Inkadinkado Angels

I've had my eye on this stamp set by Inkadinkado at my friend Linda's Sugar Shack in Lake Havasu for several months now and finally gave in and bought it.

I've made two cards with it so far that I'll show you today.

I really like the swirly flowing yet simplicity of the images.  They might just be good for a Copic coloring class, who knows?

For my first card I wanted to try Blues in the Copic markers and for my second card I used Blue Greens.

I like them both but I'm more inclined toward the Blue Greens because that's my favorite Copic color family.  I also like the wings more on the second card, just a hint of color. 

I also looked through my digital sentiments and found several nice sentiments that would go with the angels.  

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Challenges:
Stamp -n- Doodle - Emboss It
iCopic - Thankful
Crazy Challenge - Something With Wings
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Swirls
Crafting For All Seasons - Texture
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge - Things With Wings
 Dutch Dare - Punches & Dies

Veteran's Day 2011

Happy Veteran's Day -

There is an Operation Write Home Veteran's Day blog hop that starts today, you can click the badge above to take you to the first stop on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog.

My cards today were a fun project the for the Girls Ministry at our church.  I was asked by our Girls Ministry leader if I'd like to do a project with the girls for Veteran's Day.  She knows I love to make cards and support Operation Write Home...

In an effort to keep it simple for all age groups I chose to use one of Sandy Allnock's fun digital images of her dog Ciara for the girls to color.  I printed the image and sentiment on white card stock and cut them apart and scored them.  That's what the two cards in the photo are on.  We will also be writing "Any Hero" letters in our cards.

  I colored two of the cards to use as examples with Copic markers:  R29, R27, R24, B24, B28, E04, E02, YR21, E34, E35, T5, T3, T1. 

All the cards we colored will be going to Heroes at the VA Hospital in Prescott Arizona.

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Challenges:
Celebrate The Occasion - Veteran's Day
The Stamping Boutique - Home of The Brave
Just Inspirational Challenges - Remembrance Day

Doodle Pantry Cute Quail

I have a fun card to share with you today made with Doodle Pantry's Cute Quail digital stamp set.  I used the pre-colored Quail and both digital papers that come in this set and paired it with Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps sketch #93 from October 30th.  

I printed the Quail and swatches of the digital papers on one sheet of  Stampin' Up! Vanilla card stock and used Stampin' Up! Garden Green and Astro Brights Jupiter Java to coordinate with these fabulous digital papers.  I also used a strip of Stampin' Up! organdy ribbon as a finishing touch.

I really like how this card turned out using the Cute Quail digital stamp set and the sketch.  It was quick and fun to put together and it fits the Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown challenge this week as a Valentine card.

Quail you be mine?!

I have a secret to share with you about this stamp set too (:

For a limited time it's a free with purchase set at Doodle Pantry!

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Valentine's

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Sketch #93
2 Sisters Challenge - Ribbon
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes with brown
Crazy Challenge -  Something With Wings
Digital Tuesday - Anything Goes

Doodle Pantry 12 Days of Christmas blog hop winners!

Our blog hop winners!!

Winners from the blog hop are announced today.
THANK YOU to all those who took the time to view and comment and enter our hop.  We hope you were inspired to go to your craft areas and create some holiday cheer!

 

For the $10 coupon prizes, Random.org chose linky entries    2,   11,   15,   20,  and  21

......who are........

SiskiyouSue,    Peggy T.,     IKE,     -Anne-,    and   Riette  And the TWO BONUS $15 coupon winners are chosen from the following blogs: Cat Spicer from commenting on Vicki's blogandSandy from Lorianna's blog
  

Congratulations!!!

D.A.I.S.I.E. Comany Jacki's Hearts & Sweets

Our Midweek Throwdown challenge at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps is to make Valentine/Love themed cards.  I know it seems kind of early but the deadline isn't that far away!

For my card I used a pre-colored digital image from D.A.I.S.I.E. Company and a sketch that I C.A.S.E.d from an OWH friend of mine.  This card is kind of hard to give you details about because it's not in front of me anymore, it went out in my last box of cards for Operation Write Home.  It was a fun card to make though and I hope you'll have time in your busy week to make a card for the OWH Midweek Throwdown challenge.

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Valentines
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Clear Dollar Stamps Happy Fall Y'all

We have a winner for our Clear Dollar Stamps Happy Fall Y'all blog hop!  I'm happy to announce from Barb's blog, Barb's Best Creations, the winner is Kathi from Golden Paper Dreams.  congratulations Kathi, enjoy your goodies from Clear Dollar Stamps!

House Mouse Sunflower

My card today has been waiting it's turn for a blog post.  I colored the cute House Mouse stamped image this last summer but didn't have a nice sketch/layout for it.  Last month Splitcoast Stampers had the perfect sketch #355 and I had lots of fun making the card but didn't have a spot for it with design team and fund raiser stuff going on so today's the day.

