Market Street Stamps Special Edition Block Party

Hello sweet crafty friends. Today I wanted to show you the project that I made for the Market Street Stamps Special Edition Block Party. This block party is a big deal as they are celebrating one year of being in business and the winner of this fun block party is going to receive $600 of beautiful stamps. If you have some Market Street Stamps head on over for the full details and make sure you join in the fun for your chance to win. Click HERE to see the details.

I absolutely love Market Street Stamps and I'm especially addicted to their background stamps, I believe I'm only missing 3 of those beautiful backgrounds so far. I had just purchased the Sweet Spooks stamp set from their latest release and I had to use it for my project. I had this idea of making a vertical (image only) banner using the Sweet Spooks images and Market Street background stamps behind each piece. I really like how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it too.

Here is what the whole thing looks like just so you can get the general picture. Then I will zoom in on different pieces so you can see the detail better.

Here is a close up of the first three pieces:

I clear embossed all of the background orange oval pieces and I colored the images with Copics. Each image is also pop dotted up for some extra dimension.

Here is a close up of one of the bats:

I used the new Argyle background stamp for his background and some glossy accents on his eyes.

Here is a closeup of one of the ghosts:

I used the beautiful Cane background stamp for these.

And here is a closeup of a spider:

The background on this one is called Pretty Perfect Grid. I just turned it on an angle instead of straight up and down. The base of the spider is pop-dotted up. For this one I needed to stamp the spiders legs and its little string that it is hanging from. I had to stamp the legs and the string BEFORE I did the clear embossing. When you do this just make sure that you use an ink that embossing powder doesn't cling too and it works like a charm. I just used some Memento ink for the black and then I stamped the background in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see what you create for this fun Block Party too. Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*B is For Boy Cricut Lite Cartridge

*Market Street Stamps - Sweet Spooks

*Market Street Stamps - Argyle

*Market Street Stamps - Cane

*Market Street Stamps - Pretty Perfect Grid

*Copics

*Clear Embossing Powder

*Glossy Accents

*Core'dinations glitter cardstock for the black

*Ribbon

*Twine from The Twinery

*Pop Dots

Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam #5

Hello and welcome to a new month and another Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam. This is the first Wednesday of the month and so it is time for another cut challenge for Pam and me. This month Pam chose the cut. She chose the cute little baby rattle on the Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge. It is always a good idea to have some baby cards on hand. I discovered that I had a lot of spare baby girl cards so I wanted to make a baby boy card.

The cute sentiment is from Emma's (My Creative Time's) All Star Baby set. This set has SO many super cute baby sentiments on it. I LOVE it. I'm so excited to see what Pam has come up with for this cut. I hope you will drop by and see what she has created. She is SO talented! Click HERE to go to Pam's blog.

Items Used:

*Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge
*B is for Boy Cricut Lite cartridge
*Gypsy
*My Creative Time stamps - All Star Baby
*DCWV - Citrus Stack
*Tim Holtz Distress Inks
*Sakura White Gellyroll pen

MS Blog Hop

Welcome to the MS (Mulitple Sclerosis) Blog Hop. If you are coming from Amy's blog, then you are in the right place! However, if you are just randomly coming up on this blog hop, please head back to Fancy Framework so that you can see ALL of the fun we have in store for you.

Our projects today all have to do with MOVEMENT. I hope you will take the time to drop by all of the stops and if you have the money, and/or are looking for a 2011 tax write-off, make a donation HERE or bid on some of the projects that are up for auction. Some of us girls are donating our projects to the cause. So if you are looking for some fun cards and/or craft items and would like to get a tax write off at the same time, then you are in luck go ahead and bid. In the comment form put BID: (and then an amount). I am a NO pressure sort of gal, so I will not feel bad if you do not want to bid on my project. Honestly. Feel free to comment for a chance to win the blog candy, whether you want to bid or not. Sound fair? Good.

Now on to my cards.

I made an everyday girl card and an everyday boy card. The darling sentiments inside are both from My Creative Time's stamp set called, Turn That Frown Upside Down. They are both on Action Wobbles and are fun to play with. They would definitely put a smile on the face of the little one that received it. They come as a set (including envelopes) so if you do bid it is for both of them, and just for fun, if the winning bid is over $10, I will include the leprechaun card posted HERE (which is also on an Action Wobble).

Outside / Inside of girl card:

Outside / Inside of boy card

Thanks so much for joining in the fun. I have 10 Action Wobbles as my blog candy, so go ahead and make a comment and I will randomly select a winner from the comments on Monday, March 7th, 2011.

The bidding on the items will go until Monday morning as well. I will let the winner know the rest of the details at that time.

Your next stop is Gloria from Girlia's Cards. If you get lost along the way, head on back to Linda's blog as she has a list of the full line up.

Thanks so much for hopping along.

If you are interested, below is a list of items used and two super short videos showing the boy and girl moving on their Action Wobbles.

Items Used for Girl Card:

*Twinkle Toes Cricut Lite cartridge
*Lilac Twine from the Twinery
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
*My Creative Time Stamps - Turn That Frown Upside Down
*Versamarker
*White Sakura Gellyroll Pen
*Pop Dots
*Action Wobble
*Glossy Accents

Items Used for the boy card:
*B is for Boy Cricut Lite cartridge
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Wide Eyed Kids
*My Creative Time stamps - Turn That Frown Upside Down
*Versamarker
*White Sakura Gellyroll pen
*Action Wobble
*Glossy Accents

Birthday Hugs and Wishes

I made this card for my daughter's birthday. She LOVES elephants, pink and Action Wobbles. I knew that I better take some pictures of it before I gave it to her because I didn't know how long it would last after she played with it ;). I've entered it into the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge and the Cooking with the Cricut Challenge.

The Action Wobble is attached to the ball and so the elephant is really trying to keep its balance. He he! Here is a quick video of it wobbling.

Items Used:

B is for Boy Cricut Lite Cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces

Pink by Design stamps for the sentiment

Bakers Twine

Sakura White Gelly Roll

Black Bic Ultrathin Marker

Smile, It's Your Birthday!

This is the card that I made for my nephew's birthday.

I made my own patterned paper for this card. I used some glossy stamping paper and the super cute Robo Star stamp by Market Street Stamps. I used my Versamark ink pad and then added some white embossing powder. I heat set the embossing and then with a sponge and some different shades of red and orange ink I sponged the background. I haven't used this technique in a really long time. I forgot how much I like it.

The little robot from B is Boy Cricut Lite cartridge is attached to an Action Wobble. I didn't have time to make a short video, but I'm pretty sure most of you can imagine it wobbling back and forth saying "Smile, it's your birthday," in robot language. Thanks for stopping by. I hope it is a great day!

Items Used:

*B is for Boy Cricut Lite cartridge
*Peachy Keen Stamps- mouth and nose are from some discontinued stamp sets. The eyes are from the Everyday Character Face Parts

*Market Street Stamps - Robo Star

*Action Wobble

*Sentiment- Pink By Design
*Glossy stamping paper
*Embossing Powder
*Red and Orange inks
*Sponge
*Sakura White Gellyroll
*Bic Ultrathin marker