Happy Mother's Day

"Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mother's are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The family is eternal. Love must be nurtured. It must be spoken. We must put away our pride, our haughtiness, our shyness, our misunderstandings, and with humility say, "I love you. Is there something I can do to help you?" You can never be completely happy under any other circumstances."
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Charity Never Faileth

"Think about your particular assignment at this time in your life. It may be to get an education, it may be to rear children, it may be to be a grandparent, it may be to care for and relieve the suffering of someone you love, it may be to do a job in the most excellent way possible, it may be to support someone who has a difficult assignment of their own. Our assignments are varied and they change from time to time. Don't take them lightly. Give them your full heart and energy. Do them with enthusiasm. Do whatever you have to do this week with your whole heart and soul. To do less than this will leave you with an empty feeling." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"We are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young, and hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old...We need deep and satisfying and loyal friendships with each other. These friendships are a necessary source of sustenance. We need to renew our faith every day. We need to lock arms and help build the kingdom so that it will roll forth and fill the whole earth."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first."
-Marjorie Hinckley

"The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!"
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. … I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass” Gordon B. Hinckley

Try a little harder to be a little better. Gordon B. Hinckley

Sparkle and shimmer!

I just love sparkle and shimmer. This project has lots and lots of it, trust me. You just can't see it very well in the photo.



I wanted to do a smoosh background, so I dropped some reinkers onto my craft mat, misted lightly with water and this is where the smooosh came in. Smoosh, smoosh, smoosh the tag and dry. Then I sprayed with gold glimmer mist. Oooooo, it is so pretty in real life. The bottom of the tag is punched with a Martha Stewart punch. Now I always get the back of my project messy when I do the smoosh technique, so I adhered it to a folded piece of artichoke cardstock. The green was just too flat with all that sparkle, so I misted it with the gold as well. Oh yeah, that's the ticket. I scored the top of the tag and the card so it would bend and open properly and then punched through all layers and tied the ribbons. So pretty. The image was also stamped onto a tag and clear embossed, then colored with Copic markers and AtYou Spica pens. I added some liquid pearls to the pin heads. This was cut/embossed using Spellbinders scalloped circle, misted with gold glimmer mist and then popped up with foam squares. What loveliness!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a beautiful day full of love and happiness!

Hugs,
Karen

I love stamping!

I really do enjoy creating with paper and ink.

I created this card using colors that I really enjoy. Do you like them too?

The sentiment is stamped and clear embossed before adding the flourish, top and bottom and airbrushing to match the designer paper. The next layer is stamped with the polka dots in brown to coordinate. The teal layer is a patterned paper which was also lightly airbrushed just to get it to match better and darken it a smidge. All panels are matted with chocolate chip. I hope you like it.

I used:
Stamps: Rubbernecker Petite Heart, Flourish, SU Polka Dot
Paper: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, My Mind's Eye Free Bird "Passion" Robin's Egg
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic BG45
Accessories: Clear embossing powder

Rubbernecker has come out with some wonderful new vintage stamps and I absolutely love them.

Here is a card I created using one of the new images. It is similar to the other sisters image, but slightly different.



As some of you may have noticed, I love vintage. For this card, I stamped the Sisters image from Rubbernecker with Chipped Sapphire distress ink onto vanilla cardstock. This was cut/embossed/matted using Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles. The lace was white, so I airbrushed it with Copic markers to achieve a vintage look and adhered it to the back bottom edge of the image panel. The pin is woven through, adding pearls here and there. The sentiment is from Rubbernecker stamp that says Believe in your dreams. I omitted the rest of the sentiment, wanting just the beautiful dreams portion. That was cut/embossed/matted with Spellbinders Classic ovals and popped up with foam squares. I added a half pearl to the sentiment panel. The card front is stamped with the Rubbernecker Victorian Damask background stamp using Chipped Sapphire distress ink onto blush blossom cardstock, then embossed with Cuttlebug Textile Texture folder. This is mounted onto The Paper Company dark blue shimmer cardstock. I hope you like it.

