Under Her Wings

Check out this gorgeous Owl card from Sweet Pea stamps.  This cutie is the stamp that is being shown during Variation's week.  During that week, each artist on the design team is using the same image, so on the Sweet Pea blog you will get to see the same stamp used many different ways.  It's become one of my own favorites as I love to see a bunch of ways to play with the same stamp!  This stamp is designed by artist Concetta Kilmer and is called  Under Her Wings.

It's sold both in Digi format as well as rubber stamp format.  Perfect for mother's day.  This artist has several adorable owl stamps.  Be sure and check out her images at the Sweet Pea store.

Cheers, Holley

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Image (Digi-Sweet Pea); Ink (Colorbox Chalk); DieCuts (Marianne, XCuts); Flowers (Prima); Bling (Michaels); Ribbon (JoAnns); Lace (JoAnns);  Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue dots, Glue All, Ribbon Glue); Flower Button (unknown);  Color (Copic markers);

Tea and Cake, Please

Here's one of the newest stamps at Queen Kat this month, she's called Tea and Cake from artist Maryanne English.  I am using one of the newest die cuts from Xcut and paired with some wonderful blues.  Isn't she gorgeous?  I think this image would be cute on all kinds of celebration cards.

Be sure and check out Maryanne English's other stamps, one of my favorites is the Hope Angel.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzil Swiss, Neenah);  DigiStamp(Queen Kat); DieCutters(Xcut,Memory Box); Flower (Prima); Brad (Unknown); Saying (Kraftin' Kimmie); Ink (Colorbox Chalk); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); Color (Copic Markers);

Lil Red Riding hood

Here's a fun Lil Red Riding Hood Stamp from Sassy Studio Designs.  I love this artist's designs.  I added a fun vellum sentiment for her "Travel beyond your path" as I guess we all know the path to grandma's house that she's taking....

Hope you are all having a great week.  I am still SO happy about the doctor's results last week. It's been such a weight lifted off both me and my husband.  I really hope now that after I finish the current prescription and I am taken off this drug totally, I will be down to just five medications a day.  Woo Hoo.  I know that still seems like a lot, but I was at 8 meds and probably triple the doses I am taking now.  It's remarkable to be where I am now. 

Project materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Paper Planet, Neenah);  Image (Sassy Studio); Vellum Saying (JoAnns); Flowers (Hobby Lobby, Prima); Brads (Imaginations, Basic Grey, Making Memories); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue dots);  Color (Copic Markers);

Wonderful

Here's a fun card that I did in a favorite color combo of pink and black.  This adorable image is Scrapbook Stamp Society artist Sherri Baldy's image Pigtail Polly.  As you can tell from so many of the images that I love, I also love the pigtails!  Perhaps that comes from being in the military.  I guess I always wore my hair up and I still do most of the time.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); DigiStamp (Scrapbook Stamp Society--Addicted To Stamps);  Ink (Colorbox Chalk); DieCut (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Border (Bazzill);  Saying (); Buttons (American Traditionals);  Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue dots, Glue All); Color (Copic Markers);

Squigglefly Challenge

Happy Monday everyone!  Yep, since it's Monday, you know it's time for this week's Squigglefly Challenge.  This week's challenge is to create a Mother's Day theme card.  I am using an adorable girl from artist Diane Carubia called Birthday Carly.  As you can see, I added a great brad with the word "MOM" right onto Birthday Carly's gift and now she's holding a mother's day present.  Perfect!

Be sure to go to the Squigglefly Challenge blog and share your Mother's Day card.  If you use an image from Squigglefly, you will be eligible for the prize.  All sorts of wonderful images can be used for a Mother's day greeting.  You can even choose a Squigglefly freebie-- I esp think that Hi Bella or Hummingbird freebie would be stunning on a Mother's Day card!

