The Scrappy Chick

Skatin' by to say hi!

Hey to all my readers and visitors!  Happy hump day!  Some of you may have noticed that I started a Blogger blog as well and I am trying to slowly get it ready to do the big change.  Cause hey, its FREE!! 

So, in the meantime I will do my posts in both spots while I get all the little details ready.  But, in the meantime.  You can continue to follow me here at Typepad or you can go ahead and switch over to my new blog...The Scrappychick...and start following me there!  I will try to remind you all again a few times to change your bookmark!

In the meantime, on to why you are actually here!  This is Rooco Skate, one of the new winter images from Stampendous.  I just adore their newest addition to the animal family at Stampendous!  He is paired with a sentiment also by Stampendous.  I got both of mine on cling rubber at Enchanted Cottage.

Rooco is colored with copics, of course...what else is there, right?  I think my blending/coloring is getting way better!  (I have been checking out more tutorials which have changed up the way I approach my coloring from how I was taught at certification.)

He is paired with the Eskimo Kisses paper line from Basic Grey and a bit of A Muse ribbon.  All supplies are listed below.So, I am off to do a bit more Christmas shopping, wish me luck :)  Have a great week and thanks for stopping by! -Cyndi

• Supplies:Stamps: Rooco Skate, Skatin hi (Stampendous)
• Paper: Eskimo Kisses pp (basic Grey); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Ice Blue, Mulberry chalk ink (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: Circle Nestabilites (Spellbinders); Moonlight Smooch; Blue ribbon (A Muse); Copic markers; Dew drops

Silent Night Tilda

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a great weekend!  We finally got most of the decorations up Sunday.  Plus Grandma came to visit the kids and they loved that.  Oh, and I forgot to tell you all that we had a baby this weekend...Rachael got to bring home the horrible whining electronic baby for "Life Skills".    Geesh.

OK, on to the card for the day.  You will probably be seeing a lot of Magnolias coming up.  Our shipment of new Christmas images arrived at Enchanted Cottage last week :) 

This is Silent Night Tilda.  She was colored with copic markers, then cut out with  LAbels 5 Nestabilties.  Papers are from Magnolia.  I used Polar white Flower Soft on the fuzz of her winter coat and at her feet for snow.  Thought I would never like that stuff...but its really growing on me. 

OK, thats it for tonight.  Off to bed, I can feel a killer migraine coming on.  -Cyndi

• Supplies:
  
• Stamps: Silent Night Tilda (Magnolia); Christmas Wishes (A Muse)
  
• Paper: Kraft cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah); pattern (Magnolia)
• Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir; Ice Blue chalk cats eye (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: Labels 5 Nestabilites (Spellbinders); Treading Water border punch (Fiskars); ribbon (Bazzill); button (My Minds eye); markers (Copic); Flower Soft

Holiday Edwin

Friday morning and I am off to work in a few...but first, a bit of eye candy for you!  This is Edwin (I think his actual name was Edwin in ski sweater ?) and he is perched atop the cutest ornament :)  Both stamps are from Magnolia.  The ornament was paper-pieced with paper from Bo Bunny.  The top was colored with silver Smooch.

Edwin and his ornament are in front of a Labels 4 Nestabilites  airbrushed with a red copic.  Sentiment is by Stamping Bella.  All other materials are from Bo Bunny.  This was one of 3 cards in my first Magnolia/Copic class at Enchanted Cottage last month.

Well, enjoy your weekend!  Thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

Scrappy Sunday

Still in Disney and totally pooped.  we are going to the ark late today so that we can stay late.  we have tickets for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party tonight!   I am psyched :)

OK, on to the eye candy.  I don't think I ever posted this one.  It was for a class originally, but it just ended up being a kit instead.  The pics are from a snowy day in January.  The big pic is my daughter Rachael with her cousin Julianna.  Those 2 could be sisters!  Papers are from the My Minds Eye Colorful Christmas collection.  The snowflakes were cut with Create a Flake #2 from Spellbinders, the icicles are covered with Frosted Lace stickles and wre punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.  Letters are a QuicKutz die.

OK, thats it...short post.  Have a great and lazy Sunday.  -Cyndi

OHBCGA

OHBCGA??  What on earth is that you ask?  Its "Over the Hump Day Blog candy Give away" over at the InStyle Stamps blog!!  So go check out all the Design team's samples and leave a comment for a chance to win!

Our theme today was "Snow".  So I used my new "Scarf Chick" image from InStyle stamps.  You all know how I love digi images because you can resize the, flip them, etc.  On this one I printed her twice...once on Copic paper to color, and once on pattern paper to paper-piece.  I used my new Icicles punch from Martha Stewart (adding of course a bit of stickles to that!) and also used Create a Flake 2 from Spellbinders for my snowflakes.  I picked up the new pp from Kaiser Kraft yesterday at a local store.  She couldn't get it out of the box fast enough for me!

OK, so head over to the ISS blog for your chance to win!  And while you are at it, scroll down for a chance at my Blog candy give away this week!  Thanks for visiting!   -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Scarf Chick (InStyle Stamps); sentiment (CC Designs);
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Bamboo (Versacolor)
• paper: Aqua cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah); pp (Kaiser Kraft)
• Accessories: Create a Flake 2, Hexagon Nesatbilites (SPellbinders); Frosted Lace stickles; buttons (My Minds Eye); markers & Airbrush system (Copic); tab punch (SU!); Icicle border punch (Martha Stewart)

Joyful Angel

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(I can't remember if I posted this one yet or not.  I thought I did, but when I scroll back I don't see it.  Guess not. )  Anyway this card is made with "Joyful Note Angel" by Stampendous.  She is one of the cards for my Christmas cards class at the Cottage.

