cup of kindness.

I'm joining Cupcake Inspirations challenge #340 today. The Verve has this super cute digital stamp set available for free until Christmas.

I used watercolors + distress inks to color my card base. The two grey/blue colors blended into a card base reminds me of a dreary winter day. I printed the cup of coffee and colored it with Copic markers. For the top I used distress ink. My sentiment is on the inside and I used the lighter of the two blue distress inks around the edges.

 What do you think?

supplies
ink: Tim Holtz distress ink (Stormy Sky; Weathered Wood; Tea Dye)
Copic markers: R24; R29; C1
watercolor paper: Strathmore
stamp set: The Verve

classiest person.

I'm playing along with CASology's challenge this week: toy. I wasn't sure what to use for my inspiration until I started looking through some die cut pieces and found the bicycle. I decided to take some of the colors from the flowers to watercolor my cardbase with distress inks.

My craft table is covered with contact paper, so I just rubbed my ink pad directly onto the table, sprayed some water, mixed it around, and painted stripes. I use Strathmore watercolor postcards and they are 140 lbs. Because I'm impatient, I use my heat tool to speed the drying process. Then I stamped my sentiment and added my bicycle.

What do you think?

supplies
stamp set: Concord & 9th (Being Classy)
ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black); Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry; Spiced Marmalade)
die cut: Simple Stories

Dear Santa.

My cousin is stationed in Georgia but she posted this photo of her son and I thought it was so cute. That Santa is a big guy! I just love how Eli is looking up at him.

I used the ScrapMuch? color challenge and one of their December sketches. The colors scanned a little funny but they're all included!

supplies
tags and die cut pieces: Heidi Swapp; Teresa Collins (Tinsel and Company); Chic Tags (Good Tidings);
wood veneer: Evalicious
gold foil stickers: Heidi Swapp
washi: Freckled Fawn
patterned paper: Teresa Collins; Pink Paislee (Merry and Bright);

winter greetings.

Sparkle N Sprinkle is sponsoring challenge 339 at Cupcake Inspirations challenge blog and I decided to play along. I liked the snowflakes and the soft blue and white colors in this inspiration piece. Here's my card:

The embossing powder is semi-transparent and sort of iridescent. It's so pretty! After I stamped and heat embossed my snow flakes, I started working on my snowman. I stamped him, colored him with Copics, fussy cut, and then used a black Copic marker to go around the edges. This hides imperfections I made when cutting him out and gives him a more finished look. See below how he's not cut perfectly?

Next I grabbed the Twinkling Clouds flocking from Sparkle N Sprinkle. I used a die as a guide so I knew where my flocking would go. I just set the die on the background and used a paintbrush to spread on Magic Medium by Heidi Swapp. Then I took the die away and dumped on my flocking. You need to use your fingers to smoosh the flocking around and really get it into the glue. Then just dump off the excess and let it dry.

I lightly inked the edges of my card base with Weathered Wood distress ink. My last step was the sentiment. I stamped 'winter' in Stormy Sky, which is just slightly darker than Weathered Wood. I used VersaFine to stamp 'greetings.' I love this font in the Say It Winter Greetings stamp set from Paper Wings Productions.

Thanks so much for the inspiration!

supplies
stamp:Unity Stamp Co (Jan 2011 KOTM To the Moon & Back); Paper Wings Productions (Say It Winter Greetings);
ink: Tim  Holtz Distress ink (Stormy Sky; Weathered Wood); Memento (Tuxedo Black);
Copic markers: BG11; BG13; C00; R24; YR04; 100;
flocking: Sparkle N Sprinkle (Twinkling Clouds SS107)
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (Skylight EP212)
die: Mama Elephant 

Paper Wings Productions: wishing you Merry Christmas.

Today I'm on The Aviary blog sharing this Christmas shaker card with Paper Wings Productions that I think is super cute! To start, I used a polka dot stencil and distress inks for my card base. Next, I used a circle die to cut out the center of my card.

Then I started working on my sentiment for the inside of the card. I used the Fall Mix It Up stamp set to stamp 'wishing you' and Say It Winter Greetings stamp set for 'merry Christmas.' I heat embossed 'merry' with green embossing powder and I love the font for 'Christmas.'

