There’s a new little baby Diva almost here and today we’re celebrating with a suprise shower hop! So come along with us and do the hop, hop, hop to help celebrate the arrival of Charmaine’s new little oodabug! This shindig started at the Verve Stamps blog, so if you’ve just happened along, be sure to hop on over there to start from the beginning!
The layout of this card is based on Julee's Mojo Monday sketch #94. The base of this card is PTI Lemon Tart CS with a mat of Whisper White which was punched using my Martha Stewart doily scallop punch. The next mat is Pink Pirouette, which is punched with the doily punch, and then I added a piece of decorative Imaginisce paper which was matted on Whisper White CS. The top yellow ribbon is also from PTI and the bottom ribbon is white polka dot May Arts and a knot of pink Tafetta. The darling Lamb & Duck image is from Serendipity Stamps and was stamped on Whisper White using Basic Black ink. I then colored using a combination of Prismacolor Pencils and Pink Pirouette ink & a blender pen. I popped up the two flowers and added Stardust Stickles. I added white flock to both the duck & the lamb using my Quickie glue pen. Here is a closer look ~
Congratulations Charmaine!!!
Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over to Tosha's blog for some more cuddly goodness.
Have a great day!
~Lynda
Hi!
Today I would like to start out with ANOTHER sneak peek before tomorrow's big announcement! Here you go ~
Do you know what it is??? LOL!!!! You'll have to wait until Tuesday for this one!!!
Now, on to my card for today's featured stamper ~ Jami Bova!!! Jami is a fantastic stamper and SO nice too!!! The card of Jami's that I chose to CASE is HERE! Here is my card ~
The base of my card is Basic Black with a mat of Whisper White that peeks just out the top and bottom. The upper portion is medium brown card stock by Bazzill and the lower portion is Basic Black, which I punched a decorative edge using a MS border punch, and then an accent strip of Apricot just below the decorative edge. The ribbon is by May Arts. The lower square is Basic Black and Whisper White, the top square is first Whisper White which was stamped with the sentiment included in THIS Verve set using Basic Black ink and then cut out using my square Nesties. The next layer was THIS Verve stamp using Basic Black ink on the medium brown Bazzill card stock, cut out with a square Nestie and then matted on Basic Black card stock.
The last step was to stamp the flowers from Verve's Grateful Elegance on Whisper White card stock using Basic Black ink and then colored using Apricot ink and a blender pen. I then added Apricot Shimmerz on all the flowers, added brown Kaiser rhinestones and mounted them using dimensionals on top of a swirl from THIS Doodle Parts die set by Spellbinders that I cut from Mellow Moss card stock.
I hope you are enjoying your weekend and I'll "see" ya back here tomorrow!!!
~Lynda
Hi Again!
I want to let you know that I went shopping and do you know the ONLY thing I bought was 3 sheets of paper!?!?! What the heck??? I didn't even buy it at Joann's with my coupon ~ got it at my LSS!!! LOL!!! Either I have too much stuff or I just didn't see anything I liked ~ I think I have too much stuff!!! LOL!!! Anyway, I am hoping to feel the inspiration any minute now and when I do, I will definitely share with you what I make!!!!!
In the meantime, I wanted to share with you a little SNEAK PEEK!!!! I can't give you any other details or information until Monday!!! I can't wait for Monday!!! Here is a little peek ~
Are you intrigued??? You will definitely want to be back here Monday for the BIG announcement!!!
Have a great day!
~Lynda
Dang, 2 posts in 1 day....this is new!!! LOL!!! Scroll down one post for my OCC card! Last week I received an extra copy of CardMaker Magazine as well as my card that was in it. I was surprised to receive it and since I already had a copy of the magazine, I thought I would give it away with the card and some other goodies! I will give you all the details after posting my card I made today for Jen's ~ SFYTT ~
The base of this card is Whisper White with a mat of Sahara Sand and then Bashful Blue. I sponged all edges with Sahara Sand except the Whisper White pieces. I wanted the white to stand out! The Bashful Blue decorative paper is from SU!'s Summer Picnic collection and was matted with Whisper White. The butterflies on the left were punched using my Martha Stewart punch from Sahara Sand card stock and the little one on the right is from Bashful Blue card stock. The smaller butterflies were adhered using my Quickie glue pen and I added small blue rhinestones from Taylors Twinkles. The larger butterfly, embossed flowers and on the ribbon tabs are self adhesive rhinestones from MAMBI. The Cuttlebug flowers were embossed on Sahara Sand card stock and matted with Whisper White. I added Sahara Sand ribbon under the image and white Taffetta to tie on the tag which has the sentiment from Warmest Regards stamped on Vellum using Chocolate Chip ink and then cutting it out using THIS Spellbinder label die.
