Soooo behind!

To say it has been busy around here is an understatement. We had a death in the family and then went on our whirlwind family trip. This is just what I need right now!!!!

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Love of a father

I am always late with this color challenge, but it is such great inspiration I had to use it. There should be another fun color challenge tomorrow if you would like to check it out you can do that here.
Here is my card.

This is a one layer card for Kristina's challenge. Isn't that fun? I did a TON of masking, but it really is neat to see in person. Everything else is stamps. The shape is the top notes die for my mask. I then used the new little argyle stamp set to create the pattern on the bottom. I thought it needed a little ribbon for the center, but since it is a one layer card, I went with more masking. The sentiment is from father knows best. It will work well for one of the Dads. This also works really well with the PPA kiss challenge this week.

Look for another fun post tomorrow. I am going to have a card for the PTI blog hop!!!!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: Little Argyle, Father Knows best

Paper: Stampers select white

Ink: Basic Grey, Going Grey, Crushed curry

Accessories: removable adhesive, spounge dauber

KWerner Color combo is back!!!

Okay the color combo is only back for the moment, but it was so much fun. As you see below, she really went out of her way to challenge all of us! (Okay maybe not all of us, but a challenge for me for sure that is a lot of colors!) I also wanted to tackle the Mojo Monday sketch again. Can you even beleive it has been two weeks in a row? Super fun!!!

Here is my card.

Well what do you think? Now I must say that one of my favorite sets right now is the everyday button bits. I do have the new flower button set, but I haven't really busted that one out. Even though I use it a lot, this is the first time I have busted out the fun stems and flowers.

Okay I used baja breeze paper for the background and then heat emobssed the stems and the sentiment. Since I have already started the year off with late cards I thought a so sorry I'm late card worked well. Hopefully it will not be an ongoing theme, but who knows.

I then adhered the srip of punched dsp from basic grey and the berry sorbet double stiched ribbon from PTI. The yellow striped paper is from cosmo cricket. Hope you enjoy.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Everyday button bits

Ink: Versa mark

Paper: su baja breeze, su so saffron, PTI stampers select white, cosmo cricket, basic grey

Accessories: white embossing powder, heat gun, white gel pen, berry sorbet double stiched ribbon, berry sorbet, scarlet jewel, lemon tart buttons from PTI, yellow button from basic grey, su ticket corner punch, apron punch, su stampin dimensinoals

You lift me up!

I have been waiting for a new color challenge for a while now. It seems like forever since I was able to join one. You can't even imagine my excitement when I saw all of these fun colors from Kristina's Color inspiration #56. I also combined this with a very interesting challenge on Stamp TV. It was by Mealine Muchinger (one of my favorite stamp designers!). The challenge was to stamp a line art stamp on dsp and then color it in so that you could still see some of the pattern through the coloring. WOW this was such a new idea for me!!! Anyway here is the color combo
Here is my card

What do you think? Isn't this different. The clouds are colored in with a white gel pen and the rest I colored with Stampin Up markers. I used soft sky dsp, so the blue was a little softer than the challenge blue, but I thought that might be okay. You can see the pattern in the kites. I didn't really know where to put my sentiment, so I put it on the inside. It says " You lift me up!"

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Eclectic summer Stamp TV kit

Paper: Soft Sky dsp, Basic Black, PTI Stampers select white

Ink: GKD Momemto Black

Accessories: Stampin dimensionals, Real red, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Certain Celery markers, white gel pen

Hippy Birthday

Hello peoples,

I have to explain this a little bit. We had a fabulous weekend at Lake Shelbyville in southern Illinois. It was the most fun ever. The first day Izzy went crazy with boat rides, floating out back and last but certainly not least the jet ski rides. My little daughter is a tad CRAZY!!! She kept saying faster, I go super fast. She couldn't get enough. Here is a shot of the two of us and then an action shot.

That night, while we were at the hotel she said she had to call her peoples. She then spent 20 minutes on the phone talking to her "peoples" all about how much fun she had that day. It was too stinking cute for words. I wish we had out video camera right then LOL!