My final step was to finish the shaker card. Using the Fuse tool has made shaker cards super easy! I added some sequins, a little resin piece from Freckled Fawn, and then I stamped an ornament and some stars from the Winter Wood Cuts stamp set, fussy cut those, and threw them in there too. Here's my finished card:

Thanks for looking! :)

supplies
stamps: Paper Wings Productions (Fall Mix It Up; Say It Winter Greeting; Winter Wood Cuts)
ink: Tim Holtz distress ink (Old Paperr; Shabby Shutters; Peeled Paint); Memento (Tuxedo Black);
die: Lawn Fawn (circle stackables)
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (cappuccino star; moss)
sequins: Teresa Collins

he said.

I found this sketch at Stuck?! Sketches and went to work today. Back in July I had tweeted a couple Bengals players, trying to get them to tweet me happy birthday wishes. Well, it worked! I was pretty excited and I took screen shots of my Twitter. I just thought this was a fun memory to record in my scrapbook - who knows if Twitter will even exist in a few years!

My page has four smaller photos instead of two larger ones as shown in the sketch. I used two stamp sets on die cut pieces and label stickers. The 'he said' and the 'hello there' were just stamped directly onto patterned paper and fussy cut.

supplies
stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop (Drops Background); Elle's Studio (Saltwater Summer Happiness); Ormolu (Word Up)
ink: Hero Arts (butter to orange ombre); Versa Fine (onyx black); Memento (Tangelo)
label stickers: Kelly Purkey
die cuts: Elle's Studio
enamel heart stickers: Amy Tan

Scrapping Turtle December promotions

If you don't have a Fuse tool yet - now's your chance! Also, later this month collection packs are on sale. You know I'm getting in on that!

hoping your day is as wonderful as you.

I found a new sketch blog and I was on a roll making cards this week. I used sketch #135 from the Atlantic Hearts sketch blog to make this card:

supplies
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (Mojito;Ocean; Mesmerized)
ink: Versafine (onyx black)
stamps: Simon Says Stamp! (Handwritten Greetings); Prima Marketing (4x6 hex net)
jewels: Studio Calico

Stitch Fix #8

I received my eighth Fix this week and as always was excited to see what I got. My Fixes have been really great since I've stuck with the same stylist and really given detailed feedback.

Look by M Chloe Houndstooth infinity scarf $28

 I liked the neutral colors of this scarf, but I am just really not a scarf person.

Just Black Faye skinny jean in grey size 6 $88

Loved the fit of these skinny jeans. How is it when I go shopping I can't find anything that fits, but every pair of jeans Stitch Fix has sent me have been fantastic?! These are grey and I returned them because I have like 4 pair of black skinny jeans + 6 pair of black leggings and these were just too similar.

Pixley  Martina slub knit open cardigan in black size small $48

 Fit was perfect on this but I have one similar, although I thought the pockets were a nice bonus.

41Hawthorn Filbert 3/4 sleeve popover blouse - olive - size small $58

Loved this shirt so much I didn't wanna take it off. Olive isn't a color I would have picked for myself... but it works.

Fun2Fun Danika split neck beaded blouse - white - size small $54

This is so pretty but completely see through. I grabbed a light pink tank that was nearby and tried it on underneath, just to figure out if I wanted to keep it or not. I'm keeping it. It's pretty and I don't wear white much because I'm so messy so I don't have anything like this in my closet.

So I think I usually keep two or three items per fix and I am guessing I average around $200/Fix. I don't get them on a set schedule, just whenever I feel like it. If you're interested in trying it, please click on my REFERRAL link.

blog hop winner!

Thanks to everyone who played along in our blog hop! The grand prize winner was announced at Stick It Down today and I also have a winner for the Christmas themed prize package... Jennifer!

I also have a Paper Wings Productions Christmas stamp set to send to one lucky random winner. I used random.org and the winner is... Denise!

Congratulations to you both! Please send your mailing address to ashley_hamman@yahoo.com

Paper Wings Productions: Warm Winter Wishes

I'm on the Paper Wings Productions blog, The Aviary, today sharing a winter card I made using a couple of their newest stamp sets.

I used the Winter Wonderland stamp set and to make a hat and scarf for my penguin. I had to stamp the wolf image and then fussy cut the scarf. I colored the hat and scarf with Copic markers and then I stamped the sentiment using the Say It Winter Greetings stamp set.

I used some Stampin' UP silver embossing powder to create snowflakes. I used the Sparkle red rubber cling stamp set to stamp my "snowflakes" and then I heat embossed them.

