Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Happy Monday!!!  I hope you are having a splendid day, and that you are ready to see TONS of inspiration from a TON of super talented ladies.

A bunch of us are doing a blog hop today with a coffee theme, in honor of National Coffee Day!

I don't know about you, but I NEED my coffee in the mornings, or you don't even want to be around me!!!

We thought it would be cool to answer a few coffee questions, so here goes.....

1. When did you start drinking coffee?  I can't even remember when, but I do know it was a very long time ago!!

      2. What is favorite brand (you can name up to three).  My absolute favorite is Starbucks, hands down!

3. What is the most amazing coffee that you had? Remember where and when?  I'd say my most amazing coffee is the 1st one I have every morning....seriously!

4. If I don't drink my needed coffee, I will.....  I really can't even think about this.....I'd hate to see what would happen!

Did I  mention that we have prizes??  We have 15 prizes to be exact - and winners will be drawn at random from all comments on the blogs!!!  Thanks to these fabulous sponsors:

Here is my card:

My Simon Says Stamp Card Kit for October arrived just in time for this hop!!!  I LOVE this months kit!  Ahhhh....that sweet little k-cup sitting there is my absolute favorite in the mornings!!

Would you like to link up and join us??

Head on over to Chaitali's blog - and join in the fun

I hope you are enjoying the hop and, good luck~!

Sketch For You to Try

WOW- it's been over 2 months since I've posted anything on my blog!  Guess I've just not had much to say.  We had this past week off of work, didn't go anywhere, but had a very relaxing week at home.  I do so LOVE not being on a schedule!  I like to wake up

when I want to, drink my coffee, check email, etc at my own pace in the mornings.  I do kind of feel my mojo returning.

I haven't felt like stamping much over the past few months, and it seems like a lot of my "stampy" friends have been going thru the same thing.  I'm glad to be getting the urge back, since it is my therapy and stress reliever.

My card today is for the SFYTT Challenge

Here is my card -

I love this new set from Reverse Confetti - So Very Special and the new die cut set called Tag Me Too!
Loving them both!!!

Watercoloring Class

I signed up for a Watercoloring class online, and

I'm finally getting a chance to play around a little bit.

I used my Sakura koi watercolors for this card -

I applied them directly to an acrylic block,

 stamped them onto the paper,

 and then added some water to them.  

The paper is Tim Holtz WC paper, and it kinda totally

rocks!!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog -

 I'll keep posting my practice cards!

Ribbon Carousel is BACK!

Ribbon Carousel Challenge is back!!!
Here are all of the details for May!
Be sure to come play along for your chance to win!

Hey there Party Goers!  Welcome to this month's Birthday Celebration Party challenge, which is going to be so easy, you'll be able to enter almost ANYTHING you make! 

May has many, many reasons to Party. A special day to celebrate our heritage, honor our Moms, Queen Victoria and those who have died defending our freedoms too.  Here is a list of a few celebrations that definitely deserve a special day:

• May Day
• Cinco de Mayo
• National Teacher's Day
• Mother's Day
• Armed Forces Day
• Victoria Day
• Memorial Day which is also......
• My Son's Birthday

Then of course, there are Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Weddings, Graduations, even TGIF counts as Party Time!  So whatever YOU are celebrating, please share your creation with us!

This month's theme is...you guessed it.....

Party Time!

 So what prize is up for grabs? How about a Ribbon Carousel?!

 This Birthday month we are giving away a Ribbon Carousel to one of our randomly chosen challenge participants! Just a reminder that our Ribbon Carousel Crewmates have divided up into two teams. Each 1st and 15th of the month you will see fresh projects for this months challenge!

 There are only four (4) rules you must follow to be eligible for the prize:

1. You MUST use ribbon, twine, thread, washi tape or anything that comes on a spool on your creation 
2. Your project must be based on the theme of the month. 
3. You must add a NEW project to the inlinkz below and link directly back to your project on your blog or online gallery. (Unfortunately, we've had participants who would have won the challenge, but they didn't do a direct link to their blog and I couldn't find their creation!)
4. You may enter the challenge 3 times maximum to be qualified to win a prize.

Check out some crafty eye candy from our talented Crewmates for a little inspiration before you link up your project at the bottom of this post!