I used:
Stamps: Rubbernecker Victorian Damask BG, Sisters, Dreams text
Paper: Vanilla, Blush Blossom, Dark Blue Shimmer
Ink: Chipped Sapphire distress ink, Copic B97, E11, C5
Addessories: Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug Textile Texture folder, lace, hatpin, pearls, foam squares

A Giveaway!

I love giveaways, don't you? If you are interested in a fun one, head over to my friend Karen's blog to find out the details. Nikki Sivils is giving away some delicious papers.

Let the trumpets chorus! I have “winners” to announce!

The Rubbernecker April Release Blog Hop Winners are:

from MY blog:

Holly said…

“How soft and pretty - love this sweet pink card! That ribbon treatment is awesome! “

AND

from Julia’s blog:

Leslie said…

“I am always amazed at the beauty and creativity of your cards. I am going to give this card a try….it is simple but lovely. Thanks for the inspiration and sharing”

CONGRATULATIONS to Holly and to Leslie! You have each won your choice of one of the collections from Rubbernecker Stamps! Please send your email addy & mailing information along with your choice of new collections (as posted in the blog hop post) to Bev at texasgrammyx2 at yahoo dot com!

April Release Blog Hop!

Welcome to my post for the Rubbernecker April Blog Hop.

I've used two of the new releases on my card: Victorian Damask Background SKU-498 and Sisters SKU-002 from the new vintage line.



I inked the stamp with one of the new Ranger Distress Inks - Victorian Velvet and oooh is it pretty! I added a bit more of that ink around the edges with an ink blender. That is mounted onto a white mat cut/embossed with Spellbinders Fair Isle Pendant which was also lighlty inked with the ink blending tool. The background of the light pink cardstock is stamped with the Victorian Damask background stamp and again I added more ink around the edges. The word Friend is from the Fall Trilogy Set and punched out and popped up on the Spellbinders Fancy Tags shape. I added three KaiserScrapbook rhinestones. On the right edge, the border is white cardstock cut/embossed with Spellbinders Fair Isle border. The ribbon wove beautifully through the holes and really showcases the whole image, don't you think?

I hope you like the results. Now be sure to leave a comment and visit all the other designer's blogs and leave comments so you will be eligible to win some of the new release stamps!

Julia Aston
Tammy Hershberger
Joan Ervin
Kittie Caracciolo
Cathleen Torina
Karen Hunsaker - that's ME! You're already here! ;-)
Juliana Swanson
Charlene Merrick
Bev Gerard


PRIZES: Each of two prize winners will get to choose one free 'collection' of stamps from the following:

'African-American Figures'

'Fashion Ladies'

'Floral'

'Vines'

'Vintage'

'Weeds'

You have until Wednesday, April 28th midnight EST to leave comments and be eligible to win. The winner will be announced Thurday April 29th on Bev's blog.

I hope you've had a good time hopping amongst our blogs! Thanks for stopping by!

Too many ways to go!

This is my beautiful new pressure cooker. It's a Kuhn Rikon one. Isn't it beautiful?I can't wait to try it out!

So many different things are looking so interesting to me lately. I'm being pulled so many ways. I want to sew. I want to crochet. I want to learn to cook with a pressure cooker. I want to can meat, butter and lots of other good things. I want to continue on my weight loss quest (it's going great, btw!). And, and, and! So many interests and so little time. Do you ever feel that way? AND I still want to create with ink, stamps and paper! Isn't life fun and interesting?

If you have a wonderful pressure cooker recipe, please leave it here for me.

I got some wonderful new stamps from Rubbernecker and I am excitedly creating using them. I can't show you what yet, I'm saving them for another blog hop which will happen Tuesday, April 27th. Be sure to come on back and check out my creation and the ones from the rest of the design team. AND there will be prizes awarded. FREE STAMPS! That is so much fun!

