Pastel Inchie Cards

Here is my set of inchie notecards that I made last week. This set came about because I wanted to make a card for the Stamp Simply challenge last week. I have had these wonderful watercolor notecards for quite some time and have been wanting to use them. I started by embossing one of the Formal Squares Cuttlebug folders on each of the notecards. I knew I wanted a watercolor look for the inchies and because the Inchie Squares are made of a very high quality artboard, I knew I wouldn't have a problem if my image was a tad wet when I stamped it. I rummaged through my flower stamps and finally picked two from Hero Arts and two from Penny Black (links on the left) and colored them in with Tombow markers and lightly spritzed with water before I stamped them on the inchie squares. Once they were dry, I added some little words from Papertrey (also linked on the left) and Stickles glitter glue. You can learn more about the inchies and ways to store them by going to the Inchie Arts website.

I need to take pics of the cards from the first swap at the store and I hope to upload them some time this weekend.

Hugs,

Inchie Sminchie

Aren't these inchies the cutest? This little card is 3 x 3 in size. The best thing about this one is that everything used (except the inchie) was from my scrap stash. I just love that! I made this card for our first Inchie swap at the store. For this month the only requirement was to put your inchie on a card of some sort.

For the inchie I stamped the Inchie Frame from Lockhart Stamp Co. and the flower is from Hero Arts onto a white inchie square. I colored the flower with Prismacolor pencils. The stamped panel was framed with paper from Collage Press, Bazzill, WorldWin and Treehouse Memories. The image was stamped in Black Onyx Versafine ink.

We are still looking for a good name for our inchie club, if you have any ideas I would love to hear them.

Hugs,

Weblog Award from Debbie

My friend Debbie gave me this award a few days ago and it couldn't have come at a better time. I have been in a funk about the Paypal thing and can't wait for it to be over. I talked to Seamus at Paypal today and he said it would take 10 days before they would have it all resolved. In the meantime, I have almost $1700.00 in limbo between my bank and Paypal. Hmmm, I hope the mortgage company will understand. Yeah right!

Okay, so back to this fabulous award. The rules are: 1) The winner can post the logo on her blog. 2) Link the person you received your award from. 3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. 4) Put links of those blogs on yours. 5) Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.

So I am okay with the first two, but I don't really "know" anyone else who blogs. I have been inspired by many talented artists out here in blog land and I am not sure who to bestow this award to. For starters I will nominate Laurie, Amy and Emily. Each of these people has inspired me to keep on keepin' on in this wonderful craft we call stamping.

I will add to list in a day or two. Now, I am off to edit a couple of pics and share some cards.

Hugs,

Paypal Fraud

I know that we all use Paypal and I wanted you all to take a minute and check your accounts. When I got home tonight I had several bogus e-mails and went to my Paypal account and had 5 transactions amounting to hundreds of dollars pending in my account. I have reported it to Paypal and my bank. Tomorrow, I will call the Sheriffs department and report it there as well.

Sorry for the yucky post, but I don't want anyone else to be scammed like this.

Stamp Simply #44

Over at No Time To Stamp, Sharon has her "Stamp Simply" challenge and this is the first time that I am joining in. Her challenge was to create a card using purple and flowers. The flowers did not have to be purple, you just needed to have purple somewhere on your card.

For this card I inked part of the Penny Black Lace Flower Trio stamp with blue and purple Tombow markers. I spritzed the stamp with water and stamped it onto an inchie square. I embellished with a little bit of Diamond Stickles and then I stamped the itty bitty word "thanks" from the PTI Mixed Messages set. The inchie was layered to a scrap of cs out of my stash. Hooray for using scraps! The notecard is a lavender Fabriano Medioevalis stock. I don't remember where I got them from as they have been stashed away for some time. If you know where I can get more, please leave me a comment cause I would sure like to get some more. I framed the inchie with one of the Cuttlebug embossing folders from the Formal Squares set. The inchie was attached to the notecard with some foam tape to give the card a little dimension.

This card is one from a set of four. I will share the others later.

Hugs,

You know it's hot in California when......

my Momma deer is standing in her water! I took this picture about 10:00 this morning. It will be good when this heat wave passes us by!

Soft and Sweet Friend

I hope everyone is having a great Wednesday. It is hotter than heck here in CA. I was going to go to town and visit my Mom today but the forecast said it was going to be 112 in Clovis today and when I talked to her this morning, she said she just wanted to stay in and stay cool. Usually we go running around town shopping here and there. So today, I stayed in too! Heck, I didn't even get out of my jammies until noon!

I made the card above for an upcoming class. I knew I wanted to use the Memory Box striped paper as I had a bunch left from my Inchie class last month. So I paired it with some Worldwin Medium Belgium Blue and some Bazzill Lavender cardstock. The inks used were Smoke Blue and Heliotrope VersaColor. I used some Stardust Stickles on the dragonflies. Hero Arts Lavender bling and some Lavender May Arts ribbon added the finishing touches to the card. All of the stamps are from the Penny Black clear set called Salutations. I first saw this set when I did a make/take at the Penny Black booth at CHA in February and I knew I had to have it! This is a fun set of stamps with flowers, vases, several word stamps and lots of little filler stamps too!

I have completed a few other cards in the last couple of days and need to get pics and edit them so stay tuned.

Hugs to all,

I've been busy, but I stamped!

Wow, during the week I painted one of the walls in my studio (aka: The Red Room) to a very neutral Navajo White. The wall that I painted (with a little help from DH) is the wall that my desk is up against. I always had a hard time working at my desk because I felt like the dark red wall was casting a shadow on my desk. I also bought a used oak bookcase and put in the corner of the room and completly cleaned off my desk. It always feels good to sit down and stamp in a clean space. I will cross my fingers that it stays that way.

So, I was feeling creative and made a few cards. I will share them over the next few days. For the first two cards, I combined two challenges from Julee at Poetic Artistry/Verve. Julee's Monday Mojo 44 (can you believe 44 weeks already) and over at SCS she is having "A Starry Challenge". So without further ado, here are my cards:

The first card is standard A2 size (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") and the second card is a biggie A7 card (5" x 7").
The supplies used for both cards are:

Stamps: Swirly Stars-Verve

Inks: Mountain Lake, Lime and Lagoon Blue VersaColor Ink

Cardstock/Paper: Black Linen cs, Green Pebble cs, Chatterbox print paper and White cs

Embellishments are: Black Pearls for A2 card and Black Brads for A7 card.

Hugs,