TSMONDAY, CASE a Design Team Member!

Hello, time for another Totally Stampalicious Monday Challenge! This weeks challenge is to CASE a Design Team Member. If you go to SCS gallery and put Totally Stampalicious, you come up with a mix of cards from all the Design Team members, or you can search each Designers Blog, there's links on my right sidebar.

There's so many to choose from, but I finally settled on this card from Pat (aka kokirose). I still used Stella, but this is a winter one, called 'Let it Snow Stella'. I stamped her onto white and coloured with copics.

The card base is early espresso, with a layer of marina mist embossed with a snowflake EF and edges sponged.

I used the top note die to cut the dp from My Minds Eye-Signature Christmas, and this dp was the starting point for my colour selection!

The snowflakes were made with a sizzix die and a MS punch and some glitter cardstock. The main image and parts of the snowflake are popped up. I finished it off with some taffeta ribbon! Too bad the photo doesn't show the glitter, there's some on the dp, the snowflakes and the little circle snowflakes on the main image panel!

I hope you can play along, this should be fun seeing what you CASE! Make sure to upload your creation to Mr. Linky on the Totally Stampalicious Blog, so we can see, and who knows, there may be a prize!

Have a great Day!
Laurie

FS193, Cool Penguin!

Hello I made this for today's Featured Stamper Challenge FS193. This weeks Featured Stamper is imamuttnut aka Laurie, and I chose this card to case.

I wish I had made the center panel smaller, but alas I did not listen to the little voice in my head! lol

This was a super fast & easy card! The base is white, the center panel is vellum with an icicle edge, I stamped the sentiment on first and then embossed with the snowflake embossing folder from Crafts-too. Then white and then black!

The cute little penguin is in a new set from Mark's Finest Papers called 'Time to Chill'! I stamped the image in versamark, then black ink and embossed with black embossing powder. Then I cut him out and popped him up.

To attached the vellum without having any glue marks, I put a strip of 1/8" scor tape under the ribbon and glued under the penguin.

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Speedy's Challenge #25, Stitching!

Happy Saturday, it's time for another challenge from Speedy the Cat's Friends, and this week's challenge #25, is to use stitching, faux or real!

This dp from Basic Greys Wassail reminded me of a quilt, which reminded, me of stitching, so that's what I went with!

I love the tree in the new set 'Time to Chill', if you've been following the Blog Hop at Mark's Finest Papers, you've already seen lots of great ways it can be used.

For today's card, I decided to stamp my tree on dp and paper piece it. Below you can see I stamped the tree 2 times on DP then I cut every other layer, while leaving a bit at the tops for a tab. Then I glued these down to the red cardstock, starting at the bottom of the tree, and only gluing the tab part of each layer. This gives the tree a bit of dimension.
All the faux stitching was done by hand with a fine tip marker. I used some twine to sew the buttons together. The dove is a MS punch, I punched 2, very lightly sponged the top edges and then glued only the bodies together. The wings are spread apart and the dove is popped up.

Speedy's Friends challenge is open to everyone, and for every 50 entries there is a FREE stamp set. You can enter as often as you like, and if you use Mark's Finest Papers stamps, your name will be entered twice! Please make sure to upload your creation on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog!

Have a Great Weekend!
Laurie

New MFP Release Snowman Country!

Hello, today's card features the new Set from Mark's Finest Papers, called "Snowman Country'. There are 6 new sets this month, and they are all available for purchase now at the store!

This is also the last day of the Blog Hop, all you have to do is leave a comment on participating Design Team Members Blogs for your chance to win, a new stamp set from next months release! You can find the whole hopping list on Mark's Finest Papers Blog!

So my card today is a little out of the ordinary for me! First it's big and square, well almost, it was supposed to be 5.5" square, but I cut it wrong...so it's 5.5 x 5.25"!

And somewhere in my head, I got the idea to use a giant glittery snowflake! It's very sparkly!

The cardstock is old olive and pretty in pink, with dp from Basic Greys Eskimo Kisses. The snowflake was made with a Petaloo glitter sheet. This stuff is kind of interesting, it's very pliable, like material?

The cute little snowman was stamped onto white with memento rich cocoa and coloured with copics.

I finished it off with some ribbon from Michael's Christmas section and a button, I also added a pearl to the center of the snowflake, and some at the top to balance it!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!
Laurie

MMTPT115, Now This is Skeery!

Hello, well when I read this weeks Teapot Tuesday Challenge, A Disaster For Casper the White and Friendly Ghost!, I thought how fun, specially with Halloween fast approaching!

Cindy's stories always make me laugh, and while reading them I always think this woman should be writing children's books!

