MFT Stamps-Camp Create-Sensational Sliders

Here I am again-this time with my card for badge number THREE! The challenge was posted on June 14, but you can link your card on MFT Educational Series Camp Create Challenge Until June 23! The challenges are fun, fun, fun! 

Hold tight! There are a lot of pictures! I love movement cards!!

 My card-CLOSED. I used Prehistoric fun stamps and dies as well as Balloon Strings background AND Blueprints 28 to make a surprise pop up card. The die made it soooo easy to accomplish WITH perfect cuts! All I had to do was cut the extra panel for underneath and score a couple of places. You can find the directions on Splitcoast Stampers-just search Resources for Surprise Pop Up. Here's the LINK for you.

A dear friend's daughter will have her first child in mid August and this is the card to go with herbaby shower gift . The baby's room is decorated in dinosaurs in primary colors. Of course, the card has to be made to match! That was my excuse for ordering MFT''s Prehistoric Fun set with the Die-namics. 

I also cut 2 colors of Leafy Greenery and two blue circles from MFT dies. 

 My dinos are cut from watercolor paper and watercolored with reinkers.

 There's a touch of stickles on the dinos and on the leaves. I attempted to add white gel pen for white spots. Close up it's not the best look. Oh, of course, that's a tiny MFT cloud too!

 There's some yellow baker's twine to pull up and stand the dinosaur scene while also revealing the sentiment.

Hope my kind of 'slider' card fits the MFT challenge! 

Well, that;s enough for now! Still two more cards to make glitter and shaker! And one more week (almost ) of work! Have a great day!

Spring Bunny Pot

Hello!  Easter break kept me busier than I'd expected!  It was sure nice to have some time off work. I spent some time with friends and family, too.  Even more time was spent coloring images to make into cards in the upcoming days.  But, then I seemed to lost my mojo! Now with just evenings to craft I'm trying to get it back. 

Here is a card I took to make with friends one day last week.  I think they liked it.  We colored our images with reinkers (SU!) after stamping this cute Spring Bunny Pot (Whipper Snapper Designs) onto watercolor paper and cutting it with the MFT cross stitch rectangle die. I parted with some of my beloved Apricot Appeal cardstock (sadly retired SU-what is WRONG with them!?!) which had been embossed with a circles and dots folder from Sizzix. The panel of (also beloved) Lawn Fawn plaid designer paper  was added to the side for additional color. The card base is Bashful Blue (another retired SU color).

Guess that's it for tonight-I've got some 7th grade essays to grade! Take care and I'll see you soon!
Cheryl

Puddle Duck gift card

Hello!! I'm so glad Monday is over for the week!! On to Tuesday!  But, first, a bridal shower card.  I made this for a good friend whose son is getting married in May.  The shower was on Saturday and had an Asian theme.  I think Basic Grey's Kioshi fits the bill!

 The image is Puddle Duck from Whipper Snapper Designs. You can find it HERE, if you like it!

 I followed directions at Splitcoast (Resources section) for Pop up gift card holder. Very easy and fun to make!!

I didn't have a gift card envelope so I made my own from the Cat's Pajamas die. I put it together and cut the flap off, just like in the directions.

Well, gotta go!! Take care, thanks for visiting and have a terrific Tuesday!
Cheryl

Happy Birthday with High Hopes!

Hi and happy Saturday! Hope you are having a splendid weekend!
I am working on using some of my unused stamps these days. I buy so many that I love and then they sit unused-virgin rubbbah! Also trying to play in some challenges so I used the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is a GREAT sketch! It'll work for rectangle or square cards. Since mine is for a boy I kept it pretty close to the sketch. I'm also posting it for the High Hopes challenge which is to use fall colors. I think orange, purple and green count as fall colors.
I used copics to color my image and after that this simple card came together pretty quickly. Still have to do the inside though.
I used YG markers for the frog, RV for his shirt and the warm greys for his pants. If you would like to know more specifically, just let me know and I'll post them.
Thanks so much for coming by today!
Enjoy your day!
Cheryl

A Halloween Hi!

Hi there!

I'm so happy to say that Mabelle, owner of Whimsy and Stars Studio has asked me to be a part of her Fall/winter design team! Thank you, Mabelle! She showcased cards from her upcoming (SEPT. 6) release of new digi images on the blog yesterday. The other designers are top notch artists and the cards are stunning!

I hope you'll head over there to see them!

Here's my card using Pumpkin Kitty (available on Sept. 6). Cute, huh? And so fun to color with my copics. I decided to showcase him in an oval and picked a shape card made from my Nestabilities labels to do that. I used Linda Duke's technique for dry embossing using Impressabilities while the shape is in the die (so you get the border). It is linked HERE, if you are interested.

