Flowers or No Flowers

I made this card with a Frizzybella which I received from one of my fellow Splitcoaststampers gals. It is stamped on glitter cardstock so I wasn't sure how the colouring would look. The marker bleed a little bit but I think it still looks great. Now the only question is...do you like it with the flowers or without. I had them set out to add to the card and was thinking rhinestones in the middle of the white one, but then when I laid them out I wasn't sure if it was too much. What do you think?

The ribbon is misc not sure where it came from and the glitter cardstock is DCWV of course, have you noticed that I kinda have an obsession with this stuff :-) Frizzybella is from Stamping Bella and the saying is from one of my Studio G $1.50 sets from Michaels.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A couple of cards to share...

I got the chance to colour in another Sarah Kay image that I received from my stamping sister Jhet. I really like these and so excited that one of my lss is looking into getting them, yah me! So this card is really simple, It is a kraft cardstock base with the stamped image and some metal corners (from the dollar store) and a little bit of ribbon. Very simple yet very nice.

And then here is another simple yet elegant anniversary card using SU stamps. Can't remember the name of the set, Garden Collage or something like that. Again I used a metal corner that I had, one of this items that I was hording and didn't want to let go. Use it or lose it, hehe.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Back to my Stampin' Up! Roots

Well I got some quality time in my stamp room today and decided to go back to my Stampin' Up! roots for these cards. When I first saw The Wheel Thing set (from the internet as it was retired), I said "I want it, must have it". I was finally able to find it online from someone that was cleaning out their retired sets (on Kijiji). But this is the first time I've inked it up and they looked like they were never used :-)

My idea with these was to put flowers on each of them like they were planters. I used the In Full Bloom set for the flowers. Love it!! Here's a close up of each of them...

I was going to add some of my mini rhinestones into the flower centres, but I forgot. I'll have to do that tomorrow. I think my favorite is the scooter, how 'bout you?

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Christmas with Penny Black

I was hoping to get some christmas cards done today but I was not able to. I did get some images coloured, glittered and matted. All I have to do next is make the card and add the sayings. Shouldn't take too long :-)

These are some of my new Penny Black christmas stamps, first time I'm inked them up. I really love them. I'm going to have to make more.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Someone got spoiled at the fair

Every year we take our little Madie to the fair. She absolutely loves it and looks forward to it every year. She loves the rides and was so excited that she could go by herself this year, but I think her ultimate favorite is the games. She loves to win stuff. This year it was a little rainy so there was not very many people there, which is the best time to go. It feels like the game operators feel a little more generous since there isn't much traffic. Well this year Madison played her own games (not just the ducky picking game), she played balloon darts and with a little cash assistance from Daddy, she won the biggest unicorn! You should have seen her face, she loved her Daddy so much tonight. Here's a pick of her and all her winnings...six in total!
And here's a pick of "the best Daddy ever", may not be a flattering picture, but shows his personality to a T.
Yes that is a mini donut in his mouth. You can't go to the fair and not get mini donuts. Tomorrow I should definately have something crafty to show you, I'm having a friend over to make christmas cards.


Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A Little Bit of Shopping - Yah Me!!

We have family visiting this week so we decided to take them to St. Jacobs for a little sight seeing and shopping today. Of course I love going there since there is a scrapbook store there. I bought a couple of little chipboard albums and a plastic snowflake album. I just love them, they are so cute. Then when I was at the register I saw that they had a Monthly Surprise Challenge Kit. You purchase it and then create a one or two 12x12 page layout, upload it to the Scrapping Turtle Forum to enter their contest and then wait and see. One lucky winner gets a $10 GC for the store.

I really loved it when I opened it up, great blues and greens. Perfect for a little boy layout. So I'm just showing you the supplies for now and then once my masterpiece is completed I'll show ya.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

The Winner Is....

Wow the response was amazing! I want to thank everyone for their wonderful comments and for those of you that helped get my blog out there. I enjoy sharing my creations with you and a little bit of family fun too :-)





So on with the winning....

The winner is...
LISERMAE said...
I love your blog, I would love to see more layouts and cards.This is my first time signing someone blogPS Hope the little guy feel better soonCongrats!!!!!!!!!!

