Firecracker Designs Clearly Calendar Set

Today I thought I would share all 4 calendar cards I made with the new Clearly Calendar set from Firecracker Designs. I've already showed the first card but I thought I would post it again with the other 3. As I've said before, this set would be awesome for scrapbookers but I thought I would challenge myself to make cards with it. All 4 of my cards are 4 1/4" x 4 1/4".


Fore more Clearly Calendar ideas, check out these AWESOME creations made by my friend and fellow FCD dt member Vicki:
Vicki's St. Patrick's Day card,
Vicki's Calendar Craze: card, bday calendar and sb page and Vicki's Calendar Craze part 2
and
A cute Valentine's Day card made by my friend Etha!

There are so many possibilities with this set!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week! Thanks for stopping by today!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge! Let's CASE Kim!

It's time for another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday Challenge! This week our challenge was to CASE our fellow DT member Kim. If you would like to play along and CASE Kim, please use keyword JBE040 when uploading to an online gallery.

Once again, this challenge made me really nervous because Kim's cards are incredible! For some major inspiration take a look at her blog, she has some totally adorable cards on there!

So here is Kim's card:

Once again, I tried to make my CASE as close to her card as possible (crossing my fingers that she likes it)...here is my card:

Supplies used: Prima flowers, Shimmerz Hottie Pink Blingz, Basic Grey Bittersweet designer paper and Basic Grey Bittersweet brads all from Jacksonbelle embellishments, Prismacolor marker, SU CS, and the sentiment stamp is from DRS Designs.

Like the past couple JB challenges, I used 3 of my absolute favorite products from Jacksonbelle...Basic Grey products, Primas and Shimmerz. I LOVE all of these products and Jacksonbelle carries a huge variety of all of them. And speaking of Primas...Jacksonbelle has TONS of brand spankin new Prima products that were just listed yesterday. There are tons of flowers, ribbons, papers and BUTTERFLIES!!!!

For more inspiration, check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle rockstars!

Melissa Bove

Jennifer Buck

Jill Dunn

Kimberly O’Rosky

Maren Benedict

AJ Otto

Kisa Peters

Shannan Teubner

Michelle Woerner

Taylor Usry

Rachel Baird

Lynda Benden

Beth Thomas

Lindsey Botkin

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you all have a great day!

It feels like a Monday...

Hope you all had a great weekend. We didn't have any plans over the weekend so we just hung out at home...my favorite kind of weekend. Now, I'm feeling sort of blah today. I guess the high of the relaxing weekend is over and now it is just Monday...the chaotic start to our busy week.

Today I have a a fun, simple birthday card to share. This main image is one of the newly released designs from DRS Designs. I absolutely love this image. The candles and the sentiment together are one stamp but you could definitely use them separately! There are so many possibilities! DRS released a bunch of fantastic new birthday designs this month, check them out HERE.

Supplies used: Stamp from DRS Designs, SU CS, Basic Grey SP, Kaiser self adhesive pearls, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Prismacolor markers, misc. ribbon, foam dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge! Tomorrow we are casing another one of our fabulous design team members.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you all have a great Valentine's Day!
To be totally honest, I'm not really much into Valentine's Day so I don't have a Valentine's card to share. The closest I could get was a card that uses a shade of red.
Supplies used: Stamps from DRS Designs, SU CS, Cosmo Cricket Gretel DP, SU hodgepodge, Kaiser self adhesive pearls, misc ribbon.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! Thanks for stopping by today!

Little Paper Shop sketch challenge

I found some time today to play along with another great sketch challenge! The Little Paper Shop blog has an awesome sketch challenge going on right now. Check out their blog for all the details!

Here is their sketch:

Unfortunately I don't have any Little Paper Shop stamps to use for the sketch but I thought I would play along anyway. For my card I FINALLY used one of my Whiff of Joy stamps. I have loved this image since it was released. I bought it the day it was available but I have never used it until today. I'm still working on my coloring technique. I'm really starting to like my Prismacolor markers!Supplies used: Main image from Whiff of Joy, Sentiment stamp from SU, Basic Grey DP, SU CS, Cuttlebug embossing folder, misc ribbon, foam dimensionals, Prismacolor markers, Kaiser self adhesive pearls.