**Surely, I'll miss someones birthday this month
and get to use this for a belated birthday card!**

Stamps- Paper Smooches We Totally Click

Paper- Watercolor paper, SU Red

Ink- Memento Tuxedo Black

Misc- Washi tape, Pretty Pink Posh seequins, koi watercolors

Pretty Pink Posh Shaker Blog Hop

Today is that great big blog hop over at

Pretty Pink Posh

If you know nothing about it, you should go check

it out.  Tons of wonderful inspiration and

prizes to be had!

my card:

I used several different sequins from

Pretty Pink Posh 

for my shaker card -

the silver hearts, sand, marshmallow,

and sparkling clear

The sentiment is one of my favorite sets

from Reverse Confetti

Come join in the hop and link up!

The Card Concept Challenge

I decided to play along at  

The Card Concept Challenge

this week.

The challenge was to use an umbrella.

I pulled out my Unity Hodgepodge of Happiness - 

which hasn't seen ink in a VERY LONG TIME!

Here is my umbrella card -

I've been pulling out my Copics more and more lately...

I got rid of most of mine about a year or so ago, 

and only kept my favorite colors to play with. 

I may need to add a few more to my collection.

I definitely went with the clean and simple approach with my card,
which is what I mostly stick to.  Every now and again, I'll
think outside the box.

The umbrella is paper pieced with Fancy Pants 

Park Bench designer paper.  

I'd LOVE to have an umbrella like hers, 

wouldn't you?!

Thanks for stopping by today - I appreciate it.

Curtain Call Inspiration

Hello all!  Hope you are having a fabulous week!

We had a gorgeous weekend here in PA, and now its

 currently 39 degrees!

I'm so ready for summer weather!

I've got a card today that I made for the challenge over at

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

Isn't that such a fun picture!

I dug into my supplies and came up with this:

I love my Reverse Confetti Lots to Say!  I find that 

I'm constantly digging it out to use!  My sequins are

from Pretty Pink Posh - another fabulous place

to shop!!

Thank so much for stopping by.  I hope wherever

you are, that you are having some gorgeous weather!

Challenges Galore Card

It's been a while.  

I haven't felt like doing much creating

lately, so I've been kind of laying low.

I started a new job about 6 weeks ago and I love it, 

but I'm mentally

DRAINED till I get home.  

I found a few challenges to play along with and though

I would sit down to try and play a bit tonight.  

I'm playing along with these challenges tonight:

The Card Concept

The Color Throwdown

Virginia's View

Such fun challenges out there to play along with!

One of the ways I try to get my creativity flowing,

is to go check out blogs, or Pinterest, but heck

I look at Pinterest for everything!!!

Who doesn't??

Anyways, here is my card:

clean and simple....

I really need to build up my stash of birthday

cards, so I may just concentrate on them for a while.

Supplies:

Stamps: Reverse Confetti - Lots to Say, the butterfly is from Unity - April 2011 kotm

Paper: PTI White

Ink: SU Summer Sun, SU Soft Sky, Versafine black
Misc: Stencil from Prima, Pretty Pink Posh sequins

Shopping Our Stash Challenge

Hi all!!

Another fun challenge over at

Shopping Our Stash

This week, it's all about the sentiments.  No other stamped

images, just a sentiment.  I decided to pull out one of my stencils

I've never used, and sponged on some Blue Bayou ink.

Can I say that I love how this card turned out?

I hope you do too!

Thank for stopping by today.

Recipe -

Stamps: Reverse Confetti Lots to Say

Paper: PTI White

Ink: SU Blue Bayou, Versafine black

Misc: Rhinestones from Pretty Pink Posh

EAD Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog!  

Today is going to be special!  There's a group of us that are EAD Designs fans so we decided to inspire each other to use our goodies!  For those of you that don't remember, EAD Designs created vinyl stickers and rub-ons.  Awesome products but the company closed up shop over a year ago.

What all of our projects will have in common is that we are all using EAD Goodies and our challenge is:

Kid-Friendly

All our cards from today's blog hop will be going to a special girl named Emma.  Please read about the card drive hosted by Kelly, who we're so excited is joining our hop today.  She chats about the card drive on this post:

Kelly's Blogpost about Emma

Here's the card I'll be sending to Emma-

I encourage everyone reading this to also send a card to Emma!

The address is -

Kelly Bertram

PO Box 58388

Cincinnati, OH 45248

There is a surprise blog candy!  The more you leave comments on the blogs that are participating, the more chances you have to win!

Want another chance for a prize?!  Make a kid friendly card for Emma!  We'd love for you to join in the card drive!  Make a card for Emma, send it to Kelly and link up over on Amy's blog!