Project Materials:  Cardstock(Bazzill, Neenah);  Digi-Stamp (Squigglefly);  Ink (Colorbox Chalk);  Embossing (Crafter's Companion); DieCut (Cheery Lynn); Embellishments (All My Memories);  Brad (OTC);  Color (Copic Markers);  Adhesives (pop dots, glue all, glue dots);

Guest Artist: Kaijan

Here's a wonderful card that I received in the mail this week from Finland.  Kaija sent this beautiful card to me.  She won some great stamps from Sweet Pea stamps during Feb's Celebration Month.

Thanks so much for the wonderful card.  You can see her creations on her blog:  click here

Sweet Pea Scrapbook Page

Sweet Pea stamps is having a great contest right now to create a scrapbook page using a stamp from them.  Here's a page that I made recently using some photos of my hubby and me.  These pictures come from about 10 months post brain surgery.  You can see how very tan I am from doing nothing but finally getting out of my house! 

Here's the great stamp from Sweet Pea that I am using on this layout, which is 12"x12"  This stamp is called Pink Girl from artist Marlon Teunissen (Plate #239). 

In addition to the Pink Girl stamp, my layout is also using three different wording stamps, one is "You make my heart skip a beat!" and the other two sayings  "My heart belongs to only You" and "You tug at my heartstrings" come from Plate #102

 

Sweet Pea is having a great contest right now, the big prize is $50 gift card!  Woo hoo.  They are also going to pick three additional random contestants for $10 gift cards.  So  it's a wonderful prize.  Put together a scrapbook page and add a beautiful Sweet Pea stamp as your focal image.  Please drop by the Sweet Pea blog to read the RULES on the contest.

CLICK HERE

 

Sweet Pea just announced a huge 4th Anniversary/Tax Day sale!  They are having 40% off over 1000 of their images. WOO HOO, now that's a SALE!!  CLICK HERE to read about it.  CLICK HERE to go straight to the sale.

 

Many thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers yesterday (and before!!)  The doctor apt went really well.  REALLY well.  Test was so good.  Surprised the doctor (and me).  Wonderful news and wonderful blessing. My blood count rose an amazing level, that is thanks to dropping two sets of medication and I just hope to keep getting better now.  Let's hope that is why everything is so much better now. I won't even have to get tested again for another 6 months.  I had to laugh when he said wow, the test is "Almost normal"  My husband had to laugh at that.  "Almost normal."  How could it be???  Praise God.

Owl Territory

 Here's a wonderful stamp from Sweet Pea stamps designed by artist ching-chou kuik called Owl Territory (Plate #238).  I am using some amazing gold embossed paper with some glittery embellishments.  I just love this new stamp.

Here's a close up of the stamped image, using the colored I did, be sure a check out the original coloring that artist ching-chou kuik used so you can see how different this stamp looks just based on coloring!

 

Here's a close up of the sentiment I am using, I though it just goes perfect with a stamp about Owls.  I know they make me think of wisdom and wonder all at the same time.

 

Hope this creation makes you feel like crafting today.  Drop by the Sweet Pea store and check out the amazing sales going on.  Too many goodies.  Did you know that you can now get these stamps in Digi format too?  click here

Thanks everyone for the recent support, I am back off to the cancer doctor today to get my testing.  Wish me luck!  and lots of prayers.  Been fighting with the doctors over having  a low white blood cell count for a while now.

Little Old Fairy

Here's an adorable Little Old Fairy stamp from Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell.  Isn't she cute?  I just love her!  I added a cool ribbon/lace combo underneath her in a wavy form.  I also had to add a fun sentiment "Live, Laugh, Love."  At her age, I think she knows that is the way to live your life!!

I just love the Sandra Caldwell stamps at Queen Kat.  Be sure to check out her newly released images.

Sweet little butterfly girl

Here's an adorable little girl from Scrapbook Stamp Society artist Sherri Baldy.  Isn't she cute? You can find her here.   I made this card using wonderful paper from Paper Temptress. YUMMY!

The base of the cardstock is Neenah Solar White 80lb.  It's a nice versatile white paper, it's also great for running through my printer as it's stiff, but not TOO stiff.  I can use it for cards like this, when I am adding additional layers to my card since the additional layers will add strength to the weight of the card.  The 2nd layer was added for color, it's a gorgeous pink that matched both the transparency and the copic markers, it's Poptones Razzleberry.  The Hambly Overlay used here is Magenta Brocade.  Totally gorgeous.  Look at the wonderful background it makes on this card. 