I'm sorry I couldn't find the scrap of paper I wrote the Copic marker color numbers on.  That's one of the pitfalls of setting aside a colored image.  The patterned paper was a scrap I'd air brushed with Copic markers and stamped using Copic blending solution and a background stamp.

The other cardstock colors are Mohawk Bright White, Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up! Pumpkin Pie & Garden Green and Astro Brights Galaxy Gold (the closest I could find to the retired Stampin' Up! Summer Sun).  The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink stamp set called Signature Greetings and is cut out with Spellbinders Mega Ovals and Mega Scalloped Ovals.  I added three color enhanced (G28) Dew Drops for balance and the embossed panel is made with a polka dot Cuttlebug 5 X 7 embossing folder.

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Challenges:
Inspire Me Friday's - Anything Goes
Challenge Up Your Life - Friendship
Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes
Heart Song Designs - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Bug A Boo Stamps "Make It Snappy" Happy Birthday

I have a fun card to share today using a Bug A Boo Stamps digital image that I thought was really neat.  It's called a "Make It Snappy" image & I would imagine is for making a quick simple one layer card.  You know I struggle with that...

I had a great time coloring this fun birthday image with Copic markers and have a supply list pictured below.

 

I thought I'd share a little of my card making process with you.  Sometimes I feel like I'm always using the same colors so I get out my Stampin' Up! color wheel for a little inspiration.  After getting out my color wheel I'll pick markers I think look like the colors on the wheel and test them out on a scrap of white cardstock I'll be using.  

And I have a picture of the papers I was thinking of using, Stampin' Up! Apricot Appeal, Ballet Blue, Cameo Coral, Mellow Moss & Basic Black.  I'm not sure if these colors are retired or not, I gave up trying to keep up to date with Stampin' Up!

I also used a Sizzix dots embossing folder, a stars embossing folder that came from Hobby Lobby, a little Stickles Ice and 3 D Crystal Lacquer - fun!  I like the ease of use and sparkle of Stickles but I don't like the way it feels or that it might come off for my Operation Write Home cards.  The solution to that problem for me is 3 D Crystal Lacquer or Crystal Effects.  After the Stickles is dry I add a generous layer of 3 D Crystal Lacquer and let it dry, my bling is then nice and shiny and smooth too.

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Challenges:
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Birthday Sundaes - Birthday Wording
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - Celebration Time
Paper Sundaes - Rectangles

Clear Dollar Stamps Year Round Calendar

Hello and welcome to the Clear Dollar Stamps Year Round Calendar blog hop!  If you've arrived here from Lorie's blog you're on the right track.  If not and you'd like to start with "January" click here.

Our hop today is about inspiring you with different ways to use the Clear Dollar Stamps Year Round Calendar digital set for fun gifts and maybe a little something for yourself too.

This wonderful set sells for $3.50.

I chose to work with the month of May, you might be able to see in the picture that there is a darker yellow circle on the 14th of the month for my daughter's 12th birthday.  I sized my calendar page to fit in my vintage Rolodex V546 which takes 4"X6" file cards.  I colored the flowers and background with Copic markers Y17, Y15, Y13, Y11, B0000, BG000, B21, B23, BV0000, BV000, BV01, G28, G40, G82.

Here's a top view of the calendar page and the Rolodex file it's in. 

There's a prize package being offered by Clear Dollar Stamps so be sure to leave a comment so you're in the drawing to win this versatile digital stamp set!  There will be two winners -

The next stop on our hop is the fabulous Dawn!

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Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Doodle Pantry Twelve Days of Christmas

Welcome to our Doodle Pantry Twelve Days of Christmas blog hop!  

If you've arrived here from Lori's blog you're on the right track, if not and you'd like to start at the beginning please click here.

I should warn you that I really, really like circular sentiments - I used Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge #356 for my first card layout as well as one of the digital papers that come in this stamp set.

Each of my cards and tags today were made with Doodle Pantry's Twelve Days of Christmas digital stamp set and digital papers.

This fun digital stamp set sells for $4.75.

Be sure to enter your name, e mail, etc. in the linky on the Doodle Pantry blog to be eligible for fabulous prizes...

Prize winners will be announced Wednesday, November 9th on the Doodle Pantry blog.

The next stop on our hop is the fabulous Donna!

A quick note about our Doodle Pantry blog hop prizes:

HOW DO YOU ENTER and
HOW MANY PRIZES WILL WE HAVE?:

• Just enter your name, email, (and blog link optional) in the linky at the bottom of the post on the Doodle Pantry blog.
• If we have 59 linky entries or less, we will use random.org to select 5 winners for a $10 coupon prize from the entries in the linky.
• If we have more than 59 entries in the linky, we will have random.org choose 8 winners for a $10 coupon prize!!

