The Scrappy Chick

Off to Save the World

Oh my gosh!  There is a new stamp company getting ready to open for business and just wait til you see the adorable images!!  It called Whiff of Joy.  (You may notice the blinkie in my sidebar too)  Katharina  of Katharina's Creative Place  is taking pre-orders for the new stamps on July the 30th...and if you do it then...no extra shipping charges!!  (These babies are coming all the way over from Switzerland BTW)  Here is a peek-a-loo of Charlotte and Charlie:

Are they cute or what??  OMG!!  Inge and Kimmie from the ATS team have both been chosen to be on Katharina's DT.  Kimmie had a post linking to a  guest DT spot  and after I saw these little darlings I hopped right over to check out the details!

I am submitting my entry today...who woudn't want to play with these cuties, right?  My entry is below, but I also wanted to point out  real quick that Katharina is giving away some stamps...just add her blinkie to your sidebar!  Head over to her blog to check out what to do...

So, here is my card using Katharina's sketch.  I pulled out my still almost-new Billy stamps from Pink Cat Studio. Well, at least this cutie hadn't gotten inky yet...I think he is the last of the set to feel loved...so sad :(  I added his trusty side-kick poochie...but if you've seen the movie Sky High you know that we are all super!)

I colored the cuties in with my copics to match this fun new paper I bought from Christine at All That Scraps last week.  Its from My Minds Eye...I got like the whole collection and the buttons, thanks to some enabling from Kimmie from an adorable card she made!  I thought the colors in in, along with the star motif were just perfect!  I also got to use my new favorite Stampin' Up! color...Tangerine Tango...available in the new catalog in just 2 more weeks!

Its a pretty straight-forward card.  I did use my rectangle Nesatabilities and then raise that panel on dimensionals though...and you know I had to add some buttons!  Well, wish me luck (you guys have all been pretty quiet again this week)...this sounds like a fabulous opportunity...and I am already itching to make some more Christmas goodies!

Thanks for visiting my little corner of the blog-o-sphere!   -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Billy plate 1 (Pink Cat Studio)
• Paper: Star Bright (My Mind's Eye); Tangerine Tango, Taken with Teal (SU!); White (Papertrey)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir
• Accessories: Rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); buttons (CTMH & MME); Circle punches (SU!); dimensionals, markers YR16, YR07, R29, E00, E33, E37, B00, BG01, B02, YG03, YG06, BG23, 000 (Copic); Orange ribbon (Michael's)

SFYTT: Hoot Hoot Hooray!

I did another challenge card....hooray!!  This is for Jen del Muro'sSFYTT challenge from last Saturday (ok, so I am a bit behind...but I did it!).  I got my new Pink Cat Studio Q.T. Hooty Owl stamps inky...aren't they just the cutest??  I think I need to just print out a few challenges this weekend and use this set for all of them ;)  I have been busy scrapping for the last couple of nights...I will try to upload some of the better ones in the next day or 2, and don't forget this Sunday is the next Scrappy sketch!

But, back to the card.  I stuck pretty well to the sketch..using some old Bo Bunny paper that I found in my stash.  I pulled out the colors from there to color in the Q.T. Owl.  His hat is popped up on a dimensional, as is one of his balloons.The rest is pretty simple as the sketch was pretty fun all by itself.  And do you notice the background cardstock...pretty yummy huh?  Its the new Tangerine Tango from stampin' Up!  Being a demo does have its benefits :)

I am off to run a few errands then go to birthday dinner with the family at the Japanese steakhouse...a tradition during "birthday week" at our house.  Later Chickadees...    -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Q.T. Hooty Owl (Pink Cat Studio)
• Paper: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Brilliant Blue cs (SU!), White cs (Papertrey), Starstruck PP (Bo Bunny)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir
• Accessories: buttons (Autumn Leaves); bold bright brads (SU!), markers (Copic), dimensionals, jumbo scallop scissors

Blog candy winner & some Pink Cat fun

Hey!  I am still alive...though I barely feel like it after these last few days.  Perry's birthday was Thursday, then Rachael's was Friday...we had 10 girls here Friday night, went to the pool Saturday afternoon, then had 2 more girls over Saturday night.  My house has been a wreck, I have been up way too late for my old bones every night, and I haven't been near the computer to read blogs or update mine :(

So, first I promised to pull a name for the blog candy.  After Friday night I had Rachael do a name from Random.org ...it chose Alyssa #20 who said:

I think I'm actually #20. I listen to metal. Slipknot, Korn, Rammstein, Pantera, Metallica, etc. Although, hubby and I just went to a Poison concert the other night (free tix) and had a blast! So we've been listening to old hair band stuff lately! :) Love the blog! And thanks for the chance! :o)

So, send me an email Alyssa with your snail mail and I'll get this sent off to you!! 