Good morning!

Wow, I just haven't had much desire to create anything from paper later. I have been creating with fabric and trying my hand at crochet a little bit. I've had a good time!

Today, I actually did some papercrafting! Wooo hooo! It helps that I got Rubbernecker's NEW vintage stamps in the mail yesterday. First ink!!!! Wooo hoooo!

I really like the vintage look, and for my first creation I chose the vintage Model-T. Masculine cards can be challenging for me, but not with this great stamp. And I love this sentiment. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Isn't that perfect with this card? I distressed edges and then used vintage photo ink on them as well.


How do you like it?

Thanks for stopping by! Now go and have a GREAT day!!!! I'm off to make gingerbread!

Winners! We have winners!

Our two, randomly drawn winners are: "Sue D", and "craftymom205"

"All are absolutely beautiful! A tutorial would be wonderful.

Posted by: Sue D | April 13, 2010 at 09:55 PM " (as posted on Kittie's blog)

AND

"craftymom205 said...

Great cards. I especially like the first one.

April 13, 2010 11:20 AM " (as posted on Tammy's blog)


Congratulations!!!! Enjoy your new stamps!!!!!

Well Hellooooooooo!

I want to share a card with you today that features a sentiment made just for me. I tell ya, I think of the dates way ahead of time and then they seem to fly right by me. Anyone else have that problem? In fact, I still have my 2008 Christmas cards to send out! Luckily they don't have the year on them. Maybe I should address them in July and then ... forget to send them - AGAIN!



This card is featuring two of the stamps from the new Rubbernecker Floral collection. I took the colors from this fun paper called Sorbet - Mint Fudge by Kaisercraft. Yum, that is my favorite flavor!!!!! So, I stamped the sentiment onto the light pink cardstock with brown ink and cut/embossed/mounted it using Spellbinders Small Deckled Mega Rectangles. That always makes me giggle. It's kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? lol Sorry, back to the program. The leaves were stamped onto the flecked natural cardstock with Gable Green ink. It's been a long time since I've used that color, but it went so well with the paper, I couldn't resist. Next I colored the flower stamp with markers before stamping right over those lovely leaves. I even hit the tops of the flowers with the pink marker again to give them a little more dimension. Only one corner is rounded on this panel. Kind of a fun look, don't you think? I added the pink gingham ribbon to the one corner for a little more pizzazz and voila! There you have my late (as usual) birthday card!

I hope this brings you a smile today! Have a great, great day!

Welcome to the Red Hot Mommas' Rubbernecker - Fashions, Florals, Vines and Weeds Blog Hop!

PRIZES!!!!!!!!

Two random winners will be chosen from comments left on all participating Red Hot Mommas' blog projects featured during the Rubbernecker Blog Hop. Winners may choose any ONE of the following complete collections:

Fashion Ladies

New Release Vines

New Release Weeds

New Release Florals

Here are all the amazingly talented Rubbernecker Red Hot Mommas participating in the hop today! Be sure to visit each one and leave a comment to be eligible to win a prize!

Julia Aston
Tammy Hershberger
Joan Ervin
Kittie Caracciolo
Cathleen Torina
Fran Gumprecht
Karen Hunsaker - that's me and you are here!
Juliana Swanson
Bev Gerard

Here is the first card I would like to share with you today.



I stamped the image of the flower using Rich Cocoa Memento ink and then applied detail clear embossing powder and heat embossed it. I then cut/embossed it using Spellbinders Classic Oval die and airbrushed it before removing it from the die. The oval is popped up with foam squares and mounted onto the designer paper wihc was cut/embossed using Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals die. The yellow card front is stamped with the same shade of yellow ink using the same flower stamp. It is a very subtle background, but oh so nice. The bottom of the card is cut/embossed using Spellbinders Lattice die, then I cut a small piece of the designer paper and adhered it over the bottom of the border, and covered the seam with brown ribbon.