Nothing elaborate.  But the angel is stamped and colored with copics.  I did a bit of airbrushing with E50 so that my white copic paper is now Vanilla :)  She is cut out with Labels 4 Nestabilites (from Spellbinders) as is the sentiment.I am going to be quick today because I have a lunch date with Denise!  Haven't seen her in weeks :(  So, toodles....happy Tuesday...please say hi!   -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Joyful Note Angel (Stampendous)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
• Paper: Believe pp collection, dotted cs (Bo Bunny); white cs (Neenah)
• Accessories: Labels 4 Nestabilties (Spellbinders); Metallic gold dew drops (Robin's Nest); Quickie Glue pen (Sakura); UF Multi glitter (Stampendous); copics & ABS1

Tilda with Hood

Its Monday, again?? Every week it comes again. Sigh.  Well, to make this Monday a little brighter I have a bright and cheery Tilda card for you.  This is one of the cards I am planning for my Magnolia Christmas card class at Enchanted Cottage this month.

This little doll is Tilda with Hood.  (We are still very impatiently awaiting the new Magnolia Christmas images!) Tilda was colored with copics, then cut out and popped up on the other panels.  The gray circle is cut with a circle Nestabilities, the white snowflake looking circle is actually the Contemporary Hearts pendant, also from Spellbinders  (as are the 2 little "snowflakes")  The yummy gorgeous felt paper is from the Anna Griffin new Christmas line.OK, I gotta scoot to work.  Sigh.  Another day in my hamster wheel.  Thanks for stopping by!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• stamps: Tilda with Hood (Magnolia); Christmas wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: pp (Anna Griffin); Gray cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
• Accessories: Standard & Scallop circle Nesties, Contemporary Heart Pendant & Border (Spellbinders); ribbon (Bo Bunny); Copic markers

Scrappy Sunday (well, now its Monday)

Okay chicas, I am bombarding you with a ton of layouts today...none with pics though, sorry.  These are all from classes at Enchanted Cottage or for my peeps in Hickory.

First up, Spooky layout featuring My Minds Eye "Boo to You".  Die cut letters are BossKut ; spiderweb punch is Martha Stewart.

Next up, from the same class is "pick of the Patch", uses same papers, also die cut letters "Metro" from QuicKutz; border punch by EK Success, and some dew drops.

This one was from this month, the first of the boy layouts.  Papers are also from My Minds Eye, Abbey Road Collection.  Title piece was die cut with Spellbinders' Labels 1 Nestie, stamped with Doodle Alphabet LC from Stampendous, then colored with copics.  Same border punch from EK Success.  Brads and buttons are also My Minds Eye.

Other boy layout...same paper collection, circles are cut with Ek Success Curvy Cutter.

OK, I didn't get this up yesterday, sorry.  Here's the rest for the day...

The next 2 are the girl versions of the previous pages.  Still My Minds Eye papers from the Abbey Road collection.

OK, off to work.  Enjoy! 

Ava with Flower

Good Morning!  I am still crazy busy with design work, but its almost ready to send in so I will have more time soon, I promise!  The problem is I have been stamping like crazy, but I can't show you any of it until January!

Luckily I have  a few things I created for work last week so I will share those!  Remember last week that I told you we got in a HUGE shipment of Magnolias at Enchanted Cottage?  Well, I got to stamp out some images to make samples with! 

Today I am showing you "Ava with Flower".  Is she not the cutest?  Ava is from last year's Magnolia Christmas collections.  She is colored in with my copics then cut out and mounted on a  red panel cut out with Labels 1 Nestabilites and then I ran that through my Cuttlebug with a QuicKutz embossing folder.  The paper is from Creative Imaginations.  The layout I cannot take credit for, it was a skecth that I had used before and I cased the layout from the previous card that I made so I don't remember the artist who came up with the sketch, sorry!OK, gotta skedaddle.  Almost time for work!  Have a great Monday :)  

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Ave with Flower (Magnolia); Christmas wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: pp Creative Imaginations; red cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Cyan, Cardinal, Bamboo (Versacolor)
• Accessories: Labels 1, Classic & scalloped small circles  Nestabilties (Spellbinders); brads (basic Grey); Dots embossing folder (QuicKutz); markers & glitter pens (copic)

Alyssa

Heres another cute Anime digi image for you from InStyle Stamps.  This is Alyssa.  I kept wishing last year that someone would come up with some cute anime stamps...and voila!  InStyle has actually even launched a new kit of the month called Club Anime...go HERE and check it out!  Too totally cool!

For this card I used some old baseball paper from Reminisce.  The colors were pulled from that then colored with my copic markers.  She is cut out with Nestabilites Labels4 and the sentiment (stamps from Hero ARts) is cut with Ribbon Tag Trio, also by Spellbinders.

Thats it for tonight!  I am exhausted.  Nisey is out at work after surgery for a number of weeks.  Of course I volunteered for extra hours (need the money)  But I am soooo not used to working over 40 hours a week!  PLUS I have LOTS of fun top-secret design stuff I have been working on that you can't see for a while.  So, this was a bit of fun stamping tonight and I am off to get the little guy to bed then read a bit.

