In a fairy kind of mood…

If you haven’t checked out what WhoopsiDaisy Designs has to offer by way of digital stamps, well…what are you waiting for?! There are so many yummy digital sets that you’ll want them all!
I fell in absolute LOVE with this fairy from Sheet 60:

There are three more fairies in the set that are equally adorable and you can bet that I’ll be playing with those soon! Also, I made this card for the upcoming WhoopsiDaisy Designs challenge of using Blues and Greens. That challenge will open on August 1st so make sure to participate!


Challenges for this card:
Friday Sketchers – Sketch #112
Daring Cardmakers – Layer It Up
Stamp Something – Flowery
Creative Cottage – Challenge 19 (Touchy Feely)
Pile It On! – Challenge #29 (Stretch That Plastic)

Card Recipe

Digital Stamp: WhoopsiDaisy Designs Sheet 60

Ink: Tim Holtz Old Paper distress pad

Paper: Memory Box Spearmint, Stampin’ Up! (Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery)

Accessories: Zva Creative swirly pearls, Prima flowers, pink plastic craft buttons, pink rhinestones, Diamond Stickles, Karen Foster white Scrapper’s Floss, seafoam green organza ribbon, Fiskars Effervescence border punch, Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, 3M foam adhesive, Glue Dots Permanent Dot N Go

Springtime in the summertime

It’s been a strange summer here in Southern California.  We’ve gone through really warm days where you can fry an egg on the driveway to thunderstorms/lightening/rain all in the blink of an eye.  Yesterday was no different, but I enjoyed what God gave us…springtime weather!  The day made me want to make a spring card and McMahon Five Design’s Springtime Friends digital stamp was just the perfect image:

Be sure to swing by M5D to view the newest items and this month’s specials!

It was so nice to be able to give my air conditioning system a nice break (and our wallet, too!).  From what I hear, there will be another change in the weather this weekend with possible rain.  Like I said…strange SoCal summer.

Challenge for this card:

Paperworks Co. – Sunday Sketch #43

Digital Tuesday – Challenge #69 (Dazzle Me)

Daring Cardmakers – Layer It Up! (Teri’s Delicious Doodles)

Card Recipe

Digital Stamp: McMahon Five Designs Springtime Friends

Paper: Basic Grey Green At Heart, DCWV, Stampin’ Up! Certainly Celery

Accessories: Zva Creative pearls, Spellbinders Classic Circles Small, Petite Scalloped Circles Small), EK Success Diamond Lace border punch, Prima Flowers of the Month (October Cosmos), pink craft buttons, KaiserCraft white pearls, Diamond Stickles, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Glue Dots Pop-Ups

ODBD August Sneak Peek Time!!

We’re giving you all an ODBD Sneak Peek one day early!  Pretty cool, right?  In just eight short days you’ll have the opportunity to own the new sets, but here’s something to hold you over for just a little while longer.  I used two upcoming sets (there may be more, who knows!  Oooh, did I tease you?) for my sneaky peeky:

Scroll down to my Card Recipe table to find out the name of the ODBD stamp sets I used.  Make sure to visit the other DT blogs…you just may get a glimpse of what’s to come August 1!

Challenges for this card:

Card Patterns – Sketch 73

Stamp Something – Flowery Challenge

Basic Grey – Week 25 Stitching

Treehouse Thursday – Challenge #059 Watercoloring

Colour Q – Challenge #42 (Real Red, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, White)

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD Don’t Worry! and Happy Fall

Ink: Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Basic Grey Max & Whiskers, Stampin’ Up! (Close To Cocoa, Cream Caramel), Canson watercolor paper

Accessories: Zva Creative pearls, Spellbinders (Classic Square Small, Classic Square Large, Classic Scalloped Square Large), orange rhinestones, Cuttlebug Polka Dots embossing folder, Ranger Super Fine black detail embossing powder, watercolor markers, 3M foam adhesive

 

Loving the FTTC76 color inspiration!