Now, for my give-a-way!!! Here is a picture of it ~
All you have to do is leave a comment here, on this post, and you will be entered to win all of it! What you will win is the new issue of CardMaker Magazine, my card that is in it (OK, maybe that is dumb but we can all use cards right??? LOL!!!), brand new Stampendous stamp set called Sushi Bowl Party (I love mine!), a pack of the hostess DS papers from SU! (the collection includes Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Apricot, Garden Green & Bashful Blue) and last but CERTAINLY not least, a brand new pack of Taylors Tiny Twinkles (this was hard to part with!!! LOL!!!). I will pick a winner Tuesday night at 8pm (EST) so you will have until then to post a comment!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic Valentine's Day!
~Lynda
I'm back!!! I have lots to share! Today is my Birthday!!! Yes, I am 21 AGAIN!!! I don't know if you guys saw the picture this morning of the 115 year old woman? Well, my darling little angels (with some help from their Daddy) mentioned that SHE looked better than me!! LOL!!! Oh boy am I lucky to have such a loving, caring, family!!! Anyway, I am going to offer up some Birthday Blog Candy beginning today and I'll pick a winner Tuesday evening at 8 EST. All you have to do is leave a comment HERE, on this post!!!
I have been going through my CRAP, oh, I mean, lovely PILES of craft items I have been hoarding for years, because my friend Tamara is having a crop next weekend to raise money for Autism Speaks so I wanted to put a basket together to donate so it can be raffled off next weekend. While shoveling through, I found some stuff I thought you guys might like and use!!! Here is the STUFF~
This includes 1 unmounted French Flair background stamp and 5 unopened packs of retired SU! papers ~ Au Chocolat, Dashing, Le Jardin, Holiday Thyme and Four Seasons. I will post the winner sometime after 8pm Tuesday (4/22).
Since April is National Autism Awareness Month, if anyone is interested in donating to Autism Speaks, please email me and I will provide my mailing address and Tamara will include it with her donation that she will send in sometime after the crop on Saturday. The checks can be made payable to Autism Speaks so you will have a receipt.
I wanted to share with you some Birthday RAK's I received last week!!! I feel so guilty because I LOVED getting the RAK's but have yet to send a Birthday RAK!!! I have been on the Bloggers RAK list for at least a year now!!! I know, how selfish is that!!! I promise to do better!!!
Isn't this cute??? I love it! This is from Simone ~AKA ~ Spazzgirl. Thank you Simone, it is darling!
This one is from Karen Mackie ~ AKA ~ BradsMom. I love these colors and the DP is darling! I will have to keep searching for Karen's SCS gallery and will add it when I find it!!
This awesome card is from Amy. I have never been able to get this buckle card to work!!! Amy did a great job on this. I will have to keep it for inspiration!! Thank you Amy!
Last but not least is this card I received Debra. I LOVE this stamp set ~ one of my favorites!!! This is so cute, thank you so much Debra!
I will leave you with a card I made recently using the DARLING Bunny from Serendipity Stamps. The decorative paper is from Imaginisce and is their Peeps line. I won't go in to a lot of detail because the card is pretty simple AND my friends are taking me out to dinner tonight and I need to get going!!!
Thanks again for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment to win my blog candy!!!
~Lynda
Heartfelt congratulations on being published! That's fantastic but comes as no surprise really, since your work is fantastic! Your blog giveaway is awesome, but your card alone is worth the rice of admission (for me anyway)!