"Hearstrings DT BLOG HOP"

Hi everyone!  It is BLOG HOPPING time over here with the Heartstring Design Team to showcase some amazing stamps from My Heart Stamps for You.  If you hopped on over here from Shelley's Blog, then you right where you need to be.  If you would like to start hopping from the beginning, click right HERE!


I have been so super busy, I made this card a few weeks ago because I just knew I wasn't going to have time.  After I made it, I wanted to share it with everyone right then and there because it was so stinkin' cute.  So without further ado...

...For the base of the card, I used Kraft Paper (8 1/2 x 4 1/4).  I used these really cute birdie stamps ( I have to think about where these stamps are from) and colored them in with prismacolor pencils and blending tools.  I stamped these birdies directly on the kraft paper to see an illusion of a shadow behind them as I set them on pop dots.  Using a border punch (Upper Crest) for the birdies to rest upon followed by a really thick brown and white polk-a-dot ribbon.  I finally used a heart punch to cut out five hearts in a white cardstock and attached them to ribbon that coordinates with the colors used for the birdies.  Finally, I stamped the sentiment 'Friendships are tied together with Heart Strings' from our sponsor My Heart Stamps for You! 

WAIT!

Before you leave, I am giving away some BLOG CANDY. 

1. Become a follower.

2. Leave me a comment.

That sounds pretty simple right?  I try! 

You have until 7am PST on Sunday August 29th.

Now hop on over to Madison's Blog where I am just sure she made something very inventive and cute.  Don't forget to stop by everyone's blog because many of us are giving away blog candy for you all.  I hope this inspires you to get crafty and creative.  Till next time!

P.S.  Here is the order of the blog hop just in case you get lost along the way.

Shelley

Beth (ME)

Madison

Gaby

Anne

Mariam

"Sometimes...other times..."

Hello everyone!  So I have done did myself in this time.  I pulled my sciatica a few afternoons ago and I could barely get around, move, let alone walk for that matter.  I was able to find a comfortable position crafting for just a little bit and then I had to give myself a rest.  But during that time I put together this really cute card that I just had to share.  


So...The stamp I am featuring here is from My Heart Stamps for You (MHSFY) and it is in the the Inky Inspiration collection.  I just love her and how she is portrayed in all the stamps, they are a must see and possibly a must have.  I used colored pencils and chalk (Pebble Ink: I Kandee collection) to color her and her surroundings in!  I putting this in for the fun in the sun Challenge going on at Hearstrings Design for the BLOG HOP.  **Please don't forget to head on over there to show off your beautiful creations and win some blog candy.  Also click here if you would like to win some blog candy that I am giving away as well.**  I hope you all love this this sweet summer card I created and get inspired to create some summer projects yourself.  Take care, until next time!

Kraft Paper

Four Shades of Blue Cardstock

Three Shades of Green Cardstock

White Cardstock

White Ribbon

Colored Pencils

Chalk from Pebbles Ink: I Kandee

Corner Punch

Pop Dots

Scalloped Edge Punch

My Heart Stamps for You: Inky Inspiration collection

"Heartstrings Design Team BLOG HOP"

Hi all!  WE ARE BLOG HOPPING!  I am super excited.  If you just hopped here from Anne, then you are right where you are supposed to be and I will be the last blog you will visit from the hop before sending you back to the beginning.  If this is your first hop stop, you might want to start at the beginning by hopping back over to Shelley.


On that note, welcome to Stinkin' Sweet Scrappin'.  I am so glad that you stopped in.  For this blog hop, I am showcasing our sponsors stamps:  My Heart Stamps 4 You in this fabulous card.  I started off with Kraft paper as the base of my card and covered it in turquoise cardstock paper then overlaid it with vellum.  I used this stinkin' cute pattern paper that has various colored dots all over (this is where I pulled my color palette from).  I then used a scalloped edge punch on a piece of white cardstock paper.  I used the same turquoise cardstock and white cardstock to matte the MHS4Y stamp.  This stamp is called Jenny.  I added some cute buttons strung with ribbon and ribbon at the very bottom in pink and brown.  Finally, I finished the entire card with my famous one-corner punch at the top right.  Just for fun, I did a hidden message "a flower blooms once."  I hope you all love it...

...Along with the Heartstrings Design Team, I am doing a GIVEAWAY...yes, a GIVEAWAY.  I hope you are all excited.  I have been entering in on so many giveaways where the kits were created using things they already had.  So I started going through all my scrapbooking things and I decided to create my own little kit.  This is a mini album kit.  Included in this kit is a 30 page mini album, several different pattern papers from the DCWV "Premier Paper Stack: The Green Stack," a set of rub-on letters, and embellishments: buttons, brads, and flower brads.  I really wanted to gather things that screamed summer time and I think I got it.  So here it is...

TO ENTER INTO THE GIVEAWAY...

1. Follow my blog.

2. Leave me a comment and let me know you are following me.

3. Please leave me a way to get a hold of you if you win.

Very simple!  I will be using random.org to pick a winner on the evening of July 18 @ 8:00pm PST.  