There's a lot to come from Whimsy and Stars on Tuesday, Sept. 6! Stay tuned!

See you soon!

Cheryl

Thinking of You!!

Hello friends!! Thanks so much for visiting me here today! I have a simple little card for you today. It works for today's Featured Stamper on Splitcoast, but is also a result of my shopping trip with Lisa Kind yesterday! Such fun!! We were at the Hamburg Fairgrounds where every year at the end of August our local stores sponsor a Stamp and Scrap Art Tour show. There are 20 vendors with papercraft demonstrations, ideas, and things you didn't know you needed!! We found lots and did our share to support these wonderful businesses!! We got there at 10:00 am and closed the place at 5:00 pm!! If you're local and don't go, please join us next year, 'kay?
I got this stamp from Impression Obsession from the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff booth. I used to card on display (from the IO board) for coloring. I loooove the results!
My colors started soft and I kept adding until I got what I wanted
E41, E30, E31, E33, YR23 and C0, C1
I also added some C7 to the cat and some 100(black) for the hole of the gourd.
Hope you've had a great weekend!
See you soon!
Cheryl

High Hopes!

Hello! I need a card like this for a friend going through a rough time right now! It's not me, but I'm having issues too! I'm sorry I haven't been around much! (I always feel badly whenb I lose followers :( Thanks to you for sticking with me!

We enjoyed a wonderful family camping weekend in the Finger Lakes region! I can now call it annual because we've had two! I've probably mentioned that I have 5 brothers and sisters and we all like each other even though we are in our 50s and 60s!! Once we lost our parents it became hard to all get together without a "home base".

Anyway, somewhere along the wine tasting on Friday I lost my camera! I'm using my husbands (which was a hand me down from me a couple of years ago! Yep, dinosaur! It's not synced up to my laptop so now I'm working on the desktop! Yep, dinosaur!

This is an older High Hopes image from when you could order directly from them! I cannot find it on the internet, but I think you can special order from 7 kids college fund. For some reason I am not even able to link up the store! Sorry!! (Did I mention I hate this computer!?)

I used the Splitcoast sketch for this week, which is a very easy and nice one for a larger image like this one.

Thanks again for visiting me! I appreciate it so much! Working on a special project for Monday, Aug 23, but I'll try to be back before then!

Have a GREAT day! Cheryl

Tons of Love!

Hello and happy, happy Saturday! I'm off doing something fun with my family and I sure hope you have a wonderful weekend, too!
!

Sometimes you just get lucky! I had made this High Hopes elephant piece for an ATC challenge some time ago. When I was cleaning up the studio I came across it and happened to lay it on this scap of dotted MME paper! Loved it!

Found the sketch online (Sweet Sunday, I think) and the card came to life! Hope you like it too!

Thanks for dropping by!~ I appreciate it soooooo much!!

Cheryl

Circle Easel Belated card

Good morning, friends!
This is the first shape easel card I've ever made even though I've admired the ones other paper crafters have made for awhile now. It was fun and easy! I used #412 HUGO THE SNAIL available right now at Magnolia-licious! He's one of the adorable stamps in the Sweet Rainbow collection. He was awesome to color! Iused Purely Pomegranate and Certainly Celery as my guiding colors. His shell went a little more towards 'grape' than I intended.

I only stamped and colored one image, but I cut part of his shell to raise it on dimensionals and then glued the rest of him to the card base.

This is one of my favorite sentiments to use with snails (or turtles). It is an oldie from All that Scraps and it cracks me up every time I read it.

Well, I guess that's it for this terrific Tuesday! Hope yours is all you wish for!

Cheryl

Happy Birthday, Foxy!

Good morning! What a weekend! It was so much fun to attend Stamp Fest 4 in Buffalo on Saturday! There was talking, laughing, stamping and food! What else could anyone want! Tracy Harp and her team did a wonderful job, yet again! Buuuut, I was soooo tired on Sunday that I did not get much done! I unpacked in between naps! Here is a link to Diane's blog~she has some event pics posted too! So, in trying to get back into it today I wanted to show you (my loyal followers!) a card I made for my friend, for Lisa Kind. She is so talented and always showcases the most wonderful cards and projects!

This is Rizzo from Whipper Snapper designs. Cute, huh? I cut my card base from the Big Scalloped Grand Nestabilities from Spellbinders. The paper layered on it is from an older My Mind's Eye collection.l The dotted is on one side and the striped on the other. I cut leaves from PTI's Turning a New Leaf and stamped with the matching stamp. Then I used my copics to shade the leaves a bit and used some BG000 and BG10 around them so it wasn't so 'white'. The felt flowers are also cut from PTI dies.

