New Stamps in the mail......YEAH!

Hi Everyone!  I got a package in the mail and it has made me soooo happy!  I have been using the I {Love} Memento's blog/store lately and I am so thrilled with the service that I am getting from them.  I tend to watch Jill Foster's PB&J Monday's and then, being all filled with crafty inspiration, go to the Memento's webstore and purchase some item that Jill has used in her videos.....so, anyways, today I got a package and it contained this stamp which I basically LOVE and can see so many ways that I can color it!  Today I just used pinks, reds and neutrals to be able to use it in two challenges.  I wanted something to enter into the Shabby Tea Room Challenge Flower Power! which I have never entered before and also I am entering it into the CR84FN Challenge which just happens to use the same colors.  Nice right?  Love it when it works out that way. 

                                                    

I really had fun inking up this stamp.....I hope you enjoy it too!

Be well,

Sheila

Scrambled.......

I love participating in the Hero Art's Scrambles.....really do....it is just the time limit that throws me every time! Today, once again, with the VERY BEST INTENTIONS I had planned on taking part in the 90 minute Scramble Challenge.  I always find them fun and a bit of a creative stretch for me.  So, I sat down and ready - set - go!  Two hours (not 90 minutes!) and 3 phone calls, two teenage "fashion consultations" and a very excited son coming home from a camping trip later....my card was still in the assembly stage!  Oh well, I am actually pretty happy with the card, really happy that I made the attempt to try another scramble and also happy that my favorite colors also happen to fall in line with this weeks summer card camp color scheme sooooo I can also upload to that site!  Yeah!  I am so rarely successful at "card multi-tasking" that I am super pleased with myself when it I pull it off!  So here is my card....I hope you likey ;-D

I also included a close up of how "popped up" the flower is.

Finally, here are some pix of my adorable dogs....on a day when we took them out boating/swimming.  They are mini dachsies and they love to swim!  We had to get life jackets for them because they just jump off the boat willy-nilly.  The final pic is of my youngest pooch catching a ride in on my youngest child!

Take care and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Be well,

Sheila

                                                          

So NOT a circle girl.....yet!

So over at the Penny Black Blog the challenge is "circle" cards.  Wow-seriously a challenge for me.  First of all, the cards came out so small!  I feel like my stamped images kind of overwhelm the size of the card.  I like the "sweetness" of the little card but TOTALLY need to work on finding how to finish a circle card without it looking so very crammed and crowded.  So, long and short of it is...Circle cards = big time challenge for me but one that I did enjoy and will absolutely try again.  These particular cards are going to  my oldest daughter and another lady along with some c.d's that I burned for a little mid - summer gift for each of them.  Nothing better on a hot day (or night :-p) then to put on a little bit of Al Jarreau, Anita Baker or Stevie Wonder. In fact I was jamming to Mr Jarreau ( I call him Al  heheh) the whole time I was card making today and it was wonderful ;-D  I was really happy to get some crafty time in as this week was impossible when it came time for myself and inks so, unfortunately, I have been pretty delinquent, or should I say "truant" to summer card camp.  I did do one card in this weeks colors and my second card kiiiinnnnda uses the colors from the additional color palette provided.  Not a great student this week. Oh well.....

                                                                

                                                                          

Both cards used Spellbinder dies,Penny Black Stamp#1 and  Penny Black stamp#2, Distress Inks and colored pencils.  And let me just say here and now....I think birds are very, VERY hard to color!

Bye now and thank you so much for stopping by!

Be well,

Sheila

                                                          

Two in one day???

Yep! You read my header correctly....I am actually making two posts in one day!-sometimes I even surprise myself.  This is another card for the Summer Card Camp Challenge as well as for the Penny Black blog/circle challenge of stamping inside a card.  I think I am almost caught up in camp.....yes, I know....I am that annoying camper that lags behind the rest of the group hehehe.

So, here be my card:

I am happy with how this card turned out but am getting tired of working with this particular color combo!  The flower is actually orange, deep pink and blue but it is not photographing that way....I think perhaps I over-distressed and my colors muddied up but I actually really like how the colors turned out.  Then I over outlined them in white....love that look.  The stamp is Penny Black, the sentiment is Hero Arts and I "punched" my paper a la' Jill Foster....have never really done this before but have always admired her details with it and so figured out it wouldn't be too hard for me to try.  Thanks for stopping by!  Again ;-D

Be well,

Sheila

                                                        

So Happy...