I hope you are all having a terrific week! Thanks for stopping by today!

Club Anya Sketch Challenge

Have you checked out the club Anya blog yet? They are having a fun sketch challenge contest this week. The contest runs through Friday so you still have time to play along!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Supplies used: Digital 50's Sweethearts Anya/Ian, Sentiment from SU, SU CS, Bazzill CS, Basic Grey DP, K&Co heart stickers, Prismacolor markers, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, misc ribbon, foam dimensionals.

I hope you are all having a great week! Thanks for stopping by today!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge!

It's Tuesday, that means another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge! This week we have a fabulous sketch challenge for you . If you decide to play along please use keyword JBE039 when uploading to SCS or PCP!

I absolutely LOVE this sketch! I had a lot of fun making this card. The large pink flower is a white Prima that I painted with Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz Blingz! Isn't it beautiful. I just love using Shimmerz to paint Primas. The brown Prima is a white Prima that I colored with a brown Prismacolor marker..super simple custom Primas. The designer paper is from Basic Grey. Jacksonbelle has a HUGE selection of Basic Grey...you should definitely check them out!

Supplies used: Prima flowers, Shimmerz Pink Poinsettia Blingz and Basic Grey DP all from Jacksonbelle Embellishments, SU CS, Hero Arts self adhesive jewels, SU build a brad and Sentiment stamp from DRS Designs.

For more inspiration, check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle rockstars!

Melissa Bove

Jennifer Buck

Jill Dunn

Kimberly O’Rosky

Maren Benedict

AJ Otto

Kisa Peters

Shannan Teubner

Michelle Woerner

Taylor Usry

Rachel Baird

Lynda Benden

Beth Thomas

Lindsey Botkin

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you all have a great day!

DRS Monday Challenge!

Can you believe that Valentine's Day is Saturday?! Where does the time go?! This week the DRS team challenge was to make some sort of Valentine treat/holder...for food, candy, cards...whatever inspired us! We would love for you to play along...just post a link in the comment section of the challenge post on the DRS blog so we can come take a look and be inspired by you! If you upload to a public gallery, please use the keyword DRSC14. It's not mandatory that you use DRS images, but if you have them why not use them!

So to be totally honest, I hate to make things that aren't cards or scrapbook pages. I just pretty much SUCK at gifty, non-card items. Here is my best attempt at altering something...it is just your basic Altoid tin wrapped in ribbon and covered in paper. Nothing too fancy but it works for this challenge. Check out the DRS blog to see what the other design team members came up with for this challenge!
Hope you all had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by today! Don't forget to check back tomorrow for an awesome Jacksonbelle sketch challenge! Have a great day!

Some Blog Awards!!!

Over the past couple weeks I've received some blog awards. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get these posted (life have been total chaos lately)! Thank you so much for thinking of me! It really means a lot to me!!!

My first award comes from my friend Taylor! Taylor is an incredible stamper! Definitely hop on over to her blog and take a looksy! Thanks Taylor, I think your blog is just absolutely lovely also!Rules of this award:
1. Add the logo to your blog.

2. Link to the person from whom you received this award.

3. Nominate 7 or more blogs.

4. Leave a message on their blog, letting them know they are “One Lovely Blog”

So without further ado...here are 7 blogs that I think are absolutely lovely:
1. Southern Yankee Stamper
2. Rubber Room
3. Ink n' Scrap Habits
4. Stamped Smiles
5. Crafty Thoughts
6. Jess' Obsession
7. Aloha and Mabuhay

My next blog award came from my fellow JB DT member Rachel. Rachel is one of my stamping idols, so getting this award from her just totally made my day. Her work is absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! Absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you so much Rachel, this totally made my month!

