The Scrappy Chick

Some Rileys and Hanna

  I noticed Hanna Stamps was having a call for guest DTs for the next few months so I thought, why not?  Here's a few of my cards :)   (Link for the call is below)

This is Garden Riley Moose (actually I made him into Sophie Moose with the shocking pink gardening boots, snort!  I pulled my colors from this wild and funky paper from K & Co that I got at Michael's.  The background for the card is a piece of Core'dinations so the back is different than the front...so that means when its folded the inside becomes a different color.  Cool, huh?  So I let a bit of the inside show through by cutting off part of the top.  Sentiment is from Unity (but it was in with the wrong kit so I'm not sure which its from???).

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Garden Riley Moose (Hanna Stamps); sentiment (Unity)

• Paper: carolyn Gavin collection (K & Co); brown/teal cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo black

• Accessories: Labels 2 Nestabilties (Spellbinders); flourish (Quickkutz); flowers (Prima); brads (Basic Grey); copics

Next up is Hammock Riley Moose.  He cracks me up...just hanging out with nothing better to do all day!   I have closeups below and you can see I added some green Smooch to the palm trees and Riley was stamped twice and popped up so he's really "swinging" from the Hammock.

At the bottom I placed the sentiment (from A Muse) over a couple of punches including one section of a new EK Success border punch.

Finally I added a bunch of loose Stampendous glitter to the card...both on top of the brad and then along the bottom of the top panel. 

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Hammock Riley Moose (Hanna Stamps); Life's a breeze (A Muse)

• Paper: pp (Reminisce); Green Galore , Temping Turquoise cs (SU!); white cs (SU!)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: Green smooch (Clearsnap); brad (Basic Grey); glitter (Stampendous); flowers (Prima); Labels 3 Nestabilites (Spellbinders); oval & circle punches, turquoise ribbon (SU!); border punch (EK Success); copics; melon & orange glitter pens (copic); dimensionals

  Last I have  Rainy Day Hanna for you.  She is paired perfectly with the Piggy Tales paper "Rain, Rain go away"  I colored her in to match with copics, added a bit of yellow stickles to her funky rain boots and some Eucalyptus to the umbrella.

Ok, so thats it for now...my hand hurst from typing and I want to stamp!!  Check out the Guest DT call forum over at Splitcoast HERE for more Hanna samples and to enter for yourself...theres still a few more days!

Thanks for visiting today!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Rain Day (Hanna Stamps)

• Paper: Piggy Tales pp; Bazzill cs

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; blue (cats eye)

• Accessories: Labels 4 Nestabilites (Spellbinders); gems (Hero Arts); flowers (Prima); brad (We Are Memory Keepers); stickles; ribbon (stash); border punch (fiskars)

Row, Changito, Row

  Hola Chickies!  I have a couple of Changitos for you today :)  This adroable paper from Piggy Tales came into work a couple of weeks ago and I have been dying to create something with it...well, look what showed up last week...some Rainy Day fun Changitos!  Oh yeah!!

The first card is using Row, Changito, Row from Stampendous.  (BTW, does Changito's friend have a name??)  I colored them in with copics and added a bit of stickles to the "river" and to the umbrella boat.  The layout for the card is based on the sketch from this weeks Friday Sketchers blog...I just kinda flipped it backwards.

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Row, Changito, Row & Bail me Out (Stampendous)

• Paper: Its Raining, Its Pouring pp(Piggy Tales); Blue cs (Bazzill); white cs (PTI)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: corner rounder, journaling pen (SU!); ribbon (Bo Bunny); buttons (Autumn Leaves); yellow & Waterfall stickles; markers (copic)

  And a second one for you today...another Changito from Stampendous paired with more of the Its Raining, Its Pouring line from Piggy Tales.  He is also colored with copics, but this time I added a bit of yellow glitter pen.  The edges are inked with a blue cats eye.  Card layout is Lauren Meaders My Times sketch for the week.

OK, thats it for now..but I hope to have some stamping time this morning for challenges...so maybe more later??  Thanks for hopping over!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Changito slicker, Let it Rain (Stampendous)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); cats eye blue (Colorbox)

• Paper: yellow (Bazzill); white (PTI); Its raining, Its Pouring pp (Piggy Tales)

• Accessories: green ribbon (Bo Bunny); blue ribbon (MayArts); yeloow glitter pen & markers (copic)

Challenge cards & Snow & CHA peek link

I have been a bad  blogger again this week.  Sorry.  There has been a lot going on here...including  a bit of SNOW finally!  Here's a peek at my 2 youngest yesterday, out playing in the whopping 2 inches we got...woot woot!!  (Hey, its NC...thats a LOT for us!)

  At least they had fun and I got a couple of snapshots to make layouts with!  But I know, thats not why you are here.  Wanna see some cards??

First up is my magical unicorn card!  There is a contest going on over at The Greeting Farm...just download the unicorn image and create a magical unicorn, then you could win 2 free sets!  Woohoo!!  (Only thing is, today is the last day so you better hurry!)

Here is my unicorn...I felt that green was a nice magical color, with blue hair, right??  She matches this adorable pp from heidi Grace.  she is cut out with circle nestabilites, and I added a touch of bling with some fun gems that I am TOTALLY addicted to right now.  The yummy ribbon is from my stash.

Here's a closeup of her.  Her name is Starpaw.  You can see here the shimmer of her mane...there is magical unicorn dust in her hair (kind of like pixie dust??)  That was created with a Stardust glitterpen from Gellyroll...a must have for all crafters!

I pulled out my handy dandy Prisma pencils for this one.  My shading isn't bad, (I used copics after for more variation) but I still have streaks where the pencil lines are in the center when I try to blend with the stump.  any suggesstions?

Here's the supplies:

• Stamps: Magical Unicorn digi (The Greeting Farm); Make a wish (Sandy Lion)

• Paper: Reagan's Closet (Heidi Grace); White cs (PTI); Cocoa cs (CTMH)

• INk: Palette Noir; printer

• Accessories: Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); gems (MaMBI); Prismas; copics; Gelly roll glitter pen; ticket corner punch (SU!); jumbo scallop scissor (for tag); ribbon (stash); tape runner (Scotch)

  Next card is for the Whiff of Joy Challenge blog weekly challenge.  This week is a sketch by Katharina.  I did stick to the sketch, but It still needs something.  (More layers??) Darker color to ground it?  Can't decide.  This is what happens when I don't sit and look at a card over a couple of days before I finalize it.

I was trying to use up some scraps on my table from a Piggy Tales project from last week...BTW, did I show you that?  I will in a sec....maybe tomorrow...hehe.  This is almost the end of what I have of the Cinderella collection..but I may can eek out one more card another day with some bits :)

I used my fav of the newest Party Animals release from Whiff of Joy...Henry Celebrating Mouse (along with Party Sentiments).  Is he just stinkin' adorable??!  He is also all colored in not only with copics, but layers of Shimmerz paints on top!

Here you can see his sweet pink glimmering ears!  They just make me want to squeel!!  I love, love, love my Shimmerz!  I only have a handful of colors. My LSS doesn't have any of the new ones that I am coveting...Yet!

BUT, speaking of Piggy Tales earlier...the rep was in our store a couple of days back and the new PT lines coming out next month....eeeekkk!!  I can't wait!!  I love getting peeks:)  If you didn't follow my link the other day, check out the Piggy Tales blog for peeks at the newest 4 collections!

Supplies for this project:

• Stamps: Henry Celebrating Mouse, Party sentiments (WHiff of Joy)

• Paper: Cinderella collection pp (Piggy Tales); White cs (PTI)

• Ink: Memento Brown

• Accessories: Circle Nestabilites (Spellbinders); Celery, Pink, Buttercream paints (Shimmerz); markers (Copic); Christmas Red, Tiara glitter glue (Stickles); Key tag punch (SU!); brad (Basic Grey)

Thats it today folks!!  Have a geat hump day!  Thanks for stopping by:)

-Cyndi

Are you a guitar hero?

  Want another layout??  I had a mini-book in mind for these photos but I ended up with a layout instead...this is Michael and Rachael rockin' out one afternoon with the new Guitar Hero World Tour.  OK, seriously, have you played it??? It is TOTALLY addicting!

I found this absolutely perfecto paper by Piggy Tales  called Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with the matching die-cuts....love that guitar!!  But wait!  There's more!  Its a "barn-door"...it opens to reveal jornaling behind (or inside)...how cool is that?!!

  Here's the closeup of the guitar open...love it!!  I did add a bit of bling to my edges...someone (the 5 year old??) crumpled an edge so I fixed that right up with some stickles!! Tada!!  I then added a bit of stickles to other parts of the layout to make it cohesive.