Then I read the Destination Station and I have to admit Jacob's story brought me to tears, and I'm sure many other Teapotters were affected the same way. So for Jacob, this had to be a special Halloween card.

I decided to make what I think would be called a tri-fold type card, with a front, and 4 panels inside, each measuring 4.25 x 4.25". So the picture at the top is the from, with Franken-Riley, a couple fun punches, on a distressed grey backgound, spider and of course googly eyes!

Inside is Count Dracu-Riley and Mummy Riley. Since Dracu-Riley is in a coffin, I decided to make a lid for the coffin, added some texture and bats and voila! The next page is the Mummy with faux gauze background. The letters and bat are from a MS punch.

The next two pages are Vampire Riley and Witch on Broom Riley/Sophie! For the Vampire page, I used coredinations and embossed with the Spider web EF and sanded the raised parts abit and distressed the edges. It's hard to see in the photo the spider that's punched from glitter cardstock.

The next page is the Witch, I coloured her with copics (as well as all the others) then cut her out. The top part is daffodil Delight, I stamped the image onto this then embossed with a star EF, and sponged the edges. I cut the hills from old olive cardstock, added the fence and cat, both MS punches. There's also some glitter on the stars.

And this was where it was supposed to end, well I was going to add a place on the back to sign, but I just couldn't stop there...so I did the back too and that is why I'm a day late to the Tea Party!

On the backside, I used some more coredinations with more of a white core and embossed with the skeleton scroll EF. In order to get some of the skulls in, I had to cut a piece from the center and then match it up, it's matted on riding hood red. The skull is also a MS punch and it's glittery! Maybe I should buy shares in MS's company!

The next page is the signing page, simple white background, edges sponged with a bit of blue. The pumpkin is a $ stamp from Michael's and the grass is, you guessed it, a MS edge punch!

And finally the last spooky ghost page, this one was really simple, the top is punched, yep it's MS and actually so is the sentiment which I embossed with black.

I sure hope Jacob likes it, and I hope it's not too scarey!

You can find all the Riley stamps at Riley and Company!

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

MFP New Release and Blog Hop!

Hi Everyone, hope you all had a great weekend, we had a great turkey dinner at my Mom's!

So today I'm showing you a card made with the new 'Time To Chill' set from Mark's Finest Papers. All 6 of the new sets are available in the store now!

There is also a Blog hop taking placing starting Today Tuesday Oct. 12 til Friday Oct. 15. All you have to do is leave a comment of the participating Design Team Blogs, for your chance to win a FREE set from the next release! Today's Blog Hop Starts at Nancyruth's I'll include a list of the whole hopping route below!

For today's card, I stamped the deer onto white and coloured with copics, then cut him out. All cardstock is from MFP. I embossed the top blue portion with the snowflake EF, and the bottom is strips of white torn and then I rubbed the versamark pad along the torn edge and embossed with glitter.

The tag was made with the nestie tag trio die, and the charm was brass but I covered it with versamark and embossed it first with white EP and then the glittery stuff!

If you'd like to see more and have a chance to win a free stamp set, here's the list!

Nancyruth
Lois
Vicky
Jeanne
Anne
Peggysue
Susan
Judi
Connie
Emily
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz:
Mark’s Finest Papers
Have a great Day!
Laurie

TSMONDAY, Snowflakes!

Hello Everyone, Happy Thanksgiving! This weeks Totally Stampalicious challenge to create a card or project with at least 3 snowflakes! Sorry the picture above doesn't seem to have the best lighting!

This is also for this weeks Featured Stamper Challenge FS192. Jenn has a wonderful gallery and I was inspired by this card!

Before I get to the details of the card, I just wanted to let you know the winners of last weeks Totally Stampalicious Blog Hop are now posted on the Totally Stampalicious Blog, Congrats to all the winners!

So for today's card I used the new Pimp My Ride Stella! She's a Bugaboo image now available at Totally Stampalicious in stamp form. I stamped Stella onto white 2 times, and once on dp for the sleigh. I coloured one of the white images and cut it out, then I paper pieced Stella and the sleigh onto the other white image that I embossed with the swiss dot EF.

The card base is bravo burgundy, with a layer of dp from Basic Greys wassail. The center strip is kraft (new crumb cake) embossed with a new snowflake EF from Crafts-Too and then I ran my craft white ink pad over the raised bits and the edges. I used circle and petite scallop circle to cut the image and mat out.

I also used a snowflake edge punch on the burgundy strip, and added some pearls and ribbon to finish it off!

If you can join in the fun, please upload your creation to Mr. Linky on the Totally Stampalicious Blog!

Haver a Great Day!
Laurie