I have had a couple people ask me about how to hook these see though items onto the card.  You can hold it in place using many methods:  brads (like the dragonflies above), well placed glue dots, colored paper clips, colored staples, certain adhesives (esp if used in covered area like behind the stamped image), punch a hole and use ribbon, or find a clever way to hide the adhesive with a decoration on top!

Hope this sweet smiling little girl makes you want to create something today.  Cheers, Holley

I wanna fall in chocolate!

Forget Love! I wanna fall in Chocolate!  Well, I have seen some chocolate that looks so good, I might want to fall in there, lol!  But, at the end of my day, think I would actually go for the love!  My hubby is pretty darn sweet all by himself.  He may not taste as good as chocolate, but he sure can make me smile.

Going to put this into the Oozak challenge this month, it's to use pearls (the bling about the ribbon), Lace (that gorgeous lace from Turkiye) and ribbon I put between the two.  I am also using a fun embossing die cutter and a spellbinders die cutter.  Coloring with Copic makers.

Cheers, Holley

Squigglefly Challenge!

Hello everyone, it's Monday!  Do you know what that means?  Yep, it's time to play in this week's Squigglefly Challenge!  This week's challenge is to follow the given recipe: use a Squigglefly image, some printed paper, 2 brads, and a tag.  Anything else you want to add is up to you!  Here's my creation this week using a fun image from artist Cheryl Alger called Beauty in the Making

The adorable image comes with multiple goodies including the saying shown as well as additional images and sayings! What a bargain for only $3.  I put the saying on my tag, I added two heart shaped brads and used some gorgeous printed paper as my background.  Drop by the Squigglefly Challenge blog to see what the other Holley Hobbyists created, then join in the Challenge!

Guest Artists: Kelly S and Nikki C

Here's a gorgeous card from Kelly S.  It's really stunning, the flowers are embossed in an orange colors (you know that's my fav color!!)  and match the background paper, the brad and the ink just perfectly.  I think the scanner kind of makes it a little bit brighter than it looks in person.  You can run your finger over it and feel the beautiful flowers.

 what lovely work Kelly! Thanks so much for your beautiful embossed thank you card.

Here's another wonderful card that I rec'd from artist Nikki C from Canada

The top image is the front of the card and the 2nd image is the inside of the card.  WOW!!  just amazing work.  She put a cute little note in there that she made me this card because she knows that yellow/orange are my favorite colors.  Yep. She's right about that.  So right.  I just love her beautiful work.  What a treat.  It sure made a cold and mostly rainy week into a wonderful sunshiney week.

Cheers, Holley

Contest Card

So as I had announced early this week, there's a fun contest going on at Your Scrapbook Place using some great Freebie stamps that artist Sandra Caldwell of Babycakes Doodle This and That designed and gave away during my celebration month.  You can still get the images by visting her Babycakes site and then make a card with each one (the three freebies she gave and the wonderful goodie she gave away on her 40th anniversary).  The image here is called Love Conquers All.

Drop by the Your Scrapbook Place blog and enter your creations into the drawing!  You can enter one card per design.  There will be at least five prizes!  One random drawing and one card selection per image!  Join on in the fun.  We don't have a lot of people yet, so you have a great chance to win!

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill Bling, Bazzill, Neenah);  Image (Sandra Caldwell: Love Conquers All);  Bling (Hobby Lobby); Butterfly (Unknown);  Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); Happy Day (American Crafts);  Color (Copic markers); Fibers (Hobby Lobby);

Meet Glimmer

Here's an adorable Mermaid named Glimmer from Sweet Pea artist Elisabeth Bell. Isn't she adorable?  I just love this artist's stamps. She has a bunch of cute mermaid stamps at Sweet Pea.  So cute. How can you resist?  Can't you just look at this adorable image and just immediately tell it's from Elisabeth Bell (of course not counting her name on there).  She just has that style that you can immediately recognize her gorgeous design.

