Double Time Challenge Fun

Hello peeps,

I have finally gotten a sec to make a card...these past few days have been crazy with the hubby at work...day 3 and counting in a row, oh the joys of being a firemans wife! Anywho, I digress! I was able to play along in some challenges over at SCS. I did todays Featured Stamper Challenge and yesterdays Free for All challenge.

Today's Featured stamper is Stampgroove Check out her gallery here!

And this is my card! I love this tiger! He is too stinkin cute!

I was inspired by Stampgrooves card seen here. I love the bright fun colors and the simplicity. I think the tiger looks well with these bold bright colors, on the inside the sentiment readds "Wild Thing"

Supplies:

Stamps: Big Cats By Marks Finest Papers

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: white CS, only orange, tempting turquoise and Basic Grey DP

Accessories: watercolor pencils and blender pens

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Pretty earrings for Julia

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Hello there,

A friend of mine just had a birthday, so I thought I would make her a pair of pretty earrings, I needed a simple pretty way to package them, so there it is! I hope you like it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Big Cats by Marks Finest Papers for the sentiment

Ink: Certainly celery

Paper: certainly cerlery, lovely lilac, white from MFP

Accessories: sticky half back pearls

This little project is for the sketch challenge on SCS this week, as well as the ways to use it and the fFriday Free for all...yay for challenges!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Yellow and Blue, Chocolate too!

This weeks challenge over at the Little Paper Shop Blog is a color challenge...and yup you guessed it...Yellow, Chocolate and blue...any shade you like!

And, if playing wasn't fun enough!!! We have added a wonderful prize {Sammy Seal} Digi image
So come on! Play along with us! You have until Sunday night at 9pm to play along and get your cards added Here. Don't forget to add LPSC89 as your keyword when uploading to other popular sites!

Now for my card! This is a bit of an odd size card...it actually measures 4.25 x 3 7/8th. I know, I know, but I like it! Small, but not too small to fit in a regualr sized envelope and not looking whimpy!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Baking Lucy}

Ink: Stazon Brown

Paper: bashful blue, prism white, chocolate chip, 3bugs in arug Sweet treat DP

Acecssories: yellow felt ribbon, basic Grey button, linnen thread, water color pencils, blender pens, 2-way glue pen, glitter

Thanks sooo much for stopping by! I do hope you'll play along with us!

Happy Stampin'

XOXOXO

Silvia

PWCO SKETCH Challenge

Hey there...it's me...Silvia...and I'm back to Sunday Sketches over at PWCO! Aren't you so excited!!! I know I am! Here is my card for this weeks sketch! I think it's super cute and will work for any occasion! I needed a birthday card and I just love this new image from the Fall RAM collection that I had to make a card using one of them...plus the sentiment really went well with a birthday card!

What do you think? I love the colors!!! I love watercoloring...the more I practice the better I feel about how I do...does that make sence? Was that even English? Anywho I ramble! Noa as for out of the box? Well I used the out of the box technique...with the squirels head and bushy tail! I love this technique! It looks pretty awesome and it's super simple fo do!

Supplies:

Stamp: Sugar and Spice fromt he RAM Fall Collection

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: Prism White, Blueberry Core'dinations, Kraft

Accessories: white satin ribbon, croched flower from Creations by AR, flower border punch my MS, watercolor pencils and blender pens

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you play along with us and our fun challenge!

XOXOXOXO

Sneaky Tyson!

So today is preview day one for Little Paper Shop (come back tomorrow for a blog hop and some FUN prizes!) and we are previewing the super cute, super adorable Tyson Present...wait till you see this little guy! he is perfect for birthdays, holidays and just when you wanna give someone a little something!

See, What did I tell you! He's cute huh? I for one am in love with him and he can be yours too if you can just wait a hot minute until Tuesday! Then he's all yours! For a nominal fee of course!

Please check out what the rest of the Little Paper Shop DT cane uo with....some pretty cute stuff if I do say so myself!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tyson Present (avail. 9/14)

Ink: stazon black

Paper: Kraft, white, chocolate chip, unknown DP

Accessories: fine point pen, ruler, blender pens, watercolor pencils, word window punch, 1/16th circle punch, linnen thread

This card is also for Taylored Expressions sketch challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember, blog hop topmorrow!

xoxo

Silvia

A little Birdie...

