My Favorite Things...

Two posts tonight so please be sure to scroll down to see my entry to TECC #53 too!

I got fun surprise in the mail the other day when my sister (Maylee's Creative Corner) sent me a card with this My Favorite Things stamp set in it- I just had to make something with it right away! Here is the first card I created with it.


Supplies: How Sweet It is (My Favorite Things), Prima flowers, stickles

I couldn't stop at just one, so I decided to get my feet wet and participate in a new challenge for me on the Splitcoast Stampers website, a sketch challenge specifically for MFT stamps.

Here was the sketch:


And the card I made:

Supplies: How Sweet It Is (My Favorite Things), Guava dots patterned paper (Lasting Impressions), Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug- Provocraft), Glossy Accents (Inkssentials-Ranger Industries)

A good friend of another one of my sisters recently found out that she is expecting! My sister wanted a congrats card to give her and this is what I came up with!


Supplies: She's Expecting! (Studio G- Hampton Arts), Spring Blossoms (Inkadinkado), Thoughtful Messages (Hero Arts)

TECC53

When I saw this weekend's sketch on Taylored Expressions, I knew I had to find time to participate! It didn't hurt either that I made a trip to my LSS and found some new Changito monkeys to add to my stash!

Here is the sketch,


And here is my card:

Supplies: Changito Cake (Stampendous); Liquid Applique (Marvy Uchida), Glossy Accents (Ranger Industries)

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend, thanks for stopping by!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Today is Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy!

(Just had to squeeze in a post before the night was over!)


Supplies: Four Dolls; Chinese Prosperity Wish (Hero Arts); mini flower punch, pearls, Stickles

May you all have a prosperous and Happy New Year!

Valentine's Mailboxes

I'm actually ahead of schedule this year with Valentine's cards! (well for part of them at least!) This week's challenge on the Hero Arts blog was to create something with a heart- which meant I was scrounging for hearts, because I discovered I didn't have as many hearts as I thought I did!

Anyway, a few weeks back I found these mailboxes at Target and many others out there in the stamping world had altered them for Valentine's Day- so this idea came together perfectly! Each one personalized for each one of my nieces & nephew.

#1:

Supplies: Four Dolls; Tree, Bird & Messages (Hero Arts), Felt embellishments (La-di-dah)

#2:

Supplies: Four Dolls; Tree, Bird & Messages (Hero Arts), Felt embellishments (La-di-dah)

#3:

Supplies: Four Dolls; Tree, Bird & Messages (Hero Arts), Felt embellishments (La-di-dah)

#4:

Supplies: Playful Animals; Tree, Bird & Messages (Hero Arts); Mindy's Zoo (Autumn Leaves); Felt embellishments (La-di-dah)

Now, of course these mailboxes couldn't be complete without a matching mini card inside! They are 3.25" squares:

And one last look of them all together!

Thanks for stopping by!

Pocketful of Challenges!

Time for another one of Taylor's cupcake challenges, and another for the Hero Arts 'pockets' challenge last week- squeezing both of them in before the deadlines!

First up is my card for Taylor's challenge:



I love this build your own robot set from Stampendous- the possibilties are endless!

Supplies: Hot Botz; Botz Quotz (Stampendous); Live it Up (Hero Arts)

And I still can't get enough of these Asian dolls from Hero Arts, just had to use it again for the pockets challenge this week!

Supplies: Four Dolls; Thoughful Messages (Hero Arts), Scallops border punch (Stampin' Up!), Felt embellishments (La-di-dah)

Possibly another idea brewing in my head for another pocket card... off to create!
Happy Stamping!

Asian Dolls

Back again one more time before the weekend is over! My most awesome sister bought me the new Hero Arts "Four Dolls" set and I couldn't wait to use them! It gave me another opportunity to practice with my copics and have two more cards for the layers challenge.

This first card is similar to the tent topper from my previous post. I wanted to stamp all four girls together, so that layer is centered on the 4.25" square card to make it 5.5" wide and still fit in a regular envelope:

Supplies: Four Dolls (Hero Arts), Glossy Accents (Inkssentials-Ranger), gems, buttons, pearls

Here is a closer look at each one of the girls :)


This other card idea came to me today, and I'm very pleased with how it came out! The characters in each one of the circle collectively say "Gung Hay Fat Choy" or Happy New Year in Chinese. With Chinese New Year coming up in a few weeks I thought it was only fitting to incorporate this stamp to celebrate!

Supplies: Four Dolls (Hero Arts); Gung Hay Fat Choy (Design in Squares), gems, buttons, pearls, string

Thanks for stopping by- & until next time, Happy Stamping!