Sleeping In the Dog's Butt...Priceless!

Yeah, you heard me.  When you see the pic, you'll understand. 

I have been waiting for ages for the perfect inspiration to scrap this priceless moment!  Is it bad that I find this so hilarious?  You see, our dog has gotten very crotchety (is that a word?) in her advanced years and she will plop down wherever the hell she damn well wants to with blatant disregard for anyone else occupying said space.  My son's such a deep sleeper, he didn't even notice that the dog was practically sitting on his face while he was napping.  So, do you think I should've removed the dog from the situation like a good mommy or do you feel me that I ran for the camera instead??!!! 

Enter today's Pink Ninjas challenge:

Prompt - Priceless
Technique - Distress it!
Pink Twist - Paint

Oooooooh....this one's right up my alley!!

As seen in the August 2010 issue of Scrapbook News and Review magazine.

Gotta say, I'm likin this one very much if I may say so myself! 

1 impromptu nap on the couch by a heavy sleeping boy...

(Yum!  Loving those Prima flower centers!)

Plus, 1 stubborn dog with a favorite spot on said couch...

 

(Aren't those Basic Grey doggies just stinkin adorable??!!  And have you noticed my yellow paint's been getting a workout lately.  Not generally a yellow person except when it comes to the paint.  Hmmmm.  Notice I've swished in just enough pink paint to satisfy the challenge?  LOL.) 

Plus, 1 mom with a twisted sense of humor and a camera...

Priceless.  (Spelled out next to the cameras...I know it's hard to see in this tiny picture.)

Cuttlebugged the pic and then distressed it as directed. 

Been lovin all the ruler action Diana's been rockin lately so snuck in a ruler transparancy for good measure.  (Oh, REALLY!!  Seriously, I did not "pun" on purpose!  It just came out.  But I'm leaving it because it works.  And it's funny.  I crack myself up.)

Jump on over to the Pink Ninjas blog to see what the amazing Design Team made for your inspiration.  Awesome stuff!!!  You're going to love it! 

Please, please, pretty please come play along with us!  One lucky player will win something uber cool from Jennifer Priest of Hydrangea Hippo!!! 

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Check out her blog and etsy store!!!  And, Jennifer's just THAT cool that she's also offering all Ninja players free shipping for this entire month!!!!!  Check out THIS POST for details and your coupon code. 

Hope you have a cool day!

Heidi

Details:  Paper - My Mind's Eye, Imaginesce, Basic Grey; Teresa Collins transparency; Alpha Stickers - Cosmo Cricket, Making Memories; Prima flower centers; K&Company rhinestones; Making Memories paint; Zig Millennium pen; Cuttlebug embossing folder; sandpaper. 

p.s.  Don't forget that the Pink Ninja Addicts are sponsoring Sketchy Thursday's Guest Design Team Challenge this month!!!  Check out THIS POST for details.  (The "Three Little Birds" kit is up for grabs!!!)

p.p.s.  I'm so excited!!!  Lawn Fawn Stamps is officially open for business!!!!!!!  I can't wait for my "Sew Lovely" stamps to arrive!!!

p.p.p.s.  Didja notice that adorable cassette tape blinkie in my sidebar??  Just had to point it out because it's just so stinkin cute!!!  I want a cool blinkie for people to rock in their sidebars.  Go on!  Click it!  Check out Miss Allyson Joy!!!! 

p.p.p.p.s   (OK, yes, I'm quitting after this one!)  Check out this month's guest artist on the Pink Ninja Addicts, Kara Haupt.  This chick is wicked talented AND A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT!  She is going to be one artistic force to be reckoned with, this one! 

~ fin

A Couple Cards

I had a couple of cards to make yesterday. The first was a sympathy card. These are always so hard to make and I'm of the opinion the simpler, the better.

This is one of my all-time favorite Stampin' Up! sets, "Embrace Life". It's so simple but elegant. Once again, I found that this week's SPCC color combo worked so well for something elegant.

I used this week's Jacksonbelle sketch for the layout:

Last night we attended a birthday party for a 6-y-o Star Wars fanatic. (And, let me tell you, that boy can now open his own Star Wars store - he got so much SW stuff!!) So, I knew already that I wanted to make another card with the light saber (like on the card HERE). Luckily I kept my template so I didn't have to draw it again. As I tried to think of a good layout, my stream-of-consciousness thinking finally arrived at this card:

Get it? The CONE Wars? (The new SW animated series is The Clone Wars.) I thought it was a good blend of SW and birthday. Pretty sure I'll be making this one again. I think it's pretty cute if I may say so myself.