Hello hello! By now you have probably seen the amazing sketch for this week...if not please scroll down :)

I love this sketch, I like the two pieces going perpendicular to the main image panel! For my two pieces I have used the faux suade technique (when you rub a bone folder along one side of a piece of paper and the fibers start to separate, when you peel the two layers apart it looks like suade!) on the two blue strips...they look really cool in real life!

So I am seriously in LOVE with this image, it's a RAM image and it's called Birthday Parade The little owls are too stinkin cute I tell ya! I love them!

I colored my image with watercolor pencils and I think my coloring is getting better! ;) At least that's what I like to tell myself (still dreaming of copics...someday!) and cut it out using the nestabilities label 9 set...love this set of dies! To complete the card I thought some blong was in order...yes this was a boy card...and yes I did infact give it to a little boy last night for his 6th birthday...but a little bling never hurt anyone!

Supplies:
Stamps: Birthday Parade from the RAM collection for PWCO.

Ink: Stazon black
Paper: So saffron, vanilla, Prism blue and green. DP is jillibean soup, cream of mushroom

Accessories: watercolor pencils, blender pens, rhinestones, bigshot, nesties labels 9,

dimentionals, bone folder (for faux suade technique)

Thank you sooo much for stopping by!

Hugs and happy Stampin'

Silvia

Seeing a spot...Spotlight

I'm hosting the Free 4 All Challenge on SCS today and since I haven't done spotlighting in a while I though that would be something fun for us to do!

I love the spotlighting technique because when you have a large image that needs to be colored it can seem a little overwhelming, but if you choose a little section to color then it's not as daunting!

I love how this card turned out...all the white space looks cool and I think the little colored circle looks pretty awesme too! I got the cool trim downtown at a trim shop (because everything is separated here...there is no one store for all your sewing needs, you have to go to 5 different ones to get everything :) The little jewels I got at on impulse when I bought something else and they were super cheap...so I added it to the cart about a year ago and haven't done anything with them until now! LOL I'm such a hoarder!

Here is a closer view, it doesn't look lined up from this angel but it really is! LOL Ohhh I was pretty excited, I colored the cupcake with my very own Copic markers...I only have 8 but it's a start! LOL

The inside reads "Fun, happy Birthday"

This card is also for a couple of challenges.

First the challenge over at Your Next Stamp Blog to Cut it out and pop it up

and next the sketch challenge over at 2sketches4you Sketch #52 by Kazan

Supplies:

Stamps: Cupcake Cutie by Your Next Stamp, sentiment from the beach Jenna Set By Little Paper Shop

Ink: Stazon black

Paper: tangerine tango, yo yo yellow, PTI white, Lime Rickey DP by Basic Grey

Accessories: trim, flat colored shells, gold thread, glitter, circle punches, copic markers, glitter, scalloped punch, watercolor pencils, blender pens

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin and I hope you play along with us!

Silvia

Birthday beading...

I LOVED today's sketch challenge so much that I just had to make a card!

I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I will come back tomorrow and add more pics and give more details...but it's nighty night time for me!

Supplies:

Stamps: Birthday Princess by Your Next Stamp

Ink: Stazon black

Paper: kiwi kiss, vanilla by PTI, wonston DP

Accessories: thread, seed beads, organdy ribbon, embossing folder (Hard to see, but it's there), fancy scallop border punch, scallop border punch, dimentionals

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Colors to Spring over...LPSC58

Today's color challenge over at The Little Paper Shop Blog is to use some very bright, very springy colors...but I know you'll be up for the challenge!

Bright huh! I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with...so don't forget to go on over to the Little Paper Shop Blog and enter for your chance to win {Katie Carousel} stamp set just for playing along with us!

For my card I used {Garden Gate} and I think it turned out super cute! The card base is made from a watercoloring paper from Marks Finest Papers as well as the ribbon...love it! This card is super simple, but I love love love how it turned out...the colors aren't even so scary anymore! LOL Aside from the cardstock and ribbon all I really used was some pretty Martha stewart punches and copic markers...love those things! Someday I will get some of my very own!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy stampin and I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Hugs to you all!

Silvia

LPSC57...a sketch challenge!

Hello my friends! Today is MOnday...work, school, business of the week starts today...but also some fun with a chance to win FREE stamps starts every Monday too...so head on over to the Little Paper Shop Blog to enter!

Here is the sketch for you.

It's actually a very fun and super easy sketch...I made my card in a matter of minutes, love how it turned out too!

And my card.