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a great week :0  -Cyndi

Short Stacks

A quick post for you before I head into work.  I am next door at the coffee shop savoring my Cinnabon Latte and yummy pumpkin muffin.  Looks like the cold weather is finally going to hit us head on.  'Bout time!

Here is a quick card I whipped up with the new "Short Stacks" clear set from Stampendous.  It has the most adorable combo of heads and bodies to mix and match for a bit of winter fun!  I paired these two with papers from My Minds Eye (Colorful  Christmas collection), added a bit of flocking (also by Stampendous) andsome gems.  The snowflakes were cut out with the Snowflakes 2 die from Spellbinders.

OK, off to the cottage :)  Thanks for popping by!   -Cyndi

One for all

Arrrrgh matey!  This cute Changito was part of the new clear stamp combo of Stampendous Changito images for Halloween...called Changito Treato.   He's all decked out in his pirate gear to match the cute paper from My Mind's Eye Boo to You collection.

BTW, did you notice the new designer button on the top corner of my blog?  I was asked to help design for the new January catalog for Stampendous!  How cool!!  Everything is all top secret right now, but I will have much to show you from them at a future date!  But you know how much I love my Fluffles and Changito...we got in a huge new order of the holiday releases at work so I picked up quite a few!!

Changito is colored with copics then airbrushed while still in the Spellbinders label die (same treatment for the sentiment)  I added some new Halloween dew drops (love these cause they are opaque!) and a but of Bo Bunny ribbon.  The layout is based on Jen del Muro's SFYTT from last week.OK, bedtime for me!  I have a big day tomorrow, I'll tell you about it later :)

Cyndi

InStyle Stamps

Good morning on this bleary rainy Monday.  My one hope is that my daughter's tennis match will get postponed...otherwise my day is going to be oh so hectic.

Enough whining, on to the card.  This is a digital anime image that I downloaded from InStyle Stamps.  I got an email out of the blue from Virginia asking me to do some design work for her for CHA!  How cool is that?? 

AFter browsing through the website I went ahead and downloaded a few things to play with whole I wait for my design stuff to arrive.This one is called Mellie.  Isn't she sweet?  she is colored with copics to match some old Heidi Grace Halloween paper that was on my desk that day.  Nothing super fancy, but I do love those digi-images!  So easy to download, no storage, and you can make them any size you want!

OK, off for the day!  Have a great one :)   Cyndi

Turkey? What Turkey?

This image totally cracks me up.  I mean, I love Fluffles, but this one just takes the cake.  Reminds me of Garfield scarfing down a whole lasagna.  So Fluffles is orange in honor of Garfield.  The images is "Fluffles Turkey" by Stampendous...one of this year's  newest holiday releases.

I made this card for Enchanted Cottage using papers from the Traveler collection by Little Yellow Bicycle.  The layout is based loosely on this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.   Fluffles is colored with copics then cut with a Labels 2 Nestabiltie from Spellbinders, then airbrushed while still in the die with my ABS1.

So, I am outta here, more tomorrow.  Off to read a bit before bedtime :)  -Cyndi

Unity Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!  I haven't participated in a Unity challenge in a while, but I do have a couple of cards that I made with some Unity stamps...and today is challenge day, so, well, hey...This gorgeous tree and the swirly background are both from the set "Bright & Merry winter Wishes".  It was a set that we got in at work (Enchanted Cottage) a couple of months back and I just now got around to making some samples with.
 I stamped the tree and the swirls and then embossed them with white powder.  The blue dot at the top of the tree is a dew drop.  The ribbon is by A Muse, pattern paper is My Minds Eye.The next card I used one of the ornaments from the same stamp set.   Pattern paper is by Lil Davis, the die is a  pendant from Spellbinders, Renaissance Hearts. 

The ornament is colored with copics and Smooch.  Drops of silver are Liquid Pearls.    Thats it for tonight, but I have been working on lots of stuff, some I can share soon, some not for a while.  Thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

Enjoy the Ride!

Good morning!  Can I tell you how sick I am of living in a sick house?  Urgh!  I thought we were all done then my hubby started it all back over, then my oldest daughter, now My youngest was home yesterday and today now so I can't even go to work.  I am running out of Lysol.

Anywho, I have a couple of  Unity cards for you today.  We got the Store only kits in from Unity at Enchanted Cottage and got to make a few samples!  The first I made with my Favorite image from the August kit...the ferris wheel.  I paired it with fun summery paper by My Minds Eye (Breaking Free collection).  The image was stamped, colored with copics, then airbrushed with my Copic 180ABS while still in the Spellbinders die to add a touch of a white border.  I used a really light W2 to do the airbrushing so itas very subtle.  The die is Labels 4, also used were Double end ribbon tags and Circle Nestabilties (all 3 from Spellbinders).  The star is cut from matching pattern paper and then I did some freehand doodling.

This card is made with images from the same set.  I used the Strawberry and the sweetness sentiment is stamped into the label which is all a part of the strawberry stamp image.  Make sense??  Papers are from Sandy Lion, the border punch is by Martha Stewart.  Nothing fancy, but I think it turned out kinda pretty.  OK, thats it for now.  I have been working on lots of scrapping lately before I take a break and get back to cards and design work.

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a great Thursday and stay healthy!  -Cyndi

Betty Bombshell

I have a card for you today as well :)  I finally caught the nasty cold going through my house and it has done me in this weekend.  Luckily I stamped this last week so I can share something today.