Here's my finished card:

Stay warm! :)


supplies
patterned paper: Pink Paislee (Merry & Bright 6x6 pad)
stamps: Paper Wings Productions (Say It Winter Greetings; Winter Wonderland; Sparkle;)
ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black)
embossing powder: Stampin UP! (shimmering silver)
Copic markers: BG 10; YG03;
die: Mama Elephant

memory.

I'm playing along with Stuck?! Sketches Nov 15 sketch challenge this month. Here's my page:

supplies
kraft doilies: Maya Road
chipboard hearts: Pink Paislee
gold rub ons: Chic Tags (Good Tidings)
gold metal hearts: Teresa Collins
puffy stars: twine + ink

living.

I have the Thursday Scraplift challenge up on the Scrapping Turtle forum - Turtle Soup. I chose Jackie P's layout to lift:

Here's my page:

I dug into my stash for these patterned papers - the embellishments too! This is from the Bengals/Chiefs game at the beginning of October.

supplies
stamps: Paper Trey Ink (Faux Ribbon); Studio Calico (Aloha add on kit)
ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black; Tangelo)
label stickers: Kelly Purkey; Studio Calico
chipboard hearts: Pink Paislee
puffy sticker: Skipping 5
patterned paper: Studio Calico (orange 12x12); Glitz Design (zebra print); Bella Blvd (circle); 
enamel shapes: Teresa Collins 

Stick It Down November blog hop!

Welcome to Stick It Down's November blog hop! Several of our design team members have created projects to share with you along the hop. If you've never participated in a blog hop before, you'll just hop from blog to blog to visit each designer's page and project. You'll leave a comment at each stop along the hop. The hop will end right back here where you started, where you can comment to let us know you've completed the hop and you're entered to win the grand prize. You have until Monday November 23 at 11:59pm to complete the hop. The winner will be announced on or before November 25.

We have several prize packages and one grand prize lined up! Paper Wings Productions is generously sponsoring our blog hop and is offering a $25 gift certificate to the online store!

Paper Wings Productions is owned by Carrie Edelmann Avery. All of the PWP stamps are produced in the USA and are made using the highest quality of materials. You can check out the PWP online store to see the red rubber cling and the clear photopolymer stamps!

Are you ready to get started? Here is the order of the hop, just in case you get lost:

Marci

Irmeline

Loreto

Hanne

Amanda

Terri Ann

Ronna

Ali

Ashley
Katy
 Stick It Down 

I chose to do a single page layout and since our theme is Christmas, I dug out the photo I used for our Christmas cards last year. No, it hadn't been scrapbooked yet! THIS is the sketch I chose:

Here's my page:

I converted this sketch to 8.5 x 11 and used one larger photo. I made my tree embellishments using heat embossing and the Winter Wood Cuts red rubber cling stamp set. My other branch embellishments come from heat embossing with the Build a Wreath and the Winter Woodland stamp sets. I tucked a die cut label under the photo, added couple of small embellishments, and then stamped 'love' from the Say It Winter Greetings stamp set.

We sure hope you're enjoying our blog hop! Head on to Katy's blog now!

I'm also having a giveaway of my own and I'm using Rafflecopter to make it easy to enter:
a Rafflecopter giveaway

supplies
stamps: Paper Wings Productions (Say It Winter Greetings; Build a Wreath; Winter Wonderland; Winter Wood Cuts)
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (Mojito; Coffee)
ink: Memento (Tuxedo black)
enamel stickers: Amy Tangerine

Stitch Fix #7.

Fix #7 showed up this week! I never know what to expect when I get these boxes because the times I open them and think I'll hate everything, I like everything. So this time, I did like everything, but the fit was off on a couple of things. Here's what I got.

Market & Spruce Sawyer Space dye Dolman sleeve knit top size medium $58

Liverpool Anita skinny pant size 6 $78

Loved this top. Kept it. Also liked the pants, but they were a little long and they had a saggy crotch. Had to return them.

Loveappella Howella knit top size medium $48

 

I liked this top. I'm not sure if it was the fit or the material, but it kept bunching up and looking funky. I had to return it.

Fate Rowen faux leather quilted vest size medium $78

 

I debated keeping this one. It's gold and I don't wear gold. But I love the navy color and I love the fit and I don't have anything like this. Plus, everyone on Instagram said I can mix my metals.

Papermoon Keline lace shoulder knit top size medium $54

 

 This was way too big. Obviously.

If you're interested in trying it out, please use my referral link.