BONUS PRIZES:

And to top all that off, we will be selecting TWO BONUS commenters from all the comments left on two of our Design Teams blogs to win a $15 coupon prize...... no one knows which blog from our blog roll list I will randomly choose a winner from, so just comment on them all to increase your chances at winning a bonus prize!

 

In case you need help finding your way:

BLOG ROLL LIST:

1. Doodle Pantry Blog HERE (enter linky at bottom)
2. Dawn
3. Lorie A
4. Sarah T
5. Kristine
6. Karen
7. Patti P
8. Elizabeth
9. Kathy
10. Lori Z
11. Jan <--- You are here (:
12. Donna
13. Pat D
14. Amy
15. Vicki D
16. Glenda
17. Sharon
18. Sarah N

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Challenges:
Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes
Floweret - Christmas
Fun With Shapes & More - Christmas Animals
Mami Doodles - Christmas
Sweet & Sassy - Christmas

Tiddly Inks Always The Flower Girl

My card today uses a cute digital image from Tiddly Inks.
My crafty friend Dagmar spent some time with me the other day and we colored one of these cute "Always The Flower Girl" images with Copic markers. 

While she was here I thought it would be fun to make a card for the finished images and this is what came to mind.  We used Spellbinders circles, Cheery Lynn Designs French Flair & French Flair scalloped dies as well as a wood mounted rubber stamp for the sentiment made by Paper Impressions.

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Challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Die Cuts
Paper Crafting Journey - Use A Digi
Tiddly Inks - Anything Goes

A Day For Daisies Playing In The Pumpkin Patch

I think it might be time to celebrate!  It's November in Arizona - finally :)  Our temperatures are cooling off, yea!

My card today is one I colored this last summer when I needed to feel cool, I love A Day For Daisies digital images and I love to color pumpkins! 

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Challenges:
Crafty Contagion - Pumpkin
Come and Get It - Anything Goes
Celebrate The Occasion - Fall - must have a pumpkin

Doodle Pantry Quirky Armadillo

It's time for Doodle Pantry's new releases today and there are so many cute new digital stamp sets to choose from!

For my new release project I picked Quirky Armadillo and I just LOVE the colors in this set.  If I were a Copic marker this deep blue green would be me :)  I did not do any coloring on this cute armadillo though, it was all pre-colored for me.  This is one of the Doodle Pantry digital stamp sets that come pre-colored with coordinating digital papers and if you really do want to color it yourself there are line drawings of the images for you.

I love to color but I also love to make quick, fun, beautiful cards with pre-colored digital images.  I have a friend in mind that is going to love this, she has a thing for armadillos!

You must stop by Doodle Pantry today and see ALL of the wonderful new releases and sample cards from our fabulous design team!

One more thing before I let you go today!

We have a Doodle Pantry blog hop scheduled for this Saturday, November 5, 2011 you won't want to miss.

See you then... 

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Challenges:
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Pollycraft - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Use A Digital Image
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes

Penny Black Wish You Were Near

I decided to make a second card for my Rolodex Art File using the Penny Black stamped image we used in the Copic shading class I went to with my friend Dagmar earlier this month.

I have no supply list because I was in a class and the papers are from the class too.  I think the name of this Slapstick cling stamp is "Wish You Were Near".  

Here's a look at my file before I started filling it.

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Challenges:

Clear Dollar Stamps Fall Birthday Critters

I have a fun birthday card to share with you today!  This is a pre-colored digital image from Clear Dollar Stamps and it comes with digital papers too.  

I found a sketch layout I wanted to try in my files, took a few measurements and printed the cute owl, sentiment and paper and went to work.  I love using the pre-colored digital images from Clear Dollar Stamps, I "need" birthday cards and they help fill that need so nicely!  

I have a supply list for you today:

Stamps/Images:  Clear Dollar Stamps Birthday Fall Critters

Cardstock/papers:  Color Mates Deep Orange, Via Vellum Leaf Green, Astrobrights Solar Yellow, Mohawk Bright White, Digital paper that comes in this set

Inks/Markers:  HP OfficeJet 6000

Accents/Tools:  Spellbinders circle dies, We R Memory Keepers 1/8^th “ Corner Chomper, Stampin’ Up! Mat Stack & paper piercing tool

It's time for me to say a fond farewell to Clear Dollar Stamps, in just a couple of days my design team term ends.  I have one more Clear Dollar Stamps project to share November 6th for their Year Round Calendar blog hop and I hope you'll come back for that.  Thanks Lori for having me on your team, it's been a great year!  If any of my blog readers ever have the opportunity to be on the CDS design team I'd give them a 5 star rating for being a wonderful team to be a part of.