The rules for this award are:

List 5 things you are addicted to:
1. Edward Cullen
2. Chai Latte
3. Edward Cullen
4. Email
5. Edward Cullen

And send it on to 5 other bloggers, and they are:

My favorite FABULOUS blogs are:
1. Kisa's Paper Cuts
2. Bella Carta (the person responsible for my addictions 1, 3 and 5)
3. The Whimsical Butterfly
4.*Insert Creative Witty Blog Name Here*
5. Nessy's Notes

This 3rd award comes from another talented stamper, Erika! Definitely check out her blog to see her wonderful creations! Thank you so much for thinking of me Erika, it was such nice surprise (and you know how much I love butterflies!!!).


So the rules for this award:
1) Post the award’s logo on your blog
2) Add the link to the person who nominated you
3) Nominate at least 6 others & post their links.

Here are 7 of the COOLEST blogs I know:
1. Kisa's Paper Cuts
2. Hope Stamps Eternal
3. Just Me and My Rubber Stamps
4. inkgenious
5. Libby's Little Addiction
6. ethaschuette.com
7. Joyful Stamper

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I have lots of fun projects to share this week so please stop back!

HUGE SALE at Jacksonbelle Embellishments!!!!

Lindsey is making room for all the new CHA goodies by having a sale in the store this weekend- today (Friday) until Tuesday at midnight EST. Everything in the store is 30 % off!!!!!

Be sure to use coupon code Feb30 at checkout to have your discount applied!

Happy Shopping!

TGIF!

TGIF has so much more meaning to me now that I'm actually working outside the home. I am truly thankful that it is Friday! I put my early morning work time in and now that I'm home I think I might just spend the rest of the day in my stamp room.
Here is a card that I made earlier this week. My design team stamp set from Firecracker Designs for this month is their new clear Calendar set. I think this set would be perfect for scrapping but I thought I would challenge myself and make some cards with it.
Supplies used: Stamps from FCD, SU CS, DCWV designer paper, May Arts ribbon, Prima flowers, Shimmerz Pink Poinsettia Blinz, Dress it up glitter dots, nestibilities.

If you haven't stopped by the Club Anya blog today, you definitely should. My favorite little stamper has a card on there today ;)

I hope you all had a wonderful week! Thanks for stopping by today!

Another Anya card!

I had so much fun making my first Anya card that I had to try another. For this card I used the Dress Up Anya. This dress just reminded me of a princess so I decided to go for a fairy tale scene. I still need A LOT of practice with my coloring skills but I'm having fun trying.

Supplies used: Dress Up Anya from the Greeting Farm, Carriage stamp from Imaginisce, Sentiment from Studio G, SU CS, Basic Grey DP, Prismacolor markers, self adhesive rhinestones.

I hope everyone is having a great week! Thanks for stopping by today!

Thoughts of Butterflies

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are all having a great week! The weather here in Wisconsin is still mighty chilly (although they are forecasting a heat wave of 40 degrees this weekend). As most of you know, a few weeks ago I started working part-time at the university. Due to a lack of affordable parking on campus, I've been riding the city bus. Yesterday morning as I stood in the dark, sub-zero degree weather at 5:45am waiting for the bus, all I could think about was summer and butterflies. There is just something about butterflies that makes me feel happy (and believe me, I needed every happy thought I could muster up while I was standing there freezing my butt off). I know I've posted about my love of the DRS Designs butterfly stamps before but I just can't help but say it again. DRS Designs has a HUGE selection of gorgeous butterfly stamps. I love them all! You can find them all in the "Wild Things" catagory on the website. Here is a card I made using one of my favorite DRS butterfly stamps:

Supplies used: Stamps from DRS Designs, SU and Bazzill CS, Basic Grey DP, Me and My Big Ideas self adhesive rhinestons, glitter.

The layout is sketch # 100 from CPS and the colors came from last week's Color Throwdown Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a great day!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge! Let's CASE Michelle!