Betty is from Stamping Bella, that I picked up from Enchanted Cottage.  She is colored with copics to match this fun new paper we got in from My Mind's Eye.  The feeling groovy sentiment I cut in half so that I could make it more round and less long or place the 2 words where I like :O

Betty's wings are highlighted with white Smooch, and the background was airbrushed with my ABS-180.

Here's the copics I used:
Supplies are listed below.  Thanks for visiting me today!  Please don't forget to say hi!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Betty Bombshell, Feeling Groovy (Stamping Bella)
• Paper: Breaking Free pp (My Minds Eye); white cs (Neenah); coral cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko); Fired Brick (Tim Holtz)
• Accessories: Oval Nesties (Spellbinders); oval punch (SU!); button (MME); Smooch; markers & air brush system (copic); ribbon (May Arts)

SFYTT: Phoebe

Before this and my last post, I can't even tell you the last time I did a challenge!  I have missed these :)  Jen del Muro's are some of my favorite sketches so I started back with her latest sketch challenge this week.  You can see the sketch HERE at her blog.

I used my new Phoebe Ketto (by Stamping Bella) that I got from Enchanted Cottage.  She's been colored with copics to match this fun paper from Fiskars that I found in the back room.  I added a touch of Grungeboard and colored it with Sugarberry Smooch!  Its a bit bright, but it really glimmers!!

Here's the copics I used:

Thanks for popping in!  I have a nasty cold that has moved to my chest so I feeling whiny and puny.  But maybe more tomorrow...I got a lot of stamping done a couple of days back :)

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Phoebe Ketto (Stamping Bella); Birthday Wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: pp by Fiskars; white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Wisteria & Aquamarine cats eyes (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: Labels 3 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Dotted Wave border punch (EK Success); Sugarberry Smooch; gems (Hero Arts); dog tag punch (EK)

Neverland

Happy Sunday!  This is an image that I colored weeks ago and never made into a card.  But I just had an urge to finish it today :)

I used this weeks Farm Fresh Friday sketch from The Greeting Farm's blog.  Wendy is from the set Never Ever by The Greeting Farm.  She is colored with copics to match this gorgeous paper from K & Co...and then airbrushed inside the nestie frame.

The flowers were misted with Glimmer Mist to give them some shimmer and then tied atop a silk ribbon bow.  The circle elements in the corners are the Blossom die flower from spellbinders, cut then embossed with a Impressibilites screen over the die.  I then inked the raised flowers with a cats eye pad...but its very faint and almost impossible to see in the photo.

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Never Ever (The Greeting Farm)
• Paper: Happy Trails (K & Co)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Ice Blue, wisteria cats eyes (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: Labels 4 & Blossom Nestabilities, Flower Impressabilites (spellbinders); flowers (Prima); Patina Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels); buttons (MME); ribbon (May Arts); copics & air brush system; oval punches (SU!)

I wanted to share a cute pic from our recent Florida trip.  This is so typical of my kids...Perry HATES to have his picture taken, and also "hates" hugs, so everybody gangs up on him :)

Have a great night!  Thanks for stopping by :)

-Cyndi

Just Saying Hello!

Hello!  I am finally back after a week in Florida, a day of laundry all the way down the hall, back to work and 2 house showings yesterday.  Whew. 

I am ready to stamp!  Lots of fun new things I got at the CHA super show but no time to play!  This is a card I made a few weeks back for work and never posted.

Its from a Hero Arts set that I got at Enchanted Cottage called Birds and Branches.  Are they just too cute or what??  The birdies are colored with copics, then cut out and popped up on a copic-airbrushed piece cut from a Spellbinders die.

Flowers are also a Spellbinders die, cut, embossed, then airbrushed with copics and dotted with white gel pen.  I hope to find some stamping time today and tomorrow so check back in!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Birds & Branches, All Occasion Messages (Hero Arts)
• Paper: Zinnia pp (Little Yellow Bicycle); purple cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Curvy Rectangles Megabilties & Flower Shapeabilities (Spellbinders); gems (Hero Arts); brad (Basic Grey); word window punch (SU!); markers & air brush system (Copic)

Let it Rain!

Don't know about you, but I am ready for some rain!  It is just too stinkin' hot for my blood!  So...here is Changito for you, out playing in the rain :)

This is "Changito Slicker", from Stampendous.  I absolutely adore this image!  One of my favorite ever Changitos :)  He (she)  is colored in to match some of the "Girl Friday" paper line from Cosmo Cricket. 

The flowers were created with a Spellbinders die, airbrushed with my copics, then I added dots with my white pen.  (Idea from Tori Wild of Wild Sprinkles).  Turned out totally cool!   so then I had to add some matching white dots to part of Changito's outfit of course!

OK, off to run errands then we get to see the new Harry Potter this afternoon!  Yippee!!!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Changito slicker, Let it Rain (Stampendous)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Paper: Girl Friday pp (Cosmo Cricket); Pomegranate cs (Bazzill); white Neenah cs
• Accessories: Flower shapeabilities, Labels 4 nestabilties, & dbl end ribbon tag dies (Spelldinders); markers &airbrush system (Copic); ribbon (stash); brad (Basic Grey); white pen (Signo); jumbo scallop  scissor

Agnes Ketto

Good morning!  sorry for being scarce lately, but I do have a lot of projects I have been working on...I'll get them up soon!

In the meantime, before I head into work here's another Ketto for you.  This is Agnes Ketto.  Another card I made for Enchanted Cottage.  She is all sparkly with Shimmerz on her skirt and wings and Glimmer Mist covering the whole panel.