The sentiment (from Rubbernecker's petite word set) is stamped with Rich Cocoa Memento ink and cut/embossed with Spellbinders Labels Eleven and airbrushed before removing from the die. I added a little rhinestone and popped it up with another foam square.

Here is one more!



For this one I stamped the floral image onto the yellow panel three times using pink ink to match the designer paper. I used that as a mat for the Rubbernecker sentiment. I added a bit of Stickles on the edges of the wings of the butterfly to add some sparkle.

Now go to Rubbernecker and buy some stamps. The stamp prices have recently be lowered including all these new releases! Lower prices = more fun!

Thanks for stopping by! I sure appreciate your visits and comments. Please come back soon!

Good luck! I hope you win a prize!

Welcoming baby girls.

I created two cards for baby showers I have coming up using the same papers and image, but switching things up - just a little. The paper certainly isnt the traditional baby patterns, but I really like this paper and thought it would be great. Especially for my niece that is using brown and pink for her baby. Isn't this pacifier image darling? It's by Rubbernecker. I colored it with Copic markers.




If you have any questions about how anything is done, just ask. I'm always happy to share what I know.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for a Rubbernecker Blog Hop. There are prizes available! I used the same paper on the two cards I will be sharing with you tomorrow. You won't want to miss it.

Hugs,
Karen

In a rush!

I am in a rush this morning, but wanted to join in my friend Wendy's challenge - to create a paper quilt. So, I grabbed some papers from my scrap drawer and literally threw this together in a flash. I shouldn't have taken the time, but I'm surprisingly pretty happy with the result. If you click on the photo, you can even see the embossed zig zag stitching. So fun!


Gotta run for now. Thanks for stopping by!

Fashion Lady

This card is not the typical size, it is 6-1/4 X 3 1/4. I had to shake things up a little. Actually it was to fit this image in this long oval.



The image is stamped with Memento black ink and colored with Copic markers, then cut/embossed using Spellbinders Mega Large oval. Before removing it from the die, I airbrushed just a little. On the larger oval mat, I cut the charm from the Lattice Pendant set using the designer paper and glued it into place (on the back) in the green oval, top and bottom. The dp is matted with just a teeny tiny border of the Soft Suede cs and then onto the Certainly Celery card. I added a bow of grosgrain ribbon.

I love vintage. Maybe you've noticed? lol

Here is another card using the same colors.



Thanks for stopping by!

Feeling happy!

I went shopping yesterday and found this cute new purse! I love it. I found it first in a kind of gold color (not my favorite) but kept digging around until I found - ta dah! the purse I liked in purple. Yeah, that's right - PURPLE! It makes me happy. I love the little ruffles on it. AND - I had a coupon so I got it for 20% off! Oh what a happy shopping day.

It's time

to show you another cute card. Well, I like it. I hope you do too.

The image on this is a cotton scrap by Craft Secrets. I mounted it onto the cardstock and stitched (messily) around the edges, then distressed the edges of the cardstocks. I wanted to use some real lace behind it but didn't have anything that was just right, so I made my own with a Spellbinders Eyelet borderabilities and a Martha Stewart punch. Isn't it pretty? The card front is embossed with the Textile Textures Cuttlebug folder. I used my Xyron to hold the cotton scrap to the card stock. Added a cute little vintage looking button with a bit of embroidery floss through it and a lovely bow to the top.

Thanks for stopping by! Please come back soon!

Why wait?

Here are the other three cards I created for my card ensemble. Now you can see the entire ensemble. I hope you like them.






Thanks for stopping by!

One of four

I do hope you enjoyed the blog hop. There were so many amazing creations, weren't there? I loved it.

I thought I would share a card I made as a result of the blog hopping I did. Lisa made a wonderful ensemble of cards that I just had to try. I'll share the first one with you today.