...because today my oldest comes home for the weekend and tomorrow we are throwing her a 21st birthday party.   Her birthday really was on Cinco de Mao (May 5!) but that was when my husband took so ill and was hospitalized for sooo long.  But, now things/life are getting back to normal and we are able to have a little celebration for her and about, hmmmm, 25 of her closest friends tomorrow!  I did not get to any "completed" card crafting during the last two days.  It was one of the times where I had lots of ideas, little time and so no actual real "finish".  I did, however, complete another Card Camp card but forgot that I had never uploaded it. It was buried under my mess of experiments...hehehe So, without fanfare, here it is.

Very simple but still using the color scheme!

                                                                  

                                                                 

This was actually super simple to make.  I "lined" a piece of cardstock with blue marker and a ruler, then measured the size I wanted and cut out.  I then added the pink line along the side and used an ek success punch on the top of the paper.  I love how much it looks like school paper only more "vibrant".  Then I stamped that sheet with  Penny Black Sentiments and then also used Penny Black for the flower and butterfly.  Then I adhered the lined sheet to a piece of cardstock that I distressed with concord Distress Ink.  Bling, bling..tie, button, bow and a little glitter pen and I'm done with the outside. For the inside, I followed the challenge over at the Penny Black blog/circle and decorated the inside.....decorated very simply.  Flower is in purple ink and the "thanks" is in pink...but I guess you can see that for yourself!  Simple but nice.

                                                                    

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I love to hear your comments and have a wonderful Friday!

Be well,

Sheila

Day Two.....

Hi Everyone....

Today is day 2 of Summer Card Camp and today we were to try and create a card using the same colors as yesterday (blue, purple, pink, orange and white) but then to also try and create a window of acetate or something similar.  I have created "frames" before on my cards but never have done a window and so was eager to try.  Actually, thought that acetate wouldn't be my thing and really scrounged around for some vellum.  I thought that acetate would be too hard to work with but after wasting toooooo much time trying to find a scrap of vellum I turned instead to a scrap of the big A.  And, I discovered that mistakes can be cleaned off acetate with a little Staz-On..so an unexpected but much appreciated lesson there!  I also am entering this card in the Penny Black Challenge to decorate the inside of a card.  I saw Jill Foster do this here  and loved the look and so thought that I would try it myself.  So, first the Summer Card Camp...

                                                        

                                                                

                                                                              

                                                     And then the inside for the Penny Black Challenge pennyblackinsides.  This was in the  Monday PB&J segment with Jill Foster.  I find that little series such a jumpstart for me.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Oh, before I forget....I used Penny Black Sparkle Stamp, PB Sentiment, Hero Arts Dictionary Clear Set, HA Bling, Glamour Dust and Distress Inks.

Now, thanks for stopping by ;-D,

Be well,

Sheila

First Card For Summer Card Camp!

Hello Everyone!  I just completed my first card for Jennifer and Kristina's Online Summer Card Camp and....it was a little more difficult than I had thought it would be.  Don't get me wrong....I had fun creating it and when I saw the color palette I thought "No Problemo"....I mean, I tend towards using lots of colors on my cards anyways...But, this sure wasn't a color combo that would have jumped out at me and really, I think that might be the point of the class.  To stretch our comfort levels when it comes to working with ink and paper.  I usually have no where near the free time to craft that I want to have so when I do have time I go right for my tried and true colors, sketches, and sometimes even the same stamps.  I mean, I know that those choices "work" for me so why not turn to them? Right? Wrong!  Doing that, doing the same ole' same ole' makes me stale.....makes my cards, scrapbook layouts stale....so, that is why I signed up for this class....to streeeeeetttttch my abilities outside of my usual comfort zone.  And, here is my Day 1, purple, pink, blue, orange and white card!

                                                                      

                                                    

The flower image is Penny Black #4160 Cheerful as well as a Penny Black sentiment.  The background script is Tim Holtz and the die is the largest diamond in the Spellbinder's classic diamond nesties.  Thank you for stopping by and see you tomorrow with another card from class!

Be well,
Sheila