Here are the colors for the fox:

Y32, YR65, E97 and E99

Ci, C5 and C9 for his 'white parts'

G24, G20 and G82 for the grass

I have projects to show that I made for Saturday's event, my May Magnolia-licious card as well as one or two I Brake for Stamps cards so I should be back most everyday this week! Than ks for coming by my cottage!

Have a wonderful day!

Cheryl

Springtime Cocoa

Good morning! I have a Sweet 'n Sassy card to show you today! This is Springtime Cocoa and I think he's soooo cute! Here he is peeking around a rock to send get well wishes! Here's the link to the Cocoa Page over at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. There are so many cute images and sets, including digital images for only 3.00!
I used paper from the My Mind's Eye pad called Gertie from the Stella Rose collection. The bright primary colors were a great match for the copic colors I used on my image.
I used the following markers in coloring:
E50. E31, E25 and R30 for cocoa
C1, 3, 5 and 7 for the rock
R14 and 59 for the reds
Y18, 35 and 38 for the petals
YG21 and 25 for the grass and leaves
B0000 and Bg10 for around the image

This is my final post as guest designer for the always adorable Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps! Thank you to Janette and Korin for allowing me to design with your stamps this month! Big hugs!

Have a wonderful day!
Cheryl

Funny Bunny!!

Good morning! I hope you are well today! I made this card on Sunday afternoon using FUNNY BUNNY from I Brake for Stamps. He's kina cute, I think! If you like him (or anything else at IBFS) please feel free to use my code SAVE10CHERYL to get 10% off your whole order! And while you're there you can check out the Wild Orchid flowers! Yes, IBFS is a U.S. distributor for Wild Orchid! Yeah! You will also get 10% off the flowers! Well, I'm posting this Sunday night, 'cuz it's a back to work Monday for me! Thanks for coming by and I wish you a grand day! Cheryl Just one more thing, Happy Anniversary to my DH Dave-19 years! (My parents would have been married 64 years today! Miss them both so very much.) And happy anniversary to my stampin' pal Lisa and her DH, Kevin-19 years for them too!

Relax to the Max II

Hi! Well another weekend is on its way out. Hope you had a great one! I met up with friends, Lisa and Tracy for some stampin' retail therapy and enabling! Fun! This is a card I had to get finished for my nephew, Aaron-another late birthday card from us! I just love this Whipper Snapper designs dog! This time I paper pieced the chair. Of course, I shaded it afterwards with some darker greens to give more depth. All my papers are from MME Stella and Rose collections. The die is my new Lacy edge ovals :) and I did some messy stitching. I even made a stitched panel for the inside on another dp pattern!

Well, that's what I wanted to show you for today! Please, please return tomorrow for something very special from TWO design teams!!
Have a great night/day depending on where you are!
Cheryl

Relax!

Hello, friends! I have a Whipper Snapper card today that I want to show you! This awesome image is Relax to the Max from Whipper Snapper designs. I loooove it! My friend, Lisa and I each bought when last time we were at Buffalo Stamps and Stuff! I will link her card when I get a chance, because she used some really great 3D techniques on hers. I just had time to color the one image, but I did curve it and use some dimension gel glue behind it.
I just love this chair!
I want someone to draw just a similar chair for some of my Tildas!

Anyway, I did keep the colors for a change and here they are:
chair BG10, Bg72 and BG11
Dog Y21, E30, E97, E99 and just a little of E15
Nose is E33, E25 and E29

I am madly in love with the new My Mind's Eye paper and this one (hands down!) is my favorite-Mabel! I've already bought 3 pads of it! I haven't seen this plaid in the 12" size thought :(

Okay, gotta run! Hope you've had a great week! The weekend is here again already!!
Thanks!! Cheryl

One cool cat...umm...bear!

Hello and Happy Friday! I don't mean to wish time away, but I'm so glad it's the weekend again! I want to show you the card I made for the Copic Creations Challenge. The challenge is to use your cool copic markers! I know, they're all pretty cool, but we mean the cool colors! You can find details and lots of inspiration on the Copic Creations Blog!
You can play along (until Feb. 14) for a chance to win 25 pounds from Lili of the Valley!! That's a great prize!
I have loved Lili of the Valley for awhile now, since a friend (Michele) told me about them. I just had to have a couple of James the Bear! I know everyone is so 'over' making winter cards, but I just had to ink him up!

My cool colors are BG10, BG15 and BG49 for his scarf and hat.
This will be my last post as a member of the Copic Creations Team. I just love all the girls and Mary G is a great leader. I just seem to have trouble keeping up! A big MWAH to the whole team and thanks for everything! Love ya!
Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs, Cheryl
Oh, one more thing, you have one more day to comment on THIS POST for a chance to win a card (made by me) and a Magnolia stamp. It's my mini blog candy, just for fun!