Wow, seems like the weeks are flying by lately. I feel like I was just posting last week's Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge, LOL. Anyway, this week our challenge was to CASE our fellow DT member Michelle. If you would like to play along and CASE Michelle, please use keyword JBE038 when uploading to an online gallery.
This challenge made me really nervous because Michelle is so incredibly talented. Her creations are so gorgeous. My CASE doesn't even begin to compare to her wonderful cards, but hopefully she likes it. I browsed through her blog and I kept coming back to the same card... I loved everything about it.

So here is Michelle's card:
Isn't it just beautiful! I just love everything about her card!

so here is my CASE of Michelle's card:
I tried to make my CASE as close to her card as possible (because I love her card SO much!)...

Supplies used: Artful Collage Primas and Basic Grey Boxer designer paper from Jacksonbelle embellishments, SU CS, SU buttons, self adhesive pearls, foam dimensionals and the stamp is from DRS Designs.

I loved all of the Prima flowers that Michelle used. I thought this would be the perfect chance for me to use some of the new Artful Collage Prima's that I recently ordered from Jacksonbelle. I had been admiring the these beautiful Primas for a long time and when I saw them in the clearance section at Jacksonbelle I couldn't resist ordering a couple containers of them. These gorgeous Primas are only $2.79 right now. Lindsey only has a few containers left so you better hurry if you want to get some of these babies!

For more inspiration, check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle rockstars!

Melissa Bove

Jennifer Buck

Jill Dunn

Kimberly O’Rosky

Maren Benedict

AJ Otto

Kisa Peters

Shannan Teubner

Michelle Woerner

Taylor Usry

Rachel Baird

Lynda Benden

Beth Thomas

Lindsey Botkin

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you all have a great day!
And for those of you who were wondering...I passed my radiation safety exam (although it was open notes/book so it would have been pretty sad had I failed, LOL)!

Quick Post

I only have a second to post this morning since I have to try and catch a bus to campus for some radiation safety training...sounds exciting, huh?
I wanted to give you a look at one of the cards that I made using the new clear sentiment set from Firecracker Designs. I love this new set! I also used my absolute favorite FCD set "Fall Flowers". I went with a simple layout and used some Shimmerz and black glitter to add the finishing touches.
Supplies used: Stamps from Firecracker Designs, SU CS and DP, Dress it up glitter dots, Marigold Shimmerz, Prismacolor markers, MS black glitter.

Hope you all have a great start to your week. Stop by tomorrow for another fun Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge!

New Stamps at Firecracker Designs!

Just wanted to let you all know that Firecracker Designs just released some FABULOUS new stamps sets. Pamela has 4 new rubber sets and 2 new clear sets. Click HERE to see all of the new sets! I have some cards to share later this week that I made with the new clear sentiment set. I absolutely love it!

Hope you all had a terrific weekend!

My very first Anya card!

I finally found some time to do a little bit of stamping the past couple days. When I went to Scrap Mania a few weeks ago I was the lucky recipient of a few Anya images (thanks Jess and Jen!). If you aren't familiar with Anya you should definitely go check out The Greeting Farm. This girl is just adorable...and she even has an adorable male couterpart, Ian. Also, today is the big launch of Club Anya. They have a blog hop going on this afternoon with the chance to win some cool Anya prizes (I will definitely be there!). I've been a little scared of these images because I am still working on my coloring skills...I throw away a lot more than I save when it comes to coloring. I don' t have Copic markers (except for the peachy flesh tone one) but I do have a wide variety of Prismacolor, Sharpie and Bic*Write It markers. All of these are similar to Copics in that they are alcohol based. This was my very first attempt coloring Anya...how'd I do?Supplies used: Teacher Anya from The Greeting Farm, For You! sentiment from DRS Designs, Bazzill black cardstock, DCWV designer paper, alcohol markers, white Signo gel pen, Art Institue Lion's Mane glitter, SU wide red ribbon, blue ribbon from RABOM, foam dimensionals.

I have a bunch of new projects that I'm hoping to post this week... I finally got to play with my new clear sentiment set from Firecracker Designs, the Jacksonbelle challenge this week is to case one of our talented fellow designers, and I also have some new DRS projects that I can't wait to share with you! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are all having a great weekend.