OK, gotta skedaddle...happy Thursday!  Thanks for stopping by!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Agnes Ketto (Stamping Bella); All Occasion Greetings (Hero ARts)
• Paper: Love Shack pp Bo Bunny; white cs (Neenah); pink cs (SU!)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Hollyhock (CTMH)
• Accessories: Oval & Labels 4 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Flame Dew Drops; Primas; Tuscan Sun Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels); Marigold Shimmerz; copics

Its a cupcake Thing

A quickie post for you today.  Here's one of the cards for my Bella class at Enchanted Cottage.  I used Matilda Muffinbread, my fav Chickaboulie!  The class is next weekend and it comes with 2 Bella stamps.  The best part is we already have another shipment from Stamping Bella on the way to the store since the first order did so well!  Yippee!!

OK, outta here, gotta work this afternoon then I have a class tonight at my house, so gotta scoot!  Thanks for stopping in!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Matilda Muffinbread, Cupcake thing (stamping Bella)

• Paper: My Girl Friday pp (Cosmo Cricket); Pink Pirouette dotted Swiss (Bazzill); Teal & Moss cs (Core'dinations); white (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Pastel pink, Aquamarine, Lime Pastel, Ice blue cats eyes (Clearsnap)

• Accessories: Oval st & scallop, Blossom, & Ribbon tag trio Nestabilites (Spellbinders); silk ribbon (May Arts); white gel pen (Signo); copics

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)

More Kettos

One more ketto for you today...I am so happy we have these at work now!!  This is Suzette.  She was colored to match the fun sandy Lion paper (I know, right?  Sandy Lion, can you believe it??)

Panels were paper-pieced.  flowers are the Dahlia Nestabilites dies from spellbinders, sponged with ink then dotted with a jounalimg pen.  I added pearl white smooch to the insides of all of Suzettes flowers for some super shine!

(ETA...typed at 9pm last night, didn't post...sorry) Thats it for tonight.  Dealing with the monthly headache deal...urgh.  But we did have a great dinner with family tonight.   One of my moms brothers was driving through with grandkids on the way to DC so we ended up throwing about 30 of us together last minute for dinner out.  Now I have a basement full of cousins (14 year old girls) watching Twilight for the millionth time :)  More tomorrow.  Have a great weekend!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Suzette Ketto, happy birthday (Stamping Bella)

• Paper: Fairies pp (sandy lion); black cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Pink Pastel, Lime pastel, wisteria cats eye chalk (colorbox)

• Accessories: Oval & Dhlia Nestabilites (Spellbinders); flower (Prima); button (Basic Grey); gems (Hero Arts); paper piercer & mat, word window punch (SU!); border punch (EK Success); white smooch (clearsnaP); copics, ribbon (May Arts) 

Meet Maisy

Its a bell-rific day!  We have been trying to talk Marilyn into carrying Stamping Bellas (among others) at Enchanted Cottage and we finally convinced her!  We had to start with a small order of course, but more are already on the way...yippee!!

Today  I have Maisy Ketto for you.  She is all sparkled up with shimmer  and glitter!  Her wings were done with Stampendous Sunflower pearl glitter, and the background was spritzed with Tuscan Sun Glimmer Mist.  More in the days to come as I am making lots of samples for work :)

Thanks for stopping by!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Maisy Ketto (Stamping Bella); All Occasion Messages (Hero Arts)

• Paper; pp (sandy Lion); Raven cs (bazzill); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Brick Red (CTMH)

• Accessories: Labels 4 Nestabilites (spellbinders); Swiss Dots embossing folder (cuttlebug); Sunflower pearl glitter (stampendous); Tuscan Sun Glimmer Mist (Tattered angels); flowers (Prima); brad (Basic GreY); ribbon (May Arts)

Scrappy Sunday

 Happy Sunday!  Its been a busy weekend around here with end-of-the-year parties at school, bday parties, summer kick-off, baseball...etc.  Just a party weekend.  I am pooped.

Before the page... a couple of things.  I'll announce the blog candy winner later today and I will have a card for you then too :)  (Also my new weekly Summer reading recommendation)

Tomorrow starts Sports Billy previews for Pink Cat Studioso don't forget to check back then too!

And we went to see Up! yesterday.  Wow!  It was great...totally not just a kids movie.  BTW, This opened for the Cannes Film Festival for those of you who hadn't heard.  I laughed, I cried and now I want to see it again :)

  So heres your pages for Scrappy Sunday :)  Everyone seems to want more scrapbook layouts from me!  This is one of the 2 sets that we made at my last SU! club.  Paper is Rockabilly pp. (features Black, white, Kiwi, and Riding hood red colors)

 I cut the white edge with jumbo scallop scissors.  Skull and accessories are from the Just Jawing set.  Hearts were cut with my Spellbinders heart Nestabilites, arrows were punched with the SU! my way punch, and stars are using the jumbo star punch.  Flower is from  a new fun pack from Prima (found at Michale's) , and buttons are asst from my stash.  (Click on the page to enlarge for a better look)

Glitter is chunky glitter from SU! applied with PVA glue.  I think that was is for supplies besides (corner rounder, dimensionals, glue dots, asst SU! ribbon, and labels 1 nestabilites)

ok, more later.  Have a fun sunny afternoon!  -Cyndi

Slow down and smell the carrots

OK, so my humor is just a bit off today....sorry.  But I just love not only this image but the matching sentiment from The Greeting Farm.  Little bunny is just hanging out having a lazy day on Miss Turtle's back.  Think they are heading to the pond for a swim?