This is a simple layout and really showcases the beautiful JustRite stamps so well. The paper is from My Mind's Eye. The stamp set is the same one I used for my blog hop project, JustRite Stamps® JB 09700 Plant a Little Love Set and I also used Spellbinders™ Circles Nestabilities® and Lattice Borderabilities. The image was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with Copic markers. One thing I love about the ensemble I made is that all the cards are flat and therefore so mailable. Another product that made these so easy to assemble is Xyron adhesives! Oh boy do I love being able to apply the adhesive so easily and so well! I use the Xyron create-a-sticker™ for smaller pieces and the Xyron 900 for the bigger pieces. Love them both!

Thanks for stopping by! I'll post #2 of 4 tomorrow, so be sure to come on back! Have a great day!

Welcome to Day 3

Isn't this blog hop exciting? Today is my turn to share what I came up with using the new release stamps from JustRite.

JustRite Stamps®: JB 09700 Plant a Little Love Set

Spellbinders™ products: Circles Nestabilities®, Big Scalloped Circles Small Nestabilities®, Flower Silhouette Impressabilities™.

Copic: E13, BV08.

This is a 5" square card.

Stamp the image and border on Vanilla cardstock with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink then clear emboss. Cut/emboss using Spellbinders™ Circles Nestabilities®, then distress the edges and ink again with the Vintage Photo ink, really working it in towards the center of the image to give it a very vintage look. Color the flowers with Copic Sketch markers and add a little sparkle with Diamond Stickles

Use Core'dinations Blackberry cardstock to create the mat. Cut/emboss with Spellbinders™ Big Scalloped Circles Small #7 and emboss with Flower Silhouette Impressabilities™. Sand to bring up the detail. The color wasn't dark enough for what I wanted, so I airbrushed using the Impressabilities™ as a stencil. Distress the edges, inking with Vintage Photo. Use foam squares to pop the layers up.

The next layer is white cardstock stamped with Rubbernecker Victorian Lace background stamp using vintage photo ink and overstamping with Rubbernecker Flourish stamps using Elegant Eggplant ink. Distress and heavily ink the edges. Airbrush the white half pearls using Copic E13 and adhere one in each corner.

The card is Elegant eggplant stamped with Versmark ink and the Flourish stamps then heat embossed with clear EP. Distress the edges and ink using Vintage photo once again. For a finishing touch, I airbrushed the ribbon to match my project. The ribbon is actually ¼" white silk ribbon! Seriously, it was. Doesn't it look old?

For all the important details, visit the JustRite Blog.

30 designers, FIVE shopping sprees each day. No one knows where the prizes will be! Each day of the hop JustRite will have five Mystery Blog Candy Prizes hidden along the hop with a total retail value of $600. JustRite will randomly select five mystery blogs each day of the hop and randomly allocate each of the shopping sprees. For your chance to win, simply leave a little love (a comment) on each designer’s blog including the JustRite blog. The more designers you leave comments with, the better your chances of winning. Each day’s comments will remain open for three days. A winner from each of the mystery blogs’ comments will be randomly chosen using Random.org. Consult the listing of designers at the JustRite blog each day (each day’s designers will be different) and start out on your way! Beginning Friday, March 26, summaries of all the winners will be posted on the JustRite blog. Good luck to everyone and enjoy all the JustRite eye candy along the hop!

Today during the JustRite Mega March Blog Hop (Day Three) JustRite and its sponsors will be giving away the following five prizes:

· $200 JustRite Shopping Spree
· $100 Spellbinders Shopping Spree
· $100 Copic Prize Package, and
· Two additional $100 JustRite Shopping Sprees!

Blog comments for Day Three will be open until Saturday at 6pm EST. On Sunday, JustRite will announce on their blog which five blogs have the mystery candy for Day Three. You will need to go to the JustRite blog to determine where you need to go to find out if you are one of the five lucky winners.

Be sure to check out all the fabulous designer's projects by going to all these blogs today.