Here's a closeup of the image:

 

Be sure and check out all of the Elisabeth Bell images at Sweet Pea.  They are having a huge sale at the store with many stamps marked as low as 40% off.  It's too hard not to get some of these images.

 

Cheers, Holley

Tea and Cake

Here's a wonderful new Queen Kat stamp from artist Maryanne English.  This image will go on sale very soon.  She's called Tea and Cake.  So pretty.  I added a fun vellum sentiment to go with her "This is the sweet life."   All I can say is, "YUM!"

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah);  Stamp (Queen Kat); Quote (JoAnns);  Buttons (Jesse James);  Die Cut (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk);  Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue dots, Glue All, Colored paper clips);  Color (Copic Markers);

Live a good life

Here's a great Magnolia Stamp.  Perfect for the warm temps that we have been seeing most of the time here already.  I know there's been plenty of days that I have been ready to stick my feet in some cool water.  We have already had temperatures hit 90.  Wow. 

I hope everyone saw the posting Monday, we are having a wonderful challenge, which is to create some cards using some fun free images given away back in Feb during my celebration month!  There's great prizes and all you need to do is show us your card you make, read about the contest HERE!  I can't wait to see the creations.  Even artist Sandra Caldwell has said she would give a try using her own stamps!  WOW.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah);  Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Stamp (Magnolia); Ribbon (Target);  Die Cut (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Bling (Recollections, Hobby Lobby); Saying (); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue Dots, Glue All, Ribbon Glue); Color (Copic markers);

Betsy Button

Here's the cutest stamp from artist Sherri Baldy at Scrapbook Stamp Society. She is named Button Betty.  You can find her on their website.  I think she is super adorable.  I am sure if you watch my site, you know I adore buttons a lot!

If you missed the contest yesterday--go down one posting and read about it.. you get free digi-stamps to play!  Also, did you know there's fun costests using your Scrapbook Stamp Society images too? they have a whole blog just for that usually with gifts cards from their store!!!  click here.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Digi Stamp (Addicted to Stamp-Scrapbook Stamp Society); Ink (Colorbox Chalk); Punch (Martha Stewart); Buttons (American Traditionals); Die Cut (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Lace (JoAnn Fabrics);  Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots, Ribbon Glue); Color (Copic Markers);

Contest Time--Come play, win a prize!!

There's a contest at the Scrapbook Place blog, it's involving the freebie images that have been given out from artist Sandra Caldwell during my month of celebration (last Feb) and I also decided to include the freebie that she gave away last week for her 40th anniversary, It's the bunny on the left of the card.

I encourage everyone to go read about it at Your Scrapbook Place!  Then you create a card(s) using one of those images for your chance to win one the prizes, the more people who play, the more prizes we will give away!!  You can use any of the four freebie images and enter up to four creations in the contest.   This card here is my first entry!  I really hope you all will go and play, there's going to be five different winners, one random winner from all the participants and one winner for each of the different images!  Good luck everyone.  Go get a free image and play along with us, if you don't have a blog, just email me htondre@aol.com your card and I will post it so you can share it in the contest!

Project Materials:  Cardstock (DCWV, Neenah); Printed Paper (Unknown);  Images (Sandra Caldwell); Flower (Target); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue Dots, Glue All); Color (Copic Markers); Die Cuts (XCuts); Ink (Colorbox Chalk);

Happy Easter

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter today.  Here's a super cute Easter Bunny....ummm Easter Owl.  I added a fun sentiment, "I give a Hoot!"  I hope everyone has a very special day today.  This cute image comes from artist Sandra Caldwell's digi stamp site Babycakes Doodle This and That.

Starting tomorrow, we are going to have a wonderful contest and card sharing event on the Your Scrapbook Place blog using the free images that Sandra Caldwell gave away last month during my celebration.  I have info as well as links to the freebies on the Your Scrapbook Place Blog as well as images of the prizes!! Go check it out HERE....