The images are from the set "Down by the Pond".  Papers are an assortment from Making Memories and K& Co.  Miss Turtle has been paper pieced with the same dots as the background piece.

OK, I gotta head to work...so no babbling today :)  Thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Down by the Piond (The Greeting Farm)

• Paper: Mamking Memories, K & Co; white (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Kiwi (CTMH); Tangerine Tango (SU!)

• Accessories: Labels 3, Double end tags Nestabilties (Spellbinders); flowers (Prima); ribbon (stash); buttons (Autumn Leaves); brads (Basic Grey); copics

Howdy Little Partner

Just a quick post for you today before I head out the door.  This is a card for Jodi's challenge over at the Pink Cat Studio blog. 

Here's the closeup of Sweet Pea that I used.  She's all decked out in her cowboy gear.  Hehe!  Don't know why I needed this set so much...I only have one pregnant friend right now...but all of the Sweet Pea images were just too darn tootin' cute!

The challenge is a Geometry challenge...to use one square, one circle...of 2 different pattern papers....and the card is to be a rectangle.  And of course you have to use at least 1 image from Pink Cat Studio.

Here's the full card.  I used some old cowboy papers from Creative Imagination...they were both double sided so I ended up with 3 patterns :)  The charm is Karen Foster.  Isn't Sweet Pea  just the cutest?!!

 

BTw, I went to see Star Trek again yesterday with my son...I may be a total nerd but it was awesome!  Can't wait for the next one:)

OK, off to run my errands. Thanks for stopping by today.  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Sweet Pea Plate 2 (Pink Cat Studio)

• Paper: white, chocolate (Bazzill); pp (Creative Imagination)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Rich Cocoa; Blush (CTMH)

• Accessories: Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); circle punches (SU!); charm (Karen Foster); brads (stash); ribbon (SU!); sponge daubers, copics; hemp twine

Enchanted Lily

OK, so yesterdays post didn't happen...sorry.  But here's the Lily card that I planned for then.  This fun image is my fav from the Enchanted Lily set from Pink Cat Studio.

Lily was stamped and then cut out and popped up on the background.  I colored her wings with white Smooch...so they really shimmer!  I left a sentiment off for now cause I'm not sure what I want on there.

So, for the news...not mongo-huge but I am thrilled...remember I told you guys a while back that I get to be a guest designer for Pink Cat Studio one month this year...well, Melissa emailed and asked me to do June!  Yippee!!  she must have known I needed a pick-me up!  I got a peek at the images and they are totally adorable!!  Can't wait to get them in my hands!

So, thats it for today.  Hope you had a great weekend , and have a fun and safe Memorial Day tomorrow...I have to work :(  Thanks for stopping in!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: enchanted Lily (Pink Cat Studio)

• Paper: pp We are Memory Keepers; pink, brown cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: Curvy Rectangle Megabilities (spellbinders); pearls (Hero Arts); ribbon (Michael's); Smooch (ClearsnaP); flowers (Prima); markers (copic)

Greeting Farm Friday

Happy Friday! Its been a good week, I have had more stamping time, my house isn't a disaster and my allergies aren't killing me. Woohoo!  I feel like celebrating, or shopping, but sadly I am broke.

So, in lieu of going shopping myself, I colored up this cute  Miss Anya with all her shopping bags.  (Anya is from The Greeting Farm)  I was in a pink & black kinda mood so I pulled out this really old yet fun paper from Urban Lily.  I also finally tried out my new "Smooch"...I used the pretty pearl white on her argyle socks and her eyeshadow...click on the image for a closeup!  (got the smooch from Betty).

The layout for the card is Dawny's sketch from this weeks Papertake weekly Challenge (I know I did one already, but I liked it!)  Sentiment is from Amy R Stamps (designed by Amy Rysavyand available through All That Scraps).

Ok, I'm wrapping it up tonight, but check back for a bit of news tomorrow!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Miss Anya (The Greeting Farm); Boutique Sentiments (Amy R Stamps)

• Paper: pp Urban Lily; white cs (Neenah); black cs (Bazzill)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: Oval Nestabilites (spellbinders); sm & lg oval punches (SU!); pink gems (Hero Arts); white Smooch (Clearsnap); ribbon (stash); markers (Copic)

Unity Addicts Challenge

It has been a while since I have done one of the Wednesday Unity Addicts' challenges.   I have been so bad.  So many stamps, so little time.  Very sad.

 But I loved the color challenge this week....Tangerine Tango, Yoyo Yellow, and Tempting Turquoise...with lots of white.  This cute mushroom house (from a Unity Kit of the Month a few months back) just called out to me to get used for this challenge, so voila!  Here you go!

This is just a quickie post this morning, as you are reading this I am busy at work...hopefully stamping!  Have a great day and I'll have more for you tomorrow! 

-Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Kit of the Month (March??) (Unity)

• Paper: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black (SU!); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (tsukineko)

• Accessories: Labels 3 Nestabilities, Large Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Tangerine ribbon (SU!); button (Basic Grey); flower (Prima); markers (copic)

I'm Here for You

Happy Tuesday!   Here's another quickie for you...this little owl and branch are both by Hero Arts.  He's colored to match the Bo Bunny "Love Shack" paper.  Pink owl, works for me.

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, stamped then backed on a new Ribon Tag Trio nestabilitie. 