Anyway, I had to work on the Kirsten Werner color challege right away. I really thought this was a tough one, but like most of the color combos, I LOVE the end product. Here is the challenge

I also used the sketch challenge from Stamp TV found here

Here is my card

How much fun is this? This card will be for our little second cousin in North Dakota. He will be 2 when we are there, so I wanted to make this fun card for him. I really love how it turned out. The basic grey dsp really made the more mustard and really rust pop. I used an aqua painter and ink to color him in and to make fun clouds as well. It was all I can do not to make grass in green and blue clouds, but I really tired to keep to the color combo only LOL!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Hip hop accessories, GKD Just so Hippy

Ink: Basic Grey, More Mustard, Really Rust

Paper: Verry Vanilla, Basic Grey, Basic Grey dsp, Water color paper

Accessories: Aqua painter, more mustard ribbon, more mustard brads, 1/8 punch, stampin dimensionals

Smooches!

I finally found some time today to put together some fun cards. We also spent some time with my Mom this morning and did some gardening and purchasing of flowers. It was tons of fun.

I have been thinking about the new color challenge from Kristina Werner that can be found here. This was a hard one for me. It was the teal and soft blue that really was a challenge.
Here is my take on the challenge

Whenever I seem to be stuck with a color combo, I resort to PTI's fabulous set polka dot basics. It makes all of the fun colors work so nicely. I really loved the fun polka dots and the green was so much fun. I have been playing more and more with the fun letters from Hobby Lobby and I really like them. This is a fun green felt alphabet that is really easy to work with. These actually moved around about 7 times before I got it right. I also thought I needed some black accents to punch up the card. I really like the end card, but I say that after most color combos, they really strech me in different directions and styles.

This is for my fun friend Marshall, he is such a nut. His Birthday is in August and he would get such a kick out of this card. He lives in New York and he is a piano player and so stinking talented and very artistic. Izzy loves him and is always giving him big smooches LOL! I meet him when I was the business manager for a theater company in Grand Lake, Colorado. It was such a fun summer and I made some fabulous friends.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are from Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics

Paper: PTI Stampers select white, Basic Black

Ink: Bermuda Bay** new SU color, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: PTI True Black saddle stich ribbon, Stampin dimensionals, Hobby Lobby green felt stickers

Super Mom

Hello everyone! We should be on our way home right now. I just wanted to leave you with some eye candy. This is an older challenge that for some reason never got published LOL! Hope you enjoy it.

Another marathon card. I just go from one blog to another and then BAM my idea starts to come together. Here is the Kristen Werner Color Inspiration #43 challenge. Instantly I remembered my Au Chocolate dsp from Stampin Up and now I have the background paper under control.
Then here comes StampinTV. It is absolutely fabulous! Not only is the quality the highest, but it is also a wonderful source of challenges. This was the first sketch challenge. I loved how it was just a center piece and needed to come up with a main image that would also serve as my sentiment. Then BAM Melaine's stamp set Little Tees.

Here is my take on the color and card inspiration.

This is for my Mom. Can you believe that I am that far ahead this year. Chalk up my prepared style up to all of these challenges. Where have I been all of this time. This is about as fun as it gets.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Little Tees

Ink: Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip

Cardstock: Au Chocolate dsp, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, dsp

Accessories: Brocade Blue 5/8 grosgrain ribbon, stampin dimensionals, paper piercers, old olive, ruby red, more mustard, brocade blue markers

Guide lines 2 LOVE

Okay everyone, I have to share how much I love guidelines 2. I just got it and it was worth all of the wait. This was my first try and it turned out fine. I really want to try more combos and get a feel for each of the images. Needless to say I am so stinking excited to try and play with the possibilities.

I was so glad I had it when I saw this color challenge from Kristina Werner. Wowziers! This was really outside my norm, but it looked perfect for a male color combo.
Here is my take on the color combo.