I used the stamp set {ROCK STAR} by Little Paper Shop such a cute set and at 8bucks you really can't go wrong! I actually made this at my friend Nikki's house, I'm in the states visiting and had sooo much fun with her! So I was able to play with her Copics and some of her fun papers and ribbon. Alas, I can't tell you much about this card except that I love it and I used some SU colors like old olive and always artichoke and I am pretty sure the light green is from Marks Finest Papers. Ohh and I also used Black Pallete Noir ink to stamp the image and sentiment.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you go on over to the Little paper Shop Blog and play along...this weeks FREE SET is called {Floral Wishes} and one lucky participant will be randomly selected to win!

Have a great day my friends and Happy Stampin!

Silvia

LPSC56 Chocolate Dipped Kiwi

Hey hey my friends! It's that time fo the week again! Time for a Little Paper Shop Challenge...this week we are having a color challenge...a yummy color challenge!

I love love love these colors together! So many different ways to arrange them too! I know you want to play along...join us at the Little Paper Shop Blog for your chance to win {Floral Frenzy} stamp set...just for playing along!

Here is my card...I like birthdays and these colors spoke birthday to me...plus I had someone ask me to make a birthday card for his 4yo nephew!

And this is the inside...isn't the sentiment just perfection? I love it!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Sugar} and {For You} By Little Paper Shop

Paper:kiwi kiss, kraft, chocolate chip, whisper white, certainly celery designer paper

Ink:stazon brown

Accessories:Sta punch, curcle punch, glitter, twill ribbon, liquid applique

Birthday Princess...

Barber style! Today on SCS is Featured Stamper155 challenge, and today's featured stamper is Karen B Barber. Check out her awesome gallery here! I loved it sooo and since I have to go to a birthday party in about an hour, I thought to myself...self, you really should have a birthday card to go with the present! So I checked out SCS and got inspiration from Karen's card here!

Isn't this a cute layout? I changed the whole theme of the card...Karen's was elegant and sophisticated while mine is...well cute and childish...perfect for a 5 year olds birthday! The stamp set is a retired set from My Favorite Things called Princess Birthday and I do love the set! Has a great sentiment too for the inside that I used a portion of! My card measures 5.5 inches wide and 2.75 inches wide...I love long cards!

Supplies:

Stamps: Princess birthday by MFT

Ink: Stazon black

Paper: Kraft, PTI white, pixie pink, DCWV designer paper

Accessories: Watercolor pencils, aqua painter (cuz I can't find my blender pens!), sheer ribbon, rhinestones, word window punch, curly label punch, dimentionals, designer scallop punch

Thank you sooo much for stopping by! We are off to the party!

Hugs and happy Stampin'

May you be blessed and a blessing!

Silvia

Hard as bricks!

So todays card is to fit many challenges! First is the Saturday Spotlight challenge to make a card with a snowflake...love this challenge as it's freezing right now (Okay so maybe it's 53 degrees, but thats freezing to me!!!) I used some snowflake flurries from SU! that I had...I love these things but I need to not hoard them!

The next challenge is the Little Paper Shop Button challenge hosted by little ol me! I used a button brad...thanks for the reminder Cindy!

The next challenges both come from SCS. The first is the TLC 256 challenge to create a brick wall and the next is from the CAS 50 challenge to use the color teal on your card.

I used the new Little Paper shop set called {Lily and Lucy messages} that will be available tomorrow. There is also a 15% discount on your total purchase...just enter WINTER as your coupon code at check out!!!

Supplies:

Stamps; {Lily and Lucy messages} by Little Paper Shop

Ink: Stazon black, taken with teak

Paper: PTI white, taken with teal

Accessories: felt flurries by SU, button brads, copic marker, dimentionals

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin and may you be a blessing and be blessed!

Silvia

Whimsied Chipboard WSC32 {12-14-09}

This week at the Whimsy Stamps Challenge blog we are having a Chipboard challenge...yup, use chipboard on your creation! It's easy as pie, and if you don't have any Whismy stamps please feel free to play along with us! We would love to see your creations anyways!


Here is my card! I used the super cute image of the narwhal. I love this little guy! I then simply used a couple naked chipboard pieces and wrote Happy Birthday myself with a fine point pen. Added color and glitter and VOILA! I have a card! What do you think? I know you want to play too!

Come join us and see if you can be one of whimsies top 3!



