MMTPT150, Get Well Wishes From Charlie!

Hello, I made this for this weeks Teapot Tuesday Challenge MMTPT150! This weeks Destination Station is to Jessica, the daughter of fellow teapotter Cathy (Mutnik) who was seriously injured in a fall while riding her horse this week. You can find all the info here!

I used Charlie Horse from Cleardollarstamps.com, this is 2 different stamps, Charlie Daisy and Charlie Gets Giddy! Isn't he perfect to cheer up a horse lover!

I coloured both images with copics, masked the horses and sponged in some clouds with soft sky and a scallop circle for the cloud mask. The flowers Charlie is holding were cut out and I added some really thin strips for stems and hand cut a couple leaves. All the flowers have tiny pink gems in the centers.

I loved the 5x7 double twisted easel, so I decided to try & make another size. So here's a tip you can learn by my mistakes, you MUST start with a square piece of cardstock! If it's not square, it won't work.
So for this card I started with a 5.5" square piece of cardstock.
Score in half at 2.75"
Then cut the unscored side at 2.75" down to the score line
I found this cool design on Kim's blog here, just scroll down a bit, you can follow her pictures and these measurements!

The finished card when folded is 2.75" x 5.1/2"
For some reason the light makes the panels look slightly different in colour, but they aren't IRL.

I used a label punch from SU for the sentiment which is from Mark's Finest Papers set Ladybugs & Carnation. It's popped up to work as the stopper, and I dressed it up with some flowers with gemstone centers, and some sheer ribbon!

Stamps: CDS Charlie Daisy, Charlie Gets Giddy, MFP Ladybugs & Carnation
Paper: pretty in pink, white, certainly celery, dp Echo Park-a walk in the park
Ink: black, soft sky, certainly celery, daffodil delight
Accessories: copics, scallop circle mask, gems, ribbon, SU label punch, marvy flower punches, dimensionals

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Thank You Cindy!

Hello, I made this for Cindy aka Mothermark. On April 23rd she will be celebrating her 5th Anniversary on SCS! Cindy is the fabulous host of the Teapot Tuesday Challenge, and each week she comes up with such creative fun stories all based on a Teapot! She also manages to incorporate a destination each week, for those who want to send someone some cheer! That's alot of organizing!

I owe Cindy a huge Thank You for arranging for my Cousin Kim to be a recipient of these cards a couple weeks ago. He and his Wife were over joyed by the outpouring of good wishes and beautiful cards that they received from the wonderful Teapotters!

So this is for Cindy, I hope she likes it! I included as many dots as I could! lol I chose the colours based on the fun dotty images on Cindy's blog!

I chose this image because it's a teacup, it's cute, and I was dying to use it! lol I've had it for awhile, it's called 'A cupful of happiness' ((how appropriate) from cdstamps.com.

The image was stamped onto white & I coloured the cat with copics, using my cat Milo as inspiration! lol I was really happy with the outcome. The image was stamped again on dp from Bo Bunny. Then I paper pieced it together.

I've seen these pearl sprays used on cards, and really liked the look. I got these in the bridal section at Michaels. I'm not going to tell you how long I played with them trying to get it to look nice, but I finally settled for this!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

MMTPT130, Double the Fun!

Hello, well I'm really late with this one, maybe I should change my name to Laurie the Late! lol Well I made this for last weeks Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT130, IT'S PINK AND IT'S BLUE! IT'S ALL ABOUT TWO! THROW A MONKEY IN THERE TOO!, The destination station being to the new Parents of twins, who just happen to be the newest Grandbabies to Pat aka Kokirose!

I used this cute little monkey stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps called Monkey Surprise! I stamped it twice and coloured one blue & one pink! I used the mega scallop rectangle for the mat, but I had to cut some out of the middle to get it to fit!

The dp is from DCWV Nana's Nursery and I finished it with some ribbon and a button from SU!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

MMTPT90, Charlie's Hoping to Get Lucky!

Hello, I made this for this weeks Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT90.

We're off to the Kentucky Derby! This is Charlie he's so excited to finally be taking part in the race, he's been praticing for so long! But Charlie is still young, and he's sure a roll in the hay....I mean leaves, with the beautiful Charlene will surely bring him good luck at the race!

