One of A Kind Mother

This is the Mother's Day card that I made for my grandmother.  I wanted to do a Queen for a Day sort of theme.  When I looked through my stamp collection I found this White Queen stamp from Spesch Designer Stamps and thought this would be perfect for my card. 



Supplies- White Queen digi stamp from Spesch Designer Stamps

Paper- Boise HD Color Copy Cover, PTI Cardstock, All other elements are from the Kaisercraft Chanteuse Collection

Accessories- Angel Pink Momento Marker, Antique Linen Distress Ink, Recollections Pearls, Diamond Stickles

Copics: Skin E13 E15 E17 Dress R81 R83 R85 R89 Hair E29 E35 E49 E27 Crown Y28

You Are My Sunshine

Happy Tuesday! I managed to put this card together also over the weekend. I have had this image colored for months but never came up with a card concept to use it. Finally inpiration hit me! Hopefully I can keep up the momentum and get started on my holiday cards!

Ingredients-

Stamp- Summer Fairy digi by Spesch Stamps, sentiment PTI! Fillable Frames

Ink- Smooch Illuminate, Grape Jelly Memento Ink

Paper- PTI Cardstock, Basic Grey Kioshi, Making Memories Girl 2.0

Accessories- Recollections pearls, Tim Holtz Alterations Baroque Sizzix die, Petaloo Dazzlers

Copics: E000 E00 E02 V01 V06 V09 BG05 YR21 YR23 YR24 BG0000

If You've Got It...Haunt It!

Happy Thursday! Ok technically it is my Friday since I have off tomorrow. Yay! 4 day weekend when you throw in Columbus Day! I have been wanting to use this Bo Bunny Champagne Rose Trim all week and actually decided to make my card bigger so it would fit. This was supposed to be a Halloween card but I decided to use some frilly and girly colors and paper and embellishments instead... Rose is having fun playing dress up. All Halloween things don't need to be creepy and scary, right?

Recipe: Rose digi stamp from Spesch Stamps, Heidi Grace patterned paper, PTI Stampers Select White Cardstock, Recollections adhesive pearl stickers, Prima pearl swirl, Bo Bunny Champagne Rose Chiffon Trim, Oval Nestabilities, SU! Chocolate Chip and Kraft cardstock, Copic ABS3 E42 RV32 and compressor, white satin ribbon from my stash, Crystal Effects (on the umbrella it is very shiny in real life)

Copics: E000 E00 BG0000 BG15 R20 RV34 RV32 RV91 RV93 RV95 E44 E49 E47 E43

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday 70!

Playing along again for WOYWW.... I really love seeing everyone's creative space and that mine is not the messiest out there! Chaos=Creativity right?!?! I finally have a workdesk to show you this week...two actually. The first desk above is the desk I erected out of Jetmaxx cubes which has a 12x12 work space where I usually do my sponging, airbrushing, and any messy embossing activities. The other desk below is my TV tray which is now finally functioning as a desk...not just a place to pile things. This is where my cards come together...get glued together, etc.
Above are my current projects...I am working on two cards right now... one with some Heidi Grace paper...I picked out some copics to match and selected this Rose digi from Spesch Stamps to go with it. I airbrushed the background with E42 (freehand...no masking... I was feeling very bold). I also airbrushed some ribbon with RV32....but not sure if I want ribbon on this card...or something a little more fancy...

Sweet Fairy

Happy Friday! Yay! I made this card a while back and finally came up with a sentiment for it. Gotta love dollar bin rhinestone stickers from Michael's. Originally I wanted to use one that said Wish...but it got all tangled when I tried to remove it from the plastic backing sheet. My solution was to just cut around the word and adhere the whole plastic sheet to my card.

I am helping out my best friend at her Grandmother's Estate Sale/Yard Sale tomorrow so I probably won't post again until next week. If you are in the Central New Jersey area and want to check it out, it is at 53 E. Somerset Street in Raritan.


Recipe: Winter Fairy Digi Spesch Stamps, Studio 18 Rhinestones, DCWV Linen Closet, Making Memories Fresh Anthology Sydney patterned paper, Washi paper, Bow Easy, Copics (sorry lost my color listing...BG0000 B00 and B60's for sure)

Happy Autumn!

I figured since the equinox is upon us, that a fall themed card was in order. I love the fall, it is my favorite time of year. I am not too big on hot weather, winter is just too cold...spring...too much with the Hay Fever...but Fall, yup that is my favorite season. I got the idea for this card from a scrap piece of paper that I had punched out a bunch of leafs from...I though the negative space would look cool on a cardfront. Happy Monday y'all!

