Happy Wednesday. Today is the kids’ last day of school!! AH!!!!
However, I get to be home and have some fun hopping along with The Ribbon Carousel and The Greeting Farm.
I got to play with the Little Dreamer set from TGF, and I picked this girl image to work with. I love her cute lil backpack with the strawberry on it. I had to use some stickles for the strawberry and wings to make them pop. I also added stickles on the shooting star.
The papers I used for this are more of the Simple Stories Fabulous 6x6 pad. (Yes, I’m addicted!!) I matched up the blue cardstock, and die cut it with my wonky scallop border die.
I used vintage seam binding and created a big loopy bow. I tied the button on with some jute twine. Then finished the card with the sentiment. I’m happy report I stuck this beauty in the mail to a friend who really needed some support.
Hey there Peeps!! I have more There She Goes goodness today, as we celebrate the wonderful owner of There She Goes, Jessica Knutsen, with a birthday Blog Hop!! I’m so excited to be a part of this hop.
I kept my card very CAS to get it done on time. I used some of the fun papers from my newest MW Express kit, and die cut them with my flag dies from MFT. I used the longer banner dies and one mix and match die. Then I stamped the Happy Birthday from one of my favorite mini sets, Sweet Pea. I tried to stamp the sweet pea image with white ink on the pink paper, and it didn’t turn out as bright as I wanted.
I did stamp the sweet pea image in white ink on some kraft and added it to the inside before I wrote my sentiment to the Queen of TSG!
Happy Birthday Jessica!! I hope you enjoy your day and Matt and the girls spoil you rotten!! (I think they will!!)
Follow along the hop with the rest of Jessica’s friends!
Hi there Peeps…
It’s time for another challenge at The Ribbon Carousel. This week Debbie created a great sketch for us to play with – and you can play along too!!
And here is my card.
Not much stamping on this one. I stamped the ruler image, I picked it up on etsy, on kraft cardstock for the base. The polka dot paper is from Simple Stories Fabulous 6x6 pad, and the What I Like About You panel is also from the pad too. I added my favorite ruler twill ribbon with a bow, and then finsihed it off with some Prima Flowers.
A very scrappy card for today.
We have been painting up a storm, and now I’m starting to pack things up around here. We are getting the trailer filled up already! WOO HOO!
Thanks for stopping in!!
I am beyond happy to be part of the MOABH again this year! This is the 3rd Annual Mother of All Blog Hops for There She Goes Clear Stamps. My love for THERE SHE GOES started early on, with their Tastes Like Chicken set. I’ve followed along ever since, and was so happy I got to meet the faces behind TSG when I stayed at their house this February at the PJ Crop!!
Please remember that you can win big when you hop along with us!!
On the hop, I am getting to share with you Blossom by Blossom. What a fun girly set, perfect for a Mother’s Day card this weekend.
I decided to channel my inner Jessica and did some fun layering on this image. The image itself is colored with Copics and the dress, hat and boots are paper pieced on.
I got my colors from this inspiration piece that is this week’s challenge over at the TSG blog. I loved the chevron pattern in the chair and was happy to find that paper in the new Echo Park Hello Summer pack. The rest of the pack is full of beautiful papers perfect for this challenge.
Here you can see my many layers of the main image. I stamped the whole image once on the white cardstock panel, and gave it a light coloring. Then I stamp the image twice more. The second time, only coloring the bench and small birds and popping that layer up. The third time, I just used the girl and her small bird, coloring and paper piecing her before I popped her up on another layer.
I used the sketch from Jen’s Sketch For You To Try this month. I added some fun colored twine from The Ribbon Carousel as the strips along the side, and created a banner for the sentiment.
Check out all of the hoppers today!!
This is another one of my rejects from the September CARDS call. The call was for Woodgrain.
This is one of the reason’s I bought this pad of MME On The Bright Side paper, this woodgrain sheet. This sentiment is from the MFT’s Vertical Greetings Stamp and Die set. I’ve had this fun flower in my stash and it was too pretty not to use, it’s a Bo Bunny Petal.
I kind of want to keep this pretty card for myself, I guess CARDS was out of luck on this one!
On a personal note, I am now out painting at the new house, so the blog is going to be quieter than usual. This weekend is the MOTHER OF ALL BLOG HOPS and I'll be hopping with them. Then I have some Ribbon Carousel posts for you. So come back often, just not daily!
McKinley was recently asked to a birthday party, and we didn’t have anything in our special gift box, so we went shopping. The local gift store gave us this cute bag when we checked out. I thought it was cute enough for giving the gift, so I created the tag to go along with it.
This was a very simple tag to make, using my tag dies to cut it out. Then, I used Echo Park This and That papers to match it up with the bag we got. I stamped out the Pure Innocence cutie, and paper pieced her and her cupcake. I added some alpha stickers for the name and I tied to to the bag with vintage seam binding. It was a hit!
I think I really should make some of these to have on hand and then all I have to do it add the names. Do ya think I will?
Happy Wednesday Peeps!!
All this month, The Ribbon Carousel is celebrating their first birthday with some fabulous Blog Hops. I am playing along with them this week, just because I love me some TSG!!
I pulled out the There She Goes Aim For The Clouds, and it paired up with this fun Basic Grey What’s Up 6x6 pad. (See the balloons on the paper?) Last week, we were the sponsor over at Deconstructed Sketches and that is where I got my layout for the card.
I added the sentiment flag, and some vintage seam binding tied up with a vintage button and twine. I paper pieced the balloons and the hills, but I felt the balloons needed something else, so I added some clear stickles to them for some shimmer.
Now, who is up for some prizes?
Hop along today and one lucky blog hopper will win a Ribbon Carousel and one lucky blog hopper will win a $50 gift certificate from There She Goes Clear Stamps!
But that's not all!
We will give away a $10 gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel Store on our Facebook page and There She Goes will give away a $10 gift certificate to There She Goes Clear Stamps on their Facebook page! Here's what you need to do:
1. Head on over to our Facebook page and say hello!
2. Head on over to the There She Goes Facebook page and say hello there, too!
3. Come back to our Facebook page and tell us you've done it!
4. Share the post on our Facebook page about this blog hop with a friend for an extra
chance to win!
PS.. I appreciate the comments here on my blog, but you must comment on the Blogs and Facebook pages linked above to win!!
Check out the rest of the hoppers!!
Before I get to today’s post, don’t forget that today is challenge day over at The Ribbon Carousel Blog. Head over there and play along!
Ok, onto my cards for today.
I loved the sketch over at Retro Sketches this week, so I created two cards. Well, really 4 – 2 of each of these cards.
I love the look of yellow and greys. I used my new SU Textured Impressions Stripes folder on the yellow cardstock. The fun flower paper is from Basic Grey’s PB&J pad. I added the sentiment from PTI’s For the Graduate set across the top of the yellow panel, and then tied some yellow SU ribbon around the front.
I had to make couple boy grad cards too. I used the Congrats All Ways set from PTI, and liked the look of the stenciled font for this one. The chevron papers are from the PB&J pad, and the white stripes are from a Hambly Screen Print sheet. It was one of the goodies I got from my CARDS pub.
Hey there – popping in with a cute and quick card.
I got some new images from The Greeting Farm, and I couldn’t wait to ink them up and play with them. I saw that TGF’s Farm Fresh Friday challenge was to use two characters on the card. I had to put these two lil cuties together. Young love! ♥
They were so fun to color, and it left little room for the rest of the card, so I kept it simple. These papers from from Echo Parks Hello Sunshine pad.
I finished off the card with vintage seem binding, and a tag from MFT’s Notched Tag set.
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