Of course Charlene is just a big tease always peeking over the fence to watch him! I wonder if she'll give in! lol

Charlie and Charlene are both from cdstamps.com, and I coloured them with copics. The sentiment was computer generated!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

CIC6, Red Hearts!

Hello again, with the craziness of Christmas and Olivia's Birthday out of the way, I had some extra time to enter some challenges! This was made for the challenge C1C6, over on the Clearly istamp blog for Clear Dollar Stamps. This challenge was to use red, black, white, and pink if you wanted.

I used the Everyday Jar-Gone set. The hearts were all punched. I stamped the jar on a separate piece of white, then glued on the hearts & cut them along the edges of the jar, so they didn't go outside the jar. Then I attached that to a jar I had already stamped and added a few more hearts to the top of the pile.

I hope it's okay, I also used this weeks sketch challenge SC266!

Stamps: Everyday Jar-Gone
Paper: real red, white, black, dp Kaisercraft
Ink: memento tuxedo black'
Accessories: copics C-1, swiss dot EF, circle punches, heart punches, ribbon, dimensionals

TFL
Laurie

Teacher/Classroom Gift!

Hello, sorry this isn't the best picture, but I just wanted to share this jar I made for my Daughter's Teacher & the classroom.

I totally cased this from the awesome Katie on the CDS blog. She always has the best ideas.

This was very inexpensive to make too! I used a canning jar I picked up at the 2nd hand store. The DP is basic grey. The stamps for the tag & the jar are both from the Teacher Treats set from cleardollarstamps.

The sentiment on the jar was stamped onto white, cut out with the nesties label #9 die & then I cut a large piece from brilliant blue & turned it, then I attached it with brads to the dp.

The tag got washed out by the light, but it was stamped onto white, coloured with copics & layered onto an only orange tag.

TFL

Laurie

Charlie Makes Me Smile! Entry for Guest Designer Spot!

Hello, this is my entry for Clear Dollar Stamps Guest Designer Challenge CDSGDC0909. I combined the sketch & colours provided for the challenge.

Charlie is so cute, you can't help but smile at him! My card base is not quite navy, with a layer of chocolate chip, and then dp from basic greys Mellow. The part circle is also from the basic grey mellow pkg, & embossed with the leafy branch EF.

I used Charlie Autumn and stamped him with burnt umber palette onto very vanilla. I also stamped the leaves on the bottom a 2nd time, and the sentiment. Charlie & the leaves were coloured with copics. I cut out the leaves & popped them up. The images & sentiment were cut using the oval/scallop nesties. The maple leaf was made with a fiskars punch.

Wish me luck and Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Charlie's Snow Day!

Hello, I made this as an entry for May's Guest Designer challenge at Clear Dollar stamps! The challenge was to include something that dangled on your card or project.

While Charlie Snowhorse is a little off season, this and the snowflake charm, were the first things that popped into my head when reading the challenge!

I stamped Charlie onto white, and lightly coloured his face & scrarf with copics. The circles and scalloped circles were cut with nesties. Then Charlie was covered with glue and made glittery with SU dazzling diamonds. The snow in the background was made with a stamp from the same set.

The card base is chocolate chip, then a layer of white, and dp by ATD called snow days. The strip in the center is blue bayou embossed with the snowflake EF and matted onto white. The sentiment is also from this set, and punched with a small oval punch.

I finished it off with small scalloped photo corners, brown velvet ribbon, and a nice shiney snowflake also from cdstamps, you can find it here.

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Lots & Lots of Bunnies!

Hello, I made these bunnies, all 40 of them for the 2nd annual Easter Egg Hunt, put on by my SIL Wendy.

They are so cute & easy to make. The bunny head, tail & body stamps are from cdstamps.com, in a set called Bunny Nuggets. The images were stamped with basic grey onto white. I added pink to the ears & cheeks with a prismacolour pencil.

Last year when I made these for the kids in my family, I cut out the tails. This year I punched out the tails with the SU 1/2" circle punch! much easier & quicker, but still looks good...well I think so anyway! lol I used 4 of the soft subtle colours, and stamped them onto address labels. The labels are wrapped around Hershey's nuggets. I had trouble finding these in my area, the bulk store only carries they at Christmas! My local Shoppers Drug Mart has them, but they're expensive, so I just wait for them to go on sale, which they often do.

note: you can click on most of the pictures on here to get a closer look. I have no idea why it doesn't work for all of them! something I have yet to figure out!