Send me your address and I'll send you the goods :-) Thanks again to everyone that entered.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Jumbo Coaster Album

I picked up these awesome Daisy Bucket papers one day at a lss and just fell in love. They are double sided and have a nice texture to them, almost linen like. The colours are so vibrant!

I instantly wanted to make a coaster album for my daughter out of them. I have these jumbo coasters that are a little bigger than 6" square and are perfect for an album. I used Jumbo eyelets for the corners and hold them together with a chain.

I made custom tabs (except for the turquiose one - SU) and added rubons. Some of the swirls and flowers on the pages are rub-ons from Fancy Pants. These were some of my "luxury" meaning expensive scrap supplies that I really hesitate to use, but I love the way it worked out. Now just to add some photos and journalling and ta-da we are done.

Don't forget this is your last chance to enter my Blog Candy draw. I will be announcing the winner tomorrow night after the kiddies are in bed.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

My First "Sarah Kay" and A Halloween Bella

I got these awesome Sarah Kay images from a stamping sister, Jhet and had to colour one in right away. Isn't she beautiful. I was a little messy on my colouring cause I was in such a hurry but I think it still turned out okay. I think I have a special person that would love this card ;-)

I love my prismacolour markers, I think that is my most fav colouring tool. I added some rhinestones to her shirt (where the buttons were), and some sequin flowers with rhinestone centers. The black scallop is popped with pop dots. Can't remember the brand for the patterned paper, it was one of the paper packs from Costco that came in an awesome storage box.

Now this halloween card is an entry for my Bellaholics group. Unfortunately I do not own any Bella Halloween stamps, so I took Cuddlycat and popped a pumpkin (SU) over her body. Don't you just love it. I think she is so cute, she doesn't have any arms but that's okay :-)

The background is made with patterned paper run through the Cuttlebug with the Halloween Spots embossing folder. And then I rubbed black ink directly onto the paper to show the embossing. The ribbon is one that I picked up at Michaels some time ago. I was going to add a "happy halloween" but I didn't think it needed it.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Crayon Resist - quick steal the white crayons while they are sleeping!

One of my most favorite techniques is crayon resist. When I first learned how to do this I ran around looking for all of Madison's white crayons. What does she need them for, you can't see white on white :-) Then she found my white crayon stash and freaked out..."Mom, those are my crayons!!"

So here's a little overview of how to do it...

Supplies: Glossy Cardstock, Stazon Ink, White crayon, Coloured Ink and Sponge Daubers (one of my favorite supplies)

Take your glossy cardstock and stamp your prefered image in Stazon Ink, be very careful because you're stamp moves easily and can blur the image, also try not to touch the glossy side with your fingers too much as you can make finger prints which will show up later.

Once you have stamped your image(s), you take your white crayon and draw on the glossy cardstock where ever you want it to stay white.

Then sponge on your ink with the daubers, you can dab or rub, you'll have to practise a little to start off with.

After you have added the colour if there are any bits of crayon on your image you can rub them off with a kleenex (note to self: don't use kleenex with lotion!).

You can pick one single image or cover a whole sheet to be used on multiple cards, just like a OSW. Absolutely one of my fav's.

DON'T FORGET TO ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN MY BLOG CANDY!

Recipe:
Stamps: SU In Full Bloom, Warm Words
Paper: Stampin' Up! 07 in colour (can't remember the name) and black
Others: Decorative Brad from the dollar store, black gingham ribbon from SU

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

SBS22 - September Blog Hop Challenge

This is the first every Blog Hop Challenge for my Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers group, which is being hosted by Spike. Hop on over and check out her blog...awesome. So the september challenge was to create a 6×6 Fall, Halloween or Thanksgiving Card. That’s it! Use whatever stamps, techniques, paper, etc that inspires you!

Optional Twist! For those who have taken a shining to sketch challenges, create a 6×6 Fall, Halloween or Thanksgiving Card using the sketch below...