Supplies:
Stamps Whimsy Narwhal
Ink" Stazon Black, baja breeze, pacific point
Paper: Baja Breze, very vanilla
Accessories: aqua painter, dazzling diamonds glitter, chipboard

Thank you soooo uch for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my card today and I do hope you'll play along with us!

Hugs and happy Stampin!

Silvia

Emelia's Tea Party Favors

My sweet baby girl had a tea party this weekend...her 4th birthday was yesterday! And she helped me make the invitations (Can be seen here) and she also helped me make the party favors...love that girl...we had sooo much fun!

Doesn't she just look gorgeous! I might be a little partial, but I think she's stunning! LOL Love how she'ss pose for me!

Yes she's in her underoos! I couldn't get her to get dressed that morning! Sheesh! But isn't she handling that big shot like a master!!! When we were working she kept telling me her muscles were getting bigger...and when we were done she started flexing and kissing her arms! HA!!!

Each of the favors had a tea cup and saucer, tea bag of assorted decaf tea, candy necklace, a little ring and earing stickers. The boys had chocolate coins and boyish stickers in theirs. I think the favors turned out cute and I already had a boy tell me he used his tea cup! YEAHHH!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: None

Ink: none

Paper: Garden party by DCWV

Accessories: Big shot, tea pot die, ribbon, Olivia Cuttlebug alphabet

Thank you soooo much for stopping by! Happy Stampin!

Hugs to all!

Silvia

Let's Have a Tea Party...

My little Emelia is having a Tea Party for her 4th Birthday! My friend Nikki has the Sizzix retired teapot die...so I e-mailed Nikki (from Smells Like Homemade) and asked her is I could borrow it from her...She is the best so she said YES!!! We were very excited! Here are her invitations!


Emelia ran all the pretty paper through my bigshot herselt! I then cut all the pieces at the perforated sections and then she helped me glue the pieces back on...only 3 and already paper piecing! The paper we used is the Garden Party stack from Die cuts with a view Stephanie Hester from "My Card Shack" was generous enough to send me an incredibly amazing package this week and this paper pack was one of the things in it...along with many other amazing things. Girl you are amazing! THANK YOU so much!!!

Emelia fell in love with The Garden Party collection the minute I opened the box and said she wanted to use it for her invitations...she then went to my cardstock collection and picked rose red...which matched perfectly! This girl has an eye! I also got another package that had basic grey buttons and she asked if we could use those...I love vreating with her! He's too cute!

Here is the inside...Nikki had made an invitation with the tea pot last year and she had figured out all the proper placement...she was kind enough to e-mail me the template so all I had to do is insert my information! Thank you Nikki!!! You saved me a whole lot of trouble!

If you have this die and would like the word document for the wording please just e-mail me at mabieme1999@yahoo.com with "tea pot template" as the subject.

Supplies:
Stamps: None, the you're invited is computer generated
Ink: none
Paper: Garden party DP by Die Cuts with a view, rose red, green galore, very vanilla
Accessories: Basic grey buttons, linnen thread, glue dots, rode red ribbon, word window punch, heart punch, big shot, teapot die

Thank you sooo much for stopping by! Your comments are always welcome and appreciated!

Have a blessed day!

Silvia

Whimsy Monday...{11-9-09}

This weeks challenge over at Whimsy Stamps is to use watercolors...in whatever for that might be! You can use water color pencils, water color wonder crayons, refills and water, the squished ink pads or you can go for the real deal Lucile water colors...totally up to you!

Here is my card!

This little girl is from Whimsy stamps, her name is Princess Emma. I just love how her orange and green gown turned out! I used my watercolor pencils (that I have had for over 10 years) and then a blender pen to get it looking all nice and purty! Added some rhinestones and a sentiment and that's pretty much it...scalloped an edge, used my coluzzle to get a half oval shape and my round tag punch...voila...card made! LOL

Supplies:

Stamps: Princess Emma from Whimsy Stamps, Cupcake Fhiona from Your Next Stamp

Ink: Stazon black

Paper: Designer paper, kiwi kiss, pacific point, whisper white

Accessories: Rhinestones, scallop border punch, rounded tab punch

Thank you sooo much for stopping by! Don't forget to stop by the other DT's blogs to see what they came up with...start at Whismy Stamps Blog please! Also, On Tuesday we have a very special release with a very special new artist Crissy Armstrong...I know right! I'm super excited too!!!

Have a FAB day and thankd for stopping by!!!

