Blog Hop PTI style!

Hello everyone, first let me introduce Izzy. She is my little 5 year old who loves to stamp. Today was a big deal for her because I let her color with my beloved copic markers. It was AWESOME, so she is entering in the blog hop this month LOL!

Here is her card. She colored the butterfly and stamped the sentiment all by herself.

Of course she couldn't wait to tear it open LOL! She also colored all of these other beauties while I was stamping today.

I will be back in a few minutes with mine.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Color Q

I feel like it has been forever since I was able to play with the colour Q challenge. I finally had some time today. I had to also share Izzy's card that she created with some of the challenge colors as well.

We are totally cat crazy around here after she earned her baby kitten for her birthday, so that is the only one that made it to the card for her LOL! Here is my card

This is the first time for me using a lot of these little cuties. I am loving this set in a major way! I can't wait to create more for Izzy's kids this year with this fun set. LOVE IT!!!!

We are getting ready for church, so I need to scat, have a wonderful weekend!

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Izzy's summer camp project

Here is Izzy's creation for the summer camp.

How fun is this project. I adore how Izzy loves to create. She is so much fun to be with in the stamping room. She stamped the flower from baby button bits, adorable.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

He Cares for you

Before I get to the goods for the day, I had to share one of Izzy's creations. I love that she loves to create. She has moved to marker mediums lately, but I still love this one as well.
Here is my creation for the day

This was for my pastor Heidi. She is so neat and she lost her Grandmother, so I wanted to send her something special. This was simple to whip together, but I loved the effects.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Damask Designs, Everyday blessings

Paper: Stamper Select White, Black

Ink: True Black

Accessories: Stampin Dimensinoals

Berry Much Thanks

Before I get to my post for the day, I had to share some of Izzy's creations. These are some of her Father's Day cards. She is really into being a ballerina and so we had to make ballerina cards with glitter for Papa and Daddy. Isn't that fun. Now just so you don't think I am crazy, I didn't let Izzy glitter alone. She picked out the colors and told me where she would like them and then I glittered.

The best part is when she is all done with a card she really likes she says, "Take da picture Mom." How stinking funny is that?

Anyway, this is one of the cards I made for the Viva La Verve June challenge. The twist was to use something new.

Here is my take on the challenge.

The new things are the grid dsp and the stamp set that I used wasn't new to me, but I had never used this cute strawberry. Can you even believe it? My Dad works really hard on a fun garden for all of us. When I was pregnant with Izzy he started it right away. He said his Grandma and Grandpa always had berries in their garden and he needed some of his own for his grandchildren. Isn't that cute. Needless to say Izzy loves the strawberries and raspberries that Papa grows.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: MFT Fairy Princess Birthday, PTI Green Thumb, PTI Faux ribbon

Paper: Lovely lilac, taken with teal , pixie pink, orcad opulance, night of navy, kraft, PTI Melon Berry

Ink: Momento Black, PTI Melon Berry, Real Red, PTI Ripe Avacado

Accessories: GKD Glue Pen,GKD Glitter, Crushed Curry ribbon, Mambo ribbon, PTI Melon Berry ribbon, Stampin Dimensinals

Chalk!!!

I must admit Wednesday mornings are becoming my favorite of the whole week (except Sunday of course). I typically have that morning off and Izzy and I are a bit lax in our schedule. We get up at the normal time, but we don't get changed right away. We have started watching the Stamp TV new epsidoe and then we go up and stamp after breakfast. Isn't that funny! Well today Gina had us pull out our chalks and I must admit I haven't used them in YEARS!!! I loved that it was also something Izzy could do. Here is the link for the Chalk Challenge.

I incorporated the Stamp TV sketch as well.
Here is Izzy's card.

Here is my card

Since Izzy was helping we had to use an animal! The zebra is one of the only chunky GKD animals I have, so that was the one. On my card, I also did some white dots as accents. I am usually a stiched sort of girl, but I wanted to change it up. I like the effect. There was some debate in my mind about dotting around the ciricle and the other strip, but eventually I went with just the rectangles. What do you think?