I haven’t played along with the challenges over at Flourishes in a long while and so when I stopped by to find out what their current challenge was…well, I fell in love with the colors from the FTTC76!  The colors were so cooling and inviting and clean:

I buy the large Zva Creative pearly swirls (you know, the ones that are big enough for 12x12 scrapbook pages) and cut them up to fit my 6” square cards.  I get a lot more bang for my buck that way!  I just recently reorganized my designer papers, cardstocks and embellishments.  While doing that I discovered something…I am a HOARDER!  LOL!  Well, deep inside I always knew, but was in denial.  I had so much of everything and so I decided to start using a lot of my stash.  Please be patient with my creations when you start to see many flowers, pearls and buttons on my cards – I need to clear out my supply to make room for MORE!  Shhhh…don’t tell the hubby!

I hope you’ll stop by tomorrow for a little ODBD August Sneak Peek from me and my fellow Breadsticks!!

Happy Friday and thank you for stopping by!

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD The Living Bread

Ink: Versamark, Stampin’ Up! Always Artichoke

Paper: Basic Grey Origins, Fancy Pants, DCWV, Stampin’ Up! (Cameo Coral, Barely Banana), vellum

Accessories: Prima flowers, Zva Creative pearls, Basic Grey Opaline pearl, Ranger Super Fin detail embossing powder, Martha Stewart punches (Quilted Border, Quilted Corner), buttons, Karen Foster white Scrapper’s Floss, Glue Dots

Give us this Day…

New August ODBD sets will be coming your way soon which means SNEAK PEEKS are just around the corner! Make sure to visit some of the Bread Basket’s blogs to check out some teasers!

In the mean time, I got to play with my Our Daily Bread set and followed this week’s MOJO148:

(NOTE: This post was scheduled ahead of time with a photo of my card, but had to be replaced due to a future publication.)

I’ve been having fun lately playing with brownish/cocoa tones and I love how the Stampin’ Up! Sage Shadow color popped from it. I think it really draws the eyes to the center and to the wonderful Matthew 6:11 scripture.

I hope you’ll stop by this Saturday for my ODBD August Sneak Peek!

Card Recipe:

Stamp: ODBD Our Daily Bread

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Basic Grey Cappella pad, Stampin’ Up! Sage Shadow, Prism Tawny Dark

Accessories: Spellbinders (Classic Circles Small, Classic Circles Large, Petite Scalloped Circles Large), Cuttlebug embossing folders (Kassie’s Brocade, Swiss Dots), Fiskars Apron Lace border punch, Martha Stewart Royal Butterfly punch, Ranger Super Fine Black Detail embossing powder, white organza ribbon, Bow-Easy, Creative Memories 2-in-1 square punch, tawny rhinestones

Blossom Baby

When I saw a digital stamp called Blossom Baby from *Wink*Wink Ink I knew I wanted to play with it! I mean, flowers and babies are a perfect combination and if you’ve seen the photography of Anne Geddes she agrees, too.

I played along with the current *Wink*Wink Ink challenge of using Homemade Embellishments on a creation, based it on this week’s Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 78 and Allsorts Baby/Child Challenge 62 . I decided to make my own paper roses:

I love how the Blossom Baby image was colored and it lent itself very well to doing a simple paper tole technique. I created and printed out the Carl Sandburg quote using my Photoshop Elements program.

I’ve been a busy little bee and hope to start posting on a more consistent basis! What was keeping me busy? Well, here are a couple of little hints:

I’ll be sharing a project I had a blast creating soon (just waiting for creative clearance from the company) so I hope you stick around for that! I may have another little teaser photo to share a little later…hmmmm….

As always, THANK YOU all for your visits and sweet comments!!

Card Recipe

Digital Stamp: *Wink*Wink Ink Blossom Baby

Paper: Basic Grey Origins pad, Stampin’ Up! (Perfect Plum, Gable Green)

Accessories: Tim Holtz Alterations Tattered Florals die, Martha Stewart punches (Branch, Classic Butterfly), Cuttlebug embossing folders (Swiss Dots, Seeing Spots), Zva Creative pearls, lavender organza ribbon, Glue Dots (Mini, Craft), 3M foam adhesive, Bow-Easy

Flower Soft your cottage home!

It’s been a long while since I’ve reached for my Flower Soft and the cottage from Our Daily Bread designs’ Bless This Home set practically screamed at me to use some and so I listened!