So as I was rummaging through my drawers this evening looking for some jumbo eyelets for another project, I found these cute little wooden halloween embellishments. My mom had bought these at the dollar store probably last year or the year before and I just put them in the drawer and forgot about them. Since I made a little resolution this year (to myself) that I would start using the supplies that I have been hording all these years, I thought...excellent these will be great. I love how this card turned out, but it is definately not one to go throught the mail :-)

The base of the card is just black cardstock, followed by a layer of purple handmade paper (purchased at Costco). The next layer is more black cardstock followed by two layers of Magnolia patterned paper, love it. The only stamping is the Happy Halloween, both $1.50 stamps from Michaels. Believe it or not the Happy is from "Happy Holidays".

Now on another note, I just wanted to share why I could never be a hand model, like some other great stampers that like to show off their manacures...note the Tempting Turquois on my finger tips and the Basic Brown on my fingernails. I definately get down and dirty when I'm crafting :-)

Recipe:
Stamps: Michaels
Paper: Magnolia patterned paper, Black Cardstock and Handmade paper unknown

Others: Wooden Embellishments from dollar store.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

More Blog Candy...sorry I'm on a roll :-)

Okay so I'm finding all this awesome blog candy giveaways that others are offering and I just want to share with everyone else...

head on over to Scrapping Mommy for a chance to win some awesome K&Company paper, Prima flowers and a great border punch.

Good luck everyone.
Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Awesome Blog Candy

I found some great blog candy, hop on over to visit Henderica at Cats & Stitching to enter for a chance to win her awesome blog candy!

And don't forget to enter for mine, just scroll down a little.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

First Day of School

Today was Madison's first day of school. My baby is in grade 2 (snif, snif). I remember when she was a little baby like her brother. She absolutely could not wait to go to school. I swear she woke up twice last night in the middle of the night to ask me what she was going to do with her hair and if the outfit she picked out was okay. How cute is that.

Every time there is a special occassion we take her picture outside in our front yard under this tree. This year I had her hold her little brother. He loved looking at all the little kids at school, I'm sure when he gets older he'll want to go with her.She got homework today too, but it wasn't for her it was for me, what?!?!? Too funny. Sorry I didn't do any crafting today, just a lot of napping with the little guy :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Merry Monday and a Little Bit of Cupcakes

So alot of my fellow blogging stampers are posting "Festive Fridays" on their blogs so I decided to start "Merry Mondays". Every Monday from now until christmas I will be posting a new Christmas card for you to enjoy.

So for my first Merry Monday I have an awesome shaker card using the very cute Penny Black Hedgies. I love Hedgies, I really wish I could get my hands on some of the older SU Hedgies. This was the hardest thing I've ever done. I really wish there was an easy way to cut circles out of foam. Can you believe that I bought this glitter/bead mix a long time ago at a stamping yard sale. It worked perfectly for this card. Everything else is coloured in with Prisma pencils and baby oil (my sub for OMS - haven't been able to find it yet).

I also wanted to share with you the finished cupcake card. I finished it off by adding some glitter with my new Niji Pearlescent Watercolours (just like H20's but way cheaper - thanks Lisa :-)

The image was trimmed with my Fiskars Paper Shaper and matted with Basic Grey patterned paper, I just can't remember the name of the line it's from.

Hope you enjoyed and don't forget to scroll down to enter my Blog Candy!

Recipe:
Stamps: Penny Black Hedgies - Impression Obsession
Paper: Bazzill Bling - Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip
Others: Prismacolour Pencils - Prismacolour Markers, Niji Pearlescent Watercolours

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

!!BLOG CANDY TIME!!

Okay so I'm two visits away from my 250 mark, but I'm all ready and super excited to post it. So here goes....

In honor of reaching 250 visits and all the wonderful comments that I've received I am offereing my first Blog Candy. For your chance to win all you have to do is post a comment, let me know what you think of my blog or anything that you would like to see. Feel free to pass along a link to let others know about my blog candy.

Here's whats included....

*Three 2 Minute Memories Scrapbook Cards, they are little mini albums that go through the 10 things I love about Husband, Mom and Dad.

*A package of Marcella K Library Pockets, super cute!