Recipe: Autumn Fairy digi by Spesch stamps, SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment, SU! Old Olive Cardstock and stampinwrite marker, PTI White cardstock and patterned paper(dots), DCWV Safari Chic cardstock, trim from stash, Studio 18 Rhinestones, EK Success leaf punch, Spica clear glitter pen, Copics: E0000 E000 E00 E02 E04 Y32 YR24 BG0000 0 G82 YG03 YG93 YG95 YG97

Happy Summer

It is very very hot here today. I am beating the heat by making some cards. Here is another great digi image from Spesch Designer Stamps. He is so summery. I can just picture him surfing on Bondi beach. Although I guess technically it is currently winter down under. I was playing around trying to come up with some summery color combos, and here is what I came up with.

I added this cute hot dog in his hand to go with the BBQ theme.Recipe: Cool Dude Digi by Spesch Designer Stamps, Studio G clear stamps VS4911 Series 14, Amy R Summer Sentiments stamp, PTI Cardstock, Neenah Solar White Cardstock, CC Designs Copic Quality Cardstock, Tim Holtz Alterations Scrollwork On the Edge Die, Me and My Big Ideas Soft Spoken DP- Relax stickers, Modge Podge Gloss Lustre, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Diamond Stickles, Copics: pictured above and YR24 E23 E55 E53 E51 R35 R22 B45 C5 C7 C9

Summer time is near

Happy Saturday! I made a fun summer time card with this great new digi stamp from Spesch stamps. I just love her cute face...I colored her a bit sunburn...because that was what her expression reminded me of.

Recipe: digi stamp by Spesch stamps, SU Phrase Starters II, Neenah Solar White Cardstock, PTI and SU Cardstocks, Making Memories pattern paper, Mt Deco Washi tape, Tim Holtz Alterations On The Edge die, Me and My Big Ideas sticker, Memento Rose Bud ink, Diamond Stickles, Copics: R30 R22 R46 YG03 YG06 YG00 BGOOO BG72 BG10 BG11 BG15 BG18 Y21 Y15 Y19 Y21 Y23 Y35 Y38BG01 BG05 R00 E93

Spesch Candy Alert!

Woo Hoo! Look at Tracey's awesome candy at Spesch Stamps. They are celebrating the opening of the new store. For any of you in my Color Me Creative Copic Class 3 who saw my homework with the cute little girl holding the bunny that was a Spesch digistamp called Bonnie and you can win the clear stamp version in this candy. And Tracey's store is where it came from. Anyway... hop on over to see the details and enter to win this awesome candy.

Queen For A Day...

I have to express that I am very grumpy and upset today. GRRR! 1- my cable was out last night so I could not watch American Idol or Glee, and 2- the tutorial I meant to do this week has already been done on the Club Anya blog. And here I thought I had figured something out all by myself...aparently it wasn't too difficult if others caught on so quickly ...lol! So no 3D flower tutorial from me this week. I will post a tutorial on how to make custom copic colors though... soon to come...stay tuned. Oh and I forgot it was Cinco De Mayo...Somebody have some Margaritas tonight in my honor since I can't drink them :0(

Recipe: White Queen digi from Spesch stamps, American Crafts designer paper, PTI Stampers Select White and Hawaiian Shores cardstock, Making Memories Spring Trim, PTI Everyday blessings designer paper, SU! Butterfly Bigz die, Bigshot, Reflections pearls, White gel pen, Smooch illuminate, Catholic Schoolgirl computer font, Copics: BG11 BG23 BG49 E11 E13 E31 E37 E27 E57 R21 C00

Thank You!

I finally got around to some cardmaking over the weekend. Here is a thank you card I made using a fabulous digi freebie from Tracey at Spesch Stamps. This stamp is called Penny and since there is a sunflower theme in this stamp, I had no problem at all selecting my colors for the card. Wish the sun would shine here in NY!

Recipe: Penny digi by Spesch Stamps, PTI stampers select white, lemon tarte cardstock and lemon tarte swiss dot satin ribbon, green cardstock from TAC, Kaisercraft Made with love designer paper run through bigshot using an SU! texture plate and alcohol spritz and sponged with Crushed Curry SU! ink, Bow Easy, SU! Crushed Curry cardstock, various Nestabilities, rhinestones, Prima roses, Janome Sew Mini, and Copics used: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG03, YG63, G20, E0000, E00, YR24, YR21, E43