A few sprinkles of Flower Soft here and there and I got a nicely accented card using the ICSketches #75 layout:

Oh, Flower Soft…forgive me for neglecting you because you added so much to the cottage scene!  Am I being overly dramatic?  Perhaps, but hey!  That stuff added much goodness to my country cottage!  Now I’m thinking I need a few more jars..who’s with me?  LOL!  Off to do some shopping at the ODBD store!

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD Bless This Home

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Memory Box (Frond and Spearmint), Stampin’ Up! Bordering Blue, Canson watercolor paper

Accessories: Flower Soft Sweet Pea, Ranger Super Fine Black Detail embossing powder, Fiskars Scalloped Daisy border punch, Making Memories mini buttons, Karen Foster Design white Scrapper’s Floss, Stampin’ Up Crystal Effects,  watercolor markers and pencils

Super cute digital stamps over at *Wink*Wink Ink!

I rarely get a chance to check out what’s new out there in regards to stamps (both rubber and digital) and it’s always a treat when someone points me in the right direction!  Rachael from *Wink*Wink Ink (in charge of DT and Publicity) recently contacted me if I’d be interested in creating a card using digital images created by Melanie Montes de Oca (she’s the artist and owner) and after seeing what they had to offer I said YES!

Here’s my card using the Catnap digital stamp set and this week’s MOJO147 sketch:

You read that right…I said digital stamp SET!  Many of the *Wink*Wink Ink digitals have BOTH uncolored and colored versions of the images!  I LOVE that because it saves so much time not having to color and let me tell ya, they are colored wonderfully!  I used the colored version of the Catnap set so you can see why I was excited to work with it!

There are fun challenges to participate in and you can find the *Wink *Wink Ink group at the Crafters Digital Art Center.  If you join CDAC group right now there is a special coupon code for 25% off waiting over there as a "Thank You" for checking out the new group.  But hurry!  The coupon expires on July 15! 

Other challenges for this card:

The Crazy Challenge – It’s hip to be square!

Paper Playtime – Bubbles (any way you interpret it)

Speedy the Cat’s Friends – Challenge #11 (punches)

Just For Fun Friday – Color Challenge #19

Sew Many Challenges - #19 Anything Goes

Pile It On! – #27 Holiday Colors (used Thanksgiving/Fall colors)

Little Red Wagon - #36 Nestabilities

Card Recipe

Digital: *Wink*Wink Ink Catnap

Ink: Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress pad

Paper: Basic Grey Max & Whiskers pad, Stampin’ Up! (Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa)

Accessories: Spellbinders (Classic Circles Small, Petite Scalloped Circles Small), Basic Grey (Opalines, Max &Whiskers button), Karen Foster brown Scrapper’s Floss, Fiskars square Whale punch

Paper Works Co. sketch and ODBD

Happy Sunday everyone! We are recovering from a little party we threw for our sons’ 9th and 11th birthdays yesterday. When we throw a birthday party it’s always for the both of them since they’re birthdays are only 2 weeks apart. I posted some yummy goodness at the bottom of my post.

For my card today, I was invited by Peggy of Paper Works Co. to be a guest designer for their sketch this week which was “Round, Round, Round” and here’s what I came up with using the new Bless This Home set from ODBD:

Do you like my medallion? Would you believe me if I told you they were made of tags? Here’s a great way to make a medallion using a tag from the Spellbinders Fancy Tags set:

Depending how intricate you’d like your medallion to look, cut as many or as little as you’d like. I used 6 for my card:

This is what 4 tags put together would look like:

To figure out how to evenly space them out is to just tinker with them and the best way to achieve that is to use Removable Glue Dots:

I was contacted by Glue Dots to make a particular project for them so I’ll be working on that for the next few weeks…please stay tuned!

I hope you play along with this week’s Paper Works Co. sketch!

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD Bless This Home

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Basic Grey Cappella pad, Stampin’ Up! Basic Brown

Accessories: Spellbinders (Fancy Tags, Classic Circles Small), Bow-Easy, Martha Stewart Deco Shells corner and border punches, diamond rhinestones, Removable Glue Dots

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One of my sons wanted a Lakers cake and the other wanted a Sonic Unleashed cake so I decided to make each their own red velvet cupcakes. I was my first time using a piping bag and as you can tell, I need more practice. Oh darn! I’m just going to have to make MORE cupcakes!