Commenting/Card link up open until Monday, March 24th at 11:59 pm pacific

Winners posted on Amy's blog on Monday, March 31st.

Have fun hoppin'!

Amy  

Colleen

Julie Smith

Julie Tucker-Wolek

Katie Brooks

Kelly

Lauren Bergold  

Liz

Rose

Shannon

Stephanie 

Wendi 

What a wonderful way to brighten a little girls day!

I sure hope you'll join us in sending a card for Emma!

Happy Monday!

Card Concept Challenge

These weekends seem to go quicker and quicker,

don't they??  Even lost an hour of sleep this weekend

with daylight savings time!

I spent a lot of time this weekend working on some

ATC's that I needed to get done for an ATC

trade over at SCS.  They were so much fun!

I'll share a little peek at the bottom of this blog post,

let me know what ya think.

I found a little extra time to play along with the challenge over at

The Card Concept

I used a new set I recently got from Hero Arts called

Need Caffeine

I went with some SC veneer stars and some washi tape

at the bottom.

What a fun quick card!

Here is a little peek at my ATC's that I made

for the swap:

This was definitely a fun swap, but I don't know

that I'd sign up for 5 spots next time!  :)

Thanks for stopping by today.

Virginia's View Challenge Card

WARNING: MANY MANY SHEETS OF WATERCOLOR

PAPER WERE RUINED DURING THIS CARDMAKING PROCESS!

AS WELL AS A PERFECTLY GOOD MANICURE!

Ok, so I'm thinking outside my box and trying some new and different

things.  I saw a new challenge blog Virginia's View and wanted to play along

with the watercoloring challenge.

Here is the inspiration pic from the challenge blog -

Looked easy enough, all the cool girls are playing along,

yeh.....I GOT THIS!!!

pffffffffttttt..............

Little did I know, the mess that was about to transpire, right

here on my kitchen counter!!!

I used some of my SU reinkers to do this.  I cut my watercolor panel

and then got it fairly wet with a paint brush, and then dropped some of the reinkers

onto it.  From there, I can't really tell you what I did....it was a craft free-for-all!

There was also black ink involved, which now, also resides under all of

my fingernails and on the kitchen counter.

I embossed the sentiment from Reverse Confetti's Lots to Say and topped it

off with a few pearls.  Now I'm off to try to get this off of my fingernails and

get them repainted.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Reverse Confetti Challenge

OK, so as soon as I complain about not having any

mojo...it starts flowing!

Since I finally got some stamps from Reverse Confetti, 

I decided to play along with the color challenge over there!

Reverse Confetti

These are some of my favorite colors!!!

I used the stamp set Lots to Say and the tag dies.

Love love love how these stamps ink up!!!

Fabulous quality!

Thanks for swinging by the blog today.

Little Tangles Monochromatic

It's been a while since I was here!

Got a new (much better) job, and have been

exhausted when I get home at night.

It's cool to actually enjoy your boss and to have

a good time during the hours of 9am-5pm!

Who knew!!!???

I found some time/energy to create a little bit today,

and of course, my creativity was still unaccounted for!

I got my newest Unity Stamp of the Week and this was the best

I could do today!

Found a fun monochromatic challenge to play along with at

Little Tangles

Hopefully, my creativity will return to its regularly scheduled program....

VERY SOON!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Curtain Call Card

I decided to play along with the

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

Here is my take on this photo inspiration -

I bought one of the Tim Holtz Distress Stains to try, 

and well....I loved it!

I see more of those coming to live in my 

craft room very soon!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

EAD Designs Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog!  

Today is going to be special!  There's a group of us that are EAD Designs fans so we decided to inspire each other to use our goodies!  For those of you that don't remember, EAD Designs created vinyl stickers and rub-ons.  Awesome products but the company closed up shop over a year ago.

What all of our projects will have in common is that we are all using EAD Goodies and our challenge is:

Love & Valentine's

Here's how it inspired me:

I used some of my new washi tape, plus stamped a few splatters on the card.  The LOVE sticker is from EAD.  Sequins are from Neat and Tangled. 

There is a surprise blog candy!  The more you leave comments on the blogs that are participating, the more chances you have to win!

Commenting open until Saturday, February 8th at 11:59 pm pacific

winners posted on Amy's blog on Monday, February 10th

Have fun hoppin'!

Amy  

Colleen

Julie Smith- you are here

Julie Tucker-Wolek

June

Katie Brooks

Lauren Bergold  

Rose

Stephanie 

Wendi 

Have a great day!