Happy Camper for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Stamps and this week we have a color challenge. The colors made me think of a cool winters day, and from there I morphed into Valentines Day thinking and that is how I ended up with this camper card :)

We have many friends here in Alaska that spend the summer out and about in their RV's and so I just had to have this camper set from SugarPea Designs, it will come in handy for many different occasions. For this card I took some retired SU DSP and paper pieced the designs on the RV, then I used my copics to color in the rest of the areas. I used Night of Navy to stamp the sentiment on the retired Regal Rose DSP.

I'm also entering this into SugarPea Designs Anything Goes challenge....I used one of their older sketches for my layout.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and say hi to our 2 brand new design team members! Don't forget to play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret these colors!

With Love for LMMS

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I had a very lovely one with my husband, 2 of our kids and one of our best friends. I got lots of moose stuff :)

Today starts a new Anything Goes challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog and once again I made a love themed card. I used Polka Dot Pals Heidi for my card and colored her in with red and brown copics. To create the background I used 2 Distress Oxide inks, a spray bottle and a stencil. The sentiment is from Power Poppy and I popped PDP Heidi up for some extra dimension.

Head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Merry Christmas

With Love for LMMS

Happy Thursday! It's Inspiration Week over at LMMS and I'm switching gears to Valentines Day. I recently spotted this fun image in the LMMS store, I don't know how I missed it! It's called  Fancy Sunbonnet Love and I think it would be perfect for a sweet young girl around Valentines Day or even for a birthday!

I kept a pretty small color palette on my card, just using some reds and pinks and then some browns for the heart package. After I took the picture I did go and add some silver accents with my gel pen.

Don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge is still open over at the LMMS blog so hop on over and play along with us

Penguin Wishes

Happy Hump Day! Does everyone have everything all done for Christmas? Hubby and I went into Anchorage on Saturday and finished our Christmas shopping, and now we just have to pick up a few perishables for Christmas dinner and we are all set. It feels good to be right on track!

With it being Weds that also means that it's time for a new challenge over at The Merry Christmas Challenge blog! As always it's an Anything Goes theme, with the option of using a charm this week.

A friend of mine adores penguins and so I used an adorable penguin from SugarPea Designs to create her card. I just love this little guy all tangled up in Christmas lights! They are a military family currently in transit to a new duty station in Hawaii so this little guy will be there to greet them when they get all settled in.

Make sure to head on over to The Merry Christmas Challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! If you are done with your 2017 Christmas cards this is the perfect way to start building your 2018 stash!

A Beachy Christmas for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Stamps and this week we have a fun sketch from Teresa to close out our challenges for 2017!

A friend of mine left Alaska to move to the Lower 48 and she loves the beach, hates the snow, so I made a beach Christmas card just for her. I know she is much happier in OR where she isn't dealing with the bipolar weather of Alaska!

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us for our last challenge of 2017!

Be A Star for LMMS

Happy Thursday! New images are being released over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps today and they are super cute! Go HERE to see the new images.

My card today showcases one of the new images, Polka Dot Pals Vega. How sweet is she? I just love the star in her hand and the stars on her dress. She is so versatile and can be used for any occasion! I decided to use her on an encouragement card and used 2 of my favorite colors on the card, blue and yellow. I also pushed myself to get out of my comfort zone and try something different with the skin and hair, so I made my Vega an African-American girl!

Make sure you head on over to the LMMS store to check out all the great new images from today and the last few weeks and don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge is still open on the blog, so play along!

A Beary Merry Christmas

It's time for a new challenge over at The Merry Christmas Challenge and as always the theme is Anything Goes. We also have an optional theme you can use, which is fun fold cards this week. I've been swamped at work and at home, 'tis the season!, so I kept my card simple this week.

I'm a huge nature love and living in Alaska I get very spoiled with our beautiful scenery and wildlife. My card this week features one of Alaska's most famous animals, the bear! As soon as I saw this paper I knew it would be perfect with a bear image! I created the sentiment by mixing and matching some sets in my stash.

Make sure and head on over to The Merry Christmas Challenge to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Christmas Wish for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps and this week we have a color challenge. The colors are fun winter ones but you can really go in any direction with them.

I decided to use the MFT Pure Innocence Nice List stamp. I did some paper piecing on the girl with her dress, using the same paper for the background. With my copics I colored in the rest of the girl. The layout may look familiar, I also used it on a card last week and it's the sketch from last weeks The Paper Players challenge.

Head on over to Sunday Stamps to see what the rest of the DT created with these colors and then check out our DT call! We're looking for a new team member to join us from Jan.-June 2018. All of the details are on the blog!

Festive Moose for LMMS

It's time for a new Anything Goes challenge over at the LMMS blog and for my card I'm featuring the LMMS image Moose Jingles. We all know I love moose and LMMS has some great moose images! You can find Moose Jingles HERE in the LMMS store.

For my layout I used last weeks sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and the sentiment is one I have in my stash that I've had for a few years.

Head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Simple Joys

For today's card I played along with the sketch at The Paper Players and the colors are from the current Power Poppy Hues to Use challenge.

I pulled out the Power Poppy set Simple Joys. I just love this image! If I didn't think my cat and dogs would destroy it I would totally have a decoration like this over by my wood stove! I think my puppies would view it as an open invitation to wreak havoc though LOL

I turned the sketch and instead of a ribbon I just used the pattern on the red patterned paper to fill in as that element.

Thanks for stopping by!

Don't let those sleepy faces fool you! Anna and Elsa are 7 months old and full of mischief :)

Stamps: Simple Joys (Power Poppy)

Paper: Red Red (SU), Neenah Solar White, Santa & Co DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tempting Turquoise (SU)

Copics: R24, R27, R46

B02, B04, B05

T1, T3, T5

W1, W2, E44

Accessories: Cuttlebug, SU Oval Framelits, MFT Stitched Rectangle Stax, MFT Blueprints 13, SU 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Dimensionals

Merriest Wishes on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US! I hope you are having a day filled with love, laughter and lots of good food!

Today is Thursday and that means it's Inspiration Week over at the LMMS blog! I used PDP Jessica again this week, I just think this is such a cute image! She can be colored up to fit any occasion, not just Christmas!

I don't know about everyone else but I've been going in a million directions for weeks now and so I wanted a simple card to make, one where I didn't really have to think about the design. After staring at my stamps for a bit I grabbed a set from SU to create my streaks of color in the background and then popped up PDP Jessica above them. The sentiment is from MFT.

Make sure and head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget that the Anything Goes challenge is still open, so play along with us!

A Plaid Christmoose

It's time for a new challenge over at The Merry Christmas Challenge! This week I went with a plaid scheme along with a moose, 2 of my very favorite things! We already have about 6 inches of snow at my place and the moose have been visiting my yard but they're being elusive, and coming through at night. I wake up to find their tracks going through the yard. Hopefully they'll start showing up during the day so I can enjoy them!

I really love how bright these green is, it just makes such a happy Christmas card!

Head on over to The Merry Christmas Challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! The theme is always Anything Goes, but this week you also have the optional theme of monochrome if you'd also like to try that!

A Christmas Dinosaur

I first saw this Christmas dinosaur digital stamp on Instagram and knew I had to have him and the other 2 Christmas dinosaurs the designer, Three Room Studio, has in her Etsy shop. My boys have always loved dinosaurs but my 19 year old REALLY loves them so I made this card with him in mind. We both agreed that since neither one of us like coffee or tea that the dinosaur is drinking hot chocolate :) 

I cut up a sentiment from SU's No Bones About It set and paired it with a sentiment from MFT to get my dinosaur Christmas greeting.

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Joy to the World

It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps and this week we have a fun sketch from Monika. Usually I'm pretty literal when it comes to sketches but I went a little broad with my interpretation, as I had a certain idea running through my head.

I used a die from SU's Hometown Greetings Edgelits that has 3 houses, along with a tree. For the sketch I'm using the houses as the squares, and then I placed the sentiment below the first few houses. Instead of placing 3 embellishments under the sentiment I decided to emboss the bottom of the scene with snow, making those my circles from the sketch.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see how the rest of the DT interpreted the sketch and then play along with us, we'd love to see your take on it!

Stamps: Hearts Come Home (SU)

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Merry Little Christmas DSP (all SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Hometown Greetings Edgelits (SU), Softly Falling TIEF (SU)

Poinsettia Christmas

For this card I played along with the current Freshly Made Sketches and the Portion Control Challenge at Power Poppy. The circles in the sketch were the perfect way to bring in the leaves of the poinsettia and the pomegranate berries, plus cutting off some of the image filled the bill for portion control.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Poinsettia and Pomegranates (Power Poppy)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Mossy Meadow (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: R35, R37, R59

R24, R27

YG11, YG63, YG67

G24, G17, YR24

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Avery Elle Wonky Stitches

 

Christmas Banner for LMMS

It's time for a new challenge over at the LMMS blog plus there are some great new images being released in the LMMS shop today! I used one of those images on my card today, her name is Polka Dot Pals Jessica. How cute is she? I just love her hair and the banner can be used for any occasion. 

I decided to go with a Christmas card and so I picked out some retired SU DSP from my stash and pulled from those colors to color my image. Because I used snowflakes in the window insert I decided to color my banner to match that and then used a white gel pen to add snowflakes to it. I used a scrap I had to stamp the sentiment and place it across the bottom portion of the card.

Head on over to the LMMS blog to join in our latest challenge and head on over to the FB group for conversation and to show off any projects you are working on! You can find all the new images in the LMMS store HERE.

Wintertime Wishes

I'm still playing catch up and today's card is for Power Poppy's Hues to Use from Nov.7. This one had me stumped for a while because of the pink in it. I don't care for pink and so when I'm faced with using it my brain tends to shut down LOL It was actually another crafter who submitted a card for this that inspired me, you can see Camille's card HERE.

I used the digital stamp set Stand Here and then cut it out with my Wonky Stitched frame from Avery Elle. I grabbed my copics that I felt matched these colors and colored my image in. I wanted to add a sentiment across the front but didn't want anything too big so I opted to use a sentiment from the Power Poppy clear set Cozy Cupfuls.

I wanted the berries to be white with a hint of pink so I colored the edges in with pink and left the centers the lighter color. I then went over the centers with a Wink of Stella white pen so when it dries the white will pop more. I used a T5 to go over the green on the stems to give them a darker appearance from the leaves.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Stand Here (Power Poppy digital set), Cozy Cupfuls (Power Poppy clear set)

Paper: Calypso Coral (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Calypso Coral (SU)

Copics: R0000, R00, R11, R22, R24

G02, G05, G09

T5

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die, Wink of Stella White Pen

Bottlebrush Christmas

 I made this card on Thursday but got busy with my family and completely spaced posting it, ooops!

I'm behind on playing with my favorite challenges so I'm playing catch up with some of them. This card was made for one of the recent color challenge at Power Poppy and their Hues to Use. The colors to use are a plum, olive green and a chartreuse green. I wasn't sure what to do with these colors at first but after staring at all my Power Poppy stamps for a while I went with the Bottlebrush Holiday set. I think this group of trees is so fun!

To bring in the plum I colored in the ornaments with the deep color, and I also tried to go for a plum color with my background paper. I really didn't have anything that color so the red I used is a bit different but I think it still works! The olive green is the trees and the background paper with the brighter green brought in on the garland and some of the ornaments.

If you haven't checked out the Hues to Use challenge you really should! The inspiration photos are always gorgeous and their guest designers always show off some great cards!

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Greetings for LMMS

Did everyone stop by the LMMS FB page this last week to check out the introduction of the news PDP faces? If you didn't you sure missed some awesome inspiration from some great people! I was really blown away by the samples that were posted and the faces are definitely a must have!

This week it's Inspiration Week over at the LMMS blog and I have a Christmas card featuring a teen too cool for Christmas....it's a digital stamp called Casper Silvermist Too Cool for Christmas and he is part of the Honeycloud Teens series. I've got 3 boys, all grown now, but at one time or another I have definitely seen them act like they were too cool for Christmas :)

Make sure and head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget the Anything Goes challenge is still open, so come play along with us!

Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Wednesday! I'm excited to announce that I've joined the team over at The Merry Christmas Challenge! Anyone who has frequented my blog knows that Christmas cards are my favorite type of card to make so being able to be a part of this team makes me super happy!

My first card as a member of the team is a masculine Christmas card, for a young boy or teen. The great thing about it is it can be used as a Christmas card, a winter card or both, depending on when in the season you want to send it.

After coloring in this older Pure Innocence image I was trying to decide on my frame color. I already had the patterned paper picked out so I needed to tie it all together. I made one blue frame, one brown frame, created the cards and then polled my family and friends LOL Surprisingly it was pretty evenly split...half of them liked the blue frame and half of them liked the brown frame! I ended up making 3 of each color so everyone was happy :)

Are you working on your Christmas cards? Head on over to The Merry Christmas Challenge and play along with us! The theme is always Anything Goes with an optional twist, and this week the twist is "snow". I incorporated that with my boy image holding snowballs. What would you create for a snow theme? Come on over and show us!

Just for You Dahlia

This month at the Power Poppy blog Cindy Lawrence is the host for the Power and Spark Challenge and it's all about portion control. She wants us to use only portions of images, no full images allowed. Pretty fun idea!

I instantly thought of the Dahlia XL image for my card and I decided to use a retired die from SU to create my portion control. I cut out the die first and then stamped the image across it. By doing this the outer side edges of the flower were cut off, leaving the center as the main focus of the card. If I had chosen a smaller die I could take off even more of the outer petals but I really liked how this die looked with the dahlia so decided to keep it as is. 

I colored the image in with some orange copics and then decided to use some orange and black papers for the background to carry the color scheme. I wanted a sentiment on the front but didn't want it to be too overwhelming so I stamped the "just for you" on a strip of white and then cut it to create a small banner.

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Candy cane and Berries

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a color challenge going on. I had to stare at these colors for a bit before my wheels started turning, and I decided to use a new stamp set from Power Poppy for my card.

The set is called Berry Sweet Holiday and I used the orange/red color, the pink and the green on my card.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! We'd love to see how you use these colors!

New Faces for LMMS

It's the release that you've been waiting for ... the new and improved Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces is here! These adorable and quirky faces are a fun way to customize your Polka Dot Pals rubber stamps. The clear stamps also make it easy for placement. This set features 32 high quality photopolymer clear stamps of faces and glasses sized for both the large and small Polka Dot Pals.

We're celebrating this release with a grand sale AND we have some fabulous guests that have joined us! Visit each of the four days for inspriation and get your Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces today. Let's celebrate!

During these four days ...

Buy the new Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces and you'll also receive the Little houses clear stamp FREE!

15% OFF all Little Miss Muffet brand stamps
(Check the Make it Crafty section too for some holiday sales)

Lastly, you'll get FREE US shipping on mailable orders over $35.00 or a $5.00 shipping credit for International Order. There's no better time to shop for rubber stamps at Little Miss Muffet Stamps. Oh yeah!

All promos are automatically added to the cart during checkout - no coupons needed!

Get more information at our Challenge Blog or the NEW LMMS FB group!

For my card I used PDP Hannah! I love how the freckles really bring this fun face together!

Make sure you head on over to the LMMS store to check out all of the great new products!