Oh, and remember my McMahon Five Designs strawberries card? It made me want to make these for the party as well:

There’s something about Dahlia…

As in the beautiful Dahlia fold, but with a little twist! I started off wanting to create a card with a Dahlia fold flower with a scripture center. When I realized that my Dahlia flower was too small for the scripture I had to rethink the idea. I also didn’t want to toss the 8 folded circle aside as it took me a while just to do them! I started tinkering with the Dahlia pieces and came up with this card using The Living Bread set from ODBD:

I discovered you can make beautiful corners! Just start off by punching 8 circles from two-sided designer paper and follow the Dahlia fold instructions found HERE then…

I used a Mini Glue Dot in step 2 to keep the two pieces in place. I then added buttons to the centers of the “Dahlia corners” to keep the folds flat and I loved how it turned out!

I’ll have another mini tutorial this week using a Spellbinder Fancy Tag so stay tuned!

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD The Living Bread

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Stampin’ Up! Ruby Red

Paper: Stampin’ Up (Basic Brown, designer paper), Core’dinations Scarlet cardstock

Accessories: Cuttlebug Brocade Window, Bow-Easy, brown buttons, Zva Creative Pearls, round and teardrop rhinestones, white organza ribbon, Mini Glue Dots

Fresh strawberries!!

Just about a mile from where we live there is a little stand on a corner that has the freshest and yummiest strawberries I’ve ever had!  The best part is that they are organic, sweet and keeps in the refrigerator for a week.  I plan on buying a case for my sons’ birthday party this weekend to make fruit kabobs…I’ll post a picture next week!

In the meantime, here’s a card using the yummy Strawberries digital stamp from McMahon Five Designs:

I just used my trusty Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirit (aka Gamsol) to color in the image.  I had a scrap piece of brown cardstock that I had punched 3 scalloped circles from and just threaded ribbon through.

I’ve got quite a few things to do before my sons’ birthday party so I will be a busy bee!  Oh, and don’t forget about the M5D Mystery Designer contest…you still have plenty of time!  Read all the details just below this post.  As always, thank you so much for stopping by and leaving such sweet comments!!  They are truly appreciated!

Card Recipe

Digital: McMahon Five Designs Strawberries

Paper: Basic Grey Green at Heart pad, Stampin Up! cardstock (Real Red, Basic Brown, YoYo Yellow)

Accessories:  Zva Creative Circles and Lines white pearls, Spellbinders (Large Octagons, Large Scallop Octagons, Classic Circles Small), Bow-Easy, Prismacolor pencils, yellow organza ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folders (Polka Dots, Swiss Dots)

Find our Mystery Designer!

We have exciting news to share!

We have added another Design Team member! She is getting new pictures taken of herself the middle of the month and wanted to wait to be 'seen' until then. So we put our thinking caps on how to announce her without a photo! This is what we came up with!

Find our Mystery Designer

for a chance to WIN

1 of 5 Prize Packages!



We've recruited some

Mystery Solving Friends

Full of Helpful Hints!

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Shaggy says....

Her name is

Christine!

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Velma says....

She posted this card using 'The Ball'
on Paper Craft Planet

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Fred says....

She posted this card using our new
The Lord Is My Shepherd Digital Stamp
on SNR

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Daphne says....

She had a heart transplant almost 3 years ago!!!!!!!

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Scooby Doo says....

Let's find out about her and see if she likes Scooby Snacks!

I live in Boise, Idaho, with my doggie, Chloe, and my cat, Tuxie. I love all types of crafting but now my favorite is papercrafting. My style is quite eclectic from romantic, shabby chic to cute and simple.

I started making cards while I was away from home Christmas 2007 and wanted to do something special for my friends and family. I made a few cards here and there until I started blogging and saw all the beautiful inspiration in blogland and the rest his history. I now love playing with my paper and am completely hooked.