There were actually 3 (maybe 4?) who responded who listened to metal.  so you are not alone!  I had quite the range of responses, I thought I'd print it off and have Perry pull some up on i-tunes so we could check out some of the stuff I've never heard of!  since I didn't answer the question myself: The last cd's I bought were Natasha Beddingfield and Pat Monahan (the lead singer from Train)  Then I download these to my ipod...but I like to have some cd's for the car :)

On to stamping!  First I will share my entry for the Pink Cat Studio contest that ran last week.  The challenge was to create Lily or Billy's "room" using only Pink Cat Studio Stamps.  You could draw anything else.  I chose to create Lily a treehouse.  Both of my daughters helped with ideas and we had a ton of fun doing this:

Little Michael is helping out by holding the clubhouse shut in this shot :)  I used the big carousel notes in Wasabi for the tree top, the bottom was hand cut.  I cut strips of darker brown for the slats, then attached them with brads for the nails.  The slide was the biggest challenge...I'll just say urmph.

The clubhouse was made from the chocolate envelopes that came with the carousel notes.  You can see Lily peeking through the window :)  The grass is a strip of Celery cardstock cut in notches and curled down.  I also added a bunch of flowers, a kitty in the tree and some baloons for her birthday party.  Lily's friend is hanging out in the tire swing.

Here is the inside of the clubhouse:

It is all decorated for Lily's birthday party...complete with party hats, her presents, and some dress up fun for party guests.  The curtains were made from the fairy wings in the set (Dress Up Lily)  Some images are from the Dress Up Billy set.  Melissa is also releasing an accessory set in August to go with these two...

Here is also a card that I made while in the midst of this project last week.  I just couldn't get the idea out of my head!

The outside was done with the SU! Weathered background stamp.  When you open the chest it will be another bday card for my stash for little boys.  This Billy stamp is actually from the Billy Plate one.

Thats it for now mateys!  I need to catch up on some stamping and read a bunch of blog posts :0

Thanks for stopping by, happy Monday!

-Cyndi

Double Challenge

I have a double challenge for you today!!  This weeks Wednesday DT challenge at All That Scraps was a color challenge... Blue Bayou, Chocolate Chip, and Groovy Guava.  I love these colors together, but as I kept hunting through my kazillion CC Designs sets, nothing was jumping out for this combo.  BUT I remembered these new Pink Cat Studio stamps that Christine is now carrying at All That Scraps.  Perfect!

So then I headed over to the Pink Cat Studio blog because I also remembered a sketch challenge there this week :)  My layout isn't quite like the sketch (nothing new there), but I didn't stray too much either!

These Billy stamps are so fun!  I have had them for a couple of weeks and haven't gotten them inky yet...isn't that shameful?  I just ordered the new Billys too...hehehe...He is just so fun to color.

The supplies are listed below.  You can play along with the sketch challenge over at  the Pink Cat studio blog, and you can also play along with the All That Scraps challenge over at the ATS blog .  and don't forget, sneak peeks start tomorrow, and there will be chances to win FREE stamps by CC Designs!  Check back for more info :)  Thanks for blurfing by my corner of the web!    -Cyndi

Supplies:

• Stamps: Billy plate 1, Background plate 4 (Pink Cat Studio)
• Paper: Groovy Guava, Blue BAyou, Chocolate Chip (SU!), White (Papertrey)
• Ink: Noir, Burnt Umber (Palette Hybrid)
• Accessories: asst. markers (Copic & SU!); Oval Punch, Pewter Hodgepodge, Pewter Jumbo Eyelets, Blue ribbon (SU!); Jumbo scallop scissors; Crop-a-Dile