bubble bella

When we buy a house my only BIG requirement is a bath tub that I can take bubble baths in.....is it any reason I love this bella. I used some crystal effects for the bellas and love how it looks. this is using the tempting turquoise design paper and I am so excited it retired.....I was going to order some but it already went out of stock :(

I used the sketch challenge on my WRAK group over on splitcoast. that was where I received the paper from as well.

New Papertrey Ink Stamp set

Well I purchased my first paper trey ink stamp set and I had to play!

I used my new Martha Stewart inks. I am loving pigment inks and love using them with both clear stamps and rubber ones! the impression is so crisp!

Lucky Bella

This was a bella that I had to have. I am Irish and very proud of it and love anything green and with clovers....I joined a card swap on splitcoast and this is the card I made to send in!

Another Gina K sketch Challenge

Over on Splitcoast in the member company forum for Gina K there is a sketch challenge contest....I of course had to participate because a new Gina K set is on the line!

here is what I came up with!

If you can't tell I am in love with paper piecing this adorable dress! I made a boo boo but quickly fixed it using my word punch!

I have also received my new paper pretties stamps so I will be playing with those soon!

Christopher Titus

Well last night I saw Christopher Titus at a local comedy club. I love this man. he is hilarious and can make you laugh at the most awful things! We went with my boyfriends parents, my mom, aunt and a couple that we hang out with. it was a blast!

I even had my picture taken with him and got an autographed signed t-shirt!

Flash Back Friday!

here is a card I did using my bellas. I love this bella. it is PMSabella :)

I love ice cream

Every time I try to diet or eat healthy there is one thing I never even think about giving up. That is Ice Cream. I love it! If I am going healthy I may do frozen yogurt or sugar free ice cream but it is always there. my favorite is either rocky road from dryers or chunky monkey from Ben and Jerry's!

When MFT came out with a set called here's the scoop I knew I HAD to have it! I haven't played with it too much but i did get some ink on it last weekend. this is what I came up with. I even used brights which is really NOT my usual color choice. I used prismacolor and gamsol to color in. I also used the ginger blossom design paper to paper piece the chair in the picture. Hope you like!

celebrating in style

I absolutely love paper piecing! it is fun and easy....sometime just a little time consuming. this DP is from a local scrap book store. one side of it is the color of the dress and the other is the actual main background. I even used some of my new metallic paste around the embossed edges.....this can be purchased from Gina K and it just adds that little extra oomph. I am thinking this will be a great card for my future Mother in Law. She is turning 50 next month and not looking forward to it!

My favorite things.

This card ended up being Nick's birthday card! I masked the building and used my brayer to do the sky using bashful blue and brilliant blue ink. I used markers to color the building and prismacolor and gamsol for the sun. I just love the sentiment for this stamps set!

Back to stamping

Asela, one of the wonderful stamp creators for Gina K.'s stamp line has a wonderful stamp set called Botanical Dreams. It is so versatile and can be used to so many ways. She recently posted a challenge getting us all ready for the next Gina k release which will start this week ( a little later then usual due to those lucky ducks being at CHA in Chicago). This was the card I created using her sketch for her challenge. I used the technique I learned on Gina K.'s blog (crayon resist) I used my new Martha Stewart inks I recently purchased at wal-mart. I am trying to get rid of the rest of my 08 in colors cause I don't have much left and not sure it is wise to keep it. I also used white ink with another one for the stamps on the soft sky paper. the vanilla ribbon is basic ribbon from Michael's. the dream sentiment is also from the stamp set!