*An assortment of Prima Flowers and Rhinestone Brads

and last but not least

*Vinyl Letters that spell "create" perfect for your craft room wall :-)

The contest will be open until next Sunday Sept 7th. I will then pick a winner using Random.org

Good Luck to Everyone and Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Spooky Halloween

I got a little, and I mean little bit of crafting time today. So I coloured in some Close to my Heart halloween images and made a cute little Halloween card. I used my prismacolour pencils and blender pen to colour in the images, nice and spooky! I was going to add in some stickles glitter, but I'll have to do that later.

The chipboard is from the dollar store, oh ya. The patterned paper is some that I had from last year, can't remember the brand but I just love it. Some of the sheets have glitter and there is even one sheet of bats that has foam on it, love it!! I used pop dots on the fence to make it pop.

Thank you to everyones well wishes for Jonathan, he is doing much better today. Now I just have to get him back on schedule, lol.

Today's other fun activity was giving Madison her back to school haircut. She opted for me to do it so that she could stay up late and play a little longer instead of going to the hairdresser tomorrow. I don't know why she wanted to do that but thankfully it worked out okay and we won't have to go to the hairdresser to get it fixed :-) I cut a good 3 to 4 inches off of it, looks much better and definately more manageable.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Only 2 more days until school starts, yah me!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Close to my Heart
Paper: Bazzil Bling, Patterned paper unknown
Others: Prismacolour Pencils, Blender Pen, Brads and Chipboard - dollar store.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Blog Candy - Coming Soon

Sorry I have nothing new to share with you today. Today was another one of those days, after a very long night with Jonathan, I was up and running around. I had previous plans to hang out with my friend Lisa, which I did, but didn't get much done other than stamping out some of her stamps :-) After that it was running around and cleaning...my husband is coming home at "oh my god" in the morning (4am) after being on a business trip in Texas for the past week. And of course I've been a little lacking on the house cleaning, so with a little help (lots of help) I was able to get the place spic and span. During the massive cleaning spree my wonderful Dad was putting up two florescent lights in my craft room, Yah Me!! Now that I can see everything (including the dirt) it's time for my craft room to get a little clean out. That will be my next job when Madison heads out to school next week.

Well hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to do a little creative work, while the kids are hanging out with Daddy (he owes me!).

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Oh and I almost forgot - I'm getting really close to 250 hits which means blog candy time. I'll get it all together this weekend and hopefully post on monday if I hit the marker. Keep your eyes open!

What a Day!!

Well today was a crazy day. My poor little baby had his first fever today, aaah. He was a pretty good patient but this evening he was a little upset. The poor guy is getting all stuffed up and phlemy. Well I finally got him to sleep in the swing. What a sweety.

Well the whole day wasn't a total right off. I did make it out to a local stamp store before Jonathans fever appeared and got some awesome new stamps. They started carrying a new brand "Impression Obsession", I just love them. Take a look at these...

This was as far as I've gotten with colouring them, between keeping Jonathan happy, he keeps waking up. I was hoping to have a full card done, poohy.

I just had to get the cupcakes, everyone has cupcakes. And the cactus is for cgristmas cards for my husbands co-workers that are in head office in Texas. Hilarious!!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

A Little Mother Daughter Crafting Time

I got these awesome Whiff of Joy images from my blogging sister Spike and just wanted to use them right away. Madison wanted to do something exciting so we decided to make christmas cards. Madison loves to have classes so I coloured one part and then handed her the markers so that she could do hers. She did an awesome job and just loves stamping!

Check it out....

Here's my card....

Here's Madison's card (remember she is only 6 years old)...Here's some close ups. She's such a talented little girl (I'm not biased)!

We coloured the image with Prismacolour markers and then highlighted with H2O's. The christmas ornaments were coloured with dark grey and then coloured over with the H2O's to give them some shine. I just love it, I even did a little highlighting with white H2O's.

Hope you enjoyed!

Recipe:
Stamps: Whiff of Joy
Paper: American Crafts
Others: Prismacolour Markers, H2O's, Prima Flowers, Rhinestone Brads

Happy Stamping!
Sarah