There are a few touches on it that most likely others wouldn't notice but they amuse me. The brown cone is supposed to be Obi Wan Kenobi. "Obi Wan Coneobi" is brandishing a blue light saber and since Obi Wan's kinda old and dusty, I covered "him" in Crackle Medium. Tee hee.

The black cone is Darth Vader. (Sorry, I can't seem to come up with a clever cone-related version of his name...any suggestions?) He's using a red light saber and since DV is all hard and shiny, I covered him with Diamond Glaze.

Gotta love the availability of free fonts online! The title (as well as the inside which says "Happy Birthday") is the "Jedi" font from 1001 Free Fonts. I cut it using my Quickutz Silhouette machine.

Details (sympathy): Paper - Stampin' Up!, Bazzill, The Paper Co.; SU! ink & stamps; StazOn ink; Stampendous embossing powder; Cuttlebug embossing folder; Cricut diecut (oval); ribbon.

Details (Cone Wars): Paper - DCWV (Rock Star stack), The Paper Co., Best Occassions (metallic); Die Cuts - Silhouette (letters), Cricut (starburst); Unity Stamp Co. stamp; SU! ink & Crystal Effects; StazOn ink; Stickles; American Crafts white gel pen; Slick Writer; Ranger Crackle Medium; 1001 Free Fonts - Jedi font.

TFL!!

Heidi

Monster birthday card

This is just going to be a quick post. I've been fighting a cruddy summertime cold for the last week and I just received some heartbreaking news that a close friend's beloved-to-all (including me!) M-I-L has just lost her 4 year battle with cancer (LMS). So, I'm not feeling too hot.

Today my son attended his first without-mommy birthday party. His good friend just turned 5 and they went to see Up! in 3D and then went to Uno's for pizza. Here's the card I made for our little 5-y-o:

This is a Cricut Wild Card diecut. I'd been wanting to make this little guy since I'd first seen him and I finally had an opportunity. Now my son insists I have to make one for him, too. Said he looks like Broby from Yo Gabba Gabba!

When preparing to make this card I thought of this week's SPCC color combo and thought how it lends itself equally well to monsters as frilly heritage layouts (see that one here).

Wow! I just realized how off the color looks in my pic. He really is practically the spittin' image of the 3 colors above. Huh.

The little guy was ran through my Cuttlebug with the spiderweb embossing folder and then I smeared green Stickles randomly about all over him. His eyes, nose, and mouth are filled with gold Stickles. I drew stitch marks around his face with an embossing pen and embossed it with purple powder.

Here's the envelope diecut to match. I just stitch-outlined the face with a marker for definition.

Details: Paper - Stampin' Up!, Bazzill; Cricut diecut; Cuttlebug embossing folder; Stickles; Creative Beginnings embossing powder; SU! marker; embossing pen.

TFL!!

I'm going to go lie in bed, moan a bit a la When Harry Met Sally, and watch some Friday night TLC. Love my What Not to Wear. I wish someone would nominate me!!

Heidi

Whoo (heart)s U

Here's another card combining the Unity Stamp Co. So & So Loves stamp and the Hero Arts Whoo Loves You set. They just go so well together, eh?

See how I carved the sentiment (Who (heart)s U) on the tree? Tee hee.

I love, LOVE, LUH-UH-UHVE the new Cosmo Cricket Early Bird line. So adorably retro and sporting my favorite color combos at the moment. This particular paper is the "B" side of Cherry Pie.

The scalloped square is from Cricut's Storybook cartridge. The aqua background is the Cuttlebug Diamonds in the Rough emboss.

Details: Paper - Cosmo Cricket, The Paper Company, Quickutz, Basic Grey; Stamps - Unity Stamp Co., Hero Arts; StazOn ink; Zig Millenium pen; Cricut; Cuttlebug; foam square.

Thanks for looking!

Heidi

Unity Hip Hop Hangover

Happy Friday everyone!

I feel like I got a bit of my creative mojo back today. After this post it's back to my craft room to work on my Vintage Plum Star Search week #3 challenge - "All That Glitters". I gotta tell you, I've been feeling stumped about this one. It's so easy to go overboard. I'm hoping my great creative flow with the following two cards carries over! Check back Saturday for the post of my "bling" creation - see how it turned out.

Both of these cards sport images from Unity Stamp Co.'s May Kit of the Month. It's just so darn cute!!

"ENJOY YOUR DAY"

Both images were embossed and then colored with Stampin' Up! ink and a blender pen. Then I cut each image out. The patterned paper is Basic Grey's Urban Prairie.