I am going to send this one off to Randy's Grandpa in Virginia. I think he will like the simplicity of the card. It was really quick and easy to put together. We are both home today not feeling well. We are going to pack and put winter clothes away today. Tomorrow is our last minute shopping day and then we are off.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Guidelines 2, Father knows best

Ink: SU more mustard, baja breeze, so saffron, sahara sand

Paper: Stamper select white, sahara sand, baja breeze

Accessories: SU sahara sand maker, stampin dimensionals, baja breeze ribbon, Michaels threading water border edge punch

KWerner Color combo #51

I am addicted to color challenges. I was never a fan, but they are really pushing me in directions I wouldn't have gone by myself. On that note, here is the one from Kristen Werner. This card is a combo of many challenges. It really all came together. Stamp TV color challenge was use brown and any other colors, so this worked great for that as well.
I also used the Stamp TV sketch for this week.

Here is my take on the challenge combos.

What do you think? I am really loving how it turned out. If you can believe it all of the ink is brayered to get the different effects, but it is all from Chocolate Chip, More Mustard and Regal Rose inks. Kristina had strict rules to use only and all of the colors in the color challenge. Thre is white on this card around the sun and in between the sky and ground there is a faint line or white. I didn't really intend for that to happen, but I liked the effect it created. It ended up looking like my lions were cuddling at dusk. The colors are always warm and wonderful at dusk around here, so I am sure that is the way in Africa as well.

I did all of the lions with flock as well. I used a dark yellow (more mustard), brown (chocolate chip) and dark pink (regal rose). I love to death the quickie glue pen. It makes the flock so much fun to put on the animals. It also gives them such a great feel and look on the card. I would highly recommend this to anyone who has an animal stamp set. (If you don't have an animal stamps set I would highly recommend that as well!) This was so stinking fun to make. I have never really brayered like this, but I love how it turned out.

This is for one of my good friends for their anniversary. The inside says never be the first to let go of a hug. Isn't that so much fun! How prefect for an anniversary gift.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: GKD Cuddles and Hugs

Paper: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Whisper White, More Mustard dsp

Ink: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Staz On Black

Accessories: Stampin Dimensionals, Brayers, Spounge Daubers, GKD Doodle Flock, GKD Quickie Glue Pen

KWerner Color combo #50!!!

Can you even believe it? 50 color combos! Wowziers!!!! I am so excited about participating in this wonderful challenge. I finally have my stamping room together and I can break out my new stamp sets from Papertrey Ink for this challenge. They have been in my home for 1 week without any love. Without further gabber, here is the challenge This is my take.

Isn't this too much fun!!! I finally had some time to play with my new stamps. This is Scattered Showers from Dawn McVey. Yet again I am in love with Dawn and her sets. I have tons of ideas already. I love that this set helps with the cheering up type cards that we all need.

I am really proud of this bow. Usually bows are the thorn in my side, but this one came together nicely. It helped to have tons of ribbon. Gina showed how much she uses for a bow, 2 1/4 times around the card and that was really helpful. It gave me room to work my bow out.

Oh, I am now in LOVE with aqua mist. I was not getting how my ink pad was so much lighter than my paper, so I finally ordered the refill and it is now one of my favorite colors ever!!!! I also used my crystal effects on the bigger unbrella so that it shines. I almost forgot it added gloss as well as being such a wonderful adhesive. I think I will be adding gloss to many umbrellas to come LOL!

Thanks for looking and thank you Kristina for all of your hard work with the challenges.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Scattered Showers, Polka Dot basics

Paper: Aqua Mist, Stampers Select White, SU Chocolate Chip

Ink: Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, SU Real Red, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Lemon tart ribbon, SU crystal effects, top notz die, stampin dimensionals

Thank you my friend

I just received a fabulous card from my new friend Shera. She is a new blogger and stamper from Malaysia. She had one of her creations as blog candy. Isn't this card fabulous!!! I love it, needless to say I have a pen pal. She just had a birthday, so I am so excited to send her a card and hopefully some goodies as well.

I found this fun sketch challenge at Kerin's blog. Isn't that interesting. I decided to give it a try and this is the card I will be sending to Shera.

Here is my take on the sketch.