I love butterflies, lavender (actually, herbs in general), cupcakes, hearts, chocolate, and my garden (not necessarily in that order; it depends on the day), oh, and how could I forget, cookies.

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Official Rules

1. Once you FIND cards from our Mystery Designer (her blog or public card forums), send an email to sue @ mcmahonfivedesign.com (remove spaces) with a LINK to where you found her
2. Also in your email, list your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices of Prize Packages (I will do my best, but no guarantees!)
3. You have until July 15th, 2010 11:59pm EST to submit your entry.
4. We will draw 5 enteries out of the hat and announce the winners in the July 21st Newsletter!
5. Winners have to contact us at sue @ mcmahonfivedesign.com (remove spaces) to claim your prize!

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Prize Packages

D'Amour Allure Stamps Pkg#1


This prize was generously donated by
Jeni at D'Amour Allure Stamps!
You can visit her website HERE
and her blog HERE!
Thank you so much, Jeni!

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KaiserCraft Flower Pkg #2


200 flowers total - 50 pieces each color!

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Zva Creative Pearls Pkg #3


3 pkgs beautiful self adhesive pearl designs

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Real Wood Paper Pkg #4


8 species of Real Wood Paper
each is 6" x 6"

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Digital Stamp Pkg #5

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We hope you have fun finding our Mystery Designer!

It’s July BLOG HOP TIME with ODBD and an announcement!

Hello everyone! Welcome to our July Release Blog Hop! We have been having fun playing with the 4 brand new sets from Our Daily Bread designs and I know you will, too!

This is a big holiday weekend with 4th of July festivities and I know many are busy with company and family events, so we're going to keep the hop real simple! There are no secret words to collect, no email to send to in... just a fun blog hop!

Here is what you have to do to be eligible to win one of the prizes:

• Hop to each blog, leave a comment on each one.

• Return here to this post and leave a comment here telling us that you completed the hop and left everyone comments.

• If for any reason you cannot leave a comment, please give us the name(s) of the designers you were unable to leave comments for... and you'll still be qualified for the drawing.

Here's the fun part! There are THREE prizes of WINNER'S CHOICE ONE FREE SET, but they are hidden on three different designer's blogs! You won't know who has the prizes!

The Blog Hop will run from 8am Eastern on Thursday, July1 through 8pm Eastern Friday July 2. At that time the three designers with the prizes will randomly select their winner from their commenters. They will check this post to be sure the person they draw has left their comment here, stating that they have completed the hop.... and then they will give Grace (our DT Coordinator) the name and the winners will be announced on Sat. the 3rd on the ODBD Blog!

If you came here from Debi’s Blog then you’ve come to the right place, but if you’ve stumbled across my blog by chance then please start at the ODBD blog. For my card I used the beautifully designed Our Daily Bread set:

Thank you so much for hopping over! You’re next stop is at Connie’s blog. If any links are broken kindly return to the ODBD blog where the entire list will be listed in order and they can always go on to the next person and check back later for the missing one.

Challenge for this card:

Paper Works Co. – PWCO Sunday Sketch #39

Card Recipe

Stamp: ODBD Our Daily Bread

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Basic Grey Origins pad, Stampin’ Up! cardstocks (Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa), Canson watercolor paper

Accessories: Martha Stewart punches (Layered Arches border, Layered Arches Corner), Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large, Basic Grey Wine/Champagne Opaline pearls, Stampin’ Up! Linen Thread, Ranger Black Detail embossing powder, watercolor markers, Glue Dots (Mini, Pop-Up)

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I have some fun news to share! Linnie of WhoopsiDaisy Designs contacted me and ask if I’d like to be a guest designer for her for the next 6 months and I happily accepted! She has super adorable digital stamps so make sure to take a gander and grab some up. They are sold in “sheets” so it’s a great deal!

There’s a monthly challenge that goes on over at the WhoopsiDaisy Challenge Blog and this month you are challenged to use HOT, VIBRANT COLORS…perfect for the summer weather!

For my first card I used Sheet 53 which is already colored, but for this challenge I wanted to use hot pinks and neon green so I edited the colors in Photoshop:

We hope you’ll join in on the fun…you just may win a sheet of digis!