I am so glad that you all stopped in to blog hop with us.  Below is the order of the blog hop in case you get lost.  From here, hop back over to Shelley's blog to join in on the main challenge.  

SHELLEY

MARIAM

PAM

GABBY

MADISON

ANNE

BETH (thats me)

I hope you all had a great time.  This will not be the last you see of us and I hope it won't be the last I see of you all.  Please don't forget to stop by our sponsors website, My Hearts Stamps for You.  I hope you all get inspired to get crafty.  Take care, till next time.

"Happy Birthday to YOU"

Hello all!  So I thought this weekend was going to be super BUSY...but my Hubby isn't feeling so great and the good wifey that I am, I am taking care of him.  While he is sleeping, I thought I would get some crafting done. 


On that note, I am part of a card club with some of the most creative ladies that I know and every month us ladies (10 to be exact...I think) create cards to exchange once a month.  We have changed things up a little bit because I don't know about you all, but I am thinking 10 cards is a lot of paper and supplies.  So we are breaking into groups of 3 and 4, which will lessen the amount of cards we make and we will rotate groups every month.  It is so much fun to see what everyone comes up.  For this month, I was inspired by a card that Kristina Werner created and this digital stamp that I found over at Fred She said Designs (this was created by her son...so cute and I couldn't resist).  Please check out their blogs and see where my inspiration came from.  I took the sketch and made it my own.  


Finally, I am also entering this card in the "Operation Write Home: Stars and Stamps" blog.  This is an awesome blogs that supports our troops to send them blank cards to send home to their families.  It is an amazing thing what they are doing over here.  Check out their blog, they are blog touring this weekend.  I hope you all love and get inspired to get crafty yourselves.  Take care, till next time. 

Kraft Paper

Pattern paper

Grey Cardstock

White Cardstock

Vellum

White Ribbon

White Paper Flower

Flower Brad

Corner Punch

Pop Dots

Colored Pencils

Hero Arts Background Stamp

Digital Stamp from 'Fred She said Designs'

'Happy Birthday to YOU' printer from computer

***REMINDER...This coming Wednesday, July 7 will be another Heartstrings Design Team Challenge...come check it out...you will be surprised.  

"It's a GIRL"

Hello everyone!  I am sorry I have been away.  Life's work needed to be done and so I took a brief break from my blog and crafting (it really has only been just under a week) and I got a lot of things done.  


So now that I that I feel refreshed and in desperate need to craft, I just had to share the news.  One of my dearest childhood friends Janell is having her first baby. I am thrilled for her and I had to create something fun and baby for her to congratulate her soon to be bundle of joy.  I created this today using my new set of chalks that came in the mail about a week or so ago (I Kandee from Pebble Ink.) and just had to dive in to use them.  I used pastel colors and paper from a scrap pack by Best Occasions.  The ribbon is from Joann's when their spools were on sale a while back.  However, this wasn't the only reason I was making this card, I wanted to also join in on the challenge over at 2 Sketches 4 You (2S4Y).  This is what the sketch looked like...

I hope you all love it and get inspired to create something fun or even jump in on this challenge, you can click their link just above!  Take care, till next time.

Kraft Paper

Yellow Cardstock

White Cardstock

Patter Paper from "Best Occasions"

Joann Ribbon

Sentiment Stamp

I Kandee Chalk

Corner Punch

"Hello"

Hello all!  I can only hope that you are all getting crafty and joining in on the red, white, and blue challenge for Heartstrings Design.  I was getting crafty today and creating a 'Hello' card for a challenge with Kristina @ Kwernerdesign.com and Two Peas in a Bucket, as well as, designing a card that would fit the criteria of another challenge over at Paper Patch Crafts.  So for the 'Hello' challenge, I was to either use the sketches based on Kristina's year in cards for June or come up with our design, as long as it is a 'Hello' card.  For the Paper Patch Crafts challenge, it was to follow and create a card based on this sketch.  I wanted to dig outside the box and came up with this cute creation.  I hope you all get inspired to get crafty.  Take care, till next time!

Gray, textured Cardstock

Blue Cardstock

Pattern Paper 

Brown Ribbon

Bubble Sticker Letters

Paper Flowers

Brown Brad

Blue Pen

Corner Punch

Pop Dots

"Miss you"

Hello all!  I have had a super busy weekend and I didn't think I was going to get any scrappin' in, which I didn't, but things are back to normal this Monday and I got crafty.  Over at My Creative Time, it is another Throwback Thursday challenge.  The Cricut cartridge suggested for this challenge is 'Stretch Your Imagination'...well I don't have that cartridge and so we were allowed to use specific colors (red, blue, and brown) along with a Cricut Cartridge we have.  On that note, I used scraps from my scrap pile, the George and basic shapes cartridge to cut out the circle, a little bit a stamping, and my blender pen.  I hope you all like the creation I came up with, it was a last minute design, wasn't sure if it was going to work out at all.  FYI...the challenge ends tonight, so head on over there to get your project in.  Take care, till next time!