What do you think? I really struggled with the main image. This was my third attempt at it and I finally like it. I also have a fun tip that is old, but for some reason I just did it today for the first time. As I was working on the sentiment, I wanted to put a little basci grey accent. I took the basic grey matt page and punched my two choices. I then layered the card just like normal. It made me feel good to not have to dig up scraps and also get some more milage out of my paper. Wahoooo!!! I am going to be using this as often as I can remember LOL!
This was a shot at the back right before I mounted it onto the white card. Tons of fun! I also paper pierced around the main image, the grey matt and the grey behind the sentiment. I thought it really tied the card together.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: Upsy Daisy

Paper: Basic Grey, Whisper White, Walk in the Park dsp

Ink: White Craft, Cameo Coral

Accessories: Heat gun, White embossing powder, matt pack, paper piercer, large oval punch, 1 3/8 circle punch

Last Minute Easter Blessings!

Can you believe that Easter is tomorrow? Where does the time go? Well, I wanted to make something special for Izzy's Sunday school teacher and Izzy loves cupcakes, so this is what we came up with.

I combined quite a few challenges this morning to put everything together. I really like how it turned out even if the colors are not at all traditional Easter colors. I got my color combo from Kristen Werners Color Challenge #49. Isn't that funky!!! Well I also combined Paper Blooms Challenge #2 which was to decorate a box or basket for Easter. Well Stamp TV's April 3-D Challenge was to make a 3-D item and a card to match. Well isn't it awesome how all of these went together.
Here are the Easter cupcakes Izzy and I made this morning. She loved putting the "grass" and "eggs" on the cupcakes. If you look closely you will see my Ocean Tides Kitchen LOL! It makes the best paint color as well as paper color.

Here is the set.

Cupcake box, I used the MyTimeless Templete called For Keep Sake. Isn't that fun. When I do this again, I would not have put the ribbon and cut out the holes in the top of the box. It is fine, but it looked a little funny to have a bow on top and a knot on the box. I needed the knot on the box to attach the tag, so there you have it LOL!

I really like the card as well. I think it would make a super cute guy's birthday card as well.

What do you think? I hope everyone has a blessed Easter Holiday with their families.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

All Supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Background Basics:Retro, Everyday Classics, Tags for Springs

Paper: Stampers Select White, SU Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, Rose Red, Good Morning dsp

Accessories: Pacific Point ribbon, Black satin ribbon, linen thread, stampin dimensinoals, glue dots, Mytimeless templates, acetate, scallop punch, nesstabilities

KWerner Color combo

LAST DAY TO ENTER to win Papertrey Ink's Background Basics: Retro. Get the details here. Winner will be announced tomorrow.

I am loving the new color challenges. I complete both Kristina's and Dawn's last night, but wanted to wait until we got some sun. I woke up this morning all excited first because it is our 6th anniversary, secondly I was excited to get some good pictures of my creations. Wouldn't you know it RAIN!!! LOL! So these are the best I can do right now.

If you would like to play along, here is the link to the color challenge.
As soon as I saw these colors, I knew I wanted to do something special for my Grandma's gifts for mother's day. I have been waiting to break into the new Captured Card Case from MyTime Templates with Papertrey Ink. If you don't know about this I highly recomend them!!! They makie it so easy to put together fabulous gift sets for loved ones. Here is the outside of the box.

This is a side view. I wanted to give you an idea of the depth of the box.

Here is the box opened. Isn't that fun! I think my Grandmothers will both love it.

Here is the card. The only thing that is difficult for me was putting in the 8 cards that is supposed to fit. I could only get 4 envelops and cards into the box. I think that there was too much dimension on the card to fit 8, oh well! I am also going to include the postage you would need to send them.

What do you think? I really like how it turned out. Each have 2 Praying for you cards and 2 Celbrate cards. It is going to be hard waiting until May for the gift giving event!