Still not feeling too chatty, sorry.  But feel free to say hi in the comments!  Have a great evening :)   -Cyndi 

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Owl, branch (Hero Arts); Rain or Shine (My Favorite Things)

• Paper: Love Shack (Bo Bunny); White cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: Labels 4 & Ribbon Tag Trio Nestabilities (Spellbinders); ribbon (stash); markers (Copic); corner rounder; dimensionals

I still Believe

  A quick post for you tonight.  Here's my card for this weeks Papertake weekly challenge...it was a sketch challenge by Dawny, and a fun one!  I used one of my new images that I finally caved and bought from The Greeting Farm.  The images are from the set Never Ever.

Sorry, not so chatty tonight. But thanks for stopping by! -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Never Ever (The Greeting Farm)

• Paper: Love Shack (Bo Bunny); soft sky (SU!); brown (Bazzill); white (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Dark Moss, Aquamarine cats eye (Colorbox)

• Accessories: Labels 4 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Styled Silver Hodgepodge; sm oval punch, 1"circle punch, designer label punch (SU!); ribbon (May Arts); diamond border punch (EK Success); copics

Animal Antics...and LOST

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly  is to make a card with an animal image on it.  well, easy!  I had these cute new Sweet Pea stamps from Pink Cat Studio that were dying to get inky...and look at cutie-patootie Sweet Pea riding on the giraffe... ca-ute!!  Melissa blows me away with her adorable and fresh images!!

This is from last months release, Sweet Pea plate #2 (yes, there are 2 whole sets of adorable baby images!!).  I colored her to match the Cosmo Cricket Girl  Friday line.  I also got to use my new Labels 4 dies that have thus far been hiding in the package??

ok, thats it for the card...scrolldown for supplies.  Are there any Losties out there?  OMG!!  LOVED the finale last night...tons of questions answered like there really is a Jacob!  I was seriously thinking they were all delusional.  and FINALLY we got to see what happened to Vincent, LOL. 

But, of course...the nuke.  Hmm, so many new possibilities, and a whole long summer to wait.  Sigh.  May just have to re-watch the last 5 seasons agin this summer.  Ok, I am off to work.  Have a great day!    -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Sweet Pea plate 2 (Pink Cat Studio)

• Paper: Girl Friday pp (Cosmo Cricket); Certainly Celery cs (SU!); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Warm red chalk cats eye

• Accessories: labels 4 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); white ribbon (SU!); Eva button (Basic Grey); jumbo scallop scissors; journaling marker; copics

Father's Day Changitos

A couple of quickie cards for you today...both with new Changitos!  I made these cards for Enchanted Cottage...for upcoming Father's Day ideas.

First up I used Changito Driver and Drive me Happy (both by Stampendous).  The paper is new Grease Monkey by Bo Bunny.  Main panels were cut with spellbinders Labels 2 dies.

Next is Changito Piggyback (also by Stampendous)  I used the Pick me up sentiment inside (which I forgot to take a pic of before I left it at work, duh!)  for this one I used more of the newest Bo Bunny papers, this collection is called You Bug Me!

Brads and buttons from both cards are Basic Grey.  Sentiment for this card is Great Impressions.

OK so thats it for now.  Have to get pooky to the doc then get to work!  Have a happy Friday!

-Cyndi

My Time to Color challenge & getting Edgy!

Happy Saturday!  It has been beautiful and 85 here in NC today.  After baseball this morning we went to a Kids Fest.  Michael played on the slides and bouncy things and rode a horse, but guess what his favorite part was?  Holding the kittens!  He is soooo my son!

So, I snuck in a bit of stamping time today.  Laurens challenge for the day is a color challenge.  I didn't have some of the Papertrey colors. so I just converted it all to the closest in SU! colors and went with that.  I ended up with Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue, and So Saffron.

 

These colors are a bit subdued for me (well, a lot really if you know me) but thats what a challenge is supposed to be...a challenge!

I thought of this cute little Magnolia first cause sadly she hadn't been inked up yet.  I got her from Betty, but I can't seem to find her online to see what her name is??  I used the new Labels 3 again from spellbinders...a must have!  The background stamp and sentiment are both from an old SU! set.

I also distressed all the edges on this baby for an entry into the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week...Getting Edgy  :)

OK, I have to sneak back off the computer for now.  Check back in tomorrow for Scrappy Sunday!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Tilda, quilt (Magnolia); Polka dots & Paisley (SU!)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Riding Hood Red, Basic Gray (SU!)

• Paper: Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red, So Saffron (SU!); white (PTI)

• Accessories: Labels 3 (spellbinders); ribbon slot punch (Making Memories); flowers (Prima & Doodlebug); button (MME); markers (Copic); distressing tool (SU!)

Lauren's sketches!

Good morning!  I have 2 cards for you today...and they are very different so scroll down to see them both!!

Both use sketches from Lauren Meader...she is having a "My Time to create"  team call...and I love her sketches, so why not enter, right?  Plus shes changing her weekly sketches to add on an inspiration challenge, my timeless template challenge and more...how fun!  You can see the first post about her call and the sketches to pick from HERE.

First up is a card using a brand new set (to me at least) from Clear Art Stamps.  I have always wanted to cave and buy some of their images and Betty is carrying them in her store so its really hard to resist when they are right in front of you!

These images are from "Fairyland"...a large size set (their sets come in 3 sizes) with tons of gorgeous whimsical images!  This little beauty is colored in to match the gorgeous Zinnia paper from Little Yellow Bicycle.