Project Materials:  Cardstock (K&co, Bazzill Bling, Neenah);  Digi-Stamp (Sandra Caldwell); Ink (Memento); Saying (TAC);  Adhesives (Pop dots, GlueAll); Color (Copic Markers);

Guest Artists

Here's a stunning Card that I got in the mail recently from artist Karin.  She sent me this beautiful creation (aren't the die cuts stunning?).  I just love the all white background coupled with the lace.  WOW.   The cute stamp she is using below is from Addicted to Stamps--Scrapbook Stamp Society.   She also included a die cut set from Marianne Designs that makes flowers.  How wonderful!!

Thanks so much!  It was a happy mail day.  If you guys haven't seen her stunning work, drop by her blog and check out all her amazing card creations, CLICK HERE for KarinsArtScrap

I also got this fun card yesterday from Austin artist Audrey R

I just love the wood texture on it.  This card so makes me want to go get that embossing folder!  What a pleasant surprise in my mailbox yesterday.  Thanks Audrey!

Steampunk Angel

Here's a wonderful stamp from artist Marlon Teunissen of Sweet Pea stamps.  This image is called Steam Angel.  Isn't she gorgeous? She is sold individually and on Plate #239.  I am using all warm greys W0-W9 to color her outfit and her wings for this image.  I think she looks stunning.  Be sure and compare my final image with the artist's coloring so you can see just how different they are. 

Here's a closeup of my image:

It's very subtle, but I also love to give this woman grey colored eyes.

Be sure and check out all of this artist's wonderful steampunk type images at the Sweet Pea stamps store. They are now selling both in rubber and digital format.

Cheers, Holley

Spring Chick

Here's the cutest Spring Chick!  This stamp comes from Queen Kat, designed by artist Sandra Caldwell.  I colored her up in pink and made her with a daisy hat and matching skirt.  Just too cute!  I love Sandra's stamps.  Be sure and check out all her designs over at the Queen Kat store.

I hope everyone is ready for Easter now that it is so close.  My local church has decided to have a petting zoo.  I am very curious exactly what that is going to entail right here in the city of Austin. I guess we will find out.  I can't wait to see the little kids reactions to it.

Hey--remember all those wonderful freebies we got last month from artist Sandra Caldwell--there's gonna be a fun contest to make a card with one of the images, lots of wonderful prizes, CLICK AND READ HERE

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Rubber Stamp (Queen Kat); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Bling (Recollections, Jesse James); Flowers (Prima);  Die Cuts (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); Color (Copic Markers);

Easter Blessings

Here's a cute little easter theme stamp from Prima that I used to create a card with some gorgeous glittery papers from Paper Temptress. I really wish you could see the specks of glitter (mica) inside these papers.  I think the sheen on the red cardstock really does show, but even the yellow cardstock in the background has wonderful mica inside it as well.

The gorgeous Paper Temptress papers here are Heavenly white for the stamped image.  I then die cut my image using Nestabilities.  The base of my card is using a wonderful sparkle paper called Malermo Perle.  The color I am using on this card is called Mangue.  Just gorgeous.  Check out the paper on the website to see a sparkling photo of it.  The beautiful red cardstock is Incandescent paper. You can see the sparkle of this paper already, but when you see it in person it really shimmers, front side and back. I also used a huge punch on it in the center of the card.  This paper is called Rosso.  As you can see, you can also stamp on it very easily.

Hope this puts you in the mood to make a card for Easter!

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Paper Temptress); Stamps (Prima, Studio G);  Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Die Cuts (Nestabilities); Punches (Stampin' Up); Color (Copic Markers); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All);

Little Bo Peep

I thought this stamp was very fitting around Easter time, it's Little Bo Peep from Scrapbook Stamp Society.  Perfect for those whimsical Easter theme as well as fairytale type cards that you want to make. 

 

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah);  Digi-Stamp (Addicted to Stamps-Scrapbook Stamp Society); Borders (K&Co); Buttons (American Traditional); Die Cut (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Color (Copic Markers); Adhesive (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots);