RILEY1210, What Are Your Colours?

Hello Everyone, This is for this weeks Riley and Company challenge RILEY1210! This weeks challenge is to make something using your Country's Colours!

Ok I screwed up! I thought is was supposed to be my Country's colours which would be red and white. Then I double checked somewhere and thought I read 'Our Country's' colours which I took to mean red, white and blue, so I had this whole card planned out in my head, only to find out it was My Country's colours, so just pretend there's no blue! lol

I used Tent Riley for my card today. I stamped the image on white and coloured with copics. I had seen a couple Tent Rileys with a paper pieced tent and loved the look, so I had to give him a nice starry tent! I also restamped the image and coloured Riley head, cut it out and popped it up! There's a tiny little gem in the center of the flower.

The card base is night of navy, with a layer of white and then dp I picked up a while ago from Michaels by Creative Imaginations.

I cut out the Riley image using petite oval and scallop nesties. This is also popped up. I finished it off with ribbon.

Don't forget there's still a BIG SALE on at Riley and Company, it ends July 4th, so nows the time to get those Riley's you've always wanted.

We'd love to see you use those Riley/Sophie stamps and play along.

Once you have created your card/project go back to The Riley and Company Blog and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword RILEY1210. We can't wait to see what you create!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Meghan's a Grade 8 Graduate!!!!

This is my Niece Meghan, we just arrived home from her Grade 8 Graduation! Doesn't she look beautiful! Where oh where does the time go? It seems like yesterday we were patiently waiting in the hospital for my Sister to give birth, and now she's off to high school!

She was so concerned about looking too girly, but I think she looks awesome! She has 2 medals hanging around her neck, way to go Meghan!!!!!

This is the card I made for her, I used the colours from her dress, or those that closely matched! The card base is black, with a layer of lavendar lace. I cut the hole with the Label #9 nestie. Both of these are sprayed with my new vanilla shimmer. It wasn't spraying very nicely, so there's some spots than I would have liked, I really expected it to be a fine spray. I wonder if maybe you shouldn't spray right after vigorously shaking!

Anyway the lavendar panel is popped up. I punched some swirls with the EK flourish punch. The flowers are white, punched with the SU 3 flower punch and I added little lavendar gems to the centers.

The image is Graduate Hanna, coloured with copics and popped up.

Have a Great Evening!

Laurie

TSMONDAY, Baby Baby Baby!

Hello, It's time for another Totally Stampalicious Monday! This weeks challenge is to make a Baby card. I hope you can play along, please make sure to link up your card or creation to Mr. Linky on the Totally Stampalicious Blog for your chance to win an awesome prize!

Breaking News...If you're looking to see who the Blog Hop winners are, you can find them by following the Totally Stampalicious link!

I used the new Bently stamp set, this is a Bugaboo image created by Jodie Mackrell and now available in clear stamp form at Totally Stampalicious.

I picked dp from SU Welcome Neighbour pkg and that's pretty much where the rest of the card design and colours came from! I stamped Bently on white, coloured him with copics, and paper pieced his pj's and hobo bag with dp from the same pkg. I also added a tiny heart gem to the hobo bag. Bently is popped up on dimensionals.

The card base is bermuda bay, with a layer of white and the bottom is old olive. I stamped the old olive with itty bitty bgs and versmark. The grass strip was made with the MS edge punch, and it's popped up.

The sentiment is also in this set, and I stamped it right on the faux grass. I finished it off with old olive taffeta.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with, don't forget to link up to Mr. Linky on the Totally Stampalicious Blog for your chance to win!

Recipe
Stamps: Bently, itty bitty backgrounds
Paper: bermuda bay, old olive, white, DP welcome neighbour
Ink: memento tuxedo black, versamark
Accessories: Martha Stewart grass edge punch, old olive taffeta ribbon, tiny heart gem, dimensionals

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Teen Birthday!

Hello, I made this card for my Niece's 14th Birthday! She loves her laptop so Cyber Riley fit perfectly, but for this one he is Sophie!

I used this weeks sketch challenge SC286.

I used dp from a big pad I have from Prima called 'Rock On Love' I like the funky teen feel of this paper.

I coloured the image with copics. The card base is black and the dp panels are matted with melon mambo.

The sentiment is from a GinaK set called 'Many Happy Returns' I used it because the font looks like regular typed letters. I used the word window to round the ends. It's layered on the Modern label punch. I finished it off with ribbon.

For the inside, I used the same sentiment from GinaK, and I also used 2 stamps from 'A little Birdie Told Me' I randomly stamped them using black, melon mambo and green galore!

Thanks for stopping by,

Laurie

Totally Stampalicious June Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Totally Stampalicious June Release Blog Hop! We'll be giving away some really great prizes to THREE randomly selected winners
so be sure to comment on every blog to increase your chances!! The GRAND PRIZE
is ALL FOUR STAMP SETS from this
FABULOUS New Release!!
You only have until 9PM EST Friday, June 25th so get hoppin'!!

The Stamp Sets are available NOW at Totally Stampalicious
and don't forget they are now accepting ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS as well as Paypal!!

As an added bonus this month
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
on all orders over $50!!
For a limited time only!

I have something from each of the 4 new sets to show you today! All the sets are images designed by Jodie Mackrell of Bugaboo Stamps. I love that they are all cute and funny, what a great combination.

The first one above, is Chef Pierre. I found this cool dp at our local Scrapbooking store. I Also had a recipe box from Michaels $1.50 bin in my stash and I found the big wooden pin at Michaels too! It was red, so I didn't have to paint it, how perfect! So I covered the recipe box with the dp. Then I stamped the Chef 2 times and coloured him with copics, and the serving dish is covered with a silver atyou spica. I cut one to fit the pin and the other with oval petite nesties.

I stamped the sentiment onto the pin with black stazon ink. The pin has old olive taffeta ribbon, and the box old olive satin ribbon. I punched out one of the plates from the dp yo can see in the pic and covered it with crystal effects. I tied a button around the bow, and then attached the plate to the button with crystal effects. I love how it turned out, great gift, but I may keep it myself!!!

Next up is a card I made using the TLC278 magical marquee challenge! What a cool card, who comes up with this stuff!!!

Okay so this is the new Gus & Stella. I coloured them with copics and added crystal effects to their glasses. I followed the directions for the card above, using always artichoke, rose red, very vanilla and dp. Both sentiments on the front and inside come with this set, along with a couple others.

Here you can see the inside. I embossed the rose red panel with the SU rose embossing folder. If you can't red the sentiment, it says 'Still remains a secret!"

This was actually the very first card I made with the new sets. This one just cracks me up, this is Bentley! The local stamping store just got in the new Clockworks embossing folder and I thought it would go great with this sentiment! I also used a layout I had seen on Melissa's blog recently.

The card base is black, with a layer of white embossed with the love language embossing folder. I embossed the black pieces, then ran over them with my white craft ink pad.

Bentley was stamped with memento tuxedo black, and coloured with copics. I used the circle and inverted circle dies to cut him & the layers out, plus I added dimensionals inbetween 2 layers to really add dimension. I finished it off with a tiny red heart gem!

And finally the new JJ Pregnant! She also comes with lots of sayings. For this one, I used old olive as the cardbase, then very vanilla and then dp from the DCWV text print mat pack.

JJ was stamped with black and coloured with copics. I added a scrap of dp for her top. I was really taken with Becca Feeken's tutorial on right angle punching, so I had to give it a try! I used a MS corner punch for this one, but I can't remember the name of it!!! I popped this up, then added buttons and ribbon.

The main image is also popped up, and then I used a word window and oval for the sentiment which is also popped up.

If you started the Blog Hop at the beginning, you should have arrived here from Melissa's and from here you will head over to Becky's!

And just incase you're really lost, here's the whole Hopping list!

Totally Stampalicious
Cindy Haffner's Corner
Monique - For The Love
of Paper
Lynnor - Just Add Glitter
Melissa - My Paper Obsession
Laurie - On the Bright Side (that's me)
Becky - Stampin' For Fun
Patricia - Stamping With
Kokirose
Joycelyn - Stamps 'n' Coffee
Vicki - Summerthyme Studio
Stacy - Twinshappy
Sue - Coffeestamper (Splitcoast Gallery)

Happy Hopping, and good luck!

Laurie

Speedy's Challenge #8, Embossing!

Hello, I made this for Speedy's Friends Challenge #8, this weeks challenge is embossing! I also used this weeks SCS colour challenge, CC276 soft, appealing, amethyst.

Olivia and I went to a Scrapbook/stamping sale last Saturday, and I got a couple MS punches for $5.00 including this mouse rat edge punch!

So my card base is almost amethyst, with a layer of soft suede and then a layer of vanilla embossed with a Fiskars Paw print embossing plate. I sponged the edges with Tim Holtz antique linen.

The cat and mouse are both from the "Speedy the Cats Friends" set from Mark's Finest Papers. I used SU ink pads and a pumpkin pie marker to watercolour in the cat & mouse. I tried to make the cat look like an orange tabby, what do you think? I matted this on soft suede, the top is punched with my new MS punch and the bottom edge is an EK zigzag punch.

I didn't have ribbon that matched, so I ran some white taffeta ribbon thru the almost amethyst ink pad. It came out alot darker than the cardstock, oh well!

Reminder: Please come back tomorrow, Thursday June 24, 9 pm est for the Totally Stampalicious New Release and Blog Hop!

Today's Recipe
Stamps: Speedy the Cats Friends
Paper: almost amethyst, soft suede, vanilla, watercolour paper
Ink: memento tuxedo black, Tim Holz antique linen, apricot appeal, almost amethyst, soft suede, sahara sand
Accessories: oval punch, gems, MS border punch, EK zigzag punch, Fiskars paw prints Embossing plate, dimensionals, pumpkin pie, pretty in pink & old olive markers

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

TSMONDAY, It's a Material Thing!

Hi All! Well it's Monday, and that means time for another Totally Stampalicious Challenge! This weeks challenge is to use fabric on your card! Make sure to upload your card or project with Mr. Linky on the Totally Stampalicious blog, for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

Today I used the Bugaboo image Desiree Lollipop. I picked my fabric first and took colours from it, so the cardbase is cameo coral with a layer of white embossed with the dots EF from Crafts-too.

I stamped the image in white, coloured with copics and cut out with the Nesite Label #4 die. Then I sponged around the image while it was still in the die. I used so saffron and regal rose to sponge around the edges. I added tiny gems for earrings and the flower center, and crystal effects on the lollipop. This panel is popped up.

The flower is fabric, cut with the Dahlia nesties. I added a large brad to the center, and the leaves were made with the sizzix little leaves die.

Hope you can play along!

Please join us for a NEW RELEASE & BLOG HOP, Thursday June 24, 9:00 pm, they'll be lots of prizes!

Recipe for today
Stamps: Desiree Lollipop
Paper: cameo coral, white, green galore
Ink: memento tuxedo black, so saffron, regal rose
Accessories: copics, Nestie Label #4, Nestie Dahlia, Dot EF, Sizzix little leaves, ribbon, brad, tiny gems, crystal effects, dimensionals

See ya soon!
Laurie