That cute ribbon is also Piggy Tales!  The stars are clear acylic...from my stash forever ago...by Heidi Swapp.  I colored them in with a Sharpie white paint pen...then you can't see the tape runner under the star...(wink)

  This is a closeup of another barn door (they all came in a set of die-cut barndoor shapes).  I stuck a photo behind this one.

OK, so I better sneak down to the Scraproom while everyone is sleeping...shh!!  Have a great night...thanks for checking in!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Paper: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star pp (Piggy Tales); cs (Bazzill)

• Ink: Palette Noir (all edges are distressed lightly)

• Accessories: Barn Doors, ribbon (Piggy Tales); Stickles; Acrylic stars (Heidi Swapp); white pen (Sharpie) black letter (American Crafts); magenta letters (SEI); tape runner (Scotch)

Free Spirit

 When I polled you guys a while back, there are a lot of you wanting me to show you more scrapbook layouts.   Soooooo... I have a couple of layouts for you tonight :)  I pulled out my favorite ever Piggy Tales paper again... the Cinderella Collection.  I just LOVE these colors together!!  This is the end of my scraps for this line, except a couple of really small pieces so now I will need to tell it goodbye, or find some more (wink).

But, have you seen the NEW Piggy Tales papers coming for Winter CHA??  EEEkkkk!  so cute!  Check the PT blog HERE for a peek!

Back to the page...I cut the circle with my Curvy Cutter, added some white dots with the Signo gel pen, and some swirly flourishes to the corners with a stamp from Close To My Heart, Free Spirit.  I liked the name of the set so much that I used it for my title!  The "free" are some really old stickers from my stash...K& Co I think.  The Spirit is done with AMerican Crafts Thickers.  All edges were inked with a cat's eye.

{I want to stop and talk about adhesive for a minute.  I have tried every tape runner under the sun it seems.  And I just purchased another Scotch one recently, and I have to say that guess what??  My layers actually stay where they belong, and don't fall off later!  I am loving this stuff!!}

OK, thats it for tonight!  I will try to post something tomorrow night when I get off work:) Thanks for stopping by!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Free Spirit (CTMH)

• Paper: Cinderella Collection (Piggy Tales); cs (Bazzill)

• Ink: Dark Brown cats eye (Colorbox)

• Accessories: Tape Runner (Scotch); sticker letters (American Crafts & K& Co); Curvy Cutter (EK Success); Tab punch (SU!); ribbon (Stash); stapler; white gel pen (Signo)

Valentine Box, blog candy winner

First....random.org picked #10....Darlene L as the winner of my blog candy!  Darlene send me your snail mail and I'll get this out to you!

  Good morning!  I have a cute little box for you today:)  I needed a valentine goody of some sort for club and thought a box made from the heart Nestabilities would be cute.  I first tried doing it all as one piece for the base, but I needed a more substantial bottom to get it to sit up straight, so I ended up with a box bottom and then adhered my hearts to it.

I used the scallop and straight edge heart nesties...the kiwi heart was also run though with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder.  The sentiment is from The Cat's Pajamas...Loving Mew.  Kitty is a Pink Cat Studiostamp, from the Kitty Christmas plate...I was inspired but one of the challenge cards at PCP...making the angel into a cupid...what a cute idea!  I cut out her horn and replaced it with the smallest heart from the nesties.

Inside the box is some starburst candy tied up in a cello baggie:)

  Also I have a cardfor you that I never got around to posting last week.  This is a Lizzie Anne Designssketch challenge card.  I used In the Treetop for the stamps.  PP is from Piggy Tales...is that cute paper or what??  (Cinderella collection)  Buttons are from My Minds Eye, paper is Cameo Coral, Kiwi Kiss, and PTI Chocolate.

 

Releases updates:

Not on any of these DT's, but here's whats going on with some of my favorite companies!

• All That Scraps: released this last Monday: stamps & digi-stamps

• Lizzie Anne Designs: new sets & singles tomorrow!

• Pink Cat Studio: releases 2 new sets  next week!!

• Treehouse Stamps: party at site & release tonight!!

• Unity: HIP HOP today! (and new releases always!)

• Verve Stamps: Friday night release party!

• Whiff of Joy:  new line released earlier in the week:)

 

 

OK, thats it for now...gotta scoot to work!  But check back tomorrow I have something really snazzy ready!

-Cyndi