Happy Holiday!

Okay, I'm sorry, I know the holidays are yesterday's news, but (and I've always wanted to say this!) I'm working on projects for CHA!! Yep, me~ Pinch me!
I'M not going, but my projects are! Diana asked the DT to make some things for her display! My package goes out to her today!
In the mean time, may I show you a card I made for my friend, Lisa Kind.
She's an awesome stamper, member of several design teams and, YES, she is very kind! She is also an animal lover and I knew she would like this Snowman and his dog buddy!
I colored the image with copics, and used some Basic Grey paper (from Curio, which I loooove!) for my color scheme. The Snowflakes embossing folder was used on the card base on PTI's linen.
I used more dp to stamp the sentiment on.

I'd better be going for now! Will try to have a card for tomorrow!
Wishing you a Super Saturday!!
Thanks so much for visiting!
Cheryl

Open the Gate to Christmas!

Hello! Happy, happy Saturday! And it's time for another challenge on the JUGS blog! This week it's Gate fold cards! They are very easy to make, especially with a Scor-pal to score the perfectly spaced lines! Please see the Jugs Blog for all the details and the Design Team's fabulous samples! I used this cute mouse with his mint candy from Art Gone Wild! I bought this stamp at a show a couple of years ago and this is the first time it's seen ink! I have no idea why I neglected it for so long! I love it! I used paper from My Mind's Eye (I Believe) and from Fancy Pants on Poppy Red card stock. I did some faux stitching ( I should have done real stitching, but was too lazy!)
My ribbon is adhered with Scor tape along the back of the card so it won't fall off when untied.
The candy wrapper is covered with Glossy Accents and there are stickles on the mouse's hat

Whatever you're up to today I hope it's a great day for you!
Thanks so much for coming by! I appreciate you taking the time!
Cheryl

JUGS Sketch!

Hi! I'm so honored to be asked to be a guest designer for JUGS this month! Here's the first card I finished to share with you for the JUGS (Just Us Girls!) design team! They post a new challenge every Saturday and for November I get to join them! They have a VERY talented design team and some GREAT prizes!! Here's the LINK TO THE JUGS Blog!
The challenge for this first week of November is a wonderful sketch! Please see the blog above for the sketch basics. I stayed fairly true to it! You can also see what the Design Team members made with the sketch on the blog!
My card has a Whipper Snapper image called Sanders. Cute, huh? I made another orange cat like our Charlie. (Violet is more difficult to color, but she's feeling left out so I'll have to try again soon!)
My card base is Kraft. The red card stock is Pure Poppy and the designer paper is from Basic Grey's newest 6x6 pad (Jovial) . The sentiment is from an SU set and the swirl is cut from Linen card stock with a Magnolia die. I used some white glitter dots in the lower corner. My Poppy panel is cuttlebugged with a houndstooth folder and then shaded with burgundy ink.
Sanders is colored with copics, of course! I didn't keep the colors, but if you really need them, please let me know and I'll do my best to figure them out for you!

Well, it's a busy Saturday! I hope you have a good one and I thank you for taking the time to visit here!
Cheryl

Baby, you can drive my car!

Hello! This is a birthday card for the son of a friend of mine. Have you guessed that he must have turned 16, the driving age here? Yep, he sure did! (On the 5th~another late card! :P
I tried to keep it fun so went with a red car! I used R24, R29 and R59 for my reds. The greys are in the Cs. I used spica silver pen on the bumpers and the stripe on the side of the car.
The Nestability label was too small so I simply cut them in half and left a space in the middle so the labels would show at the top and the bottom.
The pearls are a gunmetal grey to match the grey on the car. I hope he likes it!
Have a great day!
Thanks for coming by-Magnolia cards will be coming soon and we're cookin' up a blog hop for Monday the 18th!
Hugs, Cheryl

Just to say hi and a winner!!

Hello! I have no idea where the weekend went!! Has anyone seen it? It's gone!
Well, here is a quick little card with the cat from I BRAKE FOR STAMPS! I love it! It is really easy to color because the stripes are there in the stamp. I add shades of grey (Cs) and then some yellow oranges. It looks just like our girl cat, Violet!
You can use my code to get 10% off your order at I Brake for Stamps_ SAVE10CHERYL
Della has done a makeover on the store and you'll love it.
I've got to get to school so for now, please see link on my sidebar! Thanks!

And my winner for the XPress It Blending card:
Random.org chose comment number 101! That's Patty Park
Blogger won't let me copy/paste her comment so I'll just hope she sees it!
If I don't hear from Patty by Wednesday evening, I'll choose again.

Thanks for visiting!
Have a great day!
Cheryl