Have a nice weekend and thanks for visiting my blog today -

Challenges:
The Corrosive Challenge - Flying Things
Scrappy Frog - Something That Flies

Doodle Pantry Quirky Skunk

I bet you were expecting to see a card using Doodle Pantry's Quirky Skunk digital stamp set!  I need to buy some ink for my OfficeJet printer and just haven't done it so I was rummaging through my scrap pile and this card formed in my mind.

I used Doodle Pantry's Quirky Skunk designer paper that comes in the digital stamp set and Doodle Pantry's Merciful & Good digital stamp set for my card.  Kind of a weird combination but it works for me.  It was fun to take a limited amount of supplies and see what I could put together.  You may recognize the sketch, it's Splitcoast Stampers Sk#343.  

The digital papers have an off white background so I used a sheet of Cream Linen cardstock I've had for a long time and the polka dots matched Stampin' Up! Taken With Teal, all waiting in the pile of scraps beside my cutter.  

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Polka Dots
Lexi's Creations - Just A Sentiment
Kenny K - Get Dotty
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Bug A Boo Stamps Itchy

I had a little time to look through some of my already colored stamps and digital images and came across several from Bug A Boo Stamps, how fun!  I had such a good time when I was on their design team (:  I decided to use Itchy for our Polka Dots Midweek Throwdown challenge at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps that starts today.

My colors are limited because I colored this cute image while I was at one of our church craft therapy meetings.  That's what my friend calls our every other Friday craft night we meet for at our local church.

My layout is Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps Sunday sketch challenge #92 pictured below.

As you can see I flipped the sketch to accommodate the way Itchy was sitting, if I hadn't colored him yet I would have "flipped" him in my Publisher program before printing.  

For papers I used Neenah Solar White & Red Pepper Linen, Via Vellum Leaf Green & Black.  The ribbon is by May Arts, I have Apple Green May Arts dotted organdy ribbon and it was too light so I used my Copic YG17 marker on it to color both sides so it would match better.  I also used a strip of white cardstock under the ribbon to help it pop just a little more.  I got out my old favorite Hearts & Scalloped Hearts Spellbinders dies and the "miss you" sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink stamp set.

I hope you'll join us for our Midweek Throwdown challenge at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps this week.

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Challenges:

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Polka Dots

Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps - Sketch challenge #92

Forever Friends - Anything Goes use an Animal

Stampendous Jumbo Pine

I have a fun card/project to share with you today!

I haven't had a lot of time to play with my new Rolodex V546 as I'd like but I do have a new project to show you.

I used the Stampendous Jumbo Pine cling stamp to make a card for my Rolodex art file.  I colored the pine tree with Copic markers and put the "recipe" on the back of the card.  I did forget to take a picture of it so here's the list:

G29, G28, G24, G82, G20, R59, R46, R32

Here's a picture of my progress so far...

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Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge - No Designer Papers
Crafting When We Can - Christmas
Bearly Mine - Anything But A Card
Crafty Sentiments - No Designer Papers

Beccy's Place Chocolate Strawberries

I'm so happy with the way this card turned out!  I've had the image from Beccy's Place colored for quite some time but haven't had a suitable sketch/layout.  Until last Wednesday...  I thought Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge #355 was perfect for this. 

The cardstock colors I used are Neenah Red Pepper Linen, Stampin' Up! Garden Green, Thepapermill.com Nut Brown, Mohawk Bright White & Copic Xpress It.  I wasn't sure what paper I'd used to color on until I took photos and had the card on my computer screen, that's when I can always tell.

I colored the Chocolate Strawberies with Copic markers:  

E57, E35, E33, R59, R46, R35, Wo, B63, B60, YG01, YG03, YG63, YG67

The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink set Signature Greetings, cut out with Spellbinders Ovals and I added three enhanced Dew Drops (E57) for balance.  I forgot to mention when I listed the papers that the striped strip of paper is digital paper that was in my scrap pile so I'm not sure who it's made by. 

Today's card is in memory of my Mom, she's been gone eleven years now & today is her birthday and her favorite color was red.  She would have been 86 years old, I never got to share my card making with her.  She did teach me to sew when I was a little girl though, we spent hours and hours together lost in fabric and patterns - good memories  (: 

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Challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks - Marker It Up!
Charisma Cardz - Embossing
Crafty Purple Frog - Thank You
Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Friday's - Anything Goes
Splitcoast Stampers - Sketch Challenge #355
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

K 'n K Designs Blog Hop Winners

Hello blog friends!  

I wanted to announce the 2 winners of our K 'n K Designs Operation Write Home Fundraiser blog hop!  

Congratulations Cinnamon Sally from Brenda's blog and Rhonda Miller from Shannon's blog, random.org picked you!

Enjoy your new goodies from K 'n K Designs!