Sentiment stamp and flourish used in upper right corner are from the same CAS set.

Heres a closeup lookie-loo at her so you can see all the glitter I added.  She's colored with copics (then touched up with Prismacolor pencils on top to really add some gorgeous pigmentation) and then I finished her off with some sparkle using my Spica glitter pens.  My favorite part of her is how pretty her silver hair turned out.

For the background circles I got to use my new Impressabilities by Spellbinders.  Beautiful embossing!  I used the Flowers stencil.  Here's a closeup of that part:

After I ran the cs through my Cuttlebug with the Impressabilites Stencil I inked the raised part with a chalk cats eye.  I tried sanding it first, but the look was really off for the card...but sanding will work great too!

On top of the ribbon I attached a prima flower with a brad.  didn't have the right color so I inked it up a bit with the same cats eye pad.  Here's the copics I used for this card, and the supplies are listed below.

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Fairyland (Clear Art Stamps)

• Paper: Zinnia pp (Little Yellow Bicycle); color cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah)

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

• Accessories: Flowers Impressabilities (Spellbinders); circle templates (Coluzzle); Dog tag punch (Paper Shapers); Vintage Mix flower (Prima); white tafetta ribbon (SU!); brad (Basic Grey); scallop paper edger  (EK Success); markers & Lemon, Lime, clear spica glitter pens (Copic)

My second entry is from another of Lauren's sketches.  For this one I used Scuba Changito by Stampendous.  I think I am developing a serious Changito addiction.  He is just too stinkin' cute!

He's colored to match the brand-spankin new Lime Rickey papers from Basic Grey...LOVE them!!   I stamped him once and doodled a border around the panel.  Then for the small elements on the sketch I stamped the same little fishy from the big image 3 more times and punched it out.  (My elements are a bit off from the sketch, but hey, I have to interpret a sketch to fit my image, or mood, right??)

Here's a closeup at Changito's fishy friends.  I added a bunch of glitter with Spica pens to each of these babies too.   These elements are all raised on dimensionals.

The sentiment for the card is from H & M Stamps...its been die cut with a Spellbinders tag die. 

Here's the copics I used for this card:

 ARe you guys visual like me?  Does it help to have the photos of the markers or a list of the numbers for color combos?  I kinda like when bloggers show the photo for some reason.  Maybe its just that I love color, or am I just a dork??

Anywho, thats it for today before I am off to work this afternoon.  (Supplies for this card are listed below)  Hope to find some stamping time tonight, but I guess I really need to clean my house first.  Its been sadly ignored this week.

Thanks for visiting with me today!  Have  agreat weekend...its going to be sunny & warm here in NC for the next few days! 

-Cyndi

• Supplies: (Changito card)

• Stamps: Scuba Changito (Stampendous); Sea Life (H&M Stamps)

• Paper: Lime Rickey pp (basic Grey); color cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Papertrey)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Wisteria, Aquamarine cats eye (Colorbox)

• Accessories: 1" & 1 1/8" circle punches (EK); dbl end tag die (Spellbinders); brads (Basic Grey); ribbon (Stash); markers & Melon, Lavender, Turquoise Spica glitter pens (Copic)

Laugh

Just a quick post today :)  I am off to a field trip with Michael's kindergarten class to Sci Works then heading to work.

• This is Willow with Flower basket from the Spring Whiff of Joy stamp kit (the new Summer kit is now available for pre-order BTW...don't miss out on the special price as a kit!!) as well as the Fall grass stamp, also a WoJ stamp designed by Elisabeth Bell.

  The image was cut out with my new Labels 3 Nesties then layered on a circle cut with my Curvy cutter.  Sentiment is by Close to My Heart.

  Have a great afternoon.  Please say hi and thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

• Stamps: Fall Grass, Willow with Flower basket (Whiff of Joy); Be True (CTMH)

• Ppaer: Wild Raspberry pp (K & Co); Teal Dotted Swiss cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah)

• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Aquamarine & Wram Red chalk cats eye (Colorbox)

• Accessories: Labels 3 Nestabilities Spellbinders); Curvy Cutter (EK Success); Summer Sunrise ribbon (Papertrey Ink); flowers (Prima); buttons (Autumn Leaves)

A little Hot Chocolate & Marshmallows

Hot Chocolate & marshmallows?  Am I nuts??  This was actually the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday  last week.  I made the card, then forgot to upload it before I left town...oops!!

But, I am in sunny Greenville, NC.  It is 75 degrees but feels more like 90 for some reson and I am having a cup of COLd choc...a Black & White mocha Frappucinno to be exact...mmmm! 

 Perry is participating in his forst organ competition.  We are at ECU for the weekend.  He was chosen to be one of 3 candidates for this competition...so wish him luck and I'll show him the comments!

So, on to the eye candy.  This is Tilda with Tulips.  She is perched on a bow in front of one of my NEW nestabilites!  These new floral jumbo nesties are just too cool!

OK, I am off to pick up Perry.  I'll be back with more tomorrow:)  Thanks for stopping in!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:

• Stamps: Tilda with Tulips (Magnolia); sentiment (CTMH)

• Paper: Tiffanys pp (We Are Memory Keepers); Choc cs (SU!); white cs (Neenah Crest)

• Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko)

• Accessories: Blossom & classic lg circle nestabilities (Spellbinders); Paper piercer & mat; olive ribbon (SU!); pink button (CTMH); Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug);  border punch (EK Success); markers (Copic)