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All Supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Handwritten notes, Damask Designs, Polka Dot Basics

Ink: White snow, SU Baja Breeze, SU chocolate Chip

Paper: Stampers Select White, SU Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: MyTime Temlates, White buttons, dmc chocolate floss, SU scallop edge punch, kiwi kiss stripped ribbon, baja breeze stripped ribbon, stampin dimensionals

True Friends

Don't forget about the chance to win Papertrey Ink's Background Basics: Retro. Get the details here.

I had no intentions of posting twice today, but I was like a posessed woman last night. I had so much fun making cards this week and I also sold 2 houses. Isn't that fun! Have you ever been surfing and thinking about your list of people you need to make cards for and then BAM an idea you can't let go of. Well this is what happened to me tonight.

I was looking around and I saw the new inspiration challenge from Kristen Werner #47. As I was thinking about the colors I remembered another thing I learned at the PTI blog hop. I had no idea the really small circle piece fit into the fun line and funky stamp. Then I saw Julie Koerber's case challenge and this card and I couldn't let this card idea go. Needless to say I was stamping until 10:30 pm last night. Thankfully Randy is on afternoons this week, so it wasn't a problem at all.

Here is my take on the card.

I made this for my good friend Missie. She has been going through a tough patch and it seems that God used an acorn to answer some prayers. Isn't it amazing that God can use anything for his purpose to fufill his plan! He is so amazing.

Back to the card. I love punny valentine from Papertrey Ink. It is just the most fun set and it is so darn versatile. This little squirl is the cutest ever. I also really like how the dsp I made turned out. I didn't even love making my own dsp until Papertrey Ink came around. Pre PTI, I would look for dsp with the colors I needed, now I just make my own! It is also making one page cards so much easier. It is hard to see, but I do have score lines on both sides of the ribbon.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted
Stamps: My Punny Valentine
Paper: Stampers Select White, SU Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron
Accessories: SU So Saffron grosgrain ribbon, stampin dimensionals, nestabilities, scor pal

Have a Goodie!

The only good thing about a sick child is that I am home a ton more than usual. I was so excited to realize I would have time to put a card together for Kristen's color inspiration challenge#46. How fun is that?
Here is my take

I am loving all things Papertrey Ink right now. I just can't seem to put it down. I might actually participate in their blog hop this month. I know crazy! In thinking about that I came up with this card. I love all their background sets and also the handwritten notes set. I wish my handwriting looked like that LOL! I think I am going to add this to my stash of Birthday cards as well.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: PTI Background Basics Retro, Polka Dot Basics, Handwritten Notes

Ink: Basic Black, Fresh Snow

Paper: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Riding Hood Red, Stampers select white

Accessories: Ridinghood red stripped ribbon, threading water edge, stampin dimensionals

Oh Baby...

This has been such a fun week! I have been very inspired to get a scrapbook put together. There is a fabulous site I found called My Prayers for You. It is all about scrapping your prayers for your children. When I was blurfing around this week I ran into Kristen Werner's Color Inspiration Kristen Werner's Color Inspiration #44. Isn't this beautiful!

Right away I saw the little girls dresses and I thought of my little Izzy. She would love all of these princess dresses. So I had my color combo for my page and then I ran into the fabulous Erika Martin's StampTV Scrapbook Challenge STVSCR2.

Here we are

Too cute if you ask me LOL! This is my Izzy at 1. She was "helping" at our Christmas pagent this year. I had a ton of fun making my own notebook paper for the journaling. It is hard to see, but where the ribbon is in the sketch, there is a line of dazzling diamonds and then many of the circles are embossed with irrodecent ice. It is soft and sparkly just like little "princess" Izzy. I also realized that this works for StampTV Color Challenge STVCC2. I am not sure if I can have two entries, but I am going to put it in.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: PTI Faux Ribbon

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Piroquette, versa mark

Cardstock: Close to Cocoa, Pink Piroquette, Whisper White, Candy Lane dsp
Accessories: Sticky strip, dazzling diamonds, 1 3/4 circle punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, 1 1/4 circle punch, 1 circle punch, 3/4 circle punch, 1/2 circle punch, in color buttons, neutral buttons, close to cocoa markers, irrodecent ice, heating gun