Blingz Bunnies!

I don't know about you, but I am SO in love with the new colors of Blingz! Pixie Dust is my absolute favorite color ever! Not sure if you noticed but these new colors coordinate perfect with the new Basic Grey Bittersweet papers! For my card I used Blingz Pixie Dust, Blingz Hottie Pink, Basic Grey Bittersweet designer paper, May Arts ribbon and this adorable Inkadinkado bunny stamp all from Jacksonbelle Embellishments. The bunnies are painted with Blingz Pixie Dust and Blingz Hottie Pink. Aren't they just adorable!

Here is a close-up photo of the bunnies taken with the flash on.
Supplies used: Blingz Pixie Dust, Blingz Hottie Pink, Inkadinkado mod bunny stamp, Basic Grey DP, Bazzill cardstock, May Arts ribbon, Michael's self adhesive rhinestones, foam dimensionals, sentiment was printed out on the computer.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge...Stitch it up!!!

It's that time again...time for another Jacksonbelle Tuesday challenge! This week's challenge is a fun one! Stitch it up! Lindsey loves faux stitching, so she challenged us to add some stitching to our projects... whether it is faux or REAL!!! We would love for you to play along with us. If you do, please use the keyword JBE037 when uploading to SCS or PCP.
Because I broke the needle on my sewing machine and still haven't replaced it, I decided to use faux stitching rub on tape from Daisy D's. This stuff is super cool and it is super easy to use. It works just like a tape runner. Best thing is, if you make a mistake you can just erase it with an adhesive eraser! Jacksonbelle carries several styles for you to choose from! I also used several other awesome Jacksonbelle products on my card....Memory Box DP, Basic Grey glazed brad, Prima flower (was white and I colored it with a black Prismacolor marker), May Arts ribbon and Pixie Dust Shimmerz Blingz (my absolute FAVORITE ever!).
The stiched flower stamp is from DRS Designs.
I paper pieced my flower petals and leaves with Memory Box paper that I painted with Shimmerz Pixie Dust Blingz. Here is a close-up to show how much shimmer the Blingz adds!

For more stitching inspiration, check out the blogs of the rest of the Jacksonbelle rockstars!

Melissa Bove

Jennifer Buck

Jill Dunn

Kimberly O’Rosky

Maren Benedict

AJ Otto

Kisa Peters

Shannan Teubner

Michelle Woerner

Taylor Usry

Rachel Baird

Lynda Benden

Beth Thomas

Lindsey Botkin

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are all having a great start to your week!

DRS Designs blog challenge!

This week's challenge for the DT was to use any of the DRS recognition stamps on their projects. DRS has a ton of these wonderful stamps...you should definitely check them out! Of course the intended use of these images is for the back of your cards/projects but what about thinking outside the box and using them in other ways??

We would love for you to play along in our challenges. You do not need DRS images to play but if you have them, why not use them! If you play along, be sure to come back to this post and post a direct link to your project so we can check it out. We want you to inspire us! Also, if you upload to a public gallery, please use the keyword - DRSC13.

Without further ado...here is my project....
This challenge was REALLY difficult. I just couldn't figure out how to feature a "handmade by" stamp on the front of my card. After looking through my stash of stamps I saw the cat print stamp and came up with this idea. I know there are a lot of animal lovers who send cards from their pets so I decided to make this card "handmade by Felix" (Felix is the only name I could come up with that sounded cat-like enough to make this idea work).
If you decide to take on this huge challenge, we would love to see your projects...please be sure to leave a link to your projects either on this post or on the DRS Designs blog!

DRS Designs is having another giveaway!!! We'll make it easier for you this week though!!! This week the prize is a roll of, according to Cathy, the best adhesive she has ever used!!!



It is a roll of two sided tape (1/2" x 36 yards) and all you have to do is leave a comment on the challenge post on the DRS Designs blog indicating which DRS image is your favorite! We'll draw a random winner on Sunday night Feb. 8, 2009.

I hope everyone is having a great day! Thanks for stopping by today!