Izzy's card is for some new friends she got to play with last night. We had a great time at their home and she is going to go there tonight, so we will take her cards as well. If we could only get MORE cute animals Izzy would be set for life LOL!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Jumping for Joy

Paper: PTI Dark Grey, SU dsp

Ink: Versa Mark

Accessoreis: White gel pen, stampin dimensinoals, SU chalk pretty in pink, bashful blue, white, certain cerely, regal rose ribbon, nessties

Peace

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To say that I have created a stamping monster might be a bit of an understatement. As you all know, Izzy was sick for a while and she ended up missing 2 weeks of church. She was pretty tramatized about that and the fabulous teachers sent Izzy a get well soon/we miss you card. She was so excited. She carried it around for 3 days! Here is Izzy, Auggie and Izzy's prized card. Well after she felt better, we had to go up to the stamping room and make thank you cards. Isn't she great. Fortunately I received my prize package from Lori. It had some Bellas and many other goodies including some flowers. I really don't have any flowers so Izzy thought they were the best things ever created.
Here is Izzy's card for her teachers. She picked out all of the colors and it was her idea about the butterflies! She is so stinking cute when she is creating. I am seeing her own stamping table in the near future, LOL!

Of course I had to make a fun card with my new goodies as well. I would have never picked out hippiechickbella, but now that I have her - YUMMY!!!! This was the picture for the Bellarific Friday challenge. Isn't that fun.

Here is my take. I used this Card Patterns sketch from earlier in the week. I wasn't really sure how the Bella challenge would work, so I wanted to make sure I had a card to enter therefore I made 2 cards with the sketch.

Groovy! I tried a few new things on this card. I like visual idea of the paper curled up. I thought it kind of mirrored the look of buttons. I also loved the new ribbon crunching that I learned at Kristing Werner's site (Link on the side). She is so creative and I really like new ways to use my supplies. The dsp was one from my stash, but it seemed to be very 70s and the colors seemed to really match the inspiration piece. I had to stack three dimensionals to pop the main image up enough. It is really tons of fun!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Stampinbella Hippiechickabella, Peace

Ink: Stampinbella Momento Black Ink

Paper: Melon Berry, Stampers Select White, dsp from stash, Summer sunrise, Kiwi Kiss, Melon Berry, Hibiscus

Accessories: SU summer sun, blush blossom, brocade blue, creamy carmel, pixie pink markers, blender pen, glue dots, stampin dimensionals, Kiwi Kiss striped ribbon, Melon Berry satin ribbon, staples, Melon Berry buttons, New Leaf buttons, Hibiscus buttons

Going on a Chick Hunt!

Well as you might have guessed, I didn't get into to the MFT Idol contest. There are some fabulous stampers over there, but I had a good time trying. One of the things they have are challenges for the judges. This is the week 2 challenge, which is masking. I was thinking and thinking and then BAM! Izzy loves animals and she loves scavenger hunts, so I made her a Where's Waldo version of an easter card.

Before I get to that, while I was in the stamping room working on her card Izzy decided to help Mommy stamp. She wanted to make a card for a friend who brought her some "special purple juice" (gateraide) while she was sick. She piced out which animals, helped stamp and then colored them in herself. She then decided which colors to matt the card with as well. When she was all done she set up the white background papers I use to take pictures and then set her card up and said "take picure of my cad Mom". Who can refuse that?

Here is my go at masking and making a fun card that I think Izzy will love.
I am also going to submit this for the Stamp It! weekly challenge. One of the categories was to create a scene, so this is my try at that. Isn't this fun? It is acutally all on one page the only dimension is the flock I put on the chicks. I really think Izzy will get a kick out of this. All of the coloring was done with Stampin Up markers. I don't have any copics yet, so this was the best I can do. If you would like to learn how to mask, a link is found here with really good directions and pictures.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: MFT Hanging With My Peeps, MFT It's a Jungle out there

Paper: Pure Luxury heavy base weight 120lb.

Ink:Momemto Black Ink

Accessories: GKD Glue Pen, GKD Doodlebug Glitter 12 pack , More Mustard, Really Rust, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Carmel, Sahara Sand, Going Grey, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom markers