Hold that Thought!

I'm taking a mini-break while my stamping stuff gets moved from one floor of the house to another!  It will be moved out of sight of the husband, who cringes every time he walks into the living room.  Alas, that is where I've been attempting to gain inspiration.

Instead, it will be in the downstairs Playroom/Kids Room/Laundry Room/You get the idea.  I've purchased the Ikea Expedit bookcase (8x2 cube) with the desk attachment, and I have plenty of other matching Expedit pieces to surround myself *grin*.  It will be gorgey when I'm done, and definitely more user friendly. 

Of course, I'm at the same time solving storage problems in every other area of the house as well. New wardrobe/shelves in the bathroom, computer area moving to the former stamping area, etc.  Love the fact that we have Tile floors and I can basically move this stuff by myself.  Otherwise, this undertaking would be nearly impossible.  Can we say, HEAVY furniture?

Someday I'll unbury the rest of the space that is my master bedroom.  Why do Germans not understand the concept of CLOSETS?  Even now, in the 21st Century?  I do miss my walk-ins.  *le sigh.*

Back soon.. hopefully.

MFT - WSC - Glitzy Glitter (03.24.10)

Today's challenge card comes from My Favorite Things. The challenge has three parts:

• Create a custom embellishment using Glitzy Glitter (or glitter of your choosing)

• Feature hand snipped grass

• Use her layout.

Now, I don't know if we had to do ALL of them on one card, but since everyone else did, why stray from the norm?

Here's my result:

I used Pure Innocence - Blooming Good Day for the stamp. The Paper is Thoroughly Modern DSP, and Ribbon, flowers, CS are all SU. The glittered parts are her shoes (a girl has to have gorgeous shoes!), the flower, the grass, and the button on the flower.  I used SU glitter.

 I must say, I was quickly reminded of why I do NOT use glitter very often!  It's now EVERYWHERE!

Oh, I also created my own raindrops, of course with glitter - dazzling diamonds - using Crystal Effects. You can only see 2 because one ended up being covered up by the flower. Oops.

I have to say, this is one of my favorite results, although it's very UN-mailable. I'll save it for a friend here ;)

Thanks for looking!

TMITA Challenge -More Tulips!

This week's TMITA Challenge was a 1-2-3 challenge:

1 - Paper Cupcakes image
2 - Ribbons
3 - Buttons

We can use more than just that, but we had to use at least those items.  Here is my final result!

Even though I won the 2 images last week, I chose to use an image I purchased, because I've been eagerly anticipating our trip to the Tulip Gardens in Holland next month! 

I also chose to use the "SCS Sketch 268" layout because of a WRAK monthly challenge. The other image and the sentiment were given to me by fellow wishRAK members. It was a hard sketch, and I hope I interpreted it well! 

For the TMITA challenge, I found using the buttons difficult.  I don't use buttons often, so they seem very out of place.  Brads, I can handle those. Buttons, not so much! The ribbons are combined at the bottom; one is a white striped sheer, and the other is cranberry colored. 

Did I mention that I also put fresh flowers on my dining room table this week? (Only cost 8 Euro! LOVE the flowers here!) Perhaps that has also inspired my color choice this week. Nah, they're just my fave colors. Even my wedding colors, 12.5 years ago :)

  

 Hope you're having a great weekend!  

Wrapped Tulips

Today's challenge card from DZ Doodles was to create a card based on this image

Now, I took some liberty, and didn't use Yellow, but green instead - the tulips just lended themselves to this color scheme.  I also used teal instead of blue, because I don't normally use bright colors like that!  I added some Sweet Pea felt buttons, and the textures.

I love this "Wrapped Tulips" image, as I've been inspired by the tulips that are about to bloom in the Netherlands!  We'll hopefully be going to see them soon.

I am also submitting this card for a monthly WRAK challenge.

I won!!

I won the random drawing for entering my bunny cupcake card!  My prize is 2 of Nina's digistamps, free!

Woohooooo!  I hope I have time to do this week's challenge!

WRAK Spectacular Today!

I received 6 wRak envies in the mail today!! (Beautiful bRak cards too!) Not to mention some MFT goodies, a stamp set from JenMarie at Ippity that I couldn't resist, and an eBay purchase - Wild Wasabi stamp pad to round out my '08 in-color inks. Oh, and my mom's package with 3 packs of GP 110 cardstock is finally here too!

It almost feels like my birthday! Oh wait. It just was. *Ü*

Hopefully I'll have time to play this week, it's shaping up to be a busy one.

Another Blog Challenge!

This time it was for There's Magic In The Air - Paper Cupcake stamps.  (TMITA-PCC)  This free digi download of the bunny cupcake is adorable.  I'm having issues with my printer ink smearing, even with heat setting.  Not sure why - unless it's just one that does!

The challenge was to make anything besides a traditional card, and I chose a CrissCross card, which was new to me.  Found it at Splitcoast, in the the Resources.

I Love his little ear peeking out! That was my goal.. I think I succeeded.

I really enjoyed this card; the actual crisscross part was easy, and the hardest part was having to keep redoing the bunny because of smearing!

Violets

My first Blog Challenge! Violets, made for DZ Doodles (their image) and ABC Toys and Crafts (Spring is in Full Bloom challenge)

Pretty proud of myself. Copics, and the extra little flowers that are a bit darker are vellum cardstock, also colored with copics. Doesn't exactly work well. LOL.