More than coffee!

So I wanted to play long in my own challenge on SCS...LSC184 Orange Roasters, but I also wanted to play in the MFGD10 challenge...sassy cards...so here is my card! A coffee card with a sassy sentiment!
For this card I used pumpkin pie...one of my fav things...the paper and the real thing! YUMMM. I also used Pink pirouette and chocolate chip...I stated by stamping the flannel palid backgroun on the chocolate chip cardstock with chocolate chip ink. I then created my cby colding in at a diagonal a piece of pink pirouette cardstock and clipping the top straight accross.

I next took a piece of kraft paper and stamped the coffee beand on it and then ran it through my ever so neglected paper crimper. Once I finished attaching that I needed a top to my to go cup...I just free hand cut that out of close to cocoa cardstock and sponged it with chocolate chip craft ink and used an old SU! retired alpha stamp set for the *caution hot coffee* then it all came togeher pretty easy, mounted the finished cup on sponged pumpkin pie, cut and sponged the *steam* and stamped and cut the heart.

The sentiment was computer generated and it reads *I love you more that coffee, what more do you want?*

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great day...hopefully it's not raining where you are!

Happy Stmpin'

Gift Set

This little gift set was made for two challenges on Splitocoaststampers...the first was issued on Thursday and it was to use wire on/in your project and the other challenge was thr MFT monthly Guest designer challenge...and this Month's MFT challenge was to use black on our projects...easy enough right? I realy enjoyed making this set...so what's new right? I seem to enjoy making everything...good thing too otherwise why would I be doing this? Anywho Here are some pics of my set.

The first picture shows the whole set...it includes

-the box( that used the wire and satisfied my challenge for Thursday)

-a card

-a magnet

-a note pad

-a beaded pen.

This card was actually a brease to assemble, really just a 2x4.25 piece of designer paper, a couple of strips on black and a strip of blue that was scalloped nd hole punches...add some ribbon a shrink plastic charm and the sentiment and you're ready to go!

This is the box. I created it using a sheet of 6x12 chipboardish material...the hard board that comes with the SU! designer series paper (order a pack and youc an make 2 boxes like these...LOL) I used my trustu scor-pal and created this AWESOME little box and then covered it with DS paper...it's from American Craft and it's called Seuss. I made the handle using my wire, I think this is the 18 gauge but I'm not possitve. I just wrapped it around an SU! marker and called it a day!

I used my crop-a-dial to make all thw wholes and used some Shrink Plastic to make the charm/tag on the bag and card.

One of my favorite things to make are these cool beaded pens, they are so fun, fast and easy and I just love how they look...spendy! And you can coordinate them to just about any card set...perfect gifts!

Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think of this little set, if you have any questions please feel free to ask!

Happy Stampin'

A family Affair

So today is the last day to enter your projects into the My Favorite Things guest designer contest and we made it a family affair! For the contest we had to create a project, card etc. with animals being the theme, I unfortunately didn't have any MFT animals, but had a bunch of other animals...so my though was hey why not make an arc...Noahs Arc!

I was had finished cutting out my arc and then scored it with my FAV new toy the Scor-Pal (let me tell you it made making wood slats soooo much easier than ever imaginable!) anyways I stamped my animals on water color paper and my DS and DD said hey we wanna color! So I went ahead and stamped some images for them and some for DH too! It was soo much fun for all of us to sit and color together! DD2 missed out on the even because she was napping...although she's not one yet and probably would of just chew on the paper, markers or more than likely BOTH! Hahaha

So onto my card! I started with a whole piece of shimmery white cardstock and scored it in hald at 5.5 inches. After scoring and folding I used the scor-pal again to make my "wood" lines scoring fisrt length wise and then flipping it to get the smalled slat look. I then traced my pattern (drew is on a piece of scrap paper to see if I liked it first) onto the cardstock and cut it out. Once it was cut I used a sponge wedge and just rubbed from sidet o side to get a more "grainy look" and sponged the edges as well...thats pretty much it for the arc.

I stamped all the animals on water color paper and colored and cut them out...MAN did that take forever! Really all day...although I would cut out an animal then play with the kids...come back later and do it all again! Once all the animals were cut out I just adhered them in and trimmed them up as needed.

