Mother of All Blog Hops-Poppies

Welcome to the There She Goes Mother of All Blog Hops! If you have arrived here from Becky's amazing blog, then you are in the right spot. If not, I recommend that you start back on the There She Goes company blog to get the introduction to our hop as well as the information you will need in order to enter to win some exciting prizes!

Tonight I am featuring stamps from the TSG Poppies set that was recently released.  Can I tell you how much I love, love poppies and especially our uber beautiful California Poppies.  The flowers were embossed two times on watercolor paper with Gold EP and then watercolored with Tombow markers.  The second set of flowers were cut out and popped up over the first.

There's alot for you to see tonight, so I won't keep you. So I will send you on to Belinda's awesome blog for some more eye candy.


Hugs,

Oh Happy Day

Can I just say, we are having a beautiful day here in Central CA! Our day is much like the image on this card. The birds are singing and there is a gentle breeze. I love it!

I created this card for this weeks TSG20 Partially Popped challenge over on the TSG blog. I popped up some of the leaves, clouds and the birds. What fun! The tree was colored with YG01, YG03 and YG05 Copic markers. The grass, birds and clouds are all pieced and popped from My Mind's Eye cardstock. The tree trunk is pieced with wood grain cardstock from Amuse. I created the background by putting the four itty bitty music notes on one block and stamping repeatedly. The inside has a little paper pieced bird and the sentiment "Just droppin' you a line..." For a bit of sparkle, I colored the leaves, birds and clouds with Spica Glitter pens in Green, Orange and Pink

Recipe:

Stamps: Happy Day Set-There She Goes Clear Stamps Cardstock: Cream from Stash, All prints- My Mind's Eye Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black Extras: Ribbon, Copics, Spica Glitter Pens

I am off to the post office and have some copies made for this weekend.

Have a great day!

The 11th Hour

Well, here it is! My card for the TSG19 sketch challenge from last Monday. It really is the 11th hour for this card! It is 11:00 pm and I am finally finished and ready to post. I have had this card in my head since I saw the sketch on Monday. This week was a busy one, with getting DH off on his fishing trip and all. Men! Why can't they ever find their socks......he is in Mexico.....I say go barefoot! The fish won't care!

Oh, I digress, the base cardstock is from the DCWV Spring Cardstock Stack (I think I have had this for 2 years, maybe 3), the rest of the cardstock is from the Basic Grey Marrakech 6 x 6 paper pad.

All of the stamps used were from the TSG Treemendous set. Isn't that tiny bird the cutest? The brad is from Kaisercraft's Pennyroyal collection (range - if your talking to an Aussie) :) The inks are: Adirondack Espresso and Lettuce for the tree and Memento Cantaloupe and Potter's Clay for the leaves. The little bird is Memento Bahama Blue. I better run, so I can add this to Mr. Linky on the TSG blog.

TSG Trendsetting Spotlight

How surprised was I this morning when I sat down with my trusty cup of coffee, turned on the lappy and started going through my Google reader only to find that I had been chosen for the Trendsetting Spotlight on the There She Goes blog. What a great way to start my day! You can read all about it here.

Thank you Jessica and the TSG Team!

Happiness

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I think today is going to be a beautiful (but warm) day here in CA. The birds are playing in the sprinklers and the deer are happily eating the watermelon rinds I left out for them. It is usually a race between the deer and Mr. Jack Bunny to see who will get the watermelon!

The card I am sharing today is for the TSG18-Custom Designer Paper challenge. I created the background by stamping most of the images from the Polka Dot Blooms set in various shades of aqua, blue and a touch of lavender Colorbox inks onto white cardstock. It is hard to see, but this panel was then covered with my glue pad and sprinkled with microfine crystal glitter. If only you could see the sparkle! The sentiment is from the Flowers of Happiness set and was stamped in Robin's Egg Blue Colorbox ink. Both of the print panels are layered to lavendar and lt aqua/teal prismatics cardstock. The lavendar layers are teeny tiny! The card was finished off with some ribbon and rhinestones.

There is still time to play in this challenge. Click on the TSG18 link above for details.

Stamps: Polka Dot Blooms, Flowers of Happiness-TSG Paper: Neenah CCSW, Lavendar and Lt Aqua Prismatics Inks: Various Aqua, Blue and Lavendar Colorbox Cat's Eye ink pads Extras: Ribbon, rhinestones, glue pad and glitter.

Happy Stamping,

Happy Birthday Blooms

Happy Birthday There She Goes!

This week I was fortunate to be the winner of this beautiful Bloom set from There She Goes Clear Stamps (thanks Jessica). As soon as it arrived I knew I wanted to use it to create a birthday card for TSG's first birthday.

I started by stamping the image several times on Neenah Classic Crest with Espresso Adirondack Ink and then coloring with my Copic markers. I used YG02, YG07, YG09 and a touch of E37 for the flowers and G40, G82 and G99 for the stems and leaves. I cut the base image out with my Classic circle nesties and then sponged some Summer Sky Memento ink into background. The brown and yellow cardstocks are from Prismatics and the print is from Basic Grey's Marrakech collection. The brown satin ribbon is from my stash.

I wish you all a happy Sunday,

You're the best!

{this is my second post for the day, scroll down to see the first}

There She Goes Clear Stamps is getting ready to celebrate their 1 year anniversary so I thought I would congratulate them by sharing a card I made using my favorite TSG set. You can find the new TSG Blog here.

This was one of the cards I created last month for the DTGD challenges at SCS. I think it might have been my favorite of all. It really is so much prettier in person. It is a biggie at 5 1/2" square.

I stamped the little leaves from the Flowers of Happiness set from There She Goes Clear Stamps in the background with Willow, Espresso and Meadow inks. I stamped the branch in Espresso and colored the leaves with my copics. I stamped the branch a second time and cut each leaf out and popped it up on a rolled up mini glue dot. You shoulda seen me doin' that one!I went over the branches and a bit of the leaves with my Stardust pen to give them a little shimmer. The circles were cut with my Classic Circle Nesties. This card looks so much better in person, I took lots of shots, but couldn't get the perfect one.

The details:

Stamps: Flowers of Happiness-TSG, You're the Best-Hero

Inks: Willow, Espress and Meadow Adirondack

Cardstock: White-Neenah, Chocolate and Dk Green-Prismatics, Glitter Stripe-My Mind's Eye

Extras: Copics, Ribbon-Amuse, Nesties, Stardust pen

See you again soon,