Silvia

Katie carousel...

This is Katie...isn't she the cutest!!! I love here and her little horses! She will be released tomorrow at Little Paper Shop and today is pre-view day!!!

We had a sketch challenge today since it is LPS Monday! And there's a prize in it for you! You can win the brand new Katie Carousel!!! So head on over to the LPS Blog and get ready to play along!!!

I trimmed up my katied to fit in the sketch for today...and I think it's super cute...love the paper pieced horses!!! The sentiment is from a set called {Make a Wish} which I love very much...the font is just perfect!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Katie Carousel (available tomorrow!) {Make a Wish} both my Little Paper Shop

Ink: Stazon black, ballet blue, tangerine tango

Paper: Shimmery white, ballet blue, tangerine tango, SU! retired designer paper

Accessories: gingham ribbon, button brads

Now go and check out the rest of the teams awesome samples!!!

Julia Betemps

Jessica Diedrich

Allison Fillo

Bonnie Sharp

Cindy Haffner

Heather Lee-Reppen

Jennifer Greco

Ann Kranitz - Guest Designer

Julie Lacey

Mel McCarthy

Sarah Green

Janna

Thank you so much for stpping by!!! I hope you enjoy the new Katie...she's a sweetheart!!!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

“Our Father who art in heaven, hollowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen” Matthew 6: 9-13

I made some stuff!!!!

I've been creating lots...just no time to upload! grrr...I guess with all the gorgeous weather outside...I don't want to be on the comp...but I MUST show you what I have made...it's just too cute and I love it!!! I have another card to show you, but it's buried in a HUGE SD card with over 1500 pictures...so I need to find it first! LOL

We went to a birthday party yesterday (little boy turning 1) and I already had a little shirt for him, but I wanted to add a little something to it. Andrew was napping and so were the kids, so I made a star book (Click here for Instructions, they were already made, so why re-invent the wheel with a tutorial?) They are very impressive and super cute! I also used my star punch and scor-pal to make the awesome 3-D stars for the cover. Colored the images with an inkpad and blender pen...gotta love me some blender pens!

And here is a picture of the book all opened up...pretty cool huh! One of my FAV albums to make...maybe I should try a mini one! I bet that would be super cute!!!

Made a super cute card to go with the book...love how it turned out and I used up a bunch of textured cardstock that has just been sitting there since it retired last year! I'm so bad at hoarding!!! The eyelets were the perfect touch and didn't make the card too bulky...and sinc eI didn't have the ink pads or refills anympre the always artichoke did the trick for the grass...not to bad!!!

And here is a picture of the whole ensamble...pretty cute if I do say so myself! I even made the bag! Instruction can be found here and here. I also added some of the left over white paper from the designer series paper to stregthen the bag handles...too cute! Of course it all had to match...plus I didn't have any boy bags...so I just had to make one! LOL gotta love matching paper packs!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: All from SU! Bundle of Jy, warmest regards, nursery necessities

Inks: Stazon black, baja breeze, creamy carmel, summer sun

Paper: wild wasabi, whisper white, buckaro blue, and manchester designer series paper

Accessories: star punch, scor-pal, blender pens, eyelets, crop-a-dial, 1 inch sheer cream ribbon, glitter, big shot, top note die, word window punch, dementionals...I think that's all! LOL I already gave it away and can't remember what else I used!

Anywho, I hope you like my little ensamble! Have a great day!

Hugs and happy Stampin'

Silvia

Be blessed and be a blessing!

Mother-In-Laws book

So I made a little book for everyone to sign for my MIL's 60th birthday this last sunday and it was a HUGE hit...I also took a bunch of picture and created a DVD slide show...wich was perfect since the DVD holders I used had a pocket for it! And since I used 2 DVD holders I had 2 pockets...one for the invitaions I had made! I will show you the invites later...didn't take a picture, but it uses the same papers as the little book!

Supplies:

Stamps: Wild Rose

Ink: Ridding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Pink Pirouette

Paper: Bella Rose, riding hood red, kiwi kiss, shimmery white

Accessories: Cuttlebug Olivia Alpha, rectangle nestabilities, white gel pen, CD folders (10 for $5 E-mail me at mabieme1999@yahoo.com if you would like some), big Shot

That's all I have for right now...I'll be back later with some ornaments and a class schedule for you! If you're in the area I hope you can make it!

Happy Stampin'

May God Bless you today and Always

Silvia