There is a window in the boat...I decided at the last second to add more wood because the window leads to the inside and now I can't make up my mind wether I like it or not! Anywho, I think I got all the info down...I did use the jumbo eyelets to make them look like the port holes on a ship...

I wanted to show you a view from a different angle so you can see the wood...what do you think? Isn't it neat! Thanks sooo much for stoping by!

Happy Stampin'

MFT Guest desinger contest once again!

Geez I feel like I just had this post title! I can NOT believe it's already been a month and here we are again...pretty soon it will be 2009!!!

I really enjoyed making todays MFT guest designer card today (but infact I love any card making!) We had to use a background stamp and use it for something other than a background! So I stamped my SU! Folral background stamp twice on 2 sheets of shimmery 3x4 pieces of white cardstock and then cute them, one legth wise and the other width wise. Then I wove them together and sponged the edges.

I matted the woven piece onto pink passion card stock and then again onto chocolate chip cardstock. I also used my distressing tool to distress the later of pink passion cardstock at the bottom and then layered it under chocolate chip...leaving a little bit of the white at the bottom ( I just love how that looks!)

Once I was done with the card and main panel it was onto embelish. I started by adding the 2 pieces of ribbon and then stamped the floral BG image onto the button with stazon timber brown ink and added a rhinestone (thanks Diane) to the center of the button to cover the holes. Lastly, for the sentiment I punched out the pink passion key tag in pink passion and then the large circle in chocolate chip and I used my markers to omit the scallop on the punch and used only the candles and happy birthday...adding glitter and sponging finished it off!

Supplies:

Stamps: Floral BG stamp, so many scallops

ink: pink passion, chocolate chip, Stazon timber brown

paper: shimmery white, pink passion, chocolate chip

Accessories: punches, ribbon, sponge, dimentionals, primas, rhinestones, buttons, distressing tool

Thanks for stopping by! Best of luck to all who made a creation for the My Favorite Guest Contest!

Happy Stampin'

Guest Designer contest

For My Favorite Things stamp company is today...until 10pm! So the challenge is to create a monochromatic card or object! I created a card...for now! I might make another project after the kids go to bed tonight...we'll see!

I used the stamp set doodle this and I really like how it turned out! It was a whole lot of work, but definately worth it! I wonder who the lucky recipient will be? To make this card I stamped the main image flowers onto water color paper with the stazon black ink pad, I then used my pretty in pink marker and "loaded" it up with purely pomegranate ink and colored in all 4 flowers. Next I cut them all out andinked them once again with versamark ink this time. Then coated them with clear embossing powder and heat set...boy did those colors POP!!! Once I had all the flowers assembled like I wanted them I used my piercing tool from the crafters tool kit and made a whole to be able to apply my build-a-brad. I stamped the swirl, used my 1/2 inch circle punch and got that cute little thing, inked it and placed it in the center and added the clear bauble.

Then I layers my card up! I used my Crop-a-dial to emboss the pretty in pink paper and sponged the edges, added ribbon and called it a day! What do you think?

Here is a close up of the card so you can see all the dimention, I know this card wont go in the mail...or maybe I'll just have to suck it up and pay the extra postage!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stampin'

Silvia

MFT Guest desinger contest once again!

So I gave it another go at the MFT Guest designer contest, I love my creations, but I think this one belongs to Laura over at Wish you were here. She weaved her own basket out of cardstock for peets sake!!! How can a girl compete with that??? I guess I should of slaked off more at school and taken under water basket weaving!

Anywho, I will definately be trying again next month!!! Here are the cute little containers I made!

It's made with the Cerise paper...my FAV (too bad it's no longer available!!!) and I used some light weight coasters to make the box itself...I cut them down to 3x4 and covered them with the paper. I then used my Cuttlebug and my new Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities to created the window. To add the acetate, I just sandwiched it between the coaster and the black cardstock on the inside...too easy!

So because I was feeling lazy, I used a hot glue gun and adhered it all together...this is acutally a 3x3 square box...just 4 inches tall.

For the Lid, I used some more coasters and cut it to 3 1/8 square and used the leftovers from the sides doe the hand down part... I covered the top of the box with the designer paper as well and added a sentiment and some embelishments. painted the sides with red craft paint and added the scallops (cut off the largest rectangle Nestabilities) added a ribbon, some more scallopsa shrinky heart (from the always set) a sentiment and called it a day!