Kraft Paper

Red Cardstock

Pattern Paper

Cream Cardstock

Vellum

Message Stamp

Alphabet Stamps

Brown Ribbon

Blender Pen

Brown/White Ink

REMINDER:  Just a little reminder that this Wednesday Heartstrings Design Team has something in store for you all.  Come back and check it out then!  

'My Creative Time' THROWBACK!

Hi all!  Over at My Creative Time with Emma she has a 'Throwback Thursday' with Cricut Cartridges.  I am not sure if I will always be able to participate as I am limited with very few Cricut Cartridges (which is okay with me, until I get more).  However, for this challenge Emma was very specific to using animals on a creative projects.  On that note, I will be throwing back to 2009 with Lyrical Letters.  This cartridge is mostly full of various types of fonts; however, there are several sentiments, animals, flowers, amongst many other things that come on this cartridge.  Very versatile (which I love).  I haven't been able to use this birdie before and I think it was just super cute.  I layered the birdie for an undercoat effect, along with rolling the wings with a pen to allow them to stick out a little bit.  I had a lot of fun creating this card, as I had no idea what I was going to do with the birdie or how I was going to lay it out.  After much thought, this is what I came up with.  I hope you all like it and find yourself inspired to join in on the fun.  Take care, till next time.

Kraft Paper

Yellow Cardstock

White Cardstock

Brown Pattern Paper

Blue Pattern Paper

Yellow Pattern Paper

Red Pattern Paper

Red Ribbon

Hero Arts Background Stamp

Hero Arts Sentiment Stamp

Hero Arts Fun Star Stamp

Edger Punch

Corner Punch

Pop Dots

"With Sympathy"

Hey all!  A few weeks ago my husbands co-worker passed away suddenly and yesterday we were invited to attend his memorial celebration with his wife, kids, family, and friends.  At the spur of the moment I decided I can't go without making a card to write our condolences to the family.  I remembered a card that I absolutely loved from one of the blogs I follow, Clips-N-Cuts.  I took her layout of the card and somewhat made it my own. I really loved how the card came out and I hope you all do too.  Enjoyed and be inspired.  Take care!

Kraft Paper

Cream Cardstock

Blue Cardstock

Two Pattern Papers

Brown Button

Brown Ribbon

Scallop Boarder Punch

"Readers Choice Color Inspiration" Layout

Hello all!  As you all know, last week I posted a few pictures that was apart of Kristina Werners "Color Inspiration Photo."  Thank you to everyone who voted for my pictures I do appreciate it.  However, I didn't win the vote (but I had over 18 votes).  The photo that did win is...

...that is the photo that won, the ribbon with the pink flower and green leaves.  I love the picture though and I was kind of hoping it would win.  On that note, the colors needed to create a card, layout, or what have you is baja blue (almost a baby blue), kiwi green (lime green), rose, pale pink, light grey, and white.  I was going to do a card; however, I have been on a roll with making cards and I haven't made a layout in a while.  So here is my creation.  Again, I used lots of scraps and tried to find the colors that were needed to match as closely as possible.  I hope you all love it.  I am submitting it over at Kwernerdesign Blog.  Please be inspired by the photo and colors and join in on the fun.  Take care!

Light Grey Patter Paper (Background)

Light (Baja) Blue Pattern Paper (Circle and Edging)

Rose Cardstock (Matting for pictures and Flowers)

Pale Pink Cardstock (Letters and Flowers)

Light Grey Cardstock (Letters)

Lime (Kiwi) Green Cardstock (Stems)

White Ribbon

White and Light Grey Paper Flowers

Rose Brad

"Skinny Jeans*"

Hello again everyone!  Today has been awesome, very peaceful and relaxing doing what I love to do.  I spent the later part of the afternoon creating this layout page.  This wasn't from a sketch, just played around and moved things around and came up with what I liked.  Again, as always, there is scrap paper in here, no stamping this time around, chip board letters, some ribbon and what have you.  I just love this picture of my niece wearing her toddler skinny jeans.  I hope you all enjoy and get inspired. Take care, till next time!

Purple Chip Board

Pattern Paper

Lime Green CardStock

Purple Pattern Paper

Green Polka-dot Cardstock

White Paper Flowers

Brads

White Ribbon

Purple Ribbon

"40 is the new 30"

Happy Friday everyone!  Today I was feeling crafty and I had an idea in my head and though to myself "if I don't go to it, I am going to forget all about it."  On that note, my sisters 40th...oops I mean 30th (Shhh, don't tell anyone I let the cat out of the bag! Haha) is coming up here really soon and I wanted to make her a fun and special card.  I used, again, just some random scrap pieces that I had left over from other cards, I cut the numbers out using the Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge, and I added a touch of my own personal writing (which by the way I don't normally do, but I liked it this time around).  I hope you all enjoy and get inspired to get crafty yourselves.  Take care, till next time!

Kraft Cardstock

Pattern Cardstock

Pink Cardstock

Brown Cardstock

Cream Cardstock

Blue Paper

Green Sharpie

"make a wish" Stamp

Pink/Brown Ribbon

Paper Flowers (Small and Medium)