Just Rite Inspiration Blog

Debbie Olson

Sherrie Siemens

Beate Johns

Heidi Blankenship

Kathy Jones

Karen Hunsaker (you are here!)

Peet Roeven - Belgium

Michele Kovak

Cheryl Nelson

Anja Curvers - Netherlands

Kay Sibley

Katarina Menzies

Holly McMillen

Tammy Hershberger

Angela Barkhouse

Heidi Van Laar

Jerri Jimenez

Sarah Parker

Jennie Black

Laura Davis

Ashley Newell

Alice Wertz

Shanna Vineyard

Rae Barthel

Ryann Salamon

Terre Fry

Mona Pendleton

Jenn Balcer

Lisa Silver

Kim Moreno

Thanks for stopping by!

Don't miss out on this fabulous blog hop! There are prizes! Lots and lots of prizes! I will be posting my creation for it on Thursday, March 25th! It's gonna be good!

Click here to go right to the JustRite blog!

Exciting news!

I just got notice that three of my layouts are featured in a slideshow online at Scrapbooks Etc. There are layouts from eight other Spellbinders designers too! I hope you will take a moment and check them all out! Here is a link:

Scrapbooks Etc. slideshow

The photos I used are of my great niece Lucy, taken by her mother. Her Mom takes awesome photos!

Childhood memories!

Today on SCS, Holly's challenge was to reach back into our memory and pull out some favorite childhood activities or events, then make a card based on one of those memories/events.

I have two cards/memories to share with you today.



This card is a memory of playing dress up with my Mom's clothes. One particular outfit was my favorite - a turquoise and black striped satin skirt with a velvet bodice. The skirt was very full and we wore her big old petticoats under it to make it really stand out. Now the shoes! She had these gorgeous turquoise suede high heels with a big satin bow. Oh they were beautiful! I wish I still had them or at least a photo of her in the outfit. I can even remember the smell of the tulle of the petticoats. What a beautiful memory.

The high heel image was stamped onto black cardstock with Frost ink and then embossed with Mint Sparkle embossing powder. I then cut cardstock using Mega Curved Rectangles die with image near bottom. I removed the cardstock from the die and inked die with Versamark Frost ink. Carefully put cut cardstock back into die and emboss with Spellbinders Flourish Impressabilities. Remove from die and heat emboss outer edge using Mint Sparkle embossing powder. Stamp sentiment on white cardstock with frost ink and emboss with Mint Sparkle embossing powder. Cut/emboss with oval die. Cut/emboss center Pendant die from Turquoise Shimmer cardstock. Mount onto card front using 3D foam squares. Attach sentiment oval on top of center piece using 3D foam, squares. Cut about 18” of white silk ribbon and airbrush with Copic marker to match the card. Using a 6” length of ribbon, attach both ends to back of turquoise layer. Tie bow from remaining length of ribbon and attach to top of sentiment piece with glue dot. Attach completed card front to black card.




This card is based on my memories of playing Barbies with my sister. We spent hours with our dolls. This image reminds me of Barbie, and of course the colors are definitely Barbie, don't you think?

The image is stamped with memento black ink and clear embossed before being cut/embossed and mounted using Spellbinders Labels Four. I added dots with a black marker. Behind the image panel, I embossed the dots with Cuttlebug's Just My Type border folder. The edge of the card was cut/embossed with Spellbinders Lattice Borderabilities. I wove a black ribbon through and added the bow using pink grosgrain and the narrow black ribbon. There is a black strip added to the inside of the card to show through the Lattice. The black strip is also embossed with the dots, but you can't see that in the photo.

Did you play Barbies too?

Thanks for walking down memory lane with me today!

Wanna save some $$$$$?

Rubbernecker is having a sale!

1 WEEK ONLY

Many products from -

Ranger

Spellbinders

Tsukineko

and Clearsnap

at discounts from 15% -28% until midnight Wednesday March 24th!

I love a good sale! Just click on the link at the top of this post to go right to the Rubbernecker site!

My niece Jill takes the best photos! Her daughter is such a great subject. This photo is so awesome, I couldn't resist creating a layout with it.

The journaling reads: The beach at the hotel was bayed off so the waves were so very mild which was wonderful for Lucy. She thought she loved the beach. At least she loved it for two days.

I used mirror image on the fish to get them to face each other. The seashells were cut/embossed from Core’dinations cardstock and sanded to bring out the detail.

I used these wonderful Spellbinders™ products:
S4-273 From the Sea
S4-205 Eyelet Pendants
S4-235 Fancy Tags
S4-016 Shells
S4-214 Eyelet Borderabilities Petite

And these other terrific products:
Core’dinations: Black Cherry, French Vanilla from The Chocolate Box collection
Core’dinations: Barn Siding, Antique Vanity from the White Wash collection
Paper: Upsy Daisy Designs: Sophie Love-Circle of Friends
The Paper Company: Bright Pink and Turquoise Shimmer
3L-Foam Squares (These are my favorite pop ups!
Glue Dots: Mini Dot n Go
The Robin’s Nest: Asst. Dew Drops
Copic Sketch Markers: R24, RV14, Y08

And that netting? It's from a bag of oranges I bought. You can use anything!

Please tell me what you think! Thanks for stopping by.

First of all, Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In keeping with the green, my first thoughts for creating this card were to make it green. Well, the green got a little overshadowed with other colors, but it is still there!

The main circle panel is stamped with Rubbernecker Wild Flower background with pink ink, then the sentiment is stamped over with Tim Holtz Forest Moss distress ink and clear embossed. This was cut/embossed with Spellbinders circle die templates. The designer papers are by Kelly Panacci.

I added a few rhinestones for bling, and there you have it.

I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Green hugs,
Karen

For today's first ever Queen For The Day challenge on SCS, I cased Mutnik's card here chick, chick! My rooster is a bit bigger, so I had to change a few things. I didn't use newspaper for the bg as I don't have any around, so I used a Rubbernecker French Script bg stamp, stamped with tea dye distres ink, distressed and smudged with more tea dye and vintage photo distress inks. I stamped the rooster with the vintage photo ink and clear embossed before coloring with Copic markers. The ruby red card front is stamped with the Rubbernecker chicken wire bg stamp and smudged with vintage photo distress ink. I added only one button because of space issues. The "thread" is actually a bit of regular twine which was taken apart to get a smaller bit. The card is Kraft.

I hope you like it. Here's to you Mutnik!

Watercolored background

For this card, I stamped the Rubbernecker Baroque Backgound with Forest Moss Tim Holtz Distress Ink and clear embossed on watercolor paper. I watercolored with re-inkers and an aqua pen.


The sentiment is Rubbernecker Garden Tapestry stamped and clear embossed before being cut/embossed using Spellbinders™ Mega Ovals LG and Mega Classic Scalloped Ovals LG for the mat. The organdy ribbon is heated and then I added the small prima flower.

Once dry, I added Stickles to the berries: Distress Worn Lipstick (what a pretty color) and Distress Clear Rock Candy. These are also available at Rubbernecker.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back soon!

Sparkling TuTu Bunny

I wanted to share my cute little TuTu Bunny card with you today. The image and sentiment are from Rubbernecker Stamps.

The bunny is stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with copic markers. I added Diamond Stickles to her skirt and neckline, and the flower on her headpiece. The sentiment is cut/embossed using Spellbinders Labels 4.

The dp is from the Nana's Kids pack.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back soon.

Hugs,
Karen

Embrace the Goddess!

I am a day behind on the SCS challenges, but I love doing vintage. When I first saw this image from Rubbernecker Stamps, I loved it. I think the sentiment is perfect as well. It reminds me of how my Mother dressed when I was little.The outfit is paper pieced using a beautiful vintage type paper from Kaisercraft.

I hope you like it as much as I do.