Birthday Card and New Addition to My Studio

I found this adorable pre-colored digi at paperprintables. It's the perfect image for my friend who LOVES to bake cakes. In fact, she made a topsy turvy cake for my halloween party last fall. I followed a sketch by Mojo Monday.

I accented the image with Glossy Accents, stickles, and a glaze pen.

The pink ribbon is SU, I think. I scored a ton of it at a yard sale last year. The clip is from Recollections and the sentiment stamp is Hero Arts. The tag punch is Fiskars and the eyelet is MM. The tag is tied to bow with baker's twine from The Girl's Paperie.

My New Studio.

The dining room has officially become my "studio." We only need it to be a dining room twice a year so... why not?!! We finally replaced our tube TVs with flat screens and this bulky entertainment center was just sitting in the middle in the front living room. I had ambitious plans to sell it. Listed it dirt cheap on CL but no one was interested. Yesterday, I got a wild hair to move this and that and make this piece of furniture a staple in my scrap space. I was able to move tons of my stuff out of the tiny office.

Oh, my paper. Most of it.

I turn the CH over on their sides so that I can pull my papers straight out.

Six 12x12 drawers full of stamping supplies.

Binders full of clear stamps, dies, stamped images, and extra die cuts.

Kits.

The Expression. It is on the bottom shelf so I have to sit on the floor the use it. The floor doesn't scare me and I've already used it twice in the last 24 hours. It used to stay on my table which meant I had to clear my current project/mess out of the way to use it.

My antique buffet (from CL) and the spread of Distrezz-It-All, heat gun, Gypsy, sewing machine, and Cuttlebug. The Cuttlebug was down in the cabinet but I love that I can keep it out now! I use it all the time with my Spellbinders.

Whimsy Stamps

The digis in today's post are Whimsy Stamps. I bought some last month and I love them!

Colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Blended with Odorless Mineral Spirits.

Left: Prismcolors. Right: Loew-Cornell

Left: Blended with Odorless Mineral Spirits.

I followed a sketch from the archives over at Mojo Monday. Papers are by MME. Border punch by EK Success. The date postage is by MM and matted on a postage die cut from my Expression, Sentimentals.

Accented the image with stickles and a sparkle pen. I used blue chalk on the background for all three images in this post.

I always line the inside of the my cards. Here, I also added a holiday sentiment.

Papers by MME and Anna Griffin. Ribbon is BG. Brads by BG and Sassafras.

I accented the image with stickles.

Papers by K and Company.

Accented with stickles on the flowers and Glossy Accents on the buttons.

Green flower by The Girl's Paperie. The little flowers are white Flower Doodles and glimmer misted with Starfish. Bead trim from HL. I used glossy accents to beat it into submission.

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Baby and Flowers

I feel really good about the baby card stash I've built up. Can't wait to gift them next year!

Quilted Horse.

Papers from Grandma's Kitchen by WRMK and Fine and Dandy by MME. I love Fine and Dandy! I could eat it. I followed a sketch from the archives at Mojo Monday. Accented the card with a ribbon/bow by Prima and machine stitching.

This adorable digi is by Beccy. I've been having fun with her images lately! Colored with Prismacolor, Staedtler and Loew-Cornell pencils. I didn't get the coloring right but it's still good enough for a card so I used it anyway. I do have great intentions to do it again. After coloring, I cut it out with Cutterbee scissors and popdotted to a Spellbinders cut mat.

And three little yellow brads.

Baby Girl.

Papers from Life is Good by EP.

This adorable digi is by Bugaboo Stamps. Colored with Prismacolor pencils. I got a little... adventurous with the shading here. I do like how her skin and bottle turned out. On the bottle, I used a really pale grey/green and white.

Accented with three little pink brads and machine stitching. The trim is by Prima.

Bucket of Flowers.

I wish I had a green thumb so I could have things like this sitting around my yard. Some day. The papers are from Garden Variety/Material Girl by Cosmo Cricket. Ribbon from Chelsea's Place by MM.

Another digi by Beccy! I do like the way the bucket turned out. Everything else has... potential. Colored with Loew-Cornell pencils.

Machine stitching and three little rose gold brads.

So I had strips of scraps ready for the paper recycling when I got an idea! *lightbulb* I decided to use the pieces to decorate the inside matting. Ta Da! I used this idea for all three cards in this post.

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Peace.

I love Christmas cards. I've only made a few so far this year but I got this one done this weekend.

I loved this card by shan&terry at SCS. I thought her style would work great with this cabin by Beccy. I love her digis!!!! I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. My shading and direction of light need help but... who cares.

This metal piece is from Fancy Pants. I glued it on with Scotch Quick Dry. Then, I added Tiny Type by Cosmo Cricket and topped with Glossy Accents. Finished with gold brads.

A beautiful flower by Stephanie. It is sitting on layers of MS punched greenery and a corner flourish, cut from Expression. The vintage angel and snowflake stickers are by K and Company.

Another beautiful rose by Stephanie. 

Stampamajig.

I love this thing. I always ignored it until I saw it demo'd at a Stampin Up class. I bought one right away.

The plastic piece should be flush with the corner, textured side up.

Ink the stamp and stamp on the mat, flush with that same corner.

I use a cheap ink when I do this. I can see it, barely. Position the "ghost" image on the piece that will go in the card.

Position the tool, flush with the corner of the mat. Remove the mat, leave the tool.

Ink the stamp and line the stamp with the corner of the stampamajig.

Voila. A beautiful, straight impression. This piece is on the inside of my Christmas. All straight and stuff. BTW, this sentiment is just some old stamp I scored from a CL pile. Don't know the brand.

Baby Monkey

Still adding to my stash of baby cards.

I loved this card by dlounds. I thought it would work well with these monkeys. I colored the monkeys with primsacolor pencils and blended with gamsol.

Papers: Fancy Pants, Tinkering Ink, Echo Park

Ribbons: Fancy Pants, Prima

Stamps: Sandylion, MSE

Clips: MM, Recollections

Die cut: Cricut

Doily lace punch: MS

An Oldie Refreshed.

A card that bugs me.

I've had this card in my stash for awhile. I'm not even sure when I made it. I am sure that followed some fabulous card over at SCS (if you recognize it, shout) but I have no idea which one. And I'm also very sure that the card I followed for inspiration was WAY better than this. Problem 1: The fold of the base is cracked because I'm heavy handed with the bone folder. 2: That flower is too big for this card and is in the wrong place. 3: The journaling piece bugs me.

So I ripped it apart...

Added some black stitching to the blue mat. Mounted the front to a new base!

Stamped a sentiment by Fiskars with Archival black ink. Used sparkly Versamark to stamp the weathered background and brushed with brown, sparkly chalk. Can't see the sparkle? Yeah. I'll get a better camera one of these days.

Added that corner piece to help cover up the damage from ripping stuff off. It works.

It's not my best or favorite card but I think it's much more respectable now.