SCS Challenge for Today!

UHG! I am having one of those days!..I wanted to get started and do this challenge first thing this morning, but my darling hubby needed me to help clean chicken crates....yuck...for those of you that know me...know how much I hate chickens...but just real life ones...for some reason I have a thing for Chicken stamps....teehee...okay so I look at the challenge on SCS today and say hey I can do this one.....I turn and look at my paper supply and see the perfect paper...so now I have the paper...I need the stamps....these four stamps were purchased from www.stampingfreak.com about 6 weeks ago and were just waiting for ink...for some reason when I think of farm animals, I think red, blue and white...lol....so the challenge today was to use four square blocks on your card, this card ended up being a 6x6 card.....I stamped the images and colored them with Stampin' Up markers layered them on to the red and blue cardstock, also from Stampin' Up, the patterned paper is a piece that I have had for awhile from Making Memories.....the red brads are also from Making Memories, (red and blue paper, red brads, hmmmm I am thinking that I had a theme going here and was going to use them for something else...lol)....the ribbon is pieces that I had in my ribbon bin and they are from Stampin' Up...the Prima's are from the Prima Share from Jodi, (and wouldn't you know it.....I searched through all of the Prima's and I did not really have the right color red, so I used this one).....so then I decided I was going to take a picture of the card and load that onto the site, but for some reason, pictures from my camera will not load...so I scanned this one...I could not for the love of stamping...teehee...get it to scan straight.....I also hate how you can see all the spots that I missed while coloring....I am thinking that I am going to get some of those alcohol based markers..they say that you can not see the coloring marks....we shall see.....I kinda like this card in real life....again it is a challenge to myself to do something different.....well it is around 85 degree's outside, I really should be helping the hubby with things......later gaters....

Spring and Bugs Naturally!

Good Morning! And yes it is a good one here...I have been up for what seems like hours...sun was shining in my room and I thought it was time to get up...lol...it is to be a really warm day here today.....YEAH...I think spring is here finally....The card that I am showing today was one that I did for a one-on-one swap for one of my groups...it is a 5.5x5.5 square card...I found this idea at http://prairiepaperandink.typepad.com/amyr/, so I CASED it sorta...lol....I did not have the same color paper as her, but loved the idea....I laid out a piece of chipboard from the Stampin' Up On Board Accent Kit and traced the circles onto the back side of the printed paper...I used on of my circle punches to punch them out....I then laid the patterned paper over a piece of white card stock and traced the circles...this gave me the base and area to stamp the cute little bug....I stamped them randomly and colored them in using my Stampin' Up markers....I then punched out several black squares using my Marvy GIGA Scalloped Square Punch (say that fast 10 times...lol...) and put them together to form a border around the stamped area....then layered this onto Pretty in Pink Card Stock and then onto Certainly Celery Card Stock...the Prima's are from the Prima Share the Jodi did and the Brad is a Huge Brad that I got at Dollarama......oh yeah the image is one of my favorite right now and it can be found at www.stampingfreak.com...I found one thing making this size of card with this many layers...lol...the cards tend to be heavy....well that is my share for now....have a great day!....later gaters.....

Okay Another Card!

Okay well I did some weeding today...but I really wanted to play...so I came back to my craft room....another card done in the same tones....needed to use up the paper...this one I used a Bella image from

www.stampingbella.com ...colored in the image with my Stampin' Up Watercolor Crayons....the "You Go Girl" is from Michaels, one I found in the $ bin....I love these stamps as they seem to fit the Bella attitudes....lol....I added some orange brads that I had in my stash, not sure were I got them from....again I used some of the Prima flowers from the Prima share of Jodi's.....so just a another quick card using the same paper as the first share I did today......till tomorrow...later gaters.....does anyone ever read my BLOG?

I Will Get It Right Some Day!

Well I did not do too good last week at keeping this BLOG going each day...lol...that would be me..so it is a new week so I can start again....I logged onto SCS to start the week off using the daily challenges to have stuff for my BLOG....got there today and the challenge was to make something for a teacher and as I do not have any children in grade school, or better yet any left in any school.....I thought oh well I will not do this one...so back to my list of swaps that I need to complete....so I decided to do the swap that needed flowers on it....This background paper is much brighter IRL, but I am in bad need of a new scanner so things do not always seem the way they should be...the stamp is from www.stampingfreak.com, I love Gina's designs...if you have not been to her site check it, her work is amazing....so I stamped the image on white card stock and then again on the stripped patterned paper...I cut the vase out of the image that was stamped on the patterned paper and glued it to the image on the white cardstock.....very easy to do...lol...colored the rest of the images with my Stampin' Up markers, Only Orange and Old Olive....used the Ticket Corner punch and layered it onto a piece of Stampin' Up Always Artichoke Paper, then I used the corner punch on it.....the scallops on the patterned paper with the stripes were made using my Stampin' Up Corner rounder, just remove the guard....it was then layered onto the Flower Patterned back ground paper...the Prima Flowers are again some that I got from a Prima Flower share from Jodi at Confessions of a Ribbon Addict...this card took me less then 10 minutes to prepare.....one of my own challenges that I have set for myself is to start to stamp and make cards outside my comfort zone...lol...well the sun is shining and the weeds in my garden are calling...so I hope you all enjoyed todays post...see you tomorrow...later gaters......