Isn't the sentiment cute? In the box there are a bunch of life Savers and one Worthers... I was hoping to put more in there, but that was all I had...anywho I think it's cute and will make a great little something for someone...even if I do change the sentiment!

And for my next entry... I used...gasp...some...coasters! LOL So I use these a lot, but hey I have a lot, so why not right?

I really like how this tirned out too! I love these bright colors...they just look sooooo springy...which I wish it was, even though the temps are spring like, there are no leave, no chirping crickets, no spring smells. (ooppss I'v gone off on a tangent again!)

Again I cut down the coasters, this is 4x4x2

The sentiment is actually a rub on that I have had for quite some time and I have no clue where I got it...Traget I think a while back. And I also happened upon this super cute ket chain thing and I thought it would look cute on here... added some eyelets, ribbon, and adhesive just to be on the safe side and called it a day for the boxes! And then I cut all the papers for the chocolate nuggets (1 1/8 x3 inches) and stamped a little flower in the center of each (same flower that's on the box) once that was done, I stamped the flower again on the cello bag, tissue paper and tag. Put the chocolate in the bag and pretty ribbons and you have got yourself a pretty little gifty gift!

I hope you get a chance to stamp today...so much fun and sooo good to you too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin,

Silvia

My Favorite Things Guest Desinger...

No I'm not the guest desiner...but I did submit 2 cards to try to be next month! Wish me luck! The challenge was to make a NON square or rectangle project...I think I achieved that ;0) I SUPER like this moon card...that was my fisrt submission. I like it because it is very unusual and I love the concept.

I drew the moon myself and the star too (I just recieved word that my start punch from SU! has shipped, but it wasn't here yet so I improvised!) for the star I cut it out in night of navy, covered the whole thing in versa mark and then Iridescent ice embossing powder and heat embossed it... I love the shimmery sparkle and am so glad you can see it in the picture! For the moon I wanted it to have teature and dimention and not be totally flat so I pulled put one of my fav. bachground stamps (houndstooth) and stamped it on the So Saffron card Stock woth So Saffron ink. I then pierced the moon all the way around and did the faux Stitching with Night of Navy marker. And last but not least, I sponged all the way around the moon with night of navy ink. For the bear, I stamped him on water color paper with black stazon ink and used an aqua painter and reinker to color him in...shadding him on one side to reflect the light of the moon! Cut him appart somewhat and added the sentiment.. This card is a little bigger than an average card, but I have biiger envelopes!

Supplies:
Stamps:Bundle of Joy, Holidays and wishes
Ink:night of navy, so saffron, versamark
Paper:night of navy, so saffron, water color paper
Accessories: Blue Taffeta ribbon, markers, 1/8 inch hole punch, heat gun, embossing powder


Fot my second entry I wanted to tr something a little more femanine. I think this did the trick! I am loving doing one layer cards and this one totally fits the bill! I started off with a piece of shimmery white cardstock and folded it in half length wise and the free handed a cake design... I knew I wanted to make a wedding cake because I had watched Ace of Cakes last night and the gal did a gorgeous wedding cake with green flowers that I thought was stunning! Anywho, I then sponged the edges and masked and sponged at each layer to make it look more dimentional. After the sponging I added the pretty pretty image found in the new stamp ste by SU! a beautiful thing. Then I added the flowers (colored the centers using the same sponge for the edges of the card) and the half pearls to make it a little more elegant and placed the sentiment under the flower...this card opens on the side of the sentiment and is about 6''ish tall. Ohh yeah, I almost forgot (don't know how since my thumb is still throbbing!) I added the little icing effect using liquid applique and then heat setting it! I hope they like it!

Supplies:
Stamps: a beautiful thing, holidays and wishes
Ink:rose red
Paper:shimmery white, rose red
Accessories:sponge, pretties kit, liquid applique, heat gun, sponge

So how do you participate in the Guest designer search? Every month MFT has a release party on SCS and they issue some guidelines to follow for your creations, you usually have about 24 hours to make a sample and upload it and then they choose one person to be the guest designer for the following month! Join them next month...sooo much fun!

Happy Stampin'
Silvia