together.  The little box is all tied up with tons of ribbon from my scrap jars.  Isn't this adorable?!!

Next up, I finally got around to making one of the adorable little Peek-A-Boo boxes from Qbee.  You can find the template HERE at SCS.   I printed the template directly onto River Rock cardstock then stamped the little star from Holiday Cheer, also Lizzie Anne Designs, in Real Red all over.  The frame was stamped on the portion marked on the template, then I punched out the center with my 1.25" circle punch.  I folded it all up and sponged some Real Red around all the edges and corners and tied it up with a piece of Real Red ribbon.  On the top I added a layered piece similar to the piece described for the previous project...using the same frame stamp, punching it out with the Scallop circle, then layering it onto 2 round tab punches.    I added a few dots around the scallop with my white gel pen.  The little  Santa hat is from the Holiday Cheer set.  I stamped it in Red, then added some white swirls around the stamped swirls with my white pen.  It is popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals. 

How cute is that?  Its the perfect size for 2 little Peppermint Patties (my fav).  Here's the side view:

Next up, I have all the coasters still sitting in a basket.  I had big plans for them, but never used them all, whats new?  SO, I started thinking about ornaments and frames, and thought what about a cute little frame to hang on the fridge?  So, I pulled out a favorite pic of my daughters, croppped it down, glued it to the chipboard, then added the frame on top.  I will do a tutorial on this soon...how I cut out the middle of the paper...its a piece of Mustard Moon Press.  I stamped the little flowers from Celebration Frames onto the paper in Cranberry Crisp.  I doodled abit around the centers of the flowers and the leaves with my white pen to pick up the white lines in the paper.  This was then glued onto the chipboard coaster on top of the photo.  I pulled out Holiday Cheer (LAD) again, and inked up "family" (part of one of the sentiments) with my Burgundy marker and stamped it on a scrap of the same paper, then put it into a little piece of Hodgepodge and added this to the corner. It still needed just a bit of something, so I added a hodgepodge clip to another corner and tied a piece of Cranberry Crisp stitched ribbon to that.  Finally, I added a magnet to the back so it can hang on the fridge.  Cute grandma gift idea maybe?

And finally, I wanted to do the card challenge this week.  SO I grabbed some scraps of BAsic Gray paper and cut it into little pieces for the border.  The card base is River Rock.  The middle layer is Real Red and Old Olive.  I stamped the frame from Celebration Frames onto River Rock...the letters are inked with black marker, the holly with Red and Olive.  I added the big holly in the center...it was paper pieces with the same BG paper.  And lastly added a bit of bling with some red sticky sequins from CTMH. 

A pretty good day with just 2 sets of stamps I think!  STop by Lizzie Anne Designs to check out all of their wonderful sets, there are a ton that are retiring and are on sale so hurry!  Thanks for visiting! -Cyndi

LAD Weekly Sketch Challenge

So many sketches and challenges, not enough stamping time!  This card is for the Lizzie Anne Designs WC_3 over at Splitcoast Stampers.  I love that SCS has all the new member companies and their forums, challenges, chit-chat, etc!

Its a really easy sketch this week...which is great when you need to get a lot of stamping done, like Christmas cards!  The card base is Bazzill from my stash...a really baeutiful deep red that perfectly matches the cute red dots in the paper.  The Pattern paper is from KI Memories Christmas collection last year, I don't recall the name  because all I have left is scraps.   (Part of the challenge was to use some paper that you are hoarding.  I had a bunch of random pieces left over so I figured that was the same idea...use something that you otherwise wouldn't.  I like to use my new papers, but tend to forget about the old ones.)

The dot paper is layered on SU! Certainly Celery.  The main panel is also Celery, layered on Whisper WHite and more of the BAzzill red.  I embossed the "Holiday Cheer" sentiment in Ruby Red Craft Ink with Crystal Clear EP.  The sentiment and the tree and star are all from the Lizzie Anne Designs set "Holiday Cheer".   You can visit their website HERE.  The little tree was also embossed with Garden Green, the star with Ruby REd.  The base of the tree is a bit of scrap cardstock.  The red ribbon I love!  Its been in my stash for some time now, and yes, I have been hoarding it.  But it was also a perfect color match for the reds...so time to use it up!   

I hope to have more for you later if I can find some stamping time after cleaning (yuck)...I have new stamps again!!  Thanks for visiting.   -Cyndi

Lizzie Anne Designs Rocks!!

I've been meaning to post this for a few days but haven't had a chance to yet.  I came home last week to find an email that I had a card selected as one of the runner ups for the Lizzie Anne Designs World CArd MAking Day contest...WooHoo!!  I never win anything, but I'm getting a FREE stamp set...how cool is that???  I was soooo excited, but I wanted to wait until it was posted in their newsletter.  Here is the card that was a finalist:

It was made using the stamp set L'AMour, the cardstock is Bazzill, the paper is from Crate Paper.  You can visit the website at: Lizzie Anne Designs.  They have a lot of beautiful samples including some great new projects of the month.  I love all their stamps, and in honor of a winning card, I made up another card with their stamps with my newest set by LAD: Holiday Cheer.  It is stamped in Green Galore and Real Red (SU!).  I added a button from Autumn Leaves and some wide grosgrain ribbon, but otherwise its a pretty simple little Christmas card.

The little trees didn't have a base, so I inked up part of the sentiment "a gift for you" in red marker and used that as the trunks.  The background star is also from the same set as is the HoHoHo.

I can't wait for my new set that I won to arrive!!! Its called Celebration Frames and is sure to be a fun and versatile new set :)  Thanks for dropping in.  -Cyndi