The layout of the card is inspired by the Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge sketch #69:

"HAPPY"

This image is also colored with SU! ink & a blender pen. The edges are sponged on. The herringbone (sp?) background is Cuttlebug. The base paper is Certainly Celery and then I sponged Wild Wasabi over it. The I Cuttlebugged it and sanded the embossed areas to reveal the Certainly Celery color underneath.

The color combination for this card is inspired by Moxie Fab World's citrus color challenge this week.

Detail (Enjoy your day): Paper - Basic Grey, The Paper Company; Ink - SU!, StazOn; Unity Stamp Co. stamps; Stampendous embossing powder; SU! Blender Pen; foam squares.

Detail (Hello): Paper - SU!, The Paper Company; Ink - SU!, StazOn; Unity Stamp Co. stamps; Cuttlebug; SU! blender pen; make up wedge; Offray ribbon.

TFL!

Heidi

Hero Art Go Green Pt. 2 - Celebrate!

Here's another offering for the Hero Arts Go Green challenge this week.

May 2011 issue

The large Chinese lantern is made from a recycled ribbon spool. (I knew saving all these would benefit me someday!)

The adorable doll, lantern, and flowers stamps are Hero Arts (CL297). The parasol is from the Cricut Happily Ever After cartridge. It's hard to see it in the pic, but the doll's jacket and the large lantern are stamped with gold flowers. The tassle on the lamp was white ribbon - I separated it then colored it with gold ink, too.

The layout for this card is from the Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge sketch #69 this week. I flipped it and rotated it 90 degrees:

The color palette on this card also works with kwernerdesign's color challenge this week:

Details: Paper - SU!, The Paper Company, Hot Off the Press; Stamps - Hero Arts, g Studio; Ink - StazOn, SU!, Tsukineko Brilliance; Cricut; Cuttlebug; thread; ribbon.

Thanks for looking!

Heidi

p.s. - Don't forget to vote for me for the Vintage Plum Star Search "medium madness" challenge. See this link HERE for my layout and the voting links. Voting continues until Monday early evening. I rely on your votes! Thank you!!

Little Birdie Thank You Card - TECC69

Someone is getting this adorable little card in the mail soon!

I used the Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #69 sketch for this one.

The birdie stamp is Hero Arts. "Thank You" is Stampin' Up!. The Cuttlebug folder is swiss dots. The flower center is a craft mini pom pom which was colored with yellow ink.

Details: Paper - SU!, The Paper Company; Stamps - Hero Arts, SU!; Cuttlebug; Ranger Distress Ink; Fiskars border punch; unknown chipboard flower and pom pom.

Thanks for looking!

Heidi

p.s. OK I'm not sure what's going on with the formatting here. I assure you there are spaces between paragraphs but they're just not showing up. Sorry for the poor readibility.

Happy National Scrapbook Day! - Cuttlebug Challenges - Jennifer McGuire sanding technique

Happy NSD!

Over on the Cuttlebug Challenges blog (http://www.cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/) today they have a challenge to go along with a great tutorial posted by Jennifer McGuire about sanding Cuttlebug embossed images (http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/05/inspiration-from-jennifer-mcguire.html). Here is my offering:

I didn't have any white core cardstock so I began by brayering ink on a piece of white c/s. Then I embossed it with the Cuttlebug. Finally, I sanded the raised areas to lift away some of the color to let the white paper show through. I finished the card off by stamping the bird image on white c/s using Ranger Distress Ink, cut it out, popped it up with foam, added some ribbon and a bit of Liquid Pearls in some of the flower centers.

Details: Paper - The Paper Company; Ink - SU!, Ranger Industries Distress Ink; Other - Hampton Arts stamp, SU! ribbon, Liquid Pearls, Cuttlebug.

TFL!

Heidi

Moving Cards

I'm attempting to design a few cards for a friend that is a realtor to give as thank yous or congrats on your new home gifts.

I reallllllllly love the key card. The background is Cuttlebug. The key is heat embossed in silver.

The moving card uses Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper. I'm such a paper junkie!!

I've got a few more ideas in mind. Now that Easter and a few birthdays and varied events are over with I can get on with creating!

TFL!

Heidi

Pineappletop

All the way to Pinetop Kins kept asking, "Are we in Pineappletop yet?" The page layout is a Page Maps design from the Page Maps book. See her great website here http://www.pagemaps.com/. I tried to make the letters look like pineapple skin by inking up a Cuttlebug folder and embossing them.