Have a great day!

Laurie

Thankful Charlie in purple!

Hello, I made this for the guest designer challenge for cdstamps.com. We were to make a card of project using purple in some way.

I decided to use 'Charlie Daisy' He was stamped 2 times on white. I used copics to colour Charlie & the bg. I cut out Charlie's body & popped it up. The flower petals & butterflies have some sparkle added with the stardust pen. I also added stickles to the center of the flowers.

The flowers were made with a marvy punch, and the centers are made from a regular hole punch, I used the brown from the dp, I still might add crystal effects to the centers. The little butterflies were made with the Martha Stewart punch, and then covered with stardust pen.

I didn't come across this challenge til yesterday, and didn't have time to stamp til later in the evening. I was too late to enter the contest, darnit, I'll have to try again another time!

Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Laurie

Mini Easter Basket

Hello, I made this for the 'Try a new technique' challenge TLC213. This week we were to make a mini easter basket, you can find all the info & instructions here.

I used pink pirouette cardstock & designer paper.The Bunny is from cdstamps, it's called Bunny nuggets . I stamped the head & tail on white & cut them out. The body is made with SU lg oval punch, and his paws are cut from the scallop circle punch. I popped his head up. I just happened to have the perfect pink bow already in my saved ribbon scraps!The bunny is attached to ovals cut with nesties.

The white edges on the basket & the handle edge were made with the EK dotted scallop edge punch.

Very fun easy challenge, you should check it out!

Thanks for stopping by,
Laurie

Happy Frolicing Birthday Charlie!

Hello, I'm late posting this, but I made this for the sketch challenge last week, SC220.

I'm actually amazed at how well this turned out, considering it was not my favorite dp, and then I mixed it with old olive & yoyo yellow! But it looks better than it sounds!

The image I used is 'Charlie Daisy' from CDstamps. I coloured with copics, and added dazzling diamonds glitter to the flower centers & the butterflies.

I sponged around all the edges, even the yellow strips, I have yellow fingers to prove it! The sentiment is popped up.

Have a great day

Laurie

Measurements for Lip Gloss boxes

Hello, this is a picture of my Youngest Olivia (8) showing off her glossy lips and the cherry lip gloss she just made!

As promised here are the measurements for the lip gloss boxes. I'm so glad I thought to write them down!

For the box you will need:

1 piece of cardstock 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"

score this piece at 1 1/8" and 2 1/4" on all four sides. All the corners have to be cut, and I can't figure out how to explain that duh! so here's a link to the nugget box templates http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190469 just have a look at one of these, and you'll see what I mean.

For the insert you will need:

1 piece of cardstock 5 1/2" x 2 1/4"

score 3/8" on all four sides, cut one 3/8" line at all four corners

punch 3 holes with 1 3/8" punch

For the lid you will need:

1 piece of cardstock 6" x 4 7/8"

score at 1/4", 1 1/8", 1 3/4", and 1 1/8" fold & put tape or glue along edge that is scored at 1/4"

I didn't even have to glue or tape the box and insert together, you only have to glue the lid together. These measurements are for three jars, purchased from http://www.cdstamps.com/the sizes may vary with other jars.

Love Those Glossy Lips!

Hello, Everyone! This is a project I did with the kids yesterday. They made lip gloss with Vaseline & Kool-aid. I purchased the stamps we used as well as the little jars, from http://www.cdstamps.com/ They had a lot of fun, and there was a lot of chatter and laughing going on, perfect fun for all ages!

I had precut and scored the holders from cardstock. Then they were ready to be decorated. The labels on top of the bottle were stamped on white and punched out with a 1 ¼” punch. The insert inside the box has 3 holes punched out with the 1 3/8” punch, the jars fit in perfectly! I will come back later & post the box measurements later.

Lip Gloss Recipe

Melt 1 tsp vaseline, (I did it in the microwave), add 1/4 tsp sugar free Kool-aid, Stir until disolved & mix together completely. Pour into lip gloss container. Let cool & apply.

This recipe is enough for one jar. I tripled the recipe because I had 3 girls making 1 of each flavor. I should also mention that the colour isn't as vibrant as a jug of Kool-aid, I'm guessing it has something to do with the vaseline not being clear!

Have